Diocese Mourns Loss, Celebrates Life, of Father Henry Hildebrandt

“T�� F�� Southwest Kansas �� ... �� H�� H�� ….” atholic -- Father Henry Hildebrandt, 1955-2016 CNewspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City www.dcdiocese.org/register Vol. LI, No. 3 • Sunday, April 10, 2016 Diocese mourns My Lenten brain loss, celebrates life, tumor, our Easter joy of Father Henry + Most Rev. John B. Hildebrandt Brungardt Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City Part 2 I am a self-made man! Photos by Marjie Clarke We should pull ourselves up by our own boot Father Reggie Urban washes Karen Baird’s feet on Holy Thursday at straps! St. Dominic Church in Garden City. Although many parishes around She doesn’t need anybody – she is so independent! the world have included women in this traditi on for years, Pope Francis offi cially made the practi ce to include women recently. Nonsense. These statements are lies. All false. Don’t Just aft er his electi on as Bishop of Rome in 2013, Pope Francis believe them. said Mass at Rome’s Casal del Marmo juvenile detenti on center, On March 11, I had a successful brain surgery to where he washed the feet of 12 youth, including two women and remove a benign tumor. I am rapidly recovering, arishioners past and present, friends, two Muslims. thanks to the healing power of the Lord, my excellent Pand family gathered April 1 to cel- health care team, and your faithful prayers. As I lay ebrate the life, and to mourn the loss, in the hospital bed before the surgery, God revealed of Father Henry Hildebrandt, pastor of much to me about independence, interdependence, Sacred Heart Parish, Ness City, and St. Celebrating Holy Week and dependence: Aloysius Parish, Ransom, who succumbed Independence: to a heart att ack on March 26, 2016, his I tend to want to do things myself. At ti mes, I feel 61st birthday. asking for help is a sign of weakness. At ti mes, I don’t “I knew Henry as a 15- or 16-year-old want to risk rejecti on. My tendencies toward per- boy,” Bishop Emeritus Ronald Gilmore fecti onism and goal-driveness is also a problem. This said. “Even then he was obviously living a atti tude of independence does not work, and it is not rich inner life, no matt er what was going what the Lord asks of us. This was profoundly revealed on around him. As he grew, he developed as I lay helpless. What to do? “My help comes from the more of an eye for the invisible. In all the Lord, who made heaven and earth” (Psalm 121:2). We years I knew him, the invisible, the source trust in God. We open our heart to a bett er way, a of all things invisible, was breaking upon letti ng go of self and embracing our Loving Jesus and him....” each other. Father Henry was notoriously late for Interdependence: many engagements, Bishop Gilmore said God made us to depend on Him and each other. This to laughter. “But that was because he was is Christ’s teaching. “Now you are Christ’s Body, and running toward someone ... being att en- individually parts of it” (1 Corinthians 12:27). As we ti ve toward someone.” mature, we try to do our part to love, to make a bet- Even in his last moments, when he was ter world, to reach out to one another in mutual love, reviewing the sacraments and liturgy in giving and receiving, one with the other. My favorite preparati on for the Easter Vigil, he was passages from St. Paul refer to this interdependence, for called away. example: “Therefore, encourage one another and build “This Missionary of Mercy, faithful to one another up, as indeed you do” (1 Thes 5:11). the end, even then made ti me for a few Dependence: late confessions. He sat there to review At ti mes, we are totally dependent on another: as the vigil readings, turning pages, looking infants, while in the hospital, as diff erently-abled over divine words that he had long cher- persons, etc. This is a humbling experience. Here we ished. And then he had someplace to go. are called to receive. Jesus came to us as a poor boy, Then he had something to do.” depending on Mary and Joseph. He grew and taught The Lord was there when Father Henry us to love. “He humbled himself, becoming obedient took his fi nal drive, the bishop said, when to death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:8). And he collapsed. ... He was there in the pain. “he has been raised from the dead” (Matt hew 28:7) to He was there in the loss of consciousness. open the gates of paradise for us. We depend on our “He was there, deep, deep inside Resurrected Savior Jesus Christ. all those things. Because, he, the Lord Let us ask our Risen Jesus this Easter season for a deep- interdependence himself, he had lived through all of that in ening . God is with us – Emmanuel. Let us give and receive from one another. Let us build up saving us. How? Through his own dying. the Body of Christ. Let us encourage one another, ... He was the one Henry was going to Father Reggie Urban, pastor of St. Dominic Parish, Garden City, especially the least of our sisters and brothers. Jesus meet. I am the Resurrecti on and the Light. looks on as Thomas Keller, Austi n Greathouse, and Jasper Parti n is there for us: He loves us so much! Conti nued on Page 6 carry the cross into the church on Good Friday. + Bishop John B. Brungardt Another Way Page 2 April 10, 2016 The Southwest Kansas Catholic Catholic Chariti es to host 15th Annual Charity Wine Tasti ng Event Premiere ‘oenophile’ experience benefi ts those in need REAT BEND -- Oenophile might Fowler. “We’ll cover the growing, including an aged-whiskey specialist, Gbe a fancy word for those who harvesti ng, fermentati on and color of will be on hand to answer questi ons. appreciate wine, but you need not be grapes, what causes wine to go bad, Tickets for the 15th Annual Charity fancy to enjoy Great Bend’s premiere how to protect wines, how to taste Wine Tasti ng Event are available in wine tasti ng event; in fact, with craft wines, and how to cook with wines.” person at the Catholic Chariti es offi ce beers and spirits to taste as well, you For those who want to know more, at 2201 16th Street in Great Bend, by really don’t even need to be a wine Fowler brings almost 30 years of ex- phone at 620-792-1393, or online at lover to enjoy this tasti ng. perience in the wine tasti ng industry. www.catholicchariti esswks.org/wine- on Friday, April 29th, 2016 from “I’m excited about our new loca- tasti ng-event/buy-ti ckets. 6 to 10 p.m., Catholic Chariti es of ti on at the Great Bend Events Cen- Catholic Chariti es of Southwest Southwest Kansas hosts the 15th ter,” said Event Coordinator Rebecca Kansas, a member of Catholic Chari- Annual Charity Wine Tasti ng Event Ford. “We sold out of ti ckets before ti es USA, has provided services for at the Great Bend Events Center, the invitati ons even hit the mailboxes people in need since 1965. The mis- 3111 10th St., Great Bend, to raise last year, so we knew we had to do sion of the agency is to honor human funds for those in need. Guests will something diff erent. We are expect- potenti al through service, advocacy be treated to a Wine 101 session ing about 400 guests this year from and invitati on, in the spirit of the with wine expert Roger Fowler from as far away as Dodge City, Salina and Gospel, so that every person can Standard Beverage Corporati on at 6 Hays.” A block of rooms is reserved experience hope and fulfi llment. With p.m. The tasti ng, which begins at 7 at the Best Western Angus Inn for offi ces in Dodge City, Garden City p.m., includes live entertainment by out-of-town guests who make their and Great Bend, the agency provides classical guitarist, Richard J. 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