January 14, 2021 | Issue 35 St. Joseph Parish in Mechanicsburg Recognized with 8 of 16 Excellence Awards for Innovative Efforts during Pandemic By Jen Reed American Sign The Catholic Language- Witness interpreted Ten months ago, Masses, daily St. Joseph Parish in Masses and Mechanicsburg was Holy Hours on humming along like Friday evenings. most – with a regular The parish schedule of Masses, continued to on-site meetings press forward, and events for its furnishing its various ministries, social hall with and some social a sanctuary for media presence the celebration on Facebook and of Mass Instagram pages, with quality among a host of livestreams. spiritual activities Swift and and evangelization COURTESY OF ST. JOSEPH PARISH generous efforts. Father Thomas Rozman, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in responses from And then the Mechanicsburg, prepares to celebrate Mass in Brindle parishioners led pandemic came, Hall, which the parish furnished with a sanctuary for the to the purchase closing doors to livestream of Masses, in addition to Masses in the church. of a permanent churches and livestream challenging parishes Witness. solution in the to find innovative ways to The parish’s Senior church, which has resulted in continue their mission and keep Leadership Team stepped into increasingly-popular weekly parishioners connected – and high gear. Their initial efforts virtual hymn-sings with a cantor fast. were rudimentary: livestreaming and the pastoral musician; the “The pandemic wound Masses from the choir loft using celebration of novenas, funeral up catapulting us five years an iPad the week before the Masses and Children’s Liturgy ahead of where we thought we pandemic began. Within a week of the Word; and humorous would be on the social media of the mid-March shutdown, yet informative videos from the platforms,” Father Thomas however, St. Joseph’s was parish priests. Rozman, pastor, told The livestreaming Sunday Masses, More AWARDS, page 2 January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 2 AWARDS continuation, continued from 1 prayer via technology and Recognizing that social media not all parishioners innovations. have access The program to the internet, is the idea of parish leadership Scot Landry, a reached out to its noted Catholic parishioners to author who has establish some worked with the form of contact with Archdiocese of all 2,800 families Boston in new in the early days media efforts. of the pandemic – Landry was identifying those in also a presenter need of volunteer during the priests’ assistance and workshop, held offering to mail Generous donations from parishioners allowed the parish to virtually for priests parish bulletins. purchase equipment necessary for livestreaming. of the Diocese of And when Harrisburg this churches across the Diocese re-opened their fall. doors to a limited capacity of faithful in May, St. The awards were announced during the Parish Joseph’s added distribution of the Eucharist from Excellence Virtual Summit, Nov. 9-13, with one the church portico for those listening via radio winner and two honorable mentions in each in their cars, and engineered the addition of two category. outdoor Masses celebrated from the rectory St. Joseph Parish earned first place in E-mail gazebo. Innovations, and was awarded honorable These innovative ideas aren’t an exhaustive mentions in the categories for the Reopening of list – nor are they exclusive to St. Joseph’s – but Mass, Service Ministry Continuation, Offertory these and other efforts earned the parish seven Retention/Recovery, Adult Faith Formation honorable mentions and one first-place award in via Technology, Faith Formation for Youth via the recent Parish Excellence Awards. Technology, Community Prayer via Technology ‘We’re in the Big Leagues’ and Social Media Innovation. The Parish Excellence Awards recognize Specific examples of St. Joseph’s efforts in parishes across the country that have exemplified those categories include training ushers for the mission-driven innovation, particularly during the re-opening of in-person Masses; purchasing pandemic. 702 parishes were nominated across 16 categories, including excellence in ministry More AWARDS, page 3

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More AWARDS, page 4 January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 4 AWARDS foster the presence of Christ based on the great continued from 3 commission to grow disciples for Jesus. Are all these ideas – as great as they are – going to help awards, the Parish Excellence Summit offers a us grow disciples? We have to be practical.” wealth of suggestions and practical advice for “The analytics also matter,” Geisler added. “We parishes seeking to find ways to open more doors have to look at where we’re reaching people, and to parishioners and members of the community who we need to reach. For instance, I remember at large. The information is invaluable to St. our first outdoor Mass at the gazebo, we had four Joseph’s Parish Advisory Council, which works in people there. But it grew to as many as 170 in tandem with the Parish Leadership Team when it the months that followed. That’s a success for the comes to new efforts in ministry, Father Rozman effort.” noted. “You can’t run with every idea that is “Everything we’re doing here is inspired by the suggested, because we are limited with time and Divine Renovation Network. We’re studying a resources,” he said. “We make our priorities in lot of what’s been coming out through them. We respect to the limits in time and people we have. are taking a team approach where we sit down, If not, you can quickly get saturated and maxed- strategize and plan, and then make sure that our out with the possibilities.” Parish Advisory Council is part of it,” he said. In the constantly-evolving digital world, parish “We move ahead where we feel God is calling leadership continues to analyze data, consider us. The subtitle of Divine Renovation is ‘From new efforts and plan for the day when all Masses Maintenance to Mission.’ We have our doors and activities can be held again in person without open, but we also need to make sure that we’re restriction. Geisler said livestreaming will be part going out in many different ways. We know of ministry from here on out. that during this time, we have to use modern “It’s here to stay,” he said. “It’s critical for technology in a much more effective way as we parishes to find a way to do it.” continue our missionary approach,” he said. St. Joseph Parish, and others in the Diocese, Rudy Geisler, Parish Manager, said parish have come a long way in the past ten months, structure and leadership has led to the success transitioning to online platforms and digital efforts that St. Joseph’s has found in expanding its that now seem part of the norm. outreach. “We’re not here to just be an online presence, “The structure in place is a Senior Leadership but to be online and present,” Stence said. “The Team comprised of office staff, and the Parish efforts are sincere and intentional in connecting Advisory Council with a strategic focus. Ideas with parishioners.” come from both of those groups, and then you “God offers us an invitation every day to see start running with them,” he said. where He is leading us in the blessings and “When you have solid strategic leadership, it’s challenges of life,” Father Rozman concluded. a foundation for success,” Geisler added. “We “For me, to do God’s will is the most important need those 20-some parishioners on the council thing. I consider, how is everything we’re doing to offer their suggestions. Then it’s just a matter here part of God’s will for the Church and for this of figuring out what can be done. But you have to corner of the Kingdom here in Mechanicsburg.” think big thoughts.” “It’s exciting, but it’s also scary, to be in this Still, balance can be a challenge, as Father era of the Church. There are so many challenges Rozman pointed out that not every suggestion or that the Church faces, and COVID certainly didn’t idea becomes reality. help,” he said. “But it’s exciting to see where God “It’s so easy for people to come to the pastor is leading us through doors we never thought and say, ‘Hey, we need to do this,’” he said. “But we’d have to go through. And we do it with hope.” we have to pause. There are a lot of moving (Learn more about the Parish Excellence parts, so my approach is that it has to come to Summit and Awards at www.parishexcellence. the leadership team. We have an opportunity com.) to discuss ideas and suggestions, and they have to meet our parish mission, which is to January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 5 Catholic Conference Condemns Planned Parenthood Campaign to Encourage Abortions at Home From the Pennsylvania for pregnant women so they can labeled as “reproductive rights.” Catholic Conference get abortion pills through the “We obviously object to The Pennsylvania Catholic mail. any move to make abortions Conference is condemning PCC Executive Director Eric easier and to remove channels a campaign by Planned Failing said this is more than a which encourage a woman to Parenthood to encourage and life issue for the child; it’s a life think about the move she is facilitate abortion procedures issue for the mother as well. making,” Failing said. “But we in the home. The pro-abortion He says it’s a move that will also are alarmed at the health group is looking to use endanger people’s lives, all in risks that this is presenting. telehealth visits to prescribe pills the pursuit of what has been These pills have been known to result in death and severe hemorrhaging. What happens Respect Life Mass when a mother has an adverse On the 4th Day of the 9 Days for Life Novena, the Diocese of Harrisburg reaction at home and can’t get will offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for expectant fathers medical help in time?” to lovingly support the mothers of their children in welcoming new life. The PCC worked with legislators last year to gain the passage of Senate Bill 857 on Telemedicine in a safe form that retains protections against dangerous drugs identified by the FDA, including the drugs used for abortions. “Telemedicine promises to be a life-saving measure across Pennsylvania,” Failing said last year and re-emphasized this week. “Using Telemedicine for abortions is a stated goal for Planned Parenthood because it can do more chemical abortions, with fewer doctors and less overhead costs.” The issue of Telemedicine remains in play in the Pennsylvania legislature after Governor Tom Wolf Principal Celebrant vetoed Senate Bill 857 last Most Reverend Ronald W. Gainer year because he wanted Telemedicine to be used for Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. abortions. Cathedral Parish of Saint Patrick • Harrisburg, PA (The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference is based in Live Stream Available: www.youtube.com/hbgdiocese Harrisburg and is the public 9 Days for Life Novena, January 21-29. Sign up today at www.9daysforlife.com affairs arm of Pennsylvania’s

The Respect Life Mass is sponsored by the Diocese Office of Family and Respect Life Ministries Catholic bishops. Visit www. www.hbgdiocese.org/respectlife pacatholic.org.) January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 6 Knights Council 6353 in York Donates $11,000 to Misericordia The check around the world. The Called presentation for the Since the start of the $11,000 donation was pandemic, the order has made on Christmas Eve. promoted a program Shown from left in the entitled “Leave no neighbor photo are Kirk Wright, behind.” The key elements of Patrick Nelson, Marion the program are to support Bittner and Grand Knight, fellow Knights, the Church and Kelly Brown. the community, feed the hungry The Knights of and participate in blood drives. Columbus is a Catholic For more information or to join, men’s organization visit www.kofc.org. The Knights based in New Haven, of Columbus are offering free Connecticut. Founded by memberships through June Blessed Father Michael 30. Use promotional code: J. McGivney in 1882, the McGivney2020. organization has over (Photo courtesy of Kelly Brown, two million members Grand Knight, Council 6353.) Knights of Columbus Council 6353 of St. Joseph Walking with Jesus to Calvary Parish in York, worked to make a difference in the community, Virtual Youth Lenten Retreat donating $11,000 to Misericordia Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The donation was made possible from the council’s 4th annual Charity Golf Tournament, from which all proceeds benefit the facility. The golf tournament was Oct. 16 at Heritage Hills Golf Resort, Join Chris Wood for an and drew 104 golfers and 23 engaging hour of reflection on local sponsors to support the Jesus’ final steps to Calvary, event. This year’s tournament exploring His fear, pain and is scheduled for June 25 at suffering and how you can Heritage Hills. Visit www. grow closer to Him. knightsevent.info for information. Council 6353 acknowledges When: February 20 fellow Knights Patrick Nelson, Time: 1 - 2 p.m. Tournament Chairman; Co- Who: Youth, Chairs Frank Kibler and 7th - 12th Kirk Wright; Misericordia Administrator Marion Bittner; grades and Misericordia Advancement Director Samantha Hall. Registration: Free (donations appreciated) Their many hours of behind- Register at: https://hbgdiocese.formstack.com/forms/ the-scenes planning and virtual_lenten_retreat preparation made the charity Register By: Thursday, Feb. 18 tournament a great success. January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 7 at noontime when she was The Called working at the shoe factory. A series of profiles on clergy and religious We had an hour for lunch and Sister Margaret Washington, ASC I was in grade school. We’d meet in the church and pray Hometown: Johnson City, N.Y. the Rosary together in front of Education: St. James School in Johnson the Blessed Mother, and then City, N.Y., St. Patrick’s Academy in my aunt would get very quiet Binghamton, N.Y.; Previous Blood Teacher and pray. She really taught Training Institute; Mount Mercy College in me how to pray; she taught Pittsburgh; DePaul University in Chicago me to pray quietly and reflect and St. Louis University; and pastoral care on my life and everything God and chaplain studies was calling me to do. Current Assignment: Retired from active She surprised me when I ministry, residing at St. Anne’s Retirement was in seventh grade. I was Community in Columbia determined that I was going to become a Sister, and she Tell me about your childhood. and on Sept. 3, 1951, I entered entered the religious life at I was born in Johnson City, religious life at St. Joseph that time. She had stayed N.Y., which is part of the triple Convent in Columbia, Pa. home to take care of my cities: Johnson City, Binghamton grandmother, and now she and Endicott. It was a shoe What was your discernment was entering the Adorers of factory area. My dad, my uncles like? How did you discern to the Blood of Christ. and aunts worked for Endicott- become an Adorer of the Blood I said to her, “You never Johnson Shoe Corporation. We of Christ? told me that you wanted to were an average family. We were At the age of seven, I went be a Sister.” She said, “I probably poor at the time, but home from school and said to my used to write to the Sisters didn’t know it. My dad and mom dad, “Do Sisters go to heaven?” in contemplative order in always made us feel that we He said, “My goodness, if Sisters Canada, and I asked them if had everything we needed. They don’t go to heaven, I don’t know I could enter. But by the time taught us how to save our toys, who would.” So I told him I wanted I thought I was ready to enter fix them up and take them to the to be a Sister. and I could leave my mom, orphanage to share with children As I went through school, I they said I was too old, so who didn’t have toys. had boyfriends in high school they referred me to an active I had the privilege of going and participated in the life of a community in Columbia.” to Catholic school, which was teenager. But I always felt like I I came to Columbia myself wonderful. There were four of us was being called. In the poem because Sister Elaine Marie siblings, and I was the oldest. “The Hound of Heaven,” Francis was there, but it wasn’t After me was my sister, who Thompson writes about “the just because of her. It was became Sister Kathleen. I have Hound of Heaven that is always because I had a devotion to a brother, Jack, who is still living, following after me.” I felt like I was the Precious Blood. Father and a sister Mary, who is in always being called in that way, Stedman put out a book about heaven. She was the youngest. that God was always drawing me the Precious Blood, and it I went to St. James to Him. I just knew it’s where I included an hour of Adoration. parochial school and then wanted to be. I prayed that hour of Adoration on to St. Patrick’s Academy My aunt, Sister Elaine Marie, from an early age. in Binghamton. After my whose name was Frances My vocation also came graduation, I entered the then, was very influential in my More THE CALLED, convent. I graduated in June prayer life. I used to meet her page 8 January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 8 THE CALLED director at the time, said, “You St. Charles Seminary in continued from 7 have two choices. You can Philadelphia. The Sisters would either study to be a nurse and come to the seminary during the from a devout Catholic family. serve at St. Anne’s Retirement summers while the seminarians My mom was a convert at the Center, because we don’t have were at home, and we had the age of 16, she married my dad hospitals in this province; or same professors. when she was 18 and I was you can study to be a teacher born a year after their wedding. and then minister in our schools Where are some of the places She was a young mother and everywhere.” Guess what I you’ve served? a devout Catholic. My mom chose? Teaching. I taught at several elementary was a big part of my life, and I graduated from St. Patrick’s schools in the Diocese, and I so was my grandmother. When Academy in Binghamton in also taught in the Midwest, in I was young, my mother was 1951 and prepared that summer North Carolina and in Georgia. sick for many years, and my to enter the convent. They gave For ten years, I served as grandmother prepared me for you a list of what you had to school principal. All of that gave my first Communion. bring: blankets, a trunk, a coat, me the background for what My life has been blessed etc. I was in formation there would come later. because I came from a close- from 1951-1953. I was received In 1983, I had the privilege knit Catholic family. My younger into the community on March 4, of being a faculty member at sister followed me into religious 1952. Alvernia College in Reading, life a year and a half after My Aunt, Sister Elaine Marie, Pa., in addition to my ministry of I entered, and it was not a made her perpetual profession teaching elementary education. surprise because of the family at the same time. It was just the They needed extra teachers we were raised in. My mom’s two of us, which was unusual, to teach in the evening and off side of the family remained because I was the only one campus, to help the younger Baptist, and I have Baptist from formation to be received. Sisters who were training missionary cousins. In the years that followed, I to become teachers. My When I entered at Columbia, renewed my vows on March community asked me if I would we were an individual province 4 wherever I was, which was be able to do that, and it made and we had 180 Sisters. During usually on mission. me really joyful because I felt the summer, most of the Sisters I attended the Precious Blood that I had an opportunity to give returned to the convent, so Teacher Training Institute, back for all the years the Sisters we had a lot of Sisters there. which was affiliated with taught me in my studies to That’s so much different than Catholic University. Our Sisters become a teacher. today. The discernment to enter were qualified teachers at the From 1986-1992, I served religious life came out of the university. We went to school in pastoral ministry at Seven prayer life that I had throughout during the summers. I continued Sorrows Parish in Middletown my years. It was natural to me, my education at Mount Mercy and Mount Carmel Parish in because I wanted to give myself College in Pittsburgh and also Niles, Ohio. I was involved entirely to God. attended DePaul University in everything from RCIA to in Chicago and St. Louis being the youth minister. After What was your formation University. All of this education that, I was called to serve in experience like? was happening while I was administration in Columbia, I felt that I wanted to be a teaching. where I was provincial secretary nurse in my ministry. When I ended up with two degrees. from 1992-1999. I entered religious life, I One was a bachelor’s in After that, I asked for requested to train for nursing. education and the other was sabbatical because I felt like I Sister Benedict, one of the a bachelor’s in history. I got More THE CALLED, Sisters who was our vocation a master’s in theology from page 9 January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 9 THE CALLED were probably 300. I loved youth ministry, as well continued from 8 as working with people in the hospital and serving the sick. I eventually spent 18 years in pastoral needed to stop and discern what God wanted me care at Holy Spirit. I am so grateful to the Sisters to do for the rest of my life. I was at a Benedictine of Christian Charity for their leadership there. monastery in Boston for four months, and I was with many Sisters from all over the world who had What advice would you give to a young come there as a respite from being in leadership. woman considering a religious vocation? I asked them about clinical pastoral education In my lifetime, I’ve had so many wonderful and what I would need to do to prepare to go into things happen. If anyone felt they were called to a hospital and visit patients. From there, I learned religious life, I would say, “Go for it. You’ll never that I could go to Philadelphia to study for clinical regret making that step.” Yes, young women education. I wrote to my superior and said, may say, especially when they’re young, that “Would you be willing to put me through school they want to have a family and they want to be a again?” They told me that I could apply, and when mother. You might think that you’re giving that up I came out of sabbatical, I immediately went to become a Sister, but when God calls you, He to Philadelphia as a student. I felt that if I was gives you so much. The students that I taught are going to be certified by the National Association my children. The people I’ve worked with are my of Catholic Chaplains, I had better start working family. toward my certification even while I was studying Spiritual direction is very important. From my to be a chaplain. earliest years, I’ve had great spiritual directors. I I began my study for certification four months am a spiritual director myself. I would say to any before I finished studies as a chaplain. In fact, person who feels drawn to religious life to find a I was certified on the second day that I was at spiritual director, because you need someone to Holy Spirit Hospital. Certification is a long and bounce your thoughts and reflections off of. tough process. But I didn’t want to be a director When I went to my pastor as a young woman of pastoral care; I just wanted to be a chaplain. and said, “I think I want to enter the Adorers of I went to Holy Spirit because I was asked to go the Blood of Christ,” he said, “Are you going there. Someone at the hospital recognized that to Mass every day?” Of course I was. “Do you I could be a good person for the pastoral care receive the sacraments often? These are things position, and they recommended me for it. I you need to do to be sure that God is calling interviewed there, and as I did, I told them, “You you.” That’s really good advice too. really don’t want me as the director, because I When I was in high school, we visited the don’t have background as a director. I’m coming Passionists nuns outside of Scranton. We were straight out of training.” But they still offered me with them for a weekend, and we got to see how the position. I had to go back to my provincial in they lived, and where they sat for Mass. We saw Columbia to talk about it. I sat down with her and their prayers and chant throughout the night. It said, “Do you really think I can do this?” She said, was an experience that showed us what it would “I do, and I think you should.” be like to be one of them. That was part of my discernment, because I didn’t know if God was You spent a career in teaching ministry. calling me to the contemplative life or the active Then you went back to school to go down an life. The congregation is part of your discernment entirely different path. What inspired you to too. make that decision? During my time as a pastoral minister, I was What are you doing now in your retirement? also visiting hospitals. I was teaching adults in I live at St. Anne’s Retirement Community in the RCIA program, and was highly engaged in Columbia. After I retired, I went to DeMattias youth ministry. At Seven Sorrows, Msgr. Lentocha asked me to work in youth ministry. We started More THE CALLED, with 100 high school teens, and when I left, there page 10 January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 10

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THE CALLED encourage them to read some of these books. I continued from 9 just finished my most recent letter, and I reflected on one of the encyclicals of the Holy Father and Residence in Columbia, which is our retirement how it relates to what’s going on in our country center for the Sisters. I was only there less than and the changes we need to make in our lives. I a year, when I became quite sick. I was very sick challenge them: what can you do, or what didn’t for a year, and I ended up at St. Anne’s. Now, I you do? How can you make things better in this have regained my strength and my health, but it world? How can you be a Good Samaritan? was an adjustment for me because I’ve been so I’m also doing spiritual direction from here. active all of my life. To be in retirement during this People call me, and I’m so grateful for that pandemic is challenging. opportunity. I feel that I’ve been able to reach out Right now, I read a lot. I read spiritual books, to many people while I’ve been here. I’m really and I like mysteries. I find that I can also get hopeful that once this pandemic is over, I’ll be online and be at Mass all over the world. I can able to go see the people in our apartments on be at Mass with the Holy Father in his chapel the property and be a good listener; that’s what in Rome, I can be at Mass all over the United ministry is all about, being a good listener. States. I also love to have the same opportunity for Perpetual Adoration; I can be in a chapel Is there anything else you want to share? for Adoration anywhere in the world, or joining I’ve had so many opportunities in my life to be people in people in the Rosary. in ministry, and my desire is to be in ministry until But I miss being out there! I miss being with I can no longer do it. I continue from my room the people. I watch the evening news and I keep at St. Anne’s to reach out to people. Being a up with what’s going on. I write letters to family religious Sister is a life of total joy. and friends once a month, typed-up, six-page (Interview conducted by Jen Reed, The letters. In it, I reflect on what I’ve been reading. I Catholic Witness.) January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 11 humanity; A Hunger and Thirst for Justice human By Sister Geralyn Schmidt, SCC demonstrations. A year after society has Special to The Witness Tierra’s death, the incinerator an urgent A very long time ago, when I was closed. need for was first stationed in the South I am reminded of this story equality, Bronx, I met a couple – the as I continue my articles on truth and Smiths – committed to social the Beatitudes and focus on social action and social reform. They “Blessed are those who hunger justice; truly believed they were called and thirst for righteousness, for let us by God to work for a better life they will be filled.” remember within the Bronx. They became Hunger and thirst are that the “Thoughts from a a voice for social justice reform. powerful experiences related evils Catholic Evangelist” At the time, the rate of to our very survival. This suffered asthma in the children I taught Beatitude, however, does not by the women and men of the was close to 60% higher than talk about a desire, but rather a world reach the heart of God the rest of the country. There vital need for righteousness also the Father. Which father would were many factors that caused known as justice. not suffer for the pain of his this. One element was the But what IS justice? The children? In the Scriptures we garbage incinerator located right Catechism of the Catholic find the expression of a thirst next to apartment buildings! Church describes justice as “the more profound than the physical You see, 75 years ago, when moral virtue that consists in the one, which is a desire found at the incinerator was built, it was constant and firm will to give the root of our being. A Psalm located in a “rural” area of the their due to God and neighbor. says: ‘God, you are my God, Bronx. This area was nowhere Justice toward God is called I pine for you; my heart thirsts near any human residences. the ‘virtue of religion.’ Justice for you, my body longs for Unfortunately, as the population toward men disposes one to you, as a land parched, dreary within the city grew, the respect the rights of each and to and waterless’ (Psalm 63: 2) incinerator was not relocated. establish in human relationships … In every heart, even in the To make matters worse at the harmony that promotes person who is most corrupt and the time, a child who lived in the equity with regard to persons farthest from goodness, there neighborhood, who was also and to the common good. The is a hidden yearning for the in my class, died of asthma as just man, often mentioned light, even if it is found under her mother held her. Tierra’s in the Sacred Scriptures, is the rubble of deceit and errors, emergency inhaler didn’t work, distinguished by habitual right but there is always the thirst for and by the time the paramedics thinking and the uprightness truth and goodness, which is arrived, she had died. She was of his conduct toward his thirst for God. It is the Holy Spirit only 10 years old. neighbor.” (1807) that inspires this thirst: He is the Several groups within the By no means is this a “might living water that has molded our community wrote to government is right,” “dog-eat-dog” mentality. dust, His is the creative breath officials, signed petitions and True justice can be a synonym that gave it life.” 1 picketed outside the incinerator. for faithfulness to God’s will in How does this Beatitude After Tierra’s death, the Smiths’ every aspect of our life. make sense in this COVID network of petitions, public Pope Francis, in a General world? We have all felt the outcries and demonstrations Audience that he gave on hunger for normalcy since went into full force. I was March 11, 2020, says it this involved in one of the public way: “Certainly injustice wounds More MUSINGS, page 12 January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 12 OBITUARIES The names of the following deceased persons have been submitted by Deceased Clergy their parishes. Please remember in your prayers the happy repose of Please pray for the following these recently departed souls and the consolation of their loved ones. clergy who died in January during the past 25 years: Abbottstown Carlisle Lancaster Immaculate Heart of St. Patrick: Assumption BVM: Father Michael Homola, 2003 Mary: William J. Irwin Mary Burton Deacon Ralph Runkle, 2005 Orbrey Starcher R. Douglas Knox Kathleen Harnish Father Wallace E. Sawdy, 2006 Annville Dallastown Lykens Msgr. Francis Kumontis, 2009 St. Paul the Apostle: St. Joseph: Our Lady Help of Matthias Tillinger JoAnn Ream Christians: Father Thomas F. Langan, Deborah Keneagy Edward Ream, Jr. Rosalind J. Wilson 2012 Justine Kreifels Joseph Smith William Sedesse Father C. Robert Nugent, 2014 Hilda Snyder Benton Carl Richard, Sr. Mechanicsburg Father Raymond Orloski, 2016 Christ the King: Leo Polons, Jr. St. Katharine Drexel: Dolores Flynn Robert M. Fisher Msgr. Mercurio A. Fregapane, Fairfield Scott R. Hilton 2017 Bloomsburg Immaculate Conception Rita K. Kress St. Columba: BVM: Constant Maffey New Freedom Charlotte Kurian Katherine L. Ambrose Myra Zarcone St. John the Baptist: Edward Guzik Mary Ferrer Mary Pappas Harrisburg Bonneauville Holy Family: Mount Carmel Steelton St. Joseph the Worker: Samuel Barbush, Sr. Our Lady of Mount Prince of Peace: Viola Legore Carmel: William E. Dagenhart St. Francis of Assisi: Mary Alice Shields Buchanan Valley Mary Jackson Ronald Startzel Williamstown St. Ignatius Loyola: Gladys Murphy John Gross Jr. Sacred Heart of Jesus: Pauline McDermott Gerald Bierschmitt Joan Carl Hershey Jeffrey Carl Kohr Camp Hill St. Joan of Arc: New Cumberland Rose Marie Mattis Good Shepherd: Gilbert Petrina St. Theresa: Joan Taranowski Lisa Rodriguez York Delores Sabia St. Joseph: Thomas Francis Steele, III

MUSINGS, continued from 11 with injustice every day! With His strength, we can change our local world. The Smiths knew the pandemic started so many months ago. I that and taught me that lesson so many years encourage you all to just pine for the way life was ago. What about you? before, but to pine for God being in the center of your life, “driving” you to act, speak and live 1https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/ according to His will. view.cfm?recnum=12328 If you do this, you are being holy. If you do this, you bring hope and light to this world that deals January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 13 the Fourteen Holy Helpers: St. George: While little is The 14 Holy known definitively about his life, St. George was a fourth- Helpers century martyr under the persecution of the emperor Saints for a Time Diocletian. A soldier in of Coronavirus Diocletian’s army, St. George refused to arrest Christians and offer sacrifices to Roman gods. Despite bribes from By Mary Farrow with special indulgences. Diocletian to change his Catholic News Agency The collect for their feast in mind, St. George refused the The COVID-19 pandemic the Missal of Bamberg reads: order and was tortured and turned life upside down for many “Almighty and merciful God, eventually executed for his people in 2020, it’s not the first who didst adorn Thy Saints offenses. He is invoked against time the Church has gone through George, Blaise, Erasmus, skin diseases and palsy. a major health crisis. Pantaleon, Vitus, Christopher, St. Blaise: Another 4th- In the middle of the 14th Denis, Cyriacus, Acacius, century martyr, St. Blaise’s century, the plague – also called Eustace, Giles, Margaret, death is very similar to that “The Black Death” and “The Barbara and Catherine with of St. George. A bishop in Greatest Catastrophe Ever” – special privileges above all Armenia during a time of ravaged Europe, killing 50 million others, so that all who in their Christian persecution, St. people, or about 60% of the necessities implore their help, Blaise was eventually forced population (a vastly higher death according to the grace of to flee to the forest to avoid rate than coronavirus), within a Thy promise, may attain the death. One day a group of few years. salutary effect of their pleading, hunters found St. Blaise, Lacking the advances of grant to us, we beseech Thee, arrested him and brought modern medicine today, and forgiveness of our sins, and him back to the authorities. layering dead bodies in pits, the with their merits interceding, At some point after his arrest, people had no choice but to cling deliver us from all adversities, to their faith. and kindly hear our prayers.” More HOLY HELPERS It was at this time that the Here’s a bit about each of page 14 Fourteen Holy Helpers – Catholics saints, all but one of whom were early martyrs – came to be invoked by Catholics against the plague and other misfortunes. According to New Liturgical Movement, devotion to these 14 saints started in Germany at the time of the plague, and they were called “Nothelfer,” which in German means “helpers in need.” As bouts of the plague resurfaced over the decades, devotion to the Holy Helpers spread to other countries, and eventually Nicholas V declared that devotion to the saints came January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 14 HOLY HELPERS performed many miracles, which angered those continued from 13 who hated Christianity. St. Vitus, and his Christian nurse and her husband, were denounced to the a mother with a son who had gotten a fishbone emperor, who ordered them to be put to death perilously stuck in his throat visited St. Blaise, when they refused to renounce their faith. Like St. and at his blessing, the bone dislodged and the Pantaleon, many attempts were made at killing boy was saved. St. Blaise was ordered by the them, including releasing them to lions in the governor of Cappadocia to denounce his faith Colosseum, but they were miraculously delivered and sacrifice to pagan gods. He refused, and was each time. They were eventually put to death on brutally tortured and eventually beheaded for this the rack. St. Vitus is invoked against epilepsy, offense. He is invoked against diseases of the paralysis, and diseases of the nervous system. throat. St. Christopher: A 3rd-century martyr St. Erasmus: A 4th-century bishop of Formia, originally called Reprobus, he was the son of St. Erasmus (also known as St. Elmo) faced pagans and had originally pledged his service persecution under the emperor Diocletian. to a pagan king and to Satan. Eventually, the According to legend, he fled to Mount Lebanon conversion of a king and the instruction of a for a time to escape persecution, where he was monk led Reprobus to convert to Christianity, fed by a raven. After he was discovered, he was and he was called on to use his strength and arrested and imprisoned, but made multiple muscles to help carry people across a raging miraculous escapes with the help of an angel. At stream where there was no bridge. Once he one point he was tortured by having part of his was carrying a child who announced himself intestines pulled out by hot rods. Some accounts as Christ, and declared the Reprobus would say he was miraculously healed of these wounds be called “Christopher” – or Christ-bearer. The and died of natural causes, while others say that encounter filled Christopher with missionary this was the cause of his martyrdom. St. Erasmus zeal, and he returned home to Turkey to convert is invoked by those suffering from stomach pains nearly 50,000. Angered, the Emperor Decius had and disorders, and by women in labor. Christopher arrested, imprisoned and tortured. St. Pantaleon: Another 4th-century martyr While he was delivered from many tortures, persecuted under Diocletian, St. Pantaleon including being shot with arrows, Christopher was was the son of a rich pagan, but was instructed beheaded around the year 250. He is invoked in Christianity by his mother and a priest. against epilepsy and toothache, and is the patron He worked as a physician to the emperor of a holy death. Maximinianus. According to legend, St. St. Denis: There are conflicting accounts Pantaleon was denounced as a Christian to the of St. Denis, with some accounts claiming he emperor by his peers who were jealous of his was converted to Christianity in Athens by St. rich inheritance. When he refused to worship Paul, and then became the first Bishop of Paris false gods, St. Pantaleon was tortured and his sometime in the first century. Other accounts murder was attempted by various methods – claim he was a Bishop of Paris but a martyr of burning torches on his flesh, a bath of liquid lead, the third century. What is known is that he was being thrown into the sea tied to a stone, and so a zealous missionary who eventually came to on. Each time, he was rescued from death by France, where he was beheaded on Montmartre - Christ, who appeared in the form of a priest. St. the Mount of Martyrs – a place where many early Pantaleon was only successfully beheaded after Christians were killed for the faith. He is invoked he desired his own martyrdom. He is invoked as against demonic attacks. a patron saint of physicians and midwives. St. Cyriacus: Another 4th century martyr, St. Vitus: Also a 4th-century martyr St. Cyriacus, a deacon, was actually favored persecuted by Diocletian, St. Vitus was the son by the emperor Diocletian after he cured the of a senator in Sicily and became Christian under the influence of his nurse. According to More HOLY HELPERS legend, St. Vitus inspired many conversions and page 15 January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 15 HOLY HELPERS diseases. continued from 14 St. Margaret of Antioch: Another fourth- century martyr persecuted by Diocletian, St. emperor’s daughter in the name of Jesus, and Margaret, like St. Vitus, converted to Christianity then the friend of the emperor. According to under the influence of her nurse, angering the Catholicism.org and The Fourteen Holy her father and causing him to disown her. A Helpers, by Fr. Bonaventure Hammer, O.F.M., consecrated virigin, Margaret was tending flocks after Diocletian died, his successor, emperor of sheep one day when a Roman spotted her Maximin, increased the persecution of Christians and sought to make her his wife or concubine. and imprisoned Cyriacus, who was tortured at When she refused, the Roman had Margaret the rack and beheaded for refusing to renounce brought before a court, where she was ordered Christianity. He is the patron of those who suffer to denounce her faith or die. She refused, and from eye diseases. she was ordered to be burned and boiled alive, St. Acacius: A fourth-century martyr under the and miraculously she was spared from both. emperor Galerius, St. Acacius was a captain in Eventually, she was beheaded. She is invoked as the Roman army when he heard a voice telling a patron of pregnant women and those suffering him to “Call on the help of the God of Christians,” from kidney diseases. according to tradition. He obeyed the voice and St. Barbara: While little is known of this third- immediately sought baptism in the Christian faith. century martyr, St. Barbara is thought to have He zealously set about converting the soldiers been the daughter of a rich and jealous man who of the army, but was soon denounced to the sought to keep Barbara from the world. When emperor, tortured, and sent before a tribunal for she confessed to him that she had converted to questioning, before which he again refused to Christianity, he denounced her and brought her denounce his faith. After many more tortures, before local authorities, who ordered that she be from some of which he was miraculously healed, tortured and beheaded. According to legend, her St. Acacius was beheaded in the year 311. He own father did the beheading, for which he was is the patron saint of those who suffer from struck by lightning shortly thereafter. St. Barbara headaches. is invoked against fires and lightning storms. St. Eustace: Little is known about this second- St. Catherine of Alexandria: A fourth-century century martyr, persecuted under the Emperor martyr, St. Catherine was the daughter of the Trajan. According to tradition, Eustace was a Queen of Egypt, and converted to Christianity general in the army who converted to Christianity after a vision of Christ and Mary. The Queen also after a vision of a Crucifix that appeared between converted to Christianity before her death. When the antlers of a deer while he was hunting. He Maximinus started persecuting Christians in converted his family to Christianity, and he and Egypt, St. Catherine rebuked him and attempted his wife were burned to death after refusing to to prove to him that his gods were false. After participate in a pagan ceremony. He is invoked debating with the emperor’s best scholars, against fires. many of whom converted due to her arguments, St. Giles: One of the later Holy Helpers and Catherine was scourged, imprisoned, and the only one definitively known to not be a martyr, eventually beheaded. She is the patron saint of St. Giles became a seventh-century monk in the philosophers and young students. area of Athens, despite his birth to nobility. He eventually retreated to the wilderness to found a monastery under the rule of St. Benedict, and was renowned for his holiness and the miracles he performed. According to Catholicism.org, he also once counseled Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne, to confess a sin that had been weighing on him. Giles died peacefully around the year of 712, and is invoked against crippling January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 16 into RCIA. The presenter Topics covered include DIOCESAN is Patty Fertal, a certified shock and grief, anger and RCIA catechist through forgiveness, money issues, NOTEBOOK Franciscan University of dealing with children and a Retreats & Steubenville. She has been former spouse, and annulment Pilgrimages the RCIA Director at St. Peter and remarriage. Program is Parish in Elizabethtown. based on the teachings of the Pilgrimage to the Holy Register at https://hbgdiocese. Church and is open to anyone Land in 2022 with Father formstack.com/forms/speaker_ who needs comfort, counsel, Michael Reid, pastor of St. series. Registration deadline is and clarity after separation or Vincent de Paul Parish in Jan. 22 at noon. Registration is divorce. For information, visit Hanover. Father Reid will free, and free-will offerings are http://www.catholicsdivorce. lead a group of 24 pilgrims appreciated. The monthly series com. A $25 fee includes the on an active and spiritual tour is presented by the Diocesan Surviving Divorce Personal of the Holy Land, Jan. 31- Office of Evangelization and Guide and all program Feb. 11, 2022. The 12-day Catechesis. materials. Please register for itinerary organized by Select Women of Grace our program by Jan. 27 by International Tours includes Foundational Study begins contacting facilitators, Deb Mount Tabor, Nazareth, Cana, Saturday, January 16. Join Cousin at deb.cousin@verizon. Galilee, Tabgha, Magdala, this virtual study on Saturday net or Pat Smith at dontel972@ Mount of Beatitudes, mornings from 10:30 a.m.- aol.com. You will be given Capernaum, Mount Carmel, 12:30 p.m. Embark upon instructions on how to get Caesaria Maritima, Bethlehem, a journey of discovery and your personal guide, and other Shepherd’s Field, Jericho, transformation as you explore pertinent information. Baptism Site, The Dead Sea the great call and gift of your (with optional visit to Masada), femininity! “Conquering Mount of Olives, Mount Zion, Events & Toxic Femininity with Mary, Fundraisers Jerusalem, St Anne’s Church, Mother of God” with Dr. Carrie and Ein Karem. Land and Air Gress. A two-part Benedicta Crusader Girls Spring cost is $3,695; a deposit of Enrichment Seminar online, Softball registration in $500 is required by Oct. 3, Jan. 28 and 29 from 7:30- Lancaster is now open. 2021. Flights depart from and 9 p.m. Register at www. 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The Crusader program Jan. 25 from 7-8:30 p.m. includes 12 video presentations seeks to instill in the girls via Zoom. Discover how featuring a psychologist, priests to organically incorporate and personal testimonies from More NOTEBOOK, the aesthetics of our faith Catholic men and women. page 17 January 14, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 17 NOTEBOOK and 1st place state winners will accounting. Please send résumé continued from 16 be entered at the national level. to: Catholic Charities, attention a foundation of faith and An awards ceremony for local Carole Klinger, 4800 Union teamwork. Although we put winners will be planned for Deposit Road, Harrisburg, competitive teams on the field, late May or early June 2021. PA 17111, or via e-mail to we also recognize that softball Please feel free to leave a voice [email protected]. does wonders for the girls message at 717-390-9035 if you Holy Name of Jesus involved! It’s a great workout, have any questions. School in Harrisburg has an improves self-esteem, is good St. John the Baptist School immediate opening for a full- for a girl’s mental health, in New Freedom, Open House time computer teacher and promotes muscle development, on Jan. 31 from 12:30-2 p.m. school IT person. Candidates lays the groundwork for If you or someone you know must possess academic successful interpersonal skills, is interested in a faith-based excellence and a dedication and develops leadership skills. education for the 2021-2022 to educating the whole child. We anticipate indoor practices school year, this is the open Applicants for this position must beginning in March. house you’ll want to visit. be adept at developing lessons Need more information? Contact We’d love to show you all we for Computer Technology. Ed Krow, Crusader Softball have to offer from small class The IT position would include Coordinator, at ed@edkrow. sizes to rigorous academics. All but not limited to network, com. 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