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Trevor Potts signs the Book of the Elect as his sponsor and father, Jerry Potts, and Father Jerry Volz, pastor of St. Matthew Parish in Topeka, look on. IT’S ALL RITE STORY BY KARA HANSEN | PHOTOS BY JAY SOLDNER

OPEKA — For hundreds of people and ways they can be part of the church,” said who have been attending RCIA class - Father Volz. es around the archdiocese, the Rite of But the Rite of Election is definitely a high T Election marked the home stretch of point of the process. their journey into the Catholic faith. “The Rite of Election really broadens their un - “We’ve been in it for the long haul,” said derstanding of the church, especially of the uni - Trevor Potts. He and his wife, Nichole, have been versal church,” he said. “The archbishop is present attending RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of to encourage them to go on and [to] give them his Adults) classes at St. Matthew Parish in Topeka approval in the final part of their journey.” since early fall. “We’ve learned so much about the The Potts were among those who participated Catholic religion and church in general, and in the third Rite of Election ceremony this year, formed a lot of friendships as well.” held at Most Pure Heart of Mary in Topeka on Father Jerry Volz, pastor of St. Matthew, said Feb. 17. The first two were held at St. Patrick getting to the Rite of Election was a gradual Parish in Kansas City, Kan., and Prince of Peace process for most participants. Parish in Olathe on Feb. 10. “RCIA is first about inquiring into the As part of the rite, catechumens are presented Catholic Church and bringing together people to Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann along with with their different perspectives. The church their godparents. Separately, candidates are pre - then helps them understand who God is and sented with their sponsors. The event serves as how he relates to people — first as individuals the formal announcement of who will be entering and then as a community — which is really im - the church at the Easter Vigil. portant for us as Catholics,” said Father Volz, Some 178 catechumens, who are seeking bap - whose parish has four catechumens and eight tism along with entry into the church, signed the candidates preparing for entry into the church Book of the Elect this year. Hundreds more candi - this year. dates — those previously baptized, but not as Being a part of that community, he said, in - Catholics, who are seeking full communion with volves participation. the church — participated as well. “We invite them to be a part of the parish by At the Easter Vigil, these catechumens and inviting members of different organizations candidates will become full members of the Loreena Potts, a parishioner of Christ the King Parish in Topeka, shows her and committees to share with the RCIA class so Catholic Church. After Easter, they will begin a support for catechumen Nichole Potts as Nichole signs the Book of the Elect they know about all the different opportunities new journey — this time as Catholics. Feb. 17 at the Rite of Election at Most Pure Heart of Mary Church, Topeka. 2 LOCAL NEWS THE LEAVEN • FEBRUARY 22, 2008 FEBRUARY 22, 2008 • THE LEAVEN SECOND FRONT PAGE 3

LIFE WILL BE VICTORIOUS See what difference an hour can make this Lent ould you not keep watch for The description of the prayer of Jesus prayer to express to God what we think Jesus. one hour?” (Mk 14: 37) in the garden is very instructive for us. is best for ourselves, for our families and This portion of the Passion challenges “C This is the question Jesus Jesus first asks the Father that “this cup for all those we love. us to watch and pray with the Lord so posed to Peter when the Lord found him pass from me.” In other words, Jesus is Yet, in the end, we too must trust the that we will have the strength to face sleeping in the appealing to the Father Father and surrender to his will for us. whatever challenges we may encounter Garden of to be freed from hav - We can only do this if we are convinced as we strive to follow Jesus faithfully. Gethsemane. What ing to endure the pas - that the Lord desires only what is best for What sort of difference would a weekly would have hap - ARCHBISHOP sion and crucifixion. us and those we love. If our prayer is to hour of eucharistic adoration and prayer pened differently for JOSEPH F. I find great comfort be truly patterned after the prayer of make in our lives? Are we really too busy Peter had he prayed in this request of Jesus Jesus, then we must ask for the grace to to give Jesus just one of the 168 hours he in Gethsemane rather NAUMANN to be spared suffering conform our will to God’s will. gives us each week? than slept? and death. In so doing, While Jesus is prostrate and anguish - What difference would an hour of As we continue Jesus has in effect giv - ing in prayer, Peter, James and John are prayer make in our daily lives? For this series of reflec - en us permission to prostrate in sleep. The Gospel describes many, it may simply not be possible to go tions on the Passion of Jesus, we come to pray to be relieved from things that are them barely able to keep their eyes open. to an adoration chapel every day. Yet, Sister Mary Grace Swift, takes a break Sister Marie William Blyth works in the Sister Rita Lavigne, director of the Paola the portion of the Passion narrative after difficult and burdensome. In the Gospel, I can sympathize with the apostles and we can pray in our home or in our apart - from tending the Lourdes of the Plains grot - Ursuline library in the convent. She is also the Area Church Action Food Pantry, sorts the Last Supper where Jesus goes to the Jesus frequently responded to such pleas their inability to fight off sleep. At the ment. We can pray in the car or while to on the Ursuline grounds. director of the Ursuline Associates program. through food donations made to the pantry. Garden of Gethsemane to pray. Jesus to lift another’s burden. It is normal and same time, one has to wonder how they walking. With our responsibilities and asks Peter, James and John to accompa - healthy for us to ask God to free us from, could sleep after witnessing the enor - schedule, perhaps it is not possible to ny him as he prepares himself for the ter - or to keep us from, troubles and suffer - mous stress that their friend Jesus was carve out daily an entire hour for prayer. rible ordeal that is about to unfold. ing. Fortunately, we know from our own experiencing. Yet, we need to find opportunities in our In Matthew’s account (Mt 26: 36-46), experience that very frequently God does Jesus did not ask them to pray for him schedules to make time to pray, even if it A NEW ERA Jesus is described as feeling “sorrow and what we request, keeping us safe and at this time, but he encouraged them to is only for 10 or 15 minutes. distress.” Jesus even tells his disciples: healing us. pray for themselves. When Jesus finds God does not need our prayer. We “My soul is sorrowful even to death.” In Yet, if we are going to use Jesus as a them asleep the first time, he says to need to draw into God’s presence to ex - other words, Jesus was undergoing a guide for our own prayer, then we must Peter: “So you could not keep watch perience his love and mercy. We need to Paola Ursulines seek merger, plan sale of campus stress so intense that it could kill. St. also imitate the second half of his prayer with me for one hour? Watch and pray open our hearts to the Lord to receive the By JOE BOLLIG After a long period of declining numbers that community if we continued to remain so separat - Luke’s account describes Jesus as “in to the Father: “Not as I will, but as you that you may not undergo the test. The wisdom and strength to follow him in Leaven staff started in the early 1960s, it became increasingly ed,” said Sister Kathleen. “So, we thought it would such agony” and praying so fervently will.” Jesus trusts the Father completely. spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” our daily lives. clear in recent years that the community had to assist the merger, and make more sense, to begin “that his sweat became like drops of Though humanly speaking, he wants to Peter could never have imagined, As we meditate on the Passion during PAOLA — It was a hard decision, but the make some decisions. About three or four years to plan to move out by 2010.” blood falling to the ground” (Lk 22: 44). avoid Calvary, ultimately Jesus desires when Jesus spoke those words, how im - this Lenten season, Jesus is asking us, Ursuline Sisters of Paola believe it was the right ago, the possibility of merging with another con - In addition to the Sisters, other entities are Jesus asks Peter, James and John to even more to do the will of his Father. minent was “the test” that he and the just as he asked Peter: “Could you not one. gregation was put on the table. based on the Paola campus, and their future has remain with him “and keep watch with In our prayer, we must be honest with other apostles were about to face. His keep watch for one hour?” After 113 years of service and ministry in north - “We went into discussions, first with our own not yet been determined. An auditorium was do - me.” Then, we are told that Jesus falls God by expressing our hopes and our failure to pray left Peter vulnerable to be east Kansas and other states, the Ursulines are ask - Sisters, about [whether we should] entertain the nated to the city of Paola as a community center. prostrate in prayer. true feelings. It is important in our overcome by fear during the Passion of ing for a merger with the Ursuline Sisters of Mount notion of a merger, and we talked to the Ursuline The large administration building, which was con - St. Joseph in Maple Mount, Ky., and plan to sell the Sisters of Mount St. Joseph in Maple Mount, Ky. structed in 1926 and renovated in 2002, houses Paola convent and its 25-acre campus. [near Owensboro], because we seemed compati - the PACA food pantry for the poor and the We are grateful to have served this community since The Ursulines plan to leave the Paola campus ble with that group of Sisters,” said Sister Lakemary Service Center. Monica Hall, the infir - 1929 and we are proud to continue the Skradski Family no later than 2010, even if a buyer is not found. Kathleen. “They’re in a rural area, and they’re mary built in 1968, is leased to the Miami County Tradition of compassion and caring. They will leave sooner if a buyer can be found. more like us than the Ursuline groups located in Extension Office. Some Sisters will remain in the area, but most will cities. It’s also the closest Ursuline motherhouse.” The Ursuline Sisters arrived in Paola in 1894. Helen Skradski move to the western Kentucky community. There’s another connection as well. Both the They founded Ursuline Academy that same year. Funeral Director The Ursulines will retain two buildings on the Kentucky and the Kansas communities were Later, they founded Ursuline College, a two-year property: one which houses their chaplain and an - founded by Ursuline Sisters from the Louisville, women’s teacher-training institute. The college other which is leased to the Lakemary Center. The Ky., motherhouse, which in turn, was founded by closed in the 1950s and the all-girls academy in center was founded as a school for mentally handi - Ursulines from Straubing, Germany. 1971. capped children, but is now an adult residence. The Mount St. Joseph Ursulines will hold a The Ursulines have served as teachers and The decision ultimately came down to the num - chapter meeting in July, during which they will school administrators across the Archdiocese of bers, said Sister Kathleen Condry, the community’s vote on the merger. Sister Kathleen expects it will Kansas City in Kansas. They have also served in superior. At its peak, the Paola Ursulines had 135 pass and anticipates a merger taking place on Jan. parish ministries throughout Kansas, Missouri, SKRADSKI FUNERAL HOME members. Today, they have 24, of which 18 live in 27, 2009. In the meantime, the two communities Oklahoma and California. their large administration building. The Sisters’ will share financial and material holdings informa - St. Angela Merici founded the Ursuline order in 340 N. 6th • Kansas City, Kan. 66101 • (913) 371-1404 median age is 78, and the youngest Paola Ursuline tion. 1535 in Brescia, Italy. Its primary mission was the is 53. Early on, the possibility of keeping the 64,000- education of girls and the care of the sick and poor. “As we look to the future, we want to have our square-foot Ursuline administration building open Ursulines came to North America in 1639, where house in order,” said Sister Kathleen. “We want to after the merger was discussed, but it quickly be - they taught Native American children in Quebec. plan ahead, so we can continue to minister and not came clear that this was not viable. Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas make our ministry just caring for a facility. It has “It was going to be increasingly difficult to keep Pilgrimage to Montreal and Quebec City become increasingly difficult to do that.” this house open and to spiritually merge with that International Eucharistic Congress June 16-23 Sister Marcella Spiritual Leader: ARCHBISHOP JOSEPH F. N AUMANN Schrant (right) vis - its with volunteers INCLUDED FEATURES during the planting • Round trip air fare from Kansas City of the alley of • 7 nights hotel: 2 Montreal & 5 Quebec City trees along the • Breakfast daily, 2 special lunches, 3 dinners Ursuline entrance in September of • Congress registration includes: 2006. Access to all events, public transit pass, lunches • Deluxe motor coach travel • Sightseeing as in itinerary • Canadian tour host throughout trip • Travel Tyme escort • Daily celebration of Mass Price: $2,850 from Kansas City, based on double occupancy, including air taxes. For a single room, add $790.

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Confirmation schedule addition Archbishop Emeritus James P. Keleher will administer the sacrament of confirmation at Church of the AQUINAS Ascension in Overland Park at 7 p.m. on April 30. Benedictine launches campaign ACHIEVEMENTS ATCHISON — During its annual Scholarship Ball on Feb. 16, Benedictine College here announced the public phase of the largest comprehensive fundraising campaign in its history. The $50 million “Investing in EARN STATE Excellence” campaign is four times larg - er than the “Faithful to the Story” cam - paign that funded the renovations to Photo courtesy of St. Thomas Aquinas High School Ferrell Hall in 2002 . The new initiative Aquinas president Bill Ford holds the Governor’s Achievement Award as he poses with the includes several capital projects, as well HONORS school’s faculty and staff. as an endowment and Benedictine BY KARA HANSEN College Fund giving. The silent phase of Leaven staff the campaign began on July 1, 2005, and has brought in more than $30 mil - OVERLAND PARK — St. Thomas lion. The campaign will continue in the Aquinas High School is batting .1000, public phase until June 30, 2011. Leaven photo by Joe Bollig and spring training has barely begun. WORLD DAY OF CONSECRATED LIFE That’s because in the two years the Members of religious orders in the archdiocese gathered at Savior Pastoral Center in Kansas City, Kan., on Feb. 1 for a vespers, led by Correction state of Kansas has been awarding the Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, to observe the World Day of Consecrated Life. This is the 10th anniversary of the observance of the day, Governor’s Achievement Award — in - which was instituted in 1997, by Pope John Paul II. In “Vita Consecrata,” his 1996 apostolic exhortation the late pope wrote that the con - It was mistakenly reported in the stituted to identify high-performing secrated life is at the heart of the church and is a decisive element of its mission — both as a manifestation of the nature of a Christian vo - Feb. 15 issue of The Leaven that schools in the state — the Overland cation, as well as a striving for union with Christ. The purpose of the day, held before the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, is to pro - Father Francis Hund anointed the feet Park high school has twice received the mote and celebrate the consecrated life. It is also an opportunity for the consecrated to offer thanks for their vocation, and for laypeople to of parishioners traveling to protest the annual distinction. thank the consecrated for their role in the church. Western Hemisphere Institute for Contributing to that perfect record Security Cooperation in Fort Benning, is the fact that Aquinas has routinely Ga. The Leaven regrets the error. met the state Standard of Excellence in the areas of math, reading, writing, and social science. Aquinas students are among top scorers in the metropol - itan area on the ACT, and the school Catholic schools offer moral foundation also boasts a slew of National Merit scholars and semifinalists. ficed to keep their children in Catholic So what’s the secret to all that suc - Continued from page 16 schools. cess? A School Improvement Team, say they’re not only getting an academic “They find it very important, so administrators, which originated seven education, but they’re also getting the they’re willing to make the sacrifice,” years ago to assist with the accredita - education they need to succeed in life.” she said. “And you know, I’ve talked tion process for the North Central Julie Lierz, who has taught at Sts. with parents whose children are Association and the state of Kansas. Peter and Paul School for 15 years, through the system and now in public Once accreditation was achieved, grew up 15 miles away in Bern, where high school or beyond, and they have however, the team was not disbanded. she attended public school. Lierz said it was a struggle, but they have Rather, it was tasked with the school Photo courtesy of St. Thomas Aquinas High School claims she had no idea what she’d never regretted that decision.” Aquinas math teacher Craig Moss works with freshman Shay Thompson on an assignment. Moss heads Aquinas’ School Improvement Team that improvement process — with helping missed until she started teaching in a Hawkins agreed, saying that her school president Bill Ford credits with helping the Overland Park high school earn the Governor’s Achievement Award twice. Aquinas is the only students at Aquinas experience person - Catholic environment. parents chose Catholic school because Catholic school in Kansas to receive the award. al success at school and on Kansas as - “Did I miss out! Bern is a great of the good teachers and the tradition sessment tests. in conjunction with the faculty for set - skills a student needs in order to be placed in when they come here be - school, but what I just love about of high academics, but mostly because So far, it seems to be working. But ting our school-wide goals, particularly successful in high school are in the ar - cause we evaluate each student’s indi - teaching in a Catholic school, and hav - of the foundation the children get in it’s taken a village, said Bill Ford, presi - in reading and math, developing a cli - eas of reading and computation. These vidual performance on the placement ing my children attend a Catholic their faith. dent of St. Thomas Aquinas. mate of professional learning commu - two basic skills carry across the cur - test,” said Moss. school, is that religion just plays a part “I don’t care if your academics are “What we have accomplished in be - nities and enhancing the Catholic na - riculum in the humanities and math Finally, students are allowed to “test all day long,” she said. “There’s no way the highest in the state, if you don’t ing the only Catholic high school in ture of our school,” he said. and science. Students will struggle in out” of certain coursework and move you can get in one hour a week [at reli - have that solid foundation of morals Kansas to be awarded the Governor’s Specifically, members of SIT at class if they are unable to be proficient into higher-level courses, further in - gious education class] what these kids and values and empathy for your fel - Achievement Award is the result of a Aquinas have developed a program in these areas, so this is where we have creasing the opportunities for learning. get in a Catholic school.” low man, you’re not going to have school-wide effort from all of our facul - called Enhanced Learning Opportunity, placed our greatest emphasis,” said Through it all, the School Though faith is the main focus, much,” she said. ty and staff,” he said. which, by testing incoming freshman, Ford. Improvement Team members at Aquinas these little rural Catholic schools are Servers (from left) Sarah Haverkamp, Dallas Haverkamp, Carrie Miller, and Creighton Brinker as - Hawkins is grateful for the support But he credits SIT with giving a lot allows the school to identify a student’s There are other programs in place, are continuously assessing, re-evaluating also academic powerhouses. sist Father Mike Koller, pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Seneca, at an all-school Mass dur - of the Catholic community, but she of direction to the school community’s area of need early. as well, that have helped Aquinas kids and modifying programs and curriculum “We’re actually able to offer the ing Catholic Schools Week. Gift bearers, left to right, are Sts. Peter and Paul students: Elissa sees CEF as the main reason schools efforts. “Students who do not meet a prede - on their way to academic success. A as needed to ensure each student at faith portion of the curriculum [and Schweiser, Katey Wilhelm, Ashley Hammes, and Christian Schmitz. like St. Gregory continue to exist in “Essentially, we determine where termined level in either reading or guided studies program helps students Aquinas is receiving a top-notch educa - still] do well academically on state rural areas. Eighteen St. Gregory school], it’s an oddity. So we do really “We face the same problems with we are as a school, determine where math or both are then assigned to sem - with study skills and the transition to tion in line with archdiocesan and state standardized tests,” said Leonard. “We families are helped by CEF scholar - stress high academics.” kids making decisions that your city we need to be, then develop the path inars twice a week for a total of rough - high school. Students are also able to standards. have a number of students that were ships. Like most rural areas, the north - kids do, and you always hope that if that leads us to our goal,” explained ly 100 minutes to work on those skills take courses for college credit through “Every member of the faculty and exemplary, and we’ve achieved stan - “You know, sometimes people do west area of the archdiocese does not they have that strong Catholic back - Craig Moss, SIT coordinator and a in which they exhibit a deficiency,” ex - the College Now program in conjunc - staff at St. Thomas Aquinas is involved dards of excellence in a number of ar - these fundraisers for us because we have Catholic secondary education. ground that they’ll make good deci - math teacher at Aquinas. “And then we plained Moss. “We then continue to tion with Johnson County Community in some aspect of the school improve - eas this year.” want to buy something for the But parents are confident that Catholic sions,” she said. “So, having two chil - monitor whether or not we meet our monitor and assess them, so we know College. ment process. It is only because of that “I’ve got a wall full of standard-of- school,” she said. “But CEF is the plat - education early on gives their children dren that have grown up, I believe that goal, which starts the cycle over when they are at an acceptable level, Additionally, individual test courses united effort that we have been able to excellence certificates over here,” form so we can keep this place run - a strong foundation. foundation is always there.” again.” and to resume working with those stu - are used to help determine a path of make positive improvements for the Hawkins concurred. “If we don’t have a ning. They are an integral part of our With a child in college, one in high Throughout her years as a Catholic Ford concurred. dents who need more time to reach learning for each student. good of our students,” said Moss. salutatorian or a valedictorian every existence.” school and two still at Sts. Peter and Paul, educator, Lierz has known many rural “They are the driving force behind that benchmark.” “We do a very good job of determin - year from the public system [high Mary Beth Kohake can testify to that. families who have struggled and sacri - school improvement — from working “Obviously, the two most critical ing what classes a student should be

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ANNIVERSARY Sa ndi an d Ralph Miller, mem - Archbishop’s Call to Share is ‘A Disciple’s Response’ Healing Mass set for March 1 Help those in need bers of Annunciation Parish, tewardship is based on the bib - archdiocesan office of stewardship and KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The bish - Frankfort, lical view of God as creator development, said, “The generous gifts ops of both the Archdiocese of will cele - S and us as his servants, ac - FAITH made by thousands of families through - on March 1 and 2 Kansas City in Kansas and the brate their countable to him for our use of the gifts out the archdiocese to the Archbishop’s tewardship involves conver - Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph Dear Friends in Christ, annually resettles one quarter of the 50th wed - of time, talent and treasure that he has Call to Share are shining examples of sion, a gradual change of will join in the annual communal refugees legally admitted to the United ding an - given to us during our lifetime on Earth. stewardship, which is our response as S heart. Stewardship also in - service to administer the sacrament In the story of the Last Judgment, States and serves victims of human niversary The Old Testament portrays men Christian disciples. The word ‘steward - volves faith. As mature Catholics we of the sick to people in both dioce - Jesus reminds us to care for those in trafficking. on Feb. 16 and women as caretakers of creation, ship’ is not a fancy word for fund- know that each year our faith ses at 10 a.m. on March 1 at Curé of need. If we ignore those who are hun - • Justice, Peace, and Human with their not owners. raising. I think more and more people grows, deepens and changes. The Ars Church, 93rd and Mission Rd., gry, thirsty, ill, without clothes, in Development (formerly Social family in Fifth in a series As caretak - are beginning to understand that stew - same is true of our understanding Leawood. prison, or strangers, we turn away Development and World Peace), of the Kansas City. The couple was married STEWARDSHIP ers, we are ardship is based on sacred Scripture and of, and commitment to, stewardship. Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, from him personally. Jesus comes to U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, ad - Feb. 15, 1958, at St. Elizabeth Church, accountable to the Creator of all gifts. In that all we have is a gift from God and Like all faith messages, the steward - Archbishop Emeritus James P. the world in disguise. When we act vocates for poor and vulnerable people Irving. They have three children: Terri addition, the Old Testament teaches the ship message needs to be repeated. that we give back from our ‘first fruits’ of Keleher, Bishop Robert Finn, and with compassion, generosity, and com - and for international peace and justice. Smith, Marysville; Tami Routh, offering of the first fruits. The farmer I believe that the Archbishop’s Call our resources out of grateful hearts.” retired Bishop Raymond J. Boland mitment to justice for the “least among • The Secretariat of Cultural Liberty, Mo.; and John Miller, Olathe. and shepherd gave God the first fruits of to Share helps people grow in their Archbishop Joseph Naumann joins will concelebrate the Mass and of - us,” we act as his true disciples. Diversity in the Church (SCDC) assists They also have nine grandchildren. field and flock out of gratitude to the understanding of stewardship. the Nigro brothers, this year’s honorary fer the sacramental anointing and The Catholic Relief Services collection in the evangelization and pastoral care one to whom, in reality, everything be - chairmen, and the Clergy Advisory blessing of the sick as is done at the is an important opportunity to express of migrants and refugees. longs. Committee, led by Father Jerry Volz of shrine of Lourdes in France. Christian compassion and generosity. • The Holy Father’s Relief Fund as - The New Testament gives us the St. Matthew Church in Topeka, in ex - Anniversary policy : The Leaven only prints Those who wish to receive the The collection is scheduled for March 1 sists victims of natural disasters and greatest example of stewardship, Jesus pressing gratitude to those who partici - 50, 60, 65 and 70th anniversary no - sacrament at Mass are asked to reg - Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann will join and 2 in our archdiocese. The collection other emergencies around the world tices. Announcements are due by 5 p.m. himself, who came “not to seek my own pate with their prayers and their gifts to ister (see form on page 6 of this Bishop Robert Finn, Bishop Raymond J. theme, “Jesus in Disguise,” reminds us of on behalf of the pope. eight days (Thursday) before the desired will, but the will of the One who sent stewards. 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aSt. Bernadtette, to le1arn more5 about he0r and her spirituality,” said Melanie Schreck, a member of A statue of Mary marks the place at the grotto of the Sanctuary of Our Kansas pilgrims Holy Spirit Parish. “To be there during the an - Lady of Lourdes where Mary first appeared to the young Bernadette niversary was a big, motivating factor.” Soubirous 150 years ago. The shrine is the most popular place of pilgrim - find devotion to While there, the archdiocesan pilgrims visited age in Europe. the parish where St. Bernadette was baptized, the Our Lady still strong Soubirous home, the Grotto of Massabielle and the basilica. Father Schneider celebrated Mass ore than 70,000 people from each day, and there were eucharistic processions around the world joined Father and candlelight rosary processions each night. M Harry Schneider on the occasion of Holy Spirit parishioner and pilgrim Lucy his 60th birthday. Olberding was most impressed by one of the They weren’t there for the cake, however. rosary processions. Father Schneider, 58 other archdiocesan pil - “It sent chills up and down my spine,” said grims from Topeka and Overland Park, and a cast Olberding. “The strength of the Catholic people’s of thousands were in France on Feb. 11 for the faith is what really impressed me.” 150th anniversary of the Marian apparitions at A high point for Joann Feehan, another Holy Lourdes, which were witnessed by St. Bernadette Spirit parishioner, was entering the grotto itself. Soubirous between Feb. 11 and July 16, 1858. “It’s a rocky cave,” said Feehan. “Probably 30 St. Bernadette was born into a family that was to 50 people could walk through it. A little French very devout, but utterly impoverished. She was lady kept tugging at me. She wanted me to touch 14 years old when she saw the apparitions at the the wall of the grotto, so I took a rosary and Grotto of Massabielle. During her visions, she was touched it, and that seemed to make her happy.” Tens of thousands of candle-bearing pilgrims participate in a rosary procession to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in Lourdes, France, to celebrate the told to uncover a spring under a rock at the grot - The pilgrims learned later that actually touch - 150th anniversary of the Virgin Mary's first appearance to St. Bernadette Soubirous. to. ing the walls of the grotto itself — whether direct - Since that time and to this day, tens of thou - ly, or with a rosary, a scarf or a prayer intention sands from all over the world have made the pil - — was considered the best way to invoke Mary’s A large crucifix greets grimage to that same grotto at Lourdes, seeking intercession. pilgrims as they enter both physical and spiritual healing. Many drink Another thing that impressed Feehan was the the main gate of the or bathe in the waters that issue from the spring number of candles people left at the shrine. Sanctuary of Our Lady of Bernadette revealed — waters which have been Attendants were constantly carrying out partially Lourdes in Lourdes, credited with miraculous cures. In the 150 years burned candles of all shapes and sizes to make France. since the visions, the church has recognized 67 room for more. Feehan even saw a candle so inexplicable healings associated with the shrine. large it had to be moved with a dolly. Kathy Wilson, a member Three months ago, Pope Benedict XVI promot - Although the majority of the 70,000 pilgrims of Holy Spirit Parish in ed the anniversary observance by decreeing a ple - seemed to be French and Italian, the Holy Spirit Overland Park, spends a nary indulgence for all Catholics who travel to Father Harry Schneider, pastor of Holy Spirit Parish in contingent saw pilgrims from all over the world. moment in prayer at the Lourdes in 2008. The indulgence is also granted Overland Park, celebrates his 60th birthday with new As one of the few groups of Americans, the Sixth Station of the to Catholics who fulfill similar requirements clos - vestments from Assisi, Italy. The vestments were a Kansans received their 15 minutes of fame in the Cross, Veronica wipes er to home. gift from the group he led to Lourdes for the 150th an - local newspaper, La Depeche Hautes-Pyrenees, the face of Jesus. The Father Schneider, pastor of Holy Spirit Parish niversary of the Marian apparitions. which published their group photo in its Feb. 10 stations are life-sized in Overland Park, grew up in a family with a issue. and built above the strong devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes, so the plans and asked to accompany him. A tour was The experience led many of the pilgrims to a Lourdes Grotto where two anniversaries dovetailed nicely. arranged, which included stops in Rome and deeper appreciation of St. Bernadette and Our the Blessed Mother “My birthday is Feb. 11, 1948,” said Father Assisi, Italy. Lady’s message at Lourdes. appeared to Bernadette. Schneider. “About 10 years ago I discovered, The archdiocesan pilgrimage group arrived in “Lourdes really expressed her call to prayer while looking ahead, that on the 150th anniver - Lourdes on Feb. 8. They spent the next three days and penance, and for the conversion of sinners,” sary of [the apparition] in 2008, I’d be 60, so I be - at the shrine and the town of Lourdes, where the said Father Schneider. “[It has] a sense of the uni - gan to plan for that.” local hotels and shops opened up for the influx of versality of that message of Jesus, and affirming [Our Lady’s] maternal love for everyone.” What started as a personal pilgrimage began pilgrims, even though it was the off-season. Mother and daughter pilgrims Mary and Julie McGrath, members of Holy Spirit Parish in Overland Park, join to snowball when parishioners learned of his “For me, it was an opportunity to be closer to one of the evening rosary processions to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes. 10 NATION THE LEAVEN • FEBRUARY 22, 2008 FEBRUARY 22, 2008 • THE LEAVEN WORLD 11 BRIEFLY U.S. bishops Traffickers BRIEFLY Survey looks at Catholics’ Prime minister apologizes to practices, views on marriage criticize raid urged to Aboriginal peoples WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although CANBERRA, Australia (CNS) — nearly three-quarters of American policies on forgo violence Members of Parliament and visitors Catholics say they are somewhat or gave Australian Prime Minister Kevin very familiar with church teachings Rudd a standing ovation after he on marriage, many mistakenly believe illegal workers for Lent made a long-awaited apology to that a non-Catholic spouse must Australia’s Aboriginal peoples. Rudd promise to raise the couple’s children WASHINGTON (CNS) — Homeland By IOAN GRILLO spoke of the “profound grief, suffer - as Catholic and that church teaching Security workplace raids to detain ille - Catholic News Service ing and loss” experienced by an esti - accepts divorce in cases of marital in - gal immigrants should not be done mated 50,000 indigenous people fidelity. Those were among the results near churches, schools, health centers MEXICO CITY (CNS) — The over 70 years of government assimi - of a nationwide survey commissioned or other places providing charitable so - Mexican bishops’ conference has writ - lation policies predicated on separat - in April 2007 by the U.S. bishops’ cial services, said the U.S. bishops. ten an open letter urging drug traffick - ing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Committee on Marriage and Family “An environment of fear and dis - ers to use Lent as a time to give up vio - Islander children from their families Life on U.S. Catholic attitudes and trust is fostered that may prevent im - lent turf wars and street battles that and homes. The indigenous peoples practices regarding marriage. The sur - migrants and their family members have left thousands of people dead. of those decades are now referred to vey was carried out in June 2007 by from practicing their faith, taking their CNS photo/Bob Roller The letter also voiced support for a as the Stolen Generations. Separated 'KNOTTED GUN' SCULPTURE — A sculpture titled “Knotted Gun,” which was a gift to the crackdown on the drug gangs being from their families, the children were the Center for Applied Research in the children to school or accessing needed CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New World Apostolate at Georgetown University. United Nations from the Luxembourg government in 1988, is pictured outside the U.N. waged by President Felipe Calderon, raised at church-run missions and medical and social services,” they said PARISHIONERS CELEBRATE CHINESE NEW YEAR — Parishioners prepare fruits, wine and “This is the first time that such a var - building in New York Jan. 18. Pope Benedict XVI will address the U.N. General Assembly who has sent some 25,000 soldiers to sent into the work force as farm la - in a letter to Michael Chertoff, secre - flowers as symbols for an ancestral memorial following Mass during a celebration of the ied and comprehensive body of data April 18. fight the cartels. borers and domestic help. Many did tary of the Department of Homeland 2008 Chinese lunar new year at St. Therese Chinese Catholic Church in Chicago Feb. 10. about Catholic patterns in marriage Security. “The scourge of drug trafficking has not know their original identity or has been collected and analyzed,” The Feb. 11 letter was signed by caused so much death and destruction in where they came from. Their stories said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, our country,” said the letter, signed by the of generational dislocation and loss Louisville, Ky. He is chairman of what chairman of the bishops’ Committee on conference president, Bishop Carlos were collected in “Bringing Them is now the bishops’ Subcommittee on Migration, and Coadjutor Bishop Jaime Miraculous medal? Nuns say Church must mend split Aguiar, and its secretary-general, Home,” a government-mandated hu - Marriage and Family Life of the newly Soto of Sacramento, Calif., chairman of Auxiliary Bishop Jose Leopoldo Gonzalez. man rights report published in 1997. renamed Committee on Laity, the Catholic Legal Immigration “We invite the guilty in these absurd Marriage, Family Life and Youth. Network board of directors. it may have helped Giants win between African, Arab nations drug-trafficking situations to take ad - Waiting period reduced for In a separate Feb. 7 statement, vantage of Lent to start on the sincere By PETER FINNEY JR. and touching the religious medal sent Bishop Wester criticized the decision By BRONWEN DACHS worrying,” he said, noting that “people pathway to the conversion toward God. sainthood cause for visionary Church is triage center after Catholic News Service to him by the former principal of “to prohibit undocumented immi - Catholic News Service are dying while its leaders fight for po - Only he can open your hearts and move COIMBRA, Portugal (CNS) — Pope Resurrection Grammar School in Rye, killer sugar refinery blast grants from receiving tax rebates” in litical position.” your will to a total life change,” it said. Benedict XVI has lifted the five-year NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — Ursuline N.Y., where Sister Kathleen got to WASHINGTON (CNS) — After an federal legislation to stimulate the CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) Archbishop Gabriel Palmer-Buckle Rival Mexican cartels have been fight - waiting period to start the canoniza - Sister Kathleen Finnerty, superinten - know the Maras and their three young explosion ripped through the economy. — Church structures in North Africa of Accra, Ghana, said that besides try - ing over lucrative smuggling routes to tion process for Carmelite Sister Lucia dent of schools for the Archdiocese of children from 1984 to 1991. Imperial Sugar refinery in the The decision “highlights the injus - need strengthening so that the ing to increase communication with the United States for cocaine, heroin, dos Santos, one of the three children New Orleans, knows the limitations of “He coached the boys and girls in Savannah, Ga., suburb of Port tice in our immigration system,” Symposium of Episcopal Conferences Catholic organizations on other conti - marijuana and methamphetamine. who saw Our Lady of Fatima in 1917. Catholic theology as well as anyone. basketball, and he was always at Wentworth the night of Feb. 7, Father Bishop Wester said. “With one hand of Africa and Madagascar can repre - nents, SECAM “is trying to increase the Drug-related violence left more The decision means that the diocesan So when she mailed a small medal parish events and fairs and at Mass,” Michael Kavanaugh said, “I opened our government attempts to deport sent “all of Africa, as is intended,” said effectiveness of its justice, peace and than 2,500 people dead across Mexico phase of the sainthood process can be - of Our Lady of Prompt Succor to the Sister Kathleen told the Clarion the church and turned on all the these workers, but with the other it the symposium’s president, Tanzanian development work. last year, with dozens of decapitations gin immediately. Cardinal Jose New York Giants president, John Herald, New Orleans archdiocesan lights, and opened the parish hall and holds tight to the taxes they pay into Cardinal Polycarp Pengo. “As Africa moves toward democrati - and assassination-style ambushes. The Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican Mara, before Super Bowl XLII, she newspaper. “The Maras were at all the turned on all the lights, because I just the system.” “We cannot come out with a conti - zation, the ordinary African’s voice bloodshed has continued unabated Congregation for Saints’ Causes, made knew there was no way she could events and activities where parents knew there was going to be a crowd. The Feb. 11 letter said that the bish - nental voice until the split is mended” needs to be heard at a national politi - this year, with gunmen killing one the announcement at a Feb. 13 Mass “guarantee” his team a victory over the generally get involved. They’re won - And there was,” said the priest, who ops’ recommendations were sparked between what is considered “black cal level” and the church’s justice and Tijuana policeman in his home, along in Coimbra commemorating the third heavily favored New England Patriots. derful. They’re a very strong family.” is pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes by stepped-up workplace raids by the Africa” and countries “that seem more peace structures are a way to achieve with his wife and 9-year-old daughter. anniversary of Sister Lucia’s death. “I never guaranteed him anything, When Sister Kathleen came to New Parish. The church is directly across Immigration and Customs Arabic than African,” such as Egypt, this, he said in a Feb. 7 telephone in - Many cartel members consider The cardinal said Pope Benedict had but I wrote in the note that I thought Orleans from Delaware last August, the street from the plant. The Enforcement branch of Homeland Morocco and Algeria, he said in a tele - terview from Johannesburg. themselves to be Roman Catholic even reduced to three years the waiting pe - he could use a little extra divine inter - she met Ursuline Sisters Damian church’s front lawn served as a triage Security. phone interview from Johannesburg, “Every diocese has a justice and as they are involved in widespread riod so the Diocese of Coimbra, where vention,” Sister Kathleen said. “I sent it Aycock and Joan Marie Aycock, who center for refinery workers injured in The letter asked that adults who are where SECAM’s standing committee peace commission, but many are dor - murder and organized crime. Fatima is located, can begin the initial off and completely forgot about it.” have a penchant for sports of all kinds. the blast. No exact count was given, the primary caregivers of children be met Feb. 4-7. mant, and they need to be more active The U.S. Congress is currently debat - phase of the sainthood investigation. Miraculous or not, the Giants, 11- It was Sister Damian who suggested but an estimated 95-100 people were released after a raid if they “are not a Cardinal Pengo, the archbishop of and aware of issues in their areas,” ing a $1.4 billion aid proposal to help Bishop Albino Mamede Cleto of point underdogs, shocked the previ - that Sister Kathleen send the Our Lady believed working in the plant when threat to the community” and have no Dar es Salaam, said North African since these groups “are able to reach Calderon battle the gangs. U.S. drug Coimbra, supported by other bishops, ously unbeaten Patriots 17-14 on the of Prompt Succor medal to Mara. the explosion occurred. Eight people criminal record. countries do not contribute to SECAM, people at a parish level and to lobby lo - users supply the gangs with billions of had asked for the reduction. On May strength of a memorable touchdown “You really and truly have to give Eli died from the blast, with one person “A variety of release mechanisms, and “we want them to realize that we cally” on issues of social justice, the dollars, and gunmen smuggle in most 13, 1917, when Sister Lucia was 10 drive in the final two minutes engi - credit,” Sister Damian said. “He him - still unaccounted for nearly a week including parole in the public interest, consider them part of Africa.” bishop said. of their firearms from the United States. years old, she and her cousins — neered by New Orleans native Eli self doesn’t know how he got out of the after the explosion. As of Feb. 14, release on recognizance, bail and al - Cardinal Pengo said members of the “We need to bring the church into Calderon has promised there will be Francisco, 9, and Jacinta, 7 — claimed Manning. During the game-winning grasp of those Patriot defenders and to firefighters were still battling the ternatives to detention should be uti - standing committee also sent messages the mainstream of politics, so we can no mercy for the cartels and has sent to have seen Mary at Fatima, near drive, Mara was caught on TV pacing throw that great pass, and yet he blaze at the refinery. Also, 16 workers lized,” it said, noting that members of of condolence to Catholics in Kenya bring our salt to bear,” he said, noting soldiers to the worst-hit areas while their home. The apparitions continued in the owner’s suite of the University of seemed to walk out of their grasp.” were still in the hospital, and officials many immigrant families have differ - and Chad, where political violence has that the church should use its “energy overseeing record drug seizures and once a month until October 1917 and Phoenix Stadium and reaching into his Catholic theology, too, sometimes said 14 of them were in critical condi - ent legal situations. claimed hundreds of lives. to revitalize social, political and cultur - extraditing several alleged kingpins to later were declared worthy of belief by shirt pocket. involves mystery. tion. “The situation in Kenya is very al affairs.” the United States. the Catholic Church. It turns out he was praying silently unplanned pregnancy? decisions to make? Replace pressure and panic with thought - “We constantly hear how grateful Wagner’s ful, and rational reflection. 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Nativity, Leawood, will host Friday night 11300 W. 103rd St., Overland Park, Mission. Dinner will follow at Leona date referrals, please contact Michael positions opening in the fall. Areas include County. Call Josh at (913) 709-7230. 1BA, sleeps 6. Fully furnished, fireplace, rec. fish fries every Friday of Lent (except Good Shirley at: Michael Shirley Associates, Inc., infant/toddler, preschool age and after- center with pool & hot tub. $125/night; will host Lenten seafood dinners every Yarbrough Restaurant, 11900 Most Pure Heart of Mary Parish, Friday) from 5 - 7 p.m. in the parish hall. The 5250 W. 94th Terr., Suite 109, Prairie school care. We are looking for highly moti - Contractor - Commercial and residen - $750/week. Call Joe Frederick at (913) Friday of Lent (except Good Friday) from 5 - Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Shawnee. 3601 S.W. 17th St., Topeka, will host a cost is: $9 for adults ($12 with boiled Village, KS 66207; call (913) 341-7655; vated people who are committed to children. tial work — painting and renovating. Free 385-5589. 7 p.m. in St. Elizabeth’s Hall. The cost is: $8 Texas Hold’em tournament on Feb. 23 or send an e-mail to: lisa@mshirley Call Nancy at (913) 631-0004. estimates; insured; 20 yrs. experience. Call shrimp); $4 for children ages 3 - 11; chil - for adults ($13 with boiled shrimp); $4 for A healing Mass, sponsored by arch - beginning at 5:30 p.m. Players must be at associates.com. (913) 206-4524. REAL ESTATE dren under 3, free; or a family price of $35 children 4 - 10; $1 for children under 4. diocesan charismatic prayer groups, least 18 years of age. A suggested donation Teacher - The Wea Angel House, ($50 with boiled shrimp). Early bird special: will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 28 at of $20 includes food and drinks. For infor - House parents/house mom - 22705 Metcalf Ave., Bucyrus, is seeking a Organizing & handyman services Wonderful updated home in $2 off from 5 - 5:30 p.m. Carryout orders Curé of Ars Church, 9401 Mission Rd., mation or to register, call Angie Gabel at Bethlehem House in El Dorado is seeking a full-time teacher to work with children ages 3 - Basements, garages, attics and shop Lenexa! 4 BR, 2-1/2 BA, 2-story home. All are available. Call (913) 491-5017, ext. Holy Family Parish, 513 Ohio, Leawood. Father Greg Hammes will pre - (785) 221-4688, or send an e-mail to her at: mature Christian husband/wife team or a - 5 years from 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., Mon. - Fri. spaces organized! Your items sorted, boxed new hardwoods, countertops and kitchen 1710, from 4:30 - 7 p.m. Kansas City, Kan., will host shrimp side; fellowship follows. [email protected]. single woman, preferably with no dependent Must be at least 18 years old to meet licens - & labeled; areas cleaned when finished! appliances. New paint throughout. Loft area dinners at 7 p.m. on Feb. 22 and 29, and children, to be residential house parent(s) for ing requirements. Experience working in a Wall repair, interior painting, tile work, on second floor. Finished, day-lite bsmt. The Knights of Columbus of on March 7. The Daughters of Isabella, Little Join the Singles of Nativity for hap - a small maternity home. Involves nurturing, day-care environment preferred. We offer a handicap bars and ramps. Great references Great screened-in porch to enjoy summer en - Immaculate Conception Parish, 606 Flower Circle No. 503, will host a cor - py hour beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. teaching and training up to five unwed preg - competitive salary. Interested applicants may and insured. For pictures of current projects, tertaining. Good Shepherd Parish. For infor - W. Elm, Louisburg, will host Friday night St. Patrick Parish, 1086 N. 94th St., porate Communion at 8 a.m. on March 27 at Trolley’s Bar and Grille, 9100 nant girls ages 10 - 21. House parents re - call Katrina DeGraeve at (913) 533- 2462, view my Web site at: www.swalms.com. mation, call Rosemary Connors, Reece and fish fries every Friday of Lent (except Good Kansas City, Kan., will host Lenten fish 2 at St. Joseph Church, 227 S.W. Van W. 135th, Overland Park. Look for the ceive support from additional staff to imple - ext. 152, or e-mail your resume to her at: Call Tillar Swalm at (913) 375-9115. Nichols, at (913) 669-1229. Friday) from 5 - 7 p.m. The cost is: $7 for fries every Friday of Lent (except Good Buren, Topeka. A breakfast will follow at yellow balloon. Questions? Send an e-mail ment a comprehensive program for each res - wea_angelhouse@hot mail.com. adults; $3 for children under 10; or a family Friday) from 5 - 7 p.m. Sacred Heart Church, 312 N.E. to: [email protected]. ident. Benefits include living in a beautiful Mountain Movers Inc. - Big or small, For Sale - One lake lot at Linn Valley maximum of $25. Freeman, Topeka. The cost of the breakfast historic home and being part of an amazing Asphalt estimator - KC metro mid- we move it all. Insured movers specializing Lake. Lot No. 3769 on Layton Lane. Need to Holy Name Parish will host Lenten is $7. Your check is your reservation; mail Christ the King School, Kansas ministry. Full job description available upon sized asphalt paving and chip seal company in antiques. Call Dennis Higgins, owner, at sell fast; make offer! For information, call 1 The Knights of Columbus, Council request. We look forward to talking to you! seeks experienced, motivated individual. (913) 285-3399, or Stacy Glisson Jr., opera - (573) 205-1114. Leave a message; calls fish fries every Friday during Lent (except to: Betty Little, 3505 N.W. Topeka Blvd., City, Kan., will host it's annual auction No. 11126, Shawnee, will host Friday Good Friday) from 4:30 - 8 p.m. in the Topeka, KS 66617. dinner dance on Feb. 29 at the Bethlehem House -- regrouping, refocusing Good communication, organization and cus - tions manager, at (913) 406-3083. will be returned. night fish fries every Friday of Lent (except and redirecting for success. Contact Susan tomer relation skills. Able to work indepen - school cafeteria. The cost is $7. Carryouts National Guard Armory, 18th St. and I Good Friday) from 5 - 8 p.m. in Seuferling Gardiner at 1 (316) 322-7233, or by e-mail dently. Send resume and salary requirements Custom-kitchen countertops - Shawnee house for rent - Long St., are available. St. Matthew Church, 2700 S.E. - 70, Kansas City, Kan. For tickets or in - Hall, 12800 W. 75th St., Shawnee. The at: [email protected]. to: Asphalt Estimator, P.O. Box 3848, Laminate tops manufactured and installed near St. Joseph Church. One entry-level bed - Virginia, Topeka, will host a Lenten mis - formation, contact the school at (913) 287- Shawnee, KS 66203. within 5 days. Competitive prices, depend - room; one loft bedroom. Kitchen with stove cost is $7 for adults; $6.50 for seniors; and The Knights of Columbus of St. Ann sion presented by Father Jim Sichko at 7 8883. Music director - St. Michael the able work. St. Joseph Parish member. Call and refrigerator. Basement garage and a $3.50 for children 12 years and under. Parish, Prairie Village, will host a p.m. each evening from March 2 - 5 in the Archangel Parish, Leawood, has an immedi - SERVICES The Top Shop, Inc., at (816) 898-8685 or large yard. Very quiet, secure neighbor - fundraiser shrimp dinner from 5 - 7 p.m. church. St. Agnes Parish, 5150 Mission Rd., ate opening for a parish music director. (913) 962-5058. hood. Contact (913) 238-2470. Serious in - The Knights of Columbus, Council on March 7 in the school cafeteria. The cost Roeland Park, will host a St. Joseph Duties include: planning music for Sunday Got gutters? - Flagship Guttering is of - terest only. Owner is a member of Sacred No. 2332, Shawnee, will host Friday is $17 for adults; $7 for children. Pizza by table on March 1. The table will be blessed Masses and holy days; organize and direct fering $50 off any guttering job when you Do you intend to leave a Catholic charity Heart Church, Shawnee. night shrimp dinners every Friday of Lent the slice will be available. Retreats after the 5:30 p.m. Mass, followed by a parish choirs, accompanists and cantors. mention seeing our ad in The Leaven. One- in your will? What are you waiting for? The (except Good Friday) from 5 - 7 p.m. in spaghetti dinner until 8:30 p.m. All pro - Qualifications include: an understanding of year warranty on all installations. All major Catholic Foundation of Northeast MISC . their hall at 11221 Johnson Dr. The cost is ceeds will benefit the Sisters, Servants of Catholic liturgy; a thorough knowledge of in - credit cards accepted. Call Clint at (913) Kansas helps people with charitable intent $13 for adults; $12 for seniors; and $5 for Education A Cursillo weekend is a personal en - Mary and the Duchesne Clinic. For informa - strumental, vocal and choral music; key - 564-7241. to put their intentions into place. We help Hunting/grassland auction - Feb. children 12 years and under. Pizza will be counter with Christ that helps you experience tion, call the parish office at (913) 262- board skills; and an ability to work with the gifts stretch farther and last longer for the 28, 7 p.m.at St. Columbkille grade school, offered for $1 a slice. Padre Pio School will your Catholic faith in a whole new way. This 2400. parish liturgy committee and adult, teen and Husband and wife cleaning team people they love and the causes they care Blaine. 920 acres M/L of wildlife habitat provide desserts. For information, call Mike Padre Pio Academy, 5901 Flint, 3-day weekend will provide the means for children’s choirs. A graduate degree in mu - - Reasonable rates; references provided. about. For a free will planning kit or a confi - and native grass in N.E. Kansas, auctioned Reichmeier at (913) 631-6382. Shawnee, will host a kindergarten you to sustain and grow your relationship The Altar Society of St. Mary sic with emphasis in choral directing or pi - Call (913) 940-2959. dential consultation, call (913) 647-0365, or in three tracts. 320 acres of some of the best roundup on Feb. 25. For information and with God. The women’s spring weekend will Church, Purcell, will host a spaghetti ano (organ is a plus). Send resume to: visit our Web site at: www.cfnek.org. deer hunting in the state with an additional St. Joseph Parish, Nortonville, will times, call the school office at (913) 268- be held from April 3 - 6 at Savior Pastoral dinner from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on March 2. Denise Ogilvie, St. Michael the Archangel Housecleaning – A professional house - 600 acres M/L of grass and hunting offered. host fish and shrimp suppers every Parish, 14201 Nall Ave., Leawood, KS cleaning service. Years of experience and HOME IMPROVEMENT Beautiful watershed lake provides excellent 3155. Center, 12601 Parallel Pkwy., Kansas City, Freewill donations will be accepted. Friday of Lent (except Good Friday) from 5 - Kan. For information or to register, call 66223; fax to (913) 851-8220; or send an excellent references. Call Sharon for free esti - fishing. Remote properties offer a quiet and 7 p.m. The cost is $8 for adults; and $4 for e-mail to: [email protected]. mate. (816) 322-0006 or (816) 214-0156. Adept Home Improvements relaxing setting. For information, call (785) The Keeler Women’s Center, a min - David Wooldridge at (913) 544-1280, or Girl Scout Troop No. 3143, of St. children. Carryouts are available. Call (913) Where quality still counts! 556-4354, or visit the Web site at: istry of the Benedictine Sisters located at visit the Web site at: www.kccursillo.org. Ann Parish, 7241 Mission Rd., Prairie 886-3510. Youth minister - Holy Family Parish, Housecleaning - Honest and depend - Basement finishing www.murrayauctionand realty.com. 2220 Central Ave., Kansas City, Kan., Village, will host a traditional Irish din - Eudora, is seeking applicants for a part-time able woman to clean your house, apartment Kitchens and baths will offer the following classes: Sister Marcia Ziska, OSB, will pre - ner from 6 - 8:30 p.m. on March 8 in the youth minister beginning July 1. The position or vacants. 25 years experience. KC metro Electrical and plumbing Go organic - Grow your personal or - The Knights of Columbus, John Roe • Literacy Kansas City will host an in - sent a Lenten retreat entitled, “Can You school cafeteria. The cost is: $7 for adults; will include working with junior and senior area. Call Sandy at (913) 788-7676. Licensed and insured ganic garden. With up to 52% more nutri - Council of St. Agnes Parish, 5130 formation/orientation session for anyone 16 Drink This Cup?” from 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. on $5 for children; or $25 per family. high youth groups and our youth council. (913) 599-7998 ents and antioxidants in organically grown Mission Rd., Roeland Park, will host years of age or older who is interested in Feb. 28 at the Sophia Center, 751 S. Past experience preferred. For information or Bankruptcy - When debt becomes produce, you can now reap all the benefits Friday night fish fries every Friday of Lent helping an adult learn to read from 11:30 8th, Atchison. The cost is $50. For informa - St. Joseph Parish, 11311 Johnson to apply, contact : Father Pat Riley, 311 E. overwhelming, seek professional help. Get great savings now! We have re - of fresh, organic vegetables in your own (except Good Friday) from 5 - 7 p.m. in the a.m. - 1 p.m. on Feb. 28. tion or to register, call (913) 360-6173. Dr., Shawnee, will host its annual St. 9th, Eudora, KS 66025, or send him an e- Experienced, compassionate Catholic attor - organized to meet everyone’s needs. All con - yard or on your deck. We build the box, de - parish hall. For information, call the church • Free pregnancy testing and consul - Joseph table and pasta dinner on mail at: hawks4ever@sunflower.com. ney Teresa Kidd. For a confidential, no tacts will be responded to. Mention this ad liver and install it. We use all the best organ - at (913) 262-2400. The cost is $7.50 for tation from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. every fourth Feeling alone in your marriage? Are you March 9 in McDevitt Hall. The table will be obligation consultation, call (913) 422- and receive 10% off any project or repair ic materials, soil, seeds, and starters. No adults; $6 for children 3 - 14; children under Thursday of the month, beginning Feb. 28. frustrated or angry with each other? Do you blessed at 8:30 a.m.; viewing will be from Principal - St. Mary School, Ponca City, 0610; or send an e-mail to: tkidd@ over $300. Great prices on all of your pesticides or herbicides are ever used. 3, free. Classes are offered free of charge; how - argue … or have you just stopped talking to 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. A pasta dinner will be Okla., is seeking a principal who will be kc.rr.com. needs. Roofing, fencing, siding, additions, Maintenance plans available for the entire ever, space is limited and advance registra - each other? Retrouvaille helps couples served from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Freewill dona - both an academic and a faith leader. St. kitchens, baths, basements, and all your con - growing season. Call Janet at (913) 485- Holy Trinity Knights of Columbus, tion is required. For information or to regis - through difficult times in their marriages. The tions will be accepted. For information, call Mary School enrolls approximately 150 stu - Special-needs caregiver - Light struction or remodeling needs. Licensed and 5850, or send an e-mail to her at: jm Paola, will host Lenten fish fries every ter, call (913) 906-8990, or visit the Web next Retrouvaille weekend is Feb. 29 - Christine Marion at (913) 268-6677. dents in preschool through eighth grade. housekeeping and more. Retired nurse of 25 insured. Experienced and quality minded. [email protected]. Friday of Lent (except Good Friday) from 5 - site at: www.mountosb.org. Mar. 1. For confidential information or to Applicant must be a practicing Catholic; yrs.; experienced. References upon request. In-Land Construction Services (913) 7 p.m. at 601 Chippewa. have a master’s degree in educational ad - Available 3 - 4 days/week; 5 - 6 hours/day. 393-3052. FOR SALE register, call 1 (800) 470-2230. ministration, a related field, or be working to - Will care for your infant, youth, or adult with Support Groups Sacred Heart Knights of Sister RoseTherese Huelsman, IHM, and ward such a degree; and have a minimum special needs. Salary negotiable. Call (913) STA (Sure Thing Always) Home Cemetery lots - Resurrection Cemetery; Columbus, Tonganoxie, will serve a full- Miscellaneous of three years teaching experience, prefer - 677-1605. Repair - Basement finish, bathrooms and Assumption Shrine; Lot 61, Section B, plots Carol Meyer will lead a morning retreat course, all-you-can-eat fish dinner every Many men are struggling with pornogra - ably in a Catholic school. Salary is based on kitchens; interior & exterior repairs: painting, 1, 2, 3 and 4. Valued at $1250 each. To entitled, “On Fire for the Earth: Awakening Friday of Lent (except Good Friday) from 4-7 phy, impure behavior, and tempting qualifications and experience. Position is Caregiving - We provide personal as - roofing, siding, wood replacement and win - view lots, contact Rose at (913) 371-4040. The Serra Club invites all men of the to a New Vision of Creation” from 9:15 p.m. in the parish center, Highway 24/40 thoughts, but there is freedom! The My available June 1. To apply, contact the sistance, companionship, care management, dow glazing. Call for free estimates. Cell: For additional information, call Barb at (816) archdiocese to pray with them to increase a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on March 1 at St. Pius and Washington St., Tonganoxie. The cost House Men’s Group provides a Catholic Office of the Superintendent, P.O. Box and transportation to the elderly and dis - (913) 579-1835; phone: (913) 491-5837; 578-5675. vocations to the priesthood and religious life. X School, 5500 Woodson, Mission. A is: $7 for adults; $3 for children 3-12, chil - focus on prayer and accountability in the 32180, Oklahoma City, OK 73123; call abled in home, assisted living and nursing e-mail: [email protected]. Member Meetings are held at noon on every second suggested donation of $15 is appreciated. dren under 3, free. battle for sexual purity. Combining (405) 721-4202; or send an e-mail to: facilities. We also provide respite care for of Holy Trinity Church, Lenexa. ANTED O UY and fourth Wednesday of the month at the To register by Feb. 27, call (913) 677- W T B practical recovery resources with the [email protected]. main caregivers needing some personal Hilton Garden Inn, 520 Minnesota Ave., 8672. Sacred Heart, Shawnee, will host power of our Catholic faith is helping many time. Call Daughters & Company at EL SOL Y LA TIERRA $$$ I’M BUYING $$$ Kansas City, Kan. For information, con - Lenten fish fries every Friday of Lent (ex - to achieve long-term freedom. Confidentiality Principal - St. Thomas More Parish (913) 341-2500 and speak with Andrea, * COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL Antiques & collectibles - Items from tact Jim Conrad at (913) 432-4162, John Jennifer Knight will host a pre-Easter cept Good Friday) from 5 - 7 p.m. The cost is is absolutely respected. For information, Call seeks a spiritual leader committed to Sara or Gary. * LAWN RENOVATION your house, attic, basement and garage. Muehlberger at (913) 441-5061, or Bill retreat for busy women entitled $8 for adults; $7 for seniors; $4 for children; (913) 647-0378, or send an e-mail to: Catholic education with excellent leadership * MOWING Coca-Cola, slot machines, signs, .22-rifles, Peters at (913) 894-6967. “Blessed Are the Poor: Chosen, Blessed, and motivation skills. St. Thomas More en - Need help caring for Mom or * CLEAN-UP AND HAULING pocket knives, cigarette lighters, postcards, children under 4, free. For information, call Broken, and Given Are We,” from 9:30 [email protected]. rolls approximately 615 students and a fac - Dad? We provide in-home support with a * DIRT GRADING/INSTALLATION coins & watches. Chris (913) 642-8269 or the parish office at (913) 422-5700. The Church of the Ascension, a.m. - 12:30 p.m. on March 8 at Savior ulty and staff of over 50 in grades pre-school variety of personal care and household func - * LANDSCAPE DESIGN (913) 593-7507. Overland Park, will host a Lenten letter Pastoral Center, 12601 Parallel Pkwy., through eighth grade. St. Thomas More is a tions to keep seniors safe and active at * FREE ESTIMATES The Sacred Heart - St. Joseph Altar writing party for sponsors of the Kansas City, Kan. For information or to Calendar items must be received nine parish of almost 2,000 households located home. For as little as $50 per week, we can HABLAMOS Y ESCRIBIMOS Society Knights of Columbus, ENTERTAINMENT and the Christian Foundation for Children register, call (913) 721-1097. days (Wednesday) before the publica - in a quiet residential area in south Kansas provide extra support for your loved ones, or INGLES!! Council No. 2608, will host a Lenten and Aging after the 8:15 and 10 a.m. tion date. Items will be edited for length. City, Mo. Candidates should be Catholic, help you get a “night off” from your daily Call Lupe at (816) 252-3376. Disc jockey - For your wedding, kolos, fish fry every Friday of Lent (except Good Masses on Feb. 24 in the lower level of the It is not too late to make a New Year’s No telephone submissions will be taken. have a master’s degree, and a minimum of caregiving responsibilities. Call Benefits of nightclubs, corporate parties, teenage cele - Friday) from 4 - 6:30 p.m. at Sacred E-mail submissions are preferred; send church. Bring your mailing labels and photos resolution to grow more deeply in love with three years of teaching experience in a Home - Senior Care at (913) 422-1591. VACATION brations, holiday parties, sock-hops, ethnic, Heart - St. Joseph Church, 312 N.E. to: jennifer@t he leaven.com; fax to: Catholic school. Applications are available birthdays, holiday parties, hip-hop/rap, to share. For information, call Ellen Johnson your spouse! The next Worldwide Freeman Ave., Topeka. The cost is $7 for (913) 721-5276; or mail to: 12615 by calling the diocesan school office at Electrician - Free estimates; reasonable Bahamas beachfront condo - Enjoy golden oldies. Member of St. Therese Parish, at (913) 685-2040, or Rose Thorsky at Marriage Encounter Weekend will be adults; $3.50 for children. Carryouts are Parallel Pkwy., Kansas City, KS 66109. (816) 756-1850. rates. JoCo and southern KC metro area. the crystal clear waters, beachfront pool or KCMO. Call Zepster’s A to Z Party DJ’s at (913) 402-7363. held from April 18 - 20. For information or Call Pat at (913) 963-9896. the beautiful sunrises from our newly remod - (816) 741-4777. available; call (785) 234-6727. to register, call (913) 469-8453 in Kansas 14 COMMENTARY THE LEAVEN • FEBRUARY 22, 2008 FEBRUARY 22, 2008 • THE LEAVEN COMMENTARY 15

MARK MY WORDS INSIDE CATHOLIC CHARITIES

President MOST REVEREND JOSEPH F. NAUMANN Don’t hide what Lent reveals Find the joy in Lent by fasting for others Editor ometimes things just don’t turn out Although I’ve been fairly good about the chaos and clutter of our lives to be - s a convert to the Catholic faith, I direction as to what a true fast is: must do what Christ commanded us to with teaching English as a second lan - REVEREND MARK GOLDASICH, STL as you expect. watching less TV this Lent — one of my come more intensely aware of what’s initially viewed Lent as a time of “This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: do — we must love and serve others. guage. Become an advocate for the op - [email protected] S One day a well-to-do father took “fasting” resolutions — I’ve ended up hidden there. Some people believe that A hardship and deprivation. I ob - releasing those bound unjustly, unty - During this season of Lent, I challenge pressed and write to your senator and his son on a trip to the country with the spending much of that “saved” time in the focus of Lent is solely on discovering served people giving up ing the thongs of the yoke; you to fast for others. Find ways to congressman, urging them to move Associate Editor intention of showing his son how poor front of my computer screen. I down - how “evil” or sinful we really are. True, things that they had every Setting free the oppressed, reach out to the oppressed and those past partisanism and focus on the ANITA M cSORLEY intention of picking up breaking every yoke; bound unjustly, share from your sub - pressing issues of poverty and immi - [email protected] people live. He hoped it would make the loaded a little game and it’s got its hooks when we strip away our masks, we may son grateful for the into me. not like the person that ends up staring again once the season had JAN Sharing your bread with stance by providing food, shelter and gration. Senior Reporter easy life he had. The The game is called, back at us. passed. Where was the LEWIS the hungry, sheltering the clothing to those who do not have A dear priest friend once shared JOE BOLLIG man and his son spent FATHER “Little Shop - Big City.” There’s another side to Lent, howev - good in that? oppressed and the home - these things. with me a lesson that he learned from [email protected] a couple of days and Essentially, it’s just a er: It’s more about our goodness than Over the years, I have less; Clothing the naked When you do your weekly grocery a mentor during his seminary years. nights on the farm of MARK modern update of a our sinfulness. Amid all of the junk of come to better understand when you see them, and shopping, purchase additional food The secret to living a life filled with joy Production Manager people who would be GOLDASICH game that I loved as a our sins, so to speak, are hidden trea - that this 40-day walk is not turning your back on and donate a sack of groceries to a lo - is to live first for Jesus, by living a life TODD HABIGER considered very poor. kid: hidden pictures. In sures. For example, our Lenten disci - part of a process that leads us to the your own. Then your light shall break cal food pantry. Contact a homeless serving others before serving yourself. [email protected] On their return trip, the old days, this type of plines may help us to see in our hearts a joy of rebirth on Easter morning. It is a forth like the dawn, and your wound shelter or food kitchen and offer to Jesus, others, then you equates to joy. the father asked his puzzle would feature a true compassion for others, or a gen - process of dying to self in order to shall quickly be healed; Your vindica - help prepare and serve a meal. Call a This Lent, experience the joy that is Advertising Representative son, “Did you see how those people live? common scene — say, of a kitchen — erosity in responding to the needs of more closely imitate Christ. tion shall go before you, and the glory local nursing home or assisted living found in fasting for others. JENNIFER SIEBES What did you learn from our trip?” drawn on a page. When you looked clos - those around us, or a commitment to a If we are to become more like of the Lord shall be your rear guard” center and make plans to visit an el - [email protected] The son answered, “Well, I saw that er, however, you began to notice that simpler, less materialistic life. We dis - Christ, we must do more than simply (Is 58: 6-8). derly person. Volunteer to provide Jan Lewis is the executive director of we have one dog and they had four. We there were all sorts of unusual items cover that when we give God’s grace a give up chocolate for 40 days. In the If we are to imitate Christ and offer after-school tutoring to children in one Catholic Charities. Reporter have a pool that reaches to the middle of “hiding” in that ordinary-looking chance, we can change for the better. Book of Isaiah, God gives us very clear a fast that is pleasing to God, then we of our urban schools. Offer to assist KARA HANSEN our garden and they have a creek that kitchen. There would often be a list of As a side note, “Little Shop” has a [email protected] has no end. We have imported lanterns these cleverly disguised items and you “blitz mode,” where players race against in our garden and they have the stars at would spend an entertaining time peer - the clock to find all the hidden objects in Circulation night. Our patio reaches to the front ing into the picture to uncover them. a scene. Right before writing this article [email protected] yard and they have the whole horizon. That’s essentially what “Little Shop – — in the name of research, naturally — I We have a small piece of land to live on Big City” is all about. However, the played a round in blitz mode and found Intern BUILDING THE CULTURE OF LIFE and they have fields that go beyond our scenes on the computer are much more 89 hidden objects in a little over 10 min - Seán T.D. Kane sight.” elaborate and colorful . . . and the items utes. When I went to post my “excellent” Taking a little breath, the son contin - are much harder (for these older eyes, score online, it was 146th on the list. ued, “We have servants who serve us, anyway) to spot. Let’s just say I’ve spent The top spot was held by “zig,” who Catholic Press Association Award Winner Encyclical’s anniversary offers teaching opportunity 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, but they serve others. We buy our food, way too many minutes this Lent blissful - found those same 89 objects in a minute his year marks the 40th anniver - ing needs to be done with the love and control and effect man’s will. Tragically, marketers of these so- 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 but they grow theirs. We have walls ly staring at my computer screen hunt - and a half! sary of “Humane Vitae” (“Of gentleness of Christ, particularly in However, natural family planning called contraceptives do not make Archbishop Edward O’Meara Award Winner around our property to protect us, but ing down buttons, blue suede shoes, It just goes to show that, like the little Human Life”), the papal encycli - light of the sensitivity and controversy (NFP) provides a way to regulate birth these dire consequences well known. 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 T they have friends to protect them.” sock monkeys, pine cones, gnomes, stat - boy in the story, younger people (as I as - cal of Pope Paul VI that primarily ad - that may be involved, and such teach - in accordance with God’s will and is There will be many opportunities in Publication No. (ISSN0194-9799) The boy’s father was speechless, espe - ues of the Eiffel Tower and The Thinker, sume “zig” is) are often much better and dresses the transmis - ing must also be factual therefore morally acceptable. 2008 to enhance our knowledge of cially after his son added enthusiastical - tire pumps and hundreds of other ob - quicker about seeing the treasures than sion of human life and and truthful. “Humanae Vitae” presents contra - “Humane Vitae” and the issues it ad - Published weekly September through May, excepting the Friday the ly, “Thanks, Dad, for showing me how jects. us older people. contraceptives. Pope Paul VI opens ception as another very important is - dresses. On April 12, both Kansas City week after Thanksgiving, and the Friday after Christmas; biweekly poor we are!” (Adapted from an e-mail; In these puzzles, the first thing you This week look for the blessings hid - The U.S. Conference RON his encyclical recogniz - sue to understand. Although contra - dioceses will be sponsoring a pro-life June through August. Address communications to: The Leaven, author unknown.) see is a crowded, cluttered, chaotic den in your Lenten disciplines. And if of Catholic Bishops has KELSEY ing the joys and difficul - ception poses many serious problems, conference at St. Thomas Aquinas 12615 Parallel Pkwy., Kansas City, KS 66109. Phone: (913) I’m sure that’s not the lesson the mess. By careful detective work, though, your eyes need a little help, why not ask decided to highlight ties involved in the for this article let’s consider only one. High School in Overland Park, and 721-1570; fax: (913) 721-5276; or e-mail at: wealthy father intended for his son. But you begin to discover the treasures hid - for some from the younger generation? [email protected]. this encyclical in 2008 transmission of life: Many Catholics do not understand some of these topics will be addressed. life is sometimes like that: Things are den within the junk. That, actually, is They’ll call ‘em like they see ‘em — but at to help educate “The most serious duty that some so-called contraceptives can Please mark you calendars and watch not what they seem. The same can be not a bad description of Lent. least they can see ‘em! Catholics on the issues of transmitting human actually kill the newly conceived for more details. POSTMASTER : Send address changes to The Leaven, 12615 said for Lent. In these days, we sift through all of Parallel Pkwy., Kansas City, KS 66109. For change of address, pro - it covers. Archbishop Naumann em - life, for which married persons are the child. For example, one way “the pill” Also, you may wish to subscribe to vide old and new address and parish. Subscriptions $18/ year. phasized the need for this education in free and responsible collaborators of may function is to render the womb the archdiocesan monthly pro-life Periodicals postage paid at Kansas City, KS 66109. his column in early 2007, “Forty years God the Creator, has always been a inhospitable so that the child, who is e-newsletter, which will also cover later, ‘Humanae Vitae’ proves prophet - source of great joys to them, even if only a few days old, is unable to im - these topics in 2008. To subscribe, go THE GOSPEL TRUTH ic.” sometimes accompanied by not a few plant. The child is thereby effectively to the pro-life office Web site at: www. Many Catholics do not understand difficulties and by distress.” Being discarded, resulting in its death. The prolifekc.com. the church’s teaching regarding con - completely open to life in the marital intrauterine device (IUD) works pri - SCRIPTURE traception, in part because they have act means that couples are completely marily to prevent implantation of the Ron Kelsey is the archdiocesan consul - John takes new approach to ‘woman at the well’ not been exposed to a convincing pre - open to God’s will, while the use of child in the womb, resulting in the tant for the pro-life office. sentation on its rationale. Such teach - contraception attempts to put man in child’s death. READINGS Third Sunday of Lent The parallel between this event and ship in Spirit and truth.” Jn 4: 5-42 Jacob’s encounter with Rachel is obvi - Later on, when Jesus meets up with THIRD WEEK OF LENT ous. A man and a woman meet at a his disciples and they urge him to eat he local watering hole is often a well. They fall in love. It is life-giving. something, he informs them, “I have Feb. 24 popular place to find persons of But in the case of Jesus and the food to eat of which you do not know.” THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT KEATING T the opposite sex. That was true Samaritan woman, it does not involve Once again, this food is not physical, Ex 17: 3-7; Ps 95: 1-2, 6-9; Rom 5: 1-2, 5-8; Jn 4: 5-42 even in biblical times. sexual love. It is a but spiritual: “My food is to do the will The patriarch Jacob love of the spirit. of the one who sent me and to finish Mud Jacking Feb. 25 met Rachel, the great Throughout Jesus’ his work.” Monday love of his life, at the lo - FATHER conversation with the This movement away from the Serving NE Kansas Since 1976 2 Kgs 5: 1-15b; Pss 42: 2-3; 43: 3-4; Lk 4: 24-30 cal watering hole. But in MIKE Samaritan woman, physical toward the spiritual might this case, “watering hole” STUBBS we see a movement suggest a total repudiation of material FOUNDATION REPAIR does not mean a place away from the physi - things. That is how the gnostic heresy Feb. 26 Cracked • Bowed • Settled Wall Repair where one can buy alco - cal toward the spiri - interpreted John’s Gospel. But the ¬ Wall Bracing Tuesday holic beverages. Rather, tual. Instead of the more orthodox interpretation views Dn 3: 25, 34-43; Ps 25: 4-5b, 6, 7bc, 8-9; Mt 18: 21-35 ¬ Waterproofing it means a place to water the livestock: physical water from the well, Jesus of - the physical as the foundation on ¬ Steel Underpinning FREE ESTIMATES “Looking about, he saw a well in the fers the woman his grace, symbolized which to establish the spiritual. That is Feb. 27 open country, with three droves of by living water: “Everyone who drinks the same approach that we take to - MUD JACKING Wednesday sheep huddled near it, for droves were this water [from the well] will be ward the sacraments. Each sacrament Dt 4: 1, 5-9; Ps 147: 12-13, 15-16, 19-20; Mt 5: 17-19 watered from that well” (Gn 29:2). thirsty again; but whoever drinks the is based upon the physical, to lead us Raise & Level Rachel is tending some of the sheep. water I shall give will never thirst; the to the spiritual. ¬ Patios ¬ Drives Jacob sees her and falls in love. That is water I shall give will become in him a For example, in the sacrament of Feb. 28 ¬ Garage Floors Thursday appropriate, since a well can easily spring of water welling up to eternal baptism, we are physically washed in ¬ Slab Houses Jer 7: 23-28; Ps 95: 1-2, 6-9; Lk 11: 14-23 serve as a symbol of fertility, especially life.” water in order to receive the living wa - in the desert. A well is life-giving, just Similarly, instead of worship situat - ter of which Jesus speaks in Sunday’s as sexual love can be. Eventually, this ed on Mount Gerizim (the spot favored Gospel. We move beyond the level of Feb. 29 particular well acquires the name by the Samaritans) or worship in the physical to the level of the Spirit. Locally Owned Friday “Jacob’s well” as a local landmark. Jerusalem (the spot favored by the That is the direction in which Jesus Piers Driven to Load-Bearing Hos 14: 2-10; Ps 81: 6c-11b, 14, 17; Mk 12: 28-34 Centuries later, John’s Gospel will Jews), Jesus directs the Samaritan points us, just as he did with the & Operated Strata or Bedrock place Jesus at Jacob’s well for his en - woman toward worship of a complete - Samaritan woman. Kansas City Lawrence Topeka March 1 counter with a Samaritan woman. We ly different sort, worship not tied to (913) 262-9352 (785) 865-0006 (785) 246-0128 Hos 6: 1-6; Ps 51: 3-4, 18-21b; Lk 18: 9-14 will hear the account of that event in any particular location: “God is Spirit, Father Stubbs is the pastor of Sunday’s Gospel reading, Jn 4:5-42. and those who worship him must wor - St. Francis de Sales Parish, Lansing. 16 LOCAL NEWS THE LEAVEN • FEBRUARY 22, 2008 LEAN ON ME Rural families find support in Catholic school communities By JILL RAGAR ESFELD Special to The Leaven

MARYSVILLE — Three years ago, Rich Rockwell and his wife Kim of St. Gregory Parish here got news no parent is prepared to hear. “The doctor walked in and didn’t say hello or anything,” recalled Rockwell. “He just said, ‘Your daughter has cancer. Today is the time to cry. Tomorrow, we work. “It was uphill from there.” Easing the burden of that long road to recovery for the Rockwells was the close-knit Catholic commu - nity of St. Gregory School, where their daughter Karlee is now a healthy, happy first-grader. Karlee was just a preschooler when the leukemia was diagnosed. In addition to all Karlee’s health is - sues, the Rockwells were worried she’d fall behind her peers because of all the school she had to miss. But St. Gregory teachers and administra - First-graders at Sts. Peter and Paul School tors made sure that didn’t happen. in Seneca work on their Indian drums for “We home-schooled Karlee for a the school talent show. The students are, while,” said Rockwell, “and St. from left to right: Angela Sudbeck, Kristen Gregory was wonderful, sending the Hammes, Clayton Jones, Sierra Bergman, same work the other preschoolers Riley Bontrager, and Ashley Hammes. were doing.” “If her counts were up high, she Maryna Buessing (left) and Makenna Koch, went on field trips so she wouldn’t second-graders at St. Michael School in lose that bond with her classmates,” Axtell, enjoy some time in the reading cor - Rockwell added. “So when she went ner. back, it was like she was never gone.” St. Gregory School, with 130 stu - Karlee was no more on the road to dents in its preschool through 6th- recovery, however, when complica - grade program, is one of three tions arose with the birth of another schools in the northwest region of daughter, Addysyn. the archdiocese supported by CEF. “When Addysyn came out into the The foundation also supports Sts. world, one lung was underdevel - Peter and Paul in Seneca, which has oped and the other one collapsed, 178 students in preschool through and she quit breathing,” explained eighth grade, and St. Michael in Rockwell. “They life-flighted her [to Axtell, the smallest school in the strated in his schools’ communities. areas “Catholic schools are often the Topeka], and she spent 17 days in archdiocese, with 35 students in first “The dedication of the parents, only opportunity for economically the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at through sixth grade. grandparents and all the parish - disadvantaged young people to re - Stormont-Vail.” All three schools are a vital part of ioners is what keeps both schools go - ceive an education of quality that Two health-care crises in such a their parish communities — and ing,” he said. “Because they really speaks to the development of the short period of time were not only an have been so for as long as anyone believe in Catholic education, more whole person.” emotional strain on the family — can remember. than 90 percent of the parents in Rockwell, who is a police officer they were a huge financial one as “Some of our kids now are fourth both schools are actively involved in in Marysville and the resource offi - well. generation going here,” said St. some way.” cer at St. Gregory School, agrees that But one thing the Rockwells never Gregory principal Barbara Hawkins. Catholic schools are especially im - development of the whole person is had to consider was pulling their “This gym is busy up here every portant to rural communities where, the critical edge in Catholic educa - children out of their Catholic school. night with something going on. In because of agricultural-based busi - tion. That’s because St. Gregory is a fact, we just had a fundraiser over nesses, incomes can fluctuate and “I don’t want to bang public edu - Catholic Education Foundation the weekend. We were kind of families can often struggle financial - cation, but another reason [we send (CEF) school. shooting to make about $5,000 and ly. our children to St. Gregory] is that “CEF stepped in and helped, and wound up making $16,000.” In their 2005 report on the kids behave better,” he said. they also helped us financially with Todd Leonard, principal of Sts. “Renewing Commitment to Catholic “The time they spend in school, Baleigh, another daughter who’s a Peter and Paul and St. Michael, sees Schools,” the U.S. Conference of fourth-grader,” said Rockwell. the same kind of support demon - Catholic Bishops stated that in rural See “Catholic” on page 4

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