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Celebration begins traditional Filipino Advent devotion
Class sparks parishes’ passion for traditional sacred music
Nativity sets teach about the Incarnation
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December 13, 2018
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Pope: Protect basic human rights of all, no exceptions Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The fundamental rights of all human beings, especially the most vulnerable, must be respected and protected in every situation, Pope Francis said, marking Human Rights Day, Dec.10. “While a part of humanity lives in opulence, another part sees their dignity denied, ignored or infringed upon and their fundamental rights ignored or violated,” he said. Such a contradiction leads one to ask “whether the equal dignity of all human beings – solemnly proclaimed 70 years ago – is truly recognized, respected, protected and promoted in every circumstance,” he said in a written message. The message was read aloud by Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, at a Dec. 10-11 see pope, page 22
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Thousands march in 25th Guadalupana pilgrimage
Pilgrims gathered at All Souls Church in South San Francisco on Dec. 8 for the 25th annual Guadalupana Crusade before beginning their 12-mile journey to St. Mary’s Cathedral. Event organizers anticipated 35,000 people would participate in the pilgrimage. More on Page 6.
Stained-glass artist: ‘God gave me good hands’ Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
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A detail from a stained-glass restoration by artist Margaret Pederson at St. Augustine Church, South San Francisco.
“You should really come back and see this wall in the morning,” stainedglass artist Margaret Pederson told Catholic San Francisco Dec. 6 during an afternoon visit to St. Augustine Church. “When the sun rises it becomes just like a kaleidoscope.” This was Pederson’s final visit to the South San Francisco parish after spending the better part of two years meticulously restoring two large banks of stained glass windows originally designed for and installed at the parish a few years after it opened in 1970. One bank of windows near the altar
serves as a backdrop for the choir and was completed in time for Christmas Mass last year; the second larger window was unveiled at a Mass for the feast of St. Augustine on Aug. 26. The project was clearly a labor of love for Pederson, whose Sea of Glass studio in San Leandro was hired to restore the aging church windows as part of a major sanctuary remodel completed in 2017. “I put my heart and soul into this,” she said stretching her arms out toward a lively floor-to-ceiling swirl of orange, gold, leaf green, cerise and cobalt blue flowers or flames or both. Part of her attachment to the project, she said, came from the discovery that stained-glass master and friend
Nick Lucas and his late father of Church Art Glass in San Francisco designed the windows in 1976. The business closed with Nick’s retirement. “They were initially going to remove these walls and discard them,” said Pederson, who deconstructed the original glass design and failing lead structure which was leaking, and painstakingly replicated the design using 85 percent of the original glass. The remaining 15 percent of the glass, broken or damaged beyond repair, was replaced with rare vintage mouth-blown glass from Germany and France. see stained-glass artist, page 10
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