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NTC 11-19-10.Indd Newsmagazine Bringing the Good News to the Diocese of Fort Worth Vol. 26 No. 16 December 2010 UDMC draws nearly 5,000 (NTC photos by Juan Guajardo) Cardinal DiNardo points listeners to Jesus' example of fellowship, persuasion Story and Photos By Juan Guajardo ■ Correspondent Photo above: Cardinal Daniel DiNardo addresses the gathered crowd of nearly 5,000 participants in the opening session of the second University of Dallas Ministry Cardinal DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston- Conference to be hosted jointly by the Diocese of Fort urrounded by a crowd of almost Worth and the Diocese of Dallas. Houston, was just one of several nationally 5,000 catechists, ministers, priests, recognized speakers who presented at the fourth annual University of Dallas 2010 Ministry with the parable of the persistent widow and the Conference on Oct. 22-23 at the Dallas unjust judge. sisters, deacons, Catholic school Convention Center. Sponsored by the dioceses of “Prayer is a beautiful, humble form of Fort Worth and Dallas, the overarching theme of pestering. Stick with it,” Cardinal DiNardo said. teachers, and other lay people, the conference was “Walking Together in Faith.” “If you’re going to walk in faith, personally, or as It was a theme that Cardinal DiNardo took a diocese or as a parish, or as a group, you must Cardinal Daniel DiNardo stood to heart in his keynote address that opened the be built on intimacy with Jesus and his Father. conference on Friday morning, after an early We call that prayer. St. Luke also recalls in the front and center in a vast multi-level arena, between morning prayer session. middle of the Jesus journey, that we should always He referred often to the Gospel of Luke to look for opportune moments to pray…. What’s an S explain what it takes to walk with Jesus on his opportune moment to pray? Every moment. Every two huge projection screens, and encouraged the journey of faith. Th e cardinal pointed out that moment is opportune. Th ere’s only one bad prayer, one of the prerequisites is prayer, telling how Jesus the one that wasn’t said.” audience to continue their ministry work and to was absorbed in prayer when he was transfi gured Teaching is also part of journeying in faith on the mountain, when he was baptized in the with Jesus, Cardinal DiNardo said, noting that draw strength from prayer and Scripture. Jordan, and how Jesus told us to pray constantly SEE UDMC, PAGE 25 PAGE 2 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, NOVEMBER 2010 ShepherdOur Speaks Working together to bring about the reign of Christ the King Dear Brothers and ancient expectancy of the Messiah, for by In addition, the Feast of the Immaculate sharing in the long preparation for the Conception has a special meaning to the Sisters in Christ, Savior’s fi rst coming, the faithful renew Church in the United States, for Mary under their ardent desire for his second coming. the title of the Immaculate Conception is the hese days bring about several important By celebrating the precursor’s birth and patroness of the United States, and it is to T solemnities and feasts in the liturgical martyrdom, the Church unites herself to her we entrust the protection and guidance life of the Church and are very important his desire: “He must increase, but I must of our great country. Th erefore, the bishops for our refl ection. Th ey are a reminder decrease” (524). of the United States have declared the Feast that Christ is always present with us and of the Immaculate Conception to be a Holy journeying with the Pilgrim Church as we Th e liturgical color for Advent is Day of Obligation for Catholics in the strive for holiness and eternal glory in Christ. purple, as the season of Advent is somewhat United States. At the end of this month, we celebrate penitential (although less so than Lent) but Th e second important Marian feast is the Solemnity of Christ the King which with the added theme of expectant hope in the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe on brings to a dramatic close the Liturgical Year. the revelation and coming glory of Christ. Dec. 12. Th is is a very important day not Th e Solemnity of Christ the King was first Th is expectant hope is especially expressed only for Hispanic Catholics but for all of us established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 because during the Th ird Sunday of Advent called who live under her title as Patroness of the of the growing threats of Communism, Gaudate Sunday or Joyful Sunday as we “wait Americas. Th is feast recalls the fateful days Nazism, and Fascism (right across the city in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior of Dec 9-12, 1531 when Mary appeared to from him!) and the threats all these posed Bishop Kevin Vann Jesus Christ” and the liturgical colors are rose an indigenous Aztec native who came to be upon the human spirit. Christ the King (pink) instead of purple. Th ere are many rich known by his baptismal name Juan Diego. reminds us that the ultimate power that traditions that we can partake of during the Upon revealing herself to Juan Diego in cannot be threatened or coerced by these and the dead as recorded in the passage season of Advent, especially in the family his native language Nahuatl, Our Lady of powers was Christ the King. Th erefore, the from Matthew 25 where Christ comes and setting, such as the lighting of the Advent Guadalupe immediately told him she is the human person would always be free, no separates the sheep from the goats. In fact, Wreath, or the daily opening of an Advent Virgin Mary, Mother of God. She asked Juan matter what, and Christ the King has the the readings from the last several Sundays of Calendar, accompanied by meditation and Diego that a chapel be built on Tepeyac hill “last word” over evil. Th e image of Christ the liturgical year focus on the last judgment, prayer that helps us live, in our own daily for the conversion and nourishment of the as our Lord and King has a very special on being ready and prepared for the lives, our penitential and expectant hope in faithful, especially the Aztec people, due to meaning to all of us, even those of us in coming of the Lord. It calls us to make an the coming of Christ. their practice of idolatry and human sacrifi ce Western democracies. Christ comes as King examination of conscience on how we have Th ere are also two very important which included children. Our Blessed to rule over evil, sin, and death, and to lived our lives in Christ over the past year. Marian feasts that also fall within the Mother sought to evangelize the people and restore the order of the Kingdom of God It is a sobering reminder that some day we season of Advent. Th e fi rst is the Feast of the Juan Diego would serve as the key person to that was thrown into chaos after the fi rst sin. will come before Christ the King and render Immaculate Conception when we celebrate accomplish this task. In fact, in John’s Gospel, the trial of Christ an account of our lives and how we used the that Mary was conceived without the stain of Our Lady of Guadalupe desired to show and his ultimate crucifi xion is portrayed as gifts and graces that God has given us to Original Sin so that Mary could become the her mercy and compassion upon the people the enthronement of Christ, who now reigns build up the Kingdom of God. pure and stainless tabernacle through which as only a mother could. Her appearance as over sin and death forever from the throne Th is same theme of preparation for the Christ would become Incarnate and receive an indigenous young Indian girl brought of the Cross. Th e Solemnity of Christ the coming of Christ also carries over into the a pure human nature. Th is truth is revealed to light the love of the people in her heart. King also reminds us that like Christ, we are new liturgical year that begins on Dec. 5 as to us in Sacred Scripture by the greeting Juan Diego immediately rushed to speak called to share in his kingly mission through we celebrate the First Sunday of Advent. Th e of the Angel Gabriel who comes to Mary with Bishop Zumarraga about the vision of humility and service, and to conquer hearts word “advent” comes from the Latin adventus and marvelously reveals “Hail, full of grace, the Blessed Mother. Initially Juan Diego’s through works of charity and mercy. As Pope which means “coming” or “arrival”. Th e the Lord is with you” (Luke 1:28). Mary is message was not heard. Eventually, Juan Benedict XVI teaches, season of Advent is a season of preparation completely full of grace precisely because she Diego presented the bishop with a tilma that, for Christ’s coming in two ways. First, we is the one who was conceived without sin once opened, revealed the image of our Lady But in what does this ‘power’ of Jesus are called to look into our lives and into and continued to fully cooperate in complete along with roses not in season at that time. Christ the King consist? It is not the power our hearts, to examine our consciences, “obedience of faith” with the grace and Th ere is much signifi cance to the of the kings or the great people of this and to assess our readiness for when Christ presence of the Holy Spirit.
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