June 6 2014 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg

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Catholic Witness
The
The Newspaper of the Diocese of Harrisburg
June 6, 2014
Vol 48 No. 11
Prayers for Peace in the Holy Land
By Francis X. Rocca
Catholic News Service
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CNS/PAUL HARING
Pope Francis prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem May 26. The pope stood for more than a minute and a half with his
right hand against the wall, most of the time in silent prayer, before reciting the Our Father. Then he followed custom by
leaving a written message inside a crack between two blocks.
ope Francis spent the last morning of his three-day pilgrimage to
the Holy Land meeting with Muslims
and Jews and calling for closer relations among the three major monotheistic religions as the basis for peace in
the region.
At his first appearance May 26, Pope
Francis toured the Dome of the Rock
on the Temple Mount, sacred to Muslims as the place from which Mohammed ascended to heaven, and spoke to
Muslim leaders.
Addressing his listeners as “brothers”
– rather than “friends,” as indicated in
his prepared text – the pope pointed
to Abraham as a common model for
Muslims, Jews and Christians, since he
was a pilgrim who left “his own people
and his own house in order to embark
on that spiritual journey to which God
called him.”
“We must constantly be prepared to
go out from ourselves, docile to God’s
call,” especially “his summons to work
for peace and justice, to implore these
gifts in prayer and to learn from on high
mercy, magnanimity and compassion,”
the pope said.
Pope Francis then visited the Western Wall, the only standing part of the
foundation of the Second Temple, destroyed in 70 A.D.
More PRAYERS , page 11
New Deacons Give Perfect Gift of Self
By Jen Reed
The Catholic Witness
In anticipation of their ordination to the diocesan
priesthood next year, seminarians Donald Bender
and Ryan Fischer were ordained to the diaconate
by Bishop Ronald W. Gainer during a solemn Mass
celebrated May 24 at St. Patrick Cathedral in Harrisburg.
The new deacons will serve in diocesan parishes
this summer before returning to St. Vincent Seminary
in Latrobe, Pa., in the fall to continue their formation.
Deacon Bender will serve at Prince of Peace Parish
in Steelton, and Deacon Fischer will serve at St. Patrick Parish in Carlisle.
In his homily during the Mass of Ordination to the
Diaconate, Bishop Gainer connected Christ’s total
self-giving to that of Deacon Bender and Deacon
Fischer in their service to the Church.
“Every true gift must carry with it at least a portion
of the giver. If it does not, it is a token of nothing,”
the bishop told the congregation.
“In the Eucharist, Jesus gives us the perfect gift;
not just some thing, but he gives us himself,” he
said. “The bread and the wine of the Eucharist do not
merely symbolize Jesus’ love for us; the Eucharist is
Jesus, in his total and self-giving love. The Eucharist is everything that a real gift should be, because
it carries with it the real presence of the giver, Christ
himself.”
In response to God’s gift of vocation, Deacon
Bender and Deacon Fischer also give the perfect gift,
Bishop Gainer said.
“It is not some symbol of their desire to serve God
and to serve the Church, but the total gift of themselves,” he said.
More DEACONS, page 2
CHRIS HEISEY, THE CATHOLIC WITNESS
Donald Bender, left, and Ryan Fischer, right, approach the altar during the Mass of Ordination to the
Diaconate celebrated at St. Patrick Cathedral in Harrisburg on May 24.
2 - The Catholic Witness • June 6, 2014
Bishop Ronald W. Gainer presents the Book of the Gospels to Deacon Donald Bender. Deacon Bender will serve at Prince of Peace Parish in Steelton this summer.
Deacons
Through the laying on of
hands and the Prayer of
Ordination that followed,
Bishop Ronald W. Gainer
ordained Ryan Fischer
to the diaconate. Deacon
Fischer will serve at St.
Patrick Parish in Carlisle
this summer.
Continued from 1
Through the Laying on of Hands and
the Prayer of Ordination, the men were
ordained to the diaconate. Among other
acts of service, deacons prepare the altar
and distribute Holy Communion at Mass,
instruct people in the Church’s doctrine,
baptize, assist at marriages, conduct funeral rites, and engage in charitable efforts.
“The deacon’s ministry among us is a
reminder to us all by the way the deacon
lives his life that Christ came not to be
served, but to serve. The deacon’s ordained ministry must be a reminder to
each one of us that God has sent us all
into the world as servants after the heart
of Christ,” Bishop Gainer remarked.
Following the Mass, Deacon Bender
expressed tremendous joy in his ordination to the diaconate.
“Bishop Gainer’s homily about the
gifts we bring was overwhelming and
Donald Bender, left, and
Ryan Fischer enter St.
Patrick Cathedral in
Harrisburg May 24 for
their diaconate ordination.
poignant,” he told The Catholic Witness.
“I’m excited to think that giving of myself
is exactly what I will be doing, and I’m
looking forward to giving this gift to the
Church.”
“I’m most looking forward to serving
the people of the diocese. They are such
amazing people,” said Deacon Bender, a
native of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Lancaster.
Deacon Fischer told The Witness that
the element of service is what attracted
him to consider the priesthood.
“I was looking around at a lot of programs and wanting to get involved and
volunteer in a lot of different ways,” said
Deacon Fischer, a native of Sacred Heart
of Jesus Parish in Lancaster. “I needed
to come back to the Church at that point,
and when God worked my conversion, he
showed me that service is an integral part
of a certain vocation in which a man dedicates himself for life to the service of the
people of God. That’s where the fire was
lit by the Holy Spirit. It really has blossomed as I’ve grown and discerned.”
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Trinity High School
Announces New Principal
The Diocese of Harrisburg and the Trinity High School
Board announced May 22 the appointment of Joseph E.
Gressock, an educator with 35 years of experience in Catholic education, as the school’s new principal, effective July 1.
Mr. Gressock currently serves as the principal at Benedictine High School in Cleveland, Ohio, a 400-student private
Catholic school for boys, where he also continues to teach a
freshman theology class. He will take over for Dr. David A.
Bouton, who has served as principal since 2009. Dr. Bouton
announced his retirement earlier this academic year.
“I am honored that the Trinity community and the diocese
has offered me this opportunity, and I am looking forward
to building on the great momentum and energy that I felt at
the school when I visited,” Mr. Gressock said. “The school
board members, the parents and faculty with whom I met are
so deeply committed to the school’s long-term future that I
recognized right away that this was a special school and a
special community.”
Mr. Gressock was appointed by Father Edward J. Quinlan,
the Secretary for Education of the Diocese of Harrisburg. He
was recommended to Father Quinlan by a search committee
that was formed by the Trinity School Board.
“We conducted a long and thorough search, and we’re
thrilled that we were able to attract an educator with Mr.
Gressock’s energy and passion,” said Todd Long, who led
Trinity’s search committee and will soon take over as Chairman of the Trinity School Board. “We’ve been blessed to celebrate our 50th anniversary this year, and with leaders like Mr.
Gressock, the board is confident that our school heads into
the next 50 years as strong as ever.”
Mr. Gressock has been Principal at Benedictine since 2008.
He previously served as principal at Oldensburg Academy in
Oldensburg, Ind. Prior to becoming a high school administrator, Mr. Gressock was a teacher at the high school level for
over 20 years, served as a campus minister, and was a football, baseball, and basketball coach. Mr. Gressock earned a Bachelor of Science in Education
from Bowling Green State University, an M.B.A. from Lake
Erie College, and a Master of Arts in Theology from St.
Mary’s University of Minnesota.
“A Catholic education is so important for our young people. The fact is that our students will fall back on the values
that we teach as they grow older. They will turn to the spiritual education that we are blessed to be able to provide,” Mr.
Gressock said. “I love teaching still, and I plan on getting
back into the classroom at Trinity. I might need a full year to
settle in, but I do plan on teaching again. It is my first ministry and it is how I come to know so many students.”
Trinity High School is a college preparatory, Roman Catholic, parochial, co-educational high school serving grades nine
through twelve. Located in Camp Hill, Trinity was founded
in 1963 and is accredited by the Middle States Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools.
Bishop Gainer’s
Public Calendar
• June 6 – Give Invocation and Benediction at Veterans
Celebration, National Civil War Museum, 11 a.m.
• June 7 – Adult Confirmation, Holy Name of Jesus
Church, Harrisburg, 5 p.m.
• June 9-13 – USCCB Spring Meeting, New Orleans
• June 14 – Celebrate Mass at St. Patrick Cathedral, Harrisburg, 11 a.m., followed by viewing of Saint Joseph Parish,
Hanover, Stations of the Cross, State Museum, Harrisburg
• June 16 – Adult Scouting Recognition Dinner, Cardinal
Keeler Center, Harrisburg, 6 p.m.
• June 17 – Celebrate Mass for the Sisters of Saints Cyril
and Methodius, Danville, 11 a.m.
• June 22 – Blessing of new Crucifix at Saint John the Baptist Church, New Freedom, 11 a.m.
Clergy Appointments
The Most Reverend Ronald W. Gainer, Bishop of Harrisburg, has made the following appointments.
Effective Immediately:
• The Reverend James E. Lease from Administrator, Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Hanover, to Pastor, Basilica of the Sacred
Heart of Jesus Parish, Hanover. Father Lease
will continue as Chaplain for Delone Catholic
High School, McSherrystown.
• The Reverend Joshua R. Brommer from Administrator, Saint John the Baptist Parish, New
Freedom to Pastor, Saint John the Baptist Parish, New Freedom. Father Brommer will continue as Liturgical Coordinator for the Diocese
of Harrisburg.
• The Reverend Keith M. Carroll from Administrator, Saint Patrick Parish, York to Pastor,
Saint Patrick Parish, York.
• The Reverend Martin O. Moran from Administrator, Divine Redeemer Parish, Mount
Carmel to Pastor, Divine Redeemer Parish,
Mount Carmel.
• At the presentation of The Reverend Robert Malagesi, MSSCC, delegate of the Superior
General of the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts
of Jesus and Mary, the Reverend Peter DiTomasso, MSSCC, from Administrator, Saint Joseph the Worker Parish, Bonneauville, to Pastor,
Saint Joseph the Worker Parish, Bonneauville.
• At the presentation of the Reverend James
McCurry, OFM Conv., Minister Provincial, the
Reverend Steven Frenier, OFM Conv., from
Administrator, Our Lady of Hope Parish, Coal
Township, to Pastor, Our Lady of Hope Parish,
Coal Township.
• At the presentation of the Reverend Augustine Idra, AJ, Regional Superior, the Reverend
Fred Wangwe, AJ, from Administrator, Saint
Monica Parish, Sunbury, to Pastor, Saint Monica Parish, Sunbury.
Effective June 23:
• The Reverend James R. O’Brien from Pastor, Corpus Christi Parish, Chambersburg, to retirement.
• The Reverend Bernardo Pistone from Pastor, Saint Francis Xavier Parish, Gettysburg, to
retirement.
• The Reverend Samuel Houser from Senior
Priest, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque Parish,
Harrisburg, to retirement.
• The Reverend Francis T. Menei from Pastor,
Saint Richard Parish, Manheim, to retirement.
• The Reverend Monsignor Richard A. Youtz
from Pastor, Saint John Neumann Parish, Lancaster, to retirement.
• The Reverend John B. Bateman from Pastor,
Saint Andrew the Apostle Parish, Waynesboro,
to Pastor, Saint Francis Xavier Parish, Gettysburg.
• The Reverend Augusty Valomchalil,
MSSCC, from Parochial Vicar, Our Lady of the
Visitation Parish, Shippensburg, to Pastor, Saint
Andrew the Apostle Parish, Waynesboro.
• The Reverend Paul C. B. Schenck from Administrator, Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Spring
Grove, to Supportive Ministry for the Diocese
of Harrisburg. Father Schenck will continue as
Director of the Respect Life Office.
• The Reverend Thomas R. Hoke from Pastor,
Saint Rose of Lima Parish, York, to Pastor, Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Spring Grove.
• The Reverend Daniel C. Mitzel from Pastor, Saint Anthony of Padua Parish, Lancaster, to
Pastor, Saint Rose of Lima Parish, York.
• The Reverend Daniel P. O’Brien from Pastor,
Saint Ignatius Loyola Parish, Orrtanna, to Pastor, Saint Anthony of Padua Parish, Lancaster.
• The Reverend Raymond J. LaVoie to Pastor,
Saint Ignatius Loyola Parish, Orrtanna. Father
LaVoie will continue as Vocations Director for
the Diocese of Harrisburg.
• The Reverend Luis R. Rodriguez from Pastor, Mary, Mother of the Church, Parish, Mount
Joy, to Pastor, Corpus Christi Parish, Chambersburg.
• The Reverend Pang S. Tcheou from Pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, New Holland,
to Pastor, Mary, Mother of the Church Parish,
Mount Joy.
• The Reverend Walter F. Guzman-Alvarez
from Pastor, Saint Benedict the Abbot Parish,
Lebanon, to Pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, New Holland.
• The Reverend Michael W. Rothan from Pastor, Saint Joan of Arc Parish, Hershey, to Pastor,
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish,
Lebanon, and Pastor, Saint Benedict the Abbot
Parish, Lebanon.
• The Reverend Joseph T. Scanlin to the
Pastoral care of Our Lady of Fatima Mission,
Jonestown.
• The Reverend Stephen W. Weitzel from Pastor, Saint Katharine Drexel Parish, Mechanicsburg, to Pastor, Saint Richard Parish, Manheim.
• The Reverend Michael P. Reid from Pastor,
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish,
Lebanon, to Pastor, Saint Katharine Drexel Parish, Mechanicsburg.
• The Reverend Dwight D. Schlaline from
Parochial Vicar, Saint Patrick Church, Carlisle,
and Campus Minister, Dickinson University, to
Pastor, Our Lady of the Visitation Parish, Shippensburg, and Campus Minister, Shippensburg
University.
• The Reverend David L. Danneker from Pastor, Saint Peter Parish, Elizabethtown, to Pastor,
Saint John Neumann Parish, Lancaster.
• The Reverend Steven Fauser from Pastor,
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin
Mary Parish, New Oxford, to Pastor, Saint Peter
Parish, Elizabethtown.
• The Reverend Philip G. Burger to Pastor,
Saint Joan of Arc Parish, Hershey. Father Burger continues as Secretary for Clergy and Consecrated Life and Pastor, Holy Family Parish,
Harrisburg.
• The Reverend Mark M. Speitel to Pastor,
Saint Peter Parish, Columbia. Father Speitel
continues as Campus Minister, Millersville University, Millersville.
• The Reverend David M. Hereshko from Parochial Vicar, Saint Joseph Parish, Mechanicsburg, to Campus Minister, Bloomsburg University and Parochial Vicar, Saint Columba Parish,
Bloomsburg, with the responsibility of Christ
the King Mission, Benton.
• The Reverend Daniel K. Richards from
Parochial Vicar, Saint Leo the Great Parish,
Rohrerstown, to Parochial Vicar, Saint Francis
Xavier Parish, Gettysburg.
• The Reverend Arokiaswamy Samson from
Hospital Chaplain, Lancaster General Hospital,
to Parochial Vicar, Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary Parish, Lebanon, and Parochial
Vicar, Saint Benedict the Abbot Parish, Lebanon.
• The Reverend Brian J. Wayne from Parochial Vicar, Saint Joan of Arc Parish, Hershey,
to Parochial Vicar, Saint Patrick Parish, Carlisle.
• The Reverend Jose Mera-Vallejos from Parochial Vicar, Corpus Christi Parish, Chambersburg, to Parochial Vicar, Saint Joseph Parish,
Mechanicsburg.
• The Reverend Timothy D. Marcoe from
Campus Minister, Bloomsburg University,
Bloomsburg, and Administrator, Christ the King
Mission, Benton, to Pastor, Immaculate Heart of
Mary Parish, Abbottstown. • The Reverend Kenneth G. Smith from Pastor, Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Abbottstown, to Parochial Vicar, Saint Katharine
Drexel Parish, Mechanicsburg, and Chaplain,
Pinnacle Health, West Shore Hospital. • The Reverend Michael C. Letteer from Parochial Vicar, Saint John Neumann Parish, Lancaster, to Administrator, Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, New
Oxford. • Deacon Matthew Larlick from Diaconal
ministry, Saint Anthony of Padua Parish, Lancaster, to Diaconal ministry, Saint John the Baptist Parish, New Freedom.
Effective July 7:
• The Reverend Anthony R. Dill from Graduate Studies to Parochial Vicar, Saint John the
Baptist Parish, New Freedom.
Marriage Law Overturned,
Will Not Be Appealed
By A. B. Hill
Special to The Witness
Judge John E. Jones, III, a federal district court judge for the Middle District of
Pennsylvania, declared on May 20 that Pennsylvania’s Defense of Marriage Act,
which defines marriage as between one man and one woman, is unconstitutional.
He also ruled that Pennsylvania must recognize same-sex marriages entered into in
another state or foreign jurisdiction. Based upon the judge’s ruling, licenses were immediately issued to same sex couples in many county courthouses. Marriages may
occur three days after a license is issued. In effect, the court ruling legalizes same-sex
marriage in Pennsylvania; however clergy will not be required to officiate at samesex marriage ceremonies if they disagree with the practice.
Governor Tom Corbett, whose administration had been defending the law, announced he will not appeal the ruling, “Given the high legal threshold set forth by
Judge Jones in this case, the case is extremely unlikely to succeed on appeal.”
However, other cases in other federal appellate courts around the country may produce conflicting results in which one may deem same-sex marriage prohibition constitutional while another deems such laws unconstitutional. If those conflicts arise, it
is possible that the U.S. Supreme Court will consider such laws. If the Court would
deem such laws constitutional, Judge Jones’ order would be of no effect; but, given
other recent decisions on this issue, it is uncertain if the Court will uphold DOMAlike marriage laws.
The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference decried the outcome of the court case, stating:
Today’s decision by one federal judge speaks to the confusion and misunderstanding among many today about the fundamental building block of society: the family.
Every child has a basic right to a mother and a father united in marriage as a family.
Today’s decision does not change that.
Yes, marriage is a personal relationship, but it is not merely a private affair between two people. It is a relationship with great public significance and, since it is
the foundation of the family, it affects the wider society. By God’s design, every child
has a mother and a father. Circumstances may prevent a child from being raised by
his or her own mother and father, so we stand in solidarity with single mothers and
fathers who work responsibly each day to raise their children. However, marriage is
the way society provides for children's needs. The redefinition of marriage enshrines
in law a denial of the rights of children to a mother and a father united in marriage.
The Catholic Church teaches that all people are made in the image of God and that
everyone has inherent dignity. No one should face unjust discrimination. But human
experience, considerable social data, as well as our religious convictions, lead us to
see clearly that children thrive best in a stable family grounded on the marital union
of one man and one woman. Catholic opposition to same-sex marriage is not a statement about the worth of human beings who experience same-sex attraction, but a
statement about the nature of marriage itself.
Pope Francis recently said, “The image of God is the married couple: the man and
the woman; not only the man, not only the woman, but both of them together. This
is the image of God: love, God’s covenant with us is represented in that covenant
between man and woman. And this is very beautiful!” Marriage is beautiful indeed,
and the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference does not support this judge’s redefinition
of this fundamental human institution.
In light of these decisions, many Catholics may struggle to understand what the
Church teaches about marriage, sexuality and same-sex attraction, and how our beliefs factor into the debate. They also struggle to reconcile Church teaching on marriage and sexuality with their love for gay and lesbian family members and friends.
Reflecting on what the Church teaches and why will help us to better understand
what is at the heart of the debate, what is at stake, and why defending traditional marriage doesn’t preclude loving our homosexual family members and friends.
Learn more about Catholic teaching on marriage and sexuality:
Catholics for the Common Good - http://ccgaction.org/
Marriage, Unique for a Reason - http://www.marriageuniqueforareason.org/
PA Bishops’ Statement on Human Sexuality, Marriage and Same-Sex Unions http://www.pacatholic.org/bishops-statements/human-sexuality-marriage-and-samesex-unions/
Share your opinion with the governor through the Catholic Adovacy Network
(https://www.votervoice.net/PACC/campaigns/32995/respond) sign up to participate
in the March for Marriage (https://marriagemarch.org/) in Washington, D.C., on June
19, 2014.
(Hill is Communications Director of the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference – the
public affairs agency of Pennsylvania’s Catholic bishops and the Catholic dioceses of
Pennsylvania. Stay up-to-date with Catholic news and issues at www.pacatholic.org,
www.facebook.com/pacatholic, and www.twitter.com/pacatholic.)
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New Expressions in
Evangelization, Part I
By Sister Geralyn Schmidt, SCC
Special to The Witness
Many years ago, as a very small child, I thought that a genie lived in the
walls of my house. After all, the varied appliances and the TV that were
plugged into the wall all worked because of the magical resources of the
genie that lived there.
One day, I was determined to make the genie appear to me. So, I began
sticking long skinny objects into the outlets, hoping that
the genie would show himself. I tried a plastic comb, the
stem of a silk flower and a corner of
Thoughts
an ash tray. All of these had no effect.
from
a Catholic
The last “tool” I experimented with
Evangelist
was a bobby pin. I thought that he
Sister
Geralyn
would mind me poking him enough
Schmidt, SCC
so he would come out. After moving the bobby pin within the outlet,
I felt a shock up my arm that threw
me across the room. I screamed in pain and fear. My mother came running and asked me what had happened. “The genie bit me!” I
screamed all the louder, knowing that I had been caught doing something I
should not have been doing. My mom dried my tears and calmed me down.
“Dear, please tell me now what happened; the ENTIRE story.” I then told
her of my knowledge of the whereabouts of our family genie and that I was
determined to finally see him. “But,” I moaned, “I never thought he would
be so angry with me that he would bite me!” Gently laughing, she explained
to me that a genie was not responsible for all the stuff that moved; electricity was.
I remembered this story as I read an article by Brandon Vogt about Secularism and the Barriers to Faith. (Catholicism: The New Evangelization.
Word on Fire. 2013. Pg. 27) Vogt states: “Therefore what we need today
are ‘new expressions,’ new articulations of the truth that will better connect
our jaded world.” These new expressions, these new articulations beckon us
to study how we can bring Christ’s message to our world, our society. This
study eventually will lead us to discover three barriers to faith that make up
our society. Vogt describes them as: deep confusion about God, disenchantment and relativism. I will leave the last one as the subject of my article in
the next edition.
So many times I have stood in front of young and not-so-young sojourners in the faith and discussed who God truly is. As Catholic Christians, we
believe in a God that is intimately involved in every aspect of our life and
our world. He is responsible for its creation, and its sustenance. He exists
beyond space and time. He gave to Moses His name as, “I AM.” He just IS.
FOREVER. ALWAYS. Yet, we also believe in time that God took upon himself a human nature and experienced everything that truly being “human” is
all about – except sin. He is not a deity that looks at us from a great distance.
He is not a genie that makes everything work magically. He is not a despot
who dictates followers to obey every letter of the law in its minutiae, with
the penalty of a broken rule being sent to hell.
Our God celebrates with us when we flourish as He extends His abundant,
free life to us. This freedom does not lie in doing what we want, whenever
we want it, to whomever we wish. This type of freedom, sold by society
around us, actually enslaves us to our desires and passions. But God offers
us true freedom if only we align our hearts and our vision to the way He sees
it. This is a process, and can be difficult and impossible without Him. He
gives us the grace in order for it to happen.
So much of our society hungers for something, someone that fills the emptiness inside. We often look toward the latest gizmo, gadget, toy and thrill to
fill what is lacking. Ultimately, nothing in this world can satisfy that inner
longing. Only a personal and profound relationship with God can fill it.
The essence of the New Evangelization expresses what is true, good and
beautiful to modern folks in a new way that feeds the longings of their heart.
It echoes Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in Deus Caritas Est, the encyclical
on Christian Love: “Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a
lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new
horizon and a decisive direction” (DCE #1). One experience, one encounter
with Christ forever changes an individual as sure as my first experience of
electricity did to me so many years ago. Both are unforgettable.
(Sister of Christian Charity, Geralyn Schmidt, is the Wide Area Network
Coordinator at the Diocese of Harrisburg and a member of the IT Department. An educator for 28 years, she is responsible for Professional Development Programs for every age learner. Through her presentations, she challenges her audiences to be the individual God has called them to be.)
Milestone Anniversaries
of Ordination to the Priesthood
78 Years of Priesthood in June
102 Years of Life in July
Monsignor Vincent J. Topper
St. Catherine Labouré Parish, Harrisburg
Father John D. Schmalhofer
St. Vincent de Paul Parish, Hanover
20 Years
Father Francis J. Tamburro
Immaculate Conception BVM Parish, Berwick
30 Years
55 Years
Father Robert F. Sharman
St. Bernard Parish, New Bloomfield
Father William J. Sullivan
St. Joseph Parish, Mechanicsburg
Father Kenneth G. Smith
Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Abbottstown
Monsignor Richard Onwuanibe
St. Anne’s Retirement Community Chaplain,
Columbia
Father William Weary
Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Lewistown, and
St. Jude Thaddeus Parish, Mifflintown
25 Years
Father Sylvan P. Capitani
New Freedom
Father Robert A. Yohe
St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Quarryville
Father Ronald J. Moratelli
Mount Carmel
Father Robert M. Gillelan, Jr., V.G.
Prince of Peace Parish, Steelton
Father Patrick A. Devine
Elysburg
40 Years
Father Job Foote, OSB
St. Paul the Apostle Parish, Annville
Father J. Michael McFadden
St. Theresa Parish, New Cumberland
Father Michael M. Laicha
St. Joseph Parish, Berwick
Father Paul C. Helwig
Good Shepherd Parish, Camp Hill
Father Joseph T. Scanlin
St. Cecilia Parish, Lebanon
Monsignor Vincent J. Topper,
78 Years
Father Robert M.
Gillelan, Jr., V.G., 25 Years
Monsignor Richard
Onwuanibe, 50 Years
Father Job Foote, OSB,
25 Years
Prayer for Priests
by St. John Paul II
O Mary,
Mother of Jesus Christ and Mother of priests,
accept this title which we bestow on you
to celebrate your motherhood
and to contemplate with you the priesthood
of your Son and of your sons,
O holy Mother of God.
O Mother of Christ,
to the Messiah-priest you gave a body of flesh
through the anointing of the Holy Spirit
for the salvation of the poor and the contrite of heart;
guard priests in your heart and in the Church,
O Mother of the Savior.
Father Sylvan P. Capitani,
50 Years
10 Years
Father Mark E. Weiss
St. Philip the Apostle Parish, Millersville
Father Michael W. Rothan
St. Joan of Arc Parish, Hershey
Father Thuong Van Nguyen
Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, Harrisburg
5 Years
Father Jonathan P. Sawicki
Immaculate Conception BVM Parish, York
Father Jose E. Mera-Vallejos
Corpus Christi Parish, Chambersburg
Father Keith Carroll
St. Patrick Parish, York
Father Paul J. Theisz
Corpus Christi Parish, Chambersburg
Father Arokiaswamy Samson,
25 Years
Father Michael M. Laicha,
25 Years
Father Joseph T. Scanlin,
25 Years
O Mother of Faith,
you accompanied to the Temple the Son of Man,
the fulfillment of the promises given to the fathers;
give to the Father for his glory
the priests of your Son,
O Ark of the Covenant.
O Mother of the Church,
in the midst of the disciples in the upper room
you prayed to the Spirit
for the new people and their shepherds;
obtain for the Order of Presbyters
a full measure of gifts,
O Queen of the Apostles.
O Mother of Jesus Christ,
you were with him at the beginning
Father Frederick L. Nkwasibwe, AJ
Immaculate Conception BVM Parish, York
Father Dominic DiBiccaro
St. Peter Parish, Columbia
Father Arokiaswamy Samson
Lancaster General Hospital Chaplain
45 Years
Father Edward J. Keating, Jr.
Seven Sorrows BVM Parish, Middletown
15 Years
Father Gerard T. Heintzelman
Maria Hall, Danville
50 Years
Father Tri M. Luong
St. Joseph Parish, Danville
Father Robert A. Yohe,
25 Years
Congratulations
and prayerful
best wishes
to the priests
celebrating
special
anniversaries
this year.
of his life and mission,
you sought the Master among the crowd,
you stood beside him when he was lifted
up from the earth
consumed as the one eternal sacrifice,
and you had John, your son, near at hand;
accept from the beginning those
who have been called,
protect their growth,
in their life ministry accompany
your sons,
O Mother of Priests.
Amen.
~ From the 1992 Apostolic Exhortation, Pastores Dabo Vobis,
On the Formation of Priests in the Circumstances of the
Present Day
Congratulations and Best Wishes to the Class of 2014
Bishop McDevitt High School, Harrisburg
Graduation May 28
Dominic James Acri, Gianna Marie Acri, Alisa
M. Alexander, Austin Malik Anderson, Briana
Tonisha-Marie Arkward, Marissa Augustine, Anna
M. Bailey, Danielle Nicole Balint, Caleb P. Barwin,
Andrew Leon Bell, Jr., Mary Kathleen Belonus, Jarrin Tyler Harrison Black, Lindsey N. Bloomingdale,
Shannon N. Bolton, Lauren J. Brady, Jordan SáVon
Bratcher-Gray, Christian Percy Brice, Hannah
Brown, Jimmie Ray Brown, Jr., Alexis Cole Cantone, Mark Joseph Caruso, Jr., Jonathan Lee Robert Clark, Grace Kathleen Cochran, Rebecca Marie
Cole, Andrew Vinvent Corrado, Jacqueline Virginia
Corrigan, Daniel Ross Crouse, Kaela Marie Curcillo, Derek S. Davis, Christopher J. Dayer, Devon
Andrew Deibler, Cesar DeJesus, Courtney Rose
Dempsey, Jordan Alexandra Devine, Johnathan
Vincent Dinh, Matthew David Donohoe, Colleen
Marie Druby, Christian-Vinh Pham Duong, Marian
J. Eiben, Sara Esayas, Michelle S. Espinal, Alexandra Aislinn Evans, Christian Maurice Fairfax, Anthony M. Fazzolari, Daniel Kevin Fennessy, Adam
T. Fillman, Rebecca Ann Fulton, Joanna B. Garcia,
Natalie Gaudiello, Kyla Rose Gemmell, Alexandrea Nacole George, Anthony Jean Glusko, Sarah
Makenzie Grab, Mary Ellen Grap, Karlym Elisha
Guzman, Shane J. Hagen, Henry T. Hairston, III,
Jackson David Hanes, Pearce Evan Harhigh, Megan
Christine Hartwell, David Richard Hayek, Giovanna G. Heanue, Alexandria Nicole Holman, Jordan
Tyler Horshaw, Dyllon James Hudson-Emory, Theresa Nicole Ipjian, William N. James, Ashoka Malik Jangdhari, Justin E. Jordan, Brenna L. Kelley,
Joseph D. Kerle, Kelsey Taylor Kunisky, Steven
Gray Lacey, Molly Kathryn Lahr, Jennifer Nicole
Lara, Rashad Curtis Lawson, Diego Gabriel Lee,
Aaron Michael Lentini, Austin Lawrence Lescanec,
Warren Kenneth Leung, Ciara Loren Leynes, Kyla
Samantha Line, John Ronald Logan, Jr., Nicholas
C. Longson, John William Lopez, Megan Elizabeth
Malesic, Anthony Michael Maletestinic, Jeremy
Dominic Mandia, Bond Abigail Marburger, Stephen Alfred Marrazzo, Jr., Alyssa Massaro, Alexis
M. Mattern, Ja’ohn McArthur-Hunter, Justin Franklin McCarthur, La’Keya N. McCraw, Caitlin Marie
Nicholas C. Longson,
Valedictorian
Mary Kathleen Belonus,
Salutatorian
McDonnell, Megan Marie Meehan, Thomas Leo
Meinert, Alexander Paul Metro, Napier E. Monroe,
Jr., Thomas Anthony Moore, III, Jailyn Jamie Morales, Christopher Michael Moyer, Drew Z. Myers,
Sarah Victoria Narus, Marco A. Navarro, Emma
I. Neri, Catherine M. Nguyen, Cecilia H. Nguyen,
Diana Thien Nga Nguyen, Tyler J. Nguyen, Joanna
Nuñez, Michael J. O’Donnell, Suzy Marie Ortiz,
Michael Joseph Perloski, Ryan Matthew Petrasic,
Kevin M. Pham, Mark Anthony Pitman, Christopher Logan Plevinsky, Anthony Louis Pompei,
Kelsey Erin Price, Kayla Skortz, Puerzer, Morgan
Danielle Purdy, Patrick A. Quirk, Stephanie Fay
Quirck, Victoria Lee Renno, Emily C. Resek, Madeleine G. Robbins, Kiel Michael Rutters, Patrice
M. Sakalosky, Yovania Sandoval, José Lorenzo P.
Saplala, Mackenzie Barley Sellers, Jennifer Marie
Simpson, Quinton Sinclair, Joshua Anthony Smith,
Kimberlee Michelle Sobers, Noah Michael Spangler, Damaris Marie Stout, Nicholas J. Suknaic,
Zaira D. Thomas, Joseph R. Tokar, Andy H. Tran,
Allison Kathleen Tully, Gabriella Tuzzato, Kaitlyn
Breas Vander Woude, Donté M. Vaughn, Annamarie
E. Vazquez, Rudy Denise Watson, Andrew Christopher White, Terrence E. White, Jr., Elizabeth Marie
Wiest, Adam Harrison Williams, Amanda Noelle
Windmiller, Allan J. Wyland, John Robert Yetter,
Robert. W. Zwigart
Delone Catholic High School, McSherrystown
Graduation May 23
Joseph S. Ames, Robert William Apgar, Andrew S. Austin, Thomas Dakota Baker, Paige
O. Becker, Nicholas A. Boddiford, Connor N.
Bossom, Nicholas Daniel Botts, Connor Bowman,
Joanna R. Bowman, Julie Marie Bowman, Isaac
M. Boyle, Elizabeth Brilhart, Philip H. Brust, Emily R. Buchma, Brandon Nathaniel Burriss, Robert
M. Byrnes, Peter V. Comly, Jr., Taylor Jacob Conrad, Devon Craig, Christina Faith Parrish Crouse,
Caitlyn Nicole Ditzler, Hayley Elizabeth Dubs, S.
Oliver Eldridge, Brittney Nicole Eline, Brittany
Yvonne Emig, Benjamin C. Eyler, Connor J. Faloon, Kara Jennifer Felice, Alexander Paul Forst,
Morgan Nicole Gebhart, Caroline Rose Gerlach,
Frank Gibson, Mary Helen Gingrow, Margaret
Grace Girroir, Matt Giuffreda, John Golanoski,
Jonathon B. Green, Samuel P. Guaragno, L. Benjamin Gutierrez, Blaine Harman II, Logan Douglas
Hartlaub, Dakota Michael Hawbaker, Dalton James
Haymaker, Matthew D. Heilman, Brady Michael
Hemler, Elizabeth Maria Hernandez, Brandon
Sawyer Hill, Ross Hockenberry, Rachel Elizabeth
Hottle, Reagan Elizabeth Joy, Benjamin Kauffman,
Caroline Kauffman, William Kilkelly, Cody Kuhn,
Isaac Benjamin Kuhn, Deanna Laughman, Hannah
Lawrence, Maggie Lawrence, Patrick Lawrence,
Abigail Little, Carville Mace, Emily Maitland,
Milena Marciano, John Martz, Abby Mason, Emily
McMaster, Nathaniel Miller, Brianne Murphy, Amber Marie Nazelrod, Kathrine Nicole Neff, Isabela
Michele Neiderer, Julie Teresa Noel, Courtney Lynn
Abigail Helen Adams, Nathan Charles Allen,
Aritoza Ameen, LucyClaire Marie Amidon, Maria
Rose Anater, Danielle Ann Atkinson, Jordan Christopher Baker, Rebekka Marie Bamert, Benjamin
Christopher Bauer, Kristin Halle Beard, Megan
Florence Berryman, Kody Patrick Biddle, Sarah
Catherine Bomberger, Ted O’neil Boucard, Zachary Michael Brommer, Vivian Thien-Vi Cao, Alexandra Ji-Anne Carlisle, Lauren Frances Carroll,
Xinyuan Chen, Victoria Angelina Chirico, Nicholas
Daniel Cicala, Emily Kayla Colón, Kalina Marie
Costello, Javier Ricardo Cruz, Ethan Reese Cubbison, Andrew Nicholas Cvek, Noelle Marie Cybulski, Trent Thomas Daggett, Jiayuan Dai, Christine
Alina Danyo, Julia Gibbons Davis, Rachael Frances
DePietro, Deanna Elaine Dombrowski, Douglas
Alexander Edward Dombrowski, Elizabeth Anne
Eichenlaub, Nicolas Edward Engle, Hannah Catherine Favilla, Kathryn Lauren Filling, Mark David Gales, Collins Terrill Gantz, Jr., Megan Leigh
Garner, Skyler Ellen Gibbon, Heather Lee Groody,
Sara Elizabeth Hackman, Harrison Patrick Heise,
Jenifer Anne Helm, Joseph Michael Herr, Thomas
Gregory Hohenwarter, Emily Ann Hollister, Ariana Marie Horn, Jackson Wylie Houston, HaoQing
Jiang, Recher Pina Jimenez, Kristen Marie John,
Simon Joseph, Emmanuel Thomas Kambouroglos, Brandon George Patrick Kessler, Kurt Johann
Kessler, Jiwon Kim, Rose Elizabeth Kirchner,
Michael Joseph Kline, Talula Ruby Kohr, Isabella
Elan Lamboy, Hope Marie Landis, Samantha Jo
Lauriello, Marah Elizabeth Lauver, Emma Therese
Lawson, Emily Lauren LeBreton, Kylee Taylor
Legenstein, Connor Robert Lent, Xin Lin, Daniel
Michael Lingenfelter, Aimee Marie Little, John
Richard Lobeck, Stephen Philip Loiseau, Christian
Taylor Lomboy, Steven John Lopez, Omar Gabriel
Lopez-Batiz, Anqi Lou, Rosemary Lucille Luciano,
Christian Madera, Sarah Elizabeth Mahoney, Jena
Meiying Marcinkoski, Madeline Elizabeth Martin, Rafael Elias Mateo-Mota, Akash Emmanuel
Mathew, Anne Elizabeth Maurer, Brian Charles
McBrearty, Brandon Lee McCafferty, Melanie Rose
McCutcheon, Thomas Patrick McIntyre, Katelyn
Mary McNamara, Abigail Elizabeth Meck, Zachary James Miklos, Montana Robert Miller, Trey
Kareem Miller, Evan Joseph Mongeau, Tristan Michael Mrakovich, Lauren Kristine Muschlitz, Katie
Thomas Slotcavage,
Valedictorian
Alexander Ringlein,
Salutatorian
Marie Ness, Erin Elizabeth Ness, Thomas Michael
O’Brien, Sara Catherine Palczewski, Julianne Theresa Petrillo, Lauren Ann Poillon, Rebecca Tsidonis
Pratt, Evan John Purvis, Aaron Michael Rathsam,
Shannon Walsh Reed, Mary Agnes Reich, Nancy
Elise Reichert, Keenan Matthew Reigel, Jason
Scott Reiner, Benjamin Riley Reisinger, Brooke
Kathleen Ressler, Daniel Anthony Ricci, Joshua
Mackey Riley, Christa Ann Rineer, Alexander John
Ringlein, Paola Rocha, Joseph Richard Roehm,
Thomas Cormac Kinkead Russoniello, Nicholas
Joseph Sagerer, Andrew Desmond Sallavanti, Gary
William Saporetti, Charles Howard Scarff III, Eric
Alexander Schneider, Aubrey Wan Schober, Austin
Murr Schoelkopf, Brendon Joseph Schrantz, Christopher James Schreder, Alycia Marie Schusko,
Emma Kathleen Seibert, Vincent Tulio Sexton, Nan
She, Jack Leanza Shedleski, Stephen Reich Sheetz,
Thomas John Slotcavate, Marina Francesca Smith,
Abigail Mary Snopek, Benjamin Charles Snyder,
Younggwon Song, Andrew David Speitel, Carmen
Michael Spica, Aaron Thomas Springer, Andrea
Elizabeth Steinbeiser, Lindsay Margaret Sudbrink,
Andy Algenis Taveras, Christopher Matthew Tongel, Sara Elizabeth Treier, Chang Wang, Julianna
Victoria Wanner, Rebecca Ann Weiser, Johnathan
Keegan Wentworth, Summer Anne Wiker, Paige
Marie Witkowski, Josh Michael Wolgemuth, Ellison Patricia Womble, Emily Ann Yanchuck, Ellie
Rose Zangari, Mary Elizabeth Zanowski, Nicholas
Andrew Zell, Wendian Zhang, Yan Zhao, Dingnan
Zhou
Trinity High School, Camp Hill
Graduation May 31
Nicholas Daniel Botts,
Valedictorian
Rachel Elizabeth Hottle,
Salutatorian
O’Sullivan, Isaac C. Orndorff, Christopher Dean
Overdorff, Josh David Penn, Joseph Anthony Post,
Jake Thomas Raville, Kayla Ann Repasky, Andrea
Justine Resciniti, Donald Joseph Roth, Jacob Allen
Roth, James Gerard Rupp, Masha Maria Elizabeth
Salter, Hanna Aubrey Shull, Brian Francis Shultis,
Kelsey Ann Sneeringer, Larissa Ann Sneeringer,
Anthony William Snively, Hannah Lynn Stambaugh, Justin James Staub, Patrick Jameson Staub,
Conor Dale Joseph Thackston, Brandon Michael
Trish, Katharine Grace Vrankin, Remi Gene Waite,
Neal Colton Weaver, Kristlyn Rae Whitlock, Cambria Paige Wierman, Sarah Elizabeth Wilson, Bryn
Katherine Winebrunner
Lebanon Catholic School
Graduation May 23
Kristen A. Behrens, Brian J. Brennan, Theresa
M. Chey, Sarah E. Chobanoff, Jaylan A. Colon,
Christopher James Decker, Joseph F. DeFluri IV,
Christopher J. Dorsey, Luke R. Earle, Samantha C.
Fortna, Alex J. Frattaroli, Andrew J. Gates, Brittany
P. Groy, Matthew J. Kern, Joseph T. Lutz, Sebastian Maleszewski, Michael P. Marakowski, Corinne
J. McCarthy, Jordan G. Meck, Emily K. Morrison,
Iain N. Moyer, Gyeongjin Namgung, Jannelle C.
Neatrour, Chanhui Park, Anthony J. Pletz, Helene
E. Reist, Michael T. Schramm, Jr., Jessica A. Sforza,
John J. Skulski, Jr., Sydney N. Snyder, Anamaria
Rose Stord, Anthony S. J. Thomas, Ashley L. Winters
Lancaster Catholic High School
Graduation May 22
Jillian Abel, William Alford, Katherine Allison,
Colleen Altares, John Altmeyer, Marissa Angino,
Dominick Antonelli, Keighlee Arp, Jayne Atkinson, Austen Auriemma, Connor Bailey, Daniel Barr,
Alexandra Basom, Hannah Batcha, Brett Becker,
Jonathan Behnke, Megan Berg, Matthew Bernick,
Briana Betz-White, Michael Boguski, Haylee Boswell, David Bricker, Cecelia Bruno, Anthony Capper, Meaghan Cherewka, Madison Christensen,
Christina Colangelo, Alexander Craig, Clara Currie, Julia Dailey, Michelle Dang, Marykatherine
Decker, Emily Dethlefs, Reagan Devine, Minh Do,
Danielle Dunleavy, Hannah Durbin, Mary Durle,
Molly Edwards, Jason Endress, Maura Esposito,
Kristin Estright, Caleb Fake, Meghan Ferraro,
Natalie Fiorilli, Adelyn Fitzgerald, Darby Fly, Michael Gagliardi, Elizabeth Gardjulis, Robert Giallo,
Christopher Giordano, Katherine Graham, Matthew
Gregoire, Ryan Grogan, Mary Gronkiewicz, Joseph
Hall, Joseph Hardy, Aliyah Hench, Timothy Hickey,
Nicholas Holencik, Laura Hovatter, Kayla Jackson,
Madeline Joyce, Hye-Sun Jun, Joanna Kaczerski, Constantine Kalathas, Elyse Keegan, Megan
Kelly, Emma Kenyon, Ha Young Kim, Sung Hun
Kim, Emily King, Mitchell Kleist, Patrick Kline,
Catherine Kostick, Brandon Kuntz, Nicholas Kurland, Nayeon Kwon, Chiyoon Lee, Shannon Leedy,
John Leigh, Julia Lenz, Daulton Leonard, Corey
Lyden, Anne Maffey, Alexandra Mauger, Jenifer
Maurer, Collin McCorkel, Jake McCrea, Rebecca
McCullough, Megan McKendry, Logan McNally,
Claudia Miller, Nathan Mirando, Nicholas Muñiz,
Maura Vrabel,
Valedictorian
Darby Fly,
Salutatorian
Vi Nguyen, Micaela Oliverio, Melissa Padamonsky,
Michael Marie Pavone, Nicole Powers, Madison
Pugh, Jacob Ragni, Christopher Ramsey, Paige
Redmond, Matthew Reeder, Lorel Robinson, Miranda Rogliano, Nikolas Romage, Madeline Rosti,
Christopher Rozman, Edgar Santiago-Vazquez,
Michael Savage, Andrew Scarpelli, John Schappe,
Kyle Scott, Logan Shettle, Andrew Shillingsford,
Olivia Shine, Samantha Shirtliff, Allison Shoop,
Courtney Simpson, Alexander Sowa, Neza Stefanic, Darby Steiner, Mary Stephens, Brett Stoey, Hannah Terz, Kelsey Thropp, Joshua Trumpy, Dominic
Turo, Maura Vrabel, Mary Walsh, Natalie Weaver,
Preston Whiteman, Christina Williams, Hanna Wilson, Seok Yun, Luke Zabroske, Abigail Zonarich,
Mikail Zoretich
York Catholic High School
Graduation May 28
Corinne McCarthy,
Co-Valedictorian
Kristen Behrens,
Co-Valedictorian
Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School, Coal Township
Graduation May 22
William Bittner, Anthony Catino, Riley Feese,
Michael Gilger, Aaron Greager, Wyatt Hoffman,
Shawn Khanna, Peyton Klembara, Edward Kurtz,
III, Gabriella Long, Daniel Menapace, Angelique
Pennypacker, Cody Rothermel, Rachel Schultz,
William Stewart, III, Nicholas Taylor, Alexia
Wheary, Kelsey Williams
William Stewart, III,
Valedictorian
Nicholas Taylor,
Salutatorian
Sydney Achtzehn, Thaddeus Adams, Natalie
Albright, Katherine Andrews, Anna Bauhof, Alexandra Bechtel, Joseph Bellomo, Meaghan Bilyeu,
Megan Bittner, James Blount, Kyle Blunt, Clinton
Bohn, Paul Bova, Leah Brenneman, Chardonnai
Bright, Adin Brubaker, Alyssa Bushmire, Deanna
Chesko, Wesley Christie, Patrick Clement, Michael
Connor, Kaitlyn Crumling, Colleen DeCampo,
Courtney DeMonda, Adam Desseyn, Rose Dill,
Alex Doyle, Kaitlyn Dudek, Emily Dugan, Zaenna
Echevarria, Miles Elliott, Erin Emory, Jordan Erb,
Nicole Farah, Natalie Fiorenza, Travis Fisher, Carrie Fix, Zachary Flaim, Sarah Gabriele, Karina Garcia, Nayeli Garcia, Lindsay Givens, Devyn Goldstein, Alec Gombeda, Huanting Gong, Mary Hale,
Thomas Hand, Nathan Haney, Morgan Hart, Erich
Hartman, Jacob Heisler, Zachary Ingram, Victoria
Isherwood, Jevan Ismond, Kinna Jackson, Mary Jacob, Maggie Javitt, Cymone Jones, Emma Keffer,
Kayla Kennedy, Kendall Klair, Samantha Lamont,
Hanna Mahoney, Ralph Maiolino III, LaVon Maxwell, Jessica Mazzur, Matthew McKim, Robert McNamara, Douglas Mills, Kevin Moran, Anna Mucci,
Alexander Murter, Kevin Nguyen, Samantha Nichols, Sinead OCallaghan, Victoria Parks, Rose Pence,
Sinead O’Callaghan,
Valedictorian Madison Shultz,
Salutatorian
Morgan Porter, Isaac Provenza, Tiffany Reed, Brian
Riley, BradLee Rosenzweig, Emily Ryan, Sarah
Scarpato, Dylan Schmuck, Giovanni Senno, Ian
Shelley, Li Shen, Madison Shultz, Benjamin Smith,
Lindsey Smith, Nathan Smith, Samuel Speros, Robbie Stewart, Elizabeth Suenderhaft, Yiyang Tang,
Christopher Taylor, Kathryn Thomas, Rachel Tucci, Natasha Vadas, Redding Welsh, Sarah Wilkes,
Amelia York, Matthew Young, Kyle Zimmerman,
Leonard Zinda
Lebanon Catholic Commencement
“Graduation is the closing pages of a chapter
of our lives. At the end of this night we’ll say
goodbye to people we’ve gone to school with for
years, or in some cases, our entire lives. But tonight isn’t just about goodbyes. Tonight, I invite
you to join me in saying hello to something new.
Hello to new experiences, new places, and new
friends. Hello to the people we’ve become, and
the people who we’ll be in the future. This isn’t
just the time to say farewell to Lebanon Catholic, it is time to say goodbye to who we used to
be, because we aren’t those people anymore. We
are smarter, kinder, and stronger. We walk with
our heads held high because this is our night, and
we’ve made it.”
~ Kristen Behrens,
Lebanon Catholic Co-Valedictorian
Lebanon Catholic School seniors graduated on May
23. Clockwise from top left: Co-Valedictorian Corinne
McCarthy addresses classmates; Co-Valedictorian
Kristen Behrens receives her diploma from Bishop Ronald W. Gainer; Jaylan Colon celebrates his
achievement; Anthony Thomas receives his diploma
from Bishop Ronald W. Gainer; Jannelle Neatrour
shares a laugh with classmates; Gyeongjin Namgung, Emily Morrison and Brittany Groy move the
tassels across their graduation caps; Helene Reist
and Michael Marakowski process in the graduation
ceremony.
EMILY M. ALBERT, THE CATHOLIC WITNESS
“St. Catherine of Siena said, ‘Be who God
meant you to be and you will set the world on
fire.’ …. God intends for us to set the world ablaze
spiritually by the way we live our Catholic faith.
That’s the reason we came to Lebanon Catholic
– to prepare to set the world on fire. But we can
only do that if we follow God’s plan for us. His
plan has gotten us to this point and will take us
where we need to be in the future, but only if we
actively seek out His will. Whether we are the
least or the greatest in the eyes of the world, there
will be only one image of us that matters: the true
image of our souls that God sees.”
~ Corinne McCarthy,
Lebanon Catholic Co-Valedictorian
Danville Parishioners Unite to Renovate St. Hubert’s Chapel
By Emily M. Albert
“I
f you give your time
to the Lord, he will
double your time,” says Patty
Rinaldi, a parishioner of St.
Joseph’s in Danville who offered several weeks of volunteer work to be part of a group
that recently renovated the
parish’s St. Hubert Chapel.
St. Hubert’s is used for
daily Mass and Adoration of
the Blessed Sacrament. It is
named for the former St. Hubert Parish in Danville, established in 1859 for the area’s
German-speaking Catholics.
St. Hubert’s merged with St.
Joseph’s in 1959.
The chapel renovation project resulted from the updates
made to St. Joseph’s main
church two years ago, when
Father Tri Luong, pastor, approached parishioner Cindy
Holdren about painting the
chapel to match the church.
The request started a dominoeffect of renovations at St.
Hubert’s.
Soon after came the idea for
a mural in the chapel, and Mrs.
Rinaldi asked Ana TruquiArmabar if she could paint
murals on the wall behind the
altar. With the murals painted,
the altar and pulpit looked
out of place, so parishioners
St. Hubert Chapel in Danville, with new ceiling tiles, altar, paint and
reupholstered chairs, with a “before” photo (inset).
the electrical aspects. John
Novak kept the finances for
the project in line, and Monica Balz helped with painting
and cleaning. Ginny Haney
also assisted with painting
the stenciled cross behind the
tabernacle,
an Irish cross
called a Carolingian. And
volunteer Judy
Bayer painted
and updated
the
Stations
of the Cross
that were purchased from a
religious items
warehouse in
Allentown.
Each individual
sacrificed
their
time,
offering their gifts
to the parish,
sometimes
early
Parishioners who volunteered to renovate the chapel are, front row from left, Judy from
Bayer, Ginny Haney, Patty Rinaldi, Ana Truqui-Armabar, Cindy Holdren, Monica morning until
late into the
Balz and Dan Marino. Back row from left are Pete Carros and John Novak.
already involved in the project asked for help from Pete
Carros, who does woodwork
in his free time. From there,
the carpet, ceiling tiles, lights
and pews were all updated as
well. Dan Marino helped with
Drawn and painted by Ana TruquiArmabar, original art of the Holy Family from the late 1800s, by Coelle and
Murillo.
evening, after work and on
weekends. They pointed to
Father Luong’s way of asking for help, and how that one
request turns into a group effort for the parish. They also
observed his ability to find the
special gifts each parishioner
brings to the parish community.
“It’s a labor of love,” Mrs.
Holdren said of the efforts,
and the parishioners’ coming
together to complete the project.
After two months and
$7,500 in donations to cover
the expenses over budget, the
chapel was revealed to St. Joseph Parish.
“People are taken aback in
awe because it looks so different,” Mrs. Rinaldi said. “It
unites you more to Christ.”
The entire chapel is beautiful, and the first things you
Stenciled Irish Crucifix, behind a New Stations of the Cross featured painted molding.
cleaned-up tabernacle.
notice when you approach the
altar are the beautiful paintings. Mrs. Truqui-Armabar,
the artist behind these paintings, shared that while in the
process of creating them, she
was diagnosed with breast
cancer. She explained that as
she began the paintings, it was
much like a job to her, but after surgery and returning to the
project, it meant so much more.
“I wanted people to feel the
comfort [in the paintings],” she
explained.
Those who worked on the
renovations have noticed more
people coming in to pray the
Stations of the Cross, and said
the people who attend daily
Mass continue thanking them
for their work.
“You feel a difference. We
are a part of this. There is a
deeper connection,” Mrs. Balz
said.
Drawn and painted by Ana Truqui-Armabar, orginal art, late 1800s, Crucifixion scene by Carl Bloch.
At Bishop McDevitt, Tree Stands in Memory of Bishop McFadden
A brand new Red Oak Tree at the entrance of Bishop McDevitt High School
stands now in memory of the late Bishop Joseph P. McFadden as a testimony to his
dedication to Catholic schools.
Bishop Ronald W. Gainer blessed the tree on a warm and sunny May 22, what
would have been Bishop McFadden’s 67th birthday. Bishop McFadden served as the
Tenth Bishop of Harrisburg from August 2010 until his death on May 2 of last year.
“As we gather in remembrance of Bishop McFadden, we are given occasion to
remember the wondrous works of God, whose beauty shows forth in the work of
his Creation, and whose mercy shows forth in the work of our redemption,” Bishop
Gainer said.
“It is our prayer today that Bishop McFadden and all the faithful who have died in
Christ will know the eternal blessing of God,” he remarked.
The tree planting and dedication was orchestrated by the Father Vincent R. Capodanno Assembly #3167 of the Knights of Columbus, as a means to honor the late
bishop, who worked diligently for Catholic schools, and for the establishment of the
new Bishop McDevitt High School, which opened in January 2013.
Project coordinator Mike Moglia with Assembly #3167 said the tree, which will
grow to be upwards of 100 feet tall, celebrates the late bishop’s life.
“This tree will serve as a living tribute to him,” he said. “Long may it stand with
its branches reaching up to Heaven and out to us, always reminding us that he continues to pray for us, as we pray for him.”
A Knights of Columbus Honor
Guard presents swords as
Bishop Ronald W. Gainer
reflects on the life of Bishop
Joseph P. McFadden following
the dedication of a tree planted
in honor of the late bishop at
Bishop McDevitt High School
in Harrisburg.
A plaque at the
foot of the tree
commemorates
the late Bishop
Joseph P.
McFadden,
Tenth Bishop
of Harrisburg.
Fiat Days • July 6-8
Catholic young women ages 15-25 are invited to attend the Diocese of Harrisburg’s
7th Annual Fiat Days vocation discernment
retreat to spend time with other women
your age as you listen to the Lord’s call in
your life while having fun.
Fiat Days will be held July 6-8 at Mount
St. Mary’s University and Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md. There is no cost to attend,
due to the generosity of anonymous donors.
Please contact the Office of Vocations at
717-657-4804, ext. 282, with
questions or for a registration packet.
Quo Vadis Days • June 22-26
Catholic young men ages 15-25 are invited to attend the Diocese of Harrisburg’s tenth Annual Quo
Vadis Days vocation camp to spend time with other
young men your age as you listen to the Lord’s call
in your life while having fun. Quo Vadis Days are
staffed by priests and seminarians of the Diocese
of Harrisburg, and will be held from June 22-26 at
Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md.
There is no cost to attend, due to generous donors.
Registration forms can be found at www.hbgdiocese.
org, or contact the Office of
Vocations at 717-657-4804, ext. 282, with questions
or for a registration packet.
Summer Missionary Cooperative Appeal
A Letter From the
Diocesan Director
Dear Friends in Christ,
Each summer, the Missionary Cooperative
Appeal takes place in
every parish of the
Diocese of Harrisburg.
Missionaries are
assigned to a parish and
work with the pastor to
schedule a weekend when
they can preach the homily
at all the Masses. These
missionaries love to tell
the exciting news of their
work and ministry as the faith continues to grow
in big cities and little villages in the 1,150
mission dioceses supported by the Society for
the Propagation of the Faith.
To help further their work, a free will
collection is taken so we can join the spread
of the Gospel in a real and concrete way as an
expression of our mission commitment and
solidarity with all missionaries.
Remember: some give to the missions by
going; some go to the missions by giving;
without both, there would be no missions.
Thank you for the warm welcome and
sacrificial generosity you give to the “least ones”
of Christ.
Devotedly yours in Christ,
Reverend Robert F. Sharman
Diocesan Director
Office of Pontifical Missions
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“Of course people need humanitarian aid and support.
But they also need more than this: they need the hope
that comes from faith -- faith in Jesus and His Gospel.”
~ Father Celestino Bundi, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Kenya
How the Summer Appeal Helps:
A Letter from a Missionary
“I am writing this time to request for assistance, in
justice and in charity, for our Catholic primary school
teachers who work in the Northern areas we refer to
as The Bush, because of their remoteness from the
towns.
“When our Diocesan Catholic Education Secretariat assigns teachers to these areas, most of them leave
their families behind and face on their own these highrisk malaria zones, with no electricity, running water,
clinics, good roads, television and telephone. We pay
them an average, negotiated monthly wage of $60,
which is raised solely from the annual $25-tuition
collected per child. This normally pays the teachers
to only about half the year, and the rest of the months
I have to look elsewhere to make up. This year, some
teachers have been paid only up to February.
“Donations from the Mission appeal can help
us transit through these moments for our Catholic
Schools and teachers and forestall the dilemma of
closing down the schools or increasing the tuition,
neither of which will provide a good solution to the
problem.”
(From one of the missionary groups who will be
presenting an appeal this summer.)
Mission Lands Which Are Supported by the 2014 Appeal
Diocese of Chingleput*
Saint Vincent Archabbey*
Oblates of St. Francis de Sales
Dominican Fathers and Brothers, Nigeria*
Society of St. Sulpice
Diocese of Kumbo
Franciscan Mission Association*
Apostles of Jesus*
For More Information
More information about the work of the
Missions Office can be found on the Diocesan
website, www.hbgdiocese.org/missions.
Or contact:
Office of Pontifical Missions,
Diocese of Harrisburg
4800 Union Deposit Road
Harrisburg, PA 17111
717-657-4804 ext. 240
[email protected]
Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary*
Order of Friars Minor (Capuchin-Franciscan)*
Archdiocese of Juba
Diocese of Mandeville
Franciscan Friars, TOR
Redemptorists-Region of St. Gerard
India
Brazil, Taiwan, China;
Education and formation of seminarians
from 20 foreign countries in Latrobe, PA.
Namibia, Benin, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico,
Ecuador, India, and the Ukraine.
Africa
Seminary formation in Zambia
Cameroon (West Africa)
Ghana, Kenya, Jamaica, Japan, Philippines
Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan,
South Africa, Bostwana,
Timor, Nigeria, India
Puerto Rico, Papua-New Guinea
South Sudan
Jamaica
Paraguay (South America)
Central Russia
* Missionaries who also currently serve in our Diocese
Prayers
Continued from 1
The pope stood for more than a
minute and a half with his right hand
against the wall, most of the time in silent prayer, before reciting the Our Father. Then he followed custom by leaving a written message inside a crack
between two blocks.
Rabbi Abraham Skorka, a longtime
friend of the pope from Buenos Aires
and an official member of the papal entourage, said the pope’s message contained the text of the Our Father and of
the 122nd Psalm, traditionally prayed
by Jewish pilgrims who travel to Jerusalem.
Stepping away from the wall, the
pope simultaneously embraced Rabbi
Skorka and Omar Abboud, a Muslim
leader from Buenos Aires and a member of the papal entourage.
The pope also visited a memorial to
victims of terrorism, a stop that had
not appeared on his original itinerary.
It was added at the request of Israeli
authorities, in reaction to his spontaneous decision the previous day to pray
at Israel’s separation barrier in the West
Bank. The separation wall, which Israel says it needs to protect itself from
terrorism, has been a target of Palestinian protests and international condemnation. At the terrorism memorial,
the pope prayed with his hand against
the stone, the same gesture he used at
the separation wall and at the Western
Wall.
Following a brief wreath-laying at
the grave of Theodor Herzl, father of
the Zionist movement that led to Isra-
Pope Francis visits
Bethany Beyond the
Jordan, the traditional site of Jesus’
baptism, southwest
of Amman, Jordan,
May 24.
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el’s founding, Pope Francis visited the
Yad Vashem Memorial to victims of
the Holocaust. There he greeted half a
dozen survivors of the Nazi genocide,
kissing their hands in honor.
“He took my hand in his two hands
and kissed my hand. I was dumbfounded. I never had a rabbi do that,” Joe
Gottdenker of Toronto told Catholic
News Service.
Gottdenker, who was rescued as a
baby by a Polish Catholic couple, said
he “was moved much more than I had
even anticipated.”
In his remarks at Yad Vashem, the
pope echoed and elaborated on God’s
words to Adam after the fall, asking:
“Who convinced you that you were
god? Not only did you torture and kill
your brothers and sisters, but you sacrificed them to yourself, because you
made yourself a god.”
“Grant us the grace to be ashamed
of what we men have done,” the pope
prayed, “to be ashamed of this massive idolatry, of having despised and
destroyed our own flesh which you
formed from the earth, to which you
gave life with your own breath of life.”
Pope Francis’ next stop was a visit to
the two chief rabbis of Israel, leaders of
the country's Sephardic and Ashkenazi
communities. The pope told them that
relations between Jews and Catholics
had progressed greatly in the half century since the Second Vatican Council, which declared that Jews were not
collectively responsible for the death
of Jesus and that God’s covenant with
them had never been abrogated.
Pope Francis called on Christians and
Jews to develop greater appreciation
for their common “spiritual heritage,”
through deeper knowledge of each oth-
er’s faith, especially among the young.
His public appearances for the morning ended with a visit to President
Shimon Peres at his official residence,
where the pope greeted and blessed
a group of children with cancer and
planted an olive tree in the garden as a
symbol of peace.
The pope told Peres that he wanted
to “invent a new beatitude, which I
apply to myself, ‘Blessed is the one
welcomed into the home of a wise and
good man.’”
It was only the latest sign of the
pope’s friendship with Peres, who invited him to Israel shortly after the start
of his pontificate.
In his address at the presidential palace, Pope Francis praised Peres as a
“man of peace and a peacemaker,” and,
as the pope had done the previous day
to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, asked that “all parties avoid initiatives and actions which contradict their
stated determination” to end the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.
The pope also stressed the “universal
and cultural significance” of Jerusalem,
and its importance to Christians, Muslims and Jews.
“How good it is when pilgrims and
residents enjoy free access to the holy
places and can freely take part in religious celebrations,” he said.
As in his speeches to Abbas and to
the king of Jordan over the previous
two days, Pope Francis also spoke up
for the local Christian community, telling Peres its members wished to “contribute to the common good and the
growth of peace,” and thus deserved to
be “full-fledged citizens” of Israel.
In Bethlehem, Near Site of Christ’s Birth,
Pope Speaks out for Children
By Francis X. Rocca
and Judith Sudilovsky
Catholic News Service
Celebrating Mass a few steps from
the spot traditionally believed to the
birthplace of Jesus, Pope Francis said
that the way society treats its young reveals its moral character.
Children are a “diagnostic sign, a
marker indicating the health of families,
society and the entire world,” the pope
said May 25 in Manger Square, outside
the Church of the Nativity. “Wherever
children are accepted, loved, cared for
and protected, the family is healthy, society is more healthy and the world is
more human.”
The Bethlehem Mass was the only
Mass for local Christians during Pope
Francis’ two days in the West Bank
and Israel, the second and third legs of
a three-day journey to the Holy Land.
The Mass was limited to about 10,000
people, but the crowd was enthusiastic,
and many arrived while it was still dark
to get a spot.
The altar was set up in front of a large
mural of the Nativity, but in place of
the Wise Men were the three popes
who had previously visited the Holy
Land – Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
Pope Francis told those gathered in
the square that “children need to be
welcomed and defended, from the moment of their conception.”
He said “all too many children continue to be exploited, maltreated, enslaved, prey to violence and illicit trafficking. Still too many children live in
exile, as refugees, at times lost at sea,
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Pope Francis prays in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank, May
25, the traditional site of Christ’s birth.
particularly in the waters of the Mediterranean,” he said, in apparent reference to African refugees trying to make
their way to Europe.
“Today, in acknowledging this, we
feel shame before God, before God
who became a child.”
Pope Francis spoke of children used
as soldiers and as models for fraudulent
charitable appeals.
“Are we perhaps people who use fine
and pious words, yet exploit pictures
of poor children in order to make money?” he asked.
After the Mass, the pope met with
Palestinian refugee children from four
different camps in the West Bank. He
told them not to let the past hinder
them, but to always look to the future.
The pope smiled broadly as he greeted people in the popemobile, which
drove along a path where he could
greet the maximum number of people.
The crowd released white balloons and
welcomed him with traditional trilling.
Parents held their children aloft on their
shoulders so they could catch a glimpse
of the pope.
Quiet fell over the crowd as the Mass
began in Arabic. At the last few minutes
of the Mass, the Muslim call to prayer
could be heard from the loudspeakers
at the mosque bordering the square,
and for a moment the call and the clos-
ing songs of the Mass intertwined.
Although Israel gave out some 500
permits to people in the Gaza Strip to
travel to Bethlehem for the Mass, only
24 people received tickets to the Mass,
said two Catholics in attendance. At
least two people from Gaza said they
thought Israelis did not give permits
to entire families out of fear that they
would remain in the West Bank.
“I love to be in Gaza and don’t want
to leave Gaza even though it is hard.
Christians have to be strengthened in
Gaza,” said 15-year-old Bolos Swelem,
who was the only one in his nuclear
family to receive a permit and had come
to the Mass with his aunt. “I am here to
see the pope and ask him to pray for us,
for our life to be made easier.”
Regina Carreon, 47, a Filipino working in Tel Aviv, was among the first to
arrive at the square, with five buses of
Filipino caregivers. She said she had
not slept all night.
“It was our target to get in the front,”
she said. “No one was here but us Filipinos. I would stand here even in the
sun to see the pope. I feel so blessed.
I don’t feel tired, I just feel very good
and calm. I will cherish this moment
for the rest of my life.”
Local Scout groups helped with the
organization of the seating and crowd
control, passing out bottles of water,
prayer booklets for the Mass and Palestinian and Vatican flags.
“I think everyone here is happy,” said
Yousef Musalem, 42, of Bethlehem, a
Scout leader who also helped with the
Mass for Pope Benedict. “This is a time
to pray with the pope. Everybody is in
a good mood.”
Diocesan Native Ordained to Priesthood
The names of the following deceased
persons have been submitted by their
parishes:
BERWICK – Immaculate Conception
BVM: Jacklyn (Jackie) Christopher,
Ann M. Dudasko, Wendy (Sarday)
Harvey, Dr. Albert Kapsak, Rosemarie
Melchiorre, Elizabeth (Noble)
Swanson, Beverly Toth.
BLOOMSBURG – St. Columba:
Francis A. Omlor, Jr.
CAMP HILL – Good Shepherd:
William Fabian, Joan Manuella.
CHAMBERSBURG – Corpus
Christi: Edward Edwards,
Donald Roesch, Salvatore Russo,
Joan Schnoor.
COAL TOWNSHIP – Our Lady of
Hope: Victoria Bednar, Frank
Delorso, Dr. Courtney Jones, VMD,
Kevin Spade.
COLUMBIA – Holy Trinity: Donald
DeClementi, Fredrick Rottmund; St.
Peter: Mary DeCarlton.
DANVILLE – St. Joseph: Margaret
DiGiacinto.
DUNCANNON – St. Bernadette:
Kathleen Krieger.
ELIZABETHTOWN – St. Peter:
William (Bill) Hoff, Doris Katsonis.
GETTYSBURG – St. Francis Xavier:
James Litzinger, Walter Magee, Julian
Nadeau.
HARRISBURG – Cathedral Parish
of St. Patrick: Margaret Reilly; Holy
Name of Jesus: Andrew A. Mirarchi,
Gilda L. Segilia Cheyenne G. Zeiders;
St. Catherine Labouré: Catharine
Donohoe, Gregory Wilson; St.
Margaret Mary: Philip Fonner, Mary
Ann Pantano.
LEWISTOWN – Sacred Heart of
Jesus: Fred Gers, Elizabeth
Kruchinsky.
LITTLESTOWN – St. Aloysius:
Frances A. Long, L. Grant Stavely.
MANHEIM – St. Richard: Vinny
Rooney.
MCSHERRYSTOWN –
Annunciation BVM: Kelly Myers.
MECHANICSBURG – St. Elizabeth
Ann Seton: Ginger Brown, Matthew
Brown; St. Joseph: Mary Gabriel,
Noelle Rotondo.
MOUNT CARMEL – Our Lady:
John Olearnick.
NEW CUMBERLAND – St.
Theresa: Anna Ballantine, Margaret
McClain, Raymond McDonald,
Margaret Mickey, Henry “Hank”
Scholz, Nancy Sullivan.
NEW FREEDOM – St. John the
Baptist: Marie Hyatt, Wilfrid Shuchart,
William Warrington, Sr, Richard C.
Wright, Jr.
NEW OXFORD – Immaculate
Conception BVM: Rebecca Kuhn,
Grace Topper.
ROHRERSTOWN – St. Leo the
Great: Lucretia Back.
SHAMOKIN – Mother Cabrini: Mary
Mikulanis, David Schwartz.
STEELTON – Prince of Peace: Anna
T. Gustin, Frank A. Spizzirri.
SUNBURY – St. Monica: Thomas
Barsh.
YORK – Immaculate Conception
BVM: Dorothy Bufflap, Charles B.
Norbeck; St. Rose of Lima: Samuel
Clites, Agnes Myers.
Please pray for the following
clergy who died in June during the
past 25 years:
Deacon Henry Bucher, 1990
Msgr. Matthias Siedlecki, 1990
Father Augustine Zan, 1999
Father Joseph Kelly, 2000
Father Robert Burns, Jr., 2001
Father Thomas J. Gralinski, 2005
Father William Geiger, CSSR, 2007
Father T. Ronald Haney, 2012
Father Andre J. Meluskey, 2013.
What Can Parents Do to Protect
Children From Internet Pornography?
Parents have two main missions when it
comes to pornography. In the words of C.S.
Lewis, they must both cut down jungles and
irrigate deserts.
First, cutting down jungles. The main protection against pornography is defense. We
parents must take defensive measures to prevent our kids from encountering pornography
in the first place. This includes strategies like
installing Internet filters on your home computer (two of the best are Covenant Eyes and
Safe Eyes), having one computer in your home
and placing it in the most public area, and being cautious of the movies and television
shows your children absorb.
This last strategy is particularly important.
Most parents put their defensive focus solely
on pornography. But suggestive movies and
TV shows can have a much bigger influence
on how kids view gender, sexuality, marriage,
and love.
Media that promotes promiscuous sex or
glorifies the objectification of women can be a
real gateway to pornography. The land of porn
is often reached through many small steps—
not large leaps—which means we must seriously battle the subtle, suggestive media delivered through screens every day.
Second, irrigating deserts. Prevention isn’t
the only solution. And it can’t be, for its hedge
only extends so far. You can put Internet filters
on your own home computer, but what about
the neighbor’s computer, or the library’s, or the
school’s? You can control what comes through
your TV, but what about other screens?
We must do everything we can to banish
pornography, to be sure, but we also must take
positive, offensive measures. Ultimately, we
must form our children in the virtue of chastity.
How can we do this seemingly difficult
task? By providing positive examples of loving relationships, by showing men treating
women with respect, by exhibiting the deep
value of marriage. Pope John Paul II’s lifechanging “theology of the body” does all of
this extremely well—if your child hasn’t been
through a “theology of the body” study group,
sign them up or start one yourself.
When it comes to pornography, we parents
must both defend against evil and aggress
against lust. We must guard and fortify, dismantle and build up. We must literally love
the Hell out of our children and vanquish porn
with both a shield and a sword.
It may seem difficult, but you can do it. You
have the Army of the Church, the prayers of
the saints, and a Great Captain who wields the
power of love. So take heart; you’re not alone.
The Lord—and all of heaven—is with you.
(This article is from faithandsafety.org, a
project of the Catholic Communication Campaign. Brandon Vogt is a Catholic social media expert and blogger at The Thin Veil and
author of the book, The Church and New Media.)
On May 31, Marc Vincent Paveglio was ordained
to the priesthood by the Most Reverend John C.
Nienstedt, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of St.
Paul and Minneapolis.
Father Marc Paveglio, formerly of Palmyra, is
the son of Mario and Sandra Paveglio, Palmyra.
His parents are members of St. Paul the Apostle
Church in Annville.
Father Paveglio completed his theological studies at St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity at the
University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. He is
also a member of the Companions of Christ, a fraternity of diocesan priests
in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, which was established as a
public association in 1992.
On Sunday, June 1, Father Paveglio celebrated his Mass of Thanksgiving
at Holy Name of Jesus Church in Wayzata, Minn. He will serve as a diocesan priest for the Diocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Diocesan Students Earn
Awards in Pro-Life Contest
Three students in the Diocese of Harrisburg have won awards in the 2014
Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Student Essay Contest:
Maria Gontis, a seventh-grade student from Holy Name of Jesus School in
Harrisburg, won first place in the junior high division for her essay, “Every
Life Deserves a Lifetime.” Her essay will be published in the Pennsylvania
Pro-Life Federation’s Summer 2014 LifeLines newspaper. She also will receive a cash prize.
Stephen Gontis, an eighth-grade student from Holy Name of Jesus School
in Harrisburg, won second place in the junior high division for his essay,
“Abortion: Masked by the Guise of Choice.” He will receive a cash prize.
Anya Hong, an 11th-grade homeschool student from Lancaster, won third
place in the senior high division for her essay. She will receive a cash prize.
These students’ essays were chosen from about 300 essays submitted by
pro-life students all across Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, Inc., is committed to promoting
the dignity and value of human life from conception to natural death and to
restoring legal protection for preborn children. Through legislation, political
action, education and other legal means, the federation proclaims the truth
about abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia. Learn more at www.paprolife.
org.
Holy Spirit Health System
to Host Lectures for Women
Over the next several months, Holy Spirit’s Spirit of Women in Camp Hill
will host workshops that focus on common women’s health concerns. The Change: Before, During & After Menopause: June 14 from
9–11:30 a.m. This workshop is for women of all ages. Staff will explain
what’s going on in your mind and your body. The focus will be on preventative medicine, supplements to traditional medical care, and telling it like it
is. This workshop also includes a fun belly dancing class.
Beginning in July, Holy Spirit’s Spirit of Women will host a “Passport to
Good Health” lecture series for women. This series of educational workshops is focused on common health concerns. A Tour of Orthopedic Conditions: July 19 from 9-11:30 a.m. Our
first stop is “Greece,” where you will learn more about orthopedic conditions. Our presenter will cover the dangers of shoulder injuries, stress fractures, ACL tears, kneecap pain, plus arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, bursitis, and osteoporosis. This trip concludes with a Tai Chi class.
Charting a Path Against Diabetes: September 20 from 9-11:30 a.m. As
we land in “Spain,” attendees will learn about diabetes, including personal
risk factors and lifestyle changes. We’ll be treated to a cooking class focused on traditional Spanish cuisine but modified for healthy living.
Your Destination for Preventing & Recognizing Gynecological Cancers: November 15 from 9-11:30 a.m. The final stamp on our passport happens in “France,” where we will learn to recognize the early symptoms of
gynecological cancers. Our final overseas activity is a gentle Vinyasa yoga
class. hough not French in origin, yoga’s physical, psychological, and emotional health benefits have been shown to successfully help treat women
already diagnosed with this disease.
To register for any of these workshops, visit www.hsh.org/spirit-of-women. These workshops are open only to Spirit of Women members. Spirit of
Women membership is free, and anyone interested in becoming a member
can sign up online at www.hsh.org/spirit-of-women. All workshops will be
held in Holy Spirit Hospital’s Auditorium, 503 North 21st Street, Camp Hill.
If you have questions, call the Spirit of Women office at 717-972-4149.
Events & Fund-Raisers
Compiled by Jen Reed
Spiritual Offerings
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Mount Carmel will have
a Pentecost Parish Mission by Father Bill McCarthy, MSA, who
teaches at Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, Conn., and who is
involved in Charismatic Renewal. Father McCarthy will preach at
all the Masses on the weekend of June 7 and 8, and will celebrate
Masses at 7 p.m. on June 9, 10 and 11. Any questions, call Father
Frank Karwacki at 570-339-1031.
The Black Catholic Apostolate of the Dioceses of Harrisburg will celebrate an African-American Cultural Mass at St. Joseph Church in Lancaster June 7 at 5 p.m. Music will be rendered
by the Choir of St. Francis Roman Catholic Church in Baltimore. All
are invited to join us in this inspirational Catholic experience where
all can share our gifts. For more information, contact Rita SmithWade-El at 717-203-3441.
Mass in the Croatian language will be celebrated June 15
at 12:30 p.m. in the Prince of Peace--Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary Church, Steelton.
Mass in the Polish language will be celebrated June 15 at 2
p.m. at St. Catherine Labouré Church in Harrisburg. Confessions
will be heard in English and Polish after Mass.
Education, Enrichment
& Support
St. Anne’s Retirement Community in Columbia will host a
Health and Wellness Fair June 6 from 9 a.m.-noon. The event is
free, and open to the public and all ages. Empire Beauty School
will be providing complimentary nail painting, other vendors will
provide services such as blood pressure checks, 3-D spinal
screenings, vision screening, wellness activity demonstrations,
healthy refreshments, cooking demonstrations, and more. For
information, call 717-285-5443 or visit www.StAnnesRC.org.
Adults involved in Catholic Girl Scouts and Catholic Boy
Scouts are invited to the diocese’s Adult Recognition Banquet
to be held on June 16 at 6 p.m., at the Cardinal Keeler Center in
Harrisburg. Following the dinner, recipients of the Saint George
Emblem and Bronze Pelican awards and the National Saint Anne
Award will be honored. Bishop Ronald Gainer will be present to
acknowledge the role of Scouting in the spiritual development of
Catholic youth. Guest speaker for the event will be The Honorable John F. Cherry, Criminal and Administrative Juvenile and
Dependency Judge for the Dauphin County Court of Common
Pleas. For information and reservations, contact the Office for
Youth and Young Adult Ministry at [email protected] or
717-657-4804, ext 327.
Immaculate Conception BVM Parish in Berwick continues its
Year of Evangelization program with the next installment in Father
Robert Barron’s DVD series, “Catholicism: The New Evangelization.” The next session will be held at 6:30 p.m. on June 19,
featuring Lesson 5, “New Methods” of giving testimony to Christ
by the methods we use to communicate. The final session of the
yearlong program will conclude on July 17 at 6:30 p.m., with Lesson 6, “Faith in Action.” For more information, contact the parish at
570-759-8113.
St. Pius X Parish in Selinsgrove is beginning a social ministry
entitled “WinDowS” for people of all ages and faiths who are
widowed, divorced, or single. The gatherings will be held the first
Monday of every month for an evening meal at various restaurants
and/or church halls. The first meeting will be Aug. 4 at 6 p.m. at
Hoss’s Restaurant located on Route11/15 in Shamokin Dam. Other
events will be planned at the group’s discretion. If interested in attending the first gathering, contact Nadine Lawton at 570-473-3527
or 570-809-0245.
Retreats & Pilgrimages
Travel with Father Timothy Marcoe of Christ the King
Church in Benton on a pilgrimage to Fatima and Lourdes with
Proximo Travel from May 21-June 2, 2015. Visit Paris, Lourdes,
Lisieux, Fatima, the Shrine of Montserrat and Barcelona. Cost is
$4,499, airfare and all-included. Find more information at www.
proximotravel.com or contact Father Marcoe for more details at
570-784-3123.
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter will host a summer camp
for boys ages 12-16 in Elmhurst, Pa., July 8-18. Daily Mass, catechism class, sports, hiking, day trips and the Iron Man challenge.
Activities led by seminarians and priests of the Fraternity. For
information, visit www.seminarycamps.wordpress.com/.
Tuscarora Catholic Summer Camp will hold its 21st annual
week of faith-filled, fun-filled activities for Catholic boys and girls
in grades 4-12 at Rhodes Grove Camp July 28-31. It is located
off Route 11 between Greencastle and Chambersburg. Campers
come from parishes in the Dioceses of Altoona-Johnstown and
Harrisburg, and the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Tuscarora XXI’s
Catholic, volunteer, staff includes priests, sisters, a nurse, and lay
persons both married and single, to lead and oversee camp activities. The daily program includes Mass and religious activities along
with swimming, waterslide, high tower ropes, swing, horsemanship, crafts, nature studies and more. Cost is $225 per camper.
For further information and an application, contact Sister Margie
Monahan, CCW, 110 South Third Street., McConnellsburg, Pa.,
17233, or [email protected].
The 36th annual Corpus Christi Men’s Retreat will be held
Aug. 1-3 at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md. The
theme is “Pope Francis and the New Evangelism.” The retreat,
sponsored by Corpus Christi Parish in Chambersburg, will be led
by Msgr. Stuart Swetland, Vice President for Catholic Identity and
Mission at Mount St. Mary’s. The retreat is open to men ages 14
and older. Men are encouraged to bring their sons and grandsons. A $60 deposit is required toward the total cost of $150.
Reservations can be made through local parish coordinators, or
by calling Paul Little at 717-264-2577.
Festivals & Picnics
Holy Trinity Parish in Columbia will host its annual festival
June 4-7 from 6-10 p.m. Special ride nights will be offered each
evening. Bingo will be played on Thursday and Saturday. Spaghetti dinner will be served on Friday from 4:30-7 p.m.
St. Joseph Parish in York will hold its annual carnival June
10-14 from 5-10 p.m. Nightly food specials in the school gym,
served 5-7 p.m., at a cost of $9, take-outs available: Tuesdayshepherds pie, Wednesday-lasagna, Thursday-ham, string
beans and cornbread, and Friday-crab cakes. Saturday features
Vietnamese dinner. Nightly live entertainment on the stage:
Tuesday-Eric Schlosser and group singing and ATOP Band,
Wednesday-Amanda Perko singing and Jerry Duncan Band,
Thursday-Michael Arthur and Cindy David singing and ATOP
Band, Friday-DJ M&M Productions, Saturday-Spotlight Singers
from York Little Theatre and Stereo Driven Band. Games for all
ages, bingo in the gym nightly from 7-9 p.m., nightly BOGO specials on the midway from 5-6:30 p.m., grand prize raffle. Donate
two or more items to the Catholic Harvest Food Pantry, get free
water. More information available at www.sjy.org/carnival.
The annual Divine Redeemer Parish Festival in Mount Carmel will be held on the parish picnic grounds June 13 from 5-10
p.m., and June 14 from noon-10 p.m. Featured at the rain-orshine event will be the ever popular theme basket raffle, favorite
ethnic foods, homemade baked goods, Kidz’ Zone and refreshments. A new addition to the festival will be Father Moran’s Cake
Wheel, a silent auction, and an indoor yard sale. Highlighting the
day will be entertainment by the Shoreliners on Friday, and The
60’s Boys, formerly known as The Mudflaps, on Saturday.
Assumption BVM Parish in Lebanon will hold its festival
June 13 and 14 at St. Cecilia’s Parish Hall and Grounds, Lebanon. Games, food, bingo and music on both evenings. Midway
hours are 5-11 p.m. Friday, and 4-11 p.m. Saturday. A fish dinner
will be featured on Friday starting at 4 p.m. in the parish hall.
Food stands on the festival grounds add menu choices. The
Johnson Brothers will provide the musical entertainment Friday
evening, and the music of Laredo will highlight the Saturday activities. Musical entertainment on our outdoor stage will be featured
from 7-10:30 p.m. both nights. Raffle tickets are also available for
$10, for a chance to win 22 prizes, including a top prize of $1,500
cash. Call Bob Mettley at 717-507-6508 for tickets and details.
Mother Cabrini Parish in Shamokin will hold its annual
Father’s Day Picnic June 13-15. Everyone is invited to join us for
food, games and entertainment. Picnic will be held June 13 from
5-10 p.m., June 14 from 3-10 p.m., and June 15 from 2-10 p.m.
Our Lady of Lourdes Family Festival will be held June 14
from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Enola.
Event located in the back field behind parish center. There will be
a bouncy house, obstacle course and games. Prizes for kids of
all ages. Grilled BBQ chicken dinners will be available. Dinners
consist of 3 pieces of chicken, 2 sides and a beverage for $10.
For more information, call Shawn at 717-386-0037.
St. Joan of Arc Parish in Hershey will host its festival June
19-21 from 5-10 p.m. Food stands, including a pig roast nightly,
silent auction, games, raffles, bingo, jewelry, plants, dunk tank
and kids’ inflatables. Dinners each night, take-outs starting at
3:30 p.m., and seated dining from 4-7 p.m. Chicken cacciatore
on Thursday, Italian and Polish platters Friday and Saturday.
Entertainment features “Colebrook Road” on Thursday, “Crossing
Abbey Road” on Friday, and “Wave Quartet” on Saturday. Visit
www.stjoanhershey.org.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Mount Carmel will hold
its festival June 20 from 6-11 p.m., featuring entertainment by
“The Shoreliners,” and June 21 from 5-10:30 p.m. featuring DJ
Mike Wonsik. Ethnic foods, refreshments, specialty baskets and
games. Rain date is Sunday June 22, in the parish hall, with a
food sale.
Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Conewago will hold its
old-fashioned picnic in the Basilica’s Picnic Woods July 19 from
11 a.m.-9 p.m. Homemade chicken corn soup made outside in
kettles over a fire, live entertainment from “River’s Bend Band,”
family-style fried chicken dinner begins at 3 p.m. Kids’ games,
raffles, bingo, 13-jars, hot dogs, hamburgers, french fries, homemade baked goods table, and more. Bring your lawn chair for a
day of good food, good, entertainment and good people! For more
information, call the parish office at 717-637-2721.
St. Ann Byzantine Catholic Parish in Harrisburg will
hold its annual Slavic Fest July 22 from noon-9 p.m.
Homemade Eastern European foods, eat in or take out. Polka
bands, church tours, world class iconography, chanting & singing
demonstrations, an Eastern European market, games, bingo, 50
theme baskets and cash raffles. Free admission and parking. Call
717-652-1415 or visit www.stannbyz.org. Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Roaring Creek will hold its
annual picnic on the church grounds Aug. 1 and 2 from 6-11 p.m.
Friday features music by “Parrotbeach,” and Saturday features
music by “The 60s Boys.” Great food and dancing nightly. No
coolers allowed on property.
The Holy Infant Council of Catholic Women in York Haven
is holding a used book sale on June 6 from 2-7 p.m. and June 7
from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. at the church, located at 34 Third Street, York
Haven. Hardbacks, paperbacks, CDs, DVDs and children’s books
will be available for sale. Stock up now for summer reading! The Sylvan Chorale will perform Haydn’s “The Creation,”
the story of the creation of the world based on the account of
Genesis and on John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” Performances will
be held June 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Swatara Church of God, Harrisburg, and on June 8 at 2:30 p.m. at the Grace Milliman Pollock
Performing Arts Center in Camp Hill. Tickets are $18 in advance
or $20 at the door. Student tickets for age 17 and under are $14
in advance and $15 at the door. Tickets may be purchased online
at www.sylvanchorale.org or by calling Cathy Keel at 717-5451468.
St. Catherine Labouré Knights of Columbus Council 12811
in Harrisburg will sponsor an indoor flea market June 21 in
Murray Hall from 8 a.m.-noon. Tables are $15 each, or two for
$25. Contact William Logan at 717-564-1520 for reservations.
The 3rd Annual Mitre Cup Golf Tournament to benefit
benevolent care at St. Anne’s Retirement Community in Columbia
will be held June 26 at Bent Creek Country Club, with shotgun
start at 1 p.m. Golfers can play for The Blue Team – Team Harrisburg; or, the Red Team – Team Lancaster. Another way to support
St. Anne’s Retirement Community is through the “Golf Balls from
Heaven” special event. Donations of $50 per golf ball or $100 for
3 golf balls will give you a chance to win the $2,500 prize! The
golf ball that falls closest to the target will be the winner. Need
not be present to win. We are especially excited to announce that
Bishop Ronald Gainer will be joining us. Reserve your spot at the
tournament, purchase “Golf Balls from Heaven”, and/or join us for
our cocktail reception and dinner. For more information, contact
Mary Jo Diffendall, at 717-285-6539 or visit our website for more
information and to register online www.StAnnesRetirementCommunity.com.
Trinity High School’s lacrosse team will host a boys’ and
girls’ youth lacrosse camp July 14-17 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the
high school. Youth in grades 2-9 are invited to attend. Camp will
be led by Trinity’s lacrosse coaching staff, and current and former
players. Cost is $75. Registration information is available by
contacting [email protected].
The Catholic Harvest Food Pantry in York presents its 2nd
Annual Golf Tournament on July 18 at Honey Run Golf Course.
Shotgun start begins at noon with scramble format. Cost of $75
per person includes 18 holes, cart, lunch, dinner and prizes. The
pantry is an outreach ministry Immaculate Conception, St. Rose
of Lima, St. Patrick and St. Joseph parishes, as well as local
businesses, service organizations, and individuals in York County.
There are typically more than 600 families each month who use
our services. For more information, and to resister, visit the CHFP
website at http://www.catholicharvest.org/ or call 846-8571.
Trinity High School Class of 1969 will hold their reunion Aug.
2 from 6-10 p.m. at Duke’s Riverside Bar and Grill, second floor
banquet room, Harrisburg. Cost is $45 per person, to be paid by
July 1. For reservations and additional information, contact Lisa
Wolfe at 717-761-1116 or [email protected].
Parish & Organization News
St. Rose of Lima School in Thomasville has the following
openings: Part Time Computer Teacher and PA Certified First
Grade Teacher. Qualifications for the flexible hours position of
computer teacher include: up to date FBI, PA Dept. of Welfare,
PA State Police clearances as well as complete and pass the
Diocesan Youth Protection on-line video and questions at www.
hbgdiocese.org. Must be able to utilize Microsoft office proficiently
and have a willingness to prepare students for 21st century skills.
Demonstrate knowledge and model internet safety with students
in kindergarten through sixth grade. Be flexible with incorporating classroom curriculum and assisting classroom teachers with
projects incorporating technology skills. Demonstrate patience,
honesty, and model Christian character. Résumé expectations:
Elementary Education degree or computer knowledge based on
previous work experience, or be working towards an education
or technology based degree, and three references. Send résumé
via e-mail to [email protected]. Harrisburg Diocesan
Professional Employee Applications for the first grade teacher
can be found on the Diocesan Website’s Education Page at http://
www.hbgdiocese.org/catholic-schools/employment-applicationssearch/. All background checks must be completed as stated on
the instructions. Send résumé and letter of interest to Peg Rizzuto,
Principal, at [email protected].
York Catholic High School seeks a skilled professional to
lead the advancement division, reporting to the school’s Principal
and will be a member of the administrative team. The successful
candidate will be responsible for the leadership and oversight
of all aspects of the fundraising and stewardship activities for
the school. This would include designing and implementing
comprehensive advancement programs to significantly increase
fundraising results. Included would be the Annual Fund, grant research and proposal writing, stewardship events, donor prospect
research, major gift identification, cultivation of business partnerships, increasing the endowment and Planned Giving. Additionally
a major opportunity exists to establish and grow a vibrant Alumni
Association; the selected candidate would be expected to have a
strong background in Alumni engagement. A strong background in
Event Management, Social Media and Marketing is also preferred.
Go to www.yorkcatholic.org for a complete job description and
application guidelines.
May is Golden for
Diocesan Athletes
McDevitt’s Tesia Kempski soars
across the bar in the pole vault.
By Chris Heisey
When the weather warms in May, it can be counted on that diocesan athletes are
excelling on the track and field at the District 3 Championships at Shippensburg
University mid-month, and on Memorial Day weekend in the PIAA State Championships at the same venue.
And this year was no exception, as athletes brought home numerous championship medals.
At the District 3 meet, in Class AA, the Trinity Shamrocks came in second in
the boys’ team standings, and the girls’ finished third. Individual District 3 Class
AA gold medal winners were:
• Anna Bailey – Bishop McDevitt – Javelin
• Shannon Quinn – Trinity – 800 Meter Run
• Trinity (Emily Dethlefs, Hannah Durbin, Emily D’Amico, Shannon Quinn) –
4 x 800 Relay
• Bishop McDevitt (Tyrone Gibson, Brandon Stanback, Nate Monroe, Austin
Anderson) – 4 x 100 Relay
• Brandon Stanback – Bishop McDevitt – Triple Jump
• Jake McCrea – Trinity – Pole Vault
A week later in beautiful, sunny conditions, the PIAA state Class AA gold medal winners were:
• Bishop McDevitt – 4 x 100 Relay (a full second faster than their District 3
winning time)
• Trinity – 4 x 800 Relay (32 seconds faster than their District 3 winning time)
Trinity’s Shannon Quinn anchors the girls’ 4 x 800.
Brandon Stanback of Bishop McDevitt leaps into the sand of the triple jump. He
also ran the 4 x 100 relay.
Blackhawk Defense Stymies
Delone in Softball Championships
By Jen Reed
Amped with a roster loaded with (juniors), the Delone
Catholic Squirettes surged through the District 3-AA softball
tournament with an offensive punch, topping Annville-Cleona 8-0 and knocking off No. 1 seed Brandywine Heights 9-4
to advance to the finals.
Delone met the Susquenita Blackhawks for the title game
at Garrett Field south of Lancaster city on May 30. The
Squirettes quickly set to work with their bats swinging, earning two runs in the top of the first – Deanna Laughman hit
a single and then scored on a triple by her sister, Katie, who
came home after a sacrifice fly by Shelbee Holcomb.
But the scores turned out to be the only runs Delone
would tally. Standout defensive plays by the Blackhawks’
center fielder Vanessa Hoffman and catcher Kora Zeigler
held the Squirettes at bay, even with bases loaded in the second, and runners in position in the final three innings. In the
end, Susquenita’s defense ran down Delone’s base runners.
Meanwhile, the Blackhawks made some big scores of
their own in four consecutive innings, topping Delone by a
final of 5-2 for their first ever district softball title.
At press time, Delone had advanced to the second round
of the state softball tournament, with a first round win over
Conwell Egan.
Delone Catholic’s Cassie Rickrode stops an attempted steal at home plate.
Delone’s Lauryn King keeps her focus at bat.
(Right) Katie Laughman makes a play for an out in the first inning.
Irish Fall Short in Effort to
Repeat as District Baseball Champs
By Jen Reed
For the Irish of York Catholic, the road
to back-to-back District 3 Class A baseball championships led them straight to
the team they bested for last year’s title,
the Lions of Lancaster County Christian.
With eight returning seniors from that
championship team, the Irish stepped
up to the plate at FirstEnergy Stadium
in Reading, Pa., May 29 and, three just
pitches into the game, already seemed
poised to repeat.
The Irish’s leadoff hitter, Jake Krevetski, smacked a pitch by the Lions’
Kyle Ebersole into right-center field for
a triple, but the early scoring opportunity
was nixed when Krevetski was nabbed at
home after a rundown.
In the bottom of the first and second
innings, the Irish gave up two early runs
– one after pitcher Clint Bohn slipped on
the mound, and another on the heels of an
error. Offensively, York Catholic left nine
on base throughout the game, including
three in the fifth inning, when C.J. Burnside scored the
Irish’s only run
after a sacrifice fly
by Bohn.
The Lions
warded off York
Catholic’s surge at
a comeback in the
top of the seventh,
nipping the Irish,
2-1.
In the first
round of the
state tournament,
the Irish lost to
Devon Prep, 8-5.
ROBERT J. CHADDERDON, ELBE PHOTOGRAPHY
York Catholic’s Clint Bohn and Matt McKim team up to snare a pop-up against Lancaster County Christian.
(Left) Rally caps were not enough for Jack Burnside and his YC teammates, as they
fell one run short in the District 3 Championship game.
Seminarian Stephen Logue
Admitted to Candidacy
for Holy Orders
Seminarian Stephen Logue is shown before the altar during the Liturgy of the Eucharist. During the May 21 Mass at the Cardinal Keeler Center in Harrisburg, Stephen
was admitted to candidacy for Holy Orders.
By Jen Reed
D
uring a solemn Mass celebrated by
Bishop Ronald W. Gainer at the
Cardinal Keeler Center in Harrisburg on
May 21, seminarian Stephen Logue was
admitted to candidacy for Holy Orders.
Stephen is a native of St. Patrick Parish in York, and a recent graduate of St.
Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook.
He will continue his seminary studies at
the Pontifical North American College in
Rome this fall.
The Rite of Admission to Candidacy for
Holy Orders is celebrated when it has been
established that the intention of the young
man aspiring to Holy Orders is supported
by the necessary qualifications and has
achieved sufficient maturity.
During the rite, celebrated during the
Escorted by seminarian Matthew
Cannon, Stephen Logue’s mother,
Peggy, presents the gifts to Bishop
Ronald W. Gainer during Mass.
noon Mass at the Diocesan Center, Stephen
publicly expressed his intention of receiving Holy Orders, and his intention was accepted by Bishop Gainer. Priests, seminarians and their parents, members of the Serra
Club which promotes religious vocations,
and noon Mass attendees were present as a
sign of their support for Stephen.
“Today, Stephen, as you present yourself
for this Rite of Admission to Candidacy,
you remind each of us of our dependence
upon Jesus Christ,” Bishop Gainer remarked in his homily. “We rejoice in the
way you respond to God’s grace and the
call of vocation in your life. We pray for
you. We support you in every possible
way.”
Information about the diocesan seminarians, their formation, and ways to support
them can be found at www.hbgdiocese.org/
clergy/vocations/seminarians/.
Support the Church’s
efforts to remain a
strong voice in the media
Catholic Communication Campaign ~ June 15
This collection communicates the Gospel through Catholic social media
activities and enriches our faith through Internet, television, radio and
print media. Please be generous in the collection, to be taken up in parishes on the weekend of June 15, to support this important work. Remember,
half of your donation stays in our diocese to support our communication
needs. The CCC equips us to share our experience of faith, worship and
witness with the world.
Local efforts include: The Catholic Witness, The Diocesan Web site, INSIGHT e-newsletter, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube videos, Catholic Perspective radio programs, the Parish Bulletin Board on WHYF AM 720, advertisements for our diocese on radio, cable television and in print, and more.
To learn more visit, www.hbgdiocese.org/ccc.
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