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Sooner Catholic Soonercatholic.Org November 10, 2013 Go Make Disciples Catholic War Veterans: “For God and Country” by J.E Sooner Catholic soonercatholic.org November 10, 2013 www.archokc.org Go Make Disciples Catholic War Veterans: “For God and Country” By J.E. Helm olic War Veterans Post 902 is also For the Sooner Catholic very active. Post 902 meets on the second Tuesday of each month In the United States, Nov. 11 at Saint Ann’s Retirement Cen- is Veterans Day, a day dedicat- ter. Before the meeting at 7 p.m., ed to all American veterans who have served their country. Initial- the group hosts a bingo game for ly known as Armistice Day after residents of Saint Ann’s, providing World War I, it was intended to some much-welcomed entertain- honor those who had fought in ment. The Post is named in honor that war. In 1938, it became a of Father Emil Kapaun, an Army legal federal holiday, and it was chaplain who has been named a renamed Veterans Day in 1954. Servant of God, the initial step to- Today, it honors all veterans, ward canonization. Father Kapaun living and dead, who have served was recently awarded the Medal of on active duty. All over the Unit- Honor for his service in Korea. ed States, Americans will enjoy Post Commander Stephen Fisch- parades and other celebrations, er explains that, like Post 168, Post while, at Arlington National Cem- 109 “was established in 2009” and etery in D.C., a wreath will be is currently “working to attract new laid on the Tomb of the Unknown members.” This year, Post 109 2012 Veterans Day celebration at Resurrection Cemetery. Soldier. will again participate in Wreaths In the Archdiocese of Oklahoma military by providing chaplains via before departing by bus for initial Across America, a program to place City, two chapters, or posts, of the Archdiocese for Military Chap- training at Fort Sill in Lawton. live, balsam wreaths on the graves the national service organization lains, established in 1985. Thibeault says they “meet with of veterans in December. Fischer Catholic War Veterans meet regu- In fact, a military chaplain, them, talk with them, give them explains that his group will lay larly. Catholic War Veterans was Father Emmanuel Okwaraocha, some idea of what to expect” in wreaths at Resurrection Cemetery founded in 1935 by Father Edward assists Oklahoma City CWV Post training. Oct. 29 saw 261 young from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Sat- J. Higgins, a veteran of World War 168 by saying Mass for the group men and women move through urday, Dec. 14. I. The organization was blessed at each monthly meeting. Post Oklahoma City, and Post 168 will Fischer explained his reasons for by Pope Pius XI in that same year Commander Roger Thibeault be on hand again “when the grad- being a member of Catholic War and was offi cially recognized as reports that the Del City group uates come back,” Thibeault says. Veterans. a veterans’ service organization meets on the second Wednesday of “We will send them on their way” “It offers a unique opportunity to when it received a Congressional each month to plan and organize to duty stations all over the U.S. help veterans, their families, and Charter in 1984. Speaking at that activities. Post 168 will march in One very noble service performed the community as a whole,” he time, President Ronald Reagan the Midwest City Veterans Day by Post 168 involves the Homeless said. remarked, “There have never been Any veteran with an honorable any summer soldiers or sunshine Parade on Nov. 11 this year. They Veterans Burial Service. Some- patriots in your ranks, and I have will also participate in a morn- times veterans die with no family discharge who is also a Catholic in the deepest admiration for your ing ceremony on Nov. 8 at the VA members to bury them. Post 168 good standing is eligible for mem- commitment to serve both God and hospital to honor prisoners of war then performs one of the seven bership in Catholic War Veterans. country.” and those missing in action. With corporal works of mercy by assist- Those currently on active duty are The Catholic Church acknowl- the Knights of Columbus, they will ing at their funerals. Thibeault eligible as well. For more informa- edges that war sometimes cannot participate in a fl ag-raising cere- described how on Friday, Oct. 28, tion, contact http://www.post109. be avoided and provides criterion mony at 1 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Cen- CWV members provided burial ser- cwv.org or www.okpost168.org. for a “just war.” The legitimate use ter of Family Love in Okarche. vices for one such veteran. J.E. Helm is a freelance writer for of force may be employed when an Thibeault also explained that “We went to the service at a the Sooner Catholic and an adjunct aggressor nation poses a grave and his post volunteers at the military chapel in Shawnee” then went on professor of English at several area certain threat but only when all welcome center run by the YMCA to the graveside service “at the colleges. She also served on active other means of ending the con- at the OKC airport. New Army Veterans Cemetary at Fort Gibson, duty in the United States Marine fl ict have proved to be ineffective. recruits from all over the country near Muskogee,” reports Thibeault. Corps (1972 to 1977) and achieved Currently, the church supports our are funneled into Oklahoma City On the north side of town, Cath- a fi nal rank of Captain. Archbishop Coakley to long-married couples: Your faithfulness has its source in God’s faithfulness By Cara Koenig transforms both the giver and the The Sooner Catholic one who is the recipient of the gift,” OKLAHOMA CITY — At the Nov. 3 Archbishop Coakley said in opening Archdiocesan Anniversary Mass at his homily. This is the third year the Offi ce of Our Lady’s Cathedral, Archbishop Family Life has hosted the Anniver- Paul Coakley honored 90 couples sary Mass. It was a celebration that celebrating anniversaries from 25 Archbishop Coakley brought with years to 68 years. him from the Diocese of Salina. Archbishop Coakley welcomed all In his homily, Archbishop Coakley the couples and their families, noting spoke to the couples about the vows what a wonderful occasion they had they took and how those vows are so come to celebrate. much more than just “for better, for “Married life is the gift of love that worse, for richer, for poorer.” spouses bestow on one another. It “In marriage, there are days of allows the other to be transformed suffering, days that you will need to and sanctifi ed. That is the beauty forgive your spouse, days you will of marriage and it is what we are have to ask forgiveness of your celebrating tonight. The gift of love continued on page 6 2 November 10, 2013 Sooner Catholic Sooner Catholic Local November 10, 2013 3 Put Out Into the Deep Mount administrators, students extol benefi ts of new Chromebook program Luke 5:4 Exclusively on By Sarah Cooper The Chromebooks, which are the website For the Sooner Catholic included in each student’s tui- We are an immigrant nation As schools across the country tion, resemble a small laptop but brainstorm how to respond to our operate like a tablet. Students are By Sooner Catholic Staff society’s increasingly close rela- allowed to take the Chromebooks and an immigrant church tionship with technology, Mount home to do homework, commu- Although the Statue of Liberty was not originally cern that our legislators Additional coverage of Saint Mary Catholic High School, nicate with faculty and submit erected to welcome immigrants, it quickly became a must take into account in Church and archdiocesan in Oklahoma City, hopes a new 1:1 papers. powerful symbol of hope as countless ships sailed reforming our immigration news and events, only on computing initiative can ensure “The Chromebooks are a great or steamed past Lady Liberty carrying their foreign system. www.soonercatholic.com: that the student body has access tool to have at Mount Saint passengers to their new homes in a land of promise Many contributing to the tools that will help them be Mary’s. They make researching and opportunity. It was especially the words of the factors have left us with Archbishop Paul Coak- successful after graduation. topics so much easier,” said junior poet Emma Lazarus in “The New Colossus,” commis- millions of undocumented ley’s Oct. 7 pastoral letter This year, after a two-year study Megan Krug. “Although most sioned for its construction and placed on a bronze migrants forced to live a Archbishop Paul S. Coakley “Go Make Disciples” is now on how to integrate technology of our work is now done on the plaque in its base, that sealed the association of this shadow life where they are available online as a .PDF into the classroom, every student Chromebooks, we still are required great symbol of American freedom with this young subject to exploitation and violence at the hands of at http://archokc.org. and teacher was given a Samsung to do some assignments with pen nation’s attitude toward its immigrant population. unscrupulous traffi ckers, employers and criminals. If Chromebook with a Google oper- and paper. The new system was “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses we do nothing to remedy this situation quickly, we are The full list of names of ating system. Mount Saint Mary a little hard to get used to at fi rst yearning to breathe free…Send these, the homeless, in danger of creating a permanent underclass without couples who celebrated sig- Catholic High School plans to but now the Chromebooks are bet- tempest-tost to me.” access to full participation in our economic and civic nifi cant anniversaries and make the Chromebooks an inte- ter than ever.” With the use of the America has always been at its best when it has life.
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