The DIOCESAN Chronicle

The DIOCESAN Chronicle
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News of the Diocese of Baker
February 21, 2016
Volume 7, Number 4
Parish News: Holy Family Icon
Parish News:
at St Francis in Bend
New Stain Glass Window
at St. John, Condon
The Icon of the Holy Family sponsored
by the Knights of Columbus was
displayed at St Francis of Assisi Parish
between January 30 and February 7.
The Holy Family Prayer Program is the 17th Marian
Prayer Program sponsored by the Knights of Columbus,
beginning with the first program, honoring Mary under
her title of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in 1979. In
preparation for the 1982 Centennial of the Order, the
second prayer program was initiated, which highlighted
the Holy Family. Since then, the Blessed Mother has
been honored by her Knights under her titles of Our
Lady of Perpetual Help, Our Lady of Czestochowa, Our
Lady of Pochaiv, Our Lady of the Assumption, Our Lady
of the Rosary and Our Lady of Charity.
These Order-wide
programs of Marian
Prayer have gathered
together more than
16 million people at
some 140,000 prayer
services conducted at
local councils and
parishes. Parishioners
at St Francis had the
opportunity to pray
in front of this image of the Holy Family. It was displayed
at the weekend Masses and at the Holy Hour and
Adoration during the week at the historic church.
We thank the Knights of Columbus for bringing the
image to us. — Fr. Julian Cassar, Pastor
The Traditional Latin Mass in Bend
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David Michael Jones, a
Physicians Assistant who lived
in and served the Condon
community for about 38 years,
passed away in January of
2015. Dave was well loved in
Condon and was affectionately known as “Dr. Dave”.
One of Dave’s hobbies was to work on the stained glass
windows for St. John’s Church. His wife, Karen, was a
member of the parish, but Dave was not. Anyway, there
was this running joke between us of who would design
and make a window for the Chapel. I kept telling Dave
that since he had helped with the other windows, he
should be the one to make that window, and he kept
saying, “No, you should,” referring to me. So this was
our debate. The morning of his funeral Mass, I received
an email from his son, Tucker, and all it said was
“Dad wins.”
Sue Miller and Kathy Burres, parishioners of St.
John, paid for the material, the Men’s Breakfast Club
paid for the frame, and I designed and made the window.
Within the next few weeks I hope to have a Caduceus
(the medical symbol with the wings, snakes, etc.) made
and attached to the lower left side of the window.
—Fr. John McGuire, Temporary Administrator at St. John
Illuminating our Parishes
Blessed Sacrament in Ontario was founded in 1911
and is located in the eastern deanery. The parish has
680 registered families. St. Peter Catholic School was
founded in 1979 and has 68 students attending.
The Extraordinary Form (Latin) Mass
will be offered every other weekend at
St. Francis of Assisi Historic Church on:
February 21 2:15 p.m. High Mass (Sung)
March 06 2:15 p.m. Low Mass
March 20 2:15 p.m. High Mass (Sung)
Save the Date Correction:
In the last issue of this newsletter, under the
Diocesan Events Schedule, we listed the incorrect date for
the NW Catholic Men’s Conference in Pendleton. Please
note that the correct dates are February 26-27, 2016.
Fr. Jose
Mudakoyidil
Pastor
Fr. Christie
Tissera
Associate
Pastor
Thoughts Along the Way
Bishop Liam Cary
School of Mercy
“There is a time for everything under heaven,”
Scripture says—a time to give and a time to receive, a time
to be merciful to others and a time to seek mercy for
ourselves. For every charitable interaction is two-sided: a
giver hands over the bread of compassion to a receiver
who feeds on it. From one day to the next both roles in
this decisive drama are yours and mine to play, so we need
to learn to tell time: when to give mercy and when to
receive it.
Mercy meets misery, and misery is two-sided as well.
There is no mistaking the toll it takes on a contorted body
in a sick bed or on an unsheltered sleeper in the street.
But this outer corporeal side of misery all too often veils an
inner spiritual side as well: a mind abandoned by peace, a
soul shattered by loss, a heart broken by betrayal.
This miserable state of ours is precisely what Divine
Mercy comes to touch and transform in Jesus Christ. His
saving Gospel provokes us to recognize human misery for
what it is, from the inside out. The more honestly I
acknowledge my own misery from within, the more clearly
I will see how much I need mercy from without—from the
God Who saves me, from His children who console me.
We will more convincingly impart mercy to the
miserable if we have first discovered what surprising
things can happen when we bring our misery to the
merciful. One day years before I became a priest, my
pastor treated me with great compassion in the
confessional. As I stepped out, I said to myself, “It would
be worth paying whatever it costs to be able to give just
one other person the peace of soul that has just been
given to me.” I’ve never forgotten that moment—and the
desire it gave birth to.
“It begins with your family / and soon it comes
‘round to your soul,” the poet Leonard Cohen sings. The
family is our first and best school of mercy because it is
there that we learn the earliest and longest-lasting lessons
of how mercy works. At home growing up, in the normal
course of an ordinary day, we saw the hungry fed, the
naked clothed, the lonely comforted, the sinner
admonished, the ignorant instructed, the sick cared for,
the offender forgiven. Without the works of mercy, which
of our families would make it through a week? We don’t
usually think in such terms, of course, because, growing
up, the fed and clothed and comforted were none other
than our brothers, our sisters, and ourselves. We have
been on the receiving end of mercy since our mother first
drew us to her breast.
“It begins with your family / and soon it comes
‘round to your soul.” Marriage and mercy go together
inseparably in God’s saving design for our happiness. A
man and a woman widen the embrace of their one-flesh
union to include the children God gives them to be
schooled in compassion, so they can apply lessons of
mercy learned in family life to social and civic life as well.
For our redemption hinges on the spread of the corporal
and spiritual works of mercy from the heart of the family
to the darkest corners of an uncomprehending world.
Pensamientos Del Camino
Obispo Liam Cary
Escuela de Misericordia
“Hay un tiempo para cada cosa bajo el cielo”, dice la
Escritura—un tiempo para dar y un tiempo para recibir,
un tiempo para ser misericordioso y un tiempo para
buscar misericordia. Porque cada interacción benéfica
tiene dos lados: el dador entrega el pan de compasión a
un receptor que se alimenta de ella. Ambos papeles en
este drama decisivo, son los suyos y los míos para jugar.
Por lo tanto necesitamos aprender a decir la hora: cuando
dar misericordia y cuando recibirla.
La misericordia se encuentra con la miseria, y la
miseria también tiene dos lados. No es difícil reconocerla
en los cuerpos contorsionados de un enfermo en el lecho
o de un durmiente en la calle. Pero este lado corporal
externo de la miseria con demasiada frecuencia oculta un
lado espiritual interior también: una mente abandonada
por la paz, un alma destrozada por la pérdida, un
corazón roto por la traición.
Este estado miserable nuestro es precisamente lo que
la Divina Misericordia viene a tocar y transformar en
Jesucristo. Su Evangelio salvador nos provoca reconocer la
miseria humana por lo que es, de adentro hacia afuera.
Lo más honestamente que yo reconozca mi propia
miseria desde adentro, lo más claro que podré ver lo
mucho que necesito la misericordia desde afuera—del
Dios Que me salva, de Sus hijos que me consuelan.
Impartiremos la misericordia más efectivamente a
los miserables si primero descubrimos las cosas
sorprendentes que pueden suceder cuando traemos
nuestra miseria a los misericordiosos. Un día, años antes
de hacerme sacerdote, mi párroco me trató con gran
compasión en el confesionario. Al salir, me dije a mi
mismo, “Valdría la pena pagar cuanto costara para poder
darle a una sola persona la paz del alma que acaba de ser
dada a mi”. Nunca he olvidado ese momento—y el deseo
al que dio a luz.
“Comienza con tu familia / y pronto se regresa de
vuelta a tu alma”, canta el poeta Leonard Cohen. La
familia es nuestra primera y mejor escuela de misericordia
porque es allí que aprendemos las lecciones mas
tempranas y mas duraderas de cómo trabaja la
misericordia. Creciendo en casa, en el curso normal de un
día ordinario, vimos que se le daba de comer al
hambriento, vestimenta al desnudo, consuelo al afligido,
cuidado al enfermo, perdón al transgresor. Sin las obras
de misericordia, ¿cuales de nuestras familias habrían
superado la semana? Usualmente no pensamos en esos
términos, por supuesto, porque, creciendo, los
alimentados y vestidos y consolados no eran otros que
nuestros hermanos, nuestras hermanas, y nosotros
mismos. Hemos estado al lado del receptor de la
misericordia ya que nuestra madre nos llamó por primera
vez a su pecho.
“Comienza con tu familia / y pronto se regresa de
vuelta a tu alma”. El matrimonio y la misericordia van
juntos inseparablemente en el diseño salvador de Dios
para nuestra felicidad. Un hombre y una mujer extienden
el abrazo de su unión de una sola carne para incluir a los
hijos que Dios les de para ser educados en la compasión,
para que puedan aplicar las lecciones aprendidas de la
misericordia en la vida familiar a la vida social y cívica
también. Porque nuestra redención depende de la
difusión de las obras corporales y espirituales de
misericordia desde el corazón de la familia hacía los
rincones más oscuros de un mundo desconociente.
Vocation Discernment
“Today the word of God speaks to us of mission.
Where does mission originate? The answer is simple: it
originates from a call, the Lord’s call, and when he calls
people, he does so with a view to sending them out. . . .
The spread of the Gospel is not guaranteed either by the
number of persons, or by the prestige of the institution,
or by the quantity of available resources. What counts is
to be permeated by the love of Christ, to let oneself be
led by the Holy Spirit and to graft one’s own life onto
the tree of life, which is the Lord’s Cross.”
— Pope Francis, Homily at Holy Mass with Seminarians,
novices, and those discerning their vocation at the Vatican
Basilica, Sunday, 7 July 2013
We are pleased to present the sixth
Vocation story in the series of our Clergy
testimonials. To read about other priests in
our diocese, please go to the diocesan
website and visit the Clergy page or the
Vocation page for a link.
My name is Father Ildefonce Mapara, OSB, a
Benedictine monk from Tanzania. I live in Klamath Falls
at St. Pius X Catholic Church. I am in residence and do
travel in different places in the country to seek funds for
social projects in southern Tanzania. I am pleased to share
with you my vocation story. I was born on 15th of July
1960 in southern Tanzania. I joined monastic life in 1987
and was ordained a priest on June 29th, 2000. Since I was
about 10 years old I thought about being a priest. No one
ever directly or indirectly asked me about becoming a
priest. I had seen the missionary priests from Germany
and thought it would be a good thing to be saying Mass
for the people. But that was a child’s way of thinking. I
did not know what was to come with that kind of a
calling. As I went to school I was able to learn more about
our Catholic faith. I had a very good catechist who taught
catechism and Bible stories, a summary of the major
events in the Bible. It was really an eye opening
experience regarding the Catholic faith and its traditions.
My dad was a very devoted Catholic and never missed
Sunday Mass unless he was sick. This, too, had an impact
in my life. It really imprinted in my mind the importance
of doing what is supposed to be done by a believer.
As my history was continuing to be unveiled I ended
up going to a High School run by Benedictines. Seeing
their lives I was attracted to them. But also during this
time I could think a little more maturely and tried to
decide who I wanted to be - a monk priest or get married.
The gospel of Matthew in which Jesus condemns those
that did not attend the needy persons kind of pushed me
to choose life that will make me always aware of my
obligation as a believer. So I came to a conclusion that
monastic life or priesthood will put me in an
environment that I will always be aware of my faith and
live it. Today I think this was and is a sound reason to be
a monk and a priest. I have the opportunity of saying
Mass every day. I have to say my prayers every day. The
schedule at the abbey is designed in a way that the whole
day is centered around praying: in the morning (vigils and
lauds), midday (midday prayer), late afternoon (vespers)
and before going to bed (compline) plus many other
spiritual exercises like meditation and retreats.
When I look back now I see how my vocation to
priesthood and religious life was fostered early on during
my childhood and as I was growing. I really see God’s
marvelous deeds through my dad and the exuberant
catechist. Indeed I am thankful to God for the vocation
He has given to me.
— Fr. Ildefonce Mapara, OSB
Order of Saint Benedict
Bishop Cary’s Schedule
February
21 Rite of Election, St. Francis de Sales
Cathedral, Baker City
February 26-27 NW Catholic Men’s Conf., Pendleton
February
28 Meet with confirmandi in The Dalles
February
29 Convocation at legislature in Salem
March
2 Seminary Evaluations, Mt. Angel
March
3 Meet with confirmandi in Prineville
March
5-6 Knights of Columbus Retreat, Powell Butte
Diocese of Baker to Launch New Radio Station KFDS
The Power of Catholic Radio
Tom Monaghan, founder and chairman of Legatus
Magazine, writes that Catholic radio has the power to
move hearts and save souls . . . “I believe that Catholic
radio is a major reason why the faith is rebounding in the
United States. Many converts tell me that Catholic radio
was the reason they became Catholic.”
Catholic presence on the airwaves has been steadily
increasing in recent years and the Diocese of Baker has
been presented with a unique opportunity to grow
that presence here in Bend. Early last year, St. Francis
of Assisi parishioner, Clayton Beck, presented a plan
to Bishop Liam Cary and Barry Metzentine, Director
of Evangelization and Catechesis, to bring a New
Evangelization initiative to Central Oregon—a Catholic
Radio Station—in the most cost-effective way to reach
thousands of souls.
“From the moment that Clayton presented the idea
of launching a Catholic radio station in the Diocese of
Baker the means to accomplish it has manifested every
step of the way” says Barry Metzentine. “Clayton has been
instrumental in leading this initiative over the past 18
months.” Indeed, many individuals have contributed
their time, talent and money to make this a reality:
 Rod Fazzari, owner of KHSS 100.7 FM Catholic
Radio in Walla Walla, WA, paid for the initial FCC
filing fees and provided expert guidance.
 Dennis J. Kelly, attorney, provided Pro-bono legal
services for the FCC application.
 Stephen Gajdosik, President of Catholic Radio
Association, for guidance throughout the process.
 Dan Beougher, Bob Borlen, James Strelchun and
Rick Wyman, all parishioners of St. Francis in Bend,
have contributed a significant amount of time and
resources (administrative and technical expertise) to a
successful installation of equipment and securement
of necessary local filing and permits in the final stages.
The antenna is installed
in the south steeple of
St. Francis of Assisi
historic church.
An equipment rack is in
the choir loft.
The call letters KFDS represent “Francis de Sales,”
the Patron Saint of the Diocese of Baker. When the
broadcast begins (must be in operation by March 16th),
we will be streaming EWTN Catholic Radio 24 hours a
day 7 days a week on 93.5 FM. Because this is a low
power permit (LP-FM), only those in the Bend area will be
able to receive the transmission on their radio. However,
the broadcast will be available to anyone with access to
the Internet. Plans are in the works to create a webpage
for the St. Francis de Sales Catholic Radio Station—
details forthcoming.
Plans for the radio station include broadcasting
Bishop's messages, homilies, prayers, appeals, local and
diocesan events. Over time we will be developing a
program format for both English and Spanish speaking
audiences. “We see KFDS as a pilot-potential for future
diocesan stations to reach many of our parishes that
can benefit from the KFDS experience,” says Barry
Metzentine. Consider the potential:
Radio for Local Faith Community would provide
programs that will reinforce/support the faith of
Catholics by providing a sense of unity and solidarity.
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Radio for the Local Parish would enhance and
energize parish life and fellowship because it would be a
tool to announce parish events (e.g., holiday fairs,
speakers, meetings, ministry activities) as well as school
activities (e.g., meetings, auction, awards, student events).
Pastor's messages (e.g., homilies, special liturgies, appeals,
schedules) could be broadcast for those who are
homebound due to sickness or weather.
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Catholic Radio has a personal impact because it
engages the mind and heart of the individual listener and
generates conversions and vocations which is supported
by numerous testimonials. It addresses many of life’s
important questions: who we are as image and likeness of
God, how to live and share the Gospel message in our day
-to-day lives, and provides an avenue of outreach to the
lost, lonely and separated.
It is through the generous donation of a few
people that we are able to launch this Radio Station.
For those who are interested in funding our ongoing
operations, a Diocesan Radio Fund has been established
with The Legacy of Faith Catholic Community
Foundation. If you would like to contribute, please
contact Terri Isom at the Chancery Office at (541) 3884004 or [email protected] .
This is a new evangelization initiative with high goals
and expectations for the Diocese of Baker as we endeavor
to reach out to all in our communities with the good news
of Jesus Christ. St. Francis de Sales, pray for us!