Word & Spirit
Spring/Summer2015
Vol. 10, no. 2
The Newsletter of the
Archbishop O’Brien Library
Spring/Summer 2015
In This Issue
God’s Love
1
New Books & Media
2
June Book Sale;
May Events
3
Catholic Newspaper
Digitization
4
Changes to Statewide
Database;
Blessed Junipero Serra
5
Saint Thomas Seminary 6
Alumni Reunion
The Power and Mystery of God’s Love
We’ve heard it said that
loving and being loved is
the greatest joy on earth.
We experience joy in the
love of our parents, our
families, our friends and
even in strangers. There
is joy in receiving love but
most of all in giving it to a
world in need.
“To enter into the
mystery means
going beyond your
own comfort zone.”
The demonstration of a
most profound example of
love for us is Jesus’s death
on the cross. Jesus could
have walked away but so
deep was his love for us
that he gave up his life in
such a horrific way for our
redemption and the promise
of eternal life. “No one can
have greater love than to
lay down his life for his
friends (John 15:3 NAB)
The sacrament of Baptism
allows us to enter into a
covenant with Jesus Christ.
“Or do you not know that
all of us who have been
baptized into Christ Jesus
have been baptized into His
death? Therefore we have
been buried with Him through
baptism into death, so that as
Christ was raised from the
dead through the glory of the
Father, so we too might walk
in the newness of life.”
(Romans 6:3-4 NAB)
one to the questions which
challenge our faith, our
fidelity and our very
existence.”
The mystery of God’s love is
infinite. It draws us in and in
seeking to know and understand God we are given
Pope Francis says in his
Easter vigil homily, “To enter
into the mystery means the
ability to wonder, to contemplate; the ability to listen to
the silence and to hear the
tiny whisper amid great
silence by which God speaks
to us.” (1 Kings 19:12).
Pope Francis further
explains, “To enter into
the mystery means going
beyond our own comfort
zone...and going out in
search of truth, beauty
and love. It is seeking a
deeper meaning, an
answer, and not an easy
graces to develop a deeper
and more meaningful relationship with others through God.
We are renewed by the power
of the Holy Spirit and the true
brilliant light of God’s love is
revealed to us and in us.
Karen Lesiak
Vol. 10, no. 2
Word & Spirit Spring/Summer 2014
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New Books
Mary’s Bodily Assumption. Matthew Levering.
University of Notre Dame
Press, 2015 [232.931 LEV]
Marian Fathers of the
Immaculate Conception,
2015 [234.5 KOS]
a biblical perspective by Mary
Healy and Peter Williamson.
Our Sunday Visitor, 2013
The Francis Miracle:
inside the transformation
of the Pope and the
Church. John Allen, Jr.,
Time Books, 2015
[266.2 MAR]
[262.51 FRA I ]
Transforming Parish
communications: growing
the church through new
media. Scot Landry. Our
Sunday Visitor, 2014
The Second Greatest
Story Ever Told: now is
the time for mercy. Rev.
ed. Fr. Michael Gaitley.
[266.2 LAN]
The Urgency of the New
Evangelization: answering
the call by Ralph Martin with
Saints and Social Justice: a
guide to changing the world.
Brandon Vogt. Our Sunday
Visitor, 2013 [922 V886]
American Catholics in
Transition: D’Antonio,
William, et al. Rowman and
Littlefield, 2013 [282.73 DAN]
Sorting Out Catholicism: a
brief history of the New
Ecclesial Movements.
Massimo Faggioli. Liturgical
Press, 2014 [282.09 FAGG]
American Catholic Higher
Education in the 21st
century: critical challenges.
Landen Lane Press, Boston
College, 2015 [377.82 A512]
Doughboys on the Great
War: how American soldiers
viewed their military experience. Edward A. Gutierrez.
University Press of Kansas,
2014 [940.4 G983]
N e w D V D’ s
Feature Films:
Beasts of the Southern
Wild. (93 min.), Eng/Sp/Fr
Fox Cinereach Productions,
2012
culinary immigrant opens up
an Indian restaurant 100 feet
from a Michelin-starred restaurant in Southern France.
Lead Kindly Light: the life
and message of Blessed
John Henry Newman.
(70 min.) Ignatius Press, 2015
Documentaries:
Saint Margaret Mary and the
Sacred Heart. (60 min.)
Eternal Word Television
Network, 2012
Set in an isolated bayou
community, a tenacious sixyear-old bravely sets out on
a journey to save her father
when he succumbs to a
mysterious malady.
The Apostles: the story of
the first disciples of
Christ— the complete tenpart series. (260 min.) Kultur, Beloved: the Domincan
Sisters of Saint Cecilia.
2014
Miracles: the power of faith- (57 min.) Ignatius, 2013
One Hundred Foot
Journey. (122 min.)
Eng/Fr/Sp Dreamworks II,
2014
a journey into the realm of
inexplicable experiences.
4 episodes (4 hrs., 13 min.)
Centre Communications,
2014
Two worlds collide when a
Drama on CD:
Faustina: Messenger of
Divine Mercy performed by
Maria Vargo. Saint Luke
Productions, 2014
Vianney performed by
Leonardo Defilippis. Saint
Luke Productions, 2014
Vol. 10, no. 2
Word & Spirit Spring/Summer 2014
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June Book Sale
The annual Book Sale
of the Archbishop
O’Brien Library will
be held Wednesday
through Saturday,
June 10-13.
Hours will be: Wednesday through Friday,
10 a.m.-4 p.m. and
Saturday, 9:30 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
Items for sale include
classics, scripture,
church history, saints,
spirituality and more.
A variety of additional
subject areas, fiction,
coffee table books and
reference materials will
be represented.
condition and prices start
at $ .50. Miscellaneous
gift items will be on sale
and a book and media
drawing will be held.
For more information
please contact or visit
the library.
CD’s, audiotapes, DVD’s,
videos, hard cover and
soft cover books are in
good to excellent
May Events
Social Justice Conference
The Bishop Peter
Rosazza 6th annual
Social Justice Conference
will be held on Saturday
June 13th at St. Paul
Catholic High School in
Bristol. The Keynote
speaker is Sr. Simone
Campbell, SSS. Executive
Director of NETWORK
and Founder of “Nun’s on
the Bus”.
There will be prayer,
music, exhibits and
workshops in English
and Spanish on current
social justice issues and
initiatives related to a
just economy.
The event is sponsored by
the Office for Catholic
Social Justice Ministry, the
Archdiocese of Hartford.
For more information call
203-277-7279 or email:
[email protected].
To visit the website go to
www.catholicsocialjustice.org
Hartford Earth Festival
The Hartford Earth Festival
will be held on Sunday May
31st on the Riverfron Plaza
from 1—5 p.m.
It starts with Connecticut
People’s climate vigil and
march at noon on the North
steps of the Capital. Later on
there will be entertainment on
Riverfront Plaza including the
Hartford Steel Symphony
and the Meadows Brothers.
There will be an Inspiration
Station for the kids with an
Eco– magician, storytelling
and more music from
2-4 p.m.
There are special group
ticket prices to the
Connecticut Science Center
if purchased by May 15.
Contact: Shawneebaldwin
@ aohct.org
At the close of the Earth Fest
at 4:30 p.m., there will be the
Special Olympics Torch Run.
For more information visit
www.HartfordEarthFestival.org
Looking for a
unique conference
experience?
The Archdiocesan Center
at St. Thomas Seminary
provides a cost-effective
meeting and learning
environment for religious,
ecumenical, educational,
human services and
non-profit organizations.
For information on how
you can book an event
contact Director of Events
Sales, Elena O’Halloran
at 860-242-5573,
Vol. 10, no. 2
Word & Spirit Spring/Summer 2014
Catholic Newspaper Digitization Project
The Archbishop O’Brien
Library together with the
Chancery Archives and the
Catholic Transcript has
partnered with the Catholic
Resources and Research
Alliance (CRRA), and 21
Archdioceses, Universities
and national newspapers
in seeking to identify and
digitize our collective holdings of Catholic newspapers,
currently in print and microfilm.
The goal of the project is to
have Catholic newspapers
of partnering institutions
digitized, housed in an
online repository and made
available to the public
through a website.
The combined Hartford
and New Haven
newspapers collectively
date from 1829 –1831,
and 1876 – 2014
Catholic newspapers
of the Archdiocese of
Hartford provide a rich
history of the lives and
institutions of our
Catholic foundation in
Connecticut, focusing on
clergy, men and women
religious, lay people,
churches and schools,
healthcare facilities and
social service institutions
of the Archdiocese of
Hartford.
Print editions of newspapers and microfilm are
The Catholic Transcript is
one of twelve priority papers at risk of deterioration,
that has been selected to be and also do not have the
included in the project. Other capability for patrons and
researchers to search for
newspaper include The
Boston Pilot, The Pittsburgh specific information.
By digitizing and making
Catholic, The Clarion
Herald, The Catholic
the content of these
Standard and Times,
newspapers available
St. Louis Review and
online, a wider audience
Catholic News Service.
will be reached and vital,
The digitization of The
sought after information
Catholic Transcript will
will be made more easily
also include its predecessor, accessible, and at the
The Connecticut Catholic,
same time will preserve
and The Catholic Press,
their content for future
as well as Catholic Standgenerations.
ard, published in New
Haven before the turn of
the century.
The project began in
May 2011 and efforts by
participating libraries to
gather vital information
in moving forward, as well
as providing input through
ongoing meetings has
been intense. As a result,
we are getting closer to
our goal of having this
initiative become a reality
though retaining funding
for this project, both
collectively and independently will be a
deciding factor in the
implementation of the
project.
CRRA is a non-profit membership alliance, founded
in 2008, whose vision and
mission is “to create enduring permanent global
access to Catholic resources in the Americas.”
Other partner institutions
include: Archdiocese of
Chicago, Archdiocese of
New Orleans, Archdiocese of New York, Archdiocese of St. Louis,
Archdiocese of Philadelphia Historical Research
Center, Boston College,
Catholic University, DePaul University, Boston
College,
Duquesne
University, Georgetown
University. Marquette University, Mount St. Mary’s
.
University,
St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, University of Dayton,
University of St. Mary of the
Lake/Mundelein Seminary,
and Villanova University.
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Word & Spirit Spring/Summer 2014
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New Library System to be Implemented
Faced with a nearly $100,000
reduction in funding for
iCONN and reQuest this fiscal year and in each of the
next two fiscal years, Ken
Wiggin, State Librarian, in a
recent letter to the library
community, said that he has
opted to shut down reQuest,
the library catalog of
resources in Connecticut’s
library’s, after 25 years.
Wiggin stated that the current
iCONN databases will remain. Consequently, reQuest
will shut down on June 30,
2015 for at least two months
while a new union catalog
and interlibrary loan system
is brought online. He
announced that the State
Library, through the Division
of Library Development, will
partner with Bibliomation,
Connecticut’s largest library
consortium, to implement a
new union catalog and Interlibrary loan system by Fall of
2015.
provide the residents of
Connecticut with high quality
information resources and a
robust resource sharing
system.
His decision to shut down
reQuest, he said, will leave
the library community less
vulnerable to future increases
in database costs as well as
potential rescissions over the
Wiggin further explained, that next two years. Wiggin was
although there will be disrup- emphatic that this important
tion in service for several
service will not be eliminated.
months, eventually there will He says it is an opportunity,
be a new resource sharing
after 25 years, to totally
system which will allow for the rethink it.
savings needed to continue to
Databases: (still available)
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Newspapers
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CT Digital Collections
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E-Journal Finder
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Search Individual Resources
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Resources A-Z
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Other Useful Sites
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Job Seeking Resources
Blessed Junipero Serra to be Canonized
Resources available to check out:
Junipero Serra (1713-1784),
a Spanish missionary, will be
canonized by Pope Francis
during his visit to the U.S. in
September.
The Carmel Mission : from founding to
rebuilding. Sydney Tempe.
[277.94 TEM]
Blessed Junipero Serra, a
was beatified by Pope Francis John Paul II in Vatican
City on September 25, 1988
He was born Miguel Jose
Serra at Petra on the Spanish
Island of Mallorca, Spain. At
the age of 16 he traveled to
Palma, the capital of Mallorca, and entered the service
of the Catholic Church, the
Order of St. Francis of Assisi
and took a new first name,
Junipero. In 1750, Serra
volunteered to serve the
Franciscan missions in the
new world and left Cadiz,
Spain and sailed for Vera
Cruz, Mexico, at the age of
36. He traveled by foot to
Mexico City to dedicate his
mission vocation at the shrine
of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
He spent 17 years in missionary work in the Sierra Gorda
in the present area of northcentral Mexico. When Father
Mission to Paradise: the story of
Juniperp Serra and the missions of
California. Kenneth Moffat King.
[277.94 K53]
California’s First Mission
founded by Junipero Serra
Serra died in 1784 he had
established nine California
missions and baptized 6,000
and confirmed 5,000 Indians,
about 10 percent of the
California Native American
population. Those nine
missions grew to 21.
Today more than 60
percent of the state's nearly
26 million people live in areas
surrounding the missions, and
El Camino Real, the road that
Father Serra traveled on a
tour of the missions shortly
before this death, established
a major artery running much
of the length of the state.
Heroes of God: eleven courageious
men and women who risked everything to spread the Catholic faith.
Henry Daniel-Rops. [922 P487]
Junipero Serra: a pictorial biography.
Martin Morgado [92 S487m]
The Last of the Conquistadors,
Junipero Serra, 1713-1784. Omer
Engelbert. [92 S487e]
Sandals on the Golden Highway: a life
of Junipero Serra. Teri Martini [92
S487m]
Source:
http://www.sanbuenaventuramission. Serra: ever forward never back.
2 videodiscs (2.5 hrs.) [DVD 92 SER]
org/history/blessed-junipero-serra
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at the Archdiocesan Center.
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