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on traditional
marriage
FRANCIS X. ROCCA
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VATICAN CITY – A month after closing a Synod
of Bishops on the family stirred by controversy
over divorce, same-sex unions and other nonmarital relationships, Pope Francis will open an
interreligious conference dedicated to traditional
marriage.
The Vatican-sponsored gathering, on the “Complementarity of Man and Woman,” will take place Nov.
17-19 and feature more than 30 speakers representing
23 countries and various Christian churches, as well
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St. Peter School students gather around the altar at the parish church in San Francisco’s Mission District at a memorial Mass honoring teachers past and present, including volunteer instructor and scholarship benefactor Frederick Clark, pictured with his wife Peggy.
St. Peter School in Mission honors
teachers past and present
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
St. Peter School in San Francisco Mission’s District celebrated a memorial Mass Nov. 2 recognizing graduates from the classes of 1964 and 1989
and teachers past and present.
The 136-year-old Catholic school gave special
recognition to Toni Ortenzo, who retired in June
after 42 years of service as middle school teacher,
and Frederick Clark, who prepares students for
life by teaching “Life 101.”
Clark also started the school’s Inner City Scholarship for parents who are unable to ﬁnance
their children’s ongoing Catholic education.
Hundres of 150 students have beneﬁted since the
program started 18 years ago.
Lilli Beth Fernandez, a St. Peter alumna who
beneﬁted from Clark’s support and now attends
college, thanked the philanthropist.
Auxiliary Bishop Wiliam J. Justice celebrated
the annual Mass, with
concelebrants Father
Tom Seagrave and Father Dan Maguire – all
former St. Peter pastors
– as well as current pastor Father Moises Agudo
and parochial vicar
Father Mark Doherty,
assisted by seminarian
Michael Lilliedahl. Also
Toni Ortenzo
present on the altar was
Deacon David Gamarra from the parish.
The principal of St. Peter School is Gloria
Galarsa, with Karen Hammen vice principal
and Mercy Sister Marian Rose Power director of
development.
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The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a large
number of young adults – and the Archdiocese of
San Francisco is reaching out to them with a new
and improved approach that emphasizes parish
communities.
It’s working.
We are attracting many more young adults to
participate in their Catholic faith at their parish and
beyond.
When I arrived in the Archdiocese of San Francisco a year ago to assume the newly created position
of director of young adult and campus ministry,
there were ﬁve active young adult groups. We have
added ﬁve more and we have another ﬁve who are
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
‘Good and faithful servants’
4th Annual St. John
Vianney Luncheon
honors 95 retired priests
CHRISTINA GRAY
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Perhaps the greatest gift the 95
retired priests of the Archdiocese of
San Francisco have given and still
share is to be “wisdom,” the keepers
of the memory of the community,
Bishop William J. Justice told the
nearly 600 guests at a gala luncheon
in their honor on Oct. 24.
“The wisdom they share with the
younger generation of priests and
seminarians gives courage to this new
generation to walk on, walk forward
with hope in their hearts because
these retired men now are guides
on the road to come and see where
Jesus lives,” he said in prepared
remarks for the Fourth Annual St.
John Vianney Luncheon at St. Mary’s
Cathedral’s Patrons Hall. The event, a
fundraiser for the Priests’ Retirement
Fund, netted $208,000.
“As Pope Francis has said, seniors
must be recognized that they are ‘wisdom’ people and with them – these
men – one can move closer to the
embrace of God,” he said.
Bishop Justice acknowledged the
religious, social, cultural and economic upheavals the priests have
seen in the course of their vocations.
“Their lives are witness to the Christian community, that the lifetime
response to coming to know Jesus
with its ups and downs, successes and
failures, brings hope and mercy to
all,” he said.
“You have been the good and faithful servant,” he said in conclusion,
ending with a quote from Ephesians
1:15-18: “May the eyes of your hearts
be enlightened that you may know
what is the hope that belongs to this
call.”
Msgr. Harry Schlitt, the event’s
emcee, then introduced archdiocesan
development director Basilian Father
Anthony Giampietro, whose department coordinated the event. Father
Giampietro listed the characteristics
so common to priests: quiet service,
prepared to help in any way they can,
always present in prayer to those who
are suffering in any way and willing
to lay down their lives for others.
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Archbishop Cordileone addresses the Fourth Annual
St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests
and supporting the priests’ retirement fund.
(PHOTOS COURTESY DENNIS CALLAHAN)
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Passalacqua, Fred Passalacqua, Christine Manalo, Suzzie Manalo, Arlene Manalo, Iraida Que-de
Veara, and Christine Galvez.
Msgr. Fred Bitanga
and Freda Motak
Father Patrick Driscoll and
Msgr. Warren Holleran
“Often, usually, they don’t know how
wonderful they really are,” he said.
Father Raymund M. Reyes, archdiocesan vicar for clergy, introduced
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Each received an apostolic blessing
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“They no longer refer to them as
retired priests but simply as senior
priests because they never retire,”
Father Reyes said. “They are here
still ministering to us, inspiring us in
a special way and there is no doubt,
today’s attendance and celebrating is
a great testament to how much they
are loved and appreciated.”
Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy closed the luncheon by thanking
the retired priests for the example
they have set for priests facing the
challenges of aging. He said they give
us a “shining example now of what it
means to be a priest fully in our lives.”
“They embrace the priesthood in
their senior years with meaning and
dignity and grace and sacriﬁce, and
understanding the meaning of suffering and embracing it and surrounding it all with a deep sense of the
gratitude of God,” Bishop McElroy
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I and the other priests in the archdiocese give thanks to all of you in your
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Men called to hear Jesus’ words of hope and mercy
Here is Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice’s keynote talk Oct. 24 at St. Mary’s
Cathedral at the Fourth Annual St. John
Vianney Luncheon honoring the retired
priests who served in the archdiocese.
S
cripture scholars tell us that the
first part of St. Mark’s Gospel is
an attempt to answer the question, “Who is this person?”; “Who is
this Jesus of
Nazareth?” It
is a question
that Jesus
proposes to his
disciples in the
Gospels. “Who
do people say
that I am?” And
it is a question
he attempts to
answer in St.
BISHOP WILLIAM
Luke’s Gospel
J. JUSTICE
when he takes
the scroll of Isaiah the prophet
in the synagogue of his small village
of Nazareth and proclaims, “The spirit
of the Lord is upon me, because he has
anointed me to bring glad tidings to
the poor. He has sent me to proclaim
liberty to captives and recovery of
sight to the blind, to let the oppressed
go free and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord” (Luke 4: 18-19).
Today we honor men who have
devoted their lives to answering the
above question: “Who is this Jesus
of Nazareth?” and, “Who do people
say that I am?” They have done so
because somewhere in their lives they
have come to hear Jesus’ words of
hope and mercy. They have asked as
the two disciples in St. John’s Gospel did, “Where do you live?” And
they have accepted Jesus’ answer,
“Come and see.” Their lives have
been dedicated to deepening their
desire to share the Jesus they have
come to know with those with whom
they minister: To bring liberation to
the captives, recovery of sight to the
blind, glad tidings to the poor, to let
the oppressed go free.
On this day of honor and appreciation we ourselves might wonder
who are these men? What can we say
Today we honor men who have devoted their lives to answering
the question: ‘Who is this Jesus of Nazareth?’ and, ‘Who do
people say that I am?’
about them? A quick way to find out
a bit more about them is to check out
their living quarters, whether it is
Nazareth House, St. Anne’s, Serra
Clergy House, an assisted-living
facility, or a private residence. We
might find family pictures: siblings,
deceased or living parents, grandparents, nieces or nephews, close friends.
There also might be photos of couples
the priest has married, children he
has baptized, special parishioners
who have become lifelong friends.
There may also be books in the
room – read over the years, professional magazines, homily hints and
the Liturgy of the Hours (breviary),
and books on prayer, as well as a great
novel currently being read. All these
items would reveal a man of faith
and prayer, a man of concern for his
parishioners and a man of gratitude.
Yet not seen in his arrangement of
his living space but seen in his face,
in his spirit of service, and in his love
for God in God’s holy people are the
challenges these men have faced in
the Lord’s service.
A. For a few, their first assignment
as a newly ordained priest might have
been in the pre-1962 boundaries of
the archdiocese, where he could have
been assigned far from the Bay Area
and his family and friends. He could
have been an associate in Gilroy, or
Turlock or Cloverdale – far away in
those days. Yet he would have shared
with parishioners who this person
Jesus is, and to love his parishioners
and walk with them as they grew in
their love of the Lord.
B. For many, the challenge to respond to the Second Vatican Council
and share its hopes and dreams with
parishioners became a real source of
tension in the parish, and maybe in
their own lives. How do you learn to
say Mass facing the people and in the
local language? What do you say to
the people confused over the change?
C. Then there were the social
upheavals of the ‘60s, ’70s and early
‘80s: civil rights, divided congregations, the Vietnam War, priest friends
leaving the priesthood to marry and
have a family, people calling you by
your first name when for many years,
“Father” had almost been your first
name.
D. The population shifts in the parishes, the challenge to learn another
language and customs, and how to
guide and live with lay leadership.
E. New regulations from the chancery and the civil authorities that
called forth managerial skills priests
did not know they had, or new skills
that they had to learn.
F. The challenges of the Catholic
schools as they turned to lay adminis-
tration and faculties, which resulted
in increasing expenditures.
G. The changes in administration
as new archbishops arrived and later
retired.
H. The reduction in the number of
priests in the archdiocese despite the
growing complexity of parish life and
responsibility.
Yet through all of this, these men
– because they continued deepening
their love for Jesus and knowing who
he is – were more than able to survive.
As pastors they helped to build vibrant communities in their parishes:
parish Pastoral Councils, Finance
Councils, leadership development,
Youth Ministries, prayer groups,
Renew Groups.
Now perhaps the greatest gift they
have given and still share, is to be “wisdom,” the keeper of the memory of the
community. Their lives are witness to
the Christian community that the lifetime response to coming to know Jesus
with its ups and downs, successes and
failures brings hope and mercy to all.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
St. Greg’s 8th grader
hits grand slam for
kids on coast
TOM BURKE
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Many of us help others but rarely know from
experience the real situation of
those we assist. One can’t say
that about Brendan Callagy who
before putting his good deed in
place went to meet the people he
went to bat for.
“My mom and I went to Pescadero to meet the community
and participate in a 5K run to
Brendan Callagy help raise money for the farmworkers and their families,”
Brendan told me via email. “I saw ﬁrsthand the
needs of the community and dedicated myself to
help.”
Brendan then collected more than 200 sports
items for poor children in Pescadero. His effort
is now a springboard for organized sports there
with the help of La Puente, a community resource
center serving residents of the San Mateo County
south coast.
Brendan took up the collection at St. Gregory
School in San Mateo where he is student council
vice president. He said the school community was
very generous. “I had to have my mom come in
and pick up the sports equipment three times. We
collected so many things and everyone thought it
was a great idea.”
Onboard were principal Tom Dooher and student council adviser Cindy Stuart who allowed
Brendan to promote the campaign in talks to
students and write-ups in the school newsletter.
Brendan’s folks are Laura and Mark Callagy.
St. Robert’s parishioner Paul Scannell is his
grandfather. “My grandfather told me about this
community and how close they are to us and how
much they need our help,” Brendan said. “He is a
role model for many but has a special place in my
life.”
In addition, Brendan said his parents have
taught him and his four siblings “how important
it is to give back to those who need it.”
Brendan is still at the plate for his new friends
on the coast. Next will be a drive to collect warm
clothes for farmworkers there.
“The weather on the coast is misty and the
workers get wet but do not have the money to
buy a lot of clothes so often have to work in wet
clothes,” Brendan said. Brendan is also helping
plan an effort to “adopt families” for the holidays.
I asked Brendan about the future: “Right now
I am concentrating on eighth grade, graduating
and getting into high school,” he told me. “I may
want to be an architect and build low income
housing for those that need it the most.”
CONSECRATED LIVES: Notre Dame Sister Barbara Thiella was honored Oct. 11 by Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire for her
“Lifetime of Religious Ministerial Service.” Raised in San Francisco, Sister Barbara entered the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
after high school. She has taught at the sisters’ now closed school in San Francisco as well as at Notre Dame High School, Belmont.
For the last 15 years Sister Barbara has served as chancellor of the Diocese of Stockton. At left is Msgr. Larry McGovern, pastor of a
parish there.
St. Thomas More School’s 60th anniversary
celebration Nov. 9. It all takes place on campus
with Mass at 10 a.m. praying in
a special way for the more than
2,000 students who have graduated from the school during its 60
years.
Following the liturgy, brunch
will be served in the gym with a
welcome to all to walk the familiar halls and classrooms again.
Natalia Tischenko Girlich, vice
Natalia Tischprincipal, is a 1974 graduate of
enko Girlich
the school. The day is hosted by
the Alumni Committee and Friends of STM. Visit
www.stthomasmoreschool.org; call (415) 337-0100;
email [email protected].
DISCIPLES: Barbara Beaulieu, here accepting the John
Diego Award from the man it is named for, was honored Oct. 18
at St. Raphael Parish, San Rafael, during “a community celebration of all those who share their time, talents and treasure” at St
Raphael’s. “Barbara has been a dedicated leader and participant
in numerous parish ministries,” the parish said. John Diego
as model for the award has been a nonstop volunteer at St.
Raphael’s for decades.
DECADES OF LEARNING: Principal Marie
Fitzpatrick is ready to welcome everybody to
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Advice to lawyers: Witness the Gospel with courage
VALERIE SCHMALZ
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Call upon the Holy Spirit for guidance and courage to uphold the important truths of the Declaration of
Independence and the U.S. Constitution, a Washington, D.C., lawyer
and priest told those gathered for
the annual Mass for lawyers in San
Francisco.
“Our perennial challenge, a challenge for this Red Mass, is to help
this nation see again more clearly,
according to reason if not from
revelation, that certain unalienable
rights do exist – the rights of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” said Msgr. Peter Vaghi, who
delivered the homily at the invitation of his friend Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who celebrated
the Oct. 23 Mass.
The Red Mass is named for the
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Mass where the legal profession
prays for inspiration from the Holy
Spirit.
“These rights are immutable and
universal, not ‘values’ created by
the passing electoral plebiscite of
any particular moment in time
and history,” Msgr. Vaghi said in
his homily at Sts. Peter and Paul
Church, stressing the importance
of defending religious liberty at a
time when it is under attack in the
United States and the world.
The St. Thomas More Society
of San Francisco honored Justice
Peter J. Siggins of the California Court of Appeal with the St.
“If someone is really empowered by faith,
they’ll move mountains,” Msgr. Peter
Vaghi said.
The St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco honored Justice Peter J. Siggins of
the California Court of Appeal with the St.
Thomas More Award.
Thomas More Award as part of the
evening’s festivities.
Msgr. Vaghi is an attorney and
pastor of Church of the Little
Flower parish in the Archdiocese
of Washington, D.C. A graduate of
University of Virginia Law School
who practiced law for five years
Archbishop Cordileone is pictured at the annual
archdiocesan Red Mass for the legal profession
Oct. 23.
before entering the seminary, he
remains a member of the Virginia
State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar. His friendship with
Archbishop Cordileone dates to
the period when he attended the
Pontifical North American College
and Gregorian University in Rome
for his seminary and theological
training.
Msgr. Vaghi is also chaplain of
the John Carroll Society, a Catholic
organization of professionals who
support the archbishop of Washington, D.C., and author of a number of
books on faith that grew out of a catechetical lecture series he conducts
for the John Carroll Society.
In a separate interview with
Catholic San Francisco, Msgr. Vaghi
noted that prayer and continuing
education in the Catholic faith is
critical to living as a committed
Catholic professional. In Washington, education and regular prayer
opportunities are offered by the
John Carroll Society where he has
been chaplain for 28 years, he said.
The John Carroll Society sponsors
the Red Mass in the nation’s capital,
which is attended by much of the
nation’s legal elite, including U.S.
Supreme Court justices.
“If someone is really empowered
by their faith, they’ll move mountains,” Msgr. Vaghi said. “We have
a special vocation as lawyers, as
those who serve the cause of justice,
to represent those who don’t have
anyone to represent them.”
“We are called to a life of holiness,
which means a regular prayer life.
Then when concrete questions come,
whether religious freedom, the life
issues – we don’t approach them as
politicians or even just as jurists but
as men and women of the Lord and
we draw inspiration from the Lord,”
Msgr. Vaghi said. “That’s how we
are called to live our lives.”
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(PHOTOS COURTESY OF STAR OF THE SEA AND ALL SOULS PARISHES)
(PHOTO COURTESY TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO)
Left, the archbishop speaks with confirmands during his Oct. 18-20 pastoral visit to All Souls Parish, South Francisco, where he
celebrated Mass with the school community. Right, the archbishop meets with preschoolers at Star of the Sea, San Francisco.
Archbishop Cordileone chats with children Sept. 14 following
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“It was gratifying to him to meet the lay leadership and he got a sense of the commitment and the
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Father Jimenez: Vocation sparked by his students’ slaying in Oakland
VALERIE SCHMALZ
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
When two of his middle school science students
were killed “hanging out on a Friday night” in
Oakland, John Jimenez made a radical decision. He
decided to become a priest.
“I was going to get married. I wanted to teach and
coach sports,” the new pastor of St. Charles Borromeo, told the eighth grade math class he teaches
at the parish school in San Francisco’s Mission District. He also teaches seventh grade mathematics.
“I wasn’t even thinking of a vocation until that
happened,” Father Jimenez, 53, said in an interview. He was seriously involved with a Catholic girl
who shared his values. But losing those two students shook him up. “Why is there violence? Why is
there family breakdown?”
Those deep questions, asked by a young man
whose own parents had separated, was answered
by God calling him to the priesthood.
Born and raised in the Archdiocese of San
Francisco, Father Jimenez lives his vocation today
in the streets, in his parishioners’ homes, in the
church, the school and the city’s hospitals.
“The only way this violence will end is if we give
ourselves to Jesus,” Father Jimenez told the students on a sunny October Monday as they clustered
noisily at tables in the basement classroom, boxes
of World’s Finest Chocolate for the school’s primary fundraiser stacked against one wall.
He went on to explain how to use a number line
to help determine if the answer to an equation was
a positive or negative number.
“As a teacher, I teach them math and help them
to succeed,” he said.
“You get to know them personally and help them
see Christ’s outlook to their lives, that’s where the
vocations will come,” said Father Jimenez. “I’m
hoping that they will see their lives as wanting to
help others. A natural way to do that is through the
church.”
A product of San Mateo public schools who
attended City College of San Francisco and San
Francisco State University, Father Jimenez also
taught sixth, seventh and eighth grade mathematics at St. Peter School, where he was in residence
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Father John Jimenez, the new pastor of St. Charles Borromeo
Parish in San Francisco, teaches at the parish school.
at the parish for five years as parochial vicar and
as chaplain to San Francisco General Hospital. He
learned Spanish while studying for the priesthood
at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University.
“I’ve been through many hard things with my
students. It is a ministry to reach the family, reach
the parents especially in times of trouble,” Father
Jimenez said.
“Another reason I teach in the school is the
school needs help financially. We’re one of the few
inner city schools that reach out to low income
and so we need help to keep the tuition lower,” the
priest said. “Families want their children in a safe
place with good values,” he said.
The Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage and
on the sanctity of life are necessary for peace, said
Father Jimenez, who prays at street corner murder
sites and at 40 Days for Life vigils outside the local
abortion clinic as well as saying Mass in Spanish
each week at Laguna Honda Hospital. He began
volunteering at Laguna Honda as a youth when his
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sacred,” said Father Jimenez.
“It’s tough to be a single parent. I grew up with
separated parents also. I thought deeply about
these marriage breakups because I experienced it
myself,” said Father Jimenez.
“It is what the archbishop is saying about marriage. What’s sacred about intimate relations
belongs in marriage to keep it sacred,” Father
Jimenez said. “When we break that, the result is
the taking of human life, treating people as objects
to manipulate. You can see that economically or
even in the violence we have.”
At St. Charles Borromeo, the parish’s Neocatechumenate movement promotes marriage on a
person-to-person basis, Father Jimenez said. “They
really have this Catholic culture here. The apostolic
groups, the prayer groups encourage people to get
married who might be living together. People really
want to do that,” Father Jimenez said.
“The parishioners see God in their life. They
are able to touch the people around them,” Father
Jimenez said.
“We are always, every day, evangelizers,” said St.
Charles principal Sister Nelia Pernica, a Dominican of the Most Holy Rosary. Six Dominicans teach
at St. Charles, and their white and black habits
and veils model religious life, as does a daily life of
prayer embedded into the school’s schedule, Sister
Nelia said. In the spring, the sisters talk to the students about the possibility of vocation to religious
life and the priesthood, she said.
During 16 years as a priest, Father Jimenez says
he has learned from the priests and people he has
worked with and served. “Catholicism enables
people to work together,” Father Jimenez said.
“The Catholic way and the ritual of the Mass in
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“Christ connects our humanity to God’s divinity. We can’t do it only in a human way. We are
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Young woman trades one vocation
for another of a higher order
CHRISTINA GRAY
On the mystery of her
vocation, Kovalik said, ‘It
wasn’t my doing, I can
assure you. God chose this.’
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Laryn Kovalik
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Laryn Kovalik, a skilled medical artist who
spends her weekdays designing ocular prosthetics for the blind or partially blind, saw her own
life through new eyes after a chance encounter
brought her to the doors of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity residence in San Francisco
where she hopes to one day live as a consecrated
woman.
Verbum Dei is a Catholic missionary community founded in 1963 and approved as an Institute of Consecrated Life by Pope John Paul II in
2000. It consists of nearly 1,000 sisters, priests,
brothers and married couples worldwide.
In San Francisco, the community’s first
U.S. location, consecrated women live out the
Verbum Dei charism of contemplative prayer,
witness of life and apostolic ministry through
prayer groups, weekend retreats and scriptural
study.
Giving up a promising career and the possibility of marriage and family to live a celibate, communal life of prayer and poverty was an unexpected choice, Kovalik, 29, said in an interview
with Catholic San Francisco at the community’s
Mission District house.
She talked about the mystery of her vocation.
“Well, it wasn’t my doing, I can assure you
that,” she said from a comfortable downstairs
corner of the house where the songs of a nighttime prayer group could be heard. “It wasn’t me
who chose this, God chose me,” she said.
Fresh-faced and dressed simply in a skirt, Tshirt and sandals, Kovalik was virtually indistinguishable from the order’s professed sisters
who gathered to greet her, except for the band
on their left hands symbolizing a lifetime vow.
Kovalik moved to the Bay Area in early 2013,
intent on a career as a medical artist after years
of specialized training. She had only been here
a week when after a Sunday Mass in Oakland
a young woman in the congregation bicycled
Eager to make new friends, she said yes, but
was confused when she rang the bell at what
looked more like a church than a home. A young
woman greeted the bewildered guest, introduced
herself as a Verbum Dei sister and welcomed
her to join the community’s prayer group. Kovalik’s apprehension fell away during lectio divina,
a meditative form of prayer she had learned
with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps after college.
“During prayer that night I felt like I had
come home,” she said. It was after that evening,
God, our Father, In Your providential Love, You call each of us to a more holy and
abundant life. We pray for our young people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Open
their hearts and minds to know the vocation You have planned for them from all eternity.
If they are being invited to follow You as a Priest, Brother, or Sister, give them a
generous heart to respond to Your challenging call and the strength to follow wherever
You lead them. May families desire to please You by encouraging and supporting vocations
within their homes. We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Good Shepherd. Amen
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(PHOTO BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Father John Jimenez celebrates Mass at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco. He began volunteering at Laguna Honda
as a youth when his grandfather was a resident.
FATHER JIMENEZ:
Called to priesthood
FROM PAGE 8
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VERBUM DEI: Woman trades one vocation for another of a higher order
FROM PAGE 9
she said, that the “seeds that my
parents planted were watered and
began to germinate.”
Raised in a loving Catholic family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Kovalik said she had approached
her faith like a “sacramental punch
card,” checking off each step from
baptism to confirmation without
really encountering God. When
invited by a high school friend to a
Kairos weekend, a three-day Christian retreat, the application asked
her, “How do you talk about God?,”
and she answered: “I don’t.”
She returned to pray with the
community on weekends and on
Good Friday, she said an unexpected desire swept across her heart. “I
want to be their sister,” she heard
herself say. She dismissed the
thought but in prayer the next day
she said, “my heart burned with
it.”
Her friends, even some Catholic
Listen
(PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Laryn Kovalik, second from right, and women of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity sing
together Oct. 28 at the community’s house in San Francisco.
friends, questioned why she would
want to leave a profession that
… with the ear
of your heart …
Rule of St. Benedict, Prologue
offered many of the rewards of
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“What I do is to restore wholeness
in physical form. But now I desire to
bring people a deeper wholeness by
inviting them to rest in God’s loving
gaze,” she said.
During a pilgrimage to El Salvador
with the community, she said she
“placed my life on the altar before
God” and upon her return she began
“living the question” – working
weekdays and spending weekends at
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“God interrupted all my plans and
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Jesuit Father Paul J. Fitzgerald inaugurated 28th president of USF
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Father Fitzgerald opened his homily by referencing St. Paul’s letter to
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Washed clean by blood
“Miter and Voice” is a new feature in Catholic San
Francisco, in which Archbishop Cordileone speaks
about important issues confronting the church and
society. For the inaugural column of “Miter and Voice”
the archbishop muses about the Giants’ victory and the
feast of All Saints. His thoughts are based on a homily
he gave on Nov. 1 to 1,200 people gathered in the Holy
Cross Mausoleum Chapel at Holy Cross Cemetery in
Colma for Mass celebrating All Saints.
A
s great as the Giants’ third World Series victory
in ﬁve years was, we celebrate today something even greater: the victory of the saints
over death and evil. Recently all of San Francisco
basked in the glory of the
triumphant Giants. Today we
are just as excited to contemplate the saints, not processing down Market Street, but
reigning with Our Lord in
heaven.
What we Giants fans love
most about the Giants is that
they play as a team. It’s not a
group of superstars who win
the game; it takes a team,
ARCHBISHOP
they have to play like a team,
SALVATORE J.
not superstars. That’s the
CORDILEONE
approach of the Giants: all
for one and one for all. That
is a bit like the Church. Of
course, Christ is more exalted than any baseball
player. But what the Church is known for is the
willingness of many Catholics to play their role
and give their all to Christ.
Today we honor the saints in heaven, which is
the Church triumphant. Tomorrow, Nov. 2, we pray
for those members of the Church in Purgatory, the
Church suffering. And all of us here on earth are
members of the Church militant.
Just as we San Franciscans shared in the glory
of the Giants, the saints share in the glory of the
Lord: “These are the ones who have survived the
time of great distress; they have washed their robes
and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb”
(Revelation 7:14). The saints were once part of the
Church militant. We, the Church militant, are still
in the period of “great distress.” We have to ﬁght
against sin and evil and temptations. But we ﬁght
together, as a team, as members of the Church.
And the saints are with us still. In fact, part of the
mystery and glory of the Eucharist is that all three
parts of the Church are present as we celebrate the
Mass. The medieval commentators on the Mass saw
W
(PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
The archbishop celebrates All Saints’ Day Mass Nov. 1 at Holy
Cross Cemetery in Colma.
this symbolized in the breaking of the host after the
Our Father. The priest ﬁrst breaks the host in two
and then breaks a small particle off from the corner
of one of the two halves. There are then three
pieces of the host, representing the three parts of
the Church. The small particle of the host is placed
in the chalice containing the Blood of Christ. This
piece, now mixed with the Blood of the Lamb, represents the Church triumphant, those who have been
washed clean by the Blood of the Lamb.
The Church has people from all walks of life,
each with a variety of gifts and talents. Holiness
comes in many different shapes and colors, vocations and walks of life. Our talents and projects
reﬂect God’s glory and we are to use them to give
glory to God.
In the canonized saints the variety of gifts is obvious. They are apostles, martyrs, virgins, spouses,
teachers, doctors, monks, missionaries, parents,
widows, poor people, wealthy people, people of great
or little learning, and people who renounce wealth,
marriage, and advancement in the world. All these
people are part of our Church, they are our brothers and sisters in Christ; they are united to Christ.
This diversity of holiness is reﬂected in the ﬁrst
Eucharistic Prayer, known as the Roman Canon. It
is the longest Eucharistic Prayer, containing two
long lists of saints. But the point of it is precisely to
celebrate this diversity, particularly in the talents
and the striving of the saints across centuries.
These saints are our heroes, and, just as many
people have memorized the names of all the players on the Giants, so these names are etched in the
memory of the Church.
In the vision depicted in the reading from the
Book of Revelation, John sees a great multitude,
“which no one could count, from every nation,
race, people, and tongue. They stood before the
throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes
and holding palm branches in their hands” (Revelation 7:9).
The image here should startle anyone accustomed to doing laundry. St. John says the robes
of the martyrs are made white in the Blood of the
Lamb. Although a martyr dies by shedding his or
her blood for Christ, the martyrs appear before
Christ not in bloodstained clothes, but in spotless
white robes.
A martyr makes the ﬁnal commitment to Christ
in a very clear manner. (The root of the word
“martyr” means to give witness.) Each surrender
to Christ in this life is a participation in the life of
Christ. Indeed, when we receive Communion, we
unite ourselves to Christ – body and blood, soul and
divinity. This means we also unite ourselves to his
Will. We mingle our blood and our will with His
Blood and His Will.
A ﬁnal commitment to Christ of each Christian
at death is preceded by many prior acts of surrender. Just as in baseball one counts runs scored,
the number of base hits, and errors, so each of us
should do this, at least for ourselves. As a personal
discipline each Catholic should keep “score” of
not what wins baseball games, but rather of which
deeds help or hinder the entire Church. In fact, we
should keep score daily of runs, hits, and errors.
Errors are sins, hits are regular individual acts of
surrender, and runs are acts of surrender made
powerful by doing them together with others. Like
the Giants, we score runs by many individual surrenders to the will of Christ. The surrender of one
Catholic to Christ advances another Catholic who
surrenders to Christ. We Catholics are a good team.
Newly beatified pope championed justice and peace
ith numerous armed conﬂicts raging in
various parts of the world, and the Vietnam
War worsening, Pope Paul VI on Oct. 4, 1965,
proclaimed before the U.N. General Assembly: “No
more war, war never again.
It is peace, peace which must
guide the destinies of peoples
and of all mankind.”
Unfortunately, in 1965 the
world did not heed Blessed
Paul VI’s prophetic words.
And sadly, it has not heeded
them since.
From Mexico to South
Sudan, from Syria to Ukraine,
from Russian and U.S. nuclear
TONY MAGLIANO
weapons threatening each
other to the endless “war on
terrorism,” today more than ever the world needs to
heed Blessed Paul’s plea: “No more war, war never
again. It is peace, peace which must guide the destinies of peoples and of all mankind.”
Since Pope Paul had tremendous respect for all human life – starting at conception – it is providential
that the miracle granted by God through his prayerful intercession involved the healing of an unborn
child.
According to Vatican Insider, in California an
unborn child in 2001 was diagnosed with liquid in the
abdomen and an absence of ﬂuid in the amniotic sac.
When every corrective attempt failed, the doctors
said the baby would die before birth or be born with
dangerous renal impairment.
When abortion was offered as an option, the
(CNS PHOTO/GIANCARLO GIULIANI, CATHOLIC PRESS PHOTO)
Pope Paul VI greets the crowd as he visits the parish of Jesus
the Divine Master in Rome April 2, 1972.
mother refused. Instead, she prayed for a miracle
asking Pope Paul’s intercession to God. Ten weeks
later test results revealed that the unborn child had
signiﬁcantly improved, and was born by Caesarean
section.
The boy is now a healthy adolescent considered
completely healed. The Vatican’s medical consultation team headed by Patrizio Polisca conﬁrmed that
it was impossible to explain the healing scientiﬁcally.
Over 40 years ago Blessed Paul VI foresaw the
impending environmental disaster facing humanity today. In his apostolic letter “A Call to Action”
he warned: “Man is suddenly becoming aware that
by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks
destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of
this degradation.”
In his day, and even more so today, in a world
where great economic inequality exists – where the
rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting
poorer – Blessed Paul VI in his prophetic encyclical
letter “On the Development of Peoples” clearly challenged this grave injustice.
He wrote, “God intended the earth and everything
in it for the use of all human beings and peoples.
Thus, under the leadership of justice and in the
company of charity, created goods should ﬂow fairly
to all. …
“Extreme disparity between nations in economic,
social and educational levels provokes jealousy and
discord, often putting peace in jeopardy.”
Instead of largely ignoring the reasonable and just
demands of countless oppressed people, and then going to war against them when they rise up, we should
tirelessly work for social justice for all people.
For as Blessed Paul VI continued to teach: “When
we ﬁght poverty and oppose the unfair conditions of
the present, we are not just promoting human well
being; we are also furthering man’s spiritual and
moral development, and hence we are beneﬁting
the whole human race. For peace is not simply the
absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance
of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day
after day toward the establishment of the ordered
universe willed by God, with a more perfect form of
justice among men.”
MAGLIANO is a syndicated social justice and peace columnist.
OPINION 15
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
P
Hermits, monks and Benedictines
ope Francis has declared 2015
as the Year of Consecrated Life.
It marks the 50th anniversary
of “Perfectae Caritatis,” the Second Vatican
Council document calling
for renewal
in religious
life. “Consecrated life”
is the broad
designation the
church uses
to describe
the men and
BROTHER
women in a life
JOSEPH MURPHY
of vows (typically poverty,
celibacy and
obedience) alone or as members of
religious orders, congregations, and
secular institutes. The many forms
of consecrated life today trace their
origins back to the earliest centuries
of the church with the development
of monasticism.
Monasticism and its place in
Catholicism are widely misunderstood. Few Catholics have contact
with monks or monastic nuns and
these limited perceptions are further
clouded by urban legends and faulty
images presented in ﬁlms and on
television.
Following the conversion of
Constantine (A.D. 272-337), who was
the ﬁrst Christian Roman emperor,
Christianity became legal and went
mainstream. Christians were no longer being put to death in the empire,
so martyrdom became a less likely
path to heroic sanctity. At the same
time, a less intense commitment
to the faith unfortunately became
widespread.
In reaction to this weakened fervor,
some people, led by the Holy Spirit,
became “white martyrs,” by retreating into the wilderness in order to
pursue a solitary life of asceticism
and constant prayer as anchorites
or hermits (they were called “white
martyrs” because they did not shed
blood.) These men and women sought
Perspectives from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers
the “perfect” life offered by Jesus
to the rich man in the Gospel (Matthew 19:21). Their life was deﬁned by
renouncing marriage, property, and
social status while observing an orderly sequence of work, prayer (daily
recitation of the Psalms), spiritual
reading and fasting. These anchorites were the ﬁrst monastic men and
women.
The term “monastic” derives from
the Greek word “monos,” meaning
“alone.” However, living completely
alone with little or no support and
without the company of others
proved to be extremely difficult for
most people. In time, monks (and
separately, nuns) formed independent
communities under the guidance of
an abbot (or abbess), and attempted to
develop and maintain a degree of solitude or “aloneness” with God. These
monasteries established their own
customs, traditions, and regulations,
often based on practices handed down
or borrowed from other monasteries. The emergence of the monastic
community (“cenobium” in Greek)
brought two forms of monastic life
into being: that of the anchorite (hermit), or the cenobite (monastic life in
community).
St. Benedict of Nursia (480-547)
is said to have established several
monasteries by the time he wrote his
“Rule for Monasteries” toward the
end of his life. Besides its teachings
on humility, obedience, simplicity,
and prayer, Benedict’s rule also lays
out a model structure of life sur-
rounding the “work of God” (Liturgy
of the Hours and Eucharist), meditative and contemplative reading of
sacred Scripture and other spiritually
inspired literature (“lectio divina”),
manual labor, and fraternal charity.
As Emperor Charlemagne (died in
814) attempted to unite Europe, the
“Rule of Saint Benedict” emerged as
the most popular monastic rule in the
Empire. It was the founding of the
Abbey of Cluny (910) and its daughter
houses that gave birth to the “Order
of Saint Benedict” we know today.
Subsequent reforms in monastic
observance resulted in the formation
of newer monastic orders, such as the
Cistercians in 1098.
Throughout history, some Benedictine monasteries maintained a
“contemplative” or cloistered lifestyle
apart from the world, in contrast to
those houses that engaged in “active” apostolates such as education,
parochial ministry, and missionary
work. Among the Benedictine reform
efforts was the Subiaco Cassinese
Congregation (formed in 1867), a
worldwide federation of autonomous
monasteries of monks and associated
monasteries of nuns, that adheres to
a contemplative observance of Benedictine monasticism.
A ﬁrst reading of the rule may
puzzle some people because of its
recommendation of corporal punishment for wayward monks, because
it forbids the telling of jokes and
laughter, and also teaches what may
seem to be a rather severe concept
Courageous witness
Reflection uplifting
I too want to congratulate Catholic San Francisco for publishing
the three-part series exposing the
money behind the organization calling itself “faith something or other.”
Just putting faith in its title is a
breach of truth.
Next, I want to congratulate your
publication for supporting Archbishop Cordileone for his speaking out
on traditional marriage despite all
the opposition and threats he had.
Then I read about the priest in Sicily, Italy, who stood up against the
Maﬁa and was killed for it. I realized
there is no end to the spiritual battle
we are all waging.
Someone said that all evil needs to
prevail is for Christians to remain
silent or be indifferent.
I thank you for your courage in
writing and publishing such articles.
Be assured all of you involved in the
publication are in my prayers daily
and I hope others who feel the way I
do will pray diligently for you also.
God bless you all.
Juanita Douglass
Redwood City
The writer is a member of St. Pius
Parish.
Re “The answer is right in front of
us,” Deacon Michael Murphy, Sunday Scripture reﬂection, Oct. 24:
I was uplifted by Deacon Murphy’s
reﬂection. There is no more powerful evangelization than love. Jesus’
radical and inclusive love is what
attracted followers, and healed and
changed lives. Deacon Murphy’s
words are the heart of the Christian message that the world needs
as much today as it did 2,000 years
ago. Thank you, Deacon Murphy, for
bringing us back to our source – a
well of living water in a parched
land!
Catherine Regan
San Francisco
at Vatican ll had returned.” There
was open controversy in the early
and medieval church, he reminds
us.
There was “theological confusion”
at the synod.
No legitimate reporter would expect the synod to embrace same-sex
marriage.
Most of bishops and theologians
who set the agenda for Vatican II
are dead. Notable exceptions include Benedict XVI and Hans Kung.
There certainly was theological
controversy at the synod, and that
in itself is extraordinary in view of
the tightly controlled, scripted and
buttoned-down versions of synod
we have seen since Vatican II. The
confusion however belongs to Mr.
Weigel who overlooks some extraordinary facts:
1) This synod was called by a pope
of humility. But a closer look demonstrates that Benedict also holds a
surprisingly profound respect of the
human person.
The rule says that monks should
pay obedience to one another as well
as to the abbot. Hospitality should
be extended to guests as if Christ
himself is being received in them. It
encourages the development and employment of talents, crafts and other
skills on their own merit – not just as
a means for making money! The rule
also allows superiors of individual
houses to use their own discretion in
modifying or adapting certain customs according to the local situation.
The second to last chapter (#72)
of the rule speaks eloquently of
the “good zeal” that monks ought
to have. In effect, even for monks
“attitude is everything!” The rule
recognizes that all of us are “works
in progress” and that the hand of
God is at work in the mundane and
ordinary: work, prayer, and spiritual
reading. The rule states that the
“Divine Presence is everywhere” and
that an attitude of joyful trust and
dependence upon God creates the
“good zeal” which transforms the
ordinary into the extraordinary.
For 1,500 years, the church has been
enriched by the ancient monastic
tradition represented by “The Rule
of Saint Benedict.” Communities of
nuns as well as monks have also identiﬁed themselves as Benedictine, and
laypepeople – men and women – have
enhanced their spiritual lives by associating themselves to monasteries
as “Benedictine oblates.” From the
sixth century A.D. down to our own
day, Benedict’s rule and the Benedictine monastic tradition continue to
thrive and inspire the lives of men
and women everywhere.
BROTHER JOSEPH is a monk in vows to the
Archbishop of San Francisco and is on
a mission to establish a contemplative
Benedictine monastery in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information
about this new foundation, please visit:
www.saintgregorymonastery.org.
LETTERS
Synod’s extraordinary facts
Re “An extraordinary synod, indeed,” George Weigel, Oct. 24:
George Weigel decries the “massmedia misperception” that the
church was about to “cave in”on the
nature of marriage at the recent
Synod on the Family. Then he rants
about “many Northern European
bishops and theologians (who) acted
as if the blissful years when they
set the agenda for the world church
who required open transparent
and honest dialogue among participants.
2) Input was sought and obtained not
only from hierarchy but from laity.
3) Dialogue, discussions and discernment will continue through the
next year and through the next synod.
Smells like collegiality to me.
Robert M. Rowden
San Rafael
Apologies to Browning
I trust George Weigel knows now
that he owes his “apologies” to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, not Shakespeare, for quoting “Let me count the
ways” in his Oct. 24 column on the
synod.
John Ahlbach
Pacifica
The writer teaches theology at Archbishop Riordan High School.
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16 OPINION
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
What psalm will I sing?
Here is Presentation Sister Stephanie
Still’s reflection at vespers Oct. 20 at St.
Mary’s Cathedral – in a prayer service
inaugurating activities in the archdiocese
for Pope Francis’ Year of Consecrated
Life, honoring religious women and
men. Sister Stephanie is president of
the Sisters of the Presentation in San
Francisco, a community of Catholic
women religious committed to living and
transmitting the message of Jesus Christ
through prayer and service.
I
t always surprises me to remember
that the psalms were sung and according to Scripture were actually
dance music, as we hear that David
danced before
the Lord singing psalms.
This tradition
of singing
the psalms is
observed in
liturgies such
as this evening
and preserved
in monastic
observances
SISTER
yet often the
STEPHANIE
psalms are
STILL, PBVM
intoned seriously and that
dance beat, the
psalms heartbeat, is lost.
As I reﬂected upon the psalms
chosen for this evening, I wondered
for myself what psalm would I sing
based on my more than 30 years
of living consecrated life? When it
comes to dancing, I always say my
people have no rhythm so I started
to write that option off.
Yet in the depth of my heart, I
have asked myself over the last few
weeks, what is the beat to which I
(PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Members of religious communities gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 20 for evening prayer
in honor of the opening of the Year of Consecrated Life, with a reflection by Presentation Sister
Stephanie Still and remarks by Archbishop Cordileone.
have lived this life as a sister, what
is that dance rhythm that would witness to my call of being chosen by
God as we hear in the reading from
Ephesians?
What is the psalm I would sing?
How could I sing my consecrated
life?
Would it be a song of lament for
things that haven’t gone my way or
for the diminishing future of religious life as I have lived it?
Would it be a song of thanksgiving
for all the opportunities I have been
given to serve God and God’s people
in my years of ministry?
Would it be a song of hope and
trust because I know that God has
brought me too far to let me go or
let me down now?
Would it be a song of freedom and
possibility for vows lived and God’s
promises kept to me?
Would it be a song of joy because
I have been gifted with a sense of
purpose, with a life in a faith-filled
community, and a congregation that
continues to teach me a spirit-filled
charism and how to be a woman of
justice?
Would it be a love song because I
fell in love with a God who loved me
first and who holds me tenderly all
the days of my life?
Would it be a song with all these
musical life themes? If so, it would
be a real song and a long song.
And, so it should be because today I
stand here, you stand here, not just
expressing our own vocation and
call, but as witnesses to a rich tradition of all our brothers and sisters
who have lived this life before us.
And our song, although long has
no end, because others will come in
other generations to sing the song
and keep the beat going.
What a blessing, what a gift. We
are often praised for what we have
done for others and that is certainly part of our life. Tonight let
us praise the God we trust and take
refuge in the gift each one of us was
given in this extraordinary life.
Our Scripture tonight tells us
and I hope we believe it in our
hearts, that we have been chosen
for this life and every day we have
the opportunity to sing a new song
or revel in an old song, to take
up a new beat or tap along with a
familiar one, to learn a new dance
step or just be glad we can sway in
place.
As we celebrate consecrated life
tonight and throughout this year,
let’s break out to sing our lives and
to dance before the Lord. As we give
expression to the fullness and many
facets of our lives, may we lead others to do so, also.
And, when we see each other
in our ministries, in our community life, in the many meetings we
participate in, let’s be sure to ask
“What song are you singing today?”
And, who knows we may even dance
together.
As IS approached, seminarian saved the Blessed Sacrament
JOHN PONTIFEX
Bombs are falling and the sound of the explosion is sending shock and fear into the hearts of
the people. Amid the sound of crying and frenzied activity, people pack up what belongings
they can carry and make off into the night.
In the midst of it all stands Martin Baani, a
24-year-old seminarian. It’s dawning on him that
this is Karamlesh’s last stand.
For 1,800 years, Christianity has had a home
in the hearts and minds of the people of this
village, so full of antiquity, located near Mosul
in northern Iraq. Now that era is about to be
brought to a calamitous end – Islamic State are
advancing.
Martin’s mobile phone rings: A friend stammers out the news that the nearby town of
Telkaif has fallen to “Da’ash” – the Arabic name
for Islamic State. Karamlesh would surely be
next.
Martin dashes out of his aunt’s house, where
he is staying, and heads for the nearby St Addai’s Church. He takes the Blessed Sacrament,
a bundle of official papers and walks out of the
church. Outside a car awaits – his parish priest,
Father Thabet, and three other priests are inside.
Martin gets in and the car speeds off. They
leave Karamlesh and the last remnants of the
village’s Christian presence go with them.
Speaking to Martin in the calm of St Peter’s
Seminary, Ankawa – a suburb of the Kurdish regional capital of Erbil – it is difficult to imagine
he is describing anything except a bad dream.
But there is nothing dreamy in Martin’s expression. “Until the very last minute, the Pashmerga
(the Kurdish armed forces protecting the villages) were telling us it was safe.
“I could easily go,” says Martin Baani, a seminarian who lives
in Islamic State-besieged northern Iraq and has family in
California. “But I want to stay. I don’t want to run away from
the problem.”
“But then we heard that they were setting up
big guns on St Barbara’s Hill (on the edge of
the village) and we knew then the situation had
become very dangerous.”
Taking stock of that terrible night of Aug. 6,
Martin’s conﬁdence is bolstered by the presence
of 27 other seminarians at St Peter’s, many with
their own stories of escape from the clutches of the
Islamic militants.
Martin and his fellow students for the priesthood
know that the future is bleak as regards Christianity in Iraq. A community of 1.5 million Christians
before 2003 has dwindled to less than 300,000. And
of those who remain, more than a third are displaced. Many, if not most, want a new life in a new
country.
Martin, however, is not one of them. “I could easily go,” he explains calmly. “My family now live in
California. I already have been given a visa to go to
America and visit them.
“But I want to stay. I don’t want to run away from
the problem.”
Martin has already made the choice that marks
out the priests who have decided to stay in Iraq; his
vocation is to serve the people – come what may.
“We must stand up for our rights; we must not be
afraid,” he explains. Describing in detail the emergency relief work that has occupied so much of his
time, it is plain to see that he feels his place is to be
with the people.
Martin is already a subdeacon. Now in his ﬁnal
year of theology, ordination to the priesthood is
but a few months away.
“Thank you for your prayers,” says Martin, as I
take my leave of him. “We count on your support.”
PONTIFEX is a senior journalist for Aid to the Church
in Need, an international Catholic charity under the
guidance of the Holy See, providing assistance to the
suffering and persecuted church in more than 140
countries. FAITH 17
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
SUNDAY READINGS
Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
He spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said,
‘Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.’
JOHN 2:13-22
EZEKIEL 47:1-2, 8-9, 12
The angel brought me back to the entrance of the
temple, and I saw water flowing out from beneath
the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the
façade of the temple was toward the east; the water
flowed down from the southern side of the temple,
south of the altar. He led me outside by the north
gate, and around to the outer gate facing the east,
where I saw water trickling from the southern side.
He said to me, “This water flows into the eastern
district down upon the Arabah, and empties into
the sea, the salt waters, which it makes fresh.
Wherever the river flows, every sort of living creature that can multiply shall live, and there shall
be abundant fish, for wherever this water comes
the sea shall be made fresh. Along both banks of
the river, fruit trees of every kind shall grow; their
leaves shall not fade, nor their fruit fail. Every
month they shall bear fresh fruit, for they shall be
watered by the flow from the sanctuary. Their fruit
shall serve for food, and their leaves for medicine.”
PSALM 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9
The waters of the river gladden the city of
God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!
God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-pres-
ent help in distress. Therefore, we fear not, though
the earth be shaken and mountains plunge into the
depths of the sea.
The waters of the river gladden the city of
God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!
There is a stream whose runlets gladden the city
of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High. God is
in its midst; it shall not be disturbed; God will help
it at the break of dawn.
The waters of the river gladden the city of
God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!
The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is
the God of Jacob. Come! behold the deeds of the
Lord, the astounding things he has wrought on
earth.
The waters of the river gladden the city of
God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!
1 CORINTHIANS 3:9C-11, 16-17
Brothers and sisters: You are God’s building.
According to the grace of God given to me, like a
wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another
is building upon it. But each one must be careful
how he builds upon it, for no one can lay a foundation other than the one that is there, namely, Jesus
Christ. Do you not know that you are the temple
of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If
anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that
person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy.
JOHN 2:13-22
Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus
went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area
those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as
the money-changers seated there. He made a whip
out of cords and drove them all out of the temple
area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins
of the money-changers and overturned their tables,
and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these
out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a
marketplace.” His disciples recalled the words of
Scripture, Zeal for your house will consume me. At
this the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign
can you show us for doing this?” Jesus answered
and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three
days I will raise it up.” The Jews said, “This temple
has been under construction for 46 years, and you
will raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking
about the temple of his Body. Therefore, when he
was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered
that he had said this, and they came to believe the
Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.
What is church?
T
hey demolished the cozy church and put up a
school building. The Redemptorists had to replace it because baby boomer children strained
its 400 person-capacity. I
made my first Communion
and confirmation there. We
stood in line, floor creaking as we waited our turn,
outside the thick-velvetcurtained confessionals on
Fridays. There I sang in the
sixth, seventh and eighth
grade girls choir for daily
high Mass during the school
year, and learned Gregorian chants for all liturgical
seasons. A grand replacement, the present St. Mary’s
of the Assumption in Whittier, California, was erected
SISTER ELOISE
the end of the block, with
ROSENBLATT, RSM at
Rouault-influenced stained
glass windows, airy interior
and modern bell tower. But
I always missed the church of my grade-school
devotional life – the building that disappeared.
Perhaps some readers can still visit the churches of
their youth in this archdiocese. But in many places
churches aren’t there anymore. In post-World
War II Europe – how many churches bombed and
SCRIPTURE
REFLECTION
POPE FRANCIS
PRAISE GOD, PROCLAIM SALVATION
Prayer and mission are the very breath
of the Christian life, the pope said Oct. 31.
“When we inhale, by prayer, we receive the
fresh air of the Holy Spirit. When exhaling
this air, we announce Jesus Christ risen by
the same spirit,” he told the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities
and Fellowships in Vatican City. The pope
also urged intercessory prayers, “for our
Christian brothers and sisters who are persecuted and murdered” and for world peace.
rebuilt? In Nigeria recently, more than 200 Christian churches were burned and destroyed by Boko
Haram, a radical Islamic sect.
So a church still in use after 1,600 years, and still
standing in the same place, is something of a modern miracle. It’s the building we celebrate today, the
Lateran Basilica in Rome. It was dedicated in 324
A.D. and hosted several early ecumenical councils.
The church survived the collapse of the Roman
Empire, the Barbarian invasions, the Middle Ages,
the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and two world wars.
St. Peter’s Basilica long ago replaced it in importance, but the Lateran Basilica is a “mother church”
which signals continuity of God’s presence and
endurance of the believing community.
Yes, “the church” is a building. It’s a sacred place,
even if only in one’s imagination or memory. At the
time Ezekiel wrote his vision of a gloriously erected
temple, the actual Temple built by Solomon had
long been gutted, the southern kingdom had fallen
to the Assyrians, and the Jerusalem congregation
decimated and exiled. Yet the prophet’s vision,
arising from hopelessness, presents an image of
what the temple means – an architectural wonder
with fountains of fresh water flowing from each
of its sides toward the seas and rivers. The temple
waters bring abundant fruitfulness wherever they
flow. This image reappears at the end of the Book
of Revelation. The temple is not just a beautiful
building to impress people, but it makes food and
healing available to everyone along the river banks
– whether they actually find their way to the temple
structure or not.
Psalm 46 celebrates the constant flow of God’s
fidelity in social upheaval. No matter what disasters
happen in a believer’s life, “there is a stream whose
runlets gladden the city of God.”
St. Paul speaks of “church” in two senses. He considers himself the architect of new congregations –
persons related by faith, founded on belief in Jesus
Christ. Paul also thinks of church as “indwelling.”
Each believer’s body is a holy temple where the
Spirit of God abides. This should inspire profound
respect for the other, no matter a person’s religious
background, gender, ethnicity or social class.
John’s account of Jesus driving the sellers out of
the temple precincts seems discordant, given the
tone of the other readings. However, the motive
of Jesus makes sense in light of Ezekiel’s vision.
The temple is not a marketplace where religion
and capitalism meet. It’s supposed to be a place
where God’s beautiful, orderly design is carried out,
where, no matter which side you view, abundance
of water, fruit, and leaves for healing are available
to all people.
MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT is a Ph.D. theologian and
an attorney in private practice in areas of family law
and wills and trusts. She lives in San Jose.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10: Memorial of St. Leo the Great, pope and
doctor. TI 1:1-9. PS 24:1b-2, 3-4ab,
5-6. LK 17:1-6.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13: Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini,
virgin. PHLM 7-20. PS 146:7, 8-9a,
9bc-10. LK 17:20-25.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11:
Memorial of St. Martin of Tours,
bishop. TI 2:1-8, 11-14. PS
37:3-4, 18 and 23, 27 and 29. LK
17:7-10.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14: Friday of
the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary
Time. 2 JN 4-9. PS 119:1, 2, 10, 11,
17, 18. LK 17:26-37.
Josaphat
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12: Memorial of St.
Josaphat, bishop and martyr. TI 3:1-7. PS 23:1b-3a,
3bc-4, 5, 6. LK 17:11-19.
Frances Xavier
Cabrini
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15: Saturday of the Thirtysecond Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of
St. Albert the Great, bishop, confessor and doctor. 3
JN 5-8. PS 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. LK 18:1-8.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Cardinal says mergers tough to take,
but address shifts in population
BETH GRIFFIN
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
NEW YORK – In a long-awaited but
nonetheless stunning announcement,
the Archdiocese of New York said
Nov. 2 it would merge 112 of its 368
parishes into 55, effectively shuttering
at least 31 churches by Aug. 1, 2015.
Twenty-four of the merged parishes
will continue to celebrate scheduled
Masses and sacraments at two sites.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New
York said the painful reorganization
is a necessary adjustment to historic parish infrastructure that will
strengthen the Catholic Church in the
archdiocese. “The parish is the people
and the people have to be cared for.
What’s most important is the faith
continues, the Eucharist continues
and the sacraments continue,” he said.
The cardinal spoke to Catholic
News Service and Catholic New York
together after the mergers were announced. He said All Souls’ Day was a
ﬁtting time to break the news because
the feast and the decisions are not
about dying, but rising.
“It’s about what Pope Benedict said,
‘The vine has to be pruned once in a
while if it’s going to grow,’” the cardinal said, “and it’s about what Pope St.
John Paul II said, ‘We’re into mission
and not maintenance’ and it’s about
what Pope Francis said, ‘The church
is not about building structures. It’s
about welcome, love, mercy, service,
(CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ)
Jesuit Father Mark Hallinan greets a young girl following a Spanish-language Mass at St. Mary
of the Assumption Church in the Staten Island borough of New York Nov. 2. Founded in 1877, St.
Mary is one of more than 30 churches the New York archdiocese will close by August 2015 as
part of a reorganization initiative that will merge 112 parishes into 55.
embracing and inviting.’ It’s about
going ahead and not getting bogged
down in the past.”
The cardinal said the math shows
an awkward, lopsided distribution
of parishes that is inconsistent with
Catholic population, especially in
Manhattan. He said 25 percent of the
parishes of the archdiocese are located in that borough, yet only 12 percent
COMPANIES CRITICIZED FOR OFFERING TO PAY
TO FREEZE FEMALE WORKERS’ EGGS
LEVITTOWN, Pa. – The recent announcements by Facebook and Apple that they would
include among employee health beneﬁts the
option for young women to freeze their eggs for
future use at a cost of up to $20,000 has been
greeted with numerous objections by bioethicists and pro-life leaders.
Unlike normal medical procedures intended
to restore health to a person with an illness, this
proposal offers “risky technology” to otherwise
healthy young women, noted Jennifer Lahl,
president of the California-based Center for Bioethics and Culture. “This is still an enterprise
that has a very high failure rate,” she said, and
no one yet knows the long-term health effects
of the medications and other chemical agents
that are used in the processes of retrieving and
freezing eggs. It’s amazing to her, Lahl said, how
little attention “these very smart people” at the
tech companies are paying to “human biology
101,” which knows that advancing maternal age
always carries risks, and she said she wonders
what beneﬁts will be offered to women and children who suffer adverse effects.
“It’s very hard on women’s bodies to retrieve
eggs to freeze,” and very unnatural, Jeanne F.
Monahan, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, told Catholic News Service. The Catholic Church views in vitro fertilization as immoral and contrary to natural law.
INSTITUTE OFFICIALS OUTLINE ALTERNATIVES
TO IN VITRO FOR INFERTILE COUPLES
DAVENPORT, Iowa – For couples struggling to
conceive a child, in vitro fertilization has been
a medical standard for the past 30 years. The
Catholic Church has long opposed the process as
immoral, because it separates conception from
the marital act and it destroys embryos. With
the procedure’s prevalence in the medical world,
some Catholic couples are led to believe they
are out of medical options after a doctor recommends it. However, officials from the Pope Paul
VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction in Omaha, Nebraska, say that in vitro fer-
of the Catholic population is there. In
Manhattan, 28 parishes will merge to
form 13 and nine sites will no longer
hold weekly Mass, although they may
be used on special occasions.
Cardinal Dolan said the process was
not an easy one and the announcement caused understandable anger
and hurt. “We know there’s going to
be a lot of tears, a lot of shouts, a lot
tilization, or IVF, is not a miracle procedure and
they report that more effective options exist.
Dr. Kristina Pakiz, associate medical consultant, said couples “do not have to feel trapped in
a corner where they are told they will never have
a child without in vitro fertilization. The truth
is that there is superior gynecologic health care
available to them.” She said IVF has a success
rate of about 30 percent and increases the risk of
high-risk pregnancy and birth defects. About ﬁve
in six embryos created in the process will die. IVF
does not address root causes of infertility; only a
detailed workup that helps doctors diagnose and
treat infertility as the product of an underlying
condition can do that. When infertility is seen as
an underlying medical condition and treated accordingly, success rates for conceiving increase.
WOMAN’S SUICIDE CALLED TRAGEDY,
SYMBOL OF ‘CULTURE OF DEATH’ IN US
PORTLAND, Ore. – Brittany Maynard, a young
California woman who was suffering from terminal brain cancer and gained national attention
for her plan to use Oregon’s assisted suicide
law, ended her life Nov. 1. She was 29 years old.
“We are saddened by the fact that this young
woman gave up hope, and now our concern is for
other people with terminal illnesses who may
contemplate following her example,” said Janet
Morana, executive director of Priests for Life,
in a Nov. 2 statement. “Our prayer is that these
people will ﬁnd the courage to live every day to
the fullest until God calls them home,” she said.
“Brittany’s death was not a victory for a political cause. It was a tragedy, hastened by despair
and aided by the culture of death invading our
country.” Several days before Maynard’s suicide,
Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample
urged Maynard and others in similar situations:
“Don’t give up hope! We are with you. As friends,
families and neighbors we pledge to surround
you with our love and compassion until the sacred moment when God calls you home,” he said
in a statement issued just before the feasts of All
Saints on Nov. 1 and All Souls on Nov. 2. He said
assisted suicide offers the illusion that humans
can control death.
of cussing and we need to be patient
with people and listen to them, but
there’s a lot of trust and growth and
strength that come out of this.”
The mergers are the culmination of
a ﬁve-year pastoral planning process
known as Making All Things New,
which sought input from 368 parishes
clustered into 75 groups, as well as
a 40-person advisory committee, the
archdiocesan priests’ council and
archdiocesan staff.
Cardinal Dolan said the restructuring is not the result of a shortage of
priests, but from a shortage of the
faithful. “They’re not coming anymore and we have to get them back.”
He said a Catholics Come Home
program planned several years ago
was canceled because some pastors
“are so oppressed by bills and maintenance that we can’t do mission.
We’ve got to be talking about how to
ﬁll the buildings and not how to keep
them up, insure them and tuck-point
them.”
“We have to turn from being shepherds to being ﬁshermen and (the
mergers) will free us up to do that. We
will have better utilization of priests,
trained lay ministers, religious
women and men who are involved in
leadership who aren’t going to have
to spend all their time propping up
places and are going to be better used
at, granted, fewer, but much more
vigorous and solid parishes,” he
explained.
Cardinal says pope’s
steady focus on poverty
emphasizes body, soul
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Pope Francis has worked
to keep in the public
discourse the issue of
poverty understood
in its widest possible
sense, said the prefect
of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith.
“Going well beyond
a merely economic
conception of poverty,
Pope Francis has tried
to indicate to the world
the true poverty of the
human condition in
(CNS PHOTO/JOE RAYMOND,
our times: the povCOURTESY UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME)
erty of body and soul,
Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prepointing out all the
fect of the Vatican Congregaforces at work in the
tion for the Doctrine of the
world further impoverFaith, speaks Oct. 31 during
ishing mankind,” Cara conference on poverty at
dinal Gerhard Muller
the University of Notre Dame
said at a conference
Center for Ethics and Culture
on poverty sponsored
in Notre Dame, Ind.
by the University of
Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. Cardinal Muller was asked to speak about his 2014 book,
“Poor for the Poor: The Mission of the Church,”
released by the Vatican Publishing House. Pope
Francis wrote the preface to the book. “The mission
of the church is to free mankind from the poverty of
our fallen condition and constantly remind us that
we are created in the image and likeness of God; we
are the object of his divine love; we are called to the
richness of eternal life with him,” the cardinal said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
CONFERENCE: Pope to open Vatican meeting on traditional marriage
FROM PAGE 1
as Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism and Sikhism.
The conference will aim to “examine
and propose anew the beauty of the
relationship between the man and
the woman, in order to support and
reinvigorate marriage and family life
for the ﬂourishing of human society,”
according to organizers.
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of
Philadelphia and the Rev. Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback
Church in California, will be among
the participants.
Other Americans at the conference
will include Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist
Convention; Henry B. Eyring, president and a member of the Quorum of
the Twelve Apostles of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and
Mercy Sister Prudence Allen, former
chair of the philosophy department at
St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, whom Pope Francis
named to the International Theological Commission in September.
Other notable speakers will include
Lord Jonathan Sacks, former chief
rabbi of Great Britain, and Anglican
Bishops N.T. Wright and Michael
Nazir-Ali.
Pope Francis will address the conference and preside over its ﬁrst morning
session Nov. 17, following remarks by
Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of
the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith.
The conference was an initiative
of Cardinal Muller, who proposed it
to Pope Francis in November 2013,
according to Helen Alvare, a professor
at George Mason University School of
Law in Virginia, who is handling press
relations for the event.
(CNS PHOTO /PAUL HARING)
Pope Francis arrives in procession to celebrate a Mass for deceased cardinals and bishops in
St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Nov. 3. The pope announced that he will open an interreligious conference dedicated to traditional marriage Nov. 17-19.
Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput told an
audience in New York Oct. 20 that he had been
‘very disturbed’ by press reports of last month’s
synod, saying, ‘I think confusion is of the devil, and
I think the public image that came across was of
confusion,’ though he added: ‘I don’t think that was the real thing
there.’
The conference is officially sponsored by the doctrinal congregation,
and co-sponsored by the pontiﬁcal
councils for Promoting Christian
Unity, for Interreligious Dialogue and
for the Family. The heads of all four
Curia offices are scheduled to address
the assembly.
Vatican official: Syria’s
humanitarian crisis
‘worse than I thought’
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
BEIRUT, Lebanon – A Vatican
official who just returned from a
visit to Syria said “the humanitarian situation is worse than I
thought.” Msgr. Giampietro Dal
Toso, secretary of the Pontiﬁcal
Council Cor Unum, told U.S. journalists in Beirut Nov. 1 that he had
seen “the concrete face of suffering” as a result of war. He also said
the humanitarian crisis in Iraq is
tied to the crisis in Syria.
“We should begin to look at this
crisis as one crisis,” he said. “We
have people crossing borders,” so
humanitarian agencies must look
at the bigger picture, he said. His
remarks echoed those of Christian aid officials who work in the
region. Msgr. Dal Toso, the secondhighest official at Cor Unum,
which coordinates Vatican charitable agencies, said Syria’s middle
class has disappeared, but noted,
“The whole population is a victim
of this war.”
Syria, which had a population
of 22 million people before violence began in 2011, has at least 10
(CNS PHOTO/MOHAMED AZAKIR, REUTERS)
A child receives polio vaccination at an
informal settlement of Syrian refugees in
Bekaa, Lebanon, Oct. 16.
million people who are refugees
or who are displaced within their
own country, according to U.N
statistics. The effect of such a shift
in demographics has driven up the
cost of living, including rent, medicine and even school fees, Msgr.
Dal Toso said.
Topics of lectures and videos will
include “The Cradle of Life and Love:
A Mother and Father for the World’s
Children” and “The Sacramentality
of Human Love According to St. John
Paul II.”
Given its timing and subject matter, the conference is likely to invite
BAN OF GENDER-BASED ABORTION PASSES
FIRST VOTE IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT
MANCHESTER, England – British
parliamentarians overwhelmingly
approved a bill to criminalize the abortions of baby girls simply because of
their gender. The Abortion (Sex-Selection) Bill was approved 181-1 on ﬁrst
reading in a Nov. 4 vote in the House of
Commons.
The bill was introduced by Fiona
Bruce, a Conservative Party Member
of Parliament, after abortion providers
and the British Medical Association –
the doctors’ union – both insisted that
sex-selective abortions were permitted
under the terms of the 1967 Abortion
Act.
Because the government has argued
that such abortions are illegal, the bill
has the purpose of ending the ambiguity by stating explicitly that such abortions are illegal.
The huge level of support for the bill
was welcomed by Bishop Mark Davies
of Shrewsbury, England, within whose
diocese Bruce’s Congleton district is
located. “It takes courage for a politician to oppose the culture of death in
its many forms,” Bishop Davies said
in a Nov. 4 email to Catholic News Service. He added: “Congleton’s MP, Fiona
Bruce, deserves the support of all who
uphold the sanctity of human life in
her efforts to protect the lives of the
unborn in gender-based abortions.”
In a Nov. 4 statement, Bruce said
the 1967 law was being interpreted
too liberally and that “today Parliament agreed that more legislation is
needed to silence those claiming that
comparisons with the Oct. 5-19 synod
on the family. Several conference
participants have already commented
publicly on the earlier event.
One of the synod’s most discussed
topics was a proposal by German Cardinal Walter Kasper to make it easier
for divorced and civilly remarried
Catholics to receive Communion. Cardinal Muller was a leading opponent
of that proposal.
Archbishop Chaput told an audience in New York Oct. 20 that he
had been “very disturbed” by press
reports of last month’s synod, saying,
“I think confusion is of the devil, and
I think the public image that came
across was of confusion,” though he
added: “I don’t think that was the real
thing there.” The archbishop will
play host to the September 2015 World
Meeting of Families, which Pope
Francis is widely expected to attend.
Rev. Warren was one of 48 Christian
ministers and scholars who signed an
open letter to Pope Francis and the
synod fathers in September, urging the
assembly to defend traditional marriage, among other ways, by supporting efforts to “restore legal provisions
that protect marriage as a conjugal
union of one man and one woman.”
Moore, of the Southern Baptist Convention, wrote a blog post in response
to the synod’s controversial midterm report, which used remarkably
conciliatory language toward people
with ways of life contrary to Catholic
teaching, including those in same-sex
unions and other non-marital relationships.
Moore praised the document for
suggesting that “we should not drive
sinners away, but that we should receive them and nurture them toward
Christ,” but said that the “church is
not itself, though, to be made up of
unrepentant people.”
sex-selective abortion can be legal.
“Never would Parliamentarians in 1967
have imagined that 47 years on, there
would be dispute about whether their
act permitted abortion where the baby
was the a boy or a girl.”
The outcry in Britain over genderbased abortions follows investigations
by national newspapers, which found
that women who did not want to have
baby girls were offered abortions.
LEGIONARIES REFORMS APPROVED
VATICAN CITY – Marking a signiﬁcant step in an extensive process of the
reform of the Legionaries of Christ,
the Vatican approved the congregation’s amended constitutions.
The approval of the ﬁnal constitutional text Oct. 16 by the Congregation
for Institutes of Consecrated Life and
Societies of Apostolic Life was part of
a Vatican-led effort to help the religious community clarify and better
deﬁne its fundamental norms and
charism. The Legionaries published
news of the approval and the new constitutions on their website Nov. 1.
The new and amended constitutions
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should live religious life in the Legion,”
and they are part of “the path that will
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and women,” Father Eduardo Robles
Gil, general director of the Legionaries, said in a letter to members.
“The constitutions contain the
fundamental norms to preserve the
charism of the congregation and help
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
YOUNG ADULTS: Ministry for 18-40 Catholics coming to parish near you
FROM PAGE 1
have formed and to check out the activities they are
offering, click on our interactive calendar at www.
CatholicinSF.org.
Re-establishing young adult ministry
Several years ago Deacon John Norris, director
of the archdiocesan Office of Pastoral Ministry, gathered a group
of young adult leaders from across
the archdiocese. These leaders
worked with the Archdiocesan
Pastoral Council and Archbishop
George Niederauer and decided to
form a task force to be led by Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy.
Angela Pollock
The task force gathered more than
50 young adult leaders who worked
for over six months on a report which listed ﬁve
goals to re-establish young adult ministry.
In the midst of their extensive work it became
clear to them that they needed to recommend
hiring a director of young adult ministry. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone approved my hiring
October 2013. One of my ﬁrst tasks on the job
was to present the task force report with Bishop
McElroy to Archbishop Cordileone and the council
of priests. They approved the plan, which focused
on building up young adult community within the
parishes, in December 2013.
As a young adult minister in other parts of the
country in the past, I worked on a number of largescale events for young adults – including a ﬁlm
festival in Idaho – which drew a lot of interest, but
when they were over, the young adults found very
little support at the parish level and found it difﬁcult to enter into the faith community for which
they were searching.
Our approach
At the archdiocese, we are taking the opposite
approach and building the small faith communities
for young adults at the parish level so when the big
events attract young adults, we can point them to
parish communities that will welcome them and
meet their speciﬁc needs.
For the purposes of the Catholic Church, a young
adult is anyone 18-40. That 20-plus age span means
young adults come in a lot of different forms: single,
married, with children, and without. The interests
vary so much, this is not like a lot of other ministries where we ﬁnd a great program and plug it in.
Each parish is so unique and the young adults
who live there have their own unique needs.
For example, we are trying to put together a team
at St. Charles in San Carlos. Leaders within the
parish have already done surveys and listening sessions and they know that they need to make sure
that the team they put together can focus on the
needs of young families since they had discovered
through the surveys and listening that the majority
of their young adult population are young couples
with children. In response to the feedback received
COMING EVENTS FOR YOUNG ADULTS
HOSPITALITY TRAINING: The archdiocesan
Department of Pastoral Ministry will offer a
hospitality training. With the holidays just
around the corner, many people come back
to church who may not have been around for
the past year. This is a wonderful opportunity
to welcome everyone, including young adults,
home to your parish community. The training will share best practices and ideas for
creating a more welcoming environment in our
parishes. Open to all, three sessions offered,
one in each county, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.:
Nov. 17, Archdiocesan Pastoral Center, One
Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco; Nov. 18, St.
Matthew Parish, One Notre Dame Ave., San
Mateo; Nov. 19, St. Sebastian Parish, 373 Bon
Air Road, Kentfield. To sign up call Angela
Pollock, director of Young Adult and Campus
Ministry, at (415) 614-5595.
YOUNG ADULT TEAM LEADERS
RETREAT: Feb. 20-22, 2015.
SMALL FAITH SHARING FACILITATOR
TRAINING: Will occur in January. Those
interested should be selected by their parish
young adult team and approved by their pastor. Call Angela Pollock at (415) 614-5595 to
sign up.
WHO HAS GOD CALLED ME TO BE: A
day-long retreat exploring the unique gifts
and ways God has called each of us and how
these help us to know and live out our vocations will be April 18, 2015. This retreat will be
limited to 40 people. Call Angela Pollock at
(415) 614-5595 to sign up.
THE FIRST ANNUAL ARCHDIOCESAN
YOUNG ADULT RETREAT: Will be Oct. 24,
2015, with up to 800 participants. The retreat
will feature tracks focusing on married life,
single life, spirituality and service, with a children’s track for the children of young adults.
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began in 1997 when the U.S. bishops issued the
document “Sons and Daughters of Light,” in which
they said many adults 18-40 had been neglected by
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As part of our effort to build a sustaining structure for young adults, we have required that each
parish young adult team have a team member sit on
the Young Adult Council. The council consists of 13
people from existing or emerging parish teams. The
members are: Bill Hull, St. Dominic, San Francisco;
Kim Ambayec, St. Gregory, San Mateo; Jazmin Sacchi, St. Matthew, San Mateo; Jennifer Wack, St. Raphael Parish, San Rafael; Bertina Cannizzaro, Our
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from San Francisco and the Archdiocese of San
Francisco.
Father Russell J. Feldmeier, a 34-year missioner
who has served in Korea, was elected a Maryknoll
Assistant General. Born in Boston, Massachusetts,
Father Feldmeier, 69, moved several times with
his family and eventually settled in Norristown,
Pennsylvania, in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Father Thomas J. O’Brien, a 40-year missioner
who has served in the Philippines and Vietnam,
also was elected a Maryknoll Assistant General.
Father O’Brien, 69, is from The Bronx, New York,
and the Archdiocese of New York.
Representatives to the Maryknoll Fathers and
Brothers 13th General Chapter
held at the Maryknoll Mission
Center in Ossining, New York,
have elected the Maryknoll Society’s new leadership for a term of
six years through 2020.
Father Raymond J. Finch, a
38-year missioner who has served
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YOUTH RALLY AND MASS, SAN FRANCISCO: More
than 100 people attended the archdiocesan Youth Rally &
Youth Mass Nov. 1 at St. Anne of the Sunset Parish in San
Francisco, with Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop William
J. Justice. The event was a one-day experience of prayer,
learning, community and evangelization for Catholic teenagers in grades seven-12 and their adult chaperones. The
program included prayer, teen witness talks and community
building activities.
2
ALL SAINTS’ MASS, HOLY CROSS CEMETERY,
COLMA: Florine Konkle brings the gifts to Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at the annual Mass at the archdiocesan
Catholic cemetery, attended by 1,200 worshippers.
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ST. RITA PARISH, FAIRFAX: Retired Archbishop George
Niederauer is pictured with Guen Villanueva-Black Oct. 26
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MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME: The school’s class of
1964 celebrated its 50th reunion at
Mercy in conjunction with homecoming festivities Sept. 21. Mercy Sister
Celeste Nuttman is a member of the
class and pictured in the back row
fifth from left. The 1964 graduates
were among “more than 140 alumnae
who returned to Mercy to enjoy the
homecoming day,” the school said.
of songs from the ‘60s, said Virginia
Yanke, a principal organizer of the
day. “The CDs have a lot of Motown
and a lot of Beatles,” Virginia said.
Classmates Ann Lund and Patty
Walsh produced the CDs.
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members of the school’s class of
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St. Jude Novena
May the Sacred Heart
of Jesus be adored,
glorified, loved &
preserved throughout
the world now &
forever. Sacred Heart
of Jesus pray for us.
St. Jude helper of the
hopeless pray for us.
Say prayer 9 times a
day for 9 days.
Thank You St. Jude.
D.C.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, you who make me
see everything and who shows
me the way to reach my ideal.
You who give me the divine gift
of forgive and forget the wrong
that is done to me. I, in this short
dialogue, want to thank you for
everything and confirm once
more that I never want to be
separated from you no matter
how great the material desires
may be. I want to be with you
and my loved ones in your
perpetual glory. Amen. You
may publish this as soon as
your favor is granted.
MT
Prayer to St. Jude
Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and
Martyr, great in virtue and rich in
miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus
Christ, faithful intercessor of all who
invoke your special patronage in time
of need, to you I have recourse from
the depth of my heart and humbly
beg to whom God has given such
great power to come to my assistance.
Help me in my present and urgent
petition. In return I promise to
make you be invoked. Say three
our Fathers, three Hail Marys and
Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all
who invoke your aid. Amen.
This Novena has never been known
to fail. This Novena must be said
9 consecutive days. Thanks.
A.C.
Prayer to the Blessed
Virgin never known to fail.
Most beautiful flower of
Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother
of the Son of God, assist me
in my need. Help me and
show me you are my mother.
Oh Holy Mary, Mother of
God, Queen of Heaven and
earth. I humbly beseech you
from the bottom of my heart
to help me in this need.
Oh Mary, conceived
without sin. Pray for us (3X).
Holy Mary, I place this
cause in your hands (3X).
Say prayers 3 days.
M.R.
St. Jude Novena
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
May the Sacred Heart
of Jesus be adored,
glorified, loved &
preserved throughout
the world now &
forever. Sacred Heart
of Jesus pray for us.
St. Jude helper of the
hopeless pray for us.
Say prayer 9 times a
day for 9 days.
Thank You St. Jude.
M.R.
Holy Spirit, you who make me
see everything and who shows
me the way to reach my ideal.
You who give me the divine gift
of forgive and forget the wrong
that is done to me. I, in this short
dialogue, want to thank you for
everything and confirm once
more that I never want to be
separated from you no matter
how great the material desires
may be. I want to be with you
and my loved ones in your
perpetual glory. Amen. You
may publish this as soon as
your favor is granted.
MR
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
FRIDAY, NOV. 7
FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of
St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South
San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by
healing service and personal blessing
with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St.
Joseph, Montreal.
TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé prayer
around the cross, Mercy Center,
2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 8
p.m. Taizé prayer has been sung on
first Fridays at Mercy Center since
1983; Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan,
(650) 340-7452. MARRIAGE HELP: Are you frustrated
or angry with each other? Do you
argue? Retrouvaille (pronounced
retro-vi with a long i) helps couples
through difficult times in their marriages. For confidential information
about or to register for the program
call (415) 893-1005; email [email protected]; visit www.HelpOurMarriage.com.
SATURDAY, NOV. 8
GRIEF SUPPORT: All Saints Day Mass
of remembrance, Good Shepherd
Parish, 901 Oceana Blvd, Pacifica, 1
p.m., light reception follows; [email protected]; tonilyng@
aol.com; visit www.sfarchdiocese.org/
home/ministries/grief-consolation. No
charge.
BOUTIQUE: Women’s Club, All Souls
Catholic School, South San Francisco
Christmas Fair, Saturday and Sunday,
10 a.m.-4 p.m. both days. Email [email protected].
ACCW: San Francisco Archdiocesan
Council of Catholic Women convention, St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue
at Vicente, San Francisco, beginning
with Mass at 11 a.m. followed by
lunch and program featuring speaker
FRIDAY, NOV. 7
FRIDAY, NOV. 14
MASS AND BREAKFAST:
Catholic Marin
Breakfast
Club, 7 a.m.
Mass followed
by breakfast,
St. Sebastian
Church, Bon
Air Road at
Sir Francis
Drake BouleBarry Stenger
vard, Greenbrae. Guest speaker is Barry
Stenger, executive director,
St. Anthony Foundation;
breakfast $8 members/$10
visitors; (415) 461-0704, 9
a.m.-3 p.m.; Sugaremy@aol.
com.
JUSTICE TALK: “Catholic
Social Teaching 101,”
St. Dominic
parish Hall,
2390 Bush
St. at Steiner,
San Francisco, 6:30
p.m., (415)
567-7824; soSister Colleen
cialjustice@
McDermott, OP
stdominics.
org. Dominican Sister Colleen
McDermott is new director
of community service and
justice ministries at St. Dominic’s. She has been involved
in community service and
justice education for more
than 25 years.
Margaret Turek, director of evangelization, Diocese of Oakland, with
“Be the Voice of Catholic Women;
Catholic Women United in Truth,” $25
ticket includes lunch. Diana Heafy,
(415) 731-6379, Cathy Mibach (415)
753-0234.
GRIEF SUPPORT: All Saints Day ritual
of remembrance, Good Shepherd
Parish, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica, 1011:30 a.m., suzannechinn1@sbcglobal.
net or [email protected]. No charge.
www.sfarchdiocese.org/grief.
Archbishop Paciano B. Aniceto
SUNDAY, NOV. 9
OUR LADY MASS: Visiting Archbishop Paciano B.
Aniceto, retired from San
Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines is principal celebrant
at Mass commemorating the
Virgen de los Remedios, patron of Pampanga, 1 p.m., St.
Anne of the Sunset Church,
850 Judah St. at Funston,
San Francisco. www.facebook.com/VirgenDeLosRemediosInNorCal.
REUNION: St. Thomas More School
60th anniversary celebration,
Thomas More Way, San Francisco,
beginning with Mass at 10 a.m. in
parish church, followed by brunch in
gym. (415) 337-0100; alumni@stmsf.
org.
SUNDAY, NOV. 9
TUESDAY, NOV. 11
CONCERT: Program celebrates 25th
anniversary of the San Francisco
Interfaith Council, 7:30 p.m., First
Unitarian Church, 1187 Franklin St. at
Geary, San Francisco; an ensemble
from San Francisco’s St. Dominic
Church choir and cantor Rosalyn
Barak of Congregation Emanu-El are
among the performers. http://conta.
cc/1sRa2mt.
VETERANS DAY SERVICE: Holy
Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road,
Colma, Star of the Sea section, 11
a.m., Msgr. Michael Padazinski,
colonel, U.S. Air Force, chancellor
and canon law head, Archdiocese
of San Francisco will preside. (650)
756-2060; www.holycrosscemeteries.
com.
COUNSELING
When Life Hurts
It Helps To Talk
Retirement planning
College savings plans
Comprehensive financial planning
Kevin Tarrant
Financial Advisor
750 Lindaro Street, Suite 300
San Rafael, CA 94901
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PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro-Life meets
second Thursdays except December
7:30 p.m., St. Gregory Worner Center, 138 28th Avenue at Hacienda,
San Mateo. New members welcome.
Jessica, (650) 572–1468; themunns@
yahoo.com.
FRIDAY, NOV. 14
BOUTIQUE: Sisters of Mercy at Marian Oaks Annual Holiday Boutique,
Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15, 10
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. both days. Delicious homemade jams, baked goods,
fudge, handcrafted items, perfect
holiday gifts, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame; enter at Hoover gate, follow
Lower Road to Marian Oaks. Debbie
Halleran, (650) 340-7426; dhalleran@
mercywmw.org.
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THURSDAY, NOV. 13
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SATURDAY, NOV. 15
2-DAY BOUTIQUE: St. Charles Parish
Women’s Group, Saturday, 2-7 p.m.;
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; Tamarack
and Belle Avenues, San Carlos; [email protected].
HANDICAPABLES MASS: Bishop
William J. Justice is principal celebrant
and homilist at a Handicapables
Mass and lunch, noon, lower halls of
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street
at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco,
Gough Street entrance. All disabled
people and their caregivers are invited.
Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne
Borodin, (415) 239-4865.
MISSION TRIP: One-day pilgrimage to
Mission Santa Cruz and Mission Santa
Clara from St. Veronica Church, South
San Francisco, $100 fee includes transportation, lunch and mission entrance
fees; June Heise (650) 871-7738.
SUNDAY, NOV. 16
FASHION SHOW: San Francisco Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians fashion show, luncheon and raffle; 11 a.m.,
no host cocktails, with lunch at noon,
San Francisco United Irish Cultural
Center, 2700 45th Ave.; $55 adults,
$15 children. RSVP by Nov. 10 to Pam
Naughton, (415) 566-1936.
MONDAY, NOV. 17
GRIEF SUPPORT: Holiday Grief and
7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly
Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus,
San Francisco. Groups are part of
the Separated and Divorced Catholic
Ministry in the archdiocese and include
prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a
drop-in support group. Jesuit Father
Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, [email protected].
MONDAY, NOV 17
3-DAY MISSION: A Pope Francis Retreat with
fellow Jesuit
Father Tom Allender, Our
Lady of Angels
Church, 1721
Hillside Drive off
El Camino Real,
Burlingame;
Monday, TuesFather Tom
day, WednesAllender, SJ
day 8:30-9:30
a.m.; 7:15-8:15 p.m.; (650) 3477768; www.olaparish.org.
Healing Myself; St. Pius Parish, Redwood City; [email protected] for
more information; www.sfarchdiocese.
org/grief.
TUESDAY, NOV. 18
3-DAY BOUTIQUE: St. Mary’s Medical Center auxiliary holiday boutique,
Tuesday, 4-7 p.m. with refreshments
and free parking for $10 entrance fee,
Wednesday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday
10 a.m.-3 p.m. Proceeds help purchase new dialysis equipment. (415)
750-5646.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19
GRIEF SUPPORT: Free monthly grief
support, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough
Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, third Wednesday of each month,
10:30- noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, on
the west side of the parking lot level of
the Cathedral. These sessions provide
information on the grief process, and
tips on coping with the loss of a loved
one. Facilitator is Deacon Christoph
Sandoval. Mercy Sister Esther, (415)
567-2020, ext. 218.
GRIEF SUPPORT: The Nature of Grief,
St. Peter Parish, 700 Oddstad Blvd,
Pacifica, 10 a.m.-noon, tonilyng@aol.
com; www.sfarchdiocese.org/grief.
FRIDAY, NOV. 21
FAITH CONFERENCE: Faith Formation
Conference, Santa Clara Convention
Center, liturgy, workshops, and exhibits
for catechists, parish leaders, parents,
youth and young adults. Registration:
www.faithformationconference.com.
SATURDAY, NOV. 22
DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes
place first and third Wednesdays,
TURKEY DRIVE: Annual Turkey Drive
at St. Emydius Church, 260 Ashton
PAINTING
ELECTRICAL
Bill Hefferon Painting
ALL ELECTRIC SERVICE
10% Discount to Seniors & Parishioners
Serving the
Residential Bay
Area for
Commercial over 30 Years
IRISH Eoin
PAINTING
Lehane
Discount
to CSF
Readers
415.368.8589
Lic.#942181
[email protected]
M.K. Painting
Interior-Exterior
Residential – Commercial
Insured/Bonded – Free Estimates
License# 974682
Tel: (650) 630-1835
S.O.S.
PAINTING CO.
Interior-Exterior • wallpaper • hanging & removal
Lic # 526818 • Senior Discount
415-269-0446 • 650-738-9295
www.sospainting.net
F REE E STIMATES
PLUMBING
HOLLAND
Plumbing Works San Francisco
ALL PLUMBING WORK
PAT HOLLAND
CA LIC #817607
BONDED & INSURED
415-205-1235
Service Changes
Solar Installation
Lighting/Power
Fire Alarm/Data
Green Energy
COMMERCIAL
CONSTRUCTION
CA License #965268
• Design - Build
• Retail - Fixtures
• Industrial
• Service/Maintenance
• Casework Installation
Serving Marin, San Francisco
& San Mateo Counties
HANDYMAN
Quality interior and exterior painting,
demolition , fence (repairs), roof repairs,
cutter (cleaning and repairs), landscaping,
gardening, hauling, moving, welding
All Purpose
Cell (415) 517-5977
Grant (650) 757-1946
NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR
Kitchen/Bath Remodel
Dry Rot Repair • Decks /Stairs
Plumbing Repair/Replacement
Call: 650.580.2769
John V. Rissanen
Cell: (916) 517-7952
Office: (916) 408-2102
Fax: (916) 408-2086
[email protected]
2190 Mt. Errigal Lane
Lincoln, CA 95648
CAHALAN CONSTRUCTION
Painting & Waterproofing
Remodels & Repairs
Window & Siding Lic#582766
415.279.1266
[email protected]
Support CSF
If you would like to add your tax-deductible
contribution, please mail a check, payable to Catholic San Francisco, to:
Catholic San Francisco, Dept. W, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco CA 94109
ROOFING
DINING
FENCES & DECKS
Italian American Social
Club of San Francisco
Lunch & Dinner, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
650.291.4303
SIMBANG GABI: Mass opening novena of prayer anticipating birth of Christ,
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at
Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 7:30
p.m. Archbishop Bernardito Auza, permanent observer of the Vatican at the
U.N., is principal celebrant. [email protected]; (415) 699-7927
Lic. # 505353B-C36
Fully licensed • State Certified • Locally
Trained • Experienced • On Call 24/7
John Spillane
KOHL CHRISTMAS: Mercy High
School, Burlingame Alumnae Association’s Christmas at Kohl 2014,
5-9 p.m., Kohl Mansion on the Mercy
campus 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. More than 60 vendors plus
docent presentations of the mansion at
6:30 and 7. Musical entertainment, and
light refreshments will be available for
purchase. Tickets, $10 adults/children
free, at the door. Visit www.mercyhsb.
com for information on the event and
parking/shuttles.
O’DONOGHUE CONSTRUCTION
650.322.9288
• Retaining Walls • Stairs • Gates
• Dry Rot • Senior & Parishioner Discounts
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3
CONSTRUCTION
Lic. #742961
CA License 819191
Cell 415-710-0584
[email protected]
Office 415-731-8065
KNIGHTS FUNDRAISER: Knights of
Columbus and Marin Network for Life
benefiting Chaldean Catholic victims
of ISIS; Knights of Columbus Hall, 167
Tunstead Ave., San Anselmo beginning 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:30
p.m. evening is free with guests asked
to donate to the Chaldean cause, a
refugee family and clergy from St.
Mary Assyrian Chaldean Catholic
Church in Campbell will attend, national Knights of Columbus will match
donations raised. Joe Tassone, (415)
215-8571.
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EMAIL [email protected]
HOME SERVICES
Bonded & Insured
Ave., San Francisco, benefiting St.
Anthony’s Dining Room, 9 a.m.-noon,
Pierre Smit [email protected].
Weddings, Banquets, Special Occasions
25 RUSSIA AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO
www.iasf.com
415-585-8059
(415) 786-0121 • (650) 871-9227
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA
VETERANS’
DAY
MEMORIAL
SERVICES
~ STAR OF THE SEA SECTION - OUTDOOR SERVICE ~
PLEASE JOIN WITH US ON
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014 AT 11:00 A.M.
TO HONOR OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM....
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Chaplain C. Michael Padazinski Col., USAF, Chancellor, Archdiocese of San Francisco
Chaplains from the Archdiocese of San Francisco in uniform will conduct the memorial
ceremony along with the Travis Air Force Base Military Honor Guard with Taps.
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA
650-323-6375
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA
650-756-2060
Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery
270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA
415-479-9020
Tomales Catholic Cemetery
1400 Dillon Road, Tomales, CA
415-479-9021
St. Anthony Cemetery
Stage Road, Pescadero, CA
650-712-1679
Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery
Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA
650-712-1679