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THELEAVEN.COM | VOL. 36, NO. 30 | MARCH 20, 2015
LEAVEN PHOTO BY JOE MCSORLEY
From left, Bishop Miege sophomores Alyssa Yap, Luke McCool and Landry Weber work on a lab project.
Alumnus makes $500,000
gift to Bishop Miege
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By Jill Ragar Esfeld
[email protected]
OELAND PARK —
There were five children in the Lacy family of St. Agnes Parish
here.
All five went to St.
Agnes Grade School
and then on to Bishop
Miege High School.
All five succeeded in
college, in their careers and in their family lives.
The oldest, Steve Lacy, is now president and
CEO of Meredith Corporation, which has pub-
LIFE’S PICTURES
lishing and broadcasting offices across the country.
He’s been married to Cathy for 33 years. The
couple lives in Des Moines, Iowa, where Meredith Corporation is based.
Together, they’ve raised two accomplished
children, Paul and Mary.
“I feel that I and my siblings got a really strong
foundation that allowed us all to be successful,”
said Lacy. “You’ve got to look back and figure out
where that started.
“I think it started with our parochial school
education where fundamental values are just in
the culture.”
Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann blessed two sonogram machines at
the Advice & Aid Pregnancy Clinics in Overland Park and Shawnee.
Said one employee: “Of the women we did sonograms for last year,
over 80 percent, after they saw the image, made a decision for life
when they left.” Page 3
>> See “SOME” on page 4
THE BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE
The Bridge to the Future is a drive to meet
Bishop Miege High School’s biggest future
challenge: keeping tuition affordable. The Good
Samaritan and Helping Hand scholarship funds
were established as a shared partnership of
responsibility. The donor bridges the gap between what the family can afford to pay and
the limited financial assistance the school can
offer.
For more information visit the website at:
www.bishopmiege.com and click on Admissions – Financial Aid, or contact Patti Marnett
at (913) 262-2701, ext. 226.
DREAM ON
Former Bishop Ward basketball player Chris Huey saw his college
basketball career end five years ago with a collapsed lung. After
getting back into basketball as a manager for the KU basketball
team, however, Huey got a second chance at his dream. Pages
8-9
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LIFE WILL BE VICTORIOUS
Leaven finds ways to ‘nourish the mind and inspire the heart’
A
few years
ago, a woman who has
to travel often
because of her job told me
she always takes The Leaven
with her on her trips. She
enjoys reading it during
flights and said that its
intriguing photos and catchy
headlines often instigate
conversations about faith
with her fellow travelers.
My late Aunt Dolores,
who lived in northern
Indiana, loved receiving
The Leaven and, sad to say,
not primarily because of
my column. She loved The
Leaven’s inspiring stories
about individual Catholics
striving to live their faith.
Frequently, when making
a parish visit, someone
will comment to me on
how much they enjoy
The Leaven. During the
listening sessions and focus
groups for the visioning
process, in responding to
the question: What does the
archdiocese do well? The
Leaven was recognized for
its quality and readability.
Another indication of the
effectiveness of The Leaven
is the frequent requests I
receive from members of
Holy Week
With Holy Week upon us,
once again this year, I invite
every member of the archdiocese to make a pilgrimage to
the Cathedral of St. Peter in
Kansas City, Kansas, for one
of the Palm Sunday, Triduum
or Easter liturgies. I will celebrate: 11 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral on Palm Sunday; the
Mass of the Lord’s Supper at
7:30 p.m. on Holy Thursday;
the liturgy of the Passion of
the Lord at 3 p.m. on Good Friday; the Easter Vigil at 8 p.m.
on Holy Saturday; and Easter
Sunday Mass at 11 a.m. I hope
that you and your family will
take advantage of this opportunity to visit our beautiful Cathedral of St. Peter and to join
me in celebrating one of these
important liturgies during the
week commemorating the
most significant events in all
of human history. I am confident you will find edifying
and spiritually enriching the
beauty and care with which
the liturgy is celebrated at the
Cathedral of St. Peter.
ARCHBISHOP
JOSEPH F. NAUMANN
the archdiocese requesting
The Leaven’s coverage
of some event, story or
teaching.
Bishop Paul Schulte, the
bishop of Leavenworth,
launched a diocesan
newspaper on June 1, 1939.
Throughout this year, we
are celebrating the 75th
anniversary of a Catholic
weekly newspaper for
Catholics in northeast
Kansas.
For the first 40 years, our
paper was called the Eastern
Kansas Register. By 1979,
the diocese had been moved
from Leavenworth to Kansas
City and had been elevated
to an archdiocese for more
than 25 years. Archbishop
Ignatius J. Strecker ran
a contest to rename the
archdiocesan newspaper.
Father Jim Ludwikowski,
currently the pastor of
Good Shepherd Parish
in Shawnee, received the
whopping sum of $25 prize
money for proposing the
name The Leaven. It was
a brilliant suggestion,
because it reminds us of
our history — that we were
originally the Diocese of
Leavenworth, and it evokes
the biblical allusion of the
transformative power of the
Gospel, similar to the way
a small portion of leaven
changes the constituency
of bread. (We ought to give
Father Jim another $25 for
coming up with such a
perfect name!)
In this day and age when
so much of our lives are
lived online, some people
may ask: Why a weekly
newspaper? Interestingly,
a recent study by CARA
(Georgetown University’s
Center for Applied Research
in the Apostolate) revealed
that while Catholics,
like everyone else, are
doing much more online,
Catholics of all ages — even
younger ones — do not go
primarily to cyberspace to
seek information about our
faith and inspiration to help
them live it.
Of course, this may
change over time, as more
quality online Catholic
resources become available.
Currently, relatively few
Catholics report using
new media to acquire
information about religion
or spirituality. In fact, the
same research supports
that a quality Catholic
newspaper mailed to
parishioners’ homes is still
the most effective means to
reach Catholics of all ages.
I am also encouraged by
how many people comment
on this weekly column.
It is not easy to write an
article each week, but I
am convinced that it is
one of the best tools at my
disposal to help fulfill my
responsibility to teach what
we believe as Catholics, as
well as how to apply the
faith to the challenging
circumstances of the 21st
century.
Frequently, after visiting
a parish or becoming
acquainted with a particular
ministry, I will suggest
articles to The Leaven
staff. There is so much
good news, inspiring news,
happening every day in the
archdiocese that you are not
going to find reported in the
secular media.
With more and more
ignorance and even
hostility within our culture
generally, and by the secular
media specifically, toward
Christianity in general and
Catholicism in particular, it
is important for Catholics
to have a reliable source for
accurate information about
the church and what we
believe.
Personally, I enjoy
reading The Leaven each
CALENDAR
NAUMANN
March 29
Palm Sunday Mass and procession — Cathedral, Kansas City,
Kansas
March 20
Mass — Fraternity of the Poor
of Jesus Christ
March 31
Chrism Mass — Savior Pastoral
Center
March 23
Mass — Kansas City Kansas
Community College
ARCHBISHOP
ARCHBISHOP
Confirmation — Curé of Ars,
Leawood
March 24
Leavenworth regional priests
meeting — Sacred Heart, Leavenworth
Confirmation — Mater Dei,
Topeka
March 25
Maur Hill-Mount Academy
Mass and confirmation —
Atchison
Catholic Foundation of Northeast Kansas Marian pilgrimage
reunion — Savior Pastoral
Center
March 26-27
Visit to Kenrick Seminary — St.
Louis
March 28
Benedictine College Institute of
Missionary Activity Symposium
Mass — Atchison
week. I often learn things
from The Leaven that I did
not know about a parish or
particular ministry within
the archdiocese. The Leaven
staff knows well how to
tell stories through photos
and the printed word that
nourish the mind and
inspire the heart.
In this era of the new
evangelization, mailing
The Leaven to all the
homes of parishioners of
the archdiocese is one of
the best means available to
strengthen the faith of those
who may be wavering and
confused. Most parishes ask
parishioners to help defray
the cost of producing,
printing and mailing The
Leaven.
I strongly believe in
the importance of sending
The Leaven to every
home, not just to the most
committed Catholics. If
your circumstances permit
it, I encourage you to
donate even more than
the suggested subscription
amount to help us send The
KELEHER
March 22
Confirmation — Church of the
Nativity, Leawood
March 24
St. Agnes penance service
March 26
Confirmation — Queen of the
Holy Rosary, Overland Park
March 28
St. James auction dinner
March 29
Mass — Federal prison camp
Confessions — Nativity,
Leawood
March 31
Chrism Mass — Savior Pastoral
Center
“Seven Last Words” — Curé of
Ars, Leawood
Leaven into the homes of
those who most need it.
Bishop Paul Schulte in
a letter in the first edition
of the Eastern Kansas
Register on June 1, 1939,
asked Catholics to pray
that the newspaper would
yield much good “by way
of giving to you truth in
matters pertaining to the
church and by serving as an
inspiration to strengthen the
faith of good Catholics and
kindle anew the dying spark
of God’s truth, even in the
hearts of those who have
fallen away.”
I thank Father Mark
Goldasich, editor, Anita
McSorley, managing editor,
Todd Habiger, production
manager, Joe Bollig, senior
reporter, and all the
dedicated Leaven staff for
producing a paper week
after week that continues
to feed our minds with
Truth and inspire our
hearts with the power of
God’s love alive and well in
northeastern Kansas!
Saving lives, one picture at a time
By Joe Bollig
[email protected]
O
VERLAND
PARK
—
Sometimes a
sonogram image is literally
the only thing
standing
between life and death.
That’s physical death for an
unborn child and a lifetime of
soul-killing grief for the mother.
Ruth Tisdale and the staff at the
two Advice & Aid Pregnancy Centers in Johnson County see it all
the time.
One memorable occasion happened in January, soon after the
two clinics received their new
high-definition ultrasound machines, donated by the Kansas
Knights of Columbus.
A woman in the early stages
of pregnancy, at about six weeks,
came into the Overland Park office
after visiting a nearby abortion
clinic. In fact, she still had the clinic’s patient identification bracelet
on her wrist.
“Because we are located so
close to [two] abortion clinics, we
have women who come here,” said
Tisdale.
This particular woman was considering an abortion, but hadn’t
made up her mind. First, she wanted a sonogram image.
“We were able to provide [the
image] at no cost,” said Tisdale.
“This is very important. At the
[abortion] clinics, they charge for
sonograms.”
When she saw her unborn child
on the screen, she was surprised.
“Really, is that the heart beat?”
she said. “I didn’t know.”
Nothing is a greater persuader
than the crisp, clear images on the
ultrasound machine screen.
“Of the women we did sonograms for last year, over 80 percent, after they saw the image,
made a decision for life when they
left,” said Tisdale. “Some of them
already know it’s a baby. But still,
when they see the heartbeat, it’s
different.”
The images also have an impact
on accompanying boyfriends and
mothers. Suddenly, they know on
a deeper level that abortion means
killing a child — their child or
grandchild.
“As we share truth and educate
women about what’s happening to
them, their lives are really changed
when they see [the image],” said
Tisdale. “It’s not just an idea.
There’s a picture.”
The rise of the machines was
celebrated on March 11 when Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann blessed
the two new, donated machines at
the Advice & Aid Pregnancy Clinics at 4601 W. 109th St. in Overland
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President: Most Reverend Joseph F. Naumann
LEAVEN PHOTO BY JOE BOLLIG
Gail and Tom Schmeidler, Knights of Columbus state culture of life co-chairpersons (left), and Dr. Brendan Mitchell, a member of the Church
of the Ascension in Overland Park and volunteer clinic medical director, look on as Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann blesses the ultrasound
machine at the Advice & Aid Pregnancy Center in Shawnee on March 11. The archbishop was assisted by Msgr. Gary Applegate.
the Park and at 11644 W. 75th St. in
Shawnee.
“[These] sonograms help expand the ability of mothers who
come here to make a good choice,”
said Archbishop Naumann. “As
they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. These pictures are
worth much more than that.”
“Once parents see the image of
their child on the sonogram, it’s
much more difficult for them to
rationalize an abortion,” he continued. “So, we’re grateful to the
Knights of Columbus for all they
do to make these machines available and put them at the service of
these incredible clinics.”
Advice & Aid Pregnancy Clinics have been offering ultrasonography since 2004. Last year, they
ULTRASOUNDS
AND SONOGRAMS
A sonogram is an image produced through a medical diagnostic imaging technology that
uses ultrasound frequencies to
produce images of whatever is
inside a person’s body. The ultrasound frequency produces
sound of about 20 kHz and cannot be heard by humans. The
act of producing a sonogram is
called ultrasonography.
realized their machines were nearing the end of their operational life
and needed to be replaced.
Fortunately, the Knights of Columbus had launched a national
Ultrasound Initiative on January
22, 2009. So far, the Knights have
raised funds to purchase more
than 500 ultrasound machines for
crisis pregnancy clinics across the
United States.
The Kansas Knights of Columbus have donated seven sonograms to crisis pregnancy clinics:
one in Ottawa, two in Topeka, two
in Wichita, and two in Johnson
County.
“In early November [2014], Ruth
Tisdale, the Advice & Aid Pregnancy Center director, requested
help in funding two new ultrasound machines for their Shawnee
and Overland Park clinics,” said
Tom Schmeidler.
He and his wife Gail Schmeidler
are the Knights of Columbus state
culture of life co-chairpersons.
The way the Knights Ultrasound Initiative works is that either the state or a local council
comes up with half the cost for the
machine and the Supreme Council
(the national headquarters of the
Knights) comes up with the other
half.
“We sent out a call for funds
to almost 300 councils across the
state, and the councils responded,”
said Tom Schmeidler. “Within 30
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days, we had enough funds where
we could send in our application
to the Supreme Council for matching funds. They approved the application in mid-December.”
According to Tisdale, the total
cost of purchasing, transporting
and installing the two new ultrasound machines was approximately $57,000.
“We were hoping for two machines, but we would have been
thrilled to get one. Tom Schmeidler
informed us that the Knights were
committed to getting machines for
both offices,” said Tisdale.
“The [ultrasound company representative] we worked with —
who sold us ultrasound machines
since 2004 — was so impressed,”
said Tisdale. “He said, ‘Ruth, you
have one of the most generous
Knights groups I’ve ever worked
with.’ And I said, ‘Yes, we do!’”
“We are grateful to the Knights
for making this tool available, and
we give thanks for all the children
who will be saved and all the women who will not have to live with
the terrible burden of realizing —
too late — they chose the death of
their child,” said Archbishop Naumann.
“In the words of the Scriptures
we heard today,” he added, “thank
you for choosing life for yourself
and helping others make a choice
they can live with for the rest of
their lives.”
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Some things haven’t changed, says benefactor
>> Continued from page 1
Because Lacy attributes much of his
success to his education, that’s where
he’s chosen to give back a portion of the
reward that success has brought him.
To that end, Steve and Cathy Lacy
have made a $500,000 donation in the
name of The Lacy Family Fund to Bishop Miege.
“Steve and Cathy are so generous and
giving throughout the [Des Moines]
community,” said Bishop Miege president Dr. Joe Passantino. “And yet, he’s
also given to every single one of our
annual appeals. And he’s contributed
to all four capital campaigns.
“We’ve been very blessed to be the
beneficiaries of his generosity.”
The Lacy Family Fund will be earmarked for Bridge to the Future, a
drive aimed at keeping tuition affordable for all Catholic students who want
to attend Bishop Miege.
“This is where I got the confidence
that would allow me to believe I could
do something,” said Lacy. “Enabling
other young people to get that chance
gives us tremendous gratification.
“We get a lot of reward from that
giving.”
Bridge to the Future scholarships
bridge the gap between what a family
can afford to pay in tuition and the limited financial assistance the school can
offer.
“His money was designated for the
endowment,” said Passantino. “And
our long-term goal is to establish an
endowment large enough to sustain
the program.”
The Lacys’ generous donation was
announced at the Bishop Miege Foundation dinner, an annual event celebrating stewardship and recognizing
the high school’s benefactors.
“I’m a tremendous believer in educational choices,” said Lacy. “I think
the parochial school system fits a critical position in that it gets students
ready to be successful, but gives them
a pretty wide range of how to measure
success.”
When Lacy returns to his alma
mater, he’s impressed with all the improvements and updates throughout
the campus, but he’s also happy to see
some things haven’t changed.
“They have kept that faith-based respectful culture while the whole world
Three rules for success
from Steve Lacy
S
teve Lacy can give back to his
alma mater so generously because he’s been successful in
business. He claims his success is
due to a commitment to just three life
rules that he likes to pass on to young
people.
1. EMBRACE CHANGE
In the early stages of your career,
you really have to be very focused on
doing extra to be noticed so you have
a chance to move ahead. I’m sure
you’ve been in a work environment
where there’s a new piece of technology or a new system. The young person
who grabs hold of that, learns it first
and teaches everybody else becomes
the go-to person everybody loves. So
embrace change, grab hold of the new
opportunity and then teach your coworkers who might be a little frightened of it. I think that is the smartest
thing a young person can do.
Bishop Miege president Dr. Joe Passantino, left, thanks Steve Lacy for his generous contribution
to Miege.
around them has evolved,” he said.
Passantino agreed.
“Today, teens especially are bombarded with all kinds of messages that
pull them away from their Christian
values and the Gospel message,” he
said. “The benefit of having those values reinforced throughout the day and
in all their activities is so important.
“They’re not just well-prepared academically, but also prepared to defend
their values and beliefs so they can
continue on their faith journey.”
Lacy still remembers the tight community that defined his Bishop Miege
experience.
“It was a very caring faith community,” he said, “where you were taught
at a young age respect for your fellow
students — regardless of where they
came from or what they were good at.”
Lacy has continued that practice
throughout his life.
“That underpinning of treating the
other person with respect — even
though they might come from another
place or might be headed to a different direction — that really came from
Miege 100 percent.”
What has changed about his high
school said Lacy, like all Catholic
schools, is the cost.
When Lacy attended Bishop Miege
in the early ’70s, he remembers all
Catholic students having access to a
Catholic education — and tuition being less than $250 per year.
Passantino remembers that, too.
“Catholic schools were initiated
with the idea to serve all Catholic families,” he said. “But with tuition rising so
much, Catholic high schools especially
are in danger of becoming schools that
only those of means can afford.”
That’s why the Bridge to the Future
is so important.
Bishop Miege currently has 120 students benefiting from the scholarships.
It hopes eventually to build an endowment large enough to serve 200 students a year.
“I think Miege is a special place,”
said Lacy. “I think it’s worth some financial investment.
“I hope that, as the result of this program I’m just a small part of, there are
some kids that just get a chance — the
chance I had.”
2. PICK ONE THING
You have to very carefully decide
how you use your extracurricular time.
I suggest you try to find one thing that
you really care about — just one, because you don’t have a lot of time and
you don’t have a lot of money. Whatever it is — Big Brothers, Big Sisters,
coaching football — really give it your
all so you get the reputation at a young
age that if you say, “I’m going to do
this,” you actually do it. It has to be
something you’re passionate about;
then writing the check or spending
the Saturday isn’t burdensome, it’s rewarding.
3. BALANCE RELATIONSHIPS
You have to give an equal amount of
effort to whatever relationship means
in your life. That means you have to
keep the balance between whomever you’ve chosen as a life partner, the
decision to have children and how
you set an example for them. And
how you interact with your faith. It’s
a three-way deal. If any one of those
three things blows up, it impacts your
career. Now, in all of our lives, there
have been times when the job is out
of whack with the commitment to our
families, but then you’ve got to square
that back up. You’ve got to work on all
of those things at the same time.
Women’s conference seeks to empower, inspire
By Joe Bollig
[email protected]
O
VERLAND PARK — For
almost 20 years, the highly
popular Men Under Construction men’s retreat has
been packing them in, and one question has always come up.
“All you could hear was the women
constantly saying, ‘Why can’t we have
a conference, too?’” said Linda Spencer,
a member of Church of the Ascension
in Overland Park.
Spencer, who is married to MUC
chairman Dan Spencer, wanted to do
something about this.
But she couldn’t do it alone.
Then she met Kathy Jennison, another Ascension parishioner.
“One day, I went out with my daughter to a bridal shower, and there was
Kathy Jennison,” said Spencer.
It was an “Oh my gosh, you, too?”
kind of meeting. Both women wanted
SCHEDULE
• 7 a.m. Walk-in registration
• 7:30 a.m. Mass with Archbishop
Joseph F. Naumann
• 8:15 a.m. Breakfast and vendor tables
• 9:15 a.m. Welcome
• 9:30 a.m. Immaculée Ilibagiza keynote
• 10:45 a.m. Break/visit and vendors
• 11:15 a.m. Teresa Tomeo keynote
• 12:15 p.m. Concluding remarks and
prayer
• 12:30 p.m. Conference concludes
to develop a women’s conference, but
couldn’t pull it off alone.
By putting their heads — and prayers
— together, however, the two began to
build a conference team. Many brought
their professional skills to the project.
“We’ve been blessed to have several
women come forward and help, getting
the website up and doing marketing for
us,” said Jennison.
The women formed their own entity, the Kansas City Catholic Women’s
Conference, with Spencer and Jennison as co-chairpersons. The event
planners have been meeting since last
October.
“I really believe women are at the
heart and soul of the family and the
culture,” said Spencer. “In my heart, I
wanted to give women the correct information and answers for their ‘whys,’
and bring in speakers who can lift us
up and affirm us, enable us to grow in
knowledge and encourage us to shape
our families and culture.”
The inaugural event, “Living in
Truth,” will be held from 7:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. on April 25 at the Church of
the Ascension, located at 9510 W. 127th
St.
The event’s lineup of activities includes two powerhouse speakers.
Rwandan massacre survivor Immaculée Ilibagiza will speak about living a
life of faith, hope and forgiveness in the
aftermath of her terrifying experience.
Syndicated Catholic Radio talk show
host Teresa Tomeo will speak about
rediscovering the dignity of women.
Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann will
be the main celebrant and homilist at a
Mass in the morning.
“We’re all daughters and children
of God,” said Jennison. “We feed ourselves with physical food, so why not
spiritual food? Events such as these
empower us to have courage and use
the gifts given to us by the Holy Spirit
to pass on our faith to the next generation. Our church will only be as strong
as our next generation.”
The cost to attend is $25 for people
who register early, but $30 at the door.
Priests and religious may attend for
free as honored guests. For information and to register, go online to: www.
livingintruthkc.com.
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MARCH 20, 2015 | THELEAVEN.COM
Columnist is ‘lord of the cycles’
By Joe Bollig
[email protected]
K
ANSAS CITY, Kan. — Oh,
the agonies of being a columnist for The Leaven. Oh, to
be haunted by the deadline
while the mind is bereft of ideas.
It’s like the writer Gene Fowler said:
“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at
a blank sheet of paper until drops of
blood form on your forehead.”
Right. But while other Leaven columnists feel the heat, longtime columnist Father Michael Stubbs is as cool
as the produce section. No bleeding
there.
Why? Because he writes about the
Mass readings. For ideas, all he has to
do is open the Lectionary.
Lest there be any misunderstanding, Father Stubbs has to exercise some
thought,
effort and
creativity in
p ro d u c i n g
his writing.
His
columns don’t
write themselves.
But even
he will admit that he
has one up
on columnists who have to write more
broadly.
And really — how hard is it to misquote the Bible?
“I have an advantage, say, over Father Goldasich,” said Father Stubbs,
pastor for the past four years at Holy
Cross Parish in Overland Park. “He has
a weekly column as well. And he has
full field to write anything he wants,
which is a great deal of liberty, but is
more challenging. I have some focus
already and he doesn’t.”
Father Stubbs has been writing his
weekly Scripture column for The Leaven since he was pastor of St. Vincent de
Paul Parish in Onaga in the late 1980s
and early 1990s.
“[Then-associate editor] Anita McSorley asked a number of priests to
write a guest editorial, to test us out,”
said Father Stubbs. “She was looking
for a priest to do a regular column. And
then she invited me to continue writing a column.”
Father Stubbs chose to write about
a subject he knew best: the Scriptures.
It didn’t hurt that he has a master’s in
theology, emphasis in Scripture, from
Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
If you’re a careful, longtime reader
of Father Stubbs you’ll notice that the
name of his column changes.
Now it’s “In the Beginning,” but it
has also been “Second Thoughts” and
“The Gospel Truth.” The name depends
on which readings he’s concentrating
on according to the liturgical cycle.
“I’ve been writing on the first readings,” he said. “Some years I concentrate on the first reading, some years
the second, and some years on the
Gospel.”
How many name changes has he
made? He hasn’t a clue. Ditto for the
number of columns. Keeping count
isn’t really important.
But meeting deadlines is very, very
important. In all the times he’s been
writing, he has only missed one — one!
— deadline, and it wasn’t really his
fault.
You see, back when he began he had
LEAVEN PHOTO BY JOE BOLLIG
Father Michael Stubbs takes a “Godzilla”-eye view of a paper model of St. Peter’s Basilica he keeps in his office. Father Stubbs built the model in Rome
while a seminarian during the 1970s. Since then, he’s built “real” churches.
to type his columns and send them
through the U.S. Postal Service — a
quaint idea in this age of email. One
time, the mails ran slow and he missed.
“Talk about ancient,” he said.
Things really sped up when the local
library got a fax machine. He bought
a laptop computer in the mid-1990s
when he went to Harvard and discovered the speed of email.
Writing according to the cycle of
readings means he can work ahead, so
going on vacation hasn’t been a problem.
Producing a column usually takes
only a couple of days.
First, he checks the next reading.
Then, he checks his file of past columns to make sure he doesn’t repeat
and to keep it fresh. And then he does a
little research. Finally, he settles down
and writes.
“I try to narrow down what I’m go-
ing to say,” he said. “Frequently, there
are all kinds of things you can say and
directions you can go. I decide which
point I’m going to examine in depth.
Then, I sketch out a few ideas, do some
research, and sleep on it. I don’t send in
an article the same day I write it. Sleeping on it helps the writing process.”
There is an incredible richness in
Scripture. Not only are there the literal and spiritual senses, there are various literary and historical approaches.
There are layers of meaning to discover, contexts to place, and applications
to our own time. You cannot exhaust
the topic.
Not all Scripture is the same. The
Gospels are easier because they’re narrative, explained Father Stubbs. And
then you have St. Paul — highly theological writings, with digressions and
run-on sentences.
“I look upon my writing for The
Leaven as having a different goal than
preaching my homilies for Sunday
Mass,” said Father Stubbs. “With The
Leaven, I’m trying to be more didactic,
more teaching — not so much to motivate and inspire, although that may
happen anyway.”
As for the lede (that’s the first line),
he tries to “hook” the reader by grabbing the reader’s attention, and tying
what he’s teaching into his or her everyday life.
“Scripture is important to me,” said
Father Stubbs.
And writing for The Leaven allows
him to share that passion with more
people than he could possibly reach on
an average weekend.
All the more reason to keep his
columns on the cycle of readings cycling on.
6 LOCAL NEWS
THELEAVEN.COM | MARCH 20, 2015
‘Seven Last Words’ sets tone for holy days to follow
By Jessica Langdon
[email protected]
L
EAWOOD — Archbishop
Emeritus James P. Keleher has
been attending Curé of Ars
Parish’s presentation of “The
Seven Last Words of Christ” here for
more than two decades now.
His Holy Week would not be complete without it.
“For the last 22 years, I have made it
a practice
to accept
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Charles’
invitation
to attend
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presentation at
Curé,” explained Archbishop Keleher. “I have
found the time spent listening to Jesus
speak his final words to us as he was
dying on the cross to be a precious
time for reflection in preparation for
the sacred Triduum to follow.”
The presentation — now in its 28th
year — was performed for the first time
at Queen of the Holy Rosary Church in
Overland Park, Msgr. Charles McGlinn’s
previous assignment before he arrived
as pastor at Curé. There, he wrote meditations to accompany each “word,” and
‘Seven Last
Words of Christ’
“
“I have found
the time spent
listening to Jesus speak
his final words to us
as he was dying on the
cross to be a precious
time for reflection in
preparation for the sacred Triduum to follow.”
Archbishop Emeritus
James P. Keleher
coordinated them with the choir.
Keeping with the tradition of scheduling the “Seven Last Words” on the
Tuesday of Holy Week, this year’s will
take place at Curé of Ars at 7:30 p.m.
on March 31.
Over the course of its history, the
presentation has grown from one song
and a handful of people to an event
with a featured choir and a devoted
crowd of returning attendees.
“It has evolved into what it is today
— a full church and a treasured part
of Holy Week for many people,” said
Ellen Tuttle, director of music.
Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann’s
mother, Louise, has for many years
loved this presentation and has attended with the archbishop.
Although commonly referred to as
the “Seven Last Words,” the devotion
is actually centered on seven separate
Scripture passages, starting with “Father, forgive them, for they know not
what they do,” and ending with “Father,
into your hands I commit my spirit.”
Monsignor McGlinn explained that
originally “it wasn’t real elaborate,” but
was a bit like a Tenebrae service, a traditional Christian service celebrated at
the start of the last three days of Holy
Week, known as the Triduum.
“It’s a combination of prayerful reflection and uplifting music and a little
theater,” he said.
To him, the evening ceremony sets
the tone for the holy days ahead.
Candlelight and progressive darkness play an important role in setting
the mood, but a highlight for many is
the music.
The choir includes three tenors
whose rendition of a song from Theodore Dubois’ “Seven Last Words” has
proven to be very moving.
“It gives me chills,” said Msgr. McGlinn. “I’ve been doing this with them
this whole time. It still gives me chills.
I can’t express it.”
Archbishop Keleher agreed, saying
the “music that accompanies these re-
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flections touches my heart.
“For instance, when Jesus tells Dismas, ‘This day you will be with me in
Paradise,’ the accompanying music expresses Jesus’ message in a powerful
and mystical way,” he said.
As a pastor, Msgr. McGlinn is accustomed to hearing the exuberant din of
an active congregation leaving after
weekend Masses.
So he finds the quiet spirit that fills
the church when the presentation ends
— and everyone files out in darkness
and silence — very moving.
“This evening takes people on a
journey into the tragedy and suffering
of Jesus’ passion and death,” said Msgr.
McGlinn.
“It’s just wonderful way to really
lead us into the Triduum,” said Tuttle.
“I can’t think of anything better.”
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RUNNING THE RACE
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Building a path to the Lord
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in
Vince Eimer’s seven-part series on
journeying through the Lenten season.
e all remember the story
of the good
Samaritan.
But I am not so sure any of us
have heard it with the same kind
of force it had when first told.
The love a Jew would have had
for a Samaritan would have been
like the love a Ku Klux Klansman would have for an AfricanAmerican. There is a real bite to
this story for a society in which
almost everyone saw Samaritans
as impure inferiors to be avoided,
a group hated and despised for
many centuries.
We are commanded to love our
neighbor and told in this story
that neighbor means everybody.
There are no exceptions. But
is this even possible? Our faith
teaches us that not only is it possible, it is expected. Talk about great
expectations! Good news, though.
There is a school we all attend
that can teach us how to love in
this seemingly impossible way.
This school is free. It is in your
neighborhood. The faculty, staff
and students are all the same people. This school is your family and
friends. We do not learn what love
is and how to love in an abstraction that includes all of humanity.
VINCE EIMER
Vince Eimer is the spiritual and retreat
director of Christ’s Peace House of Prayer
near Easton.
“
We are
commanded to
love our neighbor and
told in this story that
neighbor means
everybody.”
We learn it in the midst of living
our lives with the people we are
closest to, the ones God gave us as
family and the ones we chose as
friends.
What are the lessons in this
school? The first lesson is to have
a friendship with Jesus, who is
always within us. We love this
best of friends by trying to be like
him. We learn who he is whenever
we read the Gospels and see again
what he does and says. He is our
true role model. He gives us his
all so that we can realize his life
within us. He even loves those
who do not love him. Remember
how he asked the Father to forgive
his torturers at the crucifixion?
That is the level of love he calls
us to.
The second lesson is to take
what we learn about love from
Jesus and be that way with our
families and friends. We place the
needs of those we love before our
own. We work hard to develop the
virtues so we can be consistently
patient, kind and generous. We
start to see that the key to true
love lies not in our feelings, which
change as the winds blow, but in
making the effort to always do
what is beneficial for others.
Once we have become a person who habitually loves family
and friends in this way, we will
naturally find ourselves behaving
in a similar way to whoever we
meet because now Christ is living
within us.
Bill and Joyce (Meyers) LaFavor, members of St. Agnes
Parish, Roeland
Park, will celebrate their 50th
wedding anniversary on March
20. The couple
was married on
March 20, 1965,
at St. Benedict
Church, Kansas
City, Kansas. The
couple will celebrate with a family dinner hosted by their
children. Their children are: Julie Knoche,
Olathe; Sheila Pitt, Lenexa; Colleen Olinger,
Lenexa; and Bill LaFavor, Kansas City, Missouri. They also have eight grandchildren.
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Send notices to: The Leaven, 12615 Parallel
Pkwy., Kansas City, KS 66109, attn: anniversaries; or send an email to: [email protected].
Keeler Center looking for
first Communion help
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Keeler Women’s
Center here is looking to pair families that
need help providing a girl’s dress/veil or
boy’s outfit with volunteers who would
enjoy making the first Communion ceremony memorable for a child. If you need
assistance or would like to help, call Patricia Kowal at (913) 205-8788. Gently used
items are also welcome.
Dream on
Bishop Ward graduate Chris Huey gets a second
chance at his dream as a player for the
University of Kansas basketball team
By Todd Habiger
[email protected]
L
AWRENCE — Five
years ago, Chris Huey
saw his dreams of college basketball glory
die with multiple instances of a collapsed
lung while he was a
member of the University of St. Mary basketball team in Leavenworth.
On Feb. 21, that dream was resurrected
when Huey — a graduate of Bishop Ward
High School in Kansas City, Kansas, and
student manager for the University of Kansas basketball team — suited up against
Texas Christian University.
The crowd of more than 16,000 at Allen
Fieldhouse jumped to their feet, erupting
in ear-splitting cheers when Kansas head
coach Bill Self put Huey in the game with
35. 1 seconds left.
“Once [Coach Bill Self] called my name,
I was trying to get my mind right to get in
there,” Huey said. “Growing up in the area
and having the fans getting on their feet
one time for me was just an amazing experience.”
During his 35.1 seconds on the court,
Huey, affectionately known by the team
as Scarecrow, got a shot attempt off but
missed.
“I remember Trent Johnson, who is
TCU’s head coach, saying they don’t want
to foul anymore. So once I got the ball, I
tried to take it to the basket. Nerves just got
the best of me and I couldn’t finish,” Huey
said.
It was still a magical moment for Huey.
But in order for this dream to come true, he
had to let another one go.
LEAVEN PHOTO BY LORI WOOD HABIGER
Chris Huey models his very own uniform in Allen Field House in Lawrence. Huey had “a dream come true” when he suited up and played against TCU on Feb. 21.
floor with them,” Huey said. “It’s also cool
to see that Coach Self thinks I can help the
team. It’s cool going up against those guys
— some of them future pros.”
The dream lives
Growing up Catholic
Huey is a cradle Catholic and grew up
in the Cathedral of St. Peter neighborhood
in Kansas City, Kansas.
He attended Catholic schools all his life,
first at what was then known as Cathedral
Grade School — now Resurrection School
at the Cathedral — and then on to Bishop
Ward.
Huey has fond memories of his Catholic
school days and credits them with preparing him to take on the challenges that life
would bring.
“The teachers at Catholic schools care
about you so much,” said Huey. “They really work hard to make sure you’re prepared
for everything — not just in school, but in
life.”
The 6-foot-7-inch Huey started for the
Bishop Ward basketball team, averaging
7.6 points per game and 2.8 rebounds his
senior year. His play was good enough to
earn him a partial basketball scholarship to
the University of St. Mary.
“I chose St. Mary’s because it was somewhere I thought I would get a chance to
play,” he said. “I thought it was the right fit
for me out of high school. St. Mary’s was
great to me.”
In one of his first practices as a member of the St. Mary’s basketball team, Huey
suffered a collapsed lung, the result of a violent collision while playing at Ward. Several surgeries followed. During this time,
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Kansas head coach Bill Self puts student manager into the game against TCU with 35.1 seconds left in
the game. Huey is the first student manager to suit up and play in a game during Self’s tenure at KU.
Huey relied on his faith and his family to
get him through.
“I had so much support. Each of the
times I was in the hospital, I had so many
people come to see me,” he said. “I always
had people there in my corner.”
And, of course, he had something else to
fall back on as well.
“Faith was always big to me,” he said.
The dream dies
After multiple surgeries and multiple rehabs, Huey finally made one of the
toughest decisions of his young life.
He gave his dream of playing college
basketball.
“It was tough giving up the game I love.
It was a tough decision to make,” he said. “I
had to do what was best for me at the time.
Dealing with surgeries and stuff like that,
although it wasn’t a lot of pain for me, it
was just a process to go through over and
over. I thought it was better to get away
from it and try to enjoy myself.”
Giving up basketball also meant giving
up the University of St. Mary. Although he
enjoyed his time at St. Mary’s, without basketball as a consideration, Huey decided to
make a fresh start.
“A lot of my friends were [at the University of Kansas] and I grew up a KU fan, so
coming here was an easy decision,” he said.
For the first time in a long time, basketball wasn’t a part of Huey’s life. During his
first year at KU, Huey focused on being a
student and soaking up the college experience. And he loved it.
Huey might have thought he was done
with basketball.
But basketball wasn’t done with him.
Return to the game
After his first year at KU, Huey was
approached by a fellow Ward graduate
named James Cox, who was KU’s head student manager at the time, about working at
KU’s summer basketball camps.
“I told him yeah, mainly because I needed money for the summer,” Huey said.
But working at the camp also ignited the
old basketball flame. With his camp work
giving him a decided edge over the competition, he applied to become a student
manager. He was lucky enough to be one
of the few selected.
The Scarecrow nickname would soon
follow.
Huey says most people think he was
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
The Kansas basketball team swarms Chris Huey after Coach Self presents him with his very own jersey and tells him he will suit up against TCU.
given the nickname Scarecrow because of
his slight frame — but that’s not the case.
In one practice, Huey was tasked with
hitting one of Kansas’ big guys with a pad.
Assistant coach Kurtis Townsend didn’t
think Huey was hitting him hard enough.
“The student trainer at the time told him
I had a collapsed lung,” Huey said. “Coach
Townson is a big jokester so he started
calling me Scarecrow, saying, “if I only had
another lung,” a takeoff of the “Wizard of
Oz” song “If I Only Had a Brain,” sung by
the Scarecrow.
For two years, Huey dwelt in anonymity as a student manager for the basketball
team. But this season, Coach Self needed
a tall body on the scout team to practice
against his big men. Scarecrow got the call.
As a member of the scout team, Huey’s
job is to practice against KU’s big men and
mimic some of the best players in the Big
12.
“It’s really cool just to be able to help
and to see what the game is like on the
After a season of trading body shots
and elbows with the likes of Perry Ellis
and Cliff Alexander, Self decided to reward
Huey by letting him suit up for a game.
“Coach stopped me in front of the guys
after we huddled up and asked me if it was
a dream of mine growing up to play here,”
said Huey. “Obviously, I said yes. Then he
brought out a jersey with my name on it
and said he wanted me to suit up.
“My heart just stopped for a second. I
didn’t know what to say but ‘thank you’ a
whole bunch. I was in a state of shock at
that point.”
“He does a lot with our team,” said Self,
“more than our other managers from a
playing standpoint. He’s the biggest guy, so
he guards and beats people with dummies.
I decided, since he’s a senior, that that
would be a cool deal.”
So, on Feb. 21, Huey stepped onto one of
the most famous courts in college basketball, Allen Fieldhouse — as a player.
As a manager, Huey sits behind the
bench tending to the players’ and coaches’
needs. It was somewhat of an adjustment
being a player.
“It was a little weird because in my
mind I was still thinking as a manager,”
Huey said. “During timeouts, it was weird
not doing anything; standing in the huddle.
But just sitting on the bench was great. It’s
a great view of the game and it was cool to
sit there with the guys.”
His teammates were thrilled for him.
Following the game, Kansas guard
Wayne Selden Jr. posted a picture on Instagram of himself and Huey together on the
court with the caption: “To see somebody
work so hard day in & day out and finally
be blessed with such a great opportunity.
We sometimes take for granted the opportunities we are given but @c_huey24
showed how to be thankful for the blessings we receive. Today is your day, brother,
shine on!”
Kansas forward Jamari Traylor echoed
those comments at a press conference following the game.
“That guy works hard all the time. It’s
good to have him out there and see him rewarded like that,” Traylor said.
After the game, Huey became a celebrity of sorts. He’s done multiple local TV
and radio shows. He had an interview with
a Syracuse, N.Y., newspaper, and did an interview with ESPN’s “SportsCenter.”
“The whole experience — Coach surprising me and the game itself — it’s been
a dream come true, but it’s been exhausting,” he said. “So much has taken place and
it happened so fast, I almost have to take
some time and sit back and think, ‘Did all
of that really happen?’”
Huey said he’s never looked back and
wondered what his basketball career
could have been like if he hadn’t suffered
a collapsed lung. But when pressed about
whether he would trade his 35 seconds of
fame for a four-year career somewhere
else, Huey doesn’t hesitate.
“I’ll take my [35 seconds] here any day,”
he said. “That may sound like a weird decision, but I’ve really enjoyed my time here
with the team and couldn’t ask for things
to end up a better way.”
10 WORLD
THELEAVEN.COM | MARCH 20, 2015
Pope: Kids need values, hope
from teachers; teachers
need better pay
Pilgrims
who walk
Via Dolorosa
don’t care if
it isn’t Jesus’
exact route
Christians from China carry a
cross on the Via Dolorosa in the
Old City of Jerusalem, March 9.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Teaching is
about giving young people, especially
troublemakers, values and hope, and it
is “an injustice” that today’s educators
are paid so poorly, Pope Francis said. In
a world where it is already difficult for
kids to find a decent point of reference,
they must find positive guidance from
teachers, who “are able to give meaning
to school, studying and culture, without
reducing it all just to passing on practical
knowledge,” he said March 14. “You have
to teach not just about a subject, but also
life’s values and habits” because when
it comes to learning about a subject, “a
computer is sufficient, but to understand
how to love, to understand what the values and habits are that create harmony in
the world, you need a good teacher,” he
said. The pope’s remarks came during a
meeting with members of an Italian association of Catholic teachers, educators
and school administrators in the Vatican’s
Paul VI audience hall. Addressing those
in the audience as “colleagues,” the pope
recalled his own experience as a teacher,
saying teaching “is a really beautiful job”
because it lets educators see their students “grow day after day.”
CNS PHOTO/DEBBIE HILL
By Judith Sudilovsky
Catholic News Service
J
ERUSALEM (CNS) — Several pilgrim groups gathered in a
sunny courtyard in Jerusalem’s
Old City. They were preparing
to follow a tradition reaching back
at least to the fifth century: walking
along the Via Dolorosa, through the
cobbled streets of Jerusalem’s Old City.
The Via Dolorosa represents the
route taken by Jesus on the way to his
crucifixion, until he was laid in the
tomb. Although the route followed for
this devotion has changed over the centuries, the need and desire of the Christian faithful to walk in Jesus’ footsteps
has not. The current route was probably formalized in the 18th century.
“To follow the actual footsteps of
Jesus is pretty amazing. It brings his
message even more into our hearts,”
said Marilyn McDonough, 64, a Catholic from Santa Clara, Calif. “I keep
thinking about all the suffering he did
for us and what he went through mentally and physically. It is overwhelming
for me to be here.”
At the same time, she said, she is
aware that no one knows for certain
the exact places where Jesus walked.
The restored 12th-century Chapel
of the Flagellation that stands in the
courtyard today was built on the location of a fifth-century church.
“If you take the whole area of Jerusalem, I know Jesus walked in this area.
Did he step in this very spot? Maybe
not, but I know he walked in other
spots, and if I walk around here I can
feel it in my heart,” she said.
Nigerian pilgrims sang a traditional
hymn; an Asian group stood in orderly rows, chanting a prayer and led by a
pilgrim carrying a large cross. Groups
from Eastern Europe and the United
States stood in different corners of the
courtyard, some listening as a guide
presented religious and historical explanations of the place, while others
bent their heads in silent or communal
prayer.
Starting with the first station, in the
courtyard of the nearby el-’Omariyya
Muslim school, they would all walk
the same path, stopping to pray and reflect at the traditional 14 stations, with
the final five located inside the Church
of the Holy Sepulcher.
Some of the pilgrim groups walked
the path carrying a cross as Jesus did.
On Fridays the Franciscans lead an official procession along the Via Dolorosa.
“Sometimes you will see pilgrims
here from 4 a.m. and until late at
night,” said Franciscan Father Eugenio
Alliata, professor of Christian archaeology at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum. “Everyone sings and prays
according to their tradition, in their
own language. Jesus walked with a real
cross, the pilgrims walk with a symbolic cross. Each one has his own cross to
bear, and Jesus helps them to do that.”
There is no clear consensus among
biblical scholars that this current Via
Dolorosa tradition is the actual route
taken by Jesus. It is based on the assumption that the Pretorium, where
Pontius Pilate judged Jesus, would
have been at that time the Antonia Fortress, built by King Herod.
With no hard archaeological evidence of where the Pretorium was,
where Jesus’ trial took place and which
path he took to his own crucifixion,
scholars of biblical history base their
assumptions upon what they know of
the layout and social mores of the Roman-occupied city of Jerusalem of that
time.
Some, like archaeologist Amit
Reem, believe that one probability is
that the Roman governor would have
stayed in the palace of the Judean king
during his stays in Jerusalem, and he
would have judged Jesus from there.
The palace is thought to have been in
what is today’s Tower of David Museum just inside Jaffa Gate.
Reem, who works for the Israel Antiquities Authority, recently finished 10
years of excavation work revealing the
foundations and a drainage system of
King Herod’s palace in one of the museum buildings.
“It can be fair to think that Pontius
Pilate, the Roman representative of
Caesar, stayed in Herod’s Palace while
in Jerusalem,” said Reem, standing out-
side the ruins of the monumental steps
leading to what is believed to have
been Herod’s famous pools. The area
was excavated in the 1980s by archaeologist Rene Sivan. Using an outdoor
screen, the museum shows a virtual
recreation of the palace pools according to first-century descriptions of the
palace.
Reem noted that early Christians
did not follow the current Via Dolorosa route. He said the Via Dolorosa was
south of Jaffa Gate, starting from Mt.
Zion, where Christians from the fifth
and sixth centuries identified the Pretorium, leading from near Dung Gate
to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
“Though we do not find any actual
evidence that [Herod’s Palace] is the
place where Jesus’ trial was held, it is
a logical, theoretical estimation that it
could’ve been here,” he said.
Father Alliata, however, is not convinced.
In his thinking, the Roman governor
would have needed to stay near the
place of most importance for Judaism
to be on guard for any unrest during
the Jewish pilgrimage holiday of Passover, when thousands of Jews, including Jesus, would ascend to the Temple
Mount to give the required offerings.
That would place him in Herod’s Antonia Fortress which, according to
Franciscan tradition, stood at the site
of the modern Franciscan chapels.
“The actual Via Dolorosa [procession] never started at the Citadel of
King David,” Father Alliata said. “It is
possible that in history it was used as
the Pretorium, but Christians never
used it to determine the place of the
Crucifixion.”
For most pilgrims, debates over the
original route do not matter.
As his group prepared to leave the
Franciscan compound and begin the
procession, Benevil Rosa, a Catholic
from Brazil, noted that walking along
the path would help transform the love
of Jesus into a spiritual reality.
“It brings the love into practice,”
Rosa said. “What people feel in their
hearts and what they do in reality is
more important than the actual location.”
CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING
Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa preaches during the Good Friday liturgy led by Pope
Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican
April 18, 2014. Father Cantalamessa, the official
“preacher of the papal household,” has been
preaching at the Good Friday service since 1980.
Preaching to the pope:
Capuchin says it’s an
exercise in humility
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The first time
Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa
climbed the steps up to the papal altar in
St. Peter’s Basilica, he said, “it felt like I
was climbing Mount Everest.” The intimidating climb 35 years ago was to fulfill a
mandate from St. John Paul II, who tapped
the Capuchin to preach to the pope and
the public on Good Friday 1980. Now 80,
Father Cantalamessa still preaches at the
Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in the basilica each year. And, as the official “preacher of the papal household,” the Capuchin
also preaches to the pope and leaders of
the Roman Curia on most Fridays of Advent and Lent each year. The superiors
of a variety of religious orders took turns
preaching to the pontiff and his aides
during Advent and Lent until the mid1500s when Pope Paul IV appointed the
first preacher of the papal household; his
successors followed suit, always choosing
a religious-order priest for the job. Pope
Benedict XIV decided in 1743 to be more
specific, decreeing that the preacher of
the papal household always be a Capuchin friar. Last summer, Father Cantalamessa told an Italian Catholic magazine
that he figured he had given 280 Advent
and Lenten talks to the Curia and St. John
Paul, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.
With each meditation lasting about 30
minutes, he said, “I’ve been responsible
for having taken up a good 140 hours of
the last three popes’ precious time.”
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Pope announces Holy Year of Mercy
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
V
ATICAN CITY (CNS) —
Pope Francis announced an
extraordinary jubilee, a Holy
Year of Mercy, to highlight
the Catholic Church’s “mission to be a
witness of mercy.”
“No one can be excluded from God’s
mercy,” the pope said March 13, marking the second anniversary of his pontificate by leading a Lenten penance
service in St. Peter’s Basilica.
“I frequently have thought about
how the church can make more evident
its mission to be a witness of mercy,”
he said during his homily; that is why
he decided to call a special Holy Year,
which will be celebrated from Dec. 8,
2015, until Nov. 20, 2016.
The biblical theme of the year, he
said, will be “Be merciful, just as your
Father is merciful,” an admonition that
applies “especially to confessors,” the
pope said with a smile.
Traditionally, every 25 years the
popes proclaim a holy year, which features special celebrations and pilgrimages, strong calls for conversion and
repentance, and the offer of special opportunities to experience God’s grace
through the sacraments, especially
confession. Extraordinary holy years,
like the Holy Year of Mercy, are less frequent, but offer the same opportunities
for spiritual growth.
The doors of the church “are wide
open so that all those who are touched
by grace can find the certainty of forgiveness,” Pope Francis said at the penance service, which featured individual
confessions. It was part of a worldwide
celebration of “24 Hours for the Lord,”
in which Catholic churches were staying open for prayer, eucharistic adoration and confession.
At each of the dozens of confessionals in St. Peter’s Basilica, as well as in
simple chairs scattered along the walls,
priests welcomed people to the sacrament. The pope removed his liturgical
vestments and went to confession before putting on a purple stole and hearing the confessions of others.
S
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
V
CNS PHOTO/STEFANO SPAZIANI
Pope Francis hears confessions during a Lenten penance service in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican March 13. During the service the pope announced an extraordinary jubilee, a Holy Year of
Mercy, to be celebrated from Dec. 8, 2015, until Nov. 20, 2016.
May 23 outdoor Mass set for beatification of Archbishop Romero
AN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS)
— Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar
Romero will be beatified in San Salvador May 23, said Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator or chief
promoter of the archbishop’s sainthood
cause.
The ceremony, which moves the murdered archbishop a step closer to sainthood, will be in Plaza Divino Salvador del
Mundo. The archbishop said Cardinal An-
Listen to the young,
take seriously their
radar for fakes,
pope says
gelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for
Saints’ Causes, would celebrate the Mass.
“Romero, from heaven, wants every
Salvadoran to walk the path of peace and
justice,” Archbishop Paglia said March 11
at a news conference in San Salvador. The
archbishop called the beatification a gift for
the world, but particularly for the people of
El Salvador.
Pope Francis formally recognized Feb. 3
that the slain Salvadoran archbishop was
killed “in hatred of the faith” — and not for
purely political reasons. While Archbishop
Romero’s sainthood cause began in 1993,
it continued for years as church officials
combed through thousands of documents
related to his life.
The effort began moving forward under
Pope Benedict XVI. In May 2007, he said:
“Archbishop Romero certainly was a great
witness to the faith, a man of great Christian virtue.”
ATICAN CITY (CNS) — Young
people are honest and bold in
identifying fakes, which is something church leaders should not
be afraid of, Pope Francis told the bishops of South Korea and Mongolia.
“When we speak with young people,
they challenge us to share the truth of
Jesus Christ clearly and in a way that
they can understand,” he said in the
written message handed to the bishops
March 12. The bishops met with the pope
during their “ad limina” visits to report
on what is happening in their dioceses.
Later in the day, Pope Francis, to the
surprise of tourists, briefly entered St.
Peter’s Basilica to greet the bishops
again and speak to members of the Korean community who had joined them for
Mass.
Noting how Korean laypeople brought
Catholicism to the country and kept it
alive for decades before the first priests
arrived, the pope told the bishops they
must help Catholics today recognize
they have “inherited this glorious history” and take responsibility for helping
build up the church.
In addition, he urged them to “be
on guard against religious well-being,”
lulled by a life that is comfortable into
thinking that they do not have to stand
up for their faith or that their faith does
not require them to make sacrifices.
In his written message to the bishops,
Pope Francis said that just as Korea’s
Catholic martyrs — mostly laypeople
who were unwaveringly committed to
the faith and to charity — call the peninsula’s Catholics to continue caring for
others, today’s Korean young people
“challenge us to hear one another.”
The pope encouraged the bishops’ efforts to find “new ways to involve your
youth so that they may have a voice and
may be heard in order to share the richness of our faith and life in the church.”
Young people, he said, “test the authenticity of our own faith and fidelity,”
because they “very quickly will call us to
task if our lives do not mirror our faith.”
“Their honesty in this regard can be a
help to us, just as we seek to assist the
faithful to manifest the faith in their daily
lives,” he said.
Pope Francis had special words of encouragement for the apostolic prefect of
Mongolia, Bishop Wenceslao Padilla. The
country has more than 3 million inhabitants and fewer than 900 Catholics.
“Though a small community in a vast
territory,” the pope said, “it is like the
mustard seed, which is the pledge of the
fullness of God’s kingdom.”
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EMPLOYMENT
Student recruitment/process manager - An educational ministry of the Archdiocese of Kansas City
in Kansas is seeking an employee to manage student
recruitment/processes for the new tax credit for low- income students scholarship program. Applicants must be
practicing Catholics in good standing, be able to speak
authentically about Catholic education, have a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of five successful years of
experience working with schools. The ideal candidate
must be able to communicate effectively and compassionately with a variety of constituencies to include families seeking scholarship assistance. The individual must
be self-motivated and extremely organized. Applicants
must demonstrate competency in Excel and database
management skills. Interested individuals should email
cover letter and resume to: [email protected] no later
than noon on April 7.
Security - Savior Pastoral Center has an immediate
opening for a night and weekend part-time security
person. On-site lodging is provided as the individual
is required to live at the center. Position is responsible
for security, caretaking and light custodial duties. Ideal
candidate will have some security/custodial experience.
Work hours vary and average 15 - 20 hours per week.
Mail cover letter, resume and application (available
online at: http://www.archkck.org/jobs) to Human Resources, Building Attendant Search, 12615 Parallel Parkway, Kansas City, KS 66109, or send an email to: jobs@
archkck.org. A complete job description can be found
online at: http://www.archkck.org/jobs. The deadline is
March 31.
Finance and facilities manager - The St. Lawrence
Catholic Campus Center is seeking to hire a finance and
facilities manager. Responsibilities for this full-time position include, but may not be limited to, the management
of the center’s finances, information technology and human resources as well as oversight of the facilities and
its grounds maintenance staff. Candidates should possess a thorough understanding of general accounting
principles and practices, and a proficiency in Microsoft
Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and Quicken/QuickBooks. The ideal candidate will have a commitment to the mission of the center, demonstrate a track
record of career success and have the ability to work independently and meet guidelines. The candidate should
also exhibit excellent verbal and written communication
skills. Saint Lawrence is located in Lawrence and is the
ministry to the Catholic community at the University of
Kansas. Applicants are asked to submit their resumes by
sending an email to: [email protected]. Initial review of
applicants begins April 9.
Director - St. Agnes Church, Roeland Park, has an opening
for the position of Early Education Center director. The director is responsible for overall leadership, administration
and educational components of the preschool and child
care programs. The day-to-day operations of the Early
Education Center will be carried out in accordance with
state licensing regulations, developmentally appropriate
practices and principles of sound Catholic education. Supervises all preschool and child care staff and volunteers.
This position reports to the parish business manager.
The full job description can be found online at: www.
stagneskc.org. Interested applicants can submit their resume by email to: [email protected].
Teacher assistant - Special Beginnings, Lenexa, is seeking full- or part-time teacher assistants at all locations.
We are looking for a teacher assistant candidate who
has an excellent work ethic, heart for children, and a willingness to learn more about early childhood education.
Experience and/or education is a plus but we will train
the right candidate. Teacher assistants will work with
the lead teacher to care for and educate the children.
Primary responsibilities include assisting the lead teacher with: care and supervision of children, lesson plan
implementation, parent communication, cleanliness and
organization of classroom. Starting hourly pay ranges
based on experience and education. Pay increases are
based on job performance. Opportunities for advancement are available as the company prefers to promote
from within. Apply by sending an email to chris@special
beginningsonline.com or in person at 10216 Pflumm Rd.,
Lenexa, KS 66215.
Preschool director - St. Michael the Archangel Parish,
Leawood, is accepting applications for a preschool director. Applicants must have prior teaching and director
level experience, a bachelor’s degree in early childhood
education or a bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in
early childhood education. Must be self-directed, have
strong organizational and interpersonal skills and be
able to meet the state requirements for director of a
100+ child preschool. Must be a practicing Catholic. A
complete job description, application and benefits information are available online at: www.stmichaelcp.
org. Qualified applicants should submit a cover letter
and resume by email to: [email protected] or
mail to: St. Michael the Archangel Parish, Attn: Human
Resources, 14251 Nall Ave., Leawood, KS 66223.
Education specialist - Growing Futures Early Education
Center, Overland Park, has an education specialist position
available. The education specialist is responsible for facilitating full and effective implementation of evidence-based
instructional practices in accordance with Head Start
Performance Standards (HSPS) and Kansas licensing regulations. For additional information and job requirements,
visit the website at: www.growingfutureseec.org.
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Campus ministry director - Rockhurst University is
seeking a dynamic leader for the director position in
campus ministry. The director serves as the leader of
the programs, services and events of campus ministry
within the context of the university that is Catholic and
Jesuit. This person must have a minimum of a master’s
degree (ideally in divinity, theology, pastoral ministry or
related field) along with excellent knowledge and experience working with Roman Catholic liturgy, theology,
church doctrines and teachings, Ignatian spirituality/
discernment/exercises, and ecumenical programming
principles. For a complete job description, please visit
the website at: www.rockhurst.edu.
Teachers - Sacred Heart of Jesus School, Shawnee, is
seeking Catholic teachers for full-time music and parttime art, as well as a full-time para for the 2015-16 school
year. Interested candidates should apply online at: www.
archkckcs.org to be added to the applicant list. Resumes
should be sent to Maureen Engen, Principal, Sacred
Heart School, 21801 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, KS 66218.
Director of theological studies - The St. Lawrence Institute for Faith and Culture invites applications for director of theological studies. The successful candidate
will teach a broad range of introductory courses, as well
as elective courses in theology, to students at the University of Kansas. While the position is for a generalist,
we welcome those conversant in the work of Aquinas.
Applicants should hold at least an MA in theology but a
Ph.D. in theology, STD, or equivalent (ABD considered)
is preferred. The Saint Lawrence Institute for Faith and
Culture also provides formational and educational opportunities for Catholic faculty and staff at KU. For information, visit the website at: www.kucatholic.org/em
ployment.html. Qualified applicants should send a cover
letter, CV, a statement of teaching excellence and three
letters of recommendation to: Patrick Callahan, Dean of
Humanities, St. Lawrence Institute for Faith and Culture,
1631 Crescent Rd., Lawrence, KS 66044. Applicants are
encouraged to submit materials by email to: pcallahan@
kucatholic.org. Deadline for applications is March 16.
Sales professionals - We respect your many years of
experience; we value and need your wisdom. We only
ask if you are “coachable”? If so, Catholic Cemeteries of
Northeast Kansas has openings for sales trainees in our
Johnson, Shawnee and Wyandotte County area cemeteries. An excellent earning of $40K to $50K+ in commission
is legitimate income potential for the first year. Training
allowance your first 30 days, then draw + commission
with bonus opportunities. Med, life, dental, optical, prescription, 401(k) plans, etc., are some of the many perks
our employees receive. Excellent opportunities for women
and men interested in sales career and in helping people.
Advancement opportunities are available for hard-working and focused individuals. Must be willing to work some
evenings and weekends when our client families are available to see us in their homes. Once you learn our formula
for success, your schedule is determined by you. Please
email your resume and contact information to: mcrahan@
cathcemks.org or fax to (913) 353-1413.
Assistant teacher/substitutes - Growing Futures Early
Education Center, Overland Park, has a Head Start assistant teacher and teacher substitute positions available.
Competitive compensation and excellent benefits. For
additional information and job requirements, visit the
website at: www.growingfutureseec.org.
Nutrition services assistant/substitute - Growing Futures Early Education Center, Overland Park, has a nutrition services assistant and substitute positions available. Competitive compensation and excellent benefits.
For additional information and job requirements, visit
the website at: www.growingfutureseec.org.
Accounting assistant - Part-time accounting assistant
with 3-5 years bookkeeping or accounting experience.
24-32 hours per week in south Overland Park location.
Professional work environment. Responsibilities include
A/P, payroll, account reconciliation and related accounting support duties. Must be proficient with Outlook and
Excel and have attention to detail. For more information,
visit the website at: www.affinis.us. For consideration,
send resume with salary history by email to: recruiting@
affinis.us, or call (913) 239-1121.
Front office - Front office help wanted. A qualified candidate must be computer literate and skilled at Microsoft
Office and QuickBooks. Individual should have a good aptitude and phone voice. Individual selected will be helping
various staff members with scheduling, updating social
media presence, answering phone and other duties. This
position is full-time/part-time availability. Transportation
required. Send resume by email to: contactus@sheerin
scientific.com.
Bookkeeper - Bookkeeper needed for small business.
2-4 hours, one evening a week at I-435 and Metcalf area.
Must have strong proficiency in QuickBooks and solid
understanding of accounting principles. Send email to:
[email protected].
Technician - Small family-owned business in Lenexa is
seeking a full-time installation and service technician for
residential lift products. Basic knowledge of electrical
systems, primarily low voltage. Mechanical aptitude,
no physical limitations, able to lift 50-100 pounds periodically. Working knowledge of power and hand tools.
Training on the product and processes provided. Ability
to drive a service van and follow a schedule and company procedures. Salary is negotiable based on knowledge
and skill level; $15-21 per hour.
Teacher - Bishop Miege High School, Roeland Park, has
an opening for an English teacher for the 2015-16 school
year. Send letter of interest and resume by email to Mariann Jaksa at: [email protected].
Detail construction and remodeling - We offer a full
line of home remodeling services. Don’t move — remodel! Johnson County area. Call for a free quote. (913)
709-8401.
Drivers needed - Medi Coach Transportation is looking for
caring and reliable drivers for nonemergency transportation. CDL is not required. Contact Jeff at (913) 825-1921.
Local handyman and lawn care - Water heaters, garbage disposals, toilets, faucets, painting, power washing,doors, storm doors, gutter cleaning, wood rot, mowing, carpet, roofing, etc. Member of Holy Angels Parish.
Basehor. Call Billy at (913) 927-4118.
Drivers - Special Beginnings Early Learning Center is
seeking part-time drivers for its school-age program
located in Lenexa. Candidates must be able to drive a
13-passenger minibus, similar to a 15-passenger van.
CDL not required, but must have an excellent driving
record. Candidates would pick up children from area
schools and then work directly with them when arriving back at the center. Experience preferred. Must have
strong work ethic and the ability to work with children.
Insurance provided. Background check will be conducted. Great opportunity for retired persons or those seeking a second job. Job responsibilities include: ensuring
safety and well-being of children who are being transported at all times, including loading and unloading.
Driving short, round-trip routes to elementary schools in
Lenexa/Olathe area. Summer only: Driving short, roundtrip routes to two Lenexa city pools. Maintaining mileage
log. Keeping interior of vehicle clean. Apply by sending
an email to [email protected] or in
person at 10216 Pflumm Rd., Lenexa KS 66215.
SERVICES
Complete plumbing and bath
Master plumber for your entire home. Painting, tile
install, bath remodeling. Onyx Collection Distributor.
Serving Johnson County for 20 years.
Member Ascension Parish; call Mike at (913) 488-4930.
Agua Fina Irrigation and Landscape
The one-stop location for your project!
Landscape and irrigation design,
installation and maintenance.
Cleanup and grading services
It’s time to repair your lawn. 20% discount on lawn
renovations with mention of this ad.
Visit the website at: www.goaguafina.com
Call (913) 530-7260 or (913) 530-5661
Bankruptcy consultation - If debts are overwhelming
you, seek hope and help from compassionate, experienced Catholic attorney, Teresa Kidd. For a free consultation, call (913) 422-0610; send an email to: tkidd@
kc.rr.com; or visit the website at: www.teresakiddlaw
yer.com. We moved! Come check out our new office
in Lenexa. Please do not wait until life seems hopeless
before getting good quality legal advice that may solve
your financial stress.
Interior home cleaning
Time is precious. Let us help you “reclaim your weekend.” Professional, tailored home cleaning. Same team
of two, in business for 8 years. We specialize in the
“move in, move out, clean” and monthly cleanings. Call
Patty at (913) 940-9231 or Susan at (816) 506-9026.
Faith-based counseling to cope with life concerns
- Kansas City area. Call Mary Vorsten, Licensed Clinical
Professional Counselor, at (913) 909-2002.
Machine quilting - by Jenell Noeth, Basehor. Also, quilts
made to order. Call (913) 724-1837.
Mike Hammer local moving - A full-service mover.
Packing, pianos, rental truck load/unload, storage container load/unload, and in-home moving. No job too
small. Serving JoCo since 1987. St. Joseph, Shawnee,
parishioner. Call Mike at (913) 927-4347 or send an email
to: [email protected].
Tree service - Pruning trees for optimal growth and
beauty and removal of hazardous limbs or problem trees.
Free consultation and bid. Safe, insured, professional.
Cristofer Estrada, Green Solutions of KC, (913) 378-5872.
www.GreenSolutionsKC.com.
Garage door and opener sales and service - 24-hour,
7-day-a-week service on all types of doors. Replace broken springs, cables, hinges, rollers, gate openers, entry
and patio doors, and more. Over 32 years of experience.
Call (913) 227-4902.
HOME IMPROVEMENT
Last year was a great year, thank you to all my customers! Spring is around the corner and we do decks,
windows, doors, house painting (interior and exterior),
wood rot, deck staining and siding. You name it, we can
do it. No job too big or small, just give us a call. Insured.
Call Josh at (913) 709-7230.
Helping Hand Handy Man - Home maintenance chores
available by the hour. Special rate for senior and singleparent households. Electrical, painting, wood refinishing,
deck repair, yard work, shelving and organizing. Most home
problems and needs solved. Member of Prince of Peace,
Olathe. Call Mark Coleman at (913) 526-4490.
House painting
Interior and exterior; wall paper removal.
Power washing, fences, decks.
30 years experience. References. Reasonable rates.
Call Joe at (913) 620-5776.
Lawn/Landscaping - Mowing, mulch, dirt work, sod,
tree trimming, landscape rock, gutter cleaning, and
power washing. Mention this ad for special pricing. Call
(816) 509-0224.
Custom countertops - Laminates installed within 5
days. Cambria, granite, and solid surface. Competitive
prices, dependable work. Call the Top Shop, Inc., at (913)
962-5058. Members of St. Joseph, Shawnee.
NELSON CREATIONS L.L.C.
Home remodeling, design/build, kitchens, baths, all interior and exterior work. Family owned and operated; over
25 years experience. Licensed and insured; commercial
and residential. Kirk and Diane Nelson.
(913) 927-5240; [email protected]
The Drywall Doctor, Inc. - A unique solution to your drywall problems! We fix all types of ceiling and wall damage
— from water stains and stress cracks to texture repairs
and skim coating. We provide professional, timely repairs
and leave the job site clean! Lead-certified and insured!
Serving the metro since 1997. Call (913) 768-6655.
Adept Home Improvements
Where quality still counts!
Basement finishing,
Kitchens and baths,
Electrical and plumbing,
Licensed and insured. (913) 599-7998
STA (Sure Thing Always) Home Repair - Basement finish, bathrooms and kitchens; interior & exterior repairs:
painting, roofing, siding, wood replacement and window
glazing. Free estimates. Call (913) 491-5837 or (913) 5791835. Email: [email protected]. Member of
Holy Trinity, Lenexa.
HARCO Exteriors LLC
Your Kansas City fencing specialists
Family owned and operated
(913) 815-4817
www.harcoexteriorsllc.com
Swalms Organizing - Downsizing - Clean Out Service.
Reduce clutter - Any space organized. Shelving built on
site. Items hauled for recycling and donations. 20 years
exp, insured. Call Tillar: (913) 375-9115. WWW.SWALMS
ORGANIZING.COM.
EL SOL Y LA TIERRA
*Commercial & residential
* Lawn renovation *Mowing
* Clean-up and hauling
* Dirt grading/installation
* Landscape design
* Free estimates
Hablamos y escribimos Ingles!!
Call Lupe at (816) 252-3376
Concrete construction - Tear out and replace
stamped, stained or colored patios and drives. Retaining
walls, footings, poured-in-place safe rooms, excavation
and hauling. Asphalt drives and lots. Fully insured; references. Call Dan at (913) 207-4371 or send an email to:
[email protected].
REAL ESTATE
Wanted to buy - I NEED HOUSES! I buy them as is, with no
repairs. You can even leave behind what you don’t want. We
buy houses that need foundation or roof repair. All sales are
cash with no strings attached. Please call Mark Edmondson
at (913) 980-4905. Holy Trinity Parish member.
For sale - Beautiful Victorian former parish house with shop.
Under $50,000. Historic Building on Main Street, and a two
bedroom house with several lots. Priced very low. Must sell.
Call (785) 244-6565.
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March
The Kansas Daughters of St. Francis de Sales are sponsoring a Lenten day of reflection with Father
Mariadas Sesseti, a Missionary of
St. Francis de Sales, on March 21 from 8:30
a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at Sanctuary of Hope, 2601
Ridge Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. The cost to
attend is $25, which includes lunch. To register, visit the website at: www.sanctuaryofhope.org; send an email to Ruth Owens at:
[email protected]; or call (913) 4927250. For more about the Association of St.
Francis de Sales, visit the website at: www.
sfds association.org.
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A memorial liturgy for deceased loved
ones will be held March 21 at 8 a.m. at Curé
of Ars, 9401 Mission Rd., Leawood. Following the Mass, the bereavement ministry will
hold its monthly support meeting in the
Father Burak Room. The topic will be “New
Growth in Grief.” For more information, call
(913) 649-2026.
St. Patrick Church, 320 Boyle St.,
Scranton, will host a feast day dinner on March 22 from 11 a.m. - 1:30
p.m. The cost to attend is: $9 for
adults; $5 for kids; and no cost for children
age 5 and younger. There will also be a raffle
for quilts and gift cards.
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The Knights of Columbus at St. Peter Cathedral, 409 N. 15th St., Kansas City, Kansas, will
host a St. Joseph Table and spaghetti dinner on March 22. The table is open from 10
a.m. - 2:30 p.m., and the dinner will be served
from noon - 2:30 p.m. The cost to attend is a
freewill donation. Proceeds will support outreach to the poor and church projects.
Jasper’s Restaurant, 1201 W. 103rd
St., Kansas City, Missouri, is sponsoring Dining to Donate for the
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
on March 25. Jasper’s will donate 20 percent
of all lunch and dinner sales to benefit the
Sisters. To make reservations for Dining to
Donate, call Jasper’s at (816) 941-6600 or
visit the website at: www.jasperskc.com.
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The Ladies of Charity of Metropolitan Kansas City and Rockhurst Library Guild are
hosting an annual day of prayer with Father
Steve Yavorsky on March 25 from 9 a.m. 2 p.m. at St. Thomas More Church, 11822
Holmes Rd., Kansas City, Missouri. The cost
to attend is $35, which includes a continental breakfast and lunch. For reservations, call
Mimi Powers at (816) 943-5011 by March 23.
The Christian Widow and Widowers Organization will host a potluck
dinner on March 26 at 5 p.m. in
the Formation Room at Most Pure
Heart of Mary Church, 17th and Stone, Topeka. Barry Feaker will speak about the Topeka
Rescue Mission. There is no cost to attend.
For more information, call (785) 272-0055.
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Church of the Holy Cross, 8311 W.
93rd St., Overland Park, will host
a soup and salad event starting
at 5 p.m. on March 27. The cost to
attend is $5 for adults; $3 for children ages
12 and under. Following dinner, there will be
a musical on the Stations of the Cross beginning at 7 p.m., presented by Visitation
Church. The cost to attend is a freewill offering. For more information, call Margi Foley at
(913) 381-8145.
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Volunteers are needed at Keeler Women’s
Center, 2220 Central Ave., Kansas City, Kansas, to teach English for 90 minutes each
week. Materials and training are provided.
Training sessions are scheduled for March 27
from 9 - 11:30 a.m. or April 22 from 6 - 8:30
p.m. To register or for more information, call
Keeler Women’s Center at (913) 906-8990.
Women’s Day of Reflection, sponsored by the Daughters of Isabella,
will be held March 28 from 8 a.m.
- 12:30 p.m. in the social room at
Holy Trinity Church, 9150 Pflumm Rd.,
Lenexa. All women are invited to come be a
part of this Lenten opportunity to grow deeper in prayer and reflection. The guest speaker is Martha Tonn, an instructor at School
of Faith. The program begins with Mass at
8 a.m., followed by breakfast, prayer, a welcome and the presentation. It ends at 12:15
p.m. The cost to attend is $10 per person;
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$15 at the door. Checks can be made out to
the Daughters of Isabella and mailed to: Pat
Wineland, 8914 Renee, Lenexa, KS 66215.
For more information, call (913) 219-4731.
The Kansas City Catholic Women’s Workshop will be held March 28 from 9 a.m. noon at Savior Pastoral Center, 12601 Parallel Pkwy., Kansas City, Kansas. Enliven your
women’s group and start being active in the
new evangelization now. For more information, visit the website at: www.eventbrite.
com; send an email to Susan at: draftz@
youngrembrandts.com; or call (913) 3672227.
The St. Thomas Aquinas rugby team will
host a mouse race fundraiser at 6:30 p.m.
on March 28 at St. Thomas Aquinas High
School, 11411 Pflumm Rd., Overland Park.
The cost to attend is $30, which includes
mouse money, as well as food and drinks.
The Knights of Columbus of St. Patrick
Church, 94th and State Ave., Kansas City,
Kansas, will host ham bingo on March 28 at
6 p.m. in the parish center. The cost to attend is $20, which includes three tacos, dessert and a bingo card. For more information,
call Fritz Vertz at (913) 515-0621.
A Passion Sunday Tenebrae service will be held March 29 at 7 p.m.
at the Cathedral of St. Peter, 409
N. 15th St., Kansas City, Kansas.
The candlelit service will feature the Tallis
“Lamentations of Jeremiah” and the Allegri
“Miserere,” sung by the vocal ensemble Sursum Corda under the direction of Kevin Vogt.
There is no cost to attend. All are welcome.
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April
Experience the beautiful liturgies
and the silence of the Benedictine
Sisters monastery, 801 S. 8th St.,
Atchison, beginning with a Holy
Thursday banquet on April 2 and closing
with Easter Mass and dinner. For more information or to register, call (913) 360-6151 or
visit Sophia Spirituality Center’s website at:
www.sophiaspiritualitycenter.
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
THELEAVEN.COM | MARCH 20, 2015
March 22
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
Jer 31: 31-34
Ps 51: 3-4, 12-15
Heb 5: 7-9
Jn 12: 20-33
March 23
Turibius of Mogrovejo, bishop
Dn 13: 1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62
Ps 23: 1-6
Jn 8: 1-11
March 24
Tuesday
Nm 21: 4-9
Ps 102: 2-3, 16-21
Jn 8: 21-30
March 25
THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
Is 7: 10-14; 8: 10
Ps 40: 7-11
Heb 10: 4-10
Lk 1: 26-38
March 26
Thursday
Gn 17: 3-9
Ps 105: 4-9
Jn 8: 51-59
March 27
Friday
Jer 20: 10-13
Ps 18: 2-7
Jn 10: 31-42
March 28
Saturday
Ez 37: 21-28
(Ps) Jer 31: 10-13
Jn 11: 45-56
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Does your child know what a gift he or she is to your family?
Are you mooning about Easter?
t all depends on the
moon.”
This statement
always gets a laugh
at RCIA class each year.
Inevitably, folks there will ask
when they’ll be coming into
the church. I explain that it
happens at the Easter Vigil.
Next, they ask when Easter
is . . . and I tell them it all
depends on the moon.
They never believe me! But
it’s the truth.
The date for Easter varies
from year to year — yes,
depending on the moon. Honestly. Here’s how it’s figured:
We look to the vernal equinox. “Vernal” means “spring,”
and “equinox” means that day
and night are each exactly 12
hours long. This is the first
day of spring in the Northern
Hemisphere.
According to the “Companion to the Calendar” by
Mary Ellen Hynes (Chicago:
Liturgy Training Publications,
1993; 210 pgs.; $18), Easter is
“the first Sunday after the first
full moon after the equinox.
This can fall anytime between
March 22 and April 25.” Even
with this explanation, I still
don’t think that some people
believe me!
One of the things that I
enjoy about the Catholic faith
is that you never know it all.
For example, to the left of this
column is a list of the Mass
readings for the coming week.
On some days, there will be
FATHER
MARK GOLDASICH
Father Mark Goldasich is the pastor of
Sacred Heart Parish in Tonganoxie. He
has been editor of The Leaven since 1989.
a name listed there as well.
If the name is all in capital
letters, it means that it’s either
a solemnity or a major feast
day. If the name is in regular
type, it’s called a memorial,
and the Mass prayers that day
will refer to the saint being
celebrated. If the name is
in italics, that means it’s an
optional memorial: The Mass
celebrant can choose to celebrate that saint or not.
Each week for years now,
I’ve dutifully done proofreading of that side of the page.
And, each week, there’s usually a saint or two in italics that
I know almost nothing about.
Sadly, I’ve read over those
names time and time again
and done absolutely nothing
to better acquaint myself with
those lesser-known saints.
One of the things I’ve been
concentrating on in 2015 is
remedying that situation.
On March 23, for instance,
we celebrate a saint with
a great name: Turibius de
Mogrovejo. Why should we
care, you might be asking
yourself.
Well, for starters, he was
one of the first canonized
saints of the Western Hemisphere. And he’s got a great
story. He was an esteemed
law teacher at the University
of Salamanca in his homeland
of Spain. Eventually, he was
named bishop of Lima, Peru.
Funny thing is: He wasn’t
even a priest at the time.
At age 43, he was ordained
a priest, consecrated a bishop
and then shipped off to Peru.
Conditions there were horrific for the Peruvian people.
Greedy Spanish conquistadors had enslaved the people,
forcing them to work in the
gold mines.
Turibius was a perfect
choice for the country.
According to Hynes, over
the course of seven years, he
traveled the 18,000 miles of
his diocese to visit his people.
He learned their languages
so he could better teach them
and understand their struggles. He spoke out against the
injustices of their oppressors
and brought many people into
the church. One of them was
St. Rose of Lima. He was responsible for the construction
of churches, hospitals, schools
and roads. He crossed his diocese three times as bishop. He
died at age 68 in 1606, giving
everything he owned to the
poor before his death.
I’m ashamed to admit that
I knew nothing of this wonderful saint until recently. So,
what’s your “Saint IQ”?
In addition to Hynes’ excellent book, I’d recommend
“Saints: A Year in Faith and
Art,” by Rosa Giorgi (New
York: Abrams, 2005; 780 pgs;
$19.95). I bought myself a copy
for Christmas because, to be
honest, it was so cheap. I’ve
not been disappointed.
This compact book — it’s
slightly larger than a 4-by-6”
file card — follows the liturgical calendar of the church.
Each page features a short
biography of the saint of the
day, including who he or she
is the protector of or patron
of, and the origin of the saint’s
name. For example, our friend
Turibius is the protector
of missionary bishops; the
patron of Peru; and his name
is Celtic, meaning “of the
tribe of the Taurini.” On the
opposite page is a 17th-century statue of this saint from the
Astorga Cathedral in Spain.
If you’re looking to grow
in faith, studying the saints is
an easy way. You might even
start with those more obscure saints — those optional
memorials — in the church
calendar.
Getting more familiar with
our guides, the saints, will put
you over the moon, inspiring
you long after the celebration
of Easter is over.
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IN THE BEGINNING
The new covenant brings personal experience of God
M
ost of us have
entered into
contracts before.
They tend to be
dry, impersonal agreements.
Everything is put in black
and white. If one party does
not fulfill one term of the
contract, the deal’s off. And
usually the contract is set up
to last for only a limited period of time, and then it expires
automatically. For example,
you rent the house for a year.
After that, you can renew
the contract or find another
house.
The covenant that God
promises to make with the
house of Israel and the house
of Judah in Sunday’s first
reading — Jer 31:31-34 — contrasts strongly with such an
arrangement. It intends to
establish a deeply personal
POPE FRANCIS
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FATHER MIKE STUBBS
Father Mike Stubbs is the pastor of
Holy Cross Parish in Overland Park and
has a degree in Scripture from Harvard
University.
relationship between God and
the people: “I will be their
God, and they shall be my
people.” They will belong to
each other.
Ordinarily, if one party violates the terms of the contract,
that can lead to cancellation
of the contract. On the other
hand, the covenant that God
promises to establish with the
Young people are honest and bold in identifying fakes, which is something church leaders
should not be afraid of, Pope Francis told the
bishops of South Korea and Mongolia. “When
we speak with young people, they challenge us
to share the truth of Jesus Christ clearly and in
a way that they can understand,” he said in the
people of Israel is completely different. It assumes that
God will forgive them: “I will
forgive their evildoing and
remember their sin no more.”
God will take into account the
people’s imperfect nature.
It is through their experience of God’s mercy that the
people will know God. It will
be a knowledge not of the
head, but of the heart: “I will
place my law within them and
write it upon their hearts.”
This new relationship between God and the people of
Israel will pervade the entire
community. “All, from least to
greatest, shall know me, says
the Lord.” Consequently, new
values and modes of behavior, based upon God’s will,
shall permeate the community. Without reflecting on it,
people will automatically act
written message handed to the bishops March
12. The bishops met with the pope during their
“ad limina” visits to report on what is happening in their dioceses. Pope Francis said that
just as Korea’s Catholic martyrs — mostly laypeople, who were unwaveringly committed to
the faith and to charity — call the peninsula’s
Catholics to continue caring for others, today’s
Korean young people “challenge us to hear one
according to God’s will.
Most of us do not have
to make a conscious choice
not to rob a bank or murder
someone. We act according
to habit, habits formed by
deeply engrained values and
beliefs. It is the way we have
been taught, the way we have
been brought up.
But in the new covenant
that God has promised, even
that will not be necessary:
“No longer will they have
need to teach their friends
and relatives how to know
the Lord.” Through personal
experience of God, all will
already know in their hearts
how to live. They will desire
to do God’s will, out of love
for God. In that way, they
shall be God’s people: “I will
be their God, and they shall
be my people.”
another.” The pope encouraged the bishops’ efforts to find “new ways to involve your youth so
that they may have a voice and may be heard
in order to share the richness of our faith and
life in the church.” Young people, he said, “test
the authenticity of our own faith and fidelity,”
because they “very quickly will call us to task if
our lives do not mirror our faith.”
— CNS
A
s we were
going
through old
pictures with our
grandchildren, we
came across a picture of
my wife Barbara and me all
dressed up for our senior
prom.
Very quickly, our grandchildren identified the two
people as our daughter Amy
and our son Tim. It was
amazing to see the resemblance. It reminded me that
one of the gifts of being open
to life is that it brings more
of our beloved spouse into
the world. How awesome it
is to see this reflection of our
DEACON
TONY ZIMMERMAN
Deacon Tony Zimmerman is the lead
archdiocesan consultant for the
office of marriage and family life.
love for each other in our
children.
Let’s face it: We have
an important message to
proclaim to the world about
the beauty and richness that
being open to new life brings
to our families. We simply
cannot wait to proclaim this
message until couples come
to us for preparation for sacramental marriage. Trying
to overcome years of the
culture that surrounds us in
regard to the beauty of life in
a few marriage preparation
classes is not enough. So,
what is the answer?
It begins with consistently celebrating the gift that
each child has brought into
our family. Beginning when
our children are young, we
need to speak to them about
what it was like when we
first found out that they were
going to become part of our
family. Tell them about the
excitement and anticipation
that we experienced waiting
for them to be born.
Tell them how we made
room for them in our house,
preparing a special place just
for them. Tell them about
how it felt to hold them in
your arms moments after
they were born. Tell them
how your life and your family would not be the same
without them. Tell them why
you chose the name that you
gave them.
With a little gentle encouragement, you will be
able to get your children
to share around the dinner
table one special thing that
they would miss if their
sister or brother were not in
their life. I guess what I’m
saying is that so often the
treasure that we have right
in front of us in our family
is lost in the fast pace of
today’s life.
How do I know that this
can overcome our culture
and change the world? I
know simply by reflecting
on how touched I was earlier
today when Sam and Beth
Meier brought their two
sons, Samuel and Zachary, in
to visit with their new little
girl, Jane Frances. What a
beautiful sight it was to see
Zachary pull his sister down
for a kiss and to see the joy
on the faces of Sam and Beth.
For an older married couple, it reminds us of the joys
we have experienced. For
engaged or married couples,
it inspires them to want to
have this joy in their lives.
CHURCH AND STATE
Different faiths find common ground in Kansas Senate bill
A
s we approach the
500th anniversary of Martin
Luther’s nailing 95
theses to the door
of Wittenberg Castle Church,
it is worth considering how
history takes many surprising
twists and turns.
The modern secular state
was born out of a desire to
end Europe’s post-Reformation religious wars, but now
the militant secularism of
the modern state is unifying
long-estranged Christian
churches in a fight for faith’s
rightful place in public life.
Christians with much
still dividing them are being
driven into each other’s arms
MICHAEL
SCHUTTLOFFEL
Michael Schuttloffel is the
executive director of the
Kansas Catholic Conference.
by those who would turn the
First Amendment on its head
and make it an instrument
of protection for the state
against religion.
Freedom of religion is
being defined down to mean
nothing more than the freedom to worship in a private
setting. The freedom to live
one’s faith — individually and
corporately, as full participants in society — is being
lost.
Legislation pending before
the Kansas Legislature offers
one small example of believers coming together across
theological lines. SB 175
would ensure that religious
student groups at public
universities are allowed to
require their members and
leaders to share the group’s
faith. Under the bill, the
Catholic Student Union
would continue to be free
to require its members to be
Catholic, the Baptist Student
Association would be free to
require that its president be
Baptist, etc.
Who would force a Christian student group to have an
atheist serve as its president?
Why, the guardians of free
inquiry, of course.
Dozens of religious student
groups in other states have
been driven off campus because some universities have
instituted “all-comers” policies, which require groups to
accept all-comers as members
and even leaders, regardless
of whether they share the
groups’ beliefs. While the
U.S. Supreme Court says that
such policies are constitutional only if they apply to all student groups, they are, in fact,
being used to target religious
students whose beliefs are out
of sync with those of the budding community organizers
running student government
and their university administrator enablers.
In 2011, the University of
Oklahoma Student Association announced a policy that
would prohibit religious student associations from using
religious criteria for membership and leadership. The policy was ultimately rescinded,
and last year Oklahoma’s Legislature unanimously passed
the same legislation Kansas
is now considering. Perhaps
OU would have been better
served worrying about some
of its fraternities instead of
whether a religious student
group requires its president
to believe in God.
Believers from different
faith traditions are increasingly finding common
ground, thanks in no small
part to antireligious hostility
in government, academia and
the culture at large. SB 175
offers some small measure
of such common ground, as
well as a dose of something
increasingly uncommon in
our politics: common sense.
Join Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann for
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AT THE CATHEDRAL
PALMSUNDAY
HOLYTHURSDAY GOODFRIDAY
HOLYSATURDAY
March 29, 11 a.m.
April 2, 7:30 p.m.
April 4, 8 p.m.
EASTERSUNDAY
April 5, 11 a.m.
April 3, 3 p.m.