March 12, 2020

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Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande’s life shows courage amid doubt

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COVID-19: Cases in SF hit 13 as city urges calm, heightened precautions CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The number of San Franciscans testing positive for the COVID-19 virus rose to 13 on Monday, March 9, as the city implemented aggressive measures to protect vulnerable people, including canceling large gatherings at city venues and encouraging those over 60 and with chronic medical conditions to limit social contact.

The city declared a local health emergency March 6, citing the rapid spread of COVID-19 globally, the limited information about the natural history of the previously unknown respiratory virus, the lack of a vaccine and the danger to the elderly and other high-risk populations.

“It is imperative that all appropriate steps be taken to slow down and reduce the rate of communityacquired transmission of COVID-19,” the city said in its emergency directive.

The city also canceled non-essential events involving groups of 50 or more at major city-owned venues, including the main library, City Hall, Moscone Center and concert halls.

“The age, condition, and health of a significant portion of the population ... places them at risk for seri-

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A worker sprays disinfectant to combat the coronavirus in the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples, Italy, March 6, 2020. The suspension of public Masses in Italy is a painful yet necessary measure to protect people’s health, the country’s bishops said in a March 8 statement.

ous health complications, including death, from COVID-19,” the city said in its March 7 order.

Several schools have temporarily closed in the Archdiocese of San Francisco as a precaution against transmission and to allow time for the deep cleaning and disinfection of campus. Archbishop Riordan High School closed through March 22 after a student tested positive for COVID-19. ICA Cristo Rey closed for two weeks after a staff member tested positive.

In a March 9 memo to parishes and institutions in the archdiocese, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone urged parishes to take the following precautions at all Masses and gatherings of the faithful: – Parishioners who are ill should stay home and those confined to their homes on Sunday are encouraged to follow the televised Mass, and to make an act of Spiritual Communion.

“This a situation in which one is not at fault for not attending Mass,” the archbishop said. In addition, homebound parishioners may enter into the spirit of observing the Lord’s Day, such as meditating on the readings SEE COVID-19, PAGE 10

St. Anselm survey reveals desire for inclusive, multi-generational parish CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

In the five years that he’s been pastor of St. Anselm Parish in Marin County, Father Jose Shaji, like many Catholic pastors, has looked out from the altar at a progressively shrinking congregation.

“I’ve seen it especially at the 10 a.m. Sunday Mass, that’s the family Mass,” Father Shaji told Catholic San Francisco in a Feb. 27 interview at the parish in Ross.

After a survey of Massgoers last fall, he and other leaders have a clearer picture of what brings local Catholics in the door and what keeps them or family members away - and what they can and cannot do about either.

About 100 people ranging from children and teenagers to parish denizens responded to the four-question, open-ended survey made available last fall after Masses and online at the parish website, he said.

A majority of respondents, he said, “love the church and do not want to leave,” but bemoaned the lack of women in church liturgy, a stillunsatisfactory systemic response to clerical sex abuse and a perceived lack of welcome to divorced, single, LGBTQ and younger members they said are marginalized in parish communities.

The idea for the survey was born out of two similar town hall meetings held in the aftermath

The people here want to see a church that is more accountable, more transparent, more inclusive.’

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NEED TO KNOW BROADCAST LITURGIES: The communications office of the Archdiocese of San Francisco livestreams principal liturgies from St. Mary’s Cathedral on the archdiocesan YouTube channel. Following are Lent and Holy Week liturgies to be livestreamed: Chrism Mass, April 2, 5:30 p.m.; Palm Sunday Mass, April 5, 11 a.m.; Holy Thursday Mass, April 9, 7:30 p.m.; Good Friday service, April 10, 3 p.m.; Easter Vigil, April 11, 9 p.m.; Easter Sunday, April 12, 11 a.m. Visit youtube.com/archdioceseofsanfrancisco sfarch.org or go to sfarch.org and click the YouTube icon at the top of the page.

Mental health ministry aims to break the stigma, give hope NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A recent meeting at St. Matthew Church in San Mateo on a parish-based mental health ministry program showed parishioners’ enthusiasm for the idea, along with concern about the LENTEN OPPORTUNITIES: Lenten resources extent to which non-professionals are now available on the Archdiocese of San could help people with mental Francisco website, sfarch.org/lent. The site offers illness. a slide show illustrating the Lenten journey as “Any conversation that is prowell as many resources for entering deeply into vided for people to alleviate the Dick Collyer and emerging fruitfully from this holy season takstigma is a good conversation,” ing us to the most important rites of the church.

Dan Michalske told Catholic San Francisco. Michalske, a mental health clinician in ‘THE LIGHT IS ON FOR YOU’: Parishes San Mateo County, said many who experience menthroughout the archdiocese are making confestal illness hide what they are going through and sion more available during Lent continuing for a “suffer needlessly” because of that, he said. second year “The Light is on for You” campaign.

“It’s become critical that people reach out and Church GoodsSan & Candles Religious Gifts &a Books Catholic Francisco published parishes takestablish sense of community in mental health ising part and when confessions are being heard sues. What better sense of community can we find in its Feb. 27, issue and continues to update than a parish community?” he asked. sites and times online at www.catholic-sf.org.

Michalske, along with about a dozen others from St. Matthew Parish, attended a Feb. 5 presentation ACCOMPANYING ‘MOMS IN NEED’: In by project manager Dick Collyer on the archdiochonor of the 25th anniversary of St. in John Paul’s esan initiative to build out mental health resource 5 locations California “Evangelium vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”) the teams at parishes.

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At the heart of Collyer’s message is the hope that through parish communities the church can dismantle the stigma around mental health. Shame over mental health is “the biggest roadblock” to ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE’S SCHEDULE finding help, Collyer said.

“So how can we – us as a parish – break that down?” he asked.

MARCH 13: Presbyteral Council Along with four other dioceses, the Archdiocese of San Francisco will use a model first used in the MARCH 13: Priest Personnel Board Diocese of San Diego to enable parishes to act as an initial resource for discovering professional mental MARCH 15: Mass, St. Sylvester Chapel, St. health resources.

Raphael Parish Collyer said the mental health ministry team will have three tasks: acting as a resource for pastors MARCH 17: St. Patrick’s luncheon, Hibernian and accompanying people in the parish’s name; Club creating experts who are familiar with navigating local mental health resources; and developing MARCH 18: Archbishop’s Cabinet educational opportunities in the parish for learning more about mental health.

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members of someone who is experiencing a mental health crisis. The overall picture was of a team of three to 12 parishioners who could act as advocates and as understanding listeners.

“People are looking for the help of a community, and if the parish ministry is done well, no one is alone and no one is excluded,” he said.

The specific operations and roles in each parish ministry – when calls would be taken, who would be the point of contact – would be worked out by the ministry team, Collyer said.

The ministry team can never provide therapy or any other service offered by mental health professionals, Collyer emphasized. “It’s important you stay within the boundaries of a ministry” and not cross into the professional world, Collyer said, including advice on changes to improve mental health.

“Parishioners should never become therapists,” he said.

Some attendees expressed their concern it would be “overwhelming” for untrained people to have the responsibility to be constantly responding to the mentally ill.

“It’s a daunting task to sit in a room with people who are in so much pain and not be impacted yourself. Professionals have strategies to deal with the enormous psychic energy that comes with being a therapist and lay ministers in mental health will need that support,” Michalske said.

Overall, Michalske was enthusiastic about the proposal to help people address their mental health. “For the archdiocese to enter into this ministry, not professionally but communally, will go a long way to empowering people to go out and get even more help, professional help,” he said.

Entering into this ministry also opens a new perspective on the church for those who do not have a faith or whose faith has been destroyed, he added.

Parishioner Maria Vicenty also supported establishing a parish mental health ministry. “In any place, people are struggling, especially in this area where there’s so much going on with jobs and homelessness. You just sometimes need someone to talk to, to listen and validate your feelings,” she said.

Msgr. John Talesfore, pastor of St. Matthew, said there was a “significant need” for a mental health ministry but acknowledged starting one faced difficulties because of the stigma around mental health and “understandable concern” from parishioners about not wanting to make promises they cannot fulfill.

Despite those challenges, Msgr. Talesfore said “we the church are to be Jesus Christ in the world now. Jesus was always available to people struggling in these ways, and this is a reality that isn’t meant to be experienced in the shadows.”

The archdiocese currently has parishes in eight deaneries signed up to participate in the mental health ministry.

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Author: Martyred Jesuit’s life shows courage amid doubt NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Salvadoran Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande and two of his lay companions were declared martyrs by Pope Francis on Feb. 21, in a long-awaited decision that clears the way for his beatification.

Father Grande, a close friend of St. Oscar Romero who spoke incisively about the dignity of the poor and the injustice in El Salvador’s government and society was assassinated March 12, 1977, as he drove Sister Ana Maria to his hometown to say Mass.

“His commitment to the poor Pineda, RSM and his death was such a symbol of Christian commitment for so many people, and we get to finally acknowledge that Rutilio Grande’s life and death merits beatification,” Mercy Sister Ana Maria Pineda said.

Sister Ana Maria is a theologian and professor at Santa Clara University and serves on the leadership team of the Mercy Sisters’ West Midwest province. In 2016, her book “Romero & Grande: Companions on the Journey,” was published by Lectio Publishing.

A native of El Salvador, Sister Ana Maria grew up in San Francisco and attended now-closed St. Peter’s Academy. Her book on the two martyrs came out of years of research and trips to El Salvador, conducting personal interviews and examining journals. She met personally with St. Romero in her youth, and her family is related through marriage to Father Grande.

Sister Ana Maria said the inclusion of the other men gunned down with him, Manuel Solorzano and Nelson Lemus, in the declaration of martyrdom was also richly symbolic. His life, she said, “was entirely committed to the poor, to justice on their behalf and to help them develop their potential. It seems so right that he’s going to be beatified along with two people from the pueblo, because that’s what his life is all about.”

Born into poverty in the Salvadoran countryside, Father Grande was educated as a member of the Society of Jesus, mostly in Spain and Belgium and other parts of Latin America, and later returned to work among his native country’s poor and rural masses. The mission teams he organized taught peasants to read using the Bible, but also helped rural workers to organize so they could speak against a rich and powerful minority that paid them meager salaries and confront the social maladies that befell them because they were poor.

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Martyred Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande and St. Oscar Romero are featured in a mural in El Paisnal, El Salvador. Father Grande dreamed of a table where everyone had a place to eat and a right to have a say in matters that affected them.

ral agents, Father Grande, who was the pastor of a church in the town of Aguilares, evangelized a wide rural area in El Salvador from 1972 until his assassination by death squads. As was the case with the assassination of St. Oscar Romero and tens of thousands of other Salvadorans, no one was ever charged with his death or that of his parishioners.

Beatifying Father Grande elevates the example he set of commitment to the poor and love of the church and also acts as a reminder that every person is responsible for doing good to others and changing the unjust aspects of society, she said.

El Salvador had a long history of colonialism and exploitation of the poor, with an entrenched network of wealthy land and coffee magnates dominating national life. In that political context, Father Grande understood that as a priest he had to bring the Gospel to people and ground his ministry in the everyday issues experienced by his flock: hunger, inequality, the need for stable family life, among others.

“He needed politics to be attentive to those needs, but it wasn’t his job to tell people who to vote for.

They just needed to know Christians need to work to

make the Gospel concrete in the lives of the people,” Sister Ana Maria said.

The responsibility of Christians to engage the world “through the prism of the Gospel” was an important theme of Father Grande’s. He “would often give homilies telling people to understand their rights as committed Christians. He would say, I do not belong to this party, or that, but I’m here to tell you the Gospel is telling us who we are and that should be our compass, telling us what we need to do,” she said.

His personal example in tenaciously carrying out God’s will in the midst of his private struggles can also be an important lesson for Catholics, she said.

Sister Ana Maria explained that Father Grande was born into severe poverty in a rural hamlet that offered him no opportunities. As a child, he was “shy and timid,” and a nervous breakdown in adulthood left him physically fragile.

His physical, mental and emotional challenges required him to have “courage, and a sense of resilience and determination” in order to carry out his ministry, she said.

“He loved the people, but he himself had a lot of doubts. He often found himself second guessing what he was about to do. Just because this person was recognized as a martyr, does not mean it was easy. It required a lot of effort on his part, a lot of determination, a lot of help for himself and for others,” Sister Ana Maria said.

That aspect of Father Grande’s life is part of the “untold story,” she continued. “It’s important to understand he did not walk on water: he was a good man, and he was fragile. He had to deal with his own challenges, and he did not let that hold him back, he worked with it. He’s conscious of his limitations, but in his case he tries really hard to do something about it, which I hope many of us do as well.”

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Longtime Sacred Heart Cathedral athletic director Jo Ann Momono, far right, is pictured with the girls varsity volleyball team in this 1992 team photo.

First female athletic director in Catholic league to retire CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Jo Ann Momono is retiring after three decades at the helm of the Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory athletic department.

Momono, whose career distinctions include serving as the first female athletic director in the Western Catholic Athletic League and as its longest tenured athletic director, will retire at the end of the academic year.

“I am humbled by Jo Ann’s leadership experience and service, Jo Ann Momono especially earlier in her career, when being a female athletic director was not the easiest or most well-trod path,” said principal Gary Cannon in a Feb. 24 announcement. “Ultimately, her perspective as a female leader served our school, the league, section, and state athletics in ways that improved them all.”

In announcing her retirement, the school acknowledged Momono’s role in shaping an athletic program as committed to girls as it was to boys while helping WCAL to become a league for both girls and boys sports.

Momono began her career as an athletic director, coach, and physical education instructor at San Francisco’s St. Rose Academy. After the school’s closure in 1990, she moved to SHC, which had just gone coed and served as head volleyball coach for two years, winning two league titles. She subsequently became director of athletics. In 1993-94, she was named Athletic Director of the Year by the California Interscholastic Federation’s Central Coast Section.

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“While winning championships is always fun, the most rewarding thing for me personally is when alumni come back and tell me how much participating in SHC athletics helped them to become better adults,” Momono told Catholic San Francisco.

Momono expanded SHC athletic programs over her tenure and helped establish its athletic training and weight and conditioning programs and new sports such as boys and girls lacrosse. She had a lead role in the expansion and improvement of the school’s athletic facilities, including the practice field, Student Life Center, batting cages, and the use of the USF baseball field for home games.

Annually, Momono and co-athletic director Phil Freed, Class of 1980, oversee more than 700 studentathletes participating on 56 teams with a coaching staff of 104.

Students, former students and faculty and staff posted messages of respect and affection for Momono on the school’s Facebook page when her retirement was announced.

“An incredible coach and motivator!” said Carolyn Kelly Quilici. “So lucky to have played for Jo Ann.” Alicia Garate-Golembiewski offered congratulations that spoke to the future.

“Those are some big shoes to fill,” she said.

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MODEL CITIZENS: Congratulations to the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, recognized as a community March 2 by San Rafael Mayor Gary Phillips as “Citizen of the Year.”

The sisters minister as spiritual directors, chaplains, retreat leaders, artists, physical therapists, professors, peace and justice promoters and tutors, said Prioress General Sister Carla Kovack.

“We go where God leads us,” she said. “We are humbled by this honor to be named San Rafael Citizen of the Year and share this recognition with all our community partners, and most certainly with those shoulders on which we stand.”

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40 Days for Life prayer campaign sees record interest NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Most mornings during Lent, Ron Konopaski can be found standing in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic on San Francisco’s Valencia Street, praying the rosary, handing out fliers and chatting with anyone who stops to talk.

“The whole idea is peaceful, prayerful vigil and we keep it that way,” Konopaski said.

For more than a decade, Konopaski has been a stalwart figure in the prayer campaigns held by San Francisco’s chapter of 40 Days for Life, and was given the Leader of the Year award in 2019 by the national organization. 40 Days for Life, which has chapters nationally, says it aims “to end abortion locally through prayer and fasting, community outreach, and a peaceful all-day vigil in front of abortion businesses.”

In San Francisco, volunteers for 40 Days pray from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday at Planned Parenthood’s Valencia Street clinic, and on Sundays hold vigil at the clinic being constructed on Bush Street.

This year’s campaign began on Feb. 26 and runs through April 5. Clarisse Siu, who organizes San Francisco’s chapter of 40 Days, said their first week was the most successful in its history. An average of three people prayed outside Planned Parenthood clinics during any hour, she said, and they had the most sign-ups they’ve ever seen.

Siu said their second week had been more challenging: few people signed up to pray on Monday and Tuesday, and the campaign suffered two incidents of property theft.

On Monday, March 2, she said, “some skateboarding punks” took a pro-life sandwich board that volunteers bring with them and dumped it at a nearby hospital. Thursday of that same week, a man came by and ripped the 40 Days for Life banner off its pole and threw it in a dumpster. A local homeless man found and returned it to them, Siu said.

(NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Ron Konopaski and Peg Buckley pray outside the Planned Parenthood clinic on Valencia Street in San Francisco March 9. The two are participating in the 40 Days for Life prayer campaign, which runs through April 5.

While the aggressive actions have made some people nervous, she said, “for everyone who’s there it’s par for the course.”

“It’s better than previous years because we’re not being physically attacked, it’s just people trying to steal our stuff,” she said.

Konopaski was assaulted last year on the sidewalk as a man attempted to steal the 40 Days for Life banner, and Siu said it was normal to have passersby heckle or make snide remarks.

“But we have nice people too, people who smile and cheer us on, and who even though they go in the clinic smile at us,” she said.

Siu encouraged people to come out and give 40 Days for Life a try, even if only for 15 minutes to see what it is. “This is a lot less scary than you think

it is,” she said. “The most important thing is that good people have to act. We have so many Catholics in San Francisco and only a fraction are going out,” she said.

Siu said that to help people who are intimidated by the thought of praying alone, they’ve launched “Prayer Partners,” a network of pro-life groups, including from St. Dominic and Star of the Sea, who have signed up for holding vigils six days a week that anyone can join for prayer.

This year may also be the last year that 40 Days for Life holds its campaign on Valencia Street.

Planned Parenthood is scheduled to open a new flagship location at 1522 Bush St. later this year, replacing its current clinic. The Bush Street location has more than double the amount of space of the Valencia Street clinic and will significantly improve its capacity to see clients and conduct outreach and research, according to Planned Parenthood Northern California’s website.

Siu said the new clinic’s construction should spur the pro-life movement to increase its public witness against abortion.

“We can’t rest on our laurels just because so many states are passing friendly laws. We need to be all in for the fight,” she said. Since it began in 2007, 40 Days for Life has held campaigns in 950 cities and 63 countries, involving more than 1million volunteers.

According to the organization’s website, prayer campaigns this year have saved 99 lives. In its 13 years of existence, 40 Days for Life estimates it has helped save more than 16,000 children from abortion.

In a 2014 letter, the Vatican Secretariat of State said the pope “greatly appreciates” the work done by 40 Days for Life “to promote respect for the lives of all unborn children.” The letter added that Pope Francis offered his “prayerful support” for “those whose prayer, fasting and sacrifices are saving countless lives and giving glory to God.” To learn more about 40 Days for Life, call (408) 8403297 or email SF40daysforlife@gmail.com.

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Anniversary Mass highlights ‘witness’ of marriage NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

When Josephine and Alfred Romine dated in the early 1950s, and then married in 1955, the common advice they heard was “the family that prays together stays together.”

“If people can do that, it helps strengthen their marriage and relationship,” Josephine Romine said.

In the 65 years the two parishioners from St. Robert have been married, they have picked up a few more lessons on what makes a successful marriage: listening, attention, patience, working together and forgiveness.

“And it’s so important to communicate,” she added. “You shut the one person out, what have you got?”

The Romines, along with about 125 other couples, were honored in front of a congregation of nearly 500 during the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s wedding anniversaries Mass Feb. 29 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The annual Mass, which is sponsored by the Office of Marriage and Family Life, honors couples for living the vocation to marriage and celebrates milestone anniversaries that some have reached. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated the Mass.

In his homily, the archbishop said the vocation of marriage “is lived out in the body: married love is not just a meeting of the minds, it involves the gift of one’s whole self, body and soul.” Archbishop Cordileone continued that the “complete and comprehensive union” of man and woman in marriage enables “the communion of body, mind and soul,” and makes married love an image of the Trinity.

The relations between the three persons of the Trinity reveal what love is, he said. “Love is always other centered, it is outward focused, not focused in on oneself. When that happens, the love dies,” he said.

(PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Josephine and Alfred Romine, celebrating their 65th anniversary, and Edgar and Lorelei Fulwider, celebrating 72 years of marriage, attended the archdiocesan wedding anniversary Mass Feb. 29, 2020, at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Each person receives a vocation in order to give them an opportunity to take those “lofty ideals” and live them out concretely, the archbishop said. The sacrifices undertaken during Lent are always felt, the archbishop emphasized, whether in fasting or in giving alms. Similarly, the sacrifices experienced in marriage, “to continually give, when it becomes hard and tiring; to forgive; to make the sacrifices for one another: this is the only way to persevere in a vocation.

The sacrifices made during marriage “create within us an ever deeper capacity for love,” and are ultimately to help each person find happiness in God, Archbishop Cordileone said.

In his concluding remarks, the archbishop thanked the couples present for living out their vocations, “a witness that is so important in our time. Your lives are a witness to the power and beauty of these truths.”

Later in the Mass, the congregation applauded for the couples who stood as their anniversary milestone was called, from those celebrating

fewer than 15 years of marriage to those celebrating more than 70. Afterward, the cathedral filled with the hum of more than a hundred couples renewing their vows to each other.

For Lorelie and Edgar Fulwider, who celebrated 72 years of marriage last November, the annual wedding anniversary Mass is an important day.

“It’s a beautiful, wonderful thing and it just gets better every year. In the year in between, or two years, you sort of forget how wonderful it was, and there it is again. I just feel this has been a great part of our marriage,” Lorelie Fulwider said.

Fulwider added that going to the Mass “gives us a little extra boost in our marriage, just our presence going to Mass. it reinforces everything we believe in.”

Being congratulated the following day after Mass at their parish, Good Shepherd in Pacifica, was also a “very proud” moment, she said.

“God has provided this to us. And we still have each other and are able to enjoy our marriage.”

Archbishop: Rite of Election shows faith’s ‘timeless appeal’ NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The words of “Lift High the Cross” filled the air at St. Mary’s Cathedral as the Archdiocese of San Francisco held its annual Rite of Election March 1. The rite is the traditional way the Catholic Church recognizes the men, women and children who are preparing to enter into full membership in the church at Easter.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said the rite is one of the highlights of the year, a “happy occasion” in which candidates and catechumens from across the archdiocese are welcomed and “we see the diversity of our local church, the Archdiocese of San Francisco.”

This year, 154 catechumens, those preparing for baptism, communion and confirmation, and 150 candidates, who have been baptized but have not received all the sacraments of initiation, attended the rite, representing 41 parishes in the archdiocese.

Archbishop Cordileone said the choice to enter fully into the Catholic Church was a “sign of encouragement and inspiration for all of us, because we are living in times when the dominating influences in the culture are not so sympathetic to the spiritual life and to the practice of religion. It shows the timeless appeal of faith, especially faith in Jesus Christ.”

In his homily, the archbishop preached on how the devil constantly tries to get people to worship him instead of God. The temptation in the desert, when Satan tempts Jesus to make bread out of stones, throw

(PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Giorgio Rosano waits with godparents Lisa and Vincenzo Rosano March 1, 2020, at the Rite of Election at St. Mary’s Cathedral. During the rite, catechumens sign their name in their parish’s Book of the Elect to show their intention to join the Catholic Church.

Right, Loretta Tripp from St. Catherine, Jamie Griffin from St. Dunstan, Tom Arthur from St. Robert and Dana Dorcakova from Most Holy Redeemer process with their parishes’ Book of the Elect at the start of the rite.

himself from the temple, or receive the world’s kingdoms in exchange for worshipping him, can show Christians today how the devil continues to seduce people, the archbishop said.

“It’s always one of these three ways the devil tries to trip us up, by pleasure, power or riches,” he said. Each of those are not bad in themselves, he said, but get in the way of faith when they become the focus of life and are not used to serve God’s will.

Archbishop Cordileone said the arrival of Lent, which is an “intense retraining in the life of Christian discipleship,” brings three antidotes

to those temptations: fasting, prayer and almsgiving.

Prayer helps check the misuse of power because it involves submitting oneself to God’s will, he said, while fasting strengthens Christians against temptations of lust and gluttony and almsgiving counters greed and encourages generosity.

The archbishop said that through adopting Lenten practices and eliminating distractions, Christians can join Christ spiritually and make their Lent “a 40 day retreat with our Lord in the desert.” He added that prayer, fasting and almsgiving are not prac-

tices only for Lent, but instead are emphasized during that liturgical season in order to help Christians live them out the rest of the year.

Archbishop Cordileone also thanked those whose witness had attracted the catechumens to Catholicism. “You are all here because your lives in some way or another have been touched by a brother and sister in the faith, who reached out and invited you to an encounter with the one who truly loves us,” he said.

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Speaker: Pope links Christ’s incarnation and care for creation CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic letter on the Amazon region links care for creation with Christ’s incarnation, Lexington, Kentucky, Bishop John Stowe said in a Lenten presentation at St. Rita Parish in Fairfax.

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The document was released Feb. 12 and followed the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region held last October in Rome.

Bishop Stowe also cited the papal ecological encyclical “Laudato Si’” in his talk, titled “We Are All in This Together: Interconnectiveness in All Creation.”

Marking the five-year anniversary of the encyclical, the focus of this year’s St. Rita series is “Laudato Si’” and World Peace.”

Some people think of the word cosmic as “new age,” said Bishop Stowe, but Pope Francis calls it an “authentic spirituality.”

“Cosmic ecology recognizes our home is in God,” said Bishop Stowe, who is a Franciscan priest and president of Pax Christi-USA. “God the creator joins creation in the incarnation through his son Jesus. So God becomes part of our home. Jesus bridges the two homes, between

this world and the eternal world in which God lives.”

He said Pope Francis draws a contrast between the culture of one who lives in the “right relationship with the creator and the created” and a “cultural milieu of dominance and exploitation that leads to bondage.”

Bishop Stowe read an excerpt from paragraph 71 of “Querida Amazonia” in which Pope Francis says the “primitive” indigenous peoples of the Amazon region have “much to teach us” in this regard.

“They know how to be content with little; they enjoy God’s little gifts without accumulating great possessions; they do not destroy things needlessly; they care for ecosystems and they recognize that the earth, while serving as a generous source of support for their life, also has a maternal dimension that evokes respect and tender love,” the pope states.

Bishop Stowe said Pope Francis’ post-synodal letter “invites us to consider the Christian communities in the Amazon who recognize the incarnation of Christ bridging the world of the creator and the world of creation and showing our interconnectedness, our mutual responsibility.”

“Again, a society that we would consider primitive has something to teach us about living in right relationship,” he said.

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for that Sunday, praying the rosary, and (for those who have the availability) praying the Liturgy of the Hours.

– Physical contact should be avoided as much as possible: the Sign of Peace should be given by bowing to those around you.

– Communion to the faithful from the chalice should be suspended.

– Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion should cleanse their hands with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer before and after distributing Communion.

“This would be an opportune time to review with parishioners the correct way of receiving Holy Communion, both in the hand and on the tongue,” the archbishop added in the memo, which is available in full on the archdiocesan website.

The Santa Clara Public Health Department announced the first death from COVID-19 in the county March 9, an adult woman in her 60s who had been hospitalized for several weeks. She had no known history of international travel or contact with a traveler or infected person, suggesting she contracted COVID-19 in the community, the county said.

The virus caused growing disruption in affected regions of the U.S. and in many other nations, notably in Europe, where the brunt of the epidemic has shifted in recent weeks from its origin in Asia.

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The pope said he offered the Mass for those infected by the virus as well as “the doctors, the nurses, the volunteers who help so much, family members, the elderly in retirement homes and prisoners who are incarcerated.”

Health officials in San Francisco said the rise in the number of confirmed cases is expected and indicates the increasing spread of the virus in the community.

“San Franciscans should remain calm, and take appropriate steps for heightened precautions,” said Dr. Grant Colfax, director of the San Francisco DPH, urging all San Franciscans to follow the city’s recommendations for social distancing.

“In order to decrease the impact of coronavirus on our community, we must reduce the times and places when people come together,” he said.

The city said vulnerable people who are 60 and over or have underlying health conditions should limit their outings as much as possible.

“We recommend that large gatherings that are not essential be cancelled, and everyone should practice aggressive prevention such as frequent hand washing and staying home if sick,” Dr. Tomas Aragon, San Francisco Health Officer, said March 6. “Our community members should focus now on how they can help reduce spread of the virus.”

The city said the social distancing recommendations will cause changes in behavior for systems and individuals. They are meant to disrupt normal social behavior, because the virus thrives under normal circumstances. Functions that are essential to an individual or their family, such as getting food, traveling to work, or providing for a sick family member, can be continued. The city said the situation is evolving and the recommendations are expected to change.

Mayor London Breed declared a local emergency Feb. 25 in order to better prepare for confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in San Francisco. The emergency declaration allows the city to mobilize resources, accelerate emergency planning, streamline staffing, coordinate agencies across the city, allow for future reimbursement by the state and federal governments and raise awareness throughout San Francisco about how to prepare for and respond to the novel coronavirus.

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Evangelization Congress: Faithful gather for prayer, renewal LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

St. Anthony of Padua Parish in San Francisco hosted the 29th Evangelization Congress Feb 15-16, a weekend of prayer, celebration, renewal and fellowship.

The two-day event was organized by two parish groups, “Renovación Católica Carismática” (Catholic Charismatic Renewal) and “Cristo Rey” (Christ the King). It featured preaching by priests from Mission District parishes as well as by Father Francisco Tijerino from Managua, Nicaragua, and Brother Rafael Díaz from Los Angeles. Other activities included Scripture workshops, Holy Hour, Mass and confessions.

The Holy Hour was a highlight. Led

by Father Rafael Bermúdez, who is on the pastoral staff of St. Peter, St. Anthony and St. Charles Borromeo

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St. Anthony of Padua parishioner Amalia Ruelas holds a flag during the Evangelization Congress at the parish hall in San Francisco on Feb. 15.

parishes in the Mission, the faithful had a chance to worship in silence, in spoken prayer or with gestures to invoke the Holy Spirit.

Encouraging the faithful to stop correcting others and focus instead on their own shortcomings, Father Bermudez led the group in an examination of conscience.

of the multiplication of the loaves of bread and reminded Christians that God invites all of us to serve in different ways. He added that when Jesus asked his disciples to “go and feed them” he was not only talking about providing food to his followers but also about spreading the nourishment of his message.

“Help us to be able to change our prayers of petition into prayers of thanksgiving, even when someone has hurt us,” he said, asking God’s pardon and guidance to mature in faith.

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As the university goes through existential uncertainty, it has held meetings with faculty, students and staff to allow for “frank, open discussions” about what is happening at the school and where it might be headed.

The university said it would “take direction from the board and the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur” and promised transparency as it finalized decisions around its future.

Notre Dame de Namur University, the third-oldest college in California, was founded as a women’s school in San Jose in 1851 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and continues to focus on the sisters’ core values of community, diversity, excellence, goodness, integrity, justice, learning and service. When it was chartered in 1868, it was the first college in California to grant undergraduate degrees to women.

It opened at its current location in Belmont in 1923.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 12, 2020

AAA funds Tuition Assistance Program

NOTRE DAME HS ALUMNAE MASS AND LUNCHEON

Itinerary continued...

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Archdiocesan Annual Appeal helps provide ministries, programs and services benefiting parishes and people throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco. A portion of this year’s $6.82 million AAA will, as in years past, funds the Tuition Assistance Program assisting students in archdiocesan schools.

Among the students helped by the program are the four Ramirez children, all of whom attend St. Peter School in San Francisco in grades one through eight. The Tuition Assistance Program makes it possible, said Annie Powers of the archdiocesan development office. “Individual scholarships range from $725 per student to $1,700 per student,” Gustavo Torrres, coordinator of archdiocesan assistance programs, told Catholic San Francisco.

The Ramirez children’s mother, Justina Bocanegra, said: “Being in a Catholic school environment has given them a supportive community and stability in their life, which they will take with them into the future.”

“The AAA helps to secure financial resources to assist the vulnerable and to support many critical programs that benefit all of us,” development director Rod Linhares said in a note to parishes March 2.

“The Ramirez family is just one example of many in which you can see the tremendous impact a Catholic education can have on children in our archdiocese,” Linhares said.

The scriptural theme of this year’s AAA is 1 Peter 4:10: “Use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace.”

WHAT YOUR TOUR INCLUDESAlumnae of Notre Dame High School, San Francisco will meet for the school’s 117th • Round-trip international airfare from San Francisco, government taxes ($98.00) and fuel surcharges Mass (Subject to change) (Additional baggage & optional fees mayand apply; seeluncheon fine print for details). April 18.

• Transfers and sightseeing in a private air conditioned motorthough coach.

“Even our high school closed in • Accommodation in first and superior tourist class hotels with porterages, daily breakfast and dinner 1981 and is now home to low income seniors in Jordan and Israel. In Dubai only one Safari BBQ dinner. known Notre Dame Plaza – some traditions • Assistance of a tour escort from time of arrival until timeas of departure.

• Entrance fees and local taxes. still prevail,” Debbie Calgaro, communica• Booking of daily mass when accompaniedtions by a priest.

In Jordan and for Dubai the is subject to availability. director NDSF Alumnae AssociaPriest availability is subject to change in case of unforeseen events. told(tour Catholic NOT INCLUDED: Insurance, lunches, 2 dinners tion, in Dubai, gratuities guide, bus driverSan & others)Francisco. “Graduates and items of personal nature. from 1936 all the way to 1981 look forward to PAYMENT INFORMATION attending this event. We celebrate the friendships developed many years ago with A deposit of $350.00 plus $241.00 for Travel Protectionwe (Optional) is required per so person at the time of registration but no later than our May 13,educators 2020. The final payment on or andis due classmates.” before June 11, 2020.

St.forJulie the Sisters of Travel Protection Premium Amount: To be eligible the waiverBilliart of pre-existing founded medical condition exclusion, the protection plan must be purchased within 21de daysNamur. from the time “Today we continue Notre Dame FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2020 you make your initial trip deposit. However, the plan can be purchased 1 day prior to the DUBAI to honor the memory of Sister Julie and the departure date of the trip.

This morning, we will have leisure time in the malls.

In the afternoon, enjoy a Safari trip where willCAPUTI, GINO@BELAIRFILMS.ORG) Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur,” Calgaro (PHOTO BY you EUGENE CREDIT CARD FEE have the opportunity to do camel riding, sand via credit an additional 4% fee. said.

Pictured Ramirez The children all*Payment attend Sanor debit card will be applied boardingare and the try out a henna family. design on hands or REGISTRATIONS RECEIVED AFTER FINAL PAYMENT feet, followedSt. by a BBQ dinner.

Mass DATE at Mission Dolores, 10:30 a.m. with Francisco’s Peter School with assistance from the Tuition Registrations welcome afterDate final payment date.Code Registrations final Register Online at3,funded www.AdriaticPilgrimages.com/mytrip using are Tour = YH20 = 092020 =lunch G IDreceived = 59779 * Center. $ Cultural SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2020 ticketed atafter the Assistance Program by the Archdiocesan Annual Appayment date will incur an additional fee based on air availability.

Additional fees willSpanish be DEPART DUBAI registration.

Contact Notre Dame de Namur Alumnae of peal of we thewill Archdiocese left: upon Angelo Today, depart Dubai. of San Francisco. Fromadvised CANCELLATION FEES San Francisco, 3531 Ortega St., San Francisco, Moctezuma, Justina Bocanegra, Andrea Ramirez, Aurora SAN FRANCISCO Itinerary is subject to change without notice.

From the day of registration toFRANCISCO/SAN 120 days prior to departure, you will be charged a $50 94122-4031; ndsfalumnae347@gmail.com.

Ramirez, Archella Ramirez.

Airline taxes and fuel surcharges included.

Journey to non-refundable administrative fee plus any airline fees. Additionally, thereafter, you will pass by the famous Jumeirah Mosque. The tour continues to Al Bastakiya, the old part of Dubai, to reach the spice souk. We visit Abu Dhabi, capital of the Emirates, known as the Arabian Jewel. Jebel Ali Port, the biggest man-made port in the world is one of the landmarks that we pass on the way to Abu Dhabi.

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Equipment Delay $200 Missed Connection $750 borderBaggage crossing into Israel. Then we Early morning transfer to the Old City & Personal Effects $1,000 CHAPLAIN: drive down the Judean Desert to have our own procession Baggage through Delay $250 of the “Way

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Emergency Medical & Dental Expenses $50,000 ($500 dental sublimit) visit the baptismal site on the River we return to our hotel for breakfast and Emergency Evacuation & Repatriations $500,000 Land Only PriceWe $2999 SUNDAY, Accidental Death & Disemberment $25,000tour of the Old Jordan.

Dinner and overnight in Nazareth. later, we start our walking SEPTEMBER 20, 2020 Travel Assistance & Concierge Services Included City by visiting the Church of St. Anne, the CHAPLAIN: Fr. Francis Garbo DEPART USA Pools of Bethesda, Ecce Homo and walk

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We will enjoy a boat ride on the Phone: 650-868-4978 / Email: bncruise@aol.com Sea of Galilee.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 ARRIVE AMMAN We will arrive Amman, transfer to hotel 222 6th Street Suite 340 | San Pedro, CA 90731 for W overnight.

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Then from the summit of Mount Nebo, we view the “Promised Land”. Leisure time at the Dead Sea.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 NAZARETH / HAIFA / CAESAREA / OLD JAFFA / JERUSALEM This morning we visit Haifa and Mount Carmel to see the Cave of the Prophet Elijah. We stop in Caesarea to view the ruins of the old Roman city and the aqueduct. Then, we visit Old Jaffa and the Church of St. Peter. On to Jerusalem for overnight.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 OUR LADY OF THE ARK / LADY OF PALESTINE / BORDER CROSSING INTO JORDAN Today we visit the imposing Monastery and Church of Our Lady of the Ark. Then we proceed to visit the sanctuary of Our Lady of Palestine at Deir Rafat. We spend the afternoon at leisure for prayers and personal visits. In the afternoon we cross border into Jordan.

October 5, 2020

with Bishop Donald Hying Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin

Calling the Faithful and Marian devotees…

Follow the footsteps of the Saints, walk through the pages of the Bible and experience a life changing journey.

TRAVEL NOW, PAY LATER.

invite you to join in the following pilgrimage

ITINERARY

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2020 MOUNT OLIVES / GETHSEMANE / BETHLEHEM / EIN KAREM We start with the Mount of Olives, the Church of Pater Noster and the Chapel of the Ascension and down to Dominus Flevit and St. Mary Magdalene Church.

Pray at the Garden of Gethsemane and visit the Church of All Nations. On to Bethlehem to visit the Church of the Nativity, the Basilica of St. Catherine, the Milk Grotto and the Shepherds’ Field and in the afternoon, we return to Jerusalem, stopping en route in Ein Karem to visit the Church of the Visitation.

30, 2020 Day 1: Monday, October 5, 2020WEDNESDAY, - USAAMMAN / SEPTEMBER PARIS DEPART / ARRIVE DUBAI Today we fly from Amman to Dubai on April 23 - May 3, 2020: Experience walking through the pages of the Bible flight EK902 at 11:05am. Arrive Dubai at Day 2: Tuesday 10/6, PARIS / NEVERS - Holy Land & Jordan 3:05pm where we will be greeted by our guide and bus driver. On to our hotel / LYON Day 3: Wednesday 10/7, NEVERS /tour PARAY-LE-MONIAL / ARS for overnight.

FEATURING THE FAMOUS 2020 OBERAMMERGAU PASSION PLAY Day 4: Thursday 10/8, LYON / ANNECY LYON 1, 2020 THURSDAY,/OCTOBER DUBAI / ABU DHABI Departures: June 4-16; June 23-July 4; Sep 5 -16, 2020 Day 5: Friday 10/9, LYON / train We / TOULOUSE / LOURDES take a city tour, sample the historic Experience the most awaited once in every 10 years Passion Play in sites and vibrant cosmopolitan life of Dubai on this comprehensive tour. The THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 Day 6: Saturday 10/10, LOURDES Oberammergau, Germany with a combination of Switzerland, Austria, tour starts with a photo stop at the BORDER CROSSING INTO ISRAEL / Day 7: Sunday 10/11, LOURDES / trainlandmark / PARIS / ROUEN / LISIEUX famous of Dubai, Burj Al Arab.

RIVER JORDAN / Czech Republic & Poland pilgrimage to celebrate the 100th yr anniversary Proceed to Jumeirah, the picturesque SEA OF GALILEE / NAZARETH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2020 palace and residential area of Dubai, / also Day 8:OLDMonday 10/12, LISIEUX / BAYEUX / NORMANDY LISIEUX morning we cross the a King Hussein of Pope John Paul II (Seats are limited. Register early asThis registration is on CITY / MOUNT ZION Day 9: Tuesday 10/13, LISIEUX / PARIS first come first serve basis.)

Day 10: Wednesday 10/14, PARIS June 4-16, 2020: Oberammergau PASSION PLAY - 2 night in Germany, 2 Day 11: Thursday, October 15, 2020 - PARIS / USA nights in Prague. Czech Republic, 2 nights in Vienna, Austria, 2 nights in WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 PETRA This morning we drive to Petra for an unforgettable visit of the “Rose Red” city.

We begin at the “Siq”, a winding canyon road. At the end of the passage, we will see Petra’s most beautiful monument – the Treasury. We will discover temples, royal tombs, a theater and water channels. Return to our hotel.

Zagreb, Croatia & 3 nights in Medjugorji, Bosnia & a stop over in Zurich, Switzerland on the way home.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 12, 2020

Parishes offer expanded Lenten hours for confessions Parishes throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco are taking part in “The Light is On For You,” a Lenten prayer opportunity offering additional times for confessions as Easter approaches. Following is information from parishes with regard to the campaign. Any additional listings sent by parishes will be added to the website version of this article, at catholic-sf.org. An online guide to confession from the archdiocese may be found at sfarch.org/Lent.

MARIN COUNTY

CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION: 26825 Shoreline Highway, Tomales. (707) 878-2208; coatomales@ gmail.com. Confessions during Lent: Friday and Saturday, 5-5:45 p.m.

OUR LADY OF LORETTO CHURCH: 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato. (415) 897-2171, church@ollnovato.org.

Confessions during Lent: Mondays, 6-8 p.m. Saturdays 3:30-4:30 p.m., April 6, 7-8 p.m.

OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL CHURCH: Three Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley. (415) 388-4190, officeolmc@ gmail.com. Confessions during Lent: Mondays, 6-8 p.m., Parish Reconciliation Service on the Monday of Holy Week, 7 p.m.

ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH: 1000 Cambridge St., Novato. (415) 883-2177, mary@stanthonynovato.org. Confessions during Lent: Fridays, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday after 9 a.m. Mass.

ST. CECILIA CHURCH: 450 West Cintura Ave., Lagunitas. (415) 488-9799; stcecilia.lagunitas@yahoo. com. Confessions during Lent: Saturdays 4-6 p.m.

ST. HILARY CHURCH: 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon.

(415) 435-1122; www.sthilary.org. Confessions during Lent: Wednesdays 6 p.m. with exception of Wednesday during Holy Week, April 8, when the parish will have a Communal Penance Service with individual confession and absolution at 7 p.m.; confessions also Fridays 9:30 a.m.; Saturdays 4 p.m.

ST. ISABELLA CHURCH: One Trinity Way, San Rafael. (415) 479-1560, office@stisabellasparish.org.

Confessions during Lent: Fridays, 6-7 p.m.

ST. MARY CHURCH: 4100 Nicasio Valley Road, Nicasio. (415) 488-9799; stcecilia.lagunitas@yahoo.com.

Confessions during Lent: Saturdays after 8 a.m. Mass 8:45-9:15 a.m.

ST. MARY STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH: 180 Harrison Ave., Sausalito. (415) 332-1765, office@starofthesea.us. Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.

ST. RAPHAEL CHURCH: 1104 Fifth Ave., San Rafael.

(415) 454-8141; www.saintraphael.com. Confessions during Lent: Wednesdays 6-8 p.m.

ST. SEBASTIAN CHURCH: 373 Bon Air Road, Greenbrae. (415) 461-0704; sebastian94904@yahoo.com.

Confessions during Lent: Saturdays 3:30-4:30 p.m. A priest will be in the confessional from 7:30-8:00 p.m. every Wednesday night and will stay beyond 8 p.m. to hear the confessions of everyone who arrives by 8 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY

CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY: 827 Vienna St., San Francisco. (415) 333-7630; www.EpiphanySF.com. Confessions during Lent: Mondays 5:30-7 p.m.; communal reconciliation, April 7, 9 a.m.-noon and 5:30-6:30 p.m.

MISSION DOLORES BASILICA: 3321 16th St., San Francisco. (415) 621-8203, parish@missiondolores.org; Confessions during Lent: Fridays, 6-8 p.m., basilica.

ST. BENEDICT PARISH FOR DEAF AND HEARING IMPAIRED AT ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH: 1801 Octavia St., San Francisco. Voice/ TTY: (415) 567-9855, stbenz1801@gmail.com. Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Sundays, 9:30-10:20 a.m., 1-2 p.m.

Confessions are offered in American Sign Language (ASL). Total communication access will be offered to those hearing penitents who are not fluent in ASL. ST. BRENDAN CHURCH: 29 Rockaway Ave., San Francisco. (415) 681-4225; saintbrendanchurchsf@ gmail.com. Confessions during Lent: Wednesday 7:15-8:00 p.m.; Saturdays 4:15-4:45 p.m.; Communal Penance Service, April 8, 7 p.m.

ST. CECILIA CHURCH: 2555 17th Ave., San Francisco. (415) 664-8481; stcecilia@stcecilia.com. Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays 4-5:30 p.m.; Saturdays 3:30-4:30 p.m. April 6, 7-8 p.m.

ST. DOMINIC CHURCH: 2390 Bush St., San Francisco. (415) 576-7824; info@stdominics.org. Confessions during Lent: Saturday 5-6 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m.; 5 p.m.; 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31 noon-1 p.m.; 7:30-8 p.m.

ST. GABRIEL CHURCH: 2559 40th Ave., San Francisco. (415) 731-6161, secretary@sgparish.org.

Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. in Parish Center Chapel.

ST. IGNATIUS CHURCH: 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco. (415) 422-2188; gbonfiglio@usfca.edu.

Confessions during Lent: Mondays 11:30 a.m.-noon; Saturdays, 3:45-4:45 p.m.; Thursdays 7-8:30 p.m.

ST. KEVIN CHURCH: 704 Cortland Ave., San Francisco. (415) 648-5751; StKevins70@aol.com. March 31: Reconciliation service, 7 p.m.

ST. MONICA CHURCH: 470 24th Ave., San Francisco. (415) 751-5275; monicarectory@sbcglobal. net. Confessions during Lent: Saturday 4-4:45 p.m.; Monday 9:30-10:30 a.m.

ST. MONICA CHURCH: 470 24th Ave., San Francisco. (415) 751-5275; monicarectory@sbcglobal. net. Confessions during Lent: Saturday 4-4:45 p.m.; Monday 9:30-10:30 a.m.

ST. PATRICK CHURCH: 756 Mission St., San Francisco.

(415) 421-3730, information@stpatricksf.org. Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m.-noon, 4:30-5 p.m., Fridays, 11 a.m.-noon, 4-5 p.m., Saturdays, 4-5 p.m.

ST. PHILIP THE APOSTLE CHURCH: 725 Diamond St., San Francisco. (415) 282-0141; info@saintphilipparish.org. Confessions during Lent: Fridays 7-9 p.m.

ST. TERESA OF AVILA CHURCH: 1490 19th St., San Francisco. (415) 285-5272; info@stteresasf.org.

Eucharistic adoration with confessions March 24, 5-8 p.m. Confession also available by appointment.

ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE CHURCH: 3835 Balboa St., San Francisco. (415) 387-5545; stthomasapostlechurchsf@gmail.com / Confessions during Lent: Saturday 3-3:45 p.m.; Friday 9:15-10 a.m.

ST. THOMAS MORE CHURCH: 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco. (415) 452-9634; www.STMchurch.com. Confessions during Lent: Thursdays 7:30-8 p.m.; Fridays 8-10 p.m. with Stations of the Cross, exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until midnight and Benediction; Good Friday and Holy Saturday 3 p.m.; during Masses on Saturday Vigils, 5 p.m.; Sundays 10 a.m., 8 p.m.

MOST HOLY REDEEMER CHURCH: 100 Diamond St., San Francisco. (415) 863-6259; secretary@mhr. org. Confessions during Lent: Wednesdays 6-6:45 p.m.; Saturdays 3:45-4:30 p.m.

STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH: 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco. (415) 751-0450, admin@starparish. org. Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m.

NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST, FRANCIS OF ASSISI: 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco. (415) 986-4557; info@ shrinesf.org. Confessions during Lent: Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-noon; Wednesday and Friday 4-5 p.m., 6-7 p.m.

ALL SOULS CHURCH: 315 Walnut Ave., South San Francisco. (650) 871-8944; Secretary@allsoulsparishssf.org. Confessions during Lent: Bilingual confessions Thursdays 5-6 p.m. and Saturdays 4-5 p.m. through April 4.

ST. ANNE OF THE SUNSET CHURCH: 850 Judah St., San Francisco. (415) 665-1600, info@stanne-sf. org. Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.

CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica. (650) 355-2593, www.gschurchca.org.

Confessions during Lent: Fridays, 6-7 p.m.

SAN MATEO COUNTY

CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY: 1040 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont. (650) 593-6157; office@ihmbelmont.org. Confessions during Lent: Holy Thursday 4-5 p.m.; Good Friday 3 p.m.; Holy Saturday 3-4 p.m.

CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY: 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. (650) 323-7914, churchnativity.menlo@ gmail.com. Confessions during Lent: Mondays, 7-8 p.m.

MATER DOLOROSA CHURCH: 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco. (650) 583-4131; frances@ mdssf.org. Confessions during Lent: Fridays 5:456:45 p.m.; Saturdays 4:15-4:45 p.m.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS CHURCH: 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. (650) 347-7768; parishoffice@ olaparish.org. Confessions during Lent: Saturdays 3:304:45 p.m.; Tuesdays 6-8 p.m.; April 6, Day of Healing and Reconciliation with confessions noon-9 p.m.

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CHURCH: 60 Wellington Ave., Daly City. (650) 755-9786; olphrectory@gmail.com. Confessions during Lent: Wednesday 5:30-6 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m. or by appointment.

ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH: 3700 Callan Blvd., South San Francisco. (650) 873-2282; Staugustinessf@aol. com. Confessions during Lent: Fridays 4:30-5 p.m.; Saturdays 3:30-4 p.m. both days in Confession Room and chapel; March 30, Lenten Communal Reconciliation with individual confession, 7 p.m.

ST. BRUNO CHURCH: 555 San Bruno Ave. W, San Bruno. (650) 588-2121. Confessions during Lent: Wednesdays, 5:30-7 p.m., Sundays: 5-5:55 p.m.

ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA CHURCH: 1310 Bayswater Ave., Burlingame. (650) 344-6884; stcsiena@ yahoo.com. Confessions during Lent: Wednesdays 6:30-8 p.m.; April 6 penance service 7 p.m.; Good Friday 3-4 p.m.; Holy Saturday 3-4 p.m.; Saturdays with exception of Holy Saturday 4-4:45 p.m.

ST. DUNSTAN CHURCH: 1133 Broadway Ave., Millbrae. (650) 697-4730; www.stdunstanchurch. org. Prayer reflection and adoration with confessions Wednesdays during Lent 7-8 p.m.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH: 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto. (650) 322-2152, sfoassisi@sbcglobal. net. Confessions during Lent: Fridays, 5-7 p.m., Saturdays, 4:30-6 p.m., a retired priest is on call for confessions daily, Sundays, a priest is in confessional during Mass. All priests speak English and Spanish.

ST. LUKE CHURCH: 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City. (650) 345-6660; saintukefc@gmail.com. Confessions during Lent: Thursdays 6-8 p.m.

ST. MARK CHURCH: 325 Marine View Ave., Belmont.

(650) 591-59337; www.saintmarksparish.com. Confessions during Lent: Tuesday 6-8 p.m. with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

ST. MATTHEW CHURCH: One Notre Dame Ave., San Mateo. (650) 344-7622; parish@stmatthewcath. org. Confessions during Lent: Monday – Friday, 5 p.m., adoration chapel confessionals; Saturdays, 11:30 a.m.-noon, church confessionals, 4:30- 5 p.m., church confessionals, March 26, 5-9 p.m., adoration chapel confessionals, Good Friday, noon-1:30 p.m., church confessionals, Holy Saturday, 11 a.m.-noon., church confessionals.

ST. RAYMOND CHURCH: 1100 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park. (650)323-1755; office@straymondmp.org.

Confessions during Lent: Thursdays 7-8 p.m.; Saturdays 3:45-4:45 p.m. or by appointment, Communal penance service, March 19, 7-8 pm.

ST. TIMOTHY CHURCH: 1515 Dolan Ave., San Mateo. (650) 342-2468. Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays, 6-6:30 p.m., English, 6:30-7 p.m., Spanish, Saturdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Communal Penance Service, April 1, 7 p.m.

ST. VERONICA CHURCH: 34 Alida Way, South San Francisco. (650) 588-1455; churchoffice@stveronicassf.com. Confessions during Lent: Mondays 4:306:30 p.m. You may enter through the side door of the church. Signs will be posted.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 12, 2020

SUNDAY READINGS

Third Sunday of Lent EXODUS 17:3-7 In those days, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why did you ever make us leave Egypt? Was it just to have us die here of thirst with our children and our livestock?”

So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? a little more and they will stone me!” The Lord answered Moses, “Go over there in front of the people, along with some of the elders of Israel, holding in your hand, as you go, the staff with which you struck the river. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for the people to drink.” This Moses did, in the presence of the elders of Israel. The place was called Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled there and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord in our midst or not?”

PSALM 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9.

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord; let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation. Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalms to him.

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

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Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the Lord who made us. For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Oh, that today you would hear his voice: “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the desert, where your fathers tempted me; they tested me though they had seen my works.”

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

ROMANS 5:1-2, 5-8 Brothers and sisters: Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For Christ, while we were still helpless, died at the appointed time for the ungodly. Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good person one might even find courage to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

An invitation to drink and eat

friend of mine liked to quote a saint – I don’t remember which one – who said that food is God’s love made edible. In our first reading, the biblical authors indicate that water is God’s love made drinkable. When the Israelites become dehydrated during their journey through a broiling desert, God pulls them back from the brink of death with a miraculous supply of water.

It is his personal gift, as he makes clear when he tells Moses, who is to perform the act that will trigger the miracle, “I will be standing there in front of you.” Indeed, every nonmiraculous glass of water we drink is his personal gift.

In the Gospel, Jesus rearranges the elements of journey, thirst, God and water KEVIN PERROTTA to make a different point. He is traveling, and at midday is tired. He sits down next to a well and waits for someone with a bucket to come along who can draw some water for him.

A local woman arrives, and they get into a conversation. To her astonishment, he tells her that if

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she asked, he could provide water for her, water that would become a flowing stream within her – better than any well water.

If the first reading features water as an expression of God’s love, the Gospel shows God as the real water that can keep us alive, not only today but forever.

After talking with the woman, Jesus has a conversation with his disciples about lunch. Here too he surprises. “I have food to eat of which you do not know,” he tells them. What is that? “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work.”

In his human life, Jesus experienced God’s will for him – his calling, his God-given mission – as nourishment. What kept him going was God’s purposes for him. As he declared in an earlier conversation, a person lives “by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God” (Mt 4:4).

Jesus is saying that God himself, living within us, wants to be the substantial breakfast that sustains us through every long morning of work, the cool drink that enables us to finish the task on every hot afternoon.

KEVIN PERROTTA is the editor and an author of the “Six Weeks With the Bible” series, teaches part time at Siena Heights University, leads Holy Land pilgrimages and writes Sunday Scripture reflections for Catholic News Service. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Together on the Lenten journey FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

This Lenten season, we could do concretely some of the following: 1. Deepen awareness of good and evil in us and keep doing the good things, however small, to maximize the good and minimize the evil in the world.

2. Seek God’s grace joyfully through the word of God, prayer, adoration, and the sacraments of Eucharist and reconciliation.

3. As the whole archdiocese we could take up one Gospel and read through it meditatively. I suggest Luke’s Gospel with its 24 chapters. Read one full chapter or half a chapter each day. Luke’s Gospel is a Gospel of the poor, of women, of prayer, of praise, of gentiles. It has infancy narratives, the three parables in Chapter 15 of the lost coin, sheep, and son, and my favorite Emmaus story. Each chapter will take about 15 minutes as we read prayerfully, knowing that Jesus encounters us in his words and deeds.

4. Let’s do three concrete things to help the poor in Lent. Pope Francis says when you give to the

poor don’t judge what he/she will do with what you give and give respectfully by making eye contact with the poor person, affirming his/her dignity. 5.

Let’s pray the rosary each day, dwelling on the mysteries, with family if possible.

6. Let’s not miss the Saturday vigil/Sunday Mass and, if possible, catch a daily Mass through Lent.

7. Let’s try seriously some fast and abstinence, even more than what the church prescribes. It’s good for the body and soul. It teaches us self-control and makes us empathize with those who have little or no food.

8. Do something concrete daily to care for the body in terms of healthy food and exercise.

9. Extend the “giving up” concept to giving up anger, self-centeredness, greed, worry, ingratitude, gloominess, consumerism and other harmful things.

10. Become a volunteer at your parish and/or in some charitable organization. The church needs our active engagement.

FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA is pastor at St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

JOHN 4:5-15, 19B-26, 39A, 40-42 Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”

His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.

The Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?”—For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.—Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink, ‘you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where then can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?” Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MARCH 16: Monday of the Third Week of Lent. 2 KGS 5:1-15ab. PS 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4. PS 130:5, 7. LK 4:24-30.

TUESDAY, MARCH 17: Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Patrick, bishop and confessor. DN 3:25, 34-43. PS 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9. JL 2:12-13. MT 18:21-35.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18: Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop, confessor and doctor. DT 4:1, 5-9. PS 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20. JN 6:63c, 68c. MT 5:17-19.

THURSDAY, MARCH 19: Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 2 SM 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16. PS 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29. ROM 4:13, 16-18, 22. PS 84:5. MT 1:16, 18-21, 24a or LK 2:41-51a.

FRIDAY, MARCH 20: Friday of the Third Week of Lent. HOS 14:2-10. PS 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14 and 17. MT 4:17. MK 12:28-34.

SATURDAY, MARCH 21: Saturday of the Third Week of Lent. HOS 6:1-6. PS 51:3-4, 18-19, 2021ab. PS 95:8. LK 18:9-14.

SUNDAY, MARCH 22: Fourth Sunday of Lent. 1 SM 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a. PS 23: 1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6.

EPH 5:8-14. JN 8:12. JN 9:1-41 or JN 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38.

MONDAY, MARCH 23: Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Turibio de Mogrovejo, bishop. IS 65:17-21. PS 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and 13b. AM 5:14. JN 4:43-54.

TUESDAY, MARCH 24: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent. EZ 47:1-9, 12. PS 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9.

PS 51:12a, 14a. JN 5:1-16.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25: Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. IS 7:10-14; 8:10. PS 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 11. HEB 10:4-10. JN 1:14ab. LK 1:26-38.

THURSDAY, MARCH 26: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent. EX 32:7-14. PS 106:19-20, 21-22, 23. JN 3:16. JN 5:31-47.

FRIDAY, MARCH 27: Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent. WIS 2:1a, 12-22. PS 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 and 23. MT 4:4b. JN 7:1-2, 10, 25-30.

SATURDAY, MARCH 28: Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent. JER 11:18-20. PS 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 1112. LK 8:15. JN 7:40-53.

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Our congenital complexity

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he renowned spiritual writer, Ruth Burrows, begins her autobiography with these words: “I was born into this world with a tortured sensitivity. For long I have puzzled over the causes of my psychological anguish.”

Unfortunately, to our loss, too many spiritual biographies don’t begin like this, that is, by recognizing right at the start the bewildering, pathological complexity inside our own nature. We’re not simple in heart, mind, and soul, nor indeed even in body. Each of us has FATHER RON enough complexity within ROLHEISER us to write our own treatise on abnormal psychology.

And that complexity must not only be recognized, it needs to be respected and hallowed because it stems not for what’s worst in us but from what’s best in us. We’re complex because what beguiles us inside and tempts us in every direction is not, first of all, the wiliness of the devil but rather the image and likeness of God. Inside us there’s a divine fire, a greatness, which gives us infinite depth, insatiable desires, and enough luminosity to bewilder every psychologist. The image and likeness of God inside us, as John of the Cross writes, renders our hearts, minds, and souls “caverns” too deep to ever be filled in or fully understood.

It’s my belief that Christian spirituality, at least in its popular preaching and catechesis, has too often not taken this seriously enough. In short, the impression has too much been given that Christian discipleship shouldn’t be complicated: Why all this resistance within you! What’s wrong with you! But, as we know from our own

experience, our innate complexity is forever throwing up complications and resistances to becoming a saint, to “willing the one thing.”

Moreover, because our complexity hasn’t been recognized and honored spiritually we often feel guilty about it: Why am I so complicated? Why do I have all these questions? Why am I so often confused? Why is sex such a powerful impulse?

Why do I have so many temptations?

The simple answer: Because we are born with a godly fire within. Thus the source of so many of our confusions, temptations, and resistances comes as much from what is best in as from the wiles of Satan and the world.

What should we do in in the face of our own bewildering complexity?

Some counsels for the long haul: Honor and hallow your complexity: Accept that this is a God-given gift inside you and, at the end of the day, it’s what is best inside you. It’s what separates you from plants and animals. Their nature is simple, but having an immortal, infinite soul makes for lots of complications as you struggle to live out your life within the finitude that besets you.

Never underestimate your complexity – even as you resist massaging it: Recognize and respect the “demons and angels” that roam freely inside your heart and mind. But don’t massage your complexity either, by fancying yourself as the tormented artist or as the existentialist who’s heroically out of step with life.

Befriend your shadow: It’s the luminosity you’ve split off. Slowly, with proper caution and support, begin to face the inner things that frighten you.

Hallow the power and place of sexuality within you: You’re incurably sexual, and for a godly reason. Never deny or denigrate the power of sexuality – even as you carry it with a proper chastity.

Name your wounds, grieve them, mourn them.

Whatever wounds that you don’t grieve will eventually snakebite you. Accept and mourn the fact that here, in this life, there is no finished symphony.

Never let the “transcendental impulse” inside you become drugged or imprisoned. Your complexity continually lets you know that you’re built for more than this life. Never deaden this impulse inside you. Learn to recognize, through your frustrations and fantasies, the ways you often imprison it.

Try to find a “higher love” by which to transcend the more immediate power of your natural instincts. All miracles begin with falling in love.

Hallow your spontaneous impulses and temptations by searching for that higher love and higher value toward which they’re pointing. Offering others your altruism and the gaze of admiration will feel so good and right that it will bring to fulfillment what you’re really yearning for.

Let your own complexity teach you understanding and empathy. By being in touch with your own complexity you will eventually learn that nothing is foreign to you and that what you see on the newscasts each day mirrors what’s inside you.

Forgive yourself often. Your complexity will trip you up many times and so you will need to forgive yourself many times. Live, knowing that God’s mercy is a well that’s never exhausted.

Live under God’s patience and understanding.

God is your builder, the architect who constructed you and who is responsible for your complexity. Trust that God understands. Trust that God is more anxious about you than you’re anxious about yourself. The God who knows all things also knows and appreciates why you struggle.

OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

LETTERS Matthew’s Gospel and immigration

Rebuffed in 2016 by the voters’ choice of Donald Trump’s strict immigration enforcement, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has doubled down in its support for illegal immigrants and migrants as the 2020 election approaches.

Posting Mexican-born Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez to head their conference in November 2019, a position Archbishop Gomez never originally sought, the USCCB persists that its interpretation of the New Testament takes precedence over the people’s democratic will. This should be troubling to all Catholics regardless of one’s view on immigration.

The USCCB’s longstanding intervention for, even glorification of illegal aliens and associated vilification of Donald Trump for answering the people’s demand to stop illegal immigration, is a deviation from Catholic doctrine the bishops don’t talk about.

Paragraph 1951 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church requires Catholics to honor the rule of law as established in civil societies, amplifying the principle that “law is declared and established by reason as a participation in the providence of the living God, creator, and redeemer of all.”

The bishops’ focus on Matthew’s “I was a stranger and you invited me in” (Matthew 25-35) to justify ignoring illegal immigration as a national problem. At the same time the USCCB has effectively censored Matthew’s Gospel that arguably supports President Trump’s strict immigration enforcement as a rightful tool of the civil law, i.e., “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22:21).

The USCCB membership appears in total lockstep with supporting illegal immigrants whatever the cost, and subordinating the catechism’s respect to the rule of law to that shortsighted political objective. If this administration is replaced in November with one advocating abortion up to birth, public funding of genocide, and abolition of conscience clauses as was the case before 2017, the USCCB will have been a party to that.

Donald J. Farber San Rafael

A Lenten media fast

Entertainment, disrespect, authenticity, sacrilege, profanity, vulgarity, art and a Lenten resolution: Pundits of all sorts recommend spending fewer screen hours as a means of enhancing social skills, mental health, academic test scores, etc. So if my resolution were to cut back on binge watching, Googling or simply browsing; I would be in “good” company.

I am going to be very specific in my curtailment of screen time. The first speaker, character, interviewee to use the holy name of Jesus, casually, disrespectfully, angrily, or other than in a respectful or prayerful manner will cause me to end viewing, period.

I have begun Lent early this year. A recent Netflix series, “The Last Thing He Wanted,” seemed to be my kind of show: historical interest, hero versus villain, and reputable cast including a few stars. Episode one introduces Anne Hathaway and Ben Affleck, which looks like a promising matchup. She presents as a strong principled woman perhaps the representative of the moral high ground; I’m in!

And then in her first outburst in the cause of justice, truth, something good, she takes the Lord’s name in vain. I am out! My resolution says I will stay out.

Maureen O’Riordan Lundy San Francisco

‘Confusion and disappointment’ over article

Our names are Angelica Buncio, Micaiah Acosta, Jessica Ferrer and Julienne Cancio. The four of us were included in an article published in Catholic SF (“ICA Cristo Rey gives underserved

girls hope for the future,” Jan. 16, 2020). When the article was released we were struck with the feeling of confusion and disappointment.

The focus of the headline, “ICA Cristo Rey gives underserved girls hope for the future,” was an initial disappointment. We do not feel underserved, but rather accomplished and proud of everything we have done. The article made it appear as if we were nothing before coming to ICA Cristo Rey as if it is our only option.

We do not go to ICA to get hope: Students are the ones who give hope to faculty and staff at ICA Cristo Rey. We thought that this article was going to be about our experience as students at ICA Cristo Rey especially about our positive work experiences and accomplishments. Instead, we were dismayed to see the focus on our families’ hardships.

Our families were conveyed as struggling and having “hard luck”; this was simply not the case for any of us. Our parents have worked too hard for our families to be labeled as “struggling.” This article left us afraid to tell our parents about it at first; we did not want them to feel what we felt.

Not only did this misrepresentation affect us but it affected our parents and the people around us as well.

We appreciated your removal of the article from your website. We look forward to our continued accomplishments and to sharing them with pride with our communities.

Micaiah Acosta ‘22 Angelica Buncio ‘22 Julienne Cancio ‘21 Jessica Ferrer ‘21 ICA Cristo Rey Academy San Francisco

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ST. ANSELM: Survey shows hope for inclusive, multi-generational parish FROM PAGE 1

of a new wave of clergy sex abuse scandals in the fall of 2018.

Father Shaji brought reeling parishioners together then to hear their outrage and pain. A parish-wide survey of the parish community was discussed at that time.

“We wanted a tool to help people know there is a place where they can say what they have to say,” said Father Shaji, who sensed continuing disillusionment and disengagement “simmering in the background” of his flock.

The St. Anselm survey was a step ahead of an archdiocesan-led survey that arrived in parishes in December following the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s annual October Mass count. The 2019 count showed a consistent 4% annual drop in Mass attendance over the last five years.

The St. Anselm survey asked people what brought them to Mass there, what their vision was for the parish, what their vision was for the worldwide church, and what direction they felt Pope Francis should be leading it.

“We didn’t want to lead the conversation, we just wanted to open it,” said Deacon Robert Maeve, who compiled the responses into a document parish leaders could digest. “We were looking for trends.”

He stressed that the results were a qualitative, not quantitative measure of parishioner attitudes about the local and the universal church.

In a nutshell, survey respondents said they appreciated St. Anselm parish and school communities, the beautiful church buildings and for many, the long history of receiving the sacraments there.

The pastor’s openness to lay leadership and candid dialogue within the community earned high marks from survey respondents, said Maureen Dear, chairperson of the parish’s Spiritual Life Committee.

“I was at every town hall meeting and people stood up and thanked Father Jose,” Dear said. The committee is a unique parish ministry that allows laity to “have a say about what speaks to our spiritual needs.”

Liturgy with greater appeal to younger people was repeatedly mentioned in survey results, with “lively, upbeat” music requested as an alternative at least on occasion, to “slow, somber and uninspiring” organ music.

“Music is important to young people,” wrote one respondent. “The current music feels old and from the past – like the church is dying.”

A true minority called for change backward, however, not forward.

“The traditional Tridentine Latin Mass is the way the Mass should be celebrated,” said one respondent. “Vatican II was a big mistake and Satan was definitely present and manipulating the proceedings.”

When it came to the future of St. Anselm and the universal church, an overwhelming majority envisioned a diverse, multi-generational parish

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St. Anselm Parish in Ross began a youth Mass two Sunday evenings a month in response to a parish survey last year that called for, among many things, a greater role for young people and homilies and music that are relevant to that population. community where women, youth, the divorced, singles and LGBTQ community are acknowledged and active.

Some spoke directly to the latter.

One young respondent who said her parents raised her in the Catholic Church and whose family attended Sunday Mass at St. Anselm had stopped going to church the previous year.

“I am gay, and I do not feel St. Anselm had the right community for me,” she wrote.

Another called it “embarrassing to be Catholic” as a woman who is excluded from the liturgy and has a gay sibling.

“How do I rationalize being part of something that silences my voice and condemns my family members?” she said.

The perception that the church had not yet “come clean” on the abuse crisis pervaded the survey results, said Dear, with many saying they felt they “couldn’t move forward” unless that happens.

Deacon Maeve said St. Anselm had no illusions that one small parish survey is going to create the big institutional changes described in the survey results.

“We understand that we were not going to push this up to the Vatican, and that Francis is going to suddenly say, you know that St. Anselm is right, I never thought of it that way, but we really should have more women,” he said.

For now the parish is wasting no time making some of the changes reflected in survey at the parish level. As one example, the parish has started a twice-monthly Sunday night youth Mass with contemporary music that Dear reported is “packed” by young and old.

“The young people have really taken ownership of the Mass and have been very responsible with it,” she said.

She called the survey a “beautiful experience” for the parish.

“These are people who love their church and love their faith,” she said. They are not “troublemakers or radicals,” she said, but people who are simply worried about the future of the church.

Father Shaji’s invitation to let people speak their minds and “be the change” they want to see is working for now.

“As long as they are talking they are not walking out the door,” Dear said.

SPEAKER: Pope links Christ’s incarnation and care for creation FROM PAGE 8

Bishop Stowe learned a similar lesson in his first years as a new priest at a parish in El Paso, Texas, on a Pueblo reservation.

“I had some big ideas about liturgy and how we were going to have an ecologically appropriate, but sufficiently large Christmas tree to fill the sanctuary one year,” he said.

A member of the Pueblo community said he knew the Apache in New Mexico “thin the forest” in appropriate ways to sustain it. Father Stowe was offered a legal opportunity to cut a tree. He was about to “take the first swing with the axe” on a beautiful tree when someone from the Apache community stopped him.

“We must first ask permission of the mountain to take this tree,” the man said, after which he said a prayer of respect for the mountain and tree and joined the priest in cutting the tree.

(PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Lexington, Kentucky, Bishop John Stowe speaks with audience members at St. Rita Church in Fairfax March 3. He gave a Lenten talk on Pope Francis’ post-synodal letter on the Amazon region.

“I never forgot that because, Franciscan that I was and supposedly ecologically conscious, I realized that I was looking at that tree as an object for my purpose,” Bishop Stowe said.

The Apache man had a relationship with the mountain and with the tree. They were eager and willing to share both but only with proper respect.

He said when he told that story to some “religious” people many called the Native Americans “pantheists and pagans” and the prayer offering a “pre-Christian remnant.”

“Sometimes we are so fixated in our categories and the way our faith has been handed on to us that we cannot see the beauty of much deeper and larger spirituality in which Christ himself became incarnate,” he said. “The Apache understood the web, the network of relationships that make up the forest, that make up the mountain in a way that provided a powerful lesson to me.”

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Lent: A time to discover (or rediscover) God’s love

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he great mystic and saint, Teresa of Avila once said she often lived her days as if God were absent. I suppose many of us suffer from this indisposition as well. What is it that happens?

We all share this problem: Taking relationships for granted.

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This Lent we are offered an invitation to discover or rediscover God’s love. The first step is to acknowledge an invitation from Jesus that needs an immediate RSVP. He says to us, “Come to me, all you who labor and are overburdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).

So, sit down for a while with the Lord Jesus and turn your burdens over to him. Exhale as you let go of the cares or fears that weigh on your heart and mind. Then approach the Scripture text with a prayer to the Holy Spirit, perhaps an old favorite, “Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest, and in my heart take up thy rest.” Or, something like this: “Spirit of God, enlighten me, touch my heart and my mind. Let me discover God’s love, its height and depth, its length and breadth, until knowing the love of Christ which surpasses

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is I. Do not be afraid” (Mt. 14:22-32). “In God alone my soul is at rest” (Psalm 62).

In Metaxas’ (2010) biography of Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, we read how the young pastor rejected the German Lutheran Church and brought together young seminarians to form an opposition “Confessing Church.”

In 1937, the Nazis closed the seminary and Bonhoeffer and the seminarians were forced to go underground. He corresponded with each seminarian and insisted that they meditate on their biblical texts. One seminarian wrote Bonhoeffer that he kept up the practice, but when it was too difficult to meditate on the verses, he simply memorized them. He said, “The verses opened out an unexpected depth. One has only to live with the texts and then they unfold.

I am grateful now for your having kept us to it.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer was martyred in April 1945.

Let us pray for the grace to “live with the texts” during our Lenten retreat and discover that God is not absent from us but more present than we can imagine.

all understanding, I might praise you eternally. Amen.”

When reading Scripture, it’s best to take a few small bits at a time and give God’s word a chance to work on you.

Don’t pick up your phone and check messages. Stay there for a while in the silence. Give the Spirit some time to help you quiet down, so you settle and become attentive. And if you hear nothing, become impatient and want to walk away, put your seatbelt on!

Silence makes us sensitive and opens up our vulnerability to God’s grace.

It seeps inside us through our cracks, stimulating our attention span and expanding our concentration. It is the vacation we give ourselves from the expectations of others.

Where to start? It’s not always a good idea to open the Bible and just find a spot to begin. You might end up in the middle of a battle or a genealogy. Here are a few passages clustered around the theme of God’s love and care.

They encourage us to trust God and be confident: “Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by name and you are mine” (Isaiah 43:1-7); “That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life” (Luke 12:22-31); “I am the Good Shepherd” (John 10:121); “I have loved you with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3-4); “Courage! It

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ALABAMA EXECUTES INMATE AFTER SUPREME COURT DENIES STAY

WASHINGTON – Nathaniel Woods, a 43-year-old inmate in Alabama was executed by lethal injection March 5 after the U.S. Supreme Court, which initially granted a temporary stay, denied the inmate’s Nathaniel Woods petition to put his execution on hold.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey also denied Wood’s request for clemency.

Woods was convicted, along with Kerry Spencer, in the 2004 killings of three police officers in Alabama. The prosecution argued that Woods was an accomplice and Spencer has repeatedly claimed to be the only shooter.

A groundswell of support built up for Woods prior to his execution. Supporters included Martin Luther King III, who argued that Woods had received an unfair trial and should not be executed.

U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, sent a letter to Ivey, saying that because of the discrepancies in the case, “a delay is warranted.”

“This is not a decision that I take lightly, but I firmly believe in the rule of law and that justice must be served,” Ivey said in a statement after the execution.

The execution took place at William

C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama.

Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille and longtime opponent of the death penalty, and Catholic Mobilizing Network, a group that works to stop the death penalty, both reacted on Twitter March 5 to Wood’s execution.

“No! No! No! Another African American man in the Deep South killed by the state for ‘guilt by association.’ Is this really the ‘worst of the worst’?

Would it ever happen to a white person of means?” Sister Prejean tweeted.

CRS REVIEWS COMPLAINTS THAT MATERIALS BREACH CHURCH TEACHING

BALTIMORE – Catholic Relief Services said it is reviewing allegations that educational materials and webpages produced by partner agencies include practices that are contrary to church teaching.

The response from CRS March 9 comes after Michael Hichborn, president of the Lepanto Institute, charged that a project operating in Africa affiliated with the U.S. bishops’ overseas development and relief agency promotes the use and distribution of condoms to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, and pregnancy.

“CRS has, in the past, discovered errors, taken them extremely seriously and corrected them immediately. Should we discover any such inconsistencies with Catholic teaching, CRS will take

immediate corrective action,” the agency said in referencing “a recent report” without naming the Lepanto Institute.

The CRS statement noted that it regularly participates in humanitarian initiatives with “a wide range of groups,” including other Catholic institutions, faith communities, governments and secular institutions in an effort to deliver much-needed services around the world.

“Although some positions and practices of these institutions are not always consistent with the full range of Catholic teaching, CRS’ association with them is always and only focused on activities that are fully consistent with Catholic teaching,” said CRS, which has its headquarters in Baltimore.

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Jesuit superior reflects on order’s mission for the next decade JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – At the heart of Pope Francis’ teachings on reform, the care for the poor and for creation are the principles of discernment and listening established by St. Ignatius of Loyola, said Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa.

In an article published by the Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica March 5, Father Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits, reflected on Jesuit Father the pope’s approval of the order’s Arturo Sosa “universal apostolic preferences” in February 2019.

The preferences, which he said will guide the mission of the Jesuits for the next 10 years, are: “to show the way to God through discernment and the spiritual exercises; to walk with the poor, the outcasts of the world, those whose dignity has been violated, in a mission of reconciliation and justice; to accompany young people in the creation of a hope-filled future; to collaborate in the care of our common home.”

“There is no preference more important than others,” Father Sosa wrote. “All of them are for us a call that touches our identity and must be considered and understood together. Moreover, they do not list new ‘things’ to do but deal with ‘inspiration on how to do’ and live the mission, within a universal horizon, to be applied in the specifics of the places where we find ourselves.”

The Jesuit superior said the order’s universal apos-

tolic preferences for the next decade are rooted in the experiences of St. Ignatius of Loyola who “teaches us that we can’t give old responses to the new problems of the church and the world.”

“To reform institutions, it is necessary to reform the hearts of those who govern it,” Father Sosa wrote.

The four principles that will guide the Jesuits, he added, “require care, prayer, study, service, and witness, both personally and the whole Society, in order to blossom.”

“This is a way of being a church that Pope Francis knows, because he too belongs to this spiritual experience of ours,” Father Sosa said. “Like two legs, the spiritual and intellectual dimensions will sustain us along the way. The rest will be done by the collaboration between us, in fidelity to the Gospel and the teachings of the magisterium.”

Nun, hospital employee charged with conversion in India CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW DELHI – Police have arrested an employee of a Catholic hospital and slapped conversion charges on him and a Catholic nun for allegedly hurting religious sentiments of Hindus in southern India’s Karnataka state.

Ucanews.com reported the charges came after Hindu activists barged into Sanjo Hospital in Mandya district and beat up its public relations officer, Solomon George, said Father Josekutty Kalayil, who is helping the hospital deal with the case.

George and Sister Nirmal Jose, hospital administrator, were accused of denigrating Hindu gods and attempting to convert Hindus, Father Kalayil told ucanews.com March 4.

George was granted bail March 3, two days after he was arrested, but the case continues in court, said the priest, who is helping the hospital deal with the case.

Father Kalayil told ucanews.com the case started with an elderly man being admitted to the hospital with a complaint of high blood pressure March 1.

The next day, he sought to leave the hospital against medical advice.

“He saw a Bible in his room and asked about it when George visited him as part of routine work.

George explained about the Bible and said he could read it if interested, and left the room,” the priest explained.

“The man immediately summoned his son, a member of a Hindu group. He came in with some 20 people and began to accuse the hospital of conversion.”

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More people joined them later, and they began to attack George.

Police were called and they charged George and Sister Nirmal with conversion and hurting religious sentiments following the complaints of Hindus.

George was arrested and taken to jail.

Hospital officials suspect the attackers belong to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a militant Hindu umbrella organization of groups wanting to turn India into a Hindu nation.

The 100-bed hospital is now functioning as usual, said an official of the Medical Sisters of St Joseph congregation, which manages the hospital in Mandya Diocese.

Karnataka is governed by the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party, whose members support the idea of making India a Hindu-only nation. They accuse Christian missionaries of using educational and health services as a façade to convert poor people to Christianity.

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POPE CHOOSES ‘SYNODALITY’ AS THEME FOR 2022 SYNOD

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has decided the next world Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, which will take place in October 2022, will have the theme: “For a synodal church: Communion, participation and mission.”

The Vatican announced the choice of “synodality” as the theme in a brief communique March 7.

“Synodality,” which literally means “walking together,” has become a key topic of Pope Francis’ pontificate, but one which has raised questions and even confusion.

The basic idea in the pope’s teaching is that the grace of baptism makes one part of the body of the church and, therefore, is responsible for its life and mission. In a hierarchical church, that shared responsibility calls for regular, serious and structural forums for listening to all members of the church.

At the same time, as the pope has said, it does not mean putting decisions to a vote as if a synod were a parliament.

In 2018, the International Theological Commission, which advises the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, published a document on the topic, “Synodality In the Life and Mission of the Church.”

Synodality, which has been present in Christianity since its very beginning, the document said, is not simply about involving people in decision making, but involving all the baptized in discerning God’s will and listening to the Holy Spirit. The goal, it said, always is to find the best ways for every baptized person to fulfill the church’s mission of proclaiming God’s love and salvation in Jesus Christ to the world.

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AMMAN, Jordan – Turkey and Greece are trading blame following the deaths of Syrian refugees trying to flee to Europe, but some observers believe Turkish President Recep

Erdogan ordered Turkey’s gates to Europe, specifically Greece, opened to refugees and migrants until the European Union meets his demand to add some $3.5 billion in funding for the refugees’ stay in Turkey, in addition to the approximately $6 billion Turkey has already received. About 12,500 migrants are estimated to be waiting on the Turkish side of the Greek border.

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The International Theological Commission, whose members are appointed by the pope, wrote the document in response to questions repeatedly raised since the 1970s and addressed

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“The existence today of ‘baptized nonbelievers’ raises a new theological problem and a grave pastoral dilemma, especially when the lack of, or rather the rejection of, the faith seems clear,” the document said.

In the document, “The Reciprocity Between Faith and Sacraments in the Sacramental Economy,” members of the theological commission did not claim to resolve completely the question of the validity of sacramental marriages in the absence of faith, but they did insist that much greater care must be taken to educate Catholics in the meaning of faith, the significance of the sacraments and the meaning of marriage.

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Jesuit-led initiative aims to deter young Africans from taking up arms DAMIAN AVEVOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ACCRA, Ghana – Young people should be the focus of efforts to end violent conflicts in Africa, said leaders of a Jesuit-led peace initiative.

Despite the African Union’s “resolution not to pass the burden of conflict to future generations, about 600 million young people in Africa are unemployed, uneducated or in insecure employment, hence vulnerable to taking up arms,” said Father Charles Chilufya, director of the Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Father Chilufya spoke at the March 4 launch of “Silencing the Guns by 2020: I Want to Grow Old,” an initiative in support of the African Union’s campaign, “Silencing the Guns.”

The Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa and its youth leadership development program Lead Magis Africa, in collaboration with Accra-based Ignatian Youth Networks for Intergenerational Outcomes, launched the initiative at Christ the King Parish in Accra.

The Ghanaian capital was chosen for the launch because the West African country “enjoys stability,

relative peace” and increasing prosperity, Father Chilufya said. Ghana’s “economic miracle has been made possible by the peaceful coexistence of different ethnic and religious groups and by the political stability that the country has enjoyed for several years,” he said.

Also, the late Kofi Annan, who did “great work in the promotion of global peace” as U.N. secretary-general from 1997 to 2006, was a Ghanaian, he said. Annan’s peace initiatives have borne fruit in places such as Angola, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone, he said.

Scholastica Barimah of the Ignatian Youth Networks said the group intends to draw young people in Ghana into the initiative. At the launch, she urged all young Africans to take bold steps wherever they find themselves to promote the African Union’s peace and security agenda.

Father Chilufya said, “We must be intentional and proactive about” empowering young people to become responsible and capable individuals.

The policy documents of the African Union “cannot translate themselves into any peaceful outcomes unless African leaders have the political will, strong institutions and resources for driving the processes,” he said.

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“There are too many conflicts in Africa to be managed, and Africa lacks much of what it takes to manage these kinds of violent episodes,” he said.

About 100 million of the 640 million small and light weapons in circulation globally are in Africa, Father Chilufya said, noting that statistics show that about 30 million of these guns are in sub-Saharan Africa. Of particular concern is that most are in the hands of civilians, he said.

“Disarming alone is not enough,” the priest said, noting that challenges that lead people to violent conflicts, including poverty, historical injustices and inequality, should be addressed too.

Sustainable solutions must be found “to build peaceful and resilient communities,” he said.

The leadership of the Knights and Ladies of St. John International said in a message read at the launch that “the task is really an arduous one.”

“We see your effort as good, timely, and appropriate,” the group said.

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Ghana’s information minister, said at the launch that the government will support the initiative’s work and team up with the Catholic Church to take it to marginalized communities around the country.

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Our Lady of Mercy Church: 1 Elmwood Drive, Daly City; (650) 755-2727. Fridays: 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., concluding with Evening Prayer & Benediction at 6 p.m. First Fridays: Eucharistic Adoration from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Benediction & Mass at 6 p.m.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish: 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley; (415) 388-4190. Tuesday: 8:30 am; Wednesday: 7:30 am.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish: 60 Wellington Ave., Daly City; (650) 756-9786. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-6:30 pm; Wednesday: 8:30 am-6:15 pm.

St. Andrew Parish: 1571 Southgate Ave., Daly City; (650) 756-3223. 1st Friday: after the 7 pm Mass.

St. Anne of the Sunset Parish: 850 Judah St., San Francisco; (415) 665-1600. 1st Friday: after 8:45 am Mass until 10 am (Benediction).

St. Anthony of Padua Parish: 1000 Cambridge St., Novato; (415) 883-2177. 1st Friday: 9:30 am to 5 pm.

St. Bartholomew Parish: 300 Alameda de las Pulgas (at Crystal Springs), San Mateo; 1-650-347-0701.

St. Brendan Parish: 29 Rockaway Ave., San Francisco; (415) 681-4225. Wednesday: 7-8 pm; Saturday: 4-4:45 pm.

St. Bruno Parish: 555 San Bruno Ave. West, San Bruno; (650) 588-2121. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

St. Cecilia Parish: 2555 17th Ave., San Francisco; (415) 664-8481. 1st Friday (24 hours): 7 am Friday-7 am Saturday.

St. Cecilia Parish, Lagunitas: 450 W. Cintura Ave., Lagunitas; (415) 488-9799. Monday: After 8 am Mass.

St. Charles Parish: 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos; (650) 591-7349. 1st Friday: 9 am-10 pm.

St. Dominic Parish: 2390 Bush St., San Francisco; (415) 567-7824. 1st Friday: 2-4:30 pm; 9 pm-7:30 am (Saturday).

St. Elizabeth Parish: 459 Somerset St., San Francisco; (415) 468-0820. 1st Friday: after 8 am Mass (Holy Hour in the church). 3rd Saturday 8:45 am-3:30pm Rectory Chapel, 449 Holyoke St. St. Finn Barr Parish: 415 Edna St., San Francisco; (415) 333-3627. Monday-Thursday: 8:30 am-4 pm; Friday: 8:30 am-6 pm (Closed on holidays).

St. Francis of Assisi Parish: 1425 Bay Rd., East Palo Alto; (650) 322-2152. 1st Friday: 7:30 pm-8 am (Saturday); 1st Saturday: 7:30 pm-7 am (Sunday).

St. Gregory Parish: 2715 Hacienda St., San Mateo; (650) 345-8506. 1st Friday: after 8:30 am Mass.

St. Hilary Parish: 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon; (415) 435-1122.

Monday-Friday: 9 am-6 pm; Saturday: 9:30 am-5 pm (in the side chapel).

St. Isabella Parish: 1 Trinity Way, San Rafael; (415) 479-1560. 1st Friday: 9:30 am-12noon St. John the Evangelist: 19 Saint Mary’s Avenue, San Francisco. First Fridays after 9:00 am Mass (9:30 am to 10:30 am. Rosary after Adoration.

St. Kevin Parish: 704 Cortland Ave., San Francisco; ( 415) 648-5751; First Friday after 9 am Mass; Benediction at noon.

St. Luke Parish: 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City; (650) 345-6660. Thursday & 1st Friday: after 8:30 am Mass-7:30 pm.

St. Matthew Parish: One Notre Dame Ave., San Mateo; (650) 344-7622. Monday-Friday: 7 am-9 pm (in the chapel).

St. Patrick Parish: 114 King St., Larkspur; (415) 924-0600.

1st Friday: 8:30 am-3 pm

St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish: 1122 Jamestown Ave., San Francisco; (415) 468-3434. 1st Friday: after 7 pm Communion Service.

St. Peter Parish: 1200 Florida St., San Francisco; (415) 2821652. 1st Friday: 10 am-7 pm.

St. Peter Church: 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica. (650) 3596313. First Fridays of month, 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m., with Benediction (chapel).

St. Philip the Apostle: 725 Diamond St., San Francisco; (415) 282-0141; Mon-Sat 8:30-9:30 am (except Tues), Sunday 11:30 am-12:30 pm.

St. Pius Parish: 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City; (650) 361-1411. 1st Friday: Friday 8:30 am to 9 pm.

St. Raymond Parish: 1100 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park; (650) 323-1755. Saturday: Following 8:15 am Mass.

St. Thomas More Parish: 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco, (Thomas More Way off Brotherhood Way); (415) 452-9634. 1st Fri. 7 pm Communal adoration followed by Healing Mass at 8 pm; 9 pm Silent adoration until Midnight.

Closing with Benediction. Fri 8 pm-12 midnight Silent adoration. Closing with Benediction.

St. Veronica Parish: 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco; (650) 588-1455. Monday-Friday: 9am-4pm (except holidays and special events in the church).

Star of the Sea Parish: 4420 Geary Blvd. (between 8th & 9th Ave), San Francisco. (415) 751-0450; www.starparish. com. Perpetual Adoration (24/7) except Sat, 4 pm thru Sunday 9 pm.

Does your parish have regular Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament?

If your parish has regular Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament to which all are invited, please send the day, time, location and contact information to Mary Podesta, podestam@sfarch.org.

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COVID-19: Cases in SF hit 13 as city urges calm, heightened precautions FROM PAGE 10

California residents will be quarantined at Travis Air Force Base or at a base outside San Diego, while residents of other states will be quarantined in Georgia or Texas. At least 21 people on board have confirmed cases of COVID-19. The crew will remain on board and the ship, which had been holding offshore for days as a public health precaution, will depart after all passengers have been released.

Gov. Gavin Newsom praised Oakland, Alameda County and the Port of Oakland for “stepping up” to receive the ship.

“They are showing the world what makes our state great – coming to the rescue of thousands of people trapped aboard this ship and helping tackle a national emergency,” he said.

As of March 8, there were 114 COVID-19 cases, including two deaths, in California. Throughout the U.S., cases rose to 607, with 22 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University on March 9. Worldwide, there were more than 113,000 cases with more than 100 countries affected. Deaths surpassed 3,900, including 3,100 in China.

Italy and Iran accounted for the major-

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A priest celebrates Mass outside a Rome church March 8, 2020, after Italy’s bishops ordered Masses not be held inside in order to contain the coronavirus outbreak. ity of new cases and 181 of the 202 new deaths outside China on March 9.

The director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, emphasized in a March 5 media briefing that the

epidemic “can be pushed back, but only with a collective coordinated and comprehensive approach that engages the entire machinery of government.”

He expressed concern that many countries are inadequately prepared.

“We continue to recommend that countries make containment their highest priority,” he said in a press update March 6, noting that slowing the epidemic provides time for research to progress on a vaccine. He said 20 vaccines are in development and many clinical trials are underway. He also called upon the private sector to step up efforts to provide lifesaving equipment for people affected by the pneumonia-causing virus.

Data to date suggest that 80% of COVID-19 infections are mild or asymptomatic, 15% are severe, requiring oxygen and 5% are critical, requiring ventilation, the World Health Organization says.

People should take the virus seriously but not panic, the website arstechnica.com said in a March 9 update to its live guide on the epidemic.

COVID-19 “is not an existential threat,” the website said. “While it can be deadly, around 80% of cases are mild to moderate, and people recover within a week or two. Moreover, there are obvious, evidence-based actions we can take to protect ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities overall.”

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There is no recommendation to wear masks at this time to prevent yourself from getting sick.

If you have recently returned from a country, state or region with ongoing COVID-19 infections, monitor your health and follow the instructions of public health officials.

You can also prepare for the possible disruption caused by an outbreak: Prepare to work from home if that is possible for your job, and your employer.

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OBITUARIES SISTER ANNIE FRANCES OMAN, OSF

Sister Annie Frances Oman, a Sister of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 71 years, died at her congregation’s Assisi House in Aston, Pennsylvania, Feb. 29 at age 92.

Her service in the Archdiocese of San Francisco included assisting in pastoral care at Seton Medical Center in Daly City while it was still a ministry of the Daughters of Sister Annie Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

Frances Oman, Sister Annie Frances also taught OSF for many years in Catholic elementary schools in dioceses including Baltimore, Seattle and Wilmington, Delaware.

In recent years, Sister Annie Frances lived and engaged in house ministry at Our Lady of Angels Convent, her congregation’s motherhouse moving to Assisi House in 2016 serving in prayer and hospitality ministry until her death.

A funeral Mass was celebrated March 9 at Assisi House with interment at Our Lady of Angels Cemetery in Aston.

Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of St. Francis Foundation, 609 S. Convent Road, Aston, PA 19014.

SISTER JOHN LEO MCNICHOLS, OP

Dominican Sister Anastasia McNichols, formerly known as Sister John Leo McNichols, died March 4, 2020, at her congregation’s Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 91 and in her 70th year in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sister Anastasia held undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and education. She ministered for 20 years in schools Sister John Leo in states including Michigan, McNichols, OP Florida and Arizona.

Sister Anastasia served for five years, 1970-74, in what was then the Archdiocese of San Francisco Educational TV Center in Menlo Park.

She was in congregational leadership for 10 years, three as co-provincial for the Holy Cross Province in the Diocese of Oakland. Sister Anastasia retired to the Dominican Life Center in 2016.

A rite of committal at the Congregation Cemetery was held March 6 and a memorial Mass was celebrated March 9 in the sisters’ chapel.

Remembrances may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, MI 49221.

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OPERATIONS SUPPORT ASSISTANT POSITION AVAILABLE

ST. BRENDAN CHURCH

St. Brendan Catholic Church in San Francisco, California has an immediate opening for an Operations Support Assistant, who will assist the Operations Manager in a wide variety of production and administrative functions, including word processing, basic accounting, database and sacramental records management, facilities scheduling, as well as technical support for weekend Masses.

A successful candidate will have previous office experience, proficiency in Word and Excel, and significant experience using office-related web-based applications. In addition, the person in this position must be well-organized, have strong communication skills, a friendly and welcoming demeanor, and share a passion for the mission of the Church.

This benefited position is a minimum of 30 hours per week (Sunday through Thursday) and reports directly to the Operations Manager. Sunday work is required. Wages are commensurate with experience and education.

Please send a cover letter and resume to Lisa Rosenlund at 29 Rockaway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94127, or lisa@stbrendanparish.org.

St. Brendan Church and School does not unlawfully discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of age, sex, disability, race, color and national and/or ethnic origin. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered.

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www.catholic-sf.org Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days. M.L.C.

ARCHDIOC ESE OF SAN FRANCISCO

PARISH & CHANCERY ACCOUNTING COORDINATOR CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE POSITION: Parish and Chancery Accounting Coordinator SUMMARY: The Archdiocese of San Francisco has 90 + Parishes and 30 + Parish schools. Provide timely accounting-bookkeeping support to parishes and parish schools. Ensure compliance with various accounting and payroll policies and procedures of the Archdiocese.

ATTRIBUTES OF A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE: Must be a strong collaborator who is customer-focused and service-oriented.

Must be detail oriented, a “doer” but able to step back, set priorities and get things done. Comfortable with systems: very good understanding of Excel, and proficient understanding and use of QuickBooks Online.

CUSTOMERS: Pastors, elementary school principals, bookkeepers, ADSF - Controller and Chief Financial Officer

REPORTS TO: Chief Financial Officer HOURS: Full time - 37.5 hours per week KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: • Provide QuickBooks Online (QBO) accounting support and assistance to parish and school bookkeepers and business managers.

• Ongoing: maintain parish and school accounting structure and chart of accounts in QBO. • Serve as a resource and trainer to bookkeepers on ADSF parish accounting.

Support parishes.

• Visit parish schools and parishes as necessary to assist and train bookkeepers and business managers.

• Ensure compliance with established policies and procedures.

• As necessary, interact with third-party accountants.

CHANCERY ACCOUNTING RESPONSIBILITIES-AS NEEDED: • • • • •

Import journal entries into general ledger software.

Prepare journal entries to record High School tuition.

Enter Annual Appeal (AAA) data into Raiser’s Edge (Donor software).

Reconcile and monitor bank accounts.

Assist with other general accounting functions of the Chancery, as needed.

BASIC SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND/OR ABILITIES: • • • • • • • •

Degree in Accounting or Business 5-7 years accounting/bookkeeping experience Strong Excel skills Strong bookkeeping experience in QuickBooks Online (QBO) Excellent interpersonal skills Able to initiate and carry out responsibilities independently and in a timely fashion Respect for the values and teachings of the Catholic Church Ability to supply (on a limited basis) own vehicle for business use, with subsequent employer mileage reimbursement

Please submit resume and cover letter to:

Archdiocese of San Francisco, Office of Human Resources, Attn: Christine Escobar One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 Or e-mail to: escobarc@sfarch.org All employees of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin and will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories.

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You are my Mother, Oh, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity. (Make request.) There are none that can withstand your power. O, Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3 x).

Holy Mother, I place this cause in your hands (3 x). Say this prayer 3 consecutive days and publish it.

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Director of Music (Part-time 19 hours/week | Report to Pastor) Job Summary The Director of Music is responsible for the liturgical music needs of the parish community, and for the coordination of a comprehensive musical program for a full liturgical cycle, including special events during major seasons. The Director of Music shall seek to involve the assembly in active and reverent participation in the liturgy. The Director of Music shall also grow the music ministry presence of the parish both within the parish and in outreach efforts in the neighborhood and community.

Key Duties and Responsibilities (not limited to)

• Plan music for all Masses, with special emphasis on the seasons and holidays of the Church calendar.

• Play at 3 weekend Masses (three Sunday morning) as well as holy days, special Masses, and other liturgical celebrations throughout the year.

• Conduct weekly choir rehearsals for adult volunteer choir • Oversee maintenance for the Schanz pipe organ and three pianos (Steinway grand, Baldwin grand, spinet).

Key Requirements

• Excellent organ proficiency, solid piano proficiency.

• Solid choral conducting ability, experience building a choral program preferred.

• Knowledge of music and liturgy in the Roman Catholic tradition preferred.

• Degree in music preferred

St. Stephen Catholic Church

451 Eucalyptus Dr., San Francisco CA 94132 Please email Fr. Tony LaTorre at: fathertony@saintstephensf.org to apply All employees of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered.

Archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic Identity & Assessment

DIRECTOR OF CATHOLIC IDENTITY ASSESSMENT & FORMATION Reports to: Moderator of the Curia FSLA Status: Exempt, full-time PURPOSE: The Office of Catholic Identity Assessment has a two-fold charge: first to help Catholic elementary and high schools in the Archdiocese strengthen their Catholic identity, character, and mission, and second, to assess the extent to which these schools are fulfilling their Catholic mission in their core activities.

Strengthening Catholic identity in schools has two facets: strategy and formation of the formators. In this context, strategy identifies the way academics, spiritual and moral norms and practices, and religious activities work together to reinforce Catholic practice and understanding. Formation of the formators entails helping teachers and administrators acquire the knowledge and skills to communicate Catholic teaching and practice at the high school and grade school level.

In order to be effective and acceptable, assessment must be objective and accommodate the particular heritage, traditions, and emphases of each Catholic school as it fulfills its mission. Accordingly, the director works with collaborators whose expertise contributes to this effort.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The Director participates in the DCS-sponsored systems review process for archdiocesan Catholic high schools and directs the Catholic identity component of the assessment. Each high school undergoes a full assessment every four years and submits a written report of progress annually, which includes a specific accounting of progress made in the area of Catholic identity. WCEA standards are currently in transition.

The Office of Catholic Identity Assessment also provides workshops, sessions, and seminars designed to develop the expertise of teachers and administrators in molding Catholic culture in their institutions.

The Director will also be responsible for undertaking special interventions requested by either the archbishop or the boards and/or presidents of the various Catholic high schools.

While reporting to the Moderator of the Curia, the Director also works collaboratively with the Superintendent of Catholic Schools. The Director usually participates in their staff meetings and keeps the Superintendent of Catholic Schools and her staff informed about any activities or new initiatives being undertaken by the Office.

The Director also works closely with the assistant superintendent for faith formation, religious instruction, and accreditation in matters pertaining to the Catholic identity, character, and culture of archdiocesan elementary schools.

REQUIREMENTS: Advanced degree in education or a related field and experience working in the areas of Catholic identity and culture and assessment.

All employees of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin and will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories.

Please submit cover letter, resume and completed application to

Christine Escobar, Human Resources Manager at the Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109.

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FRIDAY, FEB. 28-FRIDAY, APRIL 3 STATIONS OF THE CROSS: Each Friday of Lent, 7 p.m., St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St., San Francisco. 6 p.m. soup supper with Benediction after Mass. stannesf.org.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12 EPIPHANY BENEFIT: A party and musical comedy show hosted by the Epiphany League benefiting vulnerable women and children served by San Francisco’s Epiphany Center. $250. 6 p.m., The Family, 545 Powell St., San Francisco. Visit TheEpiphanyCenter.org or call (415) 351-4055.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13 CONTEMPORARY STATIONS: Join the parish’s Friends in Christ ministry for Stations of the Cross with contemporary music. Dominican Brother Matthew Wanner offers a short talk, followed by Stations of the Cross, Adoration and a simple vegetarian soup supper. 7:30-8:30 p.m. St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco. bromichaeljames@stdominics.org.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14 LENTEN RENEWAL: St. Peter Catholic Church, “Choosing Hope” Lenten morning of renewal facilitated by Franciscan Father Rusty Shaugnessy, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., lunch to follow. 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica. RSVP (650) 359-6313 by March 11.

ST. PATRICK PARTY: Star of the Sea Parish’s annual St. Patrick’s Day party hosted by the Knights of Columbus includes a live Irish band, dancing, and corned beef and cabbage dinner.

5:30 p.m. $25 or $50 for families. Proceeds support seminarian Cameron Pollette. Star of the Sea Church, 4420

Geary Blvd., San Francisco, starparish.com.

SATURDAY, MARCH 21

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 13-15

SHROUD TALK: Dr. J. Wayne Phillips is guest speaker for a parish talk on the Shroud of Turin, the cloth believed to be the burial cloth of Christ.

Phillips will speak on the renewal of scientific study on the shroud, 10 a.m., St. Sebastian Parish, 373 Bon Air Road, Greenbrae. Free admission but donations appreciated. (415) 461-0704.

RUMMAGE SALE: Choose among clothes, furniture, books, and a new items booth at the Church of the Visitacion Mother’s Club Rummage Sale.

March 13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; March 14, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; March 15, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in the parish hall, 701 Sunnydale Ave. at Rutland, San Francisco.

(415)494-5517.

SUNDAY, MARCH 15

A length of linen cloth bearing the negative image of a man that some believe is the burial The Shroud of Turin cloth of Jesus of Nazareth continues to fascinate scientific and faith communities alike. While the Catholic Church has neither formally endorsed nor rejected the shroud’s authenticity, Pope Pius XII approved of the image in association with the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus. Pope John Paul II called the shroud “a mirror of the Gospel.”

PIANO RECITAL: Kevin Navarro plays works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. 2 p.m., St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco. Event is free and open to the public. (415) 422-3272, or dkzinzuvadia@usfca. edu.

CATHEDRAL CONCERTS: St. Mary’s Cathedral at 1111 Gough St., San Francisco presents Matthew Fish and David Gonzalez, guitar duo at its free afternoon concert series at 4 p.m.

Freewill donation. smcsf.com.

FRIDAY, MARCH 16-22 ONLINE RETREAT: “Surrendering to Love,” an online Lenten retreat March 16-22 with Colette Lafia. Registration and other details at mercy-center.org, mc@mercywmw.org, or (650) 3407474.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18

FRIDAY, MARCH 20

SOUP SUPPER: All are welcome to a Lenten speaker series and soup supper at St. Patrick Parish Healy Hall, 114 King St., Larkspur. 6-7 p.m. Featured speaker: Micha Berman, program director of Homeward Bound. (415) 924-0600; stpatrickparish.com.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 21 LENTEN RETREAT: A retreat with Christ and St. Oscar Romero, St. Raphael parish hall, 1104 Fifth Ave., San Rafael. Photography exhibit at 9 a.m., reflection at 2 p.m., followed by refreshments, a movie, Mass and dinner. (415) 454-8141.

MEN’S CONFERENCE: “Called to Lead,” San Francisco Bay Area Catholic Men’s Conference, will be held 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. $45, $20 under 20 years of age. Mass with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.

Register at sfarch.org/sfbaymen, or call (415) 614-5680 with questions.

LENTEN RETREAT: The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose present “Living at the Disposal of the Cross: Lenten Reflections on Christian Discipleship” by Dominican Sister Colleen Mary Mallon. 9 a.m-3 p.m., 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. $40. Register http://bit. ly/2020_LentRtrt1 or call (510) 933-6360.

SUNDAY, MARCH 22 CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LUNCHEON: The Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women hosts a Lenten afternoon of reflection at Holy Name of Jesus Convent Chapel, 1555 39th Ave., San Francisco. Father Tom Martin will speak on “The Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well and the Two Standards of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola.” $25 fee includes lunch. Reservations at (650) 438-0773 or (415) 753-0234.

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IGNATIUS FOR WOMEN: A weekend, non-silent retreat on Ignatian Spirituality for Women led by Mary da Silva Abinante and Rita Dollard O’Malley. El Retiro Jesuit Retreat Center, 300 Manresa Way, Los Altos. Registration and event details at jrclosaltos.org.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 24 LENTEN LECTURE: Dr. Margaret Turek will speak on “Spiritual Poverty and the Spirit of Lent.” 7:30-9 p.m., St. Cecilia Parish, 2555 17th Ave., San Francisco. $10. Visit stcecilia.com.

GATHER AT GRAND: “Racism: Roots, Resolve, Results” is the topic of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael’s next Gather on Grand speaker series event, 7-8:30 p.m. 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael. sanrafaelop.org/events/ or (415) 453-8303.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 SOUP SUPPER: All are welcome to a Lenten speaker series and soup supper at St. Patrick Parish Healy Hall, 114 King St., Larkspur, 6-7 p.m. Featured speaker: Jesuit Father George Williams, Catholic chaplain at San Quentin State Prison.

(415) 924-0600; stpatrickparish.com.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS FOR SENIORS MARCH, 13, 20, 27, APRIL 3: The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose are offering Stations of Cross for senior citizens.

Dominican Sister Mary Mark Schoenstein will guide reflecSister tions designed Mary Mark to integrate the Schoenstein older person’s experiences of diminishment, suffering, loss and approaching death with those of Jesus on his way to Calvary. 2 p.m., Dominican Sisters Motherhouse Chapel, 4336 Mission Circle, Fremont. Visit msjdominicans.org or call (510) 933-6390.

FRIDAY, APRIL 3 LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS: Free spiritual support for people with lifethreatening illnesses. First Friday of the month, St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe Room. Contact Deacon Christoph Sandoval at (415) 567-2020 x203.

SATURDAY, APRIL 4 CEMETERY MASS: First Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel is offered for those interred at the cemeteries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. 11 a.m., Father John Ryan, celebrant. 1500 Mission Road, Colma. holycrosscemeteries.com.

MONDAY, APRIL 6 DISCERNMENT MEETINGS: Dinner

and discussion for men considering the priesthood. 6:15-8:30 p.m., St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. RSVP Father Tom Martin, martin.thomas@sfarch.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 17 GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: Free spiritual support group for people who have experienced a loss. Third Friday of every month, 10:30-noon, Msgr.

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FRIDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 17-19 RETIREMENT RETREAT: The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos Hills presents a weekend silent retreat for women

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ALUM MASS: Notre Dame de Namur High School’s 117th Annual Alumnae Mass, 10:30 a.m., Mission Dolores Basilica, 3321 16th St., San Francisco.

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PEDRO TOURNAMENT: Italian Catholic Federation, 9 a.m. coffee and donuts, 10 a.m., Pedro starts followed by lunch. Our Lady of Angels Parish gymnasium, 1335 Cortez Ave., Burlingame. Contact Dorene Campanile for more information. (650) 344-7870.

SUNDAY, APRIL 19 HS REUNION: St. John Ursuline High School will be holding a reunion luncheon where ‘golden diplomas’ will be distributed for the Class of 1970. 10 a.m. Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church, 19 St. Mary’s Ave., San Francisco. Luncheon to follow at nearby Patio Espanol, $50. Tickets and information at sjualumnae.com or (415) 867-3575.

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FRIDAY, MAY 1 LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS: Free spiritual support for people with lifethreatening illnesses. First Friday of the month, St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Msgr. Bowe Room. Contact Deacon Christoph Sandoval at (415) 567-2020, x203.

SATURDAY, MAY 2 BREAKING BREAD: Formerly known as Handicapables, Breaking Bread with Hope is a monthly opportunity for adults with disabilities to participate in Mass, lunch and general fellowship with others. 10 a.m.-2 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral. RSVP (415) 452-3500 or DPrell@CatholicCharitiessf.org.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 2-3 SACRED SCRIPTURE RETREAT: Author Veronica Mary Rolf hosts a contemplative retreat at Mercy Center Burlingame on the themes of her book, “Suddenly There is God; The Story of Our Lives in Sacred Scripture.” Overnight and commuter registration options. 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame.

Register online at mercy-center.org, or call (650) 340-7474.

SATURDAY, MAY 9 SARINGHIMIG SINGERS: St. Anne of the Sunset Church will present a Mother’s Day tea and concert featuring the Philippine Saringhimig Singers, a fundraiser for St. Anne Church and Catholic Charities. 11 a.m., 850 Judah St., San Francisco. Tickets at filltheworldwith love.eventbrite.com.

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