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OCTOBER 29, 2017 30TH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME VOLUME 67:5 DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS A journal of Catholic life in Ohio

ALL SAINTS DAY HONORS “A GREAT MULTITUDE WHICH NONE CAN COUNT” 2 Catholic Times October 29, 2017 Catholic organizations, groups actively The Editor’s Notebook working on Puerto Rico’s recovery The Faithful Departed By David Garick, Editor This week, the talk will be of saints. could continue do- Wednesday is All Saints Day (a holy day ing such unsatisfy- of obligation), and on Thursday, we cel- ing and miserable ebrate All Souls Day as we remember all work without any who have gone before us, including many measurable suc- who probably are saints with Our Lord in cess. She replied, “God has not called heaven and just never received the offi- me to be successful. He only called me cial designation in this world. to be faithful.” She meant that success So much has been written about saints or public acclaim is not the hallmark of a which makes them seem separated from saint, fidelity is – constant fidelity to the us – plaster-cast icons without humanity. will of God as we live our everyday lives. Our view seems to limit sainthood to those Holiness does not require great achieve- By Wallice J. de la Vega rector of Caritas Puerto Rico, who lived extraordinary lives, far removed ment, public notice, popularity, charm, or Catholic News Service told Catholic News Service on status. It only requires that we “hear the from our world, our own experience. A month after Hurricane Ma- Oct. 19. “But after communica- word of God and act on it” (Luke 8:21). That’s why it is important to take some ria devastated Puerto Rico, tions opened somewhat, we be- time this week to reflect on the immor- None of us probably will end up being Catholic organizations, groups gan improving the plan based tal nature of our being and that of the be- honored as saints in the form of statues and individuals were still on diocesan reports. Today, we lievers who have gone before us. On All or stained-glass windows. But we still among the most prominent re- have a well-coordinated relief Saints Day, we are reminded of the indi- can achieve the sanctity that God calls sponders to the needs of a suf- system at Puerto Rico’s 500 viduals who lived lives of such holiness for in our lives by living in constant fering people. parishes in all six dioceses.” that they have taken their place with Christ faithfulness to Him in our interactions Despite early logistical ob- Caritas has been closely work- in Heaven. They are there to inspire us in with the people we meet and the work stacles, as of Oct. 20, the local ing with Catholic Charities faith and to aid us by carrying our prayers we do every day. Caritas chapter had disbursed USA on Puerto Rico’s recovery to the throne of God. On All Souls Day, we As St. Paul wrote, “Lo! I tell you a mys- over $1.1 million in aid to an since Hurricane Irma brushed remember the many other believers who tery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall estimated 50,000 people -- in- the island’s northern coast two are either in Heaven or being perfected to all be changed, in a moment, in the twin- cluding food, clothing, first weeks before Maria followed assume their place in Paradise. It is an op- kling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For aid supplies, potable water and on Sept. 20. portunity to pray for them and to ask them the trumpet will sound, and the dead will sundries. At its San Juan office, Kim Burgo, senior director of to pray for us. These people, who may be be raised imperishable, and we shall be hot lunches also were being disaster operations for Catho- friends or family members, may appear to changed. For this perishable nature must distributed daily to members of lic Charities, told CNS: “One be separated from us, since we no longer put on the imperishable, and this mortal the community. of our biggest challenges is see them, but they still are connected to us nature must put on immortality. When money because there were two spiritually, and one day, we will be reunit- the perishable puts on the imperishable, “We had to blindly design a ed with them. and the mortal puts on immortality, then response plan,” Father Enrique You probably have grave doubts about shall come to pass the saying that is writ- “Kike” Camacho, executive di- See RECOVERY, Page 15 the possibility of sanctity for people like ten: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.’ you and me. You might protest that we O death, where is thy victory? O death, are just regular people who do common, where is thy sting? The sting of death is ordinary things without any splendor or sin, and the power of sin is the law. But All Saints Day ~ November 1, 2017 great achievement. St. Teresa of Kol- thanks be to God, who gives us the vic- kata has a great answer for people like tory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Holy Day of Obligation us. She was asked by a reporter how she Corinthians 15:57). Check individual parishes for schedule of Holy Day Mass times

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By Junno Arocho Esteves cluding the “Martyrs of Natal,” Brazil, Catholic News Service a group of 30 priests, laymen, women Like the Catholic Church’s newest and children who were killed in 1645 saints, Christians are called to live during a wave of anti-Catholic perse- their faith as a love story with God, cution; and the “Child Martyrs of Tlax- who wants a relationship that is “more cala,” three children who were among than that of devoted subjects with their Mexico’s first native converts and king,” Pope Francis said. were killed for refusing to renounce the faith. Without a loving relationship with Tapestries hung from the facade of St. God, Christian life can become empty Peter’s Basilica bearing images of the and “an impossible ethic, a collection martyrs, as well as pictures of Sts. An- of rules and laws to obey for no good gelo da Acri, an Italian Capuchin priest reason,” the pope said during Mass on known for his defense of the poor, and Oct. 15 in St. Peter’s Square. Faustino Miguez, a Spanish priest who “This is the danger: a Christian life started an advanced school for girls at a that becomes routine, content with time when such education was limited ‘normality,’ without drive or enthusi- almost exclusively to boys. asm, and with a short memory,” he said An estimated 35,000 pilgrims – many during the Mass. of them from the new saints’ countries In his homily, Pope Francis reflected “This is how love grows cold, not out of At the beginning of the Mass, Pope of origin – attended the Mass, the Vati- on the day’s Gospel reading from St. malice but out of preference for what is Francis proclaimed 35 new saints, in- can said. Matthew, in which Jesus recounts the our own: our security, our self-affirma- parable of the wedding feast. tion, our comfort,” the pope said. Noting Jesus’ emphasis on the wed- Despite constant rejection and in- ding guests, the pope said that God difference, God does not cancel the “wants us, he goes out to seek us and wedding feast but continues to invite he invites us” to celebrate with him. Christians to overcome “the whims “For him, it is not enough that we of our peevish and lazy selves” and to should do our duty and obey his laws,” imitate the church’s new saints who, Pope Francis said. “He desires a true he said, not only said “Yes” to God’s communion of life with us, a relation- invitation, but wore “the wedding gar- ship based on dialogue, trust and for- ment” of God’s love. giveness.” “The saints who were canonized to- However, he continued, Jesus also day, and especially the many martyrs, warns that “the invitation can be re- point the way,” Pope Francis said. “The fused” as it was by those who “made robe they wore daily was the love of light” of the invitation or were too Jesus, that ‘mad’ love that loved us to caught up in their own affairs to con- the end and offered his forgiveness and sider attending the banquet. his robe to those who crucified him.” 4 Catholic Times October 29, 2017 The Catholic Church and Halloween Changes in Vinton County ‘turkey toss’ The St. Francis Center in McAr- of families in Vinton County By Joe Kelly and so they loved the freedom thur is announcing changes to its remains high, with 20 percent Catholic News Service to celebrate their own reli- annual “turkey toss” distribution remaining below poverty level The medieval Catholic Church gious holidays. of Thanksgiving food to needy and nearly half eligible for food created the feast of All Saints Halloween was observed by families in Vinton County be- stamps. The center recognizes on Nov. 1 to honor the blessed the few Scottish immigrants, cause of the opening of a new su- this has been an unusual year for people who could not be in- but especially by the millions permarket in the county. other demands for charitable dol- cluded in the church’s formal of Irish (most of them Catho- Instead of purchasing turkeys in lars – for example, the need for list of saints. In England, the word “hal- lic) who came to the U.S. They kept their bulk and distributing them just hurricane relief in Texas, Florida, low” was used to mean the sacred, and traditions, but also changed some; for before Thanksgiving, the families and elsewhere – and hopes resi- thus the day there was All Hallows Day. example, carving scary faces in pump- will be given a voucher or gift dents of the diocese will continue But also of great importance was the day kins rather than turnips as back in the old card to purchase their turkey from to be willing to assist in this an- before it, Oct. 31, which was a traditional country, thus creating jack-o’-lanterns. Campbell’s Market, which is to nual Thanksgiving project. pagan harvest feast day. Trying to counter Some American Protestants, especially open shortly in McArthur. “The great news is that we are pagan beliefs, the English Catholic Church farmers, had also kept some of the old tra- Vinton County has been without a finally getting a grocery store,” called this day All Hallows Eve, which ditions associated with the harvest. full-service grocery store since its Keita said in a letter to the cen- then became Halloween. The rise of Halloween also helped meet only business of this type closed ter’s supporters. “The store brings The new Christian day took over the America’s need for holidays, since the co- four years ago, forcing most coun- stable employment for several pagan harvest festival, and the saints re- lonial ones (e.g., the feast of St. George, ty residents to make a round trip of folks, allows much more money an hour or more to shop for any- placed – but not always! – the pagan fer- the patron of England!) did not survive to stay in our county, and gives a thing beyond basic items. tility gods. the Revolution. sense of completeness to the com- munity. Our hope is to be a part Furthermore, the saints substituted for St. Francis Center director Lisa Unfortunately, another tradition – anti- of a strong start for the store and the gods in warding off all the terrors – Keita said Campbell’s, which op- Catholicism – had also crossed the ocean, erates two stores in the Zanesville a boost to the whole community.” sprites, trolls, goblins – that roamed the and Catholic traditions were not always world on All Hallows Eve. This was a area, has completed construction Those interested in contribut- welcome. But as the immigrants became of the McArthur store. It will popular day for medieval Christians. Americanized, their traditions became ing to the center are asked to send open once all of the required per- checks payable to “St. Francis But as Halloween moved into the mod- accepted. mits are approved. ern era, the feast and the church had to Center” and mail them to the center For example, many conservative Protes- She said the need of hundreds at Box 318, McArthur OH 45651. deal with the earthquakes of the Protes- tants refused to celebrate Halloween, but tant Reformation, and then English at- as Irish, Polish, Slavic, Italian and Ger- tempts to stamp out the feast of All Hal- manic Catholics did so, more and more of Men’s luncheon club meeting lows Eve. their fellow citizens accepted it. (Today, Protestants insisted that they would be Shawn Malone of Sunbury bury our baby.” only fundamentalists oppose the day on St. John Neumann Church will guided only by what was in the Bible, the grounds that its focus on witches and The program at Columbus St. and they claimed that the cult of the saints speak at the next Catholic Men’s Patrick Church, 280 N. Grant ghosts opens innocent children to demon- Luncheon Club meeting on Fri- was not there. All Saints Day – and thus, ic influences.) Ave., will begin at 11:45 a.m. Halloween – disappeared in many Protes- day, Nov. 3. Malone and his with Mass, followed by lunch tant locales. The contemporary church has no official wife co-founded the Back in His and Malone’s talk until about 1 position on the celebration of Halloween, Arms Again ministry in 2005 to p.m. No reservations are neces- Yet people missed the traditional day, so since its religious character is largely help people who are grieving the sary. A $10 donation is requested the English created a substitute festival. gone. Now people just smile at children death of a child. to cover the lunch and meeting. On Nov. 5, 1605, British authorities ar- dressed as demons and monsters. Rectory rested and later executed several English He will share their journey of For information on the Catho- doors have been known to be open for being parents to seven children lic Men’s Luncheon Club, visit Catholics accused of trying to blow up trick-or-treaters, and Catholic schools put the Houses of Parliament. who are here on earth as well www.catholicmensministry.com/ up Halloween decorations. as two who are in heaven, and cmlc or contact club president One was named Guy Fawkes, thus gen- Church leaders have, however, lament- of how the ministry started with George Harvey at george.har- erating a raucous festival known in Eng- ed the holiday’s dominant and relentless a simple request – “We want to [email protected]. land and in the British American colonies commercialization that, as always, takes as Guy Fawkes Day, a substitute for the a toll on impoverished children whose “Catholic” Halloween. St. Brigid of Kildare School open house parents cannot afford costumes or bags This new day was popular in the colonies, of candy to give away. The clergy stress Dublin St. Brigid of Kildare to tour its STREAM labs to see but during the Revolution, George Wash- helping poor children on this day. Church, 7175 Avery Road, will how it provides a quality Catho- ington feared that the celebration’s blatant host an open house from 1 to 3 lic education in a warm environ- Finally, clergy will remind believers anti-Catholicism would offend the rebels’ p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10. ment. Registration for preschool that, no matter how secular it has become, French Catholic allies. through eighth grade will take Oct. 31 is the eve of a holy day, and some The staff of the two-time Blue place from Dec. 10 to Wednesday, After the Revolution, Guy Fawkes Day recognition of that is not out of place. Ribbon school invites prospective declined, while Halloween would tri- students and their parents to take Jan. 17. Happy Halloween. umph in the United States, which official- a guided tour and learn about the For more information, go to ly separated church and state. Many im- Kelly is professor emeritus at Jesuit-run school’s integration of academic www.stbrigidofkildare.com or migrants had been persecuted in Europe, John Carroll University in Cleveland. excellence and Catholic faith, and call (614) 718-5825. October 29, 2017 Catholic Times 5 Lancaster Knights make pilgrimage to Gethsemani abbey By Jeff Hurdley Participants in a pilgrimage sponsored by Lancaster St. Mark Church Knights of Columbus Council 15447 in Lan- caster to Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky were On a sunny Friday afternoon, six (from left): first row, Patrick Joos, David Hoel- members of Knights of Columbus scher, Jeff Hurdley; second row, Alex Parish, Council 15447 from Lancaster St. Thomas Kaminski, Randy Tipple, Hal Prisco. Mark Church, along with an RCIA Photo courtesy K of C Council 15447 candidate from the parish, set out on a pilgrimage to Gethsemani Abbey in The late September weather was per- Kentucky. Some in the party had heard fect, but the traffic was anything but. of the Trappist monastery because of In Cincinnati, the party encountered one of its famous former residents – rush-hour traffic that lasted through Thomas Merton, who wrote The Sev- most of Kentucky. What should have en Storey Mountain and other books been a four-and-a-half-hour trip turned about the contemplative life. All were into a six-hour ordeal. The slow travel anxious to get on the road. So with was God’s first answer to the party’s bags packed for a weekend excursion, prayer for a meaningful trip. He pro- the party prayed for safe travel and a vided plentiful opportunities for pa- Arriving late on Friday evening, the and there was plentiful laughter and meaningful trip and headed south. tience and good conversation. party checked in and picked up keys storytelling. A fourth answer to prayer to individual cells, or rooms, in the old – fellowship. monastery wing. The cells once had Arriving back at the abbey, our party been used by the abbey monks and still settled in for the night, to be awakened Diocese of Columbus reflected their monastic lifestyle. Clean by church bells calling the community and neat, each small room contained to Morning Prayer, or Lauds, at 5:45 a bed, lamp, chair, desk, and simple a.m. We all attended Morning Prayer, Child Protection Plan closet. The cells were serviced by a Evening Prayer, and Compline during communal bath that was also spartan our stay. A fifth answer to prayer – ex- and clean. Staying in the old monas- periencing the Liturgy of the Hours. It is the goal of the Diocese of Columbus to make the Church a tery wing was truly a blessing, because Between the daily prayers, we each place of safety: a place of prayer, ministry and comfort. Everyone it enabled us to experience the simple went our separate ways and explored who enters our churches, schools, or facilities must be confident in lifestyle of the monastic community the abbey grounds (more than 2,000 and reminded us that our needs in life, acres), the visitor center (that has a film this. Not one child or young person should suffer from abuse while as opposed to our desires, are very few. at Church. In order to assure the safety of our youth, the Diocese of explaining monastic life), the gift shop A second answer to our prayer. (that has many items for sale made by Columbus has enacted a complete program of protection. As part Perhaps the most interesting thing the monks), the library (with many ex- of this program, the Diocese of Columbus will provide appropriate, about the rooms was the path to them cellent Catholic study materials), as just, and pastoral care for anyone who has suffered the crime of from the main door. It snaked through well as gardens and secluded nooks sexual abuse of a minor at the hands of diocesan clergy or church the abbey’s new residence hall, passed (great for silent meditation). A sixth employees or volunteers. The Diocese of Columbus will report any through the balcony of the abbey answer to prayer – opportunities for re- church, then ascended to the top of and all allegations of abuse reported to it to the authorities and will flection and meditation away from our the old monastery wing. Surpris- sometimes hectic lifestyles. cooperate fully with those authorities. ingly, it was simply impossible to get As we settled in for our second night anywhere without going through the at the abbey, we were serenaded by a Help is available: The Diocese of Columbus wants to hear from church. Traveling through the church anyone who has suffered. If you wish to report an allegation of abuse chorus of what sounded liked two large to get to where you were going was packs of coyotes close by – a reminder or need pastoral and/or clinical care in order to begin or continue another answer to prayer because, as of both the beauty and the danger of the process of healing from sexual abuse as a child at the hands of a we bowed before the altar, it reminded God’s world. With it still dark outside, member of the clergy or a church employee or volunteer, simply call us that God was aware of our comings we woke to the sound of bells calling the diocesan Victims’ Assistance Coordinator. You can find contact and goings and is always with us. A us to Morning Prayer at 6:45 a.m. Sun- third answer to our prayer. information at the bottom of this notice. If you wish to receive a day. (The monks give themselves a Having arrived later than scheduled, copy of the diocesan complaint form or any of the diocesan policies slight break from their rigorous sched- we missed dinner at the abbey and ule on the Lord’s Day). During mid- and procedures, simply call the number below or visit the diocesan were all a little “hangry.” So with a morning and after the daily prayer of web site at www.colsdioc.org quick prayer for a good place to eat in Terce, the monks invited abbey visitors Bardstown, the closest town to the ab- to pass through their carrels to an area bey, the party set off for a good meal. of seats before the altar for the celebra- To contact the diocesan Victim’s Assistance Coordinator, call: We settled upon the Old Talbott Tav- tion of the Eucharist – a reminder that The Rev. Msgr. Stephan J. Moloney ern, a historic inn built in 1779. Since the Mass is open for all who respond to it was Friday, all seven of our party God’s call. 614.224.2251 • [email protected] ordered fish and chips, which did not disappoint. The meal was delicious See KNIGHTS, Page 14 6 Catholic Times October 29, 2017 Nutrition, hydration and feeding tubes; ‘In God’s Service’ event The annual “In God’s Ser- the event for his service to Eulogies at Catholic funerals vice” event for all students the people of God. of the Diocese of Columbus would only prolong my death and delay my Light refreshments and will take place at 10:30 a.m. being taken to God.” vocations literature will be QUESTION & ANSWER Thursday, Nov, 9 at Colum- available in the church ves- . I recently attended a funeral Mass for a bus Christ the King Church, tibule from 10 to 10:25 a.m. by: FATHER KENNETH DOYLE 2777 E. Livingston Ave. Qfriend -- not at my own parish. The pas- Following the program, Fa- Catholic News Service tor informed the family of the deceased that Sharing their stories of how ther Schalk will celebrate there could be no eulogy given in church -- they responded to God’s Mass at noon. The program before, during or after the funeral Mass. They call to religious life will be will conclude with lunch. . Could you clarify the church’s position Father David Schalk, pastor were quite upset because they had already It is being sponsored by on refusal of food and hydration when asked a family member to deliver the eulogy. at Christ the King, and Sis- Q the diocesan Vocations Of- making out health care directives and living This same parish had for years allowed family ter Patricia Rogers, OP, ex- fice and the Office of Black wills? (Also, is it true that once a feeding tube members or friends to speak and eulogize their ecutive director of the Do- Catholic Ministries. Stu- has been inserted, it cannot be removed before loved one during a funeral Mass; the change in minican Center for Women dents wishing to attend are death?) (Levittown, Pennsylvania) policy came with the arrival of a new pastor, in Milwaukee. Father De- asked to sign up with their who said that eulogies should never have been nis Kigozi, pastor of Canal . The overriding principle in Catholic allowed previously, and he cited canon law in Winchester St. John XXIII school chaplain or campus Ateaching is that one is obliged to use or- support of that. What is the official position of Church, will be honored at minister. dinary means to preserve his or her life but the church, or is it up to the discretion of the is permitted to forgo extraordinary means. In local pastor? most situations, artificial nutrition and hydra- Serra girls vocation luncheon at new site tion would be considered ordinary means. . The pastor may have been referring not The annual vocation Michael School, will speak And so, the Ethical and Religious Directives Ato canon law but to the Order of Chris- awareness luncheon for on the subject of discerning for Catholic Health Care Services published by tian Funerals, which is the church’s guidebook girls sponsored by the Serra one’s vocation. Girls from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops state, for such celebrations. The guidebook does say Club of North Columbus eighth grade through high- “In principle, there is an obligation to provide that “there is never to be a eulogy” (No. 27). will take place at a new site school age who attend Cath- patients with food and water, including medi- But that section is meant to offer guidance to this year. The event will olic schools have been in- cally assisted nutrition and hydration for those the priest-celebrant with regard to the homily. be in the parish hall of Co- vited through their schools, lumbus St. Andrew Church, and home-schooled girls of who cannot take food orally” (No. 58). It reminds the celebrant that a Catholic fu- 1899 McCoy Road, at noon the same age also are invited. However, particular circumstances may neral is not to consist in the glorification of Tuesday, Nov. 7. Reservations are required. override this presumption, and if the provi- the deceased (even less, the “canonization”); Sister John Paul, OP, prin- For more information, call the funeral Mass instead is meant to use the sion or continuation of medically assisted cipal of Worthington St. (614) 775-9409. feeding would cause significant discomfort, it scriptural readings to highlight the redemptive becomes morally optional. power of Christ’s resurrection, to pray for the In such situations, one must weigh the ben- deceased and to comfort the mourners by re- St. Andrew remembrance service efits and burdens, and here the intention is par- minding them that eventual reunion awaits in heaven. The ninth annual remem- hope, and consolation. In- amount: If the intention of removing a feed- brance service at Columbus spirational music, led by ing tube is to end the patient’s life, that would The same Order of Christian Funerals says St. Andrew Church, 1899 parish music director Phil of course be immoral; but if the intention is in a later section that “a member or a friend McCoy Road, will take place Lortz, will include more simply to discontinue a burdensome treatment of the family may speak in remembrance of at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5. than 50 members of the St. that is not being assimilated by the patient and the deceased before the final commendation The service in honor of Andrew choirs, accompa- is instead causing significant discomfort, it begins” (No. 170). Some dioceses have their departed loved ones will nied by piano, organ, flute, would certainly be moral to remove it. own regulations, limiting the length of those violin, and oboe. remarks. (Three or four minutes would be include choral anthems, In making these difficult end-of-life -deci typical.) congregational hymns, Refreshments and fellow- sions, I have found a helpful resource to be Scripture readings, and re- ship in the parish hall will www.catholicendoflife.org, a website - pro Recently, I have noticed that some parishes flections of remembrance, follow the service. duced by the New York State Catholic Con- move these family remarks up to the begin- ference. And if I were formulating an advance ning of the liturgy -- perhaps feeling that if the directive (or guidance for my health care speaker strays from the purpose of the Mass, St. John Chrysostom cookie sale proxy), I think that I might include language the celebrant can “rescue” the situation by re- Columbus St. John Chrys- rolls, with special pricing something like the following, offered by the turning to the themes of resurrection and re- ostom Byzantine Catholic for large advance phone or National Catholic Bioethics Center: union. Church, 5858 Cleveland website orders. “I wish to follow the moral teachings of the In the end, though, much of this does depend Ave., will have its 13th To order by phone, call Catholic Church and to receive all the obliga- on the discretion of the local pastor, who I annual Christmas cookie (614) 882-6103 and follow tory care that my faith teaches we have a duty hope would take into account the feelings and sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the prompts. The church’s to accept. However, I also know that death desires of the grieving family. Dec. 9. website is www.byzantine- need not be resisted by any and every means Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth Pre-ordering is available columbus.com. Go to the and that I have the right to refuse medical Doyle at [email protected] and 30 for cookies, pirogi, and “Christmas Cookie Sale” treatment that is excessively burdensome or Columbia Circle Drive, Albany NY 12203. nut, apricot, or poppyseed link for more information. October 29, 2017 Catholic Times 7 Grief support group forming A grief support group will be forming and will meet for Answering God’s Call six consecutive weeks beginning Sunday, Nov. 5 from Dcn. Joe Schermer 2:30 to 4 p.m. at Worthington St. Michael Church, PREACHING THE 5750 N. High St.. by Tim Puet A Christian-based manual, suggested readings, and GOSPEL BY LIVING IT handout material will be available. Facilitators will be C.G. Jones and Mary Ann Koncal. Call the St. Mi- Deacon Joe Schermer says the best way he knows of preach- company as an employee, he remained a consultant to Beek- chael Church office at (614) 885-7814 or Koncal at ing the Gospel is by living it. man for four years before beginning his own business, Schermer (614) 888-1382 with questions or to register. “I don’t think of myself as a great preacher or teacher,” he Analytics, selling a different brand of electronic instruments. said. “But I practice what Jesus taught the Apostles through Deacon Schermer said that a couple of years after he came to trying to do his work in everyday life, not by sitting and Columbus, Msgr. David Sorohan, who at the time was pastor watching.” of St. Peter Church, was the first person to suggest he might be Deacon Schermer is in his 35th year of proclaiming the Gos- a good candidate for the diaconate. pel message through word and action as a deacon. He was or- “I was spending a lot of time on the road and thought that would dained on May 29, 1982 by Bishop George Fulcher at Columbus make it too hard to attend the classes for prospective deacons, St. Joseph Cathedral and was assigned to Columbus St. Peter which then were at Shelby, Ohio,” he said. “Father Sorohan said Church, where he served until his retirement in 2015. I could still travel, because the classes were on weekends. He Though he’s listed as being retired, he continues to preach checked with the late Deacon Joe Farry, who said any classes I at two Masses at St. Peter once a month and to visit hospi- missed could be taped, and if I listened to the tapes and did the tals and nursing homes and deliver food to the open shelter homework related to the class, that would be fine. downtown. “As it turned out, I only missed two or three classes, and was ordained together with Deacon Gregg Eiden in 1982. Gregg ® He and his wife of 58 years, Phyllis, are frequent visitors to Kiddie Academy of Westerville the Brookdale Trillium Crossing senior living facility in Colum- said those of us who were among the first deacons of the dio- 614-568-4450 ∙ kiddieacademy.com/westerville bus, where he presides at a Communion service on the first cese were pacesetters because the diocese still was trying to Friday of the month and she brings the Eucharist to residents determine how best to use deacons. He said we’d show them on Mondays. The couple’s efforts over several months also what to do, and this was true.” GEORGE J. IGEL & CO., INC. helped a homeless family find housing, and the two families When he became a deacon, the staff at St. Peter included 2040 ALUM CREEK DRIVE . COLUMBUS, OHIO remain in touch. Msgr. Sorohan as pastor and Msgr. Stpehan Moloney, now 614.445.8421 . www.igelco.com The Schermers have two sons and two daughters, ranging in diocesan vicar general, and Father Lawrence Hummer, long- age from 57 to 44, as well as five grandsons and four grand- time Catholic Times Scripture columnist, as associates. “There SITE DEVELOPMENT . EARTHWORK . UTILITIES . CONCRETE daughters. was no way I could match the Scriptural knowledge of those STABILIZATION . EARTH RETENTION . ROLLER COMPACTED CONCRETE Deacon Schermer, 80, and his wife grew up in Schaffer, a three,” he said. “I would write a lot of my homilies on Wednes- small community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. “There were day nights on the road in my hotel room after dinner. I didn’t probably 20 families in the whole town,” he said. “My father, carry a Bible with me, but those were the days when nearly ev- Walter, was a lumberjack and my mother, Florence, took care ery hotel room still had a Bible placed there by the Gideons,” of me and my one brother and five sisters. I’m the second old- an evangelical Christian association. est.” The deacon’s parents and youngest sister are deceased. “The Gideons use the King James Bible. Richard Hannon, who “The church was always important in both of our lives,” he was the parish music director then, used to tease me about my said. “Phyllis lived next door to the rectory and I lived on a ‘hotel-room homilies according to King James.’ But he appreci- farm nearby. During the summer, I served Mass almost every ated those homilies, and I delivered his funeral homily,” he said. morning. I had to be up to milk the cows at 5 a.m. anyway. Deacon Schermer said his homilies try to follow guidelines After that, there was nothing else to do in the early morning, set down by Father Mark Link, SJ, a noted author on Ignatian so I headed for church. spirituality: “Keep it short, never more than six or seven min- “That was where you went for both social growth and spiri- utes. Always tell a story. Don’t use any big words. And don’t tual fulfillment. We were too small to have a parish school, put anyone to sleep.” but we learned the teachings of the faith from young nuns “Almost 100 percent of what I preach about has to do with who came to the parish for the summer and taught catechism. that particular Sunday’s Gospel. My homilies always start Even though I was a server, I didn’t consider the priesthood in with a story about someone who people know about, who is high school or afterward. Girls were too important.” either still living or a familiar historical figure,” he said. After graduating from high school, he joined the Air Force, When the Catholic Times visited him, he was working on a where he served for four years, including time in southern Ja- homily which would begin with a story of how Columbus avia- SHERIDAN pan and at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. While in tor Eddie Rickenbacker and six other people survived for three FUNERAL HOME the service, he began taking correspondence courses offered weeks on a raft in World War II after their plane crash-landed 740-653-4633 to Air Force personnel by DeVry Technical Institute, which in the Pacific Ocean. “One guy in that group was an atheist,” then was based in Chicago and now has branches in Columbus Deacon Schermer said. “But he was the most prayerful and 222 S. COLUMBUS ST., LANCASTER and nationwide. thankful of all. 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The Read with a Stallion program is back for the 2017-18 school year. Columbus St. Francis DeSales High school partners with Columbus St. Anthony School, and to- gether, the students read one-on-one or in small groups. The goal of the program is to promote reading and a partnership between the two schools. Pictured are (from left): DeSales students Casey Koller, Sophia Gersper, Ben Ohene, and Eyuel Gebregzi- Gabriel Knuth, Eagle Scout abher, and St. Anthony students Dylan Hernandez, Lemuel Acheampong, Lila Hatem, and J.J. Hoffman. Photo courtesy St. Anthony School Gabriel Knuth of Columbus Immaculate Conception Church, a member of Boy Scout Troop 332, advanced to the rank of Eagle Scout on Monday, Oct. 16. He has earned 42 Scout merit badges, including the 21 required and optional ones neces- sary for Eagle rank, and has set a goal of earning 60 in the remaining two years Your Catholic Cemeteries Invite You to Prayer Services for Your Deceased as a before he reaches a Scout’s age limit of 18. He has taken part in the Scouts’ Ju- Complement to the Feasts of All Saints Day and All Souls Day... nior Leader Orientation Workshop and Nagatamen leadership training programs and was assistant senior patrol leader of Troop 2429, one of three Columbus- CEMETERY SUNDAY area troops set up for the 2017 National Jamboree at the Scouts’ Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia. The Worthington Kilbourne High School student also has earned November 5, 2017 the Parvuli Dei and Ad Altare Dei religious emblems for Catholic Scouts and has ST. JOSEPH CEMETERY attended and assisted at several programs of the diocesan Catholic Committee 2:00 p.m. Prayer Service OUR MOTHER OF SORROWS CHAPEL on Scouting. His Eagle project was a compost bin and rain barrel system for Troop 6440 S. High St./U.S. Rt. 23 S. Lockbourne, Ohio 43137 332’s sponsoring organization, St. Andrew Christian Church of Dublin. 614-491-2751 Photo courtesy Knuth family Fr. Vince Nguyen Administrator St. Ladislas/Corpus Christi

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FaithHurricane Harvey and the kayaking priest Hurricane Harvey stranded Father David Bergeron The chapel at his residence, the Catholic Charismatic in his pickup the night it ripped through Houston. The Center, which managed to avoid flooding, became 38-year-old priest had been visiting his brother and his operating base. He rose early for a BBC interview, had to pull over on an overpass three miles from his Twenty Something slipping out of the chapel to speak, then returning to home in the flood-ravaged southeast side. Christina Capecchi prayer. He couldn’t make it any farther or go back, so he It was a dizzying chain of events, but the priest felt curled up in his truck and tried to sleep as thunder and sustained by grace. “This is not something you can sirens alternated – rain pounding, wind howling, his prepare for,” he said, “but if the Lord calls, He will beloved city churning in despair. Then came the newsman from ABC 13 reporting equip.” The next morning was eerily quiet. from the wet overpass. He squatted beside the kayak The parallel was not lost on him, he told reporters: and held up a microphone. Father David’s kayak was in the back of the truck – “The New World was evangelized through the waters, he’d used it just the day before – and he felt compelled Father David identified himself and chronicled his crossing from Europe to America and then using to venture out in search of wine so he could celebrate morning. The iPhone in his life vest began pinging. canoes.” Mass with some families stranded in a nearby He knew what that meant. Father David is still busy helping victims of Harvey apartment building. Here was his chance. and reflecting on the experience. It made quite the sight: a red kayak slithering “I guess we’re live,” Father David said, “and the “My greatest pulpit was the kayak,” he said. through the gray flood waters, a handsome man in a Lord is alive, and the Lord is always with us.” “Evangelization is just being present to the Lord – red baseball cap pulled over his dark, curly hair. There Before long the interview wrapped, and Father David sometimes with words, sometimes with attitudes, had been no sun for three days, and here was a smiling rowed off. He helped rescue a frail older priest from a wherever we are. You need to be who you are. For priest rowing down South Loop. hotel. He celebrated Mass. And he ministered to dozens me, I am a priest who kayaks – and the Lord used “It was a surprise to see a kayak in the street,” Father of stranded Texans in his midst – greeting children, that for his great purpose, something I could not have David told me. “It brought a smile to people – not leading prayer and listening to their harrowing tales. planned or staged.” only outwardly, but in their hearts as well.” He had just preached about Our Lady, Star of the Sea, The key, he says, is to be attentive – rooted in prayer The closest gas station refused his request for wine; an ancient title that resonated with him, and he found and open to others. “The Gospels were written 2,000 Texas law forbids the sale of liquor before noon on himself calling on the Blessed Mother as he waded years ago, but they’re still being written by us today Sundays. The priest bought some food and headed through the waters, fearing snakes. saying ‘Yes’ to the Lord as best as we can.” back out. He spotted a man trying to cross a fast- The story of the kayaking priest went viral, and Father Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver moving current and escorted him. David gave 17 interviews in the following 24 hours. Grove Heights, Minn. Franciscans in Holy Land sow peace, fraternity, respect, pope says By Carol Glatz of Assisi sent members of his recently Catholic News Service founded order out on mission in 1217 The Franciscans assisting the Chris- to all nations on earth as witnesses of tian minority and caring for the church- “faith, fraternity and peace.” es and shrines in the Holy Land are This broadened horizon of evange- “ambassadors” of all the people of lization “was the beginning of an ex- God, Pope Francis said. traordinary adventure,” which brought Marking the 800th anniversary of the the first Franciscans to the Holy Land order’s presence at the places where Je- 800 years ago. sus was born, lived, and died, the pope Today, the congregation is dedicated sent a letter to the Franciscan Custody of to living alongside brothers and sisters the Holy Land, an autonomous province of different cultures, ethnicities and re- of the Franciscan order. ligions, “sowing peace, fraternity and The custody keeps “the Christian wit- respect,” he said. ness alive, studying Scripture and wel- The pope encouraged the Franciscans and weakest; and teach young people, through the traditional Good Friday coming pilgrims,” he said in the letter, to continue to: be at the service of the “who often risk losing hope in a situa- collection” for the Holy Land and dated Oct. 17, and addressed to Francis- many pilgrims visiting the holy places; tion still without peace.” through the Vatican’s Congregation can Father Francesco Patton, the official study sacred Scripture and the faith’s “You are ambassadors of the whole for Oriental Churches, which is cur- custodian, or custos, of the Holy Land. archeological heritage; support local people of God, who have always sup- rently marking the centenary of its The pope recalled how St. Francis church communities; help the poorest ported you generously, in particular foundation, the pope said. 10 Catholic Times/ October 29, 2017 October 29, 2017/Catholic Times 11 All Saints Day isn’t only for the canonized, but for all who share eternal glory

BY TIM PUET, Catholic Times Reporter Left: A man prays in front of a grave at The church was dedicated to all martyrs, and sunset in Vienna, Austria. many martyrs’ bones were reburied there. What is a saint? Catholics mark All Saints Day by visiting the cemeteries and The date of May 13 also had been the date for Most people think of a saint as someone who graves of deceased relatives and friends. a pagan feast known as Lemuria, on which the has been canonized by the Catholic Church, CNS photo/Christian Bruna, Reuters living were asked to appease the restless spirits meaning that person has been officially recog- of the dead. nized as a holy man or woman whose life has About 125 years later, Pope Gregory III dedi- been found worthy of imitation. Right: Brother Tomas Uriel and Deacon Benito cated a new chapel in the basilica of St. Peter Formal sainthood for some people, such as Eadaeim, both of the Christ Priest to all saints, not just to the martyrs, on Nov. 1, Popes John Paul II and John XXIII and Mother Missionaries, pray with a family and fixed the anniversary of the dedication as Teresa of Kolkata, came after many Catholics remembering a deceased loved one the date of the feast. already had thought of them as saints. on All Saints Day at the All Saints Day is usually a holy day of obliga- Today, people who are canonized often are the San Isidro Cemetery in Mexico City. tion in the Catholic Church in the United States, founders of religious congregations, such as the CNS photo/David Agren but an exception is made whenever the day falls American saints Elizabeth Seton, of New York on a Monday or a Saturday. City and Emmitsburg, Maryland, and Mother followed the day’s traditional custom by visit- It is followed on Nov. 2 by the commemora- Theodore Guerin, who was born in France but tion of all the faithful departed, more commonly spent most of her life in Indiana. ing a cemetery. He said such an event evokes feelings of loss and sadness, but for Christians known as All Souls Day. Or they are martyrs, including the 30 people marking the feast, it also is an affirmation of killed in 1645 in Brazil and the three teenagers hope in the resurrection. Pope Francis holds his pastoral staff as he cele- who died for the faith in Mexico between 1527 He said that through his death on the cross, brates Mass in Rome’s Prima Porta Cemetery on and 1529 who were declared saints by Pope Nov. 2, 2016, All Souls Day. CNS photo/Paul Haring Francis earlier this month. Jesus “opened for us the door of hope where we will contemplate God. … The first one who Their path to sainthood is well-known. But walked this path was Jesus. We will walk the there are millions – probably billions – of others path he has walked.” About 125 years later, Pope Gregory III dedi- sharing eternal glory with them. Pope Francis Delivering the homily for an All Saints Day -- “Blessed are those who look into the eyes of raise him up on the last day,’” the pope said. were the first to be given special honors by cated a new chapel in the basilica of St. Peter The pope said the day takes on a dual meaning said last year on All Saints Day, Nov. 1, that all Mass in Malmo, Sweden, he followed that ob- the abandoned and marginalized and show them their fellow Christians. to all saints, not just to the martyrs, on Nov. 1, have one thing in common – that their “identity because of its mixture of sadness and hope. The Catholic Church from its earliest days and fixed the anniversary of the dedication as servation with this list of new beatitudes for their closeness. One of the early martyrs was St. Polycarp, card” was following the Beatitudes. “We return home today with this dual memory: has honored those whose faith has provided the date of the feast. modern Christians: -- “Blessed are those who see God in every per- bishop of Smyrna in Greece, who was burned the memory of the past, of our loved ones who models for other believers. During its first 300 He said that as saints have done throughout the son and strive to make others also discover him. to death around the year 155. A contemporary The Catholic Encyclopedia says the theologi- -- “Blessed are those who remain faithful have gone and the memory of the future, the years, Christians were severely persecuted, ages, Christ’s followers today are called “to con- account of his martyrdom says, “We afterwards cal basis for this feast is “the doctrine that souls while enduring evils inflicted on them by others -- “Blessed are those who protect and care for path we will go on with the certainty and with tortured, and often made to suffer agonizing front the troubles and anxieties of our age with took up his bones … and deposited them in a fit- which … are not perfectly cleansed from sins, and forgive them from their heart. our common home. the assurance that came from Jesus’ lips: ‘I will deaths because of their beliefs. These martyrs the spirit and love of Jesus.” ting place, so that when being gathered together, or have not fully atoned for past transgressions, -- “Blessed are those who renounce their own … the Lord shall grant us to celebrate the an- are debarred (initially) from the beatific vision” comfort in order to help others. niversary of his martyrdom, both in memory of allowing them to see God. -- “Blessed are those who pray and work for those who have already finished their course, In Latin America, All Saints and All Souls full communion between Christians.” and for the exercising and preparation of those days have blended to create the colorful event “All these are messengers of God’s mercy and yet to walk in their steps.” known as Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the tenderness,” Pope Francis said. “Surely they The number of martyrs grew into the thousands, Dead, which combines religious activities with will receive from him their merited reward.” making it impractical to celebrate the death of parades, costumes and other activities. The following day – All Souls Day, Nov. 2 each one. The martyrs’ example strengthened Some non-Christians believe celebrating All – the traveling pope was back in Italy and their friends and families, allowing for them Saints Day is a form of idolatry, or idol worship. to overcome continued persecution and for the However, the Church has always held that wor- faith to flourish. ship is to be given to God alone. It also believes Left: A family spreads flower petals Writings from St. Ephrem of Edessa, who that the saints are constantly working on our be- on the tomb of their loved one half, so asking a saint for his or her intercession on All Saints Day, Nov. 1, 2016, died in 373, indicated that a Feast of All Mar- tyrs began to be celebrated sometime in the is as acceptable as asking a friend or pastor to at a cemetery in Sacatepequez, Guatemala. pray for someone. CNS photo/Luis Echeverria, Reuters fourth century, usually on the first Sunday - af ter Pentecost. That Sunday continues to be All “Many seem to have a great hatred of remem- Saints Day in the calendars of Eastern Catholic bering and celebrating the lives of great Chris- Right: A woman lights a candle at churches. tian men and women, yet have no problem fer- the tombstone of a relative Pope Boniface IV changed the date for the vently celebrating the lives of secular heroes on Nov. 1, 2016, All Saints Day, feast to May 13 in the year 610. On that day, like George Washington,” says the Web site at the Wola Cemetery he dedicated a church at the site of the ancient www.churchyear.net. “All Saints Day is simply in Warsaw, Poland. Roman Pantheon, which had been built as a a day to celebrate the lives of all the great heroes CNS photo/Marcin Obara, EPA temple to “all gods.” of the Christian faith.” 12 Catholic Times October 29, 2017 Catholic cemeteries: ‘A sacred trust’ honoring the deceased BY TIM PUET Resurrection Cemetery chapel the vigil and the funeral Mass, the full Reporter, Catholic Times body should be present, with cremation taking place afterward. After cremation, This coming Wednesday, Nov. 1, is the the cremated remains should be buried in Feast of All Saints, a holy day of obli- an urn, whether in a traditional grave or in gation for all Catholics in the United an indoor columbarium. Remains should States. The day is meant to honor all not be kept at home, scattered, or mingled those in heaven, known and unknown. with other objects. The next day, Thursday, Nov. 2, is the All diocesan cemeteries have chapels Commemoration of All the Faithful De- where funeral Masses can take place. Our parted, commonly known as All Souls Mother of Sorrows Chapel at St. Joseph Day. It developed as an extension of All Cemetery also served as a parish church Saints Day and a particular way to honor from 1947 to 1970. “The Church prefers the souls of those in purgatory who are that a funeral Mass take place at the parish being purified before going to Heaven. church of the deceased,” Finn said. “This These are days when, in the words is because the parish is where a person’s of Eucharistic Prayer I, the Catholic faith community is. Church honors those “who have gone before us with the sign of faith and rest “But here, too, there are instances where in the sleep of peace.” family members are scattered among many places or a person is buried in Co- In addition to celebrating special Mass- lumbus after not living here for many es on those days, the Diocese of Colum- years. Or perhaps the deceased is Catho- bus has conducted services at its four lic, but is not a member of a particular par- cemeteries on the first Sunday in- No ish and wants to be buried at a cemetery vember for many years. chapel. In these cases, the chapel serves This year’s services will be at 2 p.m. St. Joseph Cemetery mausoleum as a central gathering place, with the fu- Sunday, Nov. 5, and will be led by Fa- neral Mass followed by burial.” ther Vincent Nguyen at St. Joseph Cem- Catholic funeral rites in the United etery, 6440 S. High St., Lockbourne; ceased who are buried here. We work ev- particular are choosing cremation more ery day to continue to earn that trust.” and more,” he said. “One reason is that States follow guidelines contained in the Father James Klima at Holy Cross Cem- Order of Christian Funerals, which was If a burial occurs in a Catholic cem- in cases where someone from outside etery, 11539 National Road S.W., Patas- adopted by the nation’s Catholic bishops etery, the gravesite already has been the Columbus area has died, it’s easier kala; Deacon Jeffrey Fortkamp at Res- and has been in use since Nov. 2, 1989. consecrated as sacred ground. If it takes to transport the remains back or to de- urrection Cemetery, 9571 N. High St., The Diocese of Columbus and its cem- place in a non-Catholic cemetery, the lay a funeral until a time when everyone Lewis Center; and Deacon Jerry Butts eteries follow local directives based on Catholic Church’s burial rite offers the can gather. Some people also think it’s at Mount Calvary Cemetery, 518 Mount that document. Calvary Ave. at West Mound Street, presiding clergy member the opportu- less expensive, but that’s not necessar- Columbus. Offices at St. Joseph, Holy nity to bless the grave. ily the case.” Finn said about half of the burials in diocesan cemeteries each year are of Cross, and Resurrection cemeteries will Diocesan cemeteries offer in-ground Finn said that regardless of whether a people who made burial arrangements be open from noon to 2 p.m. on that day. burials at gravesites or in mausoleum funeral service involves cremation or in- in advance. He recommends that people Diocesan cemeteries director Rich- crypts. Urns containing cremated re- ground burial, what’s important is that ard Finn said about 104,000 people are mains are buried in either a traditional the remains of the deceased be handled buried in the four cemeteries and about grave or an indoor columbarium, an ar- reverently. Catholic teaching is that for See CEMETERIES, Page 13 350,000 gravesites are available at St. Jo- rangement of niches similar to a mau- seph, Holy Cross, and Resurrection. All soleum. the available space is filled at Mount Cal- A new mausoleum dedicated at St. Jo- vary, the oldest and smallest of the four. seph Cemetery in the fall of 2015 has Finn often is asked why a Catholic cem- 336 crypts and 120 niches. Finn said etery should be chosen as a burial site plans are being made to build a mauso- when there are many nonsectarian cem- leum with more than 500 crypts at Res- eteries available. He said his response is urrection, where a new office was built that “Catholic cemeteries are an exten- in 2016. Many new columbariums also sion of our faith. The religious reasons have been built or are planned at Holy are obvious. Catholic cemeteries are Cross, St. Joseph, and Resurrection. well-maintained and reflect our faith in The popularity of cremation as a burial the design and construction of their cha- option for Catholics has grown steadily pels, mausoleums, and columbariums. since it was permitted by the Catholic “All include many symbols of Catholi- Church in 1963. Finn said 28.5 percent cism and are operated in a professional of the 894 people buried in diocesan manner. All of us who work for the dioc- cemeteries from July 1, 2016 to the esan cemeteries feel we have been given same date this year were cremated. a sacred trust by the families of the de- “Younger generations of Catholics in October 29, 2017 Catholic Times 13

Resurrection Cemetery bell tower

Holy Cross Cemetery chapel

CEMETERIES, continued from Page 12 do so when there is no sense of urgency in making Finn said that in 1907, Bishop James Hartley pur- for more than 20 years. Finn, a bookkeeper, and equip- funeral plans, rather than waiting until after someone chased land along what is now U.S. 23 just south of ment maintenance personnel work with all four cem- has died or death appears imminent. the Columbus city limits for St. Joseph Cemetery. The eteries. Each of the three newer cemeteries has one or He said in-ground burial spaces for traditional burials first burials took place there in 1913. It is the largest two family service advisers, as well as a clerical staff range in cost from $725 to $2,300 per person, plus the of the four diocesan cemeteries, covering 755 acres, and a full-time grounds maintenance staff. Mount Cal- cost of a monument or vault. Vaults are $650 to $950, about 350 of which are usable for cemetery purposes. vary has a seasonal grounds staff which is employed and markers or monuments range from $600 and up More than 54,000 people are buried there. Finn said during the eight warmer months of the year. for a ground-level marker to $2,850 and up for an up- the cemetery has space for 200,000 more burials. Those considering burial in a diocesan cemetery right one. Interment and recording fees begin at $800. Resurrection Cemetery, on U.S. 23, two miles north of may visit offices at the three cemeteries where space Mausoleum crypts are available for about $4,000 and Worthington, opposite Highbanks Metropolitan Park is available. Appointments are recommended, and up per person, covering all the costs listed. Crema- in southern Delaware County, was opened in 1971 and the offices are open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday tion options include in-ground burial, community co- consecrated the following year. A chapel and mauso- through Friday and 8 a.m. to noonAd Saturday, for Catholic in addition Times for Ordering lumbarium niches, private columbariums, and private leum with 480 crypts and 108 niches was blessed in to their special hours on Nov. 5. Their phone numbers niche benches. The three newest cemeteries also have 1989. A 45-foot bell tower with electronic carillon was are: St. Joseph, (614) 491-2751; Resurrection, (614) special sections for those who have experienced the added in 2001. Finn said about 8,500 people are buried 888-1805; and Holy Cross, (740) 927-4442. loss of a young child or infant. on its 105 acres and there is room for 100,000 more. The cemeteries also bury people with no resources at When continued growth on Columbus’ east side made no cost. Usually, such burials occur upon request of it desirable that a cemetery be added there, Bishop a priest or a Catholic hospital. “Burying the dead is a James Griffin bought land in western Licking County corporal work of mercy,” Finn said. “We never say we along U.S. 40 in the early 1990s and consecrated Holy do so for ‘free’ to avoid stigmatizing the next of kin of Cross Cemetery there in January 1993. About 1,000 St. John Chrysostom a deceased person, but it’s a service we provide as part people are buried there. It’s a smaller site – about 50 Byzantine Catholic Church of our mission.” acres – but has space for about 50,000 burials. 5858 Cleveland Ave., Columbus

The cemeteries also offer burial of stillborn or miscar- Finn has been part of the diocesan cemeteries depart- 13th Annual Christmas Cookie Sale ried children at no charge. “The children are in a com- ment for 36 years and has been its director since 1993. December 9, 2017 mon vault as part of a program known as Sacred Lives,” “I was looking for a temporary job in 1981 and found 10:00am until 2:00pm Finn said. “This allows families to respectfully bury out through my mother-in-law about an opening at these children in a Catholic cemetery and to visit them, Resurrection for someone to help families, and here I Preorder by calling 614-882-6103 helping bring peace of mind to the families. Once every am 36 years later,” he said. and follow the prompts three months, a Mass is offered at the chapel of Resurrec- He said the cemeteries employ 20 to 22 people at any tion Cemetery for these children, who are buried in that given time, several of whom have been staff members Tray of 6 “Baker’s Dozen” assorted cemetery’s Garden of the Holy Innocents.” Christmas Cookies - $35 There have been Catholic cemeteries in Columbus Pirogi, Potato & Cheese, Sauerkraut since 1846, when St. Patrick Church opened a cem- Sweet Cheese or Prune - $6 per pkg etery on land that now is part of Columbus State Com- Pkg is one dozen per filling (frozen) munity College. By the late 1860s, the cemetery had become almost full and was surrounded by the grow- Nut, Apricot and Poppyseed Rolls ing city. A 25-acre plot on the city’s west side for what 11” long (frozen) -$12 became Mount Calvary Cemetery was purchased in All Preorders must be picked up by 1865. It was opened for burial purposes in 1867 and 1:00pm or items will be offered for consecrated in 1874. general sale. In 1887, Columbus Catholics were encouraged to re- Beautifully move remains of any family member to Mount Cal- vary, which grew to 40 acres. More than 40,000 people 614-276-1439 modlich-monument.com are buried there. 14 Catholic Times October 29, 2017 Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle A) The Weekday Bible Readings The Lord is overzealous in caring for the poor MONDAY Romans 8:12-17 Psalm 68:2,4,6-7,20-21 panies have pursued profits over people. Protecting Luke 13:10-17 the weak (the stranger, the widow, and the orphan), became the undercurrent for whether Biblical society TUESDAY Romans 8:18-25 Father was acting justly or not. Social legislation helped in Psalm 126:1-6 caring for the weak of society, but if that legislation Luke 13:18-21 Lawrence L. Hummer is eliminated or withdrawn, it is the weak who suffer. WEDNESDAY Some societies, when they become too mean-spirited, Revelation 7:2-4,9-14 destroy the weak, as a quick glance at Nazi Germany Psalm 24:1bc-4b,5-6 will show. The danger of that happening in a secular 1 John 3:1-3 Exodus 22:20-26; society turned in on itself is never too far away. Matthew 5:1-12a 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10; The motivation in all of this is because the stranger (or THURSDAY Wisdom 3:1-9 Matthew 22:34-40 alien), the widow, and the orphan are all “among my Psalm 23:1-6 people.” The Lord has made us all and we all belong Sunday’s passage from Exodus is the only place in Romans 5:5-11 or Romans 6:3-9 to the Lord. Our calling is first and foremost to care for John 6:37-40 the Old Testament where the Hebrew word hanun the poor among us. That is as true for the faithful Jew (compassionate) is used alone. The word always is FRIDAY as it is for the faithful Christian. Jesus (born, raised, used about the Lord (never about a human), and usu- Romans 9:1-5 and died as a Jew) indicates as much in the Gospel. Psalm 147:12-15,19-20 ally is paired with another Hebrew word, rahum (thus, Luke 14:1-6 “the Lord is compassionate, and merciful”). In Sun- Although it was common for rabbis to argue about the most important commandment of the Law (some- SATURDAY day’s reading, it means the Lord is overzealous in car- Romans 11:1-2a,11-12,25-29 ing for the poor: “If he (a poor man) cries out to me, I thing which still is argued), the Pharisee who was Psalm 94:12-13a,14-15,17-18 will hear him; for I am compassionate.” also a “scholar of the law” came to test Jesus. Jesus Luke 14:1,7-11 points first to the prayer from Deuteronomy 6:5 which The newly freed former slaves in Egypt are NOT to Jews pray every day, the Shema. It commands the love “molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens of God with all one’s being (heart, soul, and mind). yourselves in the land of Egypt.” Whoever guides pres- He names this as the first commandment, but adds, ent policies in this country is obviously deaf to and ig- DIOCESAN WEEKLY RADIO AND “the second is like it.” He then cites Leviticus 19:18 norant of these Scriptures. Some so-called Christians TELEVISION MASS SCHEDULE on the love of neighbor as the self. He concludes by claim to believe in them as the revealed word of God, saying “the whole law and the prophets” hang from WEEK OF OCTOBER 29, 2017 but their actions indicate otherwise. these two commandments. That emphasizes how ex- SUNDAY MASS “You shall not wrong any widow or orphan.” Heav- tremely important the two are in relation to the other 10:30 a.m. Mass from Columbus St. Joseph en alone knows how we shall be judged for failing 611 commandments, statutes, and decrees of the law. Cathedral on St. Gabriel Radio (AM 820), Co- the test of caring for them until it hurts! Instead, we lumbus, and at www.stgabrielradio.com. Whether Jesus is the first to have joined these two as Mass with the Passionist Fathers at pile up obscene amounts of wealth and call it the the greatest is less important than that Jesus endorsed 7:30 a.m. on WWHO-TV (the CW), Channel 53, Columbus. American way, and destroy ourselves in the pro- the joining of the two. That means we ignore them at and 10:30 a.m. on WHIZ-TV, Chan- cess. When we look at the way we fight against our peril. Review the first reading to see what loving nel 18, Zanesville. Check local cable system controls over unscrupulous lenders in this country the neighbor as the self means. for cable channel listing. with the lame excuse that “the lenders have a right Mass from Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, Birming- to earn money, too,” we cede all right to claim we Father Lawrence Hummer, pastor at ham, Ala., at 8 a.m. on EWTN (Spectrum Channel 385, Chillicothe St. Mary Church, can be reached at Insight Channel 382, are a compassionate people. We allow Puerto Rico or WOW Channel 378). to suffer greatly after devastating storms, demanding [email protected]. (Encores at noon, 7 p.m., and midnight). that it pay its bills rather than pouring out ourselves Mass from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee at to help neighbors in desperate need. What kind of KNIGHTS, continued from Page 5 6:30 a.m. on ION TV (AT&T U-verse Channel people have we become? 195, Dish Network Channel 250, At the Mass, our group received the last answer or DirecTV Channel 305). In our society, the poor have no voice, and the ap- to our prayer for a meaningful experience at the Mass from Massillon St. Mary Church at 10:30 a.m. on peal for help grows louder from those needing food, abbey. It was something about the holiness of the WILB radio (AM 1060, FM 94.5 and 89.5), Canton, heard in Tuscarawas, Holmes, and Coshocton counties. or help with rent, or utility bills, or medical care, or a worship space – both grand and simple at the same host of other things, because jobs have ended as com- time – and the fact that we were permitted to pass DAILY MASS into an area otherwise restricted to visitors, that fo- 8 a.m., Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Birming- Our Lady of Peace Open House cused our attention on the tremendous blessing it is ham, Ala. (Encores at noon, 7 p.m. and midnight). See to receive the precious body and blood of our Lord, EWTN above; and on I-Lifetv Columbus Our Lady of Peace School, 40 E. Domin- (Channel 113 in Ada, Logan, Millersburg, Mur- something that many in our over-stimulated society ray City and Washington C.H.; Channel 125 in Marion, ion Blvd., will have its annual open house from 12:15 sadly tend to view as a boring ritual. The Lord was Newark, Newcomerstown and New to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12. powerfully present to us that day – a final answer Philadelphia; and Channel 207 in Zanesville); Those taking part will be able to tour the school and to prayer. 8 p.m., St. Gabriel Radio (AM 820), Columbus, and at www.stgabrielradio.com. talk with staff, students, and parents. New registration We are back at home now and nestled into our for students also will begin that day. daily routines. But we will be forever blessed by We pray Week II, Seasonal Proper For more information, contact (614) 267-4535 or our little pilgrimage to the Trappist Abbey of Geth- of the Liturgy of the Hours [email protected]. semani.

October 29, 2017 Catholic Times 15 Which Reformation? What Reform? Despite the formulation you’ll hear before and after Church. That deepened conversation would do well the Oct. 31 quincentenary of Luther’s 95 theses, there to focus on what makes for authentic “reform” in was no single “Reformation” to which the Catholic the Church. In the Fall issue of Plough, the quar- “Counter-Reformation” was the similarly univocal THE CATHOLIC terly of the Bruderhof Community, I propose that response. Rather, as Yale historian Carlos Eire shows all authentic reform in the Church must begin from in his eminently readable and magisterial work, Ref- DIFFERENCE a recovery of some part of the Church’s essential ormations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650, George Weigel “form” or constitution (in the British sense), which there were multiple, contending reformations in play was given to the Church by Christ. True ecclesial in the first centuries of modernity. reform is thus always re-form. It is not something There was the reformation of European intellectual became the modern world, for good and for ill. we make up by our own cleverness. It does not life led by humanists steeped in the Greek and Roman mean surrender to the spirit of the age. It does not classics: men like the Dutchman Erasmus (whose The bad bits are the concern of Notre Dame’s Brad involve substituting our judgment for God’s revela- scholarship deeply influenced those who would be- Gregory in The Unintended Reformation: How a Re- tion. True Christian reform always involves bringing come known as “Protestants” but who never broke ligious Revolution Secularized Society: a book aptly into the present something the Church has laid aside with Rome) and Thomas More (who urged Erasmus described by one reviewer as “brilliant, extraordinari- or misplaced, and making that Christ-given some- to deepen his knowledge of Greek, the Church fa- ly learned, eccentric, opinionated, variously wrong- thing into an instrument of renewal. (The full article thers, and the New Testament in its original language). headed, and utterly wonderful. “ On Gregory’s ar- is available here: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/ There were at least four major flavors of “Protestant” gument, among the things “The Reformation” – in faith/discipleship/re-forming-the-church). this case, the various Protestant Reformations – be- reformation – Lutheran, Zwinglian, Radical, and And how, on this quincentenary of the 95 theses, queathed the modern world were hyperindividualism, Calvinist – and plenty of subdivisions within those should we measure the authenticity of renewal? The suspicion of all authority, moral subjectivism and categories. There were impressive pre-Luther Catho- evangelical criterion seems decisive here. lic reformers like the archbishop of Toledo, Cardinal relativism, skepticism about the truth of anything, the Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros. There were Catholic banishment of religious thought from western aca- If the reform and renewal in question really does reformers who left a mixed legacy: the French edu- demic life, and the reduction of all true knowledge restore to the Church something of its Christ-given cator Guillaume Bude, for example, influenced both to what we can know from science. That’s a broad “form,” then the results will be evident evangelically the Protestant reformer John Calvin and the Catholic indictment, to be sure. But amidst Gregory’s dense – in an increased harvest of souls who have come to reformer Ignatius Loyola. There was the failed Catho- prose and complex presentation, serious readers will know the Lord Jesus, who walk in his Way, and who lic reform mandated by the Fifth Lateran Council but get a glimpse of how bad ideas – such as the mistaken share the gift they have been given with others, there- never implemented by Pope Leo X (the first and last notion of God as a willful (if infinite) being-among- by healing a broken and often death-dealing culture. pontiff to keep an albino elephant as a pet). And there other-beings – can play themselves out in history with By the same criterion, empty churches, flaccid evan- were the Catholic reformers, of various theological devastating results. gelization, and surrender to the prevailing cultural and pastoral dispositions, who shaped the teaching The 500th anniversary of one of the emblematic mores signal false reform and failed renewal, which of the Council of Trent and then vigorously imple- acts in this cultural tsunami of Reformations should can be dressed up in either romantic-nostalgic or pro- mented its reforms. lead to a deepening of ecumenical dialogue about gressive livery. There were, in short, multiple Reformations. Their what these many early modern reformers wrought George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of sometimes-violent interaction created much of what – and not just for the world, but primarily for the the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.

RECOVERY, continued from Page 2 other hurricanes before ... but then Maria comes along, “All the devastation ... when you see this, no elec- bishop said, neither can Catholics avoid it. Therefore, which in many ways was worse than Harvey and Irma, tricity, families living with no water to bathe in, it’s he said, offering witness of our faith has to be practiced and people have donor fatigue and it is very difficult to hard and they are traumatized,” Riolo told CNS while with good deeds “in times of hurricanes like this one.” get donations for Puerto Rico. The need here is so much distributing the water filters around Quebradilla’s Parishes in the inner mountain regions of Puerto greater, yet the financial resources are so much less.” Guajataca sector on Oct. 21. “When you come into Rico have fared the worst after Hurricane Maria. Not Puerto Rico’s post-hurricane recovery efforts have someone’s house, they don’t forget that, and when only has their congregations’ financial support dimin- been largely a grass-roots impulse, mainly spearhead- you tell them, ‘God thinks about you so much that he ished due to massive unemployment, but federal and ed by newly formed young adult movements and reli- sent us ... and there’s a whole lot of people in my town local government support is not being received in gious groups that have become an alternative to slow, thinking about you,’ they don’t forget that..” their towns. Many parishes, like St. Raphael the Arch- complex and bureaucratic government procedures. Asked about what drives her to do missionary work, angel, are holding ongoing relief collections for them. Most of these groups – the local ones and those com- Riolo simply answered: “We are the hands and feet Before Mass, Bishop Fernandez told CNS the Dio- ing from the U.S., – include Catholics. of Jesus.” cese of Arecibo is distributing all aid coming from Katherine Riolo, a Catholic volunteer with the Ca- Bishop Daniel Fernandez of Arecibo touched on that Caritas directly to its 59 parishes. His diocese and the nadian relief foundation Impact Nations, came to exact sentiment from Riolo at a Mass at St. Raphael Diocese of Mayaguez are the most damaged of the Quebradillas, a town of 25,000 residents in northwest the Archangel Church in Quebradillas on Oct. 22, dioceses. The island has one archdiocese – San Juan Puerto Rico, with a team of four to help distribute 300 World Mission Sunday. – and five dioceses. portable water filters around isolated homes deep in “The Father sent his son into the world. Mission “I’m perceiving much unity and even calm within the mountains. Riolo is a retired schoolteacher and a means to send,” said Bishop Fernandez during his the faithful,” said Bishop Fernandez. “However, (the 30-year missionary veteran who is a member of the homily. “If sending means mission or mission means priests and I) are attentive because we know that as Sangre de Cristo Parish in Albuquerque, New Mexi- send, then Jesus was the first missionary.” time passes and, if the situation doesn’t improve at an co. This was her first disaster-related mission. Just as the church cannot avoid being missionary, the adequate pace, tolerance levels might diminish.” 16 Catholic Times October 29, 2017 Pray for our dead

BAKER, Mary J. (Pontiuos), 90, Oct. 15 LISTON, Rosella M. (Doll), 99, Oct. 19 St. Paul Church, Westerville St. Philip Church, Columbus Raymond A. Bichimer Funeral Mass for Raymond A. Bi- Bishop Hartley High School Athletic BALLISH, George C. III, 77, Oct. 22 LLOYD, Rosemary (Wolfe), 68, Oct. 19 chimer, 83, who died Friday, Oct. 13, Association, and president of the Co- St. Vincent de Paul Church, Mount Vernon St. Timothy Church, Columbus was held Monday. Oct. 23 at St. Cece- lumbus Jaycees, was on the profes- BOLLON, Barbara (Huff), 57, Oct. 12 LUPINETTI, Janet L. (Noble), 78, of Columbus, lia Church, Clearwater, Florida. Buri- sional council of The Columbus Foun- Immaculate Conception Church, Dennison Oct. 15 al will be at a later date at St. Joseph dation, and was involved in many St. Anthony Church, Follansbee, W.Va. Cemetery, Columbus. other philanthropic organizations. DICKENS, Paul D., 57, Oct. 22 He was born on Nov. 30, 1933 in He also was a member of the Uni- St. Pius X Church, Reynoldsburg McALLISTER, Constance (Miller), 84, Oct. 17 Cleveland to Charles and Jeanette versity Club of Columbus and of Phi St. Brendan Church, Hilliard ECKARDT, Norma E. (Hayhurst), 82, Oct. 20 (Coorlas) Bichimer. Kappa Tau fraternity, serving as its Holy Family Church, Columbus McKEARNEY, Collette, 88, Oct. 18 He earned his undergraduate and national president from 1983-85, was St. Andrew Church, Columbus juris doctor of law degrees from The inducted into its alumni hall of fame, FRISSORA, Nelda (Colasante), 99, Oct. 17 and was past president of the Colum- St. Elizabeth Church, Columbus MENAPACE, Eleanor (Nadeau), 74, Oct. 19 Ohio State University, was a found- bus Country Club and the Belleaire Sacred Heart Church, New Philadelphia ing partner and retired president of FUERST, Frank, 74, Oct. 8 the Columbus law form of Means, (Florida) Country Club. Sacred Heart Church, New Philadelphia MERRILL, Kenneth D., 69, Oct. 17 Bichimer, Burkholder & Baker, and He was preceded in death by his St. Patrick Church, Columbus GROTE, Jean M., 54, Oct. 13 was owner-operator of several Florida parents; brother, Charles; and sister, St. John XXIII Church, Canal Winchester MOELLER, Michael W., 64, Oct. 20 shopping centers. Jane Setlak. Survivors include his St. Brigid of Kildare Church, Dublin He was president of the advisory wife of 61 years, Nancy (Doersam); GUNDERMAN, William, 61, Oct. 18 board of Catholic Social Services of son, Mike (Debbie); daughters, Cindy St. Peter Church, Columbus MORGAN, Mary C. (Flynn), 78, Oct. 17 the Diocese of Columbus, chairman of (Don) Currie, Kae (Mike) Sobczyk, St. Mary Church, Waverly HEILMAN, Thomas P., 87, Oct. 7 the Columbus Christ the King school and Barb (Jim) Groner; 10 grandchil- St. Catharine Church, Columbus NOLL, Dr. Carl W., 81, Oct. 21 board, president of the Columbus dren; and two great-grandchildren. Holy Family Church, Columbus HELD, Evelyn K. (Shal), 64, Oct. 19 St. Philip Church, Columbus PANTHANA, John E., 81, Oct. 16 Hartley open house set St. Thomas Church, Columbus HIGGINS, Pamela (Huddy), 78, Oct. 14 Columbus Bishop Hartley High testing for the Class of 2022 on the St. Andrew Church, Columbus PUSHNIK, Rosemary (Kaiser), 93, Sept. 24 School will host its annual open house following Saturdays: Nov. 18, Dec. 9, St. Catharine Church, Columbus HILLIS, David E. “Ned,” 72, Oct. 16 for prospective students and their par- Jan. 13, and March 10. Students who St. Nicholas Church, Zanesville SHANNON, Mary J. (Huffman), 92, Oct. 21 ents from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. wish to be considered for a scholar- Holy Spirit Church, Columbus 16. Attendees will have the opportu- ship must select either the November KUHN, Helen M. (Habiyanec), 93, Oct. 23 nity to hear from the principal, meet or December date. To schedule an St. Elizabeth Seton Parish Church, Pickering- THOMAN, Timothy R., 62, Oct. 16 teachers and coaches, experience the admissions test, students must submit ton Resurrection Cemetery Chapel, Lewis Center technology program, take campus an application to the school and up- KULLMAN, Richard P., 55, Oct. 13 WIGGINS, Patrick J. Jr., 56, Oct. 20 tours, and see the programs and facili- load all required documents via the St. Matthias Church, Columbus St. Brendan Church, Hilliard ties Hartley offers. website, (www.bishop-hartley.org); Those who cannot attend the open click on the “Prospective Students” LINES, Julia (Engle), 69, Oct. 3 house may visit the school website, tab. To ensure proper scheduling, St. Bernadette Church, Lancaster www.bishop-hartley.org, for more in- students should register a minimum formation. of one week before the preferred ODU early assurance information session The school will offer admissions testing date. Ohio Dominican University will host complete their bachelor’s degree and an early assurance programs informa- their doctorate in osteopathy in as few tion session for high-achieving high as seven years. school students from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Attendees also can also learn about Thursday, Nov. 9. The free event will ODU’s physician assistant early as- take place in Battelle Hall on ODU’s surance program, which grants stu- main campus, 1215 Sunbury Road. dents guaranteed acceptance into its Attendees will have an opportunity physician assistant studies master’s to learn about ODU’s medical school program. early assurance program, which offers To register, visit ohiodominican.edu/ a limited number of qualified students OpenHouse. Interested students can guaranteed acceptance into ODU and learn more about both early assurance the Ohio University Heritage College programs at ohiodominican.edu/As- of Osteopathic Medicine. Students in surance. The deadline to apply to ei- the program have an opportunity to ther program is Friday, Dec. 15. October 29, 2017 Catholic Times 17 H A P P E N I N G S

fair for all knitters, crocheters, quilters, seamstresses, and the Cenacle format of the Marian Movement of Priests. CLASSIFIED others who work with fibers. Shawls will be collected for Holy Hour at Holy Family the St. Peregrine Cancer Ministry. Lunch will be provided. 6 to 7 p.m., Holy Family Church, 584 W. Broad St., Colum- St. Pius X St. Brendan’s 614-342-6003 bus. Holy Hour of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Christmas Craft Bazaar 2017 Fall Craft Show 28-29, SATURDAY-SUNDAY followed by meeting of parish Holy Name and Junior DeSales Presents ‘Little Women’ Holy Name societies, with refreshments. 614-221-4323 November 4, 2017 Saturday, November 4 • 9 am -3 pm Frassati Society Meeting at Columbus St. Patrick St. Brendan School -4475 Dublin Rd., Hilliard 7 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, St. Francis DeSales High 9 am-3 pm School, 4212 Karl Road, Columbus. School’s drama de- 7 p.m., Aquinas Hall, St. Patrick Church, 280 N. Grant Admission $2 Over 80 crafters! • Freeadmission partment presents Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women.” Ave., Columbus. Meeting of parish’s Frassati So- Free Parking Tickets $8. 614-267-7808 ciety for young adults. Scripture study featuring For more Info Contact Dan Davis 614-975-1089 this coming Sunday’s readings and commentary. St. Mary Magdalene or [email protected] 29, SUNDAY 614-224-9522 Christmas Craft Bazaar St. Christopher Adult Religious Education 3, FRIDAY 10 to 11:20 a.m., Library, Trinity Catholic School, 1440 St. Cecilia Adoration of Blessed Sacrament Nov. 4th 9:00 a.m. –3:00 p.m. Women’s Club -Holiday Bazaar & Craft Show Grandview Ave., Columbus. Catholic author John Fink St. Cecilia Church, 434 Norton Road, Columbus. Begins Handmade crafts, gift baskets, baked goods, Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church speaks on his book “How Could This Church Survive?” after 8:15 a.m. Mass; continues to 5 p.m. Saturday. great food, lots of vendors and much more… 1559 Roxbury Road, MarbleCliff about some of the darkest parts of Catholic history. Monthly Adoration of Blessed Sacrament 473 S. Roys Ave., Columbus Saturday, November 4, from 9-3 pm Praise Mass at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church, 5225 Refu- 11 a.m., Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church, 5225 gee Road, Columbus. Begins after 9 a.m. Mass; continues Many , many vendors, the Italian Kitchen, Refugee Road, Columbus. Praise Mass with upbeat con- through 6 p.m. Holy Hour. St. Luke Parish Turkey Dinner bake sale,white elephant sale, and more... temporary music. 614-861-1242 Catholic Men’s Luncheon Club Sunday, November 5 – 11am-2pm Frassati Society Mass, Lunch 12:15 p.m., St. Patrick Church, 280 N. Grant Ave., Columbus. St. Luke Community Center Noon, St. Patrick Church, 280 N. Grant Ave., Columbus. Catholic Men’s Luncheon Club meeting. Shawn Malone Parish’s Frassati Society for young adults attends Mass, speaks on the work of the Back in His Arms Again minis- Market & Rambo Streets, Danville try, which serves families mourning the death of a child. OCTOBER followed by lunch at Red Velvet Cafe, 246 S. 4th St. Adults -$8, Children 10 & under -$4 Preceded by 11:45 a.m. Mass; $10 donation requested. 614-224-9522 Carry-out available 26, THURSDAY Reception for Ohio Dominican Art Exhibition Bazaar table with baked goods and crafts Cenacle at Holy Name Cristo Rey Columbus High School Open House 5 to 7 p.m., Wehrle Art Gallery, Ohio Dominican Univer- 6 p.m., Holy Name Church, 154 E. Patterson Ave., Colum- 1 to 3 p.m., Cristo Rey Columbus High School, 400 E. Town sity, 1215 Sunbury Road, Columbus. Opening reception for bus. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, with prayers in St., Columbus. Open house for middle-school students gallery’s exhibition of “Nostalgia and Invisible Racism: ST. ANDREW HOLIDAY BAZAAR the Cenacle format of the Marian Movement of Priests. and their families who meet school’s economic guide- A Project by Ann Corley Silverman,” which continues 1899 McCoy Rd. 43220 Frassati Society Meeting at Columbus St. Patrick lines. 614-223-9261, extension 12008 through Jan. 12. November 11, 9 am-3 pm 7 p.m., Aquinas Hall, St. Patrick Church, 280 N. Grant Ave., Prayer Group Meeting at Christ the King Shepherd’s Corner Night Walk Many and varied crafters, Columbus. Meeting of parish’s Frassati Society for young 5 to 7 p.m., Christ the King Church, 2777 E. Livingston 6:30 to 8 p.m., Shepherd’s Corner Ecology Center, 987 buckeyes, raffles--including adults. “Christ in the City” program with Adoration of the Ave., Columbus (enter at daily Mass entrance). Weekly N. Waggoner Road, Blacklick. Guided meditation walk OSU quilt, and bake sale! Blessed Sacrament, confessions, Taize chant, and night parish prayer group meets for praise, worship, ministry, across a field and through the woods of farm operated by prayer, followed by refreshments at Claddagh Irish Pub. and teaching. 614-237-0401 the Dominican Sisters of Peace, led by Sister Marguerite Lunch available, no admission charge! Chandler, OP. 614-866-4302 614-224-9522 Spanish Mass at Columbus St. Peter Eucharistic Vigil at Holy Cross 26-29, THURSDAY-SUNDAY 7 p.m., St. Peter Church, 6899 Smoky Row Road, Colum- bus. Mass in Spanish. 706-761-4054 Holy Cross Church, 205 S. 5th St., Columbus. 7:30 p.m. Bishop Hartley Presents ‘The Addams Family’ Mass, followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament All fund-raising events (festivals, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Columbus 31, TUESDAY with various prayers, ending with Benediction at 11:30. bazaars, spaghetti dinners, fish fries, Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave., Columbus. Padre Pio Prayer Group at St. John the Baptist All-Night Exposition at Our Lady of Victory “The Addams Family,” featuring Charles Addams’ spooky bake sales, pizza/sub sales, candy 12:30 p.m., St. John the Baptist Church, 168 E. Lincoln Ave., Our Lady of Victory Church, 1559 Roxbury Road, Colum- cartoon characters, presented by the Columbus Bishop sales, etc.) will be placed in the “Fund- Columbus. Padre Pio Prayer Group meeting, including ro- bus. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 8 p.m. Hartley High School drama department. Tickets $10. until Mass at 8 a.m. Saturday. Raising Guide.” sary, devotions, and 1 p.m. Mass. 614-294-5319 An entry into the Guide will be $18.50 Rosary for Life at St. Joan of Arc 3-5, FRIDAY-SUNDAY for the first six lines, and $2.65 for 28, SATURDAY Following 6:15 p.m. Mass, St. Joan of Arc Church, 10700 Diocesan Encuentro at St. Paul Bishop Ready Presents ‘The Crucible’ each additional line. Liberty Road, Powell. Recital of Rosary for Life, spon- 7 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Bishop Ready High 8 a.m., St. Paul Church, 313 N. State St., Westerville. Dioc- sored by church’s respect life committee. For more information, esan Encuentro, a gathering of representatives from par- School, 707 Salisbury Road, Columbus. School’s theater call David Garick at 614-224-5195. ishes with significant Latino populations to discuss their department presents Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible.” Tick- 31-NOV. 4, TUESDAY-SATURDAY ets $10 adults, $9 senior citizens, $8 students. parish Encuentros, which are part of a program of reflec- Three Bags Full Consignment Sale tion and action leading to the national Encuentro from 614-276-5263 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday ($10 advance online ticket pur- Men’s Retreat at St. Therese’s Sept. 20-23, 2018 in Grapevine, Texas. Includes 1 p.m. Mass chasers only), 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ‘Happenings’ submissions celebrated by Bishop Frederick Campbell. 614-262-7992 St. Therese’s Retreat Center, 5277 E. Broad St., Columbus. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, 10 Men’s interactive retreat sponsored by Catholic Laymen’s Life and Mercy Mass in Plain City Notices for items of Catholic interest must a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday (selected items half-price Friday Retreat League. led by Father John D. Corbett, OP. Theme: 9 a.m. Mass, St. Joseph Church, 140 West Ave., Plain City. be received at least 12 days before ex- night and Saturday), Franklin County Fairgrounds, 5035 “An Eagle’s Flight: Following Jesus in the Gospel of John.” Saturday Life and Mercy Mass, followed by rosary and pected publication date. We will print them Northwest Parkway, Hilliard. Three Bags Full consign- 614-392-0146, 614-216-4500, 614-425-5422 as space permits. confession. ment sale of children’s items. Unsold and unclaimed Items not received before this deadline may St. Mark Emerald 5K Fun Run and Walk items are donated to Catholic and pro-life charities. 4, SATURDAY not be published. 9 a.m. to noon, Forest Rose Bike Path, 1570 Granville Pike, 614-561-5300 Fatima Devotions at Columbus St. Patrick Listings cannot be taken by phone. Lancaster. Emerald 5K fun run and walk benefiting the 7 a.m., St. Patrick Church, 280 N. Grant Ave., Columbus. Mail to Catholic Times Happenings, Foundation Dinners of Fairfield County, the Lancaster St. Mass, followed by devotions to Our Lady of Fatima, pre- 197 E. Gay St., Columbus OH 43215 Mark Church Emerald Food Pantry, and the Bridges of St. NOVEMBER ceded by confessions at 6:30. 614-240-5910 Fax to 614-241-2518 Mark ministry helping the Rach Suc Mission Church in Mary’s Little Children Prayer Group E-mail as text to Can Tho, Vietnam. 614-506-0044 2, THURSDAY Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church, 5225 Refugee [email protected] Diocesan Fiber Fair at Church of the Resurrection Cenacle at Holy Name Road, Columbus. 8:30 a.m., confessions, 9 a.m., Mass, fol- 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Church of the Resurrection, 6300 E. 6 p.m., Holy Name Church, 154 E. Patterson Ave., Colum- lowed by Fatima prayers and Rosary (Shepherds of Christ Dublin-Granville Road, Columbus. Annual diocesan fiber bus. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, with prayers in format); 10 a.m., meeting. 614-861-4888 18 Catholic Times October 29, 2017

Book review The friendship project

By Michele Faehnle and Emily Jaminet Reviewed by Stephanie Rapp Michele Faehnle and Emily Jaminet – best-selling authors of Divine Mercy for Moms – have blessed us again! In their latest book, The Friendship Proj- ect, these beautiful and faithful wom- en invite all women to pursue virtue, friendship, and, of course, Jesus Christ. Through sharing stories, Scripture, and the saints, they offer readers the chance to self-reflect on their own pursuit of virtuous living, as well as the skills needed to build spiritual friendships. telling and real-life examples, Mi- azon, Barnes and Noble, or Ave Maria highly recommend, especially to those The Friendship Project begins with an chele and Emily provide insight into Press, or you can buy a copy from our seeking to live, and to help others live, excerpt from the Bible: Sirach 6:5-17. how beneficial – and attainable – local Catholic book store, Generations. a virtuous life. It’s a beautiful testament to friendship, faith-filled friendships are. And they Overall, I found The Friendship Proj- Stephanie Rapp directs the diocesan ending with the following: don’t stop there. Michele and Emily ect to be a fantastic book that I would Marriage and Family Life Office. “Faithful friends are a sturdy shelter, (friends themselves) also share stories whoever finds one finds a treasure. about Catholic saints who exemplified friendships that we all can strive for. Faithful friends are beyond price, no These stories, along with quotes from amount can balance their worth. Sacred Scripture and the Catechism Faithful friends are life-saving medi- of the Catholic Church, are sprinkled cine; those who fear God will find throughout the book, inviting us to them. contemplate our own relationship with Those who fear the Lord enjoy stable the Lord and with others. friendship, for as they are, so will their As I read this book, I found myself neighbors be.” blessed by its words and praying for These verses struck me as I eagerly strength to grow in virtue myself, as began reading The Friendship Project, well as for the courage to be the best and they stayed with me throughout the friend I can be. I reflected on friend- book. I found these verses to be a fitting ships I have – both old and new – and introduction as they laid the foundation ways in which I can deepen them. It for Michele and Emily’s suggestion helped that each chapter ended with that spiritual friendships not only are practical advice and strategies to nice to have, but also can help us be- implement, giving me a great place come saints. They share what makes a to start. I was truly blessed by The good friend and how to discern healthy Friendship Project and my only regret friendships. But Michele and Emily do is that I read it alone. Early Assurance Info Session Nov. 9 not talk only about the importance of Fortunately, Michele and Emily have Are you an outstanding high school student who wants to having faith-filled friends; they also made it possible to read The Friend- pursue a career in medicine? Get a head start at ODU. dive into specifics on how to be one ship Project as a group study. They yourself. With each chapter focusing • Med School Early Assurance Program provide everything one would need to • Physician Assistant Early Assurance Program on a different virtue (faith, hope, char- start a study, including invitation cards, ity, prudence, gratitude, loyalty, gener- icebreaker activities, prayers, free on- Join us from 6-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9. osity, and prayerfulness), they openly line videos, and discussion questions. Sign up now at ohiodominican.edu/OpenHouse shared their own experiences cultivat- You can find these resources and- or ing friendships, and encouraged me to der the book on their website, www. Central Ohio’s Catholic University • Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Peace. do the same. thefriendshipprojectbook.com. Their 1216 Sunbury Rd. | Columbus, OH 43219 | 614.251.4500 Through honest and humble story- book also can be ordered through Am- October 29, 2017 Catholic Times 19 Josephinum honors Bishop Campbell, Carmen and Margaret Angelo

Left: Pictured are (from left) Father John Allen of the Josephinum, Father David Schalk, Bishop Frederick Campbell, and Msgr. Christopher Schreck, Jo- sephinum rector-president. Above: Carmen and Margaret Angelo. The Pontifical College Josephinum hosted its annual Good Shepherd Award dinner last week to honor people who have made outstanding contributions to the semi- nary and the formation of new priests. The Good Shepherd: Defending the Faith Award was presented to Bishop Frederick Campbell. The bishop not only is the ordinary for the seminary, since it is located within the Diocese of Columbus, but also is on its board of trustees and serves as its vice chancellor. He also has been an adjunct professor at the seminary and was rector of the St. Paul (Minnesota) Seminary School of Divinity before becoming bishop of Columbus in 2005. He was cited for his strong leadership over the years in strengthening the Josephinum, the only seminary outside of Italy that is under the direct control of the Holy See. The college also presented the Pope Leo XIII Award to Carmen and Margaret Angelo of Columbus. They have been strong supporters of the school for many years, working tirelessly in support of the seminarians to ensure they have the financial and moral support they need. They are longtime members of the Friends of the Josephinum and have maintained relationships with many seminarians who are priests in the Diocese of Columbus and elsewhere. CT photos by Ken Snow Winter Grave Decorations from your Catholic Cemeteries of Columbus This year we are offering live wreaths which can be used on both graves and mausoleum crypts. Decorations will be placed at burial sites by cemetery personnel during December and will remain until weather renders them unsightly.

ORDER FORM Live variegated greens give Name ______freshness and beauty Address ______Name of Deceased ______The wreath measures 24” Cemetery ______Section or Building ______in diameter offering a Lot # or Side ______Grave or Crypt # ______distinctive appearance. Number of Wreaths ______@ $40.00 ea. price includes sales tax Attached are pine cones and attractive red bow. Easel stands are included Mail orders for St. Joseph and Mt. Calvary Cemeteries to: for display on graves. St. Joseph Cemetery, 6440 South High Street, Lockbourne, OH 43137 Mail orders for Resurrection Cemetery to: Resurrection Cemetery, 9571 North High Street, Lewis Center, OH 43035 No Phone Orders Please! Mail orders for Holy Cross Cemetery to: Holy Cross Cemetery,11539 National Road, S.W., Pataskala, OH 43062

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