OCTOBER 2019 THE MAGAZINE OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SPOKANE • DIOCESEOFSPOKANE.ORG GRANDPARENTS FOR LIFE 6 16 20 LOCAL NEWS FEATURE STORY ASK FATHER MIKE Sacred Heart installs It begins and ends at Can we have a sense of original church bell Notre Dame humor about God? FROM THE BISHOP on an additional mystery or on praying for a particular intention. Since my arrival in Spokane, I have encour- aged the faithful to pray a sixth decade of the rosary for vocations to the diocesan priesthood and religious life. The Church in the United States also marks October as a month dedicated to the protection of human life. The first Sunday of the month is observed in parishes as Respect Life Sunday. This celebration always falls close to the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary — Oct. 7. All of these themes tie together intimately: the rosary, the protection of human life, and vocations. Our Lady is mother to all and, as she told the visionaries at Fatima, SIXTH in the end, her Immaculate Heart will triumph. DECADE So this October, let us renew our devotion to the OF THE rosary and to praying for the unborn, the infirm and all those threatened by the culture of death. I also ask that when you pray the rosary, please pray a sixth decade for vocations. If we seek renewal in the life in the Church, we must pray for vocations to the priest- hood, consecrated life, and holy marriage. In Mary our mother — whom we were entrusted to by Jesus while he hung on the cross — we find our truest advocate for life, for faith, and for the mission of the Church. If we turn to Mary, we can be sure that her Immaculate Heart GETTY IMAGES/SPUKKATO will triumph here in Eastern Washington and through- out the world. N THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, we traditionally honor Mary, and no devotion is as popular as the rosary. Historically, this has been one Mary, protectress of the unborn, pray for us. IRosaryof the most loved practices in Catholic devotion, taking different Mary, Queen of the Clergy, pray for us. forms throughout the centuries. The rosary that most of us are familiar with praying is known as the Dominican Rosary. As originally developed, it consists of three sets of five mysteries, with each mystery containing a decade (or set of 10) of Hail Mary prayers, totaling 150. The rosary allowed many of the faithful in Western Europe who could not pray the 150 Psalms contained in the Liturgy of the Hours — the community prayer of priests and nuns — to align their prayer with the daily prayer of the Church. According to pious tradition, the Blessed Virgin Mary gave the rosary to St. Dominic. In BISHOP THOMAS 2002, St. John Paul II advocated adding a fourth set of A. DALY mysteries to the Rosary, known as the luminous myster- is the seventh ies, to further contemplate the life of Jesus. bishop of the In different spiritual traditions within the Catho- Diocese of lic Church, variations of the rosary developed. Some Spokane. rosaries differed in the number of decades; containing six or seven decades. Some rosaries focused on different mysteries or had differing numbers of prayers within each decade. Careful observers will note that our Blessed Mother is seen holding a rosary in images of her appari- tion at Lourdes. Her rosary is usually depicted with six decades. 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The Masses, distributing holy HEROISM AND pectoral cross was made at Communion surreptitiously the nearby Messerschmitt PRIESTHOOD, plant where Dachau prisoners and hearing confessions – worked as slave labor, and while nursing and otherwise Dachau and Amazonia a beautiful wooden crozier comforting prisoners being was carved in the camp by a worked and starved to death IN LATE JUNE, I visited the concentration camp at Dachau, Trappist monk-prisoner. Shortly before Christmas is a story that should be located in a wooded suburb a few miles from downtown 1944, the priestly ordination told time and again in every Munich. The campsite struck me as rather too neat: of Karl Leisner was secretly seminary in the world. virtually all of the huts in which hundreds of thousands conducted by Bishop Piguet, of prisoners lived, starved, and died are gone, and the with a Jewish violinist in the camp providing music atmosphere, despite a blistering hot afternoon, was outside the hut “chapel” to divert the attention of the camp guards. antiseptic. There was little of the miasma of raw evil that Father Leisner was too ill to celebrate a first Mass immediately after remains at Auschwitz and Birkenau, even though Dachau his ordination, but managed to do so on the feast of St. Stephen was the prototype for those extermination factories. The the Protomartyr, Dec. 26. A fellow priest who would later become auxiliary bishop of Munich, Johannes Neuhausler, later described Dachau campsite’s Chapel of the Agony of Christ, built the scene: “On this, the greatest day of his life, [Karl Leisner] stood after the war, is touching. But, to my mind at least, its stark at the altar [in the prison barracks], far from his mother and father, modernism somehow fails to register the suffering it is his brothers and sisters and his friends. He wept and we wept with intended to commemorate — and transfigure. him. Silently, behind closed doors, we took some photographs of this first Mass so that the parents could see at least the picture of their son celebrating his first Mass in the concentration camp at Dachau.” Dachau was, for years, the “world’s largest rectory” or “the Mortally ill when the Dachau camp was liberated by the U.S. world’s largest monastery,” for it was there that the Thousand-Year Army on April 29, 1945, Karl Leisner died in a sanatorium Reich consigned more than 2,500 Catholic priests: almost 1,800 outside Munich three months later. He was beatified by Pope St. Poles, more than 400 Germans, more than 150 Frenchmen, as well John Paul II in 1996, along with another priest-martyr, Bernhard as Czechs, Slovaks, Dutchmen, Belgians, Italians, Luxemburgers, Lichtenberg, the heroic, anti-Nazi provost of the Berlin cathedral.