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75th St. Jude Novena
Nearly 4,000 people attended the 75th Novena to St. Jude at the Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco.
The novena to the patron saint of difficult and desperate cases concluded Oct. 28 with a Mass celebrated by Archbishop George Niederauer,
at right with San Jose Bishop Patrick McGrath. At left, Dominican Brother Simon Kim in the procession into the church.
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Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper
Haitian survivor’s story of hope and resilience
Buried alive for eight hours in the collapse of a supermarket in Port-au-Prince, clutching her sons by her side,
it made sense to Magalie Rigaud that, since she was not
dead, God did not intend for her to die that day. It was but
a matter of time when they would be rescued, she figured.
“I believe that God does not do things halfway,” said
Rigaud, telling her story of surviving the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti as the guest speaker Oct. 30 at
Parish Global Poverty Day at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San
Francisco. “He started by protecting me and I knew that
he would not do so if he wanted me to stay down there.”
Sure enough, Rigaud, a Catholic Relief Services
manager in Haiti, and her twin 12-year-old sons, MarcEdwin and Carl-Edwin, were pulled from the rubble in
the early hours of the following day, when the reality of
the calamity began to become clearer: There would be
230,000 dead, more than 300,000 injured, doctors would
perform 35,000 amputations and some 1.5 million people
would be made homeless. Rebuilding the poorest nation
in the Northern Hemisphere, where 80 percent of the
people are Catholic, may take 10 years.
The boys were unhurt, as was Rigaud’s daughter,
Naiki, 19, at home. There was a cut on Rigaud’s head
but it was nothing, she decided. She was at work the
next day, helping to manage Catholic Relief Services
warehouses as workers took in and distributed tons of
food and supplies arriving in Haiti from around the world.
The disaster has slipped from the front page, but
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Erla Jeannot sells food at a stand outside one
of the 1,300 tent camps scattered around
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. With no clear plan
for resettling earthquake survivors, the
camps are becoming part of the city’s fabric.
the challenges remain, said Rigaud, who at the event,
sponsored by Office of Public Policy & Social Concerns
of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, asked members of
parishes to consider how they might mark the one-year
anniversary of the Haitian earthquake.
Indeed, U.S. Catholics have been generous, contributing
HAITI SURVIVOR, page 8
Bioethical issues are real for this generation of
high school students.
Some of them were conceived using in-vitro fertilization technology and others have had abortions
before they leave high school, said Marin Catholic
High School religion teacher Ryan Mayer.
Girls are using artificial contraceptives without
realizing how they work, said Ryan Martin-Spencer,
religious studies chair at Notre Dame High School
in Belmont.
“Our technical expertise is surpassing our moral
understanding,” said Marin Catholic senior Virginia
Yoham, 17.
The San Francisco Bay Area is a world center for
artificial reproduction, with numerous IVF clinics.
In the United States, about 240,000 babies are born
each year using IVF, with as many as 4 million newborns created via IVF since the first test-tube baby,
Louise Brown, was born in 1978, experts estimate.
Proposition 71, approved by California voters in 2005, created the California Institute for
Regenerative Medicine. The institute is authorized
to float $3 billion in state bonds to fund stem cell
research, with a special mandate to fund embryonic
stem cell science – a technology the Catholic Church
opposes because it violates the principle of dignity
of life from conception through natural death.
California teens may obtain an abortion without
parental notification and pay for it with Medi-Cal
funding.
Both Mayer and Notre Dame’s Martin-Spencer
teach bioethics courses at their high schools, presenting Church teaching and the reason behind
tough issues such as its absolute stands against
HS BIOETHICS, page 6
INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION
Archbishop’s Journal. . . . . . . . 3
Giants fan’s “special year” . . . 5
Q&A: Father Moises Agudo . 11
Scripture reflection . . . . . . . . 12
Pacifica Military Moms . . . . . 13
Pope condemns “savage” “Blood of the martyrs, cry Two books on Nazism . . . . . 16
Baghdad cathedral attack of the Mother Church” Datebook of events . . . . . . . . 17
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before. Linda is an alumna of Corpus Christi School older sibling,” said she “loves and misses Sister Patricia
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Riordan High School. Joining in the congrats were in Burlingame were recipients of the annual Saint
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Worldly man’s ageless lesson:
have the courage to hear God’s call
Following is Archbishop George Niederauer’s homily for
Oct. 31, 2010, the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Jesus claims at the end of the Gospel passage today: “The Son
of Man has come to search out and save what was lost.” This word
“lost” is interesting, and essential to our understanding: it does not
mean damned, or doomed or vanished; it means out of its own
place, in the wrong place. That’s what we mean most of the time
when we say we’ve lost our car keys.
A man or woman is lost spiritually when he or she has wandered away from God. We can find our way to the wrong places
in life, the wrong paths, the wrong directions, or no direction at all.
We are found when we once again take our rightful place as loved,
obedient children in the household and family of our heavenly
Father. Again, this is what Jesus says when he speaks of himself
as the Good Shepherd, leaving the 99 and going in search of the
one sheep that is lost.
Jesus responds to Zacchaeus as a lost sheep of the House
of Israel, one of Abraham’s sons. Zacchaeus was very wealthy,
hated and despised: a tax-collector for the Romans in an occupied
country. Certainly an extortionist and exploiter, since he received
taxes on commission. He was rich but he wasn’t happy; Zacchaeus
was an outcast, who had heard of this wandering teacher, Jesus,
who was rumored to be kind and forgiving toward tax collectors
and all kinds of sinners.
Zacchaeus is determined to see this Jesus he has heard about,
but he is short of stature (or, “vertically challenged,” as we say in
this politically correct age) – he can’t see over the crowd around
Jesus – and his neighbors are not making room for the likes of
him! But Zacchaeus didn’t get rich by giving up easily and not
having an alternate plan: he climbs a tree! It’s along the road down
which Jesus will walk. It may be curiosity, it may be worldly, but
it is the beginning of grace. You might say that Zacchaeus, up in
that tree, is ripe for the picking!
And Jesus picks him! Jesus comes to the tree, looks up, and
says: “Zacchaeus, hurry down. I mean to stay at your house today.”
Jesus invites himself into Zacchaeus’ house, into his life. And
notice the irony: just as Jesus calls Zacchaeus to come back to his
rightful place in God’s family, the crowd jumps to the conclusion
that Jesus, not Zacchaeus, is in the wrong place. They murmur:
“He has gone to a sinner’s house as a guest.”
It’s worth noting that, nearly 2,000 years later, the Church
Jesus founded is still exercising the same bad taste in people that
its founder did; people still murmur about Jesus’ Church: that it
spends too much of its time and attention and treasure on the poor,
on the homeless, on the oppressed, on immigrants, on criminals in
prison and even on death row; that it condemns convenient, useful
actions like abortion and euthanasia, that the Church condemns too
easily and too often what people feel like choosing, and forgives
too easily people whom others feel like despising and condemning.
So Jesus reaches up and plucks down Zacchaeus with gracemuch to the crowd’s distaste. But now it is Zacchaeus’ move:
Zacchaeus must let grace change him, and change is painful.
That’s why all of us are tempted to resist God’s grace so often. But
Zacchaeus does let the grace of Jesus change him: he takes steps
to show Jesus and all the community that he is a changed man.
Zacchaeus is famous for and defined by his money: very well, he
will use what he owns to show what he has now become – he will
give half his belongings to the poor; he will pay back anyone he
cheated four times over. Jesus is very proud of him; Jesus always
calls a sinner to a change of life, not just a change of words or
sentiments. It is not enough for Zacchaeus to merely admire or
yearn for a different path, back to the right place in the heavenly
Father’s kingdom-he has to change paths, change directions, as
Jesus has called him to do. When he does so, Jesus says, approvingly: “Today salvation has come to this house, for this is what it
means to be a son of Abraham.”
This is what St. Paul means in that second reading about Jesus
being glorified in the Christian and the Christian being glorified in
Jesus: true of parents and children; true of students and teachers.
True of Zacchaeus in the Gospel today. True of us as well.
We can be “lost” or
“out of place” or “in
the wrong place” in any
number of ways: we get
lost by means of a temptation or sin we refuse to
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Niederauer
because we are afraid
or proud; reconciling or
forgiving we are afraid to
step toward, because we are afraid or proud or angry or bitter, or
any combination thereof; minds we have made up about others,
or hearts we have closed toward this person or that, this group or
that; obsessions with this idea or that (like the Thessalonians with
their fear and anxiety about the Second Coming of Christ – they
can’t focus on anything else!)
Perhaps we know we are out of place, or lost, a bit or a lot.
We’ve gone so far as to wish for a different path, a change of
direction, but we are still “up in the tree.” Well, we are in Jesus’
house right now; his word of reconciliation has been proclaimed
to us; within minutes we will receive his body and blood in Holy
Communion. He says to each of us, calling us by name: “Hurry
down. I mean to stay at your house today.” That is the invitation
of grace: Jesus invites himself inside you, inside the “house,”
the dwelling of His Holy Spirit – your mind and heart. Now it
is your move, as it was Zacchaeus’: maybe you and I can’t help
losing our car keys, but we can help losing our souls –with Jesus’
grace, they don’t have to end up in wrong places, on wrong paths,
“lost.” Jesus says that he has come to search us out and save us.
Each of us needs to take courage from the story of Zacchaeus, to
hear Jesus call, to know what exactly “hurry down” involves in
our own case, and then, of course, we need to hurry down to our
right place, at the Savior’s side.
Holy Cross Cemetery Veterans Day service Nov. 11
The annual Veterans Day Service at Holy
Cross Cemetery, celebrating Americans’ freedoms and the service and commitment of the
men and women of the Armed Forces, will be
held outdoors Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. in front of
the flag display in the Star of the Sea section
of the Colma cemetery.
More Veterans Day news, Page 13
Msgr. Michael Padazinski, chancellor
and judicial vicar of the Archdiocese of San
Francisco, and a 22-year veteran of the U.S. Air
Force Reserve, will preside over the memorial
prayer service.
“The theme is a remembrance of those who
have given their lives so that we might enjoy
the freedoms – the freedoms that we all enjoy
as Americans,” said Msgr. Padazinski, a colonel
and chaplain in the Air Force Reserve. Of men
and women in the service, he added, “It really is
a Christ-like way to live one’s life in the service
of others.”
The Veterans Day program has been
conducted for some 10 years at Holy Cross
Cemetery. Two priests in particular – Msgr.
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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Oct. 31 terrorist siege
that left at least 58 people dead inside Baghdad’s Syrian
Catholic cathedral was a “savage” act of “absurd violence,”
Pope Benedict XVI said.
The pope urged international and national authorities and all
people of good will to work together to end the “heinous episodes
of violence that continue to ravage the people of the Middle East.”
The attack came less than three weeks after the pope, in
his opening homily at the Middle Eastern Synod of Bishops
in Rome, condemned terrorism as one of the “false gods”
besetting the modern world.
“In a very grave attack on the Syrian Catholic cathedral of
Baghdad, dozens of people were killed and injured, among
them two priests and a group of faithful gathered for Sunday
Mass,” the pope said after the incident.
“I pray for the victims of this absurd violence, which
is even more savage because it struck defenseless people,
gathered in God’s house, which is a house of love and reconciliation,” he said after praying the Angelus with pilgrims
in St. Peter’s Square Nov. 1, the feast of All Saints.
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He expressed his closeness to Iraqi Christians, who have
suffered another attack in their homeland, and he encouraged the nation’s priests and lay faithful “to be strong and
steady in hope.”
Pope Benedict renewed his urgent call for peace in the
Middle East.
While peace may be a gift of God, “it is also the result of
efforts by people of good will and national and international
institutions,” he said.
“May everyone unite their efforts so as to end all violence,” he said.
Armed militants wearing explosives stormed the cathedral while an estimated 100 faithful were celebrating evening
Mass, news reports said.
The terrorists first set off a car bomb across the street in
front of the Baghdad Stock Exchange, which left at least two
people dead. Then they stormed the church, killing another
two people, according to reports.
The militants, who said they were part of the Islamic
State of Iraq – a group with suspected ties to al-Qaida – held
parishioners and priests hostage in the hopes of leveraging
the release of prisoners from their network.
Rep. Joseph Cao, a Louisiana Republican, said one villager died after repeated police beatings by police and two
women suffered miscarriages.
Skyrocketing property values have prompted the government to lay claim to many properties, citing the communist
principle that land is under the people’s ownership and is
managed by the state. In practice the land is often seized and
sold to developers, VietCatholic News reported.
1,200 minors dead in drug wars
Congressman calls conviction
of six Viet Catholics “sham”
HANOI, Vietnam – After being arrested in a clash with
police in a church-state property dispute, six Catholic villagers in Vietnam were convicted Oct. 27 in a what one U.S.
congressman called a “sham court.”
Sentences for the six villagers ranged from 12 months to
a nine-month suspended sentence, Catholic News Agency
reported.
The six villagers were among the 59 people arrested after
clashes between 500 Catholics and government agents at the
parish cemetery of Con Dau May 4. Catholics had conducted
a funeral procession for an 82-year-old woman and tried to
bury her in the cemetery, which had been seized by the local
government to build a tourist resort.
MEXICO CITY – Drug violence in Mexico has claimed the
lives of 1,200 boys, girls and teens since 2006, non-governmental
agencies announced at a news conference.
The dead include 27 minors, most of them young, killed in
recent massacres at a birthday party in Ciudad Juarez and a drug
rehab center in Tijuana.
More than 28,000 people have died since President Felipe
Calderon declared war on Mexico’s drug cartels in December
2006, the Latin American Herald Tribune reported.
The non-governmental groups called on Mexico’s leader to
adopt a new security strategy based on human rights and the
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About 60 victims of clerical sex abuse gathered in Rome Oct.
31 to mark what they called “Reformation Day.”
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Men mourn outside the Syrian Catholic cathedral
in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 1.
They demanded prisoners linked to al-Qaida be set free
from detention in Iraq and Egypt and threatened to blow up
the church if military forces tried to break the siege, according to Italian state media RAI.
Iraqi security forces ringed the church and U.S. military
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After a standoff that lasted hours, Iraqi forces stormed the
cathedral and the ensuing firefight and a series of explosions
left at least 58 people dead – including two priests – and
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BAGHDAD ATTACK, page 5
The number was a far cry from the 50,000 that organizers had predicted back in April when the event was first
announced, CNA/EWTN News reported.
Yet members of the group, Survivors’ Voice, many clad in
white shirts with “Enough!” written across the chest, took part
in a series of events throughout the afternoon and evening to
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Bernie McDaid, co-founder of Survivor’s Voice, expressed
hope before the event that “the world may finally be ready
to act.”
Their demonstration concluded with a candlelight procession to St. Peter’s Square. Before the half-mile walk up the
street from where they were gathered at the monument of
Castel Sant’Angelo, they observed a minute of silence and
inaugurated “The Year of the Survivor.”
The Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, came
out to greet the group. But reaction to his appearance seemed
to be met with mixed emotions.
Because the group was not given permission to carry out the
protest in St. Peter’s Square, when it came time for the procession, only two members were allowed by Italian authorities
to proceed into the square. The two took with them 75-100
letters written by victims addressed to the Vatican and Pope
Benedict XVI.
Claim: Oregon residents doctorshop for help with suicide
MANCHESTER, England – A British think tank said a
U.S. assisted-suicide law might have created a phenomenon of
“doctor-shopping” for physicians willing to ignore safeguards
to help healthy people kill themselves.
A report claims that the 1997 Oregon Death With Dignity
Act is being abused – with the help of some physicians – by
people who do not fulfill the criteria of being terminally ill,
mentally competent and able to make a free choice.
Called “What is Happening in Oregon?” the report by
Living and Dying Well, a group of prominent British medical
and legal experts, was sent to British members of Parliament
Oct. 25 to counter claims by assisted-suicide campaigners
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that the Oregon law is a model
of effective regulation that
should be adopted in the United
Kingdom.
The report’s author, Dr.
David Jeffrey, a senior lecturer in
palliative medicine at Scotland’s
Edinburgh University, and
researcher Madeleine Teahan,
Survivors rest on a fallen tree trunk in a village
examined 12 annual reports
in west Sumatra, Indonesia, Oct. 29.
from the Oregon Public Health
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act since 1998.
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was enacted, about a third of all people who
requested help in committing suicide were
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Back-to-back
referred to psychiatrists, but by 2009 no one natural disasters led Catholic agencies in
was being sent for counseling.
Indonesia to rush emergency aid to victims.
“Could this be a consequence of ‘doctor
The disasters – a magnitude 7.7 undersea
shopping’ – namely that a physician who earthquake Oct. 25 that triggered a tsunami
is prepared to process an application for that swamped coastal villages in the remote
physician-assisted suicide might perhaps Mentawai Islands off of the west coast of
be less inclined than others to regard such a Sumatra and the eruption of a volcano on
request as a pointer to possible psychological Java beginning Oct. 26 – claimed more than
disorder or depression?” asked the report.
400 lives and displaced thousands of people.
“If that is so it would not be surprising
Authorities reported the tsunami killed
that as the number of physician-assisted
408 people and that at least 400 people
suicide cases has increased, referrals for
remained missing Oct. 29, four days after
psychiatric counseling have fallen,” the
10-foot waves washed away homes and other
report said.
structures up to 2,000 feet inland.
Death toll rises from
Indonesian disasters
Giants fan’s “very special year”
“My favorite time of year
is the baseball season,” said
Father Jim MacDonald, pastor,
St. Pius Parish in Redwood City
and Giants season- ticket holder.
“Following the Giants at AT&T
Park or by television/radio is one
of my main interests. Wins are
better than losses. This year has
been exciting and sometimes
painful, yet this has been a very
special year.” The Giants beat the
Texas Rangers in Game 5 for their
first World Series win since 1954.
(CNS PHOTO/CRACK PALINGGI, REUTERS)
November 5, 2010
Baghdad attack . . .
■ Continued from page 4
Syrian Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph
III Younan was in Canada when the blasts
occurred. In an e-mail to Catholic News Service
Nov. 1 while he was en route to Baghdad, he
criticized the lack of security for Christian
places of worship and called on “Iraqi parties
to overcome their personal and confessional
interests and look for the good of the Iraqi
people who have elected them.”
“There are a few churches and Christian
institutions left in Baghdad, not so great a
number that it is not unreasonable for them to
be protected, security-wise,” he said, noting that
the security being provided by the government
is “far less than what we have hoped for and
requested.”
“Christians are slaughtered in Iraq, in their
homes and churches, and the so-called ‘free’
world is watching in complete indifference,
interested only in responding in a way that is
politically correct and economically opportune,
but in reality is hypocritical,” said the patriarch,
who served as bishop of the New Jersey-based
Syrian-rite diocese in the United States and
Canada from 1995 until his election as patriarch in 2009.
The patriarch demanded “that the U.S.
Congress, the United Nations, the International
Commission for Civil Rights and the League
of Arabic States” condemn the actions at the
church and “take the appropriate action to
defend innocent Christians brutally singled
out because of their religion, in Iraq and some
other Middle Eastern countries.”
Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon
Warduni of Baghdad told Vatican Radio Oct. 31
that at least one child was killed in the incident.
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During the siege, he asked people to pray
that God would give the hostage-takers the
grace to take into consideration the women,
children and all the innocent who were
threatened by their actions.
Vatican spokesman Jesuit Father Federico
Lombardi told reporters at the time of the
siege that “it’s a very sad situation, which
confirms the difficult situation in which
Christians live in the country.”
“Christians live with great insecurity
and we express our solidarity with them,”
he said.
Iraqi bishops had just participated in a
special Synod of Bishops Oct. 10-24 with
the pope at the Vatican; the synod drew
attention to the challenges facing Christians
in the Middle East.
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churches and other Christian buildings and
a general lack of security have made life
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community that about half have left their
homeland for safer destinations in the past
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Baghdad to bury the dead.
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Philip Najem, procurator for the Chaldean
Catholic Church. “It is not a matter of faith.
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Cheering their team in the World Series, students at
St. Pius School in Redwood City donned Giants
colors to form the team’s logo.
HS bioethics . . .
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abortion and artificial reproduction technology, including
embryonic stem cell science and IVF.
Last year a student at the all-girls high school “very courageously revealed she was an IVF baby,” said Martin-Spencer.
“That added a level of reality to the course.”
The class also examined the emergency contraceptive “Ella,”
approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in August
for prescription only and touted as a way to prevent pregnancy
up to five days after sexual intercourse. “Do you realize it has
the potential to terminate a pregnancy?” Martin-Spencer said
he asked the girls. “They were honestly shocked. They had no
idea based on the commercials they saw.”
At Woodside Priory School, Redemptorist Father Benjamin
Owens last year revived a bioethics elective for juniors and
Teens from St. Andrew Parish in South San Francisco
were among 200 from the Archdiocese – and among
3,400 from nine North California and Nevada dioceses
– who attended the ON FIRE NorCal Jam Oct. 16 at Six
Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo.
Students at Good Shepherd School in Pacifica planted
“Pinwheels for Peace” by the school’s courtyard.
They crafted the pinwheels after discussions about
what a peace-filled world would be like and how
“whirled peace” might be found.
seniors. Because of demand the course grew to three sections
this year, he said. The class draws on material from the National
Catholic Bioethics Center, which advises the U.S. bishops, for
information about stem cell ethics and science, Father Owens
said. “We try to present what the mind of the Church is on
critical issues, realizing that the Church is in that value-focused
dialogue and sometimes struggles with other viewpoints,” said
the Portola Valley school theology teacher.
At some other schools in the Archdiocese, bioethics is covered as part of mandatory theology courses.
Archbishop Riordan High School freshmen “read and discuss a section in the Catholic Faith Handbook called ‘Respecting
Sexuality’ that addresses issues like contraception, in vitro fertilization, and artificial insemination,” said Dean of Academics
Colleen Eagleson, with the topics coming up again at the boys’
high school in junior religion in three units, “Culture of Life,”
“Culture of Death,” and “Respect for Sexuality,” and again in
senior year as part of a course on ethics and marriage and family.
Marin Catholic’s Mayer, who recently obtained his certificate in bioethics from the National Catholic Bioethics
Center, includes bioethics modules in the senior religion
course and teaches bioethics within the senior elective
Christian Literature. Martin-Spencer teaches bioethics as a
spring senior elective.
The Church teaches that IVF and embryonic stem cell
science are wrong because they remove conception from the
marital act and treat a baby as a product to be manipulated, violating the child’s integrity as a human being with an immortal
soul from the moment of conception. Additionally, embryonic
stem cell science and often IVF destroy embryos in research or
medical procedures. The issue was addressed by the Vatican
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in “Donum Vitae”
published in 1987, and “Dignitas Personae” issued in 2008.
Martin-Spencer’s course includes end-of-life issues such as
physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, the death penalty, IVF,
human experimentation, abortion, contraception and genetic
engineering. “We teach from the Catholic perspective and the
students have a lot of questions about it,” Martin-Spencer said.
“The way we approach it is very sensitively because these
are very personal issues, especially in Marin, because some
students have been conceived through IVF” and statistics
show a high number of young women have had abortions,
Marin Catholic’s Mayer said. “These are issues the students
are dealing with.”
“It’s going to be up to us to make these moral decisions,”
said Marin Catholic senior Alonzo Page, 18, who attended an
Oct. 9 seminar sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco,
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Spanish-speaking Catholics adopt plan to expand archdiocesan ministries
By Dana Perrigan
Gazing out upon several hundred Hispanic
Catholics packed into the auditorium of
Mission Dolores Church one recent Saturday
morning, Auxiliary Bishop William Justice
opened the annual meeting of El Consejo
Pastoral Hispano by saying in Spanish:
“We must go forward – not backward: That
is what we must remember to do.”
When the meeting of Catholic lay leaders
and clergy – representing 33 parishes throughout the Archdiocese – was over, the bishop’s
words had been heeded: A detailed plan to
serve the needs of the Hispanic community,
which is the single largest ethnic group in the
Archdiocese, had been set in motion.
“We have a lot of lay people from different parishes,” said Cecilia Arias, “and they
were waiting for a green light. We came out
with a structure of organization – that’s the
new thing.”
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The director of the Office of Hispanic
Ministry, Arias said the plan – which began two
years ago at a meeting at St. Mary’s Cathedral –
calls for lay people and clergy to work closely
together. It is based upon the precepts outlined
in Vatican II, in which all Catholics are called
to holiness and to serve God by serving others.
“We are all community,” said Sister Estela
Martinez, from St. James Church. During her
presentation at the meeting on the vocation
and mission of lay Catholics in the Church,
Sister Estela reminded the audience that “Our
God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – is community. Church is community. We need to
work together.”
As temples of the Holy Spirit on earth and
incorporated into the body of Christ by baptism, said Sister Estela, all Catholics are called
upon to participate in the sanctification of the
world by being – as expressed by Jesus in the
New Testament – the salt and light of the world.
Father Moises Agudo, the new archdiocesan
Vicar for Spanish-speaking, identified seven
areas of ministry in which lay people and clergy
can work together to serve the community. The
ministries, which Father Agudo referred to
as “pastorales,” include family, youth, social
justice, catechesis, liturgy, vocation and communication.
According to the plan, there will be a group
of trained lay people to work in each area of
ministry. The services of these groups will be
offered to every church in the Archdiocese,
whether to train others to work in specific areas,
or work directly in the parish. The success of
the plan relies upon developing and maintaining relationships with pastors throughout the
Archdiocese.
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Haiti survivor . . .
some $149 million to Catholic Relief Services
for Haitian relief. The includes $3.3 million
from Bay Area Catholics of which $1.2 million
came from parishes within the Archdiocese
of San Francisco, said Joe Hastings, a CRS
executive from Seattle.
“Mesi anpil” (thank you very much).
Rigaud said in Creole. “Mesi anpil for what
you have done and mesi anpil for what you
are going to do.”
Spending is piecemeal, because disaster
relief, recovery and rebuilding, particularly in
regions in which poverty is rampant, is a longterm endeavor, said Hastings. Only $30 million
of the $149 million in Catholic contribution
to Haiti has been spent, largely on emergency
services, while more money over time will be
earmarked for farming equipment to restore
agriculture, hospitals, microfinance loans for
(CNS) PHOTO/EDUARDO MUNOZ, REUTERS)
■ Continued from cover
Prayer during Mass outside the quake-devastated
cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 31.
U.S. bishops seeking “Asian Pacific pastoral agents”
By George Raine
In the nearly 10 years since a U.S. Catholic bishops’ pastoral letter encouraging Asian Pacific people to take active
leadership roles at every level of Church life was issued,
some progress is noted but more is needed, particularly in
developing parish ministries, a cultural diversity specialist
for the bishops said during a visit to San Francisco.
There is already considerable enthusiasm for serving the
Church, among Asian and Pacific people. But what is missing is a template or study guide for marshalling that energy
and forming what is being called “Asian Pacific pastoral
agents” at dioceses across the country, said Cecile Motus,
the assistant director of the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity
of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
That will be her priority in 2011, the 10th anniversary of
the 2001 pastoral letter, titled “Asian and Pacific Presence:
Harmony in Faith,” along with an assessment of Asian
Pacific ministries nationwide, and how the pastoral letter’s
recommendations are being met.
The first among them was this: “That dioceses and
parishes make every effort to welcome and to evangelize
Asian and Pacific people and to share with them the Good
News of Jesus Christ and the Catholic faith.”
The pastoral letter was written after Bishop John
Cummins, the retired bishop of the Diocese of Oakland,
in 1997 made two observations – that there is continuing
growth in Asian Pacific communities in the U.S. and the
Church but hardly anything had been written about the
presence of the group and “the gifts they bring,” said
Motus. Second, Bishop Cummins noted that many Asian
and Pacific people are active in parishes but there is little
recognition of it.
Bishop Cummins’ insights were formed as a delegate
to the Asian Bishops Conference, which he attended from
1982 to 2004. In addition, he twice addressed the USCCB
on what he considered inadequate recognition of the role
of Asian and Pacific people in the Church.
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small shop operators and other programs that
help wean recipients from food distribution and
allow them to return to their normal patterns of
earning and buying, said Hastings.
As of September, said Hastings and Rigaud,
CRS contributions in Haiti include: providing food to 900,000 people; helping 256,365
people with emergency shelter; building 300
transitional shelters; helping to provide 997
surgeries; installing 680 water and sanitation
units; creating child-friendly spaces where
1,863 children regularly gather, and employing 10,000 people in a cash-for-work program
to clear rubble, clean out drainage canals and
build temporary shelters.
Remaining challenges are enormous, said
Rigaud. Consider, she said, that in a span of
only 35 seconds, the earthquake reduced much
of the capital of Port-au-Prince to rubble,
destroying seven of 12 government buildings,
wrecking 188,000 homes and damaging 4,922
schools – 80 percent of Haiti’s schools.
Riguad had worked the day of the earthquake. She left about 4:30 p.m. and picked up
her boys to head home. While en route, her daughter sent
a text message: Don’t forget to stop and get the cat food –
Alley Cat Food, she insisted; the only food the cat will eat.
Rigaud drove to the Caribbean Market in Port-au-Prince.
Alas, there was no Alley Cat Food on the shelf. She
telephoned her daughter to say the cat would have to do
with something else. Then, at 4:53 p.m., as Rigaud and the
boys stood in the pet food aisle, the earth shook.
“I saw the back of the supermarket start to collapse and
stuff was coming toward me,” said Rigaud, who with her
boys clutched to her side, was transported down the aisle
to the dog food section where, incredibly, they were saved.
Rigaud and the boys found themselves covered by bags
of dry dog food, insulating them from the supermarket roof
and debris from the multi-story building. A kind of cave
was created, although there was no room in which to move,
where mother and sons lived for eight hours, often praying
and singing songs about Jesus in Creole.
Two men around them cried, one of them believing he
was dead. Rigaud knew better. “I said, ‘You’re not dead,
you are speaking. You should be praying because God did
not want you to die. Otherwise you wouldn’t be crying like
a baby.’”
Soon, one of the men found a flashlight and then a bottle
of apple juice. “This is a sign of God,” Rigaud said aloud.
“We have life and now we have juice.” She assured the
crying man that these were signs and that rescuers would
follow. “He said that maybe he could start believing in
God,” said Rigaud.
Another Bay Area priest, Father Anthony McGuire,
was a major force behind the drive to have the pastoral
letter published. In 1999, Father McGuire, now pastor of
St. Matthew Church in San Mateo, was director of pastoral
care for migrants and refugees in the USCCB Office of
Migration, and he assigned Motus to begin drafting the
letter.
In that year, there were no Asian Pacific U.S. bishops.
Now there are five: Bishop Ignatius Wang, retired auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco; Bishop
Randolph Calvo, of the Diocese of Reno; Bishop Dominic
Luong, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Orange; Bishop
Oscar Solis, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los
Angeles, and Bishop Jacob Angadiath, bishop of the SyroMalabar Catholic Diocese (Eastern rite) of Chicago.
Motus said Asian and Pacific Catholics are being
encouraged to take leadership roles, “but that is being
played by ear, and we are learning on the ground.” She
wants more structure to helping develop vocations among
Asian Pacific people as well as lay ministers.
The number of Asian and Pacific priests in the U.S.
is steadily growing, she noted. In 2009, 13 percent of the
ordained priests in diocesan seminaries were Asian and
Pacific, compared with 9 percent in 1999. The majority
of Vietnamese, followed by Filipino, Korean and Chinese,
Motus said.
Motus said the Vietnamese have an active youth society
with 30,000 members nationwide and operate their own
seminary, in Missouri. The growth in Vietnamese vocations,
she said, is a reflection of “persecution of the church (in the
country) and how it deepens the love for Jesus and following the holiness of his life, so that is a source of inspiration,
a source of comfort.”
In addition to the Archdiocese of San Francisco,
Motus is holding meetings with officials in the Diocese of
Oakland, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Fresno and Sacramento,
as well as other regions in the country, to coordinate observances of the pastoral letter’s anniversary.
Laura Vicuña Pre-K
of Saints Peter and Paul School
Please join us for our
Annual Open House
on January 30 – 2-4 p.m.
Applications will be available
Barbara Simons, Director
660 Filbert Street San Francisco CA 94133
t. 415 296 8549 f. 415 421 0217
e. [email protected]
www.sspeterpaulsf.org/prek
November 5, 2010
Catholic San Francisco
Junípero Serra High School in San Mateo is much more than an outstanding Catholic college
preparatory for young men. It is a place where teachers become mentors. Classmates become
brothers. Ordinary moments become extraordinary experiences.
JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL
erra High School is located in the heart of the Peninsula between San
Francisco and Silicon Valley. Students take advantage of all that the Bay
Area has to offer. Teachers help students to explore their talents and
achieve success in a variety of areas—academics, the arts, athletics,
clubs and service learning experiences—all in the context of Serra’s core values
of Faith, Wisdom, Service, Community and Leadership.
Students form bonds that are strengthened everyday—in the classrooms, on
the athletic fields, at retreats and on the performing arts stage. These bonds
ultimately transform into a brotherhood that lasts a lifetime.
curriculum: Serra prepares students not only for the rigors of university, but also
for the challenges of the 21st century. Classes are taught using specific strategies
that motivate young men to learn.
Serra offers an outstanding college preparatory curriculum. Ninety-nine percent
of Serra graduates go on to college and are accepted to the top colleges and
universities nationwide. Serra students’ AP pass rate is 82.7 percent.
transportation: Serra provides morning transportation for students from
outlying areas. Shuttle service locations include: St. Rose Hospital in Hayward,
the Millbrae BART station and the Third Avenue CalTrain station in San Mateo.
junipero serra high school
OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, December 2 at 7 p.m.
451 West 20th Avenue San Mateo CA 94402
650.345.8207 www.serrahs.com
Serra Blue is GOLD
at serra, you will be known. you will belong.
Serra’s New Center for the Arts and Sciences
and Aquatics Facilities
OPENING FALL 2011
Serra’s new Center for the Arts and Sciences will be completed in the fall of 2011. It will include a full renovation and major
expansion of the aquatics facilities. The Center will feature the latest instructional technology to maximize student learning.
Classrooms will be equipped with Smart Board and digital camera technology, student laptops and wireless computer
connectivity. In addition to the second floor science wing, the first floor will provide expanded facilities for the fine and performing
arts, including a music rehearsal hall and two large art rooms. Serra’s Academic Resource Center will be expanded to include
more classroom space, a meeting room to accommodate family conferences and a small-group tutoring/collaborative study area.
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Catholic San Francisco
November 5, 2010
“The faith of the simple knocks down false gods”
This is an abridged version of an
unscripted homily that the Holy Father
gave in Rome Oct. 11 at the start of the
Synod of Bishops for the Middle East. The
pope describes the centrality of Mary in
the Incarnation, the ensuing birth of the
Mother Church and the role of Christian
witness – as crucial now as it was in the
emerging Church – to unmask “false
gods,” of which he names government
oppression, terrorism and drugs. Read the
full transcript at chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it. Scott Richert, who calls the homily
a defining moment in Benedict’s pontificate, has commentary on his catholicism.
about.com blog.
... Aristotelian philosophy tells us that
between God and man there exists only a
non-reciprocal relationship. Man exists in
reference to God, but God, the Eternal, is
in himself, he does not change: he cannot
have this kind of relationship today and
another kind tomorrow. He remains in
himself, he does not have a relationship
“ad extra,” he does not have a relationship
with me. It is a very logical reflection, but
it is a reflection that makes us despair.
With the Incarnation, this has changed
radically, because God has drawn us into
himself, and God in himself is relationship
and makes us participate in his interior
relationship. So we are in his being Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit, we are inside his
being in relationship, we are in relationship with him, and he has really created a
relationship with us. …
In that moment, God wanted to be
born of a woman while still remaining
himself: this is the great event. And so
we can understand the profundity of Pope
(John XXIII’s) action when he entrusted
the conciliar, synodal assembly (Second
Vatican Council) to the central mystery,
to the Mother of God who is drawn by the
Lord into himself, and so all of us with her.
The council began with the icon of the
“Theotókos” (the Greek title of Mary –
literally, “God-bearer.”) At the end, Pope
Paul VI acknowledged the Virgin Mary
with the title “Mater Ecclesiae.” And
these two icons, which begin and conclude
the council, are intrinsically connected,
they are, in the end, a single icon.
... Christ was not born as an individual
among others. He was born to create a
body for himself: he was born – as John
says in Chapter 12 of his Gospel – to
draw all things to him and in him. He was
born – as the letters to the Colossians and
to the Ephesians say – to recapitulate all
the world, he was born as the first-born of
many brothers, he was born to reunite the
cosmos in himself, such that he is the head
of a great body. Where Christ is born, there
begins the movement of recapitulation, the
moment of the calling, of the construction
of his body, of the holy Church... The
(PHOTO BY JOHN STEPHEN DWYER)
By Pope Benedict XVI
Even today, the
only Son of God
must be born for
the world with the
downfall of the gods,
with suffering, the
martyrdom of the
witnesses.
Mother of “Theós,” the Mother of God,
is Mother of the Church, because she is
Mother of the one who came to reunite all
in his risen body.
Birth in Bethlehem, birth in the
cenacle. Birth of the Child Jesus, birth of
the body of Christ, of the Church. They
are two events, or one single event. But
between the two really stand the cross
and the resurrection. And only through the
cross does the journey toward the totality
of Christ take place, toward his risen body,
toward the universalization of his being in
the unity of the Church. And so, keeping in
Stained glass window at the Melkite
Catholic Annunciation Cathedral
in Roslindale, Mass.
mind that it is only from the grain that falls
to the ground that the great harvest comes,
from the Lord pierced on the cross comes
the universality of his disciples gathered
into his body, put to death and risen...
So, at this moment, we can take a look
at the second psalm of this midday hour,
Psalm 81, where a part of this process
can be seen. God stands among the gods,
still considered as gods in Israel. In this
psalm, in a great act of concentration, in
a prophetic vision, the gods are seen to be
stripped of their power. What appeared to
be gods are not gods, and they lose the
divine character, they fall to the ground. ...
This process, which took place over
Israel’s long journey of faith, and is
summed up here in a remarkable vision, is
a true process of the history of religion: the
downfall of the gods. And so the transformation of the world, the knowledge of the
true God, the weakening of the forces that
dominate the earth, is a process of suffering. In the history of Israel, we see how this
liberation from polytheism, this recognition – “only he is God” – takes place amid
much suffering, beginning with the journey
of Abraham, the exile, the Maccabees, up
until Christ. And it continues in history, this
process of weakening spoken of in Chapter
12 of Revelation; this speaks of the fall
of the angels that are not angels, are not
divinities on the earth. And it is truly realized precisely in the time of the emerging
Church, where we see how with the blood
of the martyrs there is a weakening of the
divinities, all these divinities, beginning
with the divine emperor. It is the blood of
the martyrs, the suffering, the cry of the
Mother Church that knocks them down and
so transforms the world.
This downfall is not only the knowledge
that these are not God. It is the process of
the transformation of the world, which
costs blood, costs the suffering of the witnesses to Christ. And, if we look closely, we
see that this process is never finished. Even
today, in this moment, in which Christ,
the only Son of God, must be born for the
world with the downfall of the gods, with
suffering, the martyrdom of the witnesses.
We think of the great powers of today’s
history, we think of the anonymous capitals that enslave man, that are no longer
something belonging to man, but are an
anonymous power that men serve, and
by which men are tormented and even
slaughtered. They are a destructive power
that threatens the world. And then the
power of the terrorist ideologies. Violence
is done apparently in the name of God, but
this is not God: these are false divinities
that must be unmasked, that are not God.
And then drugs, this power that, like a
ravenous beast, stretches its hands over
all parts of the earth and destroys: it is a
divinity, but a false divinity, which must
fall. Or even the way of life promoted by
public opinion: today it’s done this way,
marriage doesn’t matter anymore, chastity
is no longer a virtue, and so on.
These ideologies that are so dominant
that they impose themselves by force are
divinities. And in the suffering of the saints,
in the suffering of believers, of the Mother
Church of which we are part, these divinities
must fall, what is written in the letters to the
Colossians and Ephesians must come true:
the dominations and powers fall and become
subjects of the one Lord Jesus Christ. …
Letters will
return Nov. 12
Catholic San Francisco
welcomes letters from its readers.
Please send your letters to:
Catholic San Francisco
One Peter Yorke Way
San Francisco, CA 94109
Fax: (415) 614-5641
E-mail:
[email protected],
include “Letters”
in the subject line.
The Angelus: portrait of a prayer
Brother John M. Samaha, SM
The Angelus is a prayer practice rich in doctrine and
devotion. This prayer honors the Annunciation of the
Lord and commemorates the mystery of the Incarnation,
the Son of God becoming the Son of Mary for our salvation, the union of the divine nature with human nature.
The Angelus takes its name from its first word in the
Latin version of the prayer.
Praying the Angelus recalls the dialog between the
Archangel Gabriel and Mary by reciting three versicles and
responses with a Hail Mary after each set, another versicle
and response, and then a concluding prayer. Traditionally,
this was done while the local church bell tolled at 6 a.m.,
noon and 6 p.m. Older people will recall this experience.
The Angelus traces its beginnings to the 13th
century. In that era bells were often inscribed with
the Angelic Salutation. Before the Second Vatican
Council’s liturgical renewal, the concluding prayer was
the Postcommunion Prayer for Masses of Our Lady in
Advent; but now it is the Opening Prayer for the Fourth
Sunday of Advent.
Although the origin of the Angelus is obscure, it is
certain that the morning, midday, and evening practice
of praying the Angelus did not develop simultaneously.
By the 16th century, the various customs were unified.
The morning prayer was recited to commemorate
Christ’s resurrection; at noon, Christ’s passion; and
in the evening, to recall the Incarnation, since St.
Bonaventure taught that Gabriel’s visit to Mary came
at evening.
Since the 15th century to the present day, the
Angelus prayer has been recommended by many popes.
In our time, Blessed John XXIII began to recite the
Angelus each Sunday at noon as a Christian family
prayer with the pilgrims and Romans gathered below
his residence window in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican
City. Pope Paul VI expounded at some length on the
value of the Angelus in the last section of his apostolic
exhortation on proper devotion to Mary, “Marialis
Cultus” (1974).
Even before I began school, I remember our parish
church bell – St. James in San Francisco’s Mission
District – recalling the angel Gabriel’s Annunciation to
“The Angelus,” Jean-François-Millet
Mary of the Incarnation. In those years, unlike today,
most parishes tolled the Angelus daily. Then, in the
third grade, Sister M. Benvenuta, OP, taught us to pray
PRAYER, page 14
November 5, 2010
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CSF interview: Father Moises Agudo
CSF: There is a tremendous demographic shift underway in the Catholic laity in the US, especially in the
West. According to the Pew Forum (2008), 54 percent of
Catholics in the West were Hispanic, vs. 38 percent white.
What are the implications of this shift for the Church in
the US and this Archdiocese?
FATHER AGUDO: More than an implication it is a
challenge for the Archdiocese to confront the reality of
growth in the Hispanic population. And this challenge is
to achieve the cultural integration of Hispanics into the
Anglo world and vice versa – a process that could be
achieved through joint pastoral and liturgical celebrations.
CSF: Vocations from prospective priests from Spanishspeaking countries are relatively few, considering that
many of our parishes are predominantly Latino. What’s
going on here? Why aren’t more Latino men stepping up?
What more could be done to encourage them to consider
the priesthood?
FATHER AGUDO: There aren’t few Latino men willing to enter the seminary, there are many but the problem
is that they are not legally here. A legal status is implicit
for admission into the seminary – it’s not a matter of how
few there are but what restrictions are in place at seminaries that hinder their admission. Those who cannot be
allowed in are not unwilling but unable. If we could create
a legislative path through which we could formalize the
way Latino men are let in we would have more vocations.
It is a double edge sword because many would use it to
legalize their status. There are many vocations but they
are inhibited from following their vocation. There are so
many legal obstacles in the U.S. Another reason is that in
the world that we live in today materialistic forces permeate the youth – before everything was more conducive to
hear the vocational call – you were not as contaminated by
the world and its pretenses. We need to fight against that
which is presented to the youth – to propose something
that is attractive. The challenge is to know that what we
are offering – they can attain. What was not attainable
back home is an open door here. They abandon Church and
vocation because what we are proposing is easy. We need
to enable an encounter of the youth with Christ through a
vocation in this world. We as a Church are falling short –
we don’t know how to reach out to the youth and foment a
vocation from inside the family – the bosom of vocations.
CSF: This may be part of your answer: Spanish-speaking
young people tend to abandon the Church when they reach
adulthood. Maybe they do not leave at a greater rate than
European-born Catholics, but still it is a factor to be considered. What can we do to reach out to Spanish-speaking
youth and young adults?
FATHER AGUDO: It depends. The family plays a
fundamental role in education and formation...the youth
wants to be autonomous. But it is then that we need to
work with the youth presenting them with something
that anchors them to the parish. For example, in St.
Charles Borromeo we have children preparing for First
Communion for one or two years. Then they move on to
prepare for Confirmation. We have got to do something
to keep them around, so we created another class called
Devotions to the Sacred Heart. Two more years of Good
News Bible classes, another year of Disciples of Christ,
a year of preparation ahead of confirmation. During those
years we are filling in the vacuum. It could keep them
and their parents in the Church... Let’s help both of them
to stay in.
CSF: The Spanish-speaking community is not a community – that’s a fiction. Native Spanish speakers make
up a range of communities depending on nationality,
economic level and other factors. How does the Vicar for
The Church needs to create
a new way to help the pagan
world. The antidote is the
announcement of the Gospel
with strength, truth and courage.
– Father Moises Agudo
Spanish-speaking manage this diversity? What are the
common threads? What are the differences that make the
task difficult?
FATHER AGUDO: In the diversity of the culture...
the economy...the nationalities as Constantine united his
empire by means of religion... it was a divided empire and
he knew how to unify through the Catholic religion...unify
this diversity with the same legal system...the Spanish,
through the language used to celebrate the liturgies in the
Church...we could unify all Latinos. We could unify these
realities ... this diversity has a unity in the language... that’s
how one could forge unity among Latinos.
The challenge lies in the unity of celebration in the
diversity of cultures. What is difficult is to know how
to conjugate all the festivities, the celebrations in one
moment ... Virgin of Guadalupe, Savior of the World,
the Immaculate Conception, the Divine Child. How does
one form these national feast days into a liturgy with the
same language? If we succeed in unifying we will create
a tremendous unity among Latinos.
Though we are not a community we are united because
we are all immigrants ... to create a pastoral for the immigrant is the unity.
CSF: There is a major problem in financing our parochial
schools, especially those in the city, to serve a new generation of immigrants. Those new immigrants are predominantly Spanish-speaking. We know from the Pew survey
that Hispanic Catholics, as a group, have far lower incomes
and education levels than Caucasians. This makes for some
very difficult economic issues that are rooted in even more
difficult cultural issues. Parishes are having a difficult time
paying for these schools, even though tuition costs are often
quite low. It seems to be very difficult for many immigrant
families to pay. What can be done about this?
FATHER AGUDO: The Latino community is less
likely to enter a Catholic school due to an economic
problem. There is also a cultural problem whereby many
think that private schools are very costly. Their income is
minimal ... and they could never provide a private education for their children.
What to do? It is a social problem that needs to be
resolved by the government because making a good education available is to help a society ... Private schools should
be subsidized by the government like in Australia. It will
be very difficult for the government to subsidize schools so
we need to find benefactors that will assist these families
with access to schools. St. Charles Borromeo consists of
70 percent Hispanics and they have difficulty in paying
tuition. We are trying to find benefactors to be able to
help 100 children. The tuition for each student is $4,000
a year. These children will contribute greatly to society in
education and labor. We are trying to find benefactors to
help these children.
The school is an entity, as the diocese, a very impersonal
building. We should get rid of this entity and show their
faces to the benefactors so that they can see who they are
helping. Instead of telling them to help the school, let’s tell
them to help the children that study in the school; don’t
help the school but the children.
CSF: If Spanish-speaking Catholics of means value
Catholic education, why aren’t we seeing them step up
as philanthropists? (Don’t we see here a reflection of the
horrific divisions in most Latin American countries – a
handful of rich owning everything, hardly any middle class
and massive numbers of poor – and no solidarity between
rich and poor? We’re the Church – solidarity is crucial, so
how can we cultivate this?)
FATHER AGUDO: Because we live in the U.S. and we
think that we have everything, that poverty does not exist
here and we advocate for the poor in Asia, in Haiti; we
advocate for those abroad when there are millions of poor
people here. Here the reality is the same. We should turn
our faces toward the U.S. so that we can see the reality in
this country. We have collections for other countries. The
parishes that are capable could sponsor a poor school here.
(PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Father Moises Agudo, pastor at St. Charles Borromeo
in San Francisco and recently appointed Vicar for
Spanish-speaking for the Archdiocese, in conversation with
Catholic San Francisco. Interview conducted in Spanish
by Jose Luis Aguirre and translated by Marta Rebagliati.
Why send the money abroad if I can help here? There is
a problem with the ability to see. We intercede for those
outside and we don’t realize that poverty is here, that a
family has six people in a room and we pretend we don’t
see this. Here in the diocese we have a serious reality of
poverty. If we could have the rich parishes sponsor the poor
schools we could help solve the problem. These solvent
parishes could sponsor the schools.
CSF: A large number of Spanish-speaking Catholics
favor the participatory, expressive charismatic form of
celebration. How do you see this energizing the Church
as a whole?
FATHER AGUDO: Latinos are by far more expressive
than other ethnic groups, and each group has a way of
expressing the liturgy but all this energy and strength needs
to be channeled and directed to celebrate God’s greatness.
Latinos tend to speak more with a corporal language than
with words and that can be used to benefit the liturgy trying
of course to find a balance that is conducive to the liturgy.
CSF: It seems that whenever Hispanic Catholics are spoken of, immigration is mentioned in the same breath. And
because the nation – and Catholics, though not Catholic
teaching – are divided on how to treat undocumented
people living here, there’s a built-in tension when we talk
about Spanish-speaking Catholics. How can Catholics on
both sides of the question better understand each other?
What could the Archdiocese do to bring these two sides
together?
FATHER AGUDO: The tension exists between what’s
legal and illegal. As a diocese we need to look not only
at the legal or illegal side of immigration but we need to
look at the person. Our efforts to help the person independently of their immigration status. It is important to
begin to humanize the issue because the person is above
the regulations and the norms.
CSF: The Catholic Church seems to be fighting a losing
battle in Latin America against the encroachment of abortion rights and same-sex marriage. What is going on here?
Why is secularization able to move so aggressively in
countries that have been Catholic for 500 years?
FATHER AGUDO: Because secularization is like water,
it enters wherever there is room and adapts to any object.
Secularization enters wherever new forms emerge and
the Church is faced with a huge battle in the U.S., Latin
America and Europe. The Church needs to create a new way
to help the pagan world. The antidote is the announcement
of the Gospel with strength, with truth and with courage.
CSF: What is your immediate plan as Vicar for the Spanishspeaking?
FATHER AGUDO: I have resolved – in whatever measure is possible – to visit parishes that have a pastoral for
Hispanic ministry or that celebrate Mass in Spanish to be
able to celebrate together. My objective is to make them a
visible face for the Archdiocese and the archbishop. One
of the tasks I was entrusted with was to carry the love of
the bishop for Hispanics and the best way to do it is not
only by being present for the celebration of the Mass but
also to create a pastoral ministry dedicated to those who
speak Spanish.
Spanish-speaking Catholics
adopt pastoral plan, Page 7
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A READING FROM
THE SECOND BOOK OF MACCABEES
2 MC 7:1-2, 9-14
It happened that seven brothers with their
mother were arrested and tortured with whips
and scourges by the king, to force them to eat
pork in violation of God’s law. One of the
brothers, speaking for the others, said: “What
do you expect to achieve by questioning us?
We are ready to die rather than transgress the
laws of our ancestors.” At the point of death he
said: “You accursed fiend, you are depriving us
of this present life, but the King of the world
will raise us up to live again forever. It is for
his laws that we are dying.” After him the third
suffered their cruel sport. He put out his tongue
at once when told to do so, and bravely held
out his hands, as he spoke these noble words:
“It was from Heaven that I received these; for
the sake of his laws I disdain them; from him
I hope to receive them again.” Even the king
and his attendants marveled at the young man’s
courage, because he regarded his sufferings
as nothing. After he had died, they tortured
and maltreated the fourth brother in the same
way. When he was near death, he said, “It is
my choice to die at the hands of men with the
hope God gives of being raised up by him; but
for you, there will be no resurrection to life.”
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
PS 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15
R. Lord, when your glory appears,
my joy will be full.
November 5, 2010
Thirty-Second
Sunday in
Ordinary Time
2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14;
Psalm 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15;
2 Thessalonians 2:16-3:5; Luke 20:27-38
Hear, O Lord, a just suit;
attend to my outcry;
hearken to my prayer from lips
without deceit.
R. Lord, when your glory appears,
my joy will be full.
My steps have been steadfast
in your paths,
my feet have not faltered.
I call upon you, for you will
answer me, O God;
incline your ear to me; hear my word.
R. Lord, when your glory appears,
my joy will be full.
Keep me as the apple of your eye,
hide me in the shadow of your wings.
But I in justice shall behold
your face;
on waking I shall be content
in your presence.
R. Lord, when your glory appears,
my joy will be full.
A READING FROM
THE SECOND LETTER OF PAUL
TO THE THESSALONIANS
2 THES 2:16-3:5
Brothers and sisters: May our Lord
Jesus Christ himself and God our Father,
who has loved us and given us everlasting
encouragement and good hope through his
grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen
them in every good deed and word. Finally,
brothers and sisters, pray for us, so that the
word of the Lord may speed forward and be
glorified, as it did among you, and that we
may be delivered from perverse and wicked
people, for not all have faith. But the Lord
is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard
you from the evil one. We are confident of
A
s we wade through the insult-strewn media
battlefields of the Rachel Maddows and
Glenn Becks, the suicide-bombed wreckage
of Sunni and Shia city squares, or even the
tension-filled conversations of progressive and
conservative Catholics, we might think that our
age is a uniquely contentious one.
Luke’s Gospel this week might prove us
wrong.
In our Sunday’s Chapter 20, we see Jesus
again up to his ears in frustration with the
religious authorities of his time – and again at
his “your clever ‘gotcha’ tactics aren’t going
to work on me, guys...” best as he attempts to
bring those leaders (and us!) to a more authentic
understanding of just what truly lies at the heart
of the Kingdom that he is always talking about.
Earlier this week, in the All Saint’s Day
Gospel drawing from Matthew instead of the
regular C-Cycle Luke, we heard the Beatitudes,
gleaning from them not only a re-ordering of
the conventional notions of “kingdom,” but a
re-imagining of the basic concepts of what it
means to be happy and blessed.
This week, we’re offered a Kingdomdefining scenario where Jesus is doing what
any good Jew would do on a typical Saturday
night. No it’s not noshing on latkes and kugel.
It’s reveling in the ancient intellectual equivalent
of the WWF smackdowns (only using brains
instead of brawn) where rivaling factions among
the Jewish rabbis would gather on temple
grounds to spar – without too much concern
for the drawing of psychological blood – about
controversial biblical and theological issues.
This night’s juicy topic is the question of an
afterlife beyond the physical world.
The Sadducees, those teachers who held
that ONLY the books of Moses (the Pentateuch
Scripture reflection
ROB GRANT
In God’s Kingdom, be
careful what you wish for
of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and
Deuteronomy) are to be the source of Jewish
faith, are in hot contention with the more progressive Pharisees (with whom Jesus would
find himself aligned) who hold that the word
of God is revealed not only through the (then)
1,500-year old writings of Moses, but through
on-going prophecy, lived experience, and oral
tradition. The Sadducees are certain that there
is no resurrection, because Moses never spoke
of it. The Pharisees contend that oral tradition
and prophetic voice speak of resurrection.
So, when the Sadducees offer Jesus the
rather ridiculous hypothetical case of a barren
woman who has married – and gone on to successively bury – seven childless brothers, they
ask him: “In the resurrection, whose wife will
that widow be?”
Jesus challenges the Sadducees (and we
modern day pragmatists) to think of the coming age not as just a “new and improved”
version of this earthly experience, only with
puffy clouds and cool winged creatures playing
Baroque music on harps. Rather, harkening
back to his paradigm-shifting Beatitudes, he
slates the Kingdom as a place where even the
most elemental ancient (and still persistent)
assumptions about life and social order are to
be revisioned. In this encounter, Jesus elevates
the conversation about marriage from the typically pragmatic view of it being a contract to
protect paternal, familial and property interests,
to its status as a heavenly calling that presages
the age to come when gender dominance,
social standing and property will yield to the
fully generative power of love.
you in the Lord that what we instruct you,
you are doing and will continue to do. May
the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God
and to the endurance of Christ.
A READING FROM THE GOSPEL
ACCORDING TO LUKE
LK 20:27-38
Some Sadducees, those who deny that
there is a resurrection, came forward and
put this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher,
Moses wrote for us, if someone’s brother dies
leaving a wife but no child, his brother must
take the wife and raise up descendants for
his brother. Now there were seven brothers;
the first married a woman but died childless.
Then the second and the third married her,
and likewise all the seven died childless.
Finally the woman also died. Now at the
resurrection whose wife will that woman be?
For all seven had been married to her.” Jesus
said to them, “The children of this age marry
and remarry; but those who are deemed
worthy to attain to the coming age and to the
resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are
given in marriage. They can no longer die, for
they are like angels; and they are the children
of God because they are the ones who will
rise. That the dead will rise even Moses made
known in the passage about the bush, when
he called out ‘Lord, ‘ the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and
he is not God of the dead, but of the living,
for to him all are alive.”
Next week’s readings continue to remind
us of what will happen as the Kingdom is
made manifest. Jesus knows human nature—
so he tells us that, while we slowly learn as a
species to move ever closer to that Kingdom,
there will be wars, famines, plagues. Are
these signs from God? God doesn’t need to
“make” wars happen – we humans do that
quite well on our own. Famine? We are brilliant enough to know how to feed every man
woman and child on the planet – but our fear
of our own future need and our propensity
toward greed keep food controlled by those in
power. Plagues? There is medicine enough for
every ailment imaginable – but our reverence
for getting fair market value keeps healing
as a commodity to be sold, not a grace to be
offered.
So the questions these weeks before the
Feast of Christ the King are “Just what kind
of kingdom is Christ the King of…and do we
really want that kingdom?” The kingdom of
unequivocal peace-making, untiring justicemaking, unqualified mercy-showing? And do
we really want a king who asks us to relinquish the unearned benefits that come with
our gender, our social standing, our affluence?
Do we really want the Kingdom to come?
Rob Grant is a 30-year veteran of
parish ministry in the Archdiocese
of San Francisco and the Diocese of
Oakland. In addition to Liturgical
Ministry, he teaches Pastoral Ministry
at the Dominican School of Theology
at the Graduate Theological Union
in Berkeley. He can be reached
at [email protected].
Be still, and know that I am God
By Ginny Kubitz Moyer
In the corner of my bedroom stands a desk. Pushed up
against the window, it holds a candle, some family photos,
and an icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, which belonged
to my grandmother. I’ve
arranged several books on the
desk: a Bible, prayer guides, a
children’s book by one of my
favorite illustrators.
For the first two years I had
this desk, I used it sporadically.
Because it’s mere feet from
our bed, it’s often a dumping
ground for clothes that Scott
and I are too tired to put away.
But lately, I’ve been spending
more and more time there. After the boys are in bed, I sit down
and light the candle. I look at the photos – the boys in their
matching Tigger sleepers, an engagement photo of Scott and
me in Golden Gate Park. I read a Bible verse or meditation. I
lose myself watching the white candle in its glass tray, the flame
wavering; it looks wintry and hot at the same time.
And, most of all, I notice that God is with me.
It’s easy to bump quiet time with God off of my to-do list.
Most days, prayer feels a lot less urgent than grading essays or
bathing children. But it hit me several weeks ago that there was
a restless place inside me that nothing else, not even exercise
or writing, was able to reach. It was like the shelf way up high
that never gets dusted because you need to drag over a chair
in order to do so. I realized I’d need to make a certain effort to
sweep the cobwebs off of my prayer life.
I’m not going to beat myself up for this (even though, as a
Catholic and a mom, I’m a gold-medalist in guilt). I think one
of the root problems was a lack of conviction that the prayer
routine would do anything. What is the tangible result of half an
hour’s meditation, staring at a wavering flame? I’m so focused
on being productive that it is easy to sacrifice something that
takes a conscious effort and yields no instant, measurable result.
But there was a definite hunger that drove me to that little
desk. I love the psalm that says, “Be still, and know that I am
God.” My prayer corner is the one place where both halves of
that verse are true. I can be still on the couch in front of the TV,
but I don’t feel God when I’m there, simply because I’m not
conscious of him. When I’m sitting quietly at my little desk,
with no other purpose than to pray, I do know that God is there.
And that awareness keeps me going back.
Some nights, I’m rewarded with an epiphany, a little jewel
of insight about my life, my goals. Some nights, I literally fall
asleep. Some nights, it’s nothing more than a pause, a deep,
candlelit breath in the middle of a frantic evening.
But it’s a pause that I’m sharing with someone who knows
me completely and loves me anyway.
And that’s always worth the effort.
Ginny Kubitz Moyer is the author of “Mary and Me:
Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God.”
She and her family are parishioners at St. Dominic
Church in San Francisco. You can contact Moyer
through her blog at blog.maryandme.org.
November 5, 2010
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Pacifica Military Moms supports sons and daughters in harm’s way
By Tom Burke
Since now-U.S. Army Sgt. Joe Quirarte graduated from
Pacifica’s Terra Nova High School in 2004, his mom, Debbie
Smyser, has seen him off to deployments in Afghanistan and
Iraq and now, again, Afghanistan.
“Joe told me his freshman year of high school that he
wanted to join the military,” Smyser, a parishioner of St.
Peter’s in Pacifica, told Catholic San Francisco. “He came
home one day during his senior year telling me it was time
to start contacting recruiters. I was praying he would change
his mind and forget about the military.”
Veterans Day is Nov. 11
Parent Smyser and others with relatives in the military
have joined together as Pacifica Military Moms, a support
group formed in 2004 for families with members serving
in the armed forces.
“We’ve grown to 60 members including moms, dads,
aunts, grandparents and siblings who have relatives in the
military,” Smyser said, noting that more than a dozen members are St. Peter families.
“We decided to start packing care packages for the troops
in our group who were deployed and now we send them
to anyone we can get a name and APO address for who is
serving overseas,” she said.
Sgt. Quirarte, who serves in the Military Police, calls the
relief packs “invaluable,” Smyser said.
“Some troops have written to us through U.S. mail
or through our e-mail address – pacificamilitarymoms@
yahoo.com – telling us how these care packages boost the
morale of each member in their group,” she said. “It is so
rewarding to receive these messages knowing that we’ve put
a smile on their faces.”
Smyser’s mom, Dot Bolton, has helped with much of the
outreach at St. Peter.
“My mom has asked parishioners for the names of their
relatives who are serving in the military so that we can
pray for each and every one of them,” Smyser said. “We
have a special poster at the church which proudly displays
their pictures for everyone to see. An American flag stands
proudly next to the poster.”
St. Peter members have helped pack the goodie boxes
on several occasions.
“Joe is my grandson and the reason that my husband,
Mel, and I spend so much of our retired time helping out,”
Bolton said.
The couple helps unload tubs in Pacifica for “the public to
put stuff into” and “takes boxes to the post office for Debbie
if she gets a call from someone that they need certain things
between our packing days.”
The two also help welcome local troops home and send
them off.
“We have people sign cards at the ‘Fogfest’ in Pacifica, that
are included in the packages with hellos from home, prayers,
and thank you notes for serving our country,” Bolton said.
Facebook and AOL Instant Messenger have kept Sgt.
Quirarte and his mom in touch “whenever he has time to
log on,” Smyser said. “Everyone I work with is more than
Pacifica’s Army Sgt. Joe Quirarte with an Afghan child he’s helping protect.
happy to leave my office at Genentech when I say ‘There’s
Joe’ to allow me time to talk to my son.”
She said her son never mentions his work.
“I think it’s because he wants to shield me from worry,”
she said. “He’ll tell me he’s having a great day, when deep
inside I know that it could have been the worst day of his life.
“The constant communication is a Godsend to the fami-
lies here at home,” she said. “Joe will be home on his twoweek ‘R and R’ (rest and relaxation) during the holidays and
insists on joining us at Mass while he is home.”
Smyser’s son is now two years into a five-year reenlistment.
“We’re not sure if Joe will make a career out of the military,” Smyser said. “We’ll cross that path when we get there.”
One soldier’s thank-you note from over there
Letters such as the following are a regular response to the efforts of Pacifica Military Moms. View more letters,
pictures and information about the group at www.pacificamilitarymoms.com.
Hello!
My name is Private First Class J. I received three of the packages you sent me and they are great! I have so much
stuff I have started giving it out to the guys around me because it won’t all fit in my bags. We really appreciate the
candy, too. It really means a lot to me and everyone else that there are people here who care enough to send us things.
In some places we can’t survive without people like you because there isn’t a store on base. I don’t know if you guys
put out a list of things you request to be donated, but if you do, please add the little packets of Crystal Light, Gatorade
or Kool Aid to the list. All we really have out here to drink (all we should be drinking) is water, but after the tenth
or twelfth bottle of water in a day after three weeks of nothing but water, we long for variety. If we can’t get it that’s
fine; it’s only a creature comfort and not a necessity. I don’t want to sound ungrateful either; my fellow soldiers and I
greatly appreciate every package, every toothbrush and every pair of socks that comes in and we know that you don’t
have to do this, but you do out of the goodness of your heart. Anyway, thank you again from all of us in the 57th!
Guest Commentary
Let us remember: Serra High’s Wall of Honor
When I was around nine months old, I went with my family to Central Park in San Mateo to welcome back the men
of Alpha Company, 1/ 327
Regiment, 101st Airborne
Division. We have a picture
of my brothers and me at
the event. As an adult I
learned that San Mateo was
the only city in the United
States to hold a homecoming parade honoring returnA Veterans Day service
ing veterans. I felt such
in 2009 in New York
sorrow that veterans could
be treated in such a way.
Today I continue to honor them and all others who served.
The latest chapter in my effort is a memorial at Junipero
Serra High School, the school that I attended and where I now
teach. With the country entrenched in the War on Terror and
the first Serra alumni in their 70s, the timing seemed right to
honor those who served from my school in a concrete way.
After garnering the administration’s support, in January
2007 I canvassed the Serra community via the Internet. In
March 2007 the word was put out again by including a piece
in the alumni magazine, Traditions. I invited my U.S. history
and theology students to ask neighbors and relatives who
are graduates if the project applied to them. I also used the
(CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ)
By Christian Clifford
1983 and 2004 Alumni Directories, with the help of my dad,
James O. Clifford, Sr. (Riordan High School, Class of 1956
and Navy veteran) to contact those who noted being military.
Some alumni gave me names to track down. Padres serving
around the world contacted me providing updates of where
they were and what they were doing. Beaming parents wrote
to me to tell about their sons’ accomplishments. I researched
further alumni whose names I came across in archived alumni
newsletters who were listed in current alumni records as
deceased. For the first time this long-time history teacher
felt like a historian. The best, though, was when an alumnus
wrote to make sure his classmate was remembered by the
community. His classmate lost his life in the Vietnam War. It
was then that I realized that what I affectionately referred to
as the Veterans’ Project was something much more special.
The following is an excerpt that I read in November 2007
to more than 1,000 students, faculty, staff, administrators and
guests. The administration and Development Office felt it
appropriate to unveil the Wall of Honor around Thanksgiving.
“The names submitted (341 to date) show a community of
select graduates who have served our country honorably, and,
in many cases, heroically, in the areas of strategic, tactical, service, training and administrative operations. They are soldiers,
sailors, marines, airmen, guardsmen, and coastguardsmen. Some
Padre brothers have remembered their classmates who are now
deceased by submitting their names to the project, reminding me
of the truth behind the saying, ‘Once a Padre, always a Padre!’
“… today is about giving thanks for the many forms of
service that Padres do. But being a man or woman of service
in the military takes a different type of person. He or she learns
the value of the Constitution firsthand. His or her sacrifices
are many. By its very nature, the military man or woman’s
life is restricted. Sacrifice is not something one talks about,
it is shown everyday. I remember missing Thanksgiving,
Christmas, and New Year’s Day with family and friends
because I was at sea. I remember shipmates missing the births
of their children. I recall having to miss Mass because priests
are not assigned to submarines. I remember hearing who won
the Super Bowl a week after it took place. We didn’t even
have a medical doctor on the boat. I remember the smell of
fresh air for the first time after 75 days at sea. But I consider
myself one of the lucky ones, because I wasn’t getting shot at.
“This project was bittersweet, however. In the process
I came across the names of five graduates who gave the
ultimate sacrifice for our country, their lives.
“Let us remember in a moment of silence those Padres
who are not with us today and not forgotten by their fellow
Padre brothers.”
I read aloud the following:
SGT John Raymond Driscoll III ARMY Class of 1957
LTJG James Patrick Shea NAVY Class of 1958
PFC Philip Jeremiah Smith USMC Class of 1963
SPC Richard Alden Vinal ARMY Class of 1963
PFC James Matthew Wandro USMC Class of 1968
For the first time in my seven years of teaching at Serra,
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Prayer . . .
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the Angelus. From that time I listened carefully to the
ringing of the church bell for the Angelus – three tolls
for each of the invocations and nine for the concluding
prayer.
Later in my education, I was introduced to the
renowned painting by Jean-François Millet entitled “The
Angelus.” The famous painting depicts a young man and
a young woman standing in a field. They are farmers. He
holds his cap reverently as he stands with head bowed.
She, in a white cap and long blue apron over her dress,
clasps her hands as a prayerful look sets her face. They
pause in prayer near the end of the workday.
At the woman’s feet is a basket of potatoes, and at
her far side rests a wheelbarrow full of empty sacks. At
the side of the man is a pitchfork spiked upright in the
ground. The breaking clouds are blushed with light as
birds flit in the twilight. The viewer can almost hear the
bells ringing from the spire of the church in the distant
right of the painting.
The artist was born in 1814 in Grunchy, a hamlet 10
miles west of Cherbourg in northwest France. This inland
area off the rugged coast was a countryside of undulating
downs beyond the moors.
Jean-Louis, the painter’s father, possessed real artistic
talent, though all his life was spent tilling the fields. He
loved music and directed the village choir; he studied
the forms of trees and plants; he made clay models when
time permitted.
Jean-François absorbed his father’s appreciation for
beauty and art. In his father he found an exemplar to
emulate. Jean-François also was impressed by his parents’ piety and devotion.
As a boy, Jean-François traced prints from the family
Bible and then tried freehand. From the beginning his
parents and the parish priests recognized that he was
extraordinary. The priests were careful to educate him
the best they could in mythology, Greek, Latin, as well
as in translation. He became familiar with the work of
William Shakespeare, John Milton and Robert Burns.
All this time Jean-François was at home working on the
family farm. He became a man of culture with the heart
of a peasant. Later, he declared of himself, “A peasant I
was born and a peasant I will die.”
His parents and the villagers commented favorably on
his work. His father realized that he must go to Cherbourg
to study art. It was at this point that Jean-François’ lifelong work as an artist began. Later, in Paris, he fine-tuned
his painting skills for 12 years.
Because he disliked Paris and city life, he was
delighted to return to the country. Barbizon became his
home until the time of his death in 1875.
It was in 1859 that Jean-François Millet painted “The
Angelus.” Vivid were his memories of the Angelus bell
ringing while peasants were still working at twilight.
Often he had seen his father standing, bareheaded, cap in
hand, and his mother, with bowed head and folded hands,
at the sound of the evening Angelus bell.
Millet recorded that impression to show the quiet
peace of twilight, the rosy glow of sunset engulfing the
fields, the church bells filling the evening air and the
devout attitude of the peasants. Surely he succeeded.
When his agent, Sensier, first saw the picture on
Millet’s easel, the painter turned to him and asked, “Well,
what do you think of it?”
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“It is the Angelus, “replied Sensier.
“Yes,” Millet said with satisfaction. “Can you hear
the bells?”
Millet believed he had painted a great picture, but his
genius was not recognized and acknowledged until after
his death. In 1889, 14 years after his death, Millet’s painting of “The Angelus” was put up for auction, after the
person who had bought the painting from Millet had died.
Prior to the auction the French government asked
Antonin Proust, Director of Fine Arts, to buy the painting
to keep it in France. Bidding was frantic in the crowded gallery the morning of the auction, mainly between Proust and
two American dealers. When the sale was almost settled,
two more Americans arrived and new bidding continued.
Finally, Proust offered 533,000 francs – about $94,000.
A pause occurred in the bidding. Then the gavel fell,
and “The Angelus” was declared the property of France.
The people in attendance were elated.
However, the French government declined to ratify the
purchase for so large a sum. “The Angelus” went to the
next highest bidder, an American agent. Customhouse
officials made the duty exorbitant, almost $12,000.
But they agreed to waive the claim on condition that
the picture remain only six month in America. Another
Frenchman, M. Chauchard, bought the painting upon its
return to France.
Eventually, “The Angelus” found its way into the
Louvre Museum in Paris. Today, we can still enjoy JeanFrançois Millet’s masterpiece in the Louvre. There the
story of “The Angelus” by Millet concludes.
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the student body was totally quiet. Two more names would
later be added.
1st Lt Stephen Scott USMC Class of 1972
Capt Steven Begehr USMC Class of 1985
A poignant blessing was then asked for by Jesuit priest
and Cmdr. Michael C. Barber, USNR regimental chaplain,
23rd Marines, reminding those present to pray for those
graduates who “have shown what you called ‘the greatest
love there is,’ and have laid down their lives for others.”
If you are a graduate of Junípero Serra High School
and honorably served in the military, you are welcome to
participate in “Serra Honors Those Who Served.” Please go
to www.serrahs.com and click on ALUMNI. Scroll down to
“Military Wall of Honor” and complete the form.
Remembering 1968
The care packages must be shipped by Nov. 13 in order
to arrive in Afghanistan by Christmas.
The city’s bond to Alpha Company dates to Dec. 18,
1967, when a young soldier serving in Vietnam, Sgt. Joe
Artavia, was concerned about the lack of mail his unit was
receiving. He wrote his sister, Linda Patterson, asking her
to work toward getting a city to adopt his unit.
On March 4, 1968, the City Council adopted Alpha
Company with the purpose of improving troop morale
with messages of love and support from home.
Sgt. Artavia was killed in action less than three weeks
later but had learned of the adoption prior to his death and
had written his sister that the response had a powerful
impact on troop morale.
San Mateo welcomed Alpha Company with a homecoming parade in January 1972 – reputedly the only city
in the nation to have honored returning Vietnam troops
with such a celebration.
San Mateo’s relationship with Alpha Company is
memorialized in a permanent display on the third floor
of the city’s main library.
Gomez keeps close ties with the unit and recently
visited with the troops at company headquarters at Fort
Campbell, Ky.
“They’re all so young,” she said.
Supporters of the city of San Mateo’s Adopted
Sons of Alpha Company, 1/327 Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division, gathered in 2008 to
mark the 40th anniversary of the unit’s adoption.
On the wall in the background is a photo of
Sgt. Joe Artavia, who was a young soldier
serving in Vietnam when he wrote his sister,
Linda Patterson, asking her to work toward
getting a city to adopt his unit. Sgt. Artavia
was killed in action three weeks later
but lived long enough to learn that
his request had been answered.
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Christmas in Afghanistan: letters, care packages
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Company, 1/327 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
Division, were deployed to Afghanistan earlier this year
after having served three deployments in Iraq.
They will be away from home this holiday season
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protein bars, beef jerky and canned tuna; pillows, bath
towels and twin-size sheets; paperback books, music CDs
and crossword puzzles; disposable cameras, playing cards
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Gomez, who is the city’s contact to Alpha Company and
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headquarters addresses, are available from her office
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November 5, 2010
One book on Nazism offers in-depth history, the other merely polemics
“CATHOLICISM & THE ROOTS OF NAZISM:
RELIGIOUS IDENTITY & NATIONAL
SOCIALISM,” by Derek Hastings. Oxford University
Press (New York, 2010). 290 pp., $29.95.
“SIX MILLION CRUCIFIXIONS: HOW CHRISTIAN
TEACHING ABOUT JEWS PAVED THE ROAD
TO THE HOLOCUAST,” by Gabriel Wilensky.
QWERTY Publishers (San Diego, 2010). 390 pp.,
$27.95.
Reviewed by Eugene J. Fisher
(CNS) Derek Hastings’ book, “Catholicism & the Roots of
Nazism,” should be read by anyone interested in the history of
the Christian churches, Nazism and the Shoah. Hastings studies
in depth the events, movements and personalities in Bavaria,
and especially Munich, from 1919 to the Beerhall Putsch of
1923, and the radical change in Nazi ideology that followed it.
While most readers will be aware of the antagonistic
relationship between the Catholic Church and Adolf Hitler’s
Third Reich, the early Nazi movement was formed in a city
and region that was largely Catholic, with both the supporters
and opponents of National Socialism identifying themselves
as Catholics.
Hastings begins his study by evoking the “peculiarities” of
Munich’s Catholic tradition. Unlike in the rest of Germany, the
Catholic community in Munich was the large majority, giving
it a relative openness to interconfessional cooperation and a
certain distance from the way the Catholic Center Party and
its local branch, the Bavarian Volks Party, operated.
Also, while Catholics in the rest of Germany, and indeed
throughout Europe, had looked since the early 19th century
increasingly to the pope, who lived “ultra montes” (over the
mountains) in Italy, to resist efforts of secular state regimes to
control religious affairs, there was a resistance to ultramontanism in Munich among Catholics who felt they did not need
such “foreign” assistance or guidance.
In Munich, the German Volkische chauvinism, with its antiultramontanism implications, extended itself to “foreign” Jews,
Bible audio series with
Hollywood actors’ voices
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) – With the support of a
Vatican imprimatur, a celebrity-voiced audio production of
the New Testament is set to be released this month.
The audio series, featuring celebrities such as Neil
McDonough, Julia Ormand and Kristen Bell, was produced
by New York Times bestselling author and broadcast journalist
for EWTN, Raymond Arroyo.
The 18-CD, 22-hour series is called “Truth & Life
Dramatized Audio Bible New Testament,” with contributions
from over 70 actors.
“They’re not just reading,” Arroyo said. “These actors are
performing, sharing these stories in the same way they were
originally communicated – passed from person to person as
part of an oral tradition.”
See truthandlifebible.com for more information.
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establishing a fertile ground for what would become core to the
ideology of the nascent Social Democratic (Nazi) Party. The
sense of Nordic-Aryan superiority and imagery was blended
with explicitly Catholic images and themes.
The racial theories of Houston Chamberlain and Arthur
de Gobineau were popularly accepted, laying the groundwork
for the racial anti-Semitism that would ultimately rationalize
the Holocaust.
Catholics, including a number of priests, were originally
attracted to and involved in these developments. Hitler, in this
period, actively cultivated Catholics and made (as it turned out
a cynical) show of being one.
This ended at the time of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, which
ended in violence. Hitler came out of prison feeling he was the
apocalyptic leader of a new world order and joined with other
movements, many of which were vocally anti-Catholic. The
bishops of Bavaria banned participation by Catholics in the
movement, with Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber of Munich
issuing a stern condemnation of anti-Semitism. Ironically,
Hastings concludes, the only thing Catholic to remain in
Nazism as it took power in Germany was the sense of sacred
(in Nazism’s case, of course, pagan) ceremony, illustrated
in the famous Leni Riefenstahl film, “Triumph of the Will.”
Though I agree with the subtitle of Gabriel Wilensky’s
book, “Six Million Crucifixions: How Christian Teaching
about Jews Paved the Road to the Holocaust,” and with
his major thesis that Christians in general and Catholics in
particular need to come fully to grips with the fact that the
Christian teaching of contempt for Jews and Judaism over
the centuries prepared the ground and laid the seeds for Nazi
racial genocide, I cannot recommend his well-intentioned but
deeply flawed book.
Wilensky presents what has been called by Jewish scholars
a lachrymose view of Jewish-Christian history, emphasizing
the negatives and ignoring or writing off the positive aspects
of our two-millennium-long encounter. Where shades of gray
are called for, he sees only black.
He states, for example, that “just the Gospels and the Acts
of the Apostles combined have approximately 450 explicit
anti-Semitic verses” (p. 130). There are, of course, problematic
texts in the New Testament that later Christian polemicists
used, or rather misused, to indict the Jews collectively of the
death of Jesus. But at the time of their writing, few of these
can be called anti-Judaic, much less anti-Semitic.
The books of the New Testament were written by Jews to
be read by other Jews and were arguing, as Jews to this day
do, about what it means to be Jewish. It was only when these
passages were misinterpreted by Gentile Christians over the
centuries, who had their own agenda in mind, that the basic,
anti-Jewish and ultimately anti-Semitic interpretations of them
became dominant in the thinking of Christians, so much so that
no ecumenical council before the Second Vatican Council took
a fresh look at the texts themselves to see what their authors
actually intended to communicate.
Wilensky’s book is an indictment of the churches, particularly the Catholic Church and Popes Pius XI and XII, both of
whom he calls, without sufficient evidence, anti-Semites. That
is not scholarship. It is polemic.
Fisher is retired associate director of the Secretariat
for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at
the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Two books, two angles, on evangelizing Catholic youth
“ALMOST CHRISTIAN: WHAT THE FAITH OF
OUR TEENAGERS IS TELLING THE AMERICAN
CHURCH,” by Kenda Creasy Dean. Oxford
University Press (New York, 2010). 254 pp., $24.95.
“WIN IT ALL: THE WAY TO HEAVEN FOR
CATHOLIC TEENS,” by Justin Fatica. Ave Maria
Press (Notre Dame, Ind., 2010). 141 pp., $11.95.
Reviewed by Daniel S. Mulhall
(CNS) These two books sit at opposite ends of the youth
ministry spectrum. One is a passionate appeal to young people.
The other, a must-read for anyone interested in youth and religion, is a scholarly reflection on what the U.S. church can do to
bring young people to Christ.
“Win It All” author Justin Fatica, known for his Hard as
Nails youth retreats, offers eight steps that young people can
take to become disciples. Stories and lives of saints illustrate
his “muscular” vision of Christianity. The book is organized as
a discipleship guide, with each chapter ending with reflection
questions and activities.
Fatica writes with the energy one would expect in a live event,
but whether young people will find the book as moving as the
live ministry questionable.
American young people are fine with faith but feel it is
unimportant to them, The National Study on Youth and Religion
found in 2003-05. Kenda Dean was one of the researchers and
revisits the work in “Almost Christian.”
She examines what she terms an undemanding “moralistic,
therapeutic, deism” and suggests what the church can do to
counter this feel-good “theology.”
She says the problem is with the church and not with young
people and advises the church to focus on parents and the faith
community rather than on the teens. Churches need to become
spirit-filled communities that exist to share the Gospel message,
and parents need to be living examples of the faith.
BOXES
Lifting the Lid on an American Life
by Donnan Beeson Runkel
Everyone has a collection – stamps, receipts, seashells,
pictures, figurines. These objects, when gathered
together, imbue more meaning than each has on its
own. For the author, the varied containers crowded
on top of her dresser became not just a collection
on boxes to hold her jewelry, but a link to people
in her life who made major contributions to who
she is today – a successful businesswoman with a
wide array of friends and connections around the world.
Each one of these boxes contains a rich story of transformation that, when woven together,
becomes a unique memoir. This collection of influences and experiences, changes and
challenges is responsible.
In Boxes: Lifting the Lid on an American Life, readers will witness vivid, often hilarious,
recollections of a life that began in awkward self-doubt and blossomed into the discovery
of true love and the challenges and triumphs of motherhood and career. Through this
journey, readers will learn as she has that the pain of life folds into the many-faceted
depths of becoming.
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November 5, 2010
National Shrine of
St. Francis of Assisi
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Columbus at Vallejo in San Francisco’s North
Beach
The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks”
Gift Shop are open every day but Monday from
10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Visit www.knightsofsaintfrancis.
com The Shrine church is open every day 10 a.m.
– 5 p.m. with Mass Monday through Saturday at
12:15 pm and Sundays at 10 a.m. Call (415) 9864557 or www.shrinesf.org or e-mail info@shrinesf.
org or [email protected].
The art of painter Marco Sassone is now
on exhibit at The Nuova Porziuncola. Sassone’s
work will be at the Porziuncola through Oct. 31.
“Unmoored in the contested region between longing and belonging, Marco Sassone creates from
his core with passion, conscience and dignity,”
said information promoting the showing.
Datebook
Prayer/Special Liturgies
St. Paul High School Class of 1960 joined for their 50th reunion in September.
Thirty-eight members of the class were able to attend. Lil Carter, Jann Phillips,
Denise Brand, Nancy Wade, Mag Melton, Barbara Lawrence,Mag Ragusin,
Lucy Stasiowski and Mary Joyce were principal coordinators of the get-together.
Nov. 13, 2-4 p.m.: Introductory meeting of the
Maryknoll Affiliates at St. Mary Star of the Sea
Church, 180 Harrison Ave. in Sausalito. A lay
group, Maryknoll Affiliates, while continuing to
pursue their own life’s journey, commit themselves
to the mission goals of Maryknoll in the context
of Chapters that gather for prayer, reflection
and action. Maryknoll Affiliates challenge one
another to witness to mission as a way of life
by going beyond borders, locally and globally,
walking with the poor and excluded, and striving
for peace and justice for all of God’s creation. All
are welcome. Contact Bob or Nancy McFarland
at [email protected]
for purchase. Support St. Finn Barr school and
maybe win a few prizes in the process. “There
off” takes place at 415 Edna St. at Hearst in
San Francisco. Contact [email protected]
or Kathy Mylett Morgan, [email protected]
for details.
Nov. 12, 6 p.m.: “14th Annual Vincenzo Wine
Tasting & Auction” benefiting Catholic Charities
CYO Children and Youth Programming. Takes
place at City Hall in San Francisco. Guests will
enjoy an enchanting evening complete with
exclusive tastings from premier wineries, a
gourmet gala dinner by Dan McCall and a festive live auction featuring rare wines and unique
travel packages. Tickets are $225 per person.
For information visit www.vincenzo.org, phone
415-972-1213 or email [email protected]. Event
chairs include U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Jeff
Fenton and Heather Rodriguez,
Nov. 13, 6 p.m.: “An Evening at Casbah St.
Paul’s”, annual dinner dance and auction benefiting St. Paul Church in San Francisco. Always a
fun evening, it takes place at Patio Espanol on
Alemany Blvd. and includes cocktails and silent
auction then dinner and dancing. All proceeds
benefit St. Paul’s Preservation Fund. Tickets
are $65 per person, and available at St. Paul’s
Rectory. Contact Katy O’Shea (415-648-7538)
for more information.
Nov. 13: Annual St. Luke’s Mass and Banquet
for men and women of the medical profession
begins with Mass at 5 p.m. at St. Thomas More
Church, Junipero Serra Blvd. at Brotherhood Way
in San Francisco. Dinner follows at neighboring
Alma Via Residence. Dinner tickets are $25 per
person/$10 for clergy, religious and students. Call
George Maloof, MD at (415) 305-2408 or e-mail
[email protected]
Nov. 19, 20, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.: “Annual Holiday
Boutique by the Sisters of Mercy” at Marian Oaks,
2300 Adeline Dr., Bldg. D, Burlingame. Numerous
holiday items for sale including the Sisters’ legendary home-made jams, handcrafted blankets
& crafts, all-occasion handmade cards, baked
goods, and fudge. Follow Lower Road on Mercy
Campus to Marian Oaks. For information please
call Debbie Halleran (650) 340-7426 or dhalleran@
mercywmw.org.
Food & Fun
TV/Radio
Nov. 6, 6:45 p.m.: An action packed evening of
fun and excitement with horse races at St. Finn
Barr School with exciting commentary and close
finishes. Donation of $5 covers all food (21 and
over only). Cash Bar will feature beer and wine
Fridays at 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on
Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San
Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth
look at local and larger Church. Program is rerun
Fridays and Mondays at 9 p.m. and Sundays
Social Justice /
Lectures / Respect Life
Nov. 8, 9, 10: Jesuit Father Tom Allender brings
“Answering Our Call to Transform the World
through God’s Love” to St. Bartholomew Parish,
Alameda de las Pulgas and Crystal Springs Rd. in
San Mateo. The well-known San Francisco-born
priest will preach at all Masses Nov. 6 and 7 and
offer talks Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from
9 – 10 a.m. and 7 – 8 p.m. Call (650) 347-0701,
ext 18 or e-mail [email protected].
Jan. 16, 2011, 1:45 p.m.: “An Old and New
Invitation: How do we as believers deal with challenges facing us about belonging to this family
of faith called the Catholic Church?” Answer this
question with Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt,
a Professor of Biblical Studies at the Catholic
Theological Union in Chicago and at Santa
Clara University, who also practices law. Sister
Eloise has authored books and written articles
on Scripture, conducted retreats and written for
Catholic San Francisco newspaper. Takes place at
Notre Dames des Victoires Chuch, 566 Bush St. at
Grant in San Francisco. Reasonably priced parking is available across Bush at Stockton Sutter
Garage. Admission is free. For more information,
call (415) 397-0113.
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spiritual growth, and becoming involved in volunteer activities that will benefit our parishes, our
community, and one another. We welcome those
who would share in this with us.” For information,
call Bob at (415) 897-0639.
Arts and Entertainment
Nov. 18, 19, 8 p.m.: “Music of the Italian
Baroque” featuring the voices of the Choirs of
Notre Dame des Victoires Parish, 566 Bush St.
at Grant in San Francisco. Steven Olbash will
conduct. Suggested donation is $10 in advance
and $15 at the door. Call (415) 397-0113.
Sundays, Oct. 17 – Jan. 9, 2 – 5 p.m.: Sacred
Synergies: paintings and Jewish ceremonial
objects by Tobi Kahn at the Manresa Gallery
of St. Ignatius Church, Parker at Fulton in San
Francisco at USF. “It is the gallery’s hope that
this exhibition will provide a platform to engage
in interfaith dialogue by way of the arts,” said
Tamara Lowenstein, gallery manager. Visit www.
manresagallery.org.
Catholic San Francisco
at 11 a.m. - e-mail [email protected] with
comments and questions about faith. 1260 AM
also offers daily Mass, rosary and talk on the faith.
Visit www.ihradio.org
Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13
and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with
Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding.
S u n d a y, 7 a . m . : T V M a s s o n T h e
Filipino Channel (TFC) (Channel 241
on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV.
Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in
Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by
the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults
of the Archdiocese.
1st Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,”
featuring conversations on current Catholic
issues.
EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel
229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San
Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel
261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming
details, visit www.ewtn.com
Single, Divorced, Separated
Information about Bay Area single, divorced
and separated programs is available from Jesuit
Father Al Grosskopf at [email protected]
(415) 422-6698.
Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m.: Annual Thanksgiving Mass
for divorced, separated and widowed of the
Archdiocese of San Francisco at St. John of God,
5th Avenue & Irving Street in San Francisco. A
reception will follow. For information, contact Jesuit
Father Al Grosskopf at (415) 422-6698, Gail Castro,
(650) 591-8452 or Susan Fox, (415) 752-1308.
Would you like support while you travel the road
through separation and divorce? The Archdiocese
of San Francisco offers support for the journey.
The Separated and Divorced Catholics of the
Archdiocese of San Francisco (SDCASF) now
have two ongoing support groups in the 1st and
3rd weeks of each month - St. Bartholomew
Parish, 600 Columbia Dr, San Mateo, on the 1st
and 3rd Tuesdays, at 7 p.m. in the spirituality
center, and in O’Reilly hall of St. Stephen Parish
near Stonestown, San Francisco, on the 1st and
3rd Wednesdays, at 7:30 p.m. Call Gail (650) 5918452, or Joanne at St. Bart’s, (650) 347-0701 for
more information.
Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin
County: “We are Catholics, single or single again,
who are interested in making new friends, taking
part in social activities, sharing opportunities for
Nov. 14, 11:45 a.m.: Mass at Sts. Peter and Paul
Church honors St. Francesca Saveria Cabrini. The
Mass will include an honor guard of the Knights of
Columbus, the Knights of Malta, and the Knights of
the Holy Sepulcher. Music will be by the St. Cecilia
Choral Society of Sts. Peter and Paul. Sts. Peter
and Paul Church is located at 666 Filbert Street in
San Francisco, between Powell and Stockton.For
more information, call (415) 421-0809.
Sundays, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Exposition of the
Blessed Sacrament with Benediction at Notre
Dame des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St. between
Stockton and Grant in San Francisco. Convenient
parking is available across Bush St. in StocktonSutter garage. Call 397-0113.
Taize Sung Prayer: 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy
Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy
Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young
adults are invited each first Friday of the month to
attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8
p.m. The social provides light refreshments and
networking with other young adults. Convenient
parking is available. For more information, e-mail
[email protected]. Tuesdays at 6
p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush
at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call
(415) 397-0113. 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Dominican
Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse
Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra),
Fremont. For further information, please contact
Dominican Sister Beth Quire at (510) 449-7554 or
visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for
more information.
Reunion
Nov. 7, 2 p.m.: Annual Memorial Mass for
graduates and friends of St. Peter School, 24th and
Florida St. in San Francisco. San Francisco Auxiliary
Bishop Robert W. McElroy will preside. Reception
follows the Mass in the parish hall. Parking in school
lot. Call (415) 647-8662.
Nov. 20, 4 – 8 p.m.: Class of ’60, Holy Name
of Jesus Elementary School in San Francisco on
school campus at 40th Ave. and Lawton. Contact
Dennis Norton at (415) 454-3184 or danort@
comcast.net
Holy Cross Cemetery
1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060
Nov. 6, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass in All Saints
Mausoleum..Father Brian Costello, pastor, Star
of the Sea Parish in San Francisco will preside.
Returning Catholics
Landings Program for inactive Catholics, a
10-week program in a small group setting, where
practicing Catholics speak with honesty about their
own spiritual journeys, and listen with compassion
to inactive Catholics exploring returning to the
church. Held twice a year in fall and winter sessions.
No cost. For more information, visit St. Dominic’s
Church website, www.stdominics.org, or call Ms.
Lee Gallery, volunteer coordinator, 415-221-1288,
[email protected].
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PAUL
The Irish Rose
Home Healthcare Agency
Specializing in home health aides,
attendants and companions.
(650) 994-6892
lic. 343633
(415)
282-2023
[email protected]
LAST-MINUTE
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Roofing
S.O.S. PAINTING CO.
Interior-Exterior
wallpaper
hanging & removal
Lic # 526818
Senior Discount
415-269-0446
650-738-9295
www.sospainting.net
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Investment
Serving San Francisco, Marin & the Peninsula.
Contact: 415.447.8463
Handy Man
Painting, roof repair, fence (repair/
build) demolition, construction,
gutter (clean/ repair), kitchen/
bathroom remodel, decks, welding,
landscaping, gardening, hauling, moving, janitorial.
Cell
(415) 517-5977
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Painting Clinical Gerontologist
BILL HEFFERON
CAHALAN CONST.
MORROW
CONTRUCTION
Healthcare Agency
All Purpose
Housekeeping & Senior Care
Construction
CONSTRUCTION
Lic. 407271
Mariah’s Garden Home Care Agency
Contact 650.619.5870 • 650.921.8161
Fully Licensed • State Certified • Locally
Trained • Experienced • On Call 24/7
DA LY
Tel: 415 759 0520
Provides home help, companionship,
personal care to seniors.
Serving San Francisco Bay Area.
Free assessment service 24/7.
Service Changes
Solar Installation
Lighting/Power
Fire Alarm/Data
Green Energy
KEANE CONSTRUCTION Painting
(TCP 10581P)
* Attendants * Companions * Hospice * Respite Care
Competitive Rates
• Screened • Insured • Bonded
A-A Limousine Service • 415.308.2028
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415.383.6122
Airport Special
N. San Mateo County - SFO…$30*
San Francisco - SFO………….$40*
*plus airport fee
Any other charter with reasonable price. Good Service.
John Spillane
Lic.# 593788
Home Care Limousine
QUALITY HOME CARE
SERVING THE BAY AREA SINCE 1996
Construction
Lic. #742961
Do you want to be more fulfilled in love and work –
but find things keep getting in the way?
Care Management for the Older Adult
Family Consultation –Bereavement Support
Kathy Faenzi, MA, Clinical Gerontologist
Office: 650.401.6350
Web: www.faenziassociates.com
Striving to Achieve
Optimum Health & Wellbeing
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: CONTRACTORS STATE LICENSE BOARD 800-321-2752
(415) 786-0121 • (415) 586-6748
John Holtz Ca. Lic 391053
General Contractor Since 1980
Lic. # 907564
Plumbing
S anti
Plumbing and Heating
415-661-3707 Michael T. Santi
Since 1972
Ca License # 663641
24 Hour Emergency Service
HOLLAND
Plumbing Works San Francisco
ALL PLUMBING WORK
PAT HOLLAND
CA LIC #817607
BONDED & INSURED
415-205-1235
BEST PLUMBING, INC.
Your Payless Plumbing
Lic. # 872560
➤ Drain-Sewer Cleaning Service ➤ Water Heaters
➤ Gas Pipes ➤ Toilets ➤ Faucets ➤ Garbage Disposals
➤ Copper Repiping ➤ Sewer Replacement
➤ Video Camera & Line locate
PROMPT AND UNPARALLELED SERVICE
(650) 557-1263
painting and
remodeling
EMAIL: [email protected]
Member: Better Business Bureau
(650) 355-4926
Painting &
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•Interiors •Exteriors
•Kitchens •Baths
Contractor inspection reports
and pre-purchase consulting
Casarotti +
Design
• Remodels
• Additions
• Free Estimates
• Permit Drawings
650.255.5821
Lic. #933007
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Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and
Martyr, great in virtue and rich in
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Christ, faithful intercessor of all who
invoke your special patronage in time
of need, to you I have recourse from
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our Fathers, three Hail Marys and
Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all
who invoke your aid. Amen.
This Novena has never been known
to fail. This Novena must be said
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S.M.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, you who make me
see everything and who shows
me the way to reach my ideal.
You who give me the divine gift
of forgive and forget the wrong
that is done to me. I, in this short
dialogue, want to thank you for
everything and confirm once
more that I never want to be
separated from you no matter
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may be. I want to be with you
and my loved ones in your
perpetual glory. Amen. You
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Virgin never known to fail.
Most beautiful flower of
Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother
of the Son of God, assistme
in my need. Help me and
show me you are my mother.
Oh Holy Mary, Mother of
God, Queen of Heaven and
earth. I humbly beseech you
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Holy Mary, I place this
cause in your hands (3X).
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Virgin never known to fail.
Most beautiful flower of
Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother
of the Son of God, assist me
in my need. Help me and
show me you are my mother.
Oh Holy Mary, Mother of
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Archdiocese
of
San Francisco
Fr. Tom Daly
(415) 614-5683
The Congregational office of the
Sisters of the Presentation seeks
a Director of Communications to
coordinate community and media communication
and public relations, and assist the organization
in maintaining a positive identity with its publics
through media coverage, publications, and internet
presence.
Successful candidates will have a bachelor’s
degree in journalism or related field, graduate
degree preferred; 3-5 years of successful
communication and public relations experience;
ability to work independently and as part of
a team; willingness to learn and commit to
the culture and mission of the Sisters of the
Presentation and work within its values; and
demonstrate the ability to manage priorities and
tasks simultaneously.
Interested candidates should forward a resume,
including a cover letter and salary history, to:
Human Resources
Sisters of the Presentation
281 Masonic Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
or fax to 415 422 5026.
MISSION HOSPITAL in Laguna Beach and in
Mission Viejo, CA, a member of the St. Joseph Health
System, is conducting a Leadership Search for the
position of Director, Spiritual Care & Ethics. The Director
works in collaboration with the Vice President, Mission
Integration and Director of Mission Services and is
responsible for the strategic development of all
spiritual care programs that support and integrate the
spiritual needs of patients, families and employees
and the mission of Mission Hospital and the St. Joseph
Health System.
Additional programs are based
on the needs of patients, families and co-ministers
surrounding ethical issues. The Director will also
provide leadership to Chaplains and other staff and
will foster personal growth, teamwork, and professional
development. Minimum position qualifications include
board certification from either NACC; or APC, a Masters
in Divinity, theology or related field, 5 years experience
as a hospital chaplain, 3 years experience as a leader/
manager and experience in leading ethics consultations
and systemic ethics performance improvement within
Catholic healthcare. The deadline for applications is
Monday November 22, 2010.
For more information, please contact
John Reid, Search Consultant – The Reid Group at
[email protected] or 1-800-916-3472.
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THURSDAY,
2010
Rev. Msgr. C. Michael Padazinski, JCD (Chaplain C. Michael Padazinski, Colonel USAF) will conduct the memorial
ceremony with chaplains from the Archdiocese of San Francisco in uniform along with Military Honor Guard and Taps