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October 1, 2015
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Pope canonizes Junipero Serra,
proclaims joy of mission spirit
Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Canonizing the 18th-century
Spanish missionary, Blessed Junipero Serra,
Pope Francis insisted a person’s faith is alive
only when it is shared.
Celebrating a late afternoon Mass outside the
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immacu-
late Conception Sept. 23, the pope declared the
holiness of St. Junipero, founder of a string of
missions in California.
Some people had objected to the canonization
– like the beatification of the Spaniard in 1988
– because of questions about how Father Serra
treated the native peoples of California and
see serra, page 2
(CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Andrew Galvan, a California Indian and curator of Mission Dolores in San Francisco, carries a reliquary of St. Junipero Serra as Pope Francis celebrates the missionary’s canonization outside the
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Sept. 23. See stories on Pages 2, 11.
Left, Archbishop Salvatore J.
Cordileone celebrated Mass for
pilgrims from the archdiocese
at the Basilica of the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Sept. 23.
Right, pilgrims from the archdiocese walked more than 3 miles
from their hotel to the basilica.
The pilgrims included a group
of 200 Hispanic Catholics from
parishes in Marin, San Mateo
and San Francisco counties.
‘Pardon of assisi’:
Offered to shrine
pilgrims Oct. 4
PAGE 9
annulments:
How the nullity process
is changing
PAGE 14
world
mission
sunday:
Celebrated Oct.18
PAGEs 12-13
respect life:
‘Absolutely nothing
can diminish our
God-given dignity’
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Index
Archdiocese . . . . . . . . . 2
On the Street . . . . . . . . 4
National . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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“It took 12 times for me to go up
and down the stairs with the relic
to get it right for the master of
ceremonies.”
Andrew Galvan, Mission Dolores curator, commenting on the rehearsal for
the Mass and canonization
•
‘The pope, in his homily, invigorates the faithful with his call to
go out into the world, sharing
faith with enthusiasm and vitality, by being living examples of
joy, love and charity … At the
canonization grounds, electrifying
energy burst when the popemobile arrived. What an explosion
of admiration and affection from
the crowd. … At some point when
I was trying to get a better view
of the pope, I was reminded of the
story of Zaccheus who went up
a tree to have a good glimpse of
Jesus.”
Nellie Hizon, St. Stephen parishioner,
one of 10 members of a Filipino ministry delegation from the archdiocese
•
“When the pope spoke, the crowd
was electric. Though he spoke
softly, people hung on every word
and exploded with applause in appreciation for his open sharing of
his message and spirit.’
Jeff Bialik, executive director, Catholic
Charities, Archdiocese of San Francisco, who was among thousands
of pilgrims greeting the pope on the
White House grounds Sept. 23
(CNS photos/Bob Roller)
Left, a tapestry featuring an image of St. Junipero Serra hangs outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in
Washington, Sept.23. Right, the pope greets guests including California Indians following Mass and the canonization.
serra: Pope canonizes 18th-century Spanish missionary
FROM PAGE 1
about the impact of Spanish colonization on native peoples throughout the
Americas.
Pope Francis mentioned the controversy only briefly, saying: “Junipero
sought to defend the dignity of the
native community, to protect it from
those who had mistreated and abused
it. Mistreatment and wrongs, which
today still trouble us, especially because of the hurt which they cause in
the lives of many people.”
Mission Dolores assistant curator
Vincent Medina, who has questioned
the wisdom of the canonization, read
the first Scripture reading in the
Chochenyo language of the Ohlone
people of Northern California.
Before the formal proclamation
of the missionary’s sainthood, a
choir and the congregation chanted
a litany invoking the intercession of
Jesus, Mary, the apostles and a long
list of saints, including other saints
who lived and worked in the United
States, such as St. Frances Cabrini,
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. John
Neumann and St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first American Indian to
be canonized. The canonization of
St. Junipero, however, was the first
such ceremony to be celebrated in
‘We enroll him among the saints’
Here is the text of the formula for the
canonization of Junipero Serra, as
pronounced by Pope Francis:
For the honor of the Blessed
Trinity, the exaltation of the
Catholic faith and the increase of
the Christian life, by the authority
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of
the holy Apostles Peter and Paul,
and our own, after due deliberation and frequent prayer for divine
assistance, and having sought the
counsel of many of our brother
bishops, we declare and define
Blessed Junipero Serra to be a
saint, and we enroll him among
the saints, decreeing that he is to
be venerated as such by the whole
church. In the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit
LIVING TRUSTS WILLS
(CNS photos/Bob Roller)
Pope Francis holds the Book of the Gospels
as he celebrates Mass and the canonization
of Junipero Serra.
the United States rather than at the
Vatican.
After the formal proclamation, Mission Dolores curator Andrew Galvan
brought a relic of St. Junipero up to a
stand near the altar as a song was sung
in Spanish accompanied by a drumbeat.
Catholics in the United States and
throughout the world are indebted to St.
Junipero and thousands of other witnesses who lived their faith and passed
it on, the pope said in his homily.
St. Junipero “was excited about
blazing trails, going forth to meet
many people, learning and valuing
their particular customs and ways of
life,” Pope Francis said.
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A missionary’s life is exciting and
brings joy, he said, because it is not
sedentary or turned in on itself.
Sharing the Gospel is the way to keep
experiencing the joy it brings and
keeps the heart “from growing numb
from being anesthetized.”
More than speaking about St.
Junipero, Pope Francis spoke about
keeping faith alive and joyful, calling
on all Catholics to be missionaries.
“Mission is never the fruit of a perfectly planned program or a well-organized manual,” he told the crowd
of about 25,000 people. “Mission is
always the fruit of a life which knows
what it is to be found and healed,
encountered and forgiven.”
Pope Francis insisted that Jesus
does not give Christians “a short list
of who is, or is not, worthy of receiving his message, his presence.”
Instead, Jesus embraced people
as they were, even those who were
“dirty, unkept, broken,” he said.
Jesus says to believers today, like
yesterday, “Go out and embrace life
as it is, and not as you think it should
be.”
“The joy of the Gospel,” the pope
said, “is something to be experienced, something to be known and
live only through giving it away,
through giving ourselves away.”
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Did you know we have some very powerful allies in our pro-life battle? Angels!
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
tells us that “From its beginning until
death, human life is surrounded by their
watchful care and intercession.” At the
moment of creation inside their mothers’ womb, every soul is assigned to the
care and protection of a guardian angel.
Mary McClusky of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat
for Pro-Life Activities suggests ways the
angels can help. “We can ask the guardian angel of the child in danger of abortion to intercede to God for protection
from death. Another option is to pray
to the angels to illuminate the mind
This year, we’re asking our Respect Life Essay Contest
participants to reflect on the guardian angels and archangels
and compose prayers asking for their protection and
intercession for the weak and vulnerable and the unborn.
of a mother who is tempted to have an
abortion with the light of Christ’s love
for her and her child. We can also ask
the angels to fight the demons that surround abortion facilities. Inspired by the
angels’ comfort of Jesus in the Garden
of Gethsemane, we might pray for the
angels to send God’s comfort and healing to mothers and fathers who have
been involved in an abortion.”
This year, we’re asking our Respect
Life Essay Contest participants to reflect on the guardian angels and archangels and compose prayers asking
for their protection and intercession
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Spreading the news
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Expanding free clinic focus
of Order of Malta dinner
A dinner Oct. 13 will help fund the
continuing service of the Order of
Malta Clinic of Northern California
in Oakland which offers free complete
medical care to the poor. The special
focus of the evening is to help expand
the clinic’s operation to five days a
week from its present half that.
The Tony and Lucille SanchezCorea family will receive the Champions of the Silver Chalice Award with
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
presenting. This honor is given to the
largest contributor or contributors to
the ongoing success of the clinic.
With the continued support of private donors the facility has remained
open since 2008, surpassing the
average two-year life expectancy of
faith-based clinics. The clinic accepts
moms and dads, the sick and elderly,
the Walk for Life West Coast, and for
the conversion of all those tempted by
the culture of death.
Our 27th annual archdiocesan respect
life essay contest materials were to be
sent to schools, parish schools of religion and home schooled families during
September, in time for introduction into
the classroom in October, which is Respect Life Month. This should be a great
project to encourage prayer, the foundation of all our efforts on behalf of the
unborn–-and to encourage students to
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Helping kids read
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St. Pius teen
Tom Burke
catholic San Francisco
Ryan Traynor has been helping kids learn to read
since he was 11. The last five years
have been nothing but one after
another of successful book drives
including one that collected 25,000
volumes and Ryan’s founding
the Redwood City Public Library
Youth Literacy Council. Ryan is a
junior at St. Francis High School,
Mountain View and a parishioner
of St. Pius, Redwood City.
Ryan Traynor
Ryan’s good work has caught
the attention of the International Literacy Association and he has been named to the organization’s
“30 under 30” list, recognizing young innovators,
advocates and educators making a difference in the
global literacy landscape, according to the ILA.
“I have been very fortunate to have a network of
youth that has helped me implement my successful
campaigns,” Ryan said. “Young people want to help if
given the opportunity, and I find them to be extremely
creative and insightful, which promotes the development of new ways to tackle literacy challenges.”
Ryan has been recognized with numerous awards
including the Jefferson Award, ABC7 Star Award,
and the Gold President’s Volunteer Service Award.
“I am proud to recognize Ryan Traynor, who is
part of a new generation of champions playing a
critical role in the future of literacy around the
world,” said Marcie Craig Post, ILA’s executive
director. “Today, an astounding 12 percent of the
global population is unable to read or write. These
30 young education champions are developing new,
creative strategies to close the literacy gap and, in
the process, are transforming lives in their communities and around the world.”
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: St. Cecilia Parish sent out a
“Happy Birthday” to Marie Santos-Cucalon who
turned 100 years old on Sept. 15.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: St. Timothy Parish, San
Mateo joined the family of Mary Rose Favuzzi in the
celebration of Mary’s 90th birthday with cake and
refreshments at the church following Mass April 29.
STEPS OF HOPE: Students from Mercy High School, San Francisco walked to help end childhood cancer raising $1,400 in the
effort Sept. 19. The St. Jude’s Walk took place at the San Francisco Zoo. Also at work was the school’s spirit squad who cheered on the
walkers. Cindy Ovares of Mercy’s faculty and moderator of the “Hope for Tomorrow” club raising awareness about cancer, led the group.
Proceeds benefit St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
learn about and pitch in on stopping human trafficking. It’s a daylong event with overview in the
morning and training in the afternoon; St. Mary’s
Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San
Francisco. “Help is needed in educating others
about trafficking,” the sisters said; conrottor@
sfarch.org.
SPECIAL SUPPORT: Young Men’s Institute San Francisco
Council #1 awarded scholarships of up to $1,000 to seminarians
studying for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The YMI’s Frank
Pignati presented the checks. The grants are from the YMI Seminarian Education Fund. Pictured from left are seminarians Thomas
Lancaster, Benjamin Rosado, Michael Liliedahl, Alvin Yu and Father
David Schunk, director or vocations for the archdiocese. Seminarian Francisco Avila was not available for the photo.
THANK YOU: St. Anne of the Sunset Parish says
“Without you there would have been no gala,”
to longtime parishioner Precie Agaton who was
instrumental in the evening of music that raised
more than $20,000 July 18.
and as we come from the mysteries of the rosary
“we may imitate what they contain and obtain what
they promise.”
HEAR US: Among my favorite aspirations are
“May the divine assistance remain always with us”
EFFECT: Northern California Catholic Sisters
against Human Trafficking are sponsoring a day to
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WORKSHOP: St. Matthias Parish is offering a
look into “uncovering your calling, those you’re
meant to serve, and the message you embody in
Christ” Oct. 16-17, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood
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were established in Los
Angeles in 1926 under
Sisters of Social
the leadership of Sister
Service of Los Angeles Frederica Horvath.
In 1939, when we began
working in the ArchdioNAME OF RELIGIOUS
cese of San Francisco.
COMMUNITY: Sisters
of Social Service of Los Our first ministry was at
Old St. Mary’s Parish in
Angeles
Oakland. Under the leadership of Father Charles
WHEN AND WHERE
Philips, the first sisters
FOUNDED: Hungary
engaged in parish social
in 1908, taking form
work and pastoral minisas Sisters of Social
try. They taught religious
Service in 1923
education, operated a
daily soup kitchen for
FIRST ARRIVED IN
THE ARCHDIOCESE: homeless men, conducted
a neighborhood census
1939
to determine needs, and
provided clothing and
ORIGINAL MINISfood pantries.
TRIES: Parish social
In the 1940s, we were
work, pastoral ministry,
invited to work in Vallejo
Catholic social service,
and San Rafael. Our sisreligious education
ters worked in the branch
offices of the ArchdiocCURRENT MINISesan Catholic Services in
TRIES: Director of
each city. Sisters also did
archdiocesan religious
parish social work, relieducation and youth
gious education, Catholic
education, mentor
Youth Organization in
of teachers involved
the local parishes.
in early childhood
Our ministry in San
development for at-risk
Francisco began with an
children and families
opening Mass on Sept.
24, 1959. We have served
CURRENT NUMBER
here continuously for
OF MEMBERS IN
56 years. During the
OUR COMMUNITY:
years following 1959, our
66; 3 in San Francisco
sisters have served in
several agencies: CYO Program, the Laguna Honda
Adult Day Health Center, Mission Health Center,
Newman work, St. Anthony’s Dining Room, Visiting Nurses and Hospice, San Francisco State Child
Development and St. Mary’s Hospital. Many sisters
did parish social work and were parish catechetical leaders. Among the many parishes served are:
Epiphany, Mission Dolores, St. Cecilia, St. Gabriel,
St. Peter (San Francisco), St. Stephen, St. Paul,
St. Gabriel, Good Shepherd, St. Augustine and All
Souls.
Responding to the needs of our times and meeting
people where they are is part of our charism. We depend upon the Holy Spirit to guide us. We wish to be
imbued with the Holy Spirit always. Benedictine in
spirit and contemporary in lifestyle, we share in the
social mission of the church. Our ministry ranges
from healing the victims of society’s problems to
working toward changing the conditions that inflict
this suffering through legislative advocacy and a
commitment to social justice.
During these later years our associates join with
us in furthering the mission and charism of the
Sisters of Social Service.
In the San Francisco community today there are
three Sisters of Social Service. Sister Celeste Arbuckle is the archdiocesan director of religious education and youth ministry, Sister Nodelyn Abayan
works at Wu Yee Children’s Services as a mentor
coach for early childhood teachers of children of
low-income families. Sister Marie Lindemann, a native of San Francisco, is presently studying for her
master’s degree in pastoral ministry at Santa Clara
University. At this time, the San Francisco community provides housing for college students and
discerning young women.
We Sisters of Social Service cherish our time
working in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
(Courtesy photos)
Left, Social Service Sister Patricia Feeley is pictured at St. Mary’s Center, Oakland, in this archival photo. Right, serving in the
archdiocese are Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, Sister Nodelyn Abayan, Sister Marie Lindemann.
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Undercover videos revive pain over abortion
The videos include interviews with a young woman
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with the chief executive officer of StemExpress.
The series of undercover videos aimed at exposing
Planned Parenthood has countered that it donates
the buying and selling of aborted babies’ body parts
the tissue for scientific research and receives only
are hitting many of those who have had abortions
reimbursement for its expenses, which is legal.
hard. But those interviewed said that nevertheless,
“It’s another cross we are carrying, watching
if the videos can stop someone else from having an
those videos,” said Smith, but she said the videos
abortion, it is worth the pain.
are raising consciousness abortion’s evil. “We
“When I watched the first video, I was mortified.
know what those videos are doing, saving more
The depression cut back in,” said Patti Smith, relives. This is helping. We are seeing a lot of people
gional coordinator for the Silent No More Awareness
who have normally been middle of the road, turnCampaign in San Diego. Smith had two abortions,
ing around and saying, ‘whoa, we didn’t know.’”
one in the 1970s and one in the 1980s, and battled
The founder of Silent No More, Georgette Forney,
back from alcoholism, promiscuity and mental
said she watched the first video on her own in a
illness. A convert to Catholicism and married to a
hotel room, and felt as if “I was back on the table
Catholic, she blogs http://gridirongrannyfootballfaagain” despite having undergone an abortion denatic.blogspot.com/
cades ago in high school as well as having experiThe Center for Medical Progress began releasing
enced healing and reconciliation many years ago.
videos in mid-July showing Planned Parenthood
Realizing the effect on women who have aborofficials discussing the sale of aborted babies parts.
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down,” said Thorn, executive director of the national
office of post abortion reconciliation and healing in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Mary Ann Schwab, coordinator of Project Rachel
in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said she has not
seen any spike in calls from women who have had
abortions. That experience is echoed elsewhere. “I
wouldn’t expect an uptick. This isn’t an opportunity
for healing. This is an opportunity to realize how
grave the issue is,” said Kent Peters, director of the
office for social ministry in the Diocese of San Diego.
Peters said he checked with other big dioceses, and
there was not an increase in calls from women who
had abortions. “A lot of them are shut down.”
“At the moment, I think they are blown away, thinking, ‘what if, what if, what if,’” said Peters, “wondering
if the baby they aborted was also sold for parts.”
Forney advises that even for women who have
undergone healing, the experience is going to be very
painful and may trigger obsessive behaviors including watching the videos over and over, or substance
abuse, or taking out feelings of anger on family and
friends. She said it is important to exercise and find
positive outlets to release the anger. She says it makes
sense for many to go to another healing retreat.
Smith also said that many women who have undergone healing benefit from attending a second retreat.
In the San Diego area, and recognized by the Diocese
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Healing for Catholic women or “Catholic-friendly”
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In her YouTube video, Forney speaks to “those who
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are common feelings. “Be assured you are not alone or
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“I think this is a massive re-traumatization,” said
Thorn, as women also wonder if their baby was used
for research, asking themselves, ‘Did I sign something at Planned Parenthood?’”
As hard as this is, Thorn said, the videos are transforming the debate about abortion and exposing the
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Archbishop celebrates
Project Rachel Mass
The archdiocesan Project Rachel ministry sponsored a Mass
for children who died before, at or shortly after birth Sept. 19 at
Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
was principal celebrant and homilist with priests of the archdiocese concelebrating. Mass was celebrated in the cemetery’s
Holy Cross Mausoleum. Archbishop Cordileone is pictured here
after Mass blessing the area of the cemetery reserved for the
burial of children’s remains and marked by the statue of Rachel
Mourning. The Mass included Gregorian chant and the music of
harpist Anna Maria Mendieta.
obituary
Remy Everett,
St. Philip School principal
Remy Everett, principal of St. Philip School,
San Francisco, died Sept. 13.
She was 65 years old and part of
Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco for more
than four decades.
Born in San Francisco, Everett attended All Hallows School
and St. Vincent High School
before earning undergraduate
and graduate degrees as well as
Remy Everett
teaching credentials from San
Francisco State University.
“Family and friends meant everything to Remy
and she spent her life celebrating them,” the family said in a statement. “Remy will be cherished
always in our hearts as we carry with us her
wonderful, bright smile and her enthusiasm for
life.”
Everett also taught at schools including All
Hallows, St. Hilary, Tiburon and St. Gregory, San
Mateo.
Survivors include her husband John and children Jason, Catherine and Chariz.
A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Bartholomew Church, San Mateo, Sept. 18.
Remembrances may be made to a scholarship
fund established at St. Philip’s in her honor:
“Remy Everett Scholarship Fund,” 665 Elizabeth
St., San Francisco 94114.
2015
Call to Prayer
National Pilgrim Virgin Statue of
theWorld Apostolate of Fatima
Saturday, October 10
10:00AM - Mass celebrated by Archbishop Cordileone
St. Mary’s Cathedral (1111 Gough St. and Geary Blvd., San Francisco)
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12:00PM- Rally at San Francisco UN Plaza (Market & 7th Street )
with the presence of the
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Keynote Speakers:
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Archbishop of San Francisco
Deacon Robert F. Ellis
National Coordinator,
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Right, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone welcomes Cardinal William
J. Levada, who led the Archdiocese
of San Francisco from 1995-2005,
at the St. Patrick’s Seminary &
University Gala Sept. 19. Archbishop
Emeritus George Niederauer is at
center. Above, guests gathered at the
seminary steps.
500-plus guests honor
Serra Clubs at seminary gala
Tom Burke
More than 500 guests came together Sept. 19 on St. Patrick’s Seminary
& University campus for prayer,
dinner and recognition of the Serra
Clubs of the Greater Bay Area for
their work in encouraging and
supporting vocations to the priesthood and religious life. The evening
began with vespers, seminary rector
Sulpician Father Gladstone Stevens
presiding. More than 50 seminarians
were also part of the evening as acolytes for vespers, bartenders, and
providing musical entertainment.
“The ongoing support of the
Serra Clubs is a blessing to our
seminary and to the dioceses where
our seminarians will one day serve
as priests, bringing Christ to the
people,” the seminary said in the
event program.
“I anticipate that this evening will
be an enjoyable time to renew our
shared dedication to the mission of
this seminary,” Father Stevens said
in a letter printed in the program.
Opportunities to further the
seminary cause through auction of
donated items was also a success. A
dinner with Archbishop Salvatore
Cordileone, who led grace before
dinner, brought a winning bid of
$3,000. Dinners with Father Stevens
and former San Francisco archbishops Cardinal William J. Levada and
Archbishop George Niederauer also
brought generous sums.
The seminary was founded in 1898.
Currently 16 men are in formation
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The secular Franciscans of San
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USF names Sustainability officer
The University of San Francisco
has named Richard Hsu as its first
Sustainability Coordinator. Hsu will
lead USF’s newly created Office of
Sustainability, and is responsible
for implementing the university’s
climate action plan and improving
the USF community’s eco-literacy.
“USF’s ultimate goal is to be carbon neutral,” Hsu said in a press
release from the university. “It’s an
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number of commuters who drive
alone to campus.
‘Pardon of Assisi’ offered to shrine
pilgrims on Francis’ feast day
Christina Gray
Pilgrims who visit the National
Shrine of St. Francis
on Oct. 4, the saint’s
feast day, and meet
certain sacramental conditions may
receive the “Pardon
of Assisi,” a plenary
indulgence, according
to shrine rector CapuFather John
chin Father John De
De La Riva
La Riva.
A plenary indulgence, which removes in full, temporary punishment due to sin, may be
gained by Catholics visiting sacred
places such as the shrine, he said.
“The purpose of an indulgence is
to make reparations for these punishments, either for oneself or for another,” said Father De La Riva. A faithful
Christian may offer prayers and good
works determined by the rightful
ministerial authority of the church and
thereby draw upon the inexhaustible
good of Jesus Christ and the saints to
correct and make right that which has
been corrupted through sin.
The basic conditions for an indulgence on the feast of St. Francis, according to the rector, are a sacramental
confession, Communion and the recitation of specific prayers for the intentions of the pope. The conditions can be
met on the feast day itself or eight days
prior or following.
Contrary to popular belief, an indulgence is not a way of earning or buying forgiveness from God, but rather a
“remission before God of the temporal
punishment due to sins whose guilt
has already been forgiven through the
merits of Jesus Christ and the power
of the Holy Spirit,” according to the
Catechism of the Catholic Church.
The National Shrine of St. Francis, a
pilgrimage site located at the corner of
Columbus Avenue and Vallejo Street
in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, includes the historic shrine
church built in 1849 and La Porziuncola Nuova, a replica of St. Francis’
church in Assisi, Italy.
Because the feast of St. Francis
lands on a Sunday this year, the
readings and prayers will reflect the
settings for the Sunday in ordinary
time. Confessions will be heard at 9:30
a.m. and 10:30 a.m. prior to Mass at 11
a.m. to assist with the reception of the
indulgence.
The blessing of the animals, a popular tradition on the feast of St. Francis,
will be made at 1 p.m. on the steps of
the shrine church.
The Transitus, a prayer service held
by Franciscan communities each year
on the evening before the feast of St.
Francis, marks the passing of Francis
from this life into God. It will be presented this year by the Knights of St.
Francis in the Porziuncola Chapel.
Father De La Riva was installed
as rector at the beginning of 2015. A
former Los Angeles police officer, he
replaces outgoing rector Capuchin Father Harold Snider, who late last year
was elected provincial of the Capuchin
Franciscans, Western America Province, in Burlingame.
“The feast of St. Francis reminds us
to reawaken our spirit to the beauty
and power of Christ’s love present not
only in the life and mighty witness of a
few, but in the very fibers of the whole
body of Christ – the church,” he said.
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Gospel for October 4, 2015
Mark 10:2-16
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Franciscans celebrate Serra canonization with Mass of thanksgiving
Kurt Jensen
WASHINGTON – A day after Pope
Francis canonized St. Junipero Serra,
Franciscans gathered to celebrate a
Mass of thanksgiving, but one voice
in the crowd drew attention to some
of the controversy surrounding the
new saint.
Near the end of a two-hour Mass of
thanksgiving Sept. 24 at the Franciscan
Monastery of the Holy Land, the air
was still redolent of incense when an
elderly Spanish friar, part of a delegation from St. Junipero’s home country,
could hide his annoyance no more.
“Serra spoke Majorcan!” he shouted
in Spanish. “That was his first language!” He complained that the Mass
should have been in the Majorcan
dialect, not the Castilian most common in Spain, where St. Junipero was
born in 1713.
Father Michael Perry, minister
general of the Order of Friars Minor
and the main celebrant, appeared to
understand that he was hearing a combination of Spanish nationalism and
a complaint about something that had
been settled long ago. So in the manner
of all family quarrels, he smiled, let the
breach of decorum pass, and moved on
to the acceptance of a new altar cloth
in honor of St. Junipero that the Spanish delegation presented.
The new saint’s 18th-century missionary activity in Mexico and what
is now California, where he founded
nine missions, has been criticized not
only because that activity subsumed
indigenous cultures, but also because
of the friar’s custom of flogging others
(CNS photo/Karen Kasmausk)
Franciscan friars touch the cross-shaped
reliquary holding relics of St. Junipero Serra
at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land
in Washington Sept. 24.
as he flogged himself, as a form of
purification from sin.
The homily by Father Joseph P.
Chinnici, president of the Franciscan
School of Theology in Oceanside,
argued for perspective.
“Contemporary historians talk
about his ‘iron will,’ his “severity,’ his
intractable stubbornness,” he said.
“Commentators focus on the paternalistic identification of the Indians
as ‘adult children’ under Spanish law.
They forget another dimension: ‘Children of God’ in the biblical sources of
Serra’s thought conveys the greatest
possible dignity on a human being.
“Today we clearly see that Serra accepted the disciplinary procedures of
the Spanish colonial project – including the use of stocks and flogging – to
impose practices foreign to the Native
American peoples,” he continued.
“Some 15 years after his death, a more
developed colonization inaugurated a
dual revolution of disease and agricultural destruction that decimated the
Native American way of life. An even
more brutal destruction occurred with
the American colonization.
“He who came to preach dignity,
justice and the mercy of the Gospel
would have been horrified,” Father
Chinnici added.
Andrew Galvan, curator of Mission Dolores in San Francisco and a
member of the Ohlone tribe, indigenous to Northern California, carried
a reliquary containing a first-class
relic of Serra to set next to the altar,
and spoke briefly about the new focus
Serra’s sainthood has bought to California’s indigenous people.
“It is a moment we can strategically
exploit – because we now have the
attention of the church,” he told the
Mass attendees.
After the canonization at the
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missions Serra founded.
There were conversations there, but
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into a selfie, Galvan said in an interview after the Mass.
Like Medina, Galvan, caught up in
the pope’s straightforward manner,
couldn’t resist some informality.
“I invited him to visit California, and
offered to drive the bus to all the missions. I told him I’d pick him up at the
airport, because I want him to emphasize to the bishops what the bishops
need to do,” he told CNS.
Francis smiled, but at this point
in his busy journey, “he looked very
tired. I’ve been reflecting on it.
“With John Paul II, there was a
gasp when he entered a room. And
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Francis is more like a parish priest. It
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‘Every Life is Worth Living’: Reflections for
Respect Life Month, October 2015
Cardinal Sean O’Malley
Chairman, USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities
My dear friends in Christ:
One of the deepest desires of the
human heart is to
discover our identity. So often, as a
society and as individuals, we identify
ourselves by what
we do. We base
our worth on how
Cardinal Sean
productive we are
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at work or at home,
and we determine our lives to be
more or less good depending on the
degree of independence or pleasure.
We may even begin to believe that
if our lives, or those of others, don’t
“measure up” to a certain standard,
they are somehow less valuable or
less worth living.
Respect Life Month is a fitting time
to reflect on the truth of who we are.
Our worth is based not on our
skills or levels of productivity.
Rather, we discover our worth when
we discover our true identity found
in the unchangeable, permanent fact
Respect Life Month is a fitting time to reflect on the truth of
who we are. Our worth is based not on our skills or levels of
productivity. Rather, we discover our worth when we discover
our true identity found in the unchangeable, permanent
fact that we are created in God’s image and likeness
and called to an eternal destiny with him.
that we are created in God’s image
and likeness and called to an eternal
destiny with him.
Because of this, absolutely nothing
can diminish our God-given dignity,
and therefore, nothing can diminish the immeasurable worth of our
lives. Others may fail to respect that
dignity – may even try to undermine
it – but in doing so, they only distance themselves from God’s loving
embrace. Human dignity is forever.
Whether it lasts for a brief moment or for a hundred years, each of
our lives is a good and perfect gift.
At every stage and in every circumstance, we are held in existence by
God’s love.
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Yo te
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An elderly man whose health is
quickly deteriorating; an unborn
baby girl whose diagnosis indicates
she may not live long; a little boy
with Down syndrome; a mother
facing terminal cancer – each may
have great difficulties and need our
assistance, but each of their lives is
worth living.
When we encounter the suffering of another, let us reach out and
embrace them in love, allowing
God to work through us. This might
mean slowing down and taking the
time to listen. It might mean providing respite care or preparing meals
for a family facing serious illness.
It might mean simply being present and available. And of course, it
always means prayer–bringing their
needs before the Father and asking
him to work in their lives.
Experiencing suffering – or watching another suffer – is one of the
hardest human experiences. Fear
of the unknown can lead us into
the temptation of taking control in
ways that offend our dignity and
disregard the reverence due to each
person.
But we are not alone. Christ experienced suffering more deeply than
we can comprehend, and our own
suffering can be meaningful when
we unite it with his. Especially in
the midst of trials, we are invited to
hold fast to the hope of the Resurrection. God is with us every step
of the way, giving us the grace we
need.
In times of suffering, let us have
the courage to accept help that others genuinely want to give, and give
the help that others need. We were
made to love and be loved; we are
meant to depend on one another,
serving each other in humility and
walking together in times of suffering. Our relationships are meant to
help us grow in perfect love.
Let us learn to let go of our own
standards of perfection and instead learn more deeply how to live
according to God’s standards. He
does not call us to perfect efficiency
or material success; he calls us to
self-sacrificial love. He invites us to
embrace each life for as long as it is
given – our own lives and the lives
of those he has placed in our paths.
Every life is worth living.
Source: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
As we begin the Year of Mercy,
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October is Respect Life Month and Respect
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Website offers anonymous abortion help
Valerie Schmalz
AbortionChangesYou.com is a website for men
and women who aren’t ready to reach out for help
but are struggling with an abortion. “For me, once
I left the clinic, I had a really hard time coping
with that decision,” said Michaelene Fredenburg,
founder of San Diego-based Abortion Changes You,
saying when she had an abortion at 18 she felt she
would be able to erase the experience and move on
with her life. “I did not know anyone else who had
difficulty after an abortion.”
Abortion Changes You is a worldwide outreach
that invites men, women and families touched by
abortion to begin healing. The website was launched
in 2008 and the Spanish language version, www.
AbortionChangesYou.es, was launched two years
ago. The organization also provides training for
therapists, counselors, priests, deacons, youth ministers and respect life coordinators in organizations
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Fredenburg
including Heartbeat International, the dioceses of
San Diego, Arlington (Virginia), Phoenix and others.
Abortion Changes You was chosen as a phrase
that resonates based on Fredenburg’s experience
listening to “thousands of stories from men, women, family members and friends impacted by abortion,” she said during the 25 years she has been
sharing her story. “They would often say abortion
had changed them and that had surprised them.”
On the website, anyone can anonymously write
about their experience and get a response from
a real person while remaining anonymous. “It’s
meant to be a safe place. It is a place to start. It is
anonymous but you are interacting with different
healing activities,” said Fredenburg. Information
about local resources are also available for those
who are ready for that step, Fredenburg said.
A generally accepted statistic is that one in three
women has had an abortion. The ripple effect goes
outward, Fredenburg said. “I’ve found wherever
I’m talking and whatever venue I’m in a majority
of those who are there have in some way been impacted by abortion,” said Fredenburg, adding that
parents, grandparents, siblings are affected by an
abortion decision. “Many are grieving family members yet have not been given permission to grieve.”
The organization is resolutely nonpolitical, said
Fredenburg: “We wanted to be open to women and
men of faith or no faith, to meet them where they
are at.”
Because Women Deserve Better than Abortion.
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Pope repeatedly speaks against ‘throwaway culture’
tion; an act of dignity to perform
euthanasia; a scientific breakthrough
to ‘produce’ a child, considered as
a right rather than a gift to be welcomed; or to (be) using human lives
as laboratory animals, allegedly in
order to save others ….”
During the past year, Pope Francis has
spoken strongly in
defense of life and
the family: against
euthanasia, against assisted suicide, against
abortion, against
contraception, against
artificial reproduction.
Here are some of his
statements.
Pope Francis
‘Men and women … reduced to mere cogs’
“Men and women risk being reduced
to mere cogs in a machine that treats
them as items of consumption to be
exploited, with the result that – as is
so tragically apparent – whenever a
human life no longer proves useful for
that machine, it is discarded with few
qualms, as in the case of the sick, of the
‘False compassion’
“The predominant school of
thought sometimes leads to ‘false
compassion’ which holds that it is a
benefit to women to promote abor-
terminally ill, the elderly who are abandoned and uncared for, and children
who are killed in the womb.
‘We are accustomed to
seeing people discarded’
“I have heard it said by some that
families with many children and the
birth of many children are among the
causes of poverty. That opinion seems
simplistic to me. I can say, we can all
say, that the main cause of poverty is
an economic system that has canceled
the person from the center and set
money in its place; an economic system that excludes, always excludes:
excludes children, the elderly, young
people, the unemployed ….”
‘How great a lie … quality of life’
“How great a lie …lurks behind
certain phrases which so insist on the
importance of ‘quality of life’ that
they make people think that lives affected by grave illness are not worth
living!”
‘Protect your families!’
“Every threat to the family is a
threat to society itself. The future of
humanity, as St. John Paul II often
said, passes through the family …
So protect your families! … be living
examples of love, forgiveness and
care.”
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Speaker: Combat ‘hookup’ culture
with lessons on sexual integrity
PHILADELPHIA – The time to
educate young people about leading lives of sexual integrity doesn’t
start when they hit puberty, Erika
Bachiochi told a crowd of hundreds
during a Sept. 24 address at the
World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.
Parents must set their children
on the right path from their earliest
years, she said.
“If teenage boys and girls are
going to resist the urgings of their
bodies and the cultural pressures
toward recreational sexual encounters,” Bachiochi said, “self-mastery
must be learned in the smallest of
ways in the earliest years at home.”
The nationally known author of
“Women, Sex and the Church: A
Case for Catholic Teaching” said
mothers and fathers begin those
lessons by teaching table manners,
proper respect for authority, dignity
for others, moderate eating habits
and responsible participation in
household chores.
“If our children are habituated to
give in to their body’s every desire
in little things or to remain sluggish
in the face of family responsibilities,” she explained, “even wellcatechized, intellectually converted
teens will be hard-pressed to resist
the allure of a premarital sexual
relationship.”
Bachiochi’s talk, “No Strings Attached? Responding to the Hookup
Culture,” emphasized that peppering young adults with religious
prohibitions isn’t going to be much
help. Instead, she said, “robust
and attractive” alternatives to the
hookup culture must be given.
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Follow the money
O
n Sept. 3, pro-life Susan B. Anthony List invited
2,000 congressional Democrats and their staffs
to a Capitol Hill screening of the Planned Parenthood investigative videos released to date. Only
nine staffers showed up.
Why? Perhaps a quick look at
the money flowing between
Planned Parenthood, the
Obama administration and
congressional Democrats
tells the story.
Opensecrets.org describes
Planned Parenthood as a
“not-for-profit family planning and reproductive health
organization with a leftvicki evans
leaning super PAC that backs
candidates... who support
abortion rights.” It reports that during the 2012
election cycle Planned Parenthood spent $16.5 million in direct contributions, lobbying, and outside
spending to support the campaigns of President
Obama and numerous congressional Democrats.
That money was well spent. Planned Parenthood’s 2012-2013 annual report notes that 45% of its
revenue or $540.6 million was provided by taxpayerfunded government health services grants.
Here’s a closer view of what’s going on with the
Planned Parenthood/government connections.
It’s informative to follow the money trail through
the three divisions of the now infamous fetal parts
industry: a seller, the abortion provider; a middleman, the fetal procurement company; and a buyer,
a government agency, university research facility
or pharmaceutical company.
Planned Parenthood charges on average $470 for
a first trimester abortion, which increases to $1,500
at the 20th week. But that’s only half the story.
Although it is illegal to buy or sell fetal tissue, the
law allows “donation.” Practically speaking, what
arises is a buyer-seller relationship between the
abortion provider and fetal procurement agency.
While Planned Parenthood admits that its clinics receive cash payments of $45 to $60 “per tissue
specimen,” federal law does not authorize a per
specimen payment schema. It authorizes only reasonable reimbursement of actual costs.
Additional revenue collected can be substantial.
Former Planned Parenthood clinic director, Abby
Johnson, testified before a Texas Senate committee that her clinic “received $200 in compensation
for each baby that was sent” to Amphioxus Cell
Technology. These fetal tissue payments could
conservatively bring in $1.4 million per year for
just one clinic. This is suspiciously high for “cost
reimbursements,” particularly when the cost of
shipping is often done at the middleman’s expense.
And what about the middleman? Seeing an opportunity for profit, fetal procurement firms sprang
up as a buffer, a way to shield the abortion provider
from legal liability and moral culpability. Placerville-based StemExpress and Advanced Bioscience
Resources near Washington D.C., are two such firms.
StemExpress’ website markets fetal liver products it has “collected at nearby partner hospitals or
clinics” with research institutions paying from $488
to $24,250 for vials of “cryopreserved” (i.e., frozen
to sub-zero temperatures) cells.
Both the National Institutes of Health and Food
and Drug Administration are among the clients of
Advanced Bioscience Resources. In one of the videos,
a Planned Parenthood medical director talks about
having supplied aborted fetuses to ABR for over 10
years for its “big ... government-level collections.”
Federal grants for fetal tissue research are expected to reach their highest level next year rising
to $77 million. According to Boston Globe’s website, the $14 million awarded to San Francisco Bay
Area facilities in 2014 topped the list. In Northern
California, academic research involving fetal tissue
takes place largely at Stanford University and the
University of California-San Francisco. In the first
video, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of
medical services states that UCSF affords” the best
opportunity ... to get those larger cases,” meaning
preborn babies in the range of five to six months
development. A dubious distinction for UCSF.
Thanks to the Center for Medical Progress
surveillance videos plus social media, hidden and
likely illegal details about the dissection and sale of
fetuses have exploded onto the scene. From days-old
embryos to “intact cases,” a euphemism for a baby
born-alive in a failed abortion, or one retrieved from
an illegal partial-birth abortion, human beings are
now research material. But trafficking in fetal parts
is nothing more than a natural outgrowth of the
disregard for human life that abortion fosters.
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(Courtesy photo)
Dr. Michel Accad, a cardiologist and member of an ad hoc Catholic bioethics committee in the
archdiocese, is pictured with a patient.
‘Brain death’: Medically accepted
diagnosis is now disputed by some
Editor’s note: The issue of brain death is
one that is under discussion in the Catholic bioethics community. Catholic San
Francisco asked Dr. Michel Accad to explain the issue. Dr. Accad is a cardiologist
and member of an ad hoc Catholic bioethics committee in the archdiocese. The
issue has been in the news for two years
in the Bay Area because of the case of
13-year-old Jahi McMath, who was declared brain dead in December 2013 after
she went into cardiac arrest following a
tonsillectomy at an Oakland hospital. Her
family successfully blocked Children’s
Hospital from removing her ventilator and
moved her to an undisclosed location
on the East Coast, said she is still alive
today and responsive to some degree.
They returned to an Alameda County
court in July to have the declaration of
brain death reversed as part of a lawsuit
for damages on her behalf.
Catholic San Francisco: What is brain death?
Brain death is a condition which is
diagnosed when a person has sustained an irreversible brain injury
which is so severe that no evidence of
brain function can be detected, yet the
body continues to demonstrate signs
of life if intensive care is provided.
When the technology became available to sustain the body after a severe
brain injury, the medical community
proposed that a condition of brain
death is essentially the same condition as when death is traditionally
determined by the absence of spontaneous pulse and respiration.
CSF: Why is it controversial?
Brain death is controversial because
signs of life persist in the body which
may lead one to question whether the
patient is truly dead.
The proposal to equate brain death
with death relied on the argument that
the brain is the “integrator” of the
body and that without brain function,
the body is essentially disintegrated.
Doctors were saying that the intensive
care only “masks” the disintegration
which would become apparent in a
matter of time (days or weeks) even if
intensive care was sustained.
With this justification, laws were
passed in the early 1980’s to allow that
the determination of death be made
on the basis of neurological criteria
showing absence of brain function.
A very small minority of doctors
disputed the argument that brain
death is the same thing as death at the
time the laws were passed, but their
number has increased in the last 30
years, particularly since there have
been a number of documented cases
of unequivocal brain death where the
intensive care was not withheld and
where the body survived for months
or even years. These cases of “chronic
brain death” seem to contradict the
argument that the brain maintains the
integrity of the body.
CSF: Why does most of the medical community support brain death as the determination of death?
There were two main reasons why
the medical community was eager to
equate brain death with death. The
first was to avoid giving families false
hope that such brain dead patients
might ever regain consciousness or be
able to be disconnected from the intensive care, and reconcile them to the
idea of discontinuing the treatment.
The other reason was to be able to
assist patients needing organ transplants. If brain death is truly the
same status as death but the organs
of brain dead patients are suitable for
transplantation, then there is no moral
dilemma in obtaining those organs.
If, on the other hand, brain death is
not equivalent to death, then other arguments are needed to justify the discontinuation of intensive care therapy
or to allow the harvesting of organs.
CSF: What is the Catholic Church’s position
on brain death?
There is no official magisterial
pronouncement on this question.
It is fair to say that the overwhelming majority of Catholic bioethicists
supported the concept of brain death
as equal to death at the time of its
legal adoption in the 1980s. When the
question was again raised in the last
30 years, Vatican Academies have
pronounced in favor of it, and so have
many prominent bioethicists such as
the people at the National Catholic
Bioethics Center.
St. John Paul II also gave remarks
which supported the use of neurological criteria to determine death, but
some have argued that his remarks
may be interpreted as leaving the door
open to dissent and do not constitute a
final pronouncement on this question.
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CSF: Where do we go from here?
I believe that the question deserves
to be debated and re-examined in
light of the growing cases of “chronic
brain death,” such as Jahi McMath.
I have recently published a philosophical critique of the brain death
concept in the journal of the Catholic
Medical Association. Other scholars
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current legal understanding of brain
death. These challenges should be
examined with an open mind.
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Caring for our soul
W
hat does it profit you if you gain the whole
world but suffer the loss of your own soul?
Jesus taught that and we tend to take
Jesus’ words to mean if someone gains riches,
fame, pleasure, and glory
and then dies and goes to hell
what good is earthly glory or
pleasure if we miss out on
eternal life?
Jesus’ teaching does mean
that but there are other lessons about health and happiness. What does it mean “to
lose your soul” in this world?
What is a soul and how can it
be lost?
FATHER ron
A soul is immaterial
rolheiser
and spiritual; it cannot be
pictured. Philosophers have
tended to define the soul as a
double principle inside every living being: Both the
principle of life and energy inside us as well as the
principle of integration. In essence, the soul is two
funeral
services
things, the fire inside us giving us life and energy
and the glue that holds us together.
If you have ever been at the bedside of a dying person, you know exactly when the soul leaves the body
not because you see something float away from the
body, but rather because one minute you see a person
with energy, fire, tension in her body and a minute
later that body is completely devoid of all energy and
life. It becomes a corpse. As well, until the second
of death it is still one integrated organism. But at
the very second of death that body ceases to be one
organism and becomes instead a series of chemicals
which now begin to separate and go their own ways.
Once the soul is gone, the body no longer contains
any energy and it’s no longer glued together.
And since the soul is a double principle doing two
things for us, there are two corresponding ways of
losing our souls. We can have our vitality and energy
go dead or we can become unglued and fall apart; in
either case we lose our souls.
If that is true, then how should we care for our
souls? What is healthy food for our souls? If I am
watching television what’s good for my soul?
This is a legitimate question, but also a trick one.
We lose our soul in opposite ways and thus care of
the soul is a refined alchemy that has to know when
to heat things up and when to cool things down:
What’s healthy for my soul depends a lot upon what
I’m struggling with: Am I losing my soul because
I’m losing vitality, energy, hope, and graciousness
in my life? Am I becoming a person who’s painful
to be around? Or, conversely, am I full of life and
energy but so full of it that I am falling apart, losing my sense of self ? Does my soul need more fire,
something to rekindle its energy? Does my soul
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and glue.
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souls. But Christian theology also teaches that
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our souls by not having enough fire or we can lose
them by not having enough glue.
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How the marriage nullity process is changing
n Sept. 8, 2015, Pope Francis issued “Mitis
Iudex Dominus Iesus” (“The Lord Jesus, Gentle
Judge,”) a document revising the marriage nullity process. The mass media, including even some
Catholic news outlets, have
reported a great deal of misinformation about the changes.
In question-and-answer format
over the next few weeks, I
would like to reflect on various
aspects of this new “motu
proprio” responding to some
logical questions which have
been raised since publication.
It is my hope that this will help
to clarify some misinformation
msgr. Michael
about the new legislation while
Padazinski
reassuring the faithful of the
Archdiocese of San Francisco
that our own metropolitan tribunal, which is comprised of wonderful canonists and
other canonicals officials, will do all it can to insure
the proper, just and timely implementation of these
new norms governing our universal church.
It is important to state at the outset, that there
are still questions abounding among canonists and
what follows will hopefully be of assistance to any
who are interested in the new laws regulating the
marriage nullity process while acknowledging that
further guidance from Rome to assist local tribunals with the new praxis is anticipated.
3. How is the marriage nullity process going to change?
The document contains a number of “tweaks” to
the process, but there are five major changes: (1)
new rules for tribunal competence, (2) new requirements for tribunal personnel, (3) the elimination of
the requirement for a second conforming affirmative, (4) a shorter and more streamlined process,
judged personally by the diocesan bishop, for cer-
4. When do these changes take effect?
The revised laws take effect on Dec. 8, 2015, three
months from their promulgation.
5. What is tribunal competence, and how will it be different?
Every diocese has a tribunal, but not just any
tribunal can hear any marriage nullity case. The
tribunal has to have some jurisdiction over the marriage in question. Currently, there are four ways
that a tribunal can be competent: (1) if the marriage
took place in that diocese, (2) if the Respondent
party lives in that diocese, (3) if the Petitioner lives
in that diocese and certain other formalities and
requirements are observed, and (4) if for whatever
reason the majority of the relevant evidence is
located in that diocese and certain other formalities
and requirements are observed. The formalities and
requirements for numbers 3 and 4 involved seeking
the consent of the judicial vicar of the diocese where
the Respondent party lived. They were designed
to protect the rights of the Respondent party, but
increased mobility and mass communications made
them practically obsolete; they could also be unduly
time-consuming. Under the revised law, there will
be three ways that a tribunal can be competent, and
none of them require any of those extra formalities
and requirements: (1) if the marriage took place in
that diocese, (2) if either party lives in that diocese,
and (3) if for whatever reason the majority of the
relevant evidence is located in that diocese.
6. How do the changes in the rules for competence affect me?
If your case is already pending, or if you introduce it before Dec. 8, 2015, they don’t. If you
introduce your petition on or after Dec. 8, 2015, you
may have one or more additional options for where
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Sunday readings
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
‘Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.’
MATTHEW 21:33-43
ISAIAH 5:1-7
Let me now sing of my friend, my friend’s song
concerning his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard
on a fertile hillside; he spaded it, cleared it of stones,
and planted the choicest vines; within it he built a
watchtower, and hewed out a wine press. Then he
looked for the crop of grapes, but what it yielded
was wild grapes. Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and
people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard: What more was there to do for my vineyard
that I had not done? Why, when I looked for the crop
of grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes? Now, I will
let you know what I mean to do with my vineyard:
take away its hedge, give it to grazing, break through
its wall, let it be trampled! Yes, I will make it a ruin:
it shall not be pruned or hoed, but overgrown with
thorns and briers; I will command the clouds not
to send rain upon it. The vineyard of the LORD of
hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah
are his cherished plant; he looked for judgment, but
see, bloodshed! For justice, but hark, the outcry!
PSALM 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20
The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.
A vine from Egypt you transplanted; you drove
away the nations and planted it. It put forth its foliage to the Sea, its shoots as far as the River.
Why have you broken down its walls, so that
every passer-by plucks its fruit, The boar from the
forest lays it waste, and the beasts of the field feed
upon it?
Once again, O LORD of hosts, look down from
heaven, and see; take care of this vine, and protect
what your right hand has planted the son of man
whom you yourself made strong.
Then we will no more withdraw from you; give us
new life, and we will call upon your name. O Lord,
God of hosts, restore us; if your face shine upon us,
then we shall be saved.
PHILIPPIANS 4:6-9
Brothers and sisters: Have no anxiety at all, but
in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then
the peace of God that surpasses all understanding
will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true,
whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever
is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious,
if there is any excellence and if there is anything
worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep
on doing what you have learned and received and
heard and seen in me. Then the God of peace will
be with you.
MATTHEW 21:33-43
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of
the people: “Hear another parable. There was a
landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge
around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower.
Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey. When vintage time drew near, he sent his
servants to the tenants to obtain his produce. But
the tenants seized the servants and one they beat,
another they killed, and a third they stoned. Again
he sent other servants, more numerous than the
first ones, but they treated them in the same way.
Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, ‘They
will respect my son.’ But when the tenants saw
the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir.
Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.’
They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard,
and killed him. What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?” They
answered him, “He will put those wretched men
to a wretched death and lease his vineyard to
other tenants who will give him the produce at the
proper times.” Jesus said to them, “Did you never
read in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders
rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord
has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes?
Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be
taken away from you and given to a people that will
produce its fruit.”
Unity marks God’s kingdom
I
n the Gospel for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary
Time, Jesus criticizes the Pharisees for their
“hardness of hearts.” But perhaps, in this Gospel reading, there is also a
warning for us not to be like
the Pharisees in our cafeteria style approach to faith
and doctrine. We read of Jesus embracing the children.
At the time of Jesus, children were of little, if any, account in Jewish society. The
openness of heart that Jesus
shows toward the children
is a metaphor for unity. The
kingdom of God is present
in unity, in openness of
hearts, and in relationships
that are characterized by
acceptance and love. God’s
Deacon
desire “from the beginning
faiva Po’oi
of creation” is that “the
kingdom of God” be marked
by unity. In the sacrament
of Matrimony, we witness a commitment to God
scripture
reflection
and an expression of unity. Our first reading from
Genesis tells us a very beautiful story. At the beginning of creation, God saw that it was not good
for people to be lonely, so he decreed a partnership
between a man and a woman. What this means is
that the idea of marriage was born in the mind
of God, and that the first wedding ceremony was
performed by God, himself. But Jesus went even
further. He tells that all marriages are the work of
God, and teaches that no one should separate what
God has joined. The message of these readings
is quite clear, namely that marriage is a sacred
institution requiring a total commitment to one
another and to God. For those who are not married, it might be easy to sit back and think: “This
reading has nothing to do with me.” But the theme
of today’s readings is not limited to the married
state. In reality, today’s readings can be applied to
all commitments and to the sacredness of commitments. It is not good for a person to live in loneliness. Someone once commented: “God was against
loneliness before he was against sin.” That is why
he made a man and a woman and brought them
together. He did not want either one of them to
be lonely. On a busy downtown street, a little girl
wandered away from her mother and was lost. A
police officer came upon her and tried to help her
return home. He asked her, “Where do you live?”
The child responded, “With my mother.” “Well,”
said the officer, “where does your mother live?”
And the little girl replied, “With me.” Trying one
more time, the officer asked, “Where do you and
your mother live?” The child answered, “With
each other.” The little girl did not know her street
address, but she did know the most important
thing of all: People belong together. In today’s
psalm, the Israelites consider the blessings of a
happy and fruitful marriage as one of the greatest
signs of God’s care and salvation. But for the Israelites, this image of a “happy family” pertains also
to the covenant relationship of Israel with God.
In praying: “May the Lord bless us all the days of
our life,” we ask God to bless our faithfulness – in
marriage – and in all our commitments. We ask
God to bless a life that is faithful to the “ways of
God.” May the holy Eucharist, through the grace
of God, help us to stay committed to each other in
marriage.
Friday, October 9: Friday of the Twenty-seventh
Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St.
Denis, bishop and martyr and companions, martyrs;
St. John Leonardi, priest; Bl. John Henry Newman. Jl
1:13-15; 2:1-2. PS 9:2-3, 6 and 16, 8-9. Jn 12:31b32. Lk 11:15-26.
Tuesday, October 13: Tuesday of the Twentyeighth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 1:16-25. PS
19:2-3, 4-5. Heb 4:12. Lk 11:37-41.
Deacon Po’oi serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.
Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings
Monday, October 5: Monday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. St. Faustina Kowalska, virgin. Jon 1:1–2:1-2, 11. Jonah 2:3, 4, 5, 8. Jn
13:34. Lk 10:25-37.
Tuesday, October 6: Tuesday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial
of St. Bruno, priest; Bl. Marie Rose Durocher, virgin.
Jon 3:1-10. PS 130:1b-2, 3-4ab, 7-8. Lk 11:28. Lk
10:38-42.
Saturday, October 10: Saturday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. Jl 4:12-21. PS 97:12, 5-6, 11-12. Lk 11:28. Lk 11:27-28.
Wednesday, October 7: Memorial of Our Lady
of the Rosary. Jon 4:1-11. PS 86:3-4, 5-6, 9-10.
Rom 8:15bc. Lk 11:1-4.
Sunday, October 11: Twenty-eighth Sunday in
Ordinary Time. Wis 7:7-11. Ps 90:12-13, 14-15, 1617. Heb 4:12-13. Mt 5:3. Mk 10:17-30.
Thursday, October 8: Thursday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. Mal 3:13-20b. PS
1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. See Acts 16:14b. Lk 11:5-13.
Monday, October 12: Monday of the Twentyeighth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 1:1-7. PS
98:1bcde, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. PS 95:8. Lk 11:29-32.
Wednesday, October 14: Wednesday of the
Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional
Memorial of St. Callistus I, pope and martyr. Rom
2:1-11. PS 62:2-3, 6-7, 9. Jn 10:27. Lk 11:42-46.
Thursday, October 15: Memorial of St. Teresa
of Avila, virgin and doctor of the church. Rom 3:2130. PS 130:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab. Jn 14:6. Lk 11:47-54.
Friday, October 16: Friday of the Twenty-eighth
Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St.
Hedwig, religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque,
virgin. Rom 4:1-8. PS 32:1b-2, 5, 11. PS 33:22. Lk
12:1-7.

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