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You Are Invited Sooner Catholic Serving the People of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Volume 36, Number 9 * May 2, 2010 YOU ARE INVITED To join in the celebration of the GOLDEN JUBILEE OF PRIESTLY ORDINATION FOR MOST REVEREND EUSEBIUS J. BELTRAN ARCHBISHOP OF OKLAHOMA CITY Who: All Oklahoma Catholics When: Saturday, May 15, 2010 Where: Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Youth Camp (OLOG) What: Anniversary Mass followed by picnic, entertainment and children’s games The camp will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mass begins at 11 a.m. Archbishop Beltran is very pleased to invite you to share in his special jubilee, 50 years as a priest. He looks forward to celebrating Mass and visiting with his guests. Come and join in prayer, visiting and a picnic lunch. State Lawmakers Override Abortion Veto Oklahoma Senate President past. partisan margins,” Coffee said. Pro Tempore Glenn Coffee said a “It is striking that a pro- “The Left consistently claims lawsuit filed by Reproductive abortion organization based in that education and more informa- Services following the successful New York believes they know tion is always beneficial for our override of Gov. Brad Henry’s what is best for Oklahomans and citizens. Now, we pass a bill which veto of two anti-abortion laws will go to the expense of filing would provide more information contradicts what the organiza- suit over a bill that passed both for a woman contemplating the tion has said and done in the legislative bodies by wide, bi- Continued to Page 4 2 Sooner Catholic ● May 2, 2010 The Good News Sooner Catholic Most Reverend Eusebius J. Beltran ... Homily, Mystogogy Mass Archbishop of Oklahoma City My dear Brothers and Sisters in News anew: “Behold, this day a Publisher Christ: Savior has been born to you. He is ‘The Catholic Church may It is with great joy that I Christ the Lord.” Ray Dyer welcome you here today to our Jesus is the Christ. He is the not answer Editor Catholic Pastoral Center. I am espe- Lord. He is the One and only Savior all your cially pleased to extend that welcome of the world. It is He Who offers us questions as Cara Koenig to those of you who recently were new life through the holy, Catholic Technology/ baptized, received First Communion Church which He established. Thus you would Photographer and were confirmed in your parish to become a member of the Catholic like them to church. You entered the Catholic Church is radically different than Mauro Yanez Church after a long and prayerful joining any other group, society or be answered Hispanic Editor search. You heard the Lord calling institution. This is the uniqueness of but it will Archbishop and offering you new life. You dis- the holy Catholic Church. While the Beltran covered in the teachings of the Church is a community, an organiza- always direct 7501 Northwest Expressway Church the fulfillment of the Word of tion, a visible society, at the same you to the Lord...’ Oklahoma City, OK 73132 God. time, it is, in the revealed plan of (405) 721-1810 Fax: (405) 721-5210 God, the Mystical Body of Christ. sinking. It was then that the disci- In your RCIA instructions and e-mail: [email protected] formation, you learned that the The Church is Divinely established, ples realized this was Jesus Who had Mailing Address: P.O. Box 32180 human being is made in the Image sustained and directed. Jesus is the risen from the dead. and Likeness of God but we are not Foundation and the Head of this Like the disciples, we too have Oklahoma City, OK 73123 God. We are His creatures. We Church. Therefore, when by the been challenged by the Lord to place depend totally upon God as Jesus inspiration of God, we respond to His our trust and faith in Him. The Visit us online through the says: “Without Me, you can do noth- invitation and join the Church, we Catholic Church may not answer all Archdiocesan Web Page at become not just members of a your questions as you would like ing.” www.catharchdioceseokc.org. When human beings first sinned, community but also members of the them to be answered but it will we rejected the plan that God had Mystical Body of Christ. This new always direct you to the Lord established for us. We were like and intimate relationship with Jesus Himself because He is the Way, the The Sooner Catholic (USPS 066-910) is branches cut off the vine. There was is a communion, a coming together Truth and the Life. Now that you published biweekly except for once in July no hope for us, for without God, we so that we truly share in His life and share His life in the Eucharist, and twice in December by the Archdiocese can do nothing. But Almighty God, His love. It is through this unity with continue to follow Him all the days of of Oklahoma City. Who is good and gracious, looked Christ that we receive the fulfillment your life. upon us with love. He said: “I will of our human longing and nature. Therefore, I congratulate you for The newspaper is not responsible for send My Son and He will save you.” In today’s Gospel, we heard the responding to the invitation of Jesus. This promise of salvation was the story of Jesus appearing to His disci- I pray that you will be devout and unsolicited material. Good News that suffering humanity ples at the Sea of Galilee. They had active members of the Catholic Copyright © 2010 Sooner Catholic could depend upon in its daily fished all night and caught nothing. Church. If so, I know that you will struggles against evil. This was the At dawn they met Jesus standing on have life everlasting. May God Who Subscription rate: $20 per year for all has begun this good work in you, hope that faithful, loving people the shore and He challenged them to who are not members of the nourished for generations and even cast their nets again and when they bring it to fulfillment. Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. centuries. Then, at the appointed did, they pulled in such a large Most Reverend Eusebius J. Beltran time, the angels proclaimed the Good number of fish that the boat was Archbishop of Oklahoma City Periodical postage paid at Oklahoma City, OK 73125. POSTMASTER: Send address changes Mother’s Day Collection to Aid Birth Choice to the Sooner Catholic, P.O. Box 32180, Oklahoma City, OK 73123. Editor’s Note: This letter was sent to priests in the annual collection is critical to the lifesaving efforts at Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. It was written by Jan Birth Choice. It helps keep the doors open at four centers O’Neill, development director for Birth Choice of in the metropolitan Oklahoma City area in Bethany, Oklahoma, Inc. On May 9, Mother’s Day, Archbishop Edmond, Norman and south OKC, along with Rose Home, Beltran, as he does each year, is asking Oklahoma our shelter for homeless pregnant women 18 and older Catholics to support the ministry of Birth Choice with a and their children. The monies raised help provide special collection. pregnancy testing, limited ultrasounds, prenatal medical assessments, prenatal vitamins, shelter and food through Dear Shepherds of His Flock, Rose Home, maternity and infant clothing, diapers and The Sooner Catholic is Mother’s Day is fast approaching. I am writing you to formula, all at no cost to the women who need them. supported through the request that you please ask your parishioners to partici- During 2009, an additional prenatal assessment clinic was Archdiocesan Development Fund. pate in the Archbishop’s Mother’s Day Collection. This Continued to Page 5 May 2, 2010 ● Sooner Catholic 3 A Golden Anniversary Archbishop Beltran Reflects on Half Century of Love, Service to God and to His People; Celebration Set for May 15 By Ray Dyer know and love their faith. They were raised to The Sooner Catholic understand their Catholic faith was a gift to be cherished and taken seriously. On May 15, Archbishop Eusebius J. Beltran will “We were a very devout Catholic family,” celebrate the 50th anniversary of his priestly ordi- Archbishop Beltran said. An older brother, Joseph nation. All are invited on this day to celebrate with Beltran, would enter the priesthood before Arch- him at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Youth bishop Beltran. It was actually Father Joseph Camp. Beltran who persuaded his younger brother to be “It’s wonderful to be alive,” Archbishop Beltran ordained a priest for the Church in Georgia. said when asked his thoughts leading up to the Archbishop Beltran said at the time of his dis- celebration of his golden anniversary. He said this cernment of a priestly vocation, he was strongly thought enters his mind each morning when he considering responding to a plea from the bishop of awakens. He is truly grateful to God for the Mobile, Ala. The Alabama bishop was making a beautiful gift of life. A life the Archbishop said our strong recruiting pitch for priests, calling Alabama Catholic faith rightfully teaches us is the beginning “mission territory.” Father Joseph Beltran was suc- of our journey to the promise of eternal life with our cessful in convincing his younger brother the need Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in Heaven. for Catholic priests was even greater in Georgia. In 1934, Eusebius J. Beltran was born into a At 25 years of age and following 12 years of large Catholic family. The fifth of eight children, Catholic education, as well as four years of college the future Archbishop would grow up in a predomi- seminary and four more years of theological studies, nantly Catholic neighborhood.
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