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LOCAL NEWS March for Life in Washington, D.C. | PG. 3 |

A FROM THE CARRIBBEAN Born into slavery in Haiti: The Story of Venerable Pierre Toussaint, Part 1 | PG. 7 |

JOURNEY OF FAITH TO SEEK Jean-Jacques, ANDTO SAVE | PG. 14 |

THE“And when he does find it, he setsLOST it on his shoulders with great joy ... calling together his friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’” My Dear People,

Inside this issue My heart is filled with joy and happiness as I wish each and every one of you a wonderful celebration of Holy Week and From the Bishop’s Desk 3 local news Easter. How fortunate we are to be able to celebrate these great events in the life of Our Lord and in our lives as well. During 4 from the editor's desk Holy Week, we recall Palm Sunday as we Sacraments, may God fill your hearts with What Must I Do to Be Saved relive Christ's triumph entry into the city many, many gifts and most especially, His or to Save My ? of Jerusalem. On Tuesday of Holy Week, gift of sanctifying grace. It is important the of the will join with that we remember to open our hearts wide 7 special report me in celebrating the Mass of the Chrism so that Jesus, who loves us and who died Venerable Pierre Toussaint: during which the Oil of Catechumens, the for us, can enter with all His risen glory. Part 1 of 4. Oil of the Sick and the Sacred Chrism will It is my hope and prayer that you will be blessed. At this Mass, we will also renew open your heart and soul to Our Lord by 8 reflection our priestly vows and our commitment to participating in as many of the Holy Week In Weakness There is Strength. serve you, the people of God. On Holy liturgies as possible and by receiving the Thursday, we celebrate the Mass of the Sacrament of Penance. As you know, we are 12 cover story Last Supper and thank Our Lord for the bound by the law of Holy Mother Church To Seek and to Save the Lost. gift of the Blessed Sacrament and His to make our Easter duty by receiving Holy example of loving service. With great Communion worthily at this time. Make 14 journey of faith faith and reverence, we will spend Good sure your reception is truly pleasing to Zephaniah Jean-Jacques. Friday asking God to forgive our sins as God and beneficial to yourself by making a good and holy confession. 16 theology 101 we commemorate our Lord's Passion and Death. The Solemn Vigil on Holy Saturday Please remember to pray for the The Eighth Commandment: night and the Mass of the Resurrection Church here in the Islands, that You Shall Not Bear False Witness will fill all our hearts with Easter joy as we God may bless us, forgive us our sins and Against Your Neighbor. hail Jesus Christ, truly risen from the dead. make us His loving and devoted sons and daughters. Happy Easter! 22 world news As you participate in all these liturgies of Holy Week, and as you receive the - Bishop Bevard

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25 ¡buenas noticias! March 29 Palm Sunday Supper 7 p.m. followed by April 12 9 a.m. Cathedral of Sts. Peter Adoration of the Blessed Confirmation at OLPH and Paul blessing of Sacrament until Midnite palms 10:15 a.m., Mass April 19 80th Birthday 10:30 a.m. April 3 Good Friday ON THE COVER: Celebration for Service 3 p.m. Cathedral Le Bon Pasteur, Cardinal Justin Rigali, March 31 Presbyteral Followed by 5 p.m. Knoxville, TN Attribué à Philippe Mtg Hospitality Lounge, Spanish celebration of de Champaigne, 10 a.m. Chrism Mass the Lord’s Passion 1883. Musée with priests of the April 25 Mass, diocese, SPPC noon. April 4 Holy Saturday St. Anne Chapel, des Ursulines de 7p.m. Easter Vigil at Frenchtown, 5 p.m. Mâcon. April 1 SPPS: School Cathedral Mass 8:15 a.m. April 26 Confirmation, April 5 Easter Sunday 11 a.m. Holy Cross Please submit April 2 Holy Thursday, 10:30 a.m. Solemn Mass Church, Christiansted Mass of the Lord’s at Cathedral news and digital photography for the May 2015 issue of The Catholic

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March 4 Life and Bound 4 Life USVI 2015 By Danielle Olive, Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School

Bound 4 Life USVI is a pro-life group that works to change our planning stages. The St. Thomas March for Life is hosted annually country’s culture of death and return it to a culture of life where the in January and includes a walk along the waterfront and a Mass at rights of all human beings are protected and respected. Bound 4 the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul. Participants wear red attire Life USVI is made up of youths from various schools and parishes, to signify our nation's loss, as well as unity over the matter of as well as adults. We all believe that life should be protected from abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide. the moment of conception to natural death, and we all find it Every year in January, Bound 4 Life USVI also attends the very important to fight in order to instill this belief within our National March for Life, as well as other pro-life activities in community and the nation. Washington, D.C. For many Locally, we have succeeded of us, this year was the most in many pro-life activities that moving and spiritually rooted encompass the entire public. pilgrimage we have attended. We host a Holy Hour for Life Fifteen of us departed for the every week, as well as a monthly nation’s capital on Jan. 18 of for Life, either outside this year and safely reached of the Legislature Building or our destination. The next the Family Planning Center, day, we were invited to attend located across from Nisky a youth camp hosted by an Shopping Center. We host a organization called Youth local March for Life here on . There, St. Thomas and on St. Croix, Father Eduardo Ortiz-Santiago and a group of young adults we were able to meet and with one on St. John in the participate in the 2015 March for Life in Washington, D.C. associate with at least 35 other Story continues on page 10 3 Crucifix, by Giotto (1266-1337)

Catholic Church, founded by Jesus and spread throughout the world through the teaching, evangelization and missionary work of his Holy Apostles is our home. At every baptism, we hear words of welcoming. The welcome is warm and the benefits found in Christ’s Church are infinite. Baptism washes away all stain of sin and renews the soul as pleasing in God’s sight. Receiving the sacrament of penance reconciles us to God when our choice of sin steals sanctifying grace from our soul and wounds severely the tender heart of Jesus. Penance gives us another chance to please the one whom our soul desires above all else. It is the sign and the seal of Jesus having clutched us again to His breast and out of danger of the wolf crouched to spring. The council fathers taught us in Lumen Gentium that we cannot be saved if we leave our . It is a most serious and grave responsibility that comes with so great an unmerited gift. Those who have left the Church and her precepts have not forsaken merely a human institution; rather, they have rejected Christ, the Good Shepherd. They have left His protective care and moved within the strikezone of a coiled serpent, the devil. Lent is a time of penance and sacrifice – for ourselves and others. The many poor, lost souls who no longer receive holy Communion, or who go to Communion while living in serious sin, gravely offend the Blessed Sacrament. They are in need of our prayer, sacrifice and example of faithful life in Christ. What Must I Do to Be Saved We have only to look at a crucifix to see to what lengths God has gone to extend or to Save My Brother? His mercy to us, not sparing even His own son! He wants as our sacrifice that want to have the blessed assurance of my eternal salvation and we rend our hearts – for our brethren who not worry. Perhaps you do, too. I also want to know that I will so desperately need to come away from I be with my loved ones in heaven someday. danger, and home to Him.

We have so many assurances of God’s many more have departed in thought, powerful mercy and divine protection word or deed. Many more have departed in against sin and evil. The daily work of thought, word or deed, without physically living can be joyful, while perhaps not leaving the Church. always happy, if we think of every day as From the ’s moving us closer to that great day when document Lumen Gentium (which we will reach heaven. means the “light of peoples”), we learn This Lent, our prayers might well be that our lives have been immeasurably From the Editor's Desk offered up in part for those who have left blessed when we were welcomed into the one true faith. Many have done so and the Church founded by Our Lord. The By Father John Matthew Fewel 4 The Catholic Islander / April 2015 / www.catholicvi.com Local News

Father Louis Kemayou Installed as Pastor of St. Ann, Barrenspot

Bishop Hebert Bevard celebrates Mass of installation with the priests of the diocese

(l-r) Father Boniface Blanchard; Msgr. Kosak; Father Simon Opira, parochial vicar; Deacon Dennis Griffith; Bishop Herbert Bevard; and Father Louis Kemayou, pastor.

Just in time for Catholic Schools Week, a statue of St. Joseph and the baby Jesus was installed in front of St. Joseph High School. The statue was donated to SJHS by St. Patrick Church in 2014. It was restored in SJHS’s art department and briefly stood near the front of the school, but was soon removed pending construction of a more secure base. Sturdily mounted in January 2015, St. Joseph and the child Jesus now once again watch over the entrance of SJHS.

Refreshments were served in Marian Hall following the Mass of installation. They were provided courtesy of Thomas, and with plenty of assistance from parishioners. 5 Local News

Co-honoree Keys and Mr. Donald C. François Sword Executive Project Manager and Co-Chair Mrs. Charlotte Banks (right) and Keys & Sword Executive Co-Chair Ms. Lillia King (left) pulled out all the stops again this year for a most memorable evening honoring Mrs. Esonia Hassel and Mr. Donald C. François (inset). Both Msgr. Feudjio, cathedral rector, and Bishop Herbert Bevard wish to extend their grateful thanks to Charlotte and Lillia for their many sacrifices and hard work putting together such a stellar event – six years going!

Catholic Charities’ APRIL FOOD DRIVE Please collect the following items at your church, school or workplace and bring them to : • Powdered milk, rice, lentils and beans Sister Mary Madeleine, DHFB, was welcomed by her sisters and guests with dinner • Infant formula and baby food in the convent and joyful conversation. (l-r) Msgr. Jerome Feudjio, Frank Souza, Sister • Canned meat and vegetables Gizelle, Sister Mary Madeleine, Josh Hamiltion, Jean Dragin, Msgr. Paul Dudziak, Pastor of St. Stephen the Martyr Church in Washington, D.C., and Sr. Joan. 6 The Catholic Islander / April 2015 / www.catholicvi.com Special Report

Les Voyageurs by Jules Ernest Paul.

his rounds, touched his wand to the gas lamps that now added a Venerable Pierre Toussaint soft, subtle glow to the city streets. Only the “clop-clop” of horses’ footfalls, the creaking of carriages PART 1 OF 4 on the unpaved avenues and the greetings that neighbors called to one another broke the quiet of the evening. By Boniface Hanley, O.F.M. Along a narrow street called Reade, a tall, lithe man, clad in a greatcoat and a three-cornered hat, walked rapidly through the night. Entering a three-story home on the street, he mounted Editor’s Note: Venerable Pierre Toussaint the stairs and halted at the second floor. He tapped gently on began his life in slavery in Haiti (then the door. called St. Domingue) though he lived “Madame,” he asked in French, “may I come in?” most of his life in New York where “Yes,” the voice from inside responded. It was a tired voice. his heroic virtue and immense love of Entering and throwing off his coat, the man sat for a moment his fellow man won him the love and in a chair. Then he bent over and lighted the small oil lamp on respect of all. From his story, reprinted a table near a chair in which Madame was resting. The glow of here courtesy of EWTN and Ave Maria the lamp illumined her face and figure. She was in her middle Press, we learn from his holy example how 30s. Her features, delicate and refined, hinted accurately at her to discern God's voice in our own life. He aristocratic origins. Her eyes, lifeless, apprehensive, mirrored used to say concerning the life God had given him: “The die the tragedy that haunted her. Life had struck this formerly gay is cast.” He would continue that it was up to him to do the young lady one cruel blow after another. Twice widowed at 30, best that he was able with the life God has chosen for him. He she had experienced exile, financial ruin and mental shock. never sought for anything but to show Christian love through Now her physical health was failing. There are people who living the Gospel message. grow strong under suffering. Madame Marie Elisabeth Nicolas was not one of these. It was a cool autumn evening in New York. The sun had set The tall gentleman offered the lady a package. an hour earlier. A shower of bright, gentle light cascaded from a “Please, Madame, try one of these bonbons. They are good, harvest moon that hung, a luminous white disc, in the blue-black and you will enjoy them." His voice was musical, gentle. The skies that arched overhead. The lamplighter, moving steadily on amber glow from the oil lamp washed over his face. It was a Story continues on page 11 7 Reflection

IN WEAKNESS THERE IS STRENGTH

he Christian faith is full of what many people might describe as contradictions. For example, we are told to die to ourselves in order to truly live. (cf. Luke17:33) If you want to be rich, then we should give away all that we have to the poor. (cf. Luke 14:33) If you want your prayer to be heard, then go to your room, close your door, and the Lord who Thears what is said in secret, will answer you. (cf. Mark 6:1-34)

The list of seemingly contradictory world today. Reading the newspaper statements goes on and on. Perhaps or watching the news can leave us the most helpful “contradiction” for shaking our heads in despair. At this time of year is to reflect upon 2 the very least, newspaper reports Corinthians 12:8-10, where we are and the news on television provide reminded that in weakness there is an opportunity to reflect on our strength. In other words, it is only powerlessness. Can we, for example, when we realize our powerlessness do anything about the kidnappings that God can begin to work through of children in Nigeria? Could our us. Francis, in his Lenten individual efforts bring peace to Father Kevin MacDonald. C.S.s.R. reflection for 2015, goes so far as Darfur and Sudan? How can we to call it “diabolical” to think that expect to help persecuted Christians our own efforts can save the world in Syria or the estimated 41 million for 24 hours on March 13-14. This and ourselves. In every prayer we refugees living out their lives in time would be spent contemplating say, it is God who begins the prayer refugee camps around the world? the Eucharist as well as providing in us. The same holds true for any has provided us with the opportunity for the sacrament of charitable action. God initiates the a plan for Lent to help these people God’s mercy, confession. idea in our minds and leaves it up to that we will probably only see on the “‘Who is my mother? Who are my us to respond. television screen. First, he says, we brothers?’ Jesus asked. Stretching These thoughts can help us in unite ourselves in prayer with the out his hand toward his disciples he light of all that is happening in the Church in heaven. The pope reminds said, ‘Here are my mother and my us of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the brothers. For whoever does the will “Little Flower.” She predicted that of my heavenly Father is my brother, she would spend her heaven helping and sister, and mother.’” (Matthew 12:48) Here are my those on earth. She believed that as long as there is one single person mother and suffering on earth, then the work of the is not complete. We join the my brothers. For saints in their efforts on our behalf. Father Kevin MacDonald, Prayer is the most powerful weapon C.S.s.R., is a Redemptorist whoever does the we have against the sluggishness , missionary preacher, of indifference. The Church will evangelist and retreat will of my heavenly survive hatred and heresy, sin and master. He visits the persecution. What imperils the Caribbean, the U.S. mainland Father is my brother, Church is lukewarmness. and overseas in his work. To help storm heaven with our To contact Father Kevin, and sister, and prayers, Pope Francis asked the help call Church of parishes around the world to in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., 386.428.6426. mother." (Matthew 12:48) participate in an initiative to stay open

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teenagers. We met in small groups to talk and learn more about banner and joined the March for Life 2015 along with our own our faith. We had the opportunity to attend confession and Bishop Herbert Bevard. Mass. At the end of the day, we were formally initiated into the We chanted and sang along with other groups about our love organization which we currently continue with our own chapter for life. It was estimated that about 600,000 people participated locally. We established great friendships there and hope to see in the march. It was incredible to stand at the top of Capitol some of them again in March when we ourselves will be hosting Hill and look back on the other participants as they made their a youth camp. way up the hill – there were so many people! From there, we went to the Rose Dinner to close the week’s pro-life activities. At the Rose Dinner, we heard about the great work of the in securing ultrasound machines for pregnancy centers around the nation. It has been shown that if a woman sees her baby and hears the heartbeat, she is much more likely to choose life for her unborn child. We were quite impressed with the good work being accomplished by the Knights of Columbus. In addition to the activities we attended and participated in, our trip was also enhanced with daily Morning Prayer, Mass and Evening Prayer, as well as daily reflections. I believe that we really had the opportunity to grow stronger in faith and to further our personal relationships with God. It has also encouraged us The next day, we had the opportunity to visit Pope St. John Paul II National , where we saw a relic of the newly- canonized St. Pope John Paul II. Father Eduardo Ortiz-Santiago, as well as Deacon Bernard Gibs participated in the noon Mass there. We then visited the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land, where we toured various replicas of major sites of the Holy Land in Jerusalem. The next day, Wednesday, we participated in a protest at an abortion clinic, Planned Parenthood. There, we joined other pro- life groups from all over the country in a non-violent protest. We prayed the rosary and listened to testimonies of those involved in pro-life work all over the world, including Ireland. We also heard from a woman who aborted her baby and the physical, emotional to continue our work here locally and expand our group. This and spiritual scars that remained. We also came face-to-face with trip was very well planned and overseen by our group leaders, pro-abortion supporters who were mocking our presence there. Timothy Olive and Father Eduardo. Our group is also very It was a powerful experience, witnessing to our faith in such a grateful to the spiritual and financial support of Bishop Herbert direct manner; it certainly will be something many of us will never Bevard who provides unwavering leadership and guidance in our forget. After that, we made our way to the Basilica of the National fight to end abortion. It is a privilege to be able to attend such Shrine of the to participate in the Vigil events with our bishop. We all are truly grateful to stand up and Mass for Life. In order to get seats in the main church, we had to witness to something held very closely to our hearts. We won't get there at least six hours before the Mass because of the crowds. stop fighting until all life is protected and respected by our nation's The basilica generally seats about 5,000 people, however, for laws and we will continue to pray for a change in the hearts of this specific event, about 13,000 people made their way into the abortion supporters. As a famous pro-life quote says, “I survived building just to be a part of something so magnificent. We were Roe vs. Wade, but Roe vs. Wade will not survive me!” joined by hundreds of seminarians, deacons, priests, bishops and even cardinals. We were also featured on EWTN (local channel 16), which filmed the Mass. The next day was Jan. 22. This is always the date of the PROTECTION OF CHILDREN National March for Life because this was the date that abortion was legalized under the 1973 Roe vs. Wade court case. We began The Diocese of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands is the morning by attending the youth rally and Mass 4 Life at committed to protecting children from all harm. If the Verizon Center not far from our hotel. It was an exciting you have knowledge of any church worker who may and music-filled event, led by young people who were unafraid have abused a minor, please contact the diocesan to express God’s love in their lives. After the event, everyone child protection coordinator, Callista Julien, at was shuttled out toward the National Mall, where everyone 340.778 0484 or 340.772.4214. assembled and got ready to march to the Capitol. We put up our

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Lithograph (1874) by George Schlegel (original artist); Restored by Cuerden (2013).

He would continue that it was up to him to do the best that he was able with the life God has chosen for him. He never sought for anything but to show Christian love through living the Gospel message." face full of kindness. His dark eyes and fine mouth manifested as was his master, Monsieur Berard. Pierre, intelligent and force of character. He was a black man, a hairdresser by trade, cheerful, was deeply rooted in the Catholic faith. He grew tall, and his name was Pierre Toussaint. Pierre’s story begins in St. slim and graceful in mind and manner. Berard assigned him Domingue (present-day Haiti) in 1766, a decade before the to work in the plantation's great house. Thus, Toussaint was American Revolution. In those days, Haiti, France's wealthiest spared the harsher life of the field hand and the bitterness it Caribbean colony, produced sugar, coffee, indigo, tobacco engendered. and fruit in such profusion and abundance that two-thirds In the mid-1780s, Jean Berard, himself a widower, married of all French commerce was conducted with the island. Any a young widow, Marie Elisabeth Bossard Roudanes, an enterprising Frenchman who invested heavily in a Haitian aristocratic daughter of a wealthy French planter. Jean had a plantation could earn a huge fortune in as few as three years. premonition that the hurricane of black retaliation, so long But the great rebellion of enslaved peoples in Haiti and the forming, was about to burst over Haiti. He decided to move world-wide effects of the American and French Revolutions his new wife, his two sisters, a retinue of servants and himself soon to follow were to forever change all this. to New York City to wait out the storm. In the Berard party Most planters in St. Domingue were either not aware of were Pierre and Pierre's sister, Rosalie. By the late 1780s, New the severity of the crisis about to unfold or were not willing York was the capital of the new American nation. The city to change. Pressure was high among them to hold onto the hosted George Washington's inauguration as first president ways they had known from almost the beginning of French of the . The father of our country lived at No. 3 colonization of the island. Cherry St. Most of New York’s 30,000 citizens dwelt near the There were a few planters, nevertheless, who refused to bow waterfront. Some adventurous families lived on the northern under the pressure of their fellow plantation owners. One was rim of the city in a suburb called Greenwich Village. The Jays, a certain Monsieur Jean Berard, owner of a large plantation the Washingtons and other New York first families carried on in northern Haiti. Berard treated his slaves with genuine an active social life. respect. One of them, a young black named Pierre Toussaint, he encouraged to read and write and to explore the treasures of - Excerpt from “Ten Christians” by Boniface Hanley, O.F.M., the extensive Berard library. published by Ave Maria Press. Reprinted with permission from Pierre's grandmother and mother were devout Catholics, Ave Maria Press and EWTN.

Look for Part II in the May edition of The Catholic Islander.

11 The Good Shepherd, by James Tissot (1836-1902)

TO SEEK ANDTO SAVE

THE LOSTBY FATHER JOHN MATTHEW FEWEL

12 The Catholic Islander / April 2015 / www.catholicvi.com COVER STORY

“And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy ... calling together his friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’”

Our tiny diocese in the Virgin Islands is a place vouchsafes his words at his Ascension to remain with of many different kinds of people, nationalities, us until the end of the age. How blessed we are that occupations, social strata and many different religions. Jesus Christ, as mediator between God and man, has Jesus established forever One, Holy, Catholic and promised that He will not leave us nor forsake us, for Apostolic Church. Today, the splintering and division this very reason. Our Catholic Mass is everything to which torment the body of Christ, when we reflect on this hurting world. the prayer of Jesus, saddens terribly all who desire to Holy Mass is everything, especially to a Catholic. To be one, as Jesus has called us to be one. “Jerusalem, be admitted into this universal family is not of our own Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent doing. It is God’s marvelous gift to us. So great is this to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children gift of God that to abandon or spurn it is to abandon the together, as a hen gathers her young under her wings, but hope of eternal life with Him. The Fathers of Vatican you were unwilling!” (Matthew 23:37) II, in their instruction Lumen Gentium, affirmed what Our Holy Father has expressed this desire to repair this gift means for Catholics. We must always remain the wounds that divide Christians from Christians, faithful to our sacred election and calling. We must Catholics from non-Catholics, as have each of his study and learn our faith and never depart from it, or predecessors! Much of the fruit that came out of the there will only be eternal suffering – unless we return to Second Vatican Council called by Pope St. John XXIII, Him. Nothing that we have is our own, but comes from was meant to respond to the tremendous pressures in Him. To reject Him is to reject life. To lose life is to lose the modern age. How many forces seem to overwhelm life forever. The council fathers at Vatican II reaffirmed and to divide mankind further and further! The great that there is no other church, nor is there any other council met to pray and to find answers. But this name by which we can be saved. (ref. LG14) division appears to go on despite efforts by so many As our Good Shepherd continually does, we must both in the Church and in the world to make mankind do likewise: to leave aside the 99 in order to seek the whole once again. lost and wandering lamb. We must rescue it out of the Divided as we are, we are ever united in our common path of the swooping raptor, its talons aimed to tear it humanity. Our diocese has in place Catholic Charities, to pieces. which is not just for Catholics; it is for all the people of Our Lady has given us the holy rosary for just such a our three islands. From the four corners of the world, purpose. It is a sacred weapon to be wielded with great people come to live and work here. Some are well and eternal effect. It will unfailingly help to bring back enough off, and others are among the poorest of the the straying sheep. poor. They all need our help. This Lenten season, pray for loved ones to come What we can offer the vast population – wealthy home. If we persevere in lives devoted to the sacraments or needy, healthy or sick – is the Bread of Life – Our of the Church, to sacrifice, giving alms, fasting and Blessed Lord in the Eucharist. prayer for the lost, whether living or dead, and follow The Blessed Sacrament is so necessary, not just for the Good Shepherd's example, many will be returned Catholics, but for all of humanity. His Real Presence safely to the fold. 13 Journey of Faith

“I love my Church,” a church,” he says. “There was Zephaniah Jean-Jacques says, a lady by the name of Miss with a smile. “I would never Michelle. We had Mass there at leave it. I helped build this a little hall before we erected the building years ago and now I church. One year, the wind blew come almost every day.” it down, and we straightened it From the days of his early up, gave it support and built the childhood on Dominica, building.” Zephaniah grew up around From his involvement, the Church. “My father made the priest could see that sure we went to church every Zephaniah was a man who Sunday,” he says. “He helped valued his faith. “Father Simon out the priest and when the approached me,” Zephaniah priest couldn’t be on the island, says, “and asked me to be the my father was the man who sacristan. It took me a while would attend to before I said yes, the Communion but I did.” service.” The “I love Over the years, strong faith of his my Church ... he has served as father and mother an Extraordinary left an impression I would never Minister of the on Zephaniah leave it.” Eucharist, lector and instilled in and crucial him a belief in member of the the importance of prayer and parish. “These days, I’m 83,” worship. he says, “so I’m trying to cut When his father died down a little, but I still go unexpectedly, Zephaniah and to church every day.” Most one of his sisters had to move in weekends Zephaniah can be with an uncle. He moved to St. found setting up the church Kitts, where he went to the local and assisting in the Saturday Catholic school and worked in evening and Sunday Masses. his uncle’s business. Though he His personal prayer regimen left school at age 17 to become helps keep him grounded. more involved with learning “My parents always said, ‘Pray, business and running errands, Pray!’ Ask God for anything, Zephaniah kept up with his get on your knees and pray. So reading to better himself. I do, every day I read Psalm 91 After several moves between and Psalm 103.” On Fridays, Bermuda and St. Kitts, he came he helps lead Stations of the to St. Croix for work. There, he Cross, and this month they are worked construction in the day also doing a special devotion to and in the evenings at a local Mary, Undoer of Knots. theater taking tickets. He got His devotion to the Church married in St. Patrick Church runs deep, and his role as Zephaniah Jean-Jacques in Frederiksted, and when the sacristan allows Zephaniah ephaniah is often the first one to arrive at Holy opportunity came to run the Jean-Jacques to help spread concessions at another theater the Gospel in St. Thomas. He Family Church on St. Thomas – well before being built on St. Thomas, dutifully goes about work and anyone else. He unlocks the doors and gets to work Z he jumped at the chance and his devotion echoes King carefully laying out the books, finding the readings and moved his growing family to in Psalm 103, the psalm he setting up the altar. Throughout his work, a work that he St. Thomas. meditates on daily: “Praise the has been doing as sacristan for many years, he thinks and “I started with the Holy LORD, my soul; all my inmost prays as he gets ready for the Mass. Family Church before it was being, praise his holy name.” 14 The Catholic Islander / April 2015 / www.catholicvi.com By Paul McAvoy 15 Theology 101

SANHEDRIN TRIAL OF JESUS: “Jesús en casa de Anás Museo del Prado José de Madrazo” by José de Madrazo Agudo (1781-1859)

THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST YOUR NEIGHBOR

he “eighth word” of the Spirit of truth,’ whom the Father sends in in injury to our brothers and sisters – and Decalogue continues His name and who leads ‘into all the truth.’” therefore to Jesus Christ Himself who has T to reveal to us how It means witnessing to the truth of the faith taught us that whatever we do to others God desires us to act in our even if it means our own death. In other we do to Him. relationships with one another. words, if we are to live in communion with To this end, the Eighth Commandment Specifically, we are to never God, who is truth, we must consent to live forbids false witness and perjury. False in the truth. That is, we must consent to witness takes on more seriousness when misrepresent the truth. It is a be a martyr (witness) for Christ by acting it is done publicly. In a court, when false command that “flows from the upright in our actions and speech. witness is given under oath, it becomes vocation of the holy people to perjury. These acts are offensive to God bear witness to their God who is in part because they can contribute the truth and wills the truth.” The Eighth Gift: “to condemnation of the innocent, You shall not bear false witness exoneration of the guilty, or the increased Just as the Old Testament witnesses to against your neighbor punishment of the accused.” God as the source of all truth, the New In other words, they can stand in the Testament testifies that the “whole of way of that justice which is called for by God’s truth has been made manifest” in OFFENSES AGAINST THE TRUTH all the commandments. Recall that justice Jesus Christ. In fact, Jesus Christ is the is the moral virtue that “consists in the Truth that came into the world to bear Respect for human dignity requires the constant and firm will to give their due witness to the truth, even when it would “putting away of all falsehood ... all malice to God and neighbor.” In terms of one’s lead to His death on the cross. and all guile and insincerity and envy and neighbor, justice requires respect for the To follow Jesus, then, is to “live in ‘the all slander.” Each of these realities results rights of each person and working for

16 The Catholic Islander / April 2015 / www.catholicvi.com harmony in human relationships so that equity with regard to persons and to the The Ten Commandments Bible Geography Facts common good is promoted. Every attitude or word that is likely to cause unjust injury to a person The Jordan River is one of the world’s most is forbidden out of a respect for the sacred rivers and was the location of the reputation of that person. Rushing to baptism of Jesus Christ. With the lowest the rash judgment of a person without elevation of any river in the world, it rises sufficient foundation, detracting from at the Syrian-Lebanese border, flows south someone by disclosing that person’s faults through northern Israel into the Sea of Galilee and failings to others who do not know and eventually empties into the Dead Sea. the person without an objectively valid Although the distance between its source reason, and harming the reputation of and destination is 124 miles, the Jordan River Wikipedia/T Bcrawford92 others through calumny all fall under the actually covers 223 miles due to its winding prohibition of this commandment. course. Detraction and calumny are especially Characteristics of the Jordan River include: a shallowness and swiftness grave because both offend not only the that make it impossible to navigate; a high degree of salinity due to thermal virtue of justice, but also the virtue of springs on the western side of the Sea of Galilee; and a high concentration of . Charity is the theological virtue gypsum. Today, the river is basically used for human purposes, but the flow by “which we love God above all things is diminishing due in part to the high evaporation rate of the Dead Sea and for his own sake, and our neighbor human drainage. as ourselves for the love of God.” In other words, charity is both the new DID YOU KNOW? Jordan literally means “flowing downward.” commandment and the virtue by which we keep the commandments that Christ gave us. It is the greatest of the virtues because it disposes us to participate most intimately THE MOST DIRECT OFFENSE scandal might all be reason enough in the life of God, who is love itself. for discretion or for withholding the Detraction and calumny offend these The most direct offense against the truth, truth about what “ought not be known.” virtues because they “destroy the reputation of course, is lying. St. Augustine said, “a Further, no one “is bound to reveal the and honor of one’s neighbor.” This is clearly lie consists in speaking a falsehood with truth to someone who does not have a violation of the virtue of charity. Further, the intention of deceiving.” It consists in the right to know it.” Other examples because honor belongs to human dignity either speaking or acting against the truth include the sacred seal of the sacrament as its social witness, every person has the “in order to lead into error someone who of reconciliation, professional secrets (for natural right to the honor of his or her name has the right to know the truth.” When example, those of office-holders, soldiers, and reputation and to respect. Justice, then, we injure a person’s relation to truth and physicians and lawyers) and even private requires respect for the honor of each person. to his or her neighbor, we offend the information prejudicial to another. In addition, flattery, adulation and fundamental relation of a person and of - All quotes from the Catechism of the Catholic complacency are forbidden when they are his or her word to the Lord. Perhaps for Church (2464–2492) except as otherwise noted. placed in the service of encouraging or this reason, Jesus Christ denounced lying confirming another in “malicious acts and as the work of the devil: “You belong to perverse conduct.” Boasting, bragging and your father the devil … there is no truth irony (when aimed at disparaging another in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in The story of the person) also are considered as offenses QUIZ! character, because he is a liar and the Israelites’ journey from against the truth. father of lies.” (John 8:44) slavery in Egypt to the Promised Land has a large AN UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT? cast of characters. Test your knowledge of Biblical figures and The Catechism makes it clear that the name this person/group: “right to the communication of the truth is not unconditional.” Fraternal love “In the shadow of God,” may require us to not reveal the truth Q:this chief artisan of the to someone who asks for it in certain Tabernacle was in charge of situations. For example, the good and building the Ark of the Covenant. Theology 101 safety of others, respect for privacy, the A: Bezalel By Doug Culp common good and the duty to avoid 17 Student Spotlight

Tenth and 11th grade students in the St. Joseph High School astronomy class recently constructed quadrants for a class project. Brother James Petrait, O.S.F.S., noted that quadrants can be used to measure angles in the sky in order that stars, planets and other sky objects can be located. By pacing off the distance to the pole and with basic trigonometry, the students accurately St. Joseph High School students Jeana Edney, grade 11, and measured both the height of the pole and the distance to the top. Estelle Jules, grade 11, attended the Junior States of America Winter Congress in Washington, D.C., Feb. 18-23, 2015. Students from all over the United States and its territories participated in mock legislative sessions. While in the nation's capital, they visited many important national sites, including the National Archives and the Department of the Interior.

Brother James’ astronomy class at the campus cross pole.

One’ Carrington has been accepted into Junior Statesmen Religion teacher Meg Bryson leads students in a multi-mile walk Summer School at Princeton University. on the school campus during the Senior Health Class Day on Jan. 27. 18 The Catholic Islander / April 2015 / www.catholicvi.com Catholic Charities of the Virgin Islands, Inc. POSITION: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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The Catholic Diocese of the Virgin Islands seeks an Executive Director for Catholic Charities for all operations in the U.S. Virgin Islands, interaction with federal and local government agencies, Catholic Charities USA, and related responsibilities. The Executive Director is responsible for all customary executive responsibilities including administrative functions, oversight over operational and capital budget preparation, general and specific program audits, and fund raising campaign development.

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‘THREE-CONTINENT ENDEAVOR’ educated and more likely than the Bellary, has raised his voice about the RESULTS IN UNIVERSITIES' JOINT average Catholic adult to have attended necessity of religious tolerance and ROME CENTER Catholic high schools and universities. interreligious dialogue in India. Since the May election of Narendra Modi, a John Garvey, president of The Catholic POPE TO CELEBRATE MASS MARKING Hindu nationalist, as prime minister, the University of America, said a "three- 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN threat of religious violence has increased continent endeavor" has resulted in GENOCIDE against Muslims and Christian. an agreement by the university in Washington and the Australian Catholic The Vatican has announced that Pope CHAPUT, GOMEZ University to share a campus in Rome. Francis will celebrate a special liturgy in CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS IN SYNOD Called the Rome Center, it is located April with Armenian Catholics, who are ON THE FAMILY about a mile from the Vatican. marking the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. The Vatican has confirmed the participation of 48 delegates chosen by CHURCH IN CENTRAL AFRICAN bishops’ conferences to take part in this REPUBLIC READIES PLANS FOR PAPAL year’s Synod on the Family. Included VISIT LATER IN 2015 on the list are all those elected by the United States Conference of Catholic During his first visit to Africa, Pope Bishops. Francis plans a pilgrimage to the Central African Republic in an effort to end two POPE RECOGNIZES MARTYRDOM OF years of inter communal violence; and OSCAR ROMERO POPE LIKELY TO BRING UP POVERTY also to visit Uganda. IN HIS EXPECTED U.N. SPEECH Pope Francis signed the decree Feb. 3 POPE SIGNS DECREES IN SAINTHOOD recognizing as martyrdom the March According to the Vatican’s observer to CAUSES, INCLUDING FOR U.S.-BORN 24, 1980, assassination of Archbishop the United Nations, Pope Francis is likely PRIEST Romero in a San Salvador hospital chapel to address the issue of poverty before as he celebrated Mass. The decree clears the international body, a speech that is Msgr. , a U.S.-born the way for the of the anticipated in the proposed schedule for priest, ministered in South Korea and archbishop. his upcoming U.S. trip. the . The decree is an initial step in the sainthood process for the CHURCH AGENCIES GIVE DISPLACED CARA STUDY FINDS TWO-THIRDS priest, who founded the Sisters of Mary IRAQIS FUEL, HEATERS FOR WINTER OF NEW RELIGIOUS ENTERED of Banneux and the Brothers of Christ. COMMUNITY LIFE WITH BACHELOR’S Colorful blankets, shiny metal heaters DEGREE OR HIGHER YOUTH URGED TO WORK FOR and canisters of kerosene provided by TOLERANCE AS VIOLENCE STEPS UP Catholic Relief Services and Caritas Religious men and women who IN INDIA filled a parking lot for collection by professed perpetual vows to the nearly the Yezidis displaced by Islamic State 800 communities of religious life in The head of the Indian Catholic Youth militants in need of provisions to the United States in 2014 are highly Movement, Bishop Hendry D'Souza of combat the cold.

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Here in the Virgin Islands for his last Santo Niño Mass and celebration with us last year, Msgr. George Tomichek, dear friend of Bishop Herbert Bevard and of the Filipino community, spent several happy days with us. Msgr. Tomichek, seen here after Mass in the Cathedral with Bishop Bevard and his beloved friends in the Filipino community, passed away not long afterward. He is remembered with great affection and is in our prayers.

20 The Catholic Islander / April 2015 / www.catholicvi.com Order of Malta Virgin Islands Area

The Order of Malta is raising funds for His Excellency, Bishop Bevard’s Catholic Scholarship Program through the sale of commemorative bricks. The bricks will be installed in the Rosary Garden at Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Church. This is a great way to remember a loved one or express gratitude to God for answering a prayer. Your message will last forever.

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Tridentine Mass in St. Thomas, 5 p.m. on Sundays The traditional Latin Mass is offered at 5 p.m. Sunday evening in the Chapel of the Little Flower. Confessions at 4:30 p.m. Come and experience the Mass celebrated though millennia that has given us our beloved saints who intercede for us faithfully in heaven. English/Latin Mass pew booklets are provided. For more information, call the cathedral office at 340.774.0201 and ask for Father John Fewel. Adoramus te in pacem, Domine Deus! Father Eduardo leads the rosary in frigid temperatures outside a Washington, Catholic Daughters of America D.C., abortion facility in January. Court 2049 meets at Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral’s Hospitality Lounge on the third Saturday of every month at 3 p.m. visit Facebook.com/bound4lifeUSVI or call Charismatic Prayer ▶ Presidium Mary Morning Star meets the OLPH Church office at 340.774.0885. ▶ Prayers in Spanish are offered at Sts. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help every Friday at 8 p.m. in the conference Rosary Walk Peter and Paul Cathedral’s Hospitality Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral hosts a rosary Lounge on Mondays at 6 p.m. room. For more information about the Legion of Mary, call the church office at walk on the first Saturday of every month ▶ Holy Family Church holds evenings of at 7 a.m., followed by Mass at 7:30 a.m. charismatic prayer on Mondays at 7 p.m. 340.774.0885. ▶ Presidium María, Arca de la Alianza, St. Joseph Workers Divine Mercy Chaplet holds meetings in Spanish at Sts. Peter The St. Joseph Workers meet at Holy ▶ Altar servers from Sts. Peter and Paul and Paul Cathedral’s Hospitality Lounge Family Church’s Columban Hall on the Cathedral and Our Lady of Perpetual on Sundays at 2 p.m. second Sunday of every month at 9:30 a.m. Help Church lead the Divine Mercy ▶ Presidium Mary, Mediatrix of All Chaplet at Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral Graces, meets in the St. Anne Chapel St. Vincent de Paul Society on Mondays at 3 p.m. Hall on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. The Young Vincentians meet on the ▶ The chaplet is prayed at Our Lady of Magnificat third Sunday of every month at 11:30 Perpetual Help Church on Tuesdays at a.m. The adult members meet on the 3 p.m. Magnificat, an international ministry to Catholic women, meets at Sts. Peter and fourth Saturday of every month at 3:30 Paul Cathedral’s Hospitality Lounge on p.m. Both groups meet in Holy Family Holy Hours/ Church’s classroom. ▶ Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church has the first Saturday of every month at 8 a.m. Exposition on Tuesdays from 7:30 a.m. Men’s Prayer Group World of Fatima until Benediction at 6 p.m. and on Fridays The Sons of Joseph and Mary meet at The World Apostolate of Fatima meets at at 6 p.m., followed by Mass at 7 p.m. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church on Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church on ▶ Holy Family Church and St. Anne Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays at 7:30 a.m. Chapel have Holy Hours with Exposition and Benediction on Fridays Our Lady of Fatima Devotion Our Mother of at 6 p.m., followed by Mass at 7 p.m. The Children of Mary lead a devotion to Our Perpetual Help Devotions Intercessory Prayer Group Lady of Fatima at Holy Family Church on Devotions to Our Mother of Perpetual the first Saturday of every month at 4 p.m. A team is prepared to pray for the needs Help are prayed before Mass on of all who ask at Holy Family Church on Wednesdays at: Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Pro-life ▶ Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral at Bound 4 Life USVI, the diocesan pro-life 6:45 a.m. and noon. Pro-life Rosary group, meets at Our Lady of Perpetual Help ▶ Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church Pray a pro-life rosary at Our Lady of Church every other week. There is also a pro- at 6:15 p.m. Perpetual Help Church on Wednesdays at life Holy Hour and Mass at 6 p.m. on the first ▶ Holy Family Church at 6:50 p.m. 5:45 p.m. Friday of the month. For more information, ▶ St. Anne Chapel at 7 p.m. 22 The Catholic Islander / April 2015 / www.catholicvi.com Advertise your business in The Catholic Islander! Call 340.774.3166, Ext. 213, for rates. 23 St. Croix Calendar

Rosary Prayer Group Cenacle of Our Lady of the Rosary Prayer Group meets at the Franciscan House every Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Holy Hours/Eucharistic Adoration ▶ Holy Cross Church has Holy Hour following the 8:15 a.m. Mass, followed by Eucharistic Adoration until 1 p.m., on the first Friday of every month. ▶ Holy Cross Church has Eucharistic Adoration with confession from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Friday. ▶ St. Patrick Church has a Holy Hour with Exposition and Benediction on Fridays after the 8 a.m. Mass. ▶ St. Patrick Church has a full day of Eucharistic Adoration on Wednesdays. ▶ St. Ann Church has a Holy Hour with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, evening prayer and Benediction every Father John Mark (left), St. Joseph High principal, and Father Eduardo Ortiz, assistant Friday at 5:30 p.m. except First Friday, superintendent of Catholic education, attended a meeting of diocesan schools last when Mass is celebrated at 5:30 p.m. month at Holy Cross Church in Christiansted. ▶ St. Joseph Church has a full day of Eucharistic Adoration every Tuesday beginning with Holy Mass at 6:30 a.m. and concluding with Benediction at 6 p.m. Adult Education Prayer Group The St. Patrick Alumni Association offers The Cursillo movement hosts a Spanish an After School Tutorial Program, which prayer meeting in the St. Michael Chapel Knights of Columbus Holy Cross Council 6482 meets at Holy is coordinated by Sister Claina Letang, at St. Joseph Church on the last Monday Cross Church’s McAlpin Hall on the first and I.C.M. They are now also operating as a of every month at 7 p.m. third Thursday of every month at 6 p.m. Public Computer Center, which is part of the ViNGN Digital Literacy Program. Cursillo Ultreya It is open to the public during scheduled Cursillo members meet for Ultreya in the St. Patrick Youth Ministry Come be with us and enjoy a variety of mornings to mid-day. Cursillo office at St. Joseph Church on exciting activities as St. Patrick parents Thursdays after the 7 p.m. Mass. Meetings and youths mix work and play to spread are in Spanish. Bible Study the Gospel message on St. Croix. For Holy Cross Church hosts Bible studies in Devotions to St. Gerard Majella more information, contact Father McAlpin Hall on Wednesdays and Saturdays Boniface Blanchard at 340.772.0138. at 9 a.m., following morning Mass. Pray a devotion to St. Gerard Majella at Holy Cross Church on Tuesdays at 8:45 a.m. Magnificat Carmelite Spirituality Divine Mercy Chaplet Magnificat, an international ministry to Catholic women, meets at Franciscan House The Our Lady Star of the Sea Community St. Joseph Church hosts Divine Mercy on the third Sunday of each month at 3 p.m. shares Carmelite spirituality in the St. devotions on the fourth Sunday of each Joseph Church Hospitality Lounge and month at 3 p.m. The hour-long program Learning Center on the fourth Sunday of includes the chaplet, prayers, adoration Neo-catechumenal Way The Neo-catechumenal Way leads a each month at 1 p.m. and teachings of the Divine Mercy by celebration of the word at St. Joseph Church Father John Mark. Charismatic Prayer on Mondays and Thursdays at 7 p.m. ▶ St. Patrick Church has charismatic Franciscan Spirituality prayer in the chapel on the third Friday The Our Lady of the Angels fraternity of the Our Mother of of each month at 6 p.m. of St. Francis shares Franciscan Perpetual Help Devotions ▶ St. Ann Church has charismatic prayer spirituality at Franciscan House on the Devotions to Our Mother of Perpetual in Marian Hall on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. fourth Sunday of each month at 3 p.m. Help are prayed at: 24 The Catholic Islander / April 2015 / www.catholicvi.com St. John Calendar

▶ St. Patrick Church on Wednesdays at 6:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. ▶ Holy Cross Church on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8:45 a.m. ▶ St. Joseph Church on Wednesdays at 7 p.m.

Rosary for the Unborn St. Joseph Church hosts a bilingual English/Spanish rosary for the unborn on Fridays at 6 p.m.

Santo Niño St. Joseph Church hosts devotions to the SPPS students and alumni attended and served at the recent Keys and Sword Event. Santo Niño (the Holy Child Jesus) on the first Saturday of every month at 4:30 p.m. All-night Vigil Volunteers are welcomed. The sacrament of reconciliation is offered Our Lady of Mount Carmel holds an during this time. all-night vigil on the first Friday of each Legion of Mary month after the 7 p.m. Mass. Presidium Mary, Queen of Angels, meets in Shepherds of Christ Associates the Guadalupe Hall of Our Lady of Mount The Shepherds of Christ Associates meet Charismatic Prayer Carmel Church on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. for prayer in the St. Michael Chapel of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church St. Joseph Church on Wednesdays at hosts an evening of charismatic prayer on Men’s Fellowship 7:30 p.m. and on the second and fourth Thursdays at 7 p.m. Men’s Fellowship meets the first and third Sunday of every month at 5 p.m. Sunday of each month. Eucharistic Adoration Spanish Prayer and Reflection Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church has Spanish Mass Pray the rosary and share reflections on Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Our Lady of Mount Carmel has Spanish the readings of the coming Sunday Mass at Benediction on Thursdays from 7:30 a.m. Mass at 6 p.m. Sundays. Holy Cross Church on alternate Tuesdays to 7 p.m. at 7 p.m. Meetings are in Spanish. Sunday Mass in Coral Bay Free Meals Mass is celebrated each Sunday at World Apostolate of Fatima Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church’s 12:30 p.m. at the John’s Folly Learning The World Apostolate of Fatima meets Kallaloo Kitchen: Food for the Soul feeds Center in Coral Bay. For questions or in the chapel at Holy Cross Church on the needy in the parish’s Guadalupe transportation, call the church office at Tuesdays at 5 p.m. Hall on Mondays and Fridays at noon. 776.6339.

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Nuestra Señora del Carmen de la isla de EVENTOS MENSUALES Saint John está ofreciendo una misa en • ORACIÓN CARISMÁTICA Las oraciones español todos los domingos a las 6 pm en español se ofrecen en el Salón de .El celebrante oficial es el padre Eduardo Hospitalidad de la Catedral de San Pedro Ortiz Santiago, párroco de la comunidad y san Pablo los lunes a las 6 p.m. hispana de la catedral. • LA ULTREYA Los jueves después de la • ORACIÓN Y REFLEXIÓN Se reza misa de las 7 p.m. los cursillistas tienen el Santo Rosario y se comparten las su Ultreta. Las reunions en el trailer, en reflexiones de las lecturas del domingo Father Wieslaw Bejor, better known to his St. Thomian and Crucian friends la oficina del Movimiento de Cursillos, y siguiente, en la iglesia de Holy Cross as “Father Wesley,” with members of son en español. los martes alternados a las 7 p.m. Las Spanish Community at Holy Cross reuniones son en español. Church in Christiansted. • LEGIÓN DE MARÍA El presidium hispano María, Arca de la Alianza se • ROSARIO POR LOS NO NACIDOS La José se rezan las devociones del Santo reúne en el Salón de Hospitalidad de la iglesia de San José invita a los rosarios Niño (el Santo Niño Jesús) los primeros Catedral de San Pedro y San Pablo los bilingües en español e inglés por los no sábados de cada mes a las 4:30 domingos a las 2 p.m. nacidos todos los viernes a la 6 p.m. p.m. Durante este tiempo se ofrecen • NUEVA MISA EN ESPAÑOL La iglesia • SANTO NIÑO En la iglesia de San confesiones. 25 Visit the website of the Diocese of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands at www.catholicvi.com

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