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Parishioners seek faith-based psychotherapy with pastor’s blessing
CHRISTINA GRAY
When he approached Dominican
Father Michael Hurley, pastor of St.
Dominic Church, this summer to help
strengthen his resolve in returning to
the church, D.L., a new 46-year-old parishioner asked him for spiritual direction and help managing his obsessivecompulsive disorder and anxiety. The
pastor gave him a prescription of sorts.
“He said he could guide me spiritually, but that he could help me more if I
had side-by-side therapy with a licensed
psychotherapist, a Catholic one,” he
told Catholic San Francisco Dec. 2 in
the downtown San Francisco office of
Mollie Tobias, a faith-based marriage
and family therapist Father Hurley
recommended.
Tobias is one in a growing but
still-obscure group of mental health
professionals nationwide who identify
themselves as Catholic faith-based therapists. They treat depression, anxiety,
grief, marital conflict, trauma, eating
disorders and other issues by combining
traditional counseling methodologies
with prayer, fasting, the sacraments
and other ways that are consistent with
church teachings, beliefs and traditions.
Psychotherapists typically help clients manage self-limiting or destructive
thought, behavior or communication
patterns. They may recommend medication, but only psychiatrists or other
physicians may prescribe it.
“We invite God into the therapy session,” said Tobias. “We have potential
for healing through him and ultimately
he is the one who can heal us.”
Christine Watkins, a Catholic psychotherapist and licensed clinical social
worker in Alameda said the distinctions
between her work and that of a secular
therapist are many and profound.
“For one, God’s will, rather than
human will, is the focus of my counseling,” she said. “God’s will can never go
wrong. Human will can.”
Both Tobias and Watkins said prayer
is an integral part of their counseling
practices. They begin and end each session with prayers of healing, discernment or intercession. These intimate,
personal prayer experiences can be
transforming, even to faithful practicing Catholics, Watkins said.
“They take this new knowledge of
prayer with them into their daily lives,
allowing God, the ultimate healer and
counselor, to guide them more directly,”
she said.
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Mollie Tobias, a faith-based marriage and family therapist in San Francisco, counsels a client.
According to Father Hurley, a
trusted Catholic therapist can be an
important ally for parish priests who
often don’t have the time or training
to adequately address the breadth of
human conditions their congregations present to them.
“I don’t have that expertise,” he
said. “As a priest, you have to channel
your energies toward the Gospel and
running the parish.”
Many priests are extremely gifted
in helping people through their counsel, said Watkins. “But if a Catholic
counselor has special training in an
area like couples’ therapy, trauma
or substance abuse, he or she may
be better able to help a person than a
priest who does not,” she said.
Star M., a parishioner of a San
Francisco parish, began seeing Tobias in March not long after she went
to her priest with what she called,
“a longstanding anger problem.” He
didn’t have a good solution for her
and co-workers recommended Tobias.
“I really needed someone to talk to,”
she said.
“With other therapists they sit
there and listen to you,” said the
38-year-old wife and mother. “But it
feels like there is something missing. I found out that missing thing is
God.”
Star M. said turning to prayer has
helped decrease her feelings of anger.
“If I feel like I’m going to lose my
temper, I pray right away. I ask God to
calm my heart.”
D.L. has been working with Tobias
on learning coping mechanisms for
his OCD-induced anxiety. He said his
anxiety is in part, a medical issue,
and medication has been helpful. But
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it’s also caused by behaving inconsistently with his faith.
“Being a nonpracticing Catholic was
not sitting well with me,” he said. “The
conflict and guilt was so intense and
the fear of dying not doing what I really believe so fearsome.”
Secular therapists who treated him
on and off since 2005 helped in many
ways, he said, but as he began moving back in the direction of his faith,
their counsel sometimes increased his
anxiety, particularly in discussions of
moral conduct.
“My therapists would tell me not to be
so hard on myself,” he said. Being told
“it’s OK” eased his anxiety and guilt in
the moment about behavior he knew
was not right with church teachings.
“So I continued doing these things and
found myself stuck in the same place.”
Finding a good Catholic psychotherapist is best through word of mouth
said Joseph Pribyl, a psychotherapist
whose Quo Vadis Therapy Center is
based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“The ordinary Catholic may be
mystified about therapy or even hostile
toward it because they’ve heard, or
believe that all therapists try to take
the place of the sacraments or try to
convince people that their sense of morality is wrong,” Pribyl said. “Catholic
therapists have to educate people about
what therapy is and what it’s good for.”
Parishes can be helpful in offering that
education, he said.
Watkins said that the Catholic
Church offers the greatest remedies
that exist on earth, the sacrament of
the Eucharist, and the sacrament of
reconciliation.
“A good Catholic psychotherapist
will make sure that their clients un-
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Christians struggle with
sadness, anxiety, grief and
depression during the Christmas season like others do,
according to a Catholic psychotherapist whose practice is
devoted to Catholic individuals, couples and families. Joseph Pribyl, a licensed
Catholic psychotherapist in
Milwaukee, said in a recent
post at catholictherapist.com
that despite the theme of hope
during Advent, Christmas and
the coming New Year, memories of what one has lost or
has never had can be overwhelming during this season.
“How difficult it can be
to find oneself in grief and
continually hear the message
that it’s a time to be joyful,”
he said.
The season’s rituals can
awaken the ache of loss or
longing for many. For others, economic strain, family
conflicts or unhappy childhood memories can combine
to crush the happiness out
of this season of spiritual
comfort.
According to Pribyl, it can be
helpful to recall that Christ’s
birth was also associated with
hardship and turmoil.
Acknowledging suffering
from the Gospel narratives
and connecting it with one’s
own suffering can be a useful
tool, he said.
“Knowing that his purpose in being born that holy
night was to give us comfort
and support during our own
difficulties, may up the hope
for joy in life and relationships
as promised by the Gospel,”
he said.
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Archbishop: Global interfaith gathering
affirms universality of marriage
RICK DELVECCHIO
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
joined faith leaders from around the
world in Rome in November at a global
gathering that affirmed the vitality of
marriage across religious, economic
and cultural lines and boosted confidence in the fight to protect the institution from threats against it.
“It wasn’t until the last day that it
dawned on me on how historic this
was, because there’s never been anything like this done before,” the archbishop told Catholic San Francisco in
an interview Dec. 10. “There’s been,
in this country and I think in other
countries, good cooperation among a
lot of Christians of different Christian
confessions but something this broad
and this global on an interfaith basis
had never been done before.”
The Nov. 17-19 gathering, “The
Complementarity of Man and Woman:
An International Colloquium,” was
sparked by a U.S. Pentecostal minister,
Rev. Eugene Rivers, and sponsored
by the Vatican’s Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith with cosponsorship by the Pontifical Council
for the Family, the Pontifical Council
for Interreligious Dialogue and the
Pontifical Council for the Promotion of
Christian Unity.
Speakers from 14 religious traditions
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Pope Francis greets Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone during a meeting with bishops from
Barcelona, Spain, at the Vatican Nov. 26. Looking on is Cardinal Lluis Martinez Sistach of
Barcelona, center.
took part, including Christian, Jewish,
Buddhist, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and
Jain.
Organizers screened six films
highlighting the universality of malefemale complementarity in marriage
and in educating children. The movies
were filmed in a number of countries
and often in poorer neighborhoods,
showing that the family unit of mother, father and children remains central
regardless of religious, cultural and
economic differences.
“It was exciting,” said Archbishop
Cordileone, who heads the U.S. bishops’ subcommittee to promote and
defend marriage. “There was a great
energy and a real sense that everyone
brings some sort of gift or contribution
to the table and by working together
we can help further understanding of
this basic human good.”
German Cardinal Gerhard Muller,
prefect of the doctrinal congregation,
gave the first address at the conference and attended every session. Pope
Francis gave the second talk, stressing
sexual complementarity as the heart
of the marriage bond.
The “culture of the temporary” has
led many people to give up on marriage as a public commitment, the pope
said, according to a report by Vatican
Radio. “This revolution in manners
and morals has often flown the flag
of freedom, but in fact it has brought
spiritual and material devastation to
countless human beings, especially the
poorest and most vulnerable.”
The crisis in the family has produced
a crisis “of human ecology,” the pope
said.
“Although the human race has come
to understand the need to address
conditions that menace our natural
environments, we have been slower
to recognize that our fragile social
environments are under threat as
well, slower in our culture, and also in
our Catholic Church,” he said. “It is
therefore essential that we foster a new
human ecology and advance it.”
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TOM BURKE
Over the last few years, I have been doing all interviews for this column by email.
I send questions, the subject sends
me answers and I compose a Street
item. It’s worked wonderfully and
I look forward to continuing the
mode. That said, Good Shepherd
Sister Marguerite Bartling circled
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Sister
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Having grown up in Southern
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to religious life and when I became acquainted with
the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, an international
congregation, their compassion for adolescents and
young women in great need resonated with me.
In addition to my religious formation, my undergraduate degree from Loyola Marymount
University in Los Angeles and graduate degree in
social work from San Francisco State prepared me
for various ministries in Los Angeles, Las Vegas,
Memphis, Chicago, St. Louis, and Rome, Italy. I
returned to San Francisco in 2009 to serve as executive director of Good Shepherd Gracenter. For my
present ministry with women in recovery, I became
credentialed as a certified addiction treatment
counselor.
Good Shepherd Gracenter belongs to a worldwide
network of ministries sponsored by the Sisters of
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for women.
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recovery from drug and alcohol addiction and to
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District, Good Shepherd Gracenter offers a home to
approximately 33 women every year while providing recovery support to our graduates and referral
services to many women who call daily for help.
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health, achieve employment and an income, reduce
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Literacy intervention helps Helene transition to middle school
This is the third of three Advent stories focusing on
clients served by Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese
of San Francisco. The theme of this installment is compassion. The client stories are actual but the names
have been changed for publication.
JEFF BIALIK
Helene lives in the Canal neighborhood of San
Rafael in Marin
County. When she
started the fifth
grade last year, she
was struggling with
reading comprehension and completing her homework. She lacked
confidence in her abilities and her parents were not
able to help her due to their lack of education.
As she thought about moving on to middle school,
Helene was both excited and a bit scared. This can be
a challenging and stressful transition for even the best
prepared student; and especially for a child uncertain
how she will cope with learning in an unfamiliar environment and in a new language that she fears she has
yet to master.
Children, like Helene, living in the Canal neighborhood of San Rafael face multiple challenges that can
affect their performance in school. Coming from hardworking, low-income families, many of the children
live in homes where at least one parent has no more
than a high school education and at least one parent speaks English as a second language. Often, both
parents work, sometimes multiple jobs, and are unable
to provide much needed support and supervision for
their children to excel academically. In the wake of
these challenges, children can perform significantly
below grade level in reading and writing. This makes
them less likely to make academic progress, more
likely to drop out of high school, and less likely to
graduate from college.
Stepping up to address this challenge, Catholic Charities Canal Family Support launched a new literacy
intervention component to its Kid’s Club program last
year, thanks to donations of computers and software
from St. Hilary School in Tiburon. The goal is to help
students, like Helene, read at grade level.
Studies show that reading proficiency by third grade
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is highest for struggling readers who are poor and
living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty. The
baseline data collected in the first year of our literacy
project shows that less than half of the students were
reading at grade level.
Kids Club participants are strategically placed in
work groups, which are maintained throughout the
school year. Each child participates in reading groups
based on reading level and they focus on incentivized
learning questions, vocabulary projects and games. By
placing students in specific groups based on performance rather than grade, Catholic Charities can focus
on issues that are common with the group.
As a result of the small-group nature of her class
and getting the extra attention she needed, Helene’s
vocabulary increased and her reading comprehension
skills improved significantly. Her love of reading grew
and she was excited to visit the library every week
with her mother. By the end of the school year, Helene
was able to read independently with little support, and
her reading assessment score increased by more than
100 points.
Helene was able to successfully transition to middle
school and she looks forward to going to college one
day and coming back to volunteer to help the younger
students at Catholic Charities Canal Family Support.
BIALIK is executive director of Catholic Charities in the
Archdiocese of San Francisco.
6 ARCHDIOCESE
St. Matthew 6th and 7th graders help
pregnant moms via Gabriel Project
VALERIE SCHMALZ
Class discussions sparked by the
archdiocesan Respect Life Essay Contest led a group of St. Matthew sixth
and seventh graders to create “baby
shower baskets” for pregnant women
in difficult pregnancies.
When the project was over, the
middle-schoolers had collected enough
items to put together 40 baby shower
baskets for the Gabriel Project, an
Archdiocese of San Francisco parishbased ministry to pregnant women.
“Babies are a blessing,” said seventh
grader Venetia Prontzos, who with
Chelsea Galvin coordinated the baby
basket drive which concluded during
Advent, in mid-December.
In the fall, St. Matthew pastor Father
Anthony McGuire asked seventh-grade
teacher Mary Doherty to coordinate
a diaper drive for the Gabriel Project.
She handed the project over to Chelsea
and Venetia, who in discussions with
the other students, quickly decided to
create baby shower baskets to help the
expectant mothers feel a spirit of celebration. Sixth graders also pitched in.
“We wanted to do more than a diaper
drive,” said Chelsea. “We wanted them
to be excited about the baby,” Talia
Cresci said.
(PHOTOS COURTESY ST. MATTHEW SCHOOL)
Venetia Prontzos and Chelsea Galvin
The students collected money, new
and gently used clothes, baby shoes
and socks, diapers and wipes. Then
they sorted the clothes, matched up
color-coordinated outfits – including
newborn clothes but also at least one
other outfit for the older baby, up to
18 months.
During class discussions during
October, Respect Life month, and
St. Matthew Gabriel Project team members are, top from left, Emily Blunt, Morgan Smith, Annie Johnson, Giovanni Affrunti, Diego Abaya, Maria Prontzos, Yvonne Galvin. Bottom row, Ally
Compton, Bruna Fort, Stella Sanguinetti, Jazmine Reyes, Kylie O’Donoghue, Isabel Echevarria,
Rita Haddad, Paige Ivancich, Gianni Ludovico. Front, Venetia Prontzos, Chelsea Galvin.
in preparing their entries into the
archdiocesan Respect Life Essay Contest, the students learned that some
expectant mothers are daunted by
their pregnancies, because they are
not married, are poor, or have other
challenges, said Doherty.
“Every child deserves a chance at
life,” Venetia said, noting that each
basket also included a prayer card to
St. Gabriel, the angel who announced
to Mary that she would be the mother
of God, “with the message that nothing is impossible with God.”
“This Gabriel Project is the best
kept secret,” said Janet Healy, a St.
Matthew parishioner and Archdiocese of San Francisco Gabriel Project
coordinator.
“Any parish that has a school,
I want to get them involved,” said
Healy. “That is one of our hopes to
turn this culture around. Whoever
gets the kids, has the culture.”
For more information about The Gabriel
Project email sfgabrielproject@gmail.
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all of us who share this continent,
we need to remember that the
Holy Family too was once a family
Archbishop
of immigrants and refugees,” he
Charles J.
wrote in a Dec. 12 column for the
Chaput
archdiocese’s news website, Catholic Philly.com.
He was among several prelates who took the occasion of the feast day to connect the image of Mary
with immigrants.
Archbishop Chaput said Mary’s special place in
the heart of the church, as “theotokos, the ‘Godbearer,” and a “witness of courage, humility and
grace” has rightfully led to her being honored in
many ways and by many titles, including Our Lady
of Guadalupe, “patroness of America, one continent north and south.”
In Mexico, as Our Lady of Guadalupe, “Mary
appeared not to the rich or powerful, or even to
the local bishop, but to the poor peasant Juan
Diego,” Archbishop Chaput said. “Her tenderness
to the poor is something we need to remember this
Advent, because our Christian faith is more than
a set of ideas or beautiful words. It’s meant to be
lived. It’s meant to transform our thinking and our
actions.”
While he was critical of actions taken by President Barack Obama in the past six years “that a
great many faithful Catholics regard as damaging
– harmful not just for people of religious faith, but
for the nation at large,” he also praised Obama for
doing “the right thing” with executive actions on
immigration.
The deferral of deportation for many immigrants,
Archbishop Chaput said, will prevent “the breakup of families with mixed immigration status.”
Obama’s actions, he said, also protect “individuals
who were brought to the United States as children,
and have grown up knowing only American life and
nothing of their parents’ native land.”
On Nov. 20, Obama announced several steps he is
taking administratively, exercising prosecutorial
discretion to – at least temporarily – protect potentially millions of people from deportation and give
them documents allowing them to work legally.
One change will expand the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, by ending
an upper age limit and rolling forward the date by
which an applicant must have arrived in the United
States as a minor.
The bigger change will create a similar program
for potentially about 4 million people who lack legal
status, but whose children are U.S. citizens or legal
residents. It will apply only to people who’ve been
in the country for five years or longer and who pass
background checks, register with the government
and pay probably hundreds of dollars in fees.
“For more than a decade the U.S. Catholic bishops
have pressed repeatedly for just and sensible immigration policy reform,” Archbishop Chaput said
in his column, “Each of our major political parties
has faulted the other for inaction, and each – despite
its posturing and alibis – bears a generous portion
of the blame.
“Whatever the timing and motives of the current
executive action might mean, deferring deportations serves the survival and human dignity of
the families involved. And it may, finally, force the
White House and Congress to cooperate fruitfully,”
he said.
In Yakima, Washington, Bishop Joseph J. Tyson
echoed similar themes in his homily Dec. 12, tying
the feast day to the needs, rights and dignity of immigrants and the important work they do to meet
the needs of the nation.
“You – the people of this Catholic Diocese of
Yakima in Central Washington – you are God’s
chosen ones. You have a nobility and a greatness
that comes – not from a passport, a visa, a green
card, or an I-9 work permit – but from being created
and fashioned from the very image and likeness of
God,” Bishop Tyson said.
“Certainly, I am keenly aware that you receive
the very opposite message from various sectors of
our North American society,” he continued. “This
comes from the fact – and I will not mince words –
that we have become a nation built on half-truths.
“We fail to tell truth that without undocumented
immigrant labor we would have very little food on
our nation’s table. We fail to tell the truth about the
human cost this takes on our nation’s agricultural
workers: the fear of deportation and the constant
threat of family separation.”
Catholics’ devotion to their faith “means that we
do not allow the failed political debates to dominate
our lives – publicly or privately,” Bishop Tyson said.
He added, “When we live the truth of our deepest human identity that comes – uniquely from our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ – then maybe one day
our civil leaders will catch up and imitate in just
legislation the human dignity and the transcendent
citizenship we all possess right now.”
SF Annual Memorial Service for
2014 Homicide Victims
The annual event is an outgrowth of the homicide prayer services The Restorative Justice Ministry helps organize each time
a person is killed by violence. A group of people visits the site of the death to pray and remember the victim and support
the family. The prayer services culminate each year with the memorial service, now in its third year.
Survivors of violent crimes, family and friends of the victims, ex-offenders, restorative justice ministers, and youth from the
community will join. All will help carry crosses to remember the people that died as a result of violence in 2014.
Sa
aturday, January 17, 2015
Program
Gathering and Prayer
Prayer Walk begins
1st Stop (approx.)
2nd Stop (approx.)
Time:
9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
11:45 a.m.
Location:
St. Anthony Catholic Church, 3215 Cesar Chavez, San Francisco
24th and Mission Street, San Francisco
16th and Mission Street, San Francisco
Memorial Service
12:30 p.m.
Mission Dolores Parish, 3321 16th Street, San Francisco
Organized by The Restorative Justice Ministry for Victims and Families of Violent Crimes, Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns
of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. For more information contact Julio Escobar 415 861-9579.
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St. Francis of Assisi Church
1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto
650/322-2152
Mass Schedule For Christmas and New Year
Confessions
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
10:30 am to 12:00 pm and 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Christmas Eve & Day Masses
6:00 pm Bi-lingual Children’s Mass
Followed by Pastorela
Midnight Bi-lingual Mass
Thursday, December 25, 2014
7:30 am English 9:30 am Spanish
11:30 am English 1:30 pm Spanish
New Year’s Eve & Day Masses
6:00 pm Spanish
Midnight Bi-lingual Mass
Thursday, January 1, 2015
7:30 am English 9:30 am Spanish
11:30 am English 1:30 pm Spanish
St. Anthony of Padua
1000 Cambridge Street
Novato, California 94947
(415) 883-2177
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St. Anthony of Padua
Wednesday, December 24, 2014 – 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.
Thursday, December 25, 2014 – Christmas Day
Masses at 7:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014 – New Year’s Eve
Vigil of the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God
Mass at 5:00 p.m.
The Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God – A Holy Day of Obligation
Masses at 9:00 a.m., 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)
Jesus always brings joy, pope says
Pope Francis greets a boy as he arrives to celebrate Mass at St. Joseph Parish in Rome Dec. 14 on the weekend of Gaudete (Rejoice)
Sunday. Before praying the Angelus Dec. 15, the pope said sadness is a sign of being far from Christ because Jesus offers everyone the
strength to persevere with hope and joy. “God is the one who came to save us and offer help, especially to hearts gone astray,” he said.
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CATHOLIC CHURCH
SERVED BY THE CARMELITES
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Street at Connecticut
PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR
ADVENT & CHRISTMAS MASSES
Catholic San Francisco
Tuesdays & Fridays
Wednesdays in Advent
8:30am
6:15pm
Christmas Masses
Vigil, December 24th
Unto Us A
Child Is Born
December 25th
New Year’s Day
4:15 Children’s Mass
9:00 pm Choir Mass
8:30 & 10:00 am
9:00am
For more information:
Call: 415-285-5272 · E-mail: [email protected] · www.stteresasf.org
STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH
San Francisco | and Community of Saint Philip Neri
8th Avenue at Geary Boulevard | (415) 751-0450
ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2014
Monday – Friday
7:30 am (Extraordinary Form in Latin)
12 Noon English
Advent Masses
Sunday Masses
Advent Confessions —
Saturday Vigil 4:30 pm
Sunday 8:00 am, 9:30 am,
11:00 am (High Mass in Latin with Choir),
1:00 pm
15 minutes before every Mass
Saturdays 3:15 pm to 4:15 pm
* Wednesdays during Advent
6:30 pm to 7:30pm
Individual Confessions:
Saturday, December 20th 2:15 pm to 4:15 pm
Monday, December 22, Penance service 7:00 pm
and 15 Minutes before every Mass.
Christmas Eve Masses: (Wed. Dec. 24)
4:30 pm Children’s Mass, 10:00 pm Carols
10:30 pm English Midnight Mass,
12 Midnight High Mass in Latin with Choir
Christmas Day (Thurs. Dec. 25)
8:00 am Quiet Mass, 9:30 am Choir and Organ,
11:00 am High Mass in Latin With Choir
1:00 pm Contemporary Music
David Lorentz musicians and singers
The Parish of Star of the Sea and the Community of
Saint Philip Neri wishes you a very Blessed and Merry Christmas
and our promise of prayers for all of you in the New Year.
CHRISTMAS LITURGIES 9
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
CHURCH AND SCHOOL
60 Wellington Avenue, Daly City, CA 94014
UPCOMING PARISH CELEBRATIONS & SERVICES
Parish Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Saturday, December 13 @ 5:30 a.m. (Bilingual)
Advent Recollection – Thursday December 11 @ 7:00 p.m.
Advent Penance Service – Friday, December 12 @ 7:00 p.m.
SIMBANG GABI – NOVENA AND MASSES
From Tuesday, December 16 to Wednesday, December 24 @ 5:30 p.m.
SCHEDULE OF CHRISTMAS MASSES:
Wednesday, December 24 – Christmas Eve
5:30 p.m.: Children's Mass | 11:00-11:45 p.m.: Christmas Carols
12:00 a.m.: Midnight Mass
1111 Gough St., San Francisco • Tel: (415) 567-2020
www.stmarycathedralsf.org
Thursday, December 25 – Christmas Day
8:30, 10:00, 11:30 a.m. (English) | 1:00 p.m. (Spanish)
ADVENT/CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2014
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Sunday, December 14,ʹͲͳͶ
7:00 PM - Concert and dessert reception
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Christmas Season Schedule /
Horario de la Temporada Navideña
2014 - 2015
Friday / Viernes
12 Dec 2014
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
4:45 a.m. Mañanitas y Misa Solemne
Sunday / Domingo
14 Dec 2014
Basilica Choir 23rd Annual Candlelight Christmas Concert
Concierto Navideño del Coro de la Basilica
5:00 p.m.
Monday / Lunes
15 Dec 2014
Communal Penance Service
7:00 p.m. (Basilica)
Tues./Martes - Tues./Martes
16 Dec - 23 Dec 2013
Las Posadas (en el Auditorio)
7:00 p.m.
Wednesday/Miercoles
24 Dec 2014
Christmas Eve / Víspera de Navidad
5:00 p.m.
Family Christmas Mass - Children’s Choir
11:30 p.m.
Christmas Carol Sing - Basilica Choirs
12:00
Midnight Solemn Mass / Misa Solemne (bilingüe)
Thursday/Jueves
25 Dec 2014
Christmas Day / Día de Navidad
10:00 a.m.
Mass in English
12:00 noon Misa en Español
Thursday/Jueves
1 Jan 2015
New Year’s Day Mass: Feast of Mary the Mother of God
Misa del Año Nuevo: Fiesta de la Madre de Dios
9:00 a.m.
Mass in English
12:00
Misa en Español con Procesión
Sunday / Domingo
4 Jan 2015
Blessing of Expectant Parents at all Masses
Sunday, December 21,ʹͲͳͶ
Christmas Eve
Regular Daily Mass Schedule
6:45 AM, 8:00 AM and 12:10 PM
5:00 PM Caroling - Caroling by the Archdiocesan Children’s Choir and
the St. Brigid School Honor Choir
5:30 PM - Christmas Vigil Mass
11:30 PM Caroling - Caroling by the Cathedral Choir and
Golden Gate Brass Quintet
12:00 AM - Midnight Mass
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Principal Celebrant
Christmas Day
9:00 AM - Gregorian Chant Mass with the Cathedral 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:
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Wednesday, December 31,ʹͲͳͶ
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:
Regular Daily Mass Schedule:
6:45 AM, 8:00 AM, 12:10 PM
The Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Saturday, January 3 - Vigil - 5:30 PM
Sunday - 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM (Español)
Epiphany / Día de los Reyes
5:00 pm.
Vigil Mass (Sat. 3 Jan)
8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m.
Mass in English
12:00
Misa en Español
4:00 PM - Epiphany Lessons and Carols with the Golden Gate Boys Choir
and Bellringers, Archdiocesan Children’s Choir and St. Brigid School Honor
10 CHRISTMAS LITURGIES
The Parish of
St. Catherine of Siena
1310 Bayswater Ave.
Burlingame CA 94010
Christmas Masses:
Christmas Eve (Wednesday, December 24)
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 (Thursday, December 25)
Masses: 8 a.m., 10:30 a.m., and 12 noon
ST. ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH
1571 Southgate Avenue, Daly City, CA 94015
(650) 756-3223
December 15 -23
Simbang Gabi
7:00 pm except Sat @ 4:45 pm
December 24
8:00 pm
Vigil of Christmas Mass
12:00 Midnight
Christmas Eve Mass
December 25 Christmas Day Masses
9:30 am & 12:00 noon
A Blessed Christmas to All!
SIMBANG GABI AND CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE
Between South Mayfair ad South Avenues
with plenty of free parking!
Thursday, December 25:
Christmas Day Masses at
7:30am and 9:00am
10:30am with our Children’s Choir
12:00pm with our Parish Choir
Wednesday, December 31:
7:00am and 9:00am
6:00pm Vigil Mass for New Year - Solemnity of Mary,
Mother of God
Thursday, January 1, 2015 - Solemnity of
Mary, Mother of God
9:00am & 12:00pm
- Simbang Gabi Novena Dec 16-23 6am
( in support of St. Charles School)
- Posadas Dec. 16-23 6pm
Christmas Eve Confessions 4pm-5:30pm
- Christmas Eve Children’s Mass 6pm
- Christmas Eve Midnight Mass (carols at 11:30pm)
- Christmas Day
8am (sp)
9:30am (eng)
11 am (sp)
12:30pm (sp)
5:30pm(sp)
(415) 587-7066 Fax (415) 587-6690
ADVENT / CHRISTMAS / EPIPHANY SEASONS
PARISH CELEBRATIONS 2014 – 2015
Monday, December 15, to Tuesday Dec. 23:
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
713 S. VAN NESS AT 18TH STREET
286 Ashton Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
5 Elmwood Drive, Daly City
St Charles Parish
SAINT EMYDIUS CHURCH
Our Lady of Mercy Parish
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.
Advent and Christmas
at
St. Charles Borromeo Church
to you,
Christmas Masses
Thursday, December 18
Joy of Advent - Joy of the Gospel – 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Wednesday, December 24
Sunday, December 21
Fourth Sunday of Advent
10:00 am Mass only
Christmas Masses
December
24
4:00 pmTuesday,
Family Vigil
Mass
with Children’s choir
6:00 pm Vigil Mass
with choir and brass
Midnight Solemn Vigil
with choir and strings
Christmas Vigil Mass – 8:00 pm
Christmas Midnight Mass – 12:00 midnight
Christmas Morning Mass – 10:00 am
Caroling begins 20 minutes before each Mass
Sunday, December 28
Feast of the Holy Family – Regular Schedule
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (Holy Day)
and Octave of Christmas – 10:00 am
8:00 am Mass with organ and cantor
9:30 am Mass with choir and brass
11:00 am Mass with choir and brass
FREE PARKING AVAILABLE IN ALL UNIVERSITY LOTS
650 Parker @ Fulton, San Francisco, CA 94118
Christmas TV Mass Special with
Monsignor Harry Schlitt
Solemnity of the Epiphany – Regular Schedule
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Anointing of the Sick Mass (no 8:00 am Mass)
10:00 am
Mater Dolorosa
307 Willow Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080
Simbang Gabi Masses
December 15th through December 23rd at 7:00 p.m.
(Pot Luck Dinner follows December 23rd Mass)
CHRISTMAS MASSES
Holy Day of Obligation
Christmas Eve Masses
December 24th
5:00 p.m. Christmas Vigil Mass with Children’s Pageant
9:15 p.m. Christmas Caroling
10:00 p.m. Midnight Mass
WILL BE AIRED ON
CHRISTMAS MORNING
Christmas Day Masses
KOFY-TV 20
December 25th
8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and 12:00 p.m.
6:30 am
New Year’s Eve Mass
FOX 40 - Sacramento
December 31st
10:00 p.m. (Midnight Mass)
9:30 am
New Year’s Day Masses
KTSF 26 - San Francisco
Holy Day of Obligation
January 1st
Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God
9:30 am
Your donations make the
TV Mass possible
Please join us Christmas morning
and every Sunday
Have a Blessed Holiday season.
You are always in my Prayers
Fr. Harry Schlitt
8:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
St. Raymond Church
1100 Santa Cruz Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-323-1755
St. Augustine Church
3700 Callan Blvd.
S. San Francisco, CA 94080
CHRISTMAS 2014
Christopher Fadok, O.P., Pastor
Novena of Masses (Simbang Gabi) December 15-23 – 7:30 P.M.
Christmas Vigil: Wednesday, December 24
Please join us this Christmas
Season to Celebrate the Birth of the Christ Child. Joy to the World!
Christmas Eve:
Christmas Day:
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)
4:30 Children’s Christmas Nativity Play
5:15, 7:30 and Midnight Masses
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.
8 AM and 10 AM Masses
New Year’s Day 2015
Schedule of Masses: 9:30 A.M., 11:00 A.M., 12:30 P.M.
We hope you are able to join us!
Saint Stephen Catholic Church
ONFESSIONS
4th Sunday of Advent
12/20-21 Regular Weekend Mass Schedule
Saturday 3:30pm Confessions
4:30pm (Sunday Vigil)
Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:30am, 6:45pm
Christmas Eve
3:30pm Confessions
4:30pm Family Mass
10:00pm Mass (Prelude music 9:30pm)
CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE
ST. MATTHEW
C
CATHOLIC CHURCH Saturday. December 20:
Eucalyptus Drive
@ 23rd Avenue
(near Stonestown Mall)
1853
2014
415.681.2444
www.SaintStephenSF.org
Christmas 2014
1 NOTRE DAME AVENUE
SAN MATEO, CA 94404
CHRISTMAS 2014
Christmas Day
9:00 & 11:00am Mass
No evening Mass on Christmas Day
Feast of the Holy Family
of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
12/27-28 Regular Weekend Mass Schedule
Saturday 3:30pm Confessions
4:30pm (Sunday Vigil)
Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:30am, 6:45pm
Christ Yesterday,
Today and
Forever
Devotedly in Christ
Rev. Anthony E. McGuire
Rev. Armando Gutierrez
Rev. Dominic S. Lee
Rev. Tony Vallecillo
Main Church 11:30am-12Noon
and 4:30pm-5:00pm
Monday, December 22 and
Tuesday, December 23
Chapel 5:00pm-5:30pm
Main Church 11:00am-12Noon
MASSES
Wednesday, Christmas Eve, December 24:
5:00pm Family Mass, 7pm (Spanish)
Thursday, Christmas Day, December 25:
7:00am, 8:45am, (Spanish), 10:45am,
12:30pm, 3:00pm (Cantonese Mass – Chapel)
Wednesday, New Year’s Eve, December 31:
7:00pm Spanish
NEW YEARS’ DAY –THURS. JAN. 1, 2015
A Holy Day of Obligation, The Feast of Mary,
the Mother of God Masses:
6:30am, 10:30am (English), 12.05pm
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THOMAS
CHURCH
15-23:
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Novena (Simbang
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Junipero
Serra
Blvd.,Christmas
San Francisco,
CA Gabi),
94132
at 7:00pm
except Sat. Dec. 20 -5pm and Sun. Dec. 21 -8pm
(415)
452-9634 | www.stmchurch.com
DecemberDecember
15-23: Internaonal
Christmas
Novena
(Simbang
Wednesday,
17: Confessions
at 6:30pm
& during
the Gabi),
at 7:00pm except Sat.
Dec. Mass
20 -5pm and Sun. Dec. 21 -8pm
Novena
Wednesday,
Confessions at 6:30pm & during the
Friday, December
19: NoDecember
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-2pm
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HolyAdoraon
Communion to the sick,
Friday, December
19: No 3rd of
Friday
homebound
and singing
Christmas
carols.
Sunday, December 21:
Annual Cable
Car Caroling
-2pm
Wednesday, December
24:distribuon
Christmas Eve
With
of Holy Communion to the sick,
6:00pm:homebound
Parish Massand
andsinging
Christmas
Pageantcarols.
Christmas
9:00pm: Arabic
Mass with
Sweets and Santa
Wednesday, December
24: Christmas
Eve
in Carroll Hall aer Mass
6:00pm: Parish Mass and Christmas Pageant
Advent 2014
Family Pageant & Las Posadas, Sunday, December 14, 3:15 p.m., Church
Annual Christmas Concert, Monday, December 15, 7:30 p.m., Church,
St. Dominic’s Schola Cantorum with The Festival Orchestra
Advent Reconciliation Service, Thursday, December 18,
with individual confessions available, 11:45 a.m.-2:00 p.m. & 7:00-9:00 p.m., Church
12:00am: Midnight Mass
9:00pm: Arabic Mass with Sweets and Santa
preceded by Christmas Carols at 11:30pm
in Carroll Hall aer Mass
Thursday, December 25: Christmas Day
12:00am: Midnight Mass
10:00am: English Mass
preceded by Christmas Carols at 11:30pm
4:00pm Brazilian Mass
Thursday, December 25: Christmas Day
8:00pm: English Mass
10:00am: English Mass
Wednesday, December 31: New Year’s Eve
4:00pm Brazilian Mass
5:30pm: Mass
English
Mass
Thursday, January 1: New Years 8:00pm:
Day Solemnity
Mary
Mother of God
Wednesday, December
31:Day
New
Eve
(Holy
ofYear’s
Obligaon)
5:30pm: English
Mass Mass
10:00am:
Thursday, January 1: New12:00pm:
Years DayArabic
Solemnity
Mass Mary Mother of God
(Holy
DayBrazilian
of Obligaon)
4:00pm
Mass
8:00pm:
English
MassMass
10:00am:
English
Sunday, January 4: Feast of the 12:00pm:
Epiphany Arabic Mass
Regular4:00pm
Sunday Mass
schedule
Brazilian
Mass
8:00pm: English Mass
Sunday, January 4: Feast of the Epiphany
Regular Sunday Mass schedule
Christmas 2014
Christmas Eve, Wednesday, 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, 12:00 a.m. Midnight Mass
(Solemn Mass with choral music, strings and brass)
(No confessions today)
Christmas Day, Thursday, December 25
Masses at 8:30 a.m. (Parish Mass with Carols),
11:00 a.m. (Solemn Mass with Choral Music),
(No confessions today and no Masses at 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. or 9:00 p.m.)
Solemnity of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
Sunday, December 28, Our regular weekend schedule
New Year’s Eve Prayer Vigil, Wednesday, December 31, 10:30 p.m., Church
Solemnity of Mary the Holy Mother of God, Thursday, January 1, 2015
(A Holy Day of Obligation) Parish Mass at 9:30 a.m.
Vigil Mass on Wednesday, December 31, 5:30 p.m.
Saint Robert’s Church
1380 Crystal Springs Road
San Bruno, CA 94066
(650) 589-2800
Seventeenth Avenue and Vicente Street
The Parkside District in San Francisco
MERRY CHRISTMAS
CHRISTMAS EVE MASSES
Christmas Day
Christmas Eve
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
CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES
7:30 a.m. - Fr. Felix Lim
with instrumental by Christopher and Matthew Jereza
9:30 a.m - Msgr. Michael Harriman
with the Holy Spirit Music Ministry
11:30 a.m. - Fr. Felix Lim with our Adult Choir and Orchestra
Wednesday, December 24th
4:30 pm Children’s Mass
8:00 pm and Midnight Mass
Thursday, December 25th
7:30 am, 9:30 am, &
11:30 am.
No Evening Mass
New Year’s Day
(Holy Day of Obligation)
Feast of the Epiphany
Saturday, January 3, 2015 - 4:30 p.m.
7:30 a.m., 9:30 am 11:30 a.m., 5:00 p.m.
9:30 am only
Church of the Epiphany
827 Vienna Street. SF,CA 94112
2014 Christmas Week Schedule
Wednesday, December 24th—Christmas Eve:
5:30pm (Children’s Mass); 9:00pm; & 12:00 Midnight (11:30pm Caroling)
LIVE BROADCAST: WWW.STCECILIA.COM
Thursday, December 25th—Christmas Day:
6:30am, 8:30am, 10:00am, 11:30am (Spanish), & 1:00pm
Saints Peter and Paul Church
Dec. 22
Dec. 17 – 23
7PM
5PM
Advent Penance Service
Christmas Novena
Christmas Eve
4:00 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 Mass on Christmas Day
660 Filbert Street San Francisco 415.421.0809
Holy Name of Jesus Parish
holy name
39th Ave.& Lawton St.
San Francisco, California
2014 Christmas Schedule
5:00 PM (Family/Children’s Mass)
11:30 PM Christmas Carols
(Holy Name Choral Ministry)
12:00 Midnight Concelebrated Mass
St. John of
God Church
6:30am, 8:00am, 11:00am, 5:30pm & 7:30pm (Spanish)
Saturday, January 3rd—Feast of the Epiphany:
1290 5th Ave.
San Francisco
5:30pm Mass followed by a reception in the Cafeteria.
Christmas
Schedule
“The Faithful Will Be Abound With Blessings.” –Proverbs 28:20
Please call the Parish Office for more information, (415) 333-7630
Vigil of Christmas
Wednesday,
Tuesday, December 24
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
Thursday,
Masses at 9:30 AM
and 11:30 AM
Christmas Blessings!
ST. TIMOTHY PARISH
1515 Dolan Avenue
San Mateo, CA 94401
7:30 AM 9:30 AM 11:30 AM
NEW YEAR’S DAY MASSES
The Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God
7:30 AM 9:00 AM 7:30 PM
St. Patrick Church
156 Mission Street, San Francisco
CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE
Saturdays, December 13 and 20
4:00-5:00 p.m. Advent Confessions (all priests)
December 16 - 24
6:00 a.m.
Misa de Gallo, followed by
hot breakfast in the Parish Hall
6:00 a.m.
Misa de Gallo, followed by
hot breakfast in the Parish Hall
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”
Glory to
God in the
highest:
and
on earth
peace to
Christmas Day ~ Holy Day of Obligation
7:30, 9:00, 10:30 a.m. (Latin) and 12:15 p.m.
people of
Please note: There will be no Mass 5:15 p.m.
good will
7:30 a.m., 12:15 and 5:15 p.m.
2014 CHRISTMAS WEEK
LITURGIES
Wednesday December 24
4:30 pm Mass/Carols
5:00 pm Family Mass
10 pm Mass/Carols
10:30 pm Bilingual
Thursday December 25
1555 39th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94122
(415) 664-8590
www.holynamesf.org
Thursday, January 1st—Solemnity of Mary (Holy Day of Obligation):
9:00 & 10:30 am English
12:00 pm Bilingual
New Year’s Day ~ Holy Day of Obligation
7:30 a.m., 12:10 and 5:15 p.m.
Luke 2:14
St. Gabriel Church
2559-40th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116 (415) 731-6161
Advent / Christmas 2014
Christmas Masses
Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24
4:00 PM Christmas Vigil Mass. Guitar Accompanist.
5:30 PM Christmas Carols with Children’s Choir.
6:00 PM Family Mass. Children’s Choir
11:30 PM Christmas Carols with Adult Choir.
12:00 AM Christmas Midnight Mass.
Adult Choir & Brass Ensemble.
Christmas Day, Thursday, December 25
8:30 AM Cantor.
10:00 AM Cantor.
12:00 PM Adult Choir & Brass Ensemble.
THERE WILL BE NO EVENING MASS ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
Christmas Blessings
Rejoice in the Birth
of Christ our Savior!
ARCHDIOCESE
OF
St. Bruno’s Church
(650) 588-2121
555 W. San Bruno Avenue, San Bruno, CA
2014 CHRISTMAS WEEK SCHEDULE
December 15-23
Posadas. Please look at listing
in the church for locations and times
DECEMBER 19
7 PM
Christmas Play Street Drama
December 21-23
5 AM
Misa de Gallo
DECEMBER 24 – CHRISTMAS EVE
7 PM
Vigil Mass in Spanish
9 PM
Christmas Carol
10 PM
Midnight Mass
DECEMBER 25, CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES
8 AM
10 AM
Spanish
12 PM
MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR
SAN FRANCISCO
Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church
1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame
Capuchin Franciscans 650-347-7768
2014 Christmas Schedule
Christmas Eve, Wednesday Dec. 24th
4:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. (Children’s Mass) and 10 p.m.
(No Mass at Midnight)
Christmas Day, Thursday Dec. 25th
8:00, 10:00 and 12 noon
New Year’s Day Masses
Vigil Mass Wednesday, Dec. 31-5:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
and 11:30 a.m. at Marian Convent
The Capuchin Franciscans & Parish Staff
wish our Parishioners and Friends
Peace, Love and Hope for
Christmas and the New Year.
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 good will 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.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW
PARISH COMMUNITY
Corner of Alameda & Crystal Springs Rd.
San Mateo, CA 94402
(650) 347-0701 [email protected]
CHRISTMAS LITURGIES
Sacrament of Reconciliation, Wednesday December 17th 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
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
LET GRATEFUL HEARTS NOW SING, A
SONG OF JOY AND HOLY PRAISE TO
CHRIST, THE NEWBORN KING.
Welcome to the celebration of our faith at
St. Thomas Apostle Catholic Church
3835 Balboa Street San Francisco, CA 94121 415-387-5545
Christmas Eve, December 24
4:00 p.m. Children's Mass
8:30 p.m. Carols 9:00 p.m. Midnight Mass
Christmas Day, December 25
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS AT ST. DUNSTAN 2014
4:30 pm
Children’s Mass with Pageant
11:00 pm
Christmas Carols
11:30 pm
Christmas Mass
7:00 am, 8:30 am, 10:00 am, and 11:30 am
NO 5:00 pm Mass on Christmas Day
8:30 a.m. and
11:00 a.m. Masses
New Year's Day,
January 1, 2015
8:30 a.m. Mass
ST. MONICA
PARISH
Geary Boulevard at 23rd Ave, San Francisco
(415) 751-5275
Simbang Gabi/Las Posadas
December 21st, 22nd, 23rd @ 6:30 pm
CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2014
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20
Confessions 4:00 - 4:45 p.m. * Mass 5:00 p.m.
Christmas Eve
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Christmas Day
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Feast of the Holy Family/Kwanzaa Celebration
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Deacon Larry Chatmon, Homilist
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21
Masses: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Cantonese) 10:30 a.m.
CHRISTMAS EVE
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24
5:00 p.m. Family Christmas Eve Mass with Saint Monica
Honors 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
CHRISTMAS DAY
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25
Masses: 8:00 a.m. -10:30 a.m. with Choir
No Cantonese Mass and no evening Mass
NEW YEAR’S EVE
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31
Mass: 8:30 a.m.
NEW YEAR’S DAY
THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 2015
Holy Day of Obligation Mass: 10:30 a.m.
FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY
SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015
Masses, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Cantonese)
10:30 a.m. with Choir,
14 WORLD
Vatican report calls US women religious to continued dialogue
CINDY WOODEN
VATICAN CITY – A massive, detailed Vaticanordered investigation of U.S. communities of
women religious ended with a call to the women
themselves to continue discerning how best to live
the Gospel in fidelity to their orders’ founding ideals while facing steeply declining numbers and a
rapidly aging membership.
Although initially seen by many religious and
lay Catholics as a punitive measure, the apostolic
visitation concluded with the publication Dec. 16 of
a 5,000-word final report summarizing the problems and challenges the women themselves see
in their communities and thanking them for their
service to the church and to society, especially the
poor.
The visitation process, carried out between 2009
and 2012 with detailed questionnaires and on-site
visits, mainly by other women religious, “sought to
convey the caring support of the church in respectful, sister-to-sister dialogue,” says the final report
by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated
Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
The process attempted to help the Vatican “and
the sisters themselves to be more cognizant of
their current situation and challenges in order to
formulate realistic, effective plans for the future,”
said the report, signed by Cardinal Joao Braz de
Aviz, prefect of the congregation for religious, and
Archbishop Jose Rodriguez Carballo, secretary.
In summarizing the results, the congregation
called for special attention in several areas, including: formation programs for new members; the
personal, liturgical and common prayer life of
members; ensuring their spiritual practices and
ministries are fully in harmony with church teaching “about God, creation, the Incarnation and redemption” in Christ; strengthening community life,
especially for members living on their own or with
just one other sister; living their vow of poverty
while wisely administering financial resources;
and strengthening communion within the church,
especially with the bishops and Vatican officials.
The Vatican, the report says, “is well aware that
the apostolic visitation was met with apprehension and suspicion by some women religious. This
Sister Agnes Mary Donovan, coordinator of the Council of
Major Superiors of Women Religious, speaks as Sister Sharon
Holland, president of the Leadership Conference of Women
Religious, listens during a Dec. 16 Vatican press conference
for release of the final report of a Vatican-ordered investigation of U.S. communities of women religious.
resulted in a refusal, on the part of some institutes,
to collaborate fully in the process.”
“While the lack of full cooperation was a painful
disappointment for us,” the congregation writes,
“we use this present opportunity to invite all religious institutes to accept our willingness to engage
in respectful and fruitful dialogue with them.”
“A number of sisters conveyed to the apostolic
visitator a desire for greater recognition and support of the contribution of women religious to the
church on the part of its pastors,” the report says.
“They noted the ongoing need for honest dialogue
with bishops and clergy as a means of clarifying
their role in the church and strengthening their
witness and effectiveness as women faithful to the
church’s teaching and mission.”
In addition, it says, “some spoke of their perception of not having enough input into pastoral decisions which affect them or about which they have
considerable experience and expertise.”
The current Year of Consecrated Life, the congregation says, should be “a graced opportunity for all
of us within the church – religious, clergy and laity
– to take those steps toward forgiveness and reconciliation, which will offer a radiant and attractive
witness of fraternal communion to all.”
The former prefect of the congregation, Cardinal
Franc Rode, ordered the visitation in 2008, saying
its aim would be to study the community, prayer
and apostolic life of the orders to learn why the
number of religious women in the United States
had declined so sharply since the 1960s.
Almost a year into the study, Cardinal Rode
told Vatican Radio that the investigation was a
response to concerns – including some expressed
by an unnamed “important representative of the
U.S. church” – regarding “some irregularities or
omissions in American religious life. Most of all,
you could say, it involves a certain secular mentality that has spread in these religious families and,
perhaps, also a certain ‘feminist’ spirit.”
As the process began, the Leadership Conference
of Women Religious, which represents about 80 percent of U.S. women religious, questioned what its
officials considered a lack of full disclosure about
what motivated the visitation.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s
investigation of the LCWR, begun in 2008, was a
separate process; in 2011, the congregation ordered
a reform of the organization, saying “the current
doctrinal and pastoral situation of LCWR is grave
and a matter of serious concern, also given the
influence the LCWR exercises on religious congregations in other parts of the world.”
At a news conference presenting the report Dec.
16, the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated
Life and Societies of Apostolic Life invited both the
president of the LCWR and the chairwoman of the
smaller U.S. Council of Major Superiors of Women
Religious to address the media. They were joined
by Mother Mary Clare Millea, superior general of
the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the
apostolic visitor appointed by the Vatican.
The congregation’s final report says that while
apostolic visits are “a normal instrument of governance” designed to “assist the group in question to
improve the way in which it carries out its mission
in the life of the church,” the visitation of U.S.
women religious “was unprecedented” in many
ways.
“It involved 341 religious institutes of both diocesan and pontifical right, to which approximately
50,000 women religious throughout the United
States belong,” the report says. Only communities
of cloistered nuns were excluded.
Though painful at times, visitation was positive, speakers say
CINDY WOODEN
VATICAN CITY – The apostolic visitation of U.S.
communities of religious women, though initially
met with some resistance, ended up promoting a
greater sense of unity in the church and helped the
women become more aware of how God is working
in their lives, said the prefect of the Congregation
for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of
Apostolic Life.
“May the self-assessment and dialogue sparked by
the apostolic visitation continue to bear abundant
fruit for the revitalization and strengthening of
religious institutes in fidelity to Christ, to the Church
and to their founding charisms,” said Cardinal Joao
Braz de Aviz, the prefect, at a Dec. 16 news conference at the Vatican.
The apostolic visitation, carried out between 2009
and 2012, concluded with the publication of a final
report summarizing the problems and challenges the
apostolic visitors and the women themselves see in
their communities.
Joining Cardinal Braz de Aviz for the presentation of the report were: Archbishop Jose Rodriguez
Carballo, congregation secretary; Mother Mary
Clare Millea, superior general of the Apostles of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the apostolic visitor appointed by the Vatican; Mother Agnes Mary
Donovan, superior general of the Sisters of Life and
chairperson of the Council of Major Superiors of
Women Religious; and Sister Sharon Holland, vice
president of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary and president of the Leadership Conference of
Women Religious.
The sisters attended Pope Francis’ private Mass
that morning and spoke to him briefly afterward.
Mother Clare said the pope thanked her for fulfilling
the “long and arduous task.” She asked the pope if
he had a message for the U.S. sisters and he responded, “Please tell them I send my blessings to them all.”
Brazilian Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, speaks with Sister Sharon Holland, president of the
Leadership Conference of Women Religious, at the conclusion
of a Dec . 16 Vatican press conference for release of the final
report of a Vatican-ordered investigation of U.S. communities of women religious. Also pictured is Sister Agnes Mary
Donovan, coordinator of the Council of Major Superiors of
Women Religious.
Mother Clare, speaking to Catholic News Service,
said one thing she kept in mind during the visitation was the experience of her order’s founder,
Mother Clelia Merloni. Because of “internal
conflicts and jealousies,” she was denounced to the
Vatican. “She was subjected to an apostolic visitation, removed from office and lived outside the
congregation for 12 years.” Now “we are very close
to her beatification,” Mother Clare said.
Her suffering “very deeply touched my approach
to the visitation,” she said, “knowing the sacredness of every sister, the sacredness of every congregation, so I could not treat them with anything
but total respect.”
In addition to the 5,000-word final report, Cardinal Braz de Aviz said, “individual reports will
be sent to those institutes which hosted an onsite
visitation and to those institutes whose individual
reports indicated areas of concern – because there
are some of those, too.”
Archbishop Rodriguez told reporters that the
Vatican would not publish the individual reports
out of respect for the communities involved.
Mother Millea, who said she initially was “overwhelmed” by the “enormous task” of conducting
the visitation, told reporters, “I now understand as
never before how enriched and blessed the church
in the United States is because of the myriad experiences and gifts of its current 50,000 women religious
and the multitudes of dedicated women who have
preceded us.”
Her voice breaking with emotion, Mother Millea
thanked the congregation leaders “for hearing our
voices, our concerns and our goodwill, and for responding to us with sensitivity, respect and clarity.
Your message to us today shows that you do understand our ongoing struggle to faithfully serve the
church in challenging times, despite our shortcomings and limitations.”
Sister Holland told reporters that the expressed
purpose of the visitation when it began – “to look
into the quality of life of religious women in the
United States” – “was troubling. Some congregations reported that their elder sisters felt that their
whole lives had been judged and found wanting.”
However, she said, the final report is “affirmative
and realistic,” reflecting the vast range of experiences of U.S. communities of women religious and
the complex social, religious and economic factors
that have contributed to the declining number of
sisters in the United States, their financial difficulties and their struggles to discern how best to organize their ministries as well as their community life.
Responding to a question, she said she worries
about those sisters who are still angry that the visitation took place, but they need someone to listen to
them. “It is not healthy to remain angry,” she said.
“Sometimes when we are fearful and feel powerless,
we externalize that in anger.”
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ARCHBISHOP: Global interfaith meeting affirms universality of marriage
Archbishop Cordileone said the global gathering
left him with ‘a renewed sense of purpose and
unity and also a confidence … that what we
already know gives us strength within us that
marriage can’t go away.’
FROM PAGE 3
Archbishop Cordileone said Lord
Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of
the United Kingdom, delivered one of
the most powerful talks.
Rabbi Sacks provided an interpretation of Genesis centered on Adam’s
fatherhood: Adam realizes after the
fall that nothing of him will survive his
death unless he chooses a life partner in
Eve and they have children.
Rabbi Sacks also covered seven key
moments in the evolution of complementarity, noting as one example that
the earliest scientific evidence of sexual
reproduction comes from the pairing of
fish in a Scottish lake 285 million years
ago.
The development of a large brain in
Homo sapiens necessitated the father
to help with the completion of the
child’s development outside the womb,
Rabbi Sacks said in another of his seven
points. He said monogamy was another
step forward, allowing all men, not just
the alphas, to pass on their lineage.
The rabbi said marriage transformed
the human race, making love the driving force of life and not merely a matter
of fairness.
Marriage is a covenant not unlike
the covenant with God that Jews renew
weekly in worship, but it is falling apart
now, Rabbi Sacks said.
“Science takes things apart to see
how they work,” he said. “Religion puts
things together to see what they mean.”
What marriage used to bring together
“is now being torn apart – sex from love,
love from commitment, marriage from
having children, having children from
responsibility for their care,”
Rabbi Sacks spoke about the “fatal
conceit” that we think we know better
than generations that have come before
us. He said the demise of marriage in
the West exemplifies this.
Archbishop Cordileone said the gathering left him with “a renewed sense of
purpose and unity and also a confidence
– I don’t know what’s going to happen with the law – but a new sense of
confidence that what we already know
gives us strength within us that marriage can’t go away. Marriage is based
in nature and we can’t change nature.
… Either we bring men and women
together to parent their children or we
ignore it to our demise.”
Archbishop Cordileone was also in
Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 24-26, as the only
North American church leader at a
meeting of archbishops and cardinals at
the International Pastoral Congress on
the World’s Big Cities.
Pope Francis is the first urban pope
“and had a personal interest in this,”
Archbishop Cordileone said.
More than half the world’s population lives in large cities, and the meeting
focused on how God lives in the city and
how the church can be there to witness
the good Samaritan.
“The missionary thrust of Jesus has
to be our model,” Archbishop Cordileone said, “going out to the peripheries,
encountering the poor in whatever way
they happen to be poor.”
The prelates flew to Rome to end their
meeting with a general audience with
the Holy Father.
“Something he said there really resonated with me,” Archbishop Cordileone
said. “We have to recognize the reality
that we’re living in. We have to change
the pastoral mentality, is what he was
saying.”
The church must recognize that it is
no longer the primary producer of culture. “So we must enter into a dialogue
with those other producers of culture,
not in a relativistic sense as if we’re just
one menu option on the table but always
keeping in view the evangelical thrust
of the church, recognizing that the
human person is emancipated by God,”
the archbishop said, paraphrasing the
pope’s remarks. “God is the one who
makes us free.
“So, he says, we need to enter into a dialogue not in this relativistic sense that
we’re just one life choice among many
but to plant the seeds of the Gospel in
their hearts,” the archbishop said.
Archbishop Cordileone said Catholics
need a deeper understanding of their
faith, not just rote answers, in order
to respond to the questions people are
asking.
He said another focal point of the
meeting was that the church must be
less reliant on priests and empower the
laity to evangelize.
Examples of lay evangelization at
other local churches around the world
include house meetings for prayer and
faith-sharing; “white nights” in Naples,
Italy, where young people reach out
to weekend partiers to pray before the
Blessed Sacrament at nearby churches;
and confessional stations established
in shopping malls in the Washington
archdiocese.
Pope Francis continues to take ‘the world by storm’
CAROL ZIMMERMANN
WASHINGTON – During the second year of his
pontificate, Pope Francis was still feeling the love, and
not just from Catholics or those from his homeland of
Argentina.
A Pew Research Center study released Dec. 11
showed that the pope has broad support across much
of the world. Sixty percent of the 43 nations polled had
a positive view of the pontiff.
And Americans, in particular, have shown their
fondness for Pope Francis, often extolling his simplistic style. According to the Pew study, 78 percent of
Americans view the pope favorably.
Put another way: Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of
Louisville, Kentucky, who just completed his first year
as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the pope has “taken the world by storm.”
He recently told Catholic News Service that 2014
brought worldwide attention to almost everything
Pope Francis said and did – which “in so many ways,”
he said, made the U.S. bishops’ work easier.
And the bishops were not the only ones to recognize
the pope’s appeal.
The pontiff, who was on the cover of many magazines in 2013, still had the coveted cover spot – not usually reserved for religious leaders – on Rolling Stone
magazine this February.
He was also the topic of a number of books issued
this year and innumerable Catholic discussions either
during coffee and doughnut socials after Masses or
larger-scale symposiums at Catholic universities.
During a Feb. 3 talk on the “Francis factor” at
Georgetown University, panelists used descriptors
such as “troublemaker” and “anti-establishment” in
their discussion about Pope Francis. They also commended his strong leadership and management style
and of course, his popularity.
Kerry Robinson, executive director of the National
Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, said
the pope’s strongest action so far had been urging
people to personal conversion.
The conversion he seeks in the world, she said,
“starts now, with us.”
At the same gathering, hosted by Georgetown’s
Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life,
John Allen, associate editor at the Boston Globe, said
there are likely some cardinals who might say the pope
has done things that make them nervous, but they
would still no doubt appreciate his overall appeal.
Pope Francis greets the crowd during his general audience in
St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Dec. 10.
One catch, so far with the pope’s popularity, is that
it has not, as of yet in the U.S., drawn more people, or
those who have left the church, back to Mass or the
sacraments in measurable numbers, according to a
Pew Research Center poll earlier this year.
Some observers have said the pope’s impact
shouldn’t be measured in returning Catholics, but in
the restored image of the Catholic Church and the
number of Catholics who feel proud of their faith
again thanks to Pope Francis.
Eileen Burke-Sullivan, associate theology professor
at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, told CNS
in March that in visits to various parishes in the country, she heard numerous stories of parents’ grown
children who have been inspired by the example of the
pope and want to come back to the church.
She also said parishes should be prepared for these
returning Catholics and be sure they are ready to
serve as “field hospitals” welcoming all, as the pope
has said they must do.
This fall, the pope had a lot of eyes on him during the
extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the
Vatican. The pope opened the first working session,
but never expressed his views during the gathering.
At the synod’s end, many news outlets said the final
report was a “setback” or “loss” for the pope, because
it did not include the midterm’s conciliatory language
toward people with ways of life contrary to church
teaching, or reflect the theme of mercy, the pope so
often articulates.
German Cardinal Walter Kasper, who gained atten-
tion during the synod for his proposal to make it easier
for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive
Communion, told an audience at The Catholic University of America in Washington in early November that
Pope Francis is “a pope of surprises.”
In using words that almost sound like something
the pope would say, the German cardinal said Pope
Francis has “succeeded in a short time in brightening
up the gloomy atmosphere that had settled like mildew
on the church.”
He also acknowledged that the pope has his detractors, saying: “What for some is the beginning of a new
spring, is for others a temporary cold spell.”
The cardinal said the pope doesn’t “represent a
traditionalist or a progressive scheme,” but instead
“wants to lead faith and morality back to their original
center,” to the heart of the Gospels.
That’s a recurring theme of Pope Francis and for
many it was echoed in the pope’s appointment this fall
of Archbishop Blase J. Cupich as the new archbishop
of Chicago.
The archbishop’s simple and very pastoral style has
often been compared to Pope Francis.
When he was asked why he was given this new position, the archbishop has repeatedly told reporters that
the pope “sent a pastor.”
He also referred to the pope’s remarks at the synod’s
opening session when he said he sees his role as
guaranteeing unity in the church. Archbishop Cupich
told CNS that in many ways a bishop has that same
responsibility: “to make sure that we walk together, to
accompany each other.”
And certainly many Catholics will accompany each
other next fall when Pope Francis will make his first
visit to the United States to attend the World Meeting
of Families in Philadelphia in late September.
Plans call for the pope to attend the Festival of
Families Sept. 26 – a cultural celebration expected
to draw up to 800,000 participants – and to celebrate
Sunday Mass the afternoon of Sept. 27 on the steps of
the Philadelphia Museum of Art for a crowd of about 1
million people.
Donna Crilley Farrell, executive director of the 2015
World Meeting of Families, said numbers for the gathering are expected to grow each day and could reach
close to 2 million people.
Other details of the U.S. trip have not been announced, but this summer Pope Francis told reporters
that President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress
had invited him to Washington and that the U.N.
secretary-general had invited him to New York.
16 OPINION
The many feasts of Christmas
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or many Americans the Christmas season now seems to begin
shortly after Labor Day and
ends around 10 a.m. Dec. 25, or just
after the last
present is
opened and
placed in the
“to be exchanged” pile.
Contemporary society
emphasizes
the time
before Christmas as being
FATHER
the most
ANTHONY
festive period,
GIAMPIETRO, CSB and this can
be a time of
intense excitement for the
young and the
not so young.
There is the
anticipation
of presents,
special kinds
of food, and
all the relatives gathered in one
room. Sights,
sounds, and
smells that
engage the
entire person.
When Christmas Eve arrives, the wrapped gifts
are under the tree, the room dark
but for the lights on the tree and
those near the crèche. And then
there is the quiet anticipation: How
will those who love me remember
me this year? How will those I love
respond to what I have prepared
for them?
At Christmas we connect with
people we don’t see very often.
And perhaps we receive notes from
friends far away bringing us back
to precious memories and to what
is most important in life.
Christmas is also a time of reaching out to those in need. We bring
our presence, a kind word, food to
eat and, if we can make it happen,
a place to sleep for the homeless.
We can make a special effort to
visit the elderly, those in prison,
and those who have no one to visit
them.
These are all wonderful ways to
enter more deeply into the spirit of
Christmas, to remember those who
are dear to us, and to help those
who may become dear to us. Of
course, these are also things that
even non-Christians will do this
time of year.
Catholics can enter more deeply
into the coming of Christ, however,
by celebrating the many feasts that
occur during this liturgical season.
St. Nicholas Day is Dec. 6, and it
brings a foretaste of the sweets of
Christmas. Also before Christmas
are the wonderful feasts of the Immaculate Conception of Mary Dec.
8, and Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec.
12. During the last seven days of
Advent, those praying the Liturgy
of the Hours recite the beautiful
O Antiphons. Catholics from the
Philippines celebrate Simbang
Gabi, “night Mass” in the Filipino
language, on the nine days immediately before Christmas. Each
night there is a special Mass in the
parish church. In Filipino neighborhoods around San Francisco
the churches are packed for each of
these Masses.
Perspectives from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers
Christmas is an
opportunity for
the best part
of our humanity to come to
the surface, in
beautiful and
inspiring ways.
LETTERS
Hear the cries of injustice
After reading your article
“Police officer leans on Catholic faith during Ferguson crisis,” (Dec. 5) I am worried that
some readers may be encouraged to view the many protests
throughout our nation as a case
of “Good Guys vs. Bad Guys.”
For me, the article leaves the
impression that the protestors are the “Bad Guys” who
are unholy and angry looters
protesting an imagined injustice. I would like to encourage
readers to recognize that the
protests are about real injustices in our society, especially
in our criminal justice system.
These injustices are biased
against our black and brown
brothers and sisters, and good
people can perpetuate unjust
systems. Violent protests are
wrong, as Jesus taught, and
the violence in the protests
does make it harder to hear the
message. But please my fellow
Catholics, let us not continue
to pretend we just do not see.
Let us hear the cries of injustice throughout our nation,
and work together to build a
more just society. For a longer
discourse about the reasons
for the demonstrations, please
see my homily “The Answer is
Blowing in the Wind” at www.
stpauloftheshipwreck.org.
Father Paul Gawlowski, OFM Conv.
Pastor, St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish,
San Francisco
Identity assessment
is correct remedy
The Presentation of the Lord, artist unknown
The first day after Christmas the
church celebrates St. Stephen, the
first martyr. Even as the church delights in the sweet and gentle birth
of Jesus, it reminds Catholics that
they are called to offer even their
lives in witness to the faith. The
feast of the Holy Innocents Dec.
28 comes next. The holy innocent
ones are the baby boys who were
killed by King Herod. Although
King Herod did not know who the
new Baby King was, he feared an
eventual rival, and he wanted to
make sure Jesus could never reign
as king. So the young baby boys
were killed even as Joseph, warned
by an angel, whisked the Blessed
Virgin Mary out of Bethlehem and
toward Egypt.
A week after Christmas is the
feast of Mary the Mother of God,
Jan. 1, which is followed by the
Epiphany, when the Magi arrived
from the Orient with their gifts.
The Sunday after the Epiphany celebrates the Baptism of Christ, and
finally, on Feb. 2, there is the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.
Some readers are perhaps surprised to see the date of Feb. 2
above. Also known as Candlemas,
the feast of the Presentation occurs
40 days after Christmas. Traditionally these 40 days were known as
“Christmastide.” Indeed, in the
Vatican in Rome, Christmas decorations are not taken down until Feb.
3, the day after the formal end to
the religious celebration of Christmas.
On the feast of the Presentation
the church recalls when, adhering
to the Mosaic law, that is, the law
given to Moses on Mount Sinai,
Mary and Joseph brought the Baby
Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem
and presented him, the firstborn,
as an offering to God. When they
arrived, Simeon and Anna were
there to greet them. Inspired by
the Holy Spirit and filled with awe
for the young mother Mary, they
responded in joy: “Lord, now you
let your servant go in peace; your
word has been fulfilled: My own
eyes have seen the salvation which
you have prepared in the sight of
every people: A light to reveal you
to the nations and the glory of your
people Israel.”
Christmas is an opportunity for
the best part of our humanity to
come to the surface, in beautiful
and inspiring ways. And it is an
opportunity for each of us to reflect
more deeply on the mysteries of
our faith, on the joy of being alive
and of being embraced by a loving
and merciful God, and on his ultimate gift of eternal life.
When does Christmas end? We
should pick one of the dates above
well after Dec. 25 as the date for
our end of Christmas. In addition,
we should enter as fully as possible
into six or seven of these feasts,
so that our lives may become even
more Christ-centered. To understand these feasts is to understand
who we are, called into being by
God, and offered fullness of life
forever. We are blessed beyond all
imagining. Come let us prepare.
Come let us celebrate. Come let us
rejoice and worship the Lord!
FATHER GIAMPIETRO, CSB, is the interim director of development for the Archdiocese
of San Francisco. He is the ninth of
11 children and has many wonderful
Christmas memories.
A great start for this year’s
Advent of Jesus’ birth is the
new focus on Catholic identity
in high schools by the archdiocesan Office of Catholic
Identity Assessment (Dec. 12).
Wisely, Archbishop Salvatore
J. Cordileone has chosen this
way to start reconstructing the
religious health of our high
school students, as we’d expect
a trusted physician’s careful
medical exam to show whether
a triathlete is up to the rigors of
what lies out there in the race
course.
Today’s aggressive intrusion
of politics, perverted pleasures,
and profiteering must not be
allowed to steal from our young
people their destined position in
the future as priests, religious,
and strong advocates for our
Catholic faith.
With fewer good people coming
forth to pass on our faith than
we have seen in the past, we can
be grateful to our archbishop for
securing the days when we need
not worry for lack of priests,
brothers, nuns, and religious
teachers to pass on the word of
God.
Robert Jimenez
Burlingame
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OPINION 17
F
A time of great joy and humility
or many people, it grates us at this time of the
year when we hear others greet us with “Happy
Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas.” While
there does seem to be a secularizing philosophy behind
this, on the other hand, there
is some sound reason for this
greeting, especially for us as
Catholics. This time of year is
filled with many special holy
days – “holidays” – usually related to the Christmas mystery,
most notably Christmas itself
and its octave, New Year’s Day,
which is both the Solemnity of
Mary Mother of God and the
World Day of Prayer for Peace.
ARCHBISHOP
Other feasts in this season have
SALVATORE J.
special significance in one culCORDILEONE
ture or another (St. Nicholas,
St. Lucy, Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Immaculate Conception, etc.). And while the practice of exchanging gifts at
this time of the year has become a part of the secular
observance of the holiday season, it, too, retains an
important place in the spiritual meaning of Christmas.
At Christmas we give gifts to one another because
we have received from God a gift, a baby. The crucial
element is not that the baby is the cutest, most darling
baby ever. Rather, it is that the baby is God’s own Son.
God himself has become one of us, and he begins his
personal revelation to us by being born of the Virgin
Mary in a stable in Bethlehem. His name is both Jesus,
which means God saves, and also Emmanuel, which
means God is with us. That is, his names capture important aspects of his being.
As the letter to the Hebrews tells us, not only is this
baby far superior to the angels, but the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs (Hebrews 1:4). He
is the true light that enlightens the entire world, a light
more powerful than a billion stars. But, like stars, this
light shines in the darkness of rejection by many of his
people, the people of the Promise made to Abraham,
Moses, and David.
When the prophet Isaiah points to the Messiah, he
encourages the Jews, who are depressed due to their
exile for 50 years in Babylon. When, having been
conquered by the Babylonians, the Jews were sent into
exile, the Jews were pained that God rejected them by
banishing them from the very land He himself had
given them because they had violated his Covenant.
A
But now, says Isaiah, “the Lord has bared his holy
arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the
earth will behold the salvation of our God” (Isaiah
52:10). Just as God humbled the Jews in their captivity
in Babylon, God Himself enters into an act of solidarity with His people’s humiliation of exile by having
his own Son descend from his heavenly throne and be
born humbly in a manger.
With the birth of Christ, God begins to rectify not
only the exile in Babylon but also the more devastating
exile of our first parents from the Garden of Eden. God
Are womb transplants immoral?
recent news report described the unusual story
of a baby’s birth from his grandmother’s womb.
A 29-year old woman from Sweden, born without a uterus, received a transplanted womb from
her mother, the same womb
that had brought her into the
world a generation earlier. The
woman then became pregnant
through in vitro fertilization
and delivered a healthy baby
boy.
The research had been
dogged by controversy and
questions: Could a transplanted womb from a post-menopausal woman be “triggered”
back into action once it had
been introduced into the body
of a younger woman? Could
a transplanted uterus effectively provide nourishment to
a growing baby during all the
gestational stages of a pregFATHER TADEUSZ
nancy? Would such a costly
PACHOLCZYK
and risky surgery involving two people, mother and
daughter, donor and recipient, be justifiable? Are such
transplants ultimately ethical?
The specific circumstances involved are critical to
determining whether this novel type of transplant is
ethical.
Various medical anomalies can cause a woman
to be missing a uterus. A congenital disease called
Rokitansky syndrome can cause the uterus to develop
anomalously, or not form at all. Uterine cancer or
other serious gynecological issues may necessitate
that a woman undergo a hysterectomy, resulting in
permanent infertility.
MAKING
SENSE OUT OF
BIOETHICS
A Nativity scene decorates the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican
Dec. 15.
originally wanted all people in the Garden of Eden,
and now by sending His Son He invites us to share
divine life with him. The harmony that sin destroyed
God now restores by sending his Son as one of us.
Imagining no children present at our Christmas
creates a telling moment for Christian adults. Suppose, by conjecture, at Christmas we did not see the
captivating delight of children opening and playing
with their gifts. Would we adults still have intense joy?
In order to rejoice on Christmas even in the absence
of the contagious joy of children among their gifts, we
adults have to be convinced that we have received a gift
far surpassing the most fabulous lottery jackpot. The
central Good News already contained in the Christ
child in the manger is that Christ saved us from the
exile of sin. Not only are we no longer banished from
Eden, now we are restored to the peace and purity of
His Kingdom. This is our great gift.
Just as children enjoy their gifts by using them immediately, so adults have to enjoy being freed from the
slavery to sin by humbling ourselves and accepting
God’s will for us, just as our Lord humbled himself,
coming down from heaven to take on human flesh. The
divine, infinitely wise and powerful God did this; so we
should want to follow Jesus by humbling ourselves.
The Church provides us with an action that reminds
us that all Catholics are called to humble themselves,
as Christ did. During the Creed at Christmas, when we
say the words “by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the
Virgin Mary, and became man” everyone genuflects
together. We do this because it marks both the beginning and also the mode of our salvation. Jesus, who
saves us from our sins, is the baby in the manger, and
we participate in his Kingdom by humbling ourselves,
as he did so often for us. Every time we genuflect, it
should remind us that we are part of Christ’s Kingdom
only if we identify with his lowering of himself. In his
letter to the Philippians, St. Paul says, “Jesus humbled
himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a
cross” (Philippians 2:8).
Lowering ourselves is the way to participate in the
Kingdom. This means humbly acknowledging our
need of support through religious activities: weekly
Mass attendance as the only way to build up ourselves
and the Church; regular confession, which is certainly
a humbling experience; grace before meals, even in a
restaurant; serving poor people in our city, country,
and around the world, because they, too, are made in
the image and likeness of God.
Christmas is a time of great joy and humility.
The womb is a unique organ with a highly specific
function, and the transplantation of a healthy womb
into a woman who lacks one due to a birth defect or
disease is loosely parallel, some would say, to a situation where a patient’s kidney fails, and another person
donates a healthy replacement organ.
Yet others would say that the womb is not a vital
organ like a kidney, and while the transplantation of a
womb is directed toward improving a patient’s quality
of life, it clearly does not constitute lifesaving surgery
like a kidney transplant.
Therefore, womb transplants require strong ethical
justifications.
As we reflect on the ethics surrounding new medical treatments and technologies, it can help us to recall the general principle, enshrined in the Catechism
of the Catholic Church, that the morality of a human
act depends on three factors: the object, the end, and
the circumstances involved. An act is morally good
only if all three of these factors are morally good. If
any one of them is bad, we recognize that the overall
act itself becomes morally bad.
For example, a diva using her voice to sing a passage
from a famous opera has the morally good object of
performing a beautiful and artistic musical composition. The end for which a diva might sing would be to
perfect her singing skills – also morally good. But if
she decides to do it at 3 a.m. in a dormitory, so that it
disturbs the sleep of her neighbors, then the circumstances would not be good, and we would conclude
that the action of singing in that way by the diva is, in
fact, morally bad.
In the case of carrying out a womb transplant, the
object of the act would be good, namely, to restore a
woman’s bodily wholeness by transplanting a healthy
womb in situations where she lacks one. The end
for which the womb transplant would be carried out
would also be good, namely, to achieve a pregnancy.
But particular circumstances can easily render the
womb transplant immoral. If the transplant were done
for the purposes of pursuing a pregnancy through IVF,
this circumstance would render the entire act of the
womb transplant morally bad and disordered, given
that IVF is invariably immoral as a means to engender
new human life. All reported instances thus far of
womb transplants followed by successful pregnancies
have arisen because of the use of IVF.
A similar problem with the circumstances of the
transplant could arise if the womb that was used for
transplant had been donated by a healthy woman still
in her reproductive years who harbored a contraceptive intention and no longer desired to have more
children of her own with her husband. In such a situation, her uterine donation would cause her to become
sterile, and would represent a seriously flawed moral
circumstance that would likewise render the action
of receiving the transplanted womb unethical on the
part of the other woman.
When might a womb transplant be morally acceptable? If a uterus were transplanted from either
a deceased or a freely consenting, post-menopausal
woman to another woman whose ovaries, fallopian
tubes and other reproductive tissues were then able
to function so she could conceive a child within the
marital embrace, rather than through IVF (and
assuming minimal medical risks to both donor and
recipient), the womb transplant could represent an
ethical means of resolving her uterine-factor infertility. In conclusion, the specific circumstances of both
the donor and recipient are crucial in discerning the
ethical appropriateness of this unusual procedure.
FATHER PACHOLCZYK is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River,
Massachusetts, and serves as the director of education
at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org
18 OPINION
Francis, filtered
A
bout a year ago, I suggested to
one of the top editors of a major
American newspaper that his
journal’s coverage of things papal left
something to
be desired, as it
seemed based
on the assumption that Pope
Francis was
some kind of
radical wildman, eager to
toss into the
garbage bin
of history all
GEORGE WEIGEL
those aspects
of Catholic
faith and practice that mainstream
western culture finds distasteful.
My friend replied, in so many words,
look, you know how these media
narratives are: They’re like bamboo.
Once they get started, there’s no stopping them. They just keep growing.
Alas, he was right. And while
there’s been a lot of talk about the
“Francis effect,” it’s worth pondering,
on the Holy Father’s 78th birthday,
the Francis filtration.
The Francis filtration began in earnest during the impromptu press conference in the papal plane while the
pope was en route home from World
Youth Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro.
That was the presser that produced
the single-most quoted line of the
pontificate: “Who am I to judge?” But
as Cardinal Francis George pointed
out in a pre-retirement interview
with John Allen, that sound bite “has
been very misused … because he was
talking about someone who has already asked for mercy and been given
absolution…That’s entirely different
than talking [about] someone who de-
W
e are all familiar with the
biblical story of the Visitation.
It happens at the beginning of
Luke’s Gospel. Mary and her cousin,
Elizabeth, both
pregnant, meet.
One is carrying
Jesus and the
other is carrying John the
Baptist. The
Gospels want
us to recognize
that both these
pregnancies
are biologically
FATHER RON
impossible; one
is a virginal
ROLHEISER
conception and
the other is a
conception that occurs far beyond
someone’s childbearing years. So
there is clearly something of the divine in each. In simple language, each
woman is carrying a special gift from
heaven and each is carrying a part of
the divine promise that will one day
establish God’s peace on this earth.
But neither Mary nor Elizabeth,
much less anyone around them
consciously recognizes the divine
connection between the two children
they are carrying. The Gospels present them to us as “cousins,” both the
children and their mothers; but the
Gospels want us to think deeper than
biology. They are cousins in the same
way that Christ, and those things that
are also of the divine, are cousins.
This, among other things, is what is
Media continue to filter Pope Francis’ words according to a “humane, progressive pope vs.
meanie reactionary bishops and hidebound Catholic traditionalists” narrative, George Weigel
says. In this photo the pope arrives to lead the rite of final commendation at the funeral of
Argentine Cardinal Jorge Maria Mejia in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 11.
mands acceptance rather than asking
for forgiveness.” (For the record, the
entire quote, which is almost never
cited, was “Who am I to judge them
if they’re seeking the Lord in good
faith?”)
But as my journalist-friend suggested, the “bamboo” shoot of “Who
am I to judge?” has continued to
grow, until it’s now a virtual bamboo
curtain. And what’s being filtered
out? All the things the pope says that
don’t fit the now-established “narrative” of “humane, progressive pope
vs. meanie reactionary bishops and
hidebound Catholic traditionalists.”
Things like what?
Well, things like the pope’s passionate defense of marriage as the
stable union of a man and a woman,
which he underscored in an address
to the Schoenstatt movement right
after Synod 2014, and in his keynote
address to a November interreligious
conference at the Vatican on the crisis of marriage in the 21st century.
And things like the pope’s defense
of the Gospel of life, a persistent
theme in Francis’s November address to the European Parliament.
The press reports I read focused on
Francis’ concerns for immigrants and
the unemployed. Fair enough; that
was certainly in the text. But what
about the Holy Father’s defense of
those whom indifference condemns
to loneliness or death, “as in the case
of the terminally ill, the elderly who
are abandoned or uncared for, and
children who are killed in the womb?”
What about his insistence that
“Europe,” past, present, and future,
makes no sense without Christianity? What about his condemnation of
those who subject Christians “to barbaric acts of violence,” and his plea
for support for those Christians who
are “evicted from their homes, and
native lands, sold as slaves, killed,
beheaded, crucified or burned alive,
under the shameful and complicit
silence of so many?” You didn’t read
much about that, did you?
Nor did you read (unless you read
the pope’s text himself) that Francis,
having made a plea for environmental
stewardship, went on to “emphasize”
(his word) that “along with an environmental ecology, there is also need
of a human ecology which consists in
respect for the person.”
Another aspect of Pope Francis’
preaching that’s been too often
filtered out of the coverage of his
pontificate involves (if you’ll pardon
the term) demonology. No pope in
decades has so regularly referred
to Satan as Pope Francis. The evil
one is no abstraction to this pontiff,
nor does he think of “satanic” as a
rhetorical intensifier to underscore
one’s disapproval of, say, Hitler. Satan
and his minions are very real to Pope
Francis; it would be interesting for an
enterprising reporter to draw him out
on the subject in one of those freewheeling papal press conferences.
The Francis filter may be bamboo.
But if it keeps growing, so will the
distortions that bamboo curtain creates.
WEIGEL is a senior fellow of the Ethics and
Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
The Visitation revisited
In simple language, each woman is carrying a special gift from
heaven and each is carrying a part of the divine promise that
will one day establish God’s peace on this earth.
contained in the concept of the Visitation.
Mary and Elizabeth meet, both are
pregnant with the divine. Each is carrying a child from heaven, one is carrying Christ and the other is carrying
a unique prophet, the “cousin” of the
Christ. And a curious thing happens
when they meet. Christ’s cousin,
inside his mother, without explicit
consciousness, leaps for joy in the
presence of Christ and that reaction
releases the Magnificat inside of the
one carrying Christ.
There’s a lot in that image: Christ’s
cousin unconsciously leaps for joy in
the presence of Christ and that reaction draws the Magnificat out of the
one who is carrying the Christ. Christian de Cherge, the Trappist abbott
who was martyred in Algeria in 1996,
suggests that, among other things,
this image is the key to how we, as
Christians, are meant to meet other
religions in the world. He sees the image as illustrating this paradigm:
Christianity is carrying Christ
and other religions are also carrying
something divine, a divine “cousin,”
one who points to Christ. But all of
this is unconscious; we do not really grasp the bond, the connection,
between what we are carrying and
what the other is carrying. But we
will recognize their kinship, however unconsciously, when we stand
before another who does not share
our Christian faith but is sincere and
true to his or her own faith. In that
encounter we will sense the connection: What we are carrying will make
something leap for joy inside the
other and that reaction will help draw
the Magnificat out of us and, like
Mary, we will want to stay with that
other for mutual support.
And we need that support, as does
the other. As Christian de Cherge
puts it: “We know that those whom
we have come to meet are like Elizabeth: They are bearers of a message
that comes from God. Our church
does not tell us and does not know
what the exact bond is between the
good news we bear and the message
that gives life to the other. ... We may
never know exactly what that bond
is, but we do know that the other is
also a bearer of a message that comes
from God. So what should we do?
What does witness consist in? What
about mission? ... See, when Mary
arrives, it is Elizabeth who speaks
first. Or did she? ... For most certainly
Mary would have said: ‘Peace, peace
be with you.’ And this simple greeting
made something vibrate, someone,
inside of Elizabeth. And in this vibration, something was said. ... Which is
the good news, not the whole of the
good news, but what can be glimpsed
of it in the moment.”
Christian de Cherge then adds this
comment: “In the end, if we are attentive, if we situate our encounter with
the other in the attention and the desire to meet the other, and in our need
for the other and what he has to say to
us, it is likely that the other is going to
say something to us that will connect
with what we are carrying, something
that will reveal complicity with us ...
allowing us to broaden our Eucharist.”
We need each other, everyone on this
planet, Christians and non-Christians,
Jews and Muslims, Protestants and
Roman Catholics, Evangelicals and
Unitarians, sincere agnostics and atheists; we need each other to understand
God’s revelation. Nobody understands
fully without the other. Thus our
interrelations with each other should
not be born only out of enthusiasm
for the truth we have been given, but it
should issue forth too from our lack of
the other. Without the other, without
recognizing that the other too is carrying the divine, we will, as Christian
de Cherge asserts, be unable to truly
release our own Magnificat. Without
each other, none of us will ever be able
to pray the Eucharist “for the many.”
OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the
Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio,
Texas.
FAITH 19
SUNDAY READINGS
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Mary said, ‘Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.’
LUKE 1:26-38
2 SAMUEL 7:1-5, 8B-12, 14A, 16
When King David was settled in his palace, and
the Lord had given him rest from his enemies on
every side, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I
am living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God
dwells in a tent!” Nathan answered the king, “Go,
do whatever you have in mind, for the Lord is with
you.” But that night the Lord spoke to Nathan and
said: “Go, tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the
Lord: Should you build me a house to dwell in?’“It
was I who took you from the pasture and from the
care of the flock to be commander of my people
Israel. I have been with you wherever you went,
and I have destroyed all your enemies before you.
And I will make you famous like the great ones of
the earth. I will fix a place for my people Israel;
I will plant them so that they may dwell in their
place without further disturbance. Neither shall
the wicked continue to afflict them as they did of
old, since the time I first appointed judges over
my people Israel. I will give you rest from all your
enemies. The Lord also reveals to you that he will
establish a house for you. And when your time
comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise
up your heir after you, sprung from your loins, and
I will make his kingdom firm. I will be a father to
him, and he shall be a son to me. Your house and
your kingdom shall endure forever before me; your
throne shall stand firm forever.”
PSALM 89:2-3, 4-5, 27-29
Forever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
The promises of the Lord I will sing forever;
through all generations my mouth shall proclaim
your faithfulness. For you have said, “My kindness
is established forever”; in heaven you have confirmed your faithfulness.
“I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David my servant: Forever will I
confirm your posterity and establish your throne
for all generations.”
“He shall say of me, ‘You are my father, my God,
the Rock, my savior.’ Forever I will maintain my
kindness toward him, and my covenant with him
stands firm.”
ROMANS 16:25-27
Brothers and sisters: To him who can strengthen
you, according to my Gospel and the proclamation
of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the
mystery kept secret for long ages but now manifested through the prophetic writings and, according
to the command of the eternal God, made known
to all nations to bring about the obedience of faith,
to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ be glory
forever and ever. Amen.
LUKE 1:26-38
The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town
of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed
to a man named Joseph, of the house of David,
and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming
to her, he said, “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is
with you.” But she was greatly troubled at what
was said and pondered what sort of greeting this
might be. Then the angel said to her, “Do not be
afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
“Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear
a son, and you shall name him Jesus. He will be
great and will be called Son of the Most High, and
the Lord God will give him the throne of David his
father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob
forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be,
since I have no relations with a man?” And the
angel said to her in reply, “The Holy Spirit will
come upon you, and the power of the Most High
will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be
born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived
a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month
for her who was called barren; for nothing will
be impossible for God.” Mary said, “Behold, I am
the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me
according to your word.” Then the angel departed
from her.
The 6th month of woman time
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stranger. She is uncomfortable at having her spiritual
life turned inside out. She feels intruded upon by
words which deviate from the usual way people speak
to each other. She is confused and at a loss for words
to understand this initiative as a “greeting.” She is
afraid at what seems unfamiliar and unsafe. Was she
also anxious about childbearing, having seen other
women go through difficult labor?
I’m not sure Gabriel’s torrent of assuring words
had an immediately calming effect on Mary – “full
of grace”…“Lord is with you”… “do not be afraid”…
“found favor with God”… “conceive in your womb
and bear a son.” Luke says Mary was “greatly troubled.” She “pondered what sort of greeting this might
be.” This implies Mary had to take time to consider
what was happening. Luke presents the “coming in”
of Gabriel as an overwhelming experience for Mary
– emotionally, socially, physically, cognitively and
spiritually.
Was the Annunciation a sudden, surrealistic moment, over in a flash, as it seems in the compressed
narrative of Luke? Or is it more realistic to imagine
the Annunciation as a series of “comings”? Is the Annunciation a sort of dynamic ( as in the Greek word
for “power”), an unfolding of Mary’s consciousness?
Over time, Mary gradually came to focus and understand certain things in a compelling way – the Lord’s
closeness and love for her, her maturity as a woman
ready for motherhood, the destiny of her child in the
tradition of Judaism, God’s endowment of her child
with favor, the meaning of what she would name her
son, intimacy with her husband, the holiness of the
way her child would be conceived, and her personal
part in carrying out God’s plan to bless the world.
It had to have taken time for her to deal with her
turmoil, anxiety and uncertainty – to ponder, absorb,
engage, and respond meaningfully, with a sense of
purpose, to these convictions arising in her consciousness. At a certain moment, she expresses her willingness and agreement to go forward: “Behold I am the
handmaid of the Lord …” But that could not have
been until after a long struggle.
What gave Mary courage, finally, to believe these
series of messages from the angel were trustworthy?
What was the time everything “came together” for
Mary? In Luke, it was after Gabriel told her about another woman: “Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month
for her who was called barren.” So after all the angel’s
exalted assurances to Mary, the Annunciation is not a
private revelation. Annunciation is Mary’s sisterhood
with Elizabeth. God saves the world in “woman time.”
MONDAY, DECEMBER 22: Monday of the Fourth
Week of Advent. 1 SM 1:24-28. 1 SM 2:1, 4-5, 6-7,
8abcd. LK 1:46-56.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25: The Nativity of the Lord
(Christmas) Vigil Mass. IS 62:1-5. PS 89:4-5, 16-17, 27,
29. ACTS 13:16-17, 22-25. MT 1:1-25 or MT 1:18-25 .
Mary and Joseph. SIR 3:2-6, 12-14 or GN 15:1-6; 21:13. PS 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 or PS 105:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9. COL
3:12-21 or COL 3:12-17 or HEB 11:8, 11-12, 17-19. COL
3:15a, 16a or HEB 1:1-2. LK 2:22-40 or LK 2:22, 39-40.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23: Tuesday of the Fourth
Week of Advent. Optional Memorial of St. John of
Kanty, priest. MAL 3:1-4, 23-24. PS 25:4-5ab, 8-9, 10
and 14. LK 1:57-66.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26: Feast of St. Stephen, first
martyr. ACTS 6:8-10; 7:54-59. PS 31:3cd-4, 6 and
8ab, 16bc and 17. PS 118:26a, 27a. MT 10:17-22.
n Nazareth there are two traditions about what
Mary was doing when Gabriel appeared. The
Latin Catholics imagine Mary piously at prayer
– the representation we see in art. Mary kneels
at her prie-dieu, reading
her Bible, or gazing out the
window in a serene room.
The Greek Orthodox, on
the other hand, point to the
fountain where Mary was
drawing water. I prefer the
interpretation that Mary
was in the midst of carrying out a woman’s ordinary
daily chores, and this was
the moment she heard
Gabriel speaking to her. It is
also in the midst of another
woman’s “work” of childbearing – the sixth month of
Elizabeth’s pregnancy.
SISTER ELOISE
Luke doesn’t describe what
ROSENBLATT, RSM Mary
actually saw, but what
she heard – the angel’s words
to her. The Annunciation is
the conversation of a woman with an angel.
Luke describes Mary’s rush of feelings: She is
defensive at hearing herself intimately addressed by a
SCRIPTURE
REFLECTION
MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT is a Ph.D. theologian and
an attorney in private practice in areas of family law
and wills and trusts. She lives in San Jose.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24: Wednesday of the
Fourth Week of Advent. Christmas Eve. 2 SM 7:15, 8b-12, 14a, 16. PS 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29. LK
1:67-79.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27: Feast of St. John,
apostle and evangelist. 1 JN 1:1-4. PS 97:1-2, 5-6,
11-12. JN 20:1a and 2-8.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28: The Holy Family of Jesus,
MONDAY, DECEMBER 29: Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas. Optional Memorial of St. Thomas
Becket, bishop and martyr. 1 JN 2:3-11. PS 96:1-2a,
2b-3, 5b-6. LK 2:32. LK 2:22-35.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30: The Sixth Day in the
Octave of Christmas. 1 JN 2:12-17. PS 96:7-8a, 8b-9,
10. LK 2:36-40.
20 ARTS & LIFE
‘Big but boring’ Exodus epic no threat to DeMille
JOHN MULDERIG
NEW YORK – Time was when the biblical extravaganza was a Hollywood staple.
In fact, from the silent era through the mid-1960s, it
seemed a safe bet that selected slices of the best-selling
volume of all time – or fictional spinoffs from it like
“Ben-Hur” – translated to the screen on a large scale
would yield box-office gold.
Post-Beatles irony and the baby-boomer generation’s
antipathy toward authority and tradition may have put
that calculation to rest for a few decades. But, as earlier
movie offerings from this year – ranging from “Son of
God” to “Noah” – suggest, some in Tinseltown are ap-
(CNS PHOTO/FOX)
Christian Bale, Kevork Mailkyan, center, and Maria Valverde
star in “Exodus: Gods and Men.”
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parently dusting off their copies of the Scriptures and
taking a second look.
The latest to do so is director Ridley Scott (“Gladiator,” “Kingdom of Heaven”). The bad news is that his
3-D epic “Exodus: Gods and Kings” (Fox) turns out to
be big but boring. The good news is that, somewhere,
Cecil B. DeMille is at ease, knowing his 1956 blockbuster “The Ten Commandments” remains the definitive
mass-media take on this crucial portion of the Old
Testament.
Just as DeMille’s fleshing out of the story is not
above satire, though (witness Billy Crystal’s hilarious
channeling of Edward G. Robinson’s Dathan), so Scott’s
tale is not without its promising aspects. Chief among
them, for viewers of faith, is the conversion story his
film introduces into the life of Moses (Christian Bale).
Here, the patriarch’s series of trials and triumphs takes
him from religious skeptic to true believer.
Raised as a foster son to Egypt’s Pharaoh, Seti (John
Turturro), and adoptive brother of Seti’s heir, Ramses
(Joel Edgerton), Moses is sent into exile when Hegep
(Ben Mendelsohn), a corrupt official whose wrongdoing he has uncovered, reveals his lowly origin as the
child of a Hebrew slave.
Working as a shepherd in Midian, Moses finds solace
in married life (Maria Valverde plays his loyal, devout
spouse Zipporah). But his contentment is once again
disturbed when God – oddly personified by an 11-yearold boy (Isaac Andrews) – calls on him to lead his
enslaved compatriots to freedom.
While Scott’s picture has computer-generated effects
to spare, especially in the plague scenes, its human interaction is stilted and uninvolving. Thus Moses’ potentially intriguing spiritual development is only sketched
out in the dialogue, and lacks the heft that might propel
the audience along on its trajectory.
Additionally, the collaborative script – penned by
Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Jeffrey Caine and Steven
Zaillian – is skittish where miracles are concerned and
revisionist in its treatment of the relationship between
Moses and the Almighty.
Granted, the Moses of the Bible sometimes plays the
role of advocate for the Israelites, pleading with God to
spare his wayward people. But it’s nonetheless perplexing to find Scott’s main character frequently coming
across as more merciful than the petulant lad who
embodies his vision of the Divinity.
Though it ends with the giving of the commandments, at running time of over two-and-a-half hours,
the film may strike many as recalling more directly the
40 years of wandering in the wilderness by which the
fidelity of the Hebrews was thereafter put to the test.
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sacred space for Advent Mass
CHRISTINA GRAY
PHOTOS BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
A parade in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe organized by Our
Lady of Loretto parish’s Directiva Hispana ministry processed
down Grant Avenue in downtown Novato on Dec. 12, ending
with an evening Mass and reception. The parade included Aztec dancers, parishioners dressed as Juan Diego and Our Lady
of Guadalupe and a flower-adorned float with an illuminated
image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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Marin Catholic High School’s gymnasium
was converted to a sanctuary on Friday, Dec.
12 for its annual all-school Advent Mass and
to honor the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The campus’ chapel only accommodates
around 120 people according to Nicole Ferris
of Campus Ministry, which planned the annual Mass that was attended by almost 1,000
students, staff, faculty and guests.
Students turned the gym into a sacred
space by stringing lights, creating an Advent
wreath and spelling out the word “hope”
with traditional luminaria candles, which
Marin Catholic’s director of mission and
ministry Msgr. Robert Sheeran emphasized
in his homily.
He also called Our Lady of Guadalupe “the
mother of the marginalized,” and offered
a special blessing to the school’s Latino
students.
A student and faculty choir provided song
as did Marin Catholic’s Dominican Sisters of
Mary Mother of the Eucharist who sang Lo
How a Rose E’re Blooming and O Salutaris
Hostia.
Nearly 1,000 students, faculty,
staff and guests gathered in
Marin Catholic High School’s
gymnasium on Dec. 12 for an
all-school Advent Mass on
the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Msgr. Robert Sheeran,
the school’s director of
mission and ministry, called
Our Lady “the mother of the
marginalized.” The Dominican
Sisters of Mary Mother of the
Eucharist and school choir
sang songs of the season.
(PHOTOS BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
CHRISTINA GRAY
Rush hour traffic in downtown Novato slowed
on Dec. 12 to watch as an altar boy holding a cross
and a robed deacon led the devoted across busy
Redwood Highway in a parade organized by Our
Lady of Loretto parish in honor of Our Lady of
Guadalupe.
The annual parade is organized by the parish’s
Hispanic community and Directiva Hispana ministry, according to Deacon Alex Madero. He was
flanked by Novato police officers and Marin members of the Knights of Columbus as he and a crowd
of several hundred singing, dancing and praying
families processed a mile down Grant Avenue to
the church for an evening Mass.
Two young parishioners were dressed as Native
American peasant Juan Diego and Our Lady of
Guadalupe, the “maiden” he saw and spoke to in a
vision outside Mexico City in 1531. Men carried a
float on their shoulders with an illuminated image
of Our Lady of Guadalupe surrounded by flowers,
provoking Christmas shopping townsfolk to join
the parade.
“People just fell in behind us,” said Deacon
Madero.
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Around the
archdiocese
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CHINESE CHRISTMAS EVE MASS: The
all-archdiocesan Chinese Christmas Eve Mass
is Dec. 24 at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850
Judah St., San Francisco. Christmas carols start at
7:30 p.m. and Mass begins at 8 p.m. Shown here
are two children dressed as Mary and Joseph at
last year’s Christmas Eve Mass.
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CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY, MENLO PARK:
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone selected a
tree for the archdiocesan Pastoral Center lobby at
the School of the Nativity Christmas tree lot Dec.
9. Nativity parishioner Sue Connelly snapped the
photo of the archbishop with some of the school
children.
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WORKPLACE HOLY PLACE: Looking toward
St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco from the
archdiocesan Pastoral Center’s outdoor area, a
carved rendition of the stable and manger in Bethlehem helps chancery workers and passersby look
toward Christmas.
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(PHOTO COURTESY FATHER PETER ZHAI/CHINESE CATHOLIC MINISTRY)
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ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL,
SAN FRANCISCO: The school and the University of Dayton Alumni Association hosted a
“Christmas on Campus” for youngsters from St.
Charles Borromeo School and Mission Dolores
Academy Dec. 12. The students decorated Christmas cookies, sang Christmas carols and visited
with Santa.
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(PHOTO COURTESY ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL)
SCRIPTURE SEARCH
Gospel for December 21, 2014
Luke 1:26-38
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reading for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Cycle B: the
Annunciation. The words can be found in all
directions in the puzzle.
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SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL
PREPARATORY, SAN FRANCISCO: The girls varsity volleyball team
won California Interscholastic Federation Division III state championship in
games Dec. 6. The high school sports
website MaxPreps.com ranks SHC No.
2 in the nation. Coach Margi Beima is
in the back row, third from left.
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HOLY CROSS CEMETERY,
COLMA: Msgr. John Talesfore led a
Christmas Remembrance Service Dec.
13 in the cemetery’s All Saints Chapel
for more than 200 people who came
to pray for missed loved ones. The rite
has become an important part of the
holiday season at the cemetery.
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ST. PAUL OF THE SHIPWRECK
PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO: Parishioners joined with congregations across
the nation Sunday Dec. 14 “Black Lives
Matter Sunday.” Conventual Franciscan
Father Paul Gawlowski, pastor, and the
more than 100 people at Shipwreck’s
weekly gospel Mass marched from the
church singing and with hands raised denoting “don’t shoot, black lives matter.”
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OBITUARY
Father Jose Arong, OMI –
former archdiocesan planning director
Oblate of Mary Immaculate Father
Jose Arong died Dec. 6. He was 77 and
in residence at Sacred Heart Church,
Oakland.
Born in the Philippines, Father
Arong entered religious life in 1959 and
ordained to the priesthood April 4, 1966.
He held a graduate degree in anthropology and doctorate in education from
Stanford.
From 1991 to 1997, Father Arong
served in the Archdiocese of San Francisco as director of the Office of Research and Planning. For more than 25
years, he served in the ongoing forma-
tion programs of the Cursillo movement
in the archdiocese and Oakland, San
Jose and Sacramento dioceses.
He served as national consultant for
the Filipino Apostolate in the United
States, acting as liaison between the Filipino community and the U.S. bishops’
Committee on Migration. Among his
responsibilities was helping diocesan
offices find personnel for their growing
ethnic ministries.
A funeral Mass was celebrated Dec.
17 at Sacred Heart Church with interment in his congregation’s plot in San
Fernando.
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Family Services Counselor Job Posting
Purpose and Scope
A Family Services Counselor is a full-time “non-exempt” level
employee who reports directly to the Family Services Manager. This
position works collaboratively within the Family Services Department,
combining ministry, sales and public relations. Working within a
religious, not-for-profit environment, we offer a competitive salary
and benefits package. This position is governed by a Collective
Bargaining Agreement.
The Family Services Counselor is a person of faith committed to
Gospel values. He or she values service to the Catholic Community
and helps the Cemetery Department fulfill its mission and purposes.
Essential Duties:
• Provides exemplary personalized customer service to families
planning funeral arrangements
• Educates individuals and families about burial, cremation and
memorialization options within the context of Catholic teaching
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Knowledge and experience in funeral home and/or cemetery
practices, preferred
• High level of compassion and integrity; detail-oriented and
professional
• Excellent listening, written, oral communication, and interpersonal
skills are essential
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Competencies and Education
• High School education + 1-2 years of college or equivalent of
education and experience
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• Previous experience in cemetery or funeral service preferred
• Valid California Driver’s License with an insurable driving record
• Active practicing Roman Catholic who understands and supports
the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, preferred.
Hours
• Tuesday through Saturday 8:30am – 5pm
• Part-time position may also be available
Please submit resume and cover letter to:
Christine Stinson, Family Services Manager
PO Box 1577, Colma, CA 94014-0577
Email: [email protected]
Fax: 650-757-0752
Archdiocese of SAN FRANCISCO
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
The Archdiocese of San Francisco seeks a well-qualified Director of Communications. The Director
develops and executes a pro-active media strategy for the Archdiocese. This strategy is nuanced to
embrace three spheres of influence: the Archdiocese, covering the three counties of San Francisco, San
Mateo, and Marin; a national audience; and an international audience focused on the Vatican. Located
in the Archdiocese are over 400,000 Catholics, with over 300 priests and 700 religious. Among the
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SATURDAY, DEC. 20
HANDICAPABLES MASS: Father Kirk Ullery,
retired pastor,
Our Lady of
Lourdes Parish, San Francisco is principal celebrant
and homilist
at HandicaFather Kirk
pables Mass
Ullery
and lunch,
noon, in lower
halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral,
Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough
Street entrance. All disabled
people and their caregivers
are invited. Volunteers always
welcome. Call Joanne Borodin,
(415) 239-4865. Handicables
marks its 50th anniversary Jan.
17 at the cathedral.
Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San
Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring various
artists; freewill offerings accepted at
door; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213; www.
stmarycathedralsf.org.
PHOTO EXHIBIT: “Therefore I Have
Hope” through December 31, St.
Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at
Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, weekdays 8:30-5 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday
10-3 p.m. in Cathedral Event Center,
Charlene Dorman’s black and white
photographs, [email protected].
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23
LIVE NATIVITY: On steps of Porziuncola Nuova, Columbus at Vallejo, San
Francisco with re-enactments from
6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sponsored by the
Knights of St. Francis of Assisi, guardians of the Porziuncola. Last year more
than 1,500 people came by for the
blessed event. Visit www.knightsofstfrancis.com.
SATURDAY, DEC. 20
THURSDAY, DEC. 25
TURKEY DRIVE: Christmas Turkey
Drive, St. Emydius Parish, 260 Ashton
Ave., San Francisco, 9 a.m.-noon,
benefiting St. Anthony’s Dining Room,
San Francisco; Pierre Smit at sfpierre@
aol.com.
SUNDAY, DEC. 21
CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral,
CATHOLIC TV MASS: A TV Mass is
broadcast Christmas Day at 6:30 a.m.
on the Bay Area’s KOFY Channel 20,
and 9:30 on KTSF Channel 26, and
in the Sacramento area at 9:30 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
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24
CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS
EVE: Mass at
5:30 p.m. with
carol prelude
at 5 p.m. by
Archdiocesan
Children’s
Choir and St.
Brigid School
Honor Choir;
Archbishop
Archbishop
Salvatore J.
Salvatore J.
Cordileone
Cordileone
is principal
celebrant and homilist of Mass
at midnight, with carol prelude
at 11:30 p.m. by the Cathedral
Choir and Golden Gate Brass
Quintet; St. Mary’s Cathedral,
Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco; (415) 5672020, ext. 213; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.
THURSDAY, DEC. 25
CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS:
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant
and homilist of Mass at 9 a.m.
with Gregorian chant and
cathedral singers; Mass at 11
a.m. with the Cathedral Choir;
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough
Street at Geary Boulevard, San
Francisco; (415) 567-2020,
ext. 213; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.
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PHOTO EXHIBIT: “Therefore I Have
Hope” through December 31, St.
Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at
Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, weekdays 8:30-5 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday
10-3 p.m. in Cathedral Event Center,
Charlene Dorman’s black and white
photographs, [email protected].
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
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EWTN airs on Comcast 70 and on Comcast 74 in southern San Mateo County.
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
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CALENDAR 27
FRIDAY, JAN. 2
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28
FIRST FRIDAY: 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.
TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé prayer
around the cross, Mercy Center, 2300
Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 8 p.m. Taizé
prayer has been sung on first Fridays at
Mercy Center with Mercy Sister Suzanne
Toolan since 1983; (650) 340-7452. SATURDAY, JAN. 3
‘LOOKING EAST’: Our Lady of Fatima
Russian Byzantine Catholic Church,
5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San
Francisco, Divine Liturgy 10 a.m.; luncheon noon, talk by Father Kevin Kennedy, pastor 1 p.m. All are welcome
throughout the day. Series continues
first Saturdays of the month. Parking is in St. Monica Church lot; www.
byzantinecatholic.org; (415) 752-2052;
[email protected].
PRIORY TALKS: “Water: A
Sacred Trust,”
explore both
the beauty of
God’s sacred
gift of water and the
senseless
degradation of
this precious
Dr. Mary E.
resource in
McGann, RSCJ
today’s world
with Dr. Mary
E. McGann, RSCJ, 7-9 p.m.,
Woodside Priory School, 302
Portola Road, Portola Valley,
Founders Hall, admission is
free, refreshments provided,
Carrie Rehak crehak@prioryca.
org, (650) 851-8221; www.prioryca.org/life/campus-spirituallife/insight-speakers-series/.
HANDICAPABLES 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Father Kirk Ullery, retired
pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish,
San Francisco is principal celebrant
and homilist at a Handicapables Mass
and lunch commemorating the group’s
50th anniversary, noon, in lower halls
of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street
at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco,
Gough Street entrance. All disabled
people and their caregivers are invited.
Volunteers are always welcome to
assist in this cherished tradition. Call
Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.
SUNDAY, JAN. 18
Honor Choir, St. Mary’s Cathedral,
Francisco, 4 p.m., (415) 567-2020, ext.
213; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.
PEACE MASS: Immaculate Conception
Chapel, 3255 Folsom St., San Francisco,
9 a.m. Franciscan Father Wiliam, pastor,
principal celebrant and homilist; (650)
580-7123; [email protected].
CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma,
All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father
Kirk Ullery, retired pastor Our Lady of
Lourdes Parish, San Francisco, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 7562060, www.holycrosscemeteries.com.
discernment day for young women;
RSVP by Jan. 12 or for more information contact Sister Joseph Marie,
[email protected]; visit www.
nunsmenlo.org/vocation-discernmentday-january-2015. Day begins with
Mass at 8 a.m. followed by Divine Office, rosary, conferences, and talks by
Dominican nuns and friars.
TUESDAY, JAN. 13
WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY: Understanding the journey of Jesus with Mercy
Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher, Tuesday 9
a.m. through Feb. 17, Marian Room inside St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco; Veronica Wong, (415) 681-2444 ext.
27; Peggy Teshara, (415) 334-0653.
SUNDAY, JAN. 4
SATURDAY, JAN. 17
LESSONS AND CAROLS: Epiphany
Lessons and Carols, Golden Gate Boys
Choir and Bellringers, Archdiocesan
Children’s Choir, St. Brigid School
DISCERNMENT DAY: During the Year
of Consecrated Life, the Dominican
Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery, 215
Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, host a
door; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213; www.
SATURDAY, JAN. 24
2-DAY ENGAGED RETREAT: San
Francisco Catholic Engaged Encounter
weekend, Vallombrosa Retreat Center,
Menlo Park. Take time to prepare for
your marriage; scholarships available;
www.sfcee.org, catholicsfee@gmail.
com; Dave and Lorraine Hayes, (650)
619-0689.
WALK FOR LIFE WEST COAST: 11th
year for this pro-life effort that has
been attracting crowds of as many
as 50,000 people. Visit www.walkforlifewc.com.
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SATURDAY, FEB. 7
CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma,
All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father
Tony LaTorre, pastor, St. Philip Parish, San Francisco, principal celebrant
and homilist. (650) 756-2060, www.
holycrosscemeteries.com.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25
PRIORY TALKS: “God, Grace of the
World,” with Camaldolese Benedictine
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humanity can create and destroy life,
what grace may God have for our lives
and our communities? 7-9 p.m., Woodside Priory School, 302 Portola Road,
Portola Valley, Founders Hall, admission
is free, refreshments provided. Carrie
Rehak, [email protected], (650) 8518221; www.prioryca.org/life/campusspiritual-life/insight-speakers-series/.
SATURDAY, MARCH 14
FESTIVAL MASS: Archbishop Salvatore
J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and
homilist for Northern California Choral
Festival Mass, 5:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard,
San Francisco. Student singers from
the Archdiocese of San Francisco and
around the Bay Area lead song under
the direction of Richard Robbins of the
music faculty at University of WisconsinSuperior. A choral prelude will precede
the liturgy. Visit www.pcchoirs.org.
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred
In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of November
HOLY CROSS,
COLMA
Frances J. Ahern
Luis Alfonso Almendarez
Lavinia Sheila Anderson
Andrew J. Baumann
Julius K. Beisel
Petronila C. Bernal
Shirley J. Bianchi
Paul Anthony Bose
Barbara Brady
Archie Anthony Briggs
Edward L. Burke, Ph.D
Dorothea Carney
Mario Nelson Castro
Jose G. Catalon
Mary Caroline Cerutti
Ilisa Chan
Teresita Contreras
Juan Carlos Cordero
Jesus Manuel Cordova
Rosemary Cozzo
Elodia D.R. Cuadra
Edoardo Antonio Curotto
Benjamin Dalberg
Bing Isidro Dionida
Charles M. Dowling
Albert James Draper
William C. Dunn
Carmel Helen Enright
William John Feeney
Ralph J. Flageollet
Margaret M. Foppiano
Illuminada P. Francisco
Dominic Thomas Galu
Beatrice Julia Geraldi
Mary E. Ghiorso
Andy Goldstein
Esequiel G. Gonzales
Lindy Gonzales
Norma Marie Grassi
Dolores June Gunther
Otto Francis Gunther
Jane Hildegard Hagmaier
Gregory Haran, III
Jess R. Herrera
Hugo P. Iannacone
Rosamond Johnson
Joanna A. La Macchia
Justiniano F. Madrigal
Fadi Malouf
Frances J. Marano
Ronald James Martinez
Anthony P. Mateo, Sr.
Anthony Maurovich
John Joseph McArdle
Mary Morgan McCarthy
Evonne Ann Medina
Norbert A. Meyerkamp
Ellen “Ellie” Minshall
Ernest R. Moisant
Catherine C. Mullin
Catherine Faulkner Murphy
Adeline Della Neves
Bong Yuen Ng
Victor A. Nowicky
June Renner O’Brien
Clorinda Orlovich
Trinidad Palileo
Lara L. Pinten
Benito Hosain Polo
Robert F. Reilly
Jack Rodgers
Anthony Tate Romero
Mathilda Rosado
Edward B. Rowan
Susannah Samaras
Katherine M. Santaferraro
Urbana Schiappacasse
Sr. Frances Irene Sherman, PBVM
Pablo Silva-Re
Eva Soulé
Antoinette Theresa Strong
Thomas R. Sutter, Jr
Albert Teglia
Anwar Totah
Bruno Venturini
Elaine Carmel Walsh
Edward J. Weaver
Mercê Ramos Westwood
Robert L. Williamson
Virginia Zavoral
MT. OLIVET,
SAN RAFAEL
Eva Radosevich Bowen
Diana V. Casper
Gerald Russell Kerby
Dorothy Bartlett McClain
James Graham Moore
James F. (Jeff) O’Donnell, Jr
Raymond P. Rossi
Santina “Tina” Saso
Michael Stanz
Renee Ann Sullivan-Weaver
Salvatore P. Tarantino
HOLY CROSS,
MENLO PARK
John William Bacon
Ruth Bettencourt
Thomas Kirkbride
Lolita “Elizabeth” I. Lacunza
Judith Ormeno
Elaine Margaret Rouse
Catherine Patricia “Pat” Smyth
OUR LADY OF
THE PILLAR
John Constantino Candelori
Paulina Rodrigues
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA
FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, January 3, 2015
All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11am
Rev. Kurt Ullery, Celebrant
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA
650-323-6375
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA
650-756-2060
Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery
270 Los Ranchos Road, San Rafael, CA
415-479-9020
Tomales Catholic Cemetery
1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA
415-479-9021
St. Anthony Cemetery
Stage Road, Pescadero, CA
650-712-1675
Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery
Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA
650-712-1679
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.

Duggan`s Serra Catholic Family Mortuaries

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