Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 95 No. 31 January 24, 2018 Sister Poelzer dies Pope apologizes to sex abuse victims Sister Irene Poelzer wanted to be remembered for loving By Junno Arocho Esteves the earth, animals, people, and Jesus her Brother. ABOARD THE PAPAL A noted feminist scholar, FLIGHT FROM PERU (CNS) — she was a founding member Pope Francis apologized to vic - tims of clergy sex abuse, saying of the Women’s Studies he unknowingly wounded them Research Unit at the by the way he defended a Chilean University of Saskatchewan, bishop accused of covering up and engaged in significant abuse by his mentor. research on feminist Chris ti - Speaking with journalists on anity, Métis and First Nations his flight to Rome from Lima, women, and the retention of Peru, Jan. 21, the pope said he First Nations culture. only realized later that his words — page 3 erroneously implied that victims’ accusations are credible only with Week of Prayer concrete proof. “To hear that the pope says to The 2018 Week of Prayer their face, ‘Bring me a letter with for Christian Unity opened proof,’ is a slap in the face,” the Jan. 21 in Saskatoon with a pope said. Pope Francis was referring to a service at St. John the Evan - response he gave in Iquique, Chile, gelist Anglican Cathe dral. Jan. 18 when local reporters asked This year’s theme is “Your about his support for Bishop Juan right hand, O Lord, glorious Barros of Osorno, given accusations in power” (Exodus 15:6). that the bishop may have been CNS/Paul Haring Recently installed Bishop aware of abuse perpetrated by his Mark Hagemoen of the former mentor, Rev. Fernando POPE CELEBRATES MASS IN PERU — Pope Francis completed his weeklong journey to Chile and Peru by celebrating mass at Las Palmas Air Base in Lima, Peru, Jan. 21. Roman Catholic Diocese Karadima. The priest was sentenced to a life of prayer and pen ance by of Saskatoon delivered bring proof (or) they don’t have it,” Pope Francis said that while As he did in November on his the Vatican after he was found he said. “Or at times they have it but “covering up abuse is an abuse in return from Bangladesh, he said the homily. guilty of sexually abusing boys. they are ashamed and cover it up itself,” if he punished Barros with - he only wanted to respond to — page 3 “The day they bring me proof and suffer in silence. The tragedy of out moral certainty, “I would be questions related to the trip. against Bishop Barros, I will Skating the truth the abused is tremendous.” committing the crime of a bad Pope Francis told reporters he speak. There is not one piece of However, the pope told re- judge.” appreciated the statement made evidence against him. It is calum - Among the films worth porters on the papal flight he still During the inflight news con - Jan. 20 by Boston Cardinal Sean ny. Is that clear?” the pope had stood firmly behind his defence of ference, Pope Francis answered P. O’Malley, president of the Pon - seeing is told the reporters in Iquique. Barros, because he was “personal - eight questions over the course of tifical Commission for the Protec - I, Tonya , His response provoked further ly convinced” of the bishop’s an hour, although the conference tion of Minors, acknowledging “a quite outrage, especially from Kara di - innocence after the case was in- was interrupted by turbulence, the pain survivors of abuse felt ma’s victims who said the pope’s remarkable vestigated twice with no evidence which forced the pope to sit for response made his earlier apologies portrait of emerging. about five minutes. — DEVASTATING , page 19 former for the church’s failure to protect Olympic figure skater Tonya sex abuse victims seem hollow. Harding, who fell from grace Asked about the incident dur - Talks are solution to the nuclear crisis ing the flight back to Rome, Pope following a notorious 1994 Francis said he meant to use the assault on another skater,” word “evidence,” not “proof.” By Chris Berthelot mer Canadian ambassador for dis - the Asian regime’s nuclear am - writes Gerald Schmitz. The way he phrased his response, Grandin Media armament and a Catholic states - bitions. Both leaders have threat - — page 13 he said, caused confusion and was man based in Edmonton. ened and insulted each other, with “not the best word to use to EDMONTON (CCN) — In an interview with Grandin U.S. President Donald Trump call - Benedictine oblates approach a wounded heart.” Negotiation is the only solution to Media, Roche said he’s frustrated ing North Korean leader Kim Jong “Of course, I know that there are the North Korean nuclear crisis, with the rising tension between the Un “Little Rocket Man.” In the first of a three-part many abused people who cannot according to Douglas Roche, for - United States and North Korea over “If you use the word ‘immatu - series, Joan Chittister, OSB, rity,’ it’s not a strong enough word asks the question, and then Winnipeg Synod resumes general sessions to describe the conduct of these presents her thoughts: “The leaders involved,” said Roche, the question of the day is a sim - author of 22 books on nuclear dis - ple one but potentially life- By James Buchok Those nine categories of concern a gathering and is most conven - armament and an international were created based on the findings ient for rural-based delegates. changing: The question is, expert on peace and non-violence. WINNIPEG — The faithful of of listening sessions convened Delegates to the general sessions “You (have) got to consider Mr. why would anyone even the Archdiocese of Winnipeg con - across the archdiocese from Sep - are composed of elected members, Trump as a phenomenon, which bother to get attached to a tinue to forge ahead, laying the tember to December 2016. Nine as well as ex officio members (those he is, but in passing. He’s not Benedictine monastery? groundwork for the local church focus commissions developed pro - who hold a certain office or position going to be there forever.” What is the purpose of for the years ahead as the Synod posals on how to respond to the in the archdiocese) and appointed Roche’s comments come just doing something like that?” of the Archdiocese of Winnipeg concerns and hopes raised in the lis - members. Elected members include days after an emergency missile — page 15 resumes its general sessions. tening sessions. Each commission one priest from each of the six alert in Hawaii that turned out to At session one in November, the produced a White Paper and pro - deaneries; two non-ordained mem - be a false alarm, but not before it Music for liturgy 200 delegates considered proposals posals to be dealt with at the first bers from parishes with more than provoked panic in the U.S. state dealing with vocations and leader - two general sessions. Each White 50 families; one non-ordained and highlighted the risk of possi - This week’s Prairie ship, marriage and family, catech - Paper can be read in its entirety in member of every parish or mission ble unintended nuclear war, in this Messenger features music for esis and faith formation, social out - the Synod 2016-2018 section of the with less than 50 families; four fe - case with North Korea. liturgy from Ash reach, and church governance. At Archdiocese of Winnipeg website, male religious; two male religious; Pope Francis weighed in on the Wednes day, session two in December, the topics www.archwinnipeg.ca and three permanent deacons. threat of a nuclear miscalculation Feb. 14, to Easter included indigenous people, new All general sessions, six in Session three on Jan. 20 began while en route to South America evangelization and missionary out - total held monthly November the process of reviewing and final - on Jan. 15. The Holy Father told Sunday, April 1. reach, sacramental preparation, through April, convene at St. John izing amendments and new pro- reporters travelling on the airplane — pages 8 - 12 prayer and devotional life, and XXIII Church in west Winnipeg, a youth and young adults. venue that can accommodate such — PILGRIMAGE , page 6 — WORLD , page 7 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS January 24, 2018 International bishops visit Holy Land, seek peace

By Judith Sudilovsky rural areas with high levels of un - cerns from Israelis and Pales tinians. employment and social and politi - “Israeli and Palestinian young QUBEIBEH, West Bank (CNS) cal problems. About 95 per cent of people all want justice and peace,” — The entrance into this small the program’s 111 graduates have said Bishop Lionel Gendron of Palestinian village encircled by the found jobs in Jerusalem or Beth - Saint-Jean-Longueuil, Que., presi - Israeli security barrier and settle - lehem hospitals. dent of the Canadian Confer ence of ments is through a series of bleak “I didn’t even know if I would Catholic Bishops. “They are all and darkened underpasses. be able to study because of finan - looking for a way to achieve that. But bishops from three conti - cial and personal reasons,” Khalil There is probably more hope for nents said their Jan. 17 meeting Housheh, 24, a graduate of the that in Israel than in Palestine. In with students from the Bethlehem program, told the bishops. After Israel, they have everything, and University nursing department his neighbour told him about the the (Palestinians) have practically satellite campus gave them a sense program, he registered, and “It felt nothing. Many of the young people of hope. like it was a dream.” do not think their governments are “Previously, we were at a Pales - Christian Brother Peter Bray, doing enough to get a better socie - tinian school, and they were not vice-chancellor of Bethlehem Uni - ty and are a bit unhappy with what very hopeful for their future, but versity, greeted the visiting bish - is happening. At the same time, here they are coming to study, and ops and said of the students, “It is people admit that they don’t know they are getting jobs at the end, a challenge to them to not be de - one another.” which means they will stay here, fined by the restrictions (im posed Speaking to young people from which is a good thing,” said upon them.)” both sides has been a “real eye- Bishop William Nolan of Gallo- The bishops were part of the opener,” said South African Arch - way, Scotland. Holy Land Co-ordination, in CNS/Debbie Hill bishop Stephen Brislin of Cape The Qubeibeh Nursing Pro - which bishops from North Ameri - BISHOPS VISIT HOLY LAND — Bishop Lionel Gendron of Saint- Town. gram is in its 10th year. One hun - ca, Europe and South Africa meet Jean-Longueuil, Que., greets Palestinian women Jan. 17 in the Beit “Palestinians see a bleak future dred students are enrolled in the with Israeli and Palestinian groups Emmaus Home for the elderly and disabled in Qubeibeh, West Bank. with a lack of opportunity and very program, which allows young to promote dialogue and peace. high unemployment rate. I think people from the neighbouring vil - This year the focus is on educa - women. Enzenhofer spearheaded of Derry, Northern Ireland, told the Israeli young people quite often lages to study in the university’s tion and young people, and the the establishment of the nursing students. “You have shown me that feel trapped. I don’t think they are academic program without having importance of education for build - program in the village, together you do everything to enhance happy with the situation, but are in to make the circuitous and expen - ing peace in the region. with Qubeibeh resident and Beth - human dignity and can make the a quandary about what they can do sive trip through the settlements The bishops also met with Sal - lehem University graduate Usama world a beautiful place, even when about it. Growing up in Israel must and checkpoints to Bethlehem, vatorian Sister Hildegard Enzen - Zahran and other supporters. you see ugly things around you, be quite stressful — it is a secure- West Bank. The program provides hofer, leader of Beit Emmaus “I am amazed at what can be and that even when, with political ratic state,” said Brislin. job opportunities to its young Home for the elderly and dis - done with one person and a team of leaders, there is a lot of screaming, McKeown noted that, coming graduates, who come mainly from abled, where the nuns care for 34 people,” Bishop Donal McKeown working together is possible.” from an experience of contested Qubeibeh is one of four loca - shared space in Northern Ireland, tions identified as the biblical Em- 30 years ago he had not thought African bishops criticize peacekeepers maus, where Jesus appeared to the peace would come to Belfast or two disciples Cleopas and Simeon. that the Berlin Wall would come BANGUI, Central African bishops’ plenary, which ended Jan. the appeal, co-signed by the bish - In addition to one Christian family down or apartheid would end in Republic (CNS) — Catholic bish - 14 with a cathedral mass attended ops’ conference president, Car di - still living in the village there are South Africa. But within a decade, ops in the Central African Re public by President Faustin-Archange nal Dieudonne Nzapalainga. three communities of nuns and a all those things changed radically urged international peace keepers to Touadera and the country’s chief “We regret the slowness and Franciscan friar, caretaker of the because “little people built little act more effectively and con - imam, Oumar Kobine Layama. inaction of certain MINUSCA Franciscan sanctuary. Because of bridges,” he said. demned attacks on church es and the It said the Catholic Church contingents in their peacekeeping the difficulty in reaching the place, “I am hopeful if good little “manipulation of religious feeling.” acknowledged efforts to secure sta - role. While our population ardent - most pilgrim groups no longer people . . . keep asking difficult The bishops criticized “certain bility by appointing local prefects, ly desires the redeployment of our include Qubeibeh on their itiner - questions . . . something will hap - peacekeeping contingents, against paying official salaries and estab - own defence and security forces, ary. pen. The power of prayerful little their proper mandate, and the cul - lishing a special penal court, as some elements of these forces are But the foreign bishops visited people can make a difference,” he pable, complicit silence of elected well as through a development now racketeering just as much as as part of their efforts to hear con - said. politicians.” plan backed by the United Nations, the armed groups.” “Armed bands are still fuelling World Bank and European Union. “In the name of God, we ask Christians must convert anarchy and imposing their rules on However, it added that the armed groups to lay down their exhausted civilian populations, who country was still terrorized by vio - arms, without untenable condi - no longer know where help will lent groups and a lack of co-oper - tions, and end the crimes and suf - to ecumenism, cardinal says come from,” the bishops said in a ation between government forces ferings,” the message said. four-page appeal. “In our dioceses, and the UN military mission, Speaking at the plenary, Nza- VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To we witness this sad reality every MINUSCA. pa lainga said 2017 had brought be effective evangelizers, the day and deplore how our country “Villages are vandalized and attacks on Catholics in Ban gas - Cath olic Church and other Chris - remains in the grip of thugs.” torched, their inhabitants tortured sou, Alindao and Mokoyo, with tian churches must constantly The appeal was published after a and killed without shame,” said churches “devastated, looted and undergo their own conversion to a burned.” He said the only solution stronger commitment to Christian was “to love and unite as Central unity, said Cardinal Kurt Koch, Africans.” the Vatican’s chief ecumenist. In their message, the bishops “So that the evangelizing task condemned the Jan. 4 stabbing of a can be carried out in a credible priest, Msgr. Alain Blaise Bissialo, way, the church itself continually at Bangassou’s Christ the King needs a self-evangelization that Par ish, and the intimidation of includes conversion to the ecu - Cath olic pastors. menical search for Christian They added that nearly 3,700 unity,” the Swiss cardinal wrote in young Catholics had sought shel - the Vatican newspaper, L’Osser va - ter in the cathedral at Alindao, tore Romano . while others had been subjected to In preparation for the annual “all kinds of violence,” including Week of Prayer for Christian sexual abuse and forced recruit - Unity Jan. 18 - 25, Koch’s article ment by armed bands. focused on the connection be - CNS/Paul Haring The appeal was circulated as tween mission and Christian unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch violence flared around Paoua, a connection that gave birth to the where 60,000 people have sought ecumenical movement among God sent his son into the world refuge in local churches after flee - Protestants more than 100 years to save human beings and gather ing fighting for territory between ago and one that the Catholic them back into one family, he said. rival groups. Church has acknowledged since The church, as a sacrament of Speaking Jan. 16 in Bangui, the Second Vatican Council. unity, is called to work to re-estab - Peter Maurer, president of the Inter - “Witness to the love of God, lish its own unity and to draw oth - CNS/Baz Ratner, Reuters national Committee of the Red which is an integral and funda - ers into the one family. FRANCISCAN PEACEKEEPERS — A Franciscan stands near UN Cross, said “rapidly degrading” mental part of Christian identity, The church, Koch said, can be peacekeeping soldiers in 2017 in the village of Ndim, Central African humanitarian conditions had left must be given in an ecumenical the “sacrament of salvation for the Republic. The nation’s Catholic bishops urged international peacekeep - half the country’s inhabitants in communion,” said Koch, presi - world only if it does not offer the ers to act more effectively and condemned attacks on churches and the need of international assistance, the dent of the Pontifical Council for world the deplorable spectacle of “manipulation of religious feeling.” highest ratio since 2013. Promoting Christian Unity. its own division.” January 24, 2018 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 From apps to podcasts, parishes see high-tech future

By Jean Ko Din Vatican set an example with various talking about sometimes in my parishioners have access to daily the potential of the app because it is The Catholic Register online strategies, including three homilies, how social media are readings, mass times, event calen - time the church started catching up different apps (including The Pope changing even our faith.” dars and weekly bulletins in digital with the times and preach from the TORONTO (CCN) — As more App) and regular Francis videos. Nagy remembers when he first format. Nagy and the parish staff digital, as well as church, pulpit. people begin to congregate in dig - The Vatican has four million fol - came to Holy Family Parish in have also tried new features, such as Rev. John Jasica live-streams ital public squares, the church’s lowers between its Facebook, Twit - 2008 and the church didn’t even parish group discussion boards, three of the four masses at St. shepherds are looking for more ter, YouTube, and Instagram plat - have Internet. Since then, he feels “homily teasers,” and a parish blog. George Parish in London, Ont. ways to tend to their flock online. forms, according to figures re leased as though he and his staff have The parishioners seem to be em - “When we take a look at what Luckily, there is an app for that — this month. The pope’s own Twitter been playing catch-up, attending bracing the app well, said Nagy. people are using in terms of social actually, many apps. account has more than 44 million workshops to learn how they can Since the parish launched the free media and all that, we have to be That’s good news for clergy, followers in nine languages. bring the church’s message online. app, more than 1,200 of the parish’s relevant in those areas,” said Jasica. who have a growing urgency to Nagy is currently working with If the church wants to be rele - 5,600 households have registered. “In the past year and a half, we’ve harness technology tools, as well the Archdiocese of Toronto to pilot vant in today’s technological age, Most of them are the tech-savvy live-streamed some of our masses as plug into social media via live- test the myParish app, a communi - Nagy said, it must transform from young people, but parish staff have for our homebound . . . but also as streaming and podcasting, to en - cations hub that allows pastors and being a maintenance church to a also provided help for older parish - a form of evangelization. We’ve sure the church keeps up in the parishioners to stay connected. missionary church. ioners on how to use the app. had people from different parts of fast-changing cybersphere. “We use it for conversation, “The maintenance church is “There are many (older parish - the world that would tune in.” “Other denominations, they are en gage the people to get involved when we are just here and we wait ioners) who are afraid to set up Jasica and the parish staff also at least 10 or 15 years ahead of us in conversation,” he said. for the people to come. . . . I bap - accounts,” said Nagy. “They are run two podcasts. Faith & Works with mass media and social me dia,” It is just one of many apps that tize you, I sacramentalize you, I not open, people of a certain gen - is an online parish book club host - said Rev. Laszlo Nagy, pastor of have emerged over the past several catechize you, and that’s it,” he eration, to have any kind of apps ed on the parish website. Every Holy Family Parish in Whitby, Ont. years as the church grapples both said. “The missionary church be cause they don’t want to give week, Jasica offers commentary “All my staff attended webinars with technology and in the never- means we go out and we give tes - out personal information.” on a chapter of Matthew Kelly’s from other denominations, and ending task of keeping pa rish - timony to our faith. . . . And If the trial succeeds, the Arch - Rediscover Catholicism . these are the tools they are using.” ioners engaged with their faith. through our testimony, hopefully, diocese of Toronto is looking at The second podcast is his own, The challenge to the church to “Even in the last four or five we may gather the scattered and the possibility of adopting the app where he posts Sunday homilies widen its digital reach is being felt years social media have changed return them to Christ.” for all its 221 par ishes. The Dio - and what he calls “homily warm- worldwide, and perhaps especially our thinking and our attitude,” Nagy announced the launch of cese of Alex an dria-Corn wall ups” during the week as prepara - in Rome. Pope Francis and the said Nagy. “And this is what I’m the myParish page from the pulpit adopted the my Parish app for its tion for Sunday mass. on Dec. 2, the first Sunday of 27 parishes last year. Poelzer a noted Christian Advent. Through the U.S.-built app, Nagy said he is excited about — IPHONE , page 5 feminist and scholar

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Sister from Seattle University, and a PhD Irene Anna Poelzer passed away in Educational Foun dations Jan. 12 in Kamloops, B.C., after (1972) from the Uni ver sity of almost 92 years of earthly life. Oregon. Poelzer was born in 1926 in an un - She taught at the Loretto Abbey incorporated settlement along the Girls’ School in Toronto, and was Hudson Bay Trail near Humboldt, principal of Sedley High School Sask., to a rural teacher and a pio - prior to joining the education fac - neer farmer. ulty of the University of Saskatchewan as an assistant pro - fessor in 1970. Other than one year at Dalhousie University in Halifax (1975 - 1976), Poelzer remained at the U of S for the rest of her career. She authored or co-authored Kiply Yaworski three books: Saskatchewan Wom en Teachers, 1905 - 1920: Their WEEK OF PRAYER OPENS — Leaders at the opening celebration for the Week of Prayer for Christian Contributions (1990); Métis Wom - Unity Jan. 21 at St. John Anglican Cathedral in Saskatoon included (from left): Gisele Bauche, Dean Scott en’s Perception of Social Reality in Pittendrigh, Anglican Bishop David Irving, Bishop Mark Hagemoen of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Seven Northern Saskatchewan Saskatoon, and Darren Dahl, executive director of the Prairie Centre for Ecumenism. Communities (1983), and In Our Own Words: Northern Saskatche - wan Métis Women Speak Out Week of Prayer opens in Saskatoon (1986). She also published a vol - ume of poetry, Women of Exodus By Kiply Lukan Yaworski amongst the Christian communi - ture of ministering in the north, II , as well as articles and book ties here in Saskatoon.” Croteau cautioned: “In the austerity chapters, and was a regular confer - SASKATOON — The 2018 In his homily, Hagemoen and the emptiness and the silence of PM file ence speaker. Week of Prayer for Christian Unity explored the theme of an un known the north you will discover great Sister Irene Poelzer Poelzer was a founding mem - opened Jan. 21 in Saskatoon with a future for ecumenism — “a future truths and God himself, but also ber of the Women’s Studies Re - prayer service at St. John the we all know we must engage” — your devils will speak loudly in the This is how she wanted to be search Unit, and developed a Evangelist Anglican Cathedral. and of going to the peripheries in emptiness of this place.” remembered: “She was generous course on women and education Anglican Bishop David Irving response to Christ’s call. Entering into a spirit of ecu - and kind, and she didn’t get that ushered in feminist scholar - welcomed all those in attendance, Scripture readings at the cele - menism is a similar experience, bogged down with money. She ship at the university. She engaged and Dr. Darren Dahl, executive bration focused on loving the alien Hagemoen suggested. “Are we loved the earth, animals, people, in significant research on women director of the Prairie Centre for as oneself (Leviticus 19:33-34), able to dare to enter into the aus - and Jesus her Brother. She was in society, feminist Christianity, Ecumenism, provided an over - welcoming the stranger (Hebrews terity and the emptiness of trying glad to go home to the Father’s Métis and First Nations women in view of the week being celebrated 13:1-3), and serving Christ in those to hold one another simply in rela - house. Amen!” northern Saskatchewan, and the Jan. 21 - 28 in Saskatoon. The in need (Matthew 25:31-46). tionship?” he asked. “It is in risk - After completing high school retention of First Nations culture. 2018 theme is “Your right hand, O It is clear that Christians are ing deepening relationship where through the Provincial Corres- Colleagues and students alike Lord, glorious in power (Exodus called to “go to the peripheries I believe the work is really done.” pondence School, and in keeping described her as a mentor, a power - 15:6).” and share food, drink, shelter, The Week of Prayer for Chris - with the decision of her parents ful teacher, and an inspiration. She Worship leaders also included care, comfort, fellowship, whether tian Unity continues throughout the that each of their children attend was “brilliant and tenacious,” and Dean Scott Pittendrigh and Gisele for the sick or those who are in - week with a number of events, in - university, Poelzer enrolled in St. possessed a formidable sense of Bauche, with Bishop Mark carcerated: these strangers are cluding 7 a.m. prayer services Thomas More College at the Uni - humour. She affected the lives of Hagemoen of the Roman Catholic Christ’s family,” said Hagemoen. every weekday, a night of hymn versity of Saskatchewan, where many, and was lauded for her life- Diocese of Saskatoon as homilist. “To unite ourselves in our concern singing Jan. 23, the De Margerie she earned a BA in 1950. long work in support of the mass of Having recently arrived in and care for them is to do the same Lecture Jan. 25, and morning work - She then embraced consecrated hurting humanity and the protec - Saskatoon, Hagemoen noted the for Christ Jesus.” shops Jan. 26 and 27. Guest speak - life, first as a member of the In - tion of beleaguered Mother Nature impact of coming into a Christian The risk of leaving “calmness er for the lecture and workshops is stitute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, — whether on campus, in the com - faith community that is a beacon and peacefulness” to encounter the Rev. Susan Durber, the moderator and later with the Sisters for munity, or at her retirement acre age of ecumenism. “I continue to be periphery is part of the missionary of the Faith and Order Commission Christian Community. retreat in Salmon Arm. impressed, and I must say chal - experience, Hagemoen noted, quot - of the World Council of Churches, She subsequently earned a BEd She remained involved in the St. lenged, by the tremendous way in ing Bishop Emeritus Denis Croteau, as well as theology co-ordinator for (1964) and an MEd (1968) from Thomas More College/Newman which the call to unity in our one OMI, a former bishop of the Dio - Christian Aid in the United King - the University of Saskatche wan, a Alumni/ae Association throughout Lord Jesus Christ is a real vibrant cese of Mac ken zie-Fort Smith. dom, and a minister of the United master’s degree in English (1969) her life. theme, theological and practical, When speaking of the great adven - Reformed Church. 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS January 24, 2018 Dioceses tell Catholics not to sign attestation

By Deborah Gyapong communities, much of which is The attestation denies religious tion, but to fill out a hard copy of for an injunction against the pro - focused on compassion and helping freedom, freedom of conscience the application due Feb. 2 and add gram’s requirement that all appli - OTTAWA (CCN) — Catholic those most in need in our society.” and freedom of “thought, belief and an attestation the archdiocese will cants sign the attestation that in- dioceses are recommending em - Though she writes: “Appli - opinion,” and punishes em ployers provide, said Deacon Gilles cludes support for legal abortion. ployers not sign the endorsement cants are not asked to provide who “cannot, in good conscience, Ouellette in an email. Asking for a stay on the attes - of legal abortion in applying for their views, beliefs or values as agree,” by denying access to $125 A Toronto pro-life group hopes tation is the “first step in litiga - a Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) these are not taken into considera - million in funds to support 70,000 Canada’s federal court will stop tion,” said Calgary-based consti - grant. tion during application for the summer jobs for students, Prender - the government from requiring the tutional lawyer Carol Crosson, “The government is exceeding program” she makes it clear the gast wrote, pointing out the recently controversial “attestation” on its who represented the pro-life its authority in trying to compel attestation remains. launched Canada Service Corps Canada Summer Jobs application. group. “We asked for it broadly, groups and individuals to endorse a She writes that the application “has the same eligibility criteria “We’re asking that the federal that it not be in operation until a position that they ethically oppose, includes “an attestation that both with the same coercive effect.” court stay the hand of the govern - hearing on the merits.” and one which has no bearing the job and the organization’s core “Apparently, Canadians have ment in implementing that attesta - Crosson said the federal court whatsoever on the job for which mandate respect individual human the freedom to hold only the be - tion, pending the judicial review,” justice reserved judgment, but told they are seeking funding,” said rights in Canada, including the liefs and opinions approved by the said Blaise Alleyne, president of her she would issue a decision Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael values underlying the Canadian current government,” he wrote. the Right to Life Association of soon, since the deadline for apply - Miller in a statement. “The Trudeau Charter of Rights and Freedoms Even a pro-abortion group Toronto and Area (TRTL). ing for summer jobs is Feb. 2. government needs to rethink this as well as other rights.” instrumental in bringing about the On Jan. 19, a federal court jus - At press time no decision had overly politicized approach to the On the government website, government’s policy change has tice heard the group’s application been given. Summer Jobs Program and revise the “other rights” include repro - asked the government to reward its application so that it judges the ductive rights, and a “right” to the attestation. Retired Archbishop matter on its merits and not some - safe and legal abortion. “May we please recommend that thing on which there is widespread “This attestation excludes any you clarify the wording on your disagreement in the public.” Catholic parish or charity from CSJ website to correct the confu - Couture of Quebec dies However, Minister of Em ploy- funding for hiring a summer stu - sions around the requirements, and ment, Workforce Development and dent,” wrote Ottawa Archbishop also to help mitigate the effects of By Phillip Vaillancourt Labour Patty Hajdu, in a Jan. 22 Terrence Prendergast in a Jan. 21 any lawsuits?” said a Jan. 12 email letter to the editor to The Catholic column in the Ottawa Sun . “We to the minister and to Prime Min - QUEBEC CITY (CNS) — Arch - Register , said she was writing to cannot affirm that we support a ister Trudeau from Joyce Arthur, bishop Maurice Couture, retired “correct misinformation circulat - (non-existent) right to abortion, executive director of the Abortion archbishop of Quebec, died Jan. 19 ing about the eligibility of faith- which is what the euphemism Rights Coalition of Canada, accord - at St. Francis of Assisi Hospital. The based organizations and religious ‘reproductive rights’ means.” ing to the National Post . 91-year-old archbishop had been groups to apply for funding.” “Further upsetting many is the According to the Post , Arthur hospitalized for a few days. “Let me set the record straight prime minister’s confused person - “now says the government should Cardinal Gerald Lacroix of — churches, religious and faith- al comments regarding the logi - amend the statement so religious Quebec, who was preparing to based organizations are eligible, cally impossible coexistence of groups are able to sign it.” take a few days off when he heard welcome, and encouraged to his identity as a Roman Catholic The Ottawa archdiocese will the news, cancelled his plans. apply,” she wrote. “Faith-based and his support of abortion,” the tell those applying for summer A mass in memory of Couture groups add tremendous value to our archbishop wrote. grants not to check off the attesta - was celebrated Jan. 19 at Notre- Dame Basilica. His funeral is expected to be in the first week of Jesuits ‘test spirits’ at annual event February. “We offer our sincere condo - By Agnieszka Krawczynski es, opportu - lences to his family as well as to CNS/Philippe Vaillancourt, Presence The B.C. Catholic nities, the members of the Congregation Archbishop Maurice Couture threats, of Religious of St. Vincent de Paul VANCOUVER (CCN) — challenges, and to the great diocesan commu - ministry of Cardinal Marc Ouellet Spirits were high as 120 people we look at nity to which he was so attached,” and that of Lacroix. raised a glass of fine scotch to the the facts, the Archdiocese of Quebec said in In 2016, in one of his last inter - local Jesuits. but we turn a statement. views, he said bishops, faced with Vancouver’s second annual to ward our Maurice Couture was born in the evolution of Canadian and Que- scotch-tasting, modelled after sim - interiorities, 1926 in Saint-Pierre-de-Brough ton, bec societies, should always re main ilar fundraisers in eastern Canada, to see if south of Quebec City. He was or - faithful to the message of the Gos- raised about $9,000 for Jesuit we’re being dained a priest in 1952 in the re li - pel. However, they should also know efforts in B.C. Jan. 11. The funds moved by gious community of St. Vincent de how to be benevolent with society. will help launch a series of faith- generosity Paul. He was appointed auxiliary “It’s our world, that’s it. And we based public seminars at St. Mark’s or by fear; bishop of Quebec City in 1982. Six love that world,” he told the French College. by insight years later, he became bishop of Canadian news agency, Presence. “What I want is something that or by igno - B.C. Catholic/Agnieszka Krawczynski Baie-Comeau. He was appointed He was particularly pleased with the style of Pope Francis and helps engage people to think with rance; by a TESTING THE SPIRITS — Rev. Rob Allore, SJ, (right) arch bishop of Quebec City March the church and engage with the movement 17, 1990. the Year of Mercy that was then in sips fine spirits with supporters at the second annual full swing in the Catholic Church. culture,” said college principal outward, or scotch-tasting fundraiser for Jesuit efforts in B.C. Pope John Paul II accepted his Peter Meehan. a retreat in - resignation in 2002. “If we see in the church an insti - These seminars, which he ward; by attachment to prior ex - ence, and serve God.” During his lifetime, Couture tution that preserves its positions hopes could one day lead to a full- pectations or an openness to what The Jesuits and their guests lis - liked to say that he did not want to but is able to show understanding, blown Jesuit Institute at the col - the Lord is inviting us to,” he tened to live music as they sam - bother his successors. He was dis - to welcome, I find that the Year of lege, would cover hot topics of the said. pled the Springbank Distillery’s creet, both during the episcopal Mercy is a darn good opportunity day, such as poverty, the environ - “We seek to choose the greater 15-year-old Campbeltown single that is given to us. It fits with vision ment, reconciliation with First good,” a lesson learned from the malt, an 18-year-old Arran malt, the new pope brings us: go outside, Nations people, and the fentanyl spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius and the Kilchoman’s 7th edition Vaillancourt is editor-in-chief of do not just stay with your little crisis. of Loyola, the founder of the 100 per cent Islay series. Presence info, based in Montreal. group, go, go to the world!” The lecture series would feature Jesuits. high-profile Jesuits and other “It’s a set of tools that helps speakers, and help people “connect you become aware of your rela - Execuve Director the dots” between church teachings tionship with Jesus, how the spirit and contemporary issues, starting of Jesus is working in your life, BISHOP BUDKA EPARCHIAL STEWARDSHIP SOCIETY INC. (BBESSI) as early as this summer. and how you are co-operating and Rev. Peter Bisson, SJ, provin - resisting the work of that spirit.” The Board of Directors of the Bishop Budka Eparchial Stewardship Society Inc., invites cial of the English Canada In Canada, he said that dis - applicaons for an Execu ve Director. province, came from Toronto to cerning process has led the Jesuits clink glasses with the more than to reconciliation initiatives with We are seeking a highly motivated and ethical professional who will lead our 100 in attendance. First Nations people, care for the organization in generating funds to achieve stewardship and fundraising goals of “Someone asked me what was environment, and efforts to unify the Eparchy of Saskatoon. the connection between Jesuits their English and French branches and scotch? I said: spirit.” (a process 15 years in the mak - Please visit our website at www.bbessi.org to view the detailed job profile and more The Jesuit community in Can - ing). informaon about how to apply for this posion. ada has faced some big changes “When one tests the spirits, Bishop Budka Eparchial Stewardship Society Inc., is an organizaon under the auspices and initiatives in recent years, and you discover as the prophet Bisson said they rely heavily on Daniel did, inside every fiery fur - of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon whose primary objecve is to develop, “testing the spirits” — that is, in a nace, inside every lion’s den, is organize and implement fundraising initiatives and programs for the purposes of spiritual way. the angel of the Lord,” he said. enhancing Eparchial programs. “When we’re faced with choic - “There, too, we can praise, rever - January 24, 2018 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 Shilaimon’s new film explores forgiveness theme

By Jean Ko Din is developing the projects and The Catholic Register finding the subject matter you want to make a movie about,” he TORONTO (CCN) — If faith said. is meant for all people, then it is Shilaimon believes all human also meant for the box office. beings have some sort of connec - Film producer Pete Shilaimon tion to a higher power, no matter says films about faith aren’t just their religion. At its simplest, this for an exclusive few. is the human experience he wants “I want the mainstream audi - to express in his movies. ence to go to faith-based films and Shilaimon said Risen was the I want the faith-based film audi - “game-changer” film of his ca - ence to go to mainstream,” said reer. The film followed the jour - Shilaimon, whose new film For - ney of a Roman soldier (played by ever My Girl is filled with Chris - Joseph Fiennes) searching for the tian themes. “I feel like both of missing body of Jesus Christ who them are connecting with each rose from the dead. other and I love that. I think that’s The film grossed more than what filmmaking and I think that’s $46 million worldwide, including what art is. You can bring differ - a special screening in Rome ent cultures and different religions where Fiennes, Shilaimon and fel - together in one setting and have low producers met Pope Francis. them experience a story.” LD Entertainment “I think Risen really changed Shilaimon has produced 16 the way I make movies,” said FILM PRODUCER — Film producer Pete Shilaimon said he wants people who enjoy mainstream films to films since 2012, including high- Shilaimon. “ Risen was just so also go to faith-based films and vice versa. His latest film, Forever My Girl , is in theatres Jan. 19. profile faith films like Risen powerful for me on so many levels, (2016) and the documentary The he wants to make in Hollywood. very vividly,” he said. “I remem - Diego, Calif., Shilaimon said the going to the Vatican and meeting Devil and Father Amorth (2017). The film, based on a 2012 novel ber actually fleeing with my fami - family was on welfare for a long the pope, and being on set with He has also produced notable by bestselling author Heidi ly at night and we only had one time, but his parents worked hard incredible, incredible artists and mainstream films like Second McLaughlin, explores themes of bag each. We couldn’t bring any - and kept the faith. having to work around telling an World War thriller Anthropoid forgiveness and reconciliation. thing that would give us away. . . . “Me and my family are still incredible Bible story. For me, my (2016) and biopic Jackie (2016). “I decided to make this sweet All we really had was our faith very strong in the church,” said career, that was one of the films Forever My Girl , in theatres little movie about this Prodigal Son and our family and that was it.” Shilaimon. “That’s the thing about that changed my career and what Jan. 19, follows the story of a and forgiveness,” said Shilaimon. At six years old, Shilaimon re - Chaldeans, we’re survivors.” direction I see my career going in.” famous country star who returns “I think forgiveness is one of the members having to work at a shoe After graduating from the Uni - Shilaimon already has two more home to rekindle a love he left greatest gifts you can give to an- factory to contribute to the fami - versity of California, Irvine, with faith films he will be promoting this behind. other human being.” ly’s income. The family lived in a degree in theatre, he moved to year. Tragedy brings Liam Page As a Chaldean Catholic, the basement of a home and shared Los Angeles in 1996. But for I Can Only Imagine (opening (played by Alex Roe) back home Shilaimon said his faith was an an outhouse. about 15 years, Shilaimon worked March 16) tells the story behind and his father, Pastor Brian, helps essential part of his upbringing. When his family was granted in the health and fitness industry. Christian band MercyMe’s most him confront the family and the He was five years old when he permission to come to the United “When I got here, I just felt famous song. The Miracle Season community he ran away from 10 and his family of six fled from States in 1980, Shilaimon de - like my calling wasn’t in the film (April 13) is about a high school years ago. Iraq to seek refuge in Athens, scribed it as one of the happiest industry. My calling was in caring girls volleyball team that must Shilaimon said this film is a Greece, in 1977. days of their lives. for people’s health, so I decided to band together to win the state good example of the kinds of films “I remember the day we left Even after they settled in San open up a gym and holistic cen - championship after the tragic tre,” he said. “It was an incredible death of a teammate. 15 years in that role.” “At the core of who we are (as ‘iPhone always close by’: priest He trained with many promi - filmmakers), we want to make en - nent celebrities and producers and ter tainment. We want to make mov - Continued from page 3 cast named after Pope John Paul through those connections, he fell ies that help people, motivate peo - II’s 1998 encyclical, Fides et into film producing. His first film ple,” said Shilaimon. “I think the “My iPhone is always close by, Ratio (Faith and Reason). Every credit was for a 2012 film, Black best part about my job is to help tell whether it’s for emergency calls week, he places his iPhone (set to Rock , starring Kate Bosworth. stories that change peoples’ opin - or for the apps that I use,” said airplane mode to ensure it does “I think the best part of the job ions and help change the world.” Jasica. “For Liturgy of the Hours not receive a call or text message) and praying every day (apps are) on the podium to record his homi - Faithful Apps very convenient because you lies. don’t have to flip pages or any - He also posts reflections from Tech-savvy priests use a variety of digital tools to help them in their thing. . . . In the parish, we’ve catechism classes he teaches at his daily pastoral duties. Below are some favourite apps (all download - really used Facebook and Twitter parish called “The School of Faith able for free): as opportunities for sharing parish and Reason” and occasionally he events but also encouraging peo - interviews special guests. • iBreviary is a popular choice for all four of our tech-savvy priests, ple to deepen their faith.” “I pay for (the podcast) myself. along with Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins and Ottawa Rev. Chris Pietraszko also It doesn’t come out of the parish,” Archbishop Terrence Prendergast. It contains full texts of the likes to keep his phone nearby. He said Pietraszko. “It’s kind of mak - Photo courtesy Laszlo Nagy Liturgy of the Hours in five languages, full texts of the Eucharistic said it’s like walking around with ing the ability to evangelize a lit - Liturgy and a collection of Catholic prayers and rituals. an entire library in his back pock - AN APP FOR THAT — Rev. tle more widespread and so I think et. Laszlo Nagy tests out the it’s a very positive force in the • Divine Office is another popular breviary app recommended by “It’s very convenient in that myParish app. church.” Rev. John Jasica. It contains prayers for the Liturgy of the Hours. Facebook and Twitter remain way because you don’t have to run This clean and simple app is all a layperson needs for daily devo - Windsor, Ont. “The one thing I the bread and butter apps for back to the office if you want to tions. spend some time in prayer in front always try to do, though, is if I’m Pietraszko’s parish, as with many going to use these resources, I tech-savvy parish communities. of the blessed sacrament,” said • Truth & Life is an audio Bible Rev. Chris Pietraszko recommends make sure I’m not distracted.” With social media, the lay faithful Pietraszko, who is associate pas - when you are on the go. The app brings the Scriptures to life with Pietraszko runs his own pod - have access to both local and tor at Corpus Christi Parish in a celebrity-voiced radio drama of the RSV-CE New Testament. international communities. Rev. Alex Laschuk, associate • Living With Christ is an app developed by Novalis, the same pub - judicial vicar at the Marriage St. Joseph Parish in Prince Albert, Sask. lishing company that prints the monthly missalettes and Sunday Tribunal office in the Archdiocese is looking for a Missals in your church’s pews. Users can access the day’s mass of Toronto, said that while it is readings in the palm of their hand. Pastor’s Assistant important for the church to take advantage of these tools, priests St. Joseph Parish has an opening for a Pastor’s Assistant. This • Pray As You Go is a popular Catholic podcast produced by Jesuit must be careful about how they position is 60 (sixty) per cent of full time. The person would have Media Initiatives in Britain. The app offers a new prayer session use these new media. experience in sacramental formation and office systems operation every day of the working week and one session for the weekend. and perform other duties as assigned by the Pastor. This may include “The church is not a democra - cy and sometimes a priest with training and supervising volunteers in various ministries and assisting • FORMED is sometimes referred to as the Catholic Netflix. 20,000 followers or whatever can committee chairs to perform their tasks, including preparing and Discover a new favourite saint from the films and documentaries have some opinions that can be maintaining budgets. It may also include visits to the homebound offered with this subscription service. Rev. Alex Laschuk recom - and to those parishioners in hospital. very popular and sometimes may mends this app for its library of catechetical resources from speak - be not appropriate,” said Laschuk. Please drop a resumé off at the Parish Office at 260 - 25th St. East ers and theologians like Scott Hahn, Bishop Robert Barron, Jason “So those are some things to be or email: [email protected] and Crystalina Evert. cautious about.” 6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS January 24, 2018 Relic of St. Francis Xavier displayed in Saskatoon

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski themselves fully to Christ.” Regnier stressed the impor - SASKATOON — Organizers tance of Christians being mission - of a national tour with the forearm ary disciples in their own lives. of St. Francis Xavier identified “Even if you are not called to several blessings they hope will India, every one is missionary by flow from the veneration of the virtue of their baptism,” she said. relic by thousands across Canada, “This world today needs more Angèle Regnier said Jan. 18 at a missionaries. We need more peo - public event at the Cathedral of ple who will witness to their faith the Holy Family in Saskatoon. in their actions and in their words. Conversion to Christ, a mis - For the most part, those words are sionary abandonment to God’s going to come through real, heart- will, and healing are three graces to-heart conversations: with your expected from the relic pilgrim - family, with your friends, with age, described Regnier, who along your neighbours, with strangers,” with her husband André founded she stressed. the Catholic Christian Outreach “Talk about your faith, and talk (CCO) university evangelization about Christ, not because we need movement in Saskatoon in 1988. Tim Yaworski to add more Catholics to our ros - CCO organized the pilgrimage RELIC PILGRIMAGE — Thousands lined up to venerate the major relic of St. Francis Xavier Jan. 18 at ter, but because the aim of every in conjunction with the Jesuits of the Cathedral of the Holy Family in Saskatoon, one stop on a national pilgrimage tour organized by Catholic human heart is to know that they Canada and the Archdiocese of Christian Outreach, the Jesuits of Canada, and the Archdiocese of Ottawa. are loved by God, and to love Ottawa as a way to mark CCO’s God. And if we don’t tell them, 30th anniversary, as well as the ask for the missionary saint’s event for CCO members and Jesus Christ and God’s glory to how will the ache in their hearts 150th anniversary of confedera - intercessory prayers. alumni held at St. Francis Xavier many who are hungry for mean - ever be healed?” tion. Along with St. Thérèse of “Do you need to put Christ at Parish, as well as a closing mass ing, said Regnier. Regnier and other speakers Lisieux, St. Francis Xavier is one the centre of your life? Do you with Bishop Mark Hagemoen Jan. “A letter that St. Francis Xavier also spoke about the impact that of the patron saints of CCO. need to give thought to greater 19, also held at St. Francis Xavier sent across Europe about his praying with the relic is having in “The graces that we have cho - (missionary) abandonment? Or do Parish. adventures and his mission to Asia their own lives and across the sen are based on the life of St. you need healing?” During the day of public view - inflamed so many to be generous country. Francis Xavier, who is alive and Some 4,700 attended events in ing and veneration, the evening with God and give their entire “Tens of thousands of Chris- well in heaven, and with us in a Saskatoon during the pilgrimage program included testimony, lives in the service of the church,” tians of all cultures, of all genera - particular way through this relic,” — including public veneration talks, the sacrament of reconcilia - she described. “Taking the relic of tions, in all our cities, have come said Regnier, challenging those and school visits at the cathedral, tion, music, and prayer. Those in St. Francis Xavier across Canada, out to venerate this particular ves - who came out to see the relic to a presentation on campus and an attendance heard how the pilgrim - (we also hope) that Canadians — sel of grace: the arm of Francis age has attracted a lot of interest, especially Canadian young people Xavier which baptized 100,000 Gagnon likens synod discussion, and media coverage — will be enflamed with love for — an opportunity to speak about the church’s mission and will give — RELICS , page 7 process to a pilgrimage Relic tour ‘a unique opportunity’ Continued from page 1 the daily spiritual experience of walking, one step in front of another, By Derrick Kunz posals resulting from the initial dis - all day long, 25 to 30 kilometres per cussions. For example, an amend - day. Some days you are walking with SASKATOON — The phrase ment to a proposal under vocations your group and enjoying laughter “A 15-city Canadian Tour” may and leadership suggests, “Clergy and song through the beautiful bring many things to mind, but not recognize and assume a vital role in Basque country of northern Spain; typically the 465-year-old forearm forming and equipping the people other times you are walking alone, of a Catholic missionary — until they serve. In order to effectively lost in your thoughts and reflecting now. fulfil this responsibility, they’ll be on your life; yet at other times you Saskatoon was one stop along provided with appropriate educa - find yourself walking with strangers, the Canadian tour of a relic of St. tion and formation.” travellers of different backgrounds Francis Xavier, co-founder of the from you and even differ - Society of Jesus. High school stu - ent reasons for travelling dents from Greater Saskatoon El Camino . All the while Catholic Schools had the opportu - you are keep ing your eyes nity to venerate the relic Jan. 18, open for the flechas . . . before public viewing at the those little yellow arrows Cathedral of the Holy Family. that are found on stones “This is a unique opportunity and trees, all pointing out for our students,” said Terry Cratty, the right way to the Catholic studies teacher at Bethle- Derrick Kunz Apostle James. hem Catholic High School. “It STUDENTS VIEW RELIC — Students from Saskatoon Catholic “Those flechas are gives them a connection to the schools had an opportunity to hear more about the relic of St. Francis much like the Holy Spirit, larger history of our faith, especial - Xavier and participate in veneration Jan. 18 at the Cathedral of the sometimes not noticeable ly the saints. It gives us a real, Holy Family, before public veneration started. Some 4,500 venerated or sometimes overlooked physical connection.” Because the the relic during the Saskatoon stop on a national pilgrimage organized James Buchok by us who become preoc - Cath olic Church in Western by Catholic Christian Outreach, the Jesuits of Canada, and the SYNOD IN PROGRESS — Delegates to the cupied with other things. Canada is relatively young, we Archdiocese of Ottawa. Synod of the Archdiocese of Winnipeg gener - But without flechas we don’t have local saints we can al sessions deliberate proposals that will could never find our way. relate to or claim as our own. “fresh,” with the flesh soft to the India,” said Wayne, whose middle shape the local church in the years ahead. And sometimes an unex - The relic of St. Francis Xavier touch and no odour of decay. name is Francis. “To see part of the pected person will enter currently on tour is his incorrupt In March 1554, the body was saint I am named after makes those In a recent message to the faith - our lives and offer good advice to right forearm — the arm used to transported to Goa, India. In 1614, stories come to life. To see my ful, Archbishop Richard Gagnon help us find the flechas again. baptize an estimated 100,000 peo - the right forearm and hand were namesake is really beautiful. It’s an likened the synodal process to a pil - “To walk together on a spiritual ple. The arm and the rest of his severed and sent to Rome to offer opportunity that my ancestors did - grimage, such as he experienced on journey is a beautiful thing, some - body are termed “incorrupt” be- the superior general of the Society n’t have.” the journey to Santiago de Com - times hard, sometimes frustrating cause they did not experience nat - of Jesus evidence of incorruption. A media release from Catholic postela in northwest Spain, a trek and yet at other times, changes occur ural decay. The saint’s forearm is usually Christian Outreach, one of the spon - that may take five to six weeks on within us, teaching us to think about St. Francis Xavier died just housed in the Church of Gesu in sors of the tour, explains: “The ven - foot to complete. It is also known the higher things as St. Paul would before reaching mainland China Rome. The rest of his body is still eration of relics is a longstanding simply as El Camino — the Way. often say. And when we reach our in December 1552. His body was enshrined in Goa. practice in the Catholic Church. The “Such a spiritual experience as El goal, we have already experienced to be interred in Malaysia, but St. Joseph High School students relics of saints provide a tangible Camino is not unlike the Syn odal spiritual blessings along the way. We they had to wait months for Wayne and Hayley Fernandes have experience of God’s graces. Catho - journey of our local church,” writes then celebrate in thanksgiving for a favourable sailing conditions. His a personal connection to St. Fran- lics believe that saints can intercede the archbishop. “Yes it is true, there is journey well done. Then we go body was buried in China with cis: their parents immigrated from for humanity, given their proximity a goal to shoot for, namely the great home to our houses and parishes to lime to accelerate the decomposi - India in 2003, and they have ances - to God in what is commonly re ferred shrine of Santiago de Compostela, live what we have learned on El tion process to allow the bones to tors from Goa. to as ‘the communion of saints’ or but any spiritual reward that comes Cami no . How like the synod all this be more easily transported. In “I’ve been taught since a young the Mystical Body of Christ.” with the successful completion of El is and how beautiful and important February 1553, however, the body age how sacred St. Francis is to us For more information, see Camino is certainly connected with those flechas really are.” was exhumed and found to be because he brought Catholicism to www.cco.ca/relic January 24, 2018 CANADIAN FEATURE Prairie Messenger 7 Relentless photo-taking: how much is a picture worth?

By Edna Froese watch the faces of my fellow trav - sions, and a mischievous coyote ellers, listen to our guide, and interfering in ordinary life. A domi - How much is a picture really absorb the beauty, without a nant theme is the function of pho - worth? thought for the morrow — know - tography: the Blackfoot prohibit How dare I ask such a question ing that I would remember. cameras and videos at Sun Dances, when a fond memory of my child - On the same tour I observed frustrating white tourists intent on hood is poring over black-and- fellow travellers ignoring the getting pictures. King’s deft mock - white pictures my parents had autonomy and privacy of local ery exposes the essential act of pos - brought from the “old country” or Russians and Ukrainians and sur - session that underlies our picture- had had taken when they were reptitiously taking photos of those taking, a strange greed that de - young figuring out their lives and who had refused to be photo - mands ownership, even of that loves in Canada? When these days graphed, just as they had also which does not belong to us. everything, including food, is recorded singers who had forbid - King also makes it clear that photographed and shared, and den all recordings. Who do we photos do not, contrary to argu - when scrapbooking has become a think we are that we can treat all ments of would-be reporters, ex - small cottage industry? When I experience as ours to hold and to plain the Sun Dance to outsiders. likewise treasure every photo of keep for our own ends? Understanding is gained only by our grandchildren? When I con - In 2011, back in Jasper again, being there, staying with the peo - sider photography a much-valued our family witnessed the raising of ple in their teepees, sharing their art form and try to compose my the new Two Brothers Totem (the meals, joining the circle of watch - own photos artistically? When “a old Raven Totem having been ers around the dancers in the cen - picture is worth a thousand returned to the Gwaai Hanaas after tre. No photo can ever offer the words” is a truism no one seems nearly 100 years), in a solemn, sounds, the smells, the feeling of to argue? Edna Froese sacred ceremony. The dense the wind in the hair, the warmth of Nevertheless . . . tures of one another in front of the ing when the music begins and 64 crowd, with all the upraised arms the sun on skin, the smiles in the I’m troubled by what we do for sign, before getting back into the gilded fountains in front of the with cameras and phones, resem - eyes of new friends. a photo and what we lose in the bus, was both amusing and horri - Grand Palace are turned on in a glo - bled a strange humanoid forest. Which raises another question process. fying. What would the picture- rious choreography. Like all other Then, just before the prayers for me about photography as auto - When I was a student, working takers say when they showed their tourists crowded on the bridge over began, the MC made it clear that matic holiday record-keeping: summers in Jasper, Alta., I had my collection to hapless friends and the canal to get the best view, I was taking photos or videoing was now Even if we respect others in our first taste of being a “local” in a family back home? They hadn’t trying to take pictures. In frustra - prohibited. Indeed, several indige - picture-taking, what are we losing tourist destination. Having spent gotten close enough to the falls to tion, I began taking pictures of the nous men were standing here and along the way? spare hours hiking in the daytime feel the spray, let alone climbed other tourists, all of them taking in there on rocks or chairs to scan the Wendell Berry, in his poem and lingering on the lakeshore in alongside and felt the thunder of one of Russia’s seven wonders crowd for compliance, a measure I “The Vacation,” depicts “a man the evening, I had learned to love the water on the rocks. through a digital lens. assumed should have been unnec - who filmed his vacation.” As he where I lived, thought of particu - Decades later, coming back to When we entered the palace essary. I was wrong. Several peo - flies down the river in his boat, lar mountains as friends. Then to those beloved places with our itself, we were told that photos ple continued taking pictures, video camera held to his eye, he’s see a tour bus pull up in the park - grownup children and watching and videos were strictly prohibit - blandly ig noring instructions, even “making / a moving picture of the ing lot beside the most stupendous tourists still posing in front of the ed. As I slipped my camera back becoming annoyed when they moving river,” showing “his vaca - waterfalls in the country and falls, but now with a selfie stick into my bag, I felt my disappoint - were confronted, as if their rights tion to his camera.” Thanks to the watch tourists pile out to take pic - that made co-operative fellow ment change to relief. I owed no had been denied. video, the man has “preserved” tourists unnecessary, I wondered debt to the friends who would ask Suddenly, Thomas King’s Green his experience. It will always be what drives such compulsive pic - eagerly, “Did you get lots of pic - Grass, Running Water came to there for him to look at “with a Froese taught English litera - ture-taking. What does one do tures?” I could forget about “cap - mind. It’s a complicated novel, with flick / of a switch.” There is, how - ture at St. Thomas More College with two or three hundred photos turing” the experience and simply humour, interwoven indigenous ever, a problem: “he / would not in Saskatoon for many years until of oneself against a changing be there, let myself be awed, myths, slyly hidden historical allu - be in it. He would never be in it.” her retirement. She currently background? works part time as academic edi - During a recent tour of St. tor while relishing the freedom to Petersburg, we arrived at Peterhof, World standing at ‘the very limit’ read and write for pleasure. precisely at 11 o’clock in the morn - Continued from page 1 Weapons last year. “And thus, when Pope Francis Relics carry ‘a certain “I believe that the prestige and comes out explicitly condemning with him that he was afraid about respect for Pope Francis is at such the possession of nuclear weap- the danger of nuclear war and that a high level in the world today ons, then I think it’s the responsi - type of grace’ the world now stood at “the very that his words can play an extraor - bility of all the rest of us in the limit.” dinary role in affecting public church to hear that.” Continued from page 6 had hoped to evangelize. “I am really afraid of this. One policies.” Roche also called Canada’s “He entered history also for the accident is enough to precipitate Catholic bishops to issue a state - people, which would have been great signs and wonders that things,” he said before landing in ment of support for Pope Francis’ extended with the words of abso - accompanied him, both in life and Santiago, Chile. condemnation of nuclear weap - lution, which gave the body and in death,” said O’Brien, who Roche said the prospect of ons and to convince the Canadian blood of Christ to so many as spoke about the meaning of relics North Korea becoming a nuclear government to sign the treaty. well,” said Rev. John O’Brien, SJ, in Catholic tradition. power is an immediate, specific “This is what conference after of Regina during the program at “I believe that relics do carry threat, but the larger issue is the conference and all manner of or - the Saskatoon cathedral. with them a certain type of grace. continued proliferation of nuclear ganizations have been saying, The Jesuit priest gave an over - This is the testimony of our faith arms and the threat to world peace leading up to the new treaty on the view of the life of St. Francis from the ages,” he said, pointing to in general. prohibition of nuclear weapons,” Xavier, considered to be one of the scriptural references and experi - “What right do they have to said Roche. “We ought not to be greatest evangelizers since St. Paul. ences in the early church, including maintain their nuclear weapons living in God’s world on the edge Born in 1506, St. Francis was gifted the veneration of the bones of mar - while proscribing their acquisi - of Armageddon. It’s a wonderful with wealth and talent. At the tyrs in the catacombs. tion by any other country?” world out there.” University of Paris he excelled as “Our God — the God of Abra - Roche said, noting that human - The bishops are currently an athlete and was popular among ham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of kind has a set of needs that are studying the issue, said Deacon his peers. There he met St. Ignatius Jesus Christ — is not a distant, ethe - universal. René Laprise, spokesperson for Loyola, who became his mentor. real God; for us, the Logos, the “I’ve been all over the world the Ca na dian Conference of “Francis was a young person Word which is God, is the Word in my career. I see people who Catholic Bishops. wanting to do great things with his that became flesh. So for us, the want the same things. What do Now retired, Roche has re - life, and at least to know what the flesh is holy, the body is holy, and they want? They want simply ceived numerous awards for his meaning of his life was, and he the bones are holy as well,” he said. enough to exist. Food for their work. In 1995, he received the found it through the guidance of The relic pilgrimage started in families, education, health. Papal Medal for his service on Grandin Media St. Ignatius and the grace of God,” December in Ottawa at the annual People don’t want to go around disarmament and international se - said O’Brien. CCO Rise Up conference, followed clobbering one another and Douglas Roche curity. He is a former chair of the The friends joined with others to by visits to Quebec City; St. John’s, throwing nuclear weap ons,” said United Nations Disarmament start the Society of Jesus — the Nfld.; Halifax, N.S.; Antigonish, Roche, who served as ambassa - Canada did not sign the treaty Com mittee, MP, senator, and vis - Jesuits — putting themselves at the N.S.; Kingston, Ont.; Toronto; Mis - dor for disarmament from 1984 as it is a member of NATO, iting professor at the University of service of the mission of the church. sis sauga; and Win ni peg. After the to 1989. which sees nuclear arms as a nec - Alberta. He was also the first edi - In 1540 Francis was asked with very Saskatoon visit, the pilgrimage was Roche said he was particu - essary deterrent. While not a tor of the Western Catholic short notice to become a missionary scheduled to continue in Regina Jan. larly proud of Pope Francis and nuclear power, Canada can plan Reporter . to Goa, to India, and eventually 19 - 20, Calgary Jan 21 - 22, Van cou - the Holy See for being among the use of U.S. nuclear weapons For more information on beyond to Indonesia and Japan. He ver Jan. 24 - 25, Victoria Jan. 27, and the first nations to ratify and and deliver nuclear payloads Roche, visit his website http:// died on Dec. 3, 1552, on an island Montreal Jan. 28 - 30, before wind - sign the United Nations Treaty through NATO’s “nuclear shar - www.roche.apirg.org/public_html within sight of China, which he also ing up in Ottawa Jan. 31 - Feb. 2. on the Prohibition of Nuclear ing” policy. /index.html 8 Prairie Messenger January 24, 2018 ~ MUSIC FOR LITURGY ~

Hymn choices prepared by Bernadette Gasslein, Karen Koester, Heather Reid and Christina Ronzio. Please note that these selections are not mean to be prescriptive, but to help you in your choice of music that works for your community, with its resources and repertoire. Don’t be afraid to repeat selections from week to week; consider adding just one new piece per season. Keep in mind that: (1) If your parish is celebrating the Scrutinies on the 3rd, 4th and 5th Sundays of Lent, please see the selections for Year A. Please note as well that with the selections from CBW III, you will find suggestions for Celebrate in Song, since it was intended to supplement CBW III. (2) The Easter Triduum is one feast in several celebrations spread over three days. Some selections can be used inter- changeably or repeated, such as communion hymns or songs for the sprinkling rites at the Vigil and again on Easter Sunday morning.

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2018 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

February 14, 2018 Entrance Song/ 360 Eternal Lord of Love 120 Again We Keep This Solemn 343 The Glory of These Forty 474 From Ashes to the Living Font Ash Wednesday Chant Fast Days 352 Again We Keep This Solemn 487 Again We Keep This Solemn Fast 655 Come to the River 348 Lord, Who Throughout These Fast Forty Days 367 O Lord, Throughout These Forty Days

CIS 6.18 Led By the Spirit

Imposition of 621 Grant to Us, O Lord 659 Change Our Hearts 340 Ashes 489 Merciful God Ashes (Ash Wednesday refrain) 374 With Our God 663 with the Lord 341 Save Your People 468 Dust and Ashes 465 Shelter Me, O God 624 Jesus, My Confidence 469 Remember You Are Dust 603 I Have Loved You 962 Ashes

646 Keep In Mind

Preparation of 363 Healer of Our Every Ill 675 Keep In Mind 209 Psalm 51: Create in Me 484 Hosea Gifts CIS 6.19 This Season Calls Us 604 Come to the Water 210 Psalm 51: Give Me a New 478 Return to God Heart

472 Return to the Lord Your God

Communion Song/ 611 Take and Eat 337 Eat This Bread 342 Turn to Me 950 Take and Eat Chant CIS 6.8 Take and Eat 328 Ubi Caritas 523 You Are Our Living Bread 937 Now in This Banquet (Lent refrain)

Closing 358 Have Mercy, Lord, On Us 124 Led By the Spirit 618 All That We Have 493 Change Our Hearts

CIS 6.30 Table of the World 520 Now Is the Time 962 Ashes (If not done at Imposition)

February 18, 2018 Entrance Song/ 86 Litany of Saints 32 Litany of Saints 343 The Glory of These Forty 481 The Glory of These Forty First Sunday Chant Days Days of Lent 367 O Lord, Throughout These 429 Though the Mountains May Forty Days Fall 349 Change Our Hearts 479 Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days 352 Again We Keep This Solemn Fast

CIS: 6.17 Jesus, Tempted in the Desert

6.18 Led by the Spirit

6.19 This Season Calls Us

Preparation of 361 Great God of Mercy 594 In the Land There Is a Hunger 349 Change Our Hearts 493 Change Our Hearts Gifts 601 Rain Down 352 In Your Love Remember Me 805 Touch the Earth Lightly

424 At the Name of Jesus 788 Come and Journey with a Saviour 710 I Have Loved You

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Gasslein holds a licence in sacred theology with specialization in pastoral catechetics from the Institut catholique de Paris. For the past 40 years she has been engaged in various liturgical and catechetical ministries, leading workshops around the country and is editor of Worship, a journal published by Liturgical Press. She and her husband live in Edmonton.

Koester is a member of the National Council for Liturgical Music, a group that advises the CCCB. She earned a bachelor of education with music major at the University of Alberta, and has a graduate diploma in religious education at Newman Theological College. She has been actively involved in parish music ministry for over 30 years as a singer, choir director and occasional trumpeter at her parish, St. Joseph’s Basilica, and in the Archdiocese of Edmonton.

Reid is the director of music for St. Basil’s Parish in Ottawa. She has an undergraduate degree in music (Western) and a master’s degree in liturgy from Notre Dame. Reid is a member of the music committee for the Ontario Liturgical Conference.

Ronzio is the director of the Liturgy Office for the Diocese of Hamilton. She holds an MA in liturgical studies from St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN. January 24, 2018 Prairie Messenger 9 ~ MUSIC FOR LITURGY ~

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Feb. 18, 2018 Communion Song/ 597D, 597 A – Bread of Life 314 Give Us O Lord 183 Psalm 25: To You, O Lord 489 Merciful God Continued Chant (Lent refrain) 608 Now in This Banquet 351 Bread For the World 346 By Your Cross

CIS 6.3 The Hand of the Lord 451 Through the Mystery of Death Feeds Us – Lenten and Ordinary Time verses

Closing 360 Eternal Lord of Love 520 Now Is the Time 345 Forty Days and Forty Nights 801 Take Up Your Cross

378 The Spirit Sends Us Forth 348 Lord, Who Throughout These 492 Jerusalem My Destiny Forty Days

454 River of Glory

February 25, 2018 Entrance Song/ 561 O God, Beyond All Praising 603 I Have Loved You 444 Lift High the Cross 878 Transform Us Second Sunday Chant of Lent CIS: 6.18 Led by the Spirit 608 Lord of Glory 714 If God Is for Us 596 Praise to You O Christ Our Saviour 6.19 This Season Calls Us

Preparation of 366 O Raise Your Eyes on High 605 If God Is For Us 370 Jesus the Lord 647 Neither Death nor Life Gifts 681 The Lord Is My Light 443 Transfiguration 877 How Good Lord to Be Here

456 Wade in the Water

Communion Song/ 597D, 597 A – Bread of Life 347 Spirit and Grace 542 Here I Am, Lord 937 Now in This Banquet Chant (Lent refrain) 608 Now in This Banquet 342 When We Eat This Bread 611 Only a Shadow 489 Merciful God CIS 6.3 The Hand of the Lord 646 Christians, Let Us Love One (Lent Communion refrain) Feeds Us – Lenten and Ordinary Another Time verses

Closing 370 Salvator Mundi 501 Transfigure Us O Lord 259 Psalm 116: In the Presence 493 Change Our Hearts of God 609 Jerusalem My Happy Home 474 From Ashes to the Living Font 600 Only in God (Year B, verse 3)

March 4, 2018 Entrance Song/ 368 O Cross of Christ 311 As We Gather At Your Table 444 Lift High the Cross 475 Tree of Life Third Sunday Chant of Lent CIS: 6.18 Led by the Spirit 317 What Is This Place 662 Praise to You, O Christ, 881 Lift High the Cross Our Saviour 6.19 This Season Calls Us 482 The Cross of Jesus

Preparation of 371 O Sun of Justice, Fill Our 621 Make Your Home In Me 172 Psalm 19: Lord, You Have 581 O God You Search Me Gifts Hearts the Words 492 Dwelling Place 493 Change Our Hearts 173 Psalm 19: You, Lord, Have the Message

Communion Song/ 372 Shelter Me. O God 318 Gather Us Together 584 Earthen Vessels 937 Now in This Banquet Chant (Lent refrain) CIS 6.3 The Hand of the Lord 349 Bread of Life 621 This Alone Feeds Us – Lenten and Ordinary 946 Let Us Be Bread Time verses 661 Jesus Christ, Inner Light

Closing 373 Tree of Life 502 Anthem 599 Blest Be the Lord 474 From Ashes to the Living Font (Year B, Lent 3rd Sunday, 3rd verse) 370 Salvator Mundi 124 Led By the Spirit 633 I Heard the Voice of Jesus 801 Take Up Your Cross

March 11, 2018 Entrance Song/ 435 Lift High the Cross 127 In These Days of Lenten 354 Somebody’s Knockin’ at Your 475 Tree of Life (Lent IV verse) Fourth Sunday Chant Journey Door of Lent 368 O Cross of Christ 474 From Ashes to the Living Font 546 Glory and Praise to Our God 615 Amazing Grace (Year B, Sunday IV) 358 Have Mercy, Lord, On Us

CIS: 6.16 Glory in the Cross (Good Friday verses)

6.18 Led by the Spirit

6.19 This Season Calls Us

Preparation of 361 Great God of Mercy 495 We Remember How You 353 How Long, O Lord 580 For God So Loved the World Gifts Loved Us 365 Jesus, Lord 642 What Wondrous Love Is This 645 Amazing Grace 665 Loving and Forgiving 369 O Merciful Redeemer 643 Lover of Us All

Communion Song/ 357 Be With Me, Lord 364 I Am the Bread of Life 576 Take, Lord, Receive 489 Merciful God Chant (Lent refrain) 374 With Our God 360 One Love Released 710 I Have Loved You 935 Draw Near CIS 6.22 Loving and Forgiving

CIS 6.3 The Hand of the Lord Feeds Us – Lenten and Ordinary Time verses

Closing 373 Tree of Life 394 Lead Me, Guide Me 622 Lord of All Hopefulness 590 Christ Be Our Light

370 Salvator Mundi 385 With One Voice 656 Christ, Be Our Light 570 All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name 10 Prairie Messenger January 24, 2018 ~ MUSIC FOR LITURGY ~

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2018 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

March 18, 2018 Entrance Song/ 435 Lift High the Cross 661 Turn to Me 351 Seek the Lord 598 O God Beyond All Praising Fifth Sunday Chant of Lent 368 O Cross of Christ 667 Save Us O Lord 532 Bless the Feast 642 What Wondrous Love is This

CIS: 6.18 Led by the Spirit 573 The Church’s One Foundation

6.19 This Season Calls Us

Preparation of 621 Grant to Us, O Lord 646 You Have Called Us 209 Psalm 51: Create in Me 721 You Are Mine Gifts 379 Behold the Wood 659 Change Our Hearts 210 Psalm 51: Give Me a New 486 Deep Within Heart

455 Flow River Flow

Communion Song/ 597D, 597 A – Bread of Life 507 Unless a Grain of Wheat 382 Now the Green Blade Rises 783 Unless a Grain of Wheat Chant 608 Now in This Banquet 319 I Am the Living Bread 579 Unless a Grain of Wheat 937 Now in This Banquet (Lent refrain) CIS 6.8 Take and Eat

CIS 6.3 The Hand of the Lord Feeds Us – Lenten and Ordinary Time verses

Closing 373 Tree of Life 125 Beyond the Days 605 Though the Mountains May 801 Take Up Your Cross Fall 370 Salvator Mundi 520 Now Is the Time 501 Glory in the Cross 683 All the Ends of the Earth

March 25, 2018 Procession Hosanna – 59-61 21, 22 Hosanna to the Son of 357 Blessings on the King 496 Palm Sunday Processional Palm Sunday David 358 Hosanna to the Son of David 498 All Glory, Laud and Honour

572 The King of Glory

Entrance Song/ 62 All Glory, Praise and Honour 726 At the Name of Jesus 356 All Glory, Laud and Honor 496 Palm Sunday Processional Chant 733 Crown Him With Many 498 All Glory, Laud and Honour Crowns 572 The King of Glory

Preparation of 377 The Lord Is Now Exalted 481 What Wondrous Love Is This 360 Behold the Lamb of God 512 O Sacred Head Surrounded Gifts 379 Behold the Word 731 Jesus the Lord 661 Jesus Christ, Inner Light 646 Keep in Mind

687 Though in the Form of God 105 Jesus Christ is Lord

432 Jesus, the Lord

Communion Song/ 597D, 597 A – Bread of Life 339 Behold the Lamb 513 Our Blessing Cup 783 Unless a Grain of Wheat Chant 608 Now in This Banquet 507 Unless a Grain of Wheat 362 No Greater Love

CIS 6.3 The Hand of the Lord Feeds Us – Lenten and Ordinary Time verses

Closing 373 Tree of Life 724 Rejoice the Lord Is King 662 Praise to You, O Christ, 492 Jerusalem My Destiny Our Saviour 370 Salvator Mundi 725 Hail Redeemer King Divine 475 Tree of Life 669 Beautiful Saviour 427 At the Name of Jesus

THE PASCHAL TRIDUUM

March 29, 2018 Opening hymn 373 Tree of Life 155 Glory in the Cross 530 Table of Plenty 881 Lift High the Cross Holy Thursday, Mass of the 377 The Lord Is Now Exalted 713 Lift High the Cross 534 Gather Us Together 536 At the Lamb’s High Feast We Lord’s Supper Sing 370 Salvator Mundi 574 Worthy Is the Lamb

427 At the Name of Jesus 165 At the Lamb’s High Feast

435 Lift High the Cross

Washing of Feet 67 Ubi Caritas 141 Jesu, Jesu 361 Jesu, Jesu 506 Song of the Lord’s Command

376 Where True Love and 142 As I Have Done For You 364 Ubi Caritas 507 So You Must Do Charity are Found 139 No Greater Love 500 or 696 or 705 Ubi Caritas 595 Christians, Let Us Love One Another 482 God Is Love

687 Though in the Form of God 475 Love One Another

476 Christians, Let Us Love One Another

479 Ubi Caritas

328 Ubi Caritas

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SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2018 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

March 29, 2018 Preparation of 432 Jesus, the Lord 731 Jesus, the Lord 257 Psalm 116: Our Blessing Cup Ubi Caritas (See above Continued Gifts if not done for footwashing) 687 Though in the Form of God 508 Now We Remain 513 Our Blessing Cup 751 The Servant Song 507 Lord, Whose Love in Humble 495 We Remember 645 Love One Another Service (Also to the tune at 583 (See also unused selections for 508 Song of the Lord’s Supper or 475) (See also unused Washing of Feet) selections for Washing of Feet) 501 Glory in the Cross

Communion 599 No Greater Love 312 Here At This Table 362 No Greater Love 926 Life-giving Bread Procession 600 Our Daily Bread 322 Bread of Life 424 At the Name of Jesus 924 Song of the Body of Christ

602 Eat This Bread 343 God’s Holy Gifts 513 Our Blessing Cup 941 Eat This Bread

603 Gift of Finest Wheat 347 Spirit and Grace 518 The Supper of the Lord 931 Come to the Banquet

611 Take and Eat 351 Bread for the World 943 Bread of Life

612 Drink in the Richness of God 331 Unless A Grain of Wheat 938 Come to the Feast

CIS 6.1 Bread for the World 150 Behold the Lamb of God

6.2 Dona Nobis Pacem 475 Love One Another

6.3 The Hand of the Lord Feeds Us

6.4 Let Us Be Bread

6.8 Take and Eat

Transfer of the 68 or 68b Pange Lingua Gloriosi 25 Sing My Tongue, the Saviour’s 366 Sing, My Tongue, the Saviour’s 509 Pange Lingua (Hail Our Blessed Sacrament (Hail Our Saviour’s Glorious Body) Glory/Pange Lingua, Gloriosi Glory (Down in Adoration Falling) Saviour’s Glorious Body)

March 30, 2018 Entrance In silence Celebration of the Lord’s Passion Veneration of 380 Jesus, Remember Me 152 Behold the Cross 367 O Sacred Head, Surrounded 514 Behold the Wood the Cross 368 O Cross of Christ 727 At the Name of Jesus 368 Were You There 475 Tree of Life

373 Tree of Life 150 Behold the Lamb of God 369 Behold the Wood 510 Jesus Remember Me

377 The Lord Is Now Exalted 731 Jesus the Lord 370 Jesus the Lord 512 O Sacred Head

379 Behold the Wood 133 Faithful Cross 642 What Wondrous Love is This 511 Were You There

432 Jesus, the Lord 515 In the Cross of Christ

6.16 Glory in the Cross (p. 132)

Communion (See Communion Procession, 741, 742 Psalm 22: My God, 362 No Greater Love Ubi Caritas 500 Procession Holy Thursday) My God (with other Taize verses) 696, 705 (Also see Communion Procession, 513 Our Blessing Cup (Or see Holy Thursday suggestions) Holy Thursday) 518 The Supper of the Lord

March 31, 2018 Exsultet: see the Roman Missal Easter Vigil Psalmody For the psalms please see CBW III, Living with Christ Missal, CCCB Website: http://nlo.cccb.ca/index.php/nclm

Gospel Acclamation Solemn Alleluia or another Alleluia

Litany of the Saints 86 32, 722 376 Litany of the Saints 1056

377 Litany of the Saints (note that neither of these has the new responses; see Roman Missal for revised Litany of the Saints)

Acclamation 87 33, 172 Springs of Water, Bless 458 You Have Put On Christ 334 Celtic Alleluia (refrain only) after baptism the Lord 460 We Have Been Baptized in 127 Baptism acclamation 169 Jubilate Deo Christ

During the 614 Baptized in Water 35, 938 I Saw Water Flowing 454 River of Glory 1057 Springs of Water Sprinkling of the Assembly 613 A Living Hope 648 Baptized in Water 455 Flow River Flow 903 Baptized in Water

549B Celtic Alleluia 651 River of Glory 899 Sweet Refreshment

546 Strong Is God’s Love for Us 655 Come to the River 873 Shall We Gather at the River

394 The Light of Christ 604 Come to the Water

383 Alleluia, Give Thanks to the 601 Rain Down Risen Lord 937 Water of Life 570 Laudate, Omnes Gentes

CIS 6.12 Gather Your People

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SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2018 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

March 31, 2018 Preparation of 384 Christ Is Alive! 168 Christ the Lord Is Risen Again 385 Behold the Glory of God 522 This is a Day of New Continued Gifts Beginnings 385 Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today 174 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen 386 Up From the Earth Today 536 At the Lamb’s High Feast 386 Good Christians All, Rejoice 393 Join in the Dance We Sing and Sing 727 At the Name of Jesus 521 Christ is Risen! Shout Hosanna! 393 Something Which Is Known 178 Jesus Is Risen 518 Alleluia, Christ is Risen 395 The Strife Is O’er 176 Three Days 534 Now the Green Blade Rises 398 We Know That Christ Is 657 Enter the Journey Raised 949 Alleluia! Sing to Jesus 403 Now the Green Blade Rises CIS 6.16 Glory in the Cross (p. 133)

Communion 404 O Sons and Daughters 168 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen 498 Bread of Life 532 O Sons and Daughters Procession (See also Holy Thursday for both Again (Or one from Holy Thursday CBW and CIS) 519 I Am the Living Bread suggestions) 171 Ye Sons and Daughters 525 Gift of Finest Wheat 574 Worthy Is the Lamb 339 Behold the Lamb 150 Behold the Lamb of God 475 Love One Another (See also Holy Thursday)

Closing 389 Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today 159 Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today 381 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen 540 Jesus Christ is Risen Today Today 383 Alleluia! Give Thanks to the 567 Alleluia Alleluia Give Thanks 539 Sing With All the Saints in Risen Lord to the Risen Lord 394 At the Lamb’s High Feast Glory CIS 6.21 Join in the Dance 167 Alleluia, Alleluia Let the Holy 397 This Is the Day 542 That Easter Day With Joy Anthem Rise was Bright 569 This Is the Day (See also Preparation of Gifts)

April 1, 2018 Opening hymn 389 Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today 159 Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today 382 Now the Green Blade Rises 540 Jesus Christ is Risen Today EASTER SUNDAY 568 Festival Canticle 387 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen 523 Christ the Lord is Risen Today Today 394 At the Lamb’s High Feast

Sequence 385 Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today 36 Christians to the Paschal 1065 Victim 690 Sequence for Easter 174 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Today 161 Christ Is Arisen

Sprinkling of the See Easter Vigil assembly after renewal of baptismal promises

Preparation of 384 Christ Is Alive! 156 Out of Darkness 388 I Know That My Redeemer 520 This is the Feast of Victory Gifts Lives 385 Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today 178 Jesus Is Risen 524 Alleluia No. 1 393 Join in the Dance 386 Good Christians All, Rejoice 949 Alleluia! Sing to Jesus and Sing 534 Now the Green Blade Rises 393 Something Which Is Known 518 Alleluia, Christ Is Risen 395 The Strife Is O’er 398 We Know That Christ Is Raised 403 Now the Green Blade Rises

Communion 404 O Sons and Daughters 168 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen 498 Bread of Life 532 O Sons and Daughters Procession (See also Holy Thursday) Again 519 I Am the Living Bread 941 Eat This Bread 171 Ye Sons and Daughters 945 I Am the Bread of Life 574 Worthy Is the Lamb (See Holy Thursday suggestions) 339 Behold the Lamb 150 Behold the Lamb of God 475 Love One Another (See also Holy Thursday)

Closing 389 Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today 159 Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today 384 The Strife is O’er 540 Jesus Christ is Risen Today (If not done at entrance) 383 Alleluia! Give Thanks to the 567 Alleluia Alleluia Give Thanks 389 Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks Risen Lord to the Risen Lord 542 That Easter Day with Joy 399 Alleluia! Alleluia! Let the was Bright 406 Sing with All the Saints in 167 Alleluia, Alleluia Let the Holy Anthem Rise Glory Holy Anthem Rise 539 Sing With All the Saints in Glory CIS 6.21 Join in the Dance 179 This Joyful Eastertide (See also suggestions at the Preparation of Gifts) 6.25 We Shall Go Out 173 Resucito January 24, 2018 ARTS & CULTURE Prairie Messenger 13 New films worth trip to the theatre this New Year

excellent in Andrew Haigh’s Lean relent. It won’t be for lack of try - on Pete). He’s the son of Getty ing as her strength of will proves senior’s estranged wastrel drug- equal to his. Screenings addled son Paul (Andrew Buchan), The movie holds our attention who is divorced from his mother, by how well it captures both the & Meanings Gail Harris (Michelle Williams), icy isolation of Getty, surrounded with whom he is living in Rome. At by all that money can buy, and the the time of the kidnapping the oil feverish atmosphere of the case Gerald Schmitz tycoon, then reputed to be the rich - driven by a mother’s love. est man in the history of the world, Veteran screenwriter Aaron The year 2017 ended with a before its Christmas Day release. was her only recourse when a ran - Sorkin ( The Social Network ) takes box-office lift thanks to Star Wars: Scott had cast a heavily made-up som of $17 million was demanded the director’s chair in Molly’s The Last Jedi crossing the billion- Kevin Spacey in the role of the vil - for his supposedly favourite grand - Game , an absorbing dramatization dollar mark. Indeed global receipts lain of the piece, the aging miserly son. But, while continuing to amass of the stranger-than-fiction story of rose three per cent to US$40 bil - billionaire J. Paul Getty whose more treasures for his vast estates, Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), lion, even as movie attendance in teenage grandson, John Paul Getty the elder Getty refused to pay any - drawing on a 2013 memoir she pub - North America dropped to its low - III, was kidnapped off a Rome thing at all. lished while under criminal indict - est level in 27 years. Looking be- street in 1973. Trailers out in Oc- Williams is excellent as the ment. (Molly isn’t Irish even if she yond the blockbuster spectacles, tober that featured him had to be mother who never gives up her bears the name of a famous charac - here are a handful of movies for hastily pulled after Spacey was increasingly desperate efforts to ter in James Joyce’s Ulysses .) adults worth making the trip to the outed for past sexual misconduct in get her son back, often hounded by The intrepid Molly grew up in theatre. All are based on actual per - the flood of post-Weinstein scan - the paparazzi attracted to the high- a family of high-performance sons and events. I’ll review The dals. More dramatically, Scott de- profile case. Getty hires an ex-CIA competitive skiers pushed by their Post and Phantom Thread in next cided he had to be replaced. He got operative, Fletcher Chase (Mark hard-driving father, Larry (played week’s column. 88-year-old legendary Cana dian Wahlberg), to both manage her by Kevin Costner who appears in Kerry Hayes.© 2016 EuropaCorp thespian Christopher Plummer to and get to the bottom of the kid - several brief flashbacks and one – France 2 Cinema All the Money in the agree and in a relative handful of napping by a Calabrian gang, of later scene). She overcame major MOLLY’S GAME — Jessica World days at a cost of $10 million all the which a man known as Cinquanta obstacles as a youngster, but a Chastain plays Molly Bloom in key scenes were reshot. (French actor Romain Duris) is the crash during a qualifying run for the film Molly’s Game , directed by Molly’s Game Did it work? Emphatically yes. main interlocutor. the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Aaron Sorkin. I, Tonya Plummer as Scrooge was the best There are suggestions of possi - Olympics ended a promising The Post thing about the pre-Christmas re - ble involvement by the far-left career. (That took place at Deer Catching on fast to all the tricks of lease The Man Who Invented Red Brigades, though in the end a Valley in Park City where I’ve the trade she eventually took it Phantom Thread Christmas . As the famously flinty mafia kingpin calls the shots. stayed during the Sundance film away from Keith until a falling out “scroogey” Getty patriarch he is When the kidnappers send evi - festival, which is on now.) with a dominant “Player X” (reput - completely convincing. It’s among dence of their captive’s mutila - Moving to Los Angeles, Molly ed to be actor Tobey Maguire, Director Ridley Scott’s All the his most memorable performanc - tion, it’s clear the boy’s life is at became a personal assistant to played by Canadian Michael Cera) Money in the World , working from es, which is quite amazing under stake and the tension keeps rising Dean Keith (Jeremy Strong), a caused her to fold and move to David Scarpa’s screenplay based the circumstances. toward an end game. The only rather sleazy character who ran a New York City. on the John Pearson book, The young Getty is played by question is whether Gail can ever weekly high-stakes poker game achieved a certain notoriety even Charlie Plummer (no relation, get the grasping grandpa Getty to that attracted celebrity participants. — I, TONYA , page 17 Pushing the envelope: going beyond the conventional to make a good point

By Caitlin Ward times, community partners need in fairness, it would be. But it had ness of supporting women and a point, and I don’t think I was. To things that are harder to ask for, and never been a concern before. caring for babies. To me, that was be honest, I was rather surprised I’ve been listening to Oasis as a result, not often donated. Last Rather than agree or disagree, I sent more important than anyone’s by just how difficult this particu - this week. They were a band who year, for example, we collected dis - out a few more emails reminding personal discomfort at having to lar donations drive seemed to be tended to push the envelope a bit. posal pads and tampons for the people this was going on, and if my acknowledge that nipples exist. for some people; I thought the Not in their music so much as Friendship Inn. office’s 26-year-old childless male I’m sure that’s why it’s been clear and present need would out - their behaviour; they were bull - This year promised to be one assistant could buy nipple cream, suggested that I am an envelope- weigh the feelings of discomfort. headed, and certain members of our less awkward years. you probably could, too. pusher, but I’m not sure the label Perhaps that was wilfully naive of were not always kind to one Partnering with a crisis pregnancy Our student government con - is entirely accurate. To my mind, me, and a little bullheaded — and another or to anyone else. The centre, I thought, “People love tributed a substantial chunk of someone who pushes the enve - perhaps in that way, I was trying song alongside this column, babies. This should be fine.” I money to the donations drive, so I lope is one who is trying to make to make a point. though, “Live Forever,” was their guessed we’d be collecting baby found myself going to just about breakout hit in England back in wipes or diapers or onesies. When every pharmacy on the east side Maybe I don’t really wanna know the early 1990s. It’s a sweet song SPOC got back to me about what of Saskatoon. Let me tell you, How your garden grows cos I just want to fly believed to be about the Gallagher their greatest needs were, though, buying one tube of nipple cream Lately, did you ever feel the pain? brothers’ mother, Peggy. I realized we’d be ranging into may feel awkward, but it’s really In the morning rain as it soaks you to the bone more uncomfortable territory. nothing compared to picking up Live Forever We’ve always been committed to seven and asking the pharmacist if Maybe I just want to fly I want to live I don’t want to die giving our partners what they they have more in stock in the Maybe I just want to breathe maybe I just don’t believe Oasis need, though, so it wasn’t some - back. By the time I got to the third Maybe you’re the same as me we see things they’ll never see you thing I was willing to shy away pharmacy, I’d run right past and I I was told last week that I have from. And so, on that first week of uncomfortable and was happily We’re gonna live forever a tendency to push the envelope. Advent, I found myself crafting a basking in the hilarity of the situ - And I can see where the comment very carefully worded letter to the ation as I watched Shopper’s I said maybe I don’t really wanna know came from, but I’m not sure if it’s larger college community asking Drug Mart employees’ eyes widen How your garden grows cos I just want to fly entirely true. It came about because that they buy nipple cream and at my request. I developed a spe - Lately, did you ever feel the pain? this past Christmas, my office part - bring it to the main office. cial affection for the Medicine In the morning rain as it soaks you to the bone nered with Saskatoon Pregnancy As a childless person, I had no Shoppe on 8th Street, who didn’t Options Centre to do a fundraising idea what it was at first, but two have any in stock, but whose Maybe I will never be all the things that I want to be drive. We do one every Advent sea - things quickly became apparent: pharmacist kindly offered to write But now is not the time to cry now’s the time to find out why son. We get in touch with commu - first, this was an excellent thing to me a prescription if I was desper - I think you’re the same as me we see things they’ll never see you nity-based organizations and ask be collecting, and second, very few ate. I told her it wasn’t necessary. and I them what they need. Sometimes people wanted to buy it themselves. After all that, though, on Dec. We’re gonna live forever they ask for straightforward things, The enthusiastic emails I got back 22 we had 43 tubes of nipple such as when we collected dried from mothers established the first, cream to give to SPOC. On one Maybe I don’t really wanna know lentils for the Saskatoon Open and the number of people who level, I was cognizant of how How your garden grows cos I just want to fly Door Society after the city had an wanted to give me money instead uncomfortable this seemed to be Lately, did you ever feel the pain? influx of Syrian refugees. At other of tubes of lanolin established the for many people, and didn’t want In the morning rain as it soaks you to the bone second. Most years, people simply to make them feel too awkward, show up with what we’ve asked but on another level, after a cer - Maybe I just want to fly I want to live I don’t want to die for, and drop it off without much tain point I wasn’t sure this dis - Ward is a Saskatoon-based Maybe I just want to breathe maybe I just don’t believe comment. This past year, I got mul - comfort was reasonable, and freelance writer who spends her Maybe you’re the same as me we see things they’ll never see you tiple emails suggesting we collect stopped acknowledging it. The days (and most nights) working at and I money and make a wholesale pur - fact of the matter was that we a small Catholic college. Her less You and I are gonna live forever chase. The justification was that were collecting donations for an eloquent thoughts can be found at We’re gonna live forever www.twitter.com/newsetofstrings this is more cost-effective. Which, organization that was in the busi - 14 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH January 24, 2018 Some ‘rules’ only serve to prolong human suffering

uation, the text goes on to emphasize that Jesus even went clerical sexual abuse? A national strategy for sincere reconcil - beyond this private healing event, which might have passed iation with indigenous peoples that allows respect for cultural unseen. That same day they brought to Jesus all who were and religious practices once outlawed as “pagan”? Ending Liturgy sick or possessed with demons. “And the whole city was what Pope Francis has often denounced as the scourge of cler - gathered around the door.” Jesus cured them, and cast out icalism? At the same time as the “#MeToo” movement rails and Life demons, in what had to be public events of obvious note, against sexual assault and institutional misogyny in events which later caused intense controversy with reli - Hollywood, might we find it healthy to address the sin of patri - gious authorities. archy wherever it appears in our own religious structures? Joe Gunn (As if he wants to make sure we get the point, Mark Homilists this Sunday might ask their congregation repeats this similar lesson in the readings for next week, the how many have written to their member of Parliament Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. A leper violates the rules about an issue of concern. (Most people likely will have Most sermons this weekend will rightly focus on Jesus’ laid out in the Book of Leviticus and approaches Jesus. But done so.) But then, ask how many have written to their healing ministry, detailing how he performed the first mira - he is not sent away. Jesus breaks the Law by touching the bishop to express their views concerning a change they cles reported in the Gospel of Mark. But we should take “unclean” man, and then heals him, too.) would like to see. In my experience, the response to the lat - note that, just before, the evangelist alerted us to the arrival So, this Jesus whose example we are tasked with fol - ter question is always many, many fewer. of a “new teaching” (Mark 1:27). It seems Mark wanted to lowing, shows great respect for and adherence to tradition. At my own parish as Advent ended, an unknown, large invite us to find deeper meaning in Jesus’ actions. But he exhibits no hesitation to break with those formalized gentleman sat in the front pew, belting out Christmas car - Did you note where Jesus was just before he arrived at religious strictures that prevent the giving of life, or that ols. He managed to shout mostly in tune, but certainly not the house of Simon and Andrew? This detail is crucial to obstruct the common good. in time with the choir members who had practiced so hard understanding the disciple’s explanation of Our Lord’s for the Christmas celebrations. I was thankful the parish - healing power. Job 7:1-4, 6-7 ioners welcomed him, despite what certainly was an obtru - Fifth Sunday In Mark’s text, we read that, “As soon as Jesus and his Psalm 147 sive presence. These incidents caused me to remember that in Ordinary Time disciples left the synagogue, they entered the house of 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23 in the days of the Old Testament, sick persons were often February 4, 2018 Simon and Andrew, with James and John.” The point is, Mark 1:29-39 considered to be sinners. Yet, the multitudes drawn to the these observant Jews respected the sabbath by going to the Lord, and those healed by him, were marginalized people synagogue for prayer. The religious teachings of the time Religions are often defined in the popular mind as tra - who were made to feel valued and welcomed. All of us are were strict. They institutionalized the sabbath as a time of ditions that must remain unchanged. That does not seem to sinners. All of us are needed to help religious practices bet - rest and devotion, when work was forbidden. But what did be the way Jesus perceived his faith, nor religion’s role in ter imitate Jesus’ healing ministries. Jesus do? Upon encountering Simon’s mother-in-law with guiding people to spiritual growth. Mark emphasizes in this week’s readings that Jesus a fever, he chose to break the law and cure her! If invited, would faithful Catholics readily identify prayed in the temple as well as by seeking quiet time alone. Just in case we don’t grasp the full meaning of this sit - those religious straightjackets that, under the pretense of Jesus served the ill and vulnerable by giving their needs spiritual laws or customs of today or yesterday, prevent our priority over any manufactured religious rules that unnec - communities from encouraging new life in the Spirit? essarily prolonged human suffering. We also see that the Gunn is the Ottawa-based executive director of Citizens What examples of the ways religious structures oper - response of Simon’s mother-in-law, after her healing, was for Public Justice, www.cpj.ca, a member-driven, faith- ate would Catholic Christians like to see change? to serve the community. These can become important les - based public policy organization in Ottawa focused on eco - Enhanced roles for women in ministry and church gover - sons for the Christian community to reflect upon, and logical justice, refugee rights and poverty elimination. nance structures? Better protection of minors and an end to attempt to imitate, today. While revealing secrets is healthy, reticence can also be a virtue

to be creative or to pray. We can has its origins here, as does cre - public amusement park!” Inside lack “the piety of shame before the ativity, prayer, and contemplation. that wit, there’s wisdom. The In mystery of life.” We all need to It’s no accident that when mother’s warning is about properly keep some secrets. artists paint persons at prayer, nor - guarding one’s body, but the body Etymologically to keep a secret mally they are depicted with their is connected to the soul and, like Exile means to keep something apart eyelids closed. Our souls need to the body, the soul too shouldn’t be from others. And we need to do be protected from over-exposure. trivialized and become fodder for Ron Rolheiser, OMI that in healthy ways because a cer - Just as our eyes need to be closed recreation. tain amount of honest privacy is at times for sleep, so too our souls. Jesus warns us to not give to the necessary for us to nurture our They need time away from the dogs what’s sacred, or throw pearls individuality, for us to come to madding crowd, time alone with to swine. That’s strong talk, but In all healthy people there’s a someone, and owned in openness know our own souls. All of us themselves, time to healthily what he’s warning us about merits natural reticence about revealing or we can never be healthy. need to keep some secrets, healthy deepen their individuality so as to strong language. Soul is a precious too much of themselves and a con - Scripture tells us that the truth secrets. What this does, apart from make them richer for romance. commodity that needs to be prop - comitant need to keep certain things will set us free, that we will be helping us know more deeply our Some years ago in an American erly cherished and guarded. Soul is secret. Too often we judge this as an healthy only if we confess our individuality, is that secrets protect television sitcom, a mother issued also a sacred commodity that needs unhealthy shyness or, worse, as hid - sins, and that our dark secrets will our mystery and depth by shield - this warning to her teenage daugh - to be accorded its proper rever - ing something bad. But reticence fester in us and ultimately corrupt ing them under a certain mystique, ter just as this young person was ence. We protect that preciousness and secrecy can be as much virtue us if we keep them hidden. from which we can more richly leaving for a party with friends: and sacredness when we confess as fault because, as James Hillman Alcoholics Anonymous submits offer our individuality to others. “Now remember your body is a openly our sick secrets and then puts it, when we’re healthy we will that we are as sick as our sickest normally “show the piety of shame secret. Psychology tells us that We derive both the words mys - temple of the Holy Spirit — not a properly guard our healthy ones. before the mystery of life.” our psychic health depends upon tery and mystic from the Greek When are secrets healthy and our capacity to share our thoughts, word myein , which is a word used when are they not? When is it feelings, and failings openly with to describe what we are left look - Contemplative Listening healthy to “cast our pearl” before others and that it’s dangerous to ing at when a flower closes its others and when is it not? This is keep things bottled up inside our - petals or a person closes his or her often answered too simplistically selves. That’s right. That’s wise. eyelids. Something’s hidden then, A Formation Program on both sides. There are secrets that are something of beauty, of intelli - for the Ministry of Spiritual Direction No doubt secrets can be danger - wrongly kept, like the dark secrets gence, of wit, of love. Its depths ous. From Scripture, from spiritu - we keep when we betray, or the are partially closed off and so that ality in every tradition, from what’s secrets a young child clutches to individual flower or person takes best in psychology, and, not least, as an exercise in power. Such on a certain mystique, which trig - Facilitated by Archdiocese of Regina from the various “12-step pro - secrets fester in the soul and keep gers a desire within us to want to Spiritual Directors Group grams” that today help so many us wrongly apart. What’s hidden uncover those depths. Romance people back to health, we learn that must be brought into the light. We keeping secrets can be dangerous, should be wary of secrets. This two-year program, August 2018 to June 2020, that what’s dark, obsessive, and But, as is the case with most hidden within us has to be brought everything else, there’s another Are you Moving? is limited to 12 persons who will meet to light, confessed, shared with side to this, a delicate balance that Please let us know a once a month for 10 months each year. needs to be struck. Just as it can be month in advance. It will include some retreats. bad to keep secrets, we can also be Write to: Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, too loose in sharing ourselves. We Circulation Dept. and award-winning author, is can lack proper reticence. We can Prairie Messenger For more information and an application form visit: president of the Oblate School of trivialize what’s precious inside us. Box 190 Theology in San Antonio, Texas. We can open ourselves in ways Muenster, Sask. S0K 2Y0 https://archregina.sk.ca/spiritual-direction He can be contacted through his that takes away our mystery and [email protected] Call: Karen (306)789-0238 - email: [email protected] website: www.ronrolheiser.com. makes us inept subjects for Undeliverable papers cost twice Now on Facebook: www.face - romance. We can lose our depth in as much to return. Marlene (306)999-2102 - email: [email protected] book.com/ronrolheiser ways that makes it difficult for us January 24, 2018 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 15 Benedictine Oblates, monastics: raise voices together

Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister delivered a keynote address at the funds for this project. But after Fourth International Oblate Congress, which took place Nov. 4 - 10 in long years of begging — and just Rome. The following is Chittister’s address, “Let the call be heard.” It was as he collected the last of the funds published on National Catholic Reporter (https://www.ncronline.org) Jan. — the river Uji overflowed and 9, 2018, and is reprinted with permission. This is the first of three parts. thousands were left homeless. So Tetsugen spent all the money he’d By Joan Chittister truth — but only a piece. collected to print the Scriptures A measure of the wisdom to - into Japanese on the homeless and The question of the day is a ward which we all strive lies in began his fundraising again. simple one but potentially life- learning the language of life But the very year he managed to changing: The question is, why around us, and, most of all per - raise the money for the second time, would anyone even bother to get haps, being willing to hear the wis - an epidemic spread over the coun - attached to a Benedictine monas- dom, of the other. It is by absorb - try. This time Tetsugen gave the tery? What is the purpose of doing ing the wisdom of others, The money away to help the suffering. something like that? Rule of Benedict is clear, that we Finally, once again, he set out The truth is that both of us — ourselves become wise. You from on another fundraising journey both you and I, I as a vowed mo- us, yes, but we from you, as well. and, 20 years later, sure enough, a nastic, you, as committed Ob lates The second story comes from the coin at a time, he finally raised — are in the process of discover - tales of the Hasidim: A seeker trav - enough money for the third time ing again in new and vibrant ways elled miles every week to learn from to see his dream come true: the joanchittister.org what it means to hold a charism in the holy one on the other side of the Scriptures would finally be able to Joan Chittister, OSB trust for the church. mountains. “What does the holy one be printed in Japanese. First, the purpose of a charism preach about,” some friends asked, The printing blocks from that Lay-religious programs — by perspectives in life and spirit, — the purpose of the gifts given to “that would cause you to make such first edition of Buddhist sutras whatever name they’ve been called make it possible for themselves to us by the Spirit in order to maintain an arduous journey so often?” into Japanese are still on display through time — Oblates, a Bene - do together what neither of them the spirit of Jesus in the church “Preach? Why, the holy one at the Obaku monastery in Kyoto. dictine term as old as the sixth cen - could possibly do alone. today — is not to horde it and hide never preaches to me at all,” the But the Japanese tell their chil - tury; or confraters in medieval There are not some of us who it for ourselves. No, the purpose of seeker said. dren to this day that Tetsugen monasteries; lay preacher tertiaries embody the gifts of the Spirit and a charism — the purpose of this “Well, then,” the friends asked, actually produced three editions of 13th-century France; Franciscan, some of us who do not. charism we call Benedictinism — is “what rituals does the holy one do of the sutra and that the first two Dominican and Carmelite third Thanks to Ruth, the Moabite, to share it, to give it away! We do that are so important to your editions — the care of the home - orders of the later Middle Ages; or the foreigner, the outsider, Naomi, not come to a monastery to hold this soul?” And the seeker answered: less, and the comfort of the suffer - the Jesuit volunteers; or Maryknoll the Israelite, can return to Beth - great charism captive to some kind “The holy one doesn’t do any rit - ing — are invisible but far superi - Lay Missioners of today. lehem. And so the line of David of ecclesiastical elitism, by the less uals for me whatsoever.” or to the third. Whatever they are called they stays intact and Jesus is born to than one per cent of the Christian “Well, in that case,” the friends Vowed Benedictines and com - are all meant to give new life, that line by — of all things — the community who claims to own it. persisted, “what potions are you mitted Oblates need one another. wider space, new depth and foreigner, Ruth. And there are several ancient given there that seem to make life Clearly, the Zen masters know stretch to the charisms of the reli - Thanks to the maidservant who stories that indicate best, I think, holier for you?” And the seeker an- what we know: Witness, not theo - gious communities whose task it risks her own life to accompany both the purpose and the spiritual - swered, “I’m not given any potions ry, is the measure of the spirituali - was to converge those gifts into her, Judith can plot the end of the ity of what it means to be a Bene - at all.” ty we profess. What we do be cause one great flame so the rest of the one who holds Israel under siege. dictine Oblate. “But if the holy one doesn’t of what we say we believe, is the world can see it and so themselves Thanks to the prophet Elija, The first of those stories is from preach to you, and the holy one real mark of genuine spirituality. envision another way to be alive. Elisha is recognized — as the one the tales of the desert monastics: doesn’t do rituals for you, and the From the desert master who lis - Question 2: Where do you who will carry on the prophetic One day Abbot Arsenius was ask - holy one doesn’t provide you with tened to the laity, to the seeker who come from? is a question of legiti - work itself and gives it stage for ing an old Egyptian man for ad vice potions, why do you go there?” recognized holiness of life in the macy that goes back to the roots of its own message. on something. Someone who saw And the seeker said, “To watch faithful dailiness of the holy one, to the church and the tradition itself. Together Benedictine monas - this said to him: “Abba Arsenius, the holy one build the fire.” Tetsugen who knew that no spiritu - Paul is very clear about it in teries and Benedictine oblates why is a person like you, who has Clearly, the Zen masters know al book is equal to one spiritual act, Corinthians: “To each one,” he must do the same to liberate the such great knowledge of Greek what we know: Witness, not theo - the link between deep spiritual teaches, “the manifestation of the oppressed today. and Latin, asking a peasant like ry, is the measure of the spiritual - development and a profound spiri - Spirit is given for the common You and I must do that same this for advice?” ity we profess. tual life has been a constant. good. . . . To one is given wisdom, thing for the voiceless of our own And Arsenius replied, “Indeed That seeker knows what every The ancients are clear: there is a to another knowledge, to one time. Thanks to Paul himself who I have learned the knowledge of truly spiritual seeker everywhere common bond between the carriers faith, to another healing, to one recognized in Timothy’s youth and Latin and Greek, yet I have not knows: there are some spiritual of the great spiritual traditions and power, to another prophecy. . . . his Greek ancestry the bridge Paul learned even the alphabet of this truths we come to understand only seekers of the spiritual life in every All these are the work of one and himself needed to preach Jesus to a peasant.” by seeing them in another — only age. One enlightens the other. One the same Spirit and given to each whole new non-Jewish population, Each of us — lay as well as reli - by doing what others do who have energizes the other. One empowers one as the Spirit determines for the work of the early church was gious — carries within us a piece already gone before us and know the other. The tradition enlightens the sake of the body, the whole.” able to thrive in regions far beyond of the truth — but only a piece. the value of going this way. It is the times, yes, but seekers re-ener - Those charisms are gifts given the sound of Paul’s own voice. Abba Arsenius knew what as the link to holy tradition that gize a tradition, as well. to each of us for the sake of the Now, we — you and I — must re li gious communities, as church, keeps us on the path. Point: vowed Benedictines and whole Christian community. And raise our voices together — where and as people we have forgotten Finally, the Zen masters tell committed Oblates need one an - so they must be given away for the Gospel is seldom heard. You for centuries: Life is the world’s the story of the monk Tetsugen, other. the sake of the whole Christian in your world, we in ours. greatest spiritual director. And the goal of whose life was the The questions then are simple community! Indeed, it was Jesus himself each of us learns from it. Each of printing of 7,000 copies of the ones: “Why do you exist as an The day we keep our charism to who said to many, everywhere us — lay as well as religious — Buddha’s sutras — till then only oblate?” “Where did you come ourselves — either as individuals and anywhere, come and see. And carries within us a piece of the available in Chinese — in Japa - from?” “Who are you in this great or as religious communities — that then sent them out together — no nese wood blocks. It was an enor - Benedictine story?” “What must very day the charism dies in us and apostles in sight — to be the disci - mous undertaking. you do for the charism to thrive?” the Holy Spirit goes seeking for ples of his own life. Chittister is a Benedictine sis - Tetsugen travelled the length Question 1: Why do you exist? softer sand through which to run. Indeed, Oblate programs share ter of Erie, Pennsylvania. and breadth of Japan to collect is a question of purpose. Clearly, the spiritual channel of a proud history, a broad scope. religious charisms or gifts is meant They also embody a bold theology: to be an unbroken one — through They demonstrate in a period of the keepers of the wells of those clericalism and a closed ecclesiolo - The Catholic Independent Schools, Diocese of Victoria traditions, us, to you, the keepers gy that the charisms of Jesus — all (With schools throughout Vancouver Island) of the byways of the world. the gifts of which Paul speaks — And it has clearly been forever are not for the keeping by a few. Invites applications for the following: thus. They are not for the desert Scripture itself is full of com - alone; they are to be given in the Two Principals panionship models of spirituality: city as well. Ruth and Naomi, Judith and her There are not some of us who are St. Andrew’s Regional High School maidservant, Elisha and Elija, holy and some of us who are not. and St. Joseph’s School Paul and Timothy. In every case it There are not some of us who both in Victoria, B.C. is the blend of differences, the embody the gifts of the Spirit and meld of diverse gifts, that makes some of us who do not. Application deadline: Feb. 9, 2018. possible the final miracle of faith. There are not some of us who In every case, it is the listening, are gift to the church and some of Also accepting applications for Grades K - 12 the learning, the loving attach - us who are not. teaching positions for the 2018/19 school year. ment of their spirits that take two The charisms of Jesus that the weaknesses and makes it strong. 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16 Prairie Messenger FEATURE January 24, 2018 Yesterday’s answers will not suffice for tomorrow

Over the next several months the Prairie Messenger will occasional - ly feature writing from past contributors and editors. The following edi - torial by Andrew Britz, OSB, titled “The Messenger is 100,” originally appeared in the Feb. 11, 2004, issue of the Prairie Messenger . We reprint it on this day, Jan. 24, because it is the feast day of St. Francis De Sales, the patron saint of writers and journalists.

For 100 years, the monks of St. If anything is certain, it is sure - Peter’s Abbey have published “the ly that the prophetic tradition can - Messenger ,” first in German, then not be institutionalized. Unlike for 24 years in both English and kings and priests, no one is anoint - German, and finally, since 1947, ed once and for all as a prophet. in English only. “Each morning the Lord awakes It has not always been easy for me to hear, to listen like a disci - the monks. The Messenger has ple,” Isaiah proclaims in the Third played no insignificant role in Servant Song (50:4). Prophets, keeping the Benedictines poor — too, must be the pilgrim, looking as they should be! Already after each day for the Spirit that will the very first issue — on February make them “an altogether new cre - 11, 2004, exactly 100 years ago — ation” (2 Cor 5:17). Rev. Alfred Mayer was apologiz - Monastic life, more so than re - ing to the monks for the costs sur - ligious life in general, is not about rounding the newspaper. The type doing good work in the communi - cost $300; the first printing (5,000 ty, and it is certainly not about copies) cost $55. being holier than people in the Surely the monks are to be com - world. The Sayings of the Desert mended for their ongoing financial Fathers are filled with stories contribution to the Messenger . But, about the young monks needing to over the years, it has not been learn that they are not better than finances that have tested their met - those married Christians who, Maureen Weber tle. It is not easy producing a pro- through their special sacrament, THE PRAIRIE MESSENGER — Pressman Randy Weber makes an adjustment as the Prairie Messenger phetic paper, year in and year out. struggle to reveal the uncondition - rolls off the press. In an editorial on the 100th anniversary of the Prairie Messenger , in 2004, Andrew Britz, Through it all these Bene dictines al love of God’s kingdom. OSB, wrote an editorial on the tradition of the monks and the publishing of their paper. After 114 years, the have stood fast. They are the real Aspirants to the monastic life Prairie Messenger will be closing its doors. ones we should be celebrating. are usually not impressed when The monks know that prophets they first study one of the key texts they never removed the ideal: the derstanding of who they are. Any strong dose of humility is medi - always have enemies: it cost John of Benedictine spirituality. Pope day must come when the monk editor who does not move with the cine every editor must down. the Baptist his head, and we all Gregory the Great, in describing would be able to pray “with eyes monastic community will not last We all must have the faith of know the story of the Cross. St. Benedict, has him “seeing the wide open.” long; it is the only preventive Gamaliel, a Pharisee and scholar Neither of these great men was whole world in a single ray of This goal marks the meaning medi cine to burnout. responsible for saving lives of able to preach the Gospel without light.” The would-be monk quite of the Prairie Messenger to help The Prairie Messenger is not some early apostles in the mid generating anger, without creating naturally thinks Benedict should its readers see the world (church the paper a bishop would publish. first century AD: “What is of resentment. see God in splendour divine, or included) as a whole, in a single That is not saying anything dis - human origin will die, but what is It’s inevitable that prophets Jesus with his five wounds shining ray of light. With such a vision paraging about them. (One of my of God will not be destroyed” (see who struggle to be on the cutting brightly — or at least Mary with a comes freedom, the freedom to greatest personal rewards these Acts 5:39). Yes, we need faith for edge come out bloodied at times. new revelation to the world! see ever-new possibilities for indi - past 21 years as an editor has been we do not have the answers. It is Prophets remind people that they Gregory, like the abbas, the viduals, for the church and for the the close association I have had always a great mistake to dogged - are pilgrims, and as long as they spiritual guides of the desert before world itself. with Prairie bishops.) The Prairie ly insist that yesterday’s answer are in this world they always will him, realized that new monks As every editor knows — and Messenger is a product of its reli - will suffice for tomorrow. be pilgrims. Prophets call us to a would have a hard time realizing the longer I am in office the surer gious and monastic roots. The monks are proud of their new age. Jesus had a tremendous this goal. So they allowed the be- I am about this — the Prairie Of course, there is a downside first 100 years on prairie soil; they gift of giving us glimpses of the ginner to pray “with eyes closed,” Messenger is the work of the in trying prophetically to be al - look forward to — indeed they kingdom. His parables are as fresh though they always recognized the monks of St. Peter’s. The paper’s ways on the cutting edge. Mis - seek — your trust and support as today as they were the first time inherent danger — that, with one’s development has changed as the takes will be made — and this edi - together we move on to a new his - he uttered them. Yet we know the eyes closed, one could create a monks have changed in their un - tor has made plenty of them! A tory, to new challenges. fear and anger he generated, not world wonderfully according to among the lukewarm and irreli - one’s own liking. 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dent, hoping that this was one mistake he would not repeat. I hoped in vain. The fellow Around the parked his SUV and hunted me down in the mall. Advancing from behind, he caught me by the arm Kitchen Table and tried to spin me around. But he wasn’t strong enough. Curious, Donald Ward and vaguely alarmed, I half-turned to face him, wondering who he was and what he wanted. Men in cars are strange crea - “Did I stop?” “Keep your hands to yourself, tures. You take a normal man, put “Yes.” buddy!” he said, as if I were Donald him in charge of a two-thousand- “Did I hit you?” Trump caught groping his wife. pound killing machine, and he’s “No.” “I beg your pardon?” liable to turn weird. “Was there ever the slightest “You hit my car!” It was snowing the other night, chance that my four-cylinder “Oh.” I recognized him now. and the parking lot at Sobeys was Chero kee would come into con - “You went straight through a red slippery from the constant move - tact with this over-powered sym - light and nearly ran me down.” ment of vehicles compacting the bol of your deep-seated insecuri - “I had to clear the intersection, snow. I was driving with care. ties?” man!” Even so, the Jeep skidded slightly “Well . . . no.” “You shouldn’t have been in as I emerged from one lane, and I “So what’s the problem?” the intersection in the first place.” touched the brakes. “I’m sorry. I guess I over-react - “Keep your hands to yourself!” A driver in a black BMW, ad- ed.” he repeated. vancing from another lane, over- Of course, it would not have “Was there any damage to your reacted. He swerved wildly and ended so neatly. I left him seeth- car?” I asked. slammed on his brakes. Staring ing in his heated leather seat and “Let’s go and have a look,” he with menace, he gave me the fin - watched in the rear-view mirror as challenged, gesturing for me to ger. I smiled back and gave him a he mastered his passions and follow. thumbs-up. He surged forward, finally drove off into the night. I nearly did — I am an agree - slammed on his brakes again, and Another time, again in winter, I able soul at heart — but I quickly once again gave me the finger. was crossing an intersection be - realized how preposterous it was: There was room for several cars tween two malls when a man in a the idea that I might have Design Pics between us, so I began to inch for - late-model SUV drove through a red scratched the tempered glass win - ward. He interpreted this as a chal - light and came straight at me. I dow of a $45,000 sport utility DRIVER TRAINING — We’ve all had negative encounters with driv - lenge. He had been inching for - stopped in my tracks. I could see the vehicle with the palm of a gloved ers, which indicates there is a decided lack of maturity among young ward himself, but at my blatant dis - expression on his face, and it was hand as that vehicle passed with - people at the wheel. play of raw, masculine power he clear he thought he was in the right. in centimetres of my breathing slammed on his brakes again. He He had no intention of stopping, or body. stalked off down the mall, reduced wasn’t as exciting as I thought it gave me the finger again. I smiled even slowing down. He swept past, “I’m not going to look at your to an unpleasant memory. would be. But I can’t help but again, and raised my thumb. close enough that I gave his rear side damned car,” I told him. The day I turned 16, I went think, in retrospect, that young If he had been angry before, he window a thump to let him know He hesitated. He wanted to inf lict down town and got my learner’s men who pass their learner’s exam was furious now. that he had nearly run me over. pain, but he wasn’t so sure of him - permit. I passed the exam and the should have to undergo a psychi - I imagined myself disarming People do make mistakes, I self anymore. With a final, “Keep eye test easily, and that night I atric evaluation be fore they’re him with logic. thought, and dismissed the inci - your hands to yourself, buddy!” he drove legally for the first time. It actually issued a permit. I, Tonya, is a remarkable portrait of a former Olympic figure skater

Continued from page 13 American skater to land a triple After an FBI investigation Jeff, axel in competition and seemed Shawn, and the attacker were arrest - Soon Molly was back in the bound for Olympic glory. After ed and received criminal sentences. game of high rollers and living a finishing a disappointing fourth in Tonya was allowed to compete at roller-coaster lifestyle (she’s frank 1992, she made a comeback reunit - the Olympics (where Kerri gan won about her addictions), until the ed with her first coach, Diane a silver medal), but her dream was appearance of mob connections Rawlinson (Julianne Nicholson). shattered. Although she adamantly threatened her life and brought in By then she had divorced Gillooly, denied knowledge of anything to do the FBI. Molly’s assets were seized, but made the mistake of having with injuring Kerrigan, her tie to but she managed to convince a him join her as she prepared for the Gillooly proved toxic. She faced high-priced lawyer, Charlie Jaffey U.S. nationals in the lead-up to the charges that resulted in a lifetime (Idris Elba), to represent her in 1994 Lillehammer Olympics. ban on competitive skating. A fighting the charges against her. A phony death threat led to a “celebrity” for the wrong reasons, Beyond the poker slang around harebrained scheme to use psy - she went on to earn money by par - the gaming table — narrated by chological warfare via threatening ticipating in boxing matches. Still, Chastain in voiceover flashbacks letters to her rival, Kerrigan, who the movie closes with an affecting — much of the movie revolves had been a friend and roommate. tribute, noting that she now wants to around their unusual relationship Except Gillooly entrusted it to a be known as a “good mother” and that began after the memoir was slobby sidekick, Shawn (Paul showing several minutes from one published, and that ultimately suc - Walter Hauser), who claimed to of the real Tonya’s thrilling per - ceeded in getting her off very Clubhouse Pictures be her bodyguard. He’s the loser formances on ice. lightly thanks to a sympathetic REMARKABLE PORTRAIT — A controversial female character is who got an even dumber accom - There was another poignant judge (played by Canadian indige - the focus of director Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya , a remarkable portrait of plice to strike Kerrigan on the real-life moment during the nous actor Graham Greene). former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding (played by Margot knee as she came off a practice Golden Globes awards ceremony Chastain shines at the centre of Robbie), who fell from grace following a notorious 1994 assault on session. As Tonya tells it, this when Allison Janney, a deserved this cautionary tale as a woman another skater, Nancy Kerrigan. scandalous “incident,” which supporting actress winner for her driven since youth to play to win occurs well over an hour into the role as Tonya’s formidable and in the company of powerful men. role of Tonya from age 15. Also a four), who was driven mercilessly movie, sparked a media furore fearsome mother, made a shout out A controversial female character co-producer on the film, she credits by her acid-tongued mother, (Bobby Cannavale appears a few from the stage to Tonya, seated is also the focus of director Craig Gillespie with pulling off “that bal - LaVona (Allison Janney). She met times as a scuzzy reporter for the beside Robbie. Gillespie’s I, Tonya , a quite remark - ance between comedy and tragedy her first boyfriend, Jeff Gillooly Tabloid Hard Copy ) that turned Robbie seems assured of an Os- able portrait of former Olym pic fig - of a situation but in a subtle way (Sebastian Stan), in her mid-teens her from a loved and admired star car nomination (announced today) ure skater Tonya Harding, who fell without ever making fun of the and would later marry him even into a reviled “punchline.” for her brilliant portrayal of Tonya. from grace following a notorious people that are in the scenario.” though he was physically abusive. Tonya and Jeff have divergent She had some skating experience, 1994 assault on another skater, Tonya did not have a “whole - Their tempestuous and sometimes versions of the story, though hers is but underwent months of training Nancy Kerrigan. The revelatory some family” upbringing In Port - violent relationship would become much the more credible and sym - to meet the demands of the role. way it unfolds the bizarre back land; more like “white trash” from a major factor in her downfall. pathetic. Gillespie makes clever use And by the end the tone, which story of what really happened and the school of hard knocks. But she Tonya resented how judges of different narrative techniques: starts almost as a mockumentary why is indicated by the editorial was a genuine child prodigy marked her down for a less than personal interviews with the key looking back on the whole sordid headline in the Cine plex magazine, (played by Maizie Smith and perfect image despite her technical subjects; split screens; sometimes affair, has shifted to one that makes “Skating the Truth.” Australian Mckenna Grace) on ice (winning prowess, but in 1991 she skated breaking the “fourth wall” as char - us appreciate Tonya’s lifelong actress Margot Robbie excels in the her first skate competition at age into the spotlight as the first female acters address the camera. struggle. Bravo. 18 Prairie Messenger EDITORIALS January 24, 2018

The inequality gap grows — and they — should be willing to pay.” “It is obscene for so much wealth to be held in the The Guardian said booming global stock markets hands of so few when one in 10 people survive on less This week the rich and powerful of the world are have been the main reason for the increase in wealth of than $2 a day,” she said. “Inequality is trapping hun - gathering for their annual World Economic Forum in those holding financial assets during 2017. The founder dreds of millions in poverty; it is fracturing our societies Davos, Switzerland. The meeting includes 70 national of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, saw his wealth rise by US$6 bil - and undermining democracy.” leaders with 2,500 economic decision-makers. lion in the first 10 days of 2017 as a result of a bull mar - Big business and the super-rich fuel the inequality Oxfam has outlined some alarming statistics about ket on Wall Street, making him the world’s richest man. crisis by dodging taxes, driving down wages and using who got richer in 2017. In a Jan. 22 report, the interna - Oxfam noted that 42 people hold as much wealth as their power to influence politics. tional charity said that billionaires have been created at the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorer half of Oxfam listed a series of actions that governments a record rate of one every two days over the past year. the world’s population. Last year it took 61 people to should take, including: limiting returns to shareholders At the same time, the bottom 50 per cent of the world’s make up that amount and in 2009 it took 380 people. and top executives; ensuring workers receive a mini - population has experienced no increase in wealth. Nine of 10 of the world’s 2,043 billionaires are men. mum “living wage”; and pushing through policies to Eighty-two per cent of the global wealth generated in In its report “Reward Work, Not Wealth,” Oxfam eliminate the gender pay gap and protect the rights of 2017 went to the most wealthy one per cent. says that billionaires saw their wealth increase by $762 women workers. Mark Goldring, Oxfam GB chief executive, said: billion US last year. This increase could have ended glob - Not only Oxfam is worried about current global eco - “The concentration of extreme wealth at the top is not a al poverty seven times over. A CEO from one of the nomic trends. A central banker is warning that the world sign of a thriving economy, but a symptom of a system world’s top five global fashion brands has to work for just is on the brink of another 2008-style credit meltdown. that is failing the millions of hardworking people on four days to earn what a garment worker in Bangladesh “All the market indicators right now look very sim - poverty wages who make our clothes and grow our food.” will earn in an entire lifetime, Oxfam reports. ilar to what we saw before the Lehman crisis, but the He added: “For work to be a genuine route out of “The people who make our clothes, assemble our lesson has somehow been forgotten,” William White, poverty we need to ensure that ordinary workers receive phones and grow our food are being exploited to ensure head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation a living wage and can insist on decent conditions, and a steady supply of cheap goods, and swell the profits of and Development’s review board, said. that women are not discriminated against. If that means corporations and billionaire investors,” said Winnie Oxfam should be invited to Davos to discuss its less for the already wealthy then that is a price that we Byanyima, Oxfam International’s executive director. report. — PWN People of the northern church learned to manage without a priest Life In Canadian Arctic

Jon Hansen, CSsR

Since last writing, I have ple are happy that they might see a received the wonderful and over - priest come for mass once a month whelming news that Pope Francis or even less seldom. In its place, has chosen me to become the next the people continue to gather, and bishop of the Mackenzie-Fort the church relies on the good hearts Smith diocese. One of my first and perseverance of faithful lay thoughts and concerns was how I leaders who keep the spark of faith was going to break the news to the alive. people I serve that I was going to In the North I have been privi - be moving away from them after leged to work with good couples only a little more than two years. I like Hank and Marlene Wolki in was sure there was going to be Paulatuk. While Marlene prepares tears and maybe some anger or, at families for baptism and couples the very least, mild disappoint - for marriage Hank is making sure ment. Wasn’t I surprised at the the heat stays on in the church and reaction I received and consider it repairs of the facility are taken one more lesson learned about the care of. When the priest does Jon Hansen, CSsR people of the North. arrive, they provide amazing hos - Community at prayer in Paulatuk. Across the board the reaction pitality giving up space in their was joy, pure selfless joy at what house so that I can have a bed. take for granted the opportunity general are getting harder to find who support the church with their God was doing with their pastor. In Tuktoyaktuk local leaders when it is finally offered. and young energetic men who are service, in the absence of a priest, Each person congratulated me and Jean Gruben and Dorothy Loreen As the new bishop of the dio - able to withstand the difficult con - are themselves supported by the said that they knew God had work alongside Sister Fay cese it will fall to me to make sure ditions in the North are even church. They will need to be given something good in store for me. It Trombley keeping the church that we find priests to come and scarcer. opportunities to grow in their faith seemed that the goodness that alive despite not seeing a priest serve these communities. It will As important will be making and will be made to know how came from the honour was not just for weeks at a time. This involves not be an easy task as priests in sure that the lay men and women much they are appreciated. for me, but they claimed it also for not only gathering people on themselves. It was only after the Sundays and leading communion first reaction of joy that they then services but also putting in count - Low-grade ‘muck’ turned into fuel paused and said, “We are going to less hours of work bagging food miss you,” but the look in their and folding clothes as they reach By Cheryl Croucher Dr. David Bressler is the award- group at the end of the molecule. eye let me know that they were out to the poor of the community winning scientist behind this inno - “So we just constructively looked going to be alright. through the Saint Vincent de Paul New technology employed by vation. Bressler is a professor in the for a way we could use high temper - The people of the northern ministry. Forge Hydrocarbons Corp., a Uni - Faculty of Agriculture, Life and ature and high pressure to more or church manage without a priest not In Tsiigehtchic Grace Blake is versity of Alberta spinoff compa - Environmental Sciences at the Uni - less break off that acid group, leav - because they do not desire the a constant supporter of the church ny, proves you don’t have to dig versity of Alberta. He’s also execu - ing the hydrocarbon tail behind.” eucharist but because they are used despite being busy with so many oil wells to produce fuel. You only tive director of the Biorefining This discovery opened the door to being on their own. In urban other community activities. Even have to dig through the muck we Conversions Network and scientif - to a new way to produce biodiesel centres, families have the luxury of when church is not well attended send to the landfill. ic adviser to Forge Hydrocarbons. fuel. What’s unique about Bressler’s deciding which mass to go to on she is of the mind that somebody Waste streams like those from Bressler got the idea for this process is the ability to make the the weekend, even which church needs to be praying for the com - rendering plants and restaurants particular bio-conversion of waste fuel without the use of hydrogen as they might visit. In many small, munity on Sunday, so she remains are loaded with low-grade fats and from his research at graduate a catalyst. This significantly reduces isolated communities not just in steadfast in her vocation of serv - oils that can now be converted school. He looked at how to gener - the cost of production and diminish - the north but across Canada, peo - ice for the Gospel. into biodiesel and other hydrocar - ate value from agricultural waste es its environmental footprint. One might think that with such bon-based products. streams. “Trips to the rendering Another advantage is that the pro - a sense of independence the pres - industry identified there were some cess doesn’t require a pristine or Hansen is a Redemptorist priest ence of a priest and the eucharist low fats and oils that were very even clean feedstock. and pastor of Our Lady of Victory might lose its appeal over time, but Croucher is a veteran broad - close to hydrocarbon fuels and we Bressler also discovered there Parish, Inuvik and bishop-elect of I have come to see the opposite is cast and online journalist who pro - tried to convert one to the other.” are additional sources beyond ren- the Mackenzie-Ft. Smith diocese. true. Because of their service in duces InnovationAnthology.com As Bressler explains, these fats dering fats for material suitable See his website: www.jonhansen the Lord’s vineyard they become which can be heard online and on are chemically very close to hy - ccsr.com thirsty and hungry and they do not CKUA Radio. www.troymedia.com drocarbon fuels, except for an acid — TECHNOLOGY , page 19 January 24, 2018 Prairie Messenger 19 KAIROS welcomes human rights ombudsperson

TORONTO — KAIROS and ommendations for re dress regard - dreds of civil society organizations Canadians and parliamentarians. Responsibility (CSR) Counsellor, its overseas partners are greatly ing corporate eligibility for govern - from Canada and abroad have In March 2017, KAIROS or- which the Canadian government encouraged by the Honourable ment services, and with respect to added their voice to the call for a ganized a five-member delegation established in 2010 and retained in Minister of International Trade’s policy and law reform. human rights ombudsperson. from the Philippines that included 2014 after a lengthy review. Ac cord- announcement Jan. 17 regarding It is important that the om - For years, KAIROS and its in - two Indigenous women leaders ing to the CNCA, Canadian mining the creation of the Canadian Om - budsperson be fully independent ternational partners have called on from mining affected communities companies did not co-operate with budsperson for Responsible Busi - from business and government Canada to hold its mining compa - in Mindanao. The delegation spoke the CSR counsellor’s griev ance ness Enterprise, billed as the first with the power to compel docu - nies accountable for charges of of militarization and human rights mechanism process, which had no of its kind in the world. The posi - ments. Working with the Cana - violations that include contami - violations in mining affected in- teeth to hold them to account. tion will hold Canadian mining dian Network on Corporate Ac - nated water supplies, disposses - digenous communities, and the Independent investigation is the companies and their subsidiaries, countability (CNCA), KAIROS sion, intimidation, beatings, rapes, inaccessibility of the local judicial core function of an ombudsperson. as well as the oil and gas and gar - will closely follow the develop - and murder from company securi - system to provide remedy. To effectively investigate allega - ment sectors, accountable for hu- ment of this new position. ty forces and military personnel. KAIROS partners, particularly tions of human rights abuse, an man rights violations at their over - This announcement comes near - KAIROS has sponsored numer - indigenous women, have high - ombudsperson requires the author - seas operations. ly a decade since industry and civil ous delegations to impacted com - lighted the unique impacts of ity to summon witnesses and com - The human rights ombudsper - society leaders recommended such munities in the Global South to large-scale resource extraction on pel the production of documents. son will investigate complaints an office and three years after the hear these accounts and to meet women. Resource extraction is An effective ombudsperson must concerning the overseas operations CNCA, of which KAIROS is a with mining officials. KAIROS often associated with increases in operate autonomously from Global of Canadian companies and will member, launched the Open for has also hosted partner representa - violence against women, and neg - Affairs Canada, including in the make public findings on allegations Justice campaign. Since then, more tives and delegates from impacted ative social, ecological, and eco - ad ministration of its operational of harm. The office will make rec - than 100,000 Canadians and hun - areas, and arranged meetings with nomic impacts that women often budget. feel first and most acutely. Canada A Multi-Stakeholder Advisory has a responsibility to ensure gen - Board (MSAB) has also been creat - Devastating impact on abuse survivors der-based violence is prevented. ed and will provide advice to the An ombudsperson should help minister and Global Affairs Canada Continued from page 1 listing what he has done to show his ceived, he said, “the verdict will Canada meet this responsibility. on matters related to the responsi - support for sex abuse victims and be released in less than a month.” In officially adopting the United ble business conduct and human because of the pope’s statement the pain experienced by victims Pope Francis also was asked Nations Declaration on the Rights rights due diligence of Ca na dian about Barros. because of the pope’s remarks. about the status of the Pontifical of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), companies operating abroad. The “Words that convey the mes - Pope Francis also spoke about Commission for the Protection of Canada also has a responsibility to MSAB will include members nom - sage ‘If you cannot prove your the scandal-plagued Sodalitium Minors, which he set up in 2014. ensure that Indigenous communi - inated by the CNCA and industry. claims then you will not be be - Christianae Vitae , a Catholic The three-year terms of its mem - ties are properly consulted, and In addition to the ombudsper - lieved’ abandon those who have move ment based in Peru. bers expired in December and that their right to free, prior and in- son, KAIROS and other CNCA suffered reprehensible criminal The movement’s founder, Luis some have questioned whether formed consent regarding mining members urge the federal govern - violations of their human dignity Fernando Figari, has been accused child protection really is a priority pr ojects on their land is respected. ment to facilitate access to Cana- and relegate survivors to discred - of the sexual and psychological when the commission’s member - The ombudsperson will replace dian courts for overseas plaintiffs ited exile,” the cardinal wrote. abuse of members; he has been ship was allowed to lapse. the controversial Office of the Ex - who claim harm by the actions of He also said, “Pope Francis ordered by the Vatican to remain Before the terms ended, he tractive Sector Corporate Social Canadian companies. fully recognizes the egregious in Rome and not have any contact said, the members decided to rec - failures of the church and its cler - with the movement. ommend who should serve a sec - gy who abused children and the “He declared himself innocent ond term and offered the names of devastating impact those crimes of the charges against him,” Pope possible new members. have had on survivors and their Francis told reporters, and he has The final list, he said, arrived loved ones.” appealed his cause to the Apos - on his desk a week before the trip The pope said he was grateful tolic Signatura , the Vatican’s began “and now it is going for O’Malley’s statement because it supreme court. According to the through the normal channels in struck the right balance between in formation the pope has re- the Curia. Bio-conversion technology is viable

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Violeta Parra. “Let us instead seek the path of nities have been stripped of their moved to the region to farm, and In his homily at the mass at active non-violence as a style of land repeatedly — first by Span - more recently by timber planta - TEMUCO, Chile (CNS) — Maquehue Airport in Temuco, the politics for peace,” he said. “Let ish colonists, then by settlers who tions. Celebrating mass in a land steeped pope also acknowledged that the us seek, and never tire of seeking, in indigenous history and culture, area, while rich in history and dialogue for the sake of unity. Pope Francis said the greatest beauty, brought memories of “sor - That is why we cry out: ‘Lord, threat facing humanity is the sti - row and pain” and “was the site of make us artisans of your unity.’ ’’ fling of differences driven by the grave violations of human rights.” Exercise “the solidarity that idea that some cultures are better Maquehue Airport, a Chilean makes us say: We need one anoth - than others. air force base, was used as a tor - er and our differences so that this Greeting members of the Ma- ture and detention centre during land can remain beautiful!” he pu che people and other indige - the brutal dictatorship of Augusto told them. “It is the only weapon nous peoples living in southern Pinochet from 1973 to 1990. we have against the ‘deforesta - Chile Jan. 17, Pope Francis recog - “We offer this mass for all those tion’ of hope.” nized the suffering and injustice who suffered and died, and for According to the Vatican, an endured by the indigenous popu - those who daily bear the burden of estimated 150,000 people attend - lation. those many injustices,” the pope ed the mass. Many of them were “Seen through the eyes of said. “The sacrifice of Jesus on the singing, cheering, and holding tourists, this land will thrill us as cross bears all the sin and pain of signs written in the native lan - we pass through it, but if we put our peoples, in order to redeem it.” guage of the Mapuche people, our ear to the ground, we will hear While supporting the rights of Mapudungun. it sing: ‘Arauco has a sorrow that the indigenous peoples to main - The mass began with a tradition - cannot be silenced, the injustices tain their cultures, Pope Francis al greeting to the pope delivered by of centuries that everyone sees insisted that the only way to sur - a group of indigenous people. taking place,’ ’’ Pope Francis said, vive and thrive was to remain In the Araucania region of CNS/Paul Haring quoting famed Chilean songwriter united and to shun violence. southern Chile, Mapuche commu - POPE’S MASS IN CHILE — Indigenous people walk past Pope Francis after presenting offertory gifts during the pope’s celebration of Use ‘Christ’ as password, pope tells youth mass at the Maquehue Airport near Temuco, Chile, Jan. 17.

By Jane Chambers people respond - ‘Machismo’ culture blinds ed. Throughout SANTIAGO, Chile (CNS) — the service they women’s role in society Pope Francis challenged young frequently shout - Chileans, telling them to always ed, “This is the ask themselves, “What would pope’s young By Junno Arocho Esteves nado who came from the far Christ do in my place?” people.” reach es of the Amazon represent a “At school, at university, when He spoke of PUERTO MALDONADO, “beautiful image” of a church outdoors, when at home, among the inspiration of Peru (CNS) — Society cannot look without borders “where all peo - friends, at work, when taunted: St. Alberto Hur - the other way and allow a culture ples have a place.” ‘What would Christ do in my tado, founder of that demeans the dignity of women “How much we need moments place?’ ’’ he told thousands of the Hogar de to persist, Pope Francis said. like these, to be together and, re - young people who came from all Cristo move - Speaking to the people of gardless of our place of origin, to over Latin America and Chile to a ment, which pro - Puerto Maldonado, located in the inspire us to build a culture of youth rally at Santiago’s Maipu vides vocational region known as Madre de Dios encounter that renews us in hope,” shrine. training and (“Mother of God”), Pope Francis the pope said. “When you go dancing, when other services for said it was sad to see how “in this The people of Madre de Dios, you are playing or watching sports: young people. CNS/Paul Haring land, which is under the protection he continued, can look to the of the Mother of God, so many example of Mary, who also came ‘What would Christ do in my The saint “had a POPE BLESSES PRISONER — Pope Francis women are devalued, denigrated from a small village considered a place?’ He is the password, the golden rule, a blesses a pregnant prisoner as he visits the women’s and exposed to endless violence.” “no man’s land” yet was chosen power source that charges our rule for setting prison centre in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 16. hearts, ignites our faith and makes his heart ablaze “Violence against women can - for something great. our eyes sparkle.” with the fire that keeps joy alive. ple — if your phones are turned on, not be treated as ‘normal,’ main - Mary, he added, can also give Pope Francis told young people For Jesus is that fire; everyone who I would like you to key this in. He taining a culture of machismo blind them a sense of belonging. they are the protagonists who will draws near to it is set ablaze. asks: ‘What would Christ do in my to the leading role that women play “This is not a land of orphans, change the church, and the young Hurtado’s password was quite sim - place?’ ’’ in our communities,” the pope said. but a land that has a mother! And Several young people were cho - Thousands of pilgrims gathered if it has a mother, it has sons and sen to tell Pope Francis about their in an open field at the Jorge daughters, a family, a community. dreams and hopes. Ariel Rojas told Basadre Institute, many travelling Where there is a mother, a family him, “We recognize in you a way from other parts of the country to and a community, problems may of being, a way of love.” see the pope. Some travelled 12 not disappear, but we certainly Rojas got a loud cheer when he hours by bus from Cuzco to Puerto find the strength to confront them told Pope Francis, “We want to Maldonado, and others camped differently,” the pope said. help you and support you with out in the early morning. Puerto Maldonado, located in your faith, and we want you to One woman, Andrea, travelled southeastern Peru, is known locally know that we will help you when all the way from Mazuco, over 160 as “the capital of biodiversity.” you are tired, because of all the kilometres east of Puerto Maldo - However, gold mining and ex - many things you have to do.” nado. She told one journalist that ploitation of people and resources Many of the pilgrims were she travelled three hours, “a little threaten the lives of its inhabitants wearing purple T-shirts that by bus and a lot of walking.” and risks the extinction of the area’s showed they were affiliated with “I can’t believe he’s here, much exotic wildlife and vegetation. the Jesuits. One of them, Natalia less that I made it here too,” she Denouncing the evils of ex - Tomas, had travelled more than said. ploitation, the pope said although 800 kilometres from Puerto Montt. Despite temperatures hovering many are accustomed to the term She told Catholic News Service slightly above 32 C, the sweltering “human trafficking,” in reality it is she is following Pope Francis’ heat did little to stifle the joy of nothing more than “slavery for advice to “stir things up and get out the people who waved flags bear - work, sexual slavery, slavery for and help people.” ing the papal colours and chanti - profit.” Later, the pope met with profes - ng, “ Francisco, amigo, la selva Later, the pope greeted children sors, staff and students at the esta contigo ” (“Francis, friend, the and teens at Hogar Principito , a Pontifical Catholic University of jungle is with you.”) home for abandoned and orphaned Chile. He told them they can con - In his address, the pope said the children, founded by Swiss mis - tribute to fostering peaceful coex - diverse peoples of Puerto Maldo - sionary Father Xavier Arbex. istence in the country through edu - cation. CNS/Carson King “Peaceful coexistence as a “We want to help you and support you with your PRO-LIFE ACTIVISTS — Aimee Murphy, executive director of nation is possible, not least to the faith, and we want you to know that we will help Rehumanize International, tells a group of non-traditional pro-life extent that we can generate educa - activists at the 2018 March for Life Jan. 19 in Washington that it’s tional processes that are also you when you are tired, because of all the many important for people to know that being pro-life means being against transformative, inclusive and things you have to do.” abortion, the death penalty, war, and discrimination as well as support - meant to favour such coexis - — Ariel Rojas to Pope Francis in Santiago ive of immigrants. tence,” he said.