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The Season of Lent in an Acceptable Time I Heard You, and on the Day of Salvation I Helped You April 2014 | catholicvi.com The Season of Lent In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you. Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. Inside this issue 4 from the editor's desk Bishop’s Calendar 6 spotlight on youth April 2 9 reflection • 10 a.m. Deanery Meeting, Chancery, St. Thomas 10 holy week 2014 April 3 12 cover story • 10 a.m. Deanery Meeting, The Season of Lent. St. Ann Church, St. Croix • 6 p.m. Cathedral Renovation 14 journey of faith Committee Meeting, Sts. Peter Nancy Soto. and Paul Hospitality Lounge 15 saint of the month April 4 St. Bernadette: Discover the • 10 a.m. Sts. Peter and Paul Hidden Treasure. School Principal’s Meeting April 5 16 theology 101 • 6:30 p.m. Mass, Our Lady The Third Commandment: Stock.xchng©jamesclk of Perpetual Help Church Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep it Holy. Bishop's Holy Week Schedule April 6 • 4 p.m. March For Life, St. Croix. 18 in the know with father joe April 15 • 5 p.m. Mass at St. Patrick Church I Don't Like My Pastor – Noon, Chrism Mass, St. Patrick Church, in Frederiksted. What Can I Do about it? Frederiksted, St. Croix April 8 19 spiritual fitness Holy Thursday, April 17 • Haitian Ministry Meeting, How Much Are You Really Willing 7 p.m., Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Chancery, TBA to Give up for Lent? St. Joseph Church, Mt. Pleasant, St. Croix April 9 20 special report . Good Friday, April 18 • 6 p.m Child Protection Review Board Meeting, 3 p.m., Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion and 22-25 parish calendars Hospitality Lounge Mass of the Pre-Sanctified, St. Patrick Church, Frederiksted, St. Croix 25 ¡buenas noticias! April 12 • 6 p.m. Confirmation, Our Lady Holy Saturday, April 19 of Mount Carmel Church 6:30 p.m., Easter Vigil, Holy Cross PLEASE SUBMIT Church, Christiansted, St. Croix April 13 • 11 a.m. Confirmation, news, digital photography and Holy Cross Church, St. Croix advertising for the May 2014 Easter Sunday, April 20 issue of The Catholic Islander by 9:30 a.m., Mass, St. Ann Church, APRIL 7, 2014 Barrenspot, St. Croix Submit news and articles to: The Magazine of the Father John Matthew Fewel Charlotte Banks Brother James Petrait, OSFS EDITOR [email protected] Roman Catholic Diocese Lillia King WEBMASTER ADVERTISING of St. Thomas in the Submit advertisements to: Sarah Jane von Haack Virgin Islands MANAGING EDITOR Bernetia Akin PROOFREADING [email protected] Most Reverend Herbert Bevard Jenny Bis Deacon Emith Fludd PUBLISHER GRAPHIC DESIGNER CIRCULATION www.FAITHcatholic.com 2 The Catholic Islander / April 2014 / www.catholicvi.com Faith and Reason ur faith journey, like St. Augustine’s, exists in two worlds. Faith in the tran- scendent God above is not separate from the world of sights and sounds where Jesus walked among us and is among us, in the most holy Eucharist and at O holy Mass where we are summoned to Calvary – to His very Passion. In the Son of God, we have the Light zon of faith and thus gained new under- light and seeing. He integrated the two of the World and the Word. We reflect standing. Augustine accepted the Greek perspectives of hearing and seeing, con- Light and Word by His saving power, in philosophy of light, with its insistence stantly guided by the revelation of God’s our own being and reflected in others. on the importance of sight. His encoun- love in Jesus. Thus Augustine developed The Light of Christ and the Word are ter with neo-Platonism introduced him a philosophy of light capable of embrac- everywhere in the sights, sounds and to the paradigm of the light, which, de- ing both the reciprocity proper to the the spiritual realities of the sacred Lit- scending from on high to illumine all re- word and the freedom born of looking to urgy. It is both eternal and unknowable ality, is a symbol of God. Augustine thus the light. Just as the word calls for a free in its completeness; for it is fathomless, came to appreciate God’s transcendence response, so the light finds a response in and yet is the very place to which our re- and discovered that all things have a cer- the image which reflects it. Augustine demption draws us. tain transparency – that they can reflect can, therefore, associate hearing and God’s goodness. This realization liber- seeing, and speak of “the word which The dialogue between faith and reason ated him from his earlier Manichaeism, shines forth within.” The light becomes, (Lumen Fidei 33): which had led him to think that good so to speak, the light of a word, because In the life of St. Augustine, we find and evil were in constant conflict, con- it is the light of a personal countenance, a significant example of this process fused and intertwined. The realization a light that, even as it enlightens us, calls whereby reason, with its desire for truth that God is light provided Augustine us and seeks to be reflected on our fac- and clarity, was integrated into the hori- with a new direction in life and enabled es and to shine from within us. Yet our him to acknowledge his sinfulness and longing for the vision of the whole, and to turn towards the good. not merely of fragments of history, re- All the same, the decisive moment in mains and will be fulfilled in the end, Augustine’s journey of faith, as he tells when, as Augustine says, we will see and us in the Confessions, was not in the we will love. Not because we will be able vision of a God above and beyond this to possess all the light, which will always world, but in an experience of hearing. be inexhaustible, but because we will en- In the garden, he heard a voice telling ter wholly into that light. him: “Take and read.” He then took up the book containing the epistles of St. Paul and started to read the 13th chapter of the Letter to the Romans. In this way, the personal God of the Bible appeared to him: a God who is able to speak to us, to come down to dwell in our midst and to accompany our journey through his- tory, making Himself known in the time of hearing and response. Yet this encounter with the God who From the Bishop’s Desk Wikipedia©Antonio Rodríguez speaks did not lead Augustine to reject 3 From the Editor's Desk Stock.xchng©dimitri_c By Father John Matthew Fewel All that I am, all that I have, all that I Reuters©MaxRossi Two Caribbean Cardinals Created hope to be, comes from you, and you On February 22, Pope Francis created 19 new cardinals in a A alone, and, is yours, O Lord my God! moving ceremony that included the participation of Pope Emer- itus Benedict XVI. Two of the cardinals created that day were Lent is a time of introspection and self-examination. Putting Bishop Kelvin Edward Felix (right), 81, from Dominica, West aside something accustomed, favored, familiar, is a spiritual Indies, Archbishop emeritus of Castries, and Archbishop Chibly method of evaluating, recognizing or acknowledging our de- Langlois (left), 55, Haitian, Bishop of Les Cayes. pendency on God. It is also an offering of ourselves to God from A ZENIT article released the next day stated: "The ceremony whom everything we have and everything we are comes. It is was the culmination of an intense week which began with the taking a practice common to daily life – of limiting something's third meeting of the Council of Cardinals and ended with the presence or influence in our life for the purpose of growth, Consistory, where cardinals from around the world spoke on health, education, financial benefit or love – and, for 40 days, the theme of the family." applying that principle to deepening our union with God. The newly created Cardinals are a tapestry of various backgrounds, Whatever we favor or love in the life we are living now is ranging from Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state only there because of the eternal need God placed in every one to Cardinal Langlois, the first cardinal from Haiti, one of the of us to love only our Lord. In each of us, the tendency toward poorest countries in the world. any sort of preference is an infinitesimal glimmer of the intense Cardinal Sean O’Malley OFM Cap, archbishop of Boston desire of our souls for one and only one, satisfaction: perfect and and member of the Council of Cardinals that advises the pope complete union with our God. on the governance of the church, expressed his joy after the The holy souls in purgatory are highly favored by the yesterday’s ceremony. removal of every last vestige of the world to which we are so In a brief interview with ZENIT, Cardinal O’Malley said the Con- accustomed, habituated, and with which we are so familiar, to sistory “indicates a continual growth and renewal” in the church: behold only the glory which lay ahead, for them and for us. “The Holy Father has obviously chosen extraordinary indi- With the veil drawn back – removed forever – they behold, viduals from different parts of the globe, many of them being yet at a distance, the face of God. the very first from their regions, which is a wonderful way of While we dwell in this world, we behold the face of a crucified recognizing the universality of our church.” Savior.
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