The Catholic Spirit - February 21, 2019

February 21, 2019 • Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

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Lenten Meal Guide Where to eat from Ash Wednesday to Good Friday

fish fry & lenten meal guide

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Albertville St. Albert — Fish fry and Stations of the Cross.

Details not available at press time. churchofstalbert.org.

Anoka St. Stephen — Fish dinner, 5:30–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at 525 Jackson St. $8 adults, $4 children, free 3 and under. Includes baked or deep-fried fish, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, baked beans, macaroni and cheese, dinner roll, apple crisp and beverage. ststephenchurch.org.

Belle Plaine Our Lady of the Prairie — Fish bake, 4:30–6:30 p.m.

March 8, 22, 29 and April 5 in the parish hall at 200 E. Church St. Freewill offering. Includes baked fish, au gratin potatoes, salad, bread and beverage. Stations of the Cross at 6:30 p.m. ourladyoftheprairie.com.

Blaine St. Timothy — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. March 1 and Fridays during Lent except Good Friday in the Hospitality Center at 707 89th Ave. NE. $12 adults, $9 seniors, $5 children, free 5 and under. Includes baked or deep-fried fish, French fries or baked potato, coleslaw, baked beans, bread and beverage. churchofsttimothy.com.

Bloomington Knights of Columbus of Bloomington — Fish fry, 5–9 p.m. Fridays during Lent at 1114 American Blvd. W. 55420. $12.95. Includes all-you-can eat broiled or deep-fried cod with choice of soup or salad, coleslaw and choice of potato. 952-8881492. kofcbloomington.com Nativity of Mary — Fish fry festival, 4:30–9 p.m.

March 15 at 9900 Lyndale Ave S. $10. Includes fish fillets or grilled cheese, French fries, baked beans, coleslaw, bread, dessert and beverage. Beer, wine and cocktails extra. Festival includes annual meat raffle, free family movie in the gym and children’s games and prizes. nativitybloomington.org.

St. Bonaventure — Fish dinner, 4:30–7 p.m.

March 15 and April 12 in Ambrose Hall, 901 90th St. E. Cost TBD. Includes ocean perch, au gratin potatoes, coleslaw, buns, dessert and beverage.

952-854-4733. saintbonaventure.org.

St. Edward — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. March 15 at 9401 Nesbitt Ave. S. Advance tickets: $10 individual or $30 family (see website for details); at the door: $12 individual or $35 family. Includes fish and chips or macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, dessert and beverage. Music and raffles. stedwardschurch.org.

The Catholic Spirit’s annual Fish Fry and Lenten Meal Guide features listings for parishes that wished to be included and that provided information before deadline. View updated information and the guide map at thecatholicspirit.com/nomeat.

March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 12 April 19 (Good Friday)

Burnsville

Coon Rapids

Mary, Mother of the Church — Fish fry, 5–7:30 p.m.

March 15, 22, 29 and April 5 and 12 at 3333 Cliff Road. $15 adults, $6 ages 11 and under, $3 children’s meal ages 8 and under. Adult meal includes walleye, baked or mashed potato, coleslaw, roll and beverage. Single serving children’s meal includes macaroni and cheese, animal crackers and milk. mmotc.org.

Epiphany — Fish fry, 4:30–6:30 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at 11001 Hanson Blvd.

NW. Includes baked tilapia, battered deep-fried cod, homemade cheese pizza, baked potato and fixings or tater tots, coleslaw, applesauce, dessert and beverage. $12 adults, $8 ages 5-12 and seniors 62 and over, free 5 and under. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. Sponsored by Epiphany Ministries. epiphanymn.org.

Cannon Falls St. Pius V — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at 410 Colvill St. W. $12 adults, $6 ages 5-12, free 4 and under, $40 family. Includes fried or baked pollock (all gluten-free), fresh relishes, gluten-free side dishes. Stations of the Cross at 4:30 and 7 p.m. stpiusvcf.org.

Cedar Lake St. Patrick — Fish fry, 5–8 p.m. March 1 and April 5 at 24425 Old Hwy. 13. $12 adults, $5 ages 4-12, free 3 and under. Includes French fries, au gratin potatoes, coleslaw, beans, rye bread, macaroni and cheese, and bars. Beer available. stpandc.mn.org.

Centerville St. Genevieve — Fish fry, 5–8 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at the St. John campus, 14363 Forest Blvd. N., Hugo. $11 adults, $ 9 seniors, $7 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Includes Icelandic cod, baby red potatoes, French fries, coleslaw, macaroni and cheese, pickles, rolls, cookies and beverage. Ages 6-12 eligible for bike drawing. stgens.org.

Chanhassen St. Hubert — All-you-can-eat fish fry, 4–6:45 p.m.

March 8, 22 and April 12 at 8201 Main St. $30 families (up to four people over age 13; additional people $5 each), $11 adults, $5 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus Council No. 10031. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. sthubert.org.

Chaska Guardian Angels — Fish fry, 4:30–7:30 p.m.

March 8, 22 and April 5 in the school gym at 215 W. Second St. $12 adults, $5 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. gachaska.org.

Brooklyn Park

Cologne

St. Vincent de Paul — Lenten dinners, 5:30– 6:45 p.m. March 8, 22 and April 5 in Regan Hall at 9100 93rd Ave. N. $7, free 5 and under. Includes gourmet soup, sandwiches and dessert. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. saintvdp.org.

St. Bernard — Fish fry, 11 a.m.–8 p.m. March 15. $12 adults, $6 children. Takeout available. Cash raffle. Proceeds benefit parish improvements. st-bernard-cologne.org.

Buffalo

Immaculate Conception — Fish dinner, 4:30–6:30 p.m. March 8, 22 and April 5 in the fellowship hall at 4030 Jackson St. NE. $10 adults, $5 ages 6-11, free 5 and under. Includes all-you-can-eat oven-baked fish, baked potato, coleslaw, vegetable, roll, dessert and beverage. Kid’s menu: macaroni and cheese.

Stations of the Cross at 7 pm. iccsonline.org.

St. Francis Xavier — Fish fry, 4 p.m. March 22 at Bison Creek Bar and Dining, 1207 N. Highway 25. $11 adults, $8 ages 10 and under. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. at the church, 300 First Ave. NW. stfxb.org.

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Columbia Heights

Corcoran St. Thomas the Apostle — Fish fry, 4:30–7:30 p.m.

March 29 at 20000 County Road 10. saintsppta.org.

Crystal St. Raphael — Fish dinner, 5–7 p.m. April 5 at 7301 Bass Lake Road. $20 Knights of Columbus families, $8 adults, $4 ages under 10. Includes baked fish, French fries, coleslaw, macaroni and cheese, toast and beverage. straphaelcrystal.org.

Deephaven St. Therese — Fish dinner, 6–7:30 p.m. March 15 and April 5 at 18323 Minnetonka Blvd. $8 individuals, $30 family. Includes cod, coleslaw, fresh fruit, French fries, macaroni and cheese, and beverage. Stations of the Cross at 5:30 p.m. st-therese.org.

Delano St. Maximilian Kolbe — Lenten gourmet seafood dinner, 4:30–7 p.m. March 22 at St. Peter Dining Hall, 217 S. Second St. Includes shrimp scampi, baked cod, fried shrimp, macaroni and cheese, tater tots, clam chowder, garden salad and dessert. Freewill offering with proceeds to benefit St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic School. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. delanocatholic.com.

Eagan St. John Neumann— Fish dinner, 5–7 p.m. March 8 and April 5 at 4030 Pilot Knob Road. $12 adults, $10 seniors, $5 ages 4-17, free 3 and under.

Includes fried or baked fish, fish tacos, grilled cheese, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw and ice cream. sjn.org.

St. Thomas Becket — Soup supper, 6 p.m. March 15, 22, 29, April 5 and 12 at 4455 S. Robert Trail.

Free. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. stbeagan.org.

Edina Our Lady of Grace — Fish fry, 4:30–7:30 p.m. April 5 at 5071 Eden Ave. $15 adults, $5 ages 10 and under.

Includes Tin Fish-battered cod, pasta, baked potato, bread and cake. Father Kevin Finnegan’s Pub includes Guinness on tap, microbrews and wine for an additional charge. Live music and raffle. Drive-through available. olgparish.org.

St. Patrick — Fish fry. Details not available at press time. stpatrick-edina.org.

Elko New Market St. Nicholas — Fish Dinner, 4–7 p.m. March 22 at 51 Church St. $12 adults, $7 children, free 6 and

FEBRUARY 21, 2019 under. Includes baked fish, fried fish, potatoes, coleslaw, breads, dessert and beverage. Takeout available. Stations of the Cross to follow. stncc.net.

Excelsior St. John the Baptist — Fish fry, 5–8 p.m. March 15 and April 12 in the school cafeteria at 638 Mill St. $40 family, $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 ages 6 and under. stjohns-excelsior.org.

Farmington St. Michael ­­— Soup supper, 5:30 p.m. March 6 followed by Mass at 7 p.m. Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. April 12. Stations of the Cross at 6 p.m. at 22120 Denmark Ave. Freewill offering. stmichael-farmington.org.

Forest Lake St. Peter — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at 1250 South Shore Drive. $9 adults, $5 children. Includes fried cod and baked tilapia, potatoes, coleslaw and dessert. Alternative children’s vegetarian pasta dish. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. stpeterfl.org.

Golden Valley Good Shepherd — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. March 8 and April 12 at 145 Jersey Ave. S. Freewill offering.

Includes coleslaw, baked potato, green beans and dessert. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus.

Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. goodshepherdgv.org.

Hamel St. Anne — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. March 15 at 200 Hamel Road. $5. Includes Atlantic cod fish fillet, coleslaw, pickle spear, dinner roll and beverage.

Additional fillet $3. saintannehamel.org.

Hopkins St. Gabriel the Archangel — Fish tacos, baked fish and fried fish, 5–7:30 p.m. March 15, 29 and April 12 at 1310 Main St. $25 family, $10 adults, $5 ages 3-12, free 2 and under. Proceeds support parish’s good works and Hopkins Knights of Columbus Council. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. stgabrielhopkins.org.

Inver Grove Heights St. Patrick — Fish dinner, 5–7 p.m. March 8 at 3535 72nd St. E. $10 fish dinner, $5 grilled cheese dinner, $40 family maximum. Includes fish or grilled cheese, au gratin potatoes, coleslaw, roll, cookie and beverage. churchofstpatrick.com.

Jordan St. John the Baptist — Fish fry, 4:30–7 p.m. March 8, 15 and 22 at 313 E. Second St. Cost TBD. Includes beans, salad, rolls and dessert. Takeout available. sjbjordan.org.

Lakeville All Saints — Soup supper, 6 p.m. March 8, 22, 29 and April 5. Knights of Columbus fish dinner, 5–7:30 p.m. March 15 and April 12. All events at 19795 Holyoke Ave. Stations of the Cross at 1 and 5:30 p.m. (Noon on Good Friday). allsaintschurch.com.

Le Sueur St. Anne — ­ Fish fry, 4:30–7:30 p.m. March 8 at St. Anne’s School, 511 N. Fourth St. $12 adults, $6 ages 5-12, free 4 and under. Includes baked potato, green beans, coleslaw, bun and beverage. stanneschurchlesueur.org.

Lindstrom St. Bridget of Sweden — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at 13060 Lake Blvd. $11 adults, $9 seniors, $6 ages 6-12, free 5

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019 and under. Includes fried cod and baked fish, French fries, coleslaw, dinner roll, beverage, dessert and meatless spaghetti. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. stbridgetofsweden.org.

Lino Lakes St. Joseph — Fish fry, 5–7:15 p.m. March 8, 15, 22 and 29 at the Great Hall, 171 Elm St. $12 adults $5 children, $30 families. Includes pan-fried or baked fish, potato, green beans, tomato soup, coleslaw, homemade dessert and beverage. Fish sticks and macaroni and cheese available for children. Beer and wine extra. Soup supper 5:15 p.m. March 12, 19, 26 and April 2 and 9 in the Great Hall, followed by Mass at 6:30 p.m. in the historic church. Freewill offering. Includes homemade soups, bread and beverage. mystjoes.org.

Little Canada St. John the Evangelist — Fish fry, 4:30–7 p.m.

April 12 at 380 Little Canada Road in the school gym. $10 adults, $9 seniors, $8 ages 12 and under, $30 family. Includes fried or baked pollock, coleslaw, grilled cheese sandwiches, mashed potatoes, vegetables, rolls, ice cream and beverage. Soda, beer and wine extra. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. sjolc.org.

Lonsdale Immaculate Conception — Fish dinner, 4–8 p.m.

March 8 at Lonsdale American Legion, 115 Second Ave. NW. $14 adults, $6 ages 5-10, free 4 and under. Includes all-you-can-eat fish, cheesy potatoes, green beans, coleslaw, rye bread and cakes. Takeout available. churchoftheimmaculateconception.net.

Loretto Sts. Peter and Paul — Fish fry, 4:30–7 p.m. March 22 and April 5, 12 at 145 Railway St. E. Cost TBD. saintsppta.org.

Madison Lake Immaculate Conception — Fish fry, 4:30–7 p.m.

April 12 at Marysburg Parish Hall, 27528 Patrick St. $11 adults, $5 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Includes deep-fried fish, au gratin potatoes, coleslaw, bread, dessert, milk and coffee. maryschurches.com.

Mahtomedi St. Jude of the Lake — Fish dinner, 5:30–8 p.m.

April 12 at 700 Mahtomedi Ave. $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Includes baked tilapia or breaded cod, macaroni and cheese, potato, coleslaw and brownies. stjudeofthelake.org.

Maple Grove St. Joseph the Worker — Fish fry, 5-8 p.m., March 15 and 29 at 7180 Hemlock Lane N. Freewill offering. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus. sjtw.net.

Maplewood St. Jerome — Fish fry, 5-7 p.m. April 12 at 380 E. Roselawn Ave. $10 one piece, $12 two pieces, $14 three pieces, additional fish available at $2 per piece. Pasta $5. Includes hand-battered and deep-fried cod fillets, French fries, coleslaw, baked beans, applesauce, dessert and beverage.

Soup supper, 6 p.m. March 7, 14, 21, 28 and April 4.

Stations of the Cross at 5:30 p.m. 651-771-1209. stjerome-church.org.

Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Soup supper, 6:30 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday in Kenney Hall, 1725 Kennard St. Freewill offering. Includes soup, bread and beverage.

Stations of the Cross at 6 p.m. presentationofmary.org

Medina Holy Name of Jesus — Knights of Columbus seafood buffet, 5–7 p.m. March 22 at 155 County Road 24. $10 adults, $4 children’s menu ages 15 and under, $30 per family max. Includes vegetable noodles and shrimp, jasmine rice, fried rice, egg rolls, beer-battered cod, cheese pizza, fish sticks and cake. hnoj.org/lent.

Mendota St. Peter — Soup supper, 5-7p.m. March 6.

Freewill donation to Sharing and Caring Hands.

Includes soup, bread sticks and beverage.

St. Patrick’s Day dinner, 6-8:30 p.m. March 16, $16 adult, $28 for two adults, $38 families. Includes corned beef brisket with cabbage, carrots, boiled potatoes with parsley and butter, rutabagas, onions, Irish soda bread and Polish rye bread.

Irish coffee, assorted beverages and Irish dessert will also be served. Fish dinner, 4:30-7 p.m. March 22. Sponsored by Boy Scouts. $10 adults, $7 ages 3-11, free 2 and under with paid adult. Includes fish, potatoes, coleslaw, vegetable, macaroni and cheese, dessert and beverage. Uganda mission Fish Fry, 5-7 p.m. April 12. Freewill donation benefits Uganda mission. Includes fish, coleslaw, rice, potatoes, buns, dessert and beverage. All at 1405 Sibley Memorial Hwy. Stations of the Cross at 6:30 p.m. stpetersmendota.org.

Mendota Heights Holy Family Maronite — Lebanese Lenten dinners, 4:30–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at 1960 Lexington Ave. S. Includes baked or fried fish and unlimited side dishes of green beans in tomato sauce over rice, fried cabbage, Lebanese salad, flat bread and garlic sauce. $15 per person, free 10 and under. holyfamilymaronitechurch.org.

Miesville St. Joseph — Corned beef and cabbage dinner, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. March 17 at 23955 Nicolai Ave. E. $12 adults, $5 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Includes corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, homemade Irish soda bread, dessert, beverage and hot dogs for children. Takeout available. Wine and beer extra.

Silent auction. stjosephmiesville.com.

Minneapolis Annunciation — Fish fry, 5:30 p.m. April 12 at 509 W. 54th St. $10 adults, $8 seniors, $30 family, $7 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Includes deep-fried fish, coleslaw, baked potatoes, bread, cookies and beverage. Grilled cheese for children. Beer and soda available for purchase. annunciationmsp.org.

Holy Cross — Sauerkraut supper, 4–8 p.m. Mar. 5.

Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at Kolbe Hall, 1621 University Ave. NE. $10 ages 12 and over, $2 ages 3-11, free 2 and under. Includes all-you-can eat fish, French fries or potato, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, dessert and beverage. Stations of the Cross at 4:45 p.m. in English and 7 p.m. in Polish at Holy Cross and 7:30 p.m. at St. Clement. ourholycross.org.

Holy Name — Soup supper following Stations of the Cross at 6 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at 3637 11th Ave. S. Freewill offering.

612-724-5465. churchoftheholyname.org.

Incarnation — Soup supper, 7–9 p.m. March 6 at 3817 Pleasant Ave. S. Freewill offering. inc-scj.org.

Our Lady of Lourdes — Fish fry, 5:30–7:30 p.m.

March 8, 22 and April 5 in Hofstede Hall, 1 Lourdes

Place. $12 adults, $10 seniors, $5 children.

Includes fried fish, French fries, coleslaw, cookies and beverage. Takeout and children’s portions available. Stations of the Cross at 5 p.m. lourdesmpls.org.

Our Lady of Peace — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. March 8 and 29. Soup and bread supper, 5:30–7 p.m.

Fridays during Lent except March 8 and 29. A variety of soups served. Cost TBD. Followed by Stations of the Cross. 5426 12th Ave. S. olpmn.org.

St. Albert the Great — Fish fry, 4:30–7:30 p.m.

Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at 2836 33rd Ave S. $12 adults, $6 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Cash or check only. Live music, bingo and raffles. Extra parking one block north with shuttle bus. saintalbertthegreat.org.

St. Joan of Arc — Soup and bread supper, 5 p.m.

March 6, 13, 20, 27, April 3 and 10 at 4537 Third Ave. S. Freewill offering. stjoan.com.

St. John the Baptist Byzantine — All-you-can-eat potato pancake and soup dinner, 4:30–7 p.m.

March 15 and April 5 at 2201 NE Third St. $10.

Includes bread, dessert and beverage. stjohnsminneapolis.webs.com.

Minnetonka Immaculate Heart of Mary — Lenten Fish dinner, 5–7 p.m. March 8, 22 and 29 at 13505 Excelsior Blvd. $12 adults, $6 ages 12 and under. Includes baked fish, fish tacos, salad bar, au gratin potatoes, green beans, macaroni and cheese, rolls, cookies and beverage. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. ihm-cc.org.

Montgomery Most Holy Redeemer — Knights of Columbus fish bake, 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. and 4–7:30 p.m. March 8 at Montgomery American Legion, 102 Elm Ave. SW. $12 adults, $6 ages 5-10, free 4 and under. All-youcan-eat buffet includes baked and breaded cod, cheesy potatoes, green beans, bread, coleslaw, homemade bars and beverage. Cod fish sandwich available only 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. with chips or fries for $6. Takeout available. hredeemerparish.org.

Mound Our Lady of the Lake — Shrimp dinner, 4:30–7 p.m.

March 8, 15, April 5 and 12 at 2385 Commerce Blvd. $10 adults, $8 seniors, $6 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Includes shrimp, baked potato or French fries, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, roll, cookie and beverage. ourladyofthelake.com.

New Brighton St. John the Baptist — Fish fry, 6-7:30 p.m. March 1 and April 12 at 835 Second Ave. NW. $10 adults, $6 ages 5-12, $40 family. Baked or fried fish with potatoes, coleslaw, macaroni and cheese for children, and beverage. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus Council No. 1450. Mass at 5:30 p.m.

April 12 only. Stations of the Cross at 7:30 p.m. stjohnnb.com.

New Hope St. Joseph — Fish dinner, 5–7 pm. March 15 at 8701 36th Ave. N. $20 Knights of Columbus families, $8 adults, $4 children under 10. Includes baked fish, French fries, coleslaw, macaroni and cheese, toast and beverage. Takeout available. stjosephparish.com.

New Prague St. Wenceslaus — Fish fry, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. and 4:30–7:30 p.m. March 8 at 215 Main St. E. $13 advance tickets at school office, $15 at door.

Includes coleslaw, rolls, cheesy potatoes, cookies and dessert. Lunch menu has delivery service for $15 at 952-758-3133. swsaints.org.

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Northfield St. Dominic — Fish fry, 5–8 p.m. April 5 at O’Gara Hall, 104 Linden St. N. $13 adults, $7 ages 5-12, free 4 and under. Includes fried or baked cod, macaroni and cheese, scalloped and baked potatoes, full salad bar, vegetables, bread, dessert and beverage. Takeout available. churchofstdominic.org.

North St. Paul St. Peter — Fish fry, 4–7 p.m. March 15, 22, 29, April 5 and 12 at 2620 Margaret St. N. $11 adults, $10 seniors, $3 ages 7-12, free 6 and under.

Includes cod, coleslaw, macaroni and cheese, potatoes, vegetables, bread, applesauce and beverage. Soda extra. Music. churchofstpeternsp.org.

Norwood Young America Ascension — Fish fry, 11 a.m.– 8 p.m. March 1 at 323 Reform St. N. $11. Takeout available. ascensionnya.org.

Oakdale Guardian Angels — Fish dinner, 4:30–7 p.m.

March 15, 29 and April 12 at 8260 4th Street N. $15 adults, $13 seniors, $7 ages 6-12, free 5 and under.

Includes fried or baked fish, coleslaw, red potatoes, macaroni and cheese, green beans, dessert and beverage. Takeout and online pre-order curbside dinners available for $13. guardian-angels.org/fish-fry.

Transfiguration — Fish fry and fish tacos, 5–7 p.m.

March 8, 15, 22, 29 and April 12 at 6135 15th St. N. $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 ages 12 and under, $30 per household. Includes fried or baked fish, fish tacos, coleslaw, grilled cheese, French fries, baked potatoes, dessert and beverage. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. transfigurationmn.org.

Oak Grove St. Patrick — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent at 19921 Nightingale St. NW. $10 adults, $5 ages 7-15, free 6 and under. Includes all-you-can-eat fish, potatoes, corn, green beans, coleslaw, macaroni, dinner roll and dessert. st-patricks.org.

Pine Island St. Michael — Fish fry, 4:30–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at 451 Fifth St. SW. $10 adults, $5 ages 12 and under, $35 family. Includes fried or baked fish, roasted potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, rolls, dessert and beverage.

Stations of the Cross at 7:30 p.m. stpaulstmichael.com.

Prior Lake St. Michael — Fish fry, 5–7:30 p.m. March 8, 22 and April 12 at 16400 Duluth Ave. SE. $12 adults, $10 seniors 65 and over, $6 ages 5-13, free 4 and under. Includes fried Alaskan pollock or baked cod, potato wedges, coleslaw, macaroni and cheese, green beans, homemade rolls, dessert and beverage. Takeout orders available. stmichael-pl.org.

Red Wing St. Joseph — Soup supper, 5:30 p.m. Fridays during Lent at 435 W 7th Street. Free. Stations of the Cross at 5 p.m. stjosephredwing.org.

Robbinsdale Sacred Heart — Fish dinner, 4:30–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at 4087 W. Broadway in the school gym. $11 adults, $10 seniors 65 and over. Includes fish fillet, baked potato, green beans, coleslaw and garlic bread; $11 fish sandwich, meatless spaghetti and coleslaw; $11 fish fillet, cup of soup, green beans and garlic

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4A • THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT bread; $10 large spaghetti and garlic bread; $6.50 bowl of soup and garlic bread. Children’s meals $5.75 ages 4-10, free 3 and under. Includes spaghetti and garlic bread; fish sandwich and green beans; or personal cheese pizza and applesauce. Takeout available. shrmn.org.

Rogers Mary Queen of Peace — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. March 8, 22 and April 5 at St. Martin campus, 21304 Church Ave. $12 ages 13 and over, $7 ages 5-12, $3 ages 4 and under. Includes fried or baked fish, macaroni and cheese, baked potato, baked beans, coleslaw, dinner roll, cookie and beverage. $1 extra fish serving. mqpcatholic.org.

Rosemount St. Joseph — Fish fry, 5:30 pm. March 8, 22 and April 5 at 13900 Biscayne Ave West. Price TBD. Includes fried or baked cod, potato, macaroni and cheese, vegetables or salad, bread, dessert and beverage. Stations of the Cross at 5:30 p.m. stjosephcommunity.org.

Shakopee Knights of Columbus No. Council 1685 — Fish fry, 5–7:30 p.m. Fridays during Lent at 1740 4th Ave E. $12 adults, $6 ages 5-10, free 4 and under. Includes baked or fried fish, potato salad, au gratin potatoes, green beans, fresh baked bread, dessert coffee, milk and water. 952-445-5555.

Shoreview St. Odilia — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. March 8, 22 in the Courtyard at 3495 Victoria St. N. $11 adults, $7 ages 5-12, free 4 and under. Includes all-you-caneat cod and tilapia (baked or broiled), macaroni and cheese, cheesy potatoes, corn, coleslaw, rolls, dessert and beverages. “Via Dolorosa” musical presentation of the Stations of the Cross 7 p.m. March 8. Stations of the Cross at 5:30 p.m.

March 22. stodilia.org.

South St. Paul St. John Vianney — Fish fry, 4:30–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday in the Mother Teresa room at 840 19th Ave N. $12 adults, $10 seniors, $5 ages 12 and under. Includes all-youcan-eat gluten-free baked or fried fish, salad, baked potato or French fries, macaroni and cheese, roll, beverage, dessert and specialty side dishes. Beer and wine available. Stations of the Cross at 4 p.m. sjvssp.org.

Stillwater St. Michael and St. Mary — Men’s Club fish fry, 4:30–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at St. Michael’s social hall, 611 Third St. S. $13 adults, $11 seniors 65 and over, $5 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Includes all-you-can-eat beer-battered cod, parsley buttered potatoes, coleslaw, green beans, rolls, and macaroni and cheese for younger guests. $11 takeout. stmichaelstillwater.org and stmarystillwater.org.

St. Louis Park Holy Family — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday in Father Moorman Hall at 5900 W. Lake St. $8 adults, $4 children. Includes fried or baked fish and two side dishes: macaroni and cheese, garlic cheddar biscuit, coleslaw or green beans. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. followed by Sunday Gospel reflection. hfcmn.org.

St. Paul Cathedral of St. Paul, Knights of Columbus Council No. 14752 — Fish fry, 5:45-7 p.m. April 12 in Hayden Hall (lower level of the Cathedral) at 239 Selby Ave. Suggested donation $10 adults and $5 ages 12 and under. Includes Parmesan-crusted tilapia fillets, baked potato, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, applesauce, French bread, lemonade and coffee. cathedralsaintpaul.org

Nativity of Our Lord — Fish fry, 5–8 p.m. March 15 and April 12 at 1900 Wellesley Ave. $12 adults, $9 children, $40 family. Fried or baked fish, choice of potato, vegetable, coleslaw and cookie, with cheese sticks for kids. Beer, wine and other beverages available. Drive-up window at the garage on Wellesley Avenue. nativitymen.org.

Our Lady of Guadalupe — Lenten dinner, 11:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday. $10 large meal, $8 small meal. Includes cheese enchiladas, rice, beans, beverage and dessert. One dozen enchiladas $20. olgcatholic.org.

St. Mark — Fish Fry, 5–8 p.m. March 15 in the school cafeteria at 1983 Dayton Ave. $10 adult, $5 ages 12 and under. Adoration, praise and worship music, and confession 7–8:30 p.m. in the church.

Soup supper, 5:30 p.m. March 8, 22, 29 and April 5, 12 in Carolyn Hall at 2001 Dayton Ave. Stations of the Cross and confession at 6:30 p.m. saintmark-mn.org.

St. Mary — Soup supper, 6 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at 261 E. Eighth St. April 19 noon Good Friday service and luncheon.

Freewill offering. stmarystpaul.org.

St. Matthew — Fish fry, 4:30–7:30 p.m. Fridays during Lent at 510 Hall Ave. $12 adults, $11 seniors, $6 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Includes all-youcan-eat baked or fried fish, baked potato, vegetable, coleslaw, roll, milk or coffee. Grilled cheese available. Beer and wine extra. st-matts.org.

St. Pascal Baylon — Fish fry, 4:30–7 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday at Brioschi Social Hall, 1757 Conway St. $12 ages 12 and over, $5 ages 6-11, free 5 and under. Includes fried or baked cod, coleslaw, steamed mixed vegetables, macaroni and cheese, au gratin potatoes or seasoned fries, rolls, chocolate or vanilla pudding, and beverage. Milk, bottled water and soda extra.

Raffle and baked good sale. Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. stpascals.org.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019 St. Stanislaus — Soup supper, 6 p.m. March 20 and April 3 at 398 Superior St. Soup suppers shared with St. Mark’s Lutheran Church 6 p.m.

March 13, 27 and April 10 at 550 7th St. W. Freewill offering. Prayer service at 6:40 p.m. ststans.org.

St. Thomas More — Fish fry, 5:30–8 p.m. March 15, 29 and April 12 at St. Thomas More School, 1065 Summit Ave. $12 adults, $6 ages 5-12, free 4 and under. Includes all-you-can-eat fried cod, mashed potatoes, French fries, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, dinner roll, cookie and assorted beverages. Beer, wine and soda available for purchase. Stations of the Cross at 5 pm. morecommunity.org.

Waconia St. Joseph — Fish fry, 4–7:30 p.m. Fridays during Lent except Good Friday in the school commons at 41 E. First St. $11 adults, $5 ages 5-12, free 4 and under. stjosephwaconia.org.

White Bear Lake St. Pius X — Fish fry, 4:30-7 p.m. March 15, 29 and April 5 at 3878 Highland Ave. $13 adults, $11 seniors, $6 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Includes all-you-can-eat fried or baked cod, baked potato, coleslaw, pasta salad, macaroni and cheese, roll, dessert and beverage. Music by Friendly Fish Fry DJ March 15 and April 5. Cash bar available.

Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. churchofstpiusx.org.

Woodbury St. Ambrose — Soup supper. Details not available at press time. saintambroseofwoodbury.org.

Zumbrota St. Paul, Zumbrota — Ham Dinner, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. March 17 at Zumbrota VFW, 25 E. First St. $12 adults, $6 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Takeout available. Silent auction. stpaulstmichael.com.

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New rector Omaha priest installed as 15th rector of St. Paul Seminary.

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‘Remember you are dust’ Looking ahead to Ash Wednesday.

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Venezuela visitors In midst of political unrest in Venezuela, two women visit from archdiocese’s mission parish Jesucristo Resucitado.

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Wall of opposition U.S. bishops, other Catholic groups protest President Trump’s national emergency declaration to build border wall.

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Helping others Catholic Services Appeal Foundation extends support to two new ministries.

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Courageous persistence Movie ‘Across’ chronicles life of first African-American priest ordained for a U.S. diocese.

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Happily ever after When a Mendota Heights couple couldn’t find a small-group ministry for the newly married, they created their own.

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In this photo illustration, Miranda Cóndor Arias of Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Paul receives ashes from the pastor of the parish, Father Andrew Brinkman.

Sobering mood after McCarrick’s laicization

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ccusations surrounding former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick have been hanging over U.S. bishops and faith communities in the dioceses and archdioceses where he served — New York, Metuchen and Newark in New Jersey, and Washington — since last year.

Even though the Vatican stripping McCarrick of his clerical status Feb. 16 was expected, the news cast a somber mood over those faith communities, which were already grappling with what had happened while he was among them in the past and whether the Vatican’s decision can help the Church in the U.S. move forward.

In announcing its decision, the Vatican said McCarrick was found guilty of “solicitation in the sacrament of confession and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power.”

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ARCHBISHOP HEBDA: ‘NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW’ In a Feb.16 statement, Archbishop Bernard Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis said that he hoped the decision to dismiss McCarrick from the priesthood “brings a measure of peace and healing to those who were harmed by him.”

“The courageous victims/survivors who stepped forward have blessed all of us with a reminder of the power of the truth,” he said. “Today’s decision, made possible by their action, confirms that no one is above the law and that the abuse of position and power cannot be tolerated in the Church.”

Archbishop Hebda asked that people join him in praying for “victims/survivors, their families and all of those who have been affected by abuse of power in the Church.”

“Please pray as well for those of us who have been called to serve the Lord’s flock as clergy; may we be renewed each day in our pursuit of holiness so that our actions might more perfectly reflect the humble, loving and selfless example of Jesus, the Good Shepherd,” he said.

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If this priority is not clear, we will leave withered lands, depleted seas, polluted air, wastelands where beautiful orchards used to flourish as an inheritance to future generations.

14 The number of years Bishop Frederick Campbell, a former auxiliary bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, led the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio. Pope Francis accepted his resignation in late January with the announcement that Auxiliary Bishop Robert Brennan of Rockville Centre, New York, will take the helm of the diocese. Bishop Campbell is 75, the age at which canon law requires bishops to submit their resignation to the pope. Bishop Campbell was ordained a priest in 1980 and served as rector of The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul from 2002 to 2005. He was an auxiliary bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis from 1999 to 2005 and became the 11th bishop of the Diocese of Columbus in January 2005.

Msgr. Fernando Chica Arellano speaking Feb. 13 of the need for world leaders to put people before material gain.

Msgr. Chica, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Program, spoke at the International Fund’s headquarters in Rome as part of the Fourth Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum.

9 The number of members on a co-op Robotics team from Divine Mercy Catholic School and Bethlehem Academy in Faribault who captured the state Vex IQ championship Feb. 2. The year-old team will compete in the Vex IQ world championship in Louisville, Kentucky, in April. Members of the team include Monica Wilder, Zander Smith, Thatcher Simon, Peter Schoolmeesters, Saegeol Hwang, Joseph Kunze, Michael Crone, Matthew Friesen and Ethan Martin.

$10.5 million The amount the Academy of Holy Angels hopes to raise with its “Our Call: To Lead & Serve” campaign, which launched Feb. 14. The Richfield school has already received approximately $8.3 million in pledges through 400 gifts, including a $1 million lead gift, according to a press release. The campaign will support capital enhancements and annual funding for the Catholic high school. The school aims to complete fundraising

by June 30.

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CAPITOL ROSARY Antoinette Jalloh, right, of St. Alphonsus in Brooklyn Center prays the rosary at the Minnesota State Capitol Feb. 19 as part of the Catholics at the Capitol event in St. Paul organized by the Minnesota Catholic Conference. The day included Mass, featured speakers Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia and Hollywood actor Jim Caviezel, State Capitol tours and meetings with state legislators. Next to Jalloh is Deanna Larson of St. Michael in St. Michael. Look for coverage of the event in the March 7 issue of The Catholic Spirit.

83 The percent increase of visitors from 2016 to 2018 at Wakota – A Guiding Star Center pregnancy resource center in West St. Paul. Wakota executive director Dan Saad attributes the increase to its wide offering of classes and programs for new and expectant mothers. Wakota is holding its fundraising gala March 1 at the University of St. Thomas with Pam Tebow as the speaker. The mother of 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow, Pam was advised by doctors to abort Tim due to complications during her pregnancy. She refused. Pam and Tim appeared in a 2010 Super Bowl commercial celebrating life.

$10,000 The amount Knights of Columbus Council No. 2400 donated to St. Michael in Farmington to help pay for a new floor in the parish social hall. Grand Knight Robert Italiano and several other Knights presented an oversize check Jan. 23 to Father Benjamin Little, pastor. The council uses the hall for many of its events, including pancake breakfasts, bingo, council meetings and council banquets.

25 The anniversary this year for the Cities 97.1 Basilica Block party at the Basilica of St. Mary grounds in Minneapolis. The Basilica announced its music lineup Feb. 12 for the July 12-13 event. Performers and bands include Anderson East, CHVRCHES, Dawes, Flora Cash, Hanson, Jason Mraz, The Jayhawks, Johnnyswim, Kacey Musgraves, Lissie, Metric, Ruston Kelly, Semisonic and Yam Haus. The Block Party funds restoration of the Basilica through The Basilica Landmark.

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WELCOME GESTURE Lucy Johnson, left, of St. Francis de Sales in St. Paul and Deb Streefland of St. Nicholas in Elko New Market receive roses from children Feb. 3 during a blessing of a roadside shrine in the Diocese of Vijayapuram, India. Johnson and Streefland were part of a nine-member delegation from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis who traveled to southern India Jan. 27-Feb. 7 to experience the Catholic Church there. The trip was organized by the Center for Mission, which promotes and coordinates the archdiocese’s mission outreach.

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The number of sexual abuse survivors who have reached out in the past year to Tom Johnson, the volunteer ombudsman for clergy abuse victims jointly selected in 2017

by Ramsey County Attorney John Choi and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Minnesota Lawyer magazine named Johnson, principal at Gray Plant Mooty in Minneapolis, among Attorneys of the Year in recognition for outstanding service. As The Catholic Spirit previously reported, Minnesota Lawyer also named as Attorneys of the Year all attorneys who participated in the archdiocese’s four-year bankruptcy process to compensate sexual abuse claimants. The process was completed in December.

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This Lent, don’t let sin win

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uring this time when Pope Francis and the bishops of the Church seek reparation, reconciliation, and healing within the victim and survivor communities of those sexually abused by priests, we humbly recognize that this reparation, reconciliation and healing are needed in our parish communities as well.

I offer my gratitude to God for the resilient faithful.

These members of our parishes know the enduring grace of unity in the sacramental life of the Church.

At the same time, I pray each day for those who have experienced a painful tear in some of our relationships with one another. For many people, there is a disturbed trust and a heavy disappointment with the leadership of the Church.

We all want healthy, holy and happy priests. We all want to be healthy, holy and happy people. We all want parishes where there is mutual admiration between the priests and the people. We all want parishes that are dynamic in unity and vibrant with good works. Yet we also know, all too painfully well, that there are saboteurs.

The power of sin and the forces of evil define us differently than God created us. They divide us against one another. They destroy trust to unravel the bonds that hold us together. If any adjective in front of the word “human being” makes us worth less, then sin has won.

The cry for justice is belied and betrayed when innocent people are harmed. Likewise, no true defense of the true faith is without the virtue of charity. If with deep-seated anger and vengeance, we are yet another voice in the chorus of bad news, then sin wins. If we are so critical that we are meanspirited, then sin wins. If we are just another messenger who points to every disappointment as a

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urante este tiempo, cuando el Papa Francisco y los obispos de la Iglesia buscan reparación, reconciliación y sanación dentro de las comunidades de víctimas y sobrevivientes de los abusados sexualmente por los sacerdotes, reconocemos humildemente que esta reparación, reconciliación y sanación también son necesarias en nuestras comunidades parroquiales.

Ofrezco mi gratitud a Dios por los fieles resilientes. Estos miembros de nuestras parroquias conocen la gracia perdurable de la unidad en la vida sacramental de la Iglesia. Al mismo tiempo, oro todos los días por aquellos que han experimentado una lágrima dolorosa en algunas de nuestras relaciones con los demás. Para muchas personas, existe una confianza perturbada y una gran decepción con el liderazgo de la Iglesia.

Todos queremos sacerdotes sanos, santos y felices. Todos queremos ser personas sanas, santas y felices. Todos queremos parroquias donde hay admiración mutua entre los sacerdotes y la gente. Todos queremos parroquias

reason to justify distrust and division, then sin wins.

As we prepare for the Lenten season, it should give us pause to remember that every time we give something else a greater power than God, we are blaspheming. When we let sin win, we live in the world of our own making and not in the world God created. It is a Lenten exercise to ask ourselves, “Where have I let sin win? Where do I need a love greater than the sin?”

The path to reconciliation and unity as a Church is not a path of amnesia. Forgiveness is not forgetting.

Forgiveness is when the very power of Christ’s love is greater than the sin. Each and every time we look to the cross, we are seeing the love that is bigger than the sin.

Restoration and renewal happen when sin loses. Sin loses when our love for one another is bigger than all hurt, anger and division. Sin loses when the mystical body of Christ is so much greater than any human institution. Sin loses when we go to Communion and are in communion with the Church throughout the world. Sin loses when we are sisters and brothers in one family. In the flotilla of the faithful, sin loses when there are no passengers, just crew members.

When sin loses, the apostolate of the laity flourishes with the visible transformation of lived Gospel values, good works and a studied understanding of the teachings of the Church. Sin loses when people seek out a sense of belonging and find in our parish communities a family united in faith.

The power of sin and all the forces of evil contained therein are defeated when we celebrate the Eucharist.

In the person and real presence of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit elevates us above and beyond all of this world’s hurts, pains, divisions, disappointments and disillusionments. Otherwise the Church would have not survived the Apostolic Age. It is in a parish where the healing powers of Christ call forth a reconciling community. It is in a parish

que sean dinámicas en unidad y vibrantes con buenas obras. Sin embargo, también sabemos, muy dolorosamente, que hay saboteadores.

El poder del pecado y las fuerzas del mal nos definen de manera diferente a como Dios nos creó. Nos dividen el uno contra el otro. Destruyen la confianza para desentrañar los vínculos que nos mantienen unidos. Si cualquier adjetivo delante de la palabra “ser humano” nos hace valer menos, entonces el pecado ha ganado.

El clamor por justicia es desmentido y traicionado cuando personas inocentes son dañadas. Del mismo modo, ninguna verdadera defensa de la verdadera fe está sin la virtud de la caridad. Si con la ira y la venganza profundamente arraigadas, somos otra voz más en el coro de malas noticias, entonces el pecado gana. Si somos tan críticos que somos mezquinos, entonces el pecado gana. Si somos solo otro mensajero que señala cada decepción como una razón para justificar la desconfianza y la división, entonces el pecado gana.

A medida que nos preparamos para la temporada de Cuaresma, debemos hacer una pausa para recordar que cada vez que otorgamos un poder más grande que Dios, estamos blasfemando.

Cuando dejamos que el pecado gane, vivimos en el mundo de nuestra propia creación y no en el mundo que Dios creó. Es un ejercicio de Cuaresma

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Sin loses when our love for one another is bigger than all hurt, anger and division.

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where we experience the Church as one, holy, Catholic and apostolic. If we cannot rise above the power of sin and the forces of evil to overcome the wrath of division, then how do we expect that we can rise above the grave?

The devil may have won on Good Friday. It is still a disturbingly violent and divided world. But the devil lost once and for all time, for all people, on Easter Sunday. The victory of the Risen Christ over all sin and even death itself is the power of the greater love.

We are called as his disciples to step out of the Good Friday world and, by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, practice the greater love of an Easter people.

preguntarnos: “¿Dónde he dejado ganar el pecado? ¿Dónde necesito un amor más grande que el pecado?

El camino hacia la reconciliación y la unidad como Iglesia no es un camino de amnesia. El perdón no es olvidar. El perdón es cuando el poder mismo del amor de Cristo es mayor que el pecado.

Cada vez que miramos a la cruz, estamos viendo el amor que es más grande que el pecado.

La restauración y la renovación suceden cuando el pecado se pierde. El pecado se pierde cuando nuestro amor mutuo es más grande que todo dolor, enojo y división. El pecado se pierde cuando el cuerpo místico de Cristo es mucho más grande que cualquier institución humana. El pecado se pierde cuando vamos a la Comunión y estamos en comunión con la Iglesia en todo el mundo. El pecado se pierde cuando somos hermanas y hermanos en una familia. En la flotilla de los fieles, el pecado se pierde cuando no hay pasajeros, solo miembros de la tripulación.

Cuando el pecado se pierde, el apostolado de los laicos florece con la transformación visible de los valores del Evangelio vivido, las buenas obras y una comprensión estudiada de las enseñanzas de la Iglesia. El pecado se pierde cuando las personas buscan un sentido de pertenencia y encuentran en nuestras comunidades parroquiales una familia unida en la fe.

El poder del pecado y todas las fuerzas del mal contenidas en él, son derrotados cuando celebramos la Eucaristía. En la persona y la presencia real de Jesucristo, el Espíritu Santo nos eleva por encima y más allá de todas las heridas, dolores, divisiones, desilusiones y desilusiones de este mundo. De lo contrario, la Iglesia no habría sobrevivido a la era apostólica.

Es en una parroquia donde los poderes curativos de Cristo hacen surgir una comunidad reconciliadora. Es en una parroquia donde experimentamos a la Iglesia como una, santa, católica y apostólica. Si no podemos elevarnos por encima del poder del pecado y las fuerzas del mal para vencer la ira de la división, entonces, ¿cómo esperamos que podamos elevarnos por encima de la tumba?

El diablo pudo haber ganado el Viernes Santo. Todavía es un mundo inquietantemente violento y dividido.

Pero el diablo perdió de una vez por todas, para todas las personas, el domingo de Pascua. La victoria de Cristo resucitado sobre todo pecado e incluso la muerte misma es el poder del amor más grande.

Como sus discípulos, somos llamados a salir del mundo del Viernes Santo y, por el derramamiento del Espíritu Santo, practicar el amor más grande de un pueblo de Pascua.

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Senior Keelan Gorman of Benilde-St. Margaret’s School in St. Louis Park leads the way during a Nordic ski practice Feb. 9 at Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis. He qualified for the state high school meet Feb. 14 at Giants Ridge in Biwabik, and was practicing with his teammates to prepare. The brutal weather over the previous two weeks — including Twin Cities temperatures nearly dipping to 30 degrees below zero Jan. 29-31 — did not discourage him. “I love it; I love being outdoors,” he said.

“You just get out and bundle up. It’s a really, really fun experience. ... I go every day.

Even when it was negative 50 [degrees windchill], I was out there.” Gorman placed 41st overall out of 160 skiers in boys competition at state. In girls competition, BSM’s Ava Schieffert, also a senior, placed 21st overall and earned all-state honors. Junior Charlotte Brown finished 26th.

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Seminary’s 15th rector installed Feb. 11

By Maria Wiering The Catholic Spirit When Father Joseph Taphorn officially became rector of The St. Paul Seminary Jan. 1, he was somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, bound for Israel and Jordan for a monthlong visit to the Holy Land. The 14 SPS seminarians with whom he was traveling had toasted him in the airport before their plane left New York.

Beginning his new role with this pilgrimage — a regular feature in a third-year theology seminarian’s formation at SPS — was a blessing, Father Taphorn said. Not only did he have a chance to revisit significant Old and New Testament sites — it was his third trip there — but he also got to know the class of seminarians.

The trip “helped me to remember that relationships are most important,” he said. “It’s easy to get buried in email and getting things unpacked and files in order ... but more important is making those human relationships and connections.”

A priest of the Archdiocese of Omaha, Father Taphorn, 47, was installed Feb. 11 as the seminary’s 15th rector during a 5 p.m. Mass at the seminary’s St. Mary Chapel.

During the Mass, he recited a profession of faith and took an oath of fidelity before Archbishop Bernard Hebda, the Mass’ celebrant. Father Taphorn’s parents, Jim and Joan Taphorn; one of his sisters; and longtime friends attended the Mass.

Father Taphorn follows Msgr. Aloysius Callaghan, who transitioned to rector emeritus status at the graduate-level seminary last June after serving as its leader since 2005. Bishop Andrew Cozzens, who taught at the seminary from 2008 until his 2013 ordination, served as the seminary’s interim rector from July until Jan. 1.

When Msgr. Thomas Richter, a priest of the Diocese of Bismarck

Father Larry Hubbard, beloved by many Latinos as “Padre Lorenzo,” died Feb. 17. He was 78.

Two years after his 1968 ordination at the Cathedral of St. Paul, the St. Cloud native was assigned to serve in Venezuela. He and Father Ray Monsour were the first two priests to serve at the newly-formed mission of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. They went to Virgin of the Valley parish in Puerto Ordaz. Father Hubbard served 17 years in Venezuela over four periods: 1970-1976, 1978-1980, 1985-1992 and 1993-1995.

Today, the Venezuelan mission is the parish of Jesucristo Resucitado in San Felix, across the Caroni

Legislature considers counseling ban that could affect faith-based therapy options

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Father Joseph Taphorn reacts to applause after being installed as rector of the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity Feb. 11. who had been slated to become SPS’s next rector, was recalled to his home diocese last April, Bishop Cozzens suggested Father Taphorn, a longtime friend, be considered for the job.

During the Feb. 11 Mass’ homily, Bishop Cozzens emphasized that their friendship was not the reason the search committee and seminary’s board of trustees recommended Father Taphorn for the position. But Bishop Cozzens said he is confident Father Taphorn is well qualified for the role. The appointment was announced last July.

Father Taphorn told The Catholic Spirit Feb. 14 that he’s grateful to have both Bishop Cozzens and Msgr. Callaghan as resources as he learns his new role.

During the fall he met with every faculty member and is learning what is working well and where change would be helpful.

Ordained in 1997, Father Taphorn earned a canon law degree at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 2002. He served his archdiocese in several administrative roles, including as chancellor and vicar for clergy.

Meanwhile, he assisted at Omaha parishes. In 2016, he became the founding pastor and director of the

St. John Paul II Newman Center at the University of Omaha. The rector role, he said, combines skills he’s gained from his academic training, pastoral experience — especially at the Newman Center — and administrative responsibilities. “I feel like the Lord has called me to be here,” he said.

As he begins his role, he’s focusing on getting to know the seminarians, primarily by joining them for breakfast and being available to talk during the day. He acknowledged that he’s taking the helm of the seminary during a challenging time in the Church, as seminary formation and culture have come under scrutiny in the wake of new clergy sexual abuse revelations throughout the U.S. “It’s a reminder for all of us on the faculty that the human formation piece undergirds everything,” he said, speaking of one of priestly formation’s four dimensions: human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral. “It’s a reminder that we have a strong program in place [at SPS] ... and just to be mindful that ... the formation relationships are fundamental in being a priest. We have to be able to have healthy relationships in order to be that bridge to Christ.”

‘Padre Lorenzo’ left Venezuela parish legacy

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River from Puerto Ordaz.

“Since the beginning of the archdiocesan mission in 1970, none of the priests, religious or laity from Minnesota has had such an impact in Venezuela as Father Larry Hubbard,” said Father Greg Schaffer, pastor of Jesucristo Resucitado, who began his ministry there in 1994. “His humble and gentle kindness crossed cultural barriers to touch the hearts of people throughout the diocese.”

Father Schaffer noted in a Feb. 19 email that in Venezuela Father Hubbard helped to incorporate the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and established programs for youth and for training married couples to prepare engaged couples for marriage.

Upon his return to Minnesota in

1995, Father Hubbard served for five months at Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Paul, and then as chaplain for Hispanic Ministry in the archdiocese until his 2010 retirement. “He was a gentle man, an upbeat priest [who] always saw the best in people,” said Estela Villagrán Manancero, director of the Office of Latino Ministry. “He learned so much from the people in Venezuela that he wanted to share ways of doing ministry here so people would feel safe and at home.”

A funeral Mass for Father Hubbard will be 11 a.m. Feb. 23 at Our Lady of Guadalupe, preceded by an all-night vigil beginning at 6 p.m. Feb. 22. Interment will immediately follow the funeral at Resurrection Cemetery in Mendota Heights, with a reception at Our Lady of Guadalupe.

While condemning the abuse some have suffered through so-called “conversion therapy,” Catholics and others who testified before a Minnesota legislative committee Feb. 13 said a bill to ban some counseling of children and vulnerable adults on same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria is overly broad and would limit patients’ treatment options. It would also violate First Amendment rights of therapists and other providers, they said.

Testifying before the House Health and Human Services Policy Committee were psychologists and other professionals, with some sharing adverse effects of conversion therapy and others describing positive counseling experiences.

“The psychologist’s role is to listen non-judgmentally and give care to clients, whether children or adults, to understand how they want to grow and then to facilitate this growth,” testified David Kirby, a licensed clinical psychologist at Arden Woods Psychological Services in New Brighton.

The committee advanced the bill, HF 12, Feb. 13 to the Commerce committee. Its chances of passage are unclear because the Republican-controlled Senate has not advanced it. Last month, New York became the 15th state to pass a similar ban, but many of the states are facing legal challenges to the bans.

Authored by Democratic Rep. Hunter Cantrell of Savage, the bill prohibits mental health professionals and practitioners from counseling children or vulnerable adults with the intention of changing their sexual orientation or gender identity. It also prohibits medical assistance coverage for such counseling and bans misrepresentation of conversion-therapy services or products. “Conversion therapy is not only an unfounded scientific practice but a severely damaging one as well,” Cantrell testified.

But Kirby objected to using the term “conversion therapy” to describe all therapy that’s not gay-affirming.

The term has negative connotations from sometimes abusive techniques used more often in the 1970s.

A section of the bill pertains to advertisement and sales and could threaten churches and other organizations with prosecution for fraud if they offer fee-based services, such as conferences, that uphold Church teaching on sexuality. Free services would not be affected.

Minnesota Catholic Conference, the Church’s public policy voice in Minnesota, opposes the bill, in part because it could impact settings far beyond professional counseling, said Jason Adkins, MCC executive director.

“It could affect counselors who work in faith-based settings, as well as the operation and content of church events, and those who publish and sell works that communicate Catholic moral teaching,” he said.

Religious Sister of Mercy Mara Lester, a psychiatrist with Catholic Charities of Southern Minnesota in Winona, submitted a letter to the committee stating the bill is overly broad and could prevent young people and families from seeking needed help. She also said it would inhibit medical professionals from providing care they’re ethically bound to provide.

Republican Rep. Jeff Backer of Browns Valley, who voted against the bill, said it would limit doctors’ ability to give their clients options. “If a patient is looking for direction, if they’re asking for help, this I see could limit them,” he said.

Peggy Doherty, a parishioner of St. Joseph in West St. Paul, testified about seeing a number of counselors as she wrestled with same-sex attraction, depression and anxiety during an 18-year period. Counselors didn’t try to change her, but they helped her to know herself better and resolve the issues. Doherty said the bill would prohibit the therapy choices she had. “We live in a culture today that allows men and women to change their bodies based on the gender they identify with,” she said. “Why shouldn’t we be allowed to change our mind?”

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Against backdrop of political unrest, mission parish keeps focus

By Jonathan Liedl For The Catholic Spirit Throughout his 20-plus years in Venezuela, Father Greg Schaffer has made a concerted effort to keep his distance from the country’s often volatile political scene. He avoids marches and rallies, steers clear of partisan debates on social media, and keeps his homilies focused on personal rather than political issues. The longtime pastor of Jesucristo Resucitado, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ mission parish in the Diocese of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, knows wading into political controversy as an American would hamper his ability to be an effective shepherd.

But late last month, Father Schaffer found himself steps away from the eye of Venezuela’s unfolding political maelstrom. On the night of Jan. 23, only blocks from the parish in San Felix, opponents of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro tore down a statue of former president Hugo Chavez, severed the head and hung it by a noose from a bridge — but only after the statue had been doused in gasoline and set aflame.

“I could see the fire from my house,” said Father Schaffer, a priest of the archdiocese, noting that the incident made national and international headlines.

It was a powerful protest against the socialist regime that has overseen the country’s ongoing collapse, especially significant because it took place in the heart of what had previously been pro-government territory.

It was also no coincidence that the anti-Maduro protest unfolded only hours after opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president, receiving widespread support across the country.

“Many of the poor are turning away from Maduro and the current government and want change,” said Father Schaffer, who said a “tense tranquility” has characterized the neighborhoods of Jesucristo Resucitado since the incident, as people wait to see what will happen in the coming days.

But while the political stalemate between Guaido and Maduro continues with no end in sight, Father Schaffer and the mission parish are keeping their focus on serving the spiritual and material needs of the people.

To that end, two women from the mission are currently visiting Minnesota to collect donations, raise funds and increase awareness about the significant areas of need in

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Zahyra Balza, right, talks with Debbie Luna of Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Paul Feb. 14 in Luna’s kitchen. Balza, who belongs to the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ mission parish in Venezuela, Jesucristo Resucitado, is visiting to collect donations and raise awareness of the struggles in her home country. their home country.

Zahyra Balza is on her third trip on behalf of the mission. While her career as an electrical engineer makes it difficult for her to be involved in the parish during the week, the fact that she has a U.S. tourist visa, which is difficult to obtain for most Venezuelans, puts her in a unique position to serve. She will return to Venezuela with a 50-pound suitcase of donated goods from the archdiocese, including medicine and personal hygiene products. Receiving donations in this manner is the quickest way to provide immediate relief to those in need.

Gladys Brito, the mission parish’s accountant who is also visiting, said support is needed now more than ever, as conditions in the Diocese of Ciudad Guayana, made up largely of the twin cities of San Felix and Puerto Ordaz, are “getting worse every day.”

Unemployment is rampant, food is scarce and expensive, and the hospitals and pharmacies have all but run out of medicine.

“The question people ask us is, ‘How do they survive?’” she shared in Spanish. “The answer is miracles. Because it is inexplicable.”

Brito said her top priority on her current visit to Minnesota is to thank supporters of Jesucristo Resucitado, and share details about how their assistance is being put to use through projects like the mission’s soup kitchen and free medical clinic.

“I thank people because they are angels to us,” she said. “The help from people in Minnesota is so important.”

Both Venezuelan women support Guaido in his effort to remove Maduro and hold legitimate elections, and they say his bold action has inspired the nation.

Massive demonstrations, mostly peaceful, have dominated the streets of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, in recent weeks. “People are full of hope now,” Balza said.

“Personally, I think we’ll do it, one way or another.”

However, they also acknowledge that the road to restoring Venezuela’s democracy won’t be easy. They hope for a peaceful transition of power, but express concerns about what Maduro might be willing to do to maintain control. “I always pray to God to protect us and return his merciful eyes to my country,” Brito said.

“But my people are willing to go out and fight for the freedom we have lost.”

Balza believes that despite its horrible effects, the crisis has helped to enkindle a spirit of solidarity among the Venezuelan people. She is hopeful that the country will emerge from this trying period stronger than before.

“We’ll be a great Venezuela,” she said, “because we know what it is to have nothing.”

The crisis has helped many in the diocese rediscover their need for God. Father Schaffer said the 8 a.m.

Sunday Mass at Jesucristo Resucitado has been filled to capacity for the past few months. Seeing the people’s desire to encounter God in the sacraments has reinforced his commitment to the mission. So while all non-essential U.S. government personnel have evacuated Venezuela, he doesn’t plan on following suit.

“I am staying no matter what happens,” said Father Schaffer, who also serves as the Diocese of Ciudad Guayana’s vicar general. “The people of this parish, as well as Bishop Helizandro Teran and the priests of the diocese, need me here more than ever.”

World Youth Day pilgrims gain sense of universal Church

By Dave Hrbacek The Catholic Spirit Christine Lam went to Panama in January for World Youth Day to “light that fire” within her heart.

The moment came during eucharistic adoration at one of the sessions. Her eyes were riveted on the monstrance as it was carried around the auditorium.

“I just remember feeling my heart was just so full,” said Lam, 24, a member of St. Anne-St. Joseph Hien in Minneapolis, who traveled with a group from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

“I was so overwhelmed with emotion and with love that I started to cry.”

A youth leader at her parish, she was there to deepen her faith and bring back something she could share with younger parishioners. She had never gone to World Youth Day before, and making the pilgrimage was on her “bucket list.”

She and around 80 other pilgrims in the archdiocese quickly learned that hardships and suffering would be their constant companions during the event, held Jan. 22-27 in Panama City. Walking long distances in tropical heat, battling large crowds, and sleeping on hard ground were among the challenges pilgrims and chaperones faced.

But, in the midst of it all, there were deep encounters with Christ.

“The thing that I saw was, no matter where the kids [ages 16-35] came from spiritually ... wherever they were on their journey to Christ, the openness to meeting him in Panama was such a beautiful grace,” said Jean Stolpestad, director of the archdiocesan Office of Marriage, Family and Life, who led a group of 28 pilgrims and chaperones.

“And, I saw Christ respond to that openness.”

For some, the hardships began two days beforehand. Vincenzo Randazzo of the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis led another archdiocesan group, with 23 Latinos in the group of 25. They flew to Costa Rica, then drove the rest of the way to Panama City.

“It should have been 12, 14 hours, but it ended up being 21 hours,” Randazzo said. “At the border between Costa Rica and Panama, we ended up having to wait five hours. There were so many buses going there for World Youth Day from Mexico and Nicaragua and El Salvador and Honduras ... that the process [of entering the country] was just totally backed up.”

But, he thought it was “good for everybody” because they got a chance to see so many pilgrims from other Central American countries, and they got a sense of what it meant for them to have Pope Francis visit a Central American country.

Once in Panama, they experienced full immersion in the culture. They stayed with local families, and everyone found lodging in the same neighborhood, which Randazzo thought was helpful and meaningful.

“Everybody, without any exception, just fell in love with their host family,” he said.

For one member of the group, Josh Munoz, 26, of St. Stephen in Minneapolis, spending time with a local family underscored one important outcome of his experience: meeting Catholics beyond his parish.

As it got closer to World Youth Day, “I just kept hearing more about the universality of the Church,” he said.

“That’s what got me excited. That’s why I really wanted to go because I just wanted more.”

He said that before the event, he was questioning his faith, but since returning, “it’s 100 times better.” What will stay with him was seeing Pope Francis in person. The first day the pope arrived, the streets were lined with pilgrims hoping for a glimpse. Munoz crawled up onto a small ledge that raised him just high enough to see above the crowds.

“I watched him go by, and I looked behind me and I just saw all the flags of all the nations in the Church,” he said.

“It just felt amazing ... when I saw the pope and I saw everyone. It felt like the whole world was with me. And, that’s the team I want to be on.”

The last evening of World Youth Day featured a gathering several miles outside Panama City in a large field. Praise and worship music was followed by eucharistic adoration. There were no lights and no candles. All was dark except for people turning on their phones to light the way for a statue of Mary that was carried through the crowd.

Yen Fasano, Lam’s cousin and a chaperone on the trip for several members of St. Anne-St. Joseph Hien, said she grew closer to Mary during the pilgrimage.

“There was always a block to my relationship with Mary, but I sincerely wanted to draw near to her,” Fasano wrote in an email to The Catholic Spirit.

“She held me close on this pilgrimage, and her affection for me was amplified by the women I encountered on our trip.

The humility and strength, coupled with tenderness and charity, was constant, and I surely took advantage of embracing them with gratitude for allowing Mary to be glorified in them without reserve and without judgment.

With clarity, it was Our Lady that called me down to Panama.”

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Catholic groups oppose Trump’s emergency declaration to build wall

In a separate bishops’ statement following Trump’s announcement, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of GalvestonHouston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Bishop Joe Vasquez of Austin, Texas, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration, said they were “deeply concerned about the president’s action to fund the construction of a wall along the U.S.Mexico border, which circumvents the clear intent of Congress to limit funding of a wall.”

“We oppose the use of these funds to further the construction of the wall,” Cardinal DiNardo and Bishop Vasquez said. “We remain steadfast and resolute in the vision articulated by Pope Francis that at this time we

need to be building bridges and not walls.”

In their statement, the border bishops and the other prelates who joined them said that while they agree with the president that there is a “humanitarian challenge” at the border, “erecting a wall will not solve the problem,” and they asked Congress to step in with more humanitarian responses.

This statement was signaled by bishops and cardinals in California, Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, New Mexico, Kentucky, Boston and Chicago.

In his speech, the president said he wanted to build the wall “not just because it was a campaign promise,” but because “everyone knows a wall works” and national emergencies such as the one he is calling for had been used by presidents previously without problems. Such declarations are common and at least 31 declared emergencies remain in place. But critics have said the current one seems to be designed to get around Congress.

The dozen or so bishops in their statement said they worried that a wall would drive migrants to more remote regions of the border and risk great loss of life.

They said that while the country had a right to control and secure its borders, “border enforcement must protect and preserve the human rights and life of all persons, regardless of their legal status.” Instead of a wall, they said, Congress should focus on more humane policies, such as reforming the immigration system “in a manner that is just, protects human rights and reflects American values.”

The Center for Migration Studies in New York and the Ignatian Solidarity Network in Ohio joined in a statement signed by more than 40 faith leaders questioning the morality of the structure.

Other Catholic groups such as the Sisters of Mercy and the Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach also voiced early opposition to Trump’s declaration.

“Mr. McCarrick will continue to reside at the St. Fidelis Friary in Victoria until a decision of permanent residence is finalized,” said Bishop Gerald Vincke of the Diocese of Salina, Kansas, where the friary is located.

The decision whether to remain there after the Vatican’s action seems to rest with McCarrick and the religious community of Capuchins, which according to its website is made up of five priests and one religious brother. When the decision to find a place where thenArchbishop McCarrick could reside while his status was being weighed, Bishop Vincke said he had to reconcile his feelings of “disappointment, anger and even resentment” toward him.

On Feb. 16, the bishop thanked the Capuchin community “for their charity and compassion shown to all who seek refuge in the Church, as well as the remarkable people of Victoria for their mercy in this difficult situation.” He added that he hoped the Vatican decision “may help bring healing to all affected by sexual abuse and those hurt by this scandal.”

Pope Francis has convened the heads of bishops’ conferences from around the world for a summit on sex abuse set for Feb. 21-24 at the Vatican.

The coming days no doubt will bring more questions about what the decision means in the historical spectrum of the Catholic Church at all levels.

Massimo Faggioli, a church historian and professor of theology at Villanova University in Philadelphia, said the decision is “theologically important because it would signal that sexual abuse is incompatible with priesthood.”

“It would become part of the discussion on what’s the meaning of ‘ontologically changed’ by priestly ordination,” he said. “Canonically, it would not be the first time, but the first for a cardinal who ecclesiologically is one of the members of the presbyterium of the bishop of Rome. Symbolically, the laicization of McCarrick would be acknowledging the wound inflicted on the pope himself.”

The day seemed to be one of reckoning as brother bishops and organizations that once had worked with, and sometimes praised, the former prelate for his work

grappled with the Vatican’s pronouncement.

The University of Notre Dame almost immediately announced it was rescinding the honorary degree it conferred on him in 2008, an action the school had said it would decide upon when the Vatican reached a final conclusion on the accusations, given that McCarrick had maintained his innocence.

McCarrick said in a June 20 statement, following his announcement that he was stepping down from the College of Cardinals, that he had “absolutely no recollection” of abuse accusations that surfaced after U.S. newspapers reported detailed accounts that he exposed himself and sexually molested at least two boys in his early years as a priest — accusations that spanned almost five decades and were too old to legally prosecute.

Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley called the pope’s action “important in administering justice” for McCarrick’s “crimes and sins,” but “it cannot in and of itself provide healing for those so terribly harmed by the former archbishop’s scandalous violations of his ministry or for their families.”

Church leaders “are rightfully judged by our actions and not our words,” said Cardinal O’Malley, who heads the Vatican’s sex abuse advisory commission. Apologies are part of the healing process, but without action “they ring hollow in light of the revelations of sexual abuse by clergy that have come forth during the past year and almost 20 years prior.”

The Church’s leadership “must enforce accountability for cardinals and bishops if we hope to have the opportunity to engage the laity in the work of tangible change in the Church,” Cardinal O’Malley said.

The Archdiocese of Washington, where McCarrick last served in his 60 years of priesthood and where he was a well-known and ubiquitous figure, said in a brief statement that the imposition of the penalty “underscores the gravity of his actions.”

“Our hope and prayer is that this decision serves to help the healing process for survivors of abuse, as well as those who have experienced disappointment or disillusionment because of what former Archbishop McCarrick has done,” the statement said.

By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Catholic bishops near the U.S.-Mexico border, joined by other U.S. prelates, voiced opposition immediately after President Donald Trump’s Feb. 15 declaration of a national emergency so he can order construction of a barrier along parts of the border between the two countries.

“In our view, a border wall is first and foremost a symbol of division and animosity between two friendly countries,” the bishops said.

“Furthermore, the wall would be an ineffective use of resources at a time of financial austerity,” they said. “It would also destroy parts of the environment, disrupt the livelihoods of ranchers and farmers, weaken cooperation and commerce between border communities, and, at least in one instance, undermine the right to the freedom of worship.”

Speaking at a news conference in the Rose Garden, Trump said he was going to sign a national emergency declaration to stave off a flow of drugs, human trafficking, gang members and illegal immigration coming across the southern border.

The president later signed a spending bill that provides $1.375 billion for fencing and other measures along the border — a fraction of the $5.7 billion he had been asking from Congress for construction of a barrier.

Declaring the national emergency could grant up to $8 billion for the project.

The promise of a wall on the southern border was key to his presidential campaign, but as a candidate he said Mexico, not the U.S., would pay for the structure. When Mexico refused to pay for the wall, he turned to U.S. lawmakers for funding, but they have largely refused to grant U.S. taxpayer money to build it, which led to a 35day, partial government shutdown that began late last year.

MCCARRICK CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 leader, who served and led our Archdiocese of Newark for 14 years, acted in a way that is contrary to the Christian way of life as well as his vocation as a priest of Jesus Christ,” said Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark in a statement following the announcement.

“To all those abused by clergy, especially the victims of Theodore McCarrick, I continue to express my profound sadness and renew heartfelt apologies for the lifelong suffering you have endured,” he said. “I support your continued healing and uphold my commitment of prayer for you. I also ask my brothers and sisters in Christ to pray for those victimized by clergy and for the transgressors as well.”

James Grein, one of those who have publicly said he was abused by the former cardinal, said in a statement released by his attorney that “today I am happy that the pope believed me.”

“For years I have suffered, as many others have, at the hands of Theodore McCarrick,” he said in the statement. “It is with profound sadness that I have had to participate in the canonical trial of my abuser.

Nothing can give me back my childhood, and I have not taken any pleasure in testifying or discussing what happened to me. There are no winners here.”

However, Grein, who provided Vatican officials with accounts that McCarrick sexually abused him as an 11-year-old child, including during confession, said he was “hopeful now I can pass through my anger for the last time. I hope that Cardinal McCarrick will no longer be able to use the power of Jesus’ Church to manipulate families and sexually abuse children.”

“This great historical and holy situation is giving rise to all Catholics and victims of abuse across the world,” he said. “It’s time for us to cleanse the Church.”

As of the day of the announcement, McCarrick was believed to be living in a small religious community of Capuchin Franciscans, St. Fidelis Friary, in rural Victoria, Kansas, where he had been ordered to go by the Vatican to live since late September “a life of prayer and penance” until the accusations against him could be examined.

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A man in Tijuana, Mexico, holds his son Jan. 3 next to a section of the wall separating Mexico and the United States.

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Report: No racist statements from Covington students

By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service An independent investigation into the much-discussed encounter that went viral between Catholic high school students, a Native American tribal leader and members of another protest group on the Lincoln Memorial grounds in Washington in January found no evidence that the students of Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School issued “offensive or racist statements.”

A report on the investigation was released by the Covington Diocese Feb. 13.

Two days before releasing the report’s findings, Covington Bishop Roger Foys wrote to parents of the students telling them he was pleased to let them know that his hope that an inquiry into the events of Jan. 18 would “exonerate our students so that they can move forward with their lives has been realized.”

The investigation and four-page

report, conducted by Greater Cincinnati Investigation Inc. and signed Feb. 11, said four investigators spent 240 hours looking into the events of Jan. 18 when the Covington Catholic High School students — in Washington for the annual March for Life — met up with other groups while waiting for their buses to pick them up.

The investigators spoke with 43 students, 13 chaperones and a number of witnesses.

They also reviewed about 50 hours of internet footage and comments about the exchange.

Investigators were unable to question Nathan Phillips, tribal elder for the Omaha Tribe, who was chanting and beating a drum near the students, or Nick Sandmann, the student most prominent in viral footage of the encounter.

The clip caused immediate outrage, particularly on social media. But by the next day, extended footage of how the situation unfolded revealed that another group had taunted the students. Phillips had walked over to the group as a type

of intervention. The investigators’ report said it found no evidence of the students responding in an offensive manner to the black Hebrew Israelites who first addressed them, nor did the students chant “build the wall” as some had speculated.

The report said the students asked their chaperones if they could perform a school cheer to drown out remarks of the protest group. The students said they felt “confused” when Phillips approached and though some performed a “tomahawk chop” none of the students made “racist or offensive statements.”

The investigators also noted that most of the students wearing the “Make America Great Again” hats had bought them in Washington during their visit.

In previous years, chaperones said some students bought “Hope” hats in support of President Barack Obama. There is no school policy prohibiting political apparel on school-sponsored trips, the report said.

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Sainthood causes advance for Blessed Newman, Hungarian cardinal

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Pope Francis has signed a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed John Henry Newman, the English cardinal whose writings inspired a movement that encourages college students to gather in Newman Centers at secular universities.

The miracle clears the way for Blessed Newman’s canonization.

The Vatican announced Feb. 13 that Pope Francis had signed the decree the day before.

Also Feb. 12, he formally recognized that the late Hungarian Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, jailed and exiled by the communists, had lived the Christian virtues in a heroic way; the recognition is an early step in the sainthood process.

In the sainthood cause of Blessed Newman, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, in southern England, had reported in November that the proposed miracle involved a young law graduate from the Archdiocese of Chicago who faced life-threatening complications during her pregnancy but suddenly recovered when she prayed to the English cardinal for help.

Blessed Newman was born in London in 1801, ordained an Anglican priest in 1825 and ordained a Catholic priest in 1846. He was a leader in the Oxford Movement in the 1830s, which emphasized the Catholic roots of Anglicanism.

A theologian and poet, he died in 1890, and his sainthood cause was opened in 1958. Pope Benedict XVI beatified him in 2010.

The date for his canonization will be announced after Pope Francis holds a meeting of cardinals to formalize their support for declaring Blessed Newman a saint.

The sainthood cause of Cardinal Mindszenty, who led the Archdiocese of Esztergom, Hungary’s primatial see, is in its initial stages. The decree of “heroic virtues” means he can be called “venerable.”

He was born March 29, 1892, in what was Austro-Hungary and was ordained to the priesthood in 1915, named archbishop in 1945 and a cardinal in 1946.

Arrested by the communists in 1948 on charges of treason, Cardinal Mindszenty was tortured into confessing. He was sentenced to life in prison.

During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he was released, but when Soviet forces invaded Hungary to restore the communist government, he took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest. He spent more than 15 years there.

After negotiations with Pope St. Paul VI, the cardinal was allowed to leave Hungary in 1971. He died in exile in Austria in 1975.

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Great expectations Vatican abuse summit has key, realistic goals

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service All eyes and ears will be on the Vatican during an unprecedented gathering Feb. 21-24 to discuss the protection of minors in the Catholic Church.

When Pope Francis announced the international meeting in September, it sparked an optimistic note that the global problem of abuse finally would be tackled with a concerted, coordinated, global effort.

The breadth of the potential impact seemed to be reflected in the list of those convoked to the meeting: the presidents of all the world’s bishops’ conferences, the heads of the Eastern Catholic churches, representatives of the leadership groups of men’s and women’s religious orders and the heads of major Vatican offices.

But the pope tried to dial down what he saw as “inflated expectations” for the meeting, telling reporters in January that “the problem of abuse will continue. It’s a human problem” that exists everywhere.

Many survivors and experts, too, have cautioned that it was unrealistic to assume such a brief meeting could deliver a panacea for abuse and its cover-up.

So, what should people expect from the four-day meeting? The following five points hit the highlights: uIt will be first and foremost about raising awareness, including that the scandal of abuse is not a “Western” problem, but happens in every country.

To make that point clear, the organizing committee asked every participating bishop to sit down with a survivor of abuse before coming to Rome and hear that “Me, too,” from a person of his own country, culture and language.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, who is moderating the meeting, said there would be between 160 and 180 participants. He told reporters Feb. 12 to expect the presidents of about 115 bishops’ conferences, a dozen heads of Eastern churches, prefects of Vatican congregations directly involved with Vatican norms regarding abuse and negligence, eight delegates from the men’s Union of Superiors General, 10 delegates from the women’s International Union of Superiors General, three members of the pope’s Council of Cardinals who are not presidents of their bishops’ conference and four members of the organizing committee.

Everyone invited will be expected to learn what his or her responsibilities are as a leader or a bishop and to know the Church laws and procedures that already exist to protect the young. uOrganizers hope that by listening to victims and leaders who have learned things the hard way, participants will be inspired to adopt a culture of accountability and transparency.

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Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a professor of psychology and president of the Centre for Child Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, leads a briefing for journalists in Rome Feb. 12. The briefing was to prepare for the Feb. 21-24 Vatican meeting on the protection of minors in the Church.

Father Zollner is on the organizing committee for the meeting.

Hearing what abuse and negligence have done to people has the power to transform the listener, “to truly open the mind and heart,” Jesuit Father Hans Zollner told reporters Feb. 12.

Just to be sure those voices are heard, the meeting will also feature testimonies from survivors from countries where the reality of abuse is still largely ignored, said the priest, an abuse expert who is part of the meeting’s organizing committee.

He said the word “accountability” doesn’t even exist in many languages, which often means that a culture might lack a clear or coherent understanding of this key concept.

For that reason, the summit will devote a day to discussing accountability and “what structures, procedures and methods are effective” and viable in the Catholic Church, he said.

Church leaders must know what the norms are, he said, but the meeting also will stress that the procedures themselves “will not magically solve a problem.”

For example, he said, it was “a source of delusion” for U.S. Catholics when the 2002 Dallas Charter did not fix everything.

In fact, the meeting will not be about producing any documents, but pushing people to take the needed steps toward greater transparency and accountability, Father Lombardi said.

Those steps already are spelled out, he said, in Pope Francis’ 2016 document, “As a Loving Mother,” on the accountability of bishops and religious superiors.

“It must be put into practice effectively,” he said, adding that he was “convinced and firmly hope[s] that

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THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT • 9B this meeting will give a push in that direction.” uThere will be a kind of “parallel assembly” as survivors and advocacy groups converge on Rome to call for greater accountability, action and reform.

A variety of events are planned, including an evening “Vigil for Justice” near the Vatican and a “March for Zero Tolerance” to St. Peter’s Square, but a major focus will be media outreach and getting the voice and recommendations of laypeople and victims — many of whom had gone unheard for years — listened to. uPope Francis will be present throughout the meeting, which will include plenary sessions, working groups, prayer, a penitential liturgy and a closing Mass.

In letters to the bishops of Chile and the United States, Pope Francis has made clear what he thinks the Church needs to do to respond to the abuse crisis.

Administrative solutions involving new policies and norms are not enough, he has said.

He told Chile’s bishops that abuse and cover-up “are indicators that something is bad in the Church body.”

Therefore, they must not only “address the concrete cases,” but also “discover the dynamics that made it possible for such attitudes and evils to occur.”

Those attitudes are driven by the temptation “to save ourselves, to save our reputation,” he told the Chilean bishops.

In his letter to the U.S. bishops, he warned against the tendency to play the victim, to scold, discredit, disparage others and point fingers. uExpect the meeting to be one critical step along a very long journey that began decades ago and must continue.

Further measures will be taken after the meeting, Father Zollner has said. For instance, a task force made up of child protection experts “will probably be instituted in the various continents” to help bishops create, strengthen and implement guidelines.

The different “teams” of the task force should be able to help “for years to come to measure the success of this exercise of realizing one’s own responsibility, even on the global level, in the face of public expectations,” he told the Vatican newspaper in January.

Even though the Church is well aware of larger, related problems of abuses of power, conscience and abuse and violence against seminarians, religious women and other adults, the meeting will focus exclusively on protecting minors from abuse, Fathers Zollner and Lombardi said.

The idea is that the attitude and spirit needed to protect the most vulnerable of the Church’s members are the same that will protect and promote respect for the integrity and dignity of everyone.

In fact, Father Lombardi said, “I see this as a test of the profundity of the reform” of the Church called for

by Pope Francis.

In other words, the pope wants people “to examine how we live out our mission, with what coherence and how we can convert our attitudes, both in regard to our attention and compassion for those who suffer, as well as our consistent witness to the dignity of children, of women, and so on.”

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By Joe Ruff The Catholic Spirit

Serve and support: ‘That’s what we do’

By Joe Ruff The Catholic Spirit

This year’s theme to support faith-based services across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis says a lot about what it means to be Catholic.

“Unified We Rise” emphasizes the impact Catholics together can have on educating children, saving lives at risk of abortion, strengthening marriages and families, assisting the poor and people in need, and helping college students, inmates, youths and young adults find Christ, said leaders of the Catholic Services Appeal Foundation. The foundation leads an annual campaign that this year is seeking $9.3 million in donations for 20 ministries.

“Should I give?” asked Melissa Uzelac, CSAF development manager and a parishioner of St. John the Baptist in New Brighton. “Yes. That’s what we do. We support each other.”

Last year, CSAF supported 18 ministries in the archdiocese. This year, it’s added two more: Abria Pregnancy Resources with locations in St. Paul and Minneapolis, and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul-Twin Cities. Each is slated to receive $50,000.

“We serve the poor, support life and strengthen the faith. They fit right in with that,” said Jennifer Beaudry, CSAF executive director, about the two nonprofit organizations. “All of our ministries fit within that paradigm.”

Both ministries meet the foundation’s criteria for Catholic-based organizations.

In addition to its work in the Twin Cities, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has parish-based conferences helping people in need across the archdiocese, Uzelac said.

Word about the appeal is being shared through social media, letters to past donors, and by people telling their friends and neighbors about the difference the appeal and the missions it supports have made in their own lives, Beaudry said.

Parishes already have participated through pulpit announcements and bulletin inserts Feb. 9-10 and Feb. 16-17. Next up for parishes is commitment weekend Feb. 23-24 with a five-minute video and in-pew donation requests.

This year’s campaign and video highlight what it means to live out the Catholic faith, Beaudry said.

“People see and want to feel something they can believe in and commit to,” she said. “This will show them it’s right in front of them.”

Money raised helps people in numerous ways, including the homeless served by Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, families that need scholarships to send their children to Catholic elementary and high schools, vocation efforts at The Seminaries of St. Paul and the archdiocese’s missionary presence in Venezuela through the parish of Jesucristo Resucitado, Beaudry said.

Last year, the foundation took in $9.7 million in pledges, of which the foundation has collected $9.4 million, Beaudry and Uzelac said. That’s less than the $9.8 million in pledges and $9.6 million collected in 2017. And it’s less than the $9.8 million goal for 2018, a result perhaps of a slow start and general uncertainty about the Church as it faces an international clergy sexual abuse crisis, though appeal donations fund only the designated outreach ministries, they said.

The number of donors also fell, from 40,140 in 2017 to 34,300. Three fewer parishes made goal, dropping from 124 parishes in 2017 to 121 parishes last year.

But donations from more than 1,000 people giving $1,500 or more — the Deo Gratias Society — grew from $3.3 million in 2017 to $3.7 million last year.

And about $8.4 million is being distributed to ministries from last year’s campaign, including $1.9 million to parishes, which receive 25 percent of the funds they raised when they hit goal. Parishes that raise more than 90 percent of their goal but less than 100 percent get back 10 percent of the funds they raised. CSAF expenses totaled $880,000, less than 10 percent of the total collected and better than nonprofit industry standards of 12 to 20 percent, Beaudry said.

This year, to help the ministries they serve plan their budgets, the goal is $9.3 million, the same level sought but exceeded in 2017, Beaudry said.

A good problem to have this year “might be to raise more than we hoped,” she said. Any money raised above goal would go straight into the 20 ministries.

“What comes in goes out,” Beaudry said. “There’s no stockpile, no backup money. If we don’t raise it, we can’t fund it.”

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d Koerner is grateful the Catholic Services Appeal Foundation will provide a $50,000 grant this year to the Society of St. Vincent de PaulTwin Cities.

Marking the first time the appeal will support the society, the grant will let the nonprofit do more to help more people in need. But the foundation’s efforts also will help get the word out about the Catholic, charitable organization and the good that it does across the seven-county metro area, said Koerner, executive director of the society, which operates on an annual budget of nearly $1 million.

“The value for us in CSAF is not only the money we’re getting but the marketing they are doing to get our name out there,” Koerner said.

The funds will help, as well, he said. For example, SVDP might add a fourth “pop-up shop” each month with free food and clothing to the monthly shops it already holds at Holy Rosary in south Minneapolis, St. Bernard in St. Paul and at varying sites around the Twin Cities, Koerner said.

Money from the annual appeal also will help pay transportation costs, he said. The society regularly picks up food at major outlets to help meet the needs of 25 food shelves and other charitable food programs. More than 1,000 tons of food each year move through the society’s warehouse in south Minneapolis.

In addition, SVDP runs a thrift store in St. Paul and a thrift store in Minneapolis, which are filled with clothing, furniture, kitchen ware, books, toys and other items.

The society supports the archdiocese’s mission parish in San Felix, Venezuela, occasionally shipping containers with medical supplies, food, clothing and items for churches and sacramental needs. The society also supported the creation of a SVDP conference at the Venezuelan parish, Jesucristo Resucitado.

A current project is collecting baby formula for nutritional needs at the mission parish. Catholic schools are being encouraged to gather supplies and donate to the effort, which could culminate in a container being shipped to Venezuela in late spring or early summer, Koerner said.

Twelve parishes in the Twin Cities run their own SVDP conferences, raising money to help people purchase food, pay rent or utility bills, and meet other emergency needs. Volunteers go two-by-two to the homes of people seeking help, Koerner said, treating each person with dignity and respect.

Conferences meet the needs of the neighborhoods they serve, with some concentrating on immigrant populations, said Pat Kaiser, president of the board of SVDP-Twin Cities and a parishioner of Incarnation in south Minneapolis.

SVDP members come together in their spiritual journeys, as well, said Koerner, a member of Nativity of Mary in Bloomington. Founded in France in 1833 by Blessed Frederic Ozanam, the international society is grounded in Catholic and Gospel values. Conferences frequently hold sessions centered on Scripture, prayer and reflection, Koerner said.

“We take our marching orders from Jesus,” he said. “A lot of people don’t know that. They know our charitable works, but really, we’re offering a path to

spiritual growth.”

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hen Cindy Koeppl experienced complications at 26 weeks pregnant with her third child, a couple of doctors urged her to have an abortion because the baby had less than a 5 percent chance of living after birth.

Koeppl, the new executive director of Abria Pregnancy Resources in St. Paul, sought another doctor instead and carried the baby to term despite the baby’s health issues. That doctor told her “hope until there’s no hope left.” Her daughter is now a teenager and runs on her school’s cross country team despite having one lung. She also plays in the school’s orchestra despite deafness from medication.

“When I reflect on all of this and how it has come together, it’s [then] that I realize every woman deserves that reflection … ‘hope until there’s no hope left,’” Koeppl said. “There’s always another way to look at things. That’s what Abria is — hope when fear stops you in your place. It’s a place where people can come and get the full spectrum of options.”

Her experience motivated her to take on her new role at Abria late in 2018 after a corporate career and volunteering in the pro-life movement. She has extra

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Patti Shrake works with the ultrasound machine at the A Northside Clinic in Minneapolis Feb. 15. Shrake, director client services, is a registered nurse who is learning how ultrasounds. The center performs them for clients, and h staff members who are trained to do them.

support as she begins that role, as Abria is expec receive $50,000 from this year’s Catholic Service Appeal Foundation campaign.

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de Paul helps those most in need

Chris and Gina Rickert are giving — and receiving — every year through the Catholic Services Appeal Foundation.

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eople pull their lives together. That’s true for Wayne b at SVDP in Minneapolis 22 years ago after growing up d crime in Harvey, Illinois, which is a south suburb of , Indiana. was either selling crack cocaine or using it,” Bugg said of ents were using it. My step-dad was a carpenter, and he on drugs.” ith a kindly aunt, Bugg eventually dropped his own and crime after moving to the Twin Cities, finding a job re in south Minneapolis and experiencing a turnaround n’s violent death. He moved up from odd jobs such ing lot and selling Christmas trees to become the store win Cities associate director. needed to be,” said Bugg, a member of a church in Minneapolis. ncouraged by SVDP volunteer and former president, the g earned his high school equivalency diploma, and a

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bachelor’s degree in business management at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul.

Bugg gives a lot of credit to the people at SVDP. “They kind of like raised me, you know? I came here pretty raw, and they accompanied me. I was like a ball player, and they saw potential,” he said.

Bugg told his story two years ago at a SVDP meeting in Chicago, as one way to let people in the society know their work is not in vain. And he is excited about the Catholic Services Appeal Foundation this year making SVDP part of its annual appeal. Bugg also appears in this year’s CSAF video seeking donations.

SVDP-Twin Cities serves more than 42,000 people a year, including outreach by its parish conferences. That number should grow with CSAF’s help, Bugg said.

“I believe we can help more people” with the $50,000 grant, he said. “I’m so thrilled that more people will get a second chance, or a third chance, or whatever they’re working on. ...

“There will be more ‘Waynes.’”

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[Minneapolis and St. Paul] will become heightened,” Koeppl said. “It’s a great gift to us. It’s part of our overall budget of $1.5 million in the year to operate.”

Abria had more than 3,000 women visit its centers in 2018. The fully-certified clinics offer ultrasounds, consultation on expectant mothers’ options and ongoing support services for new mothers.

Originally founded by a religious sister in 1975 as the University LifeCare Center, Abria has continued its mission to help women choose life under its new name. The pregnancy resource center has two locations: one on University Avenue in St. Paul across the street from Planned Parenthood and one on Broadway Avenue in Minneapolis.

“One of the most important things is that Abria has very intentionally positioned herself in the heart of the urban core of both cities,” Koeppl said. “We really are accessible to women right where they are, right where they need to be met.”

Outgoing executive director Nancy Utoft added that the urban core is “where the women are that are most vulnerable for abortions.”

“Our life-affirming mission is something that I would say ... represents the full values that the Catholics who give to the appeal embrace,” Utoft said.

CSAF: Helping ministries help others Goal: $9.3 million Abria Pregnancy Resources — $50,000 American Indian Ministry — $200,000 Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women — $25,585 Campus Ministry, Newman Center at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities — $264,000 Campus Ministry, St. Paul’s Outreach — $11,000 Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis — $700,000 Deaf Ministry — $39,733 Catholic Elementary School Support/Scholarships — $1.7 million Office of Evangelization — $150,000 Catholic High School Scholarships — $800,000 Hospital Chaplains — $600,000 Office of Latino Ministry — $350,000 Office of Marriage, Family & Life — $256,000 Parishes — $1.8 million Prison Ministry — $32,000 Rachel’s Vineyard Twin Cities — $26,875 Society of St. Vincent de Paul-Twin Cities — $50,000 The Seminaries of St. Paul — $1 million Archdiocesan Venezuelan Mission — $110,000 Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry — $64,000 More details about ministries served and appeal finances are at csafspm.org.

They are among more than 1,000 people who are part of the foundation’s Deo Gratias Society, giving $1,500 or more annually to the appeal. The Rickerts started making donations at that level soon after moving six years ago from Des Moines, Iowa, to Rogers and joining their parish, Mary, Queen of Peace.

Retreats and updates on the appeal provided by the foundation to society members became part of their routine, Chris said, and they met a lot of people. It inspired Chris to attend the Catholic Men’s Conference and become a founding member and leader of his parish’s Catholic Watchmen faithsharing group.

Gina said the appeal helps her support groups that she cannot be a part of personally. Among other things, she is directly involved at her parish with the Council of Catholic Women and its efforts in spirituality, leadership and service; the Cana Family Institute’s support of marriage and family life; and Early Catholic Family Life, offering activities for parents and their children up to age 5. Gina, a homemaker, and Chris have four children under age 7.

The appeal is more than giving a donation, said Chris, an information technology consultant.

It’s a way to grow in community and better understand the variety of ministries in which to get involved.

“It’s just opened a lot of doors for us to participate in,” he said.

Last year, the foundation hosted about 360 society members and their relatives for one night’s production of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” at the SteppingStone Theatre near St. Thomas More Church in St. Paul, Chris said.

The evening Dec.14 began with Archbishop Bernard Hebda presiding at Mass at the church, Chris said. Their first-grade son, Grant, was particularly excited to see the archbishop, he said.

“I thought it was a well-done event,” Chris said. “It was refreshing to see families together like that.”

A similar event is planned for this year — a Dec. 6 production of “Annie Jr.” Might the Rickerts go again?

“It will be on our radar,” Chris said.

— Joe Ruff

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

LENT

Ash Wednesday: Beyond the ritual

ASH WEDNESDAY 101 Ash Wednesday is March 6 this year. Some things to know: In the Table of Liturgical Days, which ranks the different liturgical celebrations and seasons, Ash Wednesday ties for second in ranking — along with Christmas, Epiphany, Ascension, Pentecost, Sundays of Advent, Lent and Easter, and a few others. But Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation, though it is a day of prayer, abstinence, fasting and repentance.

By Matthew Davis The Catholic Spirit Ash Wednesday draws one of the largest turnouts of any Mass throughout the year. While its practice has popularity — including Catholics’ selfies with ashes on foreheads posted prominently on social media — the observance of Ash Wednesday calls for something deeper than receiving ashes. Father Tom Margevicius, director of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ Office of Worship, said “a return to ashes represents my worthlessness without God” — and the realization of being a creature instead of the creator.

“All sin has the nature of rebellion against God, trying to exalt ourselves above God — ‘I want to be in charge of my life,’” Father Margevicius said.

He said the ashes are a “tangible experience that calls to mind a deeper meaning” of death, eternity, salvation and man’s place before God. “You walk out of church getting something. What you walk out with this Ash Wednesday is a reminder of your own mortality, ” Father Margevicius said. “That desire to have something is part of the human longing for reality. Humans need to make symbols for meaning for life.”

As an ash distributor at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, Maureen Bourgeois is among those commissioned to make that ash cross on the foreheads of the people who attend Ash Wednesday Mass. An artist, she said she doesn’t focus on making a perfect cross, but on “being in connection” with the person in front of her.

She appreciates the communal aspect of Ash Wednesday, where Catholics come together in humility before God, hearing the words from Genesis 3:19, “Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

“That hopefully helps people to be mindful that we’re in union together,” said Bourgeois, 41. “Despite our differences, we are so similar and … we all share a connection, and hopefully [the ash cross] instills a remembrance in people that we are connected.”

Bourgeois said it’s also reaffirming to be in public after Mass and see others wearing ashes, too.

Father Margevicius noted that Ash Wednesday’s Gospel focuses on the importance of sacrifice — making offerings to God for his glory instead of being seen. However, today’s challenge lies in visibly witnessing to Christ in a world that has lost interest in him, he said.

Rick Erisman, a parishioner of St. Joseph in Miesville, prioritizes attending Ash Wednesday Mass before work.

He said it led to conversations with co-workers when he was working in a secular environment.

“I always used it as a tool for evangelism,” said Erisman, who now runs a Catholic life coaching business.

Ashes are among the Church’s “sacramentals” — defined by the Catechism of the Catholic Church as

Top-ranked in the table are the Paschal Triduum — the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil — along with Easter Sunday. Good Friday isn’t a holy day of obligation either, but Catholics are encouraged to attend church for a liturgy commemorating Christ’s crucifixion and death.

Ash Wednesday begins the liturgical season of Lent. There are hymns that speak to the length of the season — one of them is “Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days” — but the span between March 6 and Easter Sunday, which is April 21, is 46 days.

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Humans need to make symbols for meaning for life.

“It might be more accurate to say that there is the ‘40-day fast within Lent,’” said Father Randy Stice of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Divine Worship.

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“Historically, Lent has varied from a week to three weeks to the present configuration of 46 days,” Father Stice said. “The 40-day fast, however, has been more stable. The Sundays of Lent are certainly part of the time of Lent, but they are not prescribed days of fast and abstinence.” There are six Sundays in Lent,. iSTOCK PHOTO | AZERBERBER

“sacred signs which bear a resemblance to the sacraments,” but which are not sacraments themselves.

Unlike sacraments, anyone can present themselves to receive ashes, even non-Catholics. And ashes are distributed to people of any age, including infants.

Kathleen O’Hern, an elementary religion teacher at St. Agnes School in St. Paul, emphasized the importance of preparing even young students for Lent.

In a Feb. 12 lesson with second graders, she taught them about the sorrowful mysteries of the rosary, the Stations of the Cross, the importance of making a sacrifice during Lent and why church decorations are simplified for the season.

O’Hern, who teaches religion for grades one to three, also taught the students that the ashes come from palms used the previous year in the Palm Sunday liturgy.

She asked the class about the meaning of the words “you are dust.”

“God created with dust,” said student Anastasia Matelski, after being called on to answer.

Erik Russek, faith formation director and safe environment coordinator at St. Maximilian Kolbe in Delano, said students in the faith formation program attend the Ash Wednesday liturgy in lieu of classes that night.

“We just make sure that they’re all there in their classes at Mass,” he said. “The whole church is full of youth, which is wonderful.”

Teaching about Lent and emphasizing sacrifices made during the season also is a priority for the program’s catechists, Russek said.

Almost half of adult Catholics, 45 percent, typically receive ashes at Ash Wednesday services, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.

The word “Alleluia” is verboten during Lent. What is known as the “Alleluia verse” preceding the Gospel becomes known during Lent as “the verse before the Gospel,” with a variety of possible phrases to be used — none of which include an alleluia. The word was considered a melodic ornament to the liturgy in the early Church, Father Stice said, and it was banned from Lenten Masses in the fifth or sixth century.

Ash Wednesday also is a day of abstinence and fasting; Good Friday is another. Abstinence means refraining from eating meat; fish is OK. Fasting means reducing one’s intake of food, like eating two small meals that together would not equal one full meal.

“In the second century, Christians prepared for the feast of Easter with a two-day fast,” Father Stice said. “This was extended to all of Holy Week in the third century. In 325 the Council of Nicea spoke of a 40-day period of preparation for Easter as something already obvious and familiar to all.” ­– Catholic News Service

Eighth-grader Jacob Hauer, a member of St. Maximilian Kolbe, where he attends faith formation classes, said wearing ashes makes him “proud to be Catholic.”

“I really look forward to getting the ashes on my forehead just because of the meaning of it,” Hauer said.

He said he gave up Snapchat last year for Lent because he felt addicted to it. The “grace of the ashes” carried him through, and he didn’t want to resume using the social media platform after Lent, he said.

“It felt amazing,” Hauer said.

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THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT • 13B

This year’s Lent could be just what struggling Church needs

By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service

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hen Lent begins March 6, U.S. Catholics will likely be more than ready for it.

This set-aside time for prayer and reflection — after all the Church has been through in recent months — could provide both a healing balm and a needed boost forward, some say.

Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, is typically a big Catholic draw, filling Churches with nearly Easter- or Christmas-size Mass crowds even through it is not a holy day of obligation. Conventual Franciscan Father Jude DeAngelo, director of campus ministry at The Catholic University of America in Washington, hopes this year is no exception.

“We in the American Catholic Church have been through a year of tremendous suffering and tremendous upheaval and frustration” he told Catholic News Service, referring to the past months of allegations of sexual misconduct and cover-up by Church leaders.

The priest said some Catholics stopped going to Church, “scandalized by the actions of a few,” but that he hopes and prays they come back on Ash Wednesday, a day he described as a strong “reminder that God is never finished with us.”

“Ash Wednesday is that moment, I believe, especially this year, when we can say: ‘This is my Church. It’s got its sins — it always has had its sins and sinners — but Christ calls me to convert my life to his image and likeness, and that call is not for individuals only, it’s for the entire community.’”

By its very nature, Lent has an overall aspect of penitence to it, but that shouldn’t override the whole season, said Paulist Father Larry Rice, director of the University Catholic Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His recommendation for this year’s Lent is “to do what the Church has always asked us to do: prayer, fasting and almsgiving” and that concentrating on those things will bring people closer

to God and one another.

“I think it’s important to make some distinctions that might rescue Lent for people this year,” he said, noting that it’s not “supposed to be about sorrow, sadness or anger, which people are justifiably feeling,” in the current Church climate. “That is not what Lent is about,” he said, stressing that it should be a personal preparation for Easter.

The 40 days, especially this year, also shouldn’t be an effort of “muscular Christianity” or “pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps” to do Lenten practices, he said. Instead, it offers a time for Catholics to say: FATHER “Wow, we have completely hit JUDE DEANGELO bottom and we have to depend on God’s grace to build us up again.”

Father Rice said a lot of bishops have called for a year of reparation for the abuses committed by people representing the Church, an action that has caused some misunderstanding among Catholics who say: “Why do I have to do it? I didn’t do anything wrong?”

And they are right, he said, noting that penance is what people do to show sorrow for what they’ve done, while “reparation is what you do to show sorrow for what someone else has done, which opens the community to God’s healing grace.”

This Lent, “we don’t put reparation on hold, we just get to do both” — personal penance and reparation, he said.

Sister Teresa Maya, a Sister of Charity of the Incarnate Word based in San Antonio, said she has been moved by the expressions of reparation by priests in her archdiocese taking “collective responsibility” for abuse and any cover-up in the Church.

The sister said it is important for the Church to begin with reparation, but it can’t end with that.

“To live in the spirit of Lent there has to be a path away from personal and systemic sin” that led to this

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crisis, something she said she hasn’t seen yet.

Sister Maya said the sacrament of reconciliation, which is talked about a lot in Lent, centers on listening, and the Church still needs to make it a priority to listen to abuse survivors, but Catholics also need to listen to one another.

For the past eight months or more, this abuse crisis has been “piling up on all of us,” she said, noting that many Catholics are still shell shocked by it, and the question that remains is: “How do we move forward?”

That’s where Lent once again comes into play, because she said it provides a time for people to examine where they are personally, but it also can raise the question “Where are we?” as the Catholic Church in the United States.

And no matter where a person fits in the Church — as a leader, family member or parishioner — she said the question of what’s next feels different; it’s not the same as it was when the Church went through the sexual abuse crisis nearly 20 years ago. She likened the Church now to the time when the Apostles were in the upper room wondering what to do next.

“We have to trust our faith in the resurrection, in the grace that God will provide,” she said. “Hold the loss and the grief and hold one another in it.”

This is a “critical moment” to return to the core of what Catholics believe, she said.

Father DeAngelo similarly stressed the need for Catholics to keep going and to support one another.

“We need people to return to the Church. We need their criticism; we need to hear their frustrations, their stories” not just survivors of abuse but all who “are unfortunately part of the collateral damage of this scandal, people who are just overwhelmed by these revelations.”

“This moment — Ash Wednesday ... specifically this year — can be even more of a reminder that in spite of everything, the Church, called by Christ, is the greatest hope for our humanity.”

14B • THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

FAITH+CULTURE Movie ‘Across’ tells story of first African-American priest ordained to U.S. diocese

By Robert Alan Glover Catholic News Service Actress Nina Hibbler-Webster, right, portrays Father Augustus Tolton’s mother in the movie “Across.”

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ather Augustus Tolton, the first African-American priest ordained for a diocese in the United States, was born into slavery and endured myriad obstacles, both inside the Catholic Church and out, as he relentlessly followed his call from God. Nashville, Tennessee, filmmaker Chris Foley, inspired by the story of Father Tolton’s life, has written and directed a short film, “Across,” about the Tolton family’s escape from slavery.

“I spent about three years developing February and writing the film, beginning with a is short article I read about Father Tolton; Black then I attended a talk on him in History Chicago given by Bishop Joseph Perry in 2015,” Foley told the Tennessee Month.

Register, newspaper of the Diocese of Nashville.

Bishop Perry, a Chicago auxiliary bishop, who has family from Nashville, is postulator for Father Tolton’s sainthood cause, which was opened in 2010 by Chicago Cardinal Francis George, giving the priest the title “servant of God.” “It was at the talk that I first mentioned my goal of making a film about ‘Gus’ — as I now call him — to Bishop Perry, but I don’t think he took me seriously,” recalled Foley.

Serious he certainly was because, said Foley, “this is a man who became a role model for priests — black and otherwise — in this country.”

Augustus Tolton was born into slavery in 1854 on a plantation near Brush Creek, Missouri. He was baptized at St. Peter Church near Hannibal, Missouri.

His father left to try to join the Union Army during the Civil War; he later died of dysentery, according to accounts Father Tolton told friends and parishioners.

In 1862, his mother, Martha, escaped with her children — Augustus, Charley, Samuel and Anne — by rowing them across the Mississippi River to the free state of Illinois. They settled in Quincy.

While the family was living in Quincy, a parish priest allowed young Augustus to attend the parish school over the objections of white parishioners. There he learned to read and write and was confirmed at age 16.

He was encouraged to discern his vocation to the priesthood by the Franciscan priests who taught him at

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St. Francis College, now Quincy University, but could not find a seminary in the United States that would accept him.

He eventually studied in Rome at Pontifical Urban University. He was ordained for the Propaganda Fidei Congregation in 1886 at age 31 and was expecting to become a missionary in Africa.

Instead, he was sent back to Quincy, where he served for three years before going to the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1889. He spearheaded the building of St. Monica Church for black Catholics. Dedicated in 1894, the parish grew from 30 parishioners to more than 600 under Father Tolton’s energetic leadership. He died after suffering heat stroke on a Chicago street July 9, 1897.

“In the end, Father Tolton’s story is a great example of suffering, because he never finished a church he was building in Chicago and died at age 43 from heat exhaustion during a heat wave in 1897,” said Foley.

“After finishing my research, we finally started filming in 2017 — eight days total with seven of them in Nashville, and one day in Missouri,” said Foley.

The final cast features all local professional actors, including Daylon Gordon, who was 9 at the time Foley chose him to play the young Augustus Tolton.

Tennessee film locations included Percy Priest Lake and Kentucky Lake — standing in for the Missouri River — as well as Spring Hill and Paris. The Missouri location was Brush Creek.

“None of the African-American cast members were Catholic, and unfortunately there is still a small number of them in the Church, but my goal [with the larger film] is to reach non-Catholics as well,” said Foley.

Local actress and budding musician Nina HibblerWebster plays Father Tolton’s mother.

“I did not know any of the details surrounding Father Tolton, nor his life, until I met Chris, but thought this

would be a wonderful opportunity to portray such a person,” said Webster.

“We see Martha in her 30s, along with Peter, the father, who died of dysentery while serving in the Union Army; Tolton’s baby brother, Samuel; and his other siblings: Charley, who died at age 10, Augustine and Anne,” said Webster.

Webster described Martha as “humble, but a woman who experienced a leap of faith and took a chance, based on that faith and a split-second decision to run, to accomplish what they did.”

“As a Christian, I view this as a historical piece, and sometimes the only way we get a story like this out there is when someone makes a film from it,” said Webster.

Foley hopes to secure enough financing to extend the short film into a full-length feature film that would cover all of Father Tolton’s life.

“For one thing, we don’t sugar-coat his persecution in the Church, and we talk about those people behind it, including [a priest] ... who is — let’s face it — the bad guy,” Foley said.

“If we can finally get his story out there, I think its message will be that the Church is calling you,” he said.

Joan Watson, Nashville’s diocesan director of faith formation, organized a Feb. 17 screening of Foley’s film with a panel discussion at the Catholic Pastoral Center.

“I knew a little about it, having gotten to know Chris and his wife, Mary Beth, several years ago,” she said.

“Mary Beth and I discussed doing a screening of the film here, to showcase the immense local talent we have right here in our own diocese, and to introduce people to the story of Father Tolton.”

“While Father Tolton is not directly connected to the history of Nashville, I would encourage people who feel drawn to him to pray through his intercession,” Watson said.

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Catholic senior care centers honored by LeadingAge Minnesota

By Matthew Davis The Catholic Spirit

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Catholic senior care center and personnel at three others in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis recently won awards for excellence from LeadingAge Minnesota.

A St. Paul-based nonprofit association, LeadingAge supports senior care centers statewide. It has been offering awards to individuals and organizations for more than two decades.

At an awards ceremony during LeadingAge’s expo Feb. 6-7 at the St. Paul RiverCentre in St. Paul, local Catholic senior care centers claimed three of five individual awards.

One organization, St. Crispin Living Community in Red Wing, won an Award of Merit for Performance Excellence in Aging ANDREA Services, which also went to three BOEDIGHEIMER other organizations, including Madonna Towers of Rochester in Rochester, also a Catholic senior care center.

St. Crispin clinic services director Robin Stern said pursuing the award is one way for the organization to focus its efforts. “The award makes us outline our processes and has several categories that you have to address,” BARB RODE Stern said.

St. Therese senior care services President and Chief Executive Officer Barb Rode, winner of the Ray Johnson Pioneers Leadership Award, said the awards reflect Catholic senior care’s commitment to their residents.

“It just shows the mission that the Catholic-based organizations make sure they achieve,” said Rode, who

Bill Foussard, a member of the board of Cerenity Senior Care in St. Paul, accepts the Board Trustee of the Year award Feb. 6 from LeadingAge Minnesota at a ceremony at the St. Paul RiverCenter in St. Paul.

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was honored for her innovative work to improve the quality of care provided at St. Therese’s campuses in Woodbury, New Hope, Brooklyn Park and Shoreview, and at St. Therese’s transitional care at North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale.

She said she takes a hands-on approach to her work, visiting each of the sites weekly and working with residents.

“I also equate it to if it was my mother or grandmother, what would they want to see,” said Rode, a parishioner of St. Raphael in Crystal, about her approach. “You can’t do anything better than for your own grandparents or your own parents. I put myself in their shoes.”

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her person-centered approach with residents and providing leadership to the staff.

“I love to make them comfortable when they need it the most in their life,” said Boedigheimer, a Catholic, about working with the residents. “It’s a great job, and it’s very rewarding.”

Bill Foussard won Board Trustee of the Year for his work with Cerenity Senior Care in St. Paul. As a board member for the faith-based organization, Foussard has helped Cerenity upgrade its care center in White Bear Lake and renovate the Marian center in St. Paul. He also hosts a Christmas event for residents annually at the White Bear Country Inn in White Bear Lake.

“It’s so important for our community to have these facilities that serve people in need,” said Foussard, who attends Assumption in St. Paul. “It’s a team effort. So many people doing different things make projects happen.”

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FOCUSONFAITH SUNDAY SCRIPTURES | FATHER PAUL JARVIS

Heaven in the here-and-now Before Jesus’ ministry, the law prescribed an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth when seeking revenge.

And so David would be justified in dispatching King Saul — yet he extends mercy.

This represents a moral evolution prior to the Messiah: from ancient tribal demand for revenge against the entire community around one’s enemy, to just exacting revenge on a perpetrator, to showing mercy to one’s enemy. That is, not seeking retribution.

Jesus takes this evolution of morality one gigantic step further, from showing mercy to actually loving one’s enemy.

Two thousand years ago, this seemed preposterous. But doesn’t it seem just as preposterous today?

Imagine this scene from 40 years ago, with two studybuddies cramming for a Scriptures final exam: Me: “Do you think it’s possible to love our enemies?

To love as God loves?”

Study-buddy: (After a long

pause) “No. I don’t think we can.”

Me: “Then why does Jesus command us to?”

Study-buddy: “Maybe it’s something for us to aim at. A goal that raises our behavior a bit, even though we can’t achieve it fully in the hereand-now.”

Me: “Well, if that were true, then why does Jesus keep on commanding us to live this way here-and-now? His teachings seem to be replete with instructions on how we should be with each other — now. All others. Even those people society tells us are ‘them,’ or we have come to regard as ‘them.’ Including those who we don’t like and/or who don’t like us. Even people trying to do us harm.”

Study-buddy: “Maybe it’s just something we can only fully achieve when we get to heaven.”

Me: “So let me get this right.

You’re saying that God incarnated to command us to love everyone, including ‘them,’ to love just as he does, while knowing full well that we can’t? Then why bother incarnating at all? Isn’t that a bit of a tease? Saying to humanity, ‘Nanny-nanny boo-

FAITH FUNDAMENTALS | FATHER MICHAEL VAN SLOUN

Eucharistic symbols in the Church According to the Second Vatican Council document “Lumen Gentium,” the Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.”

Throughout the Church’s history, it has used a variety of symbols to represent the Eucharist. The following is an overview of the most common.

Wheat. Wheat is a cereal grain with seeds that are ground into flour that is used as the main ingredient for bread. Jesus is the bread of life, the bread that came down from heaven.

Sometimes wheat is represented by a single head of grain, or by a shock or sheaf of wheat, or a bunch of cut stalks bound together in a bundle.

A loaf of bread. Bread is the staple food of physical life, and eucharistic bread is the staple

food of the spiritual life. When Jesus fed the crowd of 5,000, he used five loaves of bread. When he fed the crowd of 4,000, he used seven loaves of bread. At the Last Supper, he took a loaf of unleavened bread, said the blessing, broke it and, giving it to his disciples, said, “Take and eat; this is my body.”

A basket. A basket is a container for bread. When Jesus fed the 5,000, he began with a basket of five loaves, and afterward there were 12 baskets of leftover bread. Likewise, when Jesus fed the 4,000, he began with a basket of seven loaves, and afterward there were seven baskets of leftovers.

Fish. One, two or more fish serve as a symbol for the Eucharist. When Jesus fed the 5,000 — a miracle that prefigured the Last Supper and the Eucharist — Jesus used two fish, and when Jesus fed the 4,000, he also used two fish.

After Jesus rose from the dead,

hoo. I can do this, but you can’t! See ya in heaven — hopefully?’ I actually think Jesus means it. I think he actually believes we can, with divine help.”

Study-buddy: “Jarvis! We have exactly eight hours until our final exam in this class! It’s going to be a long night. Just memorize the answers to the test, will you?”

It wouldn’t be until many years after that final exam at the then-College of St. Thomas in St. Paul that I’d stumble upon the key to accurately understanding Jesus’ instruction not only to have mercy on one’s enemy, but to actually love one’s enemy.

The key is found in the inadequate translation of the ancient Greek word pronounced “agape,” which we sloppily translate into “love.” “Love” is a word that connotes so many things to us, largely implying sentiment or affection or even likes — something we humans do not have control over.

“Agape” is far better understood as “to have empathy for, to act out of compassion for, to have basic respect for (the human dignity of the other).” St. Thomas Aquinas would put it this way: the desire for the good of the other and acting on that desire. The master would say that “agape” is an act of the will, not an ephemeral feeling.

This instruction from Jesus is indeed possible on this side of

the pearly gates. It’s certainly not easy. And it will take practice and habituation.

But it is possible.

I have a suspicion that because this teaching is so countercultural, so challenging at times — and the sloppy translation encourages what seems to be mutually exclusive feelings (have loving feelings for someone you really don’t like or who seeks your or another’s harm) — many Christians just shrug their shoulders and wait to get into heaven to live “agape.”

So this week, ask yourself: What if I really believed and accepted what Jesus was teaching? As something relevant to my life here-andnow, and not just in the hereafter? What would it look like if I, at the very least, respected the human being underlying any despicable behavior or feelings — including malevolent feelings that another has for me?

This critical teaching from Jesus more than raises your aim. It gives you something possible to do, with God’s help. In a way, it shows us how to live in heaven, in part, hereand-now. And more fully in the hereafter.

he appeared to the disciples, and to prove his real presence, he ate fish before them. When he appeared at the Sea of Galilee, there was a charcoal fire with both bread and fish that Jesus gave to his disciples to eat.

Loaves and fish. Loaves and fish — or “fishes” — were part of Jesus’ eucharistic miracles and the meal Jesus shared with his disciples after the resurrection.

A host. A host is a round piece of unleavened bread which is consecrated and becomes the body of Christ or the Blessed Sacrament. The term comes from the Latin word “hostia,” which means sacrifice, and Jesus sacrificed his body on the cross.

A cluster of grapes. Grapes are crushed into juice that is fermented into wine. Jesus used wine at the Last Supper, and he declared that it is his blood, the blood of the covenant, which would be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins.

A cup or chalice. Jesus used a cup for the wine at the Last Supper, and a chalice is used for the precious blood at Mass.

Droplets of blood. Jesus offered his blood at the Last Supper, shed his blood on the cross, and communicants

receive his blood during holy Communion.

A ciborium. A ciborium is a sacred vessel used as a container for the hosts at Mass and to reserve the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle.

A monstrance. A monstrance is a large, ornate receptacle used to display the Blessed Sacrament for Benediction or eucharistic adoration.

A paten. A paten is a flat plate used for a single larger host or a number of smaller ones.

The altar. The altar is the table where the eucharistic sacrifice is offered.

A lamb. Jesus is the lamb of God, and as he offered his body at the first Eucharist, he offered his body on the cross.

The next time you are at Mass, look for these symbols on or near the altar, in stained glass windows or elsewhere in your church. You might be surprised by how many are present.

Father Jarvis is parochial vicar of St. Bridget Parish Community in Minneapolis’ Northside neighborhood. It’s known as “The little church that can — and does.”

Father Van Sloun is pastor of St. Bartholomew in Wayzata. This column is part of a series on the Eucharist. Read the series at TheCatholicSpirit.com. Read more of his writing at CatholicHotdish. com.

DAILY Scriptures Sunday, February 24 Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Sm 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 1 Cor 15:45-49 Lk 6:27-38 Monday, February 25 Sir 1:1-10 Mk 9:14-29 Tuesday, February 26 Sir 2:1-11 Mk 9:30-37 Wednesday, February 27 Sir 4:11-19 Mk 9:38-40 Thursday, February 28 Sir 5:1-8 Mk 9:41-50 Friday, March 1 Sir 6:5-17 Mk 10:1-12 Saturday, March 2 Sir 17:1-15 Mk 10:13-16 Sunday, March 3 Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sir 27:4-7 1 Cor 15:54-58 Lk 6:39-45 Monday, March 4 Sir 17:20-24 Mk 10:17-27 Tuesday, March 5 Sir 35:1-12 Mk 10:28-31 Wednesday, March 6 Ash Wednesday Jl 2:12-18 2 Cor 5:20 – 6:2 Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Thursday, March 7 Dt 30:15-20 Lk 9:22-25 Friday, March 8 Is 58:1-9a Mt 9:14-15 Saturday, March 9 Is 58: 9b-14 Lk 5:27-32 Sunday, March 10 First Sunday of Lent Dt 26:4-10 Rom 10:8-13 Lk 4:1-13

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COMMENTARY YOUR HEART, HIS HOME | LIZ KELLY

The kindness of a mother, the mercy of the Father

“Miss K” was an exercise in the incongruous. She couldn’t have weighed much more than a spring robin, but she rode a Harley Davidson. I still remember her roaring — at a chug, mind you — down the long driveway of my childhood on her “hog.” It was something akin to a noodle of spaghetti riding in on a bull. Though meek in demeanor and dimension, her voice was husky and deep and always a little surprising emanating from her mild face.

Miss K was the science teacher for most of my older siblings, and over the years she became a close friend to my mother. In that time, my mother came to understand that Miss K’s childhood was marked by a terrible cruelty, and in the aftermath of this abuse, she was prone to depression and sometimes it would grip her without mercy. During these bouts, she would call my mom, who would listen to her for an hour or two. Occasionally, Miss K would come to stay with us. And though she was always tired, she never seemed able to sleep, and I would wake in the middle of the night to hear her poking around in our kitchen.

Toward the end of her life, Miss K had

found peace, good friends and a community that loved her in all of her quirkiness. There was a certain lifting in her spirit that was palpable. She remained close to my mother, recounting that those long, difficult phone calls with my mom probably saved her life; that my mother, by simply listening, had helped her more than she could say.

Miss K was scheduled to stay for a few days over the New Year, but when my parents fell ill with colds, she postponed her trip and came a few weeks later instead. She was greeted warmly by my older brother, who just happened to be at my parents’ home. A former student, he would become an electrical engineer years after he spent time in Miss K’s classroom, and I wonder if her way of teaching science might not have made a good impression on him as a boy. He helped her to carry in her many bags — Miss K never traveled light — and after settling in, she remarked, “I just love staying here.”

Not long after, she sat down to say a rosary with my parents and then have dinner. And sometime in the next hour, Miss K had a massive stroke. She lost consciousness as my parents held her and helped her to the floor where they covered her with a blanket and called 911. The paramedics asked my mother

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Take it to eucharistic adoration Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament warms, transforms and sustains the hearts of many a pilgrim people looking to rest in Jesus. This is sage counsel and sound spiritual direction of which I have often been a needy recipient. I’ve been searching not necessarily for answers, but for peace.

I’ve turned to adoration to lift a personal burden, offer prayers of petitions for others, and pray a rosary or the Liturgy of the Hours while gazing at our Lord.

Whatever the reason, as a strophe in the penitential act reminds us: “Lord Jesus, you come in word and sacrament to strengthen us in holiness.”

Adoration provides the opportunity for healing, strengthening and a better understanding of how our Lord is speaking to each one of us. In his 2007 apostolic exhortation “Sacramentum Caritatis,” Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI explains the value of this devotion outside of the holy Mass, prolonging and intensifying our Communion experience which takes place during the liturgy of the Eucharist.

“Indeed, only in adoration can a profound and genuine reception

mature,” he wrote. “And it is precisely this personal encounter with the Lord that then strengthens the social mission contained in the Eucharist, which seeks to break down not only the walls that separate the Lord and ourselves, but also and especially the walls that separate us from one another.”

Encountering Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament — by simply spending quiet time in prayer or taking purposeful, specific intentions to him — helps us develop and grow in holiness. And holiness is not, and should not be thought of, as exclusive or elusive. The sacred Scriptures remind all believers as children of God, “as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct; since it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy’” (1 Pt 15-16).

The holiest people I know are mostly ordinary people who live a virtuous life.

They witness to me with the utmost integrity — in all circumstances of their lives — the virtues of faith, hope and love. And they adore Jesus.

Trust in the direction the Lord takes you. Spending time effectively in eucharistic adoration does not require knowledge of any special way versus another. Reading the Bible, praying a rosary, journaling on spiritual thoughts, delving into the science of the saints or remaining in complete silence with

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Sometimes, the simplest kindness, which seems to cost us almost nothing at all, is the very balm that does the most good.

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to go through her things, looking for any medicines she might be taking, and in every pocket and crook and cranny, my mom found prayer cards, novenas and all of that Catholic DNA that marks a faith-filled life. Miss K died peacefully a few days later at a local hospital surrounded by those who loved her the most.

Sometimes, healing creeps along at a slow, steady pace. Sometimes, mercy is quiet and hidden and more effective for never drawing attention to itself.

Sometimes, the simplest kindness, which seems to cost us almost nothing at all, is the very balm that does the most good. And sometimes, I think, the

Father saves his greatest mercies for last in this life.

Father in heaven, thank you for the gift of Miss K and that she chose to pass on not the cruelty she knew, but a love for your creation instead. And thank you for allowing her end to stand in such stark contrast to her beginning.

Your mercy endures forever.

Rest in peace, Miss K.

your eyes fixed on the Blessed Sacrament — all work. Belonging to a parish with 24/7 adoration, I volunteered prayer time to a weekly, late-night holy hour — going solo with Jesus — in which I chant the Liturgy of the Hours. (Hint: Be cognizant of when the relief adorer enters the chapel!)

The key is to focus and ponder on the presence of Jesus. He directs your heart, mind and soul, and he can settle the unsettledness within you. Trust is liberating during adoration as the adorer encounters Jesus — the divine — whether alone or “where two or three are gathered” (Mt 18:20).

Yet, the efficacy of adoration places no limits on numbers, no limits on burdens, no limits on simply being thankful. Jesus told his followers, “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden” (Mt 11:28) — placing no limits on giving rest to those who do indeed come to him. That is why each one of us should dedicate a part of our weekly routine in giving time and taking all we care about to the Blessed Sacrament.

Jesus wants us to come to him.

Spending adoration time with your family, friends, at church fellowship activities, during retreats and in other holy hour opportunities will be instrumental for growth in your spiritual life and how you live out your faith. If you need to get more familiar with adoration, your pastor, deacon, director of worship — or probably the holiest person you know — can help.

Garnering the Handbook of Prayers, the Magnificat or other worship aids can

help guide you through the goodness, beauty and truth of eucharistic adoration and appreciate its antiquity.

Since the movement started, all Catholic Watchmen gatherings I have attended — whether parish- or archdiocesan-wide — have included eucharistic adoration. The archdiocesan Annual Men’s Conference March 23 — themed “Arming Men of Integrity” — will begin with Mass and will close with eucharistic adoration and Benediction.

The day’s dynamic speakers will include Catholic author, radio and television host and apologist Patrick Madrid. His keynote talk will help feed our intellect with relevant and compelling insights based on our theme. That theme aims to inspire us all to be men of virtue — heart, body, mind and soul — in a challenging culture, as well as to strengthen us in holiness as spiritual leaders, providers and protectors of the faith. And we will take this to Jesus — in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

Kelly is the author of six books, including the award-winning “Jesus Approaches” (Loyola Press, 2017), and is a parishioner of St. Pius X in White Bear Lake. “Your Heart, His Home” is now a podcast. Listen at lizk.org.

Deacon Bird ministers at St. Joseph in Rosemount and assists the Catholic Watchmen movement of the archdiocese’s Office of Evangelization. As a permanent deacon ordained in 2017, he and his wife, DiAnn, are also members of All Saints in Lakeville. They have two married children and four grandchildren.

Reach him at gordonbird@rocketmail.com.

Learn about the archdiocese’s Catholic Watchmen initiative at rediscover.archspm. org/the-catholic-watchmen or at facebook. com/thecatholicwatchmen.

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FAITH IN THE PUBLIC ARENA | JASON ADKINS

Good politics is at the service of peace The annual papal message for the World Day of Peace (Jan. 1, Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God) — one of the best glimpses into the minds of the popes regarding social and political issues — offers specific counsel, rooted in the Gospel and Catholic social teaching, about how to work for peace in our time in light of current events.

This year’s message focused on a recurring theme of Pope Francis: that politics, rightly conceived, can be an “outstanding” form of charity. “Man’s earthly activity, when inspired and sustained by charity, contributes to the building of the universal city of God, which is the goal of the history of the human family,” the pope commented.

According to Pope Francis, “Everyone can contribute his or her stone to help build the common home. Authentic political life, grounded in … frank and fair relations between individuals, experiences renewal whenever we are convinced that every woman, man and generation brings the promise of new relational, intellectual, cultural and spiritual energies.”

He added, “Politics is at the service of peace if it finds expression in the recognition of the gifts and abilities of each individual.”

That is why we should make special effort to include those on the margins of society — voices that are often forgotten or ignored, including the poor, the disabled, communities of color, the undocumented, and those who have been incarcerated and are trying to rebuild their lives.

It is also why we should give voice and consideration to the unborn, future generations and even what G.K. Chesterton called “the democracy of the dead” — the traditional laws and social customs established by those who have gone before us.

In other words, the political life of our community requires that everyone participate. Without each person’s active participation in the great conversation

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of politics, some gift or unique perspective is silenced or ignored, and we are hindered in our pursuit of the common good.

Everyone in our communities has something different and equally important to share.

Blessed is the politician?

Some people have the unique responsibility of holding public office. We can sometimes forget, though, that the authority of public office is not meant to be a position of power but of service. The elected representative is just that: a representative, chosen to advocate for the rights, needs and priorities of the people he or she serves, as well as the common good.

Pope Francis put it this way: “Political office constantly challenges those called to the service of their country to make every effort to protect those who live there and to create the conditions for a worthy and just future. If exercised with basic respect for the life, freedom and dignity of persons, political life can indeed become an outstanding form of charity.”

Pope Francis also recalled the “Beatitudes of the Politician” left to us by the saintly Vietnamese Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, who was incarcerated for many years in a Vietnamese prison.

Cardinal Van Thuan knew about dysfunctional political orders, having witnessed the collapse of various regimes in Vietnam. He penned these beatitudes to describe the virtues of the politician who contributes to peace, human dignity and the common good. Among them are: “Blessed be the politician with a lofty sense and deep understanding of his role,” “Blessed be the politician who works for unity” and “Blessed be the politician who is capable of listening.”

Practicing good politics Politics is rooted in right relationships — with God, with others and with creation. Therefore, political life goes well — and peace can be achieved — when elected officials and the people they represent come together in a relationship of mutual service and respect.

But civility, as we know, is an ongoing challenge. It is, as Pope Francis says, “a challenge that demands to be taken up ever anew. It entails a conversion of heart and soul; it is both interior and communal.”

We can contribute to a politics of peace, then, by

Oppose the legalization of recreational marijuana Marijuana represents a significant part of substance use in America and adversely affects the health of millions of Americans. Its widespread use and abuse, particularly by young people under the age of 18, is steadily increasing while scientific evidence clearly links its long-term damaging effects on brain development.

Legalizing a drug for recreational use that causes these effects on the human body, particularly our youth, is not a path civil society should choose to take. It has been well documented that the United States is currently waging a losing battle against opioid abuse. Our attention must not be diverted from that health crisis, nor do we want to add fuel to it by contributing to the risks for the use of other illegal/illicit/proscribed substances through the legalization of marijuana. The Catholic Church proclaims that “the use of drugs inflicts very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly therapeutic grounds, is a grave offense” (CCC 2291).

Call your legislators today and tell them to oppose HF 420 (Rep. Mike Freiberg) and SF 619 (Sen. Melisa Franzen). resolving to forge new relationships with fellow citizens and with our elected officials.

Start with praying for them. Prayer is, in fact, “the best that we can offer to those who govern,” according to Pope Francis.

Then, resolve to meet your elected officials and start a conversation with them, offering your unique gifts and perspective to ensure that our politicians will make the best decisions for our community.

Adkins is executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference.

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Knights of Columbus Dad’s Belgian Waffle Breakfast — Feb. 24: 8:30–2:30 a.m. at St. John the Baptist, 835 Second Ave. NW, New Brighton. stjohnnb.com.

Restorative justice and healing events — Feb. 21, 22, 23 and March 3. Three separate events featuring restorative justice expert Janine Geske: 7-9 p.m. Feb. 21 at St. Odilia, 3495 Victoria St. N., Shoreview; 12:30-1:30 p.m. Feb. 22 at University of St. Thomas School of Law, room 235, 1101 Harmon Place, Minneapolis; and 10 a.m.noon Feb. 23 at St. Thomas More, 1079 Summit Ave., St. Paul. Father Dan Griffith, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes, will also present “Lent and Restorative Justice” 9:45-10:45 a.m. March 3 at Our Lady of Lourdes, 1 Lourdes Place, Minneapolis. lourdesmpls.org.

Wakota Gala — March 1: 5:45–9 p.m. at the University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul. The event will feature speaker Pam Tebow. RSVP guidingstarwakota.org.

St. Bernard’s Men’s Club spaghetti dinner — March 2: 4–7 p.m. at 187 Geranium Ave W., St. Paul. stbernardstpaul.org.

Ongoing groups Twin Cities Survivors Peace Circle — March 2 and 30: Noon at Hennepin County Library: Webber Park Branch, 4440 Humbolt Ave. N., Minneapolis. Open to all who have experienced the trauma of clergy sexual abuse. Jim at 773-4120909.

Parish events Used book sale — Feb. 23: 8 a.m.–3 p.m. at St. Stephen, 525 Jackson St., Anoka. Proceeds benefit St. Stephen’s Youth Ministries. ststephenchurch.org.

“All Creatures Great and Small: Discerning the Limits of Genetic Modification” — Feb. 28: 7 p.m. at Woulfe Alumni Hall (Anderson Student Center) at the University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul.

Panelists Jessica Hellman of the University of Minnesota, John Berkman of Regis College at the University of Toronto and Dominican Father Nicanor Austriaco will explore bioethics surrounding recent advances in animal genetic modification. Free. Hosted by St. Thomas’ Terrence J. Murphy Institute and co-sponsored by Anselm House. stthomas.edu/murphyinstitute/events.

Farmington Knights of Columbus spaghetti and bingo — Feb. 23: 5:30–9 p.m. at St. Michael, 22120 Denmark Ave., Farmington. stmichael-farmington.org.

Basilica wedding reunion — Feb. 23: 5–9 p.m. at Basilica of St. Mary, 1600 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis. mary.org.

Father Martin Sienbenaler and Father Leonard Siebenaler 60th anniversary of ordination — Feb. 24: 8–11 a.m. at St. Mary, 8433 239th St. E., Hampton.

St. Odilia Musical Ministry presents Mary Poppins — Feb. 28, March 1, 2 and 3: 7 p.m. at 3495 Victoria St. N., Shoreview. Tickets 651-415-3367. stodilia.org.

WINE: Catholic Women’s Conference — ­­­ March 1-2 at St. Vincent de Paul, 9100 93rd Ave. N., Brooklyn Park. 6:30–9 p.m. March 1 “Gathering in the Vineyard” optional social event. “Beautifully United in Spirit” conference 8 a.m.–3:30 p.m. March 2 includes Mass, music, inspirational talks, confession, adoration and prayer teams. $125 for both days; $70 for conference only. Feb. 22 registration deadline. wineconference.org.

Morning of Reflection: “Restoring Our Catholic Faith” — March 2: 8:30–11 a.m. at Guardian Angels, 8260 Fourth St. N., Oakdale. Featuring guest speaker Archbishop Bernard Hebda. Register at guardian-angels.org.

Mardi Gras dance and party — March 2: 7:30–11 p.m. at St. Peter Claver, 375 Oxford St., St. Paul. Adults only. Jean at 651-291-8800. spcchurch.org.

Nick Markell on “50 Years of Liturgical Art: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going” — March 3: 1–2 p.m. at St. John the Baptist, 835 Second Ave. NW, New Brighton. stjohnnb.com.

Dining out Spaghetti dinner and quilt raffle — Feb. 22: 4:30–7:30 p.m. at Knights of Columbus Hall, 411 Fourth Ave. SW, New Prague. npcatholic.org/st-john-the-evangelist.

Italian dinner fundraiser for WomenSource and Feed My Starving Children — Feb. 23: 5:30–7:30 p.m at St. Vincent de Paul, 9100 93rd Ave. N., Brooklyn Park. Hosted by Osseo Knights of Columbus.

St. Agnes Lenten Lecture Series — Fridays during Lent: 7–9 p.m. at St. Agnes, 535 Thomas Ave., St. Paul. Theme :“Great Spiritual Doctors of the Church.” churchofsaintagnes.org.

Prayer/worship Calix Society of the Twin Cities — Feb. 23: 10 a.m. at St. Pascal Baylon, 1757 Conway St., St. Paul. Healing Mass with Father Jim Livingston. Kathy at 651-330-3387. calixsociety.org.

Taize prayer — Third Thursday of each month: 7–9 p.m. at

St. Paul’s Monastery, 2675 Benet Road, Maplewood. benedictinecenter.org.

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Taize prayer — First Friday of each month: 7:30 p.m. at St. Richard, 7540 Penn Ave. S., Richfield. strichards.com.

Taize prayer — Third Friday of each month: 7 p.m. at The Benedictine Center, St. Paul’s Monastery, 2675 Benet Road, Maplewood. 651-777-7251 or stpaulsmonastery.org.

Retreats Women’s silent weekend retreat — Feb. 22-24 at Christ the King Retreat Center, 621 First Ave. S., Buffalo. Theme: “Be Patient in Affliction.” Presented by King’s House preaching team. kingshouse.com.

Women’s weekend retreat — Feb. 22-24 at Franciscan Retreats and Spirituality Center, 16389 St. Francis Lane, Prior Lake. 2019 Theme: “Rejoice and Be Glad: Our Call to Holiness Today.” franciscanretreats.net.

Grief to Grace Retreat: Healing the Wounds of Abuse — Feb. 24-March 1 at a Twin Cities retreat center (exact address is confidential). Register at diane@grieftograce.org or 612-4407247. grief-to-grace-lsi.squarespace.com.

Married couples retreat — March 1-3 at Christ the King Retreat Center, 621 First Ave. S., Buffalo. Theme: “Be Patient in Affliction.” Presented by King’s House preaching team. kingshouse.com.

Women’s silent Lenten midweek retreat — March 5-7 at Christ the King Retreat Center, 621 First Ave. S., Buffalo. Theme: “Be Patient in Affliction.” Presented by King’s House preaching team. kingshouse.com.

Encounter the Holy Spirit — March 8: 7–9 p.m. and March 9: 8 a.m.–3 p.m. at St. Michael, 11300 Frankfort Parkway NE, St. Michael. Based on Father Jacques Philippe’s book “In the School of the Holy Spirit.” Talks by Msgr. Aloysius Callaghan, Father Michael Becker and Father Jim Livingston. Proceeds benefit Holy Spirit Academy. holyspiritacademy.org.

Men’s silent weekend retreat — March 8-10 at Christ the King Retreat Center, 621 First Ave. S., Buffalo. Theme: “Be Patient in Affliction.” Presented by King’s House preaching team. kingshouse.com.

Conferences/workshops Catholic Charismatic Renewal Office Winter Teaching Conference — Feb. 23: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. at Epiphany, 1900 111th Ave. NW, Coon Rapids. Theme: “Anchored in Unshakable Hope” with keynote speaker Bishop Andrew Cozzens. ccro-msp.org.

Working with clay as spiritual practice — Mondays Feb. 25 through April 1: 6:30–8:15 p.m. at St. Paul’s Monastery, 2675 Benet Road, Maplewood. benedictinecenter.org.

An Evening with St. Hildegard of Bingen — Feb. 28: 6:30–8:30 p.m. at St. Timothy, 707 89th Ave. NE, Blaine. Join Carolyn Kolovitz for a lively presentation on this saint. churchofsttimothy.com.

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Singles Sunday Spirits walking group for 50-plus Catholic singles — ongoing Sundays. Kay at 651-426-3103 or Al at 651-439-1203.

Singles group — Second Saturday each month: 6:15 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, 9100 93rd Ave. N., Brooklyn Park. 763425-0412.

Young adults Theology on Tap — Wednesdays through Feb. 27: 6:30– 8:30 p.m. at Crooked Pint Ale House and Event Center, 1734 Adolphus St., Maplewood. Archbishop Bernard Hebda speaks Feb. 20. facebook.com/groups/joincya.

Friday Night at the Friary — Third Friday of each month: 7–9 p.m. at Franciscan Brothers of Peace, 1289 Lafond Ave., St. Paul. Men ages 18-35 are invited for prayer and fellowship. facebook.com/queenofpeacefriary.

Lenten adoration and fellowship — Saturdays during Lent: 10 a.m.–noon at Cathedral of St. Paul, 239 Selby Ave., St. Paul. facebook.com/groups/joincya.

Other events NW Metro Mobile Pack for Feed My Starving Children — Feb. 20-24: 6 p.m. at Egan Company Warehouse, 11611 Business Park Blvd., Champlin. Hosted by St. Joseph Catholic Community, St. Joseph the Worker and St. Vincent de Paul. ive.fmsc.org/northwest.

Come and See: Franciscan Fraternity — Feb. 24: 2–4 p.m. at Epiphany, 1900 111th Ave., Coon Rapids. epiphanymn.org.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

THELASTWORD

Wedding’s done. Now what?

Couple starts ministry for newlyweds, hopes interest will spread

By Dave Hrbacek The Catholic Spirit

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decade ago, David Busacker was a high school sophomore looking for a way to fit in, and he decided to give drama a try.

Had he made a different choice, he might not have married Bridget Scott in 2016. The two found themselves on the set of “Little Women” in 2009 at their public high school, St. Anthony High School in St. Anthony. She played Jo March; he played her father. Near the end of the performance, he made his entrance and spun her on the stage.

“That’s when I fell in love with her,” he said.

It took her longer to feel the same, but eventually they started dating while both were attending the University of Minnesota. During that time, David converted to the Catholic faith, and the couple got engaged in June 2015.

They eagerly dove into marriage preparation at St. Charles Borromeo in St. Anthony, Bridget’s childhood parish. They absorbed everything they could during their meetings with the priest and mentor couples in the parish.

But they couldn’t get enough.

“The prep was good at St. Charles, but we were looking for even more,” said Bridget, 26. “I think we were, in some ways, a little overzealous trying to prepare so much, but I think we also just wanted to make sure we were tapping into all the resources.”

They turned to a program for engaged couples at St. Mark in St. Paul. They found their nine months in the program so enriching that they joined the parish after their wedding. A year later, they started their own group for newly-married couples. They named it after Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux who were canonized in 2015. They launched with four couples, and they hope to add more newlyweds in the next year.

They liked the St. Mark marriage preparation program because it connected young engaged couples through discussion and the “Beloved” video series produced and distributed by the Augustine Institute in Colorado, which offers Catholic content on a variety of topics, including marriage.

“It was really awesome,” Bridget said of St. Mark’s engaged couples program, which included four to five other couples. “It was intimate. ... You were really getting to know people.”

During that time, they were drawn to the religious community Pro Ecclesia Sancta — “For the Holy Church” — of priests, brothers and sisters who serve the St. Mark parish. They joined the community’s lay movement, Catholic Advance.

They took part in retreats and weekly eucharistic adoration. Eventually, they felt a desire to give to other couples what they had received spiritually.

As they discussed what that meant, they acknowledged what they perceived as a shortage of programs for newlyweds in the Church. It was a problem they felt called to address.

“There was a ton [of resources] available to us up to the minute we got married,” said David, 25.

“Then, the minute after we exchanged vows, it seemed to us that there was nothing available.”

Bridget agreed. “There’s so much emphasis on marriage prep,” she said. “But, what are we doing once people are married? What is there to offer

DAVE HRBACEK | THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT

Bridget and David Busacker enjoy drinking coffee together in their Mendota Heights kitchen. The parishioners of St. Mark in St. Paul launched a program for newly-married couples in 2017.

MARRIAGE ENRICHMENT Like David and Bridget Busacker, leaders in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis have acknowledged the importance of ministry designed for married couples. The following resources could benefit couples in all stages of marriage. uMarriage in Christ. Started in 2011, this seminar, run in cooperation with the archdiocesan Office of Marriage, Family and Life, has been active in 28 local parishes and continues to grow. It offers a five-week program that includes large group meetings, plus independent work for couples between meetings. The goal is to foster friendship with God and one’s spouse, in and through the power of the Holy Spirit. marriageinchrist.com/seminars. uCana Family Institute. Focused on families with young children, the Crystal-based Cana Family Institute provides resources on marriage and parenting for small group study and sharing rooted in Scriptures and Church teaching. canafamilyinstitute.com. uFor Your Marriage. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops offers numerous online resources for married couples, including articles and videos on a variety of topics. foryourmarriage.org. u“Beloved.” This video series explores the theological realities in marriage and relates them to everyday challenges. It is produced by the Colorado-based Augustine Institute and available through a subscription to formed.org, which many local parishes make available to parishioners at no cost.

— Dave Hrbacek them to keep their marriages strong, and offer resources when it is hard or when you’re just trying to figure it out?”

At a fundamental level, they were trying to understand what it means for a husband and wife to, as the Bible says, “become one flesh.”

“Both of us are fiercely independent people,” David said. “We’re both extremely Type-A, competitive people.”

As they wrestled with this question, they had a growing desire to explore it with other newlymarried couples. It started with one couple they hung out with after getting married. They often

would stay up talking until 2 a.m., with deeper topics arising near the end.

“When that would happen, we were like, ‘This would be so cool to have with other couples, too, and expand it beyond just the four of us,’” Bridget said. “At that point, we were married probably about a year and really had the desire in our hearts to get to know other couples and have something more formalized.”

As they developed their ideas, they decided that meetings would take place in the couples’ homes to cultivate hospitality, which the Busackers think is lacking in contemporary culture. It also would create a deeper connection between the couples, which, hopefully, would strengthen everyone’s marriages. Their goal was simple: “Have people in, live life together in the mess of life,” Bridget said.

The couples meet twice a month — first as couples, then as men and women separately. So far, Bridget and David have organized two six-month programs — one in 2018 and another that finished in January. In that program, they watched and discussed segments of the “Beloved” series and thought that format worked best for the participating couples.

“There were a lot of growing pains, I think, in just growing in trust with each other to get to the point of comfortably talking about different topics,” Bridget said. “But, I think it’s been really cool. Two of the couples have had kids [while] in our group, which was really awesome. And, I think we’ve gotten really comfortable with each other and continue growing in community together, which is what we wanted.”

As they’ve developed the meetings’ format, they’ve also learned to allow for flexibility.

“We both wanted it to be perfect,” David said.

“We both wanted this to be the right ministry everybody needs. But in reality, what people wanted was just to see each other and talk openly.

And, I really think that everything we’ve done so far has achieved its purpose. We created a group of people where we could honestly talk about hard stuff with one another.”