December 13, 2013 - Catholic San Francisco

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GUADALUPANA:
SIMBANG GABI:
HOLINESS:
Annual march
venerates Our Lady
of Guadalupe
Archbishop celebrates
Mass to start annual
Filipino tradition
A look at classic
cinema’s depiction of
saintly character
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DECEMBER 13, 2013
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Arab Catholic
family balances
American dream,
Holy Land roots
EDISON TAPALLA
Finding a balance between living out the American dream and honoring a unique cultural identity
from the Holy Land is of great importance to St.
Veronica parishioners Sam and Nancy Shihadeh
and their children, Adeeb, Nader and Serena, a family with deep roots in both South San Francisco and
Palestine.
The Shihadeh family has belonged to the South
San Francisco parish for more than 30 years. The
children are enrolled in St. Veronica School, where
Nancy went to school in her childhood and currently serves as a room mother for the eighth grade
class.
But the Shihadehs also visit Palestine every other
summer, and participate in a local Arab social club
where they have been involved since their youth, delivering food and gifts to other Arabs who worked at
corner stores through the holidays. Like many immigrant groups, Arabs began operating family-owned
grocery stores when they first arrived in the U.S.
SEE FAMILY, PAGE 22
(PHOTO BY CHRISTINA M. GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Making a wish
The children of St. Benedict at St. Francis Xavier Church for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing signed their wish list to Santa Claus during the
San Francisco parish’s annual Christmas party Dec. 5. Here, Santa makes the American Sign Language sign for “love.” The tight-knit community of deaf or hard-of-hearing adults, seniors, teens, children and their families trek from San Jose, Sacramento, Stockton, Monterey,
Fresno and beyond for Mass, fellowship and study in ASL.
Mandela ‘touched my heart, soul, life,’ says ex-fellow prisoner
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
JOHANNESBURG – Former South African
President Nelson Mandela looked down on the tens
of thousands of people gathered at his memorial
service in Johannesburg and smiled as he watched
them celebrate his legacy, said Andrew Mokete
Mlangeni, a Catholic who was imprisoned for decades with the late anti-apartheid icon.
The first to address the crowds at the FNB Stadium Dec. 10 after prayers by Christian, Jewish,
Muslim and Hindu leaders, 87-year-old Mlangeni
said it was a “privilege and honor to say how Madiba touched my heart, my soul, my life.” Madiba was
Mandela’s clan name.
“He touched many lives around the world. I am
overjoyed by the outpouring of love and admiration by all of you here today,” Mlangeni said.
(CNS PHOTO/ADREES LATIF, REUTERS)
Mlangeni, who was on trial with Mandela in
1963-64 and imprisoned with him on Robben Island,
said he had occupied a cell next to Mandela.
In prison, “Madiba exuded leadership,” said
Mlangeni, who was released in late 1989, shortly
before the start of negotiations that ended apartheid.
Mandela strongly influenced “my own evolvement as a man, South African citizen and ANC (African National Congress) member,” he said, noting
that “without his guidance and leadership I would
not have been the person I am today.”
Mandela’s greatness stemmed from his humility
“and his belief in collective leadership,” Mlangeni
said.
“He created hope when there was none” and was
A woman prays outside the house of former South African
President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg Dec. 7.
SEE MANDELA, PAGE 22
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On the Street . . . . . . . . . . 4
Christmas Liturgies .10-18
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | DECEMBER 13, 2013
Thousands of marchers in archdiocese
venerate Our Lady of Guadalupe
ENRIQUE QUIJANO
SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO
The celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe acquired a special meaning this year thanks to Pope
Francis.
In a gesture of cordiality and respect to the Patroness of the Americas and the people of Mexico, last
month Pope Francis sent to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City a bough of golden roses that was
placed at the feet of the virgin.
The pope sent this special gift, which consists of
four roses between two golden leaves, to open the
“Our Lady of Guadalupe, Star of the New Evangelization” conference, led by the Pontifical Commission
for Latin America and co-sponsored by the Knights
of Columbus and the Guadalupe basilica.
“Lady of Guadalupe, receives from Pope Francis
this rose which symbolizes gold, frankincense, and
myrrh, and it is the sign of our love and enthusiasm for you and our evangelization mission in
the world,” said Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet,
president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin
America.
Cardinal Ouellet added that our hearts, more than
our heads, know the debt of love we owe to the virgin
and that is why we beg her to receive this special gift
as a gesture of grateful love.
During the opening of the event, Pope Francis
sent a recorded video message to the gathering of 85
bishops, 300 representatives from different countries
and 600 priests from throughout the Americas.
In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, about 20,000
people marched from All Souls Church in South
San Francisco to St. Mary’s Cathedral Dec. 7 in the
annual Cruzada Guadalupana commemorating the
Marian apparition known as the Virgin of Tepeyac.
Tepeyac is a hill outside Mexico City where the virgin appeared four times in December 1531 to St. Juan
Diego and left a miraculous impression on his cloak.
The image of “la virgen Morena” was reflected
(PHOTO COURTESY HOLY CROSS CEMETERY)
The annual Guadalupana march from All Souls Church in
South San Francisco to St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco
venerating Our Lady of Guadalupe made its first stop at Holy
Cross Cemetery in Colma Dec. 7.
in shirts, zarapes, candles and pictures, while the
people sang and prayed with devotion.
Such was the case of Hortensia Casillas, 48, originally from Zacatecas, Mexico, who has come to this
march for five years in a row to give thanks to the
virgin for all the blessings received. This year the
celebration had a very special meaning to her.
“This year I come to give thanks to the virgin
because she granted me a very special miracle,” she
said. “I thought I would not see my 79-year-old mother because she was very sick in Mexico. I asked our
mother to heal her and give me the opportunity to see
her after so many years and now she’s here with me
in San Francisco very healthy and we are making up
for all the lost time.”
The pilgrimage started at 6 a.m., stopping at Holy
Cross Cemetery in Colma and St. John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco before ending at the
cathedral, where Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
celebrated the closing Mass.
“With the apparition of Virgin de Guadalupe a new
nation and a new Christian culture of evangelization
emerged and she has been the star of that evangelization,” the archbishop said during his homily.
He added that the face of the virgin has been an
example of evangelization in the world, especially in
America, where she is venerated with the title Queen
of the Americas.
During the celebration a dramatization of the apparition of the virgin took place with the participation
of young Catholics who played the parts from the
story of the miracle.
“To me is very important to represent the virgin of
Guadalupe because she has helped me a lot in my life;
this is my way of saying thanks to her for all her blessings,” said Isabel Rodríguez, 17, who played the virgin.
She recently healed from a boil on her head, she said.
A group of priests from different churches, including a delegation from the Philippines, took part in the
Mass.
“The virgin of Guadalupe provided the symbol that
allowed Mexico to discover its identity and has been
the cultural link among all races around the world,”
said Father Móises Agudo, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in San Francisco.
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Advent, Christmas
around the archdiocese
ST. BARTHOLOMEW PARISH,
SAN MATEO: Parishioner Carol
Marchi and granddaughter Angelica
Marchi took some time to look at the
various Nativity sets at the parish
crèche festival Dec. 8. Started by a
parish family 15 years ago, the annual
tradition draws people from various
parishes for a little peek ahead at
Christmas.
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heavy lifting recently unloading trees
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SAN FRANCISCO: Jesuit Father Ed
Harris, SI ‘63, superior of the SI Jesuit
community, led the Friday morning
liturgy Dec. 6, marking the first Advent
celebration at SI. Students each year
collect food, toys and money to give to
needy families in San Francisco, in collaboration with the Dominican Sisters
of San Rafael, through the Christmas
store at St. Dominic Church.
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TOM BURKE
Archbishop Riordan High School calls freshman
Greg West their “resident judo champ” and it’s a
title well deserved. The St. Dunstan
School graduate recently took a
silver medal home for the United
States from the Pan American Judo
Championships in El Salvador, a
contest featuring competitors from
North, South and Central America
and the highest level of competition
for Americans under age 15. Greg
has been training in judo since the
Greg West
age of 4 under Olympic coach Willy
Cahill, and Allen Kipper, a 50-year veteran of the
sport and former member of the Russian national
team. Greg is a two-time California state champion,
a 12-time national medalist, and currently ranked
No. 1 in the United States in his age/weight class. “I
like the sport of judo because it is not only fun but
it is exciting,” Greg told Catholic San Francisco via
email, noting that competitive judo has been a part
of his life since age 6. Greg trains every day but Saturday but that isn’t a real day off since he does
sit-ups and push-ups seven days a week. He competes
in about a dozen tournaments a year and in each
tournament engages in four to six matches. Greg’s
dad, Jim says he and Greg’s mom, Michele are big
supporters of judo. “It can be practiced year round,
provides an opportunity for just about any level of
competition, and develops confidence, discipline,
humility, and real self-defense skills,” Jim said in
the family composed Internet note. Martial arts are
a family hobby, too. Jim holds a black belt rank in aikido and judo, and is currently training in Brazilian
jujitsu. Both mom and dad are frequent fixtures
watching their son compete on the judo circuit.
PRO-LIFE HELPERS: San Mateo Pro Life gathered for dinner and encouragement Oct. 20 at St. Mark Parish in
Belmont. “We had a nice turnout,
and raised sufficient funds to
continue our pro-life mission to
San Mateo County,” said member
Jessica Munn. Guest speaker was
Father Joseph Richard, retired
pastor, St. Cecilia Parish, Lagunitas, “who has been very active in
Caite Fitzgerald
the pro-life battle against Planned
Parenthood in South San Francisco,” according to
Jessica. “He had an inspiring talk, and a spirited
question and answer period following it covering a
wide spectrum of related questions from the audience,” Jessica said. “He was roundly applauded.”
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FAMILY MASS: Salt Lake City Bishop John Wester presided
at a Thanksgiving liturgy for St. Anthony Immaculate Conception
School Nov. 26 at St. Anthony of Padua Church, San Francisco.
Bishop Wester, a former pastor of St. Stephen Parish, was ordained
to the priesthood from St. Patrick’s Seminary & University May
15, 1976, and named an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of
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in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. It rings of a very
successful series of reunions for grads from schools
in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia held at a popular
and large tavern down the shore each summer. The
big afternoon is Dec. 13 at the United Irish Cultural
Center in San Francisco. Kevin attended St. Cecilia
and St. Philip schools and Sacred Heart Cathedral
Preparatory. He said he came up with the reunion
idea in talks with fellow Catholic school alums. “We
thought those of us that benefited from a Catholic
school education would like to enjoy the holiday season while raising funds for current students to attend
Catholic schools in the city,” he told me. Tickets at $45
include lunch with proceeds benefiting scholarship
funds for students attending ADSF schools. There will
be a no-host bar. Email Kevin at Kevin@parknorth.
com or visit the “I went to Catholic school in San
Francisco” Facebook page. Just go! Forget about the
diet and the “how do I look?” routine. You look great!
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old people I’m running into are no longer my friends’
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New tradition of Chinese-language
Christmas Eve Mass begins at St. Anne
VALERIE SCHMALZ
A special treat is in store for
Chinese Catholics – and for anyone
wanting to experience a uniquely
Chinese Christmas
liturgy here in the
Archdiocese of San
Francisco.
A Christmas
Eve liturgy will be
celebrated at St.
Father Peter
Anne of the Sunset
Zhai
Church at 8 p.m.
Dec. 24. Caroling
– in Mandarin and in Cantonese –
will begin at 7:30 p.m., said Divine
Word Missionary Father Peter
Zhai.
Auxiliary Bishop William J.
Justice and retired Bishop Ignatius
Wang will be among the dignitaries
joined by St. Anne pastor Father
Raymund Reyes and parochial vicar
Father Dennis Barlaan to celebrate
the Mass, said Father Zhai, who
was recently appointed chaplain of
the Chinese Catholic community.
The Mass on Christmas Eve will
feature both Mandarin and Cantonese, but the homily will be in
Mandarin, Father Zhai said.
The Mass is being advertised on
Chinese radio and television and in
local Chinese newspapers.
“Our goal is to really reach out,”
said Father Zhai, 41, of the Chinese
Catholic ministry, “to build up a
team to reach out to new immigrants and to old immigrants.”
One of six children in a devoutly
Catholic family that practiced
its faith despite severe penalties
for practicing Catholicism in the
People’s Republic of China, Father
Zhai said his goal is to evangelize
the faith to Chinese living in the
Bay Area.
He came to this country in 1997
as a seminarian with the Society
of the Divine Word and lived in
Chicago and the Archdiocese of Los
Angeles before coming to the archdiocese. Two sisters are religious in
China, and a brother was recently
ordained a Jesuit priest in the Philippines, he said. When his mother
and father came for his ordination seven years ago, his mother
spent all her time during a trip to
San Francisco visiting churches
because all the Catholic churches
were destroyed in China, he said.
His mother’s first sentence on
arriving in the U.S. for the visit was
“Finally I can breathe the air of
freedom,” Father Zhai said.
Celebrating the Mass, and sharing
social events together – as a larger
community, joining together the
individual parish groups – is one of
his top goals for evangelizing, Father Zhai said. Creating community,
in Mass and outside of the church
walls, is critical to reaching the
many Chinese who have no faith, he
said.
While Chinese make up 12 percent
of the general population within
the geographic boundaries of the
archdiocese, they comprise a small
percentage of archdiocesan Catholics.
The Chinese Catholic community
is notable for its active young adult
group, which networks with peers
throughout the Bay Area, Southern
California and the East and West
coasts of the U.S. and Canada. The
group organizes evangelization
concerts, which are attended by
both Catholics and non-Catholics of
all ages.
He hopes to emulate the success
of the Protestant Chinese churches
in the area who have thousands of
members, he said.
Father Zhai recently formed
special Chinese language Rite
of Christian Initiation of Adults
teams at St. Matthew Parish in San
Mateo and at St. Anne of the Sunset
Parish in San Francisco, where he
is in residence. He said the teams
are already drawing interest. There
is also a vibrant Chinese youth and
young adult group at St. Monica, he
said.
He recently spent time with the
Chinese foreign students attending
Notre Dame High School in Belmont, and said while just one of the
30 girls is Catholic and two Christian, he found, “they have a passion
to know more about Catholicism.”
He was scheduled to give a retreat
this month on “Jesus Christ the
Evangelizer” and he said the retreat
would focus on Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the Gospel,”)
which was all about evangelization.
“That’s what we’re supposed to do,”
he said. “That’s my passion too.”
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Opponents call for outcry against new Planned Parenthood clinic
VALERIE SCHMALZ
A new Planned Parenthood clinic opened this
month in the Redwood City area, just north of the
Atherton border, and is drawing daily protests by
area Catholics and other pro-life supporters.
The clinic opened the first week of December but
is operating with limited hours – 19 hours a week –
pending state approval of its license, said Planned
Parenthood Mar Monte director of public affairs
Lupe Rodriguez. Until state approval of its medical
license, it is operating as a satellite under the license
of another Planned Parenthood Mar Monte clinic
located in Mountain View, Rodriguez said.
The 2907 El Camino Real clinic was not required to
get San Mateo County zoning approval because the
area is already zoned commercial, Rodriguez said.
The site is in unincorporated Redwood City, near a
largely Latino area with many immigrants and close
to a wealthy area of Atherton. The clinic will offer
Maria Campo and petition organizer Linda Potter were among
those demonstrating against the Planned Parenthood clinic
near Redwood City.
chemical abortion but at this time there are no plans
for performing surgical abortions, Rodriguez said.
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte plans to work
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couple, and members of Church of the Nativity parish are among those taking turns holding up signs
and praying the rosary on El Camino Real outside
the clinic, said Linda Potter, who collected 1,600 signatures opposing the clinic in 11 days.
While there appear to be no legal options for shutting down the clinic, opponents plan to continue
their vigil until Planned Parenthood leaves, said Potter, a member of Church of the Nativity parish.
“They claim they do not have surgical abortions
but I don’t believe them,” said Potter, pointing to
newly installed double doors – in addition to the
double doors for the reception area – which are wide
enough to allow a hospital gurney direct access to
the parking lot in case of a surgical emergency that
required an ambulance.
“Have you ever seen an abortion?” asked Mark
Fitzpatrick, who was standing outside the clinic Dec.
2. “That should never happen.”
The clinic was in the works for more than a year, but
pro-life advocates only learned of it about two weeks
before its scheduled opening, said Kelly Connelly, one
of those picketing the clinic who designed two 18-foot
signs in Spanish and English for the demonstrators.
“I don’t think there are any significant legal options here. I think it’s going to have to be a matter of
public pressure,” said Katie Short, legal director of
Life Legal Defense Foundation.
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Mar Monte opened a clinic at 29 Baywood Ave. in San
Mateo.
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Monte to set up clinics in San Mateo County have
been blocked –at least temporarily – by pro-life
advocates invoking zoning laws. In September 2011,
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City.
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court appeal by pro-life advocates.
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Patient recognizes Marin doctor
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Charles Gibbs had been a regular
but not necessarily chummy patient
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stunned both Malin
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Memorial Hospital
in San Francisco,
Dr. Frank Malin
where the doctor
had practiced until
his retirement last year, when they
learned that Gibbs had left a $5 million gift to the St. Francis Foundation in the doctor’s name.
Gibbs, a mechanical engineer who
worked on a number of prominent
buildings in San Francisco over his
career, requested that his gift be
used to renovate the hospital’s intensive care unit, which will be named
after Malin. The gift, one of the largest bequests in the history of the
St. Francis Foundation, recognized
Malin’s extraordinary compassion
and care for his patients and their
families over a distinguished career.
In addition to his cardiology practice, Malin served as the hospital’s
chief of staff and board chairman.
Malin, a parishioner at St. Anselm, acknowledged that while he
is “like family” to some patients, he
and Gibbs were simply doctor and
patient. “That’s one of the reasons
the gift was such a surprise,” he said
in a phone conversation with Catholic San Francisco from his home in
Ross, where he lives with his wife
Doreen.
In a statement from the hospital,
St. Francis CEO Tom Hennessy said
Malin “treats his patients and their
families with care, compassion and
skill, developing bonds that span
generations. No one deserves this
recognition more than Dr. Malin for
his lifetime of service to medicine
and his contributions to St. Francis.”
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faith-based organizing groups that
support the work of the Catholic
Church on immigration, housing,
education and other social justice
issues, are combining resources and
merging Jan.1.
More than 20 archdiocesan parishes are member congregations or
affiliated with SFOP and PIA, including St. Mary’s Cathedral in San
Francisco and St. Francis of Assisi
in East Palo Alto.
In 2012 the organizations were
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Development for their work with
economic development and immigration, among other issues.
“I look forward to this merger
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effective use of resources and an increased ability to train leadership in
our parishes,” archdiocesan public
policy director George Wesolek said
in an email. “Parishioners have been
trained to become leaders in their
communities to effect change for
justice and equality.”
Both groups said the merger opens
new possibilities for social justice
work.
“Based on what we are hearing in neighborhoods across the
region, we anticipate launching new
campaigns, focused on economic opportunity and equity,” said Jennifer
Martinez, PIA executive director.
The new organization, called the
San Francisco Organizing Project/
Peninsula Interfaith Action, will be
co-directed by Martinez and Erika
Katske.
Around the
archdiocese
ST. HILARY SCHOOL, TIBURON:
Students are taking the poor under
their wing during December and planning
to help 280 families with boxes of food.
Back, sixth grader Mia Barns; middle
from left, eighth graders Sofia Kashefi,
Jacqueline Massey-Blake; sixth grader
Anna Lika Scholl-Thurman; eighth grader
Sofie Devincenti; sixth graders Katie
Mannix, Sarah Snyder, Charlie Ashendorf;
seventh grader Brady Olitsky; fourth grader Molly Ashendorf; front from left, eighth
graders Lauren Lombardi, Natalie Long.
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ST. TIMOTHY SCHOOL, SAN
MATEO: Students went right to work
when they heard about the damage and
injury caused by the recent Philippine
typhoon. “Students began to pray, as a
community, for those who were suffering
through what some are saying was the
largest storm to ever hit land,” the school
said. Students dressed in the country’s
national colors – red, white, blue and yellow – to start a fundraising campaign that
raised more than $1,420 for the work of
Catholic Relief Services in the Philippines.
Sixth graders Caitlin Woo and Portia
Council, pictured here, created special
T-shirts for the good work.
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DE MARILLAC ACADEMY, SAN
FRANCISCO: More than 200 young
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knowledge and sing their hearts out at the
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which benefits De Marillac Academy in the
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Mass Schedule For Christmas and New Year
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
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6:00 pm Bi-lingual Children’s Mass
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ARCHDIOCESE DISCLOSES DATA
ON CLERGY ACCUSED OF ABUSE
ST. PAUL, Minn. – As part of its
ongoing efforts to address issues
related to clergy sexual misconduct, the Archdiocese of St. Paul
and Minneapolis is releasing information related to priests who have
been credibly accused of sexual
abuse of minors in the archdiocese.
The information can be found in
The Catholic Spirit, the archdiocesan newspaper, which can be found
online at http://thecatholicspirit.
com, and on a special page titled
“Disclosures Regarding Clergy
Sexual Abuse of Minors” on the
archdiocese’s website, www.archspm.org.
In his column this week in The
Catholic Spirit, Archbishop John
C. Nienstedt said the disclosure
is part of the archdiocese’s safe
environment efforts, which he
hopes “will contribute to the healing process for victims and others
who have been harmed, and serve
to protect God’s children and foster
trust in the church.”
The disclosure includes the following information: the cleric’s
name; his year of birth and age;
year of ordination; if deceased, the
year he died; the cleric’s prior assignments; the date of his removal
from ministry and current status;
and the city and state where he
presently resides.
The information being released,
which is part of an ongoing comprehensive review of clergy files,
is mostly related to reported
incidents that occurred between
the mid-1950s and 1980s, the archdiocese said in a Dec. 2 statement.
Most of the men identified have
been previously identified in media
reports. All of them have been permanently removed from ministry
or are deceased.
PHILADELPHIA ARCHDIOCESE
REBOUNDING FINANCIALLY
PHILADELPHIA – The latest
audited financial statements for the
Archdiocese of Philadelphia show
a dramatic turnaround in church
finances with a reported $3.9 million surplus for the 2013 fiscal year,
up dramatically from the $39.2 million deficit reported for fiscal year
2012. The accounting firm Grant
Thornton audited the financial
statements and dated their opinion
Nov. 22. The archdiocese released
the information Dec. 5. “Since
my arrival in Philadelphia, we’ve
worked hard to be transparent
about the financial health of our local church,” Archbishop Charles J.
Chaput said in a statement. “We’ll
continue to do so.”
GUN CHECK MEASURE SAID TO
BALANCE ‘LIBERTY, SAFETY’
SEATTLE – The Catholic bishops of Washington state support a
legislative measure to place some
limits on gun sales, calling it “a
prudent balance between concerns
for personal liberty and public
safety.” The Washington measure,
called Initiative 594, would require
background checks on the sale or
transfer of all firearms and adds
background checks for online sales
and sales at gun shows.
CHRISTMAS LITURGIES
CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR’S DAY
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Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord
5:00 p.m. - Vigil Family Mass
11:30 p.m. - Christmas Carols at Church
Wednesday, December 25, 2013 - (Christmas Day)
Nativity of Our Lord
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013 - (New Year’s Eve)
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www.stmarycathedralsf.org
ADVENT/CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2013
Advent Lessons and Carols
Sunday, December 15
3:30 PM - Featuring the Cathedral Choir
and St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Choir
Las Posadas
Saturday, December 21
Mexican/Latin American tradition reenacting Mary and Joseph’s
journey to Bethlehem and their search for lodging before Jesus’ birth
6:00 PM-9:00 PM, St. Francis Hall
Blessing of Expectant Parents at all Masses
Sunday, December 22
Christmas Eve
Tuesday, December 24
Regular Daily Mass Schedule
6:45 AM, 8:00 AM and 12:10 PM
5:00 PM Caroling - Cathedral Choir of Boys and Girls and
the St. Brigid School Honor Choir
5:30 PM - Christmas Vigil Mass
11:30 PM Caroling - Cathedral Choir and Golden Gate Brass Ensemble
12:00 AM - Midnight Mass
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Principal Celebrant
Christmas Day
Wednesday, December 25
9:00 AM - Gregorian Chant Mass with the Schola Cantorum
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Principal Celebrant
11:00 AM - Solemn Mass with Cathedral Choir
1:00 PM - Misa en Español con el Coro Hispano
The Cathedral will close after the 1:00 PM Mass
Vigil of the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord: Mary,
Mother of God Tuesday, December 31
Regular Daily Mass Schedule: 6:45 AM, 8:00 AM and 12:10 PM
5:30 PM Vigil Mass
Octave of the Nativity of the Lord: Mary, Mother of God
Regular Daily Mass Schedule: 6:45 AM, 8:00 AM, 12:10 PM
The Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Saturday, January 4 - Vigil - 5:30 PM
Sunday - 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM (Español)
3:30 PM - Lessons and Carols with the Cathedral Choir of Boys and Girls,
St. Brigid School Honor Choir and Golden Gate Boys Choir & Bellringers
12 NATIONAL
Typhoon relief needs long-term support
WASHINGTON – Expect the rebuilding in typhoon-ravaged regions of the
Philippines to take up to five years, a
Catholic Relief Services official said at
a congressional hearing.
Because the recovery will be slow
for millions of displaced Filipinos,
Sean Callahan, chief operating officer
at CRS, urged congressional representatives to commit funding for the long
term so that progress can continue
after the disaster that has claimed
more than 5,600 lives is no longer in
the headlines.
“It’s not over. The disaster hasn’t
disappeared,” Callahan told a Dec. 3
hearing of the House Subcommittee
on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. At the same time he credited
the U.S. Agency for International
Development and the U.S. military
for their roles in the first wave of
response since Super Typhoon Haiyan
swept through the central Philippines
Nov. 8.
“It’s important that we don’t forget
the Philippines and let that country
(CNS PHOTO/DAMIR SAGOLJ, REUTERS)
A man repairs his house at a coastal area south of Tacloban Nov. 16.
go down,” Callahan continued in
response to a question from Rep. Chris
Smith, R-N.J., subcommittee chairman. “Thirteen million people were
affected. This is going to affect the
CHRISTMAS LITURGIES
whole country over the long term. It
really needs a significant three- to fiveyear response.
“I think the Filipino people and the
Filipino (Catholic) church and the government are ready to put their shoulders to the grindstone (to rebuild). If
we do it in solidarity with them, they
can achieve that goal. If we let it go,
frankly, shame on us,” Callahan added.
USCCB PRESIDENT: ACLU LAWSUIT OVER
DIRECTIVES ‘BASELESS, MISGUIDED’
WASHINGTON – The president
of the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops Dec. 6 called a lawsuit filed
against the USCCB over its directives
for Catholic health care “baseless”
and “misguided.”
The American Civil Liberties
Union and the ACLU of Michigan
filed the suit in U.S. District Court
Nov. 29.
The ACLU and the plaintiff,
Tamesha Means, claim she received
negligent care at a Michigan Catholic hospital when her pregnancy was
in crisis at 18 weeks, leading her to
suffer emotional and painful trauma
that resulted in a premature birth,
the suit says, and the death of the
baby shortly thereafter.
The ACLU suit blames the bishops’
“Ethical and Religious Directives for
Catholic Health Care” for the inadequate care it says Means received.
“It is important to note at the
outset that the death of any unborn
child is tragic, and we feel deeply for
any mother who suffers such pain
and loss,” said Archbishop Joseph
E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., USCCB
president.
He called it “baseless” for the
ACLU to claim the directives encourage or require “substandard treatment of pregnant women” because
they do “not approve the direct killing of their unborn children.”
CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE
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CATHOLIC CHURCH Monday, December 16 through Friday,
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December 20, and Monday, December 23
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Simbang Gabi/Las Posadas
December 19th & 20th @ 7:00 pm
December 21st @ 5:00 pm
Christmas Eve
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Rev. Anthony E. McGuire
Rev. Armando Gutierrez
Rev. Dominic S. Lee
2013
CHRISTMAS LITURGIES
2013 Easter Week Liturgies
Tuesday,
December
24, 2013
Palm Sunday
of the Lord’s
Passion - March
24th
Masses: 5 p.m. (Sat. Vig.), 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 12 noon (Span.)
Christmas
Eve/Vispera de Navidad
Blessing of Palms and Procession from Auditorium
to Basilica
10 a.m.
& 12 noon
Masses
5:00atpm
Family
Mass
6:00 p.m. - Movie about the life of Christ and reflection
Children's Choir
Holy Thursday
28th
11:30pmMarch
Christmas
Carol Sing
6:30 p.m. - Seder Supper (tickets required - $5)
Basilica
8:00 p.m. - Solemn
Mass of Choirs
the Lord’s Supper [Bilingual]
followed by procession and adoration until 11 p.m.
12:00 Midnight Solemn Mass/
Good FridayMisa
of the Solemne
Lord’s Passion
- March 29th
(bilingue)
Mission Dolores Basilica
16th & Dolores St., San Francisco
415-621-8203
www.missiondolores.org
Rev. Arturo Albano, Pastor
Rev. William Nicholas, Parochial Vicar
Jerome Lenk, Director of Music & Liturgy
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12:00 noon - Stations of the Cross and Passion Play
6:30 p.m. - Liturgy of Good Friday [Bilingual]
Wednesday,
December 25, 2013
followed by Santo Entierro Procession
Christmas Day/ Dia de Navidad
Holy Saturday - March 30th
Massof in
English
3:30 -10:00
5:00 p.m.a.m.
- Sacrament
Reconciliation
8:00 p.m.
Easter
Vigil
Liturgy
[Bilingual]
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish
Easter Sunday - March 31st
Saturday. December 21:
Main Church 11:30am-12Noon
and 4:30pm-5:00pm
Tuesday, December 24:
Main Church 11:00am-12Noon
8:00 a.m. - Mass [cantor and organ]
MASSES
Tuesday, Christmas Eve, December 24:
5:00pm Family Mass, 12:00Midnight (Spanish)
Wednesday, Christmas Day, December 25:
7:00am, 8:45m, (Spanish), 10:45am, 12:30pm,
3:00pm (Cantonese Mass – Chapel)
Tuesday, New Year’s Eve, December 31:
7:00pm Spanish
NEW YEARS’ DAY –WED. JAN. 1, 2014
A Holy Day of Obligation, The Feast of Mary,
the Mother of God Masses:
6:30am, 10:30am (English), 12:05pm (Spanish)
St.
Dunstan Church
1133 Broadway Millbrae, CA 94030
(650) 697-4730
One of the pleasures of the Christmas
Season is the opportunity to send our
thoughts and prayers to those whose
friendship and goodwill we value so highly.
The priests and staff of St. Dunstan
Parish join in wishing you a very blessed
Christmas. May the gift of faith, the blessing
of hope, and the peace of God’s love be with
you and yours throughout the New Year.
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS AT ST. DUNSTAN 2013
CHRISTMAS EVE MASSES
4:30 pm
Children’s Mass with Pageant
11:00 pm
Christmas Carols
11:30 pm
Christmas Mass
CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES
7:00 am, 8:30 am, 10:00 am, and 11:30 am
NO 5:00 pm Mass on Christmas Day
WORLD 13
Making Nativity-scene sheep from Bethlehem wool
JUDITH SUDILOVSKY
BETHLEHEM, West Bank – Activity was in full swing at the Ma’an lilHayat workshop as 16 adults shaped
felted wool into round balls for a
large order of sheep to fill people’s
Nativity scenes.
“Now at Christmastime we have a
lot of orders for sheep and grottos,”
said Rania Hawash, administrative
assistant at the workshop.
Ma’an lil-Hayat is part of the international L’Arche network founded in
1964 by Canadian Catholic philosopher and theologian Jean Vanier for
people with intellectual disabilities.
The workshop takes a local resource
closely associated with the Christmas story but normally squandered
– sheep wool – and uses it to bring
dignity and recognition to a population often overlooked and hidden in
Palestinian society.
Five years ago, Mahera Nassar
Ghareeb, director and founder of
Ma’an lil-Hayat – Arabic for “Together for Life” – was looking for a
way to open up a workshop for adults
with intellectual disabilities and
was drawn to the L’Arche model of
respect and mutual assistance.
“There is a real need in Palestine
for more places for disabled people;
there are not enough places, especially for adults,” she said. “There
are schools and day care centers for
disabled children, but when they
grow up they are usually on the
streets or locked at home.”
Once the connection was made
with L’Arche, the founders searched
(CNS PHOTO/DEBBIE HILL)
A Palestinian with an intellectual disability makes a Nativity scene using felted wool from
Bethlehem sheep at the Ma’an lil-Hayat in Bethlehem, West Bank, Nov. 14.
for a project that would be suitable
for the “core members” – a reference
to disabled members of the workshops – as well as something that
would bring in some income to the
organization. A French volunteer
suggested wool felting as an option,
and the workshop opened its doors
in June 2009.
“In Palestine, we had never done
that – there was knitting and weaving, but we had never heard of
felting,” said Ghareeb. A French
volunteer taught the basics of wool
felting; the work with wool, soap and
warm water was easy and relaxing
for the core members.
“Because we are near Shepherd’s
Field, there are a lot of shepherds, a
lot of wool,” Ghareeb added.
Usually, the wool is burned once
the sheep are shorn, said Ghareeb.
By buying the wool from the shepherds, the project adds to their
income and helps protect the environment from the pollution of the
burning of the wool, she said.
At Christmastime, said Ghareeb,
most of the project’s stock flies off
the shelves, either at their workshop
store, at other Bethlehem and Jeru-
salem gift shops or via Internet sales
(www.maanlilhayat.ps). In addition
to the gnomes and Nativity scenes,
workers produce wool felted coin
purses, Christmas ornaments and
caterpillars.
Because program officials want the
work done by the core members, and
not by the four associates working
with them, the capacity to produce
quickly in mass numbers remains
low, Ghareeb said.
“We work the whole year to sell for
the last three months of the year,”
she said. And though products are
always sold, their profits cover only
half of their expenses, she added, so
their budget must be supplemented
by organizational grants and private
donations.
Families do not pay for their members to attend the workshop, and
all expenses such as transportation
and meals are covered by Ma’an lil
Hayat.
Hilme Mizer, 20, one of the first
core members to join the workshop,
said the work provides him with an
opportunity to build his self-esteem,
be among his peers and increase his
sense of independence. Core members also earn a small amount of
pocket money from the workshop.
“I love working here,” he said as he
rolled out a red felted wool hat for a
Swedish-styled gnome. “Here I can
be with my friends and I feel I am
important. I see my life here.”
CHRISTMAS LITURGIES
ST. RAYMOND
CHURCHCHURCH
ST. RAYMOND
St. Augustine Church
ST. RAYMOND
CHURCH
1100
Santa Cruz Avenue
Menlo Park, California 94025
(650) 323-1755
3700 Callan Blvd.
S. San Francisco, CA 94080
CHRISTMAS 2013
Novena of masses (Simbang Gabi) December 15-23 – 7:30 P.M.
Christmas Vigil: Tuesday, December 24
4:30 P.M. Vigil Mass 7:30 P.M. Children’s Caroling
8 P.M. Children’s Mass 11:00 P.M. Caroling
12 A.M. Midnight Mass (Church & Hall)
Our Children's Christmas Nativity Play
will be at 4:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve
Christmas Day: December 25
7:45 A.M., 9:30 A.M., 11 A.M., 12:30 P.M.
There is no 5:30 P.M. Mass on Christmas Day.
Our
Christmas
Eve are
5:15at5:15
p.m., 7:30
Midnight
OurMasses
Massesonon
Christmas
Eveatare
p.m.p.m.
andand
7:30
p.m.
New Year’s Day 2014
Our Masses on Christmas Day are at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW
PARISH COMMUNITY
Corner of Alameda & Crystal Springs Rd.
San Mateo, CA 94402
(650) 347-0701 [email protected]
Schedule of Masses: 8:40 A.M., 10:30 A.M., 12 Noon
ST. TERESA OF AVILA
CATHOLIC CHURCH
SERVED BY THE CARMELITES
th
19
Street at Connecticut
PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR
ADVENT & CHRISTMAS MASSES
CHRISTMAS LITURGIES
Sacrament of Reconciliation, December 16th at 7 pm
Christmas Eve, December 24th
Children’s Mass 4:00 & 6:00 pm
Caroling at 11:15 pm followed by
Midnight Mass 12:00 am
Tuesdays & Fridays
Wednesdays in Advent
Christmas Masses
Vigil, December 24th
Christmas Day December 25th
8:00, 9:30 & 11:15 am
no evening mass.
New Year's Eve, December 31st
5:30 pm
New Year's Day, January 1st
10:00 am
8:30am
6:15pm
Unto Us A
Child Is Born
December 25th
4:15 Children’s Mass
9:00 pm Choir Mass
8:30 & 10:00 am
New Year’s Day
9:00am
For more information:
Call: 415-285-5272 · E-mail: [email protected] · www.stteresasf.org
14 WORLD
Journey toward Christmas reflected in Ukrainian icons
RAMON GONZALEZ
EDMONTON, Alberta – Catholics are called to
prepare spiritually for Christmas by looking into
the life and journey of Christ, said the bishop of the
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton.
Bishop David Motiuk compared Christmas to a
book, saying people cannot only read the last chapter,
but must read the whole book, page by page.
“Christianity is a journey which requires preparation and, in order to prepare well for it, you need to
take time to prepare the home, to prepare the table
and to prepare ourselves spiritually,” the bishop said.
During a November retreat on preparing for Christmas, Bishop Motiuk said icons present a “beautiful
theology” of Scripture and tradition through which
one can reflect on the mystery of God.
The bishop picked three icons for the retreat: the
Annunciation, where the Archangel Gabriel tells
Mary she is the mother of God, the Nativity, and
Jesus’ baptism.
“All of these tell the same story. With the icon of
the Annunciation the beginning of salvation is announced to Mary and to the world,” he said. “Then
nine months later, she physically gives birth to Christ
the child.”
The small icons at St. Josaphat Cathedral in
Edmonton are part of a series written, or painted,
in Ukraine and brought to the cathedral to be used
in worship. Bishop Motiuk asked each participant to
CHRISTMAS LITURGIES
St. Patrick
Church
reflect on the icons and
then share how God
was speaking to them
through the figures or
scenes depicted.
Through the icon
of the Annunciation,
participants were
reminded that God had
long been preparing
humanity to receive the
message of salvation
– a plan that unfolded
with the Annunciation.
“Mary, through
(CNS PHOTO/ST. JOSAPHAT UKRAINIAN
the workings of the
CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL)
This icon depicting the Nativity Holy Spirit, becomes
pregnant with the
is from St. Josaphat Ukrainian
Christ Child. So in our
Catholic Cathedral in Edmonown personal lives we
ton, Alberta.
reflect on this great
mystery of salvation. But we are also called, like
the mother of God, to be the Christ bearer,” Bishop
Motiuk said.
“Like Mary, we are called to be the bearers of
Christ to our family members, our neighbors, our
friends, strangers.”
The Nativity icon enables preparation for the birth
of Christ, the bishop said.
“We see here, in this icon, a most strange God and
a most wonderful God at the same time, because God
becoming a man affords an opportunity for man to
become God,” Bishop Motiuk said, quoting an early
Christian theologian.
In the Nativity icon, figures from the Bible help tell
the story of “a God who wants to draw near to us so
that we can draw near to him.”
The figures in the icon help us to live that story, the
bishop said.
The angels are God’s messengers who also sing
God’s praises. The shepherds receive the good news
that God is going to be born, “so they travel and they
kneel in adoration of the Christ Child.”
The Nativity icon also shows the three Wise Men
who have traveled from the East to present their gifts.
It also presents St. Joseph in conversation with an old
man, Satan, who tries to tempt him to abandon Mary
and the child, Bishop Motiuk said.
“He (Satan) says, ‘Joseph, do you really think that
that’s your child, or is it from another man? Who has
ever heard of a virgin birth?”
The icon includes midwives who, by tradition,
helped Joseph and Mary in the birthing process.
It also includes a representation of the Trinity, of
heaven breaking into earth, “and so we see a symbol
of God the Father, we see a representation through
light and the Holy Spirit enlightening the Christ
child, pointing to the Christ child.”
In the icon of Jesus’ baptism, “you see Christ in the
River Jordan as a fully grown man receiving baptism
from the hand of John the Baptist.”
“I’m hoping by focusing on the icon of our Lord’s
baptism that we will remember our own baptism,”
Bishop Motiuk said. “God rejoices in our willingness
to say ‘yes’ to him and to follow him.”
Our baptism is only the beginning and, in our
daily lives, “we are called to renew our ‘yes’ to God in
prayer, in good works, in fasting, in recognizing the
need of others and responding to them,” he said.
“The baptismal icon is a call to action on our part.”
Christmas Schedule
The Parish of
St. Catherine of Siena
1310 Bayswater Ave.
Burlingame CA 94010
Saturday December 14 - 21, 2013
4:00-5:00 p.m. Advent Confessions (all priests)
December 16 - 24, 2013
6:00 a.m. Misa de Gallo
Reception after the Mass
6:00 a.m. Misa de Gallo
Reception after the Mass
7:30 a.m. Mass
12:10 p.m. Mass
(please note there will be no Mass at 5:15 p.m.)
7:00 p.m. Christmas Carols
8:00 p.m. Traditional “Mass at Midnight”
Christmas Day
*Holy Day of Obligation*
7:30, 9:00, 10:30 a.m. (Latin) and 12:15 p.m.
(please note there will be no Mass at 5:15 p.m.)
7:30 a.m., 12:10p.m. & 5:15 p.m.
756 Mission Street
San Francisco
New Year’s Day
*Holy Day of Obligation*
7:30 a.m., 12:10p.m. & 5:15 p.m.
Christmas Masses:
Christmas Eve (Tuesday, December 24)
The angel
said to
them
“A Savior
has been
born for
you who
is Messiah
and Lord”
LUKE 2:11
4:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
12 Midnight
Christmas Vigil Mass
Christmas Family Mass
Christmas Midnight Mass
11:30 p.m. - Christmas Concert
Christmas Day (Wednesday, December 25)
Masses: 8 a.m., 10:30 a.m., and 12 Noon
Celebrate the Christmas Season
in the heart of Noe Valley!
CHRISTMAS SERVICES
Saint Philip the Apostle Church
STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH
SAN FRANCISCO
8th Avenue at Geary Boulevard (415) 751 0450
Pre-Christmas “0 Antiphon” Latin Masses
Tuesday, December 17th
6:30pm
Fr.Anselm Ramelow
Wednesday December 18th 6:30pm
Fr.Anselm Ramelow
Candlelight Rorate Mass
Stella Maris Choir
Thursday, December 19th
6:30pm
Canon Oliver Meney
Friday, December 20th
6:30pm
Fr. Mark G. Mazza
Saturday, December 21st
10:00am
Fr. Mark G. Mazza
Monday, December 23rd
6:30pm
Fr. Mark G. Mazza
Christmas Schedule 2013
Individual Confessions
Christinas Day Masses
Saturday, December 21st from 2:15-4:15pm Wednesday, December 25th
Christmas Eve Masses
8:00am
Tuesday, December 24th
9:30am Mass
4:30pm Children's Mass
David Lorentz musicians and singers
11:00am Traditional Latin High Mass
10.30pm Christmas Carols
Stella Maris Choir
11:00pm Traditional Latin High Mass
1:00pm Mass
Stella Maris Choir
The parish staff joins me in wishing all of you a very Blessed and Merry Christmas and our promise
of prayers for all of you in the New Year. - Fr. Mark G. Mazza
725 Diamond Street @ 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94112 - Phone: 415-282-0141
Dec. 21 - Saturday 8:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.
Dec. 22 - Sunday 8: 00 a.m. & 10:30a.m.
Christmas Eve - Tuesday, December 24
Vigil of Christmas
Children’s/Family Mass:
Christmas Carols:
Evening Mass:
5:00 p.m.
9:30 p.m.
10:00 p.m.
Christmas Day - Wednesday December 25
Mass of the Lord’s Nativity - 9:30 a.m.
We wish you a Happy and
Holy Christmas Season.
Dec. 28 Saturday 8:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.
Dec. 29 - .Sunday 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.
January 1, 2014
Wednesday
Solemnity of Mary
Mass: 9:30 a.m.
WORLD 15
Pope asks that no one be indifferent to elderly, children, sick, poor
CAROL GLATZ
ROME – Pope Francis prayed that people would
never be indifferent to the cries of the poor, the suffering of the sick, the loneliness of the elderly and the
fragility of children.
“May every human life always be loved and venerated by all of us,” he prayed on the feast of the Immaculate Conception Dec. 8.
Pope Francis marked the feast day with a traditional afternoon visit to a statue of Mary erected near the
Spanish Steps.
He traveled between the Vatican and the heart of
Rome’s tourist and shopping district riding in the passenger front seat of a four-door Ford Focus sedan. The
visit was to pay homage to Mary by praying before the
statue, which commemorates Pope Pius IX’s proclamation in 1854 that Mary, by special divine favor, was
without sin from the moment she was conceived.
The pope offered a large basket of white roses
trimmed with a white- and yellow-striped ribbon decorated with the pope’s coat-of-arms. The basket was set
among scores of other floral arrangements at the foot
of the column topped by the statue.
While he did not give a speech or make any formal
remarks to the crowds gathered for the event, he
spoke from a prepared prayer asking that Mary would
(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)
Pope Francis greets the crowd as he arrives to lead a Marian
prayer service in Rome Dec. 8.
renew in everyone the desire to be holy, charitable,
pure and chaste and to speak words that “glow with
the splendor of truth.”
Standing before the statue, he asked Mary to “help
us stay attentive to listen to the Lord’s voice: that the
cry of the poor never leave us indifferent, that the
suffering of the sick and those in need not find us
distracted, that the solitude of the elderly and the
Christmas Eve
3:30pm Confessions
4:30pm Family Mass
10:00pm Mass (Prelude music 9:30pm)
1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame
Capuchin Franciscans 650-347-7768
Eucalyptus Drive
@ 23rd Avenue
(near Stonestown Mall)
2013 Christmas Schedule
Christmas Eve, Tuesday Dec. 24th
4:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. (Children’s Mass) and 10 p.m.
(No Mass at Midnight)
415.681.2444
www.SaintStephenSF.org
Christmas 2013
Christmas Day, Wednesday Dec. 25th
8:00, 10:00 and 12 noon
Christmas Day
8:00, 9:30, & 11:30am Mass
No evening Mass on Christmas Day
New Year’s Day Masses
Vigil Mass Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013 -7:30 p.m.
8:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
and 11:30 a.m. at Marian Convent
Feast of the Holy Family
of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
Regular Weekend Mass Schedule 12/29
Saturday 3:30pm Confessions
4:30pm (Sunday Vigil)
Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:30am, 6:45pm
Saint Agnes Church
A Welcoming Jesuit Parish
Reconciliation Service
Saturday, December 14 — 11:00am
If you have been thinking about going to Confession,
this service may be for you. All are welcome.
There will be no all-day reconciliation.
CHRISTMAS LITURGIES
Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church
Saint Stephen Catholic Church
4th Sunday of Advent
Regular Weekend Mass Schedule 12/22
Saturday 3:30pm Confessions
4:30pm (Sunday Vigil)
Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:30am, 6:45pm
fragility of children may move us” and that everyone
seek to love and respect every human life.
At the end of the prayers, Pope Francis kissed,
hugged, greeted and blessed a long line of people in
wheelchairs and their caregivers. He received a few
individual white roses from people and a few notes
and presents.
After the ceremony, he stopped at Rome’s Basilica
of St. Mary Major to pray before the basilica’s famous
Marian icon “Salus Populi Romani” (health of the
Roman people).
Reciting the Angelus earlier in the day to the
crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the pope said
Mary never strayed from the love and plan that God
had for her even when accepting that plan fully “was
certainly not easy for her.”
However, God’s love and plan for Mary, he said, are
not something “alien” or irrelevant to the rest of
humanity, despite the presence of sin.
“All along, we, too, have been chosen by God to live a
holy life free from sin,” he said. It is a plan of love that
God renews every time we approach him, especially
in the sacraments.”
The Capuchin Franciscans & Parish Staff
wish our Parishioners and Friends
Peace, Love and Hope for
Christmas and the New Year.
St. John of
God Church
1290 5th Ave.
San Francisco
Christmas
Schedule
Vigil of Christmas
4:15 PM: Christmas Eve
Family Mass with
Children’s Pageant
10:00 PM: Carols
followed by
Christmas Eve Night
Mass at 10:30 PM
The Nativity of
The Lord
Wed., December 25
Masses at 9:30 AM
and 11:30 AM
Christmas Blessings!
Christmas TV Mass Special with
Monsignor Harry Schlitt
Christmas Eve
Liturgies of the Nativity of the Lord
5:00 pm Children’s Liturgy with Children’s Choir & Woodwinds
10:00 pm Christmas Vigil with Choir, Woodwinds, Brass & Timpani
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16 WORLD
UKRAINE PROTEST IS SPIRITUAL MOVEMENT, BISHOP SAYS
ROME – When Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Borys
Gudziak addressed the crowds in Kiev’s Independence Square Dec. 8, he focused on the youth and told
them they could change the country.
The U.S.-born bishop and former rector of the
Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv currently
serves as the bishop for Ukrainian Catholics in
France but was in Kiev for a meeting of the synod of
bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.
Bishop Gudziak was not the only prelate at
the large Dec. 8 demonstration. Retired Cardinal
Lubomyr Husar, the 80-year-old former head of the
Ukrainian Catholic Church, spoke from the main
stage early in the morning. The protest area includes
a tent chapel where liturgy is celebrated, Bishop
Gudziak said, and Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant
clergy have been assisting the demonstrators.
“It’s very much a spiritual movement, a movement
of hearts and values,” Bishop Gudziak told Catholic
News Service Dec. 9. Speaking by telephone from
Kiev, he said the protesters want “a country where
corruption doesn’t reign, where a mother doesn’t
have to pay a bribe to get a doctor for her child,
where students don’t have to pay bribes to get into
university.”
Corrupt politicians, he said, are getting rich, while
the population gets poorer and more people try to
emigrate in search of work.
EUROPEAN BODY ACCEPTS VATICAN REPORT
ON FIGHTING FINANCIAL CRIME
VATICAN CITY – A European body that investigates government efforts to combat financial crimes
has confirmed the Vatican has made significant
progress in reducing the risk that its institutions
could be used for money laundering and financing
terrorism.
“Moneyval” – the Council of Europe’s Committee
of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism
– approved the Holy See-Vatican progress report at a
meeting Dec. 9 in Strasbourg, France.
The committee plans to publish the full report on
its website Dec. 12.
“The adoption of the progress report confirms the
significant efforts undertaken by the Holy See and
Vatican City State to strengthen its legal and institutional framework,” said Msgr. Antoine Camilleri,
undersecretary for relations with states and head of
the Vatican’s delegation to Moneyval.
POPE, WITH EGYPTIAN CATHOLIC LEADER,
PRAYS FOR MIDDLE EAST CHRISTIANS
VATICAN CITY – Concelebrating Mass with the
leader of Egypt’s Coptic Catholics, Pope Francis
prayed for the safety and religious liberty of Christians in the Middle East.
“Let real guarantees of religious liberty be given
to all, together with the rights of Christians to live
peacefully in the places where they were born, in
the native country they love as citizens of more than
2,000 years, in order that they might contribute as
always to the good of all,” the pope said Dec. 9 during
morning Mass in the Vatican guesthouse, where he
lives.
As many as 300,000 Christians have left Egypt for
other countries since 2011, when a popular revolution ended the nearly 30-year secular rule of President Hosni Mubarak.
CHRISTMAS LITURGIES
St. Bruno’s Church
St. Anthony of Padua
1000 Cambridge Street
Novato, California 94947
(415) 883-2177
(650) 588-2121
555 W. San Bruno Avenue, San Bruno, CA
2013 CHRISTMAS WEEK SCHEDULE
C hristmas Masses
Christmas
Masses
Tuesday, December
24
Tuesday,
December 24
Family Vigil Mass with Children’s Choir
December 16 & 24
Posadas
4:00 pm
Father Gregory Bonfiglio, S.J., Presider
6:00 pm
12 Midnight
Vigil Mass with Combined Choirs
Father Stephen Sauer, S.J., Presider
Solemn Mass with the St. Ignatius
Combined Choirs & Chamber Orchestra
Father Gregory Bonfiglio, S.J., Presider
8:00 am
With Organ and Cantor
Father Paul Devot, S.J., Presider
9:30 am
With the Contemporary Ensemble
Father John Coleman, S.J., Presider
11:00 am
With the St. Ignatius Motet Choir
Father Paul Devot, S.J., Presider
There will be no 5:00 pm Mass on Christmas Day.
PARKING AVAILABLE IN ALL UNIVERSITY PARKING LOTS
650 Parker @ Fulton, San Francisco, CA 94118
SAINT EMYDIUS CHURCH
286 Ashton Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
(415) 587-7066 Fax (415) 587-6690
ADVENT / CHRISTMAS / EPIPHANY SEASONS
PARISH CELEBRATIONS 2013 – 2014
Sunday, December 22
Fourth Sunday of Advent – 8:30 am, 10:30 am
Christmas Vigil Mass – 8:00 pm
Christmas Midnight Mass – 12:00 midnight
Christmas Day Mass – 10:00 am
Sunday, December 29
Feast of the Holy Family – 8:30 am, 10:30 am
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
10:00 am
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Solemnity of the Epiphany – 8:30 am, 10:30 am
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Anointing of the Sick Mass (no 8:00 am Mass)
10:00 am
December 18 -20
5 AM
Misa de Gallo
December 23
7 PM
Street Drama
December
7 PM
9 PM
10 PM
24 - Christmas Eve
Vigil Mass in Spanish
Christmas Carol
Midnight Mass
December 25, Christmas Day Masses
8 AM
10 AM
Spanish
12 PM
6 PM
MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR
Our Lady of Mercy Parish
5 Elmwood Drive, Daly City
Between South Mayfair and South Avenues
with plenty of free parking!
Sunday, December 15, to Mon. Dec. 23:
7:00pm Rosary and Confession (except Saturday, 2:30pm)
7:30pm Simbang Gabi Masses (except Saturday, 5:30pm),
followed by a Reception downstairs in our Church Hall.
4:00pm Christmas Eve Mass with our Children’s Choir.
5:30pm Christmas Eve Mass
11:30pm Sing-Along Christmas Carols with our Parish Choir.
12:00am Midnight Mass with our Choir
Wednesday, December 25:
Christmas Day Masses at
7:30am and 9:00am
10:30am with our Children’s Choir
12:00pm with our Parish Choir
7:00am and 9:00am
6:00pm Vigil Mass for New Year - Solemnity of Mary,
Mother of God
Wednesday, January 1, 2014 - Solemnity of
Mary, Mother of God
9:00am & 12:00pm
Chri
t
stmas a
St. Anthony of Padua
Tuesday, December 24, 2013 – Christmas Eve
Confessions from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Masses at 5:00 p.m. (Children’s Mass), 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013– Christmas Day
Masses at 7:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 – New Year’s Eve
Vigil of the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God
Mass at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014 – The Solemnity of Mary,
the Holy Mother of God
A Holy Day of Obligation
Masses at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
SAINT VERONICA CHURCH
434 Alida Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080
650-588-1455
www.stveronicassf.com
CHRISTMAS LITURGY
SCHEDULE 2013
Dec. 15-23, 2013
SIMBANG GABI ADVENT MASSES
Sunday Masses (Dec. 15 & 22) at 4:00 p.m.
Weekday Masses at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday Mass (Dec. 21) at 5:00 p.m.
*****
SATURDAY, DEC. 21, 2013
CONFESSIONS
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
*****
TUESDAY, DEC. 24, 2013
4:00 p.m. (Children’s Mass) & 9:00 p.m.
8:15 p.m. - Christmas Cantata
*****
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 25, 2013
CHRISTMAS DAY
6:45, 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.
6:00 p.m. (Spanish)
*****
TUESDAY, DEC. 31, 2013
8:30 a.m.
*****
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1, 2014
(A HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION)
8:30 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.
WORLD 17
Pope calls for action against scandal of hunger in a world of plenty
CAROL GLATZ
VATICAN CITY – People must stand
united against the scandal of hunger
while avoiding food waste and irresponsible use of the world’s resources,
Pope Francis said.
People should “stop thinking that
our daily actions do not have an impact on the lives of those who suffer
from hunger firsthand,” he said in
a video message Dec. 9, launching a
global campaign of prayer and action
against hunger.
Organized by Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based federation of
Catholic charities, a global “wave of
prayer” was to begin at noon Dec. 10
on the South Pacific island of Samoa
and head west across the world’s time
zones.
Pope Francis offered his blessing
and support for the “One Human Family, Food For All” campaign in a video
message released on the eve of the
global launch.
(CNS/COURTESY OF CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS)
This is the logo for the “One Human Family,
Food For All” Caritas effort against hunger.
With about 1 billion people still suffering from hunger today, “we cannot
look the other way and pretend this
does not exist,” he said in the message.
There is enough food in the world
to feed everyone, he said, but only “if
there is the will” to respect the “God-
CHRISTMAS LITURGIES
given rights of everyone to have access
to adequate food.”
By sharing in Christian charity with
those “who face numerous obstacles,”
the pope said, “we promote an authentic cooperation with the poor so that,
through the fruits of their and our
work, they can live a dignified life.”
Pope Francis invited all people to act
“as one single human family, to give a
voice to all of those who suffer silently
from hunger, so that this voice becomes
a roar which can shake the world.”
The Caritas campaign is also a way
to invite people to pay attention to their
own food choices, “which often lead to
waste and a poor use of the resources
available to us,” the pope said.
Caritas Internationalis invited its
164 member organizations and local
churches to pray for an end to hunger
and malnutrition, by acting on a local,
national or global level against food
waste and in favor of food access and
security worldwide.
Caritas is urging Catholics to take a
few moments at noon Dec. 10 to join the
world in praying against hunger, and
to engage in long-term action through
raising awareness, advocacy, charitable
work or other efforts supporting food
security.
The right to food is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
the “Food For All” launch date of Dec.
10 marks the U.N.’s Human Rights Day.
People can contact their local Caritas organization for more information
or the campaign’s main site at food.
caritas.org.
Christmas at Saint Cecilia
Seventeenth Avenue and Vicente Street
The Parkside District in San Francisco
LIVE BROADCAST: WWW.STCECILIA.COM
5:00 p.m. - Msgr. Michael Harriman
7:00 p.m. - Fr. Felix Lim with our Children’s Choir
11:15 p.m. - Singing of Carols
Midnight Mass - Msgr. Michael Harriman
with our Adult Choir and Orchestra
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CHURCH
60 Wellington Avenue, Daly City, CA 94014
SCHEDULE OF CHRISTMAS WEEK LITURGY
7:30 a.m. - Fr. Felix Lim
with instrumental by Christopher and Matthew Jereza
9:30 a.m. - Msgr. Michael Harriman
with Holy Spirit Music Ministry
11:30 a.m. - Fr. Felix Lim with Adult Choir and Orchestra
NINE DAYS NOVENA AND MASSES (Simbang Gabi or Misa de Gallo)
from Monday, December 16 to Tuesday, December 24, 2013 @ 5:30 AM
SCHEDULE OF CHRISTMAS MASSES:
Tues, December 24, 2013- CHRISTMAS EVE:
5:30 PM-Children’s Mass
11:00 PM-11:45 PM: Christmas Carols
12:00AM: Midnight Mass
Wed, December 25, 2013- CHRISTMAS DAY:
8:30; 10:00; 11:30 AM
1:00 PM (Spanish)
2013 Christmas Schedule
5:00 PM (Family/Children’s Mass)
7:00 PM (Vietnamese Mass)
11:30 PM Christmas Carols
(Holy Name Choral Ministry)
12:00 Midnight Concelebrated Mass
7:30 AM 9:30 AM 11:30 AM
NEW YEAR’S MASS
9:00 AM
Holy Name of Jesus Parish
holy name
holynamesf.org
San Francisco, California
Advent 2013
Family Pageant & Las Posadas, Sunday, December 15,
3:15 p.m., Church Nave
Annual Christmas Concert, Monday, December 16,
7:30 p.m., Church Nave, St. Dominic’s Solemn Mass Choir with strings and harp
Advent Reconciliation Service, Thursday, December 19,
12:00 Noon – 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., Church Nave
Christmas 2013
Christmas Eve, Tuesday, December 24
Advent Mass: 8:00 a.m.
Christmas Eve Vigil Masses:
4:00 p.m. (Family Mass), 6:00 p.m. (Family Mass),
11:15 p.m. Carol service followed by Solemn Mass at Midnight
(No confessions today)
Christmas Day, Wednesday, December 25
Masses at 8:30 a.m. (Parish Mass with Carols),
11:00 a.m. (Solemn Mass with Choral Music), 1:30 p.m. (en español)
(No confessions today and no Masses at 5:30 p.m. or 9:00 p.m.)
Solemnity of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph, Sunday, December 29,
Masses at 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. & 9:00 p.m.
Vigil Mass on Saturday, December 28, 5:30 p.m.
New Year’s Eve Prayer Vigil, Tuesday, December 31,
10:30 p.m., Church Nave
Solemnity of Mary the Holy Mother of God, Wednesday, January 1, 2014
(A Holy Day of Obligation) Mass at 9:30 a.m.
Vigil Mass on Tuesday, December 31, 5:30 p.m.
18 WORLD
Vatican tree’s many shades of ‘branches green’
CAROL GLATZ
VATICAN CITY – If Germans are known for being
punctual, it turns out even their trees show up early.
This year’s Christmas tree from Bavaria’s Bohemian Forest was scheduled to arrive on the feast of St.
Nicholas, Dec. 6.
Instead, cameramen and photographers had to
scramble Dec. 5, when images started showing up on
the Vatican’s 24-hour live video feed of a giant crane
hoisting an 82-foot-tall evergreen in St. Peter’s Square.
Bavarian television was the only crew there for the
tree’s dawn debut. They had been tipped off in the
middle of the night by the German company trucking
the precious cargo to Rome.
“We got here early because the weather was good,
the Alps were clear (of snow on the roads) and there
was no traffic,” Alois Frank, the trucking company
manager, told Catholic News Service.
Holding his lemon-yellow hardhat, Frank said he
and his team had left the town of Waldmunchen at 7
a.m. on Dec. 2 and got to Rome exactly 72 hours later.
They had left earlier than planned to beat bad weather
expected in the North, he said.
This despite an earlier bit of trouble, when a mechanical defect grounded the helicopter with which
they had intended to lift the cut tree from its forest
home. They ended up using a crane to transfer the
conifer onto the open semi that took it to Rome.
Though not the tallest tree ever to grace the square,
it was perhaps one of the fattest. Vatican workmen
struggled for nearly an hour to cut and fit the threefoot-wide trunk into the metal stand’s two-foot-diameter hole.
Saints Peter and Paul Church
Dec. 16
Dec. 17 – 24
7PM
5PM
Advent Penance Service
Christmas Novena
Christmas Eve
4:00 to 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
11:15 PM
12:00 AM
Confessions
Vigil Mass
Christmas Carols
Midnight Mass
Christmas Day Masses
7:30 AM In English
8:45 AM In English
10:15 AM In Cantonese/English
11:45 AM In Italian
1:00 PM In English
No 5:00 PM Christmas Day Mass
(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)
A worker trims the Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square Dec. 6.
The seemingly endless paring and pruning prompted one Italian onlooker to joke that the 7-ton majestic
evergreen would end up as a toothpick.
Using ropes and a large metal pipe as a lever, the
men eventually managed to twist, turn and lodge
the spruce snuggly into the stand. Other trucks from
Waldmunchen had brought another 60 smaller trees,
destined for the Paul VI audience hall and other areas
around the Vatican.
It was Blessed John Paul II who started the tradition of mounting a large Christmas tree in St. Peter’s
Square, and beneath it a Nativity scene, which is not
unveiled until Christmas Eve.
CHRISTMAS LITURGIES
St. Thomas More Church
1300 Junipero Serra Blvd.
at Brotherhood & Thomas More Ways
San Francisco
(415) 452-9634
660 Filbert Street San Francisco 415.421.0809
Christmas Schedule 2013
Mater Dolorosa
307 Willow Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080
Simbang Gabi Masses
December 15th through December 23rd at 7:00 p.m.
(Except December 21st Mass at 5:00 p.m.)
December 23rd – Pot Luck Dinner
Christmas Masses
Christmas Eve, December 24th
5:00 p.m. – Annual Children's Pageant
9:30 p.m. Christmas Caroling (Hallelujah Chorale)
10:00 p.m. (Midnight Mass)
Christmas Day, December 25th
8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., & 12 Noon
New Year's Eve, December 31st
10:00 p.m. (Midnight Mass)
New Year's Day, January 1st
Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God
Holy Day of Obligation
8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. & 12 Noon
Every year since 1982, a different country or Alpine
region has donated the tree. And every year, after
admiring it from his window in the Apostolic Palace,
the pope has highlighted the Christian significance of
the tree bedecked with lights.
Blessed John Paul often recalled how the evergreen
symbolizes “life that does not die,” and teaches that
people’s lives can remain “ever green” if they offer the
gift of themselves in service to others.
Pope Benedict XVI called the Christmas tree a sign
of the shining presence of Jesus, who “shattered the
darkness of error and sin and has brought humanity
the joy of his blazing divine light.”
Yet sometimes, the Vatican evergreen has also taken
on other shades of meaning.
In 2002, the president of Croatia called the tree it donated a stark reminder of Serbian aggression during
his country’s struggle for independence.
Then-President Stipe Mesic, in Rome to present the
tree to the pope, told Vatican Radio the tree came from
a farm owned by a man who had been run off his land
by Serb soldiers.
An 82-foot-tall tree from the forests of Transylvania became a symbol for another former-communist
country, this time, of Romania’s “hope for the unity
of Europe” and of the “deep roots of our Christian
faith,” then-President Ion Iliescu said in 2001, noting
the tree was also the first to come to the Vatican from a
predominantly Orthodox country.
The 1999 tree, from the Czech Republic, reminded
U.S. Cardinal Edmund C. Szoka of the Czech people’s
resistance under communism.
“This tree has weathered strong winds and many
storms, but it survived,” the cardinal told a delegation
from the country. “It reminds me of the long winter of
dictatorship that your people had to overcome.”
Czech seminarians from the donating diocese saw
the tree in a still different light and jokingly described
it as an innocent victim of a “serious environmental
crime.” After putting their bishop on a mock trial,
they sentenced him to plant a new tree in its place.
The seminarians expressed their ecological concerns with a friendly jest, but the following year, protesters at the dedication of the Vatican tree made their
point by throwing smoke bombs and bottles, to which
Italian police responded with canisters of tear gas.
The demonstration, about three blocks from St.
Peter’s Square, was aimed at Jorg Haider, governor
of the Austrian province that had donated the tree.
Haider, who briefly met Blessed John Paul when the
pope greeted the delegation of donors, had drawn
criticism throughout Europe for past comments opposing immigration and expressing sympathy with
some Nazi policies.
December 14, Saturday:
Annual Christmas Party in
Carroll Hall, 7:30pm
December 15-23:
International Christmas Novena
(Simbang Gabi), 7:OOpm (8pm Dec. 15)
December 18, Wednesday:
Confessions at 6:30pm and during
the Novena Mass
December 20, Friday:
3rd Friday Adoration, 7:00pm
December 22, Sunday:
Annual Cable Car Caroling
Distribution of Holy Communion to the
homebound and singing Christmas carols, 2:00pm
December 24, Tuesday:
6:00pm: Parish Mass and Christmas Pageant
9:00pm: Arabic English Mass, with sweets;
and Santa afterward in Carroll Hall
12:00am: Midnight Mass preceded by
Christmas carols at ll:30pm
December 25, Wednesday:
10:00am: English Mass
12:00pm: Brazilian Mass
8:00pm; English Mass
December 31, Tuesday;
5:30pm: Mass
8:00pm-l:00am: New Year’s Eve
family-style dinner with Chef Juan
January 5, Sunday:
Feast of the Epiphany (regular Sunday Mass schedule)
ST. MONICA
PARISH
Geary Boulevard at 23rd Ave, San Francisco
(415) 751-5275
CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2013
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21
Confessions 4:00 - 4:45 p.m. * Mass 5:00 p.m.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22
Masses: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Cantonese) 10:30 a.m.
CHRISTMAS EVE
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24
5:00 p.m. Family Christmas Eve Mass
with Children’s Choir and Nativity Play
11:30 p.m. The Saint Monica Choir
will present festive music of the season
12:00 a.m. Solemn Midnight Mass
Gregorian Chant and Victoria’s O magnum mysterium
CHRISTMAS DAY
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25
Masses: 8:00 a.m. -10:30 a.m. with Choir
No Cantonese Mass and no evening Mass
NEW YEAR’S EVE
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31
Mass: 8:30 a.m.
NEW YEAR’S DAY
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2014
Mass: 10:30 a.m.
FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY
SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 2014
Masses, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Cantonese)
10:30 a.m. with Choir,
Evening Prayer and Benediction at 4:00 p.m.
OPINION 19
A Catholic writer not for the faint of heart
I
n Flannery O’Connor’s novel,
“Wise Blood,” the protagonist
senses Jesus moving “from tree to
tree in the back of his mind, a wild
ragged figure.”
I fell in love
with that
phrase long
ago, and imagined Jesus,
intriguing,
mysterious
and persistent,
flitting in and
out of our
consciousness,
EFFIE CALDAROLA
but at the end
of the day, still
nagging at our attention. Wild and
ragged, this Christ who pursues us.
Unfortunately, that was the end
of my involvement with Flannery
O’Connor until my online Catholic
writers’ group began to discuss her.
How, I wondered, had I majored in
English and not read the great Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor?
I decided to remedy that and began
with two O’Connor novels. Then I
took a break. O’Connor is not for the
faint of heart.
This Southern writer, who died
in 1964, has been in the news lately
because her “Prayer Journal,” written when she was a young writer at
the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has just
been published. The pastor at my
parish devoted his weekly bulletin
column to O’Connor.
“She really didn’t write words – she
punched them into the reader’s face,”
he wrote.
Don’t pick up an O’Connor novel
thinking you’re going to read sweet,
pious Catholic stories. O’Connor’s
writing is troubling, her characters
grotesque. That wild ragged figure
moving from tree to tree draws her
subjects into conversion. Flannery
O’Connor is all about Jesus, but so
intense is her portrayal of that figure
that you may hardly recognize him.
The stories’ main characters
often come to conversion after lives
of graphic violence. They are, in
general, freaks whose behavior – but
persistent call – leaves you gaping. I
know I’m not the only one who put
down my first O’Connor novel with a
bit of confusion, even revulsion.
I’m told that to really understand
O’Connor and her Catholicism, one
must read her letters. That, and her
prayer journal, are next for me.
Meanwhile, I read a 2007 lecture on
O’Connor by Archbishop George H.
Niederauer, the retired archbishop
of San Francisco, whose accomplishments include a Ph.D. in English literature and a life as a former college
English teacher who has a masterly
command of O’Connor.
In his lecture, “Flannery
O’Connor’s Vision of Faith, Church
and Modern Consciousness,” Archbishop Niederauer said, “Flannery
O’Connor expressed impatience with
the kind of Catholicism – and Catho-
lic fiction – which kept everything
nice, shallow, cute and safe.”
He continued: “Genuine Catholicism, she felt, must be as radical and
demanding as its founder’s teaching.”
Like Pope Francis, O’Connor
doesn’t buy into part-time Christianity. She focused on the mystery of the
Incarnation. Accepting Jesus was a
matter of life or death, not a Sunday
morning nicety.
O’Connor famously responded to
the writer Mary McCarthy, a former
Catholic, who described the Eucharist as a symbol. The young O’Connor
retorted, “If it’s only a symbol, to hell
with it.”
It was all or nothing for O’Connor.
In a lecture entitled “The Catholic
Novelist in the Protestant South,”
O’Connor delivered an image that
particularly appeals to me as a Catholic writer but speaks to all of us as we
struggle with truth.
“The poet is traditionally a blind
man,” she said, referring to a literary image. “But the Christian poet,
and the storyteller as well, is like
the blind man Christ touched, who
looked then and saw men as if they
were trees – but walking. Christ
touched him again and he saw clearly.
We will not see clearly until Christ
touches us in death, but this first
touch is the beginning of vision.”
As perhaps our greatest Catholic
American writer, O’Connor deserves
our attention.
Set your spiritual alarm clocks
I
n his autobiography “Report to
Greco,” Nikos Kazantzakis recounts
a conversation he once had with an
old monk. Kazantzakis, a young man
at the time,
was visiting a
monastery and
was very taken
by a famed
ascetic, Father
Makarios, who
lived there.
But a series of
visits with the
old monk left
him with some
FATHER RON
ambivalent
ROLHEISER
feelings as well.
The monk’s
austere lifestyle
stirred a certain religious romanticism in Kazantzakis, but it repelled
him too; he wanted the romanticism,
but in a more palatable way. Here’s
their conversation as Kazantzakis
records it:
“Yours is a hard life, Father. I too
want to be saved. Is there no other
way?”
“More agreeable?” asked the ascetic,
smiling compassionately.
“More human, Father.”
“One, only one.”
“What is that?”
“Ascent. To climb a series of steps.
From the full stomach to hunger, from
the slaked throat to thirst, from joy to
suffering. God sits at the summit of
hunger, thirst and suffering; the devil
sits at the summit of the comfortable
life. Choose.”
“I am still young. The world is nice. I
have time to choose.”
Reaching out, the old monk touched
my knee and said:
“Wake up, my child. Wake up before
death wakes you up.”
I shuddered and said:
“I am still young.”
“Death loves the young,” the old man
replied. “The inferno loves the young.
Life is like a lighted candle, easily
extinguished. Take care – wake up!”
Wake up! Wake up before death
wakes you up. In a less dramatic
expression that’s a virtual leitmotif
in the Gospels. Jesus is always telling us to wake up, to stay awake, to be
vigilant, to be more alert to a deeper
reality. What’s meant by that? How
are we asleep to depth? How are we to
wake up and stay awake?
How are we asleep? All of us know
how difficult it is for us to be inside
the present moment, to not be asleep
to the real riches inside our own lives.
The distractions and worries of daily
life tend to so consume us that we habitually take for granted what’s most
precious to us, our health, the miracle
of our senses, the love and friendships
that surround us, and the gift of life
itself. We go through our daily lives not
only with a lack of reflectiveness and
lack of gratitude but with a habitual
touch of resentment as well, a chronic,
gray depression, Robert Moore calls it.
We are very much asleep, both to God
and to our own lives.
How do we wake up? Today there’s
a rich literature that offers us all
kinds of advice on how to get into the
present moment so as to be awake to
the deep riches inside our own lives.
While much of this literature is good,
little of it is very effective. It invites
us to live each day of our lives as if it
was our last day, but we simply can’t
do that. It’s impossible to sustain that
kind of intentionality and awareness
over a long period of time. An awareness of our mortality does wake us
up, as does a stroke, a heart attack, or
cancer; but that heightened-awareness
is easier to sustain for a short season
of our lives than it is for 20, 30, 40 or 50
years. Nobody can sustain that kind of
awareness all the time. None of us can
live 70 or 80 years as if each day was
his or her last day. Or can we?
Spiritual wisdom offers a nuanced
answer here: We can and we can’t! On
the one hand, the distractions, cares,
and pressures of everyday life will
invariably have their way with us and
we will, in effect, fall asleep to what’s
deeper and more important inside of
life. But it’s for this reason that every
major spiritual tradition has daily
rituals designed precisely to wake us
from spiritual sleep, akin to an alarm
clock waking us from physical sleep.
It’s for this reason we need to begin
each day with prayer. What happens
if we don’t pray on a given morning is not that we incur God’s wrath,
but rather that we tend to miss the
morning, spending the hours until
noon trapped inside a certain dullness of heart. The same can be said
about praying before meals. We don’t
displease God by not first centering
ourselves in gratitude before eating,
but we miss out on the richness of
what we’re doing. Liturgical prayer
and the Eucharist have the same
intent, among their other intentions.
They’re meant to, regularly, call us out
of a certain sleep.
None of us lives each day of our
lives as if it was his or her last day.
Our heartaches, headaches, distractions and busyness invariably lull us
to sleep. That’s forgivable; it’s what
it means to be human. So we should
ensure that we have regular spiritual
rituals, spiritual alarm clocks, to jolt
us back awake – so that it doesn’t take
a heart attack, a stroke, cancer or
death to wake us up.
OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the
Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio,
Texas.
LETTERS
25 years of addressing
homelessness
In a Dec. 6 letter to the editor
(“Shelter for homeless women”),
Susan Black alleges some “juxtaposition” between Pope Francis’ reference to the church as “my mother,
our mother” and the Interfaith Winter Shelter housing 100 men without
also being able to assist women.
Is Ms. Black criticizing the San
Francisco Interfaith Council for
25 years of multi-faithful response
to mayors Agnos, Jordan, Brown,
Newsom and Lee’s annual request
for help with this specific need? Is
this a case of suggesting they do
nothing, because they cannot do
everything?
Mother Teresa said “We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean. But the
ocean would be less because of
that missing drop.” Ms. Black does
not share with us what she herself
is doing to address homelessness
in San Francisco for women or for
men. Perhaps if everyone assisted
and we each added our drop of
assistance to the great work the
Interfaith Winter Shelter provides
we would all be better off.
Laura Bertone
San Francisco
The writer is a member of St. Mary’s
Cathedral Parish.
Liturgically breathing ‘with both lungs’
Re “Geary Boulevard is new
Latin Mass row,” Nov. 22:
To the ordinary form and extraordinary form of the Roman rite being
celebrated on Geary Boulevard at St.
Monica Church at 25th Avenue and
at Star of the Sea Church at Eighth
Avenue, add the Divine Liturgy of
St. John Chrysostom celebrated
at Our Lady of Fatima Russian
Byzantine Catholic Church at 5920
Geary Blvd., in the former convent
of St Monica, every Sunday and on
feast days of the Eastern churches’
liturgical calendar. On Geary Boulevard you can fully “breath with both
lungs” of the Catholic Church, east
and west, as Blessed John Paul II
encourages Catholics to do.
Mary Louise Lambert
Alameda
The writer is a parishioner of Our
Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine
Catholic Church.
Clash of loyalties
Father Ron Rolheiser’s article on
loyalty (“Misguided loyalties,” Dec.
6) was one of the most well thought
out and accurate commentaries
that I have seen. He has pointed out
exactly what the problem within
Catholicism is today. We have one
group who think it is sinful to question authority and another group
who feel that those in authority
are killing Christ’s message. The
USCCB should read this column.
Denis Nolan
Daly City
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20 OPINION
2 bishops dialogue
with Catholic
peace activists
D
uring the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Nov. 11-14
General Assembly in Baltimore, two bishops
took time to share a simple supper – soup and
bread – and dialogue with about 20 Catholic social
justice and peace activists,
including myself.
On the evening of Nov. 12,
several blocks away from
the Waterfront Marriott Hotel, where the bishops were
meeting, Archbishop Joseph
Tobin of Indianapolis and
Bishop John Michael Botean head of the Romanian
Catholic eparchy (diocese)
of St. George in Canton,
TONY MAGLIANO
Ohio, sat down with us to
dialogue about war making,
peacemaking, poverty and military chaplains
in light of the teachings of the compassionate,
nonviolent Jesus.
In the basement of historic St. Vincent de Paul
Catholic Church, Martha Hennessy, a granddaughter of Dorothy Day said, “Based on my
understanding of my grandmother’s life, I would
conclude that priests should not serve in the military, as one cannot serve Christ and the chain of
command at the same time. Part of a chaplain’s
job is to make soldiers feel OK about doing their
job, which is to kill, which Christ said we can’t
do.”
And Hennessy added that Dorothy Day would
not have approved of the earlier bishops’ dinner hosted by the Archdiocese for the Military
Services – with military recruiters lobbying the
bishops to send more chaplains.
She thought her grandmother would have said
the bishops are being complicit with the permanent war economy.
Bishop Botean, who during the Iraq war courageously and prophetically wrote that the war was
“objectively grave evil, a matter of mortal sin,”
said unfortunately the culture has more of an
influence on the church than the Gospel.
He added, “It takes a lot of vision to see the
simple message of Jesus in the Gospel.”
He said, “Our ‘yes’ to the Gospel has gotten
weaker because other interests have made their
way into church thinking, causing a fog around
the Gospel. Since Christianity’s legalization by
the Roman emperor Constantine, church and
state are largely seen as one.” And sadly, the
church has been defending empires ever since –
“accepting homicidal violence.”
Bishop Botean said, “We need your prayers
and witness, if the people lead, the leaders will
follow.”
Archbishop Tobin shared an inspiring story
told by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop
Desmond Tutu during a speech in Indianapolis.
He said when the Dutch came to South Africa,
they had Bibles and we had the land. They asked
us to close our eyes and pray. When we opened
our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bibles.
But that was their big mistake, to give oppressed people the word of God. Because the word
of God teaches that we have God-given worth and
dignity, and that God desires our liberation from
all that oppresses us.
Archbishop Tobin said the most powerful word
spoken to injustice is “No!”
We asked Archbishop Tobin and Bishop Botean
why the bishops during their annual meetings
were not praying and dialoguing about how faithful or unfaithful of a witness they were giving
– in light of our highly militaristic and unjust
economy – to the nonviolent Jesus who always
sided with the poor and oppressed.
They said that they weren’t sure. And that they
weren’t sure how to encourage this radical dialogue to happen. But they said they would try.
Words of hope from two humble bishops
earnestly striving to challenge America’s war
machine and system of economic injustice.
MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice
and peace columnist.
A
The joy of evangelizing
n emergency tends to focus one’s mind and
energies and clarify one’s priorities. If a fire
breaks out in a home, the inhabitants will
lay aside their quarrels, postpone their other
activities and together get
to the task of putting out
the flames. If a nation is invaded by an aggressor, politicians will quickly forget
their internal squabbling
and put off their legislative
programs in order to work
together for the shared
purpose of repulsing the
enemy.
Christianity is grounded
FATHER ROBERT
in what its earliest propoBARRON
nents called “good news.”
There is, therefore, something permanently fresh,
startling and urgent about the Christian faith. It
is not a bland spirituality or generic philosophy;
it is news about something amazing and unprecedented, that a carpenter from Nazareth, who
declared himself the son of God, has been raised
from the dead. This is why there is a grab-you- bythe-lapels quality about the early Christian witness: The authors of the New Testament are not
trading in generalities and abstract principles;
they are telling the world about a revolution, an
earthquake, an emergency. Jesus is risen from the
dead, and therefore he is the king. And because he
is the king, your whole life has to be rearranged
around him.
This evangelical urgency, which Pope Francis
gets in his bones, is the leitmotif of the pope’s
apostolic exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The
Joy of the Gospel”). He knows that if Catholicism
leads with its doctrines, it will devolve into an
intellectual debating society, and that if it leads
with its moral teaching, it will appear fussy and
puritanical. It should lead today as it led 2,000
years ago, with the stunning news that Jesus
Christ is the Lord, and the joy of that proclamation should be as evident now as it was then.
The pope helpfully draws our attention to some
of the countless references to joy in the New Testament: “Rejoice!” is the angel’s greeting to Mary;
in her Magnificat, the Mother of God exults, “My
spirit rejoices in God my savior”; as a summation
of his message and ministry, Jesus declares to his
disciples, “I have said these things to you so that
my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete”; in the Acts of the Apostles, we are told that
“wherever the disciples went there was great joy.”
The pope concludes with a wonderfully understated rhetorical question: “Why should we not
also enter into this great stream of joy?” Why
not indeed? Displaying his penchant for finding
the memorable image, Pope Francis excoriates
Christians who have turned “into querulous
and disillusioned pessimists, ‘sourpusses,’” and
whose lives “seem like Lent without Easter.”
Once this basic truth is understood, the rest of
the church’s life tends to fall into place. A church
filled with the joy of the resurrection becomes a
band of “missionary disciples,” going out to the
world with the good news. Ecclesial structures,
liturgical precision, theological clarity, bureaucratic meetings, etc., are accordingly relativized
in the measure that they are placed in service of
that more fundamental mission. The pope loves
the liturgy, but if evangelical proclamation is the
urgent need of the church, “an ostentatious preoccupation with the liturgy” becomes a problem;
a Jesuit, the pope loves the life of the mind, but if
evangelical proclamation is the central concern
of the church, then a “narcissistic” and “authoritarian” doctrinal fussiness must be eliminated;
a man of deep culture, Pope Francis loves the
artistic heritage of the church, but if evangelical
proclamation is the fundamental mission, then
the church cannot become “a museum piece.”
If there is one thing that bothers Pope Francis
above all it is the endless bickering within the
Catholic Church itself: “How many wars take
place within the people of God and in our different communities!” Elitists on both the left and the
right want to establish a church of the pure, those
who hold all of the right positions on the key issues, and they are none too shy about critiquing,
attacking and excommunicating those who don’t
agree with them. But the church is meant to be a
countersign to the divisiveness and violence of
the world, a place where love, compassion and
mutual understanding hold sway. When we become but an echo of the fallen world, then we are
like salt that has lost its savor, and our evangelical persuasiveness is fatally compromised.
Twice in the exhortation, Pope Francis references the ancient principle “bonum diffisivum
sui” (“the good is diffusive of itself ”). When
we find something that is good or beautiful or
compelling – whether it is a movie, a work of art
a book or a person – we don’t keep it to ourselves.
Rather, we are filled with a missionary fervor to
share it. This principle applies to our experience
of Christ Jesus risen from the dead. We want,
with a reckless abandon, to give this supremely
good news away. This energy, this compulsion –
“woe to me if I do not evangelize” – is, for Pope
Francis, the beating heart of the church.
FATHER BARRON is the founder of the global ministry
Word on Fire and the rector/president of Mundelein
Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.
Enjoying Christmas to its fullest
A
fter experiencing Christmas for so many
years, it’s easy for it to become “just another” Christmas.
It makes me think of a quote by A.J. Conyers
in his book, “The Listening
Heart: Vocation and the
Crisis of Modern Culture.”
“To be modern is to exist
increasingly in a state of
distraction. Our attention
is drawn away from those
things that have been
placed in our care, away
from the center of our apparent concern to something abstractly related
FATHER EUGENE
to that concern, and thus
HEMRICK
away from God himself
who is the center of all
things.”
What exactly is Conyers’ point?
He tells the story of his wife’s father, a skilled
cabinet maker, taking him to his shop to see
a desk he completed. Its unvarnished wood is
beautiful white oak and its drawers are made to
perfection: “No steel tracks or ball bearings; no
gimmicks; they fit perfectly in place.”
In contrast to this proud cabinet maker is a
furniture factory not far from his father-in-law’s
shop. Its main object, however, is bottom-line
profit. Unlike his father-in-law, whose eyes are
focused on perfection and beauty, it is focused on
making money, which in turn distracts it from
the time needed to produce perfection.
It’s no exaggeration to say Christmas is filled
with distractions that encourage us to focus
on everything but what it truly means. Sales
abound, the latest and best products are touted,
and there is the devilish marketing ploy, “Your
loved ones deserve the best!”
Christmas is anything but this. It is a time to
celebrate God loving us so dearly that God came
to live with us. It is a special opportunity to show
our gratefulness and let joy fill our hearts.
In the book, “Advent and Christmas Wisdom
From St. Augustine,” author Agnes Cunningham
has a meditation for each day of Advent leading
up to Christmas.
On the first day, she quotes St. Augustine, who
invites us to reflect on our body and how God
endowed it with senses, coordinated its limbs
and gave it a beautiful form.
At the end of the meditation is an Advent action: “Take time today, in gratitude for the gift
of life and the grace of life in Christ, to pray
for your parents and for the priest who baptized
you.”
These thoughts are what Christmas is about, a
time in which we don’t allow anything to distract
us from its true meaning.
FAITH 21
SUNDAY READINGS
Third Sunday of Advent
‘… There has been none greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.’
MATTHEW 11:2-11
ISAIAH 35:1-6A, 10
The desert and the parched land will exult; the
steppe will rejoice and bloom. They will bloom
with abundant flowers, and rejoice with joyful song. The glory of Lebanon will be given to
them, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they
will see the glory of the Lord, the splendor of our
God. Strengthen the hands that are feeble, make
firm the knees that are weak, say to those whose
hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is
your God, he comes with vindication; with divine
recompense he comes to save you. Then will the
eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf be
cleared; then will the lame leap like a stag, then the
tongue of the mute will sing. Those whom the Lord
has ransomed will return and enter Zion singing,
crowned with everlasting joy; they will meet with
joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning will flee.
PSALM146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10
Lord, come and save us.
The Lord God keeps faith forever, secures justice
for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The
Lord sets captives free.
The Lord gives sight to the blind; the Lord raises
up those who were bowed down. The Lord loves the
just; the Lord protects strangers.
The fatherless and the widow he sustains, but
the way of the wicked he thwarts. The Lord shall
reign forever; your God, O Zion, through all generations.
JAMES 5:7-10
Be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the
precious fruit of the earth, being patient with
it until it receives the early and the late rains.
You too must be patient. Make your hearts firm,
because the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do
not complain, brothers and sisters, about one
another, that you may not be judged. Behold, the
Judge is standing before the gates. Take as an
example of hardship and patience, brothers and
sisters, the prophets who spoke in the name of
the Lord.
MATTHEW 11:2-11
When John the Baptist heard in prison of
the works of the Christ, he sent his disciples to
Jesus with this question, “Are you the one who
is to come, or should we look for another?” Jesus
said to them in reply, “Go and tell John what you
hear and see: the blind regain their sight, the
lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the
dead are raised, and the poor have the good news
proclaimed to them. And blessed is the one who
takes no offense at me.” As they were going off,
Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John,
“What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed
swayed by the wind? Then what did you go out to
see? Someone dressed in fine clothing? Those who
wear fine clothing are in royal palaces. Then why
did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you,
and more than a prophet. This is the one about
whom it is written: Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way
before you. Amen, I say to you, among those born
of women there has been none greater than John
the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven
is greater than he.”
What are signs the presence of God is real?
J
ohn the Baptist in today’s Gospel is a curious figure to focus on during Advent. This is supposed
to be a happy season, anticipating the birth of
Jesus. What is it that people await?
The Isaiah reading is full
of words like exult, rejoice,
glory, singing and gladness.
That’s surely a promise of a
bright future. But underlying
the promise is a lot of human misery. Isaiah is a pastoral realist. He is speaking to
a group of once- believers,
now teetering on the edge
of despair and disillusionment. Perhaps they are so
disgusted with being oppressed, humiliated and on
the losing end of a war that
they wonder what good their
faith in God is. Wouldn’t it
SISTER ELOISE
more sense to give it
ROSENBLATT, RSM make
up, and not expect anything
of a God who didn’t answer
their prayers?
The prophet sees that the land is parched and
dry – what has happened to the spirit of the community. People feel physically weak, frightened,
SCRIPTURE
REFLECTION
POPE FRANCIS
CHRIST GUARANTEES AGAINST HYPOCRISY
Modern-day Pharisees know the right
words, Pope Francis said, but by not putting
them into practice, “they do harm; they trick
us and make us believe that we have a beautiful home, but it is without a foundation”
because it is not built on rock. “The rock is
Jesus Christ. The rock is the Lord,” he said,
concelebrating his morning Mass Dec. 5 at the
Vatican with the eight members of the Council of Cardinals advising him on the reform
of the Roman Curia and church governance.
He prayed that God would give all Christians
“the grace of humility.” The madness of the
hypocrite leads to haughtiness, the pope said.
“A Christian word without Christ moves
you toward vanity, self-confidence, pride and
power for power’s sake.”
and spiritually empty. God seems distant. They are
humiliated and defeated, living without honor or
self-respect. The entire population has lost direction, purpose and any ability to move forward.
Like a community of the disabled, they are unable
to see God, unable to hear God, unable to walk in
God’s way, unable even to voice what they are going
through or express their deepest spiritual needs
and desires.
The genius of Isaiah is his ability to reignite
hope in a God who will restore the land and lift
the spirit of a downtrodden, voiceless people. His
poetry is so beautiful that the hearer cannot help
but be caught up in convictions so persuasive that
they overcome the gloom of despair and depression. The amazing thing is that life starts all over
again as though no one ever suffered any limitation. What they endured was only temporary and
reversible. “Then will the eyes of the blind be
opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared; then will
the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue of the
mute will sing.”
Today’s Gospel echoes Isaiah. John the Baptist
is a weakened, disempowered man, a self-doubting
prophet who is imprisoned. He wonders whether
he was right to spend all his energy on reform, and
on turning people’s attention to Jesus. “Are you the
one?” is mostly a question John the Baptist an-
guishes over for himself. Did his life have meaning,
or has he been following a mirage? Did he see the
truth clearly, or was he mistaken?
Jesus sends back an answer that is indirect. Look
at what happens to people around me – they start
their lives over. Who can imagine a congenital disability getting reversed? Yet here it happens. Who
could imagine the social revolution – that nameless, unimportant, lowest of-the low in the population, would be given any attention by a healer
like Jesus? “The poor have the Gospel preached to
them”– as though they are important enough to
be counted among the elite and educated. So many
reversals.
We don’t know if John the Baptist was lifted out
of his despair, encouraged by Jesus’ answer or
understood its meaning. We don’t know if he heard
the praise Jesus gave him, or felt vindicated by the
way Jesus honored him. He may have been dead by
the time Jesus said these words.
But the Gospel reminds us of his powerful role
as the messenger for Jesus the healer. He was right
in his life’s purpose. He was not mistaken. He is
the messenger of hope, the promise that no matter
what your life was before, you start afresh now.
MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT holds a doctorate in theology and is a lawyer in private practice in San Jose.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 16: Monday of the Third
Week of Advent. Nm 24:2-7, 15-17a. PS 25:4-5ab, 6
and 7bc, 8-9. Mt 21:23-27.
SAMTHANN
died 739
December 18
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17: Tuesday of the Third
Week of Advent. Gn 49:2, 8-10. PS 72:1-2, 3-4ab,
7-8, 17. Mt 1:1-17.
An Irish abbess known for her
wisdom, Samthann is thought to
have become a nun in Donegal, after a nobleman to whom she was betrothed acceded to
her wish to marry only God. She founded Clonbroney
Abbey in Longford, where she chose to live a simple
life. She would not accept large estates for the abbey,
and its herd was limited to six cows. According to a
biography, she advised a monk who inquired about
the appropriate attitude for prayer that one could pray
in every position: sitting, standing, kneeling or laying.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18: Wednesday of the
Third Week of Advent. Jer 23:5-8. PS 72:1-2, 12-13,
18-19. Mt 1:18-25.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19: Thursday of Third
Week of Advent. Jgs 13:2-7, 24-25a. PS 71:3-4a,
5-6ab, 16-17. Lk 1:5-25.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20: Friday of Third Week of
Advent. Is 7:10-14. PS 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. Lk 1:26-38.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21: Saturday of the Third
Week of Advent. Optional Memorial of St. Peter
Canisius, priest and doctor. Sg 2:8-14 or Zep 3:1418a. PS 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21. Lk 1:39-45.
22 FROM THE FRONT
FAMILY: Palestinian Catholics balance American dream, Holy Land roots
FROM PAGE 1
For the Shihadeh family, visiting
the Holy Land is an integral part of
their cultural identity as the number
of Christians in the region dwindles.
Since the mid-1990s areas of the Holy
Land such as Bethlehem have seen
dramatic population loss because of
conflict and regional unrest. Recent estimates report that there are
slightly more than 6,500 Christians
remaining in Bethlehem.
“Within 20 years the beautiful
massive churches in the Holy Land
will only be attended by tourists,”
Sam Shihadeh said. “There will be
no more regular parishioners; these
churches will be tourist attractions.”
The San Francisco Bay Area is home
to more than 3,000 Arab Christians,
many of whom moved here in the
late 1960s, as did Sam and Nancy with
their families of origin, Sam said.
“The family is wonderful in terms
of interacting with the community,”
said St. Veronica School principal
Kathryn Lucchesi. “Nancy is really
active; helping with everything here
in terms of festivals or faith-sharing
activities.”
St. Veronica pastor Father Charles
Puthota said the family is engaged in
the life of the parish.
“They are Catholics who practice
their faith and are proud of it,” he
said. “They bring up their children
in the faith and the kids are always
ready to participate.” The two boys,
Adeeb and Nader, serve enthusiastically as altar servers, he said.
The children view Christmas
through the prism of their family’s
faith.
“Christmas is about giving back
to the community,” said 14-year-old
Adeeb.
(PHOTO BY EDISON TAPALLA/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Sam Shihadeh, daughter Serena, wife Nancy and sons Nader and Adeeb shared traditions and stories during a visit to their South San Francisco home.
“Christmas is about spending
time with family,” said sixth grader
Nader, 12.
For Serena, 10, Christmas is all
“about celebrating the birth of
Jesus.”
Sam added that his hope is to one
day bring the children to Bethlehem
to celebrate Christmas Mass.
Sam keeps his family close to their
roots by visiting Palestine and Israel
every other summer, connecting
with relatives and friends and visiting holy sites in Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jerusalem and elsewhere.
In San Francisco, the Ramallah Club helps them nurture their
Christian Arab roots, Sam said. The
Ramallah Club of San Francisco is a
social club that meets once a month
to share family events, ethnic foods,
dancing and other traditions passed
down from older generations.
“The Ramallah Club is where I
was able to meet other Arab Christians growing up,” Nancy said.
“That’s where I was really able to
appreciate the community and our
traditions.”
Recalling his youth in the Arab
community here, Sam said, “You
would visit the family members in
order of age on Sundays or everyday
during the Christmas season. For us
the Christmas season is about giving
back and asking myself, what is my
responsibility as a Christian to my
neighbor?”
Sam and his family participate in
a number of charitable activities
during the Christmas season including the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for
Tots toy drive and local events with
the Ramallah Club and Kiwanis Club.
“We ask our kids to pick out two toys
each to give to Toys for Tots,” Sam
said.
In recent years the family has also
adopted a needy family to help provide for their Christmas dinner. “It is
our responsibility to provide a better
life for our family than we had,” Sam
said, “but to also teach them to appreciate the things they have here.”
MANDELA: ‘Madiba exuded leadership … touched my heart, soul, life’
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an inspiration to billions by “epitomizing the values of sacrifice and
patience,” he said.
Mandela “negotiated the way forward in our nation’s darkest hour,”
he said.
Mandela’s fight against racial
domination was done “not by force,
but with understanding and love,”
Mlangeni said, noting that “it was
his goal to unite all colors and
creeds to live together in mutual
respect and kindness.”
Anti-apartheid political prisoners
“sacrificed years” to imprisonment,
which undermined their health and
well-being, yet on his release Mandela “remained a man of integrity”
and an “incomparable force,” Mlangeni told tens of thousands who
braved rain for the memorial.
The service was said to have
been one of the biggest gatherings
of world leaders, with nearly 100
presidents, kings, dukes, sheiks
and celebrities in attendance. Pope
Francis sent a special envoy, Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the
Pontifical Council for Justice and
Peace. Archbishop William Slattery of Pretoria represented the
Southern African Catholic Bishops’
Conference.
The crowd, whose unruliness
had included loud booing of South
African President Jacob Zuma, was
(CNS PHOTO/KAI PFAFFENBACH, REUTERS)
A young man pays tribute to former South African President Nelson Mandela as people gather
at First National Bank Stadium in Johannesburg for his memorial service Dec. 10. Madiba is
Mandela’s clan name and used with affection by South Africans.
silenced by a Nobel peace laureate,
retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
“I am not going to give you a
blessing until all of you stand, and I
want to hear a pin drop,” he said.
Speaking Afrikaans and Xhosa
before switching to English, Archbishop Tutu said Mandela was “a
great gift.”
He urged those present to join
him in this pledge: “We promise
God that we are going to follow the
example of Nelson Mandela.”
In a prayer at the start, Anglican
Archbishop Thabo C. Makgoba of
Cape Town asked God to “help us
to build on the firm foundations
left by Madiba” and to “give us the
grace to live the values of Madiba
and to share them with the world.”
“Go forth revolutionary and
loving soul .... Go home Madiba,
you have certainly done all that is
noble,” he said.
U.S. President Barack Obama
told the gathering, “We will never
see the likes of Nelson Mandela
again.”
He said it was tempting to remember Mandela as an icon, removed
from society, but the former president “insisted on sharing with us
his doubts and his fears; his miscalculations along with his victories.
‘I am not a saint,’ he said, ‘unless
you think of a saint as a sinner
who keeps on trying.’
“We can choose a world defined
... by peace, justice and opportunity,” he said, noting that Mandela
lived out his belief that, “’I am the
master of my fate, I am the captain
of my soul.’
“What a magnificent soul it was.
May God bless the soul of Nelson
Mandela, may God bless the people
of South Africa,” Obama said.
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24 ARTS & LIFE
A look at classic cinema’s depiction of personal holiness
JOHN MULDERIG
“MIRACLE OF SAINT THERESE” (1959) is the
engrossing French production dramatizing the life of
the saint known as the Little Flower who entered the
Carmelite cloister in Lisieux at the age of 14, died of
tuberculosis in 1897 at age 24 and was canonized in
1925. Director Andre Haguet makes a serious, largely
successful attempt to picture the saint’s life within
her religious community and the meaning of her “little
way” to spiritual perfection. Dubbed.
NEW YORK – “Life holds only one tragedy,
ultimately: not to have been a saint.” So wrote the
French man of letters Charles Peguy (1873-1914).
Yet, while its attainment may be every human
being’s vocation, sanctity can be a difficult quality
to capture in the dramatic arts. Thus the stage and
screen alike have seen a procession of hollow holy
ones and canonized cardboard.
As the church’s observance of the Year of Faith
draws to a close, here in alphabetical order are
capsule reviews of 10 movies that have avoided that
parade of the forgettable. Instead, these pictures
have successfully risen to the challenge of depicting personal holiness in a way that’s both credible
and engaging.
“MONSIEUR VINCENT” (1947) is a lucid, moving
account of St. Vincent de Paul’s work among the
poor and the oppressed in 17th-century France, from
his first labors in a plague-ravaged village and his
appeals to the conscience of the aristocracy to the
founding of an order devoted to charitable works and
his death in 1660. Director Maurice Cloche portrays
the poverty of the times and the cruelty of the regime
in starkly convincing fashion, providing a solid historical framework within which Pierre Fresnay’s performance in the title role shines with a warm compassion and spiritual intensity which most viewers will
find irresistibly compelling. Subtitles.
“BECKET” (1964) is a superb adaptation of Jean
Anouilh’s classic play about the deep friendship and
later conflict between England’s King Henry II (Peter
O’Toole) and his friend, Sir Thomas a Becket (Richard
Burton), later a saint, and how their days of drinking
and womanizing came to an end when the monarch
appointed Becket archbishop of Canterbury, leading
to Becket’s spiritual transformation and ultimate martyrdom. Director Peter Glenville’s film is rather stagy
and leisurely paced, but the Oscar-winning dialogue
is uncommonly literate, and the performances are
brilliant.
“ENTERTAINING ANGELS: THE DOROTHY DAY
STORY” (1996) is a compelling dramatization of the
early life of Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day
(Moira Kelly) as a young journalist whose agonizing
over failed love affairs leads her to reflect on her life
and, in doing so, discovers God, then meets Peter
Maurin (Martin Sheen) and puts his ideas of social
justice into practice during the Depression. Directed
by Michael Ray Rhodes, the biographical movie
depicts a woman’s spiritual journey in convincing
dramatic fashion, though it is largely interior, deeply
religious and specifically Catholic in its sensibilities.
“THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS” (1950) is the
remarkable Italian production about the beginnings of the Franciscan order as its founder sets the
example of humility, simplicity and obedience for his
first followers at Portiuncula, a little chapel near Assisi, from which they depart into the world to preach
peace. Directed by Roberto Rossellini from a script
co-written with Federico Fellini, the movie’s form is
as simple and sincere as the subject of the narrative
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Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More, “A Man for All Seasons” (1966).
which relates a series of little incidents realistically,
yet marvelously conveyed with an infectious sense of
joy by an anonymous cast of monks from a Roman
monastery. Subtitles.
“A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS” (1966) is the engrossing drama of the last seven years in the life of Thomas
More, Henry VIII’s chancellor, who met a martyr’s
death rather than compromise his conscience during
a period of religious turmoil. Robert Bolt’s script is
masterfully directed by Fred Zinnemann, with a standout performance by Paul Scofield in the title role,
among other notable performances from a uniformly
fine cast. The historical dramatization achieves an authentic human dimension that makes its 16th-century
events more accessible and its issues more universal.
IN “THE MIRACLE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA”
(1952), when a young girl reports seeing a vision of
the Mary in 1917 Portugal, she is harassed, then arrested by atheistic government officials but nothing
can stop the crowds of faithful from coming to the
site in expectation of a miracle. Directed by John
Brahm, the religious story is treated with reverence
yet is dramatically interesting with such characters as
the good-hearted thief (Gilbert Roland) who helps her.
Inspirational fare.
“OF GODS AND MEN” (2011) is a brilliant dramatization of real events, recounting the fate of a small
community of French Trappists (led by Lambert Wilson and including Michael Lonsdale) living in Algeria
during that nation’s civil war in the 1990s. Targeted
by violent Muslim extremists, the monks must decide
whether to continue their medical and social work
for the local population or abandon them by fleeing
to safety. Using the tools of the monastic life itself,
director Xavier Beauvois finds a path to the heart of
the Gospel through simplicity, a compassionate sense
of brotherhood and an atmosphere of prayer enriched
by sacred music and potent silence. The result, a
profound mediation on the cost of discipleship, is a
viewing experience from which every adult as well as
many mature teens can expect to profit. Subtitles.
“THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC” (1928) is a
silent-screen masterpiece portraying the heresy trial,
confession, recantation and execution of the Maid of
Orleans (Maria Falconetti) in a performance of such
emotional power that it still stands as the most convincing portrayal of spirituality on celluloid. Directed
by Carl Dreyer, the work is essentially the interior epic
of a soul, consisting largely of close-ups of Joan’s
face and those of her interrogators accomplished in a
fashion which is never static as the camera explores
the inner struggle between human frailties and spiritual strength. Some duplicitous churchmen, medicinal
bloodletting and a restrained torture scene.
“THE SONG OF BERNADETTE” (1943) is the
durable adaptation of the Franz Werfel novel about
Bernadette Soubirous (Jennifer Jones), the French
schoolgirl who in 1858 saw apparitions of the Virgin
Mary at a grotto near Lourdes but news of this is initially
discredited by her stern pastor (Charles Bickford), the
town prosecutor (Vincent Price) and an envious teacher
(Gladys Cooper). Directed by Henry King, the story of a
young girl’s faith withstanding the disbelief of her elders
is made dramatically convincing by a fine cast, evocative photography and largely unsentimental treatment.
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Seton New Life Center marks 10th anniversary
Marking its 10th anniversary, St.
Elizabeth Ann Seton New Life Center at Seton Medical Center in Daly
City is being remodeled to include
new examination room equipment
and new computers, as well as decorative touches.
The center serves mothers and
their babies in San Mateo County
and the Bay Area.
“We welcome low-income expectant women regardless of age, culture, nationality or situation,” said
Adilia Morales, the center’s manager. “We have served more than 7,000
women since we opened more than
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“No one is turned away, and we
do serve walk-in patients,” Morales
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Formerly known as the Mother
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center was renamed in 2003 and
comprehensive clinical programs
were added. It now offers pre- and
post-natal classes on health and
nutrition, gestational diabetes,
preparation for birth, parenting,
breastfeeding and more. Support
groups assist clients in navigating
their changing family dynamics to
our ever-changing health care system. The majority of the mothers
deliver at Seton Medical Center.
The center “is a celebration
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“A client’s visit would include an
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psycho/social care, as well as general health information – all in one
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Clients also receive assistance
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FRIDAY, DEC. 13
CONCERT: Choirs of St. Charles Parish, 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos,
7 p.m. Program includes carols, old
and new and the original children’s
musical, “Bright Lights.” Admission
free. Sara Murphy, director of music
ministry, (650) 591-7349; visit www.
stcharlesparish.org.
REUNION: Graduates and former
students of schools in the Archdiocese
of San Francisco, Irish Cultural Center,
45th Avenue at Sloat Boulevard, San
Francisco, 11 a.m. Tickets at $45 include lunch, no-host bar, and seasonal
entertainment from the St. Gabriel
School choir. Email Kevin@parknorth.
com or visit “I went to Catholic school
in San Francisco” Facebook page.
(415) 713-6341.
SATURDAY, DEC. 14
ROSARY FOR LIFE: Lay Catholics,
priests, and seminarians pray the
rosary for life. Joyful meeting on sidewalk outside the old Chevy’s, 2907 El
Camino Real, Redwood City where
a Planned Parenthood opened. The
event is peaceful and begins at 10
a.m. Nativitymenlorespectlife@yahoo.
com.
SUNDAY, DEC. 15
CONCERT: Advent Lessons and Carols,
St. Mary’s Cathedral choir and St.
Mark’s Lutheran Church choir perform
works by Stanford, Victoria, and others; St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street
at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco,
3:30 p.m., (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.
SATURDAY, DEC. 14
SUNDAY, DEC. 15
CHRISTMAS REMEMBRANCE:
Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old
Mission Road,
Colma, All Saints
Mausoleum, 11
a.m. Msgr. John
Talesfore, pastor,
St. Mary’s Cathedral, presides.
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CONCERT: Mission Dolores Basilica
Choir, Mission
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people are invited to join in the procession. Jessica Munn, (650) 572-1468.
CONCERT: Marin County’s St. Mary’s
Church on Nicasio Square, 2 p.m.,
followed by wine and food reception
at Druids Hall. The concert will feature
Christmas and secular pieces performed by Mike Duke, Nicasio Creek
Singers, Al Sailor, Timothy Murphy’s
Ghost, Antonia Van Becker and Greg
Lee. Tickets for adults are $50; children
under 12, $10. All proceeds go to the
renovation of the historic church consecrated in 1867. For reservations, call
(415) 662-2057.
PRO-LIFE WALK: San Mateo ProLife under the banner of Our Lady of
Guadalupe, 2 p.m., meeting at the
large doors of St. Matthew Church, El
Camino Real and Ninth Avenue, San
Mateo and continuing on El Camino
Real from the church to Planned
Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave, rain or
shine. Walk is about 1.5 miles. Rosary
will be said during walk. All pro-life
CONCERT: Choirs and musicians of St
Bartholomew Parish, Alameda de las
Pulgas at Crystal Springs Road, San
Mateo, 3 p.m. Program of Christmas
favorites old and new accompanied by
a 15-piece orchestra. Freewill donations appreciated.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18
DIVORCE SUPPORT: Drop-in support groups, Separated and Divorced
Catholic Ministry, Archdiocese of
San Francisco, St. Stephen Church,
O’Reilly Hall, 451 Eucalyptus Drive,
near Stonestown Mall, San Francisco,
7:30 p.m. Evenings begin and end with
prayer and include introductions and
conversation, moderated by Jesuit
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[email protected].
GRIEF SUPPORT: A free holiday grief
support workshop, 10:30 a.m.-noon,
SATURDAY, DEC. 21
LIVING NATIVITY: Knights of St.
Francis of Assisi present a live Nativity
at the Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi,
Vallejo and Columbus, San Francisco,
5-8 p.m. (415) 425-6682; visit www.
knightsofsaintfrancis.com.
priests, and seminarians pray the
rosary for life. Joyful meeting on sidewalk outside the old Chevy’s, 2907 El
Camino Real, Redwood City, where
a Planned Parenthood opened. The
event is peaceful and begins at noon.
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CALENDAR 27
SUNDAY, DEC. 22
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 25
CONCERT: Christmas carol singing and
concert at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo at Columbus, San
Francisco, 2 p.m., featuring the Golden
Gate Boys Choir and Bell Ringers, shrine
cantors and organist. Reception follows.
Admission free. Visit www.shrinesf.org.
CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough
Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m. featuring Angela Kraft
Cross, organist. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.
All recitals open to the public. Freewill
offering accepted at the door; www.stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking.
TUESDAY, DEC. 24
DIVORCE SUPPORT: Drop-in support groups, Separated and Divorced
Catholic Ministry, Archdiocese of San
Francisco, St. Bartholomew Church,
Spirituality Center, 600 Columbia
Drive., San Mateo. 7 p.m. Evenings
begin and end with prayer and include
introductions and conversation, moderated by Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf,
(415) 422-6698; [email protected].
CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS:
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal
celebrant and
homilist at midnight Mass and
9 a.m. Mass
Christmas Day
at St. Mary’s
Cathedral,
Archbishop
Gough Street at
Salvatore J.
Geary BouleCordileone
vard, San Francisco. The midnight liturgy will
be preceded by caroling at 11:30
p.m. featuring the cathedral choir
and a brass ensemble. The Mass
at 9 a.m. will include Gregorian
chant. The cathedral choir leads
song at the cathedral’s 11 a.m.
Mass Christmas Day. A Christmas Eve vigil Mass at 5:30 p.m.
will be preceded by caroling at 5
p.m. by the cathedral children’s
choir and St. Brigid School choir.
(415) 567-2020; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.
SATURDAY, JAN. 4
SATURDAY, DEC. 28
priests, and seminarians pray the rosary
for life. Joyful meeting on sidewalk outside the old Chevy’s, 2907 El Camino
Real, Redwood City, where a Planned
Parenthood clinic opened. The event is
peaceful and begins at 2 p.m. [email protected].
FRIDAY, JAN. 3
FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of
St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa
Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m., followed by healing service
and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil
from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal.
RACHEL RETREAT: Rachel’s Vineyard
Retreat, Jesuit Retreat Center, Manresa
Way, Los Altos. Rich Bona, (650) 7871411; [email protected].
CEMETERY MASS: First Saturday Mass, Holy
Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old
Mission Road,
Colma, All
Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m.
Father Tony
LaTorre, pastor,
Father Tony
St. Philip the
LaTorre
Apostle Parish,
is principal
celebrant and homilist. (650)
756-2060; www.holycrosscemeteries.com.
tery in Menlo Park will host a discernment weekend for women ages 18-40
who are discerning their vocation in
life. The weekend is Friday evening to
Sunday noon. The sessions will include
daily Mass, adoration, chanted Divine
Office, and conferences given by the
Dominican nuns and friars. To register,
contact the vocation directress at (650)
322-1801, ext. 19, or email vocations@
nunsmenlo.org or visit https://nunsmenlo.org/discernment-weekend.
TUESDAY, JAN. 14
FERTILITY SUPPORT: San Francisco
Catholic Infertility Fellowship meets
monthly to provide emotional, spiritual,
and practical support to married individuals and couples who have been struggling to conceive a child for six months
or more. Meetings are second Tuesdays,
7 p.m., Siena Room, St. Dominic Parish,
Bush Street at Steiner, San Francisco.
Visit http://sfcatholicif.blogspot.com/.
SEPARATED DIVORCED: Meeting
takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at
Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7
p.m. Groups are part of the Separated
and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the
archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf,
WEDNESDAY, JAN 15
takes place first and third Wednesdays,
7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly
Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San
Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry
in the archdiocese and include prayer,
introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf,
FRIDAY, JAN. 10
DISCERNMENT WEEKEND: Is God
calling you? The Dominican Contemplative Nuns of Corpus Christi Monas-
SATURDAY, JAN. 18
CRAB FEED: Archbishop Riordan High
School crab feed dinner benefiting
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SATURDAY, JAN. 25
NEWMAN TALK: Paulist Father Terry
Ryan on the spirituality of 19th-century
Cardinal John Henry Newman at Old
St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant
Ave. at California, San Francisco, 9
a.m.-noon. Admission free. (415) 2883845.
TUESDAY, JAN. 28
takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at
Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7
p.m. Groups are part of the Separated
and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the
archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf,
(415) 422-6698, [email protected].
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FAMILY MEDICINE
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WEEKLY CATHOLIC TV MASS: A
TV Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6
a.m. on the Bay Area’s KTSF Channel
26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the
Sacramento area at 5:30 a.m. on KXTL
Channel 40. It is produced for viewing
by the homebound and others unable
to go to Mass by God Squad Productions with Msgr. Harry Schlitt, celebrant. Catholic TV Mass, One Peter
Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. (415)
614-5643; [email protected].
BETTER HEALTH CARE
❖ Supports 12-step
Complimentary phone consultation
DAILY TV MASSES: EWTN airs Mass
daily at 5 a.m., 9 a.m., 9 p.m. and at
4 p.m. Monday through Friday. EWTN
is carried on Comcast 229, AT&T
562, Astound 80, San Bruno Cable
143, DISH Satellite 261 and Direct TV
370. In Half Moon Bay EWTN airs on
Comcast 70 and on Comcast 74 in
southern San Mateo County.
HOME HEALTH CARE
❖ Compassionate and Intuitive
San Francisco: 415.337.9474
SUNDAY, JAN. 19
SENIOR CARE
❖ Directed, effective and results-oriented
Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT
Crusader athletics. Enjoy delicious
fresh crab, good fun and good company. $60 per person. www.riordanhs.
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We invite you to sing with
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HELP WANTED
In 1854, a small group of Mercy Sisters
landed in San Francisco to begin a system
of health care, education and ministry to
the poor. Today, over 150 years later, the
SISTERS OF MERCY IN BURLINGAME
are seeking an experienced Administrator
to manage the care and operations of their
assisted living center, Marian Oaks, which
provides care and services to Sisters.
If you have expertise in management of assisted
living, long-term care or other elder services and
and have the desire to give back to those who
have given so much, please consider applying
for this unique and rewarding position.
Requirements include: Eldercare and
management experience, minimum of bachelor
degree in health care, administration, social
work or related field. Registered Nurse a plus.
PLEASE SEND YOUR RESUME TO:
Paula Ruggiero
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010
[email protected]
fax (650) 548-0673
DIRECTOR OF RECRUITING
AND ADMISSIONS
The Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology is a small, non-profit Catholic institution offering graduate degrees in
philosophy and theology. Following its mission as
a Center of Studies of the Dominican Order, DSPT
emphasizes the relationship between these two
disciplines and is the only Catholic graduate institution in the U.S. to offer students the opportunity to
integrate them in a concurrent MA program. We
are a small Catholic graduate school with an enrollment of just over 100 students and find ourselves at
an exciting moment of program expansion.
For the full job description visit www.dspt.edu/employment
Associate Academic Dean at JST-SCU
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Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University
(located in Berkeley) seeks candidates for a faculty
administrative post at the rank of senior lecturer.
Renewable term appointment, doctorate required.
Experience in graduate theological education
preferred. Responsibilities include course
scheduling, program review, liaison to Graduate
Theological Union consortium. Competitive salary,
full benefits. Review of applications begins in
January; position starts in June.
Contact Lisa Maglio [email protected].
Visit http://scu.edu/hr/careers/faculty.cfm?id=3937

December 13, 2013 - Catholic San Francisco

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