Fr Chris Ponnet
and the team at St. Camillus de Lellis
Peace.
We hope to see you sometime on the Anniversary Weekend, November 19, 20 and 21.
May your Thanksgiving be a blessed time of reflection with friends and family.
This is an important moment in the history of St. Camillus. We continue to celebrate the 1954
dedication of our Chapel and our commitment to pastoral care at the Los Angeles County General
Hospital (now known as LAC+USC Medical Center, along with Norris Cancer Center and USC
University Hospital). These 50 years stand on the shoulders of the Catholic commitment to the
General hospital that began with the Daughters of Charity in 1875 and the priests of Sacred Heart
parish, St. Mary’s parish and Santa Brigeda’s parish to mention a few. Please join us for our
weekend of celebration. Bob Hurd and Anawim will be giving wonderful concerts (November 19
and 20) “to lift up the spirit” and to raise money in collaboration with the Together In Mission
subsidy of the Archdiocese and other donors. Our anniversary mass with Cardinal Mahony on
Sunday, November 21 is here at St. Camillus at 4:00 pm and will be the highlight of the weekend.
Come and celebrate our history and join us in the ongoing commitment to compassionate
pastoral care and non-violence in our homes, neighborhoods and world.
Blessings with you! You will receive this near Election Day or afterwards. This is an important
moment in our life as people of faith and America citizens. State elections and national elections
call us to ponder and reflect as we stand as a church honoring life, from the moment of
conception to natural death. No candidate reflects our whole vision of faith. Some have made this
into a referendum for the Iraqi war while the Holy Father and most religious leaders had called
the war unjust, immoral and illegal from the start. We stand in prayer with them and we call into
question the policy of this war and its long-term agenda. When a candidate is willing and proud
to use nuclear weapons unilaterally—killing millions if not end life on earth, then a line has been
crossed that demands a moral protest. We will each vote in that sacred place of our conscience; it
is one of the reasons our faith is great. May all votes be counted and may we always know our call
to live the Gospel is to build up a world of Justice and Peace for all. Let us keep hope alive.
Dear Friends:
28 October 2004
A BRIEF VISIT
sometimes wonder if I have ever really seen what
is reality. I'm not talking about eyesight but about
insight, or as Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote,
inscape. What is the inside of something or someone
like? What world dwells and resides in each one of
the more than 6 billion people on this spinning
earth?
For the last few years I have spent a month or
two in Peru and Bolivia and I always carry my camera
with me to carry away what I can see! But the
indigenous peoples often do not appreciate others
taking pictures—especially of their faces and eyes,
where they carry their soul. They do not appreciate
strangers peering deeply into them and taking what
was not offered. I try to respect that when I am
among them, so I take lots of pictures of backs, from
behind and sideways.
When the film is developed I am amazed at what
I see and what there is still to see as inscape/insight.
There are long thick and skinny braids and gorgeous
mantas—long shawls that carry everything from
babies to thirty pounds of food, firewood, cloth,
adobe bricks and flowers for the market. They carry
burdens, little infants asleep with too rosy cheeks
because of the cold and wind at these high altitudes.
There are larger children peering at me sideways,
curious and often breaking into a smile when they
see me looking at them through this silver box. They
look with care, serious and intent. And lowering the
camera, I look back.
(Complete text: www.paxchristiusa.org)
I
By Megan McKenna
BEHOLD! DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?
As the prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures spoke
to the inhumanity of the “Empire” and called God's
people to a new vision and hope for humanity, so
must the Church today. Reading the signs of our
times, we see too many people in our midst and in
our world that suffer from oppression and all forms
of injustice. We see violence and destruction that
plagues our neighborhoods, society, nation and
world—and characterizes relationships. The majority
of persons who populate our world lack those basic
goods which would enable them to live with dignity
and respect.
(Complete text: www.paxchristiusa.org)
We see violence and destruction that
plagues our neighborhoods, society,
nation and world—and characterizes
relationships.
he world in which we live today certainly does
not reflect God's design for the universe or
God's hope that people and creation would
live in peace and harmony—that all would enjoy the
dignity that ought to be accorded the children of the
Creator and that all would have fullness of life. Far
from this ideal is the tendency toward “empirebuilding,” with our own country taking the lead in
modeling this.
T
By Bishop Gabino Zavala
Bishop-President of Pax Christi USA
CULTIVATING A PROPHETIC MODEL OF CHURCH
Fr Chris Ponnet
and the team at St. Camillus de Lellis
Peace.
We hope to see you sometime on the Anniversary Weekend, November 19, 20 and 21.
May your Thanksgiving be a blessed time of reflection with friends and family.
This is an important moment in the history of St. Camillus. We continue to celebrate the 1954
dedication of our Chapel and our commitment to pastoral care at the Los Angeles County General
Hospital (now known as LAC+USC Medical Center, along with Norris Cancer Center and USC
University Hospital). These 50 years stand on the shoulders of the Catholic commitment to the
General hospital that began with the Daughters of Charity in 1875 and the priests of Sacred Heart
parish, St. Mary’s parish and Santa Brigeda’s parish to mention a few. Please join us for our
weekend of celebration. Bob Hurd and Anawim will be giving wonderful concerts (November 19
and 20) “to lift up the spirit” and to raise money in collaboration with the Together In Mission
subsidy of the Archdiocese and other donors. Our anniversary mass with Cardinal Mahony on
Sunday, November 21 is here at St. Camillus at 4:00 pm and will be the highlight of the weekend.
Come and celebrate our history and join us in the ongoing commitment to compassionate
pastoral care and non-violence in our homes, neighborhoods and world.
Blessings with you! You will receive this near Election Day or afterwards. This is an important
moment in our life as people of faith and America citizens. State elections and national elections
call us to ponder and reflect as we stand as a church honoring life, from the moment of
conception to natural death. No candidate reflects our whole vision of faith. Some have made this
into a referendum for the Iraqi war while the Holy Father and most religious leaders had called
the war unjust, immoral and illegal from the start. We stand in prayer with them and we call into
question the policy of this war and its long-term agenda. When a candidate is willing and proud
to use nuclear weapons unilaterally—killing millions if not end life on earth, then a line has been
crossed that demands a moral protest. We will each vote in that sacred place of our conscience; it
is one of the reasons our faith is great. May all votes be counted and may we always know our call
to live the Gospel is to build up a world of Justice and Peace for all. Let us keep hope alive.
Dear Friends:
28 October 2004
A BRIEF VISIT
sometimes wonder if I have ever really seen what
is reality. I'm not talking about eyesight but about
insight, or as Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote,
inscape. What is the inside of something or someone
like? What world dwells and resides in each one of
the more than 6 billion people on this spinning
earth?
For the last few years I have spent a month or
two in Peru and Bolivia and I always carry my camera
with me to carry away what I can see! But the
indigenous peoples often do not appreciate others
taking pictures—especially of their faces and eyes,
where they carry their soul. They do not appreciate
strangers peering deeply into them and taking what
was not offered. I try to respect that when I am
among them, so I take lots of pictures of backs, from
behind and sideways.
When the film is developed I am amazed at what
I see and what there is still to see as inscape/insight.
There are long thick and skinny braids and gorgeous
mantas—long shawls that carry everything from
babies to thirty pounds of food, firewood, cloth,
adobe bricks and flowers for the market. They carry
burdens, little infants asleep with too rosy cheeks
because of the cold and wind at these high altitudes.
There are larger children peering at me sideways,
curious and often breaking into a smile when they
see me looking at them through this silver box. They
look with care, serious and intent. And lowering the
camera, I look back.
(Complete text: www.paxchristiusa.org)
I
By Megan McKenna
BEHOLD! DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?
As the prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures spoke
to the inhumanity of the “Empire” and called God's
people to a new vision and hope for humanity, so
must the Church today. Reading the signs of our
times, we see too many people in our midst and in
our world that suffer from oppression and all forms
of injustice. We see violence and destruction that
plagues our neighborhoods, society, nation and
world—and characterizes relationships. The majority
of persons who populate our world lack those basic
goods which would enable them to live with dignity
and respect.
(Complete text: www.paxchristiusa.org)
We see violence and destruction that
plagues our neighborhoods, society,
nation and world—and characterizes
relationships.
he world in which we live today certainly does
not reflect God's design for the universe or
God's hope that people and creation would
live in peace and harmony—that all would enjoy the
dignity that ought to be accorded the children of the
Creator and that all would have fullness of life. Far
from this ideal is the tendency toward “empirebuilding,” with our own country taking the lead in
modeling this.
T
By Bishop Gabino Zavala
Bishop-President of Pax Christi USA
CULTIVATING A PROPHETIC MODEL OF CHURCH
SAINT CAMILLUS CENTER
FOR PASTORAL CARE
50 YEARS OF MINISTRY
1954-2004
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SAINT CAMILLUS CENTER
FOR PASTORAL CARE
50 YEARS OF MINISTRY
1954-2004
Image courtesy of John August Swanson ©
AVISIT
ST. CAMILLUS CENTER FOR PASTORAL CARE
1911 ZONAL AVENUE
LOS ANGELES, CA 90033-1032
[email protected]
NON-PROFIT ORG.
U.S. POSTAGE PAID
LOS ANGELES, CA
PERMIT #31285