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THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT
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BISHOP READY HIGH SCHOOL CELEBRATES 50 YEARS
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March 13, 2011
RALLY AT STATEHOUSE PLANNED FOR SUPPORT OF
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-CHOICE
The Editor’s Notebook
Knowledge of God
By David Garick, Editor
Like most of you, I went to Mass on
Wednesday and received the ashes on
my forehead. I pondered on the solemn
words from the Book of Genesis, “Remember, O man, that you are dust, and
unto dust you shall return.” On their
own, those words can be pretty foreboding. But when you place them in the
proper context of Ash Wednesday, there
is real comfort.
St. Gregory of Nyssa was a bishop during the Fourth Century. He addressed the
fears of the Catholics of his day over how
there could be a resurrection when their
bodies were destroyed and all that was
left was dust and ashes. He explained
to them that even though our physical
bodies may transform into dust, we are
still part of God’s creation and, as God
formed us from that dust at our creation,
he can resurrect us from that dust, for we
remain in his loving hand.
Lent is a wonderful time to deepen our
faith by learning more about our faith.
There is nothing simple about being a
Christian. God made us as very complicated creatures, and his relationship
with us is accordingly very complex.
Fortunately, we have thousands of years
of teaching that can bring us greater understanding of our relationship with our
Creator. Along with the fasting, penance, charity, and prayer that are part of
our Lenten discipline, it would do all of us
some good to use this season to learn more
about our faith, so we can participate in it
more fully. One great way to do that is
through the many parish missions, speakers, Bible studies, and similar programs
going on around the diocese. Those were
listed in last week’s Catholic Times. You
can also do it through your own study.
As you might gather from the quotation
above, I really enjoy reading the wisdom
of the early Church Fathers, and I will be
making a special point of doing more of
that during Lent. But it is not just the ear-
ly leaders of the
Church who have
insight to share.
As you will read
on Page 22 of this
week’s Catholic
Times, Pope Benedict XVI has just released the second volume of his study of
the life of Christ. This one covers Christ’s
entry into Jerusalem, his crucifixion, and
his resurrection. It is a wonderful new
book and would be a great resource during Lent as we ponder Christ’s Passion
and what it means to our redemption.
Another way to improve the knowledge
of your faith is through study of the Mass.
We know that the Mass is the central act
of worship in our faith. But most people
don’t take the time to really understand
all of the prayers, intentions, and actions that take place during the Mass.
At the beginning of Advent, just a few
months away, we will all begin using a
new English translation of the Mass. Between now and then, we need to learn the
changes in the things we will be praying
and saying at Mass. At the same time, we
can become more familiar with what the
different parts of the Mass are and why
some of the words are different. We hope
to help with that in the Catholic Times.
Beginning this week, you will find a special column on Page 7 that explains the
changes that will be taking place.
Also this week, we take a look at how
the faith is being instilled in our young
people through Catholic education. This
week’s newspaper is dedicated to the
50th anniversary of Bishop Ready High
School. The story that begins on Page 12
tells about the excellent academic education that is being provided to our young
people, made truly meaningful by placing all of that worldly knowledge into the
context of our faith. Knowledge and faith
… they go hand in hand. Lent is a wonderful time to strengthen that connection.
Front Page photo:
Students (from left) Allie
Miller, Katie Weilbacher,
Anthony Bartholomew,
Marisa Ross, Teddy Osborn,
Kelly Veeley, Jose Polanco,
Niki Kaufman, and Christopher Landers stand in
front of their high school’s
namesake, the late Columbus Bishop Michael Ready
CT photo by Jack Kustron
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March 13, 2011
“March madness” may describe the upcoming college basketball tournament,
but it could just as well serve as a catch
phrase for legislative action relating to
Catholic schools during the next few
weeks in the Ohio General Assembly.
For Catholic school supporters and
school-choice proponents, the centerpiece of the March activity will be a
statewide rally on Tuesday, March 22, at
the Ohio Statehouse West Lawn. Catholic
school supporters are encouraged to register for the rally at http://www.ohiocathconf.org/I/ED/rally2011.asp
Conference staff members will meet attendees at the High Street entrance of the
Statehouse at noon. The rally will take
place from 1 to 2 p.m., followed by meetings with select supporters and legislators. Check the Ohio Advocates for Catholic Schools website for talking points
and other information about the rally.
The event will offer Catholic school
supporters an opportunity to advocate
for expanded school-choice opportunities
and for the protection of existing forms of
state funding that benefit Catholic schools
and their students.
Expanded school-choice opportunities
(see below) are planned to help lowincome and middle-income families pay
the cost of tuition and fees. Existing state
funding, through the Auxiliary Services
Program and the Administrative Cost Reimbursement Program, provides students
with needed services and resources.
In 2010-2011, Catholic school students
benefit from approximately $600 per
pupil in academic and health services,
textbooks, instructional materials and
equipment. In the same year, Administrative Cost Reimbursement will reimburse
Catholic schools $272 per student for
the administrative and clerical costs they
incur in meeting local, state, and federal
requirements.
This month, Gov. John Kasich will pro-
pose his budget for the next two years.
The budget will include funding for the
Auxiliary Services and the Administrative Cost Reimbursement programs.
New Programs for School Choice Rep.
Matt Huffman, R-Lima, has introduced
HB 136, the school-choice legislation.
This legislation contains two statewide
scholarship programs. These programs
would supplant the EdChoice Scholarship Program and the Cleveland Scholarship Tutoring Program (CS&TP) and
would grandfather existing EdChoice and
CS&TP scholarship students.
The first of the proposed new statewide scholarship programs is based on
a student’s household income. The second program provides special education
scholarships. The amount of the scholarship is based on the student’s disabilities. The primary condition to receive a
scholarship is for the student to have an
Individual Education Plan completed on
his or her behalf. Students must have a
documented disability that is referenced
within one of six categories within the
Ohio Revised Code.
A third new school-choice program, SB
88, is pending in the Legislature. Sen.
Kris Jordan, R-Powell, has introduced
tax credit legislation that would allow
working poor and lower-middle-class
families to receive a scholarship on behalf of their children, whether they attend
public, Catholic, or other chartered nonpublic schools.
The bill would permit 50 percent of
the scholarship recipients to be already
enrolled in chartered nonpublic schools.
Scholarship amounts would be $4,250 for
students in grades kindergarten through
eight and $7,000 for students in grades
nine to 12. Donors would receive a dollar tax credit for each dollar contributed
to the scholarship program. Contributions
would be capped at $1,000 for individuals, $2,500 for married taxpayers, and
$300,000 for corporate donors.
There is one addition to the guide to Eucharistic devotions which appeared in the March 6 Catholic Times. Exposition
of the Blessed Sacrament takes place from 5 a.m. to midnight every Monday through Friday at Lancaster St. Bernadette
Church, 1343 Wheeling Road. Those taking part are advised to knock on the church’s front door to gain admittance.
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THE CATHOLIC INDIAN MISSIONS,
FLORIDA REGION, SPANISH PERIOD
By Leandro M. Tapay
The spiritual welfare of the native
tribes in America was the subject of
deep concern to the governments of
Catholic Spain and France from the
time of the discovery of the Western
continent. Explorers were accompanied by missionaries who brought with
them the necessary items for the divine
worship and other liturgical celebrations.
The first Mass celebrated within the
current limits of the United States was
probably that offered by the priests
of Ponce de Leon’s expedition to the
southwestern point of Florida in 1521.
The next was celebrated by the noted
Dominican, Antonio de Montesinos,
at a temporary colony of San Miguel
de Guandape in Virginia in 1526,
eighty years before the founding of
Jamestown.
During the Spanish period, the whole
southern portion of the United States,
extending westward to or beyond the
Mississippi, was known as Florida. Although at least 15 priests had lost their
lives in this region with the expeditions
of Narvaez and De Soto in 1527-28
and 1539-42, an attempt to evangelize the native tribes was made in 1549
by Luis Cancer, a Dominican. Forced
by his ship’s captain to land at Tampa
Bay among the fierce Calusa tribe, instead of being given the opportunity to
search out a friendly tribe, Father Cancer and his two companions had bare-
ly touched the shore when they were
killed. They were the first martyrs in
the eastern United States.
St. Augustine, Fla., was the first permanent settlement in the eastern states.
It was founded by Menendez in 1565.
The following year, at the request of
the king of Spain, three Jesuits were
sent out. Upon landing on Cumberland
Island on the Georgia coast, they were
attacked and murdered. Two other Jesuits, Father Juan Rogel and Brother
Francisco Villareal, after spending
a winter studying the language, proceeded to work among the Calusa tribe
in southern Florida. Reinforced by 10
more Jesuits in 1568, they went to Havana, Cuba, to establish a school for
Indian boys from Florida.
Father Juan Bautista Segura, a Jesuit vice provincial, took charge of
the Florida mission, establishing stations among the Calusa, Tegesta, and
Tacobaga tribes of the south and west
coasts of Florida. Father Antonio Sedeno and Brother Domingo Baez began
the first Georgia mission on Guale (St.
Simon) Island among the Yamasee
tribe and prepared the catechism in the
Yamasee language.
In 1569, Father Rogel, with several
other Jesuits, began work in South
Carolina among the Orista (Edisto)
tribe and others in the neighborhood of
the Spanish post in Santa Elena. After a
year, the results proving unsatisfactory,
the Orista and the Guale missions were
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
During the weekend of March 12 and 13, the
annual Black and Native Indian Missions Collection will be taken up at all churches of the diocese. The national campaign for America’s mission lands has been serving the Catholic Church
in the United States for more than 127 years.
From inner cities to outland reservations, many evangelical works and
programs continue to be present for communities who do not have the
financial base to support the Church. Through our contributions, we
work hand in hand with the missionaries who deliver the light of Christ’s
witness to the impoverished, the isolated, and the long-suffering among
the Black, Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut peoples of our home Church.
These communities exist in almost every archdiocese and diocese in
the United States. Missionary priests, religious, catechists, and devoted
lay people work tirelessly in parishes, missions, and reservations to
promote the faith. In 2010, Catholics across the Columbus diocese donated $62,681.18 to aid these efforts.
I ask for your continued support of the Black and Indian Missions Collection. Together, let us truly be missionaries through our sacrifice and
the love of Jesus Christ that we share.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Most Reverend Frederick F. Campbell, DD, PhD
Bishop of Columbus
abandoned. The missionaries went to
Havana with a number of boys for the
Indian school.
In 1570, Father Segura, accompanied
by Father Luis de Quiros and seven
novices and lay brothers, all Jesuits,
together with four instructed Indian
youths, undertook a mission among the
Powhatan Indians in what is now Virginia. The whole party was massacred,
with the exception of one Indian boy
who survived to tell the story. Because
of the poor results in Florida, the Jesuits were transferred to a more promising field in Mexico.
In 1577, several Franciscans under
the charge of Father Antonio Alonzo de
Reynoso arrived at St. Augustine and
began work among the Timucua Indians near the city. Later, four Francis-
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INDIAN, continued from Page 3
PRACTICAL
By Rick Jeric
STEWARDSHIP
Desirable
Did you pray for the support of our Catholic
Social Services this past week? We know that
it is crucial to provide the resources necessary
for these services and ministries to thrive, and
to keep our disadvantaged brothers and sisters
living with hope and dignity. Lent is here, and we
will be challenged to make a number of commitments to serve the poor as a sign of our humility and a way of life that
proudly reflects good and faithful stewardship. We want to cheerfully
give alms and donate or share our treasure with those who have a
real and genuine need. We can be confident that there is real “value”
in gifts of treasure to organizations such as Catholic Social Services.
While it is important to be informed and careful with our donations,
it is just as important to freely give and respond to needs without
reservation. When the panhandler asks me for spare change on the
street, do I try to determine if he or she will spend it on food versus
liquor or cigarettes, or do I freely respond to Jesus Christ – alive in
that person – without judgment? I know that is a tough one, but worthy of thought and meditation. Is it more virtuous to give safely, or to
give simply when asked?
The first reading this Sunday is from the book of Genesis. God
forms us out of clay, breathes life into us, and we become living beings. God places us into a garden with beauty and food beyond our
imagination. The most desirable part of the garden was the middle,
containing the tree of life and the knowledge of good and evil. Along
comes the serpent, and we know the rest of the story. Besides the
obvious temptation and original sin, there is the piece to which we can
all relate, even in 2011. Just as easily as Adam and Eve, we constantly
see what we perceive to be good, pleasing, and desirable. The reading
from Genesis says that the desire was to gain wisdom. Unfortunately,
my sinfulness is usually based on desirable things that bring me pleasure and satisfaction. I wish I could use the “wisdom” rationale. So
what is the lesson? It is pretty straightforward. We are constantly
mesmerized and even blinded by desirable distractions. Especially as
we mature, it is not so much a continuous series of uncontrollable
failures regarding desirable things of this earthly home of ours, but
it becomes a more “informed and educated” repetition of rationalized situations in which we succumb to the desire. Fortunately, we
are almost immediately reminded that we are naked. We are always
naked. God sees us exactly as we are. No clothing, hiding, or weak
rationalizing can hide our naked bodies, consciences, or souls. The
only fig leaves we need are the trips we make to the confessional for
the sacrament of Penance/Reconciliation.
Our practical challenge this week is to create a tree of life for this
Lenten season. Create it in your mind, or find something around the
house to use. We have Advent wreaths and Christmas trees. Why not
a Lenten tree that reminds us of what is truly desirable? Whatever
the symbol you use, keep it in your home as a reminder of what is
truly desirable, and what is not. If we really desire wisdom, we will live
throughout Lent as good and faithful stewards, focusing our time, talent, and treasure on repentance, forgiveness, fasting, and selfless giving.
When our eyes are opened, we want to be proud of our nakedness,
and not ashamed.
Jeric is director of development and planning for the Columbus Diocese.
‘HYPED’
Third, fourth- and fifth-grade classes
at Columbus St. Andrew School participated in a service project with HYPED!
Inc., a tax-exempt, non-profit organization that has been approved by the diocesan Office for Social Concerns.
HYPED stands for Helping Youth Produce Excellence Daily and was founded
by Jenny Horner. It is a foster home for
young people aged nine to 21 which
provides housing, tutoring, counseling,
mentoring, and other services. Information about the organization is available
at its website, www.get-hyped,org.
The St. Andrew students collected
toiletries, cleaning products, clothing,
board games, books, school supplies,
and kitchen utensils. Several families
donated couches, chairs, televisions,
computers, and beds. In addition, the
classes integrated the service learning
project into the language arts, math,
health, social studies, and religion curriculum through various lessons and activities throughout the year.
Horner visited St. Andrew School on
Feb. 28 to speak to the students about
HYPED and thank them for their donations.
Pictured are (from left) Heath Bonnell,
HYPED founder Jenny Horner, Allyson Fu, and
Photo courtesy St. Andrew School
Ryan Ouellette
can priests and two lay brothers were at
work in towns of the Timucua and Yamasee, from St. Augustine northward
into Georgia. In 1593, twelve more
were sent out under Father Juan de Silva, including the noted Father Franciso
Pareja, to whom we are indebted for our
most complete account of the Timucua
people and language and for several devotional works, including the first book
printed in any Indian language in the
United States.
In 1655, there were 35 Franciscan missions in Florida and Georgia, which had
a Christian Indian population of 26,000.
This was the zenith of their prosperity.
Meanwhile, the English slave traders of Carolina had been arming certain
tribes with guns and sending them out
to make raids on other tribes to procure
slaves for Carolina. The Florida mission was attacked. In 1702, a combined
English and Indian land expedition,
cooperating with a naval force, burned
the town of St. Augustine, including its
Franciscan church and convent and one
of the finest libraries then in America.
They also burned the neighboring mission towns and slaughtered hundreds of
people. They took 1,400 Christian Indians to be sold as slaves in Carolina. The
missions, with their churches, gardens,
and orange groves were demolished, the
vestments and sacred vessels were destroyed or carried off, and many Christian neophytes were burned at the stake.
This was practically the end of the
Florida missions, although for more
than 20 years thereafter, efforts were
made, with some temporary success,
to gather together the remnants of the
Apalachee, Timucua, and other Christian tribes. In 1726, there still were
1,000 Christian Indians.
With the establishment of the English
Georgia colony and the ensuing war
of 1740, the attempt was abandoned
and the mission territory reverted to its
original wild condition. In 1753, only
126 Indians remained in four mission
stations close to St. Augustine.
In 1743, Jesuit Fathers Jose Maria
Monaco and Jose Xavier de Alana began a mission near Cape Florida among
the Ais and Jobe tribes, with such success that the community of Christian
Indians was built up, which continued
until the Seminole War of 1817-18.
Science Olympiad Teams
Columbus Immaculate Conception
School had two Science Olympiad
teams which finished in eighth and 11th
place at the 15th annual invitational
tournament hosted by Philo Middle
School, near Zanesville. Members of
both teams are pictured. There were
24 teams competing. Individual results
for the 23 tournament events were as
follows: second place, Sam Smith, Dynamic Planet, and Erin Holcomb and
Viviana Smith, Write It Do It; third
place, Mara McCann and Clara Kay,
Dynamic Planet; fourth place, Evan
Jones and Jim Ryan, Battery Buggy,
and Mara McCann and Liza Goedde,
Ecology; fifth place, Josie Vondran
and Isaac Krakowka, Anatomy; Ada
Cleary and Liza Goedde, Awesome
Aquifer; Maura O’Keeffe and Clara
Kay, Fossils; and Emily Thomas and
Maura O¹Keeffe, Solar System; sixth
place, Ada Cleary and Liza Goedde,
Ornithology; seventh place, Erin Holcomb and Evan Jones, Awesome Aquifers; Erik Placke and Isaac Krakowka,
Towers; Clara Kay and Mara McCann,
Road Scholar; Bobby O’Shaughnessy
and Lauren Nolf, Shock Value; Liza
Goedde and Emily Thomas, Write It
Do It; and Nathaniel Thomas and Ginny Palmer, Solar System; eighth place,
Andy Welsh and Sam Smith, Storm the
Castle; and Viviana Smith and Matt
Morrison, Junkyard Challenge
Photo courtesy Immaculate Conception School
DOMINICAN SISTERS TO HOST FR. MICHAEL CROSBY, OFM, CAP
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
Trinity School, 1440 Grandview Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43212, located at St. Christopher Parish (supported by St. Christopher, St. Margaret of Cortona, Our Lady of Victory and other Parishes) is seeking a
school principal (K-8) for the 2011-2012 academic school year.
The ideal candidate must be able to promote Catholic identity, be
organized, have strong leadership skills, understand the importance
of school marketing & development, inclusion and have a vision
for our continued success. School administrative experience preferred. Salary is commensurate with education and experience, full
benefits included. Interested applicants must be active, practicing
Catholics and must possess an Ohio Elementary Administrative
licensure/certification.
To apply for this position go to www.cdeducation.org or for more
information contact the Diocese of Columbus Catholic Schools Office at 197 E. Gay St. Columbus, Ohio 43215, 614-221-5829.
Application deadline is March 31, 2011
On March 16, the Dominican Sisters
of Peace will host an evening with Fr.
Michael Crosby, OFM cap. Fr. Crosby will deliver a presentation entitled,
“Reclaiming the Catholic Church for
Jesus Christ” at 7:00 PM at the Martin
de Porres Center, 2330 Airport Drive,
Columbus. The talk is free and open to
the public; please register by March 14
by calling 614.416.1910 or emailing
[email protected].
Fr. Crosby is a Capuchin Franciscan
who lives in community with other friars in a parish serving the urban poor in
downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is renowned for his insights into contemporary
biblical discipleship, which he shares in 17
award-winning books he has written and
numerous workshops and presentations
he has given worldwide. A pioneer among
Catholics in promoting socially responsible investing, has worked tirelessly in promoting both corporate and church reform.
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A quick note from:
March 13, 2011
“Fifth’ step in the sacrament
OFFICE OF LITURGY
QUESTION & ANSWER
Liturgical Ministers: Ministers of Hospitality
Ministers of hospitality, which
include both ushers and greeters,
serve the assembly by recognizing, welcoming, and caring for
each member with the greatest
of dignity and respect.
Just as we greet guests to our
home, make them feel welcome,
and tend to their needs, the
ministers of hospitality make
the assembly feel welcome and
comfortable as they gather each
Sunday. All liturgical ministers are
to have adequate training from
their parish communities before
being assigned to service in the
assembly. Their training should include knowing what to do when
an emergency occurs. Ushers and
greeters have many responsibilities before, during, and after liturgical celebrations and need ample
opportunity to learn and practice
what they are expected to do. It
is important for ushers and greeters arrive early so that they may
attend to any additional procedures and instructions for the
particular liturgy. They may be
called upon to assist at baptisms,
weddings, funerals, and other parish celebrations.
These ministers are on hand to
greet people as they arrive, give
out worship aids, and escort people to their seats. Parishes need
to establish policies for seating
once the liturgy has begun. No
one should be seated while the
readings are being proclaimed.
During the liturgy, ministers will
attend to the needs of the celebration while remaining alert to
the needs of the people.
In many parishes, the ushers are
responsible for assisting in gathering the weekly collection. It is
important that ushers know the
parish procedures for collecting and securing the offerings,
so they can follow them with
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Catholic News Service
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quiet efficiency. Ushers may be
involved in ordering the communion procession. Once effective
traffic patterns have been established, however, people usually
follow them very easily. The ushers’ role at this time is minimal:
keeping alert for possible snags.
If directions have to be given, this
should be done with warmth and
gentleness.
As members of the assembly,
ushers and greeters have a unique
opportunity to model the true
meaning of “full, active, and conscious participation.” When they
listen with attention, sing with
enthusiasm, and pray from their
hearts, they encourage others to
do the same.
When the liturgy ends, the ministers continue their friendly, helpful service. They hand out bulletins and send people on their
way with a friendly invitation to
return. They assist those with
special needs and guide people
to gatherings which follow the
liturgy. They are often responsible to see that the church remains in good order, pews are tidied, and all is returned to where
it belongs.
Much is expected of our ushers
and greeters. Like Martha, they
are busy with many things, but
like Mary, they have chosen the
better part, serving God’s people
with generosity and kindness, and
it will not be taken from them.
. I disagree with a
column you published some time ago,
about not writing out
our sins for confession.
Among other comments,
you discouraged the
practice and suggested it
could be a symptom of or
lead to scrupulosity.
A few years ago, I realized I had an addiction
and joined a 12-step program to help me live my
life without the addiction. One of the tools they
suggest is writing out my
feelings and the things I
have done wrong. This
brought me a tremendous
sense of freedom and
helped me get rid of a lot
of unhealthy guilt.
The fifth step of the
program involved sharing this information with
someone else. In my
opinion, it would serve as
a basis for a really significant reception of the sacrament of reconciliation.
I chose to do my fifth
step with a layperson,
but still feel I could give
it to a priest and ask
forgiveness in the sacrament of penance.
At no time did I feel
scrupulous, though I admit it could be a problem
with someone else. I just
feel strongly that writing
is a great help in sorting
out our feelings, admit-
ting wrongs and understanding myself better.
(Florida)
A
. You make a good
point. While Alcoholics Anonymous was
the first to identify the
“12 steps,” the process
has proven effective in
other types of addictions
as well.
The cautions that I proposed concerning written
confessions are generally
valid. The circumstances
that you describe, however, could be a legitimate
and important exception.
I have often talked
with individuals as
they worked their way
through the fourth step
(“to make a searching
and fearless moral inventory of oneself”),
and then assisted them
through the fifth step
(“admit to God, to ourselves and to another
human being the exact
nature of our wrongs”).
Sometimes this happened in the context of
the sacrament of reconciliation. The occasion
became a powerful spiritual sacramental experience for both of us.
I know that some will
protest that this sacrament should not become
a personal psychological
assessment or a therapy
Pray the Rosary
session. That is true. But
neither is it properly a
purely clinical recitation
of sinful actions and a
prayer of absolution.
The introduction to the
Rite of Penance, in fact,
declares just the opposite: “In order to fulfill
his ministry properly and
faithfully, the confessor
should understand the
disorder of souls and apply the appropriate remedies to them. …
“Discernment of spirits
is a deep knowledge of
God’s action in the hearts
of men; it is a gift of the
Spirit as well as the fruit
of charity.”
In receiving the repentant sinner and leading
him to the light of the
truth, a confessor “reveals the heart of the Father and shows the image
of Christ the Good Shepherd” (No. 10).
The celebration of reconciliation is “always an
act in which the church
proclaims its faith, gives
thanks to God for the
freedom with which
Christ has made us free,
and offers its life as a
spiritual sacrifice in
praise of God’s glory”
(No. 7).
All of this is another way of saying that,
properly understood, the
process of the fifth step
may provide a fitting occasion for the sacrament
of penance.
Send questions to
Father Dietzen,
Box 3315, Peoria, IL
61612, or e-mail:
[email protected].
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March 13, 2011
“AND WITH YOUR
SPIRIT”
By JAKE TAWNEY
This is the last year in which the English speaking Church will use the current
translation of the Roman Missal. On the
First Sunday of Advent, 2011, all Englishspeaking Catholics will be treated to a
new and improved translation of the
Mass. Bishop Frederick Campbell of the
Diocese of Columbus has been conducting
a series of meetings to introduce various
groups of the faithful to the new words
of the Mass. I have been inspired by his
enthusiasm for the new texts, and over
the next few months, I will be discussing the upcoming changes in these pages
as a form of catechesis for readers. Every week, I will drill into one of the new
texts. I will mostly focus on the people’s
parts, though occasionally I will address
some of the more important parts of the
priest. Feel free to pass these around. The
most important thing that we can do from
now until Nov. 27 is to get the word out
and educate people on what is happening
and why it is better for the Church. I also
welcome comments and questions. I am
happy to do my best to explain the new
words so we can all be fully prepared to
embrace them next Advent.
For the first installment, I want to look
at the people’s response to “The Lord be
with you.” The current translation has
the people responding, “And also with
you.” In the new translation, we will
respond, “And with your spirit.” This
change will be initially the most evident,
because of its frequency of use during
the Mass and a brevity that carries with
it a response that is a bit Pavlovian in
nature. By the same token, this change
will settle in with the faithful faster than
many of the others.
There are three reasons for this change.
First, it more accurately reflects the Latin: et cum Spiritu tuo. In fact, a quick
tour through four languages reveals the
following:
Italian: “E con il tuo spirito”
Spanish: “Y con tu espiritu”
French: “Et avec votre esprit”
German: “Und mit deinem Geiste”
In each case, the vernacular references
“Spirit.” The only language I know of
that mistranslates this is English. The
first answer to why is it changing? is,
quite simply, because the current translation is incorrect.
The second reason is historical. Father
Joseph A. Jungmann, SJ, a liturgical scholar
of the last century, wrote in his text The
Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and
Development (1948) that “both the greeting and the reply are ancient, their origins
hid in pre-Christian times.” Jungmann lists
several scriptural references that use the
same sort of greeting: 2 Timothy 4:22, Philemon 25, Galatians 6:18, Philippians 4:23.
The historical reason leads to the third,
which is theological. St. John Chrysostom
(around 400 AD), held that spiritus is a
distinguishing mark of the ordained. In
his first Pentecost homily, he sees in the
word “spirit” a recognition that the bishop
performs the sacrifice of the Mass in the
power of the Holy Spirit. Of course, we
are all temples of the Holy Spirit, yet in a
very special way, the priest stands in persona Christi during the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass. It is by the power of the Holy
Spirit that he is able to do so. This is not
a false exaltation of the clergy, but rather
a recognition of the special role that the
priest, and more so the bishop, has in the
sacred action of the Eucharist. A recovery
of the priest standing in persona Christi is
the first step in the recovery of the sense
of the real presence in the Eucharist.
This brings up a more general point regarding the new translation. Words are
never just words; they form us as we speak
them. In this way, all words have an element of sacramentality to them. This is
another way of stating the old Catholic
maxim: lex orandi, lex credendi (The law
of prayer is the law of belief). In other
words, what we pray and how we pray influences what we believe. The response
to Dominus vobiscum (“The Lord be with
you”), which happens each time there is
a major announcement during Mass -- for
instance, before the Gospel -- is an important moment to recognize that the
true high priest is Jesus Christ himself. He
is both priest and victim, yet the priest,
an ordained man of God, is standing in
Christ’s place. The only proper response
to the calling, “The Lord be with you,” is,
“And with your Spirit.”
Jake Tawney is a husband, a father of five, and a
parishioner at St. Mary in Delaware. In addition
to teaching mathematics, he is the founder of
Roma locuta est, a website dedicated to all things
Catholic with a emphasis on the Sacred Liturgy.
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40 Days for Life
Greater Columbus Right to
Life again this year is sponsoring its annual Lenten 40
Days for Life campaign,
joining pro-life organizations in hundreds of cities in
all 50 states.
The community-based campaign draws attention to the
evil of abortion through the
use of a three-point program
of prayer and fasting, constant vigil, and community
outreach. It takes a determined, peaceful approach to
showing local communities
the consequences of abortion in their own neighborhoods, for their own friends
and families. It puts into
action a desire to cooperate
with God in carrying out his
plan for the end of abortion
in America.
The 40-day campaign tracks
biblical history, where God
used 40-day periods from
Noah in the flood to Moses
on the mountain to the disciples after Christ’s resurrection to transform individuals,
communities, and the world.
Its most visible component
is a constant prayer vigil
outside a place where preborn children are aborted. In
Columbus, the vigil began
Ash Wednesday outside the
Complete HealthCare for
Women facility, 5888 Cleveland Ave. It will continue
daily through Palm Sunday, April 17, from 6 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Participants may
park at St. John Chrysostom
Byzantine Catholic Church,
5858 Cleveland Ave.
The vigil is a peaceful,
prayerful witness to the clinic’s patients and employees
and to the entire community
that Christ and his Church are
present and care about them
and the lives of the pre-born.
Individuals, organizations,
and parishes are invited to
sign up for one-hour shifts
throughout the vigil. For
more information, contact
Ruth Yorston of Greater Columbus Right to Life at (614)
445-8508.
St. Matthew Mission
A parish mission, combined
with the traditional 40 Hours
devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, will take place Friday to Sunday, March 18 to
20, at Gahanna St. Matthew
Church, 807 Havens Corners Road.
Father James Wehner, STD,
rector and president of the
Pontifical College Josephinum, will be the speaker for
the mission, which will begin with Mass at 5 p.m. Friday. The Blessed Sacrament
will be exposed continuously
(except during Masses) from
6 p.m. until the closing ceremony, which will begin at
3 p.m. Sunday and include a
talk, Eucharistic procession,
and Benediction.
Father Wehner will give
talks at 6 p.m. Friday and 1 and
6 p.m. Saturday. Child care
will be provided in the church
nursery during the talks. He
also will speak to middle
school and high school students at 6:15 p.m. Sunday.
Mass will be celebrated
Saturday at 8:30 a.m. (regular Saturday Mass) and 5
p.m. (Sunday anticipation)
and Sunday at 8 and 10 a.m.,
noon, and 5 p.m. Confessions will be heard from 2 to
5 p.m. Saturday and 9 to 10
a.m., 11 a.m. to noon, and 4
to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Pray Pray Pray
Answering God’s Call
WARTIME LESSONS
FROM PARENTS HAD
BIG IMPACT
Msgr. Romano Ciotola says the example of kindness his parents set
in the midst of destruction during
World War II was the first step that
set him on the path to the priesthood.
He grew up in the Italian village
of Vastogirardi, near the monastery
of Monte Cassino, the cradle of the
Benedictine order and the site of
one of the fiercest battles of the war.
“I was only about three years old at
the time, but I remember a lot of destruction, people left homeless, and
family members who were killed,”
he said. “My hometown was just
far enough behind the front lines
that people fled there. Our home
was damaged, but not destroyed.
My parents took in eight people
and sheltered them from November
1943 till the spring of 1944, when the
fighting had moved elsewhere.
“That experience of such goodness
and kindness has always remained
with me. It probably was the first
thing that made me consider how I
might serve God. We grew our own
food, so we were fortunate because
we never went hungry. We always
shared our food with others, and
that also had an impact.”
After the war, Msgr. Ciotola attended a boarding school run by priests.
He said their example made him
want to be like them, so he began
seminary studies in Italy. He moved
to Columbus in 1958 with his mother,
brother, and three sisters to join his
father, who had come to the United
States two years earlier to work at
the Marble Cliff quarry. His uncle
had been employed at the quarry
since 1912.
Today, Msgr. Ciotola is pastor at Columbus Our Lady of Victory Church,
about a half-mile from where the
quarry was located. Two of his sisters
live in Columbus, and his brother and
one sister reside in Youngstown.
After settling in Columbus, he enrolled as a college sophomore at the
former St. Charles Seminary. Even
though he knew little English, “I was
surprised at how easily I adjusted,”
he said. “I learned the language
pretty quickly, with the help of some
Msgr. Romano Ciotola
by Tim Puet
perience because it was a real family
type of environment and the professors were close to the students.”
He was ordained by Bishop John
Carberry on May 29, 1965, and his
first assignment was as assistant pastor at Gahanna St. Matthew Church.
“The thing that pleased me the most
about that assignment was finding
out how easily people accepted
me,” he said. “Father John Soltis was
the pastor. He was a very warm, kind
priest who developed a great family
feeling within the parish.”
He also was an assistant at Columbus St. Agnes, Denison Immaculate
Conception, and Newark Blessed
Sacrament and a teacher at Columbus Bishop Ready, New Philadelphia
Tuscarawas Central Catholic, and
Newark Catholic high schools before
becoming pastor at London St. Patrick in 1976.
“You become a priest to be a pastor,
so that was an exciting time for me,”
he said. “Once again, I was amazed at
how well people supported me.
“Becoming a pastor meant I had
to accept the challenge of being an
administrator, taking care of building
and maintenance issues, and administering the parish school. I’d sometimes feel overwhelmed trying to do
all this, but then I’d feel the presence
of God helping me, and it really gave
me a boost.”
After 11 years in London, he became
pastor of Grove City Our Lady of Perpetual Help in 1987. “It was a growing
parish. Soon after I arrived, it became
very clear a new church was needed,”
he said. “It was a big undertaking to
build the church, a parish hall, offices, and meeting rooms.
“Doing this allowed the school’s
library, science lab, and computer
room to move to the old church. That
freed four classrooms in the school,
allowing it to take in more young
people and eliminate a large waiting
list. That accomplishment was a great
adventure, and very satisfying.”
That work was completed in 1999.
One year later, Msgr. Ciotola was
transferred to Our Lady of Victory.
“That was like a homecoming to me
Lady of Victory and St. John the Baptist after moving to Columbus, so I
got the chance to serve many old
friends and their children and grandchildren, including some of my relatives’ kids,” he said.
“After being away for 35 years, it
was nice to find this remains a closeknit parish community. We’ve got
the well-to-do, the middle class,
and some not so well-to-do, but you
can’t tell who is who when you come
to Mass. This has always been a place
where people mix nicely.”
His decade at Our Lady of Victory,
like his time in Grove City, has been
marked by a number of changes to
the parish property.
A long-range planning committee recommended in 2001 that the
parish’s convent and school be torn
down, that a new parish life center
be built, and that other physical
changes. The most recent renovation, which involved sanctuary improvements, was dedicated by Bishop Frederick Campbell this past June.
“I thought my days of planning new
buildings ended in Grove City, but
it didn’t turn out that way,” he said.
“I’m very pleased with the results.”
Last May, Msgr. Ciotola reached 70,
the age at which priests may retire.
But he hopes to continue serving
the diocese as long as he can. “The
priesthood is something I enjoy very
much, and I’ve been blessed with
good health,” he said. “It’s in the
hands of God, but I plan to stay busy
in whatever way I’m needed as long
as my health holds.”
“The greatest thing about being
a priest is celebrating the Eucharist, because the priesthood and
the Eucharist go hand in hand,” he
added. “That’s why it’s a great pleasure to have all-night Exposition of
the Blessed Sacrament here at Our
Lady of Victory every First Friday
from 8 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday. We started that 10 years ago,
with the Serra Club joining us about
four years ago. It’s been a wonderful
blessing to the parish, and I’d like to
invite everyone to share that bless-
March 13, 2011
Faith
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LIVING
The Person of Jesus Christ
In the past few months, I have become rather
obsessed with a small, seemingly insignificant part of
the Mass. This part is during the Gospel acclamation,
when the priest processes the Book of the Gospels
from the altar to the pulpit. With hands firmly holding
the Book, the priest raises it as the congregation sings
out “Alleluia.” Yes, I claim that this is seemingly
insignificant, and probably many of our parishioners
didn’t even notice that we just began doing this
action. But I have come to love it and be deeply
moved by it. Why? Because in this simple action, the
priest is raising up the Words of God, not just words
about God or reflections on God. But he raises a book
containing the words spoken by Jesus Christ. And as
we sing out “Alleluia,” we are in fact responding to
this book and essentially crying out “Yes! Thank you,
Lord, for speaking to us! Praise you, God!”
I was thinking about this today when I was answering
questions for a Bible study that I am currently taking.
One of the questions asked, “If you had to describe
Jesus to someone, what would you say?” At first, I
honestly felt dumbfounded. I couldn’t think of words
or a description that would adequately describe this
Jesus Christ. And after a minute or two of reflection,
I simply wrote, “Jesus is a person. He is not an idea.
He is not a concept.” And though I thought at first
that this was a cop-out answer, I began to realize that
this actually is a reality that we sometimes forget.
Jesus was a man. He walked on this planet. He
The Great Surrender
Megan Thompson
had parents (Luke 2:16). He was tempted (Luke 4)
and needed prayer (Mark 1:35). He was rejected by
those to whom he was closest (Mark 6:4; Matthew
26:74). He wept (John 11:35). He ate. He laughed.
He loved. And this is where the distinction is made.
HE LOVED. But not in a love like ours, which is
ceasing and conditional and imperfect. He loved
with sincerity and intensity and perfection. And this
man, whose love is unyielding and revolutionary, is
the man who cried out on the cross “I thirst”--not for
water, but for our souls. This man, also fully divine,
is the one pursuing us. The words he uttered were
meant for our ears. The lessons he taught are spoken
to us. This life he handed over was done so for us.
This person of Jesus Christ wants a personal
relationship with each of us.
This is why we sing “Alleluia!” This is why we
should live our faith. Not because the words Jesus
spoke seem like the way to have a good society, but
because the words spoken came from a man who
poured out his very life in pursuit of us. The words
spoken came from a man who knew the challenge
of the lifestyle he claimed. The words spoken came
from a man inviting broken humanity to be made
whole by being in relationship with him. And it is
an exciting and freeing reality that our faith does
not rest on ideas or concepts, but on a personal
encounter with this man, Jesus Christ.
Pope Benedict once said that “Christianity is not a
new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians
only if we encounter Christ. ... Only in this personal
relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with
the Risen One do we really become Christians. ...
Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so
that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with
his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open
heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing
the world.” Today, with sincerity of heart, let us ask
the Holy Spirit to lead us to a deeper encounter with
Jesus Christ that, he might purify our intentions,
enlighten our minds, intensify our faith, and increase
the depth of our love. With the arrival of Lent we will
not be able to make this joyful cry for the next six
weeks. All the more should we relish our ability to
cry out on Easter morning “Alleluia!” as we listen to
the words of love spoken by this man--Jesus Christ.
Megan Thompson is youth minister at Gahanna St.
Matthew Church. She posts her thoughts online at http://
surrendertohislove.blogspot.com
HONOREES
Members of Columbus Bishop
Watterson High School’s state
championship teams of 1988
and 1981 were honored during halftime of the Eagles’
basketball game against Bexley on Friday, Feb. 5. They are
(from left), first row: Mike
DiBlasi, Steve Ramey, coach
Bill Wilson, C.J. Kowalke, Mike
Mulligan, principal Marian
Hutson, coach John Durant,
Steve Shoemaker, coach Tim
Pond, and coach Jack Hatem;
second row: Brad Rich, Dave
Becker, Mike Durant, Steve
Peck, David Stein, Marc Callahan, and coach Scott Manahan
Photo courtesy Bishop Watterson High
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March 13, 2011
CATHOLIC MEN’S CONFERENCE
Stories by Doug Bean
Photos by Ken Snow
Author Steve Ray
ix years ago, William Strait never
S
could have imagined himself sitting in the front row at a Catholic men’s
MORE THAN 100 SEMINARIANS ATTEND MEN’S CONFERENCE
Two by two, the seminarians from the Pontifical College Josephinum processed
down the center aisle toward a makeshift altar for the morning Liturgy of the Hours,
and then, a few hours later, for the afternoon Mass.
Their ranks were impressive.
The sight of more than 100 men studying for the priesthood proved to be mutually uplifting for the seminarians and the 1,800-plus men attending the 14th annual
Columbus Catholic Men’s Conference last Saturday.
“For 135 seminarians from around the country to see in you Catholic men reclaiming their identity, I know our seminarians are inspired to see you being
the man God created you to be, and I hope you might be inspired by them to
see holy, celibate, prayerful men of the Church,” the Josephinum’s rector, Father
James Wehner, STD, told the gathering during morning prayers.
The seminarians sitting next to the altar in the Lausche Building at the Ohio Expo
Center received a standing ovation.
“These men want to prepare you for everlasting life,” Father Wehner continued.
“These men want to stand at the altar to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to
give you the body and blood of Jesus Christ.”
Another standing ovation.
The seminarians were gratified and equally moved by the expression of support
for their vocations.
“To show generative, self-sacrificing love is an important witness,” said Deacon Ty
Tomson, who will be ordained a priest for the Diocese of Columbus this spring.
Father Wehner decided last year to bring the seminarians to the 2011 conference.
“They’re seeing the new evangelization in action,” he said. “They’re seeing men
reclaiming their identity and what it means to be a man in a culture that has redefined masculinity as Archie Bunker, Homer Simpson, and Charlie Sheen. This is
an inspiration to see thousands of men who refuse to buy into that.”
For the boys and young men on hand, the seminarians might have planted a seed
for much-needed religious vocations.
“You see so many seminarians answering the call, it might subconsciously give
someone inspiration if they’re thinking about a call,” said Deacon Ryan Schmitt,
who also is awaiting ordination to the priesthood in the Columbus Diocese.
“There’s strength in numbers.”
Erik Welch, 11, of Sunbury St. John Neumann Church, came to the conference
with his father, Bill, and might be one of those young men who respond.
“I think it’s a cool thing that all of the seminarians from around the world are
here,” Erik said.
Seminarian Sheu Bowora of the Diocese of Phoenix, a native of Zimbabwe, said
the large gathering fortifies the vocations of the future priests.
“Seeing all of these men, you’re like, ‘OK, there’s hope.’ These good, holy men
who are here will support you in your priesthood,” he said.
Jack Cogwin of Westerville St. Paul Church might have best summed up the
prevailing sentiment of the day.
“Having the seminarians here is a great blessing,” he said. “Seeing so many here
is inspiring for everyone.”
conference.
Yet, there he was last Saturday in a
prime seat, enjoying the speakers and the
faith-filled atmosphere at the 14th annual Columbus Catholic Men’s Conference in the Lausche Building at the Ohio
Expo Center.
Surveying the scene, he was still shaking his head in disbelief at the thought of
being in the midst of so many Catholic
brothers.
Strait had strayed from the Catholic faith
for 30 years. He became involved with
other denominations and had worked as
a staff member for the Protestant men’s
organization Promise Keepers.
And so, religious gatherings were hardly a foreign concept to him. Just not the
Catholic variety.
Strait, now a member of Columbus
St. Peter Church, found himself among
a crowd of more than 1,800 men ranging in age from children to seniors, who
came from all corners of the Diocese
of Columbus and beyond to celebrate
Catholic manhood.
“This was a good day of speaking,”
Strait said.
The attendees had the opportunity to
attend the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
with Bishop Frederick Campbell presiding, participate in Eucharistic Adoration,
pray the rosary, and recite part of the Liturgy of the Hours with seminarians from
the Pontifical College Josephinum.
Hundreds of men seized the opportunity
to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation from more than 50 diocesan priests.
The lines for Confession stretched across
the entire conference seating area.
The featured speakers included Steve
Ray, a Catholic convert, author and adventurer; Brian Gail,
an author, speaker
and former business
executive; and Father
Michael Gaitley, from
the order of Marians
of the Immaculate
Conception.
The call to action
from the speakers reflected the conference
theme, “Becoming the Man God Created You to Be.” Ray, Gail, and Father
James Wehner, STD, the Josephinum’s
rector, encouraged the multitude of
males to adopt a spiritual machismo in
their daily lives.
In his remarks during morning prayers,
Father Wehner called on Catholic men
to be leaders of the family and witnesses
of masculine identity.
“How long can we suffer a crisis of
masculine identity, a crisis of fatherhood?” he asked. “To be a good father, to
be a good man is to be an obedient son.”
The message resonated with Bill Welch,
who was part of a group of about 70 from
Sunbury St. John Neumann Church.
“I think it’s the calling for a lot of men
to step out of their comfort zone and be
active,” Welch said. “I’ve felt that for
the past couple of years, and this gives
me the confidence that I’m not alone.
“I came last year and got so much out
of this. I couldn’t not come this year.
Seeing all of the men here for the same
reason is an awesome feeling.”
The feeling of solidarity was mutual
for Jack Cogwin of Westerville St. Paul
Church and others.
Between the talks and spiritual activities, Cogwin helped staff a resource ex-
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March 13, 2011
Today’s Youth Communicate
Through Social Media
About 90 young people from all over Ohio attended the annual Fan into Flame retreat sponsored by St.
Paul’s Outreach at the Sts. Peter and Paul Retreat Center in Newark
Photo courtesy St. Paul’s Outreach
ST. PAUL OUTREACH PROGRAM
Whether you love it, hate it, or have never experienced it, chances
are you’ve at least heard the word Facebook. More than 500 million
people are active users of this social networking website. That works
out to about one of every 13 people.
A few mind-boggling statistics:
•48percentofyoungAmericanssaytheygettheirnewson
Facebook.
•48percentofAmerican18-to34-year-oldscheckFacebookassoonastheywakeup.
•720millionphotoswereuploadedtoFacebookoverNew
Year’sweekend.
Facebook is all about who you know. Facebook suggests friends and
connections based on where you went to school, who you worked
for, what your interests are, and what pages (brands) you may want
to interact with.
Facebook even uses these connections to extend your network to
similarly connected people. It’s a vast community of personalities.
Facebook will generate exposure for you among friends and family. It’s a superb referral network. It is where people will be able to
see what you are doing, based on what you post to your personal
profile. They can then comment on your post. You can follow along
as a cousin in another state posts her dinner menu each night as she
makes changes to her family’s eating habits. Or watch as an uncle
posts photos of his trip to Italy … while he’s cruising along in a gondola in Venice. Your college roommate’s baby just dumped a bowl
of creamed spinach in his head … bingo! The photo’s on Mom’s
profile. The possibilities are endless.
Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged the influence of social media, and last fall, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Communications Committee recognized the power of these tools and the
need for the Catholic Church to propagate them.
The Vocations Office of the Diocese of Columbus maintains its
Face Forward page on Facebook, providing daily news and information to the 2,600 people who have “liked” the page. To check it
out, go to www.facebook.com/faceforwardcolumbus or check out its
related blog at www.faceforwardcolumbusblog.com.
By Jacob Doran
“MynameisAmber,IgotoOhioDominican.WhenIcameonthisretreat,Iwasn’t
reallydeepinmyfaith,andyesterdayseriouslychangedmylife.”
Amber was one of a group of Columbus
college students who joined St. Paul’s Outreach (SPO) at its annual Fan into Flame retreat in early February. About 90 university
students and SPO members came together
at the Sts. Peter and Paul Retreat Center in
Newark to deepen and mature their faith
through an encounter with Jesus Christ and
the power of the Holy Spirit.
Fan into Flame is a weekend set apart from
busy and often draining college life so students can focus on their relationship with
Jesus Christ, allow the Holy Spirit to be
more a part of their lives, and claim Jesus
Christ as Lord.
The three-day retreat consisted of talks
about moving from having information
about Jesus Christ to encountering Him; living a life filled with the Holy Spirit; repentance; accepting the Father’s gifts and love
in our lives; and continuing to live a truly
Christian life after the retreat.
Emily Schafer, a freshman at Ohio Dominican University, said of her experience that,
“I found out that when you truly surrender to
the Holy Spirit and to the Lord, He works.”
“Today, I feel the Holy Spirit alive in me
and moving through me,” she added. “Now
I just feel so convicted to share this with as
many people as I can. I am really excited
for that, and just for finding different ways
to be a light to the nations and to share
God’s love with everybody.”
Darius Perkins, a sophomore at The Ohio
State University, was attending Fan into
Flame for his second time. Speaking about
his first retreat, he said, “God truly cleansed
my soul. He just changed my entire perspective on life. He changed me from this negative person to this optimistic one.”
He said that on this year’s retreat, God
pushed through areas of his life that he had
struggled with and called him to worship the
Lord more. “If there is something that you
are struggling with, just ask for Jesus, just ask
for God,” he said. “He will take your struggles away and instill a greater joy and greater
blessing than you’ve ever had before.”
St. Paul’s Outreach is a lay evangelistic
outreach and community on Ohio State’s and
Ohio Dominican’s campuses. It helps keep
area college students involved with a strong
Catholic community by hosting events on
Ohio State’s campus every week on Thursday nights. It also runs a household program
in which students can live together and support each other’s efforts toward greater holiness through communal meals, prayer, and
small faith-sharing groups.
This was Ohio’s largest Fan into Flame
retreat, involving students from Ohio
State, Ohio Dominican, Columbus State
Community College, and Bowling Green
State University.
St. Paul’s Outreach began in 1985 in St.
Paul, Minn., and came to Columbus through
a Fan into Flame retreat in the area in 2004.
Since then, it has been building environments that bring the Catholic faith alive on
campus. For more information, go to www.
spoweb.org or e-mail [email protected].
JacobDoranisOhioStateUniversitymissionleaderforSt.Paul’sOutreach.
12 Catholic Times/March 13, 2011
Story By TIM PUET, Catholic Times Reporter
March 13, 2011/Catholic Times 13
Bishop Ready High School
50 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE IN CATHOLIC EDUCATION
Top: Ready students (from left) Devin Martinez, Jenni Hicks, Bran-Den Bailey,
Dakotah Carmean, James Hanley, Dianna Rodriguez, Korey Kelly, and Madeline
Bowen. Bottom: Students (from left) Teddy Osborn, Emily Morris, Colleen Colvin,
Christopher Landers, Samantha Ross, Niki Kaufman, John Hanley, Kelly Veeley,
and Ryleigh Kirby at a supply drive for Madison County children
Photos/BRHS
In the 50 years since Columbus Bishop Ready High
School was built on the
west side of Columbus, the
landscape of the neighborhood has been considerably
altered.
The nearby factories which
provided employment to
thousands of people making
Westinghouse refrigerators
and parts for General Motors
cars have been torn down,
leading to a loss in jobs and
population. Today, though,
there is hope for a revitalization of the area because of
the scheduled opening next
year of a casino on the site of
the former GM plant.
Through all of the changes,
the school has remained a
constant, serving not just the
West Side but an area well
beyond Franklin County,
covering seven feeder elementary schools and 23 parishes and including Madison,
Pickaway, Union, and Fayette counties,
“Ready has been a steadfast
part of the area for 50 years,
and whatever the impact
of the casino might be, that
won’t change,” said Celene
Seamen, the school’s principal for 19 years. “It will be
interesting to see how the
casino affects things, but no
matter the result, we’ll be
here serving the community
as we have since 1961.”
In the past half-century,
more than 6,000 students
have graduated from the
school, with most of them,
including 99 percent of the
2010 graduating class of 117
students, going on to some
form of higher education,
Seamen said. Members of
that class were awarded more
than $7.1 million in scholarship funds.
Those academic achievements have been matched
by athletic success, with
66 Ready students earning
recognition as first-team
All-Ohioans or individual
state champions. The Silver Knights have won state
team titles over the years
in football, wrestling, boys
basketball, and softball. Last
year, they made it to the
boys basketball Division III
Final Four, falling just two
points short of the championship game.
The school, dedicated in
honor of Bishop Michael
Ready, spiritual leader of the
Diocese of Columbus from
1945 to 1957, was the fourth
of five consolidated Catholic
high schools in the city built
in the 1950s and ‘60s. Those
schools were larger than the
parish high schools they replaced and were designed to
serve the increasing needs
and numbers of the “baby
boom” generation.
George Pritchard, who
has been teaching theology
and computer science at the
school for 35 years, attended
classes in the Ready building
when it was opened in 1961,
but wasn’t a Ready student.
He was attending Columbus
St. Francis DeSales High
School, which held classes at
Ready until its own building
was completed.
“Columbus Holy Family High School was being
closed at the time, but its students completed their final
three years at Ready and it
was being run as a separate
entity, so we actually had
three schools in one building in the beginning,” he
said. “Everybody made a
tremendous effort to cooperate with each other and to see
that this unique arrangement
went smoothly, and this was
an exciting place to be. That
cooperative spirit marked the
school from the start and has
continued ever since.”
The school had about 800
students when enrollment
was at its peak in the 1960s
and ‘70s. That number declined over the years as a result of the factory closings.
Today, about 450 students in
ninth to 12th grades attend
Ready.
“The enrollment numbers
have been pretty steady over
the last five years, and in
these challenging economic
times, that’s a significant
achievement,” Seamen said.
Tuition is $7,100 a year
for students whose parents
are registered, participating members of a parish
and whose pastor authorizes
payment of a parish subsidy.
Seamen said 25 to 30 percent
of Ready students receive
financial assistance of some
kind. About 10 percent of the
students are not Catholic.
Seamen said the school’s
relatively small size enables
it to have a “small school”
atmosphere in “big school”
facilities.
“Ready was designed to
meet needs which couldn’t
be provided by the former
parish high schools, but we
really consider ourselves
to be the parish school for
the church communities we
serve and an extension of
our feeder schools (Columbus St. Cecilia, St. Mary, St.
Mary Magdalene, and Trinity, Grove City Our Lady of
Perpetual Help, Hilliard St.
Brendan, and London St.
Patrick),” she said.
“Being a smaller school
allows us to give students
more individual attention,
to provide quality academic
programs, and to assist in
spiritual formation in a more
personal way.”
“Being in a school this size
seems really special to me,
especially when I talk to my
friends from larger schools,”
said Ready junior Allie
Miller. “I could have gone
to Grove City High School,
which is much larger, but I
chose to come here because
I felt it would be better for
me as an individual. There’s
closeness here, a feeling
that you know everyone in
From left: Students Katie Speed
and Christopher Landers, teacher Susanna Dillenberger, and
students Natalie Stepp and
Alex Bell with awards won by
Ready’s speech and debate teams
Photo courtesy Bishop Ready High School
school, and that creates a real
sense of unity.”
“I’ll tell a friend from another school about one of my
friends here who’s a freshman, and she’ll say ‘You
actually know freshmen?’,”
said junior Katie Weilbacher.
“People from larger schools
can’t believe how younger
Top: Columbus Bishop Ready High School principal Celene Seamen
and older students mix here. walks through the school halls during a class change. Right: Denise
I’ve felt almost from the day Vitullo teaches a geometry class
CT photos by Jack Kustron
I started here that if you need
something, you can ask any- said senior Niki Kaufman. ple of weeks to talk about
one, students or teachers, and She cited the school’s Bake subjects of their choosing.
they’ll help.”
Club as an example. This “We don’t have a set topic,
“Participation in activities organization started with a but it’s whatever is on our
defines a lot of your Ready few students who like to ex- minds that day. This could
experience,” said senior periment with new things to mean anything from PresiChristopher Landers. “It’s ex- cook and share the results, dent Obama’s latest decisions
tremely rare to find someone and has grown to a member- to a discussion of the relative
here who isn’t involved in ship of more than 100. Be- merits of Nike and Adidas
anything. We have plenty of sides trading cooking notes, athletic shoes and the impact
opportunities to get involved, club members bake items of companies like those two
whether it’s in sports, band, at home and sell them at on sports and on culture in
art, theater, service organiza- school, with the money go- general,” Miller said.
tions, or my favorite, speech ing to various charities.
The school’s St. Vincent
and debate,” in which he has Another group which began de Paul Society is one of its
received state recognition.
as a student initiative is an most active organizations. It
“It’s also very easy to start informal organization known has conducted periodic food
an interest group of your own as Stand Up, which brings and clothing drives, collected
here and have it catch on,” students together every cou- gloves, socks, and blankets
for the needy, taken part in
the diocesan SVDP Society’s
Friends of the Poor walk, and
volunteered at the clothes
closet run by the society.
Other student groups participate in a multitude of service projects over the course
of a school year. These include collecting school supplies for children in Madison
County, food and clothes for
the needy in Vinton County,
and toilet paper for the Joint
Organization for Inner-City
Needs, taking part in the
Salvation Army’s Operation Angel Tree and Operation Easter Basket programs,
decorating an assisted care
facility’s windows during the
Christmas season, recycling
paper for charity, putting together “goodie bags” for soldiers overseas, and collecting
bottle caps to purchase chemotherapy time for cancer
patients.
Earlier this year, Ready students collected nearly 1,700
cans for the Mid-Ohio Food
Bank in three days to win
a challenge with Lehman
Catholic High School in Sidney. Last year, they donated
about $1,000 in one day at
lunchtime to help Marion
Catholic High School after
a fire destroyed the building
where its athletic equipment
was stored. “A lot of kids
didn’t eat lunch that day,”
said Ready admissions director Joe Lang. “That’s one effort I’m very proud of.”
“The service the students
perform through student
organizations is especially
noteworthy because none
of this is required,” Seamen
said. “Students are required
to perform 20 hours of service work in each of their
four years, but this is done
through organizations outside the school.
“This is all part of our
goal of providing an educational experience based on
the teachings of Jesus,” she
said. The school also affirms
its commitment to Catholic
identity through all-school
Masses every month in the
gym, weekly Masses in the
school chapel for smaller
groups, an annual retreat for
each student each year, and
the Kairos retreat program
for seniors, spread over four
days and three nights.
Ready students also are required as freshmen to select
a social issue of significance
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four years. They begin by researching
the topic and continue to learn more
about it each year as they prepare to
complete a major project on it when
they are seniors.
“It’s amazing how passionate many of
them become about the issues they’ve
chosen and how often they become
involved with organizations related to
those issues,” Seamen said. “It’s all designed to show them how one person
can make a difference and have an impact on the larger world.”
Several Ohio schools in recent years
have become known as STEM schools,
with an emphasis on science, engineering, technology, and mathematics. Commitment to these subjects has
been part of Ready’s program since
its founding, when it pledged to offer
a curriculum that gave prominence to
science, math, and language.
Today, the school offers advanced
placement courses in art, biology, calculus, chemistry, computer programming, government/politics/economics,
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Ready also is the only Catholic high
school in the Columbus area to offer
classes in Mandarin Chinese, continuing a program which began in several
diocesan schools in 2007-08. The U.S.
Department of Education had originally provided funds for the program. Its
grant has expired, but Ready is continuing with the program through funding
from The Ohio State University and
Hanban, the executive body of the Chinese Language Council International.
Two Mandarin teachers were added
to the Ready staff this year. They offer
an intermediate-level course to Ready
students who took Mandarin classes
in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades in
its feeder schools. They also offer an
introductory-level course in the language and in Chinese culture to Ready
students and, through distance-learning
equipment installed in 2009, to students
at Trinity, Our Lady of Perpetual Help,
St. Patrick, Columbus Our Lady of
Peace, Chillicothe Bishop Flaget, and
Tuscarawas Central Catholic schools.
“I’m not sure what I’ll do with my life,
but as important as China is becoming,
it seems it will be helpful to learn the
language,” said senior Mandarin stu-
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dent Jacob Fleming. “I’m fortunate to
go to a school that offers classes in it.
I’ll probably continue studying it in college, so this is giving me a good start.”
“We’re committed to retaining the
Mandarin program as part of our foreign language curriculum,” said Seamen, who visited China last summer
with five colleagues. “Student interest
in it is building, with about 20 of our
students taking part, and the distance
learning component adds to the inter-
est. Our next step is to build a partnership with schools in China.”
Fourteen Ready Mandarin students
and six adults will travel this summer
to Beijing to get a firsthand look at
the nation they’re studying. They’ll be
staying at a high school in the Chinese
capital for 10 days, combining classes
in the morning with tourist activities
the rest of the day.
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Left: Bishop Frederick Campbell distributes Communion to students at Columbus Bishop Ready High School’s 50th anniversary Mass on Sept. 29, the feast day of the school’s patron saint, St. Michael the Archangel. Right: Jerry Dennis, a member of
the Ready class of 1965, with his granddaughter Kayla, a senior at the school
Photos courtesy Bishop Ready High School
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art shows, a performance
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variety of sources and local
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programming since 2005
Tickets are $40 each and
are available by contacting alumni relations director Michelle Kelly at
(614) 276-7827 or [email protected].
“For 50 years, Bishop
Ready High School has
assisted students in their
lifelong journey as spiritual beings and members of the community,”
Do you have a story to share about how
Seamen said. “We’ll
St. Gabriel has touched your life?
have been successful if
our students use what
Send it to [email protected]
they’ve learned here as a
way of opening the doors
for them to be people
of faith, with the moral
preparation and the critical thinking skills they
will need to respond to
the constant changes that
The Seminarians
will be part of their lives
Sunday at 12:00
Sunday at 12:30
in the 21st century.”
Addition of distancelearning equipment was
the most recent of many
renovations at Ready
over the years. Seamen
said additional building
plans have been put on
hold because of economic conditions, but she
hopes the school eventu-
ally will be able to add a
student center which will
serve as a second gymnasium and provide space
for many extracurricular
programs. Other proposed additions include a
press box for the baseball
and softball fields and a
major renovation of the
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Our Beautiful Catholic Faith
First Sunday of Lent (Cycle A)
Two tales of temptation bring different outcomes
Father
Lawrence L. Hummer
Genesis 2:7-9;3:1-7
Romans 5:12-19
Matthew 4:1-11
With Lent here, we have
two temptation tales. The
first one, from Genesis,
shows failure. The second
one, from Matthew, shows
success.
Wedged in between them,
we have Paul’s remark that
through one man, sin entered the world, and through
logical deduction, all died
because all sinned. Paul, of
course, refers to the scene
from Genesis.
The tempter plays the role
well, dressed as a talking
serpent. It demonstrates its
cunning by deceiving the
woman, whose own creation is passed over. The
man had been formed out of
the clay and the Lord God
had blown into his nostrils
the breath of life, which enabled him to become a living being.
The man had been told
not to eat from tree of the
knowledge of good and
evil: “for as soon as you eat
of it you shall die.”
The serpent asks a question
it knows is wrong by asking
if she is really not allowed
to eat from any tree in the
garden. She knows that
there is only one forbidden
tree, and she also knows
that death is in the offing for
those who eat of it.
The serpent assures the
woman that “You (second
person plural) certainly will
not die!” Before this, the
serpent has spoken only to
the woman. It knows that
if she does it, so, too, will
the man, and thus it uses the
second person plural.
The author already knows
that they (woman and
man) will eat, and thus he
allows the serpent to have
knowledge of what is going to unfold.
In fact, they do not die,
but they discover their nakedness and commit the
first “cover-up” in what will
become a long line of such
cover-ups in the course of
human history. That is to
say, they do not die immediately. According to Genesis
5:5, it took Adam 930 years
to die, but he got there eventually. There is no report on
Eve’s death.
By comparison, Jesus is
led into the wilderness “by
the Spirit, to be tempted
by the devil (“diabolos” in
Greek).” After Jesus has
fasted for 40 days in the
desert, he is hungry and, at
that vulnerable moment, he
is beset by “the tempter.” Jesus responds to each temptation with a quote from the
book of Deuteronomy.
Once, the devil himself
quotes from Psalm 91. At
the end of the scene, Jesus calls the tempter “Satan,” using the same words
(“Begone, Satan” in bygone days; “Get away, Satan” today) he will use to
rebuke Simon Peter later
for “thinking as man does,
not as God.”
Its use in connection with
Peter is particularly strik-
ing, since even Peter, who
had just confessed Jesus to
be “the Christ, the son of
the living God” and then
received the Keys to the
Kingdom, is still subject
to Jesus’ rebuke for opposing God’s plan (see Matthew 16:23).
Jesus survives the period
of temptation in the desert,
unlike the humans in the
garden and unlike Israel in
the desert. He survives in
his weakest moment (after
the 40-day fast) by carrying
out the Law, even when it
was difficult. It becomes the
perfect contrast with Adam
and Eve in the Garden, and
it is that theme which interests Paul in the Romans
reading.
When Paul notes that by
the sins of the one, all died,
it follows that by the death
of the one, all have life. He
says “the many” (verse 15).
He means “all” (verse 18).
The core of the argument
is simple. Adam brought
death (to all). Christ brings
life (to all).
Father Lawrence L. Hummer, pastor at Chillicothe St.
Mary, can be reached at [email protected].
The Weekday
Bible Readings
The other night, our
young son, who is not yet
two years old, was laughing and running around
the house with reckless
abandon and not a care
in the world. As usual,
he was happy and joyous about the smallest
of things. My wife commented, “Why can’t we all
remain this way forever?”
I replied that Jesus said if
we wanted to get to heaven, we had to be like our
son. Sadly, our world can
make us negative, brooding, and quite full of ourselves. There is a remedy
to that, and it was provided by Jesus, the Apostles,
and the centuries of saints
who followed; our Catholic faith.
Our faith is beautiful in
many ways; the sacredness of the Mass, the
beauty of ancient architecture, along with the simplicity of helping those
who could never repay us
in this world. Sadly, some
MONDAY
Leviticus 19:1-2,11-18
Psalm 19:8-10,15
Mark 25:31-46
TUESDAY
Isaiah 55:10-11
Psalm 34:4-7,16-19
Matthew 6:7-15
WEDNESDAY
Jonah 3:1-10
Psalm 51:3-4,12-13,18-19
Luke 11:29-32
THURSDAY
Esther C: 12,14-16,23-25
Psalm 128:1-3,7c-8
Matthew 7:7-12
FRIDAY
Ezekiel 18:21-28
Psalm 130:1-8
Matthew 5:20-26
SATURDAY
2 Samuel 7:4-5a,12-14a,16
Psalm 89:2-5,27,29
Romans 4:13,16-18,22
Luke 2:41-51a
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years ago, a few ugly,
architecturally uninspiring churches came to be,
though that era has largely
passed. Yet we are still
living with the aftermath
of those who tinkered
with holiness.
Occasionally, I will hear
someone say, “Why do
we spend so much money on beautiful churches
when we have so many
poor among us?” My answer is always, “Ask the
poor. They love beautiful
churches.” I personally
found this out while visiting the interior of the Yucatan area of Mexico with
my wife a few years ago. I
have always had an affinity for the Mexican people.
They have suffered much
at the hands of Socialist
tyrants, who whitewashed
their beautiful churches in
the early 20th century and
made many martyrs, including Father (Blessed)
Miguel Pro, SJ, among
many others.
Incidentally, a movie
called Cristiada will soon
be released about Blessed
Miguel and the Mexican
martyrs. It will star Peter
O’Toole, Andy Garcia,
Eva Longoria, Rueben
Blades, and Eduardo Verastegui, who was kind
enough to open his home
to me a couple of years
ago for an interview and
a preview of the pro-life
movie Bella. Cristiada
will hopefully show the
depths to which some will
go to destroy the beauty
of our Catholic faith. The
evil one hates the beauty
of the Mass and the beautiful churches that house the
Blessed Sacrament. We
should never forget this.
Occasionally, we hear
those who left the Catholic Church poke fun at
the Mass and our sacred
rituals. They make comments such as, “I left the
Church because I like the
hip megachurch down
the street. They make
church fun.” Sometimes,
even Catholics make fun
of fellow Catholics who
wish to attend the Latin
Mass, which is increasing in popularity because
of Pope Benedict XVI’s
Summorum Pontificum.
Why
would
anyone
make fun of those who
want to take part in the
Church’s beautiful liturgical history?
For those who walk
away from the Catholic Church and mock us
while leaving, it might be
wise for us to remind them
of the everlasting punishment promised by Jesus
and St. Paul to those who
reject the Eucharist (John
6:22-69 and 1 Corinthians
11:23-30).
Our Catholic Faith’s
beauty has attracted many.
Dorothy Day, who started the Catholic Worker
movement, credits her
conversion from her Socialist and libertine ways
to Catholicism in part to
the sacred beauty of the
various Catholic churches she saw while visiting
New Orleans. A more
recent example is that of
Father Dwight Longenecker, the only graduate
of the last admittedly antiCatholic fundamentalist
college, Bob Jones University, to ever become a
Catholic priest.
Father Longenecker’s
post-college transforma-
Now that he has looked
into the eyes of the children, Strait said he’ll continue to travel to the Punta
Gorda area in the Central
American nation to assist
the poor and the clergy
with medical, spiritual,
construction, and monetary needs. A lack of resources makes it difficult
to catechize, but he said
the area has 30 Catholic
schools and the people
are happy and receptive,
despite the unfathomable
conditions.
When he returns, Strait
intends to help launch
men’s and youth ministry
programs.
“I feel like my entire life
has been in preparation
for this,” he said.
Father Gaitley devotes
his ministry to Divine
Mercy and asked the assembly to tap into its
graces, referring to the acronym FINCH. F is for the
feast on the Sunday after
Easter, I for the image, N
for novena, C for chaplet
and H for the hour of mercy from 3 to 4 p.m.
Ray, a former devout Baptist, shared his improbable
conversion story. What
started as a quest to show a
convert to Catholicism his
error led Ray to the Catholic Church at age 39.
“The more I argued
against (the Catholic
Church), I realized I was
backing myself in the
door,” Ray said.
Ray now works full time
in evangelization, and he
exhorted the men to share
their faith.
“The Catholic Church is
the fullness of the faith,”
he said. “All we have to
do is start telling people
about it.”
Gail expressed concern
about modern science reducing man to a technological creation without a
moral compass. He said
the prevalence of abortions – five septic abortions for every one surgical procedure – and the
widespread practice of
cohabitation and artificial
contraception among unmarried couples threaten
the fabric of authentic
Catholic life.
He said the mission for
THE TIDE IS TURNING
TOWARD CATHOLICISM
David Hartline
tion began while in Paris,
where he was struck by
the beauty of its Catholic
churches. His amazing
metamorphosis continued
while he visited larger
churches and small-town
shrines which dot the European landscape. Let us
be like the children Christ
told us to be. Our ancient
ancestors, who often could
not read and write, were
awestruck by the beauty
which they saw contained
within their churches. Let
us continue in their footsteps and embrace the
value of our Catholic sacredness by showing others the beauty of Christ’s
message concerning His
love and truth, which can
be seen in our art, architecture, and sacred liturgy.
Hartline is the author
of The Tide is Turning Toward Catholicism, founder of the Catholicreport.
org and a former teacher
and administrator for the
diocese.
Catholic men, he said,
is to transmit the truth at
home, in the community,
and in the workplace.
“This task is daunting,
but He will stand by you
and help you,” Gail said.
“As John Paul II said, ‘Be
not afraid.’
“Be men of prayer, be
teachers and protectors.
Don’t let your children and
grandchildren be harmed
spiritually. The Church is
a wise mother. You’ll find
you can trust her.”
CONFERENCE, continued from Page 10
hibit for Mamas Movin
With Mary, which was
formed to encourage
wives and mothers to
train, stay fit, and pray
together. The group wore
blue shirts with the slogan
“Hail Marys aren’t just for
football” on the back.
“Just like Father Wehner
said, there’s just a fundamental need for men to be
strong leaders,” Cogwin
said. “And that’s what
stands out for me – to be
a leader.”
Father Gaitley picked up
on the sports theme in the
beginning of his presentation on Divine Mercy.
“The goal is to be as devoted to Divine Mercy as
you are to Ohio State football,” he said lightheartedly. “If we can get that,
you’ll all be mega-saints.”
During Strait’s years
away from the Catholic
Church, he was more interested in God’s word
than saints. That devotion to Scripture hasn’t
changed.
What
has
changed is the rediscovery
of his boyhood faith.
His smiles mixed with
tears reflected the emotion
in his heart as he talked
about his new calling.
He already has turned the
“word” into deeds.
A former ironworker
who moved into the insurance business, Strait had
returned a week earlier
from 21 days in Belize as
a lay minister.
The retired Strait ended
up in Belize after going
to the Diocesan Missions
Office to express interest
in helping the poor. He
was assigned to lead a rosary team there. Strait said
he hadn’t prayed a rosary
since childhood.
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Pray for our dead
AMICON, Melina T., 99, Feb. 15
St. Vincent de Paul Church, Mount Vernon
LAUGHLIN, Janine M., 51, March 6
St. Cecilia Church, Columbus
BLAIR, M. Barbara, 73, March 7
St. Agnes Church, Columbus
LIVERANI, Marguerite R., 59, of Columbus,
Feb. 25
St. Vitus Church, New Castle, Pa.
DAVIS, Robert G., 86, March 5
Church of the Ascension, Johnstown
DOODY, Dr. Alton F. Jr., 76, March 2
St. Joseph Cathedral, Columbus
DUPART, Jessie A. Jr., 48, Feb. 24
St. Dominic Church, Columbus
EDDY, Margaret W., 65, March 2
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church,
Columbus
MANN, Jeanne E., 86, March 4
St. Mary Church, Columbus
MATTHEWS, Suzanne C., 52, March 5
St. Andrew Church, Columbus
PERKINS, Norbert, 89, of Columbus, March 4
Holy Spirit Church, Indianapolis
PIAR, Maud M., 74, Feb. 23
St. Vincent de Paul Church, Mount Vernon
GILMORE, Susie B., 80, March 6
St. Pius X Church, Reynoldsburg
RITCHIE, Rosemary L., 61, March 5
St. Matthias Church, Columbus
GOODWIN, Virginia M., 96, March 2
Sacred Heart Church, Columbus
SIGNORACCI, James E., March 2
St. John the Baptist Church, Columbus
HUGHES, Robert B., 90, March 2
Our Lady of Peace Church, Columbus
VAN ORMAN, Dorothy A., 79, March 5
St. Elizabeth Seton Parish, Pickerington
IZZIE, Michael V., 90, Feb. 28
St. Andrew Church, Columbus
WAMPLER, Barbara, A., 50, Feb. 27
St. Peter in Chains Church, Wheelersburg
KEHN, George R., 86, Feb. 25
Sacred Heart Church, Coshocton
Sue E. Jolley
Funeral Mass for Sue E. Jolley, 63,
who died Saturday, Feb. 26, was held
Friday, March 4, at Columbus St.
Catharine Church.
She graduated from St. Joseph Academy in Columbus and The Ohio State
University. She was employed at the
Defense Finance Accounting Service
in Columbus and a former employee
of the Henkel Corp. in Delaware.
She was president of the Catholic
Laywomen’s Retreat League, past
president of the St. Joseph Academy
Alumni Association, an associate of
the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur,
a member of the St. Catharine Church
Edward J. Gorski
Funeral Mass for Edward J. Gorski,
90, who died Monday, Feb. 21, was
held Thursday, Feb. 24, at St. Dominic
Church in Boardman.
He was born Sept. 12, 1920, in
Youngstown to John and Elizabeth
(Bogdan) Gorski.
He served as a Marine in World War
II and was employed as a driver for
many years by the Borden Co. He was
a longtime volunteer for the Gleaners
choir, a former member of Columbus
Christ the King Church, a member of
OSU’s alumni association and parents
club, a volunteer at Chadwick Arboretum and the Franklin Park Conservatory, and a volunteer usher with the Columbus Association for the Performing
Arts.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Leo and Inez Hauck, and sister,
Martha Beck.
Survivors include her husband,
Michael; son, Michael (Michelle);
daughters, Emily and Erin; brother,
Leo (Carrol); two grandsons; and one
granddaughter.
food bank in Youngstown.
He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, John and Frank; and
sisters, Sister Epiphania Gorski and
Helen Faustino.
Survivors include his wife of 63
years, Dorothy (Savel); sons, Deacon
Jim (Karen) Gorski, administrator of
Columbus St. Agnes and St. Aloysius
churches, and Ronald (Diana), and one
grandson.
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DEACON GEORGE L. LOVENSHEIMER
PASSED AWAY ON MARCH 4, 2011
Funeral Mass for Deacon George L. Lovensheimer, 80, who died Friday, March 4, was held
Tuesday, March 8, at Chillicothe St. Mary Church.
Burial was at St. Margaret Cemetery, Chillicothe.
He was born July 7, 1930, in Chillicothe to Howard and Bernadine (Buchanan) Lovensheimer.
After graduating from Chillicothe High School in 1948, he attended
Ohio University, then worked for the Mead Paper Co. for 42 years.
He entered the diocesan Diaconate School of Theology at the Pontifical College Josephinum in 1983 and was ordained to the permanent diaconate on June 7, 1986, by Bishop James Griffin in Columbus St. Joseph
Cathedral. He was assigned to diaconal ministry at St. Mary Church,
where he served until his retirement in 2010.
He served from 1992 to 2000 as the Diocesan Diaconal Council representative for Scioto, Ross, Jackson, and Vinton counties. He also was
spiritual director of his parish St. Vincent de Paul Society, was active in
Habitat for Humanity, and was a member of the Ross County Fair Board
for 10 years.
He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Glenn.
Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Mary Eileen (Corcoran); sons,
Fritz (Rhonda) and George (Linda); daughters, Lisa (Walter) Jinks, Sarah
(Bruce) Gray, and Heidi; sister, Marjorie (Richard) Talbott; eight grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Week of March 13, 2011
Sunday Mass
10:30 a.m. Mass from Columbus St. Joseph
Cathedral on St. Gabriel Radio (1580 AM),
Columbus, and at www.stgabrielradio.com.
Mass with the Passionist Fathers at
7:30 a.m. on WWHO-TV (the CW), Channel 53, Columbus. Check local cable system
for WWHO’s cable channel listing.
Mass from Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, Birmingham, Ala., at 8 a.m. on EWTN
(Time Warner Channel 385, Insight Channel 382, or WOW Channel 378)
(Encores at noon, 7 p.m., and midnight).
Mass from Kenton Immaculate Conception
Church at 10 a.m. on Time Warner Cable
Channel 6 (Hardin County).
Mass from Portsmouth St. Mary Church at
noon on Time Warner Channel 24 in Scioto
County.
Daily Mass
8 a.m., Our Lady of the Angels Monastery
in Birmingham, Ala. (Encores at noon, 7
p.m. and midnight) See EWTN above; and
on I-Lifetv (Channel 113 in Ada, Logan,
Millersburg, Murray City and Washington
C.H.; Channel 125 in Marion, Newark,
Newcomerstown and New Philadelphia;
and Channel 207 in Zanesville); Noon, St.
Gabriel Radio (1580 AM), Columbus, and
at www.stgabrielradio.com.
We pray Week I, Seasonal Proper
of the Liturgy of the Hours
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ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST ITALIAN CHURCH
FESTA DI SAN GIUSEPPE
Berwick Manor Restaurant and Party House
Saturday, March 19:6-11 p.m.
Italian Dinner –St. Joseph’s Table –Dancing
Tickets $40/person (must be purchased in advance)
Call 614-294-5319
ST. ELIZABETHCHURCH
6077 Sharon Woods Blvd
Lenten Fish Fry Every Fri.during Lent;
March 11-April 15, 5-7PM Baked, Fried, and
Fish Sandwiches, plus Shrimp,
Grilled Cheese and Pierogies. Carryout is available.
Cost is: $8 adult, $6 Fish Sandwich & Pierogies, $5 child
Come enjoy and have fun.
St. Margaret of Cortona Church
1600 N. Hague Ave, Columbus
13th Annual
“Best Fish Fry Dinner in Town!”
Fridays during Lent, March 11th -April 15th, 4:30 -7:30 PM
Fried Ocean Perch or Baked Cod, with French Fries, Baked
Potato, Baked Steak Fries, Cole Slaw, Applesauce, Roll & Butter,
and homemade Desserts. Free seconds & coffee!
Adults -$9.00; Seniors -$8.00; Children (10 & under) -$4.00
Pop, Beer, & Carrouts available. Info: 279-1690
LENTEN FISH FRY
Fridays, 5-8 pm
ST. MICHAEL CHURCH
5750 N. High St., Worthington
FISH DINNER: REG - $7.50; SMALL - $5.50
MACARONI-CHEESE DINNER - $5.50
Dine In, Drive Thru & Carry-out
CLASSIFIED
AL ROEHRENBECK
Eileen F. Boyle
Funeral Mass for Eileen F. Boyle, 83,
who died Sunday, Feb. 27, was held
Thursday, March 3, at Chillicothe St.
Mary Church. Burial was in St. Margaret Cemetery, Chillicothe.
She was born Aug. 17, 1927, in Summit Hill, Pa., to John and Margaret
(Boyle) Breslin.
She was retired from St. Mary School,
where she served 18 years as librarian.
Voyd A. Erby
A funeral service for Voyd A. Erby,
70, who died Sunday, Feb. 20, was
held Tuesday, March 1, at St. Paul
AME Church, Columbus. Burial was
in Evergreen Burial Park, Columbus.
She was the school secretary at Reynoldsburg St. Pius X School for several
years in the 1990s.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Dr. Emmett Boyle; and
brother, Andrew.
Survivors include sons, Dr. John
(Patricia), Dr. Emmett (Patricia),
and Michael (Rebecca); daughter,
Joan; brother, John (Beth); sister,
Margaret Fraga; five grandsons;
three granddaughters; and a greatgrandchild.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Frederick and Mary Malone, and
husband, Tommy.
Sruvivors include daughters, Sheila
Jackson and Ramona Wooding; stepson, Phillip (Keysa); stepdaughter, Julie Erby; nine grandchildren; and four
great-grandchildren.
All fund-raising events (festivals, bazaars, spaghetti
dinners, fish fries, bake sales, pizza/sub sales, candy
sales, etc.) will be placed in the
“Fund-Raising Guide.” An entry into the Guide will be
$18.50 for the first six lines, and $2.65 for each additional line. For more information, call Deacon Steve
DeMers at 614-224-6530 or 800-511-0584.
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MARCH
10, THURSDAY
Charismatic Renewal Day at St. Elizabeth
9:30 a.m., St. Elizabeth Church, 6077 Sharon Woods
Blvd., Columbus. Day of renewal sponsored by diocesan
Catholic Charismatic Renewal, with Father Justin Reis
speaking on “And Forgive Us Our Trespasses,” Mass celebrated by Father Dean Mathewson at 11:15 a.m., lunch,
and Reconciliation after lunch.
614-237-7080
Introduction to Centering Prayer at Newman Center
Noon and 7:30 p.m., St. Thomas More Newman Center,
64 W. Lane Ave., Columbus. Introduction to centering
prayer with Father Vinny McKiernan, CSP. 614-291-4674
Thomas More Society Evening of Reflection
6 to 8:30 p.m., Italian Cultural Center, St. John the Baptist Church, 720 Hamlet St., Columbus. Evening of reflection sponsored by diocesan Thomas More Society,
with Father Edmund Hussey speaking on “The Church
Meets Islam” and Bishop Frederick Campbell presiding.
614-326-2353
20s Group Meeting at Columbus St. Patrick
7 p.m., St. Patrick Church, 280 N. Grant Ave.,
Columbus. Weekly meeting of parish’s new
20s Group. All young adults invited. Begins
with Holy Hour, followed at 8 by program.
614-240-5914
‘Catholicism 101’ Series at Columbus St. Patrick
7 to 8:30 p.m., Aquinas Hall, St. Patrick Church, 280
N. Grant Ave., Columbus. Knights of Columbus Council 11207 sponsors Part 3 of “Catholicism 101” DVD series on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, with
Scott Hahn of Franciscan University of Steubenville.
614-425-7520
11-12, FRIDAY-SATURDAY
St. Tarcisius Award Program
St. Mary Church, 251 N. Main St., Marion. St. Tarcisius
Award program for boys, girls, and adults 11 and older.
Program emphasizes the Eucharist as the foundation of
the Catholic faith.
11-13, FRIDAY-SUNDAY
Silent Lenten Retreat for Women at St. Therese’s
St. Therese’s Retreat Center, 5277 E. Broad St., Columbus. Silent Lenten retreat for women, directed by Father
John Stattmiller. Theme: “Let’s Talk About Our Faith.”
12, SATURDAY
Life and Mercy Mass in Plain City
9 a.m. Mass, St. Joseph Church, 140 West Ave., Plain City.
Saturday Life and Mercy Mass, followed by rosary and
confession.
614-565-8654
Scholarship Exam at Bishop Ready
9 to 11 a.m., Bishop Ready High School, 707 Salisbury
Road, Columbus. Scholarship examination for incoming
freshman students.
614-276-5263
Bishop Watterson Mothers Club Spring Luncheon
Noon, Villa Milano, 1630 Schrock Road, Columbus.
“Lights, Camera, Action: It’s Showtime” spring luncheon,
style show and silent auction sponsored by Columbus
Bishop Watterson High School Mothers Club.
St. Catharine SPICE St. Patrick’s Day Dinner-Dance
5 p.m., St. Catharine School, 2865 Fair Ave., Columbus.
St. Patrick’s Day dinner-dance sponsored by school’s
SPICE (Special People in Catholic Education) organization. Begins with Mass in church.
614-313-4845
GodSquad Concert at Chillicothe St. Peter
7 p.m., Parish hall, St. Peter Church, 118 Church St., Chillicothe. Concert with GodSquad praise and worship band
of high school students from Chillicothe-Waverly area.
12-13, SATURDAY-SUNDAY
Diocesan Youth Rally at Fisher Catholic
Fisher
Catholic
High
School,
1803
Granville Pike, Lancaster. Annual youth rally sponsored
by diocesan Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry.
Theme: “Read. Pray. Live ... Scripture,” with storyteller
and singer ValLimar Jansen as keynote speaker.
614-241-2565
13, SUNDAY
St. Christopher Adult Religious Education
10
to
11:15 a.m.,
St. Christopher Parish
Center, Trinity School,
1420 Grandview
Ave., Columbus. “The Passion of Jesus: What It
Teaches Us Today,” with Scripture scholar Karen Gagel.
614-488-9971
‘Refreshing Catholicism’ Talk Postponed
The next talk in Father Dan Millisor’s “Refresing Catholicism” series at Reynoldsburg St. Pius X Church has been
postponed until Sunday, March 27 because of the parish
mission.
Diocesan Rite of Election at St. Andrew
3 and 6:30 p.m. (separate sessions), St. Andrew Church,
1899 McCoy Road, Columbus. Diocesan Rite of Election,
with Bishop Frederick Campbell speaking to candidates
and catechumens who will be receiving the Sacraments
of Initiation on Holy Saturday.
Spanish Mass at Columbus St. Peter
7 p.m., St. Peter Church, 6899 Smoky Row Road, Columbus. Mass in Spanish.
706-761-4054
St. John’s (Minn.) University Chorus at Holy Family
7:30 p.m., Holy Family Church, 584 W. Broad St., Columbus. Concert by St. John’s (Minn.) University men’s
chorus.
614-221-4323
13-15, SUNDAY-TUESDAY
St. Joan of Arc Parish Mission
St. Joan of Arc Church, 10700 Liberty Road, Powell. Parish mission with Father Joshua Wagner. Theme: “The
Four Phrases That Will Change Your Life.” Sessions also
at 8:30 a.m. Monday and Tuesday.
614-761-0905
13-16, SUNDAY-WEDNESDAY
St. Pius X Parish Mission
St. Pius X Church, 1051 Waggoner Road, Reynoldsburg.
Parish mission with Father Vinny McKiernan, CSP, and
Sister Carol Ann Spencer, OP. Morning Scripture study
after 8:30 a.m. Mass Monday through Wednesday. Private 20-minute sessions by appointment with either
speaker, 1 to 3 p.m. Monday through Wednesday.
14, MONDAY
Calix Society Meeting at Columbus St. Patrick
6:30 p.m., St. Patrick Church, 280 N. Grant Ave., Columbus. Monthly meeting of the Calix Society, an association of Catholic alcoholics affiliated with Alcoholics
Anonymous. Business meeting followed by 7 p.m. Mass
and full meeting after Mass.
614-406-2939
Bethesda Post-Abortion Healing Ministry
6:30 p.m., support group meeting, 2744 Dover Road,
(Christ the King Church campus), Columbus.
614-718-0277, 614-309-2651, 614-309-0157
Our Lady of Peace Men’s Bible Study
7 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Church, 20 E. Dominion Blvd.,
Columbus. Bible study of Sunday Scripture readings.
614-459-2766
15, TUESDAY
Serra Club of North Columbus Meeting
Noon, Jessing Center, Pontifical College Josephinum,
7625 N. High St., Columbus. Serra Club of North Columbus meeting, with Franklin County Common Pleas Judge
Julie Lynch speaking.
Rosary for Life at St. Joan of Arc
Following 6:15 p.m. Mass, St. Joan of Arc Church, 10700
Liberty Road, Powell. Recital of Rosary for Life, sponsored by church’s respect life committee.
16, WEDNESDAY
Toronto Archbishop Visits Josephinum
7 p.m., Jessing Center, Pontifical College Josephinum,
7625 N. High St., Columbus. Archbishop Thomas Collins,
STD, of Toronto speaks on “The Priest and Scripture” as
part of the college’s “Building Spiritual Bridges to the
Community” lecture series.
614-885-5585
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March 13, 2011
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Book r e vie w
WHO KILLED JESUS?
By JOHN THAVIS, Catholic News Service
In his latest volume of Jesus of Nazareth, Pope
Benedict XVI says the condemnation of Christ had
complex political and religious causes and cannot be
blamed on the Jewish people as a whole.
The pope also said it was a mistake to interpret the
words reported in the Gospel, “His blood be on us and
on our children,” as a blood curse against the Jews.
Those words, spoken by the mob that demanded Jesus’ death, need to be read in the light of faith, the
pope wrote. They do not cry out for vengeance, but
for reconciliation, he said.
“It means that we all stand in need of the purifying
power of love which is his blood. These words are
not a curse, but rather redemption, salvation,” he said.
The pope’s treatment of the events of the Passion
form the core of his new book, Jesus of Nazareth.
Holy Week: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem to the
Resurrection. It was to be officially presented at the
Vatican March 10, but excerpts from three chapters
were released March 2.
The work is an extensive reflection on the Gospel
texts and on the arguments of Scripture scholars, in
effect offering Pope Benedict’s version of The Passion of the Christ.
In Chapter 7, the pope examines the trial of Jesus before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor in Judea. The
pope said Pilate is presented realistically in the Gospels as a man who knew that Jesus posed no real threat
to the Roman order, but who had to deal with political
realities -- including pressure from Jesus’ accusers.
“Now we must ask: Who exactly were Jesus’ accusers? Who insisted that he be condemned to death?”
the pope wrote. He noted that the Gospel of St. John
says simply it was “the Jews.”
“But John’s use of this expression does not in any
way indicate -- as the modern reader might suppose
-- the people of Israel in general, even less is it ‘racist’
in character. After all, John himself was ethnically a
Jew, as were Jesus and all his followers,” he said.
What St. John was referring to with the term “the
Jews,” the pope said, was the “temple aristocracy,” the
dominant priestly circle that had instigated Jesus’death.
In St. Mark’s Gospel, the pope said, this circle of accusers is broadened to include the masses or mob of
people. But he said it also would be a mistake to see
this, too, as referring to the Jewish people as a whole;
more specifically, they were the followers of the imprisoned rebel, Barabbas, who were mobilized when
Pilate asked the crowd to choose amnesty for one of
the accused: Jesus or Barabbas.
The pope said the trial and condemnation of Jesus
was a classic conflict of truth versus power, posing
questions that still reverberate in modern politics.
When Jesus said that his kingship consisted of bearing witness to the truth, Pilate -- the representative
of worldly power -- did not know how to react, and
asked pragmatically: “What is truth?”
“It is the question that is also asked by modern political theory: Can politics accept truth as a structural
category? Or must truth, as something unattainable,
be relegated to the subjective sphere?” the pope said.
He said that when “truth counts for nothing,” justice
is held hostage to the arbitrariness of “changing opinions and powerful lobbies.” The history of great dictatorships fed by ideological lies demonstrates that only
truth can bring freedom, he said. In essence, he said,
bearing witness to truth means giving priority to God.
The pope drew a parallel between the condemnation
of Jesus and the modern “failure to understand the
meaning of creation ... the failure to recognize truth.”
“As a result the rule of pragmatism is imposed, by
which the strong arm of the powerful becomes the
god of this world,” he said.
The pope also examined the figure of Barabbas, say-
ing Gospel accounts depict him as a “terrorist or freedom fighter” against Roman rule. In effect, the pope
said, Pilate was looking at two criminals accused of
rebelling against the Roman Empire.
It is clear, the pope said, that Pilate prefers the nonviolent “fanatic” that he saw in Jesus. But the crowd
supports the rebel Barabbas because “they would like
to see a different solution to the problem.”
“Again and again, humanity will be faced with this
same choice: to say yes to God who works only through
the power of truth and love, or to build on something
tangible and concrete -- on violence,” he said.
The pope said the Barabbas scene and its many recurrences throughout history represent a challenge
to Christians and should “tear open our hearts and
change our lives.”
He went on to describe the physical cruelty of the
Passion, including the “barbaric” practice of scourging, which left Jesus near death, and the crowning
with thorns, which aimed to humiliate Jesus and his
claims to be a king.
The pope said the soldiers involved in these acts of
brutality were scapegoating Jesus. “Whatever may be
afflicting the people is offloaded onto him: In this way
it is to be driven out of the world,” he said.
When the beaten Jesus is presented to the crowd with
his crown of thorns and reed scepter, he manifests his
fully human nature, the pope said.
“In him is displayed the suffering of all who are subjected to violence, all the downtrodden. His suffering
mirrors the inhumanity of worldly power, which so
ruthlessly crushes the powerless,” he said.
In the end, the pope wrote, Pilate may have convinced himself that he had defended Roman law and
civil peace. But at a later date, he said, it would become clear that “peace, in the final analysis, cannot be
established at the expense of truth.”
In the book’s third chapter, Pope Benedict looks at
the figure of Judas. He noted that the other disciples
believed that in betraying Christ, Judas had come under the grip of Satan.
Judas did take a step toward conversion when he
later acknowledged his sin and gave back the money
he was paid for his betrayal, the pope said. But Judas’
“second tragedy” was that he could no longer believe
in forgiveness.
“He shows us the wrong type of remorse: the type
that is unable to hope, that only sees its own darkness,
the type that is destructive and in no way authentic,”
the pope said. “Genuine remorse is marked by the certainty of hope born of faith.”
NEWS IN
PHOTOS
FROM
AROUND THE
WORLD
A reveler, wearing an
elaborate hat showing
a cathedral, celebrates
the traditional Rose
Monday carnival
parade in Duesseldorf,
Germany, on March 7.
The colorful carnival
season precedes the
penitential season of Lent
CNS photo/Ina Fassbender,
Reuters
A woman is marked with a cross of ashes at a Maronite Catholic
church in Beirut on March 7. Maronite and other Eastern Catholic
churches mark the start of the penitential season of Lent before the
Latin-rite church
CNS photo/Cynthia Karam, Reuters
Palestinian Catholics sing during Mass marking a special carnival
celebration at Holy Family Church in Ramallah, West Bank, on March 4.
Hundreds of Catholic children from parishes in the West Bank gathered
in costumes for the festive celebration before the start of the penitential
season of Lent
CNS photo/Debbie Hill
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March 13, 2011
YOUR LENTEN SACRIFICE CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE!
Operation Rice Bowl, Catholic Relief
Services’ annual Lenten program starts
on Ash Wednesday, March 9, 2011.
Each Lent, millions of Catholics from
schools and parishes from more than
12,000 communities across the United
States participate in this national program to raise awareness of global hunger and poverty.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Participants make the small sacrifice
of preparing simple, meatless meals
each week and putting the money they
would have spent on a bigger meal
into symbolic rice bowls. That money
goes to support CRS’ ongoing mission
to fight poverty.
all nations. Operation Rice Bowl helps
thousands of people onto a path out of
poverty every year.”
HOW MUCH DOES YOUR
SACRIFICE HELP?
Every year, Catholics raise more than
$8 million through CRS’ Operation
Rice Bowl, 75 percent of which goes
to fund hunger and poverty projects in
40 different nations. The remaining 25
percent helps support pantries and food
kitchens here in the United States.
Since its beginning in 1975, Operation Rice Bowl has raised more than
OPERATION RICE BOWL
IN 2011
“The 2011 theme for CRS’ Operation
Rice Bowl is ‘We Are Disciples for All
Nations,’” said Beth Martin, program
manager for Operation Rice Bowl.
“We hope this theme reflects that as Jesus’ disciples, we have a responsibility
to care for our brothers and sisters in
$199 million to fund CRS’ development projects. Many communities and
families from almost every diocese in
the U.S. have adopted Operation Rice
Bowl as a way to observe Lent.
tainer sits on the table at a Catholic family’s home. Coordinated by Catholic Relief
Services, the nationwide Lenten program encourages participants to learn about hunger
and poverty around the globe and to make
donations to help those most in need
Left photo: An Operation Rice Bowl con-
CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec
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