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WWW.THEFLORIDACATHOLIC.ORG | May 1-7, 2020 | Volume 81, Number 12 Click on your diocese below to Mary, mother of God, pray for us view your local diocesan pages Bishops of U.S., Canada will consecrate their nations to Mary at 3 p.m., May 1 ORLANDO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON | Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of DIOCESE the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has announced the U.S. bishops will join the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops May 1 in consecrating the Livestreamed Masses can be two nations to the care of the Blessed Mother under the title “Mary, Mother found at the following: of the Church.” • youtube.com/user/ “This will give the church the occasion to pray for Our Lady’s continued OrlandoDiocese protection of the vulnerable, healing of the unwell and wisdom for those who work to cure this terrible virus,” said Archbishop Gomez • vimeo.com/orlandodiocese in a letter to the U.S. bishops. Each year, the church seeks the special • facebook.com/ intercession of the Mother of God during the month of May. orlandodiocese “This year, we seek the assistance of Our Lady all the more See page 4 for information earnestly as we face together the effects of the global pandemic,” he said. on local parishes’ This consecration reaffirms the bishops’ previous consecrations livestreamed Masses of the United States to Mary. In 1792, the first bishop of the United States, Bishop John Carroll, consecrated the nation to Mary under the title Immaculate Conception, and in 1846, the bishops unanimously PALM BEACH chose Mary under that title as the patroness of the nation. In 1959, Cardinal Patrick O’Boyle of Washington again DIOCESE consecrated the United States to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Archbishop Gomez will lead the prayer of reconsecration May Televised Catholic Mass 1 at 3 p.m. (EDT) and has invited the bishops to join in from their diocesepb.org/2020-masses respective dioceses and asked them to extend the invitation to the faithful in their dioceses for their participation. facebook.com/DiocesePB This reconsecration follows the Latin American bishops’ council who Sunday Mass is viewed on consecrated Latin America and the Caribbean to Our Lady of Guadalupe television: 10:30 a.m. CW34 on Easter. Livestream of reconsecration at Links also available on Facebook See page 4 for information Facebook.com/USCCB @Florida Catholic on local parishes’ Materials available online @DiocesePB livestreamed Masses usccb.org/about/communications/ @DioceseofVenice consecration.cfm @OrlandoDiocese VENICE Sign up for the Dose of Faith newsIetter DIOCESE offered by the Florida Catholic newspaper. 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If you have any questions, call our office at 407-373-0075. Thank you and God bless. And spread the word! FACEBOOK @FLORIDACATHOLIC | May 1-7, 2020 FLORIDACatholic ORLANDO DIOCESE TRANSITIONALDIACONATE St. Teresa of Avila strengthens ordinands GLENDA MEEKINS sometimes pretend to be.” of the Florida Catholic staff He said he hoped the experience had made everyone more humble BOYNTON BEACH | “You are and “more receptive to God’s grace 13 shining rays of light for us in the – for only humility makes it pos- midst of the current darkness. You sible for us to respond to God’s will give us great hope in these chal- as Mary did.” lenging times,” said Msgr. David It is with that humbleness of Toups, rector and president of St. heart that the seminarians ap- Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary proached the extraordinary day. “I in Boynton Beach, April 25, 2020. know that it’s a way for me to really The day was not what was imag- be in solidarity to the world which ined for the 13 men from dioceses I am going to serve as a deacon,” throughout Florida ordained to the Deacon Soliven said. “This little Order of Presbyter, or deacons. No change of plans, where the family family was physically present. They cannot come, is a little sacrifice. I would not head to home parishes to know a lot of people are suffering in celebrate with parishioners. Their different ways – economically, sick 30-day Ignatian retreat would have family members, in this pandemic. to wait. This is my sacrifice and way of be- Among the ordinandi were three ing one with the people.” seminarians from the Diocese of Of the three Diocese of Orlan- Orlando – Roberto Marquez of do seminarians, Deacon Soliven Blessed Sacrament Parish in Cler- awaited the day the longest – 13 mont, Nathanael Soliven of St. Jo- years, since he entered the semi- seph Parish in Lakeland, and Fran- nary at age 12 in the Philippines. Seminarians Francisco Ojeda of Our Lady of the Lakes Parish in Deltona, Nathanael Soliven of St. Joseph cisco Ojeda from Our Lady of the “For me, during all these chang- Parish in Lakeland, and Roberto Marquez of Blessed Sacrament Parish in Clermont are ordained to Lakes Parish in Deltona. es, the prayer of St. Teresa of Avila, the transitional diaconate, April 25, 2020, at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach. “I just never thought it would be just keeps coming back,” he said. The three men will serve at a local parish in the Diocese of Palm Beach over the summer and ordained this way. … The world definitely “Again and again, the Lord is say- to the priesthood in the Diocese of Orlando May 2021. (ZIEMOWIT JANASZEK | COURTESY PHOTOS) has changed in the last few months. ing, ‘Nada te turbe. Nada te espante. It’s a different set of circumstances Solo Dios basta (Let nothing disturb sign and instrument of Christ, who we’re living in,” said Deacon Soliven you. Let nothing frighten you. God came not to be served, but to serve.” of the ordination just two days ear- suffices).’” He explained the word diaconia lier. “I have accepted it and am at Deacon Ojeda had a similar ex- means service – service of the Word, peace with it.” perience. “When I learned about it of the Eucharist, and of the poor. What gives the newly ordained (that family would be unable to at- Deacon Marquez looks forward deacon comfort and assurance is tend), I had mixed feeling. It’s been to fulfilling them. The eldest of the St. Teresa of Avila’s famous poem six years preparing for the priest- three, he came to his vocation late — “Nada Te Turbe” (Let Nothing hood.” He said he had to let go of in life in his mid-40s. “This is it. Disturb You). The poem’s message expectations. “It was humbling. It You’re getting committed. Priest- ran as an undercurrent throughout reminds me I need to rely more on hood is what comes after, but we the Ordination liturgy. “Let nothing Jesus and trust His plan instead of really shouldn’t be seeing this as a disturb you, Let nothing frighten mine. It’s been a constant reminder step,” he said. “We need to take ad- you. … God never changes. ... He to trust in Him… knowing that is vantage and appreciate what this who has God finds he lacks nothing. what He wants at this moment.” year as deacons has to offer us and God alone suffices.” He would later comment, “Even learn from it. We need to experience Archbishop Thomas Wenski of though the chapel ‘seemed’ empty it, with God’s help. Let’s take advan- Miami called to mind the unique without family and friends, it was tage of this moment and this time.” Archbishop Thomas Wenski ordains 13 men from the Dioceses of events that surrounded this Ordi- not. You could feel everyone pray- Before entering the seminary, he Orlando, St. Augustine, St. Petersburg, Palm Beach, Pensacola- nation. ing with you.” said he always thought of the past Tallahassee and the Archdiocese of Miami to the diaconate. These “As deacons ordained during this It was when he was at his lowest, and the future. Now he has learned men will be ordained in their dioceses next year. twin crisis of the coronavirus pan- one year in college, that Ojeda felt to live for today and nourish and demic and a global economic disas- God tug at his heart. His father had embrace experiences in his min- companied a male choir singing you teach.” ter, you will exercise your pastoral been a seminarian, so the idea was istry, such as the first wedding he Veni Sancte Spiritus as the ordinan- During the post-Communion ministry as a new and yet uncertain now new, but this was different. “It would celebrate and the first bap- di came forward, three at a time. meditation, Orlando seminarian ‘normal’ emergence — one that will was when I felt the lowest that Lord tism.