August 25, 2016 - Catholic San Francisco

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SFPD chief:
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August 25, 2016
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The mercy-filled life: Mother Teresa
embodied what Pope Francis teaches
Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – If there is one
person who immersed herself in the
“peripheries” Pope Francis is drawn
to, it was Blessed Teresa of Kolkata.
If there was one who showed courage and creativity in bringing God’s
mercy to the world, like Pope Francis
urges, it was the diminutive founder
of the Missionaries of Charity.
For many people, the Catholic
Church’s Year of Mercy will reach
its culmination when Pope Francis
canonizes Mother Teresa Sept. 4,
recognizing the holiness of charity,
mercy and courage found in a package just 5-feet tall.
Ken Hackett, U.S. ambassador to
the Holy See, worked closely with
Mother Teresa and the Missionaries
of Charity in his previous positions
at the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief
Services. He was at her funeral in
1997, her beatification in 2003 and
will attend the Mass where she will
be declared a saint.
“Where Mother pushed the Missionaries of Charity was to the edge,
to the most difficult places,” said the
ambassador, who said he visited her
houses “all the time, everywhere.”
“They were always way out there,
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(CNS photo/Robert S. Halvey)
Blessed Teresa of Kolkata is pictured with an unidentified woman during a 1976 visit to the U.S.
Missionaries to bus homeless, youth to canonization Mass
Christina Gray
Catholic San Francisco
When the 13 sisters of the Missionaries of Charity convent in
Pacifica arrive by bus at St. Mary’s
Cathedral on Sept. 4 for a Mass celebrating the canonization of Blessed
Teresa of Kolkata, some of the
homeless and poor they minister
will be on board with them.
“We’ve been working on inviting migrant families, young people
and others to join us in pilgrimage
Philippines
revenge killings
stun Catholic
leaders
to Holy Doors at the cathedral and
attend the thanksgiving Mass,”
said Sister Maria Concepcion, local superior of the convent. These
include members of Our Lady of
Refuge Mission in La Honda and St.
Anthony Mission in Pescadero.
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is celebrating an 11 a.m. Mass
on the morning of the Blessed
Teresa’s canonization in Rome. The
soon-to-be new saint founded the
Missionaries of Charity in 1950 to
care for the “poorest of the poor.”
The Pacifica convent is headquarters for the Western Province of
the Missionaries of Charity on the
grounds of Good Shepherd parish.
The sisters’ outreach includes an
AIDS hospice, a home for unwed
mothers and the novitiate for all
the Americas. The sisters also feed
and minister to the homeless in San
Francisco.
An exhibit on the life of Blessed
Teresa will take place in the cathedral’s event center, St. Francis Hall,
as follows from Aug. 27-Sept. 3.
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine
Catholic leaders say they are powerless
to stop a growing number of extrajudicial killings that have come with President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.
“What I predicted is happening, and
the church is powerless to stop the
killings,” Redemptorist Father Amado
Picardal, head of the Philippine bishops’ Commission for Basic Ecclesial
Communities, told ucanews.com. He
said the killings are “already unstoppable,” adding that some church leaders
are losing hope.
Father Picardal, who has linked the
president to a death squad allegedly
responsible for the killings of more
than 1,400 people, warned of “dark
prospects” for the Philippines following Duterte’s election in May.
During his campaign for the presidency, Duterte vowed to stop criminality, especially the illegal drugs
trade, and corruption in the first six
months of his term, warning that his
administration would be a “bloody”
one. Ucanews.com reported estimates
of more than 600 people killed since
Duterte was elected in May; 211 of
those were murdered by unidentified
gunmen.
Archbishop Socrates Villegas of
Lingayen-Dagupan, president of
the bishops’ conference, appealed to
Filipinos’ sense of humanity amid
the killings. He said he was “in utter
disbelief,” adding that the killings “are
too much to swallow.”
“There is a little voice of humanity in us that I believe is disturbed by
the killings,” the archbishop said in
a statement read in churches in his
archdiocese in early August. He said
the “voice of disturbed humanity is
drowned out by the louder voice of
revenge or silenced by the sweet privileges of political clout.”
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Need to know
CANONIZATION COVERAGE: Ceremonies for
the canonization of Mother Teresa in Rome will be
broadcast Sept. 4 on EWTN. Consult www.ewtn.
com for times and details. Find EWTN at Comcast
229 (English), 659 (Spanish); AT&T 562 (English),
3077 (Spanish); Astound 80, San Bruno; Cable
143; DISH 261; DIRECT TV 370.
St. Gabriel 75th anniversary: All friends,
alumni, former parishioners, current parishioners
and neighbors of St. Gabriel Parish are invited to
attend anniversary festivities planned for Sept.
18-25. Festivities start Sunday, Sept. 18, with a
parish picnic to be held at Pine Lake Park in San
Francisco. The picnic starts at 11 a.m. and the
cost is $7 for adults and $2 for children. Saturday evening, Sept. 24, a dinner will be held in
Bedford Hall, 41st Avenue and Ulloa Street, at 6
p.m., with dancing to follow, and a silent auction;
$75 per person. The dinner ticket order form is
on the St. Gabriel website. An anniversary Mass
will be celebrated Sunday, Sept. 25, at noon,
at St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue and Ulloa
Street, with a reception to follow in Bedford Hall.
For more information contact the Parish Center
at (415) 731-6161.
St. Dominic appeals for return of
stolen relic: San Dominic Parish in San
Francisco is seeking the return of a treasured relic
stolen from a glass display case in the church on
Aug. 18. The relic is believed to be a fragment of
the true cross. “We hope that whoever is responsible has spent enough time with it and will put
it in an envelope addressed to Dominican Father
Hurley and leave it anywhere in the church,” said
parish administrator Michael Rossi.
MHR’s Reconnecting Program: The program at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco is open to anyone who wishes to feel more
connected to an inclusive spiritual community.
Prior participants have been: (1) Young Catholics
who may not have a strong religious background;
or (2) adults who have been away from the church,
but want to renew their Catholic ties; or (3) those
who already attend Mass but want to draw closer
to their faith. There is an annual Reconnecting
Picnic for those who have participated in the program. The fall 2016 program begins on Saturday,
Oct. 1. Email [email protected].
Archbishop Cordileone’s schedule
August 24: Chancery meetings
August 25: College of Consultors; chancery
meetings
August 27-28: Parish visit, Sacred Heart, Olema
August 31: Chancery meetings; Legatus Mass
and dinner
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Acting police chief Toney Chaplin and Rita Semel, former chair of the San Francisco Interfaith Council, at a council meeting Aug. 11.
Acting SFPD chief stresses importance
of faith leaders in crisis response
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Acting San Francisco police chief Toney Chaplin
endorsed the idea of supplying lists of neighborhood faith leaders for each police station at the San
Francisco Interfaith Council on Aug. 11.
“I think it’s a fantastic idea,” Chaplin said in
response to a suggestion that police stations be
supplied with lists of neighborhood churches and
congregations. Every captain has a book he gives to
the watch commanders, “a ready reference guide,”
Chaplin said. “It is who you can go to immediately as
soon as there is a crisis. I think it is fantastic idea and
quite frankly I don’t think it has ever been done.”
“You have always been the rock in these communities,” Chaplin said in his presentation to the
crowded room at Calvary Presbyterian Church.
He said all groups and coalitions need to work
together. “We have all been working but in different spaces and silos. Imagine what we can do if we
all linked arms and joined forces and pulled in the
same direction.”
Chaplin, a 26-year police veteran, was deputy
chief of the Professional Standards and Principled
Policing Bureau when Mayor Ed Lee appointed him
interim chief in May after three fatal police shootings in six months led former police chief, Greg
Suhr, to tender his resignation.
“There’s a lot of people who stand behind us and
support us, contrary to popular belief. But we don’t
just work for 96 percent of the city,” he said at the
briefing for faith leaders.
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Changes in police policies and training on use of
force, including implementing the “time and distance” approach and the roll out of body cameras,
have made a difference already, he said.
He also said the department has stepped up
recruitment among young African Americans,
including placing a full-page ad in Black College
Monthly, which is distributed to historically black
colleges in the country. He encouraged those present to recruit the kind of people they would like to
see as police officers.
Under prodding from G.L. Hodges, chair of the
interfaith council and a member of Providence
Baptist Church, Chaplin described how police
used the “time and distance” approach to recently
successfully defuse a standoff with a man who was
waving a loaded gun in the middle of the day at
Market and Jones streets, surrounded by a crowd
that was egging him on.
“They would have been perfectly justified in
shooting this individual but they didn’t,” Chaplin
said of the officers. “They saved that gentleman’s
life.” The officers separated the man from the
crowd, creating a barrier, eventually shooting him
with bean bags and coming in to surround him
with shields, tackling him. His family was very
grateful, Chaplin said, saying the situation was
unbearably hostile with a crowd that used so much
profanity that news cameras were turned off. The
man had suffered a brain injury as a child and each
year near the anniversary of his brother’s death
displayed mental distress, Chaplin said, but police
knew none of that at the time.
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Korean Catholics celebrate 50 years in San Francisco
(Photos by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco)
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated Mass for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Korean Catholic Church in San Francisco
on Aug. 13 at St. Michael Korean Catholic Church. Bishop Linus Seong Hyo Lee concelebrated the Mass.
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
celebrated Mass Aug. 13 for the 50th
anniversary of the establishment
of a Korean Catholic Church in San
Francisco.
The San Francisco Korean Catholic
community was the first established
in the United States, the archbishop
noted in his homily at Mass at St. Michael Korean Catholic Church. “What
a blessing and a boast for us here in
San Francisco that this historical
moment took place here in our city, in
this archdiocese,” Archbishop Cordileone told the packed church on Broad
Street. Bishop Linus Seong Hyo Lee,
auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of
Suwon, concelebrated the Mass.
The Korean Catholic Church was
begun by “a lay Catholic Yi Seunhunm, who went to Beijing in 1784
and was baptized there, and then
returned to Korea to spread his new
faith and baptize others.” Five years
later when the first priest was able to
secretly enter the country from China
he “found some 4,000 Catholics, none
of whom had ever seen a priest,” the
archbishop recounted. Within less
than a century 10,000 Korean Catholics were martyred, he said.
He said Korean Catholics have
much to teach the world “about
the role and vocation of the laity in
spreading the good news of Jesus
Christ.”
He added, “I am grateful for the
presence of so many Korean Catholics and other Asians in our archdiocese. You still understand the importance of family cohesion and unity, a
witness we desperately need today.”
PRESENTATION/FUNDRAISER
FOR HOSPITAL IN NIGERIA
A presentation will be done by retired nurse, Angela Testani
and Fr. Edward Inyanwachi on the life and medical needs
of the people in a village in the State of Ebonyi, Nigeria.
The fundraiser will be supporting the supply and shipping
of medical/surgical supplies and equipment. The following
are the dates, times, and locations for the presentations/
fundraiser.
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AUGUST 27th (Saturday) @ HOLY NAME OF JESUS CHURCH(S.F.) Flanagan Center from 6:00PM-9:00PM
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LOTSA PASTA: The Knights of Columbus are cooking up a “Spaghetti
and Bingo” fundraiser benefiting
San Francisco’s Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center
Sept. 17 at the Pomeroy facility
on Skyline Boulevard. Doors open
11:30 a.m., lunch at noon, games
begin a little later. Tickets are $30
and checks can be mailed to KOC
Foundation, 2810 Taraval St., 94116.
Marian Mann, (415) 810-2957, has
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Above the hoopla of a fall gala will
be heard the more
than 30 years of
service put forth by
Yvonne Sangiacomo
for the Little Sisters
of the Poor and the
elderly served at St.
Anne’s Home in San
Francisco.
The Sept. 15 event
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honors Yvonne, “a
Sangiacomo
friend, volunteer
and benefactor to St. Anne’s Home
since the 1980s,” the sisters said in a
note to this column. Yvonne will be
presented with the St. Jeanne Jugan
award named for the founder of the
Little Sisters and recognizing one
who “values the solidarity of the human family, the wisdom of age, and
with kindness of heart embraces the
importance of care for the elderly.”
“Yvonne is known to many as the
founder of the Little Sisters’ Red
Tie Gala, but Yvonne has been so
much more than that,” the sisters
said. “ She has consistently, for over
three decades, worked alongside
the Little Sisters to help keep alive
their legacy of care for the elderly,
started in San Francisco in 1901.
Yvonne has understood well that
the mission of the Little Sisters was
founded with full faith in community - community living, community
support, and community prayer. She
knows that funds are always needed
to help make ends meet, but that it
is not funds alone that give breadth
to their work. It is the hand lent and
the heart opened to daily needs, it
is the hospitality shared and the
willingness to serve as ambassador
to their mission that propels their
vision and keeps it vibrant and significant in a changing world.” Visit
www.littlesistersofthepoorsf.org for
event details.
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GENTLE WOMEN: With some 60 years between them as teachers at Notre Dame des Victoires
School, Roberta Renzi and Jeanne Mazeris have bid farewell to the San Francisco school. Roberta is
retiring after 36 years of teaching kindergarten. “Mrs. Renzi has created a learning program for our
earliest learners that challenges and motivates them to explore as they develop a love of reading and
learning,” the school said in a note to this column. Jeanne has been kindergarten through third grade
French teacher for 23 years. “She provided our children with a strong foundation in the beautiful
French language,” the school said. The educators were honored June 5 at a Mass and reception at
Notre Dame des Victoires.
MERCY MELODY: All Souls
School soon to be eighth grader
Olivia Williams turned to Motown
to help phrase her “Mercy, mercy
me, let’s help SVdP” essay that
took first prize in this year’s Youth
Essay Contest sponsored by St.
Vincent de Paul Society of San
Mateo County. The late Marvin
Gaye’s song of the same name as
well as his “What’s Going On” rang
a bell with her.
“People today seem to forget to
look at what’s going on outside
their own lives. We see people
need our help but we don’t help
and we put our needs first always,” she wrote.
Deacon Martin Schurr, SVdP restorative justice jail chaplain, presented
the award.
Our Lady of Angels School festival
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RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES: Just
a note on what is happening nearby
and with us in mind: Sept. 3 and
most first Saturdays Mass is celebrated at Holy Cross Cemetery,
Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11
a.m. Newly ordained Father Cameron Faller, is this month’s principal celebrant and homilist, (650)
756-2060, www.holycrosscemeteries.
com. The series on Mercy continues Sept, 25 with Vivian Clausing,
program director, Catherine’s Place,
as presenter, 2340 Turk Blvd., San
Francisco, 2-4:15 p.m. with talk,
refreshments, and exposition of the
Blessed Sacrament in the final hour.
Registration required, conrottor@
sfarch.org, (415) 614-5535. Also Sept.
25, Good Shepherd Gracenter’s “A
Taste of Autumn,” www.gsgracenter.org.
St. Francis of Assisi is honored
Oct. 3 with Transitus as Secular
Franciscans of Our Lady of Angels
Fraternity, Burlingame, commemorate the Transitus of St. Francis of
Assisi in his passage from earthly
life into everlasting life, 7 p. m. Oct.
15 learn about secular Franciscans
at Our Lady of Angels Fraternity,
Burlingame, 9-10 a.m., Our Lady
of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside
Drive, lower hall on Cortez Avenue.
See how Secular Franciscans live
joyfully in the world and celebrate
God’s creation in the spirit of peace,
humility, and simplicity. For both
events Diane Creedon, (650) 6786449; [email protected].
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Local Catholic grade schools revamp to ‘21st-century’ exams
Valerie Schmalz
Put away those No. 2 pencils.
What has been a September ritual for Catholic
elementary school students is undergoing a 21stcentury revamp this year in the Archdiocese of San
Francisco.
This year all parish elementary schools will adopt
Renaissance STAR 360 for year-round standardized
testing. Students will take mathematics and English
language arts tests with adaptive computer software,
as the Department of Catholic Schools discards the
fill-in-the-bubble Iowa Standardized Testing used
for decades. St. Brigid and St. Thomas More schools,
which report directly to the Department of Catholic
Schools, will also make the change.
“The biggest help is going to be for our students
who struggle,” said Pamela Lyons, assistant superintendent for faith formation and curriculum. “You
can really see where they struggle and then get lesson ideas to help those students. I think that’s going
to be great.”
“In the past all of our schools have done the Iowa
test,” Lyons said. “It gave us a snapshot, at that day
in September, this is what that student can do. We
‘The biggest help is going to be for
our students who struggle.’
Pamela Lyons
assistant superintendent for faith formation and curriculum
got no further consistent data until the following
September. What if a student has a bad day that day?
We needed to move to something better.”
The STAR test is different than the Iowa test because depending on how the student answers a question, the next question will become either harder or
easier. The goal is to find out what the student does
know. STAR testing is already used by most Catholic
dioceses in California, including the Archdiocese of
Los Angeles and the Diocese of Oakland, Lyons said.
Instead of once a year testing in September, the
schools will test students in September, January and
May. The tests will be shorter – about 20 minutes
each, she said. The data will inform teachers about
what their class grasps and where the class as a
whole and individuals are academically.
All archdiocesan elementary schools will also
adopt SchoolSpeak Lite to track student and teacher
contact information and demographic data. The two
systems work hand-in-hand so that STAR results are
compiled and shared with the administration using
the information provided about students by SchoolSpeak.
Some schools are already using the expanded
version of SchoolSpeak for attendance, gradebooks
and other school tasks, Lyons said. This year the
Department of Catholic Schools is mandating that all
diocesan elementary schools use SchoolSpeak Lite
which will give the Schools Department information
on students, contact information and ethnicity and
other demographic data, and information on teachers, including their contact information.
Until now, the only information the central administration of archdiocesan Catholic schools had were
principals’ contact information. All other teacher
and any student data was in files in boxes and on
handwritten sheets of paper that were intermittently
updated and kept in a file room, Lyons said. “It is
bringing us into the 21st century,” Lyons said. “We
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Luke 14:1, 7-14
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Emmaus: A ‘gateway’ to belief for non-practicing Catholics
Christina Gray
St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco
is on a mission to bring “lapsed Catholics” and those outside the faith into
a friendly, no-holds-barred conversation with the church through a new
outreach program called Emmaus.
Emmaus is a series of four evening
drop-in sessions facilitated by lay
members of the church from Aug.
4-25. It offers Catholics estranged
from their faith, the “unchurched”
and the simply curious opportunity
to learn why Catholics believe the
things they do and to ask questions in
an open, confidential environment.
For some, it could be a “gateway to
belief,” said St. Dominic pastor Dominican Father Michael Hurley.
“We wanted to find a way to reach
out to people without impediments or
prerequisites and meet them where
they are,” Father Hurley told Catholic
San Francisco after a group meeting
Aug. 11.
Participants at that session in-
(Photo by Christina Gray/Catholic San Francisco)
Leaders of St. Dominic’s Emmaus sessions include, from left, Hans Gonzaleg, Dominican Father
Augustine Hilander, Erika Herrera, Dominican Father Michael Hurley and Paul Berens. Not
pictured is Gary Price.
cluded an atheist who wanted to learn
more about her Catholic boyfriend’s
faith, a mid-life professional seeking
“something bigger than myself,” and
a self-described spiritual dabbler.
Will YOU answer GOD’S call?
People who identify themselves as
“not affiliated” with any church or
religion are a fast-rising “denomination,” Father Hurley said. Within that
group, he said, non-practicing Catholics make up a significant number.
These are not the same people who
would seek out Landings, a parish
ministry for Catholics who have had a
negative experience with the church.
More often, Catholics simply “go
adrift” in a secular culture or because
their childhood religious education
failed to translate in adulthood, Father Hurley said.
After discussing the goals of Emmaus earlier this year with a team of
four parishioners who would become
session leaders, Father Hurley urged
Massgoers to invite friends and family
members. “We all know someone who
is not practicing their faith,” he said.
The Christian principles of “spirituality,” “conscience,” “forgiveness”
and “prayer” are the cornerstones of
Emmaus. The presentation is light
on theology and church teaching and
meant less to persuade than to invite
inquiry of any kind.
“Are tarot cards immoral or illegal
in the Catholic Church?” asked a man
who said he uses them to cultivate his
intuition.
Dominican Father Augustine Hilander, the clerical liaison for Emmaus,
replied that the church view would
be that tarot cards can’t explain the
mystery of the soul.
“Tarot cards work in the opposite
direction, which says all the mystery
is in the card,” he said. “We say it’s
not in the card, but in the person.”
The parish plans to repeat the Emmaus series several times although
no dates have been set. For more
information, email [email protected].
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Legislation that would have
violated the religious freedom of
faith-based colleges in California is
in the process of being rewritten and
the California Catholic Conference
expects to remove its opposition, a
Catholic Conference official said.
In its original language, SB 1146
would have jeopardized California
financial aid grants for tens of thousands of Latino, African-American
and low-income students because of
onerous regulations purporting to
protect LGBTQ students and employees from discrimination that would
have required colleges to choose
between accepting state financial aid
or remaining independent.
But a compromise reached between
bill author Sen. Richard Lara, D-Bell
Gardens, and the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, is
expected to remove the restrictions
and also to remove a newly added
disclosure requirement that would
also have impinged on the colleges’
independence, said Ray Burnell, education specialist for public policy arm
of the California bishops. The added
disclosure requirement would have
mandated publicizing infractions of
religious colleges’ codes of conduct.
SB 1146 was co-authored by Sen.
Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, and
was sponsored by Equality California
and the ACLU.
The acceptable language of the bill
is expected to include a requirement
that the faith-based colleges disclose
that they are exempt from provisions
of Title IX of federal law regulating
higher education and therefore can
require students and faculty to comply with campus regulations based
on religious principles. Most already
do and that was a proposal suggested
by the Catholic conference. Existing California law exempts religious
schools from nondiscrimination laws
in cases where applying these laws
“would not be consistent with the
religious tenets of that organization.”
The conference is waiting to see
the language before it withdraws
its objection but is optimistic that
the new version will be acceptable,
Burnell said.
Valerie Schmalz, Catholic San Francisco
Opponents say egg donation bill would
encourage damaging procedure
Valerie Schmalz
Women could earn thousands of
dollars for donating their eggs for
research under legislation awaiting a
vote on the floor of the state Senate –
a change which the California Catholic Conference warns would increase
exploitation of college students and
poor young women looking for extra
cash.
AB 2531 also has the potential for
encouraging abuse of trafficked
women and immigrants who could be
coerced into donating their oocytes,
said Sandra Palacios, associate director for governmental affairs for the
California Catholic Conference.
The process of egg retrieval can be
“very dangerous for women,” said
Palacios, with documented cases of
loss of fertility, organ failure and
even rarely death.
AB 2531 has already passed the
Assembly and if passed by the state
Senate would return to the Assembly
for concurrence and then go to the
governor for his signature.
Two years ago California Gov. Jerry
Brown vetoed a similar bill, writing
“Not everything in life is for sale nor
should it be.”
Eggs extracted for reproductive
purposes, to create babies via invitro
fertilization, are already sold in a virtually unregulated market in the U.S.
But California law and national
guidelines prohibit payment beyond
reimbursement for direct costs of egg
extraction when the oocytes are used
for research.
The National Academy of Sciences
2010 guidelines state that “no payments, cash or in kind, should be
provided for donating oocytes for
research purposes.”
In California, donor payments are
limited by state laws enacted when
Proposition 71 created the California
Institute for Regenerative Medicine,
now part of the state constitution, to
fund embryonic stem cell research
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Burke says the bill will compensate
women who donate eggs for research,
saying, “It’s perfectly legal for a
woman to get paid when advertising
through Craigslist to provide eggs for
infertile couples, but she can’t get paid
for a donation in medical research,”
said Burke. “It’s insulting to women,
and it keeps California’s research
institutions in the dark ages.”
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women who are the prime candidates
for egg donation or sale, can cause
ovarian rupture, organ damage, renal
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Filipinos carry the coffin of an alleged drug dealer at Manila North Cemetery Aug. 7.
Philippines: Revenge
killings stun Catholic leaders
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“In our dream to wipe out drug
addiction, are we not becoming a
‘killing fields’ nation?” he asked.
“I don’t have to be a bishop to say
this. I do not have to be a Catholic to
be disturbed by the killings that jar us
every time we hear or watch or read
the news,” Archbishop Villegas said.
“From a generation of drug addicts, shall we become a generation
of street murderers? (Can) the do-ityourself justice system assure us of
a safer and better future?” he said.
After three drug suspects were
found murdered in the city of Tacloban in early August, Father Virgilio
Canete of Palo Archdiocese said the
killings are “out of control.”
The victims, two of them women,
were shot several times. A crude sign
that said “I am a pusher, Lord I am
sorry” was placed next to the bodies.
On Aug. 3, six people linked to
a drug syndicate were killed in a
police operation in the small town of
Albuera in Leyte province.
“Only the police and the president
can stop the killings by declaring a
moratorium,” said Father Canete.
“The church cannot do anything
now,” said the priest. “It had already
warned of the consequences. Only
those who started these bloodbaths
can stop it.
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VATICAN CITY – The “narrow
gate” to salvation described by
Jesus isn’t narrow because God is
oppressive, but because pride bloats
Christians and prevents them from
entering God’s merciful embrace,
Pope Francis said. Christians “must
seize the opportunities of salvation”
and not waste time on trivial things
before the gate is closed, the pope
said before reciting the Angelus
prayer Aug. 22. “If God is good and
loves us, why does he close the gate
at some point?” the pope asked visitors gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
The reason, he said, is because “our
life is not a video game or a soap
opera; our life is serious and the
goal to achieve is important: eternal
salvation.”
Pakistan jail opens chapel
for Christian prisoners
KARACHI, Pakistan – A chapel
for Christian inmates has opened at
Landhi Jail in this southern Pakistani city. Christian social activists
and jail authorities jointly inaugurated the chapel Aug. 5, which was
built with the help of a nongovernmental organization. About 100
of the 4,500 inmates in the jail are
Christians, reported ucanews.com.
Those incarcerated are awaiting trial or serving sentences for various
crimes. The chapel was built near
the jail mosque. Muhammad Hassan,
a senior jail official, said all inmates
are free to practice their faith.
Cardinal: Dialogue key
in building communion
VATICAN CITY – Christians must
never tire of seeking dialogue with
others in order to promote mutual respect and forgiveness among
people with different experiences
and opinions, a Vatican official wrote
on behalf of Pope Francis. In a message sent Aug. 19 to the Meeting in
Rimini, an annual event sponsored
by the Communion and Liberation
movement, Cardinal Pietro Parolin,
Vatican secretary of state, reflected
on the importance of dialogue as
placing “one’s self in the other’s
shoes” while maintaining “the clar-
ity of one’s own identity.” He added,
“We will discover that opening ourselves to others does not impoverish
our outlook but rather enriches us
so that we may recognize the truth
in others.”
Seeing the face of God in the disabled
CHABROUH, Lebanon – The issue
of disability is still somewhat of a
taboo in Lebanon, and families often
experience shame when they have a
child with a disability. Because the
Lebanese government does not offer
support for people with disabilities,
many families resort to putting
their family member into an institution, where there is little connection
with the outside world. The Order
of Malta Lebanon addresses this
inadequacy by bringing together
disabled people from institutional
settings and volunteers to spend
a week together at its center in
Chabrouh for a camp. Each disabled
“guest” is paired with a volunteer
for complete care and attention. One
of the aims of the Order of Malta
Lebanon camp is to give guests “the
love and respect they deserve and
to give them back their humanity,”
Patrick Jabre, project director for
the Chabrouh camp, told Catholic
News Service.
Keeping Chesterton’s memory
alive called ‘tremendous’ gift
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pennsylvania
– When it came to championing the
faith, G.K. Chesterton fought with
“verve and passion, and panache”
in his works, said Auxiliary Bishop
Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles. He
reflected a deep attitude of love and
joy, the bishop said. “Every page of
Chesterton is like a bottle of champagne.” Bishop Barron, an auxiliary
bishop in the Archdiocese of Los
Angeles, lauded the contributions
of the English writer and journalist
during the 35th Annual Conference
of the American Chesterton Society
in early August at Slippery Rock
University. He addressed the audience of more than 300 via Skype in
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Pax Christi urges prayer, study, action
on abolishing nuclear weapons
Tom Webb
This month we recall the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombings of
Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945. The
horrific and devastating effects of the
bombs encouraged Japan to request
terms for surrender to end the four
year conflict with the United States.
But it also opened the door to the
Cold War, and the expansive growth
of nuclear stockpiles, especially in
the U.S. and Russia.
The end of the Cold War in 1989 led
to some reduction of these stockpiles
but it has not led to the abolition of
these weapons. Contrary to the strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction, which has governed relations
between nuclear powers since at least
the early 1960s, this balance of power
has not made the world safer. Rather,
it has actually produced greater
instability as the number of nuclearowning countries has grown to
include North Korea, Pakistan, India
and Israel. With the rise of terrorist
organizations, grave concerns arise
around the distinct possibility that
such organizations will gain access to
materials for their construction.
In the 1980s the Vatican had held
a nation could morally justify holding nuclear weapons, but only on
the condition that abolition was the
end result. In light of the developments since then, a new statement
was issued by the U.N. in December
2014. The Vatican now argues that,
contrary to its previously conditioned
acceptance of these weapons, the
state of world affairs requires their
abolition. In the Vatican’s view, no nation is any longer morally justified in
possessing nuclear weapons.
The statement outlined several
reasons for this stance. First, the
expansion of nuclear-weapon- owning countries creates fundamental
instability rather than security.
Second, there exists a fundamental
inequity between nuclear-weaponowing states and non-nuclear states.
Those without nuclear weapons are
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Protesters at a Nagasaki Day demonstration at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
Livermore Aug. 9 carry a sign calling attention to the proposed trillion dollar cost of re-modernizing the American nuclear stockpile. The demonstrators were affiliated with Redwood City
Catholic Worker/Pacific Life Community, which includes representatives of Catholic Worker
communities on the West Coast, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. The event memorialized the
71st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, at the end of World War II.
vulnerable to threats and intimidation by nuclear-owning nations, and
there is no international law against
nuclear blackmail. Third, the conditions of extreme poverty, environmental problems, migration, military
conflicts and other related concerns
are exacerbated by expenditures in
some countries for ongoing research,
development and maintenance associated with these weapons.
From an American perspective we
may want to consider recent decisions by the Obama administration
to approve plans to allocate $1 trillion
over the next 30 years to modernize
our current nuclear weapons stockpile of 15,000 warheads. Further,
recent innovations like the tactical
“dial-a-yield” bomb increase the likelihood that the threshold to nuclear
war will be crossed.
Pax Christi Northern California
encourages Catholics throughout the
seven dioceses where our members
live to actually study and discuss the
“Statement by the Holy See at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian
Impact of Nuclear Weapons,” presented Dec. 9, 2014. Following the directive
outlined in the “Challenge of Peace”
pastoral letter of 1983 (#294), we also
encourage our Catholic brothers and
sisters to renew the practice of the
Friday fast and abstinence from meat.
This return to penance for peace, as
the bishops instructed, “... should be
accompanied by works of charity and
service toward our neighbors. Hence,
every Friday should be a day significantly devoted to prayer, penance and
almsgiving for peace.” Finally, we also
invite interested Catholics to consider
joining Pax Christi USA and to make
inquiries about joining a local group
in Northern California.
Webb is the coordinator of Pax Christi
Northern California, the local regional
council of Pax Christi USA and Pax
Christi International. Visit www.paxchristiusa.org.
Talking to kids about porn and human sexuality
A
growing concern today involves
the role of pornography as the next
generation’s instructor in human
sexuality. For many young people, pornography has
become the only
guide to sexuality they have
ever known.
For Catholic
parents, this
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of how best to
approach these
matters with
their children,
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other experts in the field, and from exusers of pornography.
First, steer away from “The Talk”
toward a more integrated approach.
Having “The Talk” relies on the
misguided notion that parents have
educational content or factual knowledge that they are duty-bound to try
to deposit into their children’s brains.
This approach is not only awkward
and paternalistic, but can convey a
sense that sexual education is a onetime, get-it-over-with ordeal. Kids
require ongoing guidance and support
from their parents – an expressed
willingness to enter into these important discussions that stress the beauty
of sexuality in marriage and what it is
really for, rather than just telling them
what not to do or scaring them away
from sexually transmitted diseases.
Second, be attentive to opportune
moments to share wisdom and stories.
Because we live in a highly pornified
culture, opportunities for parents to
share and discuss important value assessments regarding human sexuality
with their children arise often. Driving
by a billboard with a risqué picture
or seeing something on TV might, for
example, serve as an opportunity to
note how it’s against the love of women
to use them as sex objects. Passing
through a part of town where prostitutes are plying their trade might spark
a discussion about how many women
involved in prostitution are victims of
human trafficking and the vast majority wish they could break free of it, etc.
Third, avoid Internet access in the
bedroom. Sometimes parents will say,
“The kids have access at school and
everywhere else, so I let them have
unrestricted access at home – they’ve
got to learn how to handle it anyway.”
But the home setting needs to differ
from the outside world, serving as an
oasis and a protected environment for
children. If someone offered to install
a pipe into your child’s bedroom that
could be turned on to pump in raw
sewage, you would not agree to it. Yet
many parents fail to restrict what is
entering their children’s bedrooms
through the Internet and TV.
Fourth, be wary of Internet access
on cellphones. “Due diligence” with
cellphones for children might mean
see pacholczyk, page 13
n the face of ever-increasing
violent attacks all over the
globe and the turmoil, confusion and rancor that characterize
our national
election
process at
this time, I
think we’re
called to lift
our arms in
prayer.
“Violence,”
writes
Jacques
Sister jean
Ellul “imevans, rsm
prisons its
practitioners in a
circle that cannot be broken by
human beings.” And as we know,
once violence starts, the cycle of
revenge begins. Only by prayer
can this cycle of evil be brought
to an end. “For it is not against
human enemies that we have to
struggle” (Ephesians 6:12).
Truly, the times call us to place
ourselves spiritually as a bulwark
against the chaos that is now
visited upon the Earth. Invoking
the power of the Lord’s resurrection, we pray that God dispel
wickedness, drive out hatred and,
bring down the powerful. May the
Spirit of the risen Christ foster
concord, restore lost innocence,
and grant joy to mourners. United in a common purpose, we can
witness to solidarity by humble,
sustained prayer for all who are
suffering here and abroad.
A month ago, we agreed here
in our Burlingame community
to come together voluntarily on
Wednesday evenings in chapel to
pray for our world, our country
and its elections. Please join us
in prayer – families, religious
communities, and parishes – for
these intentions:
– To pray that our political
leaders and ordinary citizens
recover a sense of the common
good.
– To pray for victims of violence and their families
– To ask the power of God to
facilitate the conversion of those
planning and committing acts of
violence
– To offer our prayer and our
lives to hold back the chaos afflicting our human family
– To pray in reparation for violations of human dignity due to
human trafficking and racism
Our Father …
Let us pray:
Jesus, through the power of your
death and resurrection touch the
hearts and minds
of all persons planning violent
acts on individuals and communities. Free them and
guide them into ways of peace.
This we ask in your name and in
the power of the Spirit
to the glory of God. Amen. Mary,
Queen of Peace, pray for us.
Mercy Sister Jean Evans is a member
of the Mercy Sisters West Midwest
Community in Burlingame.
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A happy death
I
n the Roman Catholic culture within which I grew
up, we were taught to pray for a happy death. For
many Catholics at the time, this was a standard
petition within their daily prayer: “I pray for a happy
death.”
But how can one die happy?
Isn’t the death-process itself
excruciating? What about
the pain involved in dying, in
letting go of this life, in saying
our last goodbyes? Can one
die happy?
But the vision here, of
course, was religious. A
happy death meant that
one died in good moral and
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religious circumstances. That
rolheiser
meant that you didn’t die in
some morally-compromised
situation, you didn’t die alienated from your church, you didn’t die bitter or angry
at your family, and, not least, you didn’t die from
suicide, drug or alcohol overdose, or engaged in some
criminal activity.
The catechetical picture of a happy death most
often was an anecdotal story of some person who
grows up in a good Christian family, is an honest,
faith-filled, chaste, churchgoing person, but for
a period of time drifts from God, from churchgoing, and from observance of the commandments
so that, at a point, he no longer thinks much about
God, no longer goes to church, and no longer takes
Christian morality seriously. But, shortly before his
death, some chance circumstance becomes for him
a moment of grace, and he repents of his laxity, his
immorality, and his negligence of church practice,
returns to church, makes a sincere confession, goes
to Communion, and, shortly after, is struck down by
a heart attack or an accident. But grace has done its
work: After years of moral and religious drifting, he
has returned to the fold and dies a happy death.
Indeed we all know stories that fit that description; but, sadly, we also all know stories where this
is not the case, where the opposite happens, where
good people die in very unfortunate, sad, and tragic
situations. We have all lost loved ones to suicide,
alcoholism and other ways of dying that are far from
ideal. We also all know of people, good people, who
have died in morally-compromised situations or who
died in bitterness, not able to let their hearts soften
in forgiveness. Did they die unhappy deaths?
Admittedly they died in an unfortunate way, but
a happy or unhappy death is not judged by whether
death catches us on an up-bounce or a down-bounce.
For every person that fits the picture of a happy
death, as described above, where death catches us
on an up bounce, there are others whose lives were
marked by honesty, goodness and love, but who then
had the misfortune of being struck down in moment
of anger, in a moment of weakness, in a moment of
depression, or who ended up dying from an addiction
or suicide. Death caught them on a down-bounce. Did
they die an unhappy death? Who is to judge?
What is a happy death? I like Ruth Burrows’
description: Burrows, a Carmelite nun, shares the
story of a fellow-nun with whom she once lived.
This sister, Burrows tells us, was a good-hearted,
but weak, woman. She had entered a contemplative
convent to pray, but she could never quite muster the
discipline for the task. And so she lived for years in
that state: good-hearted, but mediocre. Later in life,
she was diagnosed with a terminal disease which
frightened her enough so that she began to make
new efforts at becoming what she was supposed to be
her whole life, a woman of prayer. But a half-century
of bad habits are not so easily changed. Despite new
resolutions, the woman never succeeded in turning
her life around. She died in her weakness. But, Burrows asserts, she died a happy death. She died the
death of a weak person, asking God to forgive her for
a lifetime of weakness.
To die a happy death is to die in honesty, irrespective of whether the particular circumstances of our
death look good religiously or not. Dying in right
circumstances is, of course, a wonderful consolation to our families and loved ones, just as dying in
sad circumstances can be heartbreaking for them.
But dying in circumstances which don’t look good,
humanly or religiously, doesn’t necessarily equate
with an unhappy death. We die a happy death when
we die in honesty, irrespective of circumstance or
weakness.
And this truth offers another challenge: The circumstances of someone’s death, when those circumstances are sad or tragic, should not become a prism
through which we then see that person’s whole life.
Catholic Church had with that property. In fact,
41 years prior Schuller invited Archbishop Fulton
J. Sheen to address his congregation. Archbishop
Sheen spoke at least three homilies at the site in
1972. Each homily was given before not only a
capacity crowd in the existing church and outside
seating, but also a full parking lot of automobiles
with their drive-in speakers. If you google “Fulton
Sheen glass cathedral” you will enjoy the almost
hour-long talks.
With due respect to the fine Catholic speakers
of today, I doubt I will witness in my lifetime a
finer deliverer of the message of life than Fulton J.
Sheen. His talks at that Protestant church – more
than 40 years ago – ring as real today as they did
then. The latter is a true measure of timeless relevance.
Peter J. Fatooh
San Francisco
sacramental wedding taking place. Since the advent
of Obgerfell v. Hodges in 2015, civil, secular marriages are legal. The vice president is in full agreement with the results of this 5-4 Supreme Court
decision and, in this case, chose to act as a civil
servant, not a Catholic official, performing an action
that is fully legal, and which he fully supports.
Jim McCrea
Piedmont
Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School
of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
Letters
Moral absolutes express love
In a letter Aug. 11 (“Sexuality and grace”) a
writer stated that Robert George is wrong about
ancient heresy as cause to accept marriage redefinition, abortion, and transgender bathrooms.
The letter writer comments that he doesn’t think
opponents of marriage redefinition are “nuts,” he
thinks they are in willful denial or ignorance.
Does the letter writer understand that he is writing to a religious newspaper? That Catholic belief
is that theirs is a God that created human beings
as male and female? That there is sin? That we
are redeemed by Jesus in his sacrifice? That Jesus
established a church which he gave authority to
preserve the deposit of faith?
If what the letter writer speaks of is a natural
condition. Then what logically follows is that adultery, fornication, and any kind of sexual behavior
is a natural condition.
What the letter writer expresses is moral relativism. Contrary to moral relativism, moral absolutes
express love.
Theodore Kirk
San Francisco
Bishop Sheen’s message of life is timeless
Down in Orange County in Anaheim, as you
stand in the parking lot to Disneyland and do an
“about face,” you will see in the distance a cathedral spire of glass. From the time it was originally conceived in the 1970s to its completion in
1981 it was the achievement of a lifetime for late
Dr. Robert H. Schuller its pastor from 1955 until
approximately 2007 when he retired. Like many
family civilian undertakings, Schuller’s success did
not impute to his children. As a result, in 2010 the
Crystal Cathedral parish filed for bankruptcy.
In its prime, Schuller’s “Hour of Power” could
be seen on national television. If you saw a tape or
live service from the cathedral in its prime years
you would have witnessed a “standing room only”
church with a capacity of 2,736 worshippers.
Prior to the glass monolith’s construction, Schuller’s was one of the first Sunday service drive-ins
where parishioners would pull up and place a
nearby speaker in their car to hear the proceedings. There was also outdoor seating for those who
preferred a more conventional manner of going to
church. An indoor church was constructed in the
1960s before the grand cathedral.
Upon declaring bankruptcy in 2010, it was unclear as to the eventual outcome of this magnificent
structure. Finally, in 2013, it was our own Catholic
Church, Diocese of Orange, which purchased the
property. But, 2013 wasn’t the first association the
Civil and sacramental ceremonies
Re “Biden ‘counter-witness’ to church teaching,
prelates say,” Aug. 11:
The story points out how the three prelates being
quoted have failed to differentiate between civil/
secular marriage and sacramental matrimony.
The vice president of this country presided at the
civil wedding of his two fellow White House staffers
who had requested that he do so. Biden had never
officiated a wedding before and got a special temporary certification from the District of Columbia to
make it legal.
Catholic civil servants preside regularly at
secular, non-sacramental marriage services in civil
license bureaus throughout the country. They are
expected to carry out the requirements of their
position and if they have moral objections then
they usually apply for a transfer to a different form
of civil position or resign.
That Biden chose to do so should be of no surprise. As stated in your article: “In 2012, Biden said
as a Catholic he was ‘absolutely comfortable’ with
same-sex couples marrying, adding they should
get ‘the same exact rights’ heterosexual married
couples receive.”
I doubt very seriously that he or the two men being married thought for one minute that there was a
Merciful, or misleading?
So, should the church now attempt to prove how
really inclusive and evolved it is today by blessing
and celebrating all 71 gender options listed on Facebook? While ultimately only God can judge individual souls, in the meantime would such a teaching on
sexuality be truly merciful, or misleading to many?
Jay Strickwerda
San Francisco
Gnosticism not to blame
I find it absurd that Robert George lumps three
complicated issues in one Napa Institute talk (“Does
ancient heresy explain transgender bathrooms, abortion?” July 25).
Since Peter Albert has eloquently addressed the issue of same-sex marriage in his Aug. 11 letter to CSF,
I would like to address the issue of abortion. Here are
some facts: Colorado has offered free birth control
for the past five years. The results are: (1) unintended
pregnancies dropped by 40 percent; (2) abortions
fell by 42 percent. So, why isn’t the RCC endorsing
birth control since 90 percent of American Catholic
women ignore the RCC teaching on this issue? The
RCC teaching on birth control became a bad joke 20
years ago.
Mr. George offers us a reference from St. Irenaeus
(AD 130) who at that time spoke to Gnostic philosophies. And, he makes a claim that the issues of samesex marriage, abortion and transgender bathrooms
are a resurgence of Gnostic philosophies as articulated in AD 130? In my opinion, the participants in
the Napa Institute conference would have better used
their time by taking any one of the great Napa Valley
winery tours.
Jim Stockholm
San Francisco
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Sunday readings
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
SIRACH 3:17-18, 20, 28-29
My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and
you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble
yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will
find favor with God. What is too sublime for you,
seek not, into things beyond your strength search
not. The mind of a sage appreciates proverbs,
and an attentive ear is the joy of the wise. Water
quenches a flaming fire, and alms atone for sins.
PSALM 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11
God, in your goodness, you have made a
home for the poor.
The just rejoice and exult before God; they are
glad and rejoice. Sing to God, chant praise to his
name; whose name is the Lord.
home for the poor.
The father of orphans and the defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling. God gives a home
to the forsaken; he leads forth prisoners to prosperity.
home for the poor.
A bountiful rain you showered down, O God,
upon your inheritance; you restored the land when
it languished; your flock settled in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the needy.
home for the poor.
HEBREWS 12:18-19, 22-24A
Brothers and sisters: You have not approached
that which could be touched and a blazing fire and
gloomy darkness and storm and a trumpet blast
and a voice speaking words such that those who
heard begged that no message be further addressed
to them. No, you have approached Mount Zion and
the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and countless angels in festal gathering, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God
the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made
perfect, and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,
and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently than that of Abel.
LUKE 14:1, 7-14
On a Sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of
one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there
were observing him carefully. He told a parable to
those who had been invited, noticing how they were
choosing the places of honor at the table.
“When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place
of honor. A more distinguished guest than you
may have been invited by him, and the host who
invited both of you may approach you and say,
‘Give your place to this man,’ and then you would
proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest
place. Rather, when you are invited, go and take
the lowest place so that when the host comes to
you he may say, ‘My friend, move up to a higher
position.’ Then you will enjoy the esteem of your
companions at the table. For every one who exalts
himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Then he said to the
host who invited him, “When you hold a lunch or
a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors,
in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite
the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed
indeed will you be because of their inability to
repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Guests at the Lord’s table
I
n today’s readings, our ideas of success, honor
and greatness are challenged. In the first
reading, the author of Sirach stresses the
importance of humility in the spiritual life: the
more you humble yourself, the greater you will
appear in the eyes of God
and others. In the second
reading for this weekend,
St. Paul compares our lives
to a heavenly city – a new
Jerusalem – in which God
is at the center. In today’s
Gospel, this theme of true
greatness continues!
T.S. Elliot wrote a play
entitled “The Cocktail
Party,” in which one of
the characters says: “Half
the harm that is done in
the world is due to people
Deacon
who want to feel imporfaiva Po’oi
tant. They don’t mean to do
harm – but the harm does
not interest them or they
do not see it, or they justify it, because they are
absorbed in an endless struggle to think well of
themselves.”
All of us, to some extent, are engaged in an
scripture
reflection
Jesus saw this and understood. He did not
rebuke the other guests for their desire
to feel important, for he knew this
to be a basic part of human nature.
endless struggle to think well of ourselves.
Today’s Gospel reading speaks to us concerning
this struggle. Jesus had been invited to a dinner party at the home of a prominent Pharisee.
The other guests were watching him, and he, in
turn, was watching them. When it was time to
eat, the guests gently elbowed their way through
the crowd, each determined to secure a place of
honor at the table.
Jesus saw this and understood. He did not
rebuke the other guests for their desire to feel
important, for he knew this to be a basic part of
human nature. Instead, Jesus encouraged the
people to change their idea of true greatness.
Those dinner guests were making the same
mistake that you and I so often make. We may
not scramble for the places of honor at the dinner table, but we do have ways of promoting
ourselves. We do it with the clothes we wear and
the cars we drive. We do it with the places we
go and the people we know. The basic problem
with each of these methods of self-promotion
is that they simply do not work, at least not for
long! Usually, we do not succeed in fooling many
people! But most of all, we do not fool ourselves.
The best way to deal with this basic need is to
forget about appearances and simply accept the
truth that we are important, not for what we
have accomplished, but for who we are. No matter what kind of car we drive, no matter what
our station and rank in life may be, no matter
where we are seated at the table, in the eyes of
God, we are important. We are his treasures. We
do not have to accomplish this. We do not have to
prove it. All we need do is accept it. Each of us is
important to God.
This is the message that Jesus continually
sought to communicate throughout his ministry.
He said: “You are the light of the world and the
salt of the earth.” “The hairs of your head are
numbered.” “Not one sparrow falls to the ground
without the awareness of God. You are more
valued than many sparrows.” Jesus said all this
to ordinary people – people like you and me.
Each of us is invited to God’s banquet table.
At this table, we are nourished at the same time
that we are called to share the abundance of
God’s life by reaching out to others in need.
Deacon Po’oi serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.
Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings
Monday, August 29: Memorial of the Passion of
St. John the Baptist. 1 Cor 2:1-5. Ps 119:97, 98, 99,
100, 101, 102. Mt 5:10. Mk 6:17-29.
Tuesday, August 30: Tuesday of the TwentySecond Week in Ordinary Time. St. Jeanne Jugan. 1
Cor 2:10b-16. Ps 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13ab, 13cd-14.
Lk 7:16. Lk 4:31-37.
Wednesday, August 31: Wednesday of the
Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 3:1-9.
Ps 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21. Lk 4:18. Lk 4:38-44.
Thursday, September 1: Thursday of the
Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 3:1823. Ps 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. Mt 4:19. Lk 5:1-11.
Friday, September 2: Friday of the TwentySecond Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 4:1-5. 1 Cor
4:1-5. Jn 8:12. Lk 5:33-39.
Saturday, September 3: Memorial of St.
Gregory the Great, pope and doctor of the church.
1 Cor 4:6b-15. Ps 145:17-18, 19-20, 21. Jn 14:6.
Lk 6:1-5.
Sunday, September 4: Twenty-third Sunday in
Ordinary Time. Wis 9:13-18b. Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13,
14-17. Phmn 9-10, 12-17. Ps 119:135. Lk 14:25-33.
Monday, September 5: Monday of the Twentythird Week in Ordinary Time. St. Teresa of Calcutta. 1
Cor 5:1-8. Ps 5:5-6, 7, 12. Jn 10:27. Lk 6:6-11.
Tuesday, September 6: Tuesday of the TwentyThird Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 6:1-11. Ps
149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b. See Jn 15:16. Lk 6:1219.
Wednesday, September 7: Wednesday of the
Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 7:25-31.
Ps 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17. Lk 6:23ab. Lk 6:20-26.
Thursday, September 8: Feast of the Nativity of
the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mic 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28-30.
Ps 13:6ab, 6c. Mt 1:1-16, 18-23 or Mt 1:18-23.
Friday, September 9: Memorial of St. Peter
Claver, priest. 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22b-27. Ps 84:3, 4,
5-6, 12. See Jn 17:17b, 17a. Lk 6:39-42.
Saturday, September 10: Saturday of the
Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 10:14-22.
Ps 116:12-13, 17-18. Jn 14:23. Lk 6:43-49.
Sunday, September 11: Twenty-fourth Sunday
in Ordinary Time. Ex 32:7-11, 13-14. Ps 51:3-4,
12-13, 17, 19. 1 Tm 1:12-17. 2 Cor 5:19. Lk 15:132.
Monday, September 12: Monday of the Twentyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of
the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 1
Cor 11:17-26, 33. Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17. Jn 3:16.
Lk 7:1-10.
Tuesday, September 13: Memorial of St. John
Chrysostom, bishop and doctor of the church. 1 Cor
12:12-14, 27-31a. Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5. Lk 7:16. Lk
7:11-17.
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The National Catholic Education Association requests student demographic data every year, and
in the past it has been a labor intensive job using
Excel spread sheets to compile information provided by the individual schools to the Department
of Catholic Schools. From now on, compiling the
data will be done quickly by pressing a few buttons
because all the information will be entered at the
beginning of the year in SchoolSpeak, Lyons said.
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require some training for teachers and thus additional cost the first year, Lyons said. There will
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both geographically and with the people who absolutely fell through the cracks,” he said. Mother
Teresa opened homes in Ethiopia during the communist military dictatorship, in the most destitute
neighborhoods of Haiti’s capital, in Rwanda after
the genocide and in Yemen, where four Missionaries
of Charity were murdered in March.
“When there was war, when there was fighting,
there they were,” Hackett said. “They stayed.”
Mother Teresa demonstrated that living a life committed to mercy took “selflessness and courage,” he
said.
Her courage also was demonstrated in her ability to
“speak truth to power,” he said. Mother Teresa visited
the United States regularly, speaking to Catholic
groups, opening homes and meeting with presidents,
including Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill
Clinton. “She was straight out against abortion,” the
ambassador said. “From conception to death – she
was the whole thing and didn’t pull any punches.”
Like Pope Francis, he said, Mother Teresa drew
energy from personal, one-on-one contact with people
and consciously chose to live as simply as the poor she
befriended and tended.
In life and after her death, Mother Teresa faced
criticism for not using her fame and contacts to advocate more directly for social and political change to
improve the lives of the poor she served.
“You can find all the things she wasn’t,” the ambassador said, “but what she was was much more
important than what she wasn’t. She was a model and
now she will be a saint.”
Valeria Martano, Asia coordinator for the Com-
munity of Sant’Egidio, said, “We are talking about a
woman who broke out of the existing framework of
what was expected of a Catholic woman in the 1940s.
And, like Pope Francis, she chose to make her life a
denunciation” of injustice. “Her witness was testimony that things can change. She did not speak of justice
so much as do justice.”
“Mother Teresa chose to understand the world
through the eyes of the least of the least, what Pope
Francis would call the periphery,” said Martano, who
also leads Sant’Egidio programs in the poorest neighborhoods on the southern edge of Rome.
But it is not just about “going out,” Martano said.
For both Pope Francis and Mother Teresa, she said,
everything starts with prayer.
The founder of the Missionaries of Charity insisted
that she and her sisters were “contemplatives in the
midst of the world,” she said. “It was not just about
doing.” Mother Teresa’s prayer took her to the periphery and the peripheries were key to her prayer.
“What Mother Teresa lived, Pope Francis teaches
constantly: compassion in the face of pain and never
accepting indifference in the face of suffering,” said
Archbishop Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, Italy.
For the archbishop, Mother Teresa modeled “a
church close to the poor, a church that is mother to
the poor and that lives the joy of serving the poor.”
Revelations after her death that she suffered a “dark
night of the soul,” decades of feeling abandoned by
God, are for Archbishop Zuppi a further sign of her
deep immersion in the lives of the poor and forgotten.
“Her spiritual director would say that thirst is
knowing there is water and longing for it,” he said.
“She was a woman who made the thirst of Christ on
the cross her own. She lived that thirst.”
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pacholczyk: Talking to kids about porn and human sexuality
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looking for handsets that function strictly as phones
without Internet access, or maybe the kids should
be given a phone only at those times when they are
dropped off at events like piano practice, soccer, etc.
As children grow older and show signs of maturing,
restrictions and limitations can be scaled back.
Fifth, monitor Internet usage. Check browser history, and make use of monitoring software, even though
a particular child may be an angel. Keep the family
computer in a shared space like the living room with
the screen visible so family members can be aware
of each other’s online activities. Laptops and tablets
can pose an inadvertent temptation in this respect as
teens sit cuddled up on the couch with screens not
visible to others. In family life, we are called to serve
as our brother’s keeper. Set limits on “screen time”
for children, and maintain password/access control
over devices. Have the neighbor’s kids deposit their
electronic devices on the kitchen table during visits to
diminish the temptation to slip away to a private part
of the house and surf the net, perhaps with younger
siblings in tow. Such practices may also serve to indirectly evangelize other families in the neighborhood
regarding the serious threats from Internet porn.
Sixth, set appropriate rules regarding relationships,
and be involved in the kids’ dating practices. Too often
parents are tempted to take a “hands-off” approach to
this area of their children’s lives. When I was growing
up, we knew (and eventually appreciated) my father’s
rule that we couldn’t date until we were 18. Setting
appropriate rules for kids serves as a sign of a parent’s love and concern for them. Whenever parents
determine that dating should begin, it offers further
opportunities and occasions to discuss problems and
scenarios that can help teens set moral boundaries.
Talking to kids and helping them to become good
stewards of the gift of human sexuality bestowed
by God is hard work. In a culture that forcefully
communicates a pornified counter-gospel, though,
it is certainly one of the most important and enduring gifts a parent can seek to provide for the happiness and well-being of their children.
Father Pacholczyk is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River,
Massachusetts, and serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org.
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Stroll, journey offer different paths to confronting stress
Brian T. Olszewski
“Blessed are the Stressed: Secrets to a
Happy Heart From a Crabby Mystic” by
Sister Mary Lea Hill, FSP. Pauline Books &
Media (Boston, 2016). 168 pp., $14.95.
“Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion and Healing the Divided Self” by
Chuck DeGroat. William B. Eerdmans (Grand
Rapids, Michigan, 2016). 200 pp., $15.
Sure, you’ve heard dozens of talks and homilies
about the Eight Beatitudes, but have you ever
taken “a friendly stroll” through them? Sister
Mary Lea Hill, a Daughter of St. Paul, invites readers to do that in “Blessed are the Stressed: Secrets
to a Happy Heart From a Crabby Mystic.”
If one thinks of strolling as a low-impact exercise, then this is a low-impact but effective spiritual exercise because of the content and how it is
presented. Strolls are for conversation, for ambling
with no particular purpose other than to take in
the surroundings or to informally converse with a
companion.
Here, the beatitudes are the surroundings; Sister
Hill starts the conversation. And like conversation
that occurs during a stroll, she jumps from topic to
topic, always linking each to one of the beatitudes.
From this conversation comes reflections such
as: “The beatitudes are our spiritual selfies. They
are individual snapshots of our soul at work.” In
speaking about the meek, she relates it to handles.
Remember, this is strolling conversation; it can go
in any direction, with any connection.
The zig-zag of each two-page chapter includes,
Anyone enduring the journey into the final
chapters will be ready for the probing
statements and questions DeGroat
poses, e.g., What are your stories of
disappointment and division? How do you
think they’ve affected your spiritual life?
among others, a would-be shoplifter, professional
wrestling, the music of Joan Baez and dust bunnies. That might appear to be scattered, but Sister
Hill concludes every chapter with a paragraph
titled, “And You.” This is the serious conversation during the stroll, often leading to thoughtprovoking questions, e.g., “How do you deal with
a God who is set in his ways?” and “Do you think
anyone will find in you a Catholic role model?” The
strollers continue in silence as they contemplate
answers.
Take the stroll. Enter the conversation. The
“crabby mystic” provides the stressed-to-blessed
workout your heart and soul will appreciate.
While Sister Hill notes that hers is not a “scholarly treatment,” the same cannot be said for
Chuck DeGroat’s “Wholeheartedness: Busyness,
Exhaustion and Healing the Divided Self.” It is
laden with poetry and psychological and theological references. For the reader not used to
plodding through St. Augustine, Trappist Father
Thomas Merton, C.S. Lewis and dozens of others,
the exhaustion about which he writes might set in
before one reaches the final part of the book.
In that section, DeGroat provides exercises
and asks questions that may help the immersed
reader find “the elusive wholeness and freedom
for which we so desperately long.”
As a counselor and pastor, DeGroat provides a
perspective that lends itself to a pastoral approach readers may welcome throughout this
process. Anyone enduring the journey into the
final chapters will be ready for the probing statements and questions DeGroat poses, e.g., What
are your stories of disappointment and division?
How do you think they’ve affected your spiritual
life?
DeGroat opens the seventh chapter by stating,
“You’re not here to find a quick fix. You’ve embarked on a journey.” Readers should know that,
but the caution would have been better positioned
in the early stages of the book so they could
determine whether they wanted to embark upon
a journey so deep, involved, intense and – yes,
exhausting.
Also of interest: “Don’t Panic: How to Keep
Going When the Going Gets Tough” by Maureen
Pratt. Franciscan Media (Cincinnati, 2016). 155
pp., $14.99
“Sacred Stress: A Radically Different Approach
to Using Life’s Challenges for Positive Change”
by George R. Faller and the Rev. Heather Wright.
SkyLight Paths (Woodstock, Vermont, 2016). 176
pp., $16.99.
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Obituaries
Sister Patricia McGlinn, SND
Sister Patricia McGlinn, a Sister of Notre Dame de
Namur for 62 years, died Aug. 8 at
Mercy Retirement and Care Center
in Oakland. Sister Patricia was 81
years old.
“She related in a special way with
her therapists, care center staff and
residents,” the Notre Dame Sisters
said in a statement. “She watched
the recent Republican and Democratic conventions, and voted in the
Sister Patricia
primary. Always the global citizen,
McGlinn, SND
she reached out in her prayers to refugees and the troubled spots in our wounded world.”
Sister Pat attended Notre Dame High School in San
Jose and entered religious life in 1954. She taught in
Notre Dame elementary schools in Redwood City,
Yuba City, Santa Barbara and Watsonville and high
schools in San Francisco, San Jose and Marysville.
She also served in Sacramento where she saw firsthand the challenges and dangers that women had to
endure when working in the fields, the sisters said.
Sister Pat was a faculty member at Notre Dame de
Namur University in Belmont for 25 years. She served
six years on the San Francisco Archdiocesan Faith
and Justice Commission, two years as chair.
A funeral Mass was celebrated Aug. 22 at the sis-
ters’ Cunningham Chapel at NDNU with interment
at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Sisters
of Notre Dame, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont 94002.
Father George Thomas
Father George Thomas died Aug. 18 at Sutter Amador Hospital in Jackson. He was a
priest for 67 years and 91 years old.
Born in San Francisco, Father
Thomas attended St. Teresa School
in Portrero Hill and later St. Joseph
College Seminary in Mountain View
and St. Patrick’s Seminary and
University in Menlo Park. He was
ordained Dec. 18, 1948, by ArchbishFather George
op John J. Mitty.
Thomas
In ministry for many years before
the establishment of the dioceses of
Santa Rosa, Oakland and Stockton in 1962 and the Diocese of San Jose in 1981 from territory once part of the
Archdiocese of San Francisco, Father Thomas served
in parishes in Oakland, Modesto, and Los Altos.
In 1972, Father Thomas was named pastor of Our
Lady of the Wayside Church in Portola Valley, where
he served for 33 years retiring in 2006.
Father Gary Thomas, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, Saratoga is Father Thomas’ nephew.
“My keenest recollection of my Uncle George was
his fidelity to his priesthood, his very blue collar
approach to his ministry, his well-known hobbies of
fishing and hunting, and his appreciation of nature
and the people of God,” Father Gary said.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated Aug. 26 at Our
Lady of the Wayside Church, 930 Portola Road, Portola
Valley at 11 a.m. preceded by a vigil service at 10 a.m.
Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.
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Jesuits welcome new advancement director
Siobhan Lawlor has been named provincial assistant for advancement and communication for the California and
Oregon provinces of the Society
of Jesus. Jesuit Father Michael
Weiler, California Provincial, and
Jesuit Father Scott Santarosa,
Oregon Provincial, made the announcement jointly.
“I am honored and excited to
Siobhan Lawlor
begin this mission of advancement for an institution I care
deeply about and that has long shaped my worldview,” said Lawlor, a Boston College alumna with
a law degree from Santa Clara University, both
Jesuit schools, in a statement. Lawlor, a graduate of St. Francis High School in Mountain View
and her husband Joe McCarthy, a graduate of St.
Ignatius College Prep are longtime members of
St. Nicholas Parish, Los Altos. They have three
sons: a sophomore at the University of Notre
Dame; a soon to be a freshman at University of
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Oregon; and a rising sophomore at Bellarmine
College Prep in San Jose. Lawlor has served since
2005 as campaign director and the last four years
development director at Woodside Priory School
in Portola Valley. She also worked as an associate
at law firms specializing in insurance defense,
business litigation, and bankruptcy. In addition,
she served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Seattle. She assumed her duties with the provinces
Aug. 8.
“Siobhan wants to help us raise the funds we
need so we can continue to care for our elderly
Jesuits, to form our growing number of scholastics for mission, and to help us continue to go to
those places where the church most needs us,”
Fathers Santarosa and Weiler said.
Father Santarosa will become provincial of the
new U.S. West Province when the California and
Oregon provinces come together in July 2017.
Maryknoll Lay Missioners
offers student loan repayment
Maryknoll Lay Missioners has announced a
Student Loan Repayment Program available to
all active Maryknoll lay missioners during the
time they are under contract with the organization. During the missioner’s time in service,
Maryknoll will pay the monthly student loan
payment, freeing individuals of this financial
burden as they minister to the poor and marginalized in Asia, Africa and the Americas. “This
program will assist MKLM in attracting and
retaining committed, service-minded individuals
who want to make a difference in the world,” the
Maryknoll, New York-based organization said
Aug. 10.
“The number of students borrowing for their
education is increasing, as is the amount an average student owes,” said Joanne Blaney, MKLM
mission services director. “We are delighted to
offer the Student Loan Repayment Program so
that our lay missioners can focus on the most important thing, sharing Christ’s compassion and
love with those in need and working to change
unjust structures around the world.”
MKLM invites Catholics who are 21 or older to
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Most Holy Redeemer Parish, San Francisco: Archbishop
Salvatore Cordileone presided at Mass
on Sunday, Aug. 7, at the church in San
Francisco’s Castro District, as part of a
weekend pastoral visit by the archbishop to the parish led by pastor Precious
Blood Father Matthew Link. The archbishop greeted parishioners after Mass
and met with parish ministry groups. In
his homily, the archbishop thanked the
congregation “for all you do to serve
the poor and needy in our community,
for the care you give to each other, for
the welcome you extend to me.” View a
transcript of the homily at www.sfarchdiocese.org/home/archbishop/homilies.
2
St. Veronica Parish, South
San Francisco: The theme is
“Repair my Church” where the $185,000
Phase I church renovation was just completed. The improvements included refurbished pews and new kneelers; paint
throughout the interior of the church,
including accent colors; hardwood floors
in the sanctuary; new carpet throughout
the rest of the church; new hardwood
baseboards; new lighting in the sanctuary
and choir areas; and new vinyl flooring
under pew areas. More improvements
should be forthcoming when the parish
completes fundraising for Phase II.
3
Serra alum coaches Olympic medalist: Junipero Serra
High School grad Ray Looze ‘86 with
Olympic swimming gold medalist Lilly
King. Ray is Lilly’s coach for Team USA
and at Indiana University. King won the
gold medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics
for the 100-yard breast stroke.
1
4
Assisi pilgrimage: Deacon
Christoph Sandoval, who serves
at St. Mary’s Cathedral, has returned
from leading pilgrimage groups to
Rome and Assisi and shares that he
shook hands with Pope Francis during
the pope’s recent visit to Assisi marking the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ Pardon of Assisi. “I was doubly
blessed by being the only American
cleric at the 800th anniversary Mass
of the Pardon of Assisi and the Jubiliee Year of Mercy 2016 with Cardinal
Gualtiero Bassetti, Perugia; Bishop
Domenico Sorrentino, Assisi; and
Father Michael Perry, Minister General
of the Order of Friars Minor” (pictured,
from left), Deacon Sandoval said in
an email to Catholic San Francisco.
“And if that were not enough I was
triply blessed to proclaim the Gospel
and preach the homily in the Porziuncola of the Papal Basilica of Our
Lady of the Angels for the celebration
of my birthday on July 31 with Father
Massimo Lelli, OFM, rector of the
basilica.”
5
St. Junipero Serra pilgrimage: On Aug. 2-4, a group of 30
pilgrims from the Diocese of Las Vegas
and beyond followed in the footsteps
of St. Junipero Serra (1713-1784), who
was canonized by Pope Francis in
Washington, D.C., on Sept. 23, 2015.
Father John McShane (SI ‘61, USF
‘67), pastor of Sacred Heart Church in
Ely, Nevada, was the pilgrimage chaplain and Christian Clifford, a teacher
at Junipero Serra High School in San
Mateo and author of two books about
the saint, was resident scholar.
(Photo courtesy Dennis Callahan)
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(Photo courtesy St. Veronica Parish)
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Cordilleras Road, Redwood City near
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matthias; Amanda will play her original
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SATURDAY, AUG. 27
SPIRITUAL LIFE: “Conversions in the
Spiritual Life,” with Paulist Father Terry
Ryan, 9-11:30 a.m., Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave., San Francisco, coffee will be available, freewill
offerings welcome, (415) 288-3845.
HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at
noon then lunch in lower halls, St.
Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at
Geary Boulevard, San Francisco,
Gough Street entrance. All disabled
people, caregivers invited. Volunteers
welcome, Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865; www.Handicapables.com.
MOTHER TERESA DISPLAY: An exhibit on Blessed Teresa of Calcutta in
anticipation of her Sept. 4 canonization
will be available at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Cathedral Hall, Gough Street at
Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 9
a.m.- 5 p.m., Aug. 27, 28 and Sept. 3;
the exhibit is open 3-5:30 p.m. Aug.
29 through Sept. 2. A Mass of thanksgiving with Archbishop Salvatore J.
Codileone as principal celebrant and
homilist will e celebrated Sept. 4 at 11
a.m. at the cathedral; (415) 567-2020.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 3
PEACE MASS: Star of the Sea Church,
4420 Geary Blvd. at Eighth Avenue,
San Francisco, 8:30 a.m., Father
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and homilist, (650) 580-7123; [email protected].
CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross
Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road,
Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m.,
newly ordained Father Cameron Faller,
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St. Mary’s Cathedral to present the
first St. Jeanne Jugan Award in San
Francisco to Yvonne Sangiacomo.
Award is presented by the Little Sisters of the Poor to an individual who,
honoring the legacy of their foundress,
St. Jeanne Jugan, values the solidarity of the human family, the wisdom of
age, and with kindness of heart embraces the importance of care for the
elderly. For more information, please
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2-DAY RUMMAGE SALE: Labor Day
weekend, Sept. 3 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sept.
4 noon-5 p.m., St. Dunstan Parish
Center, 1133 Broadway Ave., Millbrae,
lots of slightly used items - clothing,
household goods, furniture, electronics
and more, Ann Woolen, parish office,
(650) 697-4730; [email protected].
SATURDAY, SEPT. 17
THURSDAY, SEPT. 8
REUNION: Mercy High School, San
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Rancho Inn, 1100 El Camino Real, Millbrae, Ann Marra Doran, adoran712@
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PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 9
2-DAY FESTIVAL: Our Lady of Angels
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p.m.; rides, games, entertainment,
prizes food and a silent auction; “Dine
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musical entertainment, two seatings,
reservations Tricia Mason at (650) 5330121; [email protected].
SATURDAY, SEPT. 10
2-DAY FLEA SALE: All Souls Schoolyard, 315 Walnut Ave., South San
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world in Africa, El Salvador, Philippines, Peru, Mexico, Chile, Bosnia,
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annual fundraiser aimed now for the
Philippines’ poor seminarians in Cebu,
malnourished children of the workers in the garbage dumps, and Cebu
Hope Center for abused girls; SDES
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LOTSA’ PASTA: Spaghetti and bingo,
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grief and spiritual alienation
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Josephine B. Cancilla
Ronald S. Cancilla
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Vilma D. Castillo
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Francisco Adolfo Escobar
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Margaret D. Holl
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Linda Ann Labanowski
Thomas Learned
Bruce A. Leppanen
Mary Jane Letourneau
Joe B. Lopez
Eleanor Loveland
Neal J. Lucett
Mila A. Mangan
Constantino Marenco
Linda McCarthy
Jimmie W. McCoy
Susan E. Montalvo
Jose A Morales
Brother Ernest Morasci
Joseph T. Moreno
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Martinha L.V. Paes
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Eleonora Pauletto
Hildelisa Perez
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Guerrino P. Pettinari
Ashley A. Phero
Nanette Ramos
Marilyn Joy Roberts
Rogelio Rodriguez
Margarita Olivia Romero De Tellez
Amanda Sanchez Rubio
Francisco Sanchez
Pilar Santiago
Adan Alfredo Sarmiento
James Jesus Serrata
Mt. olivet,
san rafael
Alfredo C. Severino
Maria Rosa Sonza
Alex Streber
Ricardo Streber
Narciso M. Sumaylo
Kathleen B. Taylor
Nicole Tomasello
Cristobal Valle
Sam Watso
Rudolph G. Woodford
Dominic Wu
Elliott B. Yorke
Dolores “Dolly” Zulueta
James Richard Fern
Col. Paul R. Henderson
Julia M. Jenkins
George Lyman
Mary Esther Madden
Ellen M. Mulcahy
Daniel G. Powers
John W. (Jack) Ward
John A. Zamberlin
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Mateo Jesus Cordero
Harry B. Morey, Jr.
Paul Covert Murphy
Dawn Lenore Rast
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Parochial Vicar Church of the Epiphany
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
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650-323-6375
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
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650-756-2060
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415-479-9020
Tomales Catholic Cemetery
1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA
415-479-9021
St. Anthony Cemetery
Stage Road, Pescadero, CA
650-712-1675
Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery
Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA
650-712-1679
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.

August 25, 2016 - Catholic San Francisco

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