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Newly professed Dominican sister: “This life is not ‘Plan B’” CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Almost three months after taking her simple vows as a Dominican nun at Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park, Sister Mary Francis of the Holy Cross sat with four of her fellow sisters behind a windowed partition and talked to Catholic San Francisco April 26 about the joys of her unexpected call to contemplative religious life.

“This table between us, this is just a physical reminder that we’re called to something apart,” said the former Lisa Frances Basanese of San Jose as she spread her hands out on the counter. A glass of cold water and four freshly baked cookies had been set there for their guest.

Sister Mary Francis, 36, said she went to college, worked as a cartographer and a nursery school teacher and had looked forward to marriage and family.

“I was never engaged but I sure wanted to be,” she said to great laughter. She second-guessed a yearning for religious life because she said she thought maybe she was just “really depressed that I wasn’t engaged.”

One day she was driving home from

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TAPACHULA, Mexico – Pope Francis has donated $500,000 to assist migrants attempting to travel through Mexico, but who are increasingly being impeded by Mexican officials from reaching the U.S. border.

Those migrants who travel the length of Mexico are also being impeded in their attempts to apply for asylum in the United States and remain in precarious conditions south of the border.

The donation “will be distributed among 27 projects in 16 dioceses and Mexican religious congregations that have asked for help to continue providing housing, food and basic necessities to these brothers and sisters,” the Vatican charity Peter’s Pence said in an April 27 statement.

The Vatican already approved projects run by seven dioceses and three religious congregations: the Scalabrinians, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and

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Sister Mary Francis of the Holy Cross professed her first vows as a Dominican nun at Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park on Feb. 16, 2019. In an interview with Catholic San Francisco last week, she said it felt like a “wedding day” when she became consecrated to God. “You’re his and he’s yours,” she said. work and realized with great clarity that she wanted to give her life fully to God. “That day I knew it was not my ‘Plan B,’” she said. “This is what I want.”

‘We would do the same to save our children,’ says border ministry nun NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Overcrowded and sometimes inhumane conditions in detention centers for immigrant families seeking asylum in the U.S. are an affront to human dignity that demands Catholics “step up” to help beyond the “bare minimum,” MissionMissionary of ary of Jesus Sister Jesus Sister Norma Pimentel, the Norma Pimentel best-known face of the church’s work with immigrants

the cartels that make their living from clothing and other forms of support. at the U.S.-Mexico border, said in an With about 600-700 people visiting per U.S. drug consumption, Sister Pimenemotional talk at Our Lady of Angels day on average, it is a scene of “holy tel said. The choice to flee is a painful Church in Burlingame. chaos,” Sister Pimentel said. one made to protect children and give “I don’t understand how we as a Many immigrants stay in overcrowdthem a better life. Were the audience nation can allow that,” said Sister ed detention facilities before they arin their shoes, she said, “We would do Pimentel, who is executive director of rive at the center. Sister Pimentel said the same to save our children.”

Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande she found the children’s detention cenSister Pimentel has been praised by Valley and a founder of the agency’s ters particularly heartbreaking. When Humanitarian Respite Center in McAl- Pope Francis and has won national she visited, children surrounded her, and international praise for the type len, Texas. “I don’t blame the Border asking her to get them out, saying they Patrol; they are doing their job and are of work that takes place at the center, which since 2014 has served more than couldn’t breathe and telling her they forced to keep them there. I blame us. wanted their mother.

100,000 immigrants as a way station Why aren’t we speaking up to make Sister Pimentel encouraged the aufor those who have been released from sure life is respected and treated with dience at Our Lady of Angels to reach custody by federal authorities penddignity? It is our responsibility.”

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NEED TO KNOW WOMEN’S DAY RETREAT: The archdiocesan Office of Marriage and Family Life will host a women’s day retreat, presented by Endow, May 4, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco. Endow brings women into small group communities “that transmit the depth of our Catholic faith to awaken each participant’s particular genius.” The retreat, based on John Paul II’s “Letter to Women,” will provide time for reflection and small group discussions, introduce participants to Endow, and offer further resources for those interested to bring it to their parish. Learn more at www.sfarch.org/ endow. Registration $45. Lunch included. Child care available.

Epiphany fills need left by city cutback in addiction treatment CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

San Francisco’s Epiphany Center, a legacy of the Daughters of Charity’s ministry to distressed women and children dating to the roots of post-Gold Rush San Francisco, is providing extra help to one group most in need today: Those addicted to drugs and alcohol.

“SEXUAL ABUSE, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, & Anticipating a cutback in city support for THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSPARENCY”: May 7, addiction treatment, the center has opened a 7-8:30 p.m., panel discussion at the Markkula Center transitional living home for women completfor Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, with speakers ing its residential drug and alcohol treatment journalist Peter Steinfels from Fordham University and program. The expanded program is designed canon lawyer Jennifer Haselberger. “The sexual abuse to give the women more time to heal from their crisis in the Catholic Church has entered a new phase in addictions as well as the traumas that may have which transparency is either volunteered by the church led to them. or demanded by the state,” the event description states.

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Epiphany Center is among the drug and alcohol treatment programs in contract with “CONVERSING WITH CREATION”: Non-silent the Department of Public Health that will be retreat for women and men, May 10, 4 p.m.-May 12, affected by the reduction, which the Daughter of 2 p.m., Jesuit Retreat Center, 300 Manresa Way, Los Charity who leads the center sees as a threat to Altos, with Vatican astronomer Brother Guy Consolmthe long-term sobriety and stability of women in 5 locations in California agno, SJ. “Prayer has been described as a conversatreatment and their families.

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ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE’S SCHEDULE Sister Betty Marie has long experience treating those with addiction. In the 1970s, she ran Mount St. Joseph residential treatment center MAY 5: Pastor installation Mass, St. Mark, 11:30 a.m. for adolescent girls, a ministry of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in San FranMAY 6: Cabinet and Presbyteral Council executive cisco. committee meetings; Benedict XVI board meeting The Daughters were among the pioneer religious orders responding to humanitarian MAY 7: Faith Leader Breakfast, Oakland needs in post-Gold Rush San Francisco, then distant and dangerous missionary territory.

MAY 8: Seminary trustees meeting; vespers, dinner, They arrived by steamer from Maryland in 1852, seminary two dying of cholera on the journey through Panama. They set up an orphanage in what MAY 9: Presbyteral Council and chancery meetings; is now the Financial District. Ten years later, DRE and catechists awards dinner, cathedral when bustling Market Street was no ideal place for children, they opened an orphanage for 300 MAY 10: Confirmation, Our Lady of Loretto, 6 p.m. orphans on Silver Avenue: Mount St. Joseph Infant Asylum. In 1921, the Daughters opened a MAY 12: Festival of Marian Hymns, cathedral 4 p.m. hospital for unwed mothers.

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“Kimberly,” a graduate of Epiphany Center’s drug and alcohol recovery program in San Francisco, holds a photo of herself as a young fashion model in Paris as she poses outside the transitional living home where she moved April 12. the Daughters responding to “the needs of the times,” Sister Betty Marie said.

The transitional living home can accommodate up to 12 women “graduates” of the structured treatment program Epiphany operates at its headquarters a few blocks away. Residents’ children 5 and under are welcome, too.

Epiphany’s priority population is homeless women, with or without children, who are IV drug users, said Suzi Desmond, the organization’s CEO. They find their way to Epiphany through the court system, child protective services or other treatment centers. Some even knock on the front door at 100 Masonic Ave. Desmond said the city’s decision to reduce maximum treatment time to 90 days was “disheartening” to Epiphany staff. The center historically has offered treatment time based on a client’s needs.

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Ancient liturgy emphasizes ‘Christ the Light’ NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

For three days, parishioners at two Dominican parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco participated in one of the church’s ancient Easter liturgical traditions. At St. Dominic in San Francisco and St. Raymond in Menlo Park, people attended Tenebrae (Latin for “darkness”) a somber morning liturgy held on the three days before Easter that combined chanting the psalms with contemplative readings.

The early morning light streaming through the stained glass at St. Dominic Church threw deep shadows across the faces of the congregation during Tenebrae on Holy Thursday.

Psalms praising God and asking for his mercy and guidance bracketed readings from the Book of Lamentations, in which the Prophet Jeremiah mourned Jerusalem’s destruction.

While the parish community at St. Dominic regularly prays morning and evening prayer together, Dominican Brother Michael James Rivera told Catholic San Francisco that Tenebrae helps people to slow down “and enter into the prayers in a different way, as we grieve Jerusalem and enter into this huge grief for Christ’s suffering.”

The most distinctive aspect of Tenebrae comes from its ceremony of extinguishing candles. Before it begins, 15 candles are lit on a hearse, or candelabra. After each reading or psalm, a pair of candles are extinguished, until only the middle candle, called the Christ light, remains.

Dominican novices Francis Dominic Nguyen and Koa Mary Bartsch extinguish candles during Tenebrae at St. Dominic Church, April 18, 2019. The morning liturgy of psalms and readings is held during the Easter Triduum and prayerfully begins each day.

Dominican Father Isaiah Mary Molano, parochial vicar at St. Dominic, said the symbolism of the Christ light, which is kept lit Thursday, extinguished Friday, and taken away on Saturday, parallels “Christ the light, who is alone on Thursday, dead on Friday, and hidden away in the tomb on Saturday.”

Tenebrae has existed for more than a thousand years and was common throughout the church during Holy Week celebrations until the middle of the 1950s. Liturgical reforms in 1955, and later changes to the liturgy of the hours led to its gradual disappearance

from much of the Catholic Church, though some parishes and religious orders have maintained the practice.

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It’s hard for some to imagine Holy Week without Tenebrae. Parishioner Kelley Cutler said she has been attending the liturgy since she entered the church 10 years ago at St. Dominic. “It’s Holy Week, I come out every year,” she said. “This is all that I’ve known because it’s my parish.”

Lisa Hamrick has been attending Tenebrae at the parish even longer: “at least 25 years,” she said.

“A very few times I’ve missed a day here and it’s such a loss. It’s a very beautiful, prayerful time to start off the triduum and it’s a very rich Dominican tradition.”

Hamrick said the liturgy’s music and readings “really sets the tone for entering into the Easter Triduum.

“Something feels amiss when I don’t get here,” she said.

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St. Philip grandfather-grandson ring church bell for Notre Dame RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

As Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris burned and it was unclear if the great church would survive, a family at St. Philip the Apostle Parish in San Francisco’s Noe Valley took action, ringing the church bell in hope and solidarity as the fire raged.

Bill Yenne, a member of the St. Philip Belfry Society and a longtime aficionado of the cathedral, had the idea. His grandson, Cash Yenne Bolos, an eighth grader at St. Philip the Apostle School, did the honor of ringing the bell.

“I visited Notre Dame many times between 1972 and 2018, most notably in 1997, when I crawled all over it while shooting pictures for a pictorial book about Gothic gargoyles,” Bill told Catholic San Francisco.

Bill, who developed a fondness for medieval art and architecture in college, was first able to share Notre Dame with his daughters in 2000, and he said his older daughter “was finally able to fulfil her own dream of sharing the experience with her husband and her son last year.”

“What came back to me as the fire was going on: It was with gut-wrenching sadness that I stared at familiar parapets, ledges and gargoyles silhouetted against flames that were consuming wooden structures near which my family and I had stood less than a year ago,” Bill said. “The thought of the fire consuming things I knew to be inside the cathedral filled me with a sense of hopeless emptiness, though this fear has since been allayed somewhat by my learning about what has survived.”

Bill said his daughter Azia, who was on the Notre Dame visit last year, called the cathedral’s survival “miraculous.”

Cash, whose parents are Azia Yenne Bolos and Michael Bolos, has been accepted into the engineering program at Archbishop Riordan High School this fall. He is also a Boy Scout with Troop 333 at St. Brendan Parish and has attained the rank of Life Scout.

“His engineering interest is probably how I came to be discussing the methods and materials of the Notre Dame reconstruction with an eighth grader,” Bill said.

During the family trip to Notre Dame in June 2018, Bill recalled, Cash had remarked about “the complexity of the church. The windows were very detailed.”

He said that being inside Notre Dame gave him “a peaceful feeling. It was very quiet and serene. It was more powerful than I expected. I was surprised that people back then could build something so big.”

Cash’s class was writing a science essay when a classmate got a notification about the fire on her phone.

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After 25 years of hosting a monthly morning Mass, breakfast and Catholic speaker event for area Catholics, the Catholic Marin Breakfast Club will hold its final meeting May 3 at St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae.

Dwindling attendance ended the long-running

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Cash Yenne Bolos rings the church bell at St. Philip Church in San Francisco’s Noe Valley April 15 in an intercessory prayer of sorts for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris during the fire that was raging through the great Gothic church in Paris. Cash, pictured with his grandfather Bill Yenne, had visited the cathedral on a family trip less than a year ago. enough momentum to practically ring itself. We normally ring this way for about a minute or two.

“This Sunday, as I did for the elections of Benedict and Francis, I went on for about three times as long.

Next, the second rope is connected to a hammer outside the bell,” Bill explained. “This gives us a nice crisp, controllable single ring. It is typical to give one ring for each hour of Mass time. This Sunday, my second ring was for Notre Dame. Since it is 850 years old, and you cannot do half rings, I did two for each century, or a total of 17 rings. This was admittedly cryptic, but I did explain my scheme to several people afterward.”

“I didn’t think it was real,” he said. “I didn’t want it to be real.”

Since the fire, Bill has been reflecting on bells as an ancient form of connection in the church.

“Bells have long been the voice of the church and churches, a form of communication technology predating telephones, telegraph and the internet, yet still viable and still impressive,” he said. “They express jubilation in times of joy, and solidarity in times of calamity.”

On Easter Sunday, Bill rang the bell of St. Philip in celebration of Christ’s resurrection, adding “a few peals in camaraderie with the temporarily silenced bells at Notre Dame.”

Bill explained the physics of bell ringing: “There is a two-part ring with two separate bell ropes. The main rope runs around a wheel, the axle of which is connected to the headstock of the bell.

The pulling rolls the wheel which, in turns, tips the bell and causes the clapper to hit the inside.

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Living Stations unites a parish in faith NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

For more than a decade, St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto has brought Christ’s last day to life in a dramatic reenactment of the Passion narrative with a living Stations of the Cross through the city’s streets.

Several hundred people gathered April 19 at Jack Farrell Park in East Palo Alto, the afternoon of Good Friday, where the basketball court became the scene of Christ’s interrogation by Pilate and Herod. Two Roman guards, pushing forward Jesus, entered the court, with a crowd trailing behind shouting “Crucificarlo! Crucificarlo!” (Crucify him, crucify him!).

After reenacting half the stations in the park, the crowd moved in a procession on a half mile route down Bay Road to St. Francis of Assisi, led by the soldiers and Christ carrying his crucifix. The stations were resumed at the parish, with Christ and the two thieves lifted up on tall crosses in front of the silent crowd. After Christ was carried away, the parish held its Spanish language Good Friday liturgy.

Held in both English and Spanish, the stations are a major production for the parish. More than 40 people are in the cast, which begins rehearsing at the start of Lent, and more help with costuming and building the crosses.

Dramatic reenactments of Good Friday have deep roots in Hispanic culture. When St. Francis of Assisi first began its living stations, it helped to highlight the strength and presence of the majority Latino community, but the production has also been intentionally multicultural, bringing together in one devotion the parish’s different ethnic groups.

At the time the stations started, the city was plagued by violence and the parish saw it as an opportunity not only to make “a very public sign of faith” but also “bring the whole community to reflection,” said Jose Capistrano, who played Pilate and a Roman centurion. The role of Jesus, for example, regularly rotates between a member of the parish’s African-American, Latino and Tongan communities.

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A crown of thorns is placed on Stewart Hyland’s head as he plays the role of Jesus during St. Francis of Assisi Parish’s annual dramatization of the Passion and living Stations in East Palo Alto on April 19. The dramatic rendition of Good Friday drew hundreds. out this,” said Stewart Hyland, who was cast this year as Jesus.

While the parish prays the Stations of the Cross every Friday of Lent in East Palo Alto, Good Friday’s living stations are a significantly larger event, partially closing the city streets on the half mile route from the park to the parish. Hyland said the parish’s public witness to its faith is an example of how pastor Father Larry Goode “definitely believes church goes outside the walls.”

Martha Velez, one of the production’s organizers, said the living stations are important because they “help people think about what Jesus did for them.” Actors agreed on the effect of bringing Jesus’ story to life.

Jimmy Alvarado, who played Herod and a soldier, has been involved for years, and said the stations are always “very moving and emotional for everyone.”

Hyland said looking out from the cross, “everyone was looking at me like ‘we really shouldn’t have done this to Jesus.’”

Capistrano added that there is also an evangelizing effect on the community.

“Every year people come who aren’t even Catholic because they like the reflection of what our Lord Jesus did for us and how he suffered on the cross. Year after year, it seems like we get more people coming,

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more young people, so this keeps going on,” he said.

Capistrano said this year had brought the biggest crowd he had seen since the parish began doing live stations.

“We’ve been doing it the past 15 years and God willing it will continue to do good,” he said.

This year was Melody McLaughlin’s first time playing a role in the stations. McLaughlin, who portrayed the Blessed Mother, said the experience deepened her understanding of the events of Good Friday.

“It became real today as we were actually following in his steps, trying to imagine what it was like, that someone was tortured and put to death for having done no wrong,” McLaughlin said. With tears in her eyes, she said following behind Christ had been a uniquely touching experience.

“It was very moving, especially to share it with this community, the people passing on streets. I just hope it means something special to everyone who’s witnessed this today,” she said.

As the final season of “Game of Thrones” premiered April 14, St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco hosted a panel to discuss a Catholic approach to watching the hit television show.

Dominican Father Isaiah Mary Molano, St. Dominic’s parochial vicar, along with the parish’s adult faith formation director Michael Smith and parishioner Anne Marie Fowler, spoke about the moral and ethical aspects of the show, its redemptive value and some themes Catholics can keep in mind while viewing it.

Now in its eighth season, “Game of Thrones” has been praised for its intricate storytelling and compelling characters while criticized for its pervasive brutality and sexual objectification. Anne Marie Fowler said that while concern over “Game of Thrones’” immoral content and how it affects viewers is legitimate – “the show is filled with the seven deadly sins every moment” – it was important to address “whether persons of faith can welcome conversations about characters looking for redemption.”

Michael Smith suggested viewers discern whether they should watch “Game of Thrones” and what purpose they can put it to. “Why watch this show, or shows like it that have consistently explicit disturbing scenes of violence and gratuitous casual sex and abuse? How is this good for us?” he asked.

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Passion, cross, candle, new light Here is a selection of images from CSF photographer Dennis Callahan’s coverage of Holy Week services at St. Mary’s Cathedral April 18-20. More images are available on the CSF Facebook page. Archbishop Cordileone’s Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday homilies are available there and at catholic-sf.org.

HOLY THURSDAY: The Holy Thursday ritual of foot-washing reenacts the gesture Jesus performed in the Upper Room, giving himself “‘to the very end’ for the salvation of the world, his boundless charity,” Pope Francis has said. In his homily, Archbishop Cordileone asked how are we to put our sense of the sacred into practice and live as true Christians. He answered: “The primacy of prayer; fidelity to one’s vocation; purity of mind, heart and body; serving others with cheerful generosity. Only in this way do we honor this sacred gift that Jesus instituted for us this night, and most especially when we approach to receive it.”

(PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

GOOD FRIDAY: The personal adoration of the cross is a key part of the Good Friday celebration. In his Good Friday homily, cathedral rector Art Albano said the golden cross on the high altar at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris survived last month’s fire unscathed, a sign that the Catholic Church will prevail no matter the damage inflicted on it. He said the disaster has inspired the virtue of charity in the outpouring of support for the cathedral’s reconstruction.

THE EASTER VIGIL: The Service of Light at the Easter Vigil is an ancient rite considered the most beautiful in the liturgical year. The rite calls for a “blazing fire” to be prepared so that the people may gather around it and experience the flames dispelling the darkness and lighting up the night. The beauty, warmth and light of the fire draw the assembly together. The Paschal Candle is brought forward to the celebrant, who cuts a cross into it with a stylus and lights the candle from the new fire, saying: “May the light of Christ, rising in glory, dispel the darkness of our hearts and minds.”

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Easter homily: Notre Dame ‘miracle’ shows Christ’s face, now and eternally In his homily at Easter Sunday Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral April 21, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone spoke of the eternal face of Christ as experienced historically in the protection of precious relics of the Passion from the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. “As for the world, so also for each one of us in our personal history: God works out His plan of salvation for each of us in the concrete historical events of our personal lives,” he said. Worshippers of all ages attended Mass in their Easter colors. After Mass, the archbishop greeting young adults who had completed a Holy Week outreach of prayer, service and solidarity in San Francisco.

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Newly ordained deacons lean on ‘God’s grace’ for service to church NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Four seminarians, including two men preparing for the priesthood in the archdiocese, were ordained to the transitional diaconate April 27 at St. Pius in Redwood City.

Ordained at a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes of Agana, the new deacons are Deacon Ian Quito and Deacon Benjamin Rosado from the Archdiocese of San Francisco and Deacon Ron Pangan and Deacon Junee Valencia from the Archdiocese of Agana, Guam. All are completing their third year of theology at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park.

In his homily, Archbishop Byrnes exhorted the seminarians on the importance of preaching the Gospel and the strength needed to preach it.

Being a Christian, he said, is not just about “being good” but means being another Christ.

“What the Gospel is calling us to, is a complete transformation of our life,” Archbishop Byrnes said.

Archbishop Byrnes encouraged the deacons to have boldness and confidence in announcing the Gospel and the grace available to every person “who calls on the name of the Lord.”

“Announce the glory, announce the goodness and power of the Gospel,” he said. “This is the grace the Holy Spirit has given to you brothers today. Let the light of the Gospel shine through your

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Deacons Benjamin Rosado and Ian Quito were ordained to the transitional diaconate April 27 at St. Pius Parish in Redwood City. The seminarians spoke to Catholic San Francisco about their new roles in the church and God’s call to the priesthood. hearts, for you and for those to whom you preach.”

For the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s newest deacons, pursuing their vocation to the priesthood has been a years-long endeavor. Deacon Quito grew up in the Philippines and entered seminary there in 2009, after high school. His family’s immigration to the U.S. in 2015 put his studies on hold for a year, until he was accepted at St. Patrick’s as a first-year theology student.

For Deacon Rosado, who grew up in Daly City and calls St. Thomas More in San Francisco his home parish, “the call to priesthood was a surprise.

It’s not something I had ever thought about growing up.”

Much of his life had been spent away from the church. He attributed his return to Catholicism to a combination

of “dissatisfaction with the things of this world” and “a pure grace that God reached out to me and revealed that he wanted to come into my life and change it for the better.”

Coming back to the church “affected me so strongly and changed my life for the better that I wanted to give that to other people in some way,” he said.

Towards the end of the academic year, the new deacons will be assigned to parishes to assist with liturgies and sacraments. Deacon Rosado said he was eager to begin his assignment.

“It’s giving me an opportunity to serve in a new capacity. I’m in awe of the idea that now I’ll be proclaiming the Gospel in the liturgy,” he said.

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stone before priesthood, Deacon Quito said ordination instead “should really help us enter into a deeper commitment to Christ and his church. And hopefully the ordination will give us the grace to be truly instruments of Christ to the world.”

Deacon Quito said the defining mark of the diaconate, service to the people, remains with them even after ordination to the priesthood.

Committing to that vocation, as with any other calling in life, always comes with questions, doubts, fears and anxieties, Deacon Quito said. Seminarians have to wrestle with doubts about whether they can live celibately, or meet the demands of priesthood, or study or relate well to others, he said.

“It’s very human to experience that,” he added. “Asking is a very important part of the formation. When we stop asking, we are not really sure of what we are entering into, because the more we ask, the more our vocation is being deepened.”

Ultimately, his questions helped Deacon Quito realize that it was “God’s grace rather than my abilities” that have brought him through seminary formation.

Deacon Rosado said he was grateful to the laity, priests and seminary faculty who had helped him in pursuing his vocation. “These people love the church, and they work hard to form the men who come through here,” he said. “I owe them so much.”

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Seminarians serve in hospice care, prison ministry, diverse parish life STEVE TERLIZZI

For the past 120 years, St. Patrick’s Seminary & University has successfully prepared men to become Roman Catholic priests in conformity to Christ. Everyone at the seminary shares a common vision of the training for tomorrow’s priests from the perspectives of the four dimensions of formation: spiritual, academic, pastoral and human.

Three San Francisco archdiocesan seminarians were interviewed to understand more about life at St. Patrick’s and how it positively impacts their pastoral assignments in the archdiocese. The lives of these seminarians are configured to the sacrifice of Jesus, rooted in His Word and sacrament, and dedicated to serve the people of God with the pastoral charity of Christ. Every year, the seminarians’ formation includes a weekly pastoral assignment. Furthermore, a full year of pastoral work at a parish is included as part of their degree program.

Third-year theology seminarian Deacon Ian Quito is completing his weekly pastoral assignment at a local hospice care facility run by the Missionaries of Charity. Quito emphasized how the academic formation at the seminary has helped him in his ministry of bringing care and comfort to the terminally ill. By studying famous theologians such as Ratzinger and Balthasar, he

not only can provide support to these people who “are physically present in front of me pastorally by praying for them, guiding them, and feeding them,” but also provide them with hope by explaining the teachings of Ratzinger that “the love of God is waiting for them.”

Quito emphasized that the lessons learned in the classrooms of St. Patrick’s influence him as he goes about his pastoral ministry. He also sees an evangelistic aspect to his ministry as the love of sisters and the patient’s closeness to death opens them to the great possibility of being at peace with a loving and merciful God. Quito’s hospice ministry goes beyond the patients to also include the grieving families and the hospice care workers.

Fellow third-year seminarian Deacon Benjamin Rosado expressed similar thoughts that the four dimensions of formation have been critical to his growth in his ability to become a servant of love.

For his pastoral assignment, Rosado weekly visits the county jail in Redwood City. He states that this year’s pastoral assignment “combines many of the roles of a priest,” including welcoming of people, presiding at prayer, providing spiritual insights, one-on-one counseling and delivering a Communion service. Human formation at St. Patrick’s has been critical to the success of his prison ministry.

Rosado explains that, by growing in the various

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areas of formation, we grow into “a well-rounded person, a person of faith … of deeper and deeper faith … to know our faith and to understand how to interact with people and to serve.” Embracing prayer in his life has helped Rosado to understand God and who He is in relation to his human life. Rosado stressed the importance of spiritual prayer because the “number one core thing for a priest is his relationship with the Lord.”

All seminarians complete a full pastoral year at a local parish as part of their program. Cameron Pollette is currently on his pastoral year at the St. Raphael Parish in San Rafael, which has a long 200-year history in California and serves more than 7,000 families in a diverse community that includes Masses in English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Portuguese.

Pollette emphasized how this pastoral year is another dimension of the pastoral formation where he is more fully exposed to the activities of a priest in an actual parish setting. He has been involved in many aspects of a busy parish, including preparing for and contributing to the liturgy, conducting Communion service at nursing homes, teaching at the parish school and the catechism programs, and various parish administrative activities, such as the bulletin, parish council meetings, sacramental registries, and more. Pollette stated that his experience at St. Patrick’s helped in preparing to work with such a diverse ethnic community, “At the seminary, they do try to provide exposure to different cultural celebrations, Tet every year … of course, Our Lady of Guadalupe.”

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She said she prayed before the Blessed Sacrament about whether religious life was indeed her call.

“What I heard in my head is that the Lord has invited me on adventure.

And I was like, ‘OK, we both know I don’t like adventures,’” she said.

“He’s had to remind me a few times that I signed up for an adventure.”

When she entered as an aspirant, she spent a month praying and living with the community before entering as a postulant. Postulants wear a simply black outfit that Sister Mary Francis said helped her appreciate not only the beauty of the full habit but what it symbolizes.

“You almost have to transition into wearing a habit because it’s a very different sort of garment,” she said.

Touching her veil and habit with clear joy, she said she longed for the “wedding dress” she now wears as a bride of Christ.

In five years she will take her solemn vows. “That’s when you say “until death” and you get a ring,” she said. “It’s like the consummation of your marriage.”

The monastery website calls the community, “free women under grace” dedicated to a “hidden life of prayer and sacrifice.”

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Sister Mary Francis said the contemplative life “simplifies our lives so we that we can focus on what we want to.”

“I am a very distractible personality,” she said with a laugh. “If there is a television on in the room, I can’t take my eyes off of it.”

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“How long it takes to recover depends entirely upon the individual, the substance and the history of abuse,” she said.

Some women in the program started using drugs as young as 10, often introduced by family members. “So the addiction has really taken hold,” Desmond said.

At 90 days, “the brain hasn’t even begun to heal” from a longtime addiction and the underlying traumas that may have led to it, she said. Springing recovering women out into the world on their own too soon, she said, can lead to a repeated cycle of substance abuse, homelessness and trauma.

“It takes time in a safe environment where they don’t feel threatened, where they can have their needs met, relax, eat good food and heal over time,” Desmond said.

“Kimberly,” a 47-year-old mother of four from Atherton, moved into the house April 12, the day she completed all four levels of the Epiphany treatment program. She told Catholic San Francisco she found her first longtime sobriety at Epiphany after 27 years as an alcoholic and drug addict.

“When I first came here, I thought my life was over,” she said. “But that’s really changed now.”

She has a job and is making plans to attend UC Berkeley.

Once a fashion model in Paris, Kimberly went from heavy drinking to cocaine to methamphetamine to heroin. She drifted in and out of jail, lost custody of her four children, experienced intermittent homelessness and failed in 12 different

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treatment programs before finding her way to the Epiphany last fall.

“Now I feel like I can be somebody,” said Kimberly, who fought hard to win an appointment to Mayor London Breed’s methamphetamine task force.

“It didn’t occur to them to have an addict at the table,” she said. “I think I have some good ideas.”

Sharonda Davis, 25, sober now after eight months at Epiphany, has one level to complete before moving to transitional housing. She said she has learned that recovery “doesn’t really start until after treatment.”

“After all of these things that happened to me, my life was so dark before and my heart was really numb,” she said. The support she got at the Epiphany has “opened up my heart and made me feel what I’d not been feeling all those years.”

She is determined to become a nurse like her grandmother, who retired after many years at Laguna Honda Hospital.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Third Sunday of Easter ACTS 5:27-32, 40B-41 When the captain and the court officers had brought the apostles in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, the high priest questioned them, “We gave you strict orders, did we not, to stop teaching in that name? Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and want to bring this man’s blood upon us.” But Peter and the apostles said in reply, “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as leader and savior to grant Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins. We are witnesses of these things, as is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.” The Sanhedrin ordered the apostles to stop speaking in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them. So they left the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been found worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

PSALM 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13 I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

I will extol you, O Lord, for you drew me clear and did not let my enemies rejoice over me. O Lord, you brought me up from the netherworld; you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.

I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

Sing praise to the Lord, you his faithful ones, and give thanks to his holy name. For his anger lasts but a moment; a lifetime, his good will. At nightfall, weeping enters in, but with the dawn, rejoicing.

I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

Hear, O Lord, and have pity on me; O Lord, be my helper. You changed my mourning into dancing; O Lord, my God, forever will I give you thanks.

I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

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he story of the Great Catch of fish is told only twice among the four Gospels, once in Luke and again in John. The Gospel of Luke places the story at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry and links it with the call of His first disciples. The Gospel of John places it at the end and associates it with the Resurrection. In both cases, the story concludes with an exchange between Jesus and Peter that sets Peter apart as first among equals in the apostolic role of both “fisherman” and “shepherd”.

The Gospel of John even goes as far as indicating the exact number of fish – one hundred fifty-three – caught by the Apostles through FATHER WILLIAM Jesus’ intervention followNICHOLAS ing the long dark night. I have often thought about that number, what it might mean, and what John’s purpose might have been

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REVELATION 5:11-14 I, John, looked and heard the voices of many angels who surrounded the throne and the living creatures and the elders. They were countless in number, and they cried out in a loud voice: “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches, wisdom and strength, honor and glory and blessing.” Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, everything in the universe, cry out: “To the one who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor, glory and might, forever and ever.” The four living creatures answered, “Amen, “and the elders fell down and worshiped.

JOHN 21:1-19 At that time, Jesus revealed himself again to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself in this way. Together were Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, Zebedee’s sons, and two others of his disciples. Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We also will come with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. When it was already dawn, Jesus was standing on the shore; but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, “Children, have you caught anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.” So he said to them, “Cast the net over the right side of the boat and you will find something.” So they cast it, and were not able to pull it in because of the number of fish. So the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tucked in his garment, for he was lightly clad, and jumped into the sea. The

other disciples came in the boat, for they were not far from shore, only about a hundred yards, dragging the net with the fish. When they climbed out on shore, they saw a charcoal fire with fish on it and bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you just caught.” So Simon Peter went over and dragged the net ashore full of 153 large fish.

Even though there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, “Come, have breakfast.”

And none of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” because they realized it was the Lord.

Jesus came over and took the bread and gave it to them, and in like manner the fish. This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to his disciples after being raised from the dead. When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He then said to Simon Peter a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.” Jesus said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was distressed that Jesus had said to him a third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

Amen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to dress yourself and go where you wanted; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

Called to catch in going out of his way to tell us. No doubt it is symbolic of the great catch of new believers in the early decades of the church’s mission, people who responded to the eloquent testimony of the Apostles, commissioned by Jesus to be “fishers of men.”

On the other hand, I would consider that detail from another angle, which leads me to another serious question to consider: How many of those one hundred fifty-three fish actually wanted to be in the net? How many of them were not desperately trying to swim out of the net? And yet, the Apostles dragged the net ashore, hauled it onto dry ground, and presented them to Jesus.

It brings to mind the words of Jesus in Luke’s presentation of the Great Catch. When Peter falls to his knees and begs Jesus to depart, Jesus did not say that Peter would be “attracting,” “finessing” or “wooing,” but “from now on you will be catching men” (Luke 5:10). It also brings to mind the conclusion of Matthew, in a passage traditionally referred to as The Great Commission, in which Jesus does not tell his disciples to “suggest,” “put-forth,” or “propose” discipleship, but rather “go and make disciples of all the nations” (Matthew 28:19).

The Great Catch as the Gospel of John presents it states the number of one hundred fifty-three fish, presumably trying to escape (after all they were fish in a net), and yet the net, which, given the circumstances, should have been torn, was not. All this accomplished in the hard work of the Apostles, through the divine intervention of the risen Jesus.

So it is with the work we are given as His church. This is not to say that conversion to the faith is forced or coerced. Rather, it is recognizing the team effort for which we, with Christ, are all participants in which we cast the nets to catch the fish Jesus sends. Even at times that seem for us to be the darkest; after a long night of darkness in which all our efforts seem to be in vain, we continue to recognize the risen Jesus in our midst, not far away, just on the shore, calling on us to throw out our nets just one more time. We cast the nets. Jesus provides the great and continuous catch that builds up His church down through history, and throughout the world.

FATHER BILL NICHOLAS is administrator of St. Vincent de Paul Parish, San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MAY 6: Monday of the Third Week of Easter. ACTS 6:8-15. PS 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30. MT 4:4b. JN 6:22-29.

TUESDAY, MAY 7: Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter. ACTS 7:51-8:1a. PS 31:3cd-4, 6 and 7b and 8a, 17 and 21ab. JN 6:35ab. JN 6:30-35.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8: Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter. ACTS 8:1b-8. PS 66:1-3a, 4-5, 6-7a. SEE JN 6:40. JN 6:35-40.

priest. ACTS 9:1-20. PS 117:1bc, 2. JN 6:56. JN 6:52-59.

SATURDAY, MAY 11: Saturday of the Third Week of Easter. ACTS 9:31-42. PS 116:12-13, 14-15, 16-17.

SEE JN 6:63c, 68c. JN 6:60-69.

SUNDAY, MAY 12: Fourth Sunday of Easter. ACTS 13:14, 43-52. PS 100:1-2, 3, 5. REV 7:9, 14b-17. JN 10:14. JN 10:27-30.

THURSDAY, MAY 9: Thursday of the Third Week of Easter. ACTS 8:26-40. PS 66:8-9, 16-17, 20. JN 6:51.

JN 6:44-51.

MONDAY, MAY 13: Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima.

ACTS 11:1-18. PS 42:2-3; 43:3, 4. JN 10:14. JN 10:1-10.

FRIDAY, MAY 10: Friday of the Third Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster,

TUESDAY, MAY 14: Feast of St. Matthias, apostle and martyr. ACTS 1:15-17, 20-26. PS 113:1-2,

3-4, 5-6, 7-8. SEE JN 15:16. JN 15:9-17.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15: Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Isidore. ACTS 12:24-13:5a. PS 67:2-3, 5, 6 and 8. JN 8:12. JN 12:44-50.

THURSDAY, MAY 16: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter. ACTS 13:13-25. PS 89:2-3, 21-22, 25 and 27. SEE RV 1:5ab. JN 13:16-20.

FRIDAY, MAY 17: Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter. ACTS 13:26-33. PS 2:6-7, 8-9, 10-11ab. JN 14:6.

JN 14:1-6.

SATURDAY, MAY 18: Saturday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. John I, pope and martyr. ACTS 13:44-52. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. JN 8:31b-32. JN 14:7-14.

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Ascending, descending or just keeping steady?

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here should we be casting our eyes? Upward, downward, or just on the road that we’re walking?

Well there are different kinds of spiritualities: Spiritualities of the Ascent, Spiritualities of the Descent, and Spiritualities of Maintenance, and each is important.

Spiritualities of the Ascent are spiritualities that invite us to strive always for what’s higher, for what’s more noble, for what stretches us and takes us (figuratively) upward beyond the humFATHER RON drum moral and spiritual ROLHEISER ruts within which we habitually find ourselves. They tell us that we can be more, that we can transcend the ordinary and break through the old ceilings that have up now constituted our horizon. They tell us that if we stretch ourselves enough we will be able to walk on water, be great saints, be enflamed with the Spirit, and experience already now the deep joys of God’s Kingdom. These spiritualities tell us that sanctity lies in the ascent and that we should be habitually stretching ourselves towards higher goals.

These spiritualities have a secular counterpart and that counterpart is what we often hear from academic commencement speakers who are forever challenging those graduating to dream big dreams, to reach for the stars.

There’s a lot to be said for this kind of an invitation. Much of the Gospels are exactly that kind of a challenge: Keep your eyes trained upward: Think with your big mind; feel with your big heart; imagine yourself as God’s child and mirror that greatness; let Jesus’ teachings stretch you; let Jesus’ spirit fill you; let high ideals enlarge you.

But the Gospels also invite us to a Spirituality of the Descent. They tell us to make friends

But the Gospels also invite us to a Spirituality of the Descent. They tell us to make friends with the desert, the cross, with ashes, with self-renunciation, with humiliation, with our shadow, and with death itself. with the desert, the cross, with ashes, with selfrenunciation, with humiliation, with our shadow, and with death itself. They tell us that we grow not just by moving upward but also by descending downward. We grow too by letting the desert work us over, by renouncing cherished dreams to accept the cross, by letting the humiliations that befall us deepen our character, by having the courage to face our own deep chaos, and by making peace with our own mortality. These spiritualities tell us that sometimes our task, spiritual and psychological, is not to raise our eyes to the heavens, but to look down upon the earth, to sit in the ashes of loneliness and humiliation, to stare down the restless desert inside us, and to make peace with our human limits and our mortality.

There aren’t a lot of secular counterparts to this spirituality (though you do see this in what’s best in psychology and anthropology). The challenge of the descent is not one you will often hear from a commencement speaker.

But there is still another genre of spiritualities, a very important kind, namely, Spiritualities of Maintenance. These spiritualities invite us to proper self-care, to factor in that the journey of discipleship is a marathon, not a sprint, and so to take heed of our limits. We aren’t all spiritual athletes and tiredness, depression, loneliness, and fragile health, mental or physical, can, if we

are not careful with ourselves, break us. These spiritualities invite us to be cautious about both an over-enthusiastic ascent and a naive descent.

They tell us that dullness, boredom and ennui will meet us along the road and so we should have a glass of wine when needed and let our weariness dictate that on a given night it might be healthier for us spiritually to watch a mindless sitcom or a sports event than to spend that time watching a religious program. They also tell us to respect the fact that, given our mental fragility at times, there are descents that we should stay away from. They don’t deny that we need to push ourselves to new heights and that we need to have the courage, at times, to face the chaos and desert inside us; but they caution that we must also always take into account what we can handle at a given time in our lives and what we can’t handle just then. Good spiritualities don’t put you on a universal conveyor belt, the same road for everyone, but take into account what you need to do to maintain your energy and sanity on a marathon journey.

Spiritualities of Maintenance have a secular counterpart and we can learn things here from our culture’s stress on maintaining one’s physical health through proper exercise, proper diet, and proper health habits. Sometimes in our culture this becomes one-sided and obsessive, but it is still something for spiritualities to learn from, namely, that the task in life isn’t just to grow and to courageously face your shadow and mortality.

Sometimes, many times, the more urgent task is simply to stay healthy, sane and buoyant.

Different spiritualities stress one or the other of these: the ascent, the descent, or (less commonly) maintenance, but a good spirituality will stress all three: Train your eyes upward, don’t forget to look downward, and keep your feet planted firmly on the ground.

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

LETTERS Love and sin are not compatible

Not long ago at Sunday Mass we heard John’s Gospel about the woman caught in adultery.

Jesus does not affirm the woman in her sin of adultery. In fact he tells her to sin no more. An April 18 letter (“Brothers and sisters”) says that Catholic schools should accept children enrolled in Catholic schools from men who are homosexual who adopted a child. God loves everyone but not everything everyone does. Scripture can be used out of context. If interpretation of Scripture is outside of the teaching of the church, Catholics are not supposed to apply it. Catholic teaching is that marriage is a man and a woman in a sacrament for life and its main purpose is the continuation of life. This also is affirmed in Scripture.

This child who is being denied a mother is not a pawn to be used by modernist ideas. Affirmation of sin is sin itself. Love and sin are not compatible.

Ted Kirk San Francisco

‘Rebooting’ not quite the right word

Re “Star School ‘rebooting,’ not closing, pastor says in update,” April 18: The philosophical issue underlying Star of the Sea School’s (SSS) closing is similar to that of a public school wanting to reconstitute as an alternative school or as a charter school. First, there is a definition problem. No buts about it. The present SSS will be closed; the new SSS will be created. “Rebooting” is not quite the appropriate word to use here. The present SSS, supposedly, serves the entire Star of the Sea parish. The new SSS will serve a much wider, but less deep clientele, i.e., just those within Star of the Sea Parish who want only a classic education, but, certainly it will not serve ALL SSS elementary students within its boundary.

Second, it is somewhat incongruent for a diocesan priest not to service all students in his assigned parish, but only those who want a “classic”

education, whatever that means at the elementary school level. I went to Catholic schools all 16 years, and I learned all my church Latin by 6 years of age, becoming the youngest altar boy (the term “altar server” didn’t exist then) at my parish, starting in the second grade, and I was lousy in Latin in high school. So much for a classical education at the elementary school level.

Next, at another level, there is some uneasy feeling I get about the fact being made that the Irish and Italian parishioners of old have gone.

While there has been a population change, I didn’t feel any decline in religious fervor with new nonItalian and non-Irish populations in my 25 years there as a parishioner, when Father Illo arrived, and fast became known for eliminating female altar servers and not wanting to give blessings to non-Catholics.

There were other minor incidents, and the result was that I was getting more and more uncomfortable at Star of the Sea Church. I finally changed parishes after about a year.

The whole point of all this discussion is that both SSS and Star of the Sea parish want to promote an exclusionary sense of Catholicism, rather than an inclusionary one. For example, the concept of only male altar servers is retrograde.

Does God want to withhold grace for females that male altar servers get? If females are a source of some kind of near occasion of sin to male servers, is there no such thing as near occasion of grace that females get from serving Mass? Didn’t we just read in Catholic San Francisco about a female altar server influencing an atheist into becoming a Catholic? Are we supposed to disallow

nuns from serving Mass when no male servers are available at early Masses?

Does “Suffer the little children to come to me” now change to “Suffer only male altar servers and classical studies students to come to me”?

There’s going to have to be some explaining to do when we all meet our maker.

It appears to me that if Father Illo and Archbishop Cordileone want a specialized classical Catholic elementary alternative school in San Francisco, they ought to let Star of the Sea remain being a true inclusive parish, and set up a separate elementary classics school somewhere else that is not tied to any one parish.

John Lum San Francisco

Moving article on Christ’s last hours

Re “A Catholic doctor’s medical view of Christ’s passion, crucifixion,” April 18: I don’t know if it was just that I had the time to read over this issue from front to back, but it was certainly one of the best by far. The article by Dr. Timothy Millea regarding Our Lord’s last hours on Earth was so vividly described and extremely moving. I will never spend a Good Friday or gaze at a crucifix in the same way again. Thank you for this heart-wrenching and unforgettable article.

Claire Rovegno Burlingame PS: I never miss reading Father Ron Rolheiser.

Terrific! And I’ll close by saying I’m an alumni of Star of the Sea Grammar School and High School, Class of ’59. That issue too is heartbreaking.

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Medjugorje/ Can we receive Communion?

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What is the Catholic Church’s position on Medjugorje? (There is a parishioner who says that the Blessed Mother has a daily message for us.) (Coshocton, Ohio) As of this date, there has been no official determination by the church as to the authenticity of the Marian apparitions to which you refer. In 1981, six young people claimed that Mary was appearing to them at Medjugorje in the former Yugoslavia. Since then, a number of church commissions have studied the veracity of those claims, but no formal and definitive conclusion has yet been issued by the Vatican.

A report published in 2017 FATHER by the website Vatican InsidKENNETH DOYLE er said that the commission established some years ago by now-retired Pope Benedict XVI had voted to accept the first seven appearances of Mary in 1981 as authentic, but had expressed doubt about the more-than-40,000 apparitions that have allegedly happened since then.

(Three of the six original visionaries say that Mary still appears to them with messages each day, while the other three say that they see her now only once a year.)

In 2017, on a plane returning to Rome from Fatima, Portugal, Pope Francis, while seeming to be open to the legitimacy of the original Medjugorje visions, cast some doubt on their continuance. “I prefer Our Lady to be a mother, our mother,” the pope told the journalists, “and not a telegraph operator who sends out a message every day at a certain time.”

Meanwhile, though, more than two million pilgrims come to Medjugorje each year to visit the site of the purported visions, and clearly their faith is deepened. In May 2018, Pope Francis appointed the retired archbishop of Warsaw-Praga, Poland, as his personal envoy to Medjugorje to see that the pastoral needs of these pilgrims are served, including the hundreds each day who seek the sacrament of penance.

On that 2017 flight from Fatima, Pope Francis had noted that countless pilgrims to Medjugorje are converted. “For this there is no magic wand,” said the pope. “This spiritual-pastoral fact cannot be denied.”

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QUESTION CORNER

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My husband and I are both Catholic. We had separated for four years (he had borne a child outside of our marriage), but we reconciled earlier this year and have forgiven each other.

My question is this: What is required for us to begin again receiving the Eucharist? (We had both stopped receiving.) I have gone to confession myself, but I still don’t feel free to receive the body and blood of Christ. Please advise. (City of origin withheld) I thank God for the reconciliation of your marriage and for your willingness to forgive.

As for holy Communion, you yourself are able to receive right now – especially since you have been to the sacrament of penance recently.

Perhaps, though, you would feel more comfortable if you spoke to a priest personally; he could assure you that you are in God’s good graces and ready to take the Eucharist.

(And know that the Eucharist, as sublime a gift as it is, is not meant as a reward for perfect people.

Instead, it is food for the journey, nourishment for those struggling every day to do what God wants.)

Your husband – if he has not done so already – should of course go to confession before receiving Communion.

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FATHER KENNETH DOYLE writes the “Question Corner” column for Catholic News Service. Questions may be sent to Father Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 30 Columbia Circle Drive, Albany, New York 12203.

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The women who stayed

he women were the ones who stayed. I regret to say that I missed this for most of my life.

I don’t just mean that I missed this in Scripture, although it took me decades to realize that women stayed at the foot of the cross when almost all the men fled – or that women were the first to discover the Resurrection in every Gospel.

I mean that I missed it everywhere: The truth that women’s work and witness are too often overlooked and unseen.

I’m embarrassed to admit LAURA KELLY that I didn’t grasp this realFANUCCI ity until I became a mother.

Until the hard but holy work of parenting made me realize how much faithful love and service from women had made my life possible.

How my mom sacrificed late nights and early mornings to care for her five children. How my aunts gave countless hours to tend to my grandparents at the end of their lives. How my teachers, coaches, doctors, professors and employers – women who helped to shape me into the woman I am – have done their work with the same faithful commitment.

The women stayed at the foot of the cross. They did not desert Jesus. They cared for his beaten, bloody body. They went in the dark to anoint him at the tomb with oil and spices. They stayed faithful to the daily, loving work of caring for others in body and soul.

During this Easter season, the women have settled into my heart and refused to leave. Mary Magdalene and Mary his mother: bearer of good news and bearer of God. Joanna, Salome, Mary the mother of James, and all the unnamed women: the ones who stayed by the cross and the ones who went to the tomb.

The women of the Resurrection have led me to ask how I can stay faithful – to my family, to my work and to all the places I have been called.

Throughout human history, women have often been in the shadows, not the spotlight. They showed up on the margins but didn’t get to write the stories.

Yet every Gospel tells of their faithfulness at the end. How did I miss this?

The world spins on, but the women stay. Imagine how different the story might have been if the women had not gone to the tomb while others slept, had not discovered the body gone, had not listened to the angels or had not run to tell the stunning news of Christ’s resurrection that changed everything.

Because, quite frankly, I missed how the women stayed in my life, too.

Now I’m trying to notice them everywhere. The women who stay after dinner and do the dishes.

The women who stay after Mass and set the hymnals straight. The women who stay after class with the student who’s struggling. The women who stay up late with the teenager who needs to talk. The women who stay at the bedside after everyone else has left the hospital room.

They are Mary and Joanna and Mary Magdalene and Salome. They are every unnamed woman in the Gospels, every friend of our Lord whose story was never told. They are the saints we know and love. They are the reason many of us have faith in the first place – because our mother or grandmother or godmother or aunt or teacher or sister taught us first.

The world spins on, but the women stay. Imagine how different the story might have been if the women had not gone to the tomb while others slept, had not discovered the body gone, had not listened to the angels or had not run to tell the stunning news of Christ’s resurrection that changed everything.

From birth to death, women are called to stay faithful – then and now.

We would not be here without them.

LAURA KELLY FANUCCI, a Catholic News Service guest columnist, is a mother, writer and director of a project on vocation at the Collegeville Institute in Collegeville, Minnesota. She is the author of several books, including “Everyday Sacrament: The Messy Grace of Parenting,” and blogs at www.motheringspirit.com.

Wendell Berry and the Gospel outdoors

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grew up on a Midwestern farm, the old-fashioned kind that had pigs, chickens, milk cows, feral cats in the hay loft and coyotes howling in the night.

My mother butchered chickens in the yard. The meaning of the expression “like a chicken with its head cut off” has never been lost on me.

Because of this, I’ve always appreciated the agrarian images of Scripture. The sower, the good seed, the seed lost at the side of the road – these EFFIE CALDAROLA were good images. And God as a mother hen guarding her young? Perfect.

But not everyone grows up on a farm, especially today in our increasingly urbanized culture.

Does that mean the Gospel can’t speak as evocatively to those who catch the metro every morning or live in a huge apartment building surrounded by concrete?

Not at all. However, according to the poet and essayist Wendell Berry, we’d all benefit from taking Scripture, or Gospel images, outside, whether to the backyard, the beach, a nearby park or especially a ramble through a wilderness trail.

“I don’t think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is,” said Berry, in his book “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays.”

Consider the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, Jesus told us, when he was trying to allay our constant worrying. And how many times do the Gospels bring us to the seaside, where Jesus knew when to put the net out for a good catch?

Scripture, he says, “is best read outdoors ... and the farther outdoors, the better.”

Many people who do not describe themselves as religious say they find God in nature, and those of us who are believers often find a heightened sense of the transcendent there. This is where we find our “thin place” – the place where we feel the boundaries that separate us from God slipping away. We need to encourage this.

“Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders,” Berry writes.

Consider the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, Jesus told us, when he was trying to allay our constant worrying. And how many times do the Gospels bring us to the seaside, where Jesus knew when to put the net out for a good catch?

Most memorable images of Jesus take place outside, actually. The ones indoors can sometimes seem stifling. When the house is so crowded that men have to remove tiles to lower their friend for SEE CALDEROLA, PAGE 17

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All the news that’s fit to print

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ife Returned After Having Fine Funeral.”

The headline of a 483word story in the March 15, 1904, edition of The New York Times bore a sly nod to Tom Sawyer.

A man named Ignacio Valente was charging the city with a funeral bill he had been wrongfully isCHRISTINA sued, according CAPECCHI to the Times.

It had all started in the kitchen: “Valente is an Italian, and about six weeks ago he quarreled with his wife, Angelico, over the way she cooked macaroni. As a result of the quarrel the wife left Valente’s home, declaring she would rather die than return.”

Indeed, she did not return, and Valente eventually reported her missing

to the police, who said the body of a woman matching his description was at the morgue.

Valente identified the clothing of the dead woman but not the body.

The story goes on: “‘This woman was better looking than my wife,’ Valente says he declared. ‘Death beautifies them all,’ the Morgue man is said to have replied.”

Eventually Valente was persuaded, and he went on to have the body dressed in his wife’s wedding dress, a request she had once expressed. He attended her funeral and footed the bills.

Notice of the event was published in Italian papers, which came to the attention of “the real Mrs. Valente,” who hurried home. Her husband arrived later and found her “rummaging about her for wedding dress.”

The story proceeds: “‘Why, I buried you in it three days ago,’ Valente, in his surprise, replied. Real trouble followed this, and, when Valente had satisfied himself it was his real wife who stood before him, and that he had buried the wrong woman, he could only restore peace by promising his

wife another wedding dress just like the one in which the strange woman had been buried.”

According to the Times, Valente was now demanding that the city pay for his funeral expenses as well as $110 for a new wedding dress and $40 “for wages lost through grief and because of illness that followed the shock of finding his wife alive….”

The reader is left to imagine what that illness entailed and which way the scale was now tilted for Valente among his mixed emotions, recovering from the “real trouble” that ensued with the macaroni maker.

For all its humor, the story also has a bygone feel, harkening back to an era when the Times felt like a smalltown paper to New Yorkers. In 1904, Ignacio and Angelico’s plight had landed among “all the news that’s fit to print.”

The debate over what qualifies as “news that’s fit to print” has picked up fervor in our Misinformation Age, when we tap through fake news, funny news and failing news with a single slide of the thumb. Editorials,

advertorials and objective reporting.

The most newsworthy stories are those we can’t stop thinking about, discussing over cubicles, fences and treadmills: the discovery of Jayme Closs, the Notre Dame fire.

And yet, there is another definition for Christians: the good news.

Easter once felt like news. The shock of the empty tomb. The soughtafter account of the first witness. The soaring and inexplicable triumph of it all.

For those who believe, it was – and remains – the biggest news of all time.

To truly be Easter people, as we are called, means to not only be people of hope but people of words, with a story burning in our hearts. We’d noodle it again and again like any newsworthy story: what it means to me, what you make of it, what we do and don’t know so far, how it’s affecting us.

We’d ask with wide eyes: Have you heard the good news?

CHRISTINA CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn.

CALDAROLA: Wendell Berry and the Gospel outdoors FROM PAGE 16

Jesus’ help, you want to scream at everyone to move outside.

One summer, I spent many early mornings on my patio with coffee and a copy of Jesuit Father James Martin’s book, “Jesus: A Pilgrimage.” I am a speedy reader, but I tried to read this book slowly and savor it.

Father Martin walks the reader through Scripture readings as he relays his own contemporary travel

through those same spots in the Holy Land, making you feel you are actually there.

I could imagine myself at the Lake of Gennesaret, looking for the caves from which the Gerasene demoniac emerged to taunt Jesus.

The solitude of my patio, the busy chattering of birds all around me, the rabbit who came so close to me, in my stillness, that I could almost reach out and touch him – all of these heightened my sense that I was in a

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St. John Vianney and the Basic Principles of Priestly Life

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rchbishop Cordileone delivered this homily in the presence of a relic of the incorrupt heart of St. John Vianney, with priests of archdiocese at a votive Mass of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, March 1, 2019, at St. Augustine Church, South San Francisco.

The readings for the day were 1 John 4:7-16; Psalms 34; John 10:11-18.

Introduction

I would like to thank the Knights of Columbus for the extraordinary opportunity to venerate the relic of the heart of St. John Vianney here in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This is, indeed, a great grace for us, and we owe the Knights a great debt of gratitude for it. Thank you! In God’s Providence, the Mass we celebrate on this occasion with priests from throughout the Archdiocese ARCHBISHOP occurs on the First Friday of SALVATORE J. month, the traditional day for CORDILEONE celebrating the Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart.

The Good Shepherd

The readings for our Mass today treat of the Good Shepherd. This is the way Jesus lived out in his body the mystical meaning of his glorious pierced heart.

The passage from St. John’s Gospel depicting that scene – his heart being pierced by a lance and blood and water flowing out, signifying that by his death he gives life to the Church – is the more typical one read for this Votive Mass. Today, though, we have for our Gospel reading another passage from St. John’s Gospel: Jesus’ discourse on the Good Shepherd. This image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd is certainly very known and dear to us, as it has been in the whole Church from ancient times. In fact, historically it is the earliest depiction of our Lord in all of Christian art. Still visible on the walls of the catacombs of Rome is the painted image of a man with a sheep on his shoulders: the Good Shepherd. To this day, this remains among the most beloved images of our Savior.

What is meant here, though, when Jesus refers to himself as the “good” shepherd? There are two words in Greek that are translated as “good.” First there is agathos: this means “good” in the sense of being good at something – proficient at a trade, useful; or, of good constitution, or distinguished.

The Greek word kalos, on the other hand, signifies noble, honorable, something with a quality of loveliness to it, beautiful inside and out; thus, it conveys the sense of purity of heart and purity of life, something well-suited to its ends.

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That is, not at all unlike those hired hands Jesus refers to in the Gospel passage for our Mass today.

On the other hand, perhaps it is not so strange to use this term “good’ in reference to the figure of the shepherd; after all, we speak of the “good thief.”

But as one Scripture commentator put it, “certainly we do not affectionately refer to him as ‘the good thief’ because he was good at his trade! (Which he may have been, but … apparently not good enough, because he got caught!)” Rather, we refer to him as “good” because he has a certain endearing quality about him, a genuine love for the Lord, and a manifestation of repentance for his life of crime.

So we see the contrast here with the bad shepherds, which must have been common in Jesus’ time: they are in it for the money, they are entirely self-serving. A true shepherd, on the other hand, responds to a calling in his life; he is out with sheep, caring for them, as soon as he is old enough; he loves them as his family, and even sometimes literally has to risk laying down life for them.

In the Life of St. John Vianney

This is the call of every priest, and we certainly see it exemplified in the life of St. John Vianney.

I suppose we can become easily discouraged in our own time with such widespread disregard of religion, and even outright hostility toward religion. But the situation in the time and place of St. John Vianney’s life was even worse in some ways: the practice of the faith and the moral life were in shambles when he arrived at that village of Ars. That was in the wake of the French revolution, and the revolution showed its devastating effects. We often hear talk of Church renewal coming from priests seeking holiness; St. John Vianney did this in the ways that really count. He divested himself of himself, he cared not for his own comfort or convenience, but rather was totally given over to being a shepherd for his people.

We know well the long hours he would spend in the confessional, and how, when his reputation spread for being a brilliant confessor, people would travel great distances and wait hours in order for him to hear their confession. He kept his priorities straight. But he was also subject to the attacks of the devil; the devil, of course, will always attack where he sees that he is losing ground. Through it all, St. John Vianney kept his prayer life intact. Certainly, this all would have been impossible without that.

In Every Priest’s Life

While St. John Vianney is held up as the model for all parish priests, it may seem unrealistic for priests today to follow his example. Yes, it is true that life today is more complicated, and there are many more demands on priests. Plus, today there are challenges arising not only from the undermining of basic principles of faith and the Church’s teaching on many points of doctrine, but now of even of

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the most basic principles of the natural law. If we add to that the individualistic culture in which we are living, exacerbated by digital technology, we can readily admit that, yes, while in some ways St. John Vianney’s situation was even more dire than ours, in other ways we are facing even deeper challenges.

It certainly becomes easy to get discouraged. A young man is full of that initial fervor when he enters the seminary; he arrives at ordination, and is full of zeal to go out and convert the world. But then, after a while, it becomes harder than he thought – he discovers the fine print, the parts of the cruise that were not in the brochure (to use two commonly employed images to convey the sense of disillusionment in one’s vocation). To his surprise he finds that people use him; not all are full of good will. And then, too, he meets up with his own shortcomings, failures, and human weaknesses. He makes great sacrifices but begins to question the worth of it all – it seems that it is all for naught. When the priest allows this kind of discouragement to set in, bad habits begin to take over and good habits become corrupted; at worst, vice begins to replace virtue – starting with laziness, then moving to indifference and then to despair and then to weakening of faith.

And then, imperceptibly, without even realizing it has happened, the priest becomes like a hireling.

This is when the priest leaves his vocation. No, I do not mean that he returns to the lay state; rather, his Priesthood becomes a job. He does what he needs to do to get the job done, but lives for himself, not his people. He becomes a hireling, not a shepherd responding to God’s call in his life. These struggles to some degree are inescapable; all priests have to deal with them at some time or another, to a greater or lesser degree.

Basic Principles

However, let us be clear: the basic principles don’t change! The starting point is found in the First Letter of St. John, which we just heard proclaimed a moment ago: “In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another” (1 Jn 4:10-11). The love of God doesn’t change. The love of God must be the fuel that keeps the priest on the path of his vocation, so that he will be well-suited to the end for which God called him in this extraordinary vocation: the salvation of souls.

This means that he must keep his priorities in place: prayer, penitential practices, devotion to ministry, and so forth. Only in keeping to these basics and observing these priorities can he be brought back to that original fervor. In our hyper-secularized society, this is the only way he can dispose himself to allow God to renew him in the awesome gift that God gave him.

Conclusion

Then the priest will understand and live out the famous motto of St. John Vianney by which St. John lived his own life: “If we really understood the priest on earth, we would die not of fright but of love. . . .

The Priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus.”

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‘GAME OF THRONES’: Parish panel discusses TV series and grace FROM PAGE 5

Smith laid out for the audience different models for how Christians approach culture. According to Niebuhr, Christians historically have either set themselves against their culture, subsumed their faith to it, separated the two realms entirely or argued that faith and culture agree on only some points and cannot be completely reconciled.

Niebuhr found the most dominant approach one in which Christians evangelize their culture and transform it to bring it closer to Christ.

Smith said a show like “Game of Thrones” offers Catholics the opportunity to take “a sacred look” at pop culture and use it as an opening for evangelization.

“Our mission is not just to come into the world on a solo walk,” he said. “We are called to baptize all nations and seek the good and proclaim the Gospel to others.”

At the same time, Smith cautioned the audience about the effect a show like “Game of Thrones” can have on a person’s moral imagination.

“We’re not impervious where things just glide off us,” he said.

While Smith said he would not personally recommend the show, he encouraged people to discern for themselves whether to watch it and consider how the show could be a bridge to evangelizing conversations.

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Michael Smith and Anne Marie Fowler spoke on a “Game of Thrones” discussion panel at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco April 7, along with Dominican Father Isaiah Mary Molano (not pictured.) The panel discussed moral and ethical aspects of the show along with how Catholics should respond to pop culture.

When it debuted on HBO in 2011, “Game of Thrones” became an instant classic, hooking viewers with its story and its willingness to shock fans. Father Isaiah Mary said part of the appeal of “Game of Thrones” is its reversal of the moral code of typical Western fairy tales in which good

triumphs over evil. Westeros, the setting of “Game of Thrones,” resembles a European society that never became Christian, where goodness is often a weakness and “the virtuous are cut down first” because they trust evil men. Father Isaiah Mary said the show also offers an examination of evil, which St. Thomas Aquinas called “a privation of the good.” The scheming of various characters, especially Petyr Baelish, also known as “Littlefinger,” highlight how characters “depreciate the common good” by pursuing their individual advantage.

Anne Marie Fowler discussed how the fantasy world of Westeros can act as a mirror for personal reflection. Three themes of the show are the misuse of personal codes, the dignity and abuse of life and sins of pride and envy, she said. How those characters act can be an opportunity for people to examine their own moral lives.

At the same time, the moral journeys of characters like Jaime Lannister are an opportunity to reflect on the path toward virtue. After he loses his sword-hand, and by extension his identity as a knight, Lannister changes significantly for the better as he builds for himself a new identity. His story “shows that emptying the self can be an invitation to grace,” Fowler said.

Ultimately, she said, watching the show “can make us aware of redemption and its possibilities in the real world, by contrast with a world with no grace or redemption.”

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POPE NAMES ARCHBISHOP ETIENNE COADJUTOR ARCHBISHOP OF SEATTLE

WASHINGTON – Pope Francis has named Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Anchorage to be coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Seattle, meaning he will assist and could succeed Archbishop J. Peter Sartain in leading Archbishop Paul the archdiocese.

D. Etienne Archbishop Etienne, who will celebrate his 60th birthday June 15, has been in Anchorage since October 2016.

Archbishop Etienne’s appointment was announced by the nuncio April 29; a “rite of reception” Mass – because Archbishop Sartain remains archbishop of Seattle – will be celebrated June 7 at St. James Cathedral in Seattle.

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67 June 6 and has led the Seattle archdiocese since 2010, explained in an April 29 letter to archdiocesan Catholics that a series of spinal issues prompted him to write to Pope Francis last September requesting the appointment of a coadjutor archbishop, “with a view toward retiring much sooner than typical, because of my health.”

120 NAMES ON NEW YORK ARCHDIOCESAN LIST OF ACCUSED CLERGY

NEW YORK – The Archdiocese of New York released the names of 120 clergy April 26 who have been either credibly accused of sexual abuse of a minor or been determined that claims against them are eligible for compensation.

“I write to ask forgiveness again for the failings of those clergy and bishops who should have provided for the safety of our young people but instead betrayed the trust placed in them by God and by the faithful,” said

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HACKERS INFILTRATE OHIO PARISH’S EMAIL SYSTEM, STEAL $1.75 MILLION

CLEVELAND – A carefully orchestrated plan netted email hackers $1.75 million from a Diocese of Cleveland parish.

Father Bob Stec, pastor of St. Ambrose Parish in suburban Brunswick, told parishioners in an April 27 letter distributed at weekend Masses that the theft was discovered April 17 when a construction company working on a $4 million church renovation project asked why it had not received the two most recent monthly payments for the project.

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CUA president applauds students’ decision to block porn The non-binding resolution was passed by a vote of 13 to 12, and student body president Jimmy Harrington signed it April 1.

Student Sen. Gerard McNair-Lewis, a junior at the university, was the resolution’s sponsor.

Garvey noted that pornography has become more accessible than it once was; where in the past it could only be found in “leather-bound books in gentlemen’s clubs and private libraries,” today “any 6-year-old can find it on a cellphone.”

In addition, pornography has become more graphic, and advances in technology not only make pornography more addictive, but also make it easier for people to slip into the mindset of: “We don’t need one another for sexual fulfillment. We can summon imaginary partners at the touch of a button.”

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The president of The Catholic University of America has voiced his support for a student government resolution that asked the university to block the 200 most popular porn sites from its John Garvey internet system.

“I am so proud of our students,” CUA president John Garvey wrote in an op-ed for the Arlington Catholic Herald April 24.

“This month the student government association, the body that represents our undergraduates, passed a resolution asking the university to prohibit access through the campus network to the 200 most frequently visited pornography websites. I told them we’d be happy to.”

another. But technology can change our stimuli and the way we respond.

That’s happening here,” Garvey said, remarking on pedestrians looking at their phones and young couples at restaurant tables looking at Facebook rather than at each other.

“Instead of living our own lives, we now play parts in a simulacrum that we create, touch up, preserve and revisit,” he said. “Modern pornography lets us extend this solipsism to our sex lives. We don’t need one another for sexual fulfillment. We can summon imaginary partners at the touch of a button.”

Reproductive technology such as artificial contraception have reinforced the idea, Garvey asserted, that if sex is merely a form of recreation, then “any partner will do: even a virtual one.”

“Our students are right to be concerned about the trend in this direction, because the digital revolution’s ambition is to make virtual reality

indistinguishable from life,” he noted.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes pornography as a “grave offense.”

It “offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other” and does “grave injury to the dignity of its participants,” the church teaches.

“Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials,” the atechism says.

Of course, Garvey acknowledged, blocking pornography on the university’s internet system will not solve students’ appetite for porn—they can still use their phones or access a site that is not yet blocked.

But, “it does communicate a point of view that our students say they want to hear,” Garvey wrote.

“It says that this is not the sort of relationship they should be looking for, and we’re not going to lend our system to help them find it.”

Survey: Americans world’s most ideologically divided people on religion Americans are by far the world’s most divided ideologically on the role of religion in society, a new Pew Research Center report says.

Asked if they favor a greater role for religion, 71 percent of U.S. respondents who identified as conservatives said yes; only 29 percent on the left said no.

“In Europe, North America and Australia, ideology is linked to whether people want a more prominent role for religion in their country,” according to the report, issued April 22. “For example, in the U.S., people on the right end of the political spectrum (those who consider themselves somewhat or very conservative) are 42 percentage points more likely than those on the left to favor a larger role for religion in their country.”

Although the gap in the U.S. is the largest measured, substantial differences exist between left and right in many countries, the report found.

Respondents in Canada, Poland,

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whether religion plays a more or less important role compared with 20 years ago. The results ranged from 7 percent in Spain and 8 percent in Japan to 83 percent in Indonesia and 65 percent in Nigeria. Majorities in the Philippines, Kenya and India also said religion plays a more important role.

Overall, the survey found a strong

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Notably, U.S. respondents identifying left on the political spectrum were more moderate than those on the left in all but two other Western countries compared.

The survey also gauged views on gender equality and ethnic diversity.

“The results of this analysis reveal people are strongly in favor of increased gender equality but share more tepid enthusiasm for increased ethnic, religious and racial diversity,” the report said. “And despite secularization trends, most across the 27 countries surveyed do not oppose a more important role for religion in their society.

“In addition, roughly half or more in 24 of the countries surveyed say that family ties are weakening, and in all those countries at least half say that this is a bad thing.”

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ROME – The proposed apostolic constitution for reforming and governing the Roman Curia is expected to emphasize the church’s missionary mandate with the creation of a “super-dicastery” merging two offices dedicated to evangelization.

“The main point of the new apostolic constitution is that the Cardinal Oscar church’s mission is evangelizaRodriguez tion. It puts it at the center of Maradiaga the church and of everything the Curia does,” Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, told Vida Nueva, a Spanish weekly publication dedicated to news about the Catholic Church.

Cardinals Gracias and Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, both members of Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinals, spoke to the Spanish weekly about the final draft of reforms the council approved at its previous meeting in early April. Vida Nueva provided Catholic News Service

with an advance copy of the Spanish-language article, which was to be published April 27.

The provisional title of the new constitution, “Praedicate Evangelium” (“Preach the Gospel”), “shows that evangelization is the number one goal, ahead of anything else,” Cardinal Gracias told Vida Nueva.

“Pope Francis always emphasizes that the church is missionary,” Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga said, which is why the new dicastery will supersede the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in importance.

The new Dicastery of Evangelization will be a consolidation of the current Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which coordinates the church’s missionary activities, and the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, which aims to promote a renewal of the faith in countries where Christian vitality has been waning.

A major focus of the constitution is to create a change in mentality and in the relationship between the Holy See and the local churches, represented by the world’s bishops, Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga said.

The constitution places the Vatican dicasteries at the service of both the pope and the bishops, who

are “successors of the apostles” and “are not in an ecclesiological position below those who work in the Roman Curia,” the Honduran cardinal said.

Cardinal Gracias said, “The pope wanted a mindset of service to prevail and that the Curia also be directly available to the bishops” in order to help them.

The various Vatican offices, therefore, are not meant to be something placed between the bishops and the pope nor are they to be just an “instrument” the pope uses to “supervise” the bishops; the curia is meant to be at the service of both the bishops and the pope, the Indian cardinal said.

Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga said the new offices and upcoming reforms not only streamline the Curia, but also “emphasize the importance of the laity in the church and for the church” by allowing the possibility for a layperson to head a dicastery.

Traditionally, congregations have a cardinal as prefect and pontifical councils have had either a cardinal or an archbishop as president.

The constitution’s prologue will emphasize the missionary role of all baptized men and women, not just those who have been ordained or consecrated, the Honduran cardinal added.

“The Roman Curia will never be the same anymore,” Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga added.

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In September 2018, India’s Supreme Court lifted the ban on entry of women of menstruating age – between 10 and 50 – to a temple in southern India, on grounds of nondiscrimination, equality and women’s right to practice religion, the article said.

The decision prompted protests from devotees, including women, who tried to stop girls and young women from entering the temple.

India was the named the most dangerous country for women in a Thomson Reuters Foundation 2018 survey, a drop from fourth-worst seven years earlier.

“The world’s second-most populous nation, with 1.3 billion people, ranked as the most dangerous on three of the topic questions – the risk of sexual violence and harassment against women, the danger women face from cultural, tribal and traditional practices, and the country where women are most in danger of human trafficking including forced labor, sex slavery and domestic servitude,” the foundation said.

In 2010, a Harvard School of Public Health researcher found systematic abuse of pregnant women in India.

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BANGKOK – Several experts believe the threat to churches in South and Southeast Asia has increased following the Easter bomb attacks that killed more than 250 people and injured 500.

Churches in those regions – which have 150 million Catholics and other Christians – have been the focus of attacks in a growing number of countries in recent years, including fatal bomb attacks on churches in the Philippines and Indonesia by Islamic radicals in the past 12 months.

Authorities in Sri Lanka and Australia have confirmed the Sri Lanka attackers had links to Islamic State, which claimed credit for the attack. Militant preacher Zahran Hashim, who authorities believe died as one of the suicide attackers at the Shangri-La Hotel, has been named the founder and leader of the now banned National Thowheeth Jama’ath group responsible. DNA tests are being undertaken to confirm this.

“Radical Islamic groups, some affiliated with larger extremist networks, have been quietly gaining influence in an arc of countries extending from the Maldives to the Philippines archipelago, and the threat they pose can no longer be ignored,” Brahma Chellaney, professor of strategic studies at the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research, wrote for his widely distributed Project Syndicate column.

“In fact, the grisly Sri Lankan bombings are a reminder that Asia – not the Middle East – is the region most afflicted by terrorist violence.”

POPE TO HAIRDRESSERS: CUT THE GOSSIP, BE POLITE

VATICAN CITY – Christian hairdressers, beauticians and barbers can live their faith by being kind and courteous to their clients and cutting out the gossip and petty chitchat, Pope Francis said.

“May you always act with integrity, thereby making a positive contribution to the common good,” he told cos-

resurrection, the pope said April 28 before praying the “Regina Coeli” with visitors gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

Just as Jesus invited a doubting Thomas to touch his wounds, Jesus extends that same invitation to everyone today, he said.

“It is as if Jesus were saying to all of us, ‘If you are not at peace, touch my wounds,’” which are also present in the problems, difficulties, suffering, illnesses and persecution so many people experience today, the pope said.

“Are you not at peace? Go. Go on and visit someone who is the symbol of Jesus’ wounds. Touch Jesus’ wounds” because they are a source of his peace and mercy, he added.

DUBLIN ARCHBISHOP: CHURCH ‘IMPRISONED IN PAST’

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DUBLIN, Ireland – The Catholic Church in Ireland is “imprisoned in the past” and needs to approach change creatively, Dublin Archbishop Young people light candles near the closed door of a church in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 28, 2019, Diarmuid Martin said in an April 22 during a vigil in memory of the victims of a string of suicide bomb attacks across the island on Easter. interview with The Irish Times.

The attacks killed more than 250 people and injured 500.

“You can’t whitewash it. The church has to re-find its future,” the newspaper’s website article quoted the “He accepted this humble condition, 74-year-old prelate. “The church is metologists who belong to an Italian living a life of total humility, radiant imprisoned in its past – not just by the Catholic association dedicated to St. with love” and dedicated with great abuse thing – in a whole culture and Martin de Porres. sacrifice to the poor and ill, using the that culture doesn’t respond any more Speaking April 29 to members of the to the realities. Therefore you’ve [got] association, who were on pilgrimage to medical skills he learned working in a pharmacy and for a barber-surgeon, to find creative ways of moving out Rome, the pope asked that their patron and they’ll be very, very different. And saint help them live out their Christian the pope said. He helped found the first hospital in the Americas in Lima, Peru. they won’t satisfy a lot of people.” values in the workplace.

Archbishop Martin said resisting “May he inspire you, above all, to change and closing ranks “isn’t the carry out your profession in a ChrisFIND PEACE BY VISITING THOSE answer.” tian way, treating clients with kindness WHO SUFFER, POPE SAYS Concerning Catholic schools, he and courtesy, always offering them a VATICAN CITY – People who feel restcontrasted Catholic and other schools kind and encouraging word, avoiding less or lacking inner peace will discover that are “almost hostile in their valthe temptation of gossip that easily it when they visit those who are experiues” with an education system “which finds its way in your workplace, too. encing great difficulty, suffering, illness respects difference but also fosters diaEveryone knows this,” he said. or persecution, Pope Francis said. logue and contact rather than shouting The pope praised the 16th-century Jesus’ wounds are a source of peace another.”

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Born on May 29, 1930, in Santa Barbara and raised there, Father Osborne was invested in the Franciscan order in 1947 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1955 at Old Mission Santa Barbara. After Father Kenan earning his doctorate in 1967 from Osborne, OFM Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, Munich, Germany, he served the Franciscan School of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, for more than 40 years A popular professor, dean and president, Father Osborne was also an intellectual leader in the world-

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• Develop best practices for the AMDCS • Work closely with the Associate Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction to oversee the academic program and AMDCS monthly professional development.

• Support an evidenced-based culture to capture data on student achievement and outcomes • Build connections between and amongst the AMDCS school communities.

• Redevelop the AMDCS Development Board.

• Work closely with AMDCS Development Coordinator to host and promote AMDCS with potential benefactors and donors.

• Be a regular presence at the AMDCS schools

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subsequent assessment of a variety of Catholic Identity practices, including the Catholic Identity Factors as part of the Western Catholic Education Association (WCEA)/ Western Association of Schools & Colleges (WASC) Accreditation process.

• Sit on the School Boards of each school as an Ex Officio member • Sit on the finance committee of each school • Work closely with the pastor that shares governance of the school • Support principals in meeting their day to day responsibilities as Catholic school administrators.

• Troubleshoot student and parent issues in conjunction with the Human Resource & Legal departments of the Archdiocese.

• Ensure compliance with federal, state, local and archdiocesan policies and procedures.

• Work with principal and other elementary school staff on enrollment management.

• Evaluate principals within the assigned regional Archdiocesan elementary schools.

• Chair the principal hiring committee when a change of leadership occurs.

3. Support the Efforts of the Superintendent and the Department of Catholic Schools • Participate in the process for annual school visits.

• Review and approve school calendars annually.

• All other duties as assigned by the Superintendent of Schools.

these plans with attention to detail.

• Capacity to manage multiple tasks and taking the initiative to develop solutions to problems with limited supervision, time, and resources • Skills in the application of computer software and technologies to support teaching and learning • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Excellent relationship skills

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

Please submit cover letter, resume and completed application to

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POPE: Makes donation to help migrants traveling through Mexico FROM PAGE 1

Mary and the Hermanas Josefinas.

The donation comes as the crush of migrants arriving at the U.S. border reaches levels not seen in more than a decade. Mexico’s Catholic Church has helped the migrants with little cooperation from the various levels of government.

Priests who work on immigration matters say the federal government has yet to outline a policy or offer a proper response, while state and local governments prefer not spend money on migrants.

“Nobody wants to take charge,” said Father Javier Calvillo, director of the Ciudad Juarez migrant shelter.

The donation was made as Mexico comes under U.S. pressure and steps up its own enforcement against migrants – backpedaling from a promise made by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in his 2018 campaign not to “do the dirty work of any foreign government.”

In March, U.S. authorities detained 92,607 migrants, more than twice as many migrants as arrived one year earlier. The number of unaccompanied minors and family unit detentions has soared in the fiscal 2019 by 66 percent and 374 percent respectively, when compared to the same period one year earlier, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

“Men and women, often with young children, flee poverty and violence, hoping for a better future in the United States. But the U.S. border remains closed for them,” the Peter’s Pence statement said.

Thousands of Central Americans have traveled

(CNS PHOTO/JOSE CABEZAS, REUTERS)

A family of Central American migrants is detained by Mexican federal police officers April 22, 2019, in Pijijiapan, Mexico, during their journey toward the United States.

more than 2,500 miles in caravans from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to the U.S. border at Tijuana, Mexico, drawing the ire of President Donald Trump.

“All these people were stranded, unable to enter the United States, without a home or livelihood.

The Catholic Church hosts thousands of them in the shelters of dioceses or religious congregations, providing the necessary to live, from housing to clothing,” the statement said.

Further complicating matters, migrants who transit Mexico and request asylum in the United States are turned away at border crossings and required to put their names on long waiting lists, a process known as metering.

This process has put enormous pressure on migrant shelters in Mexico-U.S. border cities, which

are often rife with insecurity and where migrants are preyed upon by criminal gangs. A plan known as Remain in Mexico has also sent hundreds of U.S. asylum-seekers back to the Mexican side of the border, while their claims are heard in U.S. courts.

“At the northern and southern borders, these places of welcome are currently overpopulated,” said an April 27 statement from the Mexican bishops’ conference.

Shelter operators in border cities say they cannot attend to migrants arriving from the south, a flood of deportees and ever-more asylum-seekers requiring long-term shelter as they wait in Mexico to make their claims in the United States.

Additionally, “Among the residents of the towns and cities where some of these shelters are, they have started to raise strong concerns about informal campaigns that ‘criminalize’ migrants and impede them from being able to obtain jobs, rent an apartment or travel quietly in the streets,” the bishops’ statement said.

Churches in the Dioceses of Tapachula, which serves the path through Chiapas state that caravans have followed upon entering Mexico, previously responded with outpourings of generosity when caravans first arrived. But priests say the fatigue has set in and fewer people pitch in.

Bishop Jaime Calderon of Tapachula told reporters April 28 the church would continue to support migrants, even if public opinion wasn’t favorable.

“We have spoken here of a humanitarian crisis and we believe, in accordance with our faith, we have to help. They’re brothers,” Bishop Calderon said.

SISTER: ‘We would do the same,’ says border ministry nun FROM PAGE 1

“Whether it’s in your family or community or anywhere in the world, there’s always someone to help, and if you’re doing something now you can probably do more,” she said. “Don’t limit yourself to the bare minimum.”

During her visit to the Bay Area, Sister Pimentel also attended Mass at Our Lady of the Pillar Church in Half Moon Bay and later met with area

families that had come through the Humanitarian Respite Center. Sister Norma told Catholic San Francisco that the families she had met with “are doing very well because they are invited in and embraced as part of the community. It’s good to see how people are happy as part of a community.”

Sister Pimentel’s visit came at the invitation of Bay Area Border Relief, a group that has organized humanitarian missions to Texas to bring immigrants clothing, basic necessities, profes-

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Hymn Festival May 12. It is requested that participants take part in at least two rehearsals. 6:30-8 p.m. Contact Rebekah Wu, music director to RSVP at puretonesoprano@yahoo.com or (415) 269-3881; benedictinstitute.org.

PEACE MASS: All Hallows Chapel, 1715 Oakdale Ave., San Francisco, 9 a.m., Father Dan Carter, pastor, principal celebrant. (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

FIRST SATURDAY MASS: 11 a.m., All Saints Chapel, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road, Colma. Father Michael Strange, SS, celebrant.

TUESDAY, MAY 7

WOMEN’S RETREAT: “The Nature of Women,” 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Star of the Sea Parish, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, with representatives from Endow (Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women). $45 ticket includes lunch and child care. Ed Hopfner, hopfnere@ sfarch.org; sfarch.org/endow.

SUNDAY, MAY 5 CATHEDRAL PARISH COMMUNITY MASS: Noon Mass celebrating the anniversary of the cathedral’s dedication.

Bilingual liturgy, in English and Spanish, replaces regularly scheduled Masses for the weekend, including the Saturday evening Mass. (415) 567-2020; smcsf.org.

‘MOSAIC’: Join host John Gray on KPIX television Channel 5, CBS Bay Area, 5:30 a.m., for a conversation on “Canon Law and Spiritual Order,” with Robert W. Graffio, JCL, a canon lawyer and vice chancellor of the archdiocese.

Graffio talks about canon law and its relation to sacramental recordkeeping, declarations of nullity, and more. Past episodes of ‘Mosaic’ are archived and viewable at sfarch.org/mosaic-tv.

“SEXUAL ABUSE, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, & THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSPARENCY”: 7-8:30 p.m., panel discussion at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, with speakers journalist Peter Steinfels from Fordham University and canon lawyer Jennifer Haselberger. “The sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church has entered a new phase in which transparency is either volunteered by the church or demanded by the state,” the event description states. “But how should this often shocking news be received?”

Co-sponsored by the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and the SCU Ignatian Center. Information and registration, scu.edu/ethics/events.

THURSDAY, MAY 9 EPIPHANY CENTER MOM’S LUNCHEON: Celebrate motherhood with Epiphany Center, 11:30 a.m., St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco and help raise funds for San Francisco’s most vulnerable women, children, and families. A work of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. For more information and to purchase tickets, (415) 351-4055; TheEpiphanyCenter.org.

SVDP DINNER HONORS BISHOP JUSTICE: The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo’s annual fund-a-need evening for “Hands and Hearts Making a Difference,” benefiting SVdP’s Children of God Community Impact Fund, 6 p.m.

Retired Bishop William J. Justice will be honored for his lifelong support of SVdP. For more information and tickets visit svdpsm.org or call (650) 343-1272.

MONDAY, MAY 6 MEN’S CHANT CHOIR INVITES MEMBERS: Men of all experience levels in chant are invited to sing with the new Benedict XVI Institute Men’s Chant Choir debuting at the second Marian

MONTHLY DISCERNMENT MEETING: Held the first Sunday of each month, 6-8:30 p.m., Church of the Epiphany, 847 Vienna St., San Francisco. Meet with the vocation director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and men from around the diocese who are discerning a call to the priesthood.

Eucharistic adoration in the church followed by a dinner/discussion in the rectory. Upcoming dates: June 6, July 4, Aug. 1, Sept. 5, Oct. 3, Nov. 7, Dec. 5. For information or to RSVP, Father Cameron Faller, (415) 333-7630, ext.

16, faller.cameron@sfarch.org. Meetings with similar format continue May 6, and June 3, 6:15-8:30 p.m. St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. For information or to RSVP, Father Tom Martin, martin.thomas@ sfarch.org.

SATURDAY, MAY 11 ‘SIPS AND SAMPLES’: St. Sebastian Parish, Greenbrae, wine, beer and soda tasting and ethnic foods and desserts, silent and live auction. 6 p.m. Tickets $40. (415) 461-0704. Free parking.

HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch, both in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. RSVP Diane Prell, activities coordinator, (415) 452-3500; www.Handicapables.com. Dates are subject to change.

MONDAY, MAY 12 MOTHER’S DAY HYMNS: The Benedict XVI Institute chorus with its new deacons’ choir will sing songs for Mother’s Day with Mary in mind, 4 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Free admission. www.sfarchdiocese.org/events/marianhymns.

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