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A journal of Catholic life in Ohio
CHILLICOTHE:
ONE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY
SERVED BY TWO STRONG PARISHES
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The Editor’s Notebook
Making a beautiful landscape
By David Garick, Editor
The brilliant days of autumn have arrived. God does some of his best artwork at this time of year. The hillsides
are ablaze with glorious brushstrokes of
color. The winding country road that I
live on is especially beautiful at this time
of year. After turning off the major highway, my road winds upward for about a
mile under a canopy of trees, each one
competing with the next to provide the
more striking splash of red, orange,
gold, yellow or purple. Then, as I reach
the top of the hill, the vista opens up to
a scene of broad golden elds bounded
by distant woods that display an impressionistic masterpiece of autumnal glory
that would do Monet proud.
Sure, the trees change color in the middle of the city too. But there is something about the magnitude of the color
change in the rural area, especially in
southern Ohio, that makes the season
of Fall a special treat. It’s part of our
heritage. It is no accident that the Great
Seal of the State of Ohio depicts the
vista of Mt. Logan in Ross County as
seen from the Adena Mansion in Chillicothe. Much of our history in building
the state of Ohio takes place in the midst
of this natural beauty. You may know
that Chillicothe was once the capital of
the State of Ohio. For two centuries,
that area has played a crucial role in the
development of our state.
It has also had an important role in
the development of the Catholic faith
in Ohio. This
week, Catholic
Times looks at
our two parishes
in Chillicothe, St.
Mary and St. Peter. As you will see, it is not the story
of two competing parishes, or division
of the community into two geographical enclaves. Rather, what we have in
Chillicothe is a single Catholic community served by two neighboring parishes
working in partnership to do God’s
work. As is the case in a number of
smaller Ohio communities, the Catholic
population is a relatively small portion
of the community. However, the impact
these Catholics have on the larger Ross
county community is far larger than
their numbers. That is due, in part, to
the commitment of the two parishes to
support each other in doing the larger
work carrying out Christ’s message of
love, service, sacrice and redemption
to make their community a better place.
Just as each tree, and all of the individual leaves, on a distant hillside
bring their own distinct color to the
landscape, both of Chillicothe’s Catholic parishes and all of their individual
members contribute to the community
canvas to create an image of Christ’s
presence in the very heartland of Ohio.
We are all called to be part of God’s
spiritual artwork in our own communities. Be colorful.
OHIO BISHOPS TAKE POSITIONS ON STATEWIDE BALLOT ISSUES
The Ohio Catholic Conference reports that the Bishops of the State of Ohio have taken the following
positions on ballot issues that will appear on the 2009 November election ballot:
ISSUE 1 ~ To Authorize the State to Issue Bonds to compensate recent military veterans ~ NOT OPPOSED
ISSUE 2 ~ To Create the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board ~ SUPPORT
ISSUE 3 ~ To Allow for One Casino Each in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Toledo
And Distribute to All Ohio Counties a Tax on the Casinos ~ OPPOSED
Front Page photo:
Father William
Hahn (left) and
Father Lawrence
Hummer concelebrate Mass at
Chillicothe Bishop
Flaget School
CT photo by Tim Puet
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FATHER O’TOOLE DELIVERS BORROMEAN LECTURE
In a time when civility may seen to
be in short supply, people can look to
the Bible for examples of how to handle disagreements in a manner that’s
of benet to all sides in a dispute, a
Scripture scholar told students earlier
this month.
“The civility which most of us treasure and view as essential for peaceful and efcient interaction in society
ows from the Bible’s message,”
Father Robert O’Toole, SJ, said on
Oct. 13 at Columbus St. Charles Preparatory School’s ninth annual Borromean lecture.
Father O’Toole, 73, is president of
the Gregorian University Foundation in Rome. He has published four
books on biblical topics.
He cited recent incidents which included a congressman shouting at
President Obama, “You lie,” “discourteous meltdowns” by tennis
players Serena Williams and Roger
Federer at the U.S. Open, and entertainer Kanye West’s interruption of
an acceptance speech by Taylor Swift
at the MTV Video Music Awards as
examples of a lack of civility today.
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He said that although some people
may see the threat of terrorism and
the reality of a struggling economy as
reasons to be discourteous, “there is
a better way of responding to these
challenges” through being civil, courteous and polite to everyone.
Father O’Toole noted that the early
Christians had their share of disagreements, citing Paul’s disagreement
with Peter concerning Jewish dietary
laws and the discussion over whether
Christians had to be circumcised.
He said what could have been divisive situations did not turn out that
way because both sides conducted
“a courteous, polite and mutually
respectful discussion of the problem
and of what God said and the prophets revealed about the matter, and
how the Christian community can address such an important question in a
loving and fraternal manner.”
In the photo: Father Robert O’Toole, SJ (left) receives an engraved memento from Columbus St. Charles Preparatory
School principal Dominic Cavello after delivering the school’s
ninth annual Borromean lecture on Oct. 13. Each year, the lecture brings to St. Charles a speaker of national renown on the
topic of morals and ethics in society, business, and governPhoto courtesy St. Charles Preparatory School
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On Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at the
2nd annual Celebrating
Catholic School Virtues Gala, the Catholic
Diocese of Columbus
will honor three individuals whose lives
of service and support
of Catholic education
have proven exemplary. One of those persons is Hugh Dorrian.
Even though he has lived most of
his life in the public eye, Hugh Dorrian is a modest and humble man
who exemplies the meaning of his
name: heart, mind, or spirit. He is a
man who is appreciated by his family, his friends, his colleagues, and
even his rivals for his scrupulous
honesty, impartiality, and ability to
get the job done.
For the past 40 years, Mr. Dorrian
has held the elected post of Columbus City Auditor - following three
years as City Treasurer. Mr. Dorrian earned a Bachelor of Science
degree in business administration,
majoring in accounting, from The
Ohio State University in 1959 and
has been a Certied Public Accountant since 1961. During his years
in ofce, he has implemented governmental accounting principles that
garnered him the “Award of Financial Reporting Achievement” from
the Government Finance Ofcers
Association of the United States and
Canada for 29 consecutive years
(1979-2007).
From 1973 to 1992, Mr. Dorrian
served on the board of trustees of
the Police and Firemen’s Disability
and Pension Fund of Ohio and as
a member of its investment committee. In 1996, he received the
Ethics in Government Award from
the Ohio Government Finance Ofcers Association, and in 1998,
was honored with the Outstanding
Local Public Service Award from
The Ohio State University School
of Public Policy and Management.
The Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Ohio Government Finance
Ofcers’ Association and the Minority/Female Business Advocate
Award from the City of Columbus
were both awarded to
Mr. Dorrian in 2000.
In addition to serving in public ofce, Mr.
Dorrian was also a lecturer at The Ohio State
University
graduate
school of Public Policy
and Management, now
known as the The John
Glenn School of Public
Affairs, teaching “Governmental and Non-prot
Accounting” during the academic
years spanning 1984-2006. In 1991,
during a visit to Russia, to confer
with academic and municipal nance ofcers, he was invited to by
the Leningrad-St. Petersburg City
Council to return the following year
to conduct an accounting/auditing
seminar for Russian academic, government, and joint venture ofcials
and aspirants.
Hugh and his wife, Janice, are longtime members of St. Timothy Parish
where all four of their children attended elementary school. Mr. Dorrian graduated from St. Charles Preparatory High School and has served
on the School Advisory Board there
for many years. In 2002, he received
the Borromean Medal for Distinguished Alumni Achievement.
In 1992, Mr. Dorrian received the
Pro Ecclesia et Pontice (For the
Church and the Pope) medal from
Pope John Paul II. Also known as
The Cross of Honor, the medal is
given for distinguished service to
the Church by lay people and clergy. It is the highest medal that can
be awarded to a member of the laity
by the Pope.
The Celebrating Catholic School
Virtues Gala is intended to heighten
awareness within the Diocese about
the mission, success and challenges
of Catholic K-12 schools while raising funds for need-based tuition assistance. Such funds offer Catholic
children whose families could not
otherwise afford to do so the opportunity to attend Catholic schools.
To learn more, contact the Ofce of
Catholic Schools, 614-221-5829,
email [email protected], or visit
http://www.colsdioc.org/ .
POLL: OHIOANS FEAR HEALTH PROPOSALS
WILL LIMIT ACCESS TO CARE
VAST MAJORITY FAVOR PARENTAL CONSENT BEFORE
MINOR DAUGHTERS OBTAIN ABORTIONS
With health care reform on a fast-track in Congress, a majority of Ohioans are concerned that proposals under consideration may lead to rationing or denial of care, according to an Ohio Right to Life poll. Also, the
survey found most Ohioans favor laws requiring parental notication and
consent before minors obtain abortions.
“Congressional leaders need to address the strong concerns of Ohio
families before they move forward with sweeping reforms to our health
care system,” Ohio Right to Life Executive Director Mike Gonidakis said.
“Across the board, Ohio’s citizens want strong parental consent laws for
teens considering abortion. And, they want more assurances that any new
health care reforms will not negatively impact the current quality of their
care.”
The statewide survey found 50% of Ohio adults are “very concerned”
that new health care reforms would lead to rationing or denial of services.
Another 13% said they were “somewhat concerned” about the health care
proposals. Twenty-ve percent said they were not concerned about rationing or denial of medical services resulting from new federal legislation.
“The issue has created a considerable partisan divide,” pollster Fritz
Wenzel said. “Of those surveyed, 74% of Republicans said they were
‘very concerned’ that the reform proposals will lead to rationing or denial
of care, but just 25% of Democrats feel the same way. Among political
independents, 52% are very concerned that rationing or denial of services
will result should the reform proposals become law. Those in southern
Ohio are more skeptical about the proposals than those in central or northern Ohio, the survey shows.”
Regarding parental notication and consent, a dramatic 80% of Ohio
adults agree that parents should be notied and provide their consent before a minor daughter receives an abortion. Fifty-two percent of Democrats “strongly agreed” that parents should be told and consent ahead of
time; 88% of Republicans and 71% of independents said the same thing.
The survey ndings include:
u 63% of Ohioans are concerned that health care reform proposals
may lead to rationing or denial of care;
u 80% believe parents should be notied and give their consent be
fore their minor daughter has an abortion;
u 55% believe medical professionals should be legally liable if they
suspect sexual abuse of a minor by an adult and fail to report it;
u 60% believe that voters, not federal judges, should decide whether
to allow abortion.
Overall, 53% said they were opposed to abortion, the survey showed.
The poll questions were asked in conjunction with the Ohio Cultural
Index. It is available in its entirety at www.Ohiolife.org. The survey was
conducted September 23-26, 2009 by Wenzel Strategies using an automated telephone technology that has won widespread acceptance in the
eld of opinion research. The American Association of Public Opinion
Research, in studying different methods of conducting survey research,
announced last year that it found no discernable difference in the results
generated by automated telephone research and traditional voice-to-voice
polling methods. The Ohio survey included 936 registered voters statewide in Ohio. The poll carries a 95% condence interval and a margin of
error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.
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GREAT IS YOUR MERCY
TOWARD ME
Sabbatical Journey at Tantur
PRACTICAL
By Rick Jeric
STEWARDSHIP
Melchizedek
Jesus calls each and every one of us to a progressively higher and more
demanding vocation. He challenges us to respond to His call, and to
bring others along with us. Each call is unique, and each call is a different challenge. We really cannot escape it. The call will not die. We do
not respond when we are ready. We must respond when God is ready
for us. Going back to the beginning, to the fourteenth chapter of the
Book of Genesis, the High Priest Melchizedek responded to God’s call
to offer bread and wine for Abraham. Why do we care about a hardlymentioned character in the Old Testament? Because Jesus follows the
example of Melchizedek, and He emerges as the new High Priest, conquering sin and death while establishing the New Testament. Jesus is
just as human as He is God. As fellow humans, we are so fortunate,
because the patience that God has for us is simply out of pure and
perfect love. The patience that Jesus has for us, while God and man, is
the same human patience that we experience. Jesus as priest cannot
give in to human sinfulness. He proves this by dying on the cross for
us. He manifests the gift of Himself by offering the same bread and
wine offered by Melchizedek so many centuries before Him. There are
no more sacrices necessary. Only the remembrance in the most holy
sacrice of the Mass.
This Sunday is Priesthood Sunday. It is also World Youth Day. What
a tremendous opportunity to pray for vocations to the priesthood.
What a great opportunity to pray for our current priests. What a
fantastic opportunity to demand more from our Youth. We must pray
for them, but we must also challenge them. Challenge them to accept
a call to the priesthood. Challenge them to be open and receptive.
Challenge them to be a Christian example in whatever vocation they
choose. It is very tting that Priesthood Sunday and World Youth Day
are on the same day.
Our practical challenge is to celebrate Priesthood Sunday by asking
our priests to use their talents and skills and compassion to serve us
and lead us to heaven. Ask them directly, or ask them in prayer. Also,
celebrate World Youth Day by asking a young man whom you know
well or even just casually, if he has considered a call to the priesthood.
So many priestly vocations are initiated simply by someone asking.
Again, for our priests now, and for our future priests, “Take courage,
get up, Jesus is calling you.”
Jeric is director of development and planning for the Columbus Diocese.
By Fr. Justin Reis,
In the year of priests, I am experiencing diocesan support for a three month
sabbatical in Israel. I am staying at Tantur Ecumenical Institute just south of
Jerusalem near Bethlehem. Tantur is a
live-in program of lectures, reading, discussion, dialogue, eld trips, prayer and
worship experiences. Tantur believes
that the land of Israel is the “fth gospel” shedding light on the four canonical gospels. Tantur also believes that we
need to encounter the “living stones,”
the diverse peoples of the land.
Tantur is administered by the University of Notre Dame. It was envisioned by
Pope Paul VI as a center for continuing
dialogue among three major world religions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
Tantur (meaning hilltop) has its own
rst rate theological library and is endowed by many benefactors as a place
for scholarly research, extended study,
brief study and sabbatical renewal.
Our three month program has lectures
on biblical geography, Jesus in his cultural milieu, Jewish feasts, Jewish interpretation of scripture, biblical archeology,
Islam, Orthodox theology and Palestin-
A
ian liberation thelogy. Our guided eld
trips complemented these topics.
The Holy Father has called a papal synod for October of 2010 to help support
Christians in the Holy Land. Christians
are declining in numbers for various reasons. There is a very heavy commitment
by many churches to provide pastoral
care, education jobs, and social work.
International charities hope to stem the
tide of Christians leaving for economic
survival. Palestinians have lived in refugee camps since the war in 1948. We
are learning this history of why people
do not trust one another, why fruitful
dialogue is so difcult. This land is sacred to three major religions who share a
common father, Abraham.
Highlights so far include visits to:
Masada, Qumran, Bet Guvrin, Beersheva, Dome of the Rock, Western
Wall. Hezechiah’s tunnel, Church of
the Holy Sepulcher, and Church of the
Nativity. Special thanks to the Bishop
and the Diocese for nancing the priests
continuing education fund for sabbatical renewal.
After an extended unit on the Caldecott Award, given annually by the Association for
Library Service to Children for excellence in children’s book illustration, second-grade
students at Columbus Immaculate Conception School were invited to participate in a
celebration of Caldecott Award books. Students brought a picture of their favorite
Caldecott book to a luncheon in the school library media center on Friday, Oct. 2, and
shared what they liked about the books with the rest of the group.
WORLD PRIEST DAY TO BE CELEBRATED ON OCTOBER 25TH
In this “Year of the Priesthood” as proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI, Worldwide Marriage
Encounter is sponsoring World Priest Day on Sunday, October 25, 2009, which coincides with the
Serra Club’s Priesthood Sunday. World Priest Day focuses on celebrating the ongoing affirmation
of priests and building of relationships between couples and priests. The mission and purpose of
World Priest Day is to celebrate and affirm the men who commit their lives to the Lord and the
Church via the Sacrament of Holy Orders. It is an opportunity for Catholic parishioners to thank,
affirm and share their love and support for priests.
It is designed to be a day or several days to rejoice in the Sacrament of Holy Orders. On this day,
or during the week following it, Catholics across the country are encouraged to develop one or
several experiences to affirm priests. This will be a unique occasion for reaching out to priests. The
World Priest Day National Coordinating Team encourages you to celebrate the priests you know
and love. On this special day make sure to tell your priests just how much you appreciate them
now and in the past.
Fr. Reis is Pastor of St. Peter Parish
in Columbus
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Did you get angry last week? Sorry, but sometimes the news of the world gets to be too much
to handle. The violence, the careless killing, the
wars, the rationalization and justication, the lust
for power, the reduction of human beings to garbage, and all this done under the guise of maintaining or creating a better world. Have we no
shame? Do we not learn from history? How many smart, wise, ultraintelligent, powerful, supreme, and elite civilizations must we go through
before we realize that there is nothing that remains constant except
one thing. That one thing is the love of God in Jesus Christ. There is
no other. As St. Paul tells us so poignantly, “There are three things that
last: Faith, Hope, and Love; and the greatest of these is Love.” So how
do we accomplish anything that truly makes a difference? What can we
do? Each of us, in our unique situation and circumstance in the world,
can make a difference each day in small ways. Change comes in small
steps. As we will hear in the Gospel this Sunday, the disciples of Jesus
said, “Take courage, get up, Jesus is calling you.”
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Do you remember Christmas as a
child? Was it lled
St. Steven’s
Community House with family visits, a
warm home, presents under a beautiful tree, a visit to church to celebrate
the birth of Jesus? Or, did you spend
Christmas in bleak meager surroundings? No tree centered in the front
window and certainly no presents under the tree?
Over 2000 years ago, in a quiet manger, a baby was born to fulll the mission of changing the world. Today, his
presence continues to be felt and his
message is spread all over the world.
St. Stephen’s Community House was
founded by the Catholic Church in response to Jesus’ message of peace and
good will toward men. For 90 years,
with the help of generous donors, faithful volunteers and committed staff, St.
Stephen’s has touched many lives.
Here is the story of one family whose
life was brightened by those diligent
in their support of St. Stephen’s Community House.
A mother raising her two young children struggles everyday to pay the
bills. She is barely holding onto the
one room apartment they are renting
and with winter coming, there will
be even less money to pay for food.
Looking down the road, this mother
does not foresee a very merry Christmas for anyone. How will she explain
to her children why Santa is not bringing them any gifts this year? How will
she continue to put food on the table
as their heating bill rises each month?
In her search for answers, she nds St.
Stephen’s Community House. Walking through the doors she is comforted not only by the warmth of the
building, but by the smiling faces
that greet her. She is welcomed into
the facility and asked how she can
be helped. As she begins to tell her
story, tears fall down her cheeks in
embarrassment. The staff person who
is listening to her story assures her
that she is not alone and immediately
begins to provide help. Many people
face these challenges each day and
many come to St. Stephen’s Community House for help.
Fortunately, the needs of these families have always been met by the services offered at St. Stephen’s. Hope
for families, safety for children, care
for the elderly is our mission of mercy.
This year we are facing difculties at
every turn. Funding cuts, job losses,
health care disparities and the like are
crippling issues we cannot manage
with your support. St. Stephen’s Community House would not be here to
serve families without donations from
our generous community.
As the holiday season, approaches
please, take a moment to pray and ask
God what level of giving He desires
for you to provide to partner with us.
Together, we can brighten the lives
of families in need; together we can
show the mercy and compassion commissioned to us by our heavenly Father, throughout the Linden Community and beyond.
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house event at the center
in ODU’s Erskine Hall.
The Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the
Springs (now Dominican
Sisters of Peace) provided $500,000 to support the establishment of
the center in 2004. Since
the Fall of 2004, the CDS
has sponsored more than
150 programs and activities, attracting more than
6,000 participants.
The center serves as a resource to support the mission and identity of Ohio
Dominican as a Catholic
university in the Domini-
Acknowledging unmarried Catholics
OFFICE OF LITURGY
Whenever we think about the music ministry in our celebrations, what usually comes to mind is either the cantor, choir,
choir leader, or organist (and other musicians). The cantor is often the most visible because we see and hear the cantor leading the community’s singing. The cantor sometimes performs a
second ministry, that of the psalmist, singing the psalm verses
while we sing the refrain. The choir, at least from September
through June, is present at our most popular Masses. They put
in a lot of volunteer hours
practicing and preparing
to support the community’s singing. At times
they might sing verses or
even entire hymns without the community’s
voice, not to entertain,
but to provide reflective prayer through the
text of the hymn and
through their melody to aid in our contemplation. The least
visible and probably the most challenging of these ministries
is that of the choir leader / music director. This ministry must
dedicate much time in the selection of hymns, directing the
choir’s practice, study of the liturgy, be attentive to the liturgical seasons, coordinate with the pastor & the liturgy committee. Our musicians also dedicate hours of practice to insure
that their playing is the best it can be.
The one common element in these ministries is that they are
doing the best that they can do to make our celebrations a holy
experience where we might join with the angles in heaven at
their ever-present celestial liturgy, even for the briefest of moments. They are always striving for perfection and never settling for mediocrity.
Music in the liturgy is not their sole responsibility, it is ours as
well. We should never be satisfied just singing around the Mass,
which is singing the processional hymns at the beginning and
at the end of Mass or during the preparation of the altar and
at communion. Our responses to the prayers should be sung
whenever possible. The Mass is meant to be sung. Most of us
have become accustom to singing the Gloria the Holy, Holy and
even the Memorial Acclimation, Great Amen, and possibly the
Lamb of God.
There is so much more that we could be singing. In the Sacramentary, the book that guides the principal celebrant in the
prayers for the Mass, most instructions state that the dialogue
prayers are “sung or said.” Whenever they are sung by the celebrant, we are to sing our response to them. (I.e., When the
introduction to the Lord’s Prayer is sung, our response is to sing
the Lord’s Prayer.) We should encourage our priests to take to
first option (to sing) so our voices may express in song what is
in our hearts as we participate in the celebration.
While attentive listening is an active form of participation, it
should not be our only form of participation. Our postures,
gestures, movement, and our responses to the prayers of the
Mass (especially in song) bring us closer to the heavenly liturgy.
For those who need a bucket to carry a tune, sing softly (you
will improve). For everyone else, we need to fully embrace
singing in our participation within our celebration of the Mass.
St. Augustine teaches: [Those] who sing at worship, pray twice.
Center for Dominican Studies Celebrates 5 Years
Which wine or hosts are consecrated?
A quick note from:
THE MINISTRY OF SINGING BELONGS TO ALL OF US
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Q
. As an extraordinary minister of
the Eucharist in our parish, I assist at Mass in a
nursing home. I notice
that, after the offertory,
the wine cruet is left on
the edge of the folding
altar table since the room
area is small. At the time
of consecration, there
is still a small amount
of wine left in the cruet. Would this wine be
consecrated along with
the wine in the chalice?
(New York)
. Which wine or
hosts are consecrated at Mass depends
on the intention of the
priest celebrant. Some
intend to consecrate the
“body” of wine in the
chalice and all containers on the altar for Communion under both species. Some others intend
whatever hosts and wine
are on the square cloth
corporal, or on the altar,
which can become quite
cluttered if there are to
be many Communions.
A
QUESTION & ANSWER
by: FATHER DIETZEN
Catholic News Service
At some large outdoor
eucharistic celebrations,
containers for hosts and/
or wine are often placed
on tables somewhat
away from the altar. As
long as the celebrant has
the intention to consecrate them, they are consecrated as if they were
on the altar itself.
From your description,
it seems evident the priest
did not intend to consecrate the small amount
of wine left in the cruet,
even though the cruet remained on the altar.
. Why does the
Catholic Church
not recognize the single
way of life if one is not
clergy or in religious life?
Homilies and prayers of
the faithful include ref-
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and married people and
families but not single
persons.
I also nd that Catholic
magazines do not acknowledge single life.
When I’ve dropped subscriptions and tell why
I’m doing so, there is no
reply. (Iowa)
. I’m not sure exactly what you are
looking for, but your letter suggests a few important points not only for
single people but for all
of us.
First, the most basic and
elementary foundation
of our Christian identity is baptism, the sacrament shared by every
Catholic. As Pope John
XXIII wrote, the greatest
day of his life was not
when he was ordained or
elected pope, but the day
of his baptism, when he
was born into the body
of Christ as sharer in the
prophetic and priestly
role of our Lord.
Too often we forget
that, or believe it is insignicant. It is impossible for the church not
to recognize the single
life, because you, as all
the rest of us, share the
most essential and critical mark of what makes
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us Christians.
I realize that sometimes
insensitive remarks by
us priests or others might
imply that single folks
are ignored or on the
sidelines. This is unfortunate, but results, I believe, from the recognition that the vast majority
of Catholics in our congregations are one way
or another connected
with families. The truth
is, of course, that the
percentage of unmarried
lay people is increasing,
not only as a permanent
state of life but also because men and women
are marrying much later
than in past generations.
Finally, the Christian
message is not all that
radically different for
different vocations. Sacred Scripture can be
applied to the lives of
all people, regardless of
their state in life. I believe the same is true of
most homilies and general circulation Catholic
magazines. A few points
may apply more directly
to one specic group, but
the central message is
relevant to all of us.
Perhaps it will help to
look more at simply how
what is being said or
written applies to your
life, rather than view everything largely through
the prism of your present
vocation.
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[email protected].
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society by providing distinctive opportunities for
study and dialogue that
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founding director of the
CDS and vice president
for mission and identity
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The center’s programs
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and study-abroad opportunities. CDS has featured an impressive array
of internationally known
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Allen, Peter Steinfels,
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Campbell honored the
university by serving as
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symposiums sponsored
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features the works and
reports of many authorities in the Dominican
tradition. The inaugural
edition was released in
the fall of 2007, which
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monastery in Prouilhe,
France, by St. Dominic.
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Thomas O’Meara, OP.
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Fr. Joseph Tyminski, former Director of Salesian Center, Passes Away
Funeral Mass for Father Joseph Tyminski, SDB, 89,
former director of the Salesian Center in Columbus,
who died Thursday, Oct. 15, was held Sunday, Oct. 18,
at Mary Help of Christians Church in Tampa, Fla.
Burial was in the Salesian Cemetery, Goshen, N.Y.
He was born Nov. 3, 1919, in Orange, N.J., to the
late Joseph and Mary (Bukowska) Tyminski.
He graduated from Don Bosco Prep School in Ramsey, N.J., in 1937, made his rst profession of vows
as a Salesian brother on Sept. 8, 1939, and graduated
from Don Bosco College in Newton, N.J., in 1942
with a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy. He began theological studies at the college in 1945 and
completed them at the Salesian seminary in Aptos,
Cal., in 1949. He was ordained a priest on June 29,
1949, at Don Bosco College.
He served from 1974 to 1980 in Columbus, where
he brought his pastoral experience in schools and
parishes to the formation of Salesian seminarians attending theological courses at the Pontical College
Josephinum and to Salesian brothers studying at other
area colleges, as well as to the staff of what at the time
was known as the Salesian Boys Club.
He led a youth apostolate reaching several hundred
children and staff members and an extensive apostolic program in parishes, hospitals, and the Franklin
County Juvenile Detention Center.
He also served as a pastor, teacher, and administrator at several Salesian facilities in New York and New
Jersey, and was elected as the New Rochelle, N.Y.,
province’s delegate to the 19th, 20th, and 21st general chapters of the Salesian Society between 1965
and 1978.
He returned to Columbus and lived at the Salesian
Center in semiretirement from 2002 until it was closed
in 2008. He then moved to Florida.
8 Catholic Times
October 25, 2009
The Year of the Priest
ON A FIRM FOUNDATION
I have No Other Hands But Yours
By Jennifer Damiano
On Monday, October 19 The Catholic Foundation celebrated our support of the
Diocese of Columbus at our 24th Annual Meeting & Dinner. We announced that the
Foundation has given more than $48 million in grants since 1985 to organizations
within the Diocese of Columbus and across the nation.
The truth is that this was made possible only through the gifts of tens of thousands
of faithful Catholics over that course of time. Our theme for this year’s event was, “I
have no other hands but yours.” These beautiful words from St. Teresa of Avila are a
perfect illustration of how the Foundation operates in partnership with our donors.
It is through your hands, our hands, that the Foundation has made this tremendous
impact on our community.
This year the Foundation’s support of the Diocese was more important than ever
before. Endowment funds are created to provide perpetual, reliable streams of income to parishes, schools and other organizations. In 2009 when other revenues
were restricted by the economy, the Foundation fulfilled its purpose of providing
that income when it was needed most. Thank you to our generous and faithful donors whose hands have made this impact possible.
In this year alone, your hands have enabled the Foundation to make 697 grants to
285 organizations, totaling more than $5.2 million in support of God’s work in our
community. All of these grants represent our donors’ intentions to feed the hungry,
house the homeless, educate our children, invest in our future priests, protect the
unborn, rebuild lives, and most importantly, keep our faith traditions alive.
During the event we were blessed to hear from our bishop, the Most Reverend
Frederick Campbell, as well as the Very Reverend James A. Wehner, STD, rector of the
Josephinum. Both did an outstanding job of relating how the Foundation impacts
priestly formation, and how the Holy Father has called us to a year of prayer for our
priests. To top the night off, 20 of our seminarians and Bishop Campbell blessed us
with the singing of the Salve Regina.
If you are interested in receiving a copy of our 2009 Annual Report, please visit
our website at www.catholic-foundation.org or call us at 614.443.8893 or toll-free at
866.298.8893.
Damiano is executive director of the Catholic Foundation.
RETREAT FOR SENIORS
Recognizing the impact of music and
song on our spirits at all stages of life,
the Institute for Maturing Spirituality at
the Martin de Porres Center is offering
a retreat based on favorite hymns.
“Sing a New Song Unto the Lord (Ps
96:1): Tuning Our Hearts As We Age”
will be presented at the Center on
Thursday, October 29, 10:00 AM-3:00
PM, facilitated by an interdenominational retreat team.
Bring a notebook and words to one
or more favorite hymns that you enjoy
singing in times of sorrow, in times of
“the blahs,” and in times
of gladness.
Call 614.416-1910 to
register by October 27.
Suggested donation of
$10.00 includes lunch.
Msgr. Noon felt call early
By Lori Crock
Msgr. Robert Noon says he felt even before his rst
Communion that he was called to the priesthood.
He grew up in Zanesville St. Thomas Aquinas Church
at a time when it regularly conducted Sunday afternoon
processions with the Blessed Sacrament. He said those
events are among his earliest memories.
“I remember waiting near the back to be near the priests
and thinking that I would like to do that,” he said.
Other inuences included the homilies given by the
church’s pastor, Father James Aldridge, OP, whom he described as a “very holy man,” at a weekly Thursday Holy Hour during his high
school years, as well as solemn high Masses on Sunday mornings attended
by Dominican brothers from Somerset, who encouraged him to pray about
discerning his vocation.
He attended Catholic and public schools in Zanesville. He still remembers a
public school teacher who gave her lunch to a young man who had to go without breakfast because his family couldn’t afford it. “Good people everywhere
help inspire young people to serve God,” he said.
Msgr. Noon, 86, attended Providence (R.I.) College for two years and completed his college education at Columbus St. Charles Seminary. He nished
his priestly studies at Mt. St. Mary Seminary of the West in Norwood and was
ordained May 26, 1951, by Bishop Michael Ready at St. Joseph Cathedral.
He spent his rst 10 years in the priesthood as associate pastor at Columbus
St. Peter, Marion St. Mary, and Columbus St. Aloysius, then went to Peru for
three years in response to a call by Pope John XXIII for 10 percent of the
priests from each diocese to serve as missionaries in South America.
“I learned patience in Peru,” he said. He described the people there as “living on the surface of the faith. They complained that the priests kept talking
about the importance of the Sacraments, but they were more interested in
sacramentals like statues and processions.”
He returned to Ohio to serve as pastor at Waverly St. Mary and founding
pastor of Columbus St. Elizabeth, where he was from 1967 to 1978.
He was as a pastor in residence at the North American Pontical College
in Rome, a city he estimates he has visited 14 times, then had some health
problems and was assigned as associate pastor at Columbus Our Lady of
Peace and Columbus Holy Spirit before spending 10 years as pastor at Lancaster St. Bernadette.
He also served as director of the diocesan Cursillo movement and as liaison
to the Catholic Charismatic Movement, with which he remains associated.
He retired in 1993 and has lled in for several pastors on sabbatical since
then. He was selected as a monsignor by Pope John Paul II in 1992 and
received the additional title of protonotary apostolic in 1999.
He lives at the Villas at St. Therese independent living facility. “I miss people
and parish life being here at the Villas,” he said. “I still like to get out to the
parishes, although I do have more time to pray.”
He enjoys getting to know some of the diocese’s younger priests who gather
on one Monday a month at St. Therese’s Retreat Center for a Holy Hour. “I
think the younger priests are enjoying getting to know us older priests as
much as we are enjoying them,” he said.
He said he tells young priests that “prayer life is essential and comes rst,”
but a sense of humor also helps.
“Don’t take yourself too seriously,” he advises them. “Humor keeps us going
and companionship with other priests just makes sense.” He can use himself
as an example of taking his own advice, for he is part of a priest support
group that has met monthly for 27 years.
Faith
October 25, 2009
Catholic Times 9
LIVING
God is everywhere, including the blogosphere
Mike Collins is chuckling somewhere in paradise as
he watches me write a blog or check my new Web site.
Those of you who have been reading the Catholic Times
for a while will recognize Mike as a longtime editor of the
paper. I remember him not only as the editor who asked
me to write this column I have been penning for the past
23 years, but also as the friend who had unwavering faith
that I would publish books someday. Visits with him were
welcome opportunities to spend time with adults when I
was in the midst of raising three young children.
Once I wrote a column about the downside of fax,
e-mail, and cell phones. They eliminate personal
contact. I could send something to the ofce through
the mysteries of cyberspace or I could print out my
column, drive into Columbus, and have an enjoyable
conversation with Mike.
They could make people constantly available, I
continued. Employers began to expect their workers to
be reachable any time. I ranted on. Years later, after my
children were older and I was e-mailing my monthly
column to the ofce, I ran into him.
“Mike! How are you? I haven’t see you for ages.”
A grin spread across his face and his eyes sparkled.
“Yes, it has been a long time. You don’t stop by the
ofce any more. I remember a column someone once
wrote about the impersonality of e-mails….”
We both laughed. A part time job made running the
column to Columbus more difcult and, despite not
having the pleasure of long conversations with Mike, I
LOCAL CONTRIBUTOR
Mary van Balen-Holt
appreciated the convenience of e-mail.
Thousands of e-mails later, I have entered into the
blogosphere. Obviously, I have had a change of heart.
I have recognized in myself the “older generation
syndrome”: reluctance to change, seeing all the problems
with new technologies (and there are many) rather any
of the opportunities they offer. Lasers can be used to
destroy; they can also be used to heal. E-mails, Skypelike programs, and cell phones can be a poor substitute
for person-to-person communication; they can also
allow family and friends separated by long distances to
keep in touch, or a bedridden grandparent to enjoy the
sight of a toddler’s rst steps.
During a class on the Church that I am teaching at
Ohio Dominican, we discussed Vatican II and Pope
John XXIII’s receptivity to the good that resided in the
modern world. Ours is an incarnational faith that sees
God’s glory and overowing gift of self in all creation
and in our ability to learn and understand more about
it. Pope John had faith in God’s presence with us, and
he called the Church to replace fear with hope when
looking to the future.
A man of warmth and simplicity, he knew the
importance of personal contact and walked the streets
mingling with common people. He visited hospitals and
surprised prisoners by coming to them. He also knew
there were other ways to spread Jesus’ message of the
coming Kingdom. He wanted to communicate with
people in ways they could understand. He had good news
to proclaim and did not want to conne it in outmoded
language or presentations.
I think Pope John would approve of current ways God’s
invitation to relationship is shared across the globe:
Popular music, drama, television, multimedia events.
Modern technologies also provide additional ways to
share God’s loving compassion with others. We have the
ability with a click on an Internet link to support microloans to people building a way to support their families
or to learn about disasters and mobilize help.
The possibility of using electronic communication for
ill is no reason not to use it for good. I hope my Web
site and reections on my blog will in some small way
share my experience of living life expecting to nd God
in the middle of its messiness, and pushing on when that
Presence is not so obvious.
I like to think that, were he still here, Mike might log
on and read a blog or two, and then talk them over with
me as we sipped coffee in his ofce.
Link to van Balen-Holt’s blog can be found on her
website: http://maryvanbalen.com
Reminding each other what God can do
By Christina Capecchi
Twenty Something
Oprah imagined the comeback long before Whitney Houston stepped on her
stage and delivered it.
She sang, “Oprah said, ‘Girl, do you
know you’re loved?’ Now I know my own
strength.” Oprah blinked away a tear and
the audience screamed, and in that moment, Whitney’s triumph over addictive
drugs became Oprah’s triumph over sagging ratings.
It was a classic Harpo exchange, one
that managed to feel both commercial
and spiritual. As the two women hugged,
I thought about the transformations we
cheer into being, clapping and whistling,
waving brightly colored poster boards that
broadcast our condence.
In my twenty-some years, I’ve been
blessed with many cheerleaders, and lately
I’ve been more attuned to their impact,
the way they spur along my pursuit of big
dreams and small to-dos.
The other day, for instance, I told my dad
that a National Public Radio editor is considering an essay of mine and has requested audio samples – something I’m a tad
short on. Dad didn’t miss a beat, recalling
a few 10-minute segments I did ve years
ago. “You’ve got radio experience! Did
you tell him about those Relevant Radio
interviews?”
His condence gave me the strength to
press “send” on the e-mail I’d pieced together, to take the risk and make the leap.
Dad is also there to classify failures as
ukes. “You just had an off day,” he said
last month after a softball game lled with
strikeouts.
He pulled me out of my rut with batting
practice. “You were watching the ball,”
he said between pitches, “but you weren’t
focusing on it.” After a few more whiffs,
I put bat on ball. Then I made smoother
strokes. The next game, I was back.
My mom also has cheered me along. She
was there to listen to every story I wrote
as a girl. Where there were heavy adverbs
and too many participial phrases, Mom
heard a burgeoning vocabulary and a creative mind. She listened to my clarinet,
sipping her tea and trusting that “Three
Blind Mice” would one day turn into Mozart. She believed scales would be followed by symphonies and at notes would
slide into tune, that Dr. Seuss would lead
to Shakespeare, Little League to varsity,
and tantrums to temperance.
She knew what practice could do, what
braces could do, what a good night’s sleep
could do, what time could do and, ultimately, what God could do.
This month’s readings illustrate the transformative power of God’s love, a God who
counted each hair on our heads, the God
who restored vision to the blind man, the
God for whom “all things are possible.”
We never really outgrow the desire for
gold stars and blue ribbons. The rallying
cries of our cheerleaders mean even more
in young adulthood, when doubts can be
darker and more persistent. It is a novel
juncture: We are old enough to recognize
and appreciate their support, and we’re old
enough to become cheerleaders to others,
including our parents, blossoming into vibrant grandparents and active retirees.
When we demonstrate our belief in friends
and relatives, classmates and colleagues, we
invite them into a clearer sense of self, a picture that is closer to the way God sees them:
cherished, resilient, whole.
How blessed we are by the ones who love
us as sinners and believe in us as saints.
Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer
from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. Email
her at [email protected].
10 Catholic Times /October 25, 2009
October 25, 2009 /Catholic Times 11
Stories by TIM PUET, Catholic Times Reporter
CHILLICOTHE ST. MARY CHURCH COMPLEX COMBINES OLD AND NEW
A
The exterior and interior of Chillicothe St. Mary Church,
built between 1867 and 1869
CT Photos by Tim Puet
s the rst capital city of
Ohio, Chillicothe always
has been proud of its heritage and
tried to retain it through maintaining the historic avor of its downtown.
That pride extends to its two
Catholic churches, which have
rich legacies of their own. St.
Mary Church, the older of the
two by eight years, was founded
in 1837, and the buildings on its
property have a history which
spans nearly two centuries.
The parish ofce building, Marian House, one of the oldest buildings in town, has stood at the
corner of Paint and Fourth streets
since 1816. It was purchased by
the Sisters of Notre Dame in 1848
for use as a “female institute” and
became the rst St. Mary School
building in the 1860s. Since then,
it has served the parish as a con-
vent and center for parish renewal.
It was renovated and rededicated
as ofce space in 1989.
The church itself was built from
1867 to 1869, and the rectory
dates back to the 1840s, when it
was owned by James Worthington, a son of pioneer Ohio Governor Thomas Worthington. Despite
its age, it’s known as the “new”
rectory to distinguish it from the
“old” rectory, which was built at
about the same time as the church
and is currently vacant.
Next to the “new” rectory is the
family life center, built in 1996.
Most parish activities of a nonsacramental nature take place
there. It’s obvious the building is
newer than its neighbors, but only
because it’s too young to have
added the veneer of age. Its traditional red-brick style matches
that of the rectory and many other
downtown buildings.
“Being part of a historic area
can have its disadvantages,” said
parish administrative assistant
Joan D’Antoni. “For instance, a
couple of years ago, the ofce
building needed new windows,
and we had quite a struggle with
the Design Review Board, which
sets rules on downtown architecture, before we could get them
approved. But overall, we’re
very proud of being part of an
area with so much history.”
Chillicothe’s two Catholic parishes, St. Mary and St. Peter, are
about three-fourths of a mile apart
and are almost equal in size, with
St. Mary having about 450 families and St. Peter about 500. Both
also serve the rest of Ross County, with no geographic boundary
dividing them.
“It used to be that we were the
Irish parish and St. Peter’s was
the German parish,” said Peg
Whalen, St. Mary parish secretary. “That’s no longer the case
today. People mostly go where
their parents went, and newcomers often go to both and decide
which one they’ll register with.
We’ve always had a pretty even
split as far as membership, with
plenty of people from one church
going to the other on any given
See ST. MARY, Page 12
St. Mary Church Night at a Chillicothe
Paints minor-league baseball game
Photo courtesy St. Mary Church
CHILLICOTHE ST. PETER HAS SERVED CITY, COUNTY FOR MORE THAN 160 YEARS
E
Father William Hahn, pastor of Chillicothe St. Peter Church, lights the new
re at the 2009 Easter Vigil
Photo courtesy St. Peter Church
The church was rededicated in 1951
after a 1947 re destroyed most
CT Photo by Tim Puet
of the building
ven if you’ve never been to
Chillicothe before, it’s not
hard to nd St. Peter Church.
Its relatively simple, 20th-century Art Deco-style architecture
stands in marked contrast to the
look of the many 19th-century
buildings in the rest of downtown.
However, its history stretches back
more than 160 years, to 1845. The
newer look results from rebuilding following a re on June 20,
1947, which did $250,000 damage and at the time was described
as the city’s most damaging re
of the 20th century.
The sidewalls of the original
church were retained and a new
rear and front were added when
the church was rebuilt. It was rededicated in April 1951, following a ve-month delay because
the original rededication was
postponed by the famed 1950
post-Thanksgiving snowstorm.
St. Peter’s today is a thriving parish of 500 families and combines
with its downtown neighbor, St.
Mary Church, to serve Catholics
throughout Ross County. Its interior was given a new look last
year. A mural depicting the crucied Christ, his mother, and John
the Evangelist at the foot of the
cross, with God the Father receiving his Son’s sacrice, was painted behind the altar by Murals by
Jericho of Peoria, Ill.
A depiction of the risen Christ
was moved from the front of
the church to a position above
the choir loft. New lighting was
placed in the sanctuary, and there
are plans for new tile work to
be done there. Donations for the
improvements have come from
individual parishioners and from
the surplus from the Bishop’s Annual Appeal collection which was
returned to the parish when it exceeded its BAA goal.
The church, its rectory, and a
former school building are part
of a plot of land at Church and
Water streets that has been owned
by the Catholic Church since the
Card parties at St. Peter Church several times a year bring senior citizens and
others from the Chillicothe community together
Photo courtesy St. Peter Church
Archdiocese of Cincinnati purchased it at the time St. Peter’s
was founded.
Chillicothe didn’t become a part
of the Columbus diocese until
1944. The portion of Ross County west of the Scioto River was
added to the diocese in that year
as part of a change in boundaries
which resulted in creation of the
new Steubenville diocese out of
territory which had been in the
Columbus diocese.
The rectory dates from the 19th
century. The school was built in
1929 and vacated in 1987, when
the combined Bishop Flaget Elementary School which had served
both Chillicothe parishes for the
previous decade was moved “up
See ST. PETER, Page 13
BISHOP FLAGET SCHOOL
UNITES TWO PARISHES
M
embers of Chillicothe’s two
Catholic parishes have maintained separate identities and traditions for more than a century
and a half, but share one strong
bond which unites them. That’s
their support for Bishop Flaget
Elementary School, the city’s only
Catholic educational institution.
“We consider ourselves one
school family, and I don’t think
the question of who is from what
parish ever really comes up,” said
school principal Laura Corcoran.
“The student body is pretty evenly
split among St. Mary’s and St. Peter’s kids, with about 10 percent
non-Catholics” among its 162
pupils from pre-kindergarten to
eighth grade. “People from both
parishes really take care of each
other, and that helps everyone.”
Corcoran said the united strength
of the two parishes was especially
signicant when her predecessor as principal, Kenneth Kessler,
died unexpectedly at his home at
age 35 on Jan. 27, 2008.
“Ken’s death had a terric impact
on everyone because he was so
young and was extremely devoted
to the school,” she said. “Times of
tragedy are when you can count
on a family the most if you’re in a
strong family, and it was the same
way with our school family.
“The people in the diocesan education ofce also were a tremendous help. We miss Ken every
day, but feel we gained strength
through carrying on with his example, and know he’s proud that
we’re continuing to accomplish
great things.” The school plans
to build a Marian grotto in Kessler’s memory.
Since his death, Flaget has received the Governor’s Award for
Excellence in Youth Science Opportunities for the second straight
year and has been chosen as one
of eight schools statewide receiving the outstanding school award
at the state science fair. The award
is given to junior highs and high
schools which had 80 percent of
their fair participants receive superior ratings.
During the past month, Flaget
math teacher Amanda Mickey was
chosen as outstanding elementary
math educator by the Southeast
District of the Ohio Council of
Teachers of Mathematics, and
eighth-grade student Jacob Hirsch
was one of about 75 youths nationwide selected to take part in
the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s
Young Scholars program.
The program is designed to nurture exceptional students from
families with limited nancial resources who have demonstrated
through classroom and extracurricular work that they have the
potential to excel. It places them
with mentors who give them opportunities to expand their knowledge in their chosen elds of interest, monitors them through high
school, and provides assistance for
college and beyond. It has been
described as “the most personalized, generous scholarship experience in the nation.”
Flaget also is continuing to offer the second and third years of
a program in Mandarin Chinese
Ricky Villarreal (center) and other
third-grade students at Chillicothe
Bishop Flaget School listen to Ronald
McDonald talk to them about ways
they can deal with bullying
Photo courtesy Bishop Flaget School
which had been part of the curriculum in some schools of the Diocese of Columbus for the 2007-08
and 2008-09 academic years, using distance-learning equipment
the schools obtained as part of the
program. The diocese no longer is
receiving a federal grant for the
program, but Flaget is continuing
it by using some of the auxiliary
services money it receives from
the state. The program is administered by the Franklin County Educational Service Center.
The school is receiving less auxiliary services money than it did
last year, but Corcoran said it’s being used more efciently because
school ofcials anticipated the cut
and decided last year how to get
the maximum use out of whatever
money was available. She said
taking a close look at spending
enabled the school to limit a tuition increase to $50 for this year
while staying technologically upto-date.
Every classroom in the school
now has SMART boards, which
allow teachers to better monitor students’ work and to tailor
instruction and tests to students’
differing levels of knowledge of a
particular subject.
Students also have ample opportunity to grow in faith through re-
See FLAGET, Page 12
12 Catholic Times
October 25, 2009
ST. MARY, continued from Page 11
Sunday for reasons of convenience or
variety.”
Mike Haller, rst ofcer of St. Mary’s
nance council, said the two churches
have worked especially closely with
each other since Father Lawrence
Hummer became pastor of St. Mary’s
in 1990. “He and (former St. Peter’s
pastor) Father (James) Black and Father
(William) Hahn (pastor at St. Peter’s
for the last three years) have worked
very hard to coordinate as many things
as possible, especially the Mass schedules and our efforts to support Bishop
Flaget School.”
Haller said Ross County is about 5 percent Catholic. “People think there are a
lot more Catholics in the county than
the actual number because we’re so involved with many things.” he said.
“One of the things we’re proudest of
is our representation on the Habitat
for Humanity board, which has a good
number of St. Mary’s and St. Peter’s
members. Habitat has completed about
13 homes here, including a couple built
completely by women.
“Its work is a great example of ecu-
menical cooperation, with plenty of
churches involved..”
Interfaith cooperation goes back a
long way in Chillicothe, with the most
notable example being the city’s largest
employer, the Adena Health System.
The system dates to the founding of
Chillicothe Hospital in 1895, when
women from the city’s churches started
an emergency hospital. They decided to
have representatives from the churches
on the hospital board, and that pattern
continues today, with St. Mary’s, St.
Peter’s, and seven other churches each
having a spot on the 15-member board.
Unemployment in Ross County for
August reached 12.4 percent and has
been higher during the past year. The
parish’s St. Vincent de Paul Society,
revived by Father Hummer soon after
his arrival, responded to that need by
serving about 4,500 people in 1,500
families in the scal year which ended
Sept. 30, providing nearly $35,000 in
assistance.
Most of that money came from collections on the last Sunday of months with
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“We’re very pleased
that other people and
agencies often refer
people to us because
they know we’re always able to provide
Members of the sewing group at Chillicothe St. Mary Church
assistance.”
display a quilt for which they all provided sections
Masses at St. Mary’s
Photo courtesy St. Mary Church
are at 5 p.m. Saturdays and 8:45 and 11
a.m. Sundays, with a
parish also has sponsored both lunch12:30 p.m. Mass in Spanish on the rst time and evening Bible studies in reSunday of the month.
cent years. In addition, Father Hummer
The period between the two weekly often has presented weekly talks during
Sunday Masses is used for both the Par- Advent and Lent.
ish School of Religion and adult educa- Other parish activities include a sewing
tion classes.
group, a men’s prayer group, father-son
Katie Boesch, parish religious educa- and mother-daughter banquets, a hog
tion coordinator, said there has been a roast in the fall, and an October Rosary
good response to a book club for adults procession which has taken place every
which the church started this year. The year since 1980.
FLAGET, continued from Page 11
ligion classes, monthly all-school
Masses and individual class Masses,
living Stations of the Cross themed to
both Christmas and Easter, creation of
baseball-type cards featuring biblical
characters, and a weeklong retreat for
older students.
“We’ve always had a great reputation
for both academics and faith-based
programs, and it’s continued to grow
with the many honors we’ve recently
received,” said Corcoran, who was a
longtime teacher at Chillicothe High
School before becoming a parent volunteer at Flaget while her children were
attending the school. She was its evangelization director at the time of Kessler’s death.
The school is named for Bishop
Benedict Flaget, the rst bishop of
the Diocese of Bardstown, Ky., which
in the early 1800s included much of
Ohio. It was opened in 1962 as a high
school to serve the two Chillicothe
parishes, which then had elementary
schools of their own. Those schools
were combined into one unit in 1976.
Flaget High School was closed in 1986
and students from Flaget Elementary moved “up the hill” into the high
school’s vacated classrooms.
Many city residents were upset at
the time with the diocese’s decision
to close the high school. “It doesn’t
seem that long ago,” Corcoran said.
“It’s only taken until now for some
people to accept it.” But she said
parishioners’ disappointment never
stopped them from being generous to
the elementary school.
“We’d never have been able to survive without strong support from the
parishes,” she said. Major fund-raising
activities include bingo twice a week
and a dinner and auction in April
which usually raises at least $50,000.
The 2010 auction is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, April 16 and 17.
Many members of both parishes also
include regular gifts to the school in
their contributions at Sunday Mass,
and Corcoran said she’s always looking for ways to obtain federal grants.
“People take great care of this
school because it means so much to
them,” she said. “It may be a small
school, but it’s part of a close-knit
community and continues to show
consistently that its students are obtaining a high-quality educational
and spiritual experience.”
Catholic Times 13
October 25, 2009
ST. PETER, continued from Page 11
the hill” to the former Flaget High
School.
The old school is still busy as a parish center, housing activities which include a youth group, Parish School of
Religion, adult education, Boy Scouts,
Jazzercise, and a dinner theater.
Parish youth ministry coordinator
Jenny French said the two Chillicothe parishes decided this year to
conduct separate Parish School of
Religion and high-school religious
education programs, but have combined youth groups. A junior-high
group meets twice a month on Fridays, and high-school students get
together every Thursday.
The high-school gathering on the rst
Thursday of each month is a meeting
of the Dead Theologians Society, a discussion group which examines the life
of a particular saint.
The discussions take place in surroundings designed to represent the
gatherings of the early Christians in the
catacombs of Rome. The meeting area
is lit by candlelight, with the smell of
incense and the presence of statues add-
ing to the spiritual atmosphere.
In addition to presentations about the
featured saint, the program includes recital of a decade of the Rosary, prayers
for the souls in purgatory, and Benediction. Once youths have attended
three consecutive or ve overall DTS
activities, they are given a scapular, an
olive-wood Rosary, and a black hooded
sweatshirt with an inscription and an
embroidered monstrance.
“The kids really like this because the
atmosphere appeals to their sense of
mystery and seems to encourage them
to ask tough questions,” French said.
“They also think the ‘hoodies’ are great.
The kids wear them to school, and other
kids ask them about it, so it gives them
a chance to witness for the Faith.”
Sister Mary Peter Sterwerf, pastoral
assistant, serves as parish PSR coordinator. PSR and adult Bible study programs both take place between the 8
and 11:30 a.m Sunday Masses. There
also is a 5 p.m. Saturday Mass. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes
place every Thursday following the
8:30 a.m. Mass and continues to 9 p.m.
FATHER TOTTEN IS 100 YEARS OLD
Father Raymond F. Totten, the oldest
priest of the Diocese of Columbus,
celebrated his 100th birthday on Tuesday,
Oct. 20.
He has been living in his hometown
of Pittsburgh since his retirement from
the active priesthood in 1979. In his last
assignment, he spent 13 years as pastor
of the former Strasburg St. Aloysius
Church and its mission, Bolivar St.
Stephen. These parishes and Mineral
City St. Patrick are now part of Holy
Trinity Church, located in Bolivar.
Father Totten was ordained on Oct.
30, 1948, in Columbus St. Joseph
Cathedral by Bishop Michael Ready.
He was assistant pastor at Columbus
Holy Rosary (1948-49) and Newark
St. Francis de Sales (1949-50),
administrator at LaRue St. Joseph
(1950), and pastor at Dresden St. Ann,
Wills Creek Our Lady of Lourdes
and Mattingly Settlement St. Mary
(1950-56), Wainwright St. Therese
and Midvale St. Paul (1956-61), and
Corning St. Bernard (1961-66).
“Every day of my priesthood was one
of much joy and happiness,” Father
Totten wrote to the Catholic Times. “It
was a wonderful life.”
“Father Totten enjoyed talking about
football, and was an avid golfer,”
recalled Holy Trinity parishioner Karen
McDonnell. “He was a very quiet
person, and thinking of him made me
recall the beatitude ‘Blessed are the
meek, for they will inherit the earth.’
“He was very interested in St. Peter’s
Church, between Bolivar and Strasburg,
the oldest church in Tuscarawas County.
He said Masses there several times, but
vandals burned it down in 1978.”
Father Totten was born Oct. 20, 1909,
in Pittsburgh to the late Charles and
Marie Totten.
He received his early education at
Pittsburgh St. Raphael School, Mount
Gallitzin Academy in Baden, Pa., and
Pittsburgh Sacred Heart High School.
He graduated with a bachelor of arts
degree from the University of Notre
Dame in 1930.
He began his training for the priesthood
at Moreau Seminary at Notre Dame in
1943. He attended Holy Cross College
in Washington from 1944 to 1947 and
Mount St. Mary Seminary of the West
in Norwood in 1947 and 1948.
His address is 329 Carnegie Place,
Pittsburgh 15208-2707.
The church’s RCIA activities, led by
family life coordinator Judy Harness,
take place in conjunction with a series called Catholicism 101, presented
by the church’s pastor, Father William
Hahn, which covers a different aspect
of the Catholic faith weekly throughout
the school year.
Jenny French’s husband, Bob, is part
of the parish’s St. Vincent de Paul Society. He said the organization collected
more than $25,000 for the scal year
which ended Sept. 30.
One of the most distinctive events at
St. Peter’s is its annual dinner theater,
which serves as a combined fund-raiser for the parish and Chillicothe Civic
Theater. This year’s play was “The
Boys Next Door,” about a group of
mentally challenged adults living in a
group home.
Sister Mary Peter said the parish’s card
parties are similar to the dinner theater
in drawing an ecumenical audience.
“They’re a good way for older people
to catch up with each other,” she said.
“They don’t make a lot of money, but
they do provide a lot of enjoyment.”
This mural of Christ, his mother, and John the
Evangelist, with God the Father looking on,
was installed at Chillicothe St. Peter Church
last year by Murals by Jericho of Peoria, Ill.
CT photo by Tim Puet
14 Catholic Times
October 25, 2009
Catholic Times 15
October 25, 2009
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle B)
The blind man and the rich man: Who sees more?
Father
Lawrence L. Hummer
Jeremiah 31:7-9
Hebrews 5:1-6
Mark 10:46-52
The gospel passage is the
beginning of the end of the
journey of Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem, the city
of destiny.
Appropriately, it takes
place as Jesus is leaving
Jericho on his way up to
Jerusalem, a journey of
about 18 miles. It would
have been the last pilgrim
stop before the nal big
push to Jerusalem.
The “sizable crowd” in
his company were, no
doubt, other pilgrims on
the way to Jerusalem for
the pending celebration of
the feast of Passover.
One of the xtures at ancient city gates in the Near
East was the presence of
those who had to beg alms,
especially the blind and the
lame. It is thus quite normal
to nd our beggar, Barti-
maeus, there.
Upon hearing that it is “Jesus of Nazareth” passing
by, Bartimaeus, the son of
Timaeus, calls out to “Jesus,
Son of David” for mercy.
The “many” who rebuke
him and try to shut him
up are not specied, so we
don’t know who they were,
nor why they would have
tried to silence the man.
In Mark, he is the only
one who calls Jesus “son of
David.”
The action comes in short
bursts. “Jesus, stopping, said
‘Call him.’” So they say to
the blind man in four Greek
words: “Take courage, get
up, he is calling you.”
The action continues as
he throws off his cloak
(likely what he had in his
lap, containing whatever
alms he had been able to
beg), and then, leaping up,
comes to Jesus.
Here we have a subtle, but
dramatic contrast with the
man of many possessions
who came to Jesus looking
for a way to guarantee his
inheritance of eternal life,
mentioned in the Gospel
two weeks ago.
There, the man could not
part with his many possessions, the one thing which
would have guaranteed him
what he sought.
Here we have a blind beggar who, once he is called by
Jesus, throws away everything he had received while
begging when he throws off
his cloak.
He springs up to come
to Jesus, because Jesus
has called him. In further
contrast, Jesus asks Bartimaeus what he wants Jesus to do for him, whereas
the rich man had come to
Jesus asking Jesus to offer
him a sure way of inheriting eternal life.
Bartimaeus asks simply
and literally, “Lord, that I
may see,” but he does so
only after Jesus asks him
what he wants.
The blind man sees more
clearly than the man with
many possessions ever
would, and for this reason,
Jesus acknowledges that
“your faith has saved you.”
With that, the man receives
his sight and does precisely
The Weekday
Bible Readings
what the man with many
possessions would not do: he
follows Jesus “on the way!”
Whether he did so as a disciple or not is debated, but
the context certainly suggests that is what Mark intended.
By throwing aside his
cloak and leaping up, he rids
himself of all the alms he
had received (meaning all
or most of his possessions)
for the chance to “see” Jesus, the Son of David, as he
had shouted.
His actions quite clearly
demonstrate that he already
“sees” more than most, and
certainly more than the
man who wanted to know
what he had to do to inherit
eternal life.
This man “sees” with the
eyes of faith, and once he
sees, he acts, giving away all
of his possessions (symbolized by the cloak he throws
away) and becomes a disciple of Jesus. Would that we
all could see with the eyes
of faith, like the blind beggar Bartimaeus!
MONDAY
Romans 8:12-17
Psalm 68:2,4,6-7,20-21
Luke 13:10-17
TUESDAY
Romans 8:18-25
Psalm 126:1-6
Luke 13:18-21
WEDNESDAY
Ephesians 2:19-22
Psalm 19:2-5
Luke 6:12-16
THURSDAY
Romans 8:31b-39
Psalm 109:21-22,26-27
Luke 13:31-35
FRIDAY
Romans 9:1-5
Psalm 147:12-15,19-20
Luke 14:1-6
SATURDAY
Romans 11:1-2a,11-12,25-29
Psalm 94:12-13a,14-15,17-18
Luke 14:1,7-11
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St. Mary, can be reached
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promised “change” and
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Still, it seems reasonably
clear what the Norwegians imagine that content to be.
The world of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
is one in which conict
is born from misunderstanding rather than from
a clash of interests; thus
diplomacy is a therapeutic exercise in which
soothing words make
for peace. The notion
that “peace” might have
something to do with creating structures by which
conict is resolved politically—which informed
the award of the Peace
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THE CATHOLIC
DIFFERENCE
George Weigel
failed multilateral institution like the International
Atomic Energy Agency).
Once upon a time, the
Norwegian Nobel Committee also understood
the linkage between human rights and peace;
hence the award of the
Nobel Peace Prize to heroes like Andrei Sakharov
and Lech Walesa, who
resisted the communist
colossus with the power
of moral truth. But that
commitment to human
rights seems to have become a thing of the past,
too. Did the Norwegians
know that, a few days before this year’s prize was
announced, their 2009
awardee had stiffed their
1989 awardee, the Dalai
Lama, declining to re-
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor
268-3834
The Jessing Center
The Norwegian Nobel
Committee looked in the
mirror, saw the president
of the United States, and
awarded the 2009 Nobel
Peace Prize to Barack
Obama. One is tempted
to vary Rainer Maria Rilke (“Love consists in this,
that two solitudes protect
and touch and greet each
other”) and suggest that
this was the meeting of
two narcissisms. But
that, as the late Richard
Milhous Nixon might
have said, would be
wrong. The Norwegian
Nobel Committee is sufciently enamored of its
own moral superiority to
ascribe its self-regarding
virtues to any nominee it
wishes—particularly one
who will help it og the
political corpse of George
W. Bush (see “Gore, Al”
and “Carter, Jimmy”).
The astonishing announcement of the Peace
Prize—which surprised
the president and may
have caused him a moment’s embarrassment—
was a matter of the Scan-
I very much enjoy the individual
biographies of the various priests
in our diocese. At my age, I can
appreciate their dedication; if I was
a young man and read this, it might
be a bit of inspiration to consider
the priesthood. I hope you have
plans to continue these articles for
the next year at least. I think they
are wonderful. I was so intrigued
with the article on Msgr. Wolf that
ceive the nonviolent Tibetan leader at the White
House for fear of aggravating a Chinese government that proclaims
“human rights” a western
imperialist imposition?
Would it have mattered if
they did?
The Norwegian Nobel Committee imagines
that the president shares
its worldview and, as
one of its members said,
it wanted to encourage
Obama on his chosen
path. But what if the path
of “hope” and “change”
turns out to be a snare
and a delusion, because
those to be appeased are
unappeasable? Suppose
the path the Norwegian
Nobel Committee wishes the president to fol-
low leads to a revival of
al-Qaeda terrorism and
a nuclear-armed Iran?
What if diplomacy-astherapy leads, not only
to a nuclear armed Iran,
but to a nuclear-armed
Egypt, a nuclear-armed
Saudi Arabia, nucleararmed Gulf states—and
a devastating nuclear
war in the Middle East?
Is that the path of moral
rectitude and political
wisdom? What will the
Norwegian Nobel Committee see when it looks
in the mirror the day after
Tel Aviv, or Jerusalem,
or Tehran, or Mecca, or
Cairo, or Riyadh (or all
of the above) is a smoldering, radioactive ruin?
The president has a
golden opportunity to
do something about this
dangerous and willful
Euro-naivete when he
accepts the 2009 Nobel
Peace Prize in December.
He could accept it in the
name of a United States
committed to global leadership of the sort that
saved Europe from its fol-
lies three times in the 20th
century. He could use the
global bully pulpit to tell
President Ahmadinejad
and the mullahs of Iran
that their vicious regime
will not be permitted to
acquire a nuclear weapons capability. He could
call on the Chinese government, and tinpot dictators like Venezuela’s
Hugo Chavez, to recognize that there is no peace
without human rights.
If he does, the Norwegian Nobel Committee
may well faint en masse;
but the president will
have taken a giant step
toward earning his Peace
Prize.
CORRECTION: A previous column referred to
the “Franciscan Friars
of the Atonement” rather
than the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. My
apologies.
George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and
Public Policy Center in
Washington, D.C.
• • •
I tracked down his book, Cathedral Days, ( a little bit of a challenge, but my local public library
was able to obtain it on interlibrary
loan from the Josephinum). The
increasing focus on the Church
in our local diocese is a good direction for the Catholic Times, if
that in fact is a goal. Keep up the
good work.
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Pray for our dead
ALEXANDER, Janet, 51, Oct. 15
Church of the Resurrection, New Albany
POWERS, Wade, 80, Oct. 12
St. Francis de Sales Church, Newark
CASEY, John J., 50, Oct. 13
St. Andrew Church, Columbus
SAYER, Theodore J. Jr., 80, Oct. 16
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Grove City
DAVIS-STEWART, Meghan G., 25, Oct. 11
St. Nicholas Church, Zanesville
SMOLAK, Norma J., 83, Oct. 12
Immaculate Conception Church, Dennison
DeCENZO, Ramon L., 79, Oct. 13
Sacred Heart Church, Coshocton
SYNAN, Clara D., 95, Oct. 7
St. Nicholas Church, Zanesville
EBERSBACH, Gertrude E., 88, Oct. 13
St. Nicholas Church, Zanesville
THOMAS, Pamela K., 67, Oct. 9
St. Aloysius Church, Columbus
GILMORE, Carole, 78, Oct. 14
Holy Spirit Church, Columbus
TOOPES, Robert W., 52, Oct. 16
St. Matthew Church, Gahanna
GOVONI, August V. “Gus,” 2, Oct. 14
St. John Neumann Church, Sunbury
WARD, Esther M., 92, Oct. 16
Holy Family Church, Columbus
HEITZ, Virginia D., 88, Oct. 14
St. Paul Church, Westerville
WARNER, Vivian E., 91, Oct. 14
St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Zanesville
HOFFMAN, Lavada L., 74, Oct. 15
St. Mary Church, Waverly
WENDELKEN, Kathryn B., 91, Oct. 12
St. Brendan Church, Hilliard
McCARTHY, Samantha J., 11, Oct. 15
Our Lady of Peace Church, Columbus
MORGAN, Franklin D., 76, Sept. 19
St. Sylvester Church, Zaleski
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The Sunday Mass with the Passionist
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The televised Sunday Mass also can be
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(Hardin County), at: 10 a.m.
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in Birmingham, Ala.
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FALL/WINTER HELP
clean leaves, plantings and
snow removal
German Village & East Columbus
Call 614-783-9649
OCTOBER
23-24, FRIDAY-SATURDAY
Quilting Weekend at Ss. Peter and Paul Center
Ss. Peter and Paul Retreat Center, 2734 Seminary Road
S.E., Newark. Quilting weekend sponsored by Newborns
in Need. Materials and patterns will be provided. Overnight accommodations, meals available. 740-928-4246
23-25, FRIDAY-SUNDAY
Catholic History Conference at Hilton Columbus
Hilton Columbus at Easton, 3900 Chagrin Drive, Columbus. Seventh annual Deep in History conference,
sponsored by Coming Home Network International.
Theme: “Authority: The Pillar and Bulwark of Truth.”
1-800-664-5110
24, SATURDAY
Life and Mercy Mass in Plain City
9 a.m. Mass, St. Joseph Church, 140 West Ave., Plain City.
Saturday Life and Mercy Mass, followed by rosary and
confession.
614-565-8654
Catholic Social Services Make A Difference Day
9 a.m., St. Mary Church, 672 S. 3rd St., Columbus. Make
A Difference Day Ohio project sponsored by Catholic
Social Services. Participants will meet at church and be
sent to perform work at Columbus-area homes.
Scott Hahn Presentation at St. Matthew
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Activity center, St. Matthew
Church, 807 Havens Corners Road, Gahanna. Presentation on “Lord Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession” with Franciscan University of Steubenville author and teacher Scott Hahn, followed by Sacrament of
Reconciliation.
614-471-0212
Bishop Speaks on Marriage at Delaware St. Mary
7 p.m., St. Mary Church, 82 E. William St., Delaware. Bishop Frederick Campbell speaks on the nature of Christian
marriage.
740-363-4641
25, SUNDAY
St. Christopher Adult Religious Education
10 to 11:15 a.m., St. Christopher Parish Center, Trinity
School, 1420 Grandview Ave., Columbus. “Darwin’s Legacy of Controversy” with religious educator Mark Wilkins.
614-488-9971
Columbus St. John School 50th Anniversary Reunion
1 to 4 p.m., Hickory Grove shelter, Blendon Woods Metro Park, 4265 E. Dublin-Granville Road, Westerville. 50th
anniversary reunion for Columbus St. John Elementary
School classes of 1958 and 1959.
614-235-7465
Opening Reception for de Porres Center Exhibit
2 to 3 p.m., Martin de Porres Center, 2330 Airport Drive,
Columbus. Opening reception for “Spirits Rising IV: The
Art of Bing and Derrick Davis,” followed from 3 to 4 by
slide/lecture presentation “On the Shoulders of Ancestors” with Willis “Bing” Davis. Exhibit continues through
Dec. 14.
614-416-1910
St. Padre Pio Secular Franciscans
2:30 to 5 p.m., Parish center, Holy Family Church, 584
W. Broad St., Columbus. Franciscan Crown Rosary and
Chaplet of Divine Mercy, followed by Evening Prayer,
meeting and formation.
Cookie
614-275-4960
St. Paul’s Outreach Banquet with Bishop Campbell
5 to 7 p.m., Walter Commons, St. Charles Preparatory
School, 2010 E. Broad St., Columbus. Banquet benefit-
ing St. Paul’s Outreach for college students; keynote by
Bishop Frederick Campbell.
614-324-2440
26, MONDAY
Bethesda Post-Abortion Healing Ministry
6:30 p.m., support group meeting, 2744 Dover Road,
(Christ the King Church campus), Columbus.
614-718-0277, 614-309-2651, 614-309-0157
Our Lady of Peace Men’s Bible Study
7 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Church, 20 E. Dominion Blvd.,
Columbus. Bible study of Sunday Scripture readings.
614-459-2766
28, WEDNESDAY
Dedication of New Addition at Villas of St. Therese
11 a.m., Villas of St. Therese Assisted Living, 25 NoeBixby Road, Columbus. Dedication and blessing of new
eight-room addition, with Bishop Frederick Campbell.
614-864-3576
Ohio Dominican Master’s Degree Information Session
6 to 7:30 p.m., Room 274, Griffin Student Center, Ohio
Dominican University, 1216 Sunbury Road, Columbus.
Information session for people interested in university’s master of arts degree program in theology.
614-251-4725
Fairfield-Hocking Serra Club Meeting
7 p.m., Spirit Center, behind St. Mary Church, Lancaster.
Fairfield-Hocking Serra Club meeting with two sisters
from the Carmelites of the Most Sacred Heart in Los
Angeles, who will be in the Columbus area to conduct a
discernment retreat for young women. 740-653-7789
‘Passing On the Faith’ At DeSales
7 to 9 p.m., St. Francis DeSales High School, 4212 Karl
Road, Columbus. “Home Grown Faith,” part 2 of “Passing
On the Faith” series for parents about encouraging spirituality in children.
614-267-7808
Charismatic Mass at St. John Neumann
7:30 p.m., St. John Neumann Church, 9633 East State
Route 37, Sunbury. Mass sponsored by Columbus Catholic Charismatic Renewal, celebrated by Father David
Sizemore. preceded by rosary at 6 and praise and worship at 6:30.
29, THURSDAY
Day of Reflection on Church Issues at Maria Stein
10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Spiritual Center of Maria Stein, 2365
St. Johns Road, Maria Stein. “What’s Going On with the
Church?”, a day of reflection on Church issues with Father Jim Dugal. Registration deadline Oct. 23.
419-925-7625
30-NOV. 1, FRIDAY-SUNDAY
Women’s Retreat Weekend at St. Therese’s
St. Therese’s Retreat Center, 5277 E. Broad St., Columbus. Women’s spiritual retreat weekend sponsored by
Pickerington St. Elizabeth Seton Parish spiritual life
commission, led by Judith Dunlap and the St. Francis of
Assisi retreat team. Theme: “Listening for God’s Word.”
614-833-0980
31, SATURDAY
Life and Mercy Mass in Plain City
9 a.m. Mass, St. Joseph Church, 140 West Ave., Plain City.
Saturday Life and Mercy Mass, followed by rosary and
confession.
614-565-8654
DCCW Conference at St. Thomas Aquinas
9 a.m. to 3 p.m., St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 144 N. 5th
St., Zanesville. 64th annual Diocesan Council of Catholic Women convention, with keynote speech by Marcus
Grodi of Coming Home Network International and 11
a.m. Mass, celebrated by Bishop Frederick Campbell.
614-228-8601
Community Health Fair at DeSales
10 a.m. to 2 p.m., St. Francis DeSales High School, 4212
Karl Road, Columbus. Community health fair sponsored
by Northland Columbus Deanery and Mount Carmel
Health church partnerships program. Blood sugar, blood
pressure, bone density, vision screenings available. Free
flu shots to those who register by Oct. 27.
614-546-4974
‘Knit-In’ at Church of the Resurrection
11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Church of the Resurrection, 6300 E.
Dublin-Granville Road, New Albany. ‘Knit-In’ to make
slippers for Bryden House, which serves the elderly,
the homeless, the physically challenged, and people
in recovery programs. Bring a brown-bag lunch. Dessert, refreshments available. Beginners welcome. Bring
knitting needles or a crochet hook to learn the basics.
614-342-6003
NOVEMBER
1, SUNDAY
St. Christopher Adult Religious Education
10 to 11:15 a.m., St. Christopher Parish Center, Trinity
School, 1420 Grandview Ave., Columbus. “Famous Catholic Converts” with catechist Barbara Fink.
614-488-9971
Bilingual Mass at Columbus St. Peter
7 p.m., St. Peter Church, 6899 Smoky Row Road, Columbus. Bilingual (Spanish and English) Mass celebrated by
Father Fritzner Valcin.
614-378-8179
Compline at Cathedral
9 p.m., St. Joseph Cathedral, 212 E. Broad St., Columbus.
Chanting of Compline.
614-241-2526
2, MONDAY
Dedication of Addition at Bishop Watterson
10:15 a.m., Bishop Watterson High School, 99 E. Cooke
Road, Columbus. All-school Mass and dedication of
school’s south addition, with Bishop Frederick Campbell.
614-268-8671
Marian Prayer Group
7 p.m. Mass, St. Patrick Church, 280 N. Grant Ave., Columbus. Celebrated by Father Andre LaCasse, OP.
614-235-7435
3, TUESDAY
Catholic War Veterans Monthly Meeting
7:30 p.m., American Legion Post 239, 708 Morning St.,
Worthington. Catholic War Veterans Post 1936 meeting.
For those who served three or more months, were honorably discharged or are on active duty. 614-221-7601
4, WEDNESDAY
Watterson Alumni Mothers Fall Dinner
7 p.m., Brookside Country Club, 2770 W. Dublin-Granville Road, Columbus. Annual fall dinner sponsored by
Columbus Bishop Watterson High School Mothers of
Alumni.
614-268-8671
5-6, THURSDAY-FRIDAY
All-Ohio Priests Convocation on Marriage
Hyatt Regency Hotel, 350 N. High St., Columbus. All-Ohio
Priests Convocation on Marriage, with keynote speech
by Louisville, Ky., Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, chairman of
the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ subcommittee
on marriage and family life, discussing the conference’s
National Pastoral Initiative for Marriage.
Open House at St. Joseph Montessori School
5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, St. Joseph Montessori School, 933 Hamlet St., Columbus. Open house
for prospective pre-kindergarten through eighth grade
students, with classroom observation Friday.
614-291-8601
6, FRIDAY
St. Cecilia Adoration of Blessed Sacrament
St. Cecilia Church, 434 Norton Road, Columbus. Begins
after 8:15 a.m. Mass, continues to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Monthly Adoration of Blessed Sacrament
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church, 5225 Refugee Road, Columbus. Begins after 9 a.m. Mass; continues
through 6 p.m. Holy Hour.
All-Night Eucharistic Vigil
Holy Cross Church, 205 S. 5th St., Columbus. 7:30 p.m.
Mass; Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament; prayer until
11:30 p.m.; private prayer until 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
All-Night Exposition at Our Lady of Victory
Our Lady of Victory Church, 1559 Roxbury Road, Columbus. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 9 p.m. until Mass at 7 a.m. Saturday, sponsored by church’s Knights
of Columbus council and Serra Club of Columbus.
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Catholic Times 19
October 25, 2009
A man arranges the owers placed on Peru’s most revered
religious icon, the Lord of the Miracles, during a procession
through central Lima Oct. 18. Each year thousands of
Catholics in Lima commemorate the image’s survival in a
17th-century earthquake that destroyed Lima
ART
focus on
CNS photo/Enrique Castro-Mendivil, Reuters
Martin de porres art exhibit
News in photos from
around the World
SPIRITS RISING IV:
The Art of Bing and Derrick Davis
The Martin de Porres Center
will hold an opening reception for an art exhibit titled
“Spirits Rising IV: The Art of
Bing and Derrick Davis,” on
Sunday, Oct. 25, from 2 to 3
p.m. After the reception, Willis “Bing” Davis will offer a
slide/lecture presentation, “On
the Shoulders of Ancestors,”
from 3 to 4 p.m., tracing the
artistic and cultural development of a visual artist who
blends his urban experience
with his African heritage to
create an artistic vision.
Willis “Bing” Davis has a
long and distinguished career
as an Ohio artist, educator, and
curator of exhibits throughout
the United States and abroad.
He has taught in the Dayton
public schools, at DePauw
University, Miami University,
and Central State University
in Wilberforce. His art can
be found in public and private
collections in the U.S., England, China, Japan, France,
Australia, Senegal, Ghana, Ni-
geria, Namibia, and Gabon. In
2001, he received the Ohioana
Pegasus Award, in 2008 the
Martin Luther King Jr. National Service Award, and in 2009,
an Ohio Governor’s Award for
the Arts.
Derrick Davis grew up around
art and artists in his parents’
home in Dayton, but majored
in communications with a focus in radio and television at
Central State University, leading to his rst career as a broadcast technician at WOSU-TV
in Columbus and Fox 45 TV in
Dayton. In 2006, Derrick made
the commitment to develop his
visual arts ability. He has been
exhibiting alone and alongside
his father since 2007. Both artists draw inspiration from African textiles and fabrics.
Even though the reception and
program are free, the center
will appreciate a call for reservations at (614) 416-1910. The
exhibit will remain open by appointment through Dec. 14.
ODU wehrle art gallery exhibit
DREAMERS OF THE DAY: Images from Ohio Dominican University Study Abroad in Egypt
The new exhibit at Ohio Dominican University’s Wehrle Art Gallery, “Dreamers of the Day: Images from the Ohio Dominican
University Study Abroad in Egypt,” will be displayed from Oct.
21 through Dec. 6. An opening reception was held on Wednesday, Oct. 21, from noon to 2 p.m. ODU faculty and students read
poems inspired by their trip during the event. The Wehrle Gallery
is located in Wehrle Hall on ODU’s main campus (1216 Sunbury
Road) and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Admission is free.
This exhibition was inspired by an ODU study-abroad trip to
Egypt last May which included a guided tour through most of the
ancient Egyptian wonders and a chance to experience the growing
modern country. ODU professor and Wehrle Art Gallery director
Janette Knowles organized the trip with assistance from ODU professors Jeremy Glazier and Jessica Larva. Together, they helped
the students learn about the art form of the ancient Egyptians’ tomb
and temple constructions. The excursion started out with a stay in
Cairo, then a ight down to Luxor, where they boarded a cruise on
the Nile and traveled to Aswan.
Young women join a protest against a proposal to change
Spain’s abortion laws during a march through Madrid Oct.17.
Spain’s Catholic bishops are urging church members to
protest abortion legislation that would allow girls as young
as 16 to terminate pregnancies without parental consent. The
sign reads “No more punishment to innocent people”
CNS photo/Dani Cardona, Reuters
Luisa Chaponan joins an immigration rally in front of the U.S.
Capitol in Washington Oct. 13. Thousands of people came to
Capitol Hill for a day of lobbying and an afternoon rally
calling for comprehensive immigration reform
CNS photo/Bob Roller
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October 25, 2009
Your Catholic Cemeteries Invite You to Prayer Services for Your Deceased as a
Complement to the Feasts of All Saints Day and All Souls Day...
CEMETERY SUNDAY
November 1, 2009
ST. JOSEPH
OUR MOTHER OF SORROWS CHAPEL
2:00 p.m. Prayer Service
6440 S. High St./U.S. Rt. 23 S.
Lockbourne, Ohio 43137
614-491-2751
Deacon Stephen Venturini
Church of Our Lady
of the Miraculous Medal
MT. CALVARY CEMETERY
PRIEST CIRCLE
2:00 p.m. Benediction
Mt. Calvary at W. Mound St.
Columbus, Ohio 43223
614-491-2751
Fr. Kevin Lutz
Pastor
Holy Family Church
HOLY CROSS CEMETERY
CHAPEL MAUSOLEUM
2:00 p.m. Prayer Service
11539 National Rd. S.W./U.S. 40 Rt. E.
Pataskala, Ohio 43062
740-927-4442
Msgr. David Funk
Pastor
St. Pius X.
RESURRECTION CEMETERY
CHAPEL MAUSOLEUM
2:00 p.m. Prayer Service
9571 N. High St./U.S. Rt. 23 N.
Lewis Center, Ohio 43035
614-888-1805
Fr. James Smith
Pastor
St. Matthias Church
Special Sunday Ofce Hours
St. Joseph Cemetery — Noon to 4 p.m.
Resurrection Cemetery — Noon to 4 p.m.
Holy Cross Cemetery — Noon to 4 p.m.