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Pope: Make disciples for Christ, not for one’s group CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Every Christian is called to be a missionary, sharing the good news of salvation in Christ and making disciples for him, not for oneself or one’s clique of like-minded believers, Pope Francis said.

“What instructions does the Lord give us for going forth to others? Only one, and it’s very simple: Make disciples. But, be careful: his disciples, not our own,” the pope said Oct. 20 as he celebrated World Mission Sunday.

Dozens of participants from the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon joined the pope for the Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica; many indigenous wore their native headdresses, had their faces painted or dressed in traditional clothes.

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‘Lead, kindly light:’ Pope Francis names Newman a saint COURTNEY MARES CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

VATICAN CITY – Nearly two centuries ago, John Henry Newman was England’s most well-known Anglican priest, until he risked everything to become a Catholic. On Oct. 13, 2019, he became a saint.

In his homily at the canonization Mass, Pope Francis told Catholics the goal of life is a transforming encounter with Jesus.

“The ultimate goal is not health or wellness, but the encounter with Jesus. He alone frees us from evil and heals our hearts. Only an encounter with him can save, can make life full and beautiful,” the pope said.

Pope Francis officially recognized John Henry Newman, Mariam Thresia, Marguerite Bays, Giuseppina Vannini and Dulce Lopes as saints.

“Today we give thanks to the Lord for our new SEE NEWMAN, PAGE 8

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From left, Barry McNamara, Malu Sanchez, Leonor Luna and Carolyne Bosque at their rite of profession Oct. 6 at St. Charles Church. The four joined the Secular Franciscan Order, which is dedicated to laity and diocesan clergy living out the Gospel according to the example of St. Francis.

Secular Franciscans bring faith into the heart and the world NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Four lay Catholics committed themselves to an 800-year-old spiritual tradition that continues to nourish faith in the modern world when they joined the Secular Franciscan Order.

Carolyne Bosque, Leonor Luna, Barry McNamara and Malu Sanchez entered the Mt. Alverna Fraternity of the Secular Franciscans Sunday, Oct. 6 during Mass at St. Charles Church in San Carlos.

During their rite of profession, the four promised to live the Gospel in imitation of St. Francis and follow the rule of the Secular Francisan Order.

Joanne Dobrzynski, a spiritual assistant with the order, said the order continues to attract interest because “you find brothers and sisters who understand how you want to live your spiritual life.

When we come together to pray or do good works, there’s a comfort and connection there that helps us to live our baptismal promises through the lens of Franciscan life.”

The Secular Franciscan Order is a religious order open to lay men and women and diocesan priests and deacons with about 350,000 members worldwide. The formation process for joining takes about two and a half years: After a period of inquiry, people become candidates for six months and then do a further 18 months of study to prepare for membership in the order. Its members do not wear habits and continue to live in the world, rather than joining a monastery or convent.

The order was founded by St. Francis in 1221.

Dobrzynski said the saint established it so that laity could participate in the order’s spirituality and also to make sure that the Franciscan spirituality would never disappear from the world.

Dobrzynski said St. Francis originally called the Secular Franciscans “brothers and sisters of penance,” not in the sense of “being on your knees praying but transforming the world for SEE SECULAR FRANCISCANS, PAGE 20

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NEED TO KNOW ALL SAINTS: Friday, Nov. 1, is All Saints Day, a Holy Day of Obligation. According to the USCCB, on this feast day “We remember the saints and martyrs who were servants of the Lord during their earthly lives and ask that they pray for us to one day join them in heaven.”

ALL SOULS: Archbishop Cordileone will celebrate a solemn requiem Mass Saturday, Nov. 2, at 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. The Benedict Sixteen choir will sing music written by Portuguese composer Duarte Lobo. Mass will be livestreamed. To learn more, go to https://sfarchdiocese.org/events/all-soulsmass.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD TRIAL: The Archdiocese of San Francisco will carry daily reports on proceedings in Planned Parenthood Federation of America vs. Center for Medical Progress, a civil case now on trial before U.S. District Court William Orrick in San Francisco. The suit stems from undercover videos published by the center in 2015. Based in Culver City, the center describes itself “as a group of citizen journalists dedicated to monitoring and reporting on medical ethics and advances.” Visit www. sfarch.org/trial-blog for updates or to learn about the case.

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On Sept. 27, St. Patrick’s Seminary & University celebrated the feast day of San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila, the patron saint of the Philippine people. The day included a procession around the circular drive of the seminary with a statue of the saint accompanied by traditional Philippine music. Later, the community enjoyed bamboo pole dance and roast pig.

ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE’S SCHEDULE OCT. 25-26: St. Patrick’s Seminary board retreat OCT. 27: Blessing of the grotto and Mass, St. Elizabeth Parish, 11:15 a.m.

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NOV. 2: All Souls Day Mass, cathedral, 11 a.m.

NOV. 3: Vocation Holy Hour, St. Pius, 3 p.m., St. Mark Parish pro-life dinner and talk, 5 p.m.

NOV. 4: Catholic Charities executive committee meeting NOV. 6: Cabinet and chancery meetings NOV. 7: Presbyteral Council and chancery meetings; Marriage Encounter dinner, Corpus Christi Parish NOV. 8: Mass for deceased priests of the Archdiocese, 11 a.m., cathedral

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On Sept. 27, the St. Patrick’s Seminary & University community celebrated the feast day of San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila, the patron saint of the Philippines and the Filipino people, with a procession, Mass and traditional Filipino feast.

San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila was a missionary to Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate in the mid17th century. He was eventually martyred along with his companions for his Catholic beliefs. His last words were “I am a Catholic and wholeheartedly do accept death for God; had I a thousand lives, all these to Him shall I offer.”

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Filipino seminarians, who make up a fifth of the student body.

The event began with a procession around the seminary’s main drive and into Mass in the main chapel.

Recently ordained Father Ernesto Jandonero celebrated the Mass, assisted by Deacons Ron Pangan and Junee Valencia of the Archdiocese of Agana, Guam. The homily was given by Father Victor Trinidad of the Diocese of San Jose, who detailed the sacrifice that San Lorenzo and his companions made for the faith. Seminary rector Father Dan Donohoo shared a reflection.

After the Mass, guests processed to the refectory for a reception with traditional Filipino foods and traditional “Tinikling” bamboo dance.

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Priests retirement luncheon highlights life of service NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Nearly 500 people gathered for the ninth annual St. John Vianney priests retirement luncheon at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 11, a sign of gratitude and support for the men who spent their lives serving the church.

Emcee Father Michael Quinn, pastor of Star of the Sea in Sausalito, told the crowd, “By your support here today, you really do take care of the people who serve you. It’s a privilege to serve you, so thank you for returning the compliment.”

Father Quinn added that priests “all do what we do because we have such wonderful people of God. One of the questions I’ve enjoyed in my life is what is the worst parish in San Francisco?

There’s not a single bad parish: The people are wonderful in every parish.”

The luncheon also helps build up the local church, he said. “When we spend time to meet each other we make ourselves a stronger community.”

Rod Linhares, archdiocesan development director, praised the luncheon as a “unique opportunity” to form and renew friendships between clergy and laity. It has also been a successful program to support retired priests living expenses, raising about $2.25 million since it started in 2011.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone thanked the luncheon’s sponsors and volunteers and quipped the gathering reminded him of the saying that “old priests never die, they just lose their faculties.”

The archbishop praised the men who, he said, have seen good and bad times in

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Msgr. Floro Arcamo and Bishop William J. Justice were specially honored at the ninth annual St. John Vianney luncheon at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 11. Left, Father Anthony McGuire told attendees that being a pastor is “a great gift.” He said he cherished the “opportunity to speak the word of God.” the church and “have remained faithful to their vocation through their ups and downs over the course of history.”

The luncheon’s special honorees this year were Bishop William J. Justice, Msgr. Floro Arcamo and Msgr. John Rodriguez. Bishop Justice this year celebrated 51 years as a priest; Msgr.

Arcamo, 54 years; and Msgr. Rodriquez, 60 years.

The luncheon also had an interview with a retired priest, Father Anthony McGuire, a resident of Serra Clergy House. Father McGuire said being a pastor is “a great gift,” adding that he cherished the “opportunity to speak the word of God.”

The priest said it took time to accustom himself to retirement. As a pastor, he said, his life had been run by “the alarm clock, the bell at church, the schedule and the phone.” After retiring, those no longer ran his day.

“It takes a while to go nonstop to third gear to first gear,” he said.

In response to being asked how retirement fundraising benefits him, Father McGuire deadpanned “the big thing is drugs. Retired priests are hooked on drugs, but they’re all

prescription drugs.” Turning more serious, he said the procedures and medications required for priests care are not always covered by insurance and thanked the crowd for their support.

The luncheon also remembered priests who died during the year: Cardinal William J. Levada, Bishop Robert F. Christian, Msgr. John Pernia, Father Richard Deitch, Father James Morris, Jesuit Father Steve Pisano and Franciscan Brother George Cherrie.

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DIAPER DUTY: Members of Knights of Columbus Council 12683 of Church of the Visitacion Parish delivered diapers to Epiphany Center’s Mary Rhoades on Oct. 10. The San Francisco parish held a diaper drive Oct. 6 to benefit the Daughter of Charities nonprofit on Masonic Avenue which supports women recovering from addiction and their children. Diapers are a significant expense for Epiphany Center and the drive was part of the parish’s Respect Life Sunday observances.

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Marilyn Panelli, center, who graduated from St. Peter Academy 64 years ago, is pictured with former thir -grade students of the school where she volunteers as a classroom aide. Marilyn will be recognized as an outstanding alumna during the school’s annual Alumni Memorial Mass Oct. 27.

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Marilyn Panelli, who graduated from St. Peter Academy more than 64 years ago, is being honored by her alma mater for the life she has led since she left it in 1955.

In a videotaped interview conducted by current students in advance of the 140-year-old school’s Alumni and Memorial Mass on Oct. 27 at St. Peter Church, Marilyn gave much of the credit to the Mercy Sisters who were her teachers at the parish school.

“They made me who I am as much as my parents did,” Marilyn said. “I probably would have become one of them if my husband hadn’t come along.”

St. Peter pastor Father Moises Agudo, and University of San Francisco president Father Paul Fitzgerald, SJ, will concelebrate the Mass for the annual event.

Born in San Francisco to Italian-American parents, Marilyn Musante attended St. Peter School from elementary school through high school.

“It was heaven,” she said. “I couldn’t wait to go to school each day.”

Marilyn was president of her senior class and also student body president of St. Peter Academy, which not long after her graduation became a K-8 school known as St. Peter School.

At 19, she married and enrolled at Lone Mountain College (now part of the University of San Francisco). She raised a family while earning a teaching credential which she put to good use as a grade school teacher at Holy Name School in San Francisco.

Marilyn has remained close to St. Peter School and has served as president of the St. Peter’s Academy Alumni Association. She has volunteered in third grade teacher Cyndi Gonzalez’s classroom for over five years and is a Mercy Associate.

“I like what the school does, I’m really proud,” Marilyn said, noting that it has always welcomed “people newer to being American,” who were not wealthy and make sacrifices to give their children a Catholic school education.

Marilyn helps fund high school scholarships to Archbishop Riordan High School and Immaculate Conception Academy in San Francisco.

“Knowing how expensive it is now for families, just that little bit out of my monthly money is not much,” she said. “I feel like I’m giving back.”

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BACF was established as the Burmese Ministry by the archdiocese’s office of ethnic ministries in 1997. The Burmese Catholic community celebrates Mass together at St. Thomas More Church on the first Saturday of each month, incorporating Burmese language and costume.

BURMESE CATHOLICS REJOICE: The local Burmese Catholic community gathered for Mass Oct. 5 at St. Thomas More Church in San Francisco to mark the 25th anniversary of the Burmese American Catholic Fellowship (BACF). Father Stephen Mahn Thapwa, a visiting Burmese priest, founded BACF in San Francisco in 1995 with the aim of providing spiritual, social and personal support to local Burmese American Catholic families.

It also supports Catholic missionary endeavors in Burma, also known as Myanmar.

Father Thapwa, St. Thomas More pastor Father Marvin-Paul R. Felipe, associate pastor Father Richard Van De Water and Father Chrysostom Ah Maung, concelebrated the anniversary Mass.

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Silicon Valley’s leader in ideas and ideals announces its 29th President. A respected theologian, educator, and former practicing lawyer, President Kevin O’Brien, S.J., guides Santa Clara University in its effort to help build a more just, gentle, and sustainable world. Leading the $1 billion Innovating with a Mission campaign, Fr. O’Brien will further advance our mission as a Jesuit, Catholic university to educate the next generation of ethical leaders.

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Colma’s Veterans Village offers new life for homeless servicemen and women CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Navy veteran Carl Moisoff takes pride in his neat, one-bedroom apartment at the newly opened Veterans Village in Colma.

“I was the very first one accepted here because I had my paperwork all in order,” Moisoff told Catholic San Francisco on Oct. 17. He moved in when the complex opened on Aug. 15. “I’m so grateful.”

It’s a far cry from the car he lived in for seven years after an injury and a series of family tragedies left him disabled, destitute and depressed.

Moisoff’s unit has a peaceful view of a duck pond and the landscaped hills of Holy Cross Cemetery, a visual reminder of the cemetery’s role in his new circumstances.

Veterans Village was built on a triangular wedge of land owned by the cemetery, which leased it to Mercy Housing to support homeless veterans.

“It was definitely an underused piece of property,” said cemetery director Monica Williams, who attended a dedication in the village courtyard Oct. 8 with the individuals and agencies that made Veterans Village possible, including the new residents.

Father Stephen Howell led the dedication.

Williams said the city of Colma approached the cemetery in 2013 about the land as a site for the construction of new affordable housing units. The cemetery was agreeable, she said, in part because the site just outside the cemetery entrance which housed old pumps and wells, “wasn’t that useful to the cemetery.”

A multi-agency partnership was developed between Holy Cross, Mercy Housing, the city of Colma, San Mateo County and the U.S. Office of Veterans Affairs to build Veterans Village.

The village features 66 units of affordable and supportive housing for homeless military veterans, many with disabilities and ranging in age from their mid-30s to their late-60s.

Comprehensive case management and supportive services are provided onsite by the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System and Brilliant Corners, a nonprofit agency that serves veterans and others transitioning from homelessness.

“We focus most of our time on the corporal work of mercy of burying our dead,” said Williams. “But this is a corporal work of mercy too.”

“I was wandering the streets,” said Larry Shapiro, who served in the Air Force from 1958-1965. He lost and eye and part of both legs in an airplane accident.

He was thrilled to find his unit had a long galley-

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Above, Navy veteran Belinda Payne and her teenage son were homeless before they were accepted at Veterans Village. Right, Navy veteran Carl Moisoff is pictured in his apartment at Veterans Village in Colma, a newly opened project for homeless veterans run by Mercy Housing on land leased from Holy Cross Cemetery. Moisoff had lived in his car for seven years before moving in Aug. 15.

Above, Marine Corps veteran James Nelson III was disabled in the Vietnam War and spent much of the last decade living in shelters, motels or the streets until he moved into Veterans Village. Right, Air Force veteran Larry Shapiro lost an eye and a leg in an airplane accident. style kitchen he could navigate easily in his wheelchair.

Decades after a catastrophic head injury abbreviated his Marine Corps service during the Vietnam War, James Nelson III retains his military bearing.

He said he “became a drunk” after his honorable discharge and for the last five years has been homeless.

“I’ve been living in shelters and motels for years,” he said. “So I’m blessed with what we have here.”

Navy veteran Belinda Payne said a wide variety of past traumas is what she and many of her Veterans Village neighbors have in common.

She described how a sexual assault in the military decades ago wreaked havoc in her life and eventually led to crippling anxiety, drug and alcohol abuse and eventual homelessness. Her teenage son lives with her at Veterans Village.

“The blessing about being here is that I can just put the horrible experiences in a box over there and begin to move on,” she said.

St. Ignatius solidarity ‘sleep-in’ highlights migrants’ plight LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

Amy Stewart knows very well what solidarity means. She and a group of St. Ignatius parishioners in San Francisco are working to shield a group of families from El Salvador from the ravages of migration, family separation and cultural uprooting.

Stewart is a volunteer with Las Vecinas de El Salvador (Neighbors of El Salvador), a parish social ministries group committed to helping San Antonio parish in Soyapango, San Salvador, its sister parish.

The group raises funds to support parish ministries and social work training and also helps with education grants, job training and computers.

“Unemployment is very high over there,” Stewart said. “Strengthening the economies of impoverished communities in Latin America can reduce the need for residents to migrant to the United States.”

Above all, and from a Jesuit viewpoint, the group wants to be able to “help people improve their lives there in their country, where they want to be,” Stewart said.

Stewart participated in a Mass and Solidarity Sleep-In for migrant families on Oct. 12, at St. Ignatius Church. The all-night event was organized

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Jesuit Father Greg Bonfiglio, pastor of St. Ignatius Parish in San Francisco, presided at an Oct. 12 Mass during a parish day of solidarity for migrant families. The day included a “sleep-in” on church pews to bring home the hardships migrants to the U.S. face on their northbound journey.

by Jesuit Father Travis Russell, associate pastor, to draw attention to the families that have been forced to leave their countries because of insecurity and poverty.

The event also featured the screening and discussion of a documentary about the suffering caused by the detention and separation of migrant children at the border.

One of the goals of the event was to motivate parishioners to get involved with these suffering families as depicted in the short documentary, titled “How Family Separation Traumatized Children,” produced by The Atlantic.

The documentary features the struggle of a Honduran asylum-seeker, Anita, separated from her son after they arrived at the Mexico-U.S. border and the efforts of Jodi Goodwin, a Texas-based probono immigration lawyer, to reunite them.

In the documentary, Anita laments the circumstances that forced her to come: “I had no choice but to leave my country, but I did not imagine that my son was going to suffer so much ... they took him to ‘la hielera,’” a temporary Border Patrol detention center.

The documentary ends with the reunification of Anita and Jenri and their departure to North Carolina to meet with the boy’s father.

Despite that happy ending, migrant children continue to carry the trauma of separation and many die along the way.

Photos of children who died in recent months SEE ST. IGNATIUS, PAGE 23

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 24, 2019

White Mass: Gospel closely links healing and evangelization NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The vocations of healing and evangelization are deeply connected throughout the history of the church, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone told Catholic medical professionals gathered for the second annual archdiocesan White Mass.

Through their lives, he said, Catholic health care workers “can bear witness to the truth of the Gospel, to the truth of human dignity, that we are spiritual as well as material beings.”

About 250 people gathered Friday, Oct. 18 at Mater Dolorosa Church in South San Francisco for the White Mass and Blessing for Catholic Medical Professionals, where the archbishop spoke about the Catholic understanding of health care and how it relates to the Christian’s life in the world.

Archbishop Cordileone thanked the Catholic Medical Association and the Mass’ organizers in his homily, and said the health care industry, which has a significant presence in San Francisco, is one “that needs to be transformed through the values of the Gospel with an ever greater attention to respect the dignity of human life.”

The archbishop said it was appropriate to hold the Mass on the Feast of St. Luke, a companion of St. Paul’s who was a physician and authored a Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles.

St. Luke is an example of the close connection in the church between healing and evangelization, which existed before the establishment of the church, he said. In the Gospel, Jesus sends out 72 disciples to proclaim the Kingdom of God. When the disciples reach a town, he instructs them to cure the sick and preach that the kingdom of God is near.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at the second annual archdiocesan White Mass Oct. 18 at Mater Dolorosa Church. The White Mass is celebrated for Catholics who work in the health care industry.

“The ministry of healing is intrinsic to the proclamation of the Gospel,” the archbishop said. “We see it here in our Lord’s instruction as he’s forming his church and we see it in his own life, all the many healings he did: it was always in connection to teach a point of Gospel truth and lead people on their journey to a deeper communion with God.” Throughout its history the church has continued that connection, Archbishop Cordileone said. First-century Christians in Rome stayed behind to care for the sick during plagues, “at great risk to their health and lives,” extending their healing ministry regardless of the beliefs or lives of their patients.

Later on in history, the Catholic Church would develop the institutional

model of the hospital and communities of religious formed to provide health care, especially to the poor.

The archbishop said, “This was a religious vocation. People forsook the whole world: many women, as well as men, from very early on committed themselves to this ministry so they could have wholehearted devotion to

the person of Jesus Christ as he appears to us in the sick and suffering.”

The Catholic understanding of health care, he said, is shown in ‘salus,’ which is the Latin word for health as well as salvation.

“This is the Christian vision, seen in each human being, especially the poor, the sick and the destitute: a priceless child beloved by God whom God calls to turn away from sin and toward him so that they might be saved. It’s with an ultimate vision of helping this person on the path to salvation,” he said.

Archbishop Cordileone said Catholic health care workers must adhere to the same vision in every institution they serve, and said that through their witness, they can “sow the seeds of the Gospel” and evangelize their workplaces and communities, fulfilling the Second Vatican Council’s vision of the lay vocation.

The archbishop thanked Catholic medical professionals for demonstrating through their example “that we know that the sick are not a problem to be solved but a suffering soul to be surrounded by love, affection and support.”

Like St. Luke, he said, “you are called to be medical professionals and evangelists, to continue the work of the Gospel precisely through your human profession.”

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POPE: Make disciples for Christ, not for one’s group FROM PAGE 1

Pope Francis recalled the 100th anniversary of Pope Benedict XV’s apostolic letter on mission, “Maximum Illud.” The letter, Pope Francis said, was motivated by his predecessor’s conviction of “the need to evangelically relaunch the church’s mission in the world so that it would be purified of any colonial incrustation and freed from the influences of the expansionist policies of European nations.”

Today, he said, the letter calls Catholics “to overcome the temptation of every self-referential closure and every form of pastoral pessimism in order to open us to the joyful newness of the Gospel.”

At a time when globalization seems more about “homogenization” and power struggles that breed conflict and “ruin the planet” rather than solidarity and respect for differences, Pope Francis said, Christians must be missionary disciples who share the Gospel with humility and respect.

The pope asked Catholics to commit themselves to

a new effort to proclaim “the good news that in Jesus mercy defeats sin, hope defeats fear, brotherhood defeats hostility.”

“Christ is our peace,” the pope said, “and in him every division is overcome; in him alone there is salvation for every person and all people.”

In his homily at the Mass, Pope Francis said Christians are called to share God’s love and mercy with all people. “All, because no one is excluded from his heart, from his salvation. All, so that our heart can go beyond human boundaries and particularism based on a self-centeredness that displeases God. All, because everyone is a precious treasure, and the meaning of life is found only in giving this treasure to others.”

“Those who bear witness to Jesus go out to all, not just to their own acquaintances or their little group,” he said.

The call to be a missionary is a call that is included in every Christian’s baptism, the pope said, telling people at the Mass: “Jesus is also saying to you: ‘Go, don’t miss a chance to bear me witness!’ My brother,

my sister, the Lord expects from you a testimony that no one can give in your place.”

The first and most important way to share the Gospel with others is by living it, he said. “A credible proclamation is not made with beautiful words, but by an exemplary life: a life of service that is capable of rejecting all those material things that shrink the heart and make people indifferent and inward-looking; a life that renounces the useless things that entangle the heart in order to find time for God and others.”

Being a missionary disciple, he said, does not mean “conquering, mandating, proselytizing,” but rather “witnessing, humbling oneself alongside other disciples and offering with love the love that we ourselves received.”

“Our mission,” he said, is “to give pure and fresh air to those immersed in the pollution of our world; to bring to earth that peace which fills us with joy whenever we meet Jesus on the mountain in prayer; to show by our lives, and perhaps even by our words, that God loves everyone and never tires of anyone.”

NEWMAN: ‘Life full and beautiful’ in encounter with Jesus FROM PAGE 1

saints. They walked by faith and now we invoke their intercession,” he said.

Pope Francis read a quote from one of Newman’s sermons describing the holiness of daily life: “The Christian has a deep, silent, hidden peace, which the world sees not... The Christian is cheerful, easy, kind, gentle, courteous, candid, unassuming; has no pretense... with so little that is unusual or striking in his bearing, that he may easily be taken at first sight for an ordinary man.”

Newman was a 19th-century theologian, poet, Catholic priest and cardinal. Born in 1801, he was before his conversion a well-known and well-respected Oxford academic, Anglican preacher and public intellectual.

His 1845 conversion to the Catholic faith was controversial in England, and resulted in the loss of many friends, including his own sister who never spoke to him again. He became a priest in 1847 and founded the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in England.

Newman was particularly dedicated to education, founding two schools for boys and the Catholic University of Ireland. He was made a cardinal in 1879 and died in Birmingham in 1890 aged 89.

Father Daniel Donohoo, president-rector of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University and a devotee of St. John Henry Newman, told Catholic San Francisco that one of the most remarkable things about the newly canonized saint was his devotion to divine providence.

Divine providence, for Newman, was that “even though we often cannot understand what’s going on in our lives, that’s really not our business. Our business is about submitting to God and trusting that God has purposes that go far beyond our ability to comprehend,” Father Donohoo said.

Despite the misfortunes Newman encountered – major illnesses, character attacks and mistreatSt. John Henry ment by the Catholic hierarchy in Newman England – “he never lost sense of that divine providence.”

That attitude can be important today, he said, in a post-modern world in which “often we think our story is just our story. He believes our stories are much more important than they appear because they are part of God’s story.”

Father Donohoo said Catholics can also take inspiration from Newman’s emphasis on personal witness of the Christian life.

“He believed that one of the great features of holiness was a certain consistency and peace in one’s life and that when people saw these things in an individual they would be moved by that,” he said.

Along with Newman, Pope Francis canonized four women.

Mother Mariam Thresia (1876-1926) was an Indian mystic and founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family.

Giuseppina Vannini (1859-1911) was a religious sister from Rome known for founding the congregation of the Daughters of St. Camillus dedicated to serving the sick and suffering. Sister Dulce Lopes Pontes (1914-1992) founded the largest charitable organization in Brazil providing healthcare, welfare, and education service.

Pope Francis said that these religious women saints show us that the consecrated life is “a journey of love at the existential peripheries of the world.”

“Saint Marguerite Bays, on the other hand, was a seamstress; she speaks to us of the power of simple prayer, enduring patience and silent self-giving,” the pope said. “That is how the Lord made the splendor of Easter radiate in her life.”

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Mattis: Nation must remember ‘core principles we used to know, live by’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK – Now is the time to remember “the core principles we used to know and live by and that we now seem to have forgotten,” according to retired Marine Gen. James Mattis.

The former secretary of defense said America is not a finished work or a failed project but an ongoing experiment for which all bear a responsibility, including the responsibility to repair.

“We seem to have forgotten that the foundational virtue of democracy is trust, not in men’s own rectitude or opinion, but trust in the capacity of collective deliberation to move us forward,” he said.

Mattis was the keynote speaker at the 74rd annual dinner of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation held Oct. 17 at the New York Hilton.

The Al Smith dinner honors the memory of the former governor of New York, who was the first Catholic nominated by a major political party to run for president of the United States.

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, who hosted the evening, said

it raised $5.2 million and drew 1,000 guests. Both are new records for a year in which the presidential nominees are not the headliners. Proceeds from the $5,000-a-plate event help needy children in Greater New York.

One thousand guests dined on lobster salad, tournedos of beef and Normandy chocolate tart at the traditionally festive gathering of political, religious and philanthropic New Yorkers.

Among the formally dressed celebrities on the three-tiered dais were New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill DiBlasio, Sens.

Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Former New York Mayors Mike Bloomberg and David Dinkins were warmly welcomed as they took their places.

Comedian Martin Short was the dinner’s master of ceremonies. Peering at the attendees, he announced, “What a diverse audience: Catholics and lapsed Catholics!”

He said with the departure of Mattis from the Cabinet, “the only military man left in Donald Trump’s life is Colonel Sanders.”

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Candidates announced for next USCCB president

BARR SEES ‘GROWING REFUSAL’ TO ACCOMMODATE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION

WASHINGTON – Religion “helps promote moral discipline within society” and “helps teach, train and habituate people to want what is good,” U.S. Attorney General William Barr told an audience at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

“Religion helps frame moral culture within society that instills and reinforces moral discipline,” he said, but “over the past 50 years religion has been under increasing attack” by secularists.

There has been a “steady erosion of our traditional Judeo-Christian moral system” and “a comprehensive effort to drive it from the public square,” he added.

He made the comments in an Oct. 11 address on religious liberty in America, which he called “an important priority” for the Trump administration and the Department of Justice.

Barr, a Catholic, spoke to the law school and Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. A text of his prepared remarks was posted on the Justice Department website, www.justice. gov.

He said a new task force within the department meets regularly and includes representatives from its various entities, including the Solicitor General’s Office, the Civil Division and the Office of Legal Counsel.

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WASHINGTON – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has released the list of candidates ahead of its presidential and vice-presidential elections. The elections will be held during the conference’s General Assembly in Baltimore, which will be from Nov. 10-13.

In a statement released Oct. 9, the USCCB confirmed that Archbishops Timothy P. Broglio of the Military Services, Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, Jerome E. Listecki of Milwaukee, and Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit have all allowed their names to go forward.

They will be joined on the ballot by Bishops Frank J. Caggiano of Bridgeport, Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield (IL), and Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend.

The candidates were each nominated by their fellow members of the bishops’ conference in line with the conference’s statutes and bylaws.

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The current USCCB president is Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston. Archbishop Gomez has been serving as vice president since the last election in 2016.

The first round of voting will elect the president by a simple majority of the bishops present for the election. If a candidate does not receive 50%-plus-one of the votes, an additional ballot is taken. If there is still no winner, a run-off between the two bishops with the most votes is held until a winner is determined.

Following the election of the president of the conference, the remaining nine candidates will form the ballot for the position of vice president, with the same electoral rules applying.

Over the course of previous elections, the bishops have usually observed the informal custom of electing the serving vice president to the presidency. The most recent exception to this convention was in 2010, when then-Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York narrowly defeated the serving conference vice president Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson to become conference president.

The president and vice-president will each serve a term of three years.

In addition to the presidential and vice-presidential elections, the members of the USCCB will be voting for the new chairmen of six conference committees: the Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance, Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, Committee on International Justice and Peace, Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People, and the Committee for Religious Liberty.

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Pew: Number of ‘nones’ now tops Catholics in American society MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – “Nones,” those who profess no religious affiliation, are now the largest subgroup in American society, their numbers having grown in the past decade while the percentage of Catholics in the United States slipped over the past 10 years.

In a Pew Research Center “religious landscape” report issued Oct. 17, nones have jumped from 17% of the adult population in 2009 to 26% in 2019. Catholics, meanwhile, have slipped from 23% in 2009 to 20% today.

Meanwhile, the Catholic Church can no longer claim a majority of the nation’s Hispanic population.

The figure dropped from 57% in 2009 to 47% in 2019, although the latter number still represents a plurality.

The percentage of Hispanics who say they are unaffiliated climbed from 15% in 2009 to 23% in 2019, and those who say they are Protestant went up 1 percentage point from 23% to 24%.

Amid a number of setbacks for religionists outlined in the study, it did say 62% of those who profess Christianity say they attend services at the same rate they did in 2009 – at least twice a month. Overall, 65% of respondents described themselves as Christians.

However, the study’s numbers also suggest that the overall number of Christians has dropped in the United

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Tara Isabella Burton, a New York-based novelist who writes widely on religion, speaks during a symposium on “God, Religion and the ‘Nones’” Oct. 15, 2019, at Fordham University in New York City. Also pictured are: Kaya Oakes, author of “The Nones Are Alright: A New Generation of Seekers, Believers and Those In Between,” and Ryan Burge, an American Baptist Church pastor and an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University.

States over the past decade, from 178 million in 2009 to about 167 million today, while the number of Americans who are religiously unaffiliated grew by close to 30 million.

Pew said that in the General Social

Survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago – originally the National Opinion Research Center – the percentage of Catholics in the U.S. population peaked at 27% in the early 1970s, the early 1980s and the

late 2000s, but slipped to 25% in the early 2010s and 23% in the late 2010s.

Protestants peaked at 64% in the late 1970s, but have either slipped or held steady every survey since to the current 48% in the late 2010s.

The overall “Protestant” designation that accounted for 51% of the population a decade ago has sunk to 43% now; while the number of U.S. Protestants overall outpaces that of Catholics, there is no one Protestant denomination with more adherents than Catholicism.

Even within none-dom, there are different strains.

The most significant rise was among those who espoused “nothing in particular” when it came to religious belief, up from 12% in 2009 to 17% in 2019, a jump of five percentage points. The number of self-described atheists doubled from 10 years ago, from 2% to 4%. Self-described agnostics moved up from 3% in 2009 to 5% today.

Gregory A. Smith, associate director of research for Pew, said the results were distilled from 88 “political” polls conducted by phone over the past decade, with 168,000 Americans over the age of 18 reached. The margin of error for any given year of the past decade, he told Catholic News Services, was 0.7 to 1 percentage points.

Each of those polls asked this SEE PEW, PAGE 17

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Grief is a natural response to loss. It takes both time and energy for a personal journey of missing someone you loved. It makes no difference how a person has died. Members of each parish community are there to pray with you and provide support as you find ways to remember. Each parish community honors those who have died with prayers during daily Mass, in the prayers of the faithful and in cultural ritual expressions that are meant to give life and to console.

Each parish bulletin provides information that invites people to receive consolation and support. Though we have listed a few here, each parish should be contacted for questions regarding bereavement opportunities. Using our website will assist you in finding the latest offerings in your local area.

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Supreme Court divided over federal protections for LGBT employees CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – On the second day of the Supreme Court’s new term, a divided court Oct. 8 heard oral arguments from three cases concerning protections for gay, lesbian and transgender employees under Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts.

At the end of the two hours, for two consolidated cases about fired gay employees and a separate case concerning a fired transgender worker, it was not clear how

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Solicitor General Noel Francisco, arguing for the Trump administration on the side of the employers, disagreed.

“I don’t think it’s that close. Sex and gender identity, like sex and sexual orientation, are different traits,” he said, but then he also agreed in part with Gorsuch saying it is “an issue better left to Congress.”

Chief Justice John Roberts asked about the impact that added worker protections would have on employers with religious objections to hiring LGBT employees.

Francisco said extended protections “would expand the scope of liability without giving any consideration to those religious liberty interests on the other side of the balance.”

Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan, who argued on behalf of the two men who said they were fired from their jobs because they were gay, said the court has already “created an exemption for sincere religious belief for a large category of employers through the ministerial exception” and Congress also has “balanced these issues and has rebalanced them several times in the co-religionist exception.”

She also said that to “understand this in context” means realizing that 85 percent of American em-

ployers are not covered by Title VII “so as to those employers, if they have religious objections to hiring someone who is gay, they’re free to continue doing that.”

The argument’s focus on the landmark 1964 law was whether it meant more than simply ensuring that women were protected from being denied jobs or promotions that would normally go to men and if it also applied to sexual orientation and gender identity.

“Sex means whether you’re male or female, not whether you’re gay or straight,” Francisco argued.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the issue of people being fired for their sexual identity has to be examined, noting: “We can’t deny that homosexuals are being fired merely for being who they are.”

“They may have power in some regions, but they are still being beaten, they are still being ostracized from certain things,” she added.

A number of religious groups including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops weighed in with friend-of-the court briefs in favor of the employers. The USCCB brief said the added employee protection could impact faith-based schools, health care providers and homeless shelters that operate by “religious and moral convictions.”

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MARCH THEME PAYS TRIBUTE TO EARLY FEMINISTS

WASHINGTON – Organizers of the March for Life have chosen “Life Empowered: Pro-Life Is Pro-Woman” for the 2020 rally and march in Washington.

In embracing the theme, Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Education Fund, cited the coming centennial of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, and the views of early suffragists, including the best-known figure of the movement, Susan B. Anthony.

“The present moment is marked by a profound confusion of what it means to be pro-woman,” Mancini said at a U.S. Capitol panel discussion Oct. 15.

“We’ve come a long way from ‘Safe, legal and rare’ to ‘Shout your abortion.’”

Next year’s march and rally, always held near the

anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, which legalized most forms of abortion on demand, will be Jan. 24.

CUOMO PLEDGES ‘FULL SUPPORT’ FOR CABRINI STATUE

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 24, 2019

SUNDAY READINGS

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time SIRACH 35:12-14, 16-18 The LORD is a God of justice, who knows no favorites. Though not unduly partial toward the weak, yet he hears the cry of the oppressed. The Lord is not deaf to the wail of the orphan, nor to the widow when she pours out her complaint. The one who serves God willingly is heard; his petition reaches the heavens. The prayer of the lowly pierces the clouds; it does not rest till it reaches its goal, nor will it withdraw till the Most High responds, judges justly and affirms the right, and the Lord will not delay.

PSALM 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 23 The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth. Let my soul glory in the LORD; the lowly will hear me and be glad.

The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

The LORD confronts the evildoers, to destroy remembrance of them from the earth. When the just cry out, the Lord hears them, and from all their distress he rescues them.

The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted; and those who are crushed in spirit he saves. The LORD redeems the lives of his servants; no one incurs guilt who takes refuge in him.

The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

2 TIMOTHY 4:6-8, 16-18 Beloved: I am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand.

I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith. From now on the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the just judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but to all who have longed for his appearance. At my first defense no one appeared on my behalf, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them! But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the proclamation might be completed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from

every evil threat and will bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

LUKE 18:9-14 Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else. “Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity –greedy, dishonest, adulterous – or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.’ But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’ I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner’

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n the first reading, a wise teacher instructs his readers about the justice of God. We hear how God answers the prayers of loyal and humble servants, even though they are sinners. In the second reading, we hear about the confidence with which St. Paul faces his death. He has no need to be afraid. He has kept the faith and now trusts that the Risen Lord will reward him. In the Gospel of the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, we listen to Jesus’ parable about the Pharisee and the tax collector who go to the temple to pray.

We have all heard the expression: “Too much of a good thing is bad,” and this Gospel surely points to this.

The Pharisee is very faithDEACON ful to pious practices, even FAIVA PO’OI doing more than is required of him. Yet, Jesus does not praise him for his pious acts.

Instead, Jesus is critical of him and tells his listeners that despite all the Pharisee’s “good deeds,” and external display of piety, he has missed the essence and the heart of prayer. We cannot truthfully pray to God if we judge others harshly and set ourselves apart from those we meet every day. It is only when we turn to God with humility and honesty, that our relationship with ourselves and with those around us can be authentic.

In this parable, Jesus contrasts a pious Pharisee and a sinful tax collector. Likely, most of us will

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

Prayer helps us enter into and maintain an intimate relationship with God. Only fidelity to prayer will bring us the true humility which justifies us – an attitude toward God which acknowledges and begs, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’

May the Holy Eucharist help us to be humble and fill our hearts with gratitude for God’s mercy, grace and blessings. choose to identify with the sinful tax collector and his humble prayer. Likely, few, if any of us, will admit to being like the Pharisee. Yet, the reality is that most of us are more like the Pharisee than we want to believe! We are proud of our good deeds and religious practices and often times, put them on a pedestal – to be seen by everyone. We may think that our external conduct will justify us.

For example, some of us have homes filled with statues and shrines. We may pray frequently and attend numerous novenas, but seldom perform any charitable works. Some of us may be critical of the spirituality of others and judge others’ prayer practices to be less adequate and proper than our own!

Truth be told, probably most of us have something of both the Pharisee and the tax collector in us.

This Sunday’s Gospel reading provides you and me with a wonderful opportunity to assess not only our private prayer life, but also our basic relationship with God. All of us want to do good.

Unexpectedly, however, it is the sinful tax collector and not the pious Pharisee, who goes home justified.

The Pharisee clearly distances himself and puts himself above the rest of humanity. The tax collector, in his acknowledgement that he is a sinner, identifies with humanity. The Pharisee focuses on himself: the tax collector focuses on God. The Pharisee is grateful for his own good actions. The tax collector is simply grateful for the action of God in his life (“be Merciful”).

The issue here is not whether one ought to perform pious practices–of course we should! Neither is the real issue here whether those practices serve as a witness to our true selves before God. God’s mercy is not something to which any of us are entitled. It is not “owed” to us. It is not “earned” by us.” In its very essence, it is grace – a gift given by God – in this case, given to the one who asks for it, no matter how sinful or imperfect that person might be.

Prayer helps us enter into and maintain an intimate relationship with God. Only fidelity to prayer will bring us the true humility which justifies us – an attitude toward God which acknowledges and begs, “O God, be merciful to me a sinner.” May the Holy Eucharist help us to be humble and fill our hearts with gratitude for God’s mercy, grace and blessings.

DEACON FAIVA PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, OCTOBER 28: Feast of Sts. Simon and Jude, Apostles. EPH 2:19-22. PS 19:2-3, 4-5. LK 6:12-16.

7:2-4, 9-14. PS 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. 1 JN 3:1-3. MT 11:28. MT 5:1-12a.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29: Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. ROM 8:18-25. PS 126:1b2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6. SEE MT 11:25. LK 13:18-21.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2: The Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls). WIS 3:1-9.

PS 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. ROM 5:5-11. MT 25:34. JN 6:37-40.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30: Wednesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. ROM 8:26-30. PS 13:4-5, 6. SEE 2 THES 2:14. LK 13:22-30.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3: Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. WIS 11:22-12:2. PS 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13, 14. 2 THES 1:11-2:2. JN 3:16. LK 19:1-10.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31: Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. All Hallows’ Eve. ROM 8:31b39. PS 109:21-22, 26-27, 30-31. SEE LK 19:38; 2:14.

LK 13:31-35.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4: Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo, bishop. ROM 11:29-36. PS 69:30-31, 3334, 36. JN 8:31b-32. LK 14:12-14.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1: Solemnity of All Saints. RV

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5: Tuesday of the Thirtyfirst Week in Ordinary Time. ROM 12:5-16ab. PS

131:1bcde, 2, 3. MT 11:28. LK 14:15-24.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6: Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. ROM 13:8-10. PS 112:1b-2, 4-5, 9. 1 PT 4:14. LK 14:25-33.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7: Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. ROM 14:7-12. PS 27:1bcde, 4, 13-14. MT 11:28. LK 15:1-10.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8: Friday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Bl. John Duns Scotus, priest. ROM 15:14-21. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. 1 JN 2:5. LK 16:1-8.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9: Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. EZ 47:1-2, 8-9, 12.

PS 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9. 1 COR 3:9c-11, 16-17. 2 CHR 7:16. JN 2:13-22.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 24, 2019

The arrival of refugees, old and new

T

he religious congregation to which I belong, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, has had a long relationship with the indigenous peoples of North America. Admittedly it hasn’t always been without its shortcomings on our side, but it has been a sustained one, constant through more FATHER RON than one hunROLHEISER dred and fifty years. I write this out of the archives of that history.

In the mid-1800s, a group of young Oblates left France to work with the native peoples of Oregon and Washington State. Given the means of travel at the time, particularly the challenge of crossing the entire United States, much of it on horseback, it took them almost a year to get from Marseilles to the Oregon coast. Among that group was a young missionary, Charles Pandosy.

In the summer of 1854, Governor Stevens had called for a meeting of Native chiefs to be held at Walla Walla to discuss the tension between the USA government and the Natives. One of the tribes was stubbornly rebelling, the Yakima, a tribe led by their chief, Kamiakin, with whom the Oblates and Father Pandosy had been working. At one point, Chief Kamiakin turned to Pandosy for advice.

In a letter written to our Founder in France, Saint Eugene de Mazenod, dated June 5, 1854, Father Pandosy summed up his conversation with the Yakima chief. Not knowing what Europe looked like and not knowing how many people lived there or what forces

were driving people to come to North America, the native chief had asked Father Pandosy how many white men there were and when they would stop coming, naively believing that there couldn’t be that many of them left to come.

In his letter, Father Pandosy shares, verbatim, part of his conversation with Kamiakin: “It is as I feared. The whites will take your country as they have taken other countries from the Indians. I came from the land of the white man far to the east where the people are thicker than the grass on the hills. Where there are only a few here now, others will come with each year until your country will be overrun with them … you and your lands will be taken and your people driven from their homes. It has been so with other tribes; it will be so with you. You may fight and delay for a time this invasion, but you cannot avert it.

I have lived many summers with you and baptized a great number of your people into the faith. I have learned to love you. I cannot advise you or help you. I wish I could.”

Sound familiar? One doesn’t have to strain any logic to see a parallel to the situation today as millions of refugees are crowding the borders the United States, Canada, and much of Europe, seeking to enter these countries. Like Chief Kamiakin, we who are living in those countries and passionately consider them our “own” are very much in the dark as to how many of people are looking to come here, what pressures are driving them here, and when the seeming endless flow of people will stop. As well, like those indigenous tribes who back then had their lives irrevocably altered by us entering their country we too tend to feel this an unlawful and unfair invasion and are resistant to allowing these people to share our land and our cities with us.

When people initially came to North and South America from Europe they came for various reasons. Some were fleeing religious persecution, some were seeking a way out of poverty and starvation, some were coming to work to send money back to support their families, some were doctors or clergy coming to minister to others, and, yes, some too were criminals bent on crime.

It would seem not much has changed, except the shoe is now on the other foot. We, original invaders, are now the indigenous tribes, solicitous and protective of what we consider as rightfully ours, fearful of the outsiders, mostly naïve as to why they’re coming.

This isn’t just the case in North America, most of Europe is experiencing the exact same pressures, except in their case they’ve had a longer time to forget how their ancestors once came from elsewhere and mostly displaced the indigenous peoples who were already there.

Admittedly, this isn’t easy to resolve, politically or morally: No country can simply open its borders indiscriminately to everyone who wants to enter; and yet, and yet, our Scriptures, Jewish and Christian, are unequivocal in affirming that the earth belongs everyone and that all people have the same right to God’s good creation.

That moral imperative can seem unfair and impractical; but how do we justify the fact that we displaced others to build our lives here but now find it unfair that others are doing the same thing to us.

Looking at the refugee crisis in the world today one sees that what goes around does eventually come around.

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

The model new evangelization bishop

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ut on the Kansas plains, he was just turning 21 when the Second Vatican Council promulgated its “Dogmatic Constitution on the Church” (Lumen Gentium) and its “Decree on the Pastoral Office of the Bishops in the Church” (Christus Dominus). So it’s unlikely that the fathers of Vatican II had GEORGE WEIGEL Charles Joseph Chaput in mind when they described the ideal diocesan bishop in the third millennium of Christian history – an evangelist, sanctifier and governor who would accept those weighty responsibilities so that the gospel might be proposed for the salvation of the world.

But, in God’s providence and through his own cooperation with grace, Archbishop Charles Chaput has lived the episcopal vocation the Council fathers limned in an exemplary way.

There is much talk of “collegiality” and “synodality” in some Catholic circles today; Archbishop Chaput has been a far more collaborative leader in Rapid City, Denver, and Philadelphia than many of those who talk that talk but walk a walk of episcopal

autocracy. Then there is the nowfamiliar trope about bishops having “the smell of the sheep”; Archbishop Chaput, a true gentleman, is far more accessible and far more amenable to input, suggestions and even correction from those under his authority than some, appointed to high office under that ovine pastoral rubric, who barely know a sheep or two, much less smell like them.

Young Charles Chaput joined the Capuchin Franciscans because he admired their commitment to poverty, simplicity of life, service, and education. And over his 31 years as a bishop, he has remained faithful to his Capuchin vocation. He lives simply, teaches thoughtfully, hears confessions regularly, celebrates the sacraments reverently, and is, by the testimony of many who have worked with him in three quite different dioceses, a spectacularly good boss – the best they’ve ever had. That’s one reason why serious young Catholic professionals have queued up to work with and for him wherever he has been assigned.

And he has courage, the cardinal virtue that makes living the other cardinal virtues possible. Where other bishops have been hesitant to be labeled “culture warriors,” Chaput has preached the truth about the dignity of human life and what makes for genuine beatitude, here and hereafter, in and out of season, ignoring the epithets hurled at him by bears of little

brain (and less integrity). His penetrating analyses of what is demanded of serious Catholics in a hostile cultural environment have been spot-on, even as he has personally embodied the compassion and empathy that Christians must offer those wounded by that culture and its false promises of happiness.

Archbishop Charles Chaput is also a thoroughgoing churchman, a quality that reflects his deep life of prayer. He has consistently done what the Church has asked of him: first, by leaving religious life to accept the responsibilities of a bishop in rural South Dakota; then, by leaving Rapid City for Denver, where he built on the work of his predecessor, Cardinal James Francis Stafford, to create the North Atlantic world’s model new evangelization archdiocese; and, ultimately, by leaving Denver to rescue a crumbling archdiocese of Philadelphia and prepare a suitable welcome for Pope Francis at the World Meeting of Families in 2015, both of which he did at no small personal cost.

It is more than ironic – it is deeply disturbing – that, as Archbishop Chaput marked his 75th birthday on Sept. 26 and formally submitted his resignation as archbishop of Philadelphia, voices in Rome were heard saying, in so many words, that the Chaput project is over. What SEE WEIGEL, PAGE 17

LETTERS Remembering Brother John

San Francisco and the Bay Area lost one of its finest Catholic religious upon the passing in late September of Brother John Samaha, SM. Brother John was as prolific a writer for Catholic San Francisco and a plethora of other publications of worldwide note. He knew his religious history and he was dedicated to the Virgin Mary as no other writer I have personally known. His credentials ranged from being superintendent of Catholic schools in the San Francisco archdiocese in the early 1960s to his teaching young men at Riordan High to his expertise on the religious and political issues facing the Middle East.

Brother John’s bright smile, friendly manner, and genuineness were hall of fame characteristics. Catholic San Francisco and those of us who were privileged to know him will deeply miss his physical presence, however, his spirit will forever be with us.

Peter J. Fatooh San Francisco

Confirmation clarification

I know I am getting a little rusty since my days as a pastor but I need clarification about the picture on Page 2 of the Sept. 26 issue of Catholic San Francisco. Archbishop Cordileone is standing with a group “confirmed in the Latin rite” at Star of the Sea parish. I have always thought that every sacrament of confirmation conferred in a parish in this archdiocese is “confirmation in the Latin rite.”

Father Charles Gagan, SJ Mission Dolores Academy San Francisco Editor’s note: Msgr. John Talesfore, pastor of St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo, sent the following email to Catholic San Francisco: “The title of an article reporting the confirmation at Star of the Sea Church should be corrected. The newsworthy confirmation in the article was performed in the Extraordinary Form. Most simply put, the term Latin Rite (also called the Roman Rite) refers to the official liturgical form of worship in Rome. Every Roman Catholic Church in the archdiocese and throughout the world worships in the Latin Rite (also known as the Roman Rite), whether in the Ordinary Form or in the Extraordinary Form. “So what do Ordinary and Extraordinary mean here?

For a long time, people might have referred to the liturgy we have come to know since the Second Vatican Council as the ‘new rite’ and the liturgy before the Second Vatican Council as the ‘old rite.’ In 2007 Pope Benedict XVI said that we should instead think of these as being two forms of a single Latin Rite or Roman rite, rather than as two separate rites. So instead of ‘new rite’ and ‘old rite,’ we say “Ordinary Form” (his name for the Missal of 1970) and ‘Extraordinary Form’ (his name for the Missal of 1962).

Thus all Roman Catholic confirmations are celebrated in the Latin Rite, whether in the Ordinary Form or the Extraordinary Form.

With the exception of Chrismation at Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, I am unaware of any confirmation in the archdiocese that is not celebrated in the Latin Rite, whether in English or Spanish or Latin or any other language.”

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Acceptance needed for today

“G

od, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.”

In pointing us to acceptance, the Serenity Prayer directs us to the heart of life.

In the book “Learning the Virtues: That Lead You to God,” author FaFATHER EUGENE ther RomaHEMRICK no Guardini states why this is true: “What is the presupposition for all moral effort if it is to be effective, to change what is amiss, to strengthen what is feeble, and to balance what is uneven? ...

It is acceptance of what is, the acceptance of reality, your own and that of the people around you and of the time in which you live.”

Acceptance starts with accepting me.

I frequently meet people who dwell more on their negative defects and less on their positive gifts. I remember a worried mother whose daughter felt she was too short and unattractive.

When I saw her, I found her very attractive.

To practice acceptance, we must first realize we can’t pick and choose among the foundations of our existence but must accept the whole. The beauty of acceptance is that once we concede who we are, freedom follows.

No longer are we weighed down with pseudo expectations that are unrealistic and choking us with unnecessary anxiety.

Acceptance also prompts us to take a clearsighted look at the gifts with which we are blessed.

Clearsightedness is one of the qualities of prudence and when practiced, it widens our vision and ability to weed out unrealistic allusions from realism.

No doubt many of us today are finding it difficult to accept our present times. Divisions, violence, dishonesty, corruption and false denials are everywhere.

Here the Serenity Prayer reminds us to possess the courage to change the things we can, encouraging us to take a good look at what we can control and to act on it rather than grumble and do nothing.

In pointing to courage, we are being prompted to look at our heart’s outlook. It reveals our disposition and whether we are standing strong in taking action or being lethargic and inert.

Most of all, the Serenity Prayer points us to God and God’s power to strengthen us in these challenging times.

FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK writes the Catholic News Service column “The Human Side.

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 24, 2019

The ministry of making room

O

ur family learned this summer that we are expecting a baby in March – due on the feast of the Annunciation. A delightful date to think of welcoming another child.

As the weeks progress, our baby’s presence grows. I have to make room for my expanding waistline with LAURA KELLY looser shirts and roomier FANUCCI jeans. Soon the bin of maternity clothes will be dragged out from under the bed, since none of my regular clothes fit the way they did a month ago.

Making room for a new member of our family is a long and gradual process. I’m not the only one who will have to adjust. Baby’s brothers are facing a bedroom shuffle as we think about where another child will sleep.

We’ll pull out the bins of tiny clothes and rearrange closets. My husband will reassemble the crib in our bedroom, and we’ll move the furniture again.

But making room for others is a pressing call – for our church and country, too. The question looms: How can our communities become places of welcome?

We follow a Lord who made room at the table for sinners and taught that when we welcome a stranger, we welcome Christ (Matthew 25:35).

Welcoming the stranger can be as radical as considering our political stance or as personal as deciding to open our family to new life.

We believe in a God of radical welcome, who reminds us that “you too should love the (stranger), for that is what you were in the land of Egypt” (Deuteronomy 10:19).

How does this call to welcome urge us to make room for others?

A reader recently asked me to write about what she called “the ministry of moving over”: the simple act of scooting into the center of the pew to allow parents with young children to sit on the end – and have an easy escape route to leave with a cranky baby or toddler.

I loved her phrase, a powerful reminder that the smallest acts of making room and extending welcome can make a huge difference.

Anyone might have good reason to need a seat on the end of a pew.

But if pure preference is keeping us from moving in and giving up a favorite view, why not take up the ministry of moving over and share our seat with a smile?

Welcoming the stranger can be as radical as considering our political stance or as personal as deciding to open our family to new life. It might also be as simple as letting someone who needs the end of the pew have the seat that will make them feel welcome.

If we want our church, our communities and our families to be known for our loving welcome – reflecting the same mercy that God offers – we might ask how we make room for others.

Who doesn’t want a church brimming with new members and younger generations? If this means I share a pew with families whose children are rowdier than mine, what a gift to stretch my prayer to include their needs.

I can always offer a warm smile, knowing the effort it takes to bring young children to Mass – now a countercultural act in our society that no longer values religious practice.

As my own body stretches to make space for someone new, I feel the inconvenience of making room. It would have been simpler and smoother not to worry about the work or cost of raising another child.

But I would miss out on the gifts that this stranger is waiting to bring – to me, to our family and to our church.

If I can make room to meet my growing baby’s needs, I can certainly scoot over the next time anyone needs my pew. What a beautiful reminder of how moving over can widen the love God asks us to share.

FANUCCI 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.

Wonderfully made: finding the courage to create

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was a sophomore in college when I received the little blue book, a gift from a friend who also wanted to be a writer. At the time I was editing the student newspaper, poring over buried leads and dangling modifiers.

Written by the legendary Madeleine L’Engle, the title spoke to me – “WalkCHRISTINA ing on Water: CAPECCHI Reflections on Faith and Art.” It promised something deeper behind my mad dash to produce a paper.

Perched on the top of a bunk bed in a dark dorm, I highlighted this affirmation: “God is constantly creating, in us, through us, with us, and to co-create with God is our human calling.”

As I was writing headlines and wrangling reporters, I was answering a calling. I was creating with God, who formed cosmos out of chaos. My late-night work had a spiritual underpinning.

I pressed on.

Every few years I return to the book. It is the same, but I am different. A reporter. A graduate student.

A newlywed. A mother.

I always pick up on the Catholic themes: wisdom from saints, a clear-

eyed endorsement of icons and a meditation on Mary’s fiat.

But I find different messages for different seasons. This time I need courage. A longtime contract came to an end this year, and I have pushed myself to drum up new work. I’m re-examining my writing, my rate, my capacity for competing deadlines. I’m welcoming new ideas and new people. And for the first time in years, I’m contemplating new kinds of creative work.

I’ve watched YouTube tutorials and signed up for a class, my chest throbbing.

There’s an edge to the excitement that I actually like because it is unfamiliar. I haven’t challenged myself like this in so long. The fear is a sign of the possibility.

And once again, “Walking on Water” resonates with me. “Unless we are creators, we are not fully alive,” L’Engle writes.

I’m creating, and I feel fully alive.

Lack of experience is not an issue, she reassures. “In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory.”

It’s not about talent or training.

It’s about creativity and courage. It’s feeling unqualified but still accepting the invitation of a blank canvas.

My friend Jackie is on a similar journey. For too long, she’d been an art major trapped in retail. Now she’s a working artist. She summoned the courage to quit her job

at Hobby Lobby, where she’d made $17 an hour as an assistant manager unloading merchandise and surveying shop lifters.

Jackie celebrated her newfound freedom with a trip to Mexico, where she landed a gig to paint two murals on a hostel: a cactus and an octopus. She hadn’t painted much before, but the murals turned out beautifully – and she had a blast.

A business was born. She reserved the domain muralsbyjackie.com and posted a Craiglist ad that generated a commission from a Wisconsin goat farm. Her next project will be a nursery.

Self-employment has been exhilarating, she said. “It’s both exciting and scary. But I think the world needs more art.”

Each of us is called to create with our paintbrushes, our homes and our lives. When we embrace art, we reflect the creation story and our own origin, that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

The hardest part is to show up – with your two hands, your beating heart, your busy schedule and your half-baked idea. Push past the uncertainty and trust that shortcomings will enable you to go long in another direction, producing something a more proficient artist would overlook – something different, something else, something new.

Something the world needs.

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

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PEW: Number of ‘nones’ now tops Catholics FROM PAGE 11

question: “What is your present religion, if any?

Are you Protestant, Roman Catholic, Mormon, Orthodox such as Greek or Russian Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, agnostic, something else, or nothing in particular?”

Most, but not all, of the 88 polls also asked: “Aside from weddings and funerals, how often do you attend religious services? More than once a week, once a week, once or twice a month, a few times a year, seldom or never?”

The answer to the latter question also showed a shift over the past decade.

In 2009, a majority of Americans, 52%, said they went to church at least once a month, while 47% said they did not. In 2019, those numbers are basically reversed, with only 45% saying they attend religious services at least once a month, and 54% saying they do not.

Smith said the political polls ask respondents a lot of demographic details – including the two about religion – so they can identify trends within demographic groups. “Many social scientists have pointed to politics as a factor behind these trends” showing an ongoing disaffection for both politics and religion, he added.

The decline in the number who say they are Christian cut across every major demographic group; the smallest drop cited by Pew was 2% among the “silent generation,” those born between 1928 and 1945. Double-digit drops were recorded among both men (12%) and women (11%); women are less likely than men to describe themselves as nones, 23% vs. 30%, and more likely to go to religious services at least once a month, 50% to 40%.

Other double-digit drops were recorded among whites (12%), blacks (11%) and Hispanics (10%); college graduates (13%) and those with less than a col-

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Chaput’s work in Rapid City, Denver and PhilaThe density of Catholics in the Northeast, long delphia has been a glowing embodiment of the considered a Catholic stronghold, dipped by 9% to “Church permanently in mission” proclaimed 27%, being eclipsed by nones at 28%. The South,

by Pope Francis in what once seemed to be the once considered a Protestant stronghold, fell 11 programmatic document of his pontificate, points, although, at 53% of the adult population, “Evangelii Gaudium” (The Joy of the Gospel). they still constitute a majority.

If the Chaput project is over, then “Evangelii Pew said there are as many millennials – those Gaudium” and the Aparecida Document of the born between 1981 and 1996 – who say they never Latin American bishops that inspired it are dead attend religious services as there are who say they letters. go at least once a week, both at 22 percent.

An ugly and absurd cartoon of Catholicism in “None of the above” is the fastest-growing relithe United States – suggesting that we are a Church gious identifier in the United States and now approxof rigid moralists and wealthy right-wing nuts – imates the percentage of Catholics in the country. has infected Rome for several years. Archbishop While most of the religiously unaffiliated people, Chaput has been a target of that viciousness. Those the so-called “nones” are young, speakers at an responsible for perpetrating the cartoon might Oct. 15 symposium at Jesuit-run Fordham Univerremember that it was first peddled by Mr. Theosity said the trend encompasses all age groups and dore McCarrick, who was never reluctant to trash has enormous implications for American society.

Charles Chaput to anyone foolish enough to listen.

Between 1972 and 2018, the percentage of nones has grown from 5% to 23%, according to Alan GEORGE WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the EthCooperman, director of religion research at the ics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C., where Pew Research Center. In that same period, Cathohe holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies. lics have gone from 27% of the population to 24% and Protestants from 62% to 47%.

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the previous one, but no generation is becoming more affiliated as it gets older,” he said.

In addition to people disaffiliating from the religion in which they were raised, the change in denominational membership is caused by people switching religions.

“We have a very dynamic religious marketplace in the U.S.,” he said. According to Pew, 59% of those raised Catholic still consider themselves Catholic. Similarly, 53% of those raised as nones “have taken a religion,” he said.

As a whole, the U.S. public is becoming less religious by conventional measures, Cooperman said. This is quantified when people are asked if they pray daily, consider religion very important, attend religious services at least monthly, believe Scripture is the word of God, believe in God and believe in God with absolute certainty.

Cooperman said the growth in numbers of unaffiliated people is happening throughout the country and among most ethnic groups. He said it may be a “backlash to the entanglement of religion with politics.” It also may be related to a general decline in the institution of marriage or the rise in the number of marriages between religiously affiliated and non-affiliated people, he said.

The decrease in religious affiliation could be a symptom of a broader decline in civic participation and fraternal organizations, Cooperman said.

Perhaps people’s lives are “atomized” in the way perfume droplets are distributed in the air by a squeeze bulb sprayer, and they no longer feel connected to a group, he said.

Cooperman also said the growth of the nones might correlate to economic prosperity, where “the richer the country, the less religious it is.”

People who are upset about the trend might consider it a wake-up call for religions to do a better job, Cooperman said.

Kaya Oakes, an Oakland journalist, author and spiritual director, said many nonaffiliated people think religion is too judgmental or has too many rules. She said meeting people where they are and asking what spiritual longings they feel at a time of stress is a good way to reconnect with those who have lost interest in religion.

“Rather than asking how we can lure them back, a better question might be, ‘Where do we meet them and what do they need?’” she said.

Tara Isabella Burton, a New York-based novelist and religion writer, said there is a profound spiritual hunger among young people, in particular.

A “huge block” of the nones believe in a higher power and many see themselves as spiritual persons with spiritual hungers,” she said.

Many nones believe their own sense is a better guide to help them be “authentic” than a religious tradition, she said. “The rise of an intuitional and self-focused culture is emblematic of those who feel left behind by social institutions.”

Burton said the nones are not necessarily atheists and agnostics, but tend to “mix and match” from different religious and spiritual traditions to become what she calls “remixed.”

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VATICAN CITY – By demanding respect for the cultures of indigenous peoples, Pope Francis was not promoting pantheism, but – tapping into his Jesuit roots – urging respect for a worldview that sees God in all things.

The pope Oct. 9 told the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon that he was disappointed to see a newspaper evoke the Carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro to describe the synod’s Oct. 7 opening prayer service with its Amazonian symbols and song.

Many of the synod members, most of whom minister in the Amazon region, agreed with the pope. The Vatican News summary of the synod discussion Oct. 9 said, “the view of the synod hall enlarged to include the theology of creation, where the Word of God resides.”

That understanding is shared by many Amazonian indigenous peoples, who consider the natural world sacred because God is present in all of creation. That is very different from pantheism, or the belief that elements of nature themselves are gods, experts said.

“Our Christian faith and the church teach us to seek and to find God in all things, as St. Ignatius says in the Spiritual Exercises. There is no pantheism in this,” Jesuit Father Adelson Araujo dos Santos, a professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University’s Institute of Spirituality in Rome, told Catholic News Service.

The theology of creation being discussed at the synod instead reflects what St. Bonaventure, a Franciscan, called “panentheism,” the “recognition that all of creation is an expression of the love of God,” she told CNS. When St. Francis renounced a life of luxury and went barefoot into the countryside, the reawakening of his senses to the natural world “made him realize that all things, human and nonhuman, have one and the same Father,” Miranda said. “There is a profound

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Celestina Fernandes da Silva, a Catholic activist, waters flowers in front of her home in the Wapishana indigenous village of Tabalascada, Brazil, April 3, 2019.

connection, because the love of God is present in every being created by God, just as the love of parents is present in each of their children.”

When Europeans arrived in South America four centuries after St. Francis had his revelation and 300 years after St. Bonaventure wrote about panentheism, they misinterpreted the Amazonian indigenous people’s relationship with the natural world, she said.

“The Amazonian people relate to the cosmos as part of it, and that makes them part of the earth,” Archbishop Roque Paloschi of Porto Velho, Brazil, told CNS. “The earth, the water, the air, the forests are part of them and make them part of the whole.

Everything is sacred, and therein (lies) the manifestation of the sacred.”

While St. Bonaventure wrote about panentheism as a theological concept, the Munduruku people of Brazil live it, said Franciscan Father Joao Messias Sousa, who works with the Munduruku in Brazil.

For them, “God is in all things, but those things are not gods,” he said. That means “God is not distant. He is close by.”

When missionaries build chapels in Munduruku communities, he said, the people accept it, but wonder why it is necessary to have a building in which to worship.

“The sacred dimension, for them, does not have a wall around it,” he said. “How are you going to build a place for God if God is in everything?”

Many Amazonian people also believe that every element of creation has a spirit, often translated into Spanish or Portuguese with the word for “mother.” That does not mean they see the trees or animals as gods, but it reflects their belief that the sacred is present in the world, Father Sousa said.

Recognizing the sacred, he said, means “loving the presence of the Creator in everything.” Because of that divine presence in creation, a person cannot be the owner of those things and must not destroy or use them irresponsibly, he added.

Ultimately, Archbishop Paloschi said, the theology of creation, of God’s presence in everything, runs through all of church history.

“St. Augustine says that the first book written was creation,” he said, “so there is no contradiction between the Christian faith and the spirituality of the Amazonian peoples.”

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She said the order’s charism takes the form of charitable works, caring for creation and promoting peace and the dignity of all people.

“There are beautiful people who come from so many walks of life, but every single one found something in Francis,” she said.

During the rite of profession, new members receive three gifts: a Bible, the San Damiano crucifix and a candle. Dobrzynski said the Bible reminds members that the Franciscan charism is “bringing life to the Gospel and the Gospel to life.” The crucifix is a unique Franciscan symbol of Christ speaking to Francis and asking him to rebuild his church and represents members of the order aligning themselves to Christ through

the Franciscan charism. The candle, which is lit during the profession, is a reminder of baptism and of life in Christ.

Barry McNamara said he found in the fraternity a supportive community dedicated to becoming holier at a time when he was for a change in how he practiced his faith.

“I wanted to find something in my life that would adopt the Franciscan spirit a little more – become a kinder person, more outgoing to other people. It’s been good for me and for my family,” he said.

For Malu Sanchez, the Secular Franciscans are a sign of the diversity of ways to deepen faith in God. Sanchez said each person has a “channel” to go to and understand God that finds its expression in different movements and orders within the church.

“That’s what St. Francis is for me: it was the Holy Spirit who guided me and he is working with me to do my part to grow the kingdom of God,” she said.

Sanchez said she found in the order “an opportunity to grow and do more than just go to church on Sundays” and make her faith more concrete. With a background in engineering, she said her experience of God tended to be very formal and intellectual.

“Francis helped to get (faith) with my heart,” she said. “It’s a big difference, it’s very practical: Francis is always action, let’s do it.”

The breadth of the community she found in the Franciscans has also been important, she said. “It helps me a lot to realize I’m not alone – the Franciscan family isn’t this small group, it’s in California, the US, worldwide, all skin colors, all languages.

It was beautiful to see the family of St. Francis is huge!”

To learn more about the local fraternity of Secular Franciscans, contact joanne4708@aol.com.

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St. Finn Barr Parish: 415 Edna St., San Francisco 94112; 1-415-333-3627. Monday-Thursday: 8:30 am-4 pm; Friday: 8:30 am-6 pm (Closed on holidays).

Mission Dolores Basilica: 3321 16th St. (at Dolores St.), San Francisco; 1-415-621-8203. 1st Friday: 6 pm (Adoration) (Old Mission, bilingual English/Spanish).

St. Francis of Assisi Parish: 1425 Bay Rd., East Palo Alto 94303; 1-650-322-2152. 1st Friday: 7:30 pm-8 am (Saturday); 1st Saturday: 7:30 pm-7 am (Sunday).

Our Lady of Mercy Church: 1 Elmwood Drive, Daly City, 94015; 650-755-2727. Fridays: 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., concluding with Evening Prayer & Benediction at 6 p.m. First Fridays: Eucharistic Adoration from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Benediction & Mass at 6 p.m.

St. Gregory Parish: 2715 Hacienda St., San Mateo 94403; 1-650-345-8506. 1st Friday: after 8:30 am Mass.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish: 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley 94941; 1-415-388-4190. Tuesday: 8:30 am; Wednesday: 7:30 am.

St. Matthew Parish: One Notre Dame Ave., San Mateo 94402; 1-650-344-7622. Monday-Friday: 7 am-9 pm (in the chapel).

St. Patrick Parish: 114 King St., Larkspur 94939; 1-415-9240600. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-3 pm St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish: 1122 Jamestown Ave., San Francisco 94124; 1-415-468-3434. 1st Friday: after 7 pm Communion Service.

St. Peter Parish: 1200 Florida St., San Francisco 94110; 1-415282-1652. 1st Friday: 10 am-7 pm.

St. Peter Parish: 700 Oddstad Blvd. (at Linda Mar), Pacifica 94044; 1-650-361-1411. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-5:30 pm.

St. Pius Parish: 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City 94061; 1-650-361-1411. 1st Friday: Friday 8:30 am to 9 pm St. Raymond Parish: 1100 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park 94025; 1-650-323-1755. Saturday: Following 8:15 am Mass.

St. Thomas More Parish: 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco 94132, (Thomas More Way off Brotherhood Way) ; 1-415-452-9634. 1st & 3rd Friday: 7-8 pm St. Veronica Parish: 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-588-1455. Monday-Friday: 9am-4pm (except holidays and special events in the church).

Star of the Sea Parish: 4420 Geary Blvd. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.), San Francisco; 1-415-751-0450. Tuesday: 7-8 pm, in Church: Parish Holy Hour, concluding with Benediction; Tuesday: 8 am-Saturday 4 pm, in Chapel, Adoration concluding with Benediction 2nd Sunday: 3:15-4:15 pm

St. Hilary Parish: 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon 94920; 1-415-4351122. Monday-Friday: 9 am-6 pm; Saturday: 9:30 am-5 pm (in the side chapel).

St. Isabella Parish: 1 Trinity Way, San Rafael 94903; 1-415479-1560. 1st Friday: 9:30 am-12noon

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish: 60 Wellington Ave., Daly City 94014; 1-650-756-9786. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-6:30 pm; Wednesday: 8:30 am-6:15 pm.

St. John the Evangelist: 19 Saint Marys Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112: First Friday of the month: begins after the morning 9am am Mass, at 9:30am and ends at 10:30am.

St. Andrew Parish: 1571 Southgate Ave., Daly City 94015; 1-650-756-3223. 1st Friday: after the 7 pm Mass.

St. Luke Parish: 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City 94404; 1-650345-6660. Thursday & 1st Friday: after 8:30 am Mass-7:30 pm.

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MARIN COUNTY St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1000 Cambridge St., Novato, Mon-Sat after 9 a.m. Mass.

St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, Mon, 5 p.m. includes four mysteries, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, adoration; (415) 479-1560.

St. Patrick Church, 114 King St., Larkspur, Tues-Fri at 7:30 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass. (415) 924 0600.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1555 39th Avenue, weekdays and Sat, 8:35 a.m. before the 9 a.m. Mass in the chapel; (415) 664-8590.

National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 624 Vallejo St. at Columbus, Porziuncola Chapel, Sat, 2:30 p.m. followed by Chaplet of Divine Mercy; www.ShrineSF.org, info@shrinesf.org, (415) 986-4557.

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St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue and Vicente, Mon-Sat, 8:35 a.m.

St. Elizabeth Church, 459 Somerset St., Mon-Sat after 8 a.m. Mass; (415) 468-0820, www.stelizabethsf.org.

St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue at Ulloa, Mon-Fri after the 8:30 a.m. Mass.

St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., Mon-Fri, following the 12:05 p.m. Mass; Sat, before the 8 a.m. Mass, (415) 422-2188. Sat at 9:30 a.m. after 9 a.m. Mass; (415) 334-4646; www.saintjohnparish.com.

St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave., Fridays after 9 a.m. Mass, (415) 648-5751.

St. Monica Church, 24th Avenue at Geary Blvd., Mon-Fri, 8 a.m. before 8:30 a.m. Mass.

Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. across from Washington Square, second Sunday of the month in

Cantonese, parish pastoral center, 11:30 a.m., Kelly Kong (510) 794-6117; Wednesday, 7 p.m., English, http:// salesiansspp.org/.

St. Philip the Apostle Church, 725 Diamond, Holy Hour & Rosary Mon-Sat following the 8 a.m. Mass, (except Tuesdays). Office contact (415) 282-0141

St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue, Mon-Sat following the 8 a.m. Mass; info@ SaintStephenSF.org (415) 681-2444.

Star of the Sea Church, 8th Avenue at Geary Blvd.: Tuesdays 7p.m. before the Blessed Sacrament in the

Church; Saturdays 3:20 p.m. right after Divine Mercy Devotion in Church; 2nd Sundays 3:15 p.m. for Priest and Vocations in the Church; 3rd Sundays @ 11 a.m. Holy Rosary Sodality in our St. Joseph Perpetual Adoration Chapel; 1st Sunday before the 9:30 a.m. Mass; 2nd Sat right after the 8:30 a.m. 2000 Hail Mary Devotion in the School Cafeteria (415) 751-0450; www.starparish.com.; admin@starparish.com.;Facebook: starparishsf.

SAN MATEO COUNTY Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, Mon-Fri following 7:30 a.m. Mass, Saturday following

8:00 a.m. Mass; Sunday 7 p.m.

Holy Angels Church, 107 San Pedro Road, Colma, Mon-Sat approximately 8 a.m. following 7:30 a.m. Mass,

(650) 755-0478.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 300 Fulton St., Redwood City, Mon-Sat, 7:50 a.m. before 8:15 a.m. Mass; (650) 366-3802; www.mountcarmel.org.

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St. Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, Mon-Sat, 7:40 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass (650) 697-4730.

St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, rosary in Spanish Sundays before 9:30 a.m. Spanish Mass; (650) 322-2152.

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St. Luke Church, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, Mon-Sat following the 8:30 a.m. Mass.

St. Mark Church, 325 Marine View Ave., Belmont, Mon/Tue/Wed, 7:30 p.m.; (650) 591-5937; www.saintmarksparish.com.

St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City, Rosary for Peace in the Merry

Room of Fr. Lacey Hall, Friday mornings at 9:15 am. www.stmatthiasparish.org.

St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, Mon-Sat 7:30 a.m., Mon and Wed 4:40 p.m.; mary246barry@sbcglobal.net.

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CATHOLIC TEACHERS URGE GHANA TO REMOVE SEX ED PROGRAM FROM SCHOOLS ACCRA, Ghana – Catholic teachers in Ghana have joined the bishops’ conference and Muslim organizations in urging the government to withdraw a sex education program from the national school curriculum.

The “unlimited scope and span” of the comprehensive program, launched this year by the government and UNESCO, “would create room for anything to be introduced ... by interested groups or individuals,” the association of Catholic teachers in Ghana said in an Oct. 14 statement at the end of its national meeting in Torve.

The topics in the program, scheduled to be taught starting 2020 in all

public schools to children 5 years and older, are unsuitable for young children and do not conform to Ghanaian culture, the teachers said. Funded by Sweden and Ireland, the comprehensive sex education project aims to improve sexual and reproductive health, gender and education outcomes for young people in sub-Saharan Africa, according to UNESCO’s website.

CELIBACY IS A GIFT, NOT AN OBSTACLE, INDIGENOUS PRIEST SAYS

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“Celibacy is not something that is born in a human person; it is something that is established some time during one’s life,” Salesian Father Justino Sarmento Rezende told journalists Oct. 17 during a press briefing on the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon.

“People from any culture that exists in the world can live celibate lives from the moment that he or she freely – not forcibly – says, ‘I want to live that lifestyle,’” he said.

Father Rezende was responding to a question regarding comments made in the synod’s first week by retired Bishop Erwin Krautler of Xingu, Brazil, who said that when it comes to ordaining married “viri probati,” or men of proven virtue, “there is no other option. The indigenous people don’t understand celibacy; they say that very openly and I see it,” Bishop Krautler said Oct. 8. “When I go to an indigenous village, the first thing they ask is, ‘Where is your wife?’ And I tell them, ‘I don’t have one.’ Then they look at me with pity.”

INADEQUATE FORMATION CITED IN LACK OF VOCATIONS

VATICAN CITY – Existing formation programs are not preparing priests and other pastoral workers to be leaders in a church with an Amazonian and indigenous face, according to bishops participating in the synod for the Amazon.

“It’s not the same to evangelize in the city as in the Amazon,” Bishop Rafael Cob Garcia of Puyo, Ecuador,

told journalists at an Oct. 12 press briefing. “The needs are different.”

Formation must be adapted to meet those needs, he said. Synod participants repeatedly have mentioned the lack of sufficient priests to celebrate the Eucharist and other sacraments in the thousands of communities scattered throughout huge church jurisdictions in Amazonia.

Some bishops have pointed to the church’s mandatory celibacy requirement as an obstacle to indigenous vocations. In many indigenous cultures, a young man is not considered an adult and a full member of the community until he has a family. Another obstacle is academic, because quality education is lacking in rural villages, Bishop Cob said.

When young men from villages go to a seminary in the city, they often find themselves behind their urban classmates academically and drop out. When a young man goes from an indigenous village to an urban seminary, he also is uprooted from his culture, Franciscan Father Joao Messias Sousa, who ministers among the Munduruku people in Brazil’s Tapajos River basin, told Catholic News Service.

The Munduruku culture is based on sharing, instead of individual property, he said, and they are not “slaves of time.” When they arrive at the seminary, where schedules are strict and people have their own rooms, study materials and other possessions, “it’s a shock,” he said.

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ST. IGNATIUS: Solidarity ‘sleep-in’ highlight migrants’ plight FROM PAGE 6

were laid at the foot of the altar during the Mass. Their deaths were due to either illness while in custody or as a result of their dangerous northbound journey.

The U.S. government’s “zero tolerance” policy briefly adopted in 2018 was intended to discourage illegal immigration and required the prosecution of all cases involving illegal entry into the United States.

The policy contributed to some 2,654 migrant children being separated from their parents or guardians, according to the data shown during the presentation at St. Ignatius.

The panel’s discussion after the viewing not only outlined different ways of helping separated migrant families but also provided information about other programs – such as the one led by Amy Stewart – designed to slow down the migration of people from El Salvador by helping them with opportunities at home.

Evelyn Rodríguez, a professor of sociology at USF, shared her experience as a volunteer at the MexicoU.S. border. She said support can range from a simple commitment to complex efforts, depending on the individual.

Rodríguez highlighted the work of the lawyer who appears in the documentary, noting that her ef-

fort required not only specialized knowledge in legal matters but also a strong commitment to the fight for the family’s reunification.

In an email to Catholic San Francisco, St. Ignatius parishioner Annette Lomont shared highlights from Jesuit Father Greg Bonfiglio’s homily during the solidarity day Mass.

“As followers of Jesus, we do not have the luxury to stake out some middle ground,” said Father Bonfiglio, pastor of St. Ignatius. “We must always be opposed to hate and injustice. We must always stand in opposition to values that are at odds with those of Jesus, which means, when we do so, we will be acting politically, but not in a partisan way.”

Lomont also shared that Father Russell received an email from a parishioner the day after the event to comment on her discomfort and sleep deprivation from sleeping on hard pews.

“I cannot shake the feeling of grief for the people who must continue on their journey day after day even when they are sleeping on the ground at night or in detention,” she told him.

“It was indeed a most deliberate and effective way to encounter with the experience and the struggle of the poor, the desperate and the sometimes forgotten,” he said.

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Franciscans celebrate patron’s Transitus

The Transitus of St. Francis, the vigil of the feast of St. Francis, was celebrated Oct. 3 in the Porziuncula at the National Shrine of St. Francis in San Francisco’s North Beach. Father John De La Riva, OFM Cap, is pictured at the service. The second photo shows the chapel, a replica of the original church built by St. Francis of Assis, Italy, before the service. A night to remember the death of the saint on Oct. 3, 1226, the Transitus is traditionally celebrated on that date by Franciscans around the world, according to franciscanmissionaries.com.

Transitus is a Latin word that means passage or crossing over. “In every account written on the death of St. Francis, it is remembered that he crossed over from life on earth to eternal life with the Lord, full of great joy and song,” the website says.

OBITUARIES SISTER DOROTHY SIMPSON, SNJM

Sister Dorothy Simpson, SNJM (Sister M. Catherine Regina) died Sept. 15 at Mercy Center in Oakland. She was 89 and celebrated 69 years of profession as a Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.

A native of San Francisco and a graduate of St. Cecilia School, she spent 20 years in elementary education having been missioned to St. Joseph, St. Monica and St. Anselm, Sister Dorothy among other schools. She then Simpson, SNJM taught theology and religious studies at Holy Names University for 11 years.

Sister found a home for her passion and love of sharing Scripture, spirituality and faith in parish ministry. She ministered in adult spirituality and RCIA at Corpus Christi Parish in Oakland and three parishes in Southern California.

She is survived by her nieces Karen and Cathy Simp-

son and the Sisters and Affiliates of the Sisters of the Holy Names. A Mass of Resurrection was held Sept. 2 at Holy Spirit Chapel in Campbell, with burial the following day at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Hayward.

SISTER CATHERINE CAHUR, SC

Sister Catherine Cahur, SC, died Sept. 22 in San Francisco at the age of 82. She was a Sister of Charity of Cincinnati for 64 years.

Born March 8, 1937, in Cleveland, Ohio, Sister Cahur entered the religious community in 1955 after being educated by the sisters at Holy Name High School.

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Celebrates a Quasquicentennial Anniversary

By Fr. Joseph Illo, pastor of Star of the Sea Parish

In 1866 what we now call the Richmond District was incorporated into the City of San Francisco. Known as the “Outside Lands,” it was as yet a lonely area of drifting sand dunes and sagebrush, a blank area on county maps with Mountain Lake as the sole identifiable feature. Only the dirt track called Point Lobos Toll Road, now Geary Boulevard, pierced the billows of salty fog rolling over the hills from the Pacific Ocean. This unincorporated area of San Francisco County, also called simply the “Extended Area” or “Beyond the Graves” lay west of the cemeteries known as the Silent City (what is now the Western Addition). Locals called it “Pneumonia Gulch” because of the frigid fogbound summers. In 1890 the Board of Supervisors named it “The Richmond District” after a mansion on 12th Avenue and Clement known as Richmond House (after the owner’s hometown of Richmond, Australia).

By 1870 sports fans had built the Bay District Track for horseracing around Arguello and Geary, and a few enterprising Irishmen established horse ranches, farms, and public houses among the rolling dunes. At one point there were more horses than people, and then more cows than horses and people, but the Irishmen got to work having large families. These families needed a Catholic Church. They had been making the trip to Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral east of Nob Hill, and then to the much closer cemetery chapel of the Holy Cross on Eddy at Divisadero (now a Buddhist Monastery, but still bearing the façade inscription Sanctae Crucis, or “of the Holy Cross”). In 1886 forty-one Catholic families felt “strong” enough to maintain a church of their own. The first Mass was celebrated at Farrell’s Dance Hall at Ninth and Geary on Easter Sunday 1887. Within a year the Irishmen had built their own 500-seat framework building at a cost of $10,000. It would be six years before the church was promoted from mission outpost to fully independent parish. Father John P. Coyle, the first native San Franciscan to be ordained a Catholic priest, became the first pastor of Star of the Sea Parish in 1894.

A photograph taken from Strawberry Hill in that year shows some houses around the Race Track with Star of the Sea Church west of them. Behind it an almost unbroken undulation of sand dunes stretches to the Pacific Ocean. Father Coyle worked hard to build up the new parish and pastored the community through the 1906 earthquake, which led to a westward expansion of the city and rapid growth of the church. He survived the earthquake by only two years, and in 1908 Archbishop Riordan realized he needed a man of vision and energy for the growing community.

A gifted young priest from Country Tipperary, Father Philip O’Ryan, became the second pastor of Star of the Sea Parish. He set about bringing a measure of discipline and gentility to the men and women of the “Outside Lands.” They described their pastor as a man of tireless effort, a marvelous teacher who was a gentle, loving guide to children and adults alike. In the first year of his pastorate he built a school with the Sisters of St. Joseph, opening Star of the Sea Grammar School in 1909 with 137 parish children. Star of the Sea Parish has since seen eight more pastors, all of whom have had to respond to the ebbs and flows of demographic shifts and changing attitudes toward organized religion. In recent years the church has grown as it has offered more traditionally Catholic liturgies and devotions, and we look forward to a bright future.

The community will celebrate its 125th Anniversary with a Festival Mass at 4:30 pm on Saturday, November 9, followed by a Gala Banquet with well known guest speaker PATRICK COFFIN. Tickets can be purchased at https://star-125.eventbrite.com. More info at parish website: www.starparish.com.

novena Prayer to the Blessed Mother

Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, Fruitful vine, splendor of Heaven, blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity. O Star of the Sea, help me and show me, here. You are my Mother, Oh, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity. (Make request.) There are none that can withstand your power. O, Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3 x). Holy Mother, I place this cause in your hands (3 x).

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help wanted Saint Philip the Apostle Church in San Francisco has an immediate opening for a friendly and enthusiastic Full-Time Parish Administrative Assistant.

Successful candidate should be comfortable to multi-task and has excellent written and verbal communication skills. Candidate must have a basic knowledge of Church structure, doctrine, terminology and practices. Computer skills needed with experience using the Microsoft Office suite is essential. Experience using Publisher for creating the Sunday bulletin is desirable, but training can be made available. We are a PC Platform office.

Candidate will share some responsibilities of the dayto-day operations of the parish office in conjunction with offering support for our Faith Formation programs, as well as to the Parish Administrator.

Ideal candidate preferred with prior ministry work experience, a minimum of 3 years administrative experience and some college education, but not necessary. A practicing Catholic preferred.

Interested parties, please email: job@saintphilipparish.org or call 415.282.0141.

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

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THURSDAY, OCT. 24 NIGERIA BENEFIT: Mother of Mercy Charitable Foundation hosts a presentation by Father Edward Inyanwachi to benefit the rural poor in Nigeria from 6-8 p.m. in Flanagan Hall at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1555 39th Ave., San Francisco, $50. Angela Testani, (415) 347-1866 or a.testani@mmcharitablefoundation.org.

SATURDAY, OCT. 26 SPIRITUALITY TALK: The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Center for Education & Spirituality presents “Open Wide Our Hearts: Exploring Racism & Diversity,” with a 9:30-noon talk on the question, “What is it to ‘Love Goodness/Walk Humbly With God?’” 43326 Mission Circle (entrance off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Register at http://bit.ly/2019OpnWdHrts or call (510) 933-6360.

MARIN LITURGICAL TRAINING: A six-hour formation session for new and experienced Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion and for readers.

10 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Sebastian’s Parish, 373 Bon Air Road, Greenbrae. $20 for pre-registered participants; $25 same day registration. Contact Laura Bertone, bertonel@sfarch.org or (415) 614-5586.

MOTHER-DAUGHTER PROGRAM: A program that introduces girls to the beauty and wonder of God’s plan for becoming teenagers and young women. St. Bartholomew Parish, 600 Colombia Drive, San Mateo. “’Tweens” begin at 9 a.m., and teens at 1:30 p.m.

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SUNDAY, OCT. 27 GOSPEL/JAZZ MASS: Annual Mass featuring the Bay Area Gospel Mass Choir will be celebrated by retired Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice. 5:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Contact Doug Benbow at dbenbow@smcsf.org or (415) 567-2020, ext. 220.

TUESDAY, OCT. 29 SACRED MUSIC TALK: Cathedral music director Christopher Tietze will give a talk examining the history and development of sacred music from biblical times through the present. 7:30-9:30 p.m. at St. Philip the Apostle Church, 725 Diamond St., San Francisco. (415) 282-0141.

THURSDAY, OCT. 31 RESPECT LIFE ESSAYS: Students K-12 have until Oct. 31 to enter the annual Respect Life Essay Contest organized by the archdiocese. Full details at sfarchdiocese.org/cultureof-life.

Diane Crowther Diane Crowther, director of music at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, will lead a combined gospel choir of voices from St. Paul of the Shipwreck, St. Boniface, Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Lourdes parishes in San Francisco and St. Columba Parish in Oakland.

Moises Agudo, pastor of St. Peter Parish in San Francisco, and USF president Father Paul Fitzgerald, SJ, will concelebrate the St. Peter School annual Alumni and Memorial Mass, 2:30 p.m. at St. Peter Church, 1241 Alabama St., San Francisco. Reception to follow.

WOMEN’S RETREAT: Lisa Fullam, professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology, speaks on “Holy Desire: Ours and God’s” from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Del Santo Reading Room, University

HEALING MASS: Celebrated by Father Vito Perrone of the Contemplatives of St. Joseph. Prayer intentions may be left at the front door before Mass. After Mass, a priest, brother or affiliated sister will pray with you before the Blessed Sacrament. 7 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Contact Rcs7777@ comcast.net

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SUNDAY, NOV. 3 VOCATIONS HOLY HOUR: Please join the archdiocese in praying for an increase and strengthening of vocations to the priesthood, the diaconate and consecrated life. 3-4 p.m. at three locations: St. Sebastian Church, 373 Bon Air Road, Greenbrae; Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco; St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. Vocations@sfarch.org.

MOSAIC TV: This “Ask a Priest” episode hosts Father Kevin Kennedy and Father Cameron Faller, who answer questions about faith, the church and their vocation. Airs 5:30 a.m. on KPIX-TV Channel 5, CBS Bay Area. Past episodes of Mosaic are archived and viewable at sfarch.org/ mosaic-tv.

MONDAY, NOV. 4 DISCERNMENT, SAN MATEO: Discernment is not a solitary endeavor and involves listening to God, learning about yourself and seeking the guidance of others. Join a gathering for men discerning a priestly vocation from 6:15-8:30 p.m. at St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. Contact Father Tom Martin, martin.thomas@sfarch.org.

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Join a gathering for men discerning a priestly vocation from 5:45-8:30 p.m. at Star of the Sea Church, 4420

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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma invites you to three special events

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