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Southwest Kansas “T�� l�� , �� . W�� , �� . l�� a��; �� l��.” -- H�� N�� NewspaperC of the Catholicatholic Diocese of Dodge City www.dcdiocese.org/swkscatholic vol. Liv, No. 16 Sunday, December 8, 2019 Siﬆ er Run to meet Jesus Maria The Most Rev. John B. Brungardt, Elena Bishop of the Catholic Aft er nearly Diocese of Dodge City two decades

of ministry, e are eager to see our loved ones during the holy days and holidays. We the missionary Wrush to purchase gift s. Don’t get in the way as we hurry to a sporti ng event! Sister says “Run forth to meet your Christ” is our greatest call this Advent Season (from the Collect of last goodbye to Sunday’s Holy Mass). This theme conti nues this Second Sunday of Advent: Heavenly Father, we SW Kansas “set out in haste to meet your Son.” Let us ask the intercession of St. Mary and St. Joseph as we prepare for Jesus’ birthday. Let us take ti me to pray, to evangelize, to build community, to learn about our Catholic faith, From a video by Gentry Heimerman and to serve one another. Let us run, in haste, Theo Heimerman, son of Director of young adult Ministry Gentry Heimerman, into the arms of our Lord. Thank you for your holds the “host” provided in a Mass kit, which are being distributed to faithfulness and compassion, especially to those parishes across the diocese to share with their parishioners. in need. May we prepare for Jesus’ coming in history with devoti on. He loves you so much! + Bishop John Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, ‘M Kits’ your grace into our hearts, Inspiring boys and girls that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ your Son at an early age was made known by the message By DavE MyERS of an Angel, Bishop John B. Brungardt recently Southwest Kansas Catholic “As a boy, like most may by his Passion and Cross wished a fond farewell to Sister hat is a “Mass Kit?” Maria Elena, MCMi, who is leaving Catholic boys, we’d be brought to the glory of his Resurrection. It’s basically what you see the diocese aft er 17 years. W above: a cross, two candles and play Mass and dress up (Collect of the 4th Sunday of Advent) he came to the Diocese of Dodge holders, a chalice, a paten (saucer), as priests. We’d take SCity as part of a team of three several hosts, and cards with prayers O�� a�� nuns intent on serving a three-year and instructions in English and white Wonder Bread Spanish. mission helping the blossoming and smash it fl at and The Most Reverend John B. Brungardt, Bishop of Spanish-speaking community, and One to two completed “Mass Kits” Dodge City, makes the following announcement and being a strong presence to the were sent to each parish (depending use a cookie cutt er and appointment eff ecti ve December 1, 2019: community as a whole. on the size of the parish) in late Bishop Brungardt recognizes the retirement That was 17 years ago. November, and are available to make litt le hosts.” of Ellen Peters who has served as Parish Life Now, aft er nearly two decades families to borrow and return, in order -- Bishop John B. Brungardt Coordinator of St. Joseph, Greensburg since 2008 serving the people of Southwest to allow use by another family. and is grateful for her pastoral care and leadership Kansas, one of the original three All items are made of wood, and all and learning, and may even plant a for the past eleven years. Missionaries of Charity of Mary recently fi lled the garage of Director seed that could grow into a religious To provide for the pastoral care of St. Joseph in Immaculate (MCMI) is heading of Young Adult Ministry Gentry vocati on later in life. Greensburg, in accord with Canon 517, 2°, Kathleen back to Mexico. Heimerman, who, with a team of The kits were ordered via Etsy, an Blair is appointed Parish Life Coordinator of St. Sister Maria Elena Martí nez- volunteers, pieced together and online shop for people to sell craft s. Joseph, Greensburg. Sifuentes, MCMI, fi rst became painted dozens of kits. (It’s a good bet that the craft sman Father Robert Schremmer conti nues as Priest a fi xture at St. Mary Parish in Why a Mass Kit? who formed the wooden pieces was Supervisor and Sacramental Minister of St. Joseph Garden City, where for 11 years It was the idea of Heimerman and more than a litt le surprised at the while also conti nuing as pastor of St. Andrew, Wright she served in various capaciti es, Father Juan Salas, who recognized large order.) and Vicar General of the Diocese of Dodge City. providing help, hope, guidance the long history of young children Heimerman organized the volunteer and leadership. — boys and girls — playing “Mass” eff ort to prepare the pieces, including By Order of the Most Reverend in their homes, and how, by enacti ng painti ng, piecing them together, and Bishop John B. Brungardt of Dodge City Conti nued on Page 7 the Mass, it encourages devotion Conti nued on Page 16 Sister Janice Grochowsky, CSJ, JCL Chancellor Page 2 December 8, 2019 The Southwest Kansas Catholic

Sister Tonimarie DeBar, SMPC, A lost art efore there were Creeds, the early Most Rev. teacher, Campus Minister, dies BChristians did what Jesus said they should do. They remembered him in Ronald M. ister Tonimarie DeBar, grew up. After completing a patterned way. That way made him Gilmore S87, was born in Kansas three years of high school present again. Their remembering, Bishop City, MO, Sept. 27, she entered the Sisters their ritual, extended his presence and Emeritus of 1932, and was adopted of St. Joseph of Wichita his power through time and space. Lex Dodge City by Jacob C. and Sophia as a postulant, received Orandi, Lex Credendi, they came to say: Volz Shumaker, who the habit April 3, 1951 the way they prayed helped give rise to named her Dolores Rose and was given the name the way they believed. Shumaker. Sister Anthony Marie. First We don’t do either of those things very She entered eternal life Profession of vows was July well today. We don’t know where our hard pressed to pin down just what they Nov. 20, 2019 at Harry 26, 1953 followed by Final “praying” is supposed to take us: into a mean today. Hynes Hospice in Wichita. Profession July 26, 1956 at mysterious union with the Lord even now. It is our duty … “always and everywhere, Father Joseph Gile and Mt. St. Mary’s Convent in We don’t know where our ‘believing’ is to give you thanks, Lord ….” There it Father Wesley Schawe Wichita. is in a nutshell. “To give you thanks, Sister Tonimarie DeBar supposed to take us: into that mysterious (for whom she was his Her education included union with the Lord we call the Beatific Lord:” our Mass was always called the second grade teacher) a B.S. in Education at St. Vision, into that place and condition we Eucharist, it always played out as an Act concelebrated the Mass of Christian Mary of the Plains College in Dodge call Heaven. We don’t know how praying of Thanksgiving. Burial in Resurrection Chapel on Nov. City with additional study at St. Louis is related to believing, or how both of It means Thanksgiving. But that is 26. Internment followed in Mt. St. University and Niagara University. them are related to living as Christians an art we are forgetting in our age of Mary’s Cemetery. She devoted 33 years to elementary are meant to live. entitlement. When we fall into the habit Sister Tonimarie’s parents owned education, teaching in Kansas (including The Preface of our Mass can help us put of thinking that anything, and everything, and operated a bakery business in Sacred Heart Cathedral School in Dodge those things together: its first paragraph is owed to us , we lose the ability to be Caney, Kan., where she and her brother Continued on Page 7 generally repeat words we need to hear. grateful, to say thank you . We have lost “It is truly right and just;” “it is our duty;” the intuition that every thing about us is it is our salvation.” These words no longer a Gift. Pastoral Ministry Formation have clear, fixed, meanings for us. “True,” Perhaps this Thanksgiving Day can lead “Right,” “Duty,” “Salvation.” We would be you to such a rediscovery. Christology Pastoral Ministry Formation Core Course for Spring 2020 Andrew Dinners with Bishop Brungardt THEO 4003 (3 hour course) Christology Course Description: More than creed or culture, For high school age: Dec. 8, 15 and 22 Christianity is a relationship with a person. Christology he Andrew dinners for high school and their pastors to join Bishop John for ponders who Jesus Christ is for us. Tstudents will take place on three nights, dinner, conversation and prayer, with a The course aims to investigate the answers given in from 6-8 p.m. at: Christ the King Parish in focus not just on the priesthood, but on scripture and ecclesial tradition to Jesus’s question, “Who Deerfield, Dec. 8; Prince of Peace Parish, God’s call for every Catholic young man do you say that I am?” Great Bend, Dec. 15; and at the Cathedral to live an extraordinary life. For more Instructor: Father Terrance Klein Father Terrance Klein of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Dodge City, information and RSVP, contact Father *This course is one of the 3-hour courses that may be used to obtain the Diocesan Dec. 22. Juan Salas at 620-227-1533 or vocations@ Certification in Liturgical Ministry or Youth Ministry. The evening is for high school students dcdiocese.org. Class Times - Jan. 18, 25, Feb. 1, 8, 15, 29, Mar. 7, 14, 21 Saturday mornings - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon Location - Interactive Television Sites throughout Dodge City and Salina Dioceses Protecting God’s Children Cost: he Catholic Diocese of Dodge City re- diocese, all people of the diocese can learn 3 hr. course for college credit - $150.00 Tquires all employees and volunteers how to discuss different aspects of abuse 3 hr. course for personal enrichment - $75.00 who work with children to participate in — including sexual. There are no Protecting *price quotes do not include books a Protecting God’s Children awareness God’s Children awareness session scheduled Father Terrance Klein is the pastor of Immaculate Conception, Claflin, St. Joseph, session. at this time. Please check upcoming issues Ellinwood, and Holy Family, Odin. He holds a doctorate in Fundamental Theology Through the Diocesan Awareness Ses- or visit dcdiocese.org/safe-environment for from the Pontifical Gregorian University and a Masters in Liturgy from the University sions and other educational efforts of the updates. of Notre Dame. He is the author of several books. IF YOU SUSPECT ABUSE If you suspect abuse or neglect of a child in dition, Mr. Befort will offer the help of the Kansas and the child is in immediate danger, Assistance Minister, whose goal is to be a call 911 or local law enforcement. listening ear and to promote healing. If you have suspicion a child is being • • • abused or neglected, make a confidential The Review Board is a consultative body of report to Kansas Department for Children lay Catholics and one priest representative and Families Protection Report Center, who advises the Bishop in his assessment 800-922-5330 or to the KBI Hotline, 800- of allegations of sexual abuse, reviews dioc- KSCRIME (800-572-7463), or by emailing esan policies for dealing with sexual abuse [email protected]. of minors and offers advice on all aspects If you suspect sexual abuse by Church of sexual abuse cases retrospectively and personnel, in addition to making a report prospectively. The Assistance Minister’s role to the proper civil authorities, contact is to aid in the pastoral care of persons who Charles Befort, the diocesan Review Board claim to have been sexually abused as minors representative who receives and follows by clergy or other church personnel, whether up on reports. His contact information is the abuse was recent or occurred many years [email protected], 620-285-3219. In ad- in the past. Opioid addiction/suicide hotline For information about opioid prevention, visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com, addiction or to seek help, visit https:// or, if you are having thoughts of suicide, ckfaddictiontreatment.org/, or call (785) call the National Suicide Prevention 825-6224. For information about suicide Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Janeé Bernal, Director of Matrimony, Family Life, and NFP, will sadly be leaving the Dodge City Diocese at the end of May. Though this has been a wonderful position and has fueled her passion for evangelization, the Lord has called her and her family down another path. She has been hired as the new Assistant Principal at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School in Wichita. Her husband, Jesse, and their three children will be moving to Wichita sometime in June. Janeé wants to thank the people of the Dodge City Diocese for their generosity and kindness during the past year. She said, “The Diocese of Dodge City has been a wonderful place to grow up and to serve. It has taught me the importance of serving others as a missionary disciple. I will truly miss the rural hospitality and especially the priests and religious sisters that I’ve been able to call friends.”

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Spearville Parish Mission: Capuchin Franciscan describes how a sense of ‘atheism’ can sneak into our lives, forming our relationships Photos by Dave Myers Father Simeon Gallagher, OFMCap, speaks on the first night of the St. John the Baptist Parish Mission in Spearville, Nov. 18.

Editor’s Note: The following is “primordial relationship,” Father got to be fertilized, developed, the first of a two-part series to be Simeon called it—a relationship applied.” The art and soul of concluded in the Dec. 22 issue. through which we can +learn to He described going to a By Dave Myers build a better relationship with restaurant with friends and seeing speaking to God Southwest Kansas Catholic other people. an older couple sitting in total apuchin Franciscan Father “How do we cope with the silence as they ate. CSimeon Gallagher told those stresses and the pressures that life “That’s not the silence of love,” gathered at the St. John the Baptist puts before us if we don’t have that Father Simeon suggested. “Thoreau directly, Parish Mission in Spearville that connection with a higher power? If said what you’re seeing is the when he told his father, an Irish we don’t have that connection with manifestation of quiet desperation. pub owner, that he wanted to be a each other that keeps us moving in They are so bored and tired with frankly, priest, his father, who was wiping the face of struggles and problems each other. down the bar, responded with two and conflicts? “You look at that and realize comments: “If left to our own devices, we what happened to that marriage? candidly, 1) “You will never hear as many really and truly would be a lost It began with energy, with passion, confessions as I do,” and group of people,” he said. “It’s that with fire and with love, and here 2) When you talk with people, faith in God and trust in each other they are. openly, never leave them with something that keeps us resolving, rather than “I think it’s an indication of the to unravel. Give them something to disintegrating, the relationships.” underdeveloped imagination. They contemplate. He described what he termed the have not continued to bring life. honestly On Nov. 18, he did just that. It three levels of relationship atheism, “Teresa of Avila said that was the first night of the four-night beginning with the “Atheism of the relationships are like a garden, and n the second night of Spearville’s parish mission, Father parish mission, the theme of which Eye,” in which “as some grow older, water needs to be brought to the Simeon Gallagher admitted that he sometimes finds was “Spirituality for Relationships”. we don’t become wiser and more garden so that the flowers and the O hearing confessions ... well, frustrating! Each night began with an introspective, reflective.” Instead, vegetables can grow. The water of Why? hour-long social gathering at the he said, some of us “become rich relationships is the water of “People come to confession and never get to the point!” parish center in which dinner fascinated with what’s wrong and imagination.” he said. “Confession is not a counseling session! Speak di- was provided and served on the what’s dark. And our first reaction The third, he said, is the worst rectly! Candidly! Don’t beat around the bush!” first night by the Church and to everything is a negative reaction. of the three: The Atheism of He offered the same suggestion when it comes to prayer, Community Affairs Council, on the “We are all imperfect people, but Distraction. “We become so over or even when communicating with a spouse, a son or daugh- second night by the Daughters of if we constantly zero in on what’s extended, so busy, so involved that ter, or … anyone for that matter (except maybe your boss, Isabella, followed by the Knights of wrong with each other, rather than there is never any time for quiet he said to laughter). Columbus on the third night. The seeing the grace dimension of our solitude, and we end up becoming St. Teresa’s Description of Prayer fourth night included a pot luck. lives and our relationships, these hollow and shallow…. th “Faith and trust and confidence relationships can be emptied of “Relationships today require St. Teresa of Avila lived in the 16 Century when women are the basic building blocks of confidence. depth. They cannot survive if there is were expected to stay home and tend the house and chil- all relationships,” Father Simeon “… We live in a cynical, sarcastic, not some degree of profundity—of dren. told those gathered. “Two people jaded culture. And that can very depth, if I’m so distracted, I don’t “But she read and read and read,” Father Simeon said. “If cannot move forward in any kind easily infiltrate into the best of us take the time to see the good in you. I were to look at the very best example of self-education, of a meaningful relationship, and give us that cynical, sarcastic, “It is a depth fed by prayer, I’d point to St. Teresa.” especially the domestic jaded attitude, that negative reading scriptures, a strong faith At one point, the young nun was asked by an older Sister relationships of family and marriage attitude toward life.” community, attending Mass, who was struggling in her daily prayer routine, “What is and friendship, if they don’t trust The second atheism, Father celebrating the sacraments—all of prayer?” each other, if they don’t have faith Simeon explained, is that of the these are sources of life. The answer St. Teresa gave reverberated through the in each other, if they don’t have “underdeveloped imagination.” “Relationships are some of the centuries: “It is nothing more than a conversation.” confidence in each other.” In creating us in His image, greatest blessing and gifts that God “If you want your communication with God to be suc- The first relationship that human God “has shared with us his own has given us, but they need to be cessful,” Father Simeon said, “then you have to follow the beings experience is with God – a imagination. And that [gift] has cultivated.” Continued on Page 9 CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED

Page 4 December 8, 2019 Commentary The Southwest Kansas Catholic Happy CNAW! The U.S. Census Editor’s Note: The following column is — during which I humbly being reprinted due to the fact that once rid the paper of every An invitation to be counted again Catholic Newspaper Awareness Week is errer — I also do reporting, quickly approaching. photography, layout, By Sister Barbara Kane, OP web stuff, and spackling. n April 1, 2020, the official Federal census s you are all fully aware, next week we My hobbies include Owill take place. It’s coming quickly and it’s Acelebrate Catholic Newspaper Awareness undergoing unnecessary very important to everyone who lives in the Week, a time in which we honor all those who medical procedures. (No U.S. The census takes place every ten years and bring you, via newsprint, the Good News of evening out is complete By Dave Myers is vitally important that everyone be counted, Jesus Christ housed firmly in the heart of the without enjoying a mole Editor including those who may not be citizens or even Catholic Church. removal. Two for one on have legal papers to be in the country. Why is it When John Paul II established Catholic ladies’ night!) important that everyone be counted? Newspaper Awareness Week in 1994, he And there are the free free-lancers, The census data is used at the Federal level: By Sister Barbara noted in his general audience of April 27, including among them my wife, Charlene. I “To reapportion seats in the House of Kane, OP that “those who bring you the news of the don’t think she’d mind me telling you that Representatives. Catholic Church are not unlike the Biblical once she ------and ------“For state officials to redraw congressional and legislative districts authors themselves. For what is the Bible but ------! The guy ------can of based on population shifts. a Catholic newspaper of the time? We find Dr. Pepper ------reconstructive “To determine how to allocate more than $675 billion in Federal feature stories: ‘Jonah describes a whale of surgery! dollars supporting state and local community programs across the an experience’; hard news: ‘Cain “person of Did I also mention that she edits the final country.” interest” in Abel killing’; sports: ‘David takes draft of the newspaper? This $675 billion is used for schools, hospitals, Head Start, WIC Goliath; gives “underdog” all new meaning’; Then, of course, there’s Bishop John (Women, Infant, and Children), Solid Waste Management Grants, Section and weather: ‘Flood imminent; don’t forget Brungardt, president and publisher. One of his 8 Housing Vouchers, Native American Training and Employment and umbrella and/or unusually large ark’.” jobs is to look at the newly printed issue, raise other programs for healthcare, education, housing, food and income The pope went on to say that in “honoring a not entirely unsympathetic and only slightly security. The amount given to a city or state for those programs depends Catholic newspapers, we celebrate the beauty annoyed eye, and say things to me like, “Uh, on the number of individuals living in those cities/states based on the of the word, poured out in ink onto a sea of Dave? You didn’t actually mean to write that census count. newsprint, inviting people to come aboard, St. Francis was one of the twelve apostles. … Unfortunately, some of the very people who are most impacted by the to toss out a line, and to see if they catch an Did you?” Whenever I bring him a new issue, I programs may be missed in the counting. These include children under albacore of wisdom which they can fry up and always include a glass of Alka-Seltzer. five, low income households, immigrants, and rural residents. Many serve to others.” (This is where the statement, As a side job, he is the Vatican-appointed people in these populations distrust the government and fear that they “Wisdom is best served with a snifter of white Shepherd of the good people of the Catholic will be in danger from giving their information. The reality is that Census wine” comes from.) Diocese of Dodge City. And he plays a mean Data is required by law to be confidential. Individual responses cannot As we celebrate Catholic Newspaper game of ping-pong. be shared with other government agencies but must be reported in Awareness Week, it might be good to We can’t list the staff without including statistical summary format only. Other government agencies will not be reintroduce you to the good men and all of you, the readers (or I should say, given this information. women who produce your Southwest Kansas “both” of you). The newspaper is, after all, a This is the first year that the census will be conducted on-line. [Catholic]. communication tool not only for the bishop Invitations will be mailed to households with instructions on how to Tim Wenzl is the part-time advertising to communicate with his flock, but for the respond. One person from each household will respond for all the representative. He also serves as part-time flock to communicate with him. As I continue members of the household. In our motherhouses and care centers, the diocesan archivist, and is an author. He is a to layout each issue, I’d say a fourth of the administrators will submit information for each of the residents. As a contributing writer and photographer for the content is submitted by readers. That’s really general rule, individuals will be counted where they live regardless of newspaper, and a past Scoutmaster, winning cool, because it saves me a lot of work , and it their relationship with the owner of the house or person submitting the the top scouting award, the Silver Beaver. shows that you are invested in your Catholic information. What you may not know is that he invented community, far outside the walls of your If you know or work with someone who is hesitant to respond to the the first aerosol cheese canister. It worked church. And it saves me a lot of work. Or did I census, please share this information with them and encourage them to much better than his first invention, aerosol mention that already? be counted. Everyone deserves to be counted! pork roast. Thanks so much for all the help you’ve given Dan Stremel is the business manage and me over my [almost 20] years here. And no, Inherit the Mirth was presented the Papal Cross of Honor by you’re not getting paid, so quit asking. By Cuyler Black (culyerblack.com) then-Pope Benedict. When not balancing the Finally , there is the awesomest God who many fiscal responsibilities of the diocese, he ever walked the earth, the man with the Plan. is a member of the official U.S. Tractor Racing What a great God he is. On the wall behind my Team, last year placing first in the long-jump computer screen is a wooden crucifix. I love while at the wheel of a chisel plow. being Catholic. I love that we affix the body Cindy Vierthaler is our printer liaison and of Christ onto our crosses — the suffering lead microchip in the hard drive that is the Christ who reminds us that there is no pain Spearville News, where the [Catholic] is we can feel that he doesn’t feel himself. He’s printed. She sees to it that all those gazillions a comfort whether it’s something as simple of bytes of information travel the information as a troublesome deadline, or when life takes highway from Dodge to Spearville without a very serious turn. And boy, oh, boy, can life hitting a bunny rabbit. Her husband, Bruce, take a turn. In the blink of an eye. He’s our handles the presses (using only a Ginsu brother, our father, our best pal, always there, knife and an old TV aerial!). Bruce’s brother, always cheering us on, always ready to give us Greg, also handles press jobs and is a terrific the help to carry our cross when it gets hard woodworker. He carved every pew at St. John to bear. the Baptist Church with a pocket knife and a And of course, being God, I’m sure he’ll can-do attitude. forgive me for making up that whole thing Then there’s me, the editor. Besides editing about Catholic Newspaper Awareness Week.

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Box 137, Dodge City, KS 67801 1974-1990 Phone: (620) 227-1519 • Facsimile: (620) 227-1545 Tim Wenzl email: [email protected] • website: dcdiocese.org/swkscatholicProblem Gambling Helpline1990-2000 The Southwest Kansas Catholic December 8, 2019 Page 5 ‘Humility and courage’ needed to face difficult years ahead CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY Bible for guidance on how to persevere Catholics “are called to Catholics “are called to go out to all hoenix, Ariz. — The Church must through challenging periods. the world,” he said. “In many ways, a Pface the fallout of the abuse “It is especially at times when we go out to all the world,” lot of the world is coming to us. The scandal with humility and courage, looked weakest or when things seemed he said. “In many ways, a one thing that unites us is Jesus Christ Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix has hopeless, like Good Friday, when the and the Catholic faith, and the Catholic said, while predicting “very difficult” biggest explosions of grace and wonder lot of the world is coming faith moves us beyond where we are.” years ahead for the Church. occur,” he said. “That’s true for us to us. The one thing that Noting that Jesus had ordered people “We need a spirit of humility, now.” to teach all nations, Bishop Olmsted said but also courage and praise for the When people surrender their will to unites us is Jesus Christ that in Phoenix’s case, “a lot of that is mercy of God who is always present God, the bishop explained, “we find He and the Catholic faith, and to welcome those who are coming here. and working within us,” said Bishop does things we never expected.” These the Catholic faith moves us We go out to those who have come to Olmsted in an interview published by unexpected answers of God “give us, and we welcome them.” the Catholic Sun Nov. 22 to mark the us courage to trust Him in whatever beyond where we are.” While Phoenix is growing as a 50th anniversary of the diocese. comes along next.” diocese, the bishop’s view of the “There’s a need for a sense of Bishop Olmsted has led Phoenix “We are growing very, very fast, and Church in the coming years is frank. humility, especially with what we have for 16 years—nearly a third of the if the Lord asks us to live at this time “I think the years immediately ahead had to face in the terrible scandal,” diocese’s history. He said he had no in history, we trust that He gives us are going to be very difficult,” he said. said Bishop Olmsted. “When those previous experience of the area upon the grace to respond at this time in “We continue to struggle with a large who are ordained to serve others are arriving in Arizona, and was very history,” he said. part of society that doesn’t believe actually taking advantage of others, unsure as to what it would be like The new people arriving to the area in God any longer. So, I think that that’s a horrible scandal.” to lead the diocese. Despite this, he are from all over the country and challenge is there.” Bishop Olmsted said that humility explained that he feels “very much like the world, “bringing gifts themselves To combat this mentality, Bishop in the face of failures was essential in the spiritual father” to the Catholics of that are going to be good for us as Olmsted said that the Church has to be seeking God’s forgiveness and mercy. Phoenix, and that he is “deeply moved a community.” It is important that one with “an even deeper rootedness “The Lord works well in a humble by being here.” everyone, regardless of origin, seek to in Christ.” heart. It’s fertile soil for Him to work,” Phoenix is the fastest-growing city learn from each other. “But you know, the light is most he said. in the country, something that Bishop Bishop Olmsted said that he believes brilliant and most wonderful when In addition to humility, Bishop Olmsted said has caused him to rely the influx of new people to the diocese there’s darkness. We need to expect Olmsted said, the Church today must more on his trust in the Lord that has “brought us a broader sense of that the Lord will ask us to have a real, also be courageous, and look to the things will work out. being Catholic.” living faith,” he said. Where all lines intersect A Geometric Commentary... By Sean M. Wright readable theologian, St Augustine. “Temporarily?” he echoed. incarnation, death and resurrection all Special to the Catholic Let me mention that this was not the “Certainly. Jesus reconnected humans our line segments again intersect with the Editor’s Note: Sean is a Catholic colum- first time I’ve been startled by the depth to God through His Incarnation, which is life of God and become the rays we were nist, author, and Emmy-nominated televi- of my son’s reflections on God. At the age why we bow at the words in the Creed meant to be.” sion writer.* of three, on our way home from Sunday each Sunday, ‘by the power of the Holy “Okay, Pop,” he nodded. “I can accept aking my car in for an oil change one Mass, DeForeest asked me, “Papa, did the Spirit, He was born of the Virgin Mary and that.” Tafternoon not long ago, I drove off, Father die on the cross with the Son? Both became man’.” “Thank you, God,” I prayed in grateful passing the nearby junior high—pardon, are God, right?” This idea spurred DeForeest’s silence, only too happy to find a graceful middle school—and stopped for a group The sophistication of this question imagination. Grabbing a piece of paper and way out of the discussion. of children crossing the street on their astounded me. It is the basis of a third pencil, he made a quick diagram of a circle, But I began to wonder if DeForeest’s way home. Seeing them laughing and century heresy called Patripassianism: the inside of which were two intersecting lines, guardian angel might just be that same chatting reminded me of an incident belief that “the Father suffered” with the each having arrowheads on both ends. “In little squirt on the beach who socked it to featuring my son, DeForeest, when he Son. I smiled at the notion of having a three eternity,” he proposed, “Jesus is our point St. Augustine. was that age. year-old heretic on my hands. of intersection with God.” Post Script. In 2002, after writing up a The year was 2002 and I was driving Explaining that while the Father and Son I nodded, then ventured, “Could you say paper on “Geometric Theology,” DeForeest my son home from the Boys and Girls are, with the Holy Spirit, three Persons that our line segments are reconnected as sent it to Rome, hoping Pope John Paul II Club, his after school retreat. DeForeest, united by a single divine nature so that, rays by arcs of God’s grace?” would see it and perhaps comment on it. then nearing completion of 7th grade, mystifyingly, the Three are still One God, DeForeest considered the notion for Weeks went by before a beautiful, was explaining geometry to me. This the Divine Son, and only because He was only a moment. “I’m not sure of that cream-laid envelope arrived, addressed is a Good Thing. As much as I enjoy the united to a human body, suffered death. comparison, Pop. In my example,” he to DeForeest. It was a pleasure simply to deductive logic of Sherlock Holmes I find DeForeest only replied, “Ahhh.” Had he pointed to his drawing, “the lines of the hold it. The return address was Citta del mathematical logic, um, a mystery. added, “Of course, that only makes sense,” Father and the Son intersect like a cross. Vaticano, Roma, Italia. DeForeest defined rays – lines starting I would not have batted an eye. If we intersect with the Father at the Within, along with a small medal bearing at one point that extend into infinity; line Yes, St. Augustine, the brilliant theologian, point of the Son’s Incarnation, wouldn’t the pope’s visage, was a letter typed on the segments – which have both beginnings should have walked the beach pondering it be better stated that the point where same soft, thick paper. A “Secretary to His and endings; and arcs – which are curved the Tri-Unity of God with DeForeest. we intersect the circle of eternal life is Holiness” assured DeForeest that the pope line segments of a circle. He paused. “You Instead, while pondering the mystery of the Holy Spirit, who gives life to our faith had seen his message, was intrigued by the know, Pop, God is like a line, isn’t He?” how Three can be One, Augustine came and prayers?” connection between geometry and theol- “If you mean that, like a line, God extends across a boy—an angel in disguise the “Perhaps the Holy Spirit is symbolized by ogy, and commended my son for his “gifts endlessly into infinity, yes, you could say Baltimore Catechism told us—using a little that circle around the cross,” I countered, of mind and heart.” The pope extended that,” I replied, letting a car change lanes bucket to pour the Mediterranean Sea into attempting to keep ahead of the boy. “God his Apostolic Blessing to DeForeest and in front of me. “Always understanding a hole he’d dug in the sand. Augustine can be encompassed only by God, not his family. that God extends without bounds into all watched the boy going back and forth by eternity, otherwise eternity would be Feeling something of a personal con- dimensions and in all directions.” for a while then pointed out to him the greater than God.” nection, DeForeest still ends his prayers “Right, Pop. But like a line, God is impossibility of the task. “Well, Pop,” DeForeest patiently replied, with the invocation, “St. John Paul, pray without beginning or end. And God started “Easier than trying to understand the “if you notice, I made arrowheads on both for us.” human life to be rays originating from His Holy Trinity,” the little kid shot back rather ends of the lines as they meet the circle, line. Then we lost our connection to God smugly before disappearing. Take that, showing that the life of the Father and Son * Despite geometric confusion, Sean through sin and became detached line Augustine. go beyond the circle into infinity.” Take M. Wright, a Master Catechist for the segments.” Getting back to the problem at hand, that, Papa. Archdiocese of Los Angeles, presents the Here was a new idea which caught I was drawn to DeForeest’s geometric We were home. I realized that the Faith to catechumens in RCIA classes at me flatfooted. I had never thought of theology theory despite my mathematical mathematics of this theory was getting too Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Santa expressing God’s relationship to humanity uneasiness. “We were detached from deep for me. “Son, the Holy Trinity that is Clarita. He replies to comments sent him at with such geometric simplicity. It was a God only temporarily,” I pointed out as we One God is beyond mortal understanding. [email protected]. concept worthy of the very deep, but very stopped for a traffic signal. I’m just happy that through Jesus’ Page 6 December 8, 2019 The Southwest Kansas Catholic Local teenager spends his last months in presence to others Editor’s Note: The following is “I will never forget the reprinted with permission from the Archdiocese of San Francisco. morning I came into By Christina Gray hen 19-year-old Nicholas Peters Nick’s room and he Wof San Carlos understood that his life would not be a long one, he decided looked at me with the to spend the days that might be left to him ministering to the forgotten and the biggest smile on his face,” hopeless on the streets of San Francisco. “Nicholas’ biggest mission was she said. “He told me spreading God’s word and giving dignity he had the best sleep to the homeless,” his mother, Becky Peters, said in a message she delivered he ever had because he at the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County’s annual awards luncheon knew that a homeless in September. The organization recognized Nicholas’ man named Joseph was legacy of Christian love by renaming its youth service award the Nicholas J. warm, safe and dry.” Peters Ozanam Spirit Award. The award, which recognizes service to the poor and needy by youth, pays tribute to Frederic the next week working on a resume for Ozanam, a French university student who Joseph. in 1833 founded of the St. Vincent de And then there was Anabel, a homeless Paul Society to confront the dire poverty mother who had lost custody of her child he saw on the streets of Paris. because of drug abuse and told Nicholas The Peters family belongs to St. that she was convinced God didn’t love Charles Parish in San Carlos. Nicholas Photo courtesy Becky Peters her anymore. and his sister Lauren attended St. Charles Nicholas Peters, a 19-year-old former student at St. Charles School in San Carlos, “After Nick assured her of God’s love, School from kindergarten through eighth spent the last six months of his life ministering to the homeless or homebound. she returned home to her parents’ home grade. and began recovery,” Peters said. From January to July of this year, Nicholas’ reading of the Bible cover- the world” to be a presence to the Jennifer Kau, a registered nurse at when Nicholas succumbed to the liver to-cover 15 times over the course of his vulnerable and the poor, Peters said. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at cancer he was diagnosed with at age treatment, combined with the constant “I will never forget the morning I came Stanford University, where Nicholas was 16, Peters said her son spent up to 40 presence of an adult companion, Mel, into Nick’s room and he looked at me treated, wrote him a letter to express hours a week or more with the homeless hired by the family, gave the young man with the biggest smile on his face,” she how his loving courage had “changed me or homebound, volunteering at soup the spiritual and organizational support said. “He told me he had the best sleep forever.” kitchens and homeless encampments. to make his mission possible. he ever had because he knew that a “Nicholas, without ever intending to,” When he felt he had still more to offer, Nicholas and Mel headed out each day homeless man named Joseph was warm, she wrote, “you have taught me that the she said, he would head to the urban to “bring food and God” to those in need safe and dry.” measure of who we are lies in the person parks nearby afterward with soup kitchen of both. Nicholas and Mel had found a motel we choose to be as we face our darkest leftovers. “He had no time left, but all the time in room for Joseph for the night. He spent days.” Acts of Kindness A ‘good news’ story begins with an act of kindness id you hear with the assistance of Deputy Chris Doerr, who Dabout the Gulf arranged for deputies in three neighboring War Army Veteran counties to transport Baldwin to his appointment. who got picked up The four departments then made the reverse trip by the police, as he to get Baldwin home. was walking along an Now, a social media post by one of the Alabama highway? departments is garnering interest in helping No. It’s not a joke. Baldwin with reliable transportation and to It’s a “good news” connect with services for veterans. story. And I love good Doesn’t that make you feel good and strengthen news stories because your faith in humanity? – that is a benefit of good they are inspiring news: positive vibes and positive thinking. and encouraging and Just like the deputies who went above and build trust and hope in beyond their call of duty to make the world a By Colette Parker humankind. better place, we each have the power to make the Associate, Dominican So, here’s what world a better place – and write our own “good Sisters of Peace reportedly happened: news” story — one small act of kindness at a time. Gerald David What will you do TODAY to make a difference? Baldwin set out to walk to an appointment at a VA hospital – 100 miles away. Someone spotted him walking along a highway, with his portable Editor’s Note: Please send your stories of oxygen tank, and called police. A sheriff’s deputy kindness to the Catholic. Send to skregister@ Morgan County Sheriff’s Office Deputy J.R. Wright, left, and responded and discovered that the veteran dcdiocese.org, or mail to Southwest Kansas Cullman County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Kolby Smith helped (with 22 years of service) needed to get to his Catholic, P.O. Box 137, Dodge City, KS 67801. veteran Gerald David Baldwin get to Huntsville for an appointment appointment or risk losing some of his benefits. Or, you can call Dave at (620) 227-1519. Bishop at the VA hospital. The Walker County Sheriff’s Office initiated The deputy – Walker County Sgt. Kevin Emberg John Brungardt has asked that we offer up acts the transport and was also assisted by the Madison County – agreed to drive Baldwin to the county line, of kindness as a prayer for priestly vocations. Sheriff’s Office.

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A ‘vocational call’ story Sister Maria ‘God knows who I am more than I know myself’ Elena says NEW HAVEN, CT - In February, it will have though science and engineering are part of goodbye to been a year since Sister Mai-Dung Nguyen, my background, I had considered science OP, moved to Wichita, to “ensure that the and engineering as worldly things, not as SW Kansas Congregation had a vocation ministry in this “God’s thing.” I thought I would have had important area of the country.” to give up science and engineering when I From Page 1 Later, she began serving St. Together, Sisters June Fitzgerald of joined religious life. Thus, listening to this Alphonsus Parish in Satanta. New Haven, CT, Sister Bea Tiboldi of talk, many questions showed up in me: Sisters Matilde Reyna Donis Columbus, OH, and Sister Mai-Dung, have “Are they really Sisters? Why do they talk Monterroso and Sister Brigida created a multi-faceted program to reach about such earthly things? How do they Camarena Chavez were also out to women through interactions and get such ideas? Are they not spending time among those first three Sisters. presentations at conferences, parishes, helping the poor or working in the church, The sisters’ original plan was schools, and universities, email, social instead of learning such “non” Godly to stay in the diocese for media, retreats and video conferencing. things? Are they following or opposing approximately three years, The Sisters use a variety of methods to the Gospel teachings?” It reminded me during which time they would maintain contact with discerners, allowing of the Pharisees and the people around “...help people to know God them the opportunity to meet with other ASKING Jesus when he was showing them properly; to be members of the women considering religious life as well something different from what they had Catholic Church -- full members, as with vowed Sisters with decades of Sister Mai-Dung Nguyen, OP been practicing their faith daily. not half-way,” said Sister experience. I felt torn between embracing what I just about a call to religious life, etc. They did Matilde. Following is an essay by Sister Mai-Dung heard and this new way of practicing our not ask me whether I had had any spiritual But as often happens, they describing her vocational call, and what led Catholic faith that I was not familiar with director. One community, after I visited, gave came, they ministered, and they to her exploring the Religious life. at that time. me the application file to apply. decided to stay on a while longer Instead of making a hasty conclusion that this Later, I encountered the Dominican Sisters than planned. By SISTER MAI-DUNG NGUYEN, OP kind of religious life did not fit me, I reflected of Peace. When I first met these sisters, I Sister Maria Elena bid her final he discernment process about a and prayed. I appreciated God for “God knows was shocked by their contemporary clothes farewell and left the diocese for vocation call is unique for every who I am more than I know myself.” I gradually because I had never thought a Sister would Mexico on SKC press day, Dec. individual because each person is felt a sense of the affirmation between me T wear such clothes. However, having a 3. (A snow storm kept her in called differently. Individual preferences and what the Sisters said. Then, I wanted to conversation with them at their vocation Denver during her Thanksgiving influence how a person hears this call. explore more. Whenever I had a chance to be booth and reading their materials inspired holiday longer than planned, and Discerners often evaluate a religious with a sister, I asked her about her stories and me. The way they addressed my current she was unable to respond to a community by their prayer life, mission, how she lived. I took it to heart, reflected and situation and my questions was so open, request for an interview by the wearing a habit or ordinary contemporary prayed with the insights. I started to recognize making me feel they were listening to me. Southwest Kansas Catholic.) clothes, vowed living, community living, and God in a deeper sense as I looked around: in I came to realize that the habit was not the A quote by Sister Matilde, said more. I know this was the case for me. the mission and in daily life with a wider view. main factor for deciding whether to join or back in 2009, perhaps answers I grew up in a traditional Catholic I decided to join; and my life has flourished not join a community. I contacted them to well what all three Sisters, and environment that included personal or since then. I love every moment of living out explore their community. Two months later, those who have continued their communal adoration, Mass, rosary, Gospel my call with the Dominican Sisters of Peace. I decided to move to Boston to be closer to mission, feel about their service reading, and rituals. When I was first discerning We just had a “Come and See” weekend these Sisters for my discernment. here: “I like to share my life, God’s call, I was only interested in the beautiful retreat in Kentucky. Looking at the The first weekend in Boston, I was invited especially with the poor ones habit, growing a deeper relationship with God, discerners, I can see in the discerners to attend a reflection day at one of their and those who are very, very and helping the poor. I visited some traditional the images of myself in the past and in ecological centers. The sisters showed ignorant, who want to know how religious communities where the members the present. Believe me, discernment to me how to connect with God and God’s to live life properly. I like to help wore the habit–and I liked all these visits. seek God and to respond to the needs is creation through the process of making, people in a very happy way. I I listened to them and followed what they never ended. No matter how you practice baking, and breaking bread. I have never don’t like people to be sad.” suggested to do when I was there. However, your faith, I encourage you to keep your thought of finding God deeply in these The Missionaries of Charity I was not asked to do any personal reflection mind and heart open, to be reflective simple daily experiences, I was so inspired of Mary Immaculate serving on what I liked or did not like about this visit, and courageous, and to trust that God is with this finding. Then, the confusion in the diocese are Sister what inspired me (their community life, prayer working within you and through those who came to me when I listened to the Sister’s Brígida Camarena Chávez at style, for instance) or what I might be resisting are journeying with you. presentation about the universe. Even St. Alphonsus Parish in Satanta and Sister Rosa María Martínez at St. Anthony of Padua in Sister Tonimarie DeBar Liberal. Sister Basilia Torres is in residence in Satanta. Sister Maria Continued from Page 2 encounter with a genealogist in 1998 Elena has her mission in Merida, City), Texas, and California. Sister allowed the final successful step to Yucatan, in Mexico. Tonimarie served nine years at Saint be taken and she found three sisters Mary of the Plains College in college who became a welcoming family for campus ministry, and as a residence her. hall supervisor; and five years as She was preceded in death by her Director of Mission at Westminster parents, her brother Francis, and Village in Ponca City, Okla. her sister Karla (Jim) McLaughlin. In In 1997 she moved to Mt. St. addition to members of her religious Mary’s Convent in Wichita and served community, she is survived by her as Customer Relations Specialist at sisters Karen (Joe) Vampa and Narda Via Christi St. Francis before retiring (Mike) Spencer, numerous nieces and PRAY in 2006. During all those years she nephews as well as many friends. searched for information about her Memorials in her name may be birth parents and was finally she able made to the Sisters of St. Joseph for to locate her birth certificate. In 1987 Retirement Fund or Dear Neighbor she legally changed her family name Ministry, 3700 E. Lincoln, Wichita, KS vocations to that which her birth mother had 67218. indicated on the document. A chance to the Sister Tonimarie DeBar visits with her former second grade student at Sacred Heart Cathedral School in Dodge City, Father Wesley Schawe, in September of 2014. Religious life! Page 8 December 8, 2019 The Southwest Kansas Catholic Archdiocese breaks ground for Blessed Stanley Rother shrine Catholic News Agency war. Father Rother had refused to call Editor’s Note: Father Stanley Rother for help, not wanting to endanger anyone was a friend of Charlene Myers, wife of else at the mission. SKC editor Dave Myers, and third cousin to The five-foot-ten, red-bearded Coleen Stein, Diocesan Associate Director missionary priest was from the of Adult Formation. unassuming town of Okarche, Okla., he unassuming Blessed Father Stanley where the parish, school and farm were TRother, a missionary priest and martyr the pillars of community life. He went to from a farming family, would likely be the same school his whole life and lived surprised to learn that the largest Catholic with his family until he left for seminary. Church in Oklahoma will bear his name. In June 2015, the Theological On Nov. 3, the Archdiocese of Oklahoma Commission of the Vatican’s Congregation City broke ground for the Blessed Stanley for the Causes of Saints voted to recognize Rother shrine. The $40 million shrine will Father Stanley Rother as a martyr. Pope seat 2,000 and be the largest Catholic Francis recognized his martyrdom in early church in the state once it is complete. December 2016, and on Sept. 23, 2017, The project is the “signature element” Father Rother was beatified at a Mass in of the archdiocese’s first-ever capital Oklahoma City. campaign, the archdiocese told Oklahoma “The groundbreaking for the shrine News 4. will be a significant moment in the life Besides the main church, the shrine site of the Church in Oklahoma and for the will include a prayer chapel devoted to broader community,” Archbishop Paul S. Blessed Stanley Rother, where he will be Coakley of Oklahoma City told News 4. buried, religious education and ministry “The shrine is being built to honor Landscape Drawings by Hoerr Schaudt classrooms, and a museum and pilgrim Blessed Stanley Rother, an Oklahoma An artist’s conception of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine in Oklahoma City. center with artifacts and stories about original and the first U.S.-born priest Father Rother’s life. and martyr ever beatified. It will be a “Padre Francisco”, as Father Rother place of pilgrimage where the faithful was affectionately called at the mission will come from near and far to honor About the shrine in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala where he Blessed Stanley at his final resting place served, was shot and killed by masked and to seek his intercession for their his new Shrine is designed as bordered by a covered arcade that gunman early in the morning on July 28, many needs. It will be a place of welcome, Tthe final resting place of Blessed provides protection from rain and sun. 1981, in the midst of the country’s civil serving all people.” Stanley Rother, a priest from rural Flanking the church and the zocalo Oklahoma who was martyred in are a pair of buildings. One building Guatemala in 1981, and is currently will house a museum with exhibits on the path to sainthood. The telling the story of Blessed Stanley’s inspiring story of his life and service life, as well as a Pilgrim Center with a to the poor will be told here to the gift shop and café, along with offices pilgrims who will come to honor his for the Shrine staff. On the opposite legacy. side of the zocalo is a large multi- Located on a large parcel to the purpose event hall and classrooms South of the downtown area, this for religious education. new complex is centered around a Architecturally, the entire complex Shrine church that will seat 2,000 and is designed in the Spanish Mission a chapel to seat 150. The church will style which features stucco, arches, feature a large dome at the crossing tile roofs, exuberant detailing at of the nave and transepts, clearly important doorways, covered visible from the nearby highway. The walkways, and paved terraces. front of the church will feature a pair This architecture recalls the of towers flanking the main entrance. character of the Guatemalan village Extending out in front of the church where Father Stanley served the poor will be a large zocalo (or plaza), with and was martyred. The landscape a central fountain, that serves as around the Shrine is designed to the focal point for large gatherings accommodate gatherings and festival as well as to connect the church to processions, as well as contemplative the surrounding buildings and the gardens for private prayer. landscape beyond. The zocalo is -- Franck and Lohsen, Architects Pictured at left n Guatemala, Father Rother’s crushed the rocks up so they could Iparishioners included the native remove them,” recalls Tom Rother, tribe of the Tzutuhil, decendents of Father Stanley’s brother. the Mayans, whom Father Stan made “When he returned to Oklahoma, he every effort to connect with — learning would take parts that he needed. He both Spanish and the native Tzutuhil also disassembled a chisel and fertilizer language, eating with them, visiting spreader and hauled it down there in a the sick, and aiding them with medical truck.” That hard work paid off for the problems. As a mission priest, Father priest’s parishioners. By clearing the Stan, or as the locals called him “Padre land, using some fertilizer, and trying Francisco”, had to help fix broken to grow different crops, Father Stanley trucks and work the fields. He built a was able to teach the poor Santiago farmers’ co-op, a school, a hospital, Atitlan community how to grow food and the first Catholic radio station for for their families. “He has touched a the community. “He basically rolled up lot of lives in his short life,” Patrick his sleeves and got to work. There was said. “There are many ways to help an old bulldozer down there that he others. Let us all follow Father Stan’s worked on and got running. He used it example.” to clear boulders out of the fields. They -- Ann Hess/Ag Daily The Southwest Kansas Catholic December 8, 2019 Page 9 Tragic end was the beginning of fight for victim’s mother

Editor’s Note: The following is life today,” it said. “An effective measure part of the “Children at Risk” series, toward cultural change with respect to presented by Catholic News Service. prostitution could derive from associating Bishop John Brungardt has asked criminal law with social condemnation.” the Catholic to continue to keep The Catholic Church has designated stories such as these in the public Feb. 8 as an annual International Day of eye, in hopes that abuse victim Prayer and Awareness Against Human survivors will find healing, and that Trafficking and invites people to host the abusers will face justice. or attend a prayer service that fosters awareness of and support for victims of By Eleanor Kennelly Gaetan trafficking. Catholic News Service The annual day, created with Pope ASHINGTON (CNS) — Yvonne Francis’ encouragement in 2015, is the WAmbrose had one of the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, who worst experiences any mother was kidnapped as a child and sold into can suffer: Her daughter Desiree, slavery in Sudan and Italy. age 16, was found in a garage on Covenant House, which shelters Christmas Eve 2016 murdered by homeless youth in 14 states most ages a man who beat her, slashed her 16-20, estimates that 20 percent of the throat and left her to die, painfully young people it serves have been victims alone, in the Chicago cold. Desiree, 16, was found dead in a Chicago-area garage on of human trafficking. On the streets, too The internet was the key element Christmas Eve 2016. (Family photo) often, they have sold, or bartered, access that turned Desiree from a happy to their bodies in exchange for food, “A” student to a tragic victim of Smith, R-Washington, describes how she Shared Hope International did one of drugs, alcohol or a bed. sexual violence. first encountered girls and women kept the first studies of Domestic Minor Sex Ninety-five percent of all sex trafficking First, she met a man in his early 20s as captives in brothels in Mumbai, India. Trafficking for the U.S. Department of victims reported childhood experiences on Facebook. He “groomed” her, a Touching the face of a child no older Justice in 2006. of abuse, according to a study technique used by exploiters to earn than 11, condemned to endless assault She continued, “Meanwhile, a commissioned by Covenant House from trust to manipulate or control a potential by men using her body, Smith committed man would go to an ATM, drive to the University of Pennsylvania’s Field victim of sex abuse. herself to combating the phenomena a designated location to receive the Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Desiree ran away from home in late of international sex trafficking. She product he bought and commit a Research. November that year. started Shared Hope International in premeditated crime — the rape of a child “Traffickers can sense (past sexual Soon after, her new “boyfriend” sold 2000 as a faith-based nongovernmental — but instead of being seen as a violent abuse),” said Angela Aufdemberge, her for $250 to a pimp who took photos organization providing shelter and predator, he’s an anonymous ‘John.’ president of Vista Maria, a social services of her, advertised her on Backpage.com services for survivors abroad. It’s the child who’s usually considered a organization in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, — an internet platform that earned the But “I was missing something criminal, while the ‘John’ goes home.” told an anti-trafficking conference in vast majority of its multimillion revenue essential,” she told Catholic News To prevent child sex trafficking, Washington in May 2018. from ads selling human flesh until it was Service. “Something that made my Smith advocates for stronger state laws “The biggest need is to address shut down by federal investigators eight blood run cold. The fact that child including harsher penalties against maltreatment in homes and regulating months ago — and drove her to “dates,” trafficking was happening in our own sex buyers to shrink the demand for who our kids are communicating with on where she was raped for money. neighborhoods. I had a global view, not vulnerable bodies. the internet.” It was a sex buyer, Antonio Rosales, 32, realizing this was a domestic issue too.” In 2007, the Pontifical Council for the In May 2018, President Donald Trump who murdered Desiree. Under U.S. federal law, any minor Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant signed a new law making it illegal for According to the U.S. Centers for exploited in the commercial sex industry took a similar view about stronger laws online platforms to knowingly facilitate Disease Control and Prevention, child is a victim of human trafficking, but until directed at sex buyers, or “clients,” who sex trafficking. It was a law Yvonne sexual abuse includes commercial sexual about 10 years ago, especially at the the council said “need help in solving Ambrose had helped lobby for in exploitation as well as using children state and local level, children who got their most intimate problems and in Congress. in pornography and exposing them to caught up in prostitution were blamed finding suitable ways of directing their Standing next to him as he signed pornographic material — whether or not for what happened to them. sexual tendencies. the measure in the Oval Office was a there is physical contact. “As a matter of routine, kids were “‘Buying sex’ does not resolve the bittersweet experience for her. In her new book “Invading the being arrested, charged, and convicted problems that arise primarily from Ambrose told the president: “Our fight Darkness: Inside the Historic Fight for prostitution,” recounted Smith, “They frustration and lack of authentic against online sex trafficking has made a Against Sex Trafficking in the United were called ‘bad kids,’ runaways, or relationships, and from the loneliness change — a change that will save the life States,” former Congresswoman Linda worse. Yet, they were all victims.” that characterizes so many situations in of someone else’s daughter.” The art and soul of speaking to God Continued from Page 3 New Orleans, Father Simeon was travelling into the ocean. same fundamental principles that you follow by plane and found himself sitting next to a “Once in New York, the survivors were in any conversation. Speak directly, frankly, minister of another religious tradition. interviewed because the trial as to what oc- “The one line that candidly, openly and honestly, so that the The minister suggested to Father Simeon curred was already taking place. Survivors must have made other person, including God, has no doubt that God had sent Katrina to destroy New talked about how they saw priests, ministers, as to what you have just said, has no doubt Orleans because of the sinfulness of its resi- rabbis on the deck as ship went down, reciting sense to the where you are coming from, has no doubt dents. Psalm 23. ‘The Lord is my shepherd, I shall people onboard what the thoughts in your head are and what “Every time there’s a catastrophe, there not want. He makes me to lie down in green the feelings of your heart are. are people, including Catholics, who say it’s pastures….’ “The one line that must have made sense to the Titanic was, “Once you have done that, respect the other God’s punishment. the people onboard the Titanic was, ‘Though I person enough to sit still and to listen so that “Remember, ‘For God so loved the world ‘Though I walk walk through the valley of the shadow of death, they can respond directly, frankly, candidly, that he gave his one and only Son, that who- I will fear no evil; for thou art with me….’” through the valley ever believes in him shall not perish but have openly and honestly back to you.” The God we pray to, he said, the God with eternal life.’ of the shadow of When communicating with God, does it mat- whom we communicate and share conver- “Many people have a negative, damaging, ter how you envision the God with whom you sation, is a “God of gentleness and tender- destructive image of God. How can you have death, I will fear are speaking? According to Father Simeon, it ness.” matters a great deal. a conversation with someone you think is no evil; for thou coming to destroy you?” “This business of the image of God is tre- Part II will be in the Dec. 22 issue, and Father Simeon has always been fascinated art with me….’” mendously important. Some people have the will focus on how the perception of sin has with the story of the Titanic, in particular, the wrong image of God.” changed, and what it is that destroys, and story of survivors, floating out to sea on the A month after Hurricane Katrina ravaged builds, relationships. few life rafts, watching the giant vessel sink Page 10 December 8, 2019 Around the Diocese The Southwest Kansas Catholic Bishop Brungardt blesses teens’ thrift shop

Photo courtesy of Heidy Remirez Photo by Dave Myers The Most Rev. John B. Brungardt (above) help of Laura Chavez, the mother of Heidy’s Father Juan Salas enjoys visit by blessed “Hidden Butterfly,” a newly opened godson. The pair wanted to create both a thrift shop owned and operated by Dodge learning experience for the girls, and a way his parents from Mexico City teens Joselyn and Sara Ramirez (standing for the teens to make some extra money for at right), Nov. 22. college. Father Juan Salas, parochial vicar at the Cathedral of Our Lady of The idea for the shop, located at 705 Hours for the shop are Wednesdays from Guadalupe Parish, enjoyed a month-long visit from his parents, Alfredo Military in Dodge City, came from the 5:30-7:30 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays from 1- Salas and Bertha Alanis, who are from Villa Garcia, Zacatecas, Mexico. teens’ mother, Heidy Ramirez, with the 7:30 p.m., and Saturdays from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Ness City students tour relics of Padre Pio

Jim Armatys Lloyd Davis, CFP R Photo courtesy of Sacred Heart School Todd J Armatys Gentry Schneweis Students from Sacred Heart School in Ness Financial Advisors Financial Advisors City traveled to Sacred Heart Cathedral in Salina to view the relics on display of Padre Pio, which were on tour in the United 1904 Broadway 210 E Frontview Suite B States. While there, the group also had the Great Bend, KS 67530 Dodge City, KS 67801 opportunity to participate in Reconciliation. 620-793-5481 620-225-0651 On the return trip home, the group toured 1-800-432-8249 the Cathedral of the Plains Church in Victoria and the Gothic church in Pfeifer. Padre Pio was a friar, priest, and stigmatist (meaning that he received the gift of the “stigmata,” the wounds of Christ). He was born Francesco Forgione, and was given the name of Pius when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. The Southwest Kansas Catholic December 8, 2019 Page 11 Corran al encuentro de Jesús stamos ansiosos por ver a nuestros Pidamos la intercesión de Santa Derrama, Señor, Eseres queridos durante las fiestas. María y San José mientras nos Nos apresuramos a comprar regalos. preparamos para el día del nacimiento tu gracia en nuestros corazones, ¡Que nadie se interponga en el camino de Jesús. Tomemos tiempo para orar, para que, quienes hemos mientras nos apresuramos a un evento evangelizar, construir comunidad, deportivo! aprender acerca de nuestra fe católica conocido, «Salir al encuentro de Cristo que y servirnos unos a otros. Corramos, de por el anuncio del ángel, la viene» es nuestro mayor llamado en prisa, a los brazos de nuestro Señor. encarnación de Cristo, tu Hijo, Por Rev. este tiempo de Adviento (de la colecta Gracias por su fidelidad y compasión, de la Santa Misa del domingo pasado). especialmente hacia los necesitados. lleguemos, por su pasión y su cruz, John B. Este tema continúa este segundo Que nos preparemos para la venida de Brungardt, domingo de Adviento: Padre Celestial, Jesús en la historia con devoción. ¡Él te a la gloria de la resurrección. Obispo de la «salimos animosos al encuentro de tu ama tanto! (Colecta del 4º domingo de Adviento) Diócesis Católica Hijo». de Dodge City + Monseñor John Un arte perdido ntes de que existieran los Credos, los «creer», nuestra fe: a esa misteriosa unión Es nuestro deber… «darte gracias siempre Aprimeros cristianos hicieron lo que Jesús con el Señor que llamamos Visión beatífica, a y en todo lugar, Señor…». Ahí está, en pocas dijo que debían hacer. Lo recordaban de una ese lugar y condición que llamamos Cielo. No palabras. «Darte gracias… Señor». Nuestra misa manera muy particular. De esa manera lo sabemos cómo se relaciona el orar con el creer, siempre fue llamada la Eucaristía, siempre fue hacían presente de nuevo. Su recuerdo, su o cómo ambos se relacionan con el vivir como un acto de acción de gracias. ritual, extendió la presencia y poder de Jesús cristianos. Significa Acción de Gracias. Pero ese es un a través del tiempo y el espacio. Lex Orandi, El Prefacio de nuestra Misa puede arte que estamos olvidando en nuestra era de Lex Credendi, llegaron a decir con el tiempo: la ayudarnos a unir esas cosas: su primer «derechos». Cuando caemos en el hábito de forma en que oraban los ayudó a dar origen a la párrafo generalmente repite las palabras que pensar que cualquier cosa, y todo, se nos debe, forma en que creyeron. necesitamos oír. «Es justo y necesario». «Es perdemos la capacidad de estar agradecidos, Rev. Ronald No hacemos ninguna de esas cosas muy bien nuestro deber». «Es nuestra salvación». Estas de decir gracias. Hemos perdido la intuición de M. Gilmore, hoy. No sabemos a dónde se supone que nos palabras ya no tienen un significado claro y fijo que todo en nosotros es un don, un regalo. Obispo Emérito de la debe llevar nuestra «oración»: a una misteriosa para nosotros. «Justo», «necesario», «deber», Que este Día de Acción de Gracias pueda Diócesis Católica de unión con el Señor incluso ahora. No sabemos «salvación». Nos resultaría difícil precisar lo llevarte a ese redescubrimiento. Dodge City a dónde se supone que nos lleve nuestro que significan hoy en día. La Hermana María Elena se despide de la diócesis (Ver foto página 1.) Más tarde, ella comenzó a servir en sirviendo a la comunidad de Satanta).) y aquellas que han continuado su misión, lla vino a la Diócesis de Dodge City como la Parroquia de San Alfonso en Satanta, Pero como sucede frequentemente, ellas sienten de su servicio aquí: “Me gusta Eparte de un equipo de tres religiosas donde, como una religiosa, ella continuó vinieron, sirvieron y decidieron quedarse compartir mi vida, especialmente con los con la intención de servir en una misión buscando seguir a Cristo más cerca viviendo un poco más tiempo de lo que habían pobres y aquellos muy, muy igrnorantes de tres años sirviendo a los hispanos de la sus votos de castidad, pobreza y obedienca planeado. que quieren saber cómo vivir la vida comunidad creciente y ser una presencia y dedicándose a la oración y la vida religiosa La Hermana María Elena salió de la correctamente. Me gusta ayudar a la fuerte a la comunidad entera. común. diócesis el día de prensa del Southwest gente de una manera alegre y con gusto. Eso hace 17 años pasados. La Hermana Matilde Reyna Donis Kansas Catholic, el 3 de diciembre. Una No me gusta que la gente esté triste.” Ahora, después de casi dos décadas Monterroso y la Hermana Brígida Camarena tormenta de nieve la mantuvo en Denver Las Misioneras de la Caridad de María sirviendo a la gente del Suroeste de Kansas, Chávez también fueron de las primeras durante las fiestas de Acción de Gracia Inmaculada sirviendo en la diócesis son la última de las tres originales Misioneras tres Religosas. El plan original de las más tiempo de lo que había planeado la Hermana Brígida Camarena Cháavez de Caridad de María Inmaculada (MCMI) Religiosas era quedarse en la diócesis por y no tuvo tiempo de responder a un en la Parroquia de San Alfonso en Satanta está de regreso a México. aproximadamente tres años, durante cual pedido para una entrevista del Southwest y la Hermana Rosa María Martínez en la La Hermana María Elena Martínez, MCMI, tiempo ellas “ayudarían a la gente a conocer Kansas Catholic, el periódico católico Parroquia de San Antonio de Padua en primero fue un accesorio en la Parroquia a Dios apropiadamente; ser miembros de diocesano. Liberal. La Hermana Basilia Torres está en de Santa María en Garden City, donde por la Iglesia Católica - miembros plenos, no Un comentario de la Hermana Matilde, residencia en Satanta. La Hermana María 11, ella sirvió en varias capacidades, dando solo a medias,” dijo la Hermana Matilde. dicho en el pasado de 2009, tal vez Elena tiene su misión en Mérida, Yucatán ayuda, esperanza, dirección y liderazgo. (La Hermana Brígida ha regresado y está responde bien lo que las tres Religiosas, en México.

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También, el Señor Un Ministro de Asistencia ayuda con el cu- conscientización de Proteger a mento de Kansas Centro de Reportes Para Befort ofrecerá la ayuda del Ministro de idado pastoral de las personas que afirman los Niños de Dios. Estas sesiones Protección de Niños y Familias, 800-922- Asistencia cuya meta es de ser alguien que haber sido abusadas sexualmente cuando de conscientización están 5330 o al KBI Hotline, 800-KSCRIME (800- escuche y fomente la sanación. eran menores de edad por un miembro del disponibles en ambos inglés 572-7463), o mandando un correo elec- l Consejo de Revisión está compuesto clero u otro miembro del personal de la igle- y español. Son conducidos trónico a [email protected]. Epor católicos laicos y un sacerdote que sia, sin importar que el abuso haya ocurrido por gente de nuestra Diócesis Si usted sospecha abuso por parte del aconsejan al Obispo en su evaluación de recientemente o muchos años atrás. especialmente entrenadas como facilitadores. Las odas las acusaciones son uno o más de los siguientes acusaciones. Los hechos y las equivalente a la determinación sesiones se publicarán en consideradas hechas de puntos: No es específicamente circunstancias que hacen que de culpabilidad en un proced- las parroquias, escuelas, el T buena fe. Una acusación negada o es aceptada/admitida una acusación sea verosímil imiento criminal o de respon- períodico Southwest Kansas verosímil es definida como una por el acusado; es corroborada pueden variar de caso a caso. sabilidad en un procedimiento Catholic y la página electrónica acusación que, basada en los con otra evidencia o por otra La determinación de que una civil. de la Diócesis. www.dcdiocese. hechos de la acusación, cumple fuente y/o; involucra múltiples acusación es verosímil no es org/protectingchildren. Page 12 December 8, 2019 The Southwest Kansas Catholic Obituaries Erma E. Vierthaler, 91, St. Lawrence Parish, Jetmore, his wife, Sandra; sons Terry and Frank and Paul “Whitey”; two he preceded her in death on of St. John the Baptist Parish, died Nov. 6, 2019. She was a Denis; daughter Sonia Baker; sisters, Wanda Harding and Fonda April 21, 2018. In 1964 Connie Spearville, died Nov. 12, 2019. registered nurse and art teacher. brothers Rudy & Pam Gerstner Lawrence; and two sisters-in-law, graduated Emporia State College. She was a graduate of Spearville On August 18, 1960, she married of Sun Valley, Arizona, Wendy Jana Ricke and Marilyn Ricke. She worked for Central Kansas High School and a 1949 graduate Dr. Bob Murphy; he preceded Gerstner of Trego, Kansas; sister Father Mark Brantley presided. Medical Center of Great Bend, of Halstead School of Nursing. her in death. Survivors include: Caroline Klaus; 10 grandchildren; Ofelia Garcia Viuda De Wichita Clinic of Wichita, and She was a lifetime Spearville son, Steven; daughter, Susan two step-grandchildren; and 19 Murillo, 87, of St. Mary Parish, Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, resident, a Registered Nurse, and Murphy; brother, Jerry Whipple; great-grandchildren. Father Tim Garden City, died Nov. 9, 2019. as a Medical Technologist. She worked at the Spearville News. two sisters, Joyce Ochs and Jo Hickey presided. On April 22, 1952 she married was Vice Regent of the Daughter On Nov. 9, 1949, she married Dempsey; and four grandchildren. Helen M. Stos, 95, of St. Raul Murillo. He passed away on of the American Revolution from Lawrence A. Vierthaler. Survivors Father John Forkuoh presided. Ann Parish, Olmitz, died Nov. August 6, 2002. She is survived by of 2015 to 2017 and Chapter include her husband of 70 years, Joseph Gerstner, 88, of 14, 2019. She married Leonard 10 children: Raul Murillo, Jr., Rosa Regent from 2017 to 2019. Connie Lawrence; their children, Dr. St. Joseph Parish, Scott City, Valentine Stos on May 18, 1943. Maria Baltazar, Imelda Garcia, is survived by her son, Craig Allen Stephen Vierthaler, Dr. Lyle died Nov. 13, 2019. He was a She helped on the family farm Alfredo Murillo, Maria Beatriz Richmeier; daughter, Gerald Vierthaler, Bruce Vierthaler, Greg Soil Conservationist and was alongside her husband until he Carillo, Maria Del Carmen Murillo, Joan Moats; a brother, Virgil Vierthaler and Dr. Lois Vierthaler the owner and operator of Joe preceded her in death March 15, Daniel Murillo, Rafael Murillo, Page; one grandson; three great- Kessen; a daughter-in-law, Nancy Gerstner Terracing since 1966, 2001. She was a member of the Alejandro Murillo, and Ofelia grandchildren; and her miniature Vierthaler; a sister, Eloise Hoffman; retiring in 1999. He was a member Altar Society. Survivors include Murillo; 23 grandchildren; and 22 pincer “Millie”. 16 grandchildren and numerous of Knights Of Columbus Council her three sons, Leonard “Butch”, great-grandchildren. Consuelo “Connie” Badillo, great-grandchildren. Services #5212 in Scott City; he was a U.S. Randy and Tim; two daughters, Jarrett Frazer Koch, 35, 82, of St. Bernadette Catholic will be held and announced at a Army Veteran of the Korean War. Karolyn Schaffer and Debra Stos; a of St. Anthony Parish, Fowler, Church in Johnson, died Nov. 24, later date. On June 13, 1959 he married brother, Bernard “Barney” Budig; died Nov. 27, 2019. Born March 2019. She was born in Charcas, Sue Jeannie Murphy, 82, of Sandra Crowl. Survivors include three sisters, Katherine McGrath, 14, 1984, at Coldwater, he San Luis Potosí, Mexico, the Lenora Hutton, and Beatrice was the son of Richard Stanley daughter of Eulogio and Maria Axman; seven grandchildren; Koch and Denise (Bergkamp) Jesus (Medina) Ruiz. Connie three step-grandchildren; seven Amaro. He attended Fort Hays grew up in Mexico and taught great-grandchildren; six step- State University, Kansas State Catechism as a young lady. She great-grandchildren; and five University, and Northwestern moved to the United States after great-great-grandchildren. Oklahoma State University. He her marriage to Natividad Badillo. Beatrice (Betty) Rodriguez, is survived by his mother, Denise They were married on Feb. 12, 56, of St. John the Baptist Parish, Amaro; his grandmother, Shelby 1958. They moved to Big Bow, Meade, died Nov. 16, 2019. On Huslig; his sister, Andrea Koch; his Kansas, in 1969, Manter in 1976, August 18, 1978, she married dog, Lucy; and numerous aunts, and settled in Johnson in 2012. Eramso Vergara. The couple made uncles, cousins, and friends. Connie cleaned houses, and then their home in Lubbock for many Father Ted Skalsky presided. began a long career as a custodian years before moving to Meade Paul Dean Wasko, 57, of St. at Stanton County Long Term Care in 2004. She was a homemaker. Anthony Parish, Hanston, died Unit, Stanton County Hospital, She is survived by her husband Nov. 26, 2019. He was a farmer/ Johnson Grade School, Stanton Erasmo; a son, Eramso Vergara; rancher. He was a member of County High School and retired two daughters, Irma Alaniz and the Hodgeman County Farm from Stanton County Senior Juanita Rodriguez; her parents, Bureau where he served as a Center. She helped with the Fabian and Irma Rodriguez; board member for thirty plus parishe’s annual Mexican Dinner three brothers, Pancho Reyna, years and also served on the state for many years. She is survived by Fabian Rodriguez and Joe Manual level. On Jan. 21, 1989, he married her daughter, Martha Nicholas; Rodriguez; three sisters, Yolanda, Judy Ravenstein in Jetmore. brothers Francisco Ruiz and Gloria DeLeon and Letty Rodriguez; She survives. Other survivors Antonio Ruiz; and sisters, Carmen and nine grandchildren. include his parents, Richard and Hernandez and Felicidad Garcia. James Martin “Jim” Ricke, Sonja Waskon; three daughters, Father Aneesh Parappanattu, 90, of St. Boniface Parish, Cassandra Miller, Rachel Reida, MSFS, presided. Medicine Lodge, died Nov. 17, and Sara Wasko; siblings Kurt 2019. On Oct. 21, 1950, he Wasko, Ronna Schmidt, and Donna Obituary policy married Juanita (Mills) Ricke. Jim Kirk; two grandchildren, as well as Obituaries are listed free of was a welder and farmer/rancher. numerous nieces and nephews. charge, but must be edited for He was a U.S. Army veteran. Father John Forkuoh presided. space. If you see that a listing Surviving are his wife, Juanita; Connie Alice Richmeier, 77, has not been included, call Dave three sons, Dennis, Donald and of St. Anthony of Padua Parish, at (620) 227-1519, or email Jesse; three daughters, Carolyn Liberal, died Nov. 23, 2019. She [email protected]. Please Young, Linda Ricke, and Angela graduated from Newton High pray for the repose of the soul Allen; 15 grandchildren; 26 great- School in 1960. On Sept. 16 1967, of all those listed, and for their grandchildren; two brothers, she married Gerald J. Richmeier; friends and loved ones. Scripture Readings

Sunday, Dec. 8; Second Sunday of Advent SIR 48:1-4, 9-11 / MT 17:9A, 10-13 IS 11:1-10 / ROM 15:4-9 / MT 3:1-12 Sunday, Dec. 15: Third Sunday of Advent Monday, Dec. 9: Solemnity of the Immaculate IS 35:1-6A, 10 / JAS 5:7-10 / MT 11:2-11 Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Monday, Dec. 16 GN 3:9-15, 20 / EPH 1:3-6, 11-12 / LK 1:26-38 NM 24:2-7, 15-17A / MT 21:23-27 Tuesday, Dec. 10 Tuesday, Dec. 17 IS 40:1-11 / MT 18:12-14 GN 49:2, 8-10 / MT 1:1-17 Wednesday, Dec. 11 Wednesday, Dec. 18 IS 40:25-31 / MT 11:28-30 JER 23:5-8 / MT 1:18-25 Thursday, Dec. 12; Feast of Our Lady of Thursday, Dec. 19 Guadalupe MT 1:18-25 / LK 1:26-38 ZEC 2:14-17 or RV 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB / LK Friday, Dec. 20 1:26-38 IS 7:10-14 / LK 1:26-38 Friday, Dec. 13: Memorial of Saint Lucy, Virgin Saturday, Dec. 21 and Martyr SG 2:8-14 / LK 1:39-45 IS 48:17-19 / MT 11:16-19 Sunday, Dec. 22: Fourth Sunday of Advent Saturday, Dec. 14: Memorial of Saint John of IS 7:10-14 / ROM 1:1-7 / MT 1:18-24 the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church The Southwest Kansas Catholic December 8, 2019 Page 13 Catholic Charities of SW Kansas Celebrating the Feast of All Souls Annual Appeal Catholic Chariti es honors human potenti al through service, advocacy and invitati on, in the spirit of the Gospel, so that every person experiences hope and fulfi llment. We provide help and hope. Services include pregnancy support, adopti on, counseling, housing and emergency assistance, life skills classes, legal immigrati on services, refugee resett lement, disaster response and more. We cannot do this alone! Your support helps us make a diﬀ erence in the lives of those in Father Jacob Schneider, left , and Father eric Gyamfi celebrate Mass at a need in southwest Kansas. cemetery in Garden City on the Feast of all Souls, Nov. 2. approximately 30 people att ended the celebrati on, following along as Fathers Schneider DONaTE By MaiL DONaTE ONLiNE DONaTe By PHONe and Gyamfi walked through the cemetery blessing the graves of relati ves Mail check or money order to: Go to htt ps:// Call (620) 227-1562 of those who att ended the service. M-F 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST Catholic Chariti es catholicchariti esswks.org/ 906 Central Ave ways-to-help and click on Dodge City KS 67801 “Donate Money” Angelus to Xavier Catholic Place Names in Kansas Obvious & Obscure

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Photos by Gentry Heimerman Mass Kits From Page 1 cheek concern for all those kids who preparing them for shipping. will no longer have the Necco wafer to What happened to NECCO? use at their pretend Mass, wrote back Coincidentally, the preparation of quickly that she too celebrated Mass the kit comes just months after the as a child using the candy.) closing of the almost 175-year-old Like children across the globe, the Necco Wafer industry, which were young Stephen Dabanka, who recently used by countless children as hosts arrived in Kansas from Ghana to during pretend Mass. (This includes serve as a missionary priest, enjoyed Charlene Myers, wife of editor Dave “playing Mass” with his five brothers Myers. “I always played the priest,” and three sisters. said Charlene, who had five younger “I used to gather the children in the brothers. Clair Robins, the Necco area to play the Mass, and I always played spokesperson who submitted the the part of a priest,” Father Dabanka original email about the closing, said in a recent interview. “I used my A team of volunteers prepare the Mass kits, which were delivered to parishes in November. responded to the SKC’s tongue-in- mother’s cloth as my chasuble.” The finished kit is above, right. Venerable Fulton Sheen to be beatified Dec. 21 in Illinois Catholic News Agency and father prayed to he Diocese of Peoria Archbishop Sheen to Tannounced that Venerable heal their son. Fulton Sheen will be beatified The Peoria diocese Dec. 21 at the city’s Cathedral opened the cause for of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Sheen’s canonization Conception. i n 2 0 0 2 , a f t e r Sheen had been ordained a Archdiocese of New priest of the diocese in that York said it would cathedral Sept. 20, 1919. not explore the case. “It seems entirely fitting that In 2012, Benedict the Beatification will take place XVI recognized the at the end of this 100-year heroic virtues of the anniversary of his ordination to archbishop. the priesthood,” the Peoria diocese stated The beatification follows legal battles Nov. 18. in civil courts over the location of Sheen’s Sheen was born in Illinois in 1895, and body. was 24 when he was ordained a priest. His corpse was transferred to the Peoria He was appointed auxiliary bishop cathedral June 27 after a protracted series of New York in 1951, and he remained of suits. there until his appointment as Bishop of Archbishop Sheen’s will had declared Rochester in 1966. He retired in 1969 and his wish to be buried in the Archdiocese moved back to New York City until his of New York Calvary Cemetery. Soon after death in 1979. Sheen died, Cardinal Terence Cooke of Sheen was a beloved television catechist New York asked Joan Sheen Cunningham, during the 1950s and ‘60s in the United Sheen’s niece and closest living relative, if States. His television show “Life is Worth his remains could be placed in the crypt Living” reached an audience of millions. of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, The Congregation for the Causes of Saints and she consented. promulgated a decree July 6 recognizing a In September 2014, Bishop Daniel Jenky miracle attributed to Sheen’s intercession, of Peoria suspended Sheen’s cause on the which allowed for his beatification. grounds that the Holy See expected Sheen’s The miracle involves the unexplained remains to be in the Peoria diocese. recovery of James Fulton Engstrom, a boy Cunningham has since said that Sheen born apparently stillborn in September would have wanted to have been interred 2010 to Bonnie and Travis Engstrom of the in Peoria if he knew that he would be Peoria-area town of Goodfield. He showed considered for sainthood. In 2016, she filed no signs of life as medical professionals a legal complaint seeking to have her uncle’s tried to revive him. The child’s mother remains moved to the Peoria cathedral.