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BE SEALED

KNOW POVERTY

More than 470 adult Catholics from 51 parishes confirmed

Summit focuses on understanding and helping those in poverty

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Steps for Students challenges parishes to go for gold in 2020 Race registration open through Feb. 13

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Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, second from left, walks with bishops from Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas to concelebrate Mass at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome Jan. 21. The bishops, including Auxiliary Bishop George A. Sheltz, were making their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican to report on the status of their dioceses to the pope and Vatican officials. SEE PHOTO STORY ON PAGE 2.

Faithful called to bring greatest gifts to the Lord through 2020 DSF

BY KERRY MCGUIRE Herald Correspondent HOUSTON — The faithful in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston are encouraged to bring their greatest gifts to the Lord and foster good in the local Church by contributing to 60 Diocesan Services Fund (DSF) programs.

The 2020 DSF annual campaign, “Bring Your Greatest Gifts to the Lord,” begins Feb. 1 to 2 on Commitment Weekend held in 153 parishes across 10 counties in the Archdiocese.

“We cannot say that what we have is our own, but instead, a gift from the Lord that is meant to be shared,” said Daniel Cardinal DiNardo said the.

“DSF continues to be the largest service umbrella within the Archdiocese that

binds us together in serving others and sharing our greatest gifts to bring greater common good.”

The 60 ministries supported annually by the DSF, which are listed below, assist thousands living in the Archdiocese, many of whom are poor, sick, imprisoned, elderly or people currently facing a crisis. DSF also supports programs and services that foster teaching, evangelization and worship. No funds are spent on the administration of the Chancery.

Three ministries that benefit from the gifts provided by the faithful through the DSF are highlighted in the 2020

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campaign: the Office of Vocations, Office of Evangelization and Catechesis, and Office of Hispanic Ministry.

With seven men ordained last year in June and 62 seminarians (including 17 Archdiocesan seminarians) currently enrolled in St. Mary’s Seminary, the Office of Vocations is responsible for the care and formation of each seminarian.The office provides personal, spiritual, academic and pastoral preparation of these men in discernment so they may become effective pastoral

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HOUSTON — Students at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School (SVdP) don’t have a ringer in the upcoming Steps for Students 5K run on Feb. 15, but a 2020 Olympic track athlete is giving them tips as an assistant coach.

SVdP Athletic Director Marion Jones brought in Amere Lattin, a University of Houston track star and graduate competing in Tokyo on the U.S. track team for hurdles, to encourage the students.

“I give the kids good advice on how to overcome struggles,” the 22-year-old said.

“Every track and field athlete wants to gain an Olympic gold medal,” Lattin said.

“That’s the end goal, along with a world record. That’s what I expect to gain as well. Track and field is a rewarding sport when you put in the work.”

Much of his success and ambition, Lattin attributed to two of the biggest See STEPS FOR STUDENTS, page 5

STILL TREMBLING

Quakes severely damage historic Puerto Rico convent

BY REBECCA TORRELLAS Texas Catholic Herald PUERTO RICO — Since the evening of Dec. 28, 2019, Puerto Rico has been rocked by repeated tremors, earthquakes and aftershocks centered in the south and southwest parts of the island. Nearly 5,000 people were sleeping outside their homes because they felt unsafe staying indoors, afraid the houses would collapse on them.

The towns of Yauco and Guanica has suffered immense damage to its buildings and roadways. Many houses that had carports on the first floor and the house on the second floor collapsed, See PUERTO RICO, page 17

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Daniel Cardinal DiNardo anoints the head of a confirmation candidate during a celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation at a Mass at Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church in Houston Jan. 12. Cardinal DiNardo, with Auxiliary Bishop George A. Sheltz, confirmed 478 Catholics on Jan. 12 at four Masses around the Archdiocese. VIEW MORE PHOTOS AT ARCHGH.ORG/TCH.

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These were a few of the confirmation names chosen by the 478 adult Catholics from 51 parishes across the Archdiocese who received the Sacrament of Confirmation when Daniel Cardinal DiNardo and Auxiliary Bishop George A. Sheltz celebrated a quartet of Masses on Jan. 12, the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord.

The bilingual Masses were held at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church in Houston, Christ the Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Spring and St. Angela Merici Catholic Church in Missouri City.

After confirming some 129 at the Co-Cathedral that afternoon, Bishop Sheltz encouraged the confirmandi to “be modern day apostles” in today’s age as “witnessses” to God’s love and the Gospel. Later that evening, Cardinal DiNardo confirmed 119 at Christ the Redeemer, where he told the newly confirmed to “be filled with divine compassion” in his homily.

“You are called to be on mission,” Cardinal DiNardo said. “It’s part of God’s plan.

Confirmation is a gift flowing from the Holy Spirit.”Those who are confirmed can enter more deeply into the Church, he said.

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and Bishop Sheltz anointed the foreheads of the candidates with holy chrism and said “Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit,” signalled the culmination of months of catechesis and effort, alongside their sponsors who helped guide them in the process, at their parishes and lives. Each of the 478 confirmed had a sponsor standing behind them, with their right hand on the candidate’s shoulder, in support and prayer.

At the Mass, the bishop recites a prayer that invokes God the Father for an “outpouring of the Holy Spirit,” according to the U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The bishop extends his two hands over all those to be confirmed, a sign of continuity of the New Testament custom of laying hands on those who would receive the gift of the Spirit.

The seven gifts traditionally associated with the Spirit are inspired by Isaiah 11:1-3, and include: wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety or reverance and fear of the Lord, also known as wonder and awe.

The Mass also included a renewal of baptismal promises, showing the connection between confirmation and baptism. Confirmation, like baptism, is only given once since it also “imprints on the soul an indelibile spiritual mark. †

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Mass for World Day for Consecrated Life set for Feb. 2

HOUSTON — The Mass for World Day for Consecrated Life will be celebrated Sunday, Feb. 2, 11:00 a.m. at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, located at 1111 St. Joseph Pkwy. Daniel Cardinal DiNardo will be the celebrant.

The public is invited to join vowed religious at this Liturgy to pray for all those who have made commitments in the consecrated life as they publicly renew their commitment. †

Sign up for eighth annual Caritas Day

HOUSTON — On Feb. 29 the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart will be holding their eighth annual Caritas Day, a Lenten day of Service.

The day will begin at 8 a.m. with Mass at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, located at 1111 St. Joseph Pkwy. in Houston. Then, volunteers will head off to their pre-selected service project.

Projects range from making sandwiches for the homeless, to playing Bingo at Angela’s House, to assembling diaper cakes to distribute to area pregnancy centers. Lunch will be at noon.

There are more than 25 available service projects to choose from.

Those interested can select their service project online at www. sacredhearthouston.org/caritas-day-2020 or email outreach@ sacredhearthouston.org for any questions. †

Café Catholica Lite continues this spring

HOUSTON — The next Café Lite will be on Thursday, March 12, at Our Mother of Mercy Church, located at 4000 Sumpter St., #A, in Houston. It is set from 6 to 9 p.m. The speaker will be Dr. Ansel Augustine, a national speaker from New Orleans. His topic will be “Unfiltered: Removing our Masks.”

The Café Catholica program seeks to help young adults ages 18 to 39 encounter Christ and His Church. Café Catholica Lite is open to all young adults throughout the year. The event is held at different locations around the Archdiocese for a dinner and social hour, followed by the talk and fellowship.

The final Café Catholica Lite event will be held on May 28 at Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church.

For more information and upcoming dates, contact the Office for Young Adult and Campus Ministry at www.archgh.org/cafecatholica or yacm@archgh.org or 713-741-8778. †

CALENDAR Jan. 26 to Feb. 1 Catholic Schools Week Feb. 15 Steps for Students, register at www.steps4students.com Feb. 26 Ash Wednesday March 26 The 17th annual Bishop Rizzotto Golf Classic, Wildcat Golf Club, 12000 Almeda Rd., Houston. Register at stdominicvillage. org/golfer-registration

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The second-annual Archdiocesan talent show is set for Feb. 1 to close Catholic Schools Week. ▪ PAGE 11

DSF ministries serve a diverse needs in Archdiocese DSF, from page 1 leaders who desire to serve the Church.

“The Vocations office allows a young man to discern whether he is being called by God to share his gifts through the priesthood,” said Cardinal DiNardo. “Discernment includes a series of inquiries, including background checks, psychological tests and a review by a committee of both priests and laypeople to help me decide who enters the seminary. Please keep praying and supporting this ministry so that we have the best vocations program possible.”

Father Richard McNeillie, director of the Office of Vocations, said he is grateful for the supporters of the DSF, which he feels is the lifeline of the ministry’s operations.

“The Office of Vocations literally would not be able to pay for the seminarian’s education and formation without the DSF,” said Father McNeillie. “That’s the biggest item in our budget, and we need it for the future of priests in this local Archdiocese.”

The DSF also supports religious education programs offered by the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis, which foster each person’s faith to become living, conscious and active through a

lens of lifelong faith formation.

According to Julie Blevins, director of the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis (OEC), programs are designed to assist pastors and catechetical leaders in parishes and schools in furthering the catechetical-evangelical mission of a family-oriented, multi-ethnic Church of adults, youth and children.

Blevins said that over the past three years, the OEC’s mission has focused on providing ways to draw people into deeper communion and intimacy with each other and Jesus. This includes a new, more uniform program that provides adults with an opportunity to develop the spiritual growth needed to be formed through the Sacrament of Confirmation.

“Once someone has an encounter with Christ, they want to know more, and Catechesis is there to support that quest,” said Blevins. “If we know Jesus more, then we grow to love Him and desire to serve Him. OEC’s new program and those that have been revised over these past three years have integrated this principle of encounter before catechesis, which leads into deeper encounters and deeper catechesis, which is a lifelong experience.”

Blevins said the DSF supports the development of the curriculum, all

revisions to leadership formation programs, revisions to catechist formation programs, textbook aid to poor parishes, and scholarships for leaders to pursue advanced formation or degrees in theologies.

“Each of these programs return the investment parishes make in their donation to DSF by giving back qualified leaders and catechists that can effectively and authentically transmit the faith to its members,” Blevins said.

Another area the gifts provided by the DSF support is the Office of Hispanic Ministry. With approximately 2.4 million Hispanic and Latinos currently living in the Houston area, which continues to grow in large numbers each year, the DSF is critical in providing support for the inclusion of Hispanic Catholics.

According to Lázaro Contreras, director of the Office of Hispanic Ministry, the ministry’s vision has been the same for the past four decades: To be an agent of transformation for the Hispanic and Latino community promoting its fullest inclusion and participation in the Church and society.

Contreras said as a pastoral office, ministry staff and volunteers observe, listen and discern their needs and respond in collaboration with the different Archdiocesan offices and parishes, as well as with other Catholic and secular organizations.

“One of the things that I love about this Archdiocese is the great diversity that we have in languages and cultures, and the many ways we express our Catholic faith,” said Contreras. “Even as Hispanics and Latinos, we come from a lot of different countries and regions.

What unites us all, including our nonHispanic/Latino brothers and sisters, is sharing the gift of our Catholic faith and love for Christ and His Church.”

Contreras said it is through the generosity of the faithful in the Archdiocese that supports the DSF that enables the ministry to support Hispanic and Latino Catholics on their spiritual journeys.

“Through the DSF, we can continue our work in collaboration with diocesan offices and other organizations to provide leadership formation programs, which allows this community to respond to the call of the new evangelization,” Contreras said. “We are able to help them become witnesses of God’s love and bring their God-given gifts to the Lord to serve the entire Church and build the Kingdom of God in our midst.”

Cardinal DiNardo said he is deeply grateful to the faithful in the Archdiocese for their excellent work in parishes that brings their gifts to the Lord and treasury to help the common good of the local Church.

“The faithful’s support of the DSF allows the Archdiocese of GalvestonHouston to be sustained, grow and enhanced in the expression of our faith,” said Cardinal DiNardo. “All those who benefit truly appreciate gifts to the DSF. I ask them today to share their greatest gifts with others by participating in the 2020 DSF.” For more information about the Diocesan Services Fund and how to contribute, visit www.archgh.org/dsf. †

Ministries supported by the Diocesan Services Fund include TEACHING, EVANGELIZING AND WORSHIP

Apostleship of the Sea Catholic Schools Office Chapels (Holy Cross and Warren) Communications Office Ecumenism Commission Office of Evangelization and Catechesis Office of Worship Pastoral and Educational Ministry

MINISTERING TO THE POOR, THE SICK AND THE INCARCERATED

Angela House Catholic Chaplain Corps Catholic Charities Correctional Ministries Foreign Missions Office of Justice & Peace/Catholic Campaign for Human Development Our Daily Bread San José Clinic St. Dominic Center for the Deaf

PROMOTING, PREPARING AND SUPPORTING THE CLERGY

Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza Priest Retirement Residence Clergy Formation and Chaplaincy Services Clergy Pastoral Outreach Department of Seminarians Good Leaders, Good Shepherds Ministry to Priests Office of Permanent Diaconate Ministry Office of Vocations for Priesthood & Religious Life

NURTURING AND STRENGTHENING FAMILIES

Aging Ministry Camp Kappe Ethnic Ministries Family Life Ministry Family Retreat Center at Circle Lake Office of Adolescent Catechesis and Evangelization Office of Hispanic Ministry Pro-Life Activities Special Youth Services St. Dominic Village Vicar for Judicial Affairs (Metropolitan Tribunal) Young Adult and Campus Ministry

To donate and more, visit www.archgh.org/dsf

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Feb. 15 race benefits Galveston-Houston Catholic schools STEPS FOR STUDENTS, from page 1 names in track and field: UH Head Coach Leroy Burrell and assistant coach and former Olympian Carl Lewis.

“My coaches were with me 110 percent of the way,” Lattin said. “I did things the right way. I followed the vision that was put in place the day I was recruited.

Complete my NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) eligibility, obtain my bachelor’s degree and become the best hurdler in the world. I’m doing just that.”

Lattin, Jones and some of the SVdP students are scheduled to appear on KHOU-Channel 11’s Great Day Houston with Deborah Duncan on Feb. 12.

But Lattin’s dedication will prevent him from actually being at the Steps for Students event since he will be competing in the 2020 USA Track and Field National Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico Feb. 14 to 15.

“I’ll be there in spirit,” he said of Steps.

Steps for Students organizing committee members are also working on attracting other community supporters, especially parishes that may not have schools connected to them.

Father Richard“Luke”Millette, featured in a recent Houston Chronicle article highlighting several Houston priests who run in the Steps 5K, is organizing a Parish Text-to-Give Challenge to bring in more support. Parishioners can text STEPS15

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St. Francis de Sales Catholic School principal Diane Wooten organized a balloon drop Jan. 9 to get students excited about registering for the Steps for Students 5K race Feb. 15. The school plans to purchase new playground equipment with some of the funds raised. For those who register before Jan. 31, the price will be $20 before rising to $30 after Jan. 30 online at steps4students.org.

to 41444 to make a donation.

The top three parishes that donate the most funds between Jan. 25 through Feb. 9 to the Archdiocesan Tuition Assistance Program will receive high-profile awards.

The Tuition Assistance Program provides need-based aid to students of all faiths

wishing to attend Catholic schools.

Prizes will be for a parish leader like the pastor, vicar or deacon to ride in the Steps pace car provided by Classic Chevrolet of Houston; for the parish to carry the lead banner in front of the walkers; or to serve as the honorary

starter for the walkers.

Another new idea for Steps is for parishes to provide “hoopla stations” along the 5K route that would have cheerleaders, bands and other encouragement for the runners.

“This provides opportunities for parishes to be more involved and to enhance the spirit and excitement of race day,”said Julie Eberle of the Archdiocese’s office of development.

Individual schools are also competing to see who has the most percentage of students and families participating in the 5K. Diane Wooten, principal of St. Francis de Sales Catholic School and Steps Committee member, recently held a big Balloon Drop at the school Jan. 9 filled with candies and surprises for about 200 students who had already registered for the race.

“We try to have exciting events to encourage student registration so that they can start getting hyped up about the race and raising money,”Wooten said.

“This year, our funds will go to buying a new playground structure. The kids are so excited about something new! All of our equipment is more than 20 years old.

So as young as they are, they think that what we have is ancient,” the principal said.

For those who register before Jan. 31, the price will be $20 before rising to $30 after Jan. 30 online at steps4students.org. †

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New generation of ‘motel kids’ being raised in poverty

BY JO ANN ZUÑIGA Texas Catholic Herald HOUSTON — Instead of “latch-key” children coming home from school to an empty house as both parents work, there is a new generation of “motel kids” being raised in poverty as parents try to find affordable housing.

Catholic Charities President and CEO Cynthia Colbert opened up the kNOw Poverty Summit Jan. 16 welcoming about 200 social workers, parish social ministers who head up food pantries, nonprofit organizations and government workers to collaborate on understanding and helping those in poverty.

“Poverty comes from a variety of complex issues. But we can feed, we can offer job training, we can help solve this if we learn to pull it off together,” Colbert said. “The myths of the poor being lazy and not wanting to work are not true when people realize a third of them are children; 11% are elderly and another 24% are working adults between 18 and 64.”

Keynote speaker Donna Beegle, CEO of Communication Across Barriers, who grew up in poverty with her family subsisting on migrant labor work, said, “There is still segregation in America —

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A group of parish social ministers were awarded certificates Jan. 16 at the kNOw Poverty Summit after completing a six-week course about specific needs in the community, foundations of Catholic Social Teaching and practical advice on providing social services to people in need. From left: Silvia Thomas, Terry Green, Janet Chan, Ascension Amado, Sister Raphaella Ikeazota, Catholic Charities Senior Vice President of Programs Natalie Wood, Sister Fortune Ezeugo, and Catholic Charities Parish Social Ministry Coordinator Rhonda Sepulveda.

by social class.”

“What real estate agent has not been asked — ‘where are your good schools?’

Not everyone gets the same, yet society tries to say, ‘we’re all the same, and we all have the same opportunities,’” Beegle said.

there were transportation problems or not being able to afford proper nutrition.”

The workshops set up “mock towns,” including health clinics, schools, pawn shops and grocery stores. The students are assigned to one of 17 different family units with some beginning homeless and are given a packet of information about “We are losing so many people, so the family situation, income, debt and much potential in this war on poverty. A disabilities. whole generation is growing up as ‘motel The goal of the simulation is, “what kids.’ Children in poverty lose their can healthcare do to better serve patients childhood. We need to fight poverty, not in poverty?” Ford said. In surveys taken fight the people in poverty,” she said. afterward, one student responded, “As But she said stereotypes go both ways. someone who comes from a privileged “Those who are poor sometimes think if background, it was an eye-opening ‘you’re making it,’ with food to eat and experience. I will better empathize with housing and jobs, then your life is perfect. my patients.”

You have no problems. Then we find out Curtis McMinn, senior manager, that they are as messed up as we are, just mission and strategy for the United Way with middle-class sentence structure and of Greater Houston, said, “Go ask ‘Alice,’ not using ‘ain’t,’” Beegle said.

– “Asset Limited Income Constrained Bringing up Martin Luther King Jr. as Employed.” The poverty level for the one of her heroes, she said that Dr. King working poor is being a family of four pointed out that people confuse the issue surviving on $24,300, he said. But studies of poverty with race. Official statistics in Harris County show that including show that the majority of people on childcare costs, food, rent, utilities and welfare are white women with children. transportation, a family of four needs “Both Dr. King and $61,404 “just to survive,” Malcolm X were killed while McMinn said. organizing a Poor People’s “That’s not including JANUARY IS Campaign to march on movies or going out to eat POVERTY Washington, D.C., trying to even at McDonald’s. There are unite with poor whites,” she about 826,000 households in AWARENESS said. “Racism is still alive and our area that are at $61,000 MONTH well in our institutionalized or below. About 40% of the systems.” population is at that threshold, In trying to educate people and it will rise to 50% in the on poverty, another speaker, coming years,” he said.

Kim Burgo, vice president of disaster These jobs are not only service and operations for Catholic Charities USA, construction jobs, but also elementary said the organization has begun working school teachers and public servants, with Airbnb to offer temporary housing. including law enforcement and “They were able to offer $75,000 in firefighters, he said. housing with 300 days of stay. We are Kathy Payton, president and CEO of the all called to help in disaster alleviation,” Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Burgo said.

Corporation, said hope was almost lost in Christine Ford, an educational what had been called “The Bloody Fifth” specialist with the McGovern Medical because of the high crime rate.

School at UTHealth, told the crowd that “We are working to catalyze resources the school has begun workshops to teach and transform a community,” said the medical students “increased compassion Rice University and Harvard graduate. of those living in poverty.”

“But we started with three disasters — “We found out that the average medical three public housing units. Then I-10 and student comes from top household 59 (freeways) came in and cut up the income brackets. And many of them were community. And that left us even more blaming their patients for poor health isolated and segregated.”

– not taking their medications, rather “Let’s change the face of poverty and than realizing they may not have the how we discuss it and treat it. We need to funds,” Ford said. “Patients were missing quit treating the symptoms and develop appointments, but doctors didn’t realize strategies with each other,” Payton said. †

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Martin Luther King Jr. lives in shared history at Mass of Remembrance

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The Archdiocese celebrated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. at Mass of Remembrance at the CoCathedral of the Sacred Heart. Father Reginald Samuels, pastor of St. Hyacinth Catholic Church in Deer Park and vicar for Catholics of African Descent, delivered the homily.

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HOUSTON — “Take my hand, precious Lord, lead me home,” Father Reginald Samuels began his homily Jan. 19 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Mass of Remembrance at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.

He sang the hymn chosen by the Baptist preacher and civil rights leader for his funeral right before he was assassinated. Others attending the Mass joined in the melody.

Originally from Georgia, Father Samuels said his mother and father felt compelled to attend a rally years ago in that state to support King, who was scheduled to speak.

“My older sister was frightened that something would happen to them. She begged my parents to stay home, but our mother said God was with them,” the priest said.

“It was the chaos of the times, with all the bombings and violence among the non-violent marches,” he said. But his parents survived, and “six years later, I was born.”

The congregation that included the Knights of Peter Claver in their regalia and the Ladies Auxiliary burst out in applause for Father Samuels, vicar for Catholics of African Descent who serves the African, African-American, and Caribbean Catholic communities of the Archdiocese.

King, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, was assassinated 52 years ago in 1968 at the age of 39, but made astounding societal changes in his short life.

Archbishop Emeritus Joseph A. Fiorenza, the principal celebrant of the Mass, also marched with King in 1965 as a young priest from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery.

At the end of the Mass of Remembrance, the Archbishop said, “When we honor Martin Luther King, we honor the best in his American dream. We continue to build up his beloved community of peace and his dreams of equality and justice for all.

All should be treated as children of God.” Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, released a statement to mark the observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 20.

“We have come a long way in our country, but we have not come nearly far enough,” it stated. “Too many hearts and minds are clouded by racist presumptions of privilege, and too many injustices in our society are still rooted in racism and discrimination.”

“Many minority neighborhoods in this country are still what they were in Rev. King’s time, what he called ‘lonely islands of poverty.’ Let us recommit ourselves to ensuring opportunity reaches every community.” †

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Father Jose Mundadan

HIGHLANDS — Father Jose “Joe” Mundadan, pastor of St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church in the Highlands since 2015, died Jan. 6. He was 59 years old.

Funeral Mass was held Jan. 10 at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church. Interment is in St. Joseph Church in Josepuram, Angamaly, India. †

IN MEMORIAM Please pray for the following priests whose anniversaries of death are during the month of Feb..

Dominican Sisters walk for trafficking victims

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The prayer vigil against human trafficking at the Dominican Sisters of Houston was held Saturday, Jan. 11. The Dominican Sisters of Houston and CHI St. Luke’s Health commemorated St. Josephine Bakhita, the patron of trafficking victims, on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day with a prayer and labyrinth walk to end human trafficking.

Feb. 1, 1904 Rev. Vac Chlapik Feb. 1, 1915 Rev. F.M. Huhn Feb. 2, 1930 Rev. F. Nona Feb. 2, 1995 Rev. Abraham Sy Thuyen Ho,OP Feb. 2, 2004 Msgr. Jack B. Jones Feb. 3, 1968 Rev. Joseph C. Morrell Feb. 3, 1968 Rev. Thomas A. Ryan Feb. 5, 1978 Rev. Joseph Coll Feb. 6, 1955 Rev. N.T. Domanski Feb. 7, 1935 Msgr. John Nicholson Feb. 7, 1935 Rev. Christopher Preker Feb. 8, 1995 Rev. A. Wayne Elkins Feb. 9, 1996 Msgr. Cornelius P. Flynn Feb. 10, 1936 Rev. John Baptist O’Leary Feb. 10, 1991 Msgr. Frank D. Urbanosky Feb. 10, 1997 Rev. John Prill Feb. 11, 1957 Rev. Fabian Stindle Feb. 11, 1957 Rev. Joseph Kloboulk Feb. 11, 1978 Rev. John Zimmer, CSsR Feb. 12, 1906 Rev. J.J. Costello, CSB Feb. 12, 1923 Rev. Pete J. Clancy Feb. 13, 1988 Rev. Richard Johnson, CSsR Feb. 13, 2001 Rev. Charles Ferguson Feb. 13, 2011 Msgr. Joseph H. Crosthwait

Feb. 14, 1916 Rev. D.F. Berberich Feb. 14, 1951 Rev. Emil Landry Feb. 14, 1978 Msgr. Jerome J. Tydlacka Feb. 14, 1979 Rev. E.C. Fowler Feb. 15, 2018 Rev. Aureliano Santa-Olaya Feb. 16, 1951 Rev. Walter Fraher, MS Feb. 17, 1879 Rev. Theodore Greyenbuhl Feb. 17, 2017 Rev. Bruce H. Noble Feb. 18, 1933 Rev. Otto Niekamp Feb. 19, 1883 Rev. Joseph Mosiewiez Feb. 19, 1960 Msgr. George A. Wilhelm Feb. 19, 1965 Rev. Henry V. Parmentier Feb. 20, 1968 Rev. Florimond B. Vanholme, SSC Feb. 20, 1984 Msgr. William D. Steele Feb. 21, 1983 Rev. Leonard C. Quinlan, CSB Feb. 21, 2005 Rev. Robert A. Bordenkircher, OP Feb. 22, 1879 Rev. Martin Weinzaepflen Feb. 22, 2001 Rev. Ed Baur, SVD Feb. 24, 1974 Rev. Henry J. Saxon Feb. 24, 2011 Rev. David H. Noble Feb. 25, 1973 Rev. Vincent J. Guinan, CSB Feb. 27, 1980 Rev. Alfred P. Caird, CSB Feb. 28, 1913 Rev. Pierre C. Saint-Onge

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YOUR BURNING HEART IS HOLY GROUND

Registration open for Young Adult Day HOUSTON — Young adults ages 18 to 39 are invited for a day of fellowship, music, prayer and workshops Saturday, March 21, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at St. Jerome Catholic Church, located at 8825 Kempwood Dr. in Houston.

The event is open to single, dating and married young couples who want to grow in their relationship with God and with others.

The day will provide opportunities for formation in English and Spanish with local and national speakers, music and plenty of time to pray and fellowship along with a Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop George A. Sheltz.

The sixth-annual Young Adult Day, themed “Your Burning Heart is Holy Ground,” will include talks from Father Nicolas Ramirez, parochial vicar of St. Frances Cabrini; Father Richard McNeillie, director of the Office of Vocations; Youth Minister Matt Regitz; and Father Kingsley Nwoko, parochial vicar of St. Anthony Catholic Church in The Woodlands.

Presented in English and Spanish, the Early Bird cost is $25 per person until Feb. 21. To register, visit www.archgh.org/yacm or contact 713-741-8778 or email yacm@archgh.org. †

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Pastors, Catholic school leadership using varied Trinitarian formula While Catholics know the true Trinitarian formula is in the name “of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” the annual Pastor & Principal Luncheon on Jan. 22 discussed the trinity of an involved pastor, communicative school principal and Catholic Schools Office staff to ensure strong Catholic education.

“That requires good business and management skills, being part of the Church, and honesty in working together,” Father Clint Ressler, president of the Archdiocesan Schools Council and pastor at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Catholic Church and Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School in Texas City.

The annual luncheon, held this year at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, brings all three parties from 59 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to discuss strategic plans.

Father Tom Lam, pastor at Epiphany of the Lord Catholic Church in Katy, with a newly built school, shared his experiences recently attending the Notre Dame Pastors’ Institute in Indiana for priests who supervise schools.

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Others included connecting with the principal, staff, school board, parents and most importantly connect the school with the parish, he said. †

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‘Catholic Schools Got Talent’ hits high note during Catholic Schools Week HOUSTON — Catholic Schools Week in Galveston-Houston ends on a high note this year when it culminates with the “Catholic Schools Got Talent” showcase.

In its second year, the talent showcase highlights students from Catholic schools in the Archdiocese in grades fourth through eighth grade and brings them together for a grand night of goodnatured competition. Auditions were held in November 2019.

Before the students in the talent show take the stage at 7 p.m. at St. Pius X High School on Feb. 1, a student art walk will be open to the public at 5 p.m. with artwork created by students in kindergarten through eighth grade who created works reflecting the theme, “Live the Day, Do What You Can for the Glory of God.”

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Finalists in the showcase will perform instrumental, dance and vocal sets and and come from eight Catholic school communities: St. Jerome, St. Laurence, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Rose of Lima, St. Mary Catholic School in League City, St. John Paul II, St. Edward and Epiphany of the Lord. $5 tickets for the showcase are available online at archgh.org/CSGT. †

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Winners of last year’s Catholic Schools Got Talent showcase included (center) first-place winner Ashlee Allen and second-place winners sibling act Nico and Gabbi Arenas, all from St. Laurence Catholic School in Sugar Land. The 2020 showcase is set for Feb. 1 at St. Pius X High School.

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St. Clare student wins ‘Save Texas History’ essay contest

With his eye on the ball, St. Clare of Assisi Catholic School fourth-grader George Vernau III was recently named the fourth-grade grand prize winner of the the 2019 Save Texas History essay contest. His winning essay about the NASA Area Little League (NALL) Space baseball community in Houston topped essays from other fourth-grade students. Vernau was presented his award by Land Commissioner George P. Bush at the Texas General Land Office on Dec. 20, 2019. His essay, NALL: The Space Baseball Community, draws attention to the important role the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the NALL, play in his community. Vernau noted that these relationships span generations. His father was coached by former NASA Commander Michael Coats, a man still referred to affectionately by the NALL community as “Coach”. Vernau added, “Who else can say that his baseball coach missed a game or two because he was in space?”

SVDP SCHOOL STUDENTS RE-TELL THE EPIPHANY STORY PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL

On Jan. 6, eighthgrade students at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School wore costumes and visited classrooms of the younger children to teach them the history and meaning of Epiphany in the Catholic Church.

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Finding Jesus, Finding Truth: Junior High Youth Rally 2020

Today’s youth, known as Generation Z or I-Gen, have always grown up with smartphones, laptops and the Internet.

Social media is a way of life and often at an early age. Through Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube channels, podcasts and blogs, their social circle is more than just their family, neighborhood or school community; it’s now the world.

Information is just a click or Google search away. With all that information coming from a variety of sources, how do you know what real or “fake news” is?

How do we decipher conflicting information, and how do we know if the information we find is the truth? Even in the Bible, Pilate questions Jesus to what is the truth?

We will explore this question at the 2020 Archdiocesan Junior High Youth Rally, which will be held on Feb. 22 at St. Bernadette Catholic Church in Houston.

This year’s theme is ‘Finding Jesus, Finding Truth’ based on John 18:38, Pilate said to Him “What is truth?”

Knowing Jesus is knowing the truth, but how can we make sure we find it in our daily lives? The rally will break open this question through the keynote, service opportunities, workshops,

community building, along with prayer experiences and the celebration of the Mass with more than 800 youth in grades sixth to eighth from parish youth ministry programs and Catholic schools by throughout the RANDY Archdiocese.

ADAMS For Beatriz Green, coordinator of youth ministry at St. Cyril of Alexandria Catholic Church in Houston, the rally has become a central part of her youth ministry program for the past 17 years.

“I like to bring our youth from St. Cyril of Alexandria each year to give them an opportunity to build community outside of the parish, be exposed to great speakers, service projects and different prayer experiences that they would not have the opportunity to experience at the parish,” she said. “The rally is an engaging way to bring them closer into the faith.”

So why should young people attend the rally?

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Deepen Youth Catholic Identity and Community through dynamic prayer experiences and Mass The rally provides youth with a broader sense of their Catholic identity in a very creative and fun environment.

More importantly, it provides tools to help them grow in their discipleship each and every day.

“Our youth love the high-energy activities and having fun with their friends from youth group. It’s a great opportunity for them to grow in their faith and Catholic identity and have a great time in the process,” said James Carrasco, associate director of faith formation at Sacred Heart of Jesus in Manvel.

This year, we are very excited to have Father David Michael Moses as our keynote speaker. Father Moses is the parochial vicar at St. Faustina Catholic Church in Fulshear and a well-known musician and speaker. He started college at 14 and was ordained to the priesthood last June at 25. He is known for performing a series of “Concerts for Life” that have collectively raised more than $400,000 for pro-life groups in Houston.

Amazing service projects Each participant will have the opportunity to complete a service project for their community or the Archdiocesan community. Past projects have included making lunches for Casa Juan Diego, blankets and pillows for homebound parishioners or patients in the hospital, hope bags for the homeless, Rosaries for the parish ministries, appreciation bags and frames for our soldiers and First Responders, and activity bags for youth in the juvenile justice system to name just a few.

Fellowship and Leadership Explore the Grand Midway, which is a series of carnival games and prizes, art projects, and giant inflatables. Play games or try out your latest dancing moves, explore your leadership skills.

The rally is planned by a team from the Office of Adolescent Catechesis and Evangelization and Archdiocesan Youth Council members and volunteers.

For Erika Lunkwitz, a junior at Sts. Simon and Jude Parish in The Woodlands, said the rally shaped her See ADAMS, page 14

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Reclaim your happiness in the new year

Google search is amazing, don’t you think? I just did a preliminary search on “ways to live a healthy and happy life” and came up with these: positive thinking, daily exercising, adequate sleeping, healthy diet, quality relationships, gratitude, meditation, etc. Let me explain further.

Lately, the provision for a healthy and happy life has become the mainstream for many. Various nutrition programs are available out there. In addition, healthcare studies show that a healthy life is a happy life. Indeed, a healthy body enhances a healthy mind and a healthy spirit, which subsequently brings about a happy life. Definitely, the happy outside begins with the healthy inside.

As we have begun the new year 2020, let us take this opportunity to renew and refresh our lifestyle. In other words, our New Year’s resolutions. In the new year, we wish one another a “Happy New Year.” Truly, happiness is what every person desires. However, often people have wrong notions of happiness; henceforth, they find it in the wrong places.

According to St. Augustine, “We all want to live happily; in the whole human race, there is no one who does not assent to this proposition, even before it is fully articulated.” “God has placed this desire in the

human heart in order to draw man to the One who alone can fulfill it” (CCC #1718). Furthermore, St. Augustine affirmed, “Our hearts are restless, O Lord, until they rest in You.” Ultimately, man has but one goal: perfect happiness, which is God. Nothing more on this Earth will satisfy this human thirst (St. by Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas).

SR. MARIA No matter how vital and strategic our New Year’s resolutions might seem, they GORETTI are not sufficient, because the physical THUY aspect usually outweighs the spiritual NGUYEN aspect. To own a quality of life is equal to cultivating a balanced, disciplined lifestyle, both physically and spiritually.

Today, I would like to share with you the secret to sanctity and happiness by Désiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier to reclaim your happiness once again.

Below are the exact texts on the prayer card: I am going to reveal to you the secret of sanctity and happiness. Every day for five minutes control your imagination and close your eyes to all the noises of the world in order to enter into yourself. Then, in the sanctuary of your baptized soul (which is the temple of

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the Holy Spirit), speak to that Divine Spirit, saying to Him: O Holy Spirit, beloved of my soul, I adore You. Enlighten me, guide me, strengthen me, console me.

Tell me what I to do; direct my every choice. I promise to submit myself to all that You desire of me, and to accept all that You permit to happen to me. Let me only know Your Will.

I came across this prayer some time ago, and ever since this prayer has become my refuge, my comfort. I would highly recommend this practice as a daily routine: immerse yourself in meditation, rest in the presence of the Holy Spirit, savor each phrase of this prayer and attentively listen to the whisper of the Holy Spirit’s guidance. Then, you patiently anticipate the spiritual fruits and happiness that will bloom.

Honestly, tending to the needs of body, mind and spirit is the assurance of obtaining and maintaining a happy life. Once one has a physical and spiritual balanced, healthy life, one will reclaim happiness with confidence and cope with life problems at best. † Sister Maria Goretti T. Nguyen, OP, is an associate director with the Archdiocesan Office of Evangelization and Catechesis.

JANUARY 19

First Reading: Is 49:3, 5-6

Responsorial Psalm: Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10

Second Reading: 1 Cor 1:1-3

Gospel: Jn 1:29-34

JANUARY 26

First Reading: Is 8:23—9:3

Responsorial Psalm: Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14

Second Reading: 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17

Gospel: Mt 4:12-23 or 4:12-17

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The Office of Aging: How it serves the Archdiocese Each of these scenarios is a sampling of aging issues in which the Office of Aging is called upon to address within the Archdiocese. The Office of Aging takes its ministerial lead from the United by States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ pastoral MARK document “Blessings of CIESIELSKI Age: A Pastoral Message on Growing Older Within the Faith Community.” It offers a fresh perspective for the Church to recognize the vitality, wisdom and giftedness of older adults to the faith community and not solely focusing on older people as recipients of care.

With the increasing population of older adults in the United States, parishes have new opportunities to glean the wealth of their life experiences. The Office of Aging works to support the leadership of older adults within the three Archdiocesan Senior Senates as well as within local parish senior groups.

This includes recognizing seniors for their longstanding contributions of community service at annual Senate Recognition Days and providing

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REAL SCENARIOS PRESENTED TO THE OFFICE OF AGING PARISH PASTORAL SUPPORT • A pastor who has observed a long-time parishioner’s declining health and personal neglect and wondering what can he do.

• A parish staff person considering retirement doesn’t understand the Social Security or Medicare enrollment process.

CAREGIVING/AGING-IN-PLACE • A long-distance call from someone in another state looking for resources to manage his aging loved one’s care in the Houston area.

• Long-time parishioners no longer attending church services because of dementia/ Alzheimer’s or other disabilities; their families are providing full-time caregiving.

• Aging family members trying to decide if they should remain in their own home or move to a senior living community.

SERVICE, SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND COMMUNAL FRATERNITY • 50+ year-old Catholics inquiring how they can use their talents and experience in service as well as grow spiritually and form communal friendships END-OF-LIFE CARE PLANNING • Persons concerned about their loved ones’ end-of-life care and how to access resources which support their spiritual and temporal needs.

• Family members wondering who to call when a loved one is dying in the hospital. spiritual support for all seniors at the annual Day of Prayer. The office also provides parish seniors with current educational resources to help sustain and enhance their quality of life.

The Office of Aging recognizes the growing challenge of providing adequate caregiving for older adults. It partners with community organizations to support parish staff who are called to

ADAMS, from page 12 decision to share her gifts with the larger Church.

“I attended my first Junior High Youth Rally as an eighth-grader, and I have been volunteering at the event ever since. I had such a great time as an attendee, but what made me want to serve on the Archdiocesan Youth Council was seeing my sister and the other council members’ years later. They put so much effort into making sure the kids felt at home and had fun. I wanted to be part of the team that would give kids the same great experience that those former council members gave me.”

Michael Richmond was a Youth Council Member back in 2003. Being part of the team taught him leadership skills that he uses today as the director of the School of Environmental Education at Camp Kappe.

“The rally taught me the dynamics of how to work together as a team of youth and adults to accomplish something on

address families in need of caregiving services, respite care and education. This includes educational outreach efforts in partnership with the Veterans Affairs Administration to assist older veterans and surviving spouses in securing military benefits to help them age at home.

The Office of Aging works closely with one of its Catholic partners, Catholic Charities Senior Services, which provides families with direct service care to respond to challenges facing older adults.

Finally, the Office of Aging provides regional educational seminars in collaboration with parishes, other Archdiocesan offices, and community agencies to help families make informed choices for remaining in their own homes, caregiving, or with end-of-life care planning. For those who cannot attend these events, persons can access speaker recordings and resources on its website under Presentations: https:// www.archgh.org/offices-ministries/ pastoral-educational-ministries/agingministry/. † Mark Ciesielski is an associate director in the Office of Aging Ministry.

such a big and grand scale with activities and decorations which went off without a hitch! I was impressed by how something like that, sharing your talent and faith, could bring a smile to someone’s face. It demonstrated to me how we are able to positively influence people by sharing our faith and gifts with others. I can see it in the kids I teach today when they leave the Camp.”

What is truth? In John 14:6 Jesus says, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” If you would like more information about the Archdiocesan Junior High Youth Rally call the Office of Adolescent Catechesis and Evangelization at 713-741-8723 or visit the website at www.archgh.org/oace and click on the Jr. High tab. † Randy Adams is an associate director with the Archdiocesan Office of Adolescent Catechesis and Evangelization.

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WORLD Pope speaks to U.S. bishops about pro-life issues, transgender ideology VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Protecting human life is the “preeminent” social and political issue, Pope Francis said, and he asked the head of the U.S. bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities to convey his support to the pro-life community.

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the bishops’ committee, told Catholic News Service (CNS) Jan. 16 that the pope agreed with the U.S. bishops “identifying the protection of the unborn as a preeminent priority.”

“His response to that was, ‘Of course, it is. It’s the most fundamental right,’” Archbishop Naumann recalled the pope saying. “He said, ‘This is not first a religious issue; it’s a human rights issue,’ which is so true.”

Archbishop Naumann was one of 15 bishops from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska making their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican in mid-January to report on the status of their dioceses. He and other bishops spoke to CNS Jan. 16 after meeting with the pope for more than two hours.

Archbishop Naumann said he told the pope that since the Roe v. Wade court decision legalized abortion, an estimated 61 million abortions have taken place in the United States.

“I think the pope was truly kind of stunned by that number,” Archbishop Naumann said. “Sadly, our abortion policies are one of the most liberal in the world. The fact is that it really is literally for all nine months of pregnancy. Most other nations don’t permit (abortions) at least at a certain point in the pregnancy.”

Archbishop Naumann said that while Pope Francis has “elevated issues like the care of refugees and migrants,” he also understands that the situation in the United States is different compared to other countries.

“I think sometimes as he elevates those things, people mistakenly think, ‘Well, that means that the abortion issue will become less important,’” he said.

Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis told CNS it was “beautiful” when the pope explained why life was the number one, most important issue, “because if you’re not alive you can’t do anything else.”

Archbishop Carlson said they also talked about the importance of supporting pregnant women and making sure they have the resources they need to support that life.

While Pope Francis “certainly talked about abortion as a preeminent issue,” Archbishop Carlson said, “at the same time he said there’s another significant issue and that would be ‘transgender’ — where we are trying to make all human beings the same, it makes no difference, you can be whoever you want to be.”

The pope, he said, brought the issue up as an example of “another significant issue in our day.”

Asked whether the pope then gave the bishops any advice on how to handle the transgender debate, Archbishop Carlson said the pope touched on the way proponents believe people are “all one and that there’s no difference, which would fly in the face of what (St.) John Paul II talked about on complementarity and it would fly in the face of the dignity of the woman and the dignity of the man, that we could just change into whatever we wanted.”

Of course, he said, a pope or a bishop or any religious leader must focus on a variety of issues and concerns, but “there are some people who are one-issue people and so they’re never satisfied if you don’t focus totally on that.”

The Catholic Church’s positions are not partisan political positions, he said, since both Democrats and Republicans may not agree with its position on different issues.

“But I am not a Republican and I’m not a Democrat,” Archbishop Carlson said. “My job is to be a teacher of the faith and then to walk the talk.”

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri, said that on the issue of abortion, Pope Francis “simply reiterated what he’s already said in many different ways,” which is that “without life, what other rights are there? So, you have to begin with that. It’s not the only issue — I don’t think anybody has ever said that. But when you’re looking at the core beliefs and the more essential rights, the right to life of the unborn is very important.”

The pope, he said, “put it in a very beautiful way: Do we always want to simply eliminate those who are inconvenient? And, unfortunately, that’s part of our culture in the United States — the practice, the habit, if you will, of just eliminating the uncomfortable, the unwanted, as the solution. And we’re called to be better than that. We as a country are better than that.”

When the U.S. bishops say,“the right to life is the ‘preeminent issue’” in Catholics’

political concerns, “that word is carefully chosen,” Bishop McKnight said. “Because we want to avoid the perspective or the understanding that it’s the only issue — because it is not.”

Catholic voters, he said, need to be aware of a more general tendency or temptation “to get rid of unwanted people,” whether they are the unborn or the aged, immigrants or the poor. “There is a certain consistency that is required of us as Catholics.”

Bishop McKnight said that during the meeting, he thanked Pope Francis for expanding the section of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that investigates clerical sexual abuse.

It was clear during the discussion how much the clerical sexual abuse crisis “pains the Holy Father,” he said. “He

reiterated that this must be dealt with, it’s a crime, it can’t just be swept under the rug or dealt with only in the confessional — no, it’s a crime.”

The bishop said the question of the Vatican’s promised report on the case and career of Theodore E. McCarrick, the former cardinal and archbishop of Washington, was brought up by one of the bishops.

“I must respect the confidential nature of our conversation today,” Bishop McKnight said. “I can just say I am very confident the pope is doing everything he can in order to rectify the problem and to help the entire Church learn from the mistake of McCarrick’s promotion in the Church. The Holy Father sees that, he recognizes that McCarrick’s promotion as archbishop of Washington should never have happened.” †

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Young adults make ‘deep dive’ into faith during ‘ad limina’ visit

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Pope Francis blesses the unborn child of Mychael Schilmoeller, pastoral care minister at St. Michael parish in Prior Lake, Minn., as he meets a group of U.S. young adults during his general audience at the Vatican Jan. 15. A group of young adults from the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, the Diocese of New Ulm, Minn., and the Diocese of Bismarck, N.D., accompanied U.S. bishops from North Dakota, Minnesota and South Dakota on their “ad limina” visits to Rome.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Supporting and supported by their bishops, 25 young adults from Minnesota and North Dakota made a pilgrimage “ad limina apostolorum” — to the threshold of the apostles — in mid-January.

The delegation of women and men, single and married, ages 21 to 35 flew to Rome with the bishops of Region VIII, who are required by Church law to make the “ad limina” visits to pray at the tombs of Sts. Peter and Paul and to meet with the pope and top Vatican officials.

Many dioceses offer pilgrimages to coincide with their bishops’ “ad limina” visits, but the Region VIII trip was different: Young adults were invited last May to apply to make the trip either by providing a letter of recommendation from someone who would attest to their leadership in evangelization or by writing a short essay on how Christ has worked through others to draw them closer to Him. While the region’s bishops met Pope Francis Jan. 13, the young pilgrims met him two days later after the pope’s weekly general audience. Two young men came bearing white zucchetti — the papal skullcaps — and the pope put each on his head, then handed it back as a souvenir.

Mychael Schilmoeller, 33, the pastoral care minister at St. Michael parish in Prior Lake, Minnesota, received special attention from Pope Francis. Noticing her belly, he asked when her baby is due. She told him,“St. Patrick’s Day,”and he blessed her unborn baby and gently touched her.

“I don’t usually like people touching me, but it was a beautiful blessing,” she said.

Schilmoeller said the bishops’ invitation to young adults to join them for the “ad limina” is “a sign of hope, a sign of a willingness to listen to young people, a willingness to change some things, perhaps.”

Vincenzo Randazzo of the Office of Evangelization of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis came up with the idea for the pilgrimage and presented it to Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda, who, he said, responded, “Let’s do it.”

“I want everything we do to be an effort to evangelization,” Randazzo told Catholic News Service (CNS). If the pilgrimage simply had a first-come-firstserved sign-up policy, “we’d get the choir,” instead of a mix of young adults who are or potentially are evangelizers of their peers.

Will Herrmann, a 30-year-old computer programmer and member of St. Bonaventure parish in Bloomington, Minnesota, was the newest Catholic in the

group. He entered the Church last Easter.

Although he was surprised to be chosen for the pilgrimage, he said he applied because “I wanted to dive into the deep end of my faith.”

Speaking to CNS near the tomb of St. Paul, he said,“I feel like I married into this family and now I’m meeting the relatives — the saints.”

One thing the pilgrims have in common, Randazzo said, is how much of their time is spent online, including when seeking information about the faith.

As opposed to that “virtual reality,” Randazzo said, “Rome has lots of stuff” with art and architecture and the actual places where Sts. Peter and Paul and a host of other saints lived, died and were buried.

Another pilgrim, Mary Evinger, 29, the director of religious education at St. Joseph’s parish in Williston, North Dakota, is planning to bring high school students to Rome precisely for that reason.

“They’re just on their screens, and just seeing an image isn’t the same,” she said.

“You don’t get that awe of being there.”

“Being there” — in the basilicas, the Vatican Museums, the Colosseum — was a big motivator for Evinger to apply for the pilgrimage, she said. But she also wanted to be with the region’s bishops and with Pope Francis.

Organizing the pilgrimage was part of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ ongoing response to young adults who wrote Archbishop Hebda an open letter in 2018 about what they want from the Church, the archbishop told CNS. The youthful pilgrims, the archbishop said, told the bishops they were making the pilgrimage “to pray for Pope Francis and then to pray for their bishops.”

Most of the pilgrims already have completed university and are “trying to figure out where they are in the Church now that they are working and living on their own,” he said. They want to know where God is calling them to serve.

“It’s no secret that one of the things that the Church, at least in the United States, struggles with is young people drifting at times,” Archbishop Hebda said, so when the region’s bishops met Pope Francis, they assured him “there also were young people who were very much involved in the Church, who loved him and certainly the way he articulates his ministry.”

Randazzo said it is easy for Catholics to notice the scandals and the problems afflicting the Church, but “it takes courage to recognize God is doing something incredible,” and the growing faith of many young adults is one of those things. †

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Protect your health, physically and spiritually, pope says VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Jesus healed people of all sorts of physical ailments, but He always started with the essential — forgiving their sins, Pope Francis said.

“We should take good care of our bodies, but also our souls,” the pope said Jan. 17, preaching about the Gospel of Mark’s account of Jesus healing the paralytic. “Jesus teaches us to go to what is essential,” the pope said at morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. “What is essential is health, complete, body and soul.” Just like a person who is sick tries to find the right doctor to cure that ailment, he said, when a person’s spiritual health is in danger, “we go to that physician who can heal us, who can forgive our sins. Jesus came for this reason; He gave His life for this.”

In the day’s reading from the Gospel of St. Mark, a paralytic is hoping for physical healing, the pope said. But Jesus says to him, “Child, your sins are forgiven.” †

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Fatima Sisters continue care amidst continued quakes

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As debris fell, sisters from the Sisters of Fatima congregation in Puerto Rico rushed the ill and bedridden sisters out of the convent as a massive 6.4 earthquake hit the island in the early morning of Jan. 7.

PUERTO RICO, from page 1 crushing the cars below. The houses and buildings are made of cement to withstand hurricanes, including the most recent hurricanes hitting the island, Maria and Irma in 2017, which were both Category 5.

To an island still recovering from the devastation Hurricane Maria left behind, the earthquakes add another level of stress to its citizens, as well as its power plants and water plants.

In between the towns of Yauco and Guanica, there’s a small area called Santa Rita where the Sisters of Fatima live in their convent, Convento Hermanas de Fátima. The sisters live there, caring for elder sisters who are sick or bedridden.

Sister Ana Chévres said there had been so many small earthquakes and tremors that the sisters were prepared with bags by the door just in case they had to leave their building in a hurry.

At 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 7, a 6.4 earthquake hit the area, damaging nearly 600 buildings and killing at least one person in Ponce when a wall collapsed on him.

“It was super strong,” Sister Chévres said.

She said the cement cracking, glass exploding and dust flying everywhere made it hard to see.

“Water pipes broke, so we were slipping trying to get out,” she said.

Getting the elder sisters and those who are bedridden out was of the highest priority. They got them out of the building, setting up tents and beds in the patio area of the convent to accommodate the sick

away from the buildings. Doctors arrived at the convent to help the sick and get them stable. The next day, the sisters who are gravely ill and their caretakers were transported to a hospital in Ponce or other convents around the island. Only 12 sisters remained on campus sleeping in tents and cots supplied by the National Guard to receive the supplies, help and donations that arrive and distribute them to nearby towns like Sabana Grande and Peñuelas.

An engineer and an architect arrived to assess the damage in all the buildings.

The car garage had collapsed on one side. All three buildings, two on the main campus — one of which is 130 years old — and one across the street sustained considerable damage. Fortunately, the architect said all three houses can be repaired.

“He said the foundation is strong,” Sister Chévres said.

The convent and the congregation are an important part of Catholic history in Puerto Rico. The congregation was founded by Madre Dominga Guzmán Florit, who was born in Puerto Rico in 1897, and by the age of 11, had lost both of her parents. Studying in the United States, she felt God calling her, and at 15, she became a sister. After serving in different convents as a teacher, she felt the Holy Spirit calling her to help families and the poor in Puerto Rico.

With permission from her superiors, she began the first Puertorican congregation of sisters Nov. 3, 1949, with the mission “To bring Christ to the family and the family to Christ.” Starting with only a small chapel in Yauco, Madre Dominga

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CAUSE FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF MADRE DOMINGA Mother Teresa, now St. Teresa of Calcutta, visited Madre Dominga Guzmán Florit in Santa Rita, Puerto Rico in 1984. She founded the Sisters of Fatima, the first Puertorican order of sisters, on Nov. 3, 1949.

The National Guard has supplied tents and cots for 12 sisters who have remained at the convent to sort donations and get them to people in need of supplies and assistance.

was able to acquire their current campus in Santa Rita in 1952.

“She fell in love with Santa Rita,” Sister Chévres said.

Her life and service to Puerto Rico were well-known around the world. In 1984, she met then-Pope John Paul II, who asked her to “pray for him.” That same year, Mother Teresa, now St. Teresa of Calcutta who had met Madre Dominga in Rome during a meeting of Mother Superiors, visited her at the convent in Santa Rita after hearing Madre Dominga, then 87, was ill. She died Jan. 16, 1993 at 95 years old. Currently, there is a cause for sainthood for Madre Dominga.

Today, the congregation has around 120 sisters who continue their mission.

They run Casa Belen for women with

addictions, founded the vocational school Institute for Services to the Individual, Family and Community, and help with social work at other convents in the island.

Because of their service and the need their community has for aid, there are many on the island who immediately offered to donate to the sisters to help with anything the sisters needed, including rebuilding their homes.

“The help we need is to get our house back up so we can all be together,” Sister Chévres said.

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Catholic high school welcomes students with special needs into new program MISHAWAKA, Ind. (CNS) — Grocery shopping and Christmas-themed aerobics classes are not part of a typical high school curriculum. But at Marian High School in Mishawaka, Indiana, they offer important lessons for some students.

Marian has five additions this academic year, and Principal Mark Kirzeder hopes to see a similar increase next school year. They’re not new classes, but new students: those with mild intellectual disabilities.

The five students are the first of the school’s Bernadette Scholars, and they are making their mark at Marian.

Affectionately called “Bernies,” Bernadette Scholars are on nondiploma, certificate-of-completion tracks.

Participants spend most of their day together in shared classes. As the school year progresses, they are further assimilated into typical classrooms.

Integrating the five students into Marian has thus far proven to be a successful transition.

Annie Ganser, Marian’s director of learning strategies, described the program as flexible, saying it strives to meet each student’s individual needs.

“It focuses on life skills and achieving an optimal level of independence,” she explained.

Classwork is directed toward proficiency at everyday tasks for independent living rather than higherlevel academics. Students are accepted into the program on a case-by-case basis, depending on their needs and the resources Marian has available. Expectations placed on the students are different from those of typical learners as well.

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Two Bernadette Scholars hug after completing their entry in a home economics cupcake competition in December 2019. Bernadette Scholars are students at Marian High School in Mishawaka, Ind., who have mild intellectual disabilities. This is the first year for the program, in which the “Bernies” spend some time in classes just for them and other times are in typical classrooms with others.

In addition to Ganser, four other staff members work directly with the Bernadette Scholars. Katie Dyer is the teacher for the Learning Strategies Center; Pam Sailor is the instructional assistant; Bret Bajdek coordinates the Learning Lab; and Cynthia Spalding is a teaching aide.

The staff collaborates to develop creative ways to reach the students.

A recent unit on meal planning and preparation incorporated health, math and community living skills into a grocery trip. Taking students out of the classroom gives them the opportunity to put the skills they are learning into action, such as reading food labels and comparing prices. The students find recipes, go to the store with a staff member to purchase the ingredients, and later prepare the meal in the home economics lab.

Although the Bernies have their own classroom and workspace, they are becoming a valuable part of the Marian community. Dyer said each student brings something special to the campus through their friendly smiles and warm hugs.

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Their interests are as varied as the rest of the student population.

Bernadette Scholar Nick Becker is vice president of the freshman class, and the young man with Down syndrome is cheerful and friendly. He walks Marian’s halls with a sense of self-assurance. It’s a place where he practically grew up.

Becker is the second-youngest of seven siblings, five of whom went to Marian. When asked how he feels about his school, he said he’s “happy to be here” even though the school day is too long for his liking.

Becker attended St. Matthew Cathedral School in South Bend, a feeder school for Marian, so he already had many friends among his classmates. Remarkably, he chose theology as an elective and he was placed in a mainstream sophomore theology class.

Morgan Minder is on the swim team.

She described her teammates and coaches as incredibly welcoming.

Leo Vesprini put together an intramural volleyball team that filled in five minutes. He considers himself an

expert at making friends and often will approach other students, engaging them in conversation or inviting them to play card games.

Mary Helfrich loves anime, a type of hand-drawn and computer animation, and is involved in the school’s anime club that her older sister started. She also is interested in photography and has enrolled in an art class. Classmate and fellow Bernie A’layah Newsome said that drumline was her favorite class.

Ganser believes that the presence of the Bernadette Scholars benefits the entire student population. It provides an opportunity for mainstream students to stop and visit, thereby taking a leadership role.

The program is “helping them understand that disability means different ability,” she told Today’s Catholic, newspaper of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. “The (typical students) are amazed by what the Bernies can do.”

She predicted ongoing benefits for all students at Marian as the program increases.

“When we started, Mr. Kirzeder wanted to make sure the kids would be safe, shown kindness, and that others were open and accepting,” she said. They have been that, she said.

Under Indiana law a student placed on a non-diploma track cannot be moved to a diploma track, Ganser said. “We make sure that our families know that by opening some doors, others must close,” she said.

Although in some instances a student could handle the intellectual aspect of typical classes, the struggle with the workload might outweigh potential benefits. So the staff works closely with families to meet the goals parents have for their child.

Preparing students for potential employment is a large part of the program.The students have a work period included in their day in which they spend some time restocking and cleaning areas of the cafeteria. At some point in the upcoming year, they will begin learning administrative skills such as answering phones.

A great deal of importance is placed not only on teaching work skills but also how to accept criticism with grace and to arrive on time for work, program directors said. †

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Pope Francis looks at a football jersey presented by Bishop James V. Johnston Jr. of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Mo., as he meets with U.S. bishops from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska during their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican Jan. 16. The jersey has the name of Patrick Mahomes, quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs, who will play the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl Feb. 2. The bishops were making their “ad limina” visits to report on the status of their dioceses to the pope and Vatican officials.

Bishops must listen, learn, be healed by God, Minneapolis archbishop says

ROME (CNS) — The Catholic Church needs leaders who are willing to listen, learn, be healed and to serve and proclaim boldly what God has done in their lives, said Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

“We have to remember that indeed nothing is impossible for God. No matter how low we might be, the Lord can lift us up to do that work that is his,” he said in his homily Jan. 15 during Mass at Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.

Archbishop Hebda was the principal celebrant and homilist at the Mass with the bishops of North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. The bishops were making their visits “ad limina apostolorum” — to the threshold of the apostles — to report on the status of their dioceses. The bishops rearranged their schedule of Mass celebrants so that the presider and homilist for Mass at the basilica housing the tomb of St. Paul would be the archbishop of St. Paul.

Thanking his brother bishops for giving him the opportunity for something that “seemed fitting,” Archbishop Hebda reflected on St. Paul’s reputation for being bold. “My brother bishops know that sometimes we all want to be bold leaders, but it is hard to be bold when we are in need of healing and the Church has been knocked down,” he said. †

The greater the sinner, the greater God’s love, pope says

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — God shows the greatest love and compassion for the greatest sinners, Pope Francis said.

The Lord “has come precisely for us sinners and the greater the sinner you are, the closer the Lord is to you because He has come for you, the greatest sinner; for me, the greatest sinner; for all of us,” the pope said in his homily Jan. 16 at morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

The pope reflected on the day’s Gospel reading from St. Mark, in which Jesus’ takes pity on and heals a leper who kneeled before Him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.” In saying “if you wish,” the pope explained, the leper “attracts God’s attention” and makes an “act of faith” because he saw that Jesus acted with compassion toward those who suffer.

“This was Jesus’ mission,” the pope said. “Jesus did not come to preach the law and then go away. Jesus came with compassion, that is, to suffer with and for us and to give His life.

The love of Jesus is so great that compassion brought Him to the cross, to give His life.” †

NATION Trebek cites ‘power of prayer’ in accepting Fordham Founders’ Award

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — “Jeopardy” host Alex Trebek and his wife, Jean, received Fordham University’s Founders’ Award at a Jan. 7 reception in Los Angeles.

According to Tom Stoelker writing in Fordham News, this was the first time the award — which he described as “weighty statuette” of Fordham founder Archbishop John Hughes — has been presented outside of New York City.

Trebek, 79, has been at the helm of “Jeopardy” for 36 years. He has continued to host the classic game show even as he has undergone chemotherapy for stage 4 pancreatic cancer. A year ago, he was told he has the disease. He responded well to chemotherapy and at one point announced he was “near remission,” but in August he said he had to resume a course of chemo treatment.

“If there’s one thing I have discovered in the past year, it is (the) power of prayer,” he said in accepting the Fordham award. “I learned it from the Jesuits when I was a kid, I learned it from the Oblates of Mary Immaculate when I was in boarding school.”

In her remarks, Jean Trebek said, “We understand how education, and probably more importantly, higher education, is one of the linchpins of society.” †

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Histórico convento de Puerto Rico sufre grandes pérdidas debidas a los terremotos

POR REBECCA TORRELLAS Texas Catholic Herald PUERTO RICO — Desde la noche del 28 de diciembre de 2019, el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico ha sufrido repetidos temblores, terremotos y réplicas centrados en la parte sur y suroeste de la isla. Casi 5,000 personas están durmiendo fuera de sus hogares porque se sienten inseguros adentro y tienen miedo de que sus casas se desplomen sobre ellas.

Los edificios y carreteras de las poblaciones de Yauco y Guánica han sufrido numerosos daños. Muchas casas que tenían marquesinas en el primer piso y la casa en el segundo se derrumbaron, aplastando a los carros abajo. Las casas y edificios se construyen de cemento para soportar los huracanes, incluyendo los que más recientemente azotaron a la isla, María e Irma, en el 2017, ambos de categoría 5.

Para una isla que aún está en vías de recuperación de la devastación que dejó el Huracán María a su paso, los terremotos que afectaron las plantas de electricidad y agua añadieron otro nivel de estrés a sus ciudadanos.

Entre los pueblos de Yauco y Guánica hay un área llamada Santa Rita donde las Hermanas de Fátima viven en su convento, el Convento Hermanas de Fátima. Las hermanas viven allí y cuidan de sus hermanas ancianas que están enfermas o postradas en cama.

La Hermana Ana Chévres dijo

que habían habido tantos pequeños terremotos y temblores que las hermanas estaban listas con sus maletas al lado de la puerta por si acaso tenían que salir del edificio de prisa.

A las 4:30 a.m. del 7 de enero un terremoto de magnitud 6.4 sacudió el área, dañó casi 600 edificios y mató a por lo menos una persona en Ponce cuando un muro le cayó encima.

“Fue súper fuerte” dijo la hermana Chévres.

Dijo que las fisuras del cemento, la explosión de vidrios y el polvo por todas partes hacían difícil ver.

“Se rompieron las tuberías de agua, así es que nos resbalábamos cuando tratamos de salir,” dijo.

La mayor prioridad era sacar a las hermanas ancianas y las que estaban postradas en cama. Las lograron sacar del edificio y pusieron tiendas de campaña y camas en el área del patio del convento para poder acomodar a las enfermas más alejadas de los edificios.

Los médicos llegaron al convento para ayudar a las enfermas y estabilizarlas.

Al día siguiente, las hermanas que están gravemente enfermas y las que cuidan de ellas fueron transportadas a un hospital en Ponce o a otros conventos de la isla.

Solo 12 hermanas permanecieron en los terrenos durmiendo en tiendas y catres suministrados por la Guardia Nacional para recibir los suministros, ayuda y donaciones que llegan y distribuirlas a los pueblos vecinos como Sabana Grande

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Según caían escombros, las Hermanas de la congregación de Fátima de Puerto Rico se apresuraron a sacar del convento a las hermanas enfermas y postradas en cama en el momento en que un fuerte terremoto de magnitud 6.4 sacudió a la isla en la madrugada del 7 de enero.

La Guardia Nacional ha suministrado tiendas y catres para las 12 hermanas que han permanecido en el convento para organizar las donaciones y repartirlas a las personas que necesitan ayuda.

y Peñuelas.

Un ingeniero y un arquitecto llegaron para evaluar los daños en todos los edificios. Un lado del garaje se había derrumbado. Los tres edificios, dos en el recinto principal, uno de los cuales tiene 130 años y uno al cruzar la calle sufrieron daños de consideración. Por fortuna, el arquitecto dijo que los tres edificios pueden repararse.

“Dijo que los cimientos son sólidos,” comentó la Hermana Chévres.

El convento y la congregación son una parte importante de la historia católica de Puerto Rico. La congregación fue fundada por la Madre Dominga Guzmán Florit.

La Madre Dominga nació en Puerto Rico en 1897 y a la edad de 11 años ya había perdido a sus padres. Estando estudiando en los Estados Unidos, sintió que Dios la llamaba y a la edad de 15 años entró en el convento. Después de servir en varios conventos como maestra, sintió que el Espíritu Santo la llamaba a ayudar a las familias y a los pobres en Puerto Rico.

Con permiso de sus superiores, fundó la primera congregación puertorriqueña de hermanas el 3 de noviembre de 1949, con la misión de “Llevar a Cristo a la familia y la familia a Cristo.” Comenzó con solo una pequeña capilla en Yauco, y más tarde la Madre Dominga pudo adquirir el local actual en Santa Rita en 1952.

“Se enamoró de Santa Rita,” dijo la Hermana Chévres.

Su vida y servicio a Puerto Rico se conocen en todo el mundo. En 1984

conoció al entonces Papa Juan Pablo II quien le pidió que “rezara por él”. Ese mismo año, la Madre Teresa, ahora Santa Teresa de Calcuta, quien había conocido a la Madre Dominga en Roma durante una reunión de Madres Superioras, la visitó en el convento de Santa Rita después de oír que la Madre Dominga, quien para entonces tenía 87 años, estaba enferma.

Murió el 16 de enero de 1993 a los 95 años. En la actualidad se ha abierto una causa para la canonización de la Madre Dominga.

Hoy en día la congregación cuenta con aproximadamente 120 hermanas que continúan su misión. Las hermanas dirigen la Casa Belén para mujeres que sufren de adicciones, fundaron el Instituto Especial para el Desarrollo Integral del Individuo, la Familia y la Comunidad y ayudan con servicios sociales en otros conventos de la isla. Debido a los servicios que prestan y la necesidad de la congregación de recibir ayuda, muchos en la isla inmediatamente ofrecieron donar su ayuda a las hermanas con lo que necesitaran, incluyendo reconstruir sus casas.

“La ayuda que necesitamos es poder recuperar nuestra casa para que podamos estar todas juntas” dijo la Hermana Chévres.

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Papa dice a diplomáticos que el mundo no debe perder la esperanza CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) — La esperanza es la virtud que necesitamos para afrontar el año que empieza, especialmente cuando la amenaza inminente de guerra merodea a una humanidad marcada por la violencia — dijo el papa Francisco.

Durante su discurso anual a los diplomáticos acreditados ante el Vaticano, el papa dijo que con las crecientes tensiones y los actos de violencia en aumento, “el año nuevo no parece estar distinguiéndose por alentadoras señales”.

Sin embargo, reconociendo los desafíos que enfrenta el mundo actual y encontrando valientemente formas para resolverlos, se abre un camino a la esperanza — dijo en su discurso el 9 de enero.

“Precisamente a la luz de estas situaciones, no podemos perder la esperanza”, dijo el pontífice. “Y la esperanza requiere coraje. Significa reconocer que el mal, el sufrimiento y la muerte no tendrán la última palabra y que incluso las preguntas más complejas pueden y deben enfrentarse y resolverse”.

Entre los conflictos más“preocupantes” que surgieron — señaló — están las crecientes tensiones entre Estados Unidos e Irán, que no solo comprometen los esfuerzos para reconstruir Irak,

sino que también establecen “las bases para un conflicto más grande que todos querríamos evitar”.

“Por lo tanto, renuevo mi llamamiento para que todas las partes interesadas eviten una escalada del conflicto y mantengan viva la llama del diálogo y la moderación, respetando plenamente el derecho internacional”, dijo.

En su discurso de casi una hora a los diplomáticos, el papa reflexionó sobre los viajes al extranjero que realizó el año anterior, asimismo sobre los principales eventos y problemas que surgieron en 2019.

Si bien su visita a Panamá en enero pasado para la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud resaltó la alegría que trajeron los jóvenes “repletos de sueños y esperanzas” para el futuro, el papa dijo que la cumbre del Vaticano sobre abuso sexual del clero el mes siguiente mostró dolorosamente cómo a los jóvenes se les puede robar ese futuro.

El abuso sexual cometido por miembros del clero y laicos“son crímenes que ofenden a Dios, causan daño físico, psicológico y espiritual a sus víctimas y daña la vida de comunidades enteras”, dijo.

También abordó las crisis políticas en Latinoamérica, incluyendo a Venezuela, respecto a la cual dijo que esperaba que “los esfuerzos para buscar soluciones

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Peregrinos participan en la procesión anual del Nazareno Negro durante las celebraciones en Manila, Filipinas, el 9 de enero. La imagen de madera, tallada en México y llevada a la capital filipina a inicios del siglo XVII, es atesorada por los católicos, quienes creen que al tocarla puede ocurrir un milagro.

APOYO PASTORAL A VÍCTIMAS DE ABUSO SEXUAL DEL CLERO En un continuo esfuerzo por facilitar atención pastoral a las victimas de abuso sexual del clero o del personal de la Iglesia, el Cardenal DiNardo gustaría recordar a los fieles de la Arquidiócesis la disponibilidad del Coordinador de Ayuda a Víctimas. Si alguien ha sido victim de abuso sexual del clero o del personal de la Iglesia, se les anima llamar a la Diane Vines al 713-654-5799. Por favor rece por la sanación de las víctimas del abuso y por todos los que sufren de alguna manera.

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El papa Francisco se dirige a los diplomáticos acreditados ante la Santa Sede, durante una audiencia, para el tradicional intercambio de saludos de año nuevo, el 9 de enero en la Sala Regia del Vaticano.

continúen”.

El papa Francisco también expresó preocupación por los conflictos en Medio Oriente, especialmente en Siria y Líbano, donde las crecientes tensiones corren el riesgo de “poner en peligro la frágil estabilidad de Medio Oriente”.

También le pidió a la comunidad internacional que trabaje en lo que se

refiere a la “indiferencia general” hacia los conflictos en Yemen y Libia, donde la violencia intensa“proporciona un terreno fértil para el flagelo de la explotación y el tráfico humano”.

Otra triste consecuencia de tales conflictos — se lament — son las miles de personas buscando asilo, que a menudo arriesgan sus vidas “en peligrosos viajes por tierra y sobre todo por mar”.

Enfocándose en África, el papa expresó su preocupación por los “constantes episodios de violencia” contra los cristianos, especialmente en Burkina Faso, Malí, Níger y Nigeria.

También se mostró esperanzado en que se resuelvan los conflictos en Sudán y la República Centroafricana. El papa también dijo que espera visitar Sudán del Sur este año.

Recordando su último viaje del 2019, que fue a Japón, el papa Francisco reiteró su llamado por un mundo sin armas nucleares porque “la verdadera paz no puede construirse sobre la amenaza de una posible aniquilación total de la humanidad”. †

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Author hopes readers will reconnect to ‘beauty, power’ of the Sacraments SAN DIEGO (CNS) — Rose Rea’s The Catholic mother of five likens name may be on the cover of the book, herself not to an artist, but to a but she downplays her role in the creation “paintbrush” wielded by the Divine Artist of “Spirit and Life: The Holy Sacraments Himself. of the Catholic Church,” published by For each Sacrament, “Spirit and Life” Sophia Institute Press. provides its readers with a Scriptural “I cannot take any credit. It passage and explanatory was all inspired by the Lord,” paragraphs from the Catechism Rea said of the hardcover of the Catholic Church; a coffee-table book, which historical commentary on that combines vivid photographs particular Sacrament written of sacred spaces and natural by a church father or a pope; landscapes with an exploration and a reflection penned by a of the seven Sacraments of contemporary Catholic. the Catholic Church: Baptism, “The entire book is meant Confirmation, the Eucharist, to be a prayerful and artistic Reconciliation, the Anointing experience,” explained Rea, who of the Sick, Holy Orders and hopes the book’s format enables ROSE REA Marriage. it to offer something that will Rea is given the “Created by” speak to all readers, whether credit on the title page, but the they are practicing Catholics, idea came to her during prayer. And she fallen-away or non-Catholic. continued to pray and fast, seeking divine The authors of the various reflection guidance at each stage in the coffee-table pieces, most of whom Rea had previously book’s development. collaborated with as the founder and

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Seasoned musician inspires people to sing, raise voices ‘in honor of God’ PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — With the start of the new year, a seasoned Philadelphia musician is taking on a new challenge as director of the Philadelphia Catholic Gospel Mass Choir.

Tonya Taylor-Dorsey was appointed to the post by the Philadelphia Archdiocese’s Office for Black Catholics, effective Jan. 1. Established for the 2014 World Meeting of Families, the ensemble features voices from the archdiocese and neighboring dioceses.

The choir has participated in parish revivals, the U.S. bishops’ listening sessions on racism and the annual “Soulful Christmas Concert” at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. In addition, the choir regularly performs at archdiocesan observances such as the St. Martin de Porres Mass and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day prayer service.

For Taylor-Dorsey, who has more than three decades of experience in parish music, the role once seemed unlikely for someone who was raised Presbyterian — and who “didn’t sing in the church choir growing up. I wanted to be a concert pianist,” she said, citing “Fanfarinette” from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s “Suite in A Minor” as her favorite piece to play. †

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publisher of the Catholic young adult magazines Radiant and Valiant, include several names that are well-known in Catholic circles. Among them are prolife advocate Lila Rose, author/blogger Kendra Tierney and Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver.

“I made sure to feature reflections from men and women of every single vocation in life,” Rea said, “so someone reading ‘Spirit and Life’ will be able to say, ‘Yes, I relate to this!’”

For Rea, who grew up in a large Catholic family in North Dakota and today resides in the Diocese of San Diego, the Sacraments are not just interesting subject matter for a book.

“They are my entire life. They are the answer to everything our heart longs for,” she told The Southern Cross, newspaper of the Diocese of San Diego said. “When we learn the frailty of human love and that human beings will fail us because we are imperfect, it calls us even stronger to seek one who will not ever fail us, will not ever leave us.”

The idea for “Spirit and Life” was first conceived during a time when many Catholics were feeling that they had been failed by their clergy.

It was 2018 and the Catholic Church

was reeling from a resurgence of the clergy sex abuse scandal, sparked by the release of a grand jury report on decades of alleged sexual abuse in Pennsylvania dioceses and the revelation that thenCardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, now laicized, had been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors.

Rea had read reports that many Catholics were so scandalized by the sins of predator priests and the subsequent cover-up of their crimes that they were leaving the Church. She wanted to remind them that the Catholic faith is rooted in Christ and his sacrifice, not in the sanctity of individual priests.

That was why she set out to create “Spirit and Life,” which she says is all about “embracing the beauty and power of the gift of grace that awaits us when we encounter Christ in the Sacraments — each and every one of us.”

Her hope is the book will inspire readers to return to the Sacraments.

“We are all one body of Christ and, when one suffers, we all suffer; when we are well, we thrive,” she said. “Everyone is needed and plays a vital role in our body of Christ, so I pray every day that the Holy Spirit moves and inspires hearts to come back.” †

MOVIE RATINGS By Catholic News Service A-I – GENERAL PATRONAGE • Abominable (PG)

A-II – ADULTS AND ADOLESCENTS • • • • • • •

Cats (PG) Dolittle (PG) Little Women (PG) Love and Mercy: Faustina (NR) Playmobil: The Movie (PG) Spies In Disguise (PG) The Divine Plan (NR)

A-III – ADULTS • • • • • • • •

1917 (R) Black and Blue (R) Black Christmas (PG-13) Countdown (PG-13) Jojo Rabbit (PG-13) Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) Just Mercy (PG-13) Knives Out (PG-13)

• Lucy in the Sky (R) • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (PG-13) • The Current War (PG-13) • The Two Popes (PG-13) • Underwater (PG-13)

L – LIMITED ADULT AUDIENCE • • • •

Bombshell (R) By the Grace of God (NR) Parasite (R) The Irishman (R)

O – MORALLY OFFENSIVE • • • • • •

Bad Boys for Life (R) Like A Boss (R) Queen & Slim (R) The Gentleman (R) The Grudge (R) Uncut Gems (R)

PASTORAL SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS OF CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE In a continuing effort to provide pastoral care to victims of sexual abuse by clergy or Church personnel, Daniel Cardinal DiNardo would like to remind the faithful of the Archdiocese of the availability of the Victims Assistance Coordinator. Anyone who has been the victim of sexual abuse by clergy or Church personnel is encouraged to call Diane Vines at 713-654-5799. Please keep in daily prayers the healing of victims of abuse and all who suffer in any way.

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FAITH MATTERS SPEAKER SERIES, 7 p.m. at St. Cecilia Community Center (11720 Joan of Arc Dr., Houston). Dr. Gary Anderson of the University of Notre Dame will speak on “Incarnation in the Old Testament.” Free with online RSVP. saintcecilia. org/faith-matters-speaker-series. 713-465-3414.

FEB. 1

EVENSONG, 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Our Lady of Walsingham (7809 Shadyvilla Ln., Houston).

Chorus Angelorum, a semi-professional chorus devoted to the preservation and celebration of traditional Anglican music in the context of the Church’s Liturgy, presents a free Evensong service, reception following.

SPAGHETTI DINNER FUNDRAISER, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at St. Theresa Community Center (705 St. Theresa Blvd., Sugar Land). Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court St. Theresa of Lisieux #2211 host a spaghetti dinner with $10 adult/$5 children under 10 plates with spaghetti with homemade sauce, meatballs and sausage, salad, garlic bread, dessert and drink. Raffle tickets for sale.

Dinner tickets available at door. Proceeds benefit scholarships.

FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTION, 7:30 a.m. at Christ the King Chapel (4419 N. Main St., Houston). Mass followed by Adoration, Rosary, prayers and Divine Mercy Chaplet with closing Benediction.

FEB. 1 - 2

SUPER BOWL WEEKEND BARBECUE, Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Rose of Lima East Hall (3600 Brinkman St., Houston).

Boy Scout Troop 40 hosts annual Super Bowl Barbecue with brisket or chicken with sausage plates and sides. 713-692-9123.

FEB. 9

SPAGHETTI DINNER FUNDRAISER, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Guardian Angel Parish Hall (5610 Demel St., Wallis). Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court Queen of Angels host a spaghetti dinner with $10 plates of spaghetti with sauce, sides and drinks. Dine-in or take-out available, with cake and silent auction and 1 p.m. raffle drawing.

Proceeds benefit scholarships, education, local first responders and state or national-endorsed charities and projects. 281-346-1243.

FEB. 9

SENIOR HEALTHCARE & WELLNESS EXPO, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Dominic Village Auditorium (2401 Holcombe Blvd., Houston). St. Dominic Village co-sponsors The Fun Fitness Healthcare & Wellness Senior Expo for adults 55-plus, their families and caregivers, with blood, vision, hearing and dental screenings; flu shots; educational presentations; resources and more.

Lunch will be served. Free and open to the public. melbahamiltonbreed@stdominicvillage. org, 713-440-3417; stdominicvillage.org.

FEB. 14

VALENTINE’S DAY CELEBRATION, 6:30 p.m. at Knights of Columbus Hall (3213 E. Mulberry St., Angleton).

Most Holy Trinity ACTS team hosts a Valentine’s Day Celebration with Italian dinner, dessert and dancing. $25 per person, proceeds benefit ACTS ministry. Tickets: 979-215-1682.

FEB. 15

GALA, 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. at The Westin Houston, Memorial City (945 Gessner Rd., Houston). St. John XXIII College Preparatory celebrates its 15th anniversary with a reception, dinner, auction and dancing. $125, proceeds benefit tuition scholarships. Tickets: sj23.org/gala or 281-693-1000.

FEB. 14 - 16

MARRIED COUPLES RETREAT, 5 p.m., Feb. 14 to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 16 at Holy Name Passionist Retreat

Center (430 Bunker Hill Rd., Houston). Threeday weekend unpacks the graces of forgiveness, recommitment and prayer that can strengthen marriages. Registration and information: 713464-0211; holynameretreatcenter.org.

FEB. 17 - 20

PARISH MISSION, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Holy Ghost (6921 Chetwood Dr., Houston). Father Peter Schavitz, C.Ss.R., presents “Awaken Your Spirit: Renew Your Relationship With Jesus” pre-Lenten Mission from

Feb. 17 to Feb. 20. The evening’s themes are: Bible, Crucifix, Ashes and Altar. Childcare is available at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome. 713-668-0463; holyghostchurch.net.

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