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FEBRUARY 3, 2013 oday our beloved Bishop Emeritus John M. D’Arcy died in the peace of Christ. I am filled with deep sadness at the death of a dear friend Tand brother bishop. We mourn the death of a good shepherd after the heart of Christ, a bishop who loved the Lord and his people with all his heart. We are com- forted at this time by our faith in the Resurrection. As we share the pain of loss, Our Lord’s promise of eternal life gives us joy and hope. Bishop D’Arcy faced death as he also lived his life: with deep faith and trust in God. He offered his prayers and sufferings this past month for the people he loved and served with joy and faithfulness these past 28 years in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. I thank the faithful of our diocese for the many prayers offered for Bishop D’Arcy in his final days. Your loving and prayerful support brought him much joy and comfort. I thank Maureen Schott, the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration, Dr. Joseph Muhler and the other doctors, nurses and hospice care workers who assisted Bishop D’Arcy with such great care in his final days. On behalf of the priests, deacons, religious sisters and brothers, and lay faithful of our diocese, I extend heartfelt condolences to Bishop D’Arcy’s beloved sisters, Sister Anne D’Arcy, a Sister of Saint Joseph, and Mrs. Joan Sheridan and her family. I invite all to join me in prayer for our deceased shepherd that God may bring Bishop D’Arcy to ever- lasting peace and rest. The Lord has called him home. May the Lord welcome him among the saints in glory! 2 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC February 10, 2013 TODAY’S CATHOLIC

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Editorial Department PAGE DESIGNER: Francie Hogan FREELANCE WRITERS: Michelle Castleman, God’s Gift Karen Clifford, Bonnie Elberson, Denise Fedorow, Diane Freeby, May Lee Johnson, Sister Margie Lavonis, CSC, of Forgiveness Jodi Magallanes, Joe Kozinski, Vince LaBarbera and Deb Wagner A Pastoral Exhortation on the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER: Sean McBride AD GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Mark Weber Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: BOOKKEEPING/CIRCULATION: Kathy Voirol “Peace be with you!” With these words, the Risen Lord [email protected] greeted his frightened Apostles in the Upper Room on the day of his Resurrection. They were troubled, anxious, Advertising Sales and fearful—much like each one of us at some point in Tess Steffen (Fort Wayne area) our lives. Christ repeated the words, “Peace be with you.” (260) 456-2824 But then he added, “Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins Jeanette Simon (South Bend area) you forgive are forgiven them” (Jn 20:19-23). (574) 234-0687 What an extraordinary gift! The Risen Lord was Web site: www.todayscatholicnews.org proclaiming that all the suffering he had just endured Published weekly except the fourth was in order to make available the gifts of salvation “He said to him, ‘My son, you are here with me Sunday in June, second and fourth and forgiveness. He wanted the Apostles to receive weeks in July and August, the first, always; everything I have is yours. But now we must third and fifth weeks of September and these gifts. He wanted them to become apostles of this celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was last week in December by the Diocese forgiveness to others. dead and has come to life again; he was lost and of Fort Wayne-South Bend, 1103 S. In the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, also has been found.’” (Lk 15: 31-32) Calhoun St., P.O. Box 390, Fort Wayne, IN 46801. Periodicals postage paid at called confession, we meet the Lord, who wants to grant Fort Wayne, IN, and additional mailing forgiveness and the grace to live a renewed life in him. In office. this sacrament, he prepares us to receive him free from serious sin, with a lively faith, earnest hope, and sacri- POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: welcome you. We, whom Christ has ordained to min- Today’s Catholic, P.O. Box 11169, Fort cial love in the Eucharist. The Church sees confession Wayne, IN 46856-1169 or email: as so important that she requires that every Catholic go ister this forgiveness in his name, are also approach- [email protected]. at least once a year.1 The Church also encourages fre- ing this sacrament, as both penitents and ministers, throughout our lives and at this special moment of MAIN OFFICE: 915 S. Clinton St., Fort quent confession in order to grow closer to Christ Jesus Wayne, IN 46802. Telephone (260) and his Body, the Church. By the grace of the Holy Spirit, grace during Lent. We want to offer ourselves to you 456-2824. Fax: (260) 744-1473. we seek forgiveness and repentance, let go of patterns as forgiven sinners seeking to serve in the Lord’s name. BUREAU OFFICE: 1328 Dragoon Trail, During Lent—in addition to the various peniten- Mishawaka, IN 46544. Telephone (574) of sin, grow in the life of virtue, 234-0687. Fax (574) 830-1042. and witness to a joyful conver- tial services during which individual confession takes sion. Since the graces of the sac- place—we bishops and priests will be making ourselves News deadline is the Monday morning available often for the individual celebration of this before publication date. Advertising rament are so similar to the pur- deadline is nine days before publica- pose of the New Evangelization, sacrament. We pray that through the work of the Holy tion date. Pope Benedict XVI has said, “The Spirit, all Catholics—clergy and laity—will respond to the call of the New Evangelization to encounter Christ Today’s Catholic may be reached at : New Evangelization . . . begins in Today’s Catholic, the confessional!”2 in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. Come P.O. Box 11169, Fort Wayne, IN We bishops and priests are to the Lord and experience the extraordinary grace of 46856-1169; or email: his forgiveness! [email protected] eager to help you if you experience dif culty, hesitation, or uncer- ISSN 0891-1533 tainty about approaching the Lord 1 Catechism of the Catholic Church, nos. 1457-1458. USPS 403630 2 Pope Benedict XVI, Address to the Annual Course on the Internal Forum in this sacrament. If you have not Organized by the Apostolic Penitentiary, www.vatican.va/holy_father/ben- received this healing sacrament edict_xvi/speeches/2012/march/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20120309_ in a long time, we are ready to penitenzieria-apostolica_en.html.

Fasting and abstinence during Lent Abstinence from eating meat is obligatory for all Catholics 14 The fourth precept of the Church states: “You shall observe years of age and older on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all the days of fasting and abstinence established by the Church.” Fridays during Lent. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, this precept Fasting is obligatory for all Catholics from ages 18 to 59 on Ash “ensures the times of ascesis and penance, which prepare us for the Wednesday and Good Friday. The law of the fast means that only liturgical feasts and help us acquire mastery over our instincts and one full meal may be eaten. Two smaller meals are permitted, but freedom of heart.” they should not equal one full meal. February 10, 2013 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC 3 Bishop John M. D’Arcy dies at 80

BY TIM JOHNSON Lutheran and Jewish leaders. In the Diocese of Fort Wayne- Arrangements are South Bend, Bishop D’Arcy FORT WAYNE — Bishop John established the Office of Spiritual the following: M. D’Arcy, who served as the Development, the Office for Wednesday Feb. 6 eighth bishop of the Diocese of Hispanic Ministry and the Office • Reception of the body and Fort Wayne-South Bend from May of Catechesis. He called for an Morning Prayer at St. Matthew 1, 1985 through Jan. 13, 2010, expansion of campus ministry/ Cathedral, South Bend, will died at his home in Fort Wayne young adult programming and initi- begin at 10 a.m. Visitation will be on the morning of Feb. 3. He was ated annual youth and young adult held throughout the day. Rosary diagnosed with lung cancer in late retreats and retreats for disabled. He will begin at 5 p.m. A Mass of December while visiting his fam- established diocesan office build- Transferral celebrated by Bishop ily in Boston. He returned to Fort ings in both South Bend and down- Kevin C. Rhoades will begin at Wayne in January for care. town Fort Wayne. Bishop D’Arcy 7 p.m. Since his retirement in 2010, established the position of archivist Bishop D’Arcy has served as to preserve diocesan and parish Thursday, Feb. 7 bishop-emeritus. He has assisted at history as well as documents. • Reception of the body parishes, conferred the sacrament of He made an independent status and Morning Prayer at the Confirmation, and enjoyed provid- for diocesan newspaper, Today’s Cathedral of the Immaculate ing retreats and missions and assist- Catholic. With the help of Our Conception, Fort Wayne, will ing as chaplain of Bishop Luers Sunday Visitor Institute, Bishop begin at 10 a.m., with visitation High School. D’Arcy commissioned a history throughout the day. Rosary will The son of Irish immigrants, of diocese called “Worthy of the begin at 5 p.m. Evening Prayer Bishop D’Arcy was born Aug. Gospel of Christ.” is scheduled at 7 p.m. 18, 1932. He began preparation Several building projects took for the priesthood in September of place under Bishop D’Arcy’s lead- Friday, Feb. 8 1949 at Saint John’s Seminary in ership. New church projects includ- • Visitation of the body Brighton, Mass. He was ordained ed St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Fort will take place from 9 to 11:30 to the priesthood on Feb. 2, 1957 Wayne, 1989; St. Pius, Granger, a.m. at the Cathedral of the for the Archdiocese of Boston. He 1989; Blessed Sacrament, Albion, Immaculate Conception in Fort studied in Rome at the Angelicum 1990; St. Mary, Fort Wayne, fol- Wayne. from 1965 to 1968 and received his lowing destruction of church by • A Funeral Mass will be doctorate in spiritual theology in fire, 1996 (established St. Mary’s celebrated at noon. A reception 1968. He served as spiritual director Heritage Fund to assist parishes/ will follow at the Grand Wayne and professor of spiritual theology programs in need); Holy Family, Center in Fort Wayne. The Rite at Saint John’s Seminary from 1968 South Bend, 1997; St. Vincent of Committal will be conducted FRANCIE HOGAN to 1985. de Paul, Fort Wayne, 1998; St. privately in the crypt of the Bishop D’Arcy was ordained Therese, Fort Wayne, 1999; and and was installed on May 1, 1985. • Initiated Eucharistic Congress Cathedral of the Immaculate an auxiliary bishop of Boston on Our Lady of Guadalupe, Warsaw, Conception. Feb. 11, 1975 and was appointed Bishop D’Arcy has established at University of Notre Dame, 2000 1999. Under his leadership, several Vicar for Spiritual Development many significant diocesan initia- • Legacy of Faith capital cam- schools and parishes renovated and Preferred memorials for Bishop for the archdiocese at the same tives in the areas of spirituality, cat- paign, 2004-2005 — creating expanded across the diocese. All echesis, education, ecumenism and endowments of more than $48.5 Emeritus John M. D’Arcy time. He continued to serve as a four diocesan high schools held • The Seminary Education Fund social services outreach as follows: million for construction of new capital campaigns to improve their spiritual director at Saint John’s • The Priests’ Pension Fund Seminary. Bishop D’Arcy directed • Women’s Care Center, Fort Our Lady of Guadalupe Church facilities. the Office of Spiritual Development, Wayne, organized and operational and Diocesan Shrine, and related Bishop D’Arcy is survived by • The Bishop D’Arcy Catholic which was established by the late in renovated facility Hispanic ministries, Warsaw; two sisters: Sister Anne D’Arcy, a Education Fund Humberto Cardinal Medeiros in • Vincent House for homeless Catholic Charities services to the Sister of St. Joseph; and Joan (and • Any one of the four diocesan 1975. founded — has grown from single poor; schools’ endowment fund; and Hugh) Sheridan. He is also survived high schools, which include On July 21, 1981, Bishop home to encompass homes in cen- improved retirement program for by several nephews, one niece, Bishop Dwenger and Bishop D’Arcy was appointed regional tral city to foster independence of priests grandnieces and grandnephews Luers in Fort Wayne; Marian in bishop for the northern area of the families served • Initiated live Sunday televi- and brother-in-law Vito Caprio. Mishawaka; and Saint Joseph • Annual Bishop’s Appeal orga- sion Masses, Fort Wayne and South Archdiocese of Boston, known as He was preceded in death by his in South Bend the Lowell Region. Bishop D’Arcy nized — 21st appeal in 2007 was Bend, 1986 parents, Margaret Moran-D’Arcy considered most successful endeav- • Wrote major article on relation- • Women’s Care Center continued as Vicar for Spiritual and Michael John and sister, Mary • Christ Child Society Development and continued to or of its kind in nation, moneys sup- ship between Catholic universities Caprio. • St. John the Baptist Parish, direct the archdiocesan Office of port parish and diocesan projects and bishops —especially relating to Today’s Catholic will honor Spiritual Development. • A $3.6 million renovation/ the requirements of the mandatum Bishop D’Arcy with a special trib- Fort Wayne On Feb. 26, 1985, Bishop restoration of the Cathedral of for Catholic theologians ute section in the Feb. 17 issue of • St. Monica Parish, Mishawaka D’Arcy was appointed eighth the Immaculate Conception, Fort • Undertook ecumenical dia- the newspaper. Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend Wayne, 1998 logues with Methodist, Evangelical Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion to be celebrated in diocesan cathedrals Public Schedule of he Rite of Election of Baptism, Confirmation and the catechumens and candidates — biShoP Kevin c. RhoadeS Catechumens and the Call Holy Eucharist — at the Easter along with their godparents, spon- to Continuing Conversion Vigil on the night of March 30. sors, families and guests — are • Sunday, Feb. 10, 9 a.m. — Mass for Vietnamese Community Tof Candidates will be celebrated Candidates are those who are expected to attend the liturgies. and celebration of Lunar New Year, Saint Patrick Church, Fort in the cathedrals of the Diocese of already baptized and are now pre- The catechumens inscribe their Wayne Fort Wayne-South Bend during paring to complete their initiation names within the “Book of the • Tuesday, Feb. 12, 7 a.m. — Catholic Business Breakfast, the weekend of the First Sunday or enter into full communion with Elect,” which will be presented Performing Arts Center of University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne of Lent. the Catholic Church. for Bishop Rhoades to sign dur- • Tuesday, Feb. 12, 11 a.m. — Meeting of Priest Personnel These rites will take place in The catechumens and can- ing the Rite of Election, in an Board, Archbishop Noll Center, Fort Wayne the Cathedral of the Immaculate didates come from parishes event called the Enrollment of • Wednesday, Feb. 13, 12:05 p.m. — Ash Wednesday Mass, Conception in downtown Fort throughout the diocese. During Names. After participating in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Fort Wayne Wayne on Feb.16 at 7 p.m., and the liturgy, each catechumen and Rite of Election, the catechumens • Thursday, Feb. 14, 10 a.m. — Meeting of Deacon Community in St. Matthew Cathedral, South candidate, as well as his or her will be referred to as the “elect,” Board, Sacred Heart Rectory, Warsaw Bend, on Feb. 17 at 2 p.m. godparent or sponsor, will be pre- because they will have been offi- • Friday, Feb. 15 — Pastoral Visit to Seminarians at Pontifical Catechumens are those unbap- sented for recognition to Bishop cially declared ready to receive College Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio tized people who will be entering Kevin C. Rhoades, bishop of the the Easter sacraments this year. • Saturday, Feb. 16, 7 p.m. — Rite of Election, Cathedral of the the Catholic Church by receiving Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Immaculate Conception, Fort Wayne the sacraments of initiation — Bend. All together, around 600 4 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC February 10, 2013 HHS issues proposed exemptions from contraceptive coverage

BY PATRICIA ZAPOR exempt organizations could do vidual because of the financial this through third-party insurers. savings realized from preventing The expansion would cover unwanted or unplanned pregnan- WASHINGTON (CNS) — religious higher education institu- cies versus paying the costs asso- Exemptions from the requirement tions, health care providers and ciated with pregnancy, labor and to provide contraceptive cover- charitable agencies that do not delivery. age under the Affordable Care discriminate on the basis of reli- The new proposed rules for Act will be simplified to include gion as to whom they serve or exempt religious organizations many more types of religious employ. said that in order to clarify what institutions and accommodate The new proposed rules kinds of organizations may the needs of self-insured Church specify that no exemption will qualify for the exemption, HHS is entities that say they must keep a be given to “for-profit, secular eliminating the first three prongs clear financial and functional wall employers.” Some for-profit of the original four-pronged between themselves and the pro- entities such as Christian-owned definition of qualifying religious vision of contraceptives. toy retailer Hobby Lobby have organizations and clarifying the A new set of proposed sued the federal government over CNS PHOTO/NANCY PHELAN WIECHEC application of the fourth. rules announced Feb. 1 by the the contraceptive mandate, say- The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services “Under this proposal, an Department of Health and Human ing that it violates the religious is seen in Washington in this file photo. The department Feb. 1 issued employer that is organized and Services attempt to accommodate beliefs of the owners and the revised regulations related to the contraception mandate and religious operates as a nonprofit entity and objections raised by Catholic faith-based company outlook, and concerns under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. U.S. bish- referred to in (defined sections off so they should be entitled to a the tax code) would be considered institutions, among others, that ops had lambasted the mandate as violating religious freedom. said the previous rules would religious exemption. a religious employer for purposes force them to stop provid- A brief statement from the opening a 60-day period for themselves and without financial of the religious employer exemp- ing employee health insurance U.S. Conference of Catholic public comment. The rules are or even administrative support tion,” the rules proposal said. because the federal requirement Bishops said the conference wel- expected to be finalized this sum- of the faith-based institution, For this purpose, eligible orga- to include contraceptive coverage comed “the opportunity to study mer. Institutions are required to Brooks-LaSure said. nizations may include “trusts and violates their religious beliefs. the proposed regulations closely. provide the coverage by August. “The eligible organization unincorporated associations, as The Affordable Care Act We look forward to issuing a At a teleconference about would have no role in contract- well as nonprofit, not-for-profit, includes coverage of contracep- more detailed statement later.” the changes, Chiquita Brooks- ing, arranging, paying, or refer- non-stock, public benefit and tives in all insurance plans. Under The Catholic Health Association, LaSure, deputy director of policy ring for this separate contracep- similar types of corporations,” it what has become known as the which represents Catholic hos- and regulation in the HHS Center tive coverage,” the proposal says. said. contraceptive mandate, the early pitals and health care agencies, for Consumer Information and “Such coverage would be offered HHS said that by eliminating version of proposed rules for this also declined to comment on the Insurance Oversight, said no at no charge to plan participants the first three prongs of the defi- part of the nationwide health care changes until they were studied. nonprofit religious institution — and beneficiaries, that is, the nition of exempt entities, “there program mandated all employers Others were quick to praise the including churches, universities, issuer would provide benefits no longer would be any question provide free coverage of contra- proposed new rules for address- hospitals and charities — will for such contraceptive services as to whether group health plans ceptives for their workers. ing the objections of Catholic and have to “arrange, contract, pay for without the imposition of any of houses of worship that provide The first version of proposed other entities, while some found or refer for” contraception insur- cost sharing requirement (such as educational, charitable or social rules for this coverage exempted fault with them, saying they ance for employees or students a co-payment, co-insurance, or a services to their communities only religious organizations would not resolve their objec- who want it. deductible), premium, fee or other qualify for the exemption.” whose main purpose is the incul- tions. Even in the case of self- charge.” The 80 pages of details include cation of faith and who employ The same day the proposed insured religious entities — The proposal includes several a discussion of the 200,000 and serve members of the faith. A rules were released they were which includes many dioceses possible ways of arranging such public comments HHS received later “accommodation” said non- published in the Federal Register, and colleges — employees or insurance for employees of self- on the preliminary rules, giving insured students who want contra- insured organizations. examples of some of the situa- ceptive coverage will be able to Brooks-LaSure said that insur- tions presented for consideration arrange it through outside insurers will be able to provide the in applying the rules. 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INDIANAPOLIS — Promising Undocumented immigrants are highly-skilled workforce benefits bipartisan effort aimed at address- college students have come to not able to get financial assistance the entire community. These ing comprehensive immigration Sen. Jean Leising (R-Oldenburg) for college. INDIANA college students should not be on the federal level is likely to with a problem: a law passed in “The young people I have penalized through no fault of their have a positive impact on getting 2011 has brought their pursuits of talked to were brought to this CATHOLIC own,” said Jones. “They were SB 207 passed. Leising is also a college degree to a screeching country when they were in pre- brought here as children.” optimistic that her bill can pass halt. school,” said Leising. “They have Another reality Jones hopes this year if she can just get her Former Indiana University attended school from grades K-12 CONFERENCE lawmakers will consider is the fellow Republican lawmakers to student, Victoria Hickman, is and know of no other country BRIGID CURTIS AYER potential brain drain Indiana schedule it for a hearing. one of an estimated 3,000 col- but America. They would be could face as a result if Leising’s lege students affected by the law. extremely displaced if they went bill isn’t passed. “We talk about Hickman, with a 4.0 grade point back to their home country,” said status because they have aged out the brain drain problem in Indiana average and only a year away Leising. of the system.” where highly-educated students Web Resources from a college degree, had her “The truth is we are throw- Angela Smith Jones, of go elsewhere to live once they Indiana Catholic Conference college education abruptly cut ing a road block in front of them the Indianapolis Chamber of are educated,” said Jones. “These www.indianacc.org short over a year ago when she because they can’t afford the Commerce has been working with hard-working, bright college stu- was required to pay out-of-state out-of-state tuition. These kids Leising to address this issue said, dents will leave Indiana and go Forming Consciences for tuition because of a 2011 law, also do not qualify for any kind “The Indianapolis Chamber of to a neighboring state to receive Faithful Citizenship: A Call to which prohibits undocumented of state student assistance,” said Commerce supports this legisla- their education and likely stay Political Responsibility from the students who reside in Indiana Leising. tion because it goes directly to the there if they can’t get in-state Catholic Bishops of the United from getting in-state tuition. “These kids all want to be workforce issue. We do not want tuition here.” Jones said those States. www.faithfulcitizenship. Leising, author of Senate Bill legal,” said Leising. “One young to restrict our strong pipeline of who have been tracking the org 207, would like to change this person came to see me with her skilled workers.” numbers estimate there could be To explore the ICC’s elec- especially for students seek- immigration attorney. The immi- Jones said, “Employment upwards of 5,000 college students tronic public policy tool and join ing higher education who were gration attorney told me that there openings exist in Indiana that currently affected by this law the ICC legislative network go to already enrolled in a higher are young adults who are in their require highly-skilled workers, and that number is only going to the ICC Web page at www.indi- education program when the law early 20s that might have to wait but Indiana lacks enough highly- grow. anacc.org and click “Legislative passed. up to 20 years to achieve legal skilled people to fill them. A Jones believes that the national Action Center.” Leising is not alone. The Indiana Catholic Conference, the official public policy arm of the Catholic Church in Indiana, also supports the effort. “We are supportive of efforts to help undocumented college students complete their college education,” said Glenn Tebbe, ICC executive director. “These college students are working hard to provide for themselves and should be able to do so. They and their families are paying sales, property and income taxes. In that way, they are supporting the state and its institutions and programs,” said Tebbe. Tuition for Hickman, now at almost three times what she was paying when she entered college, made it impossible for her to return. Leising said the last time she saw Hickman, she was waiting tables at a restaurant, and unsure if or when she would return to school. Leising’s proposal, SB 207, would grandfather college students like Victoria who were already enrolled in college when the law changed. “Federal law makes it illegal Soup’s On! All Saints for principals or superintendents Join us for a bowl of to inquire about the legal status Religious Goods of a child in K-12 grade,” said Leising. “Many students have no Ash Wednesday Soup 8808 Coldwater Road idea they are not legal residents Your free will donation will help support In Coldwater Centre at Wallen Road until they go to get a driver’s 260-490-7506 license or apply for college and St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen are denied in-state tuition.” •Books •Bibles In 2011, the Indiana General which serves 1,000 free bowls of soup Assembly passed a law to pro- to hungry people every day. •Rosaries •Statues hibit undocumented immigrants from receiving in-state tuition. It Come Begin Lent Simply... •Crucifixes •Medals stipulated that students must be Bring a friend for a lunch of soup and bread on lawfully present to qualify for •Church Supplies in-state tuition rates. The Indiana Ash Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Catholic Conference opposed the to St. Mary’s Parish at Lafayette and East Jefferson legislation. •First Communion Dresses “Until July 2011, high school in Fort Wayne 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. graduates entering college could (Lenten prayer service with ashes at 11:00 a.m.) •First Communion Gifts get in-state tuition even if they did not have legal status,” said •Confirmation Gifts Leising. “Student’s like Victoria are funding 100 percent of •Baptismal Gifts & Gowns the tuition by their hard work and hard work of their family. Support your school. Use All Saints SCRIP! 6 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC February 10, 2013 Once more into the New cardinals get their immigration law process: assignments to Roman a familiar road ews rieFs Curia WASHINGTON (CNS) — They’ve N b VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Two been down this road before — trying months after receiving their red to pass a far-reaching reform of the hats, the six newest members of the U.S. immigration system. The last College of Cardinals have received time Congress passed a substantial NUNS HOLD CANDLES AS POPE CELEBRATES MASS AT VATICAN their assignments as members of immigration reform law in 1986, Vatican congregations, councils and then-Father Nicholas DiMarzio, as offices — one of the clearest ways director of Migration and Refugee they help Pope Benedict XVI govern Services for the U.S. Catholic bish- the universal Church. While keep- ops, was a part of coalition-building ing their main jobs, the new assign- among interest groups such as the ments allow the cardinals to bring National Council of La Raza and their experience and perspective to the AFL-CIO. “It was a whole dif- bear on the discussions and deci- ferent political scene,” said now- sions of the central Church offices Bishop DiMarzio of Brooklyn, N.Y. that assist the pope. Creating the new “Bipartisanship was possible. I don’t cardinals Nov. 24, Pope Benedict had know how it’s going to work this told them: “Particularly through the time.” In the mid-1980s, the problem work you do for the dicasteries of the of millions of immigrants being in Roman Curia, you will be my valued the country without permission to co-workers, first and foremost in my be here was a relatively new issue, apostolic ministry for the fullness of he told Catholic News Service. The catholicity, as pastor of the whole situation affected around 5 million flock of Christ and prime guarantor people in perhaps 10 states, mostly of its doctrine, discipline and morals.” along the Mexican border plus New The assignments announced by the York, Florida and Illinois. Today, Vatican Jan. 31 included: For U.S. an estimated 11 million people Cardinal James M. Harvey, arch- lack legal immigration status and priest of Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul they live throughout the country. Outside the Walls, membership on the The list of states with the fastest- Congregation for the Evangelization growing populations of immigrants of Peoples and on the Administration includes Tennessee, North Carolina, of the Patrimony of the Holy See, Arkansas, Delaware and Wyoming. which oversees Vatican property The past history of the kind of coali- and investments; Lebanese Cardinal tion-building it took to pass previous Bechara Rai, head of the Maronite immigration legislation may bear les- Catholic Church, was named a mem- sons for today as Congress launches ber of the Congregation for Eastern what may be the best chance for CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING Churches, the Supreme Court of the comprehensive reforms since the Nuns hold candles as Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass to mark the feast of the Apostolic Signature, the Pontifical era of the Iran-Contra Affair and Council for Migrants and Travelers the initial public stock offering for Presentation of the Lord and World Day for Consecrated Life in St. Peter’s Basilica at the and the Pontifical Council for Social Microsoft. Vatican Feb. 2. Communications. Legal and medical Use of new media experts, activists address phy professor at Jesuit-run Boston Feb. 6-9. He and Farasoa Mihaja Catholics. “Faith is genuine only if essential to proclaiming College and a veteran in the pro- Bemahazaka, a university student crowned by charity.” The text of the effects of 40 years of Roe life movement. The rate “more than from Madagascar, were invited to pope’s message was released by the the good news, prelate says WASHINGTON (CNS) — To doubled in six years,” she said. attend the assembly to help the coun- Vatican Feb. 1. “It would be too one- PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) — The Gerard Bradley, leading constitu- cil’s members and advisers explore sided to place a strong emphasis on next archbishop of Portland uses tional scholar and professor at the Media blitz can help this year’s topic of emerging youth the priority and decisiveness of faith modern social media in the cause University of Notre Dame’s law cultures and how the Church can and to undervalue and almost despise of proclaiming Jesus. On Jan. 29, school, “abortion is the greatest civil youths find Gospel better respond pastorally. Cardinal concrete works of charity, reducing Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop rights issue of our time.” Bradley in digital deluge, Gianfranco Ravasi, the council’s them to a vague humanitarianism,” Alexander K. Sample of Marquette, was one of several speakers from the president, said often it seems young Pope Benedict said. “It is equally Mich., to head the Archdiocese of legal and medical fields who joined speaker says people are disconnected from the real unhelpful to overstate the primacy of Portland, succeeding Archbishop activists at the National Press Club world around them, with eyes glued charity and the activity it generates, John G. Vlazny, who is retiring. in Washington for a conference on VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The to smartphones and ears muffled by as if works could take the place of Now-Archbishop Sample maintains “The Future of Roe: Women, Health best way the Church can be heard headphones. “In a certain sense they faith.” At a news conference to pres- a Facebook page. And he kicked and Law in the Obama Era,” spon- and seen amid the deluge of the have put up a shield of self-exclu- ent the message, Guinean Cardinal off the Year of Faith by tweeting sored by Americans United for Life. information age is to launch a media sion” not only against “the unbear- Robert Sarah, president of the throughout a 1,000-mile trip across Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics blitz of simple answers to life’s deep- able social, political and religious Pontifical Council Cor Unum, which Michigan’s far northern Upper and Public Policy Center, called the est questions, a young Catholic jour- difficulties we adults have created,” promotes Catholic charitable giving, Peninsula. The prelate — tall and Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 the nalist told a Vatican news confer- but also because “we have excluded told reporters, that insisting on the slim at 52 — made an even longer “Dred Scott of our age,” referring ence. “People always say it should them with our corruption and hypoc- indissoluble link between faith and journey the last week of January to the 19th-century Supreme Court be quality over quantity; perhaps risy, precarious employment, unem- charity is like “hitting a raw nerve.” to appear before the media for decision that declared blacks to be this was true once upon a time, ployment and alienation,” he said. The cardinal said the pope’s message the announcement that he’d been noncitizens and made slavery legal but today quantity is necessary,” underscores how misguided it is to named spiritual leader of the 415,000 in all territories. The Jan. 24 event said Alessio Antonielli, who works Faith is genuine only see faith as an abstract, intellectual Catholics of western Oregon. “It is at the press club was one of several for the Conventual Franciscan-run endeavor and charity as the concrete my prayer and hope that together events held in Washington to mark San Francesco Review magazine in if coupled with charity or practical side of the Church, or to we can gaze on the face of Jesus the 40th anniversary of legalized Assisi. “The Church is full of qual- for others, pope says favor one over the other. “It’s conve- Christ and show forth His light to abortion. With its Roe decision, and ity” with its rich 2,000-year history nient for many, inside and outside” the generations of the new millen- its decision in the companion case of writings and teachings, but “the the Church, to see it as divorced from nium,” he said. The Mass of instal- VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Faith the real world, “inebriated from the Doe v. Bolton, the court legalized problem is no one reads them; and and charity can never be separated lation is planned for April 2. The abortion virtually on demand. In that today if you aren’t present in certain scent of candles, busy putting the new archbishop, who seems happy nor opposed to each other, just as sacristy in order, focused on obscure era, the pro-life movement that had channels, it’s like you don’t even faith by itself isn’t genuine without about his assignment, had been to developed alongside the movement exist,” he said Jan. 31, the feast of theological debates and clerical quar- Oregon once before — a boyhood charity, Pope Benedict XVI said. rels rather than on the integral human supporting legalized abortion was St. John Bosco, father and teacher “Faith is knowing the truth and salmon fishing trip to the mouth of completely caught off guard by the of young people. Antonielli was one person Christ spoke to,” the cardinal the Columbia River. He caught noth- adhering to it; charity is ‘walking’ said. “immediate escalation of abortions” of a number of speakers presenting in the truth,” the pope said in his ing then. “Now I am brought here as that followed the court decision, details about the Pontifical Council annual message for Lent, which in a fisher of men,” he said. “Hopefully, explained Laura Garcia, a philoso- for Culture’s plenary assembly 2013 begins Feb. 13 for Latin-rite I’ll be more successful at that.” February 10, 2013 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC 7 Tips for those long absent from Confession

BY MARK PATTISON to bed, or they pray before meals. Usually they have not been going to Mass: ‘I say the rosary’ or things WASHINGTON (CNS) — After like that. “Bless me, Father, for I have “Then you can talk about sinned” — even if they get that far participation in the Eucharist. So — there are millions of Catholics you have to kind of instruct them, who don’t exactly know what to helping them along,” he explained. say next. “Encourage them. ‘Are you going This is especially true for to be more involved in the Church? Initiative invites Catholics who have not gone Are you going to go to Mass? Are to Confession in years, or even you going to go to Confession once Catholics to Reconciliation decades. in a while?’” Despite parishes and dioceses “What’s prominent? What is Catholic encourages penitents to inviting inactive Catholics to return most outstanding in their mind? BY TIM JOHNSON also check parish bulletins and par- to Church at Lent, with the sacra- ... They have something on their ish websites for updates. ment of Reconciliation as an incen- minds. That’s why they’re coming ope Benedict XVI has said Materials for The Light Is On tive, it is likely Catholics are afraid, in the first place. Usually I find my “the New Evangelization For You include a short guide to bewildered or even intimidated at questions have to do with their rela- begins in the confessional.” Reconciliation. This includes some the prospect of returning to the con- CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ tionships or to talk about their spiri- PWith the Lenten penitential sea- of the following information. fessional after such a long period Father Thomas Fusco, pastor at tual life a little bit. After all, that’s son approaching, Bishop Kevin away from it. St. Edward the Confessor Parish the purpose of all this. I can’t say C. Rhoades has designated What is Reconciliation? A rote recitation of sins doesn’t in Syosset, N.Y., listens to a peni- I’ve had two identical Confessions.” Wednesday, March 6, from 6-8 Reconciliation (also known as seem quite right. Laundry lists, as tent’s Confession during a Catholic Msgr. Lavalley, ordained in p.m., “as the date and time for all Confession or Penance) is a sac- some priests call them, are out. In men’s conference at Holy Trinity 1964, still remembers a confession the churches of our diocese to be rament instituted by Jesus Christ fact, one advises, even devising a Diocesan High School in Hicksville, from his first year as a priest. He open for prayer and am asking in His love and mercy to offer game plan before returning to the N.Y., in 2012. was hearing confessions from stu- all our priests to hear individual sinners forgiveness for offenses confessional is out. dents at the parish grade school, and confessions during that two-hour committed against God. At the “Just come. Don’t prepare. one boy was among the last to be time period,” he wrote in a letter same time, sinners reconcile with We’ll do it in there. I’ll help you Confession) — not the grocery list brought in. to priests. the Church, because it is also with this. At the end of it, you’re for things that happen more fre- “This kid’s behind the screen. The campaign is called “The wounded by our sins. going to think about things we quently.” He’s not talking to me. He’s just Light Is On For You,” and is Every time we sin, we hurt didn’t cover. You can come again,” Msgr. Lavalley said he tells breathing. ‘Do you want to go to endorsed by the U.S. bishops. ourselves, other people and God. said Msgr. Richard Lavalley, pas- penitents, “If you’re holding back Confession?’ (No response.) ‘Do “The Light Is On For You is In Reconciliation, we acknowl- tor of St. Francis Xavier Parish in because you’re afraid or you’re you want to tell me what your sins an invitation to all Catholics of edge our sins before God and His Winooski, Vt. “The more com- frightened or you don’t know what are?’ ‘No.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because you a diocese to stop in church for Church. We express our sorrow plicated it becomes, the worse it to do or how to say it, say ‘Our know what my sins are.’ ‘How?’ prayer and the opportunity for in a meaningful way, receive the becomes. They (penitents) don’t Lady sent me.’ I can’t tell you how ‘Because I did them before.’” Confession,” Bishop Rhoades forgiveness of Christ and His know what to make of it and they many times that’s worked.” Just like that boy, Msgr. said. The program began in the Church, make reparation for what become ashamed.” He recalled the time one man Lavalley told CNS, penitents are Archdiocese of Washington and we have done, and resolve to do The motivations for wanting to came into the Reconciliation room habitual sinners. “Everyone’s a has been adopted by other dioces- better in the future. go back to Confession can be many, telling him, “I’m supposed to tell habitual sinner, and so am I,” he es with much success. With this The forgiveness of sins said Jesuit Father Jake Empereur, you somebody sent me, but I can’t said. “It’s not about sin, it’s about program, all parishes in a diocese involves four parts: a priest since 1965 and a parochial remember who it was.” He added mercy and about God’s love.” open their churches on a particu- • Contrition: a sincere sorrow vicar at St. Matthew Parish in San he told the man it was Our Lady, Msgr. Lavalley remembers lar evening for Confessions. for having offended God, and the Antonio. and that “she sent me, too.” himself as a grade schooler making The U.S. Bishops have issued a most important act of the peni- “It could be because of health Msgr. Lavalley said he’s told comparisons among the priests in pastoral exhortation — see page 2 tent. There can be no forgiveness issues. It could be because their penitents, “I don’t bite, I don’t kick, his parish about which ones handed — encouraging the faithful to avail of sin if we do not have sorrow conscience moves them to finally I don’t yell and I don’t faint. So out sterner or lighter penances. themselves to the sacrament of and a firm resolve not to repeat be able to participate in the Church let’s start. Can I help you by going But he recalled one experience Penance during Lent of 2013. our sin. and the liturgy and Communion through the Commandments? ... with a priest that “made me the The March 6 date will be a • Confession: confronting our and things like that,” he said. Is it easier for you to say yes or no confessor that I am. He was so “concerted diocesan effort to high- sins in a profound way to God by “People get married. Sometimes it’s with me?” And in doing that, he kind and so wonderful, and I never light the sacrament of Penance,” speaking about them — aloud — someone’s first Communion, some- added, “I get what I need.” forgot the penance he gave me. Bishop Rhoades said. “It is not to the priest. times it’s a wedding. It’s all sorts of Father Empereur said he asks He said, ‘Can you say the name meant to replace Penance ser- • Penance: an important part different reasons.” penitents whether they pray. of Jesus once? I’ll say it for you.’ vices or other regularly scheduled of our healing is the “penance” And what they have on their “Usually they’ll say something like And he did it without sarcasm. Confession times.” the priest imposes in reparation mind — and want to get off their their evening prayers before they go “That changed my life.” Confession times from the for our sins. chest — can vary as well, Father parishes across the diocese can • Absolution: the priest speaks Empereur told Catholic News be found in a guide here on pages the words by which “God, the Service. 8-9. Some parishes were still in the Father of Mercies” reconciles a A few things stand out, he said. process of determining times for “Being in an irregular marriage, Children’s Lenten Penance services and other they gave up believing in God Confessional offerings. Today’s SEE LIGHT, PAGE 20 when they were in their early 20s Boxed Valentines and now they’re thinking about •32 Cards that. 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A joint Lenten through March 27 from 6-6:30 p.m. 3526 St. Johns Way Saturdays, Fesb. 16, 23, March Cathedral of the Immaculate Reconciliation Service with St. Confessions available Monday 2, 9, 16 and 23 at 4-4:45 p.m. Conception Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish will Corpus Christi through Friday, 7-7:30 a.m., and March 6, 6 p.m. till finished. 1122 S. Clinton St. be Tuesday, March 19, at 7 p.m. 2822 Corpus Christi Dr. Saturday, 7-7:30 a.m., 8-8:30 Confessions available on Confessions available weekly a.m. and 4-4:45 p.m. Mondays and Fridays at 7:30 St. Joseph-Hessen Cassel on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 Avilla a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Tuesdays, 11337 Old U.S. HWY 27 S p.m.; Saturdays at 9 a.m. and 3 St. Joseph St. Mary of the Assumption Wednesdays and Thursdays at Confessions available on p.m. and by appointment. 226 N. Hill St. 228 N. Main St. 7:30 a.m. and Saturdays from Saturdays from 4:15-4:45 p.m. Confessions available The church will be open 2:30-4:30 p.m. and on the first Saturdays starting Holy Cross Saturdays from 8:30-9:30 a.m.; Wednesday, March 6, from 6 at 7:30 a.m. Consult parish bul- 1050 Wilber March 6, 6-8 p.m.; and com- a.m. to 8 p.m. for individual/ Most Precious Blood letin for penance service. Lenten Penance Service will munal penance service will be personal prayer and on Thursday, 1515 Barthold St. be held on March 19 at 7 p.m. at offered during Lent. Priests avail- March 7, from 7 a.m. to 6:30 Confessions available St. Jude Holy Cross Church. Confessions able to hear Confessions at any p.m. for Mass at 7:15 a.m. and Monday-Friday following the 2155 Randallia are offered every Saturday time by request. Eucharistic Adoration after Mass 8:15 a.m. Mass; Saturday 4-4:30 Confessions available Monday from 9-10 a.m. at St. Stanislaus until 6:30 p.m. p.m.; Wednesday, March 6, 6-8 through Saturday, 7:45-8 a.m.; Church. St. Jude p.m.; March 18, 7 p.m., Parish Saturday, 9-10:30 a.m.; Saturday, 19704 Johnson Rd. Reconciliation Service. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Holy Family Confessions available Bluffton 56405 Mayflower Rd. Saturdays, 3-4 p.m. Parish Lenten St. Joseph Our Lady of Good Hope St. Mary Confessions available Penance Service held March 12, 1300 N. Main St. 7215 Saint Joe Rd. 1101 South Lafayette St. Wednesdays from 6-6:30 p.m., 7-8:30 p.m. Confessions available Confessions available Friday, A Lenten Penance Service will and Fridays from 6:30-7 p.m. Tuesdays at 8:30 a.m. and at 4 9:30-10 a.m., Saturday, 3:30-4:15 be held on March 6 from 6-8 p.m. St. Patrick p.m. on Saturdays before the 5 p.m.; March 18, 7-9 p.m.; Parish and Confessions by appointment. Our Lady of Hungary 309 S. Taylor p.m. Mass. Lenten Penance Service with 829 W. Calvert St. Confessions available Monday eight priests available. St. Patrick Confessions available Saturdays, through Friday at the St. Hedwig 2120 S. Harrison St. 3:45-4:45 p.m.; Holy Week, rectory, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Bremen Queen of Angels Confessions available Wednesday, March 27, 5-5:30 p.m.; Saturday, at St. Hedwig Church, St. Dominic 1500 W. State Blvd. Thursdays (in Spanish or English) Thursday, March 28, 5-5:30 p.m.; 3-4 p.m. or by appointment by 803 W. Bike St. Confessions available from 7-8 p.m.; Saturdays, 3:30- Holy Saturday, 1-2 p.m. calling (574) 287-8932. Mondays and Thursdays from Confessions available 4:15 p.m. in English; Sundays, Saturdays 3-4:30 p.m. and 6:30-6:50 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. Sacred Heart of Jesus St. Stanislaus 8-8:45 a.m. in English; and Thursdays from 5-5:45 p.m. and 3 p.m. Holy Week: Monday, Sundays from 10-10:25 a.m. in 63568 U.S. 31 South, (Lakeville) 415 N. Brookfield St. March 25, 6:30-6:50 p.m.; Vietnamese. Confessions on Saturday, Confessions available Thursday, March 28, 5:30-6 p.m.; 3:45-4:15 p.m., Wednesday, Saturdays 8:45-9:45 a.m. Bristol Friday, March 29, 2:30-4 p.m. St. Peter March 6, and a Penance Service St. Mary of the Annunciation 518 E. DeWald St. with St. Jude on Tuesday, March St. Therese, Little Flower 411 W. Vistula St. Sacred Heart Confessions available every 12, at St. Jude, South Bend. 54191 Ironwood Rd. 4643 Gaywood Dr. Saturday from 3-3:30 p.m. and by Confessions available on Confessions available daily Confessions available appointment. St. Adalbert Fridays of Lent from 11 a.m. to Monday through Saturday from Wednesday, 5-6 p.m., Friday, 5:30- 2505 W. Grace St. noon, followed by Mass at noon. 8:30-8:45 a.m. (before Mass) and 6 p.m. and Saturday 8:30-9 a.m. St. Therese Saturday afternoons from 3-4 Confessions available every p.m. During Lent Confessions 2304 Lower Huntington Rd. Saturday immediately following St. Charles Borromeo Area parishes from March 18-21 at 10-11 a.m. Confessions available after the 8 a.m. Mass and “The Light and 6-7 p.m. 4916 Trier Rd. weekday Masses and on Saturday Is On for You” on Wednesday, Confessions available at 4 p.m. Parish Lenten Penance March 6, 6-9 p.m. Albion Saturdays from 2:30-4:30 p.m.; Service is Tuesday, March 5, at Blessed Sacrament Churubusco Wednesday, March 6, 6-8:30 p.m. 7 p.m. St. Anthony de Padua 2290 N. State Road 9 2114 E. Jefferson Blvd. St. John Bosco St. Elizabeth Ann Seton St. Vincent de Paul Consult parish bulletin for 216 N. Main St. Confessions weekly on Confession times. 10700 Aboite Center Road 1502 East Wallen Rd. Tuesdays from 6-6:30 p.m., Confessions available Confessions available Confessions available during Wednesdays and Fridays from March 6 from 6-8 p.m. There Saturdays from 9:30-10:30 a.m. the entire year, Saturday morn- 9-9:30 a.m., and Saturdays Angola will also be a Mass at 7 p.m. and by appointment. A joint on March 6 with Confessions ings, 8:45-10 a.m. and most from 3:30-4 p.m. A Lenten St. Anthony of Padua Lenten Reconciliation Service Wednesdays from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Penance Service will be held on both before and after. St. John with St. Joseph Church, Fort Please confirm with the parish Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. 700 W. Maumee St. Bosco Parish mission planned Wayne, will be Tuesday, March by checking the bulletin or parish Confessions for the Lenten March 18, 19 and 20, at 7 p.m. 19, at 7 p.m. website, www.saintv.org about St. Augustine season will be Tuesday, March each evening. Tuesday, March Wednesday evening Confessions. 1501 W. Washington St. 19, at 7 p.m. and March 6 from 19, will be on Reconciliation and priests will be available for St. Henry On Wednesday, March 6, Confessions available between 6-8 p.m. 2929 Paulding Rd. Reconciliation will begin at 6 p.m. Confession. Lenten peniten- Masses on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. or tial service to be determined. Confessions available on by appointment. Arcola Saturdays from 8:30-9:30 a.m.; Confessions on Good Friday. St. March 6 Confessions heard 9-11 South Bend area St. Casimir St. Patrick John’s Confessions will begin at a.m. and 6-8 p.m. St. Matthew Cathedral 12305 Arcola Rd. noon on Friday, March 29, with 1308 W. Dunham St. the Good Friday service at 1 1701 Miami St. See Confession schedule for Confessions available Fridays St. John the Baptist from 6-7 p.m. In February p.m. Confessions after the service Confessions available Monday St. Adalbert Parish. if necessary. 4525 Arlington Ave. through Saturday following the 7 Confessions on Wednesdays from 5-6 p.m. and in March At Immaculate Conception on Confessions available every a.m. Mass and Saturday, 11 a.m. St. Hedwig Friday, March 29, Confessions Saturday from 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 to 12 p.m. 331 S. Scott St. Confessions on Wednesdays from 6-7 p.m. at 4 p.m. with the Good Friday p.m. Parish Lenten Service is Confessions Monday through service following at 5 p.m. and Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. Christ the King Friday at the St. Hedwig rectory, Confessions afterwards if neces- 52473 S.R. 933 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Saturday, Auburn sary. Confessions by appointment St. Joseph Confessions available weekly at St. Hedwig Church, 3-4 p.m. or by calling the rectory at (260) 2213 Brooklyn on Saturdays from 9-10 a.m. by appointment by calling (574) Immaculate Conception 693-9578. Confessions available on Extra Lenten Confession times on 287-8932. 500 East Seventh St. February 10, 2013 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC 9 Columbia City 27, and Thursday, March 28, St. Joseph by appointment. During Lent, Roanoke from 1-3 p.m.; Spanish Penance 225 S. Mill St. Saturday, Feb. 9, 6:30 p.m. and St. Paul of the Cross Service March 15 at 6 p.m.; Confessions available Saturday Tuesday, March 5, 7 p.m. during St. Joseph 315 S. Line St. Lenten Penance Service March from 9:30-10:30 a.m.; Wednesday Mission Week. 641 N. Main St. Confessions Thursdays, 5:30-6 24 at 3 p.m. evenings from 5-5:25 p.m. before Confessions Saturdays 3:15-4 p.m.; Fridays, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 Mass. Penance Service will be at p.m. and by appointment. Also p.m.; Saturdays 9:30-10 a.m., St. Monica on March 21 at 6:30 North Manchester for Lent, Saturday, Feb. 2, 5 p.m., 3:45-4:45 p.m. Granger p.m. for a combined Mishawaka St. Robert Bellarmine and Tuesday, March 5, 7 p.m. St. Pius X Service in Lent. Other times will 1203 State Road 114 East during Mission Week. Culver 52553 Fir Road be published in the bulletin and Confessions available year Confessions available March the website. round on Wednesdays from 5:30- Rome City St. Mary of the Lake 6, 6-9 p.m.; March 25, 3-5 p.m.; 6:30 p.m.; First Saturdays, 8:30 124 College Ave. March 26, 3-5 p.m.; March 27, St. Monica a.m. until finished; Lent, Fridays St. Gaspar del Bufalo Consult parish bulletin for 3-5 p.m., 7-9 p.m.; March 28, 3-5 222 W. Mishawaka Ave. at 7:30 p.m. 10871 N. St. Rd. 9 Confession times. p.m., 9 p.m. to midnight; March Confessions available Feb. 15 Confessions available 29, 3-6 p.m., 8-10 p.m.; Parish from 11-11:50 a.m.; Feb. 16 at Saturdays from 3:30-4 p.m. Penance Service, March 19, 7:30 9 a.m.; Feb. 23 from 11-11:50 Notre Dame and by appointment. A Lenten Decatur p.m. a.m.; Feb. 24 at 9 a.m.; March 1 Sacred Heart Penance Service will be held on St. Mary of the Assumption from 11-11:50 a.m.; March 2 at 104 The Presbytery March 12 at 6:30 p.m. 9 a.m., 4:30-5:10 p.m., and after 414 Madison St. Confessions in the weeks of Huntington 5:30 p.m. Mass; March 6 from Confessions are Sunday, 12:15 Feb. 18, Feb. 25 and March 4 6-8 p.m.; March 8 from 11-11:50 Syracuse p.m. until finished; Monday, 5:30 St. Mary will be available in the basilica a.m.; March 9 at 9 a.m., 4:30- p.m. until finished, 8:30 p.m. 903 N. Jefferson St. Monday through Thursday, St. Martin de Porres 5:10 p.m., and after 5:30 p.m. until finished; Saturday, 5:15 p.m. Confessions available 11-11:30 a.m., 4:45-5:15 6941 E. Waco Dr. Mass; March 15 from 11-11:50 until finished. There will be a Mondays 5:30-5:50 p.m.; p.m., 7-7:30 p.m. and Friday, Confessions available a.m.; March 16 at 9 a.m., 4:30- Lenten Penance Liturgy on March Tuesday through Saturday, 7:30- 11-11:30 a.m., 4:45-5:15 p.m. Saturdays at 4 p.m. and by 5:10 p.m. and after 5:30 p.m. 19 at 7 p.m. and additional times 7:50 a.m.; and Saturday, 4-4:45 Crypt Confessions on Saturday appointment. Wednesday, March Mass; March 21-Mishawaka Area during Holy Week. p.m. 10-11 a.m. During spring 6, at 6 p.m. Penance Service at St. Monica break, March 11-16, basilica at 6:30 p.m.; March 22 from Ss. Peter and Paul Confessions Monday through 11-11:50 a.m.; March 25, 26, 27, Ege Thursday, 11-11:30 a.m. and Wabash 860 Cherry St. 28, 29 consult bulletin for times. Immaculate Conception Confessions one-half hour Crypt Confessions on Friday, St. Bernard 700 E and 400 S before all Masses all year except 11-11:30 a.m. and Saturday, 207 North Cass Street See the schedule for St. on Sunday, and Saturdays Monroeville 10-11 a.m. Week of March 18-23, Confessions available basilica Confessions Monday John Bosco in Churubusco. from 3:30-4:15 p.m. Masses — St. Rose of Lima Saturdays, 4:15-5:15 p.m., and Monday, Wednesday, Friday and through Thursday, 11-11:30 a.m., Lenten Penance Service to be 206 Summit St. Wednesday, March 6, 6:30 p.m. determined. At Immaculate Saturday at 8 a.m., Tuesday and 4:45-5:15 p.m., 7-7:30 p.m., and until finished. Confessions available on Conception on Friday, March 29, Thursday at 7 p.m. Friday, 11-11:30 a.m., 4:45-5:15 Saturdays from 4-4:45 p.m., Confessions at 4 p.m. with the p.m. Parish Crypt Confessions on before weekday 8 a.m. Mass and Good Friday service following Saturday from 10-11 a.m. Week Walkerton after weekday Mass by request. at 5 p.m. and Confessions after- Kendallville of March 25-30, Holy Week, Fridays of Lent Confessions will St. Patrick wards if necessary. Confessions Immaculate Conception basilica Confessions, Monday be heard after the Way of the 807 Tyler St. by appointment by calling the through Wednesday, 11-11:30 319 E. Diamond St. Cross; March 6 from 6-8 p.m.; Confessions available rectory at (260) 693-9578. a.m., 4:45-5:15 p.m., 7-7:30 p.m.; Confessions available during and a Lenten Penance Service Holy Thursday, 11 a.m. to 12 Saturdays, 4-4:45 p.m.; Lent, Mondays and Wednesdays will be held March 14 at 7 p.m. p.m., 7-8 p.m.; Good Friday 11 Wednesday, March 6, from 6-8 Elkhart following morning Mass approxi- a.m. to 2 p.m., 7-8 p.m.; Holy p.m.; and Tuesday, March 19, 7-8 mately 9:30 to finish; Saturdays Saturday, 12-1 p.m., 3-5 p.m. p.m. only. St. Thomas the Apostle all year from 10:30 a.m. to 12 New Carlisle Parish Crypt Confessions: Good 1405 N. Main St. p.m., 3:30-4:20 p.m. St. Stanislaus Kostka Friday, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Warsaw Confessions available Monday, 55756 Tulip Road 8-9 a.m.; Thursday, 4-5 p.m.; Confessions available Our Lady of Guadalupe Saturdays from 9-10 a.m.; and LaGrange Thursdays 5:30-6:30 p.m.; Pierceton 225 Gilliam Dr. from 4-5 p.m. on the Thursday St. Joseph Saturdays 3-3:45 p.m. and any- St. Francis Xavier Consult parish bulletin for before First Friday. 050 N — 100 E time on request. Holy Week 408 W. Catholic St. Confession times. Consult parish bulletin for St. Vincent de Paul Confessions will be held Monday Confession available every Confession times. March 25, 11 a.m. to noon; Sacred Heart 1108 S. Main St. Saturday, 3-4 p.m.; Lenten Tuesday March 26, 11 a.m. Mondays at 7 p.m.; Penance ser- 125 N. Harrison Confessions available Ligonier to noon, and 5:30-7 p.m.; vice called Pizza, Ping-Pong and Confessions weekly on Saturdays, 8:30-9 a.m. and Wednesday, March 27, 11 a.m. Penance on Saturday, March 23, Saturdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m., 3-4:30 p.m.; Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m.; St. Patrick to noon and 5:30-7 p.m.; Holy 12-3 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays fol- Saturday, March 23, 10 a.m. to 12 300 Ravine Park Dr. Thursday, March 28, 8 p.m.; lowing 5:30 p.m. Mass and first p.m. Parish Penance Service. Confessions available anytime Good Friday, March 29, 3 p.m. Saturday of the month following before or after the following and 7:30 p.m. Plymouth 8 a.m. Mass. Garrett Mass times: Tuesdays at 6 p.m. St. Michael in Spanish; Wednesdays at 5:30 612 N. Walnut St. St. Joseph p.m. in English; Thursdays at 6 New Haven Waterloo 300 W. Houston St. Confessions available at the p.m. in Spanish with Holy Hour St. John the Baptist following times: Feb. 16, 8:40- St. Michael the Archangel Consult parish bulletin for at 6:30 p.m.; Saturdays 5 p.m. 943 Powers St. 9:20 a.m. and 11 a.m. to noon 1098 County Road 39 Confession times. in English. Bilingual Penance Confessions available during and 3-4 p.m.; Feb. 20, 4:30-4:50 Confessions available all Service is on March 21 at 6:30 Lent on Thursdays from 4:45-6:45 p.m.; Feb. 23, 8:40-9:20 a.m and weekdays of Lent 7:30-8 a.m.; Geneva p.m. p.m., weekdays from 6:30-7:10 11 a.m. to noon and 3-4 p.m.; Feb. Saturdays, 5-5:45 p.m.; additional a.m., and Saturdays from 3-4:45 27, 4:30-4:50 p.m.; March 2, 8:40- times will be available during St. Mary of the Presentation Mishawaka p.m. 9:20 a.m. and 11 a.m. to noon and Holy Week. 5790 E 1100 S 3-4 p.m.; March 6, The Light is on Confessions heard on Queen of Peace St. Louis, Besancon For You, 6-8 p.m.; March 9, 8:40- Saturdays from 4:15-4:45 p.m. or 4508 Vistula Road 15535 Lincoln Hwy. East 9:20 a.m. and 11 a.m. to noon and Yoder by appointment. Confessions available Confessions available Fridays 3-4 p.m.; March 13, 4:30-4:50 St. Aloysius Saturday, 3:30-5 p.m. (from Feb. 15 through March 22) p.m.; March 16, 8:40-9:20 a.m., 11 14623 Bluffton Rd. Goshen from 7-8 p.m., and Wednesday, a.m. to noon and 3-4 p.m.; March Confessions available Saturdays St. Bavo March 6, 6-8 p.m. 18, Lenten Penance Service at 7 at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., first Saturday St. John the Evangelist 502 West Seventh St. p.m.; March 23, 8:40-9:20 a.m., 11 after the 9 a.m. Mass, during Holy 109 W. Monroe St. Confessions available a.m. to noon and 3-4 p.m.; March Hour on Thursdays at 6 p.m.; and Confessions available during Saturdays of Lent from 9-10 a.m. Nix Settlement 25, 11 a.m. to noon and 4-5 p.m.; Wednesday, March 6, from 6-8 the Lenten season every Tuesday Other times by appointment. St. Catherine of Alexandria March 27, 11 a.m. to noon and 3-4 p.m. and Friday at 6:30-7 p.m.; Holy 9989 S. State Road 9 p.m.; March 28, 2-4 p.m.; March 29, Good Friday after the Liturgy Week will be Tuesday, March 26, Confessions available on of the Passion. at 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, March Sundays from 8:30-9:15 a.m. and 10 TODAY’S CATHOLIC February 10, 2013 St. Thomas the Apostle is Elkhart County’s largest Catholic school

they get to be on a real stage — BY DENISE FEDOROW it’s definitely a unique extracurricular,” Kolakovich said. ELKHART — From high aca- Community service is a big demic standards and extracurricu- focus at St. Thomas — each lar activities to a strong sense of grade level has a special project. Catholic identity and community, For example, kindergartners col- St. Thomas has a lot to offer. lect clothes for The Christ Child, The principal, Christopher fourth graders had a bake sale Kolakovich has a long history at for the Elkhart County Humane the school — he’s been principal Society and eigth graders partici- for three years, but taught in the pated in a “seed to feed” program building for 11 years and also and picked potatoes and brought attended St. Thomas. them to a local food pantry. The largest of the three Building on community and Catholic elementary schools in Catholic identity, St. Thomas has Elkhart County, there are about “school family” groups — led by 381 students enrolled in kinder- an eighth grader and consisting garten through eighth grades. of students of all grade levels, The school was built in 1950 and they have special programs for completed a renovation project the school family groups, usually in 2010, adding four classrooms, tied to the liturgical season. They a student health center, teacher’s offer Advent prayer services and lounge and a “more identifiable Holy Thursday Seder meals for grand entrance.” the groups. Academically, Kolakovich said But according to Kolakovich, they strive to offer instruction the biggest strength is the people. tailored to meet each student’s “The students first of all — needs. For example, for fifth we have a great group of kids through eighth grades they have who treat each other with respect, the ALEKS computer program to … take education seriously and support math curriculum, which appreciate being in a Catholic comes with a program for each school — where they can talk individual’s math needs, helping about God and pray,” he said. to move them forward. He went on to praise the For kindergarten through third dedicated staff, who feel they grades the school offers a Minds have a vocation and embrace and Motion program, a parent- their Catholic identity, the parent volunteer run program with a lot volunteers, who are so service of exercise and physical play. minded, and their pastor. “It stresses balance, motor “Father Bill (Sullivan) is a big supporter of the school. He really skills and visual tracking and Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades poses with inquisitive St. Thomas School kindergarteners during his visit to the school. research has shown it helps cares about the school and likes students concentrate better and to greet the kids when they arrive be more focused,” Kolakovich and when they’re dismissed,” explained. Kolakovich added. For extracurricular activities St. Thomas offers a “daily St. Thomas has fall and spring dose of faith” that helps keep stu- sports teams. Their dents grounded. mascot is the Spartans. Students in seventh and eighth grades host clinics in volleyball and basketball for younger students. The school offers beginning and advanced bands, a middle school choir and middle school bell choir. St. Thomas partners with Premier Arts Theatre Company to involve students St. Thomas School Principal Chris Kolakvich, left, and St. Thomas Pastor Father Bill in drama produc- Sullivan, right, join Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades on his school visit on Jan. 31. tions. They also work with third through eighth- grade students to produce a musical. The students pay a fee, audition and rehearse with the theatre company and the all-student musical is held at The Lerner Theatre. “They do a PROVIDED BY ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE SCHOOL quality job with Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades speaks at an all-school St. Thomas the Apostle School seventh-grade students celebrate pajama our students and Mass about St. John Bosco during his homily. day during Catholic Schools Week. February 10, 2013 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 11 St. Thomas the Apostle is Elkhart County’s largest Catholic school

The exterior of St. Thomas the Apostle School St. Thomas the Apostle School 1331 N. Main St. Drawing children to Jesus is reason Elkhart, IN 46514 for Catholic schools Pastor – Father Bill Sullivan Principal – Christopher large congregation filled with stu- Aquinas. “That’s the first time I BY KAREN CLIFFORD Kolakovich dents, teachers, administrators, par- have ever had a first-grade class tell ents and parishioners. Bosco was me they are studying St. Thomas 23 teachers ELKHART — The Savior, a saint, an Italian parish priest, who worked Aquinas!” Bishop Rhoades students and snow were in the mix with poor young boys to offer them remarked. Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades poses with inquisitive St. Thomas School kindergarteners during his visit to the school. PHOTOS BY KAREN CLIFFORD 8 support staff Enrollment – 381 students as Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades cele- an education that incorporated After learning that fifth graders (kindergarten-eight) brated Mass and visited St. Thomas spiritual guidance and catechetical were studying the seven sacraments the Apostle School in Elkhart on teaching. of the Church, Bishop Rhoades In 1859, some of these same asked a volunteer to come to the Web address [email protected] Jan. 31. On the memorial day of St. John boys became a part of a group front of the class so that the bishop Phone number – (574) 264-4855 Bosco, Bishop Rhoades explained started by Bosco called the could show the students the out- the background of the saint to a Salesians, who encouraged educa- ward signs of the sacrament of tion and mission work. Bosco later Holy Orders for a priest’s ordina- formed a group for women called tion. He asked a young man to the Salesian Sisters that encom- kneel so that he could demonstrate passed the same values as the origi- the laying on of hands, and then nal group. later showed how the anointing Bishop Rhoades spoke of Jesus’ of the priest’s hands with sacred love for children by referring to the chrism oil is done. Gospel of Matthew when Christ One of the biggest surprises and said, “Let the children come to highlights for Bishop Rhoades dur- me,” and “Unless you become like ing his classroom visits came when little children you will not enter the the seventh grade, under the lead- kingdom of heaven.” ership of teacher Mary Lucchese, Bishop Rhoades explained that recited the “Our Father” prayer in drawing children to Jesus is the Latin. number one reason for Catholic Father Bill Sullivan, pastor of schools. St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, “A Catholic school should not offered his reflections on Catholic only be a school of academics education. St. Thomas School Principal Chris Kolakvich, left, and St. Thomas Pastor Father Bill or athletics, but also a school of “As the bishop was saying ear- Sullivan, right, join Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades on his school visit on Jan. 31. holiness,” Bishop Rhoades empha- lier today, the reason for our school sized. is the person of Jesus Christ. When Families are invited to During his visit to school a child is brought to the waters of bring a blanket and a classrooms, Bishop Rhoades Baptism, we think of one of the picnic for St. Thomas the encountered many faith questions Gospel passages where Jesus said, Apostle “Picnic in the from students. In the kindergarten ‘Let the children come to me.’ The Park” day during Catholic class, the bishop asked the students parents believe that the relationship “If I am a shepherd, who are the is not only to be nurtured in the Schools Week. sheep?” After one student replied, home, but on a daily basis in their “We are,” another student said, education,” said Father Sullivan. “But we don’t look anything like “Our schools are very blessed sheep!” with academics, and I believe that The first grade class impressed has been proven time and time Bishop Rhoades when he asked again. But when we touch the spiri- them what they were studying in tual life of a child, it is part of who Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades receives a spiritual bouquet from a kindergar- religion and a student answered a person is as well,” said Father ten student. that they were studying St. Thomas Sullivan.

12 TODAY’S CATHOLIC February 10, 2013 Bishop Rhoades encourages Luers’ Knights to stay close to God

BY MICHELLE CASTLEMAN only true way to bring us joy and peace in our lives.” He continued, “We must know FORT WAYNE — In his three- His will, so we can do His will.” part homily, Bishop Kevin C. Bishop Rhoades gave a per- Rhoades left students at Fort sonal example from his own life Wayne’s Bishop Luers High when in college he was up on a School with some very important mountain praying to know if God thoughts during National Catholic was leading him to the priest- Schools Week as he celebrated hood. After much inner struggle Mass Tuesday morning, Jan. 29. and unrest, he was flooded with a First he updated them on peace about going to the seminary Bishop John D’Arcy’s, bishop — a peace that has lasted now for emeritus, health condition and 30 years. asked for their daily prayers as Before his final blessing, their former chaplain battles an Bishop Rhoades expressed his aggressive cancer. He assured gratitude for the beautiful Luers them of Bishop D’Arcy’s deep choir, Mass participants and his love for his Bishop Luers family concelebrants — Fathers Dan and how dear to his heart they Durkin and Ben Muhlenkamp. are. Then Bishop Rhoades contin- JOE ROMIE Next, he helped them to under- ued his tradition, which began Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades celebrates stand the Letter to the Hebrews with his first visit to Bishop Mass at Bishop Luers High School from the first reading, explaining Luers, a question-and-answer ses- and then answers questions from that no animal sacrifices could sion with the student body. students. ever do what the ultimate sacri- The first student carried on fice the Son of God did once and another tradition, asking for for all, when He offered Himself a hug, while others went on At left, Bishop Rhoades lights a bringing about reconciliation, to inquire about the bishop’s candle at the grotto. peace and salvation. “This is what favorite Bible story, Super Bowl the Mass is for us today,” said predictions and his take on Bishop Rhoades. this year’s March for Life. The Finally, he challenged the bishop shared that he has been Knights to say the Our Father in Washington D.C. each year every morning when they wake since he was in high school and up and mean what they say when though in frigid weather this they recite “Thy will be done.” year, his favorite part of the event He referenced the passage from was walking together, united as a Below, a student gets a hug from the Gospel, “My mother and my joyful, courageous witness of the brothers are whoever does the sacredness of life. Bishop Rhoades. will of God.” The bishop was encouraged by And Bishop Rhoades told students to start a Twitter account students to ask themselves when and was taught the meaning of discerning important decisions, the acronym YOLO (You only “What would God want me to live once). Word had spread from do? What is the loving thing to his session at Bishop Dwenger, do? For doing His will is the so the bishop narrated the story

of his close encounter with death when he felt the strong urge to get off the train in Bari, Italy, which was later bombed by ter- rorists at the next stop, killing 85 passengers. After telling about the first car he owned and his intramural football days, Bishop Rhoades agreed 10%10% DEDE DESCUENTODESCUENTO to sing along to the school fight song if students would in turn en espacios para sepultura bajo tierra, apertura/ sing the recessional hymn with cierres y bóvedas, o $250 dólares de descuento en the same gusto. cierres y bóvedas, o $250 dólares de descuento en After Mass, the bishop pro- espacios para criptas simples ceeded to the cafeteria, then spent time in the hallways with young (sepultura sobre tierra) and old alike, visiting with one of was interested to learn the seniors o $75 dólares de descuento en espacios para nichos simples (cenizas). his tour guides for the day, young were studying the four cardinal Hay tumbas disponibles en el nuevo Jardín de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Sección Q. sophomore Joseph Lewis and virtues — prudence, justice, forti- health teacher, John Sorg, who is tude and temperance. He stressed El Cementerio Católico es un lugar sagrado, incluidas criptas en el jardín, bloques de nichos para in his 50th year at Bishop Luers. the importance of the relation- consagrado desde hace mucho tiempo de acuerdo con cremación, y espacios para sepultura en mausoleo. Lewis detailed, “I was called to ship between charity and justice nuestra tradición católica. El Cementerio Católico tiene Lo invitamos a pensar en sus necesidades de entierro the office and asked to greet the while suggesting students let the hermosas áreas arboladas disponibles para los entierros. detenidamente y sin presiones antes de que surja la Gospels be their “Book of Life” Responda ahora si le gustaría descansar en paz en necesidad, y así aliviar a sus seres queridos de tener que bishop at the door upon his arriv- estemaravilloso lugar. tomar estas difíciles decisiones. al. Of course, I said ‘yes!’” as they head to college. Además de los lotes bajo tierra, el Cementerio Católico Ahora disponible: cripta en el jardín The bishop lit a candle in the “Stay close to God and sur- tiene muchas otras opciones de sepultura disponibles, Saint Isaac Jogues beautiful grotto before stopping round yourself with good friends, by Tyler McAtee’s morality class. those who share your morals,” he Llame a Larry Fisher al 260.426.2044 para concertar una cita o visite las o cinas del There he quoted one of his favor- said. The annual visit culminated cementerio en 3500 Lake Avenue, de lunes a viernes, de 8.30 a.m. a 4:30 p.m. ites from Blessed Pope John Paul with a meeting of the theology www.catholic-cemetery.org II, “Authentic freedom is not to instructors and campus ministry do what we want, but what we staff and finally, a one-on-one ought.” with longtime Principal Mary The bishop guaranteed the Keefer. group of juniors, “The truth will always set you free.” Promoción válida hasta el 1 de junio de 2013 In Meg Hanlon’s Catholic social teaching course, the bishop February 10, 2013 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 13

Annual You Can Lend this summer. Segments of the bus tour will a Hand coupon book continue in spring 2014, and the fundraiser begins broader celebration will culminate that summer. st round the iocese MISHAWAKA — The 31 annu- a d al You Can Lend a Hand fundrais- Evening of reflection for er kicked off its coupon book sale this week. The annual campaign, medical personnel offered sponsored by Quality Dining, Inc., FORT WAYNE — An evening serves as one of the main fundrais- MONROEVILLE STUDENTS RALLY FOR SCHOOL CHOICE of reflection for physicians, nursing efforts for Catholic schools in es and other health care work- the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South ers will be held Friday, March 1, Bend. from 7-8:30 p.m. at St. John the Coupon books are sold for $3 Baptist Catholic Church, 4500 S. through March 1, by Catholic Fairfield Ave., in Fort Wayne. The school students in the Fort Wayne program, sponsored by Dr. Jerome and South Bend areas. Lejeune Catholic Physicians Guild The South Bend You Can Lend of Northeast Indiana, will feature a Hand coupon book contains cou- Father James Bromwich of the Sons pons for free items from Burger of St. Philip Neri, and chaplain King, Chili’s and Papa Vino’s of the Northeast Indiana Catholic Italian Kitchen restaurants and Physicians Guild, and includes offers for the South Bend Silver Eucharistic Adoration, Scripture Hawk, Compton Family Ice Arena reading, homily, quiet prayer and and the Kroc Center. Each book petitions — focused on the mission has 18 coupons and is valued at and work of all health care workers. $90. Spouses are welcome. The Fort Wayne You Can Lend a Hand book contains coupons for Woo to speak at Holy free items from Burger King and Chili’s restaurants, ticket offers Cross College spring for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants and business seminar series Komets and free skate admission and rental at the Lutheran Health NOTRE DAME — Prominent SportsCenter. Each book has 18 BY MICHELLE CASTLEMAN business and community lead- coupons and is valued at $100. ers once again bring their success To help promote the campaign, In addition to National Catholic Schools Week, parents, students and staff from St. stories to Holy Cross College and several area Catholic elementary Joseph School and community leaders hosted Painting Monroeville Yellow celebrat- the Michiana community. The school students participated in the “Practical Lessons in Success” recording of a radio commercial ing National School Choice Week. On Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 29, Principal Stanley series highlights community ser- now playing on local radio sta- Liponoga led students, donned in yellow scarves, through the streets of town, spread- vice, finance and government ser- tions. vice in a varied program for this The You Can Lend a Hand pro- ing the word of school choice and showing support for effective education alternatives spring. The series is free and open gram has raised over $8.9 million for all children. The participants marched from their current school on Mulberry Street to the public. for Catholic schools in Indiana “The series, after a successful and southwest Michigan since its to what they hope to be their future facility for the 2013-2014 school year in the former fall program, expands into new launch in 1982. The past fund- Monroeville Elementary building. There they chose to pop, rather than release, yel- areas to provide new perspectives raising profits have been used to on successful community leaders,” improve the educational environ- low air-filled balloons. Participants raised awareness about private, public and parochial notes Brother John Paige, president ment of the participating schools, School Choice options. Principal Liponaga stressed, “Parents need to be aware that they of Holy Cross College. including improvements to class- “We’re fortunate to be able to room and playground equipment, have a choice in the State of Indiana. Indiana is leading the way in education reform and expand our efforts to national inter- computer software, tuition assis- it benefits all parents to be able to send their children to the school that is best suited for ests as well as local success sto- tance, library books and capital ries. “Dr. Carolyn Y. Woo, presi- improvements. their education.” dent and CEO of Catholic Relief ‘Ignited, enter the fire!’ Services, leads the series on Feb. 13. youth retreat scheduled St. Augustine Year Alliance for Catholic themed bus will visit communities ‘40 Days for Life’ where ACE has been privileged to campaign begins Feb. 13 FORT WAYNE — Youth of Faith speaker asks Education to celebrate 20 send forth faith-filled teachers and school leaders as well as enter into throughout the diocese are invited ‘Why be Catholic?’ years with campaign, bus SOUTH BEND — People of all to attend a retreat experience like a variety of innovative partnerships tour since it was founded in 1993 by faiths are invited to join in prayer no other. “Ignited,” a retreat spe- SOUTH BEND — Dynamic and fasting along with peaceful vigil cifically for high school teens, nationally-renown speaker Holy Cross Fathers Timothy Scully NOTRE DAME — The University and Sean McGraw. and community outreach during the will be held March 8-10 at Bishop Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers of 40 Days for Life campaign, which EWTN will speak at St. Augustine of Notre Dame’s Alliance for An array of events are sched- Dwenger High School. Catholic Education (ACE) is plan- begins Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13, Sponsored by the Diocese of Parish (1501 W. Washington St., uled at Notre Dame and across ning a cross-country celebration the country with a specially outfit- and ends March 24. Prayer will be Fort Wayne-South Bend, diocesan South Bend) on the topic “Why held at the Prayer Peninsula next to Be Catholic?” on Sunday, Feb. 10, of Catholic schools that will mark ted tour bus, provided by a gener- high schools and various parishes, ACE’s 20 years of service to under- the abortion facility on Ironwood this retreat is designed to bring from 12:30-2 p.m. ous benefactor that will bring a served children and to the Church’s Notre Dame presence to cities big Circle, particularly on Tuesdays and hundreds of high school teens The Notre Dame alumnus will Fridays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. tackle questions like: “Why listen mission of educating hearts and and small. The bus tour will come together before the Eucharist for minds. and Fridays from noon until 6 p.m., conversion through music, talks, to a Church that makes all of home to the Notre Dame campus “Celebrating the Gift of Catholic for events on the weekend of the the times when abortions take place. sharing and prayer. these rules that inhibit my free- An average 13 innocent babies are dom?” and “What’s the big deal Schools” is the message that will lit- Notre Dame-Navy football game in Visit www.ignitedretreat.com erally roll out from the Notre Dame aborted per week. for retreat information and regis- about being Catholic and why early November to commemorate campus this fall, when ACE leaders, the first ACE recruiting meeting, The newly-acquired building on tration. Teens won’t want to miss does it matter?” He’ll also touch the opposite side of the abortion on Divine Revelation and the sac- faculty and staff will travel by bus to on Nov. 4, 1993. Those students this epic weekend! events in nearly 50 cities, advancing facility known as the Life Center Prayer support is very impor- raments. constituted the “ACE 1” cohort and their mission to sustain, strengthen began their preparation for teach- currently houses the St. Joseph tant for the success of this retreat. Although his presentation is County Right to Life organization free, support is welcome via pub- and transform Catholic schools. ing following their graduation from Please pray for the teens who will Spanning the 2013-14 academ- and will have the Divine Mercy be attending and all those who are lication sales and a freewill offer- Notre Dame, in the summer of 1994. ic year, the bus tour will be part The “ACE 20” cohort, consisting of Chapel completed soon for indoor involved in preparing for Ignited. ing. His presentation will fol- extended prayer, classrooms for low St. Augustine’s 10:30 a.m. of a 20th anniversary campaign about 90 graduates competitively RSVP with the number of peo- highlighting the contributions that Natural Family Planning, offices Gospel Choir Mass and an option- selected from colleges and universi- ple who will be praying to Kathleen Catholic schools make to the rich for counseling for pre abortive and al pancake breakfast ($4 admis- ties across the United States, begins Fogarty, [email protected]. education landscape in America post-abortive counseling, and the sion). its two-year formation experience and to society generally. An ACE- Holy Family Adoption Agency. 14 TODAY’S CATHOLIC February 10, 2013 Bishop celebrates World Marriage Day Mass

BY DENISE FEDOROW shows and he spoke of each of the forms of love,” he said. Upcoming local “Eros” is romantic or sexual BRISTOL — Bishop Kevin C. love, “philia” means the love weekends will be Rhoades celebrated Mass for of friendship “brotherly love,” held in Elkhart World Marriage Day at St. Mary “storge” is parental love, and, of the Annunciation in Bristol on lastly, “agape” is the love that March 8-10 and in Saturday, Feb. 2. Paul is speaking of. Agape means “It’s a pleasure to be back a totally benevolent love, one not Fort Wayne April here at St. Mary’s in Bristol. It’s tainted by selfishness. 12-14. Contact Greg so beautiful, especially in the “It is love just for the sake of snow!” Bishop Rhoades said. He loving, not seeking any reward and Norma Germann added his thanks to the organizers or return of the love. The other at (574) 287-6432. from the World Wide Marriage kinds of love can seek a return or Encounter group for inviting him. can be tainted by selfishness. It is The bishop offered up prayers the word the New Testament uses and Jan Zavodny, parishioners at for “strength of marriage in our for God’s love for us, the love St. Charles Borromeo Parish in country and society, and I ask that is seen and revealed in Jesus’ Fort Wayne, and Tony and Janine God’s special blessing upon all self-gift on the cross.” Brown of St. Joseph Parish in the married couples here and “When one thinks of St. Paul’s Fort Wayne. around the world.” description of agape love, one The Browns have been Bishop Rhoades also shared may think it is extremely idealis- involved in Worldwide Marriage with the congregation that Bishop tic. All the traits of love listed by Encounter since 1996, “and it John M. D’Arcy’s, bishop emeri- St. Paul are seen in Jesus. So to th was truly life-changing experi- tus, 56 anniversary of his ordi- take on those traits is to imitate ence,” Tony said. The Browns nation to the priesthood was that Christ, to become more like Him. are presenters and are training the day. We shouldn’t consider St. Paul’s Zavodnys to be presenters, too. World Wide Marriage description of love as so idealistic The Zavodnys have been PHOTOS BY DENISE FEDOROW Encounter is a marriage enrich- that it is beyond us, but it is not involved since 1998 and wish “to A young man receives Holy Communion from Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades ment program with the emphasis something we can attain on our try and help couples enrich their on communication between hus- own power,” he said. “Agape at St. Mary the Annunciation, Bristol. The bishop celebrated Mass at St. marriages — you can always Mary’s on Feb. 2 — World Marriage Day. band and wife offering a unique love is God’s gift to us. How else make a good marriage better,” approach aimed at revitalizing could we love our enemies as Jan said. Christian marriage. Jesus commands us?” A young priest in Spain, “If you love someone with Father Gabriel Calvo began the agape, you will never cease program in 1952 when he started to love them. That is why the offering conferences for married Church seals a couple’s love with couples. In 1967 a couple and a Christ’s Divine love (agape love) priest presented the weekend to in the sacrament of Marriage. seven couples and four priests at With this love, we experience the University of Notre Dame. By the peace of Jesus at the deepest the summer of 1968, 50 couples level of our souls. This is divine and 29 priests were presenting love. It doesn’t destroy romantic weekends all over the U.S. or friendship love, but it puri- During his homily, Bishop fies, protects and empowers these Rhoades said he was delighted human forms of love.” that the second reading was St. The bishop thanked the mar- Paul’s hymn to charity in the first ried couples present and reminded letter to the Corinthians — “per- them that it is important that they fect for World Marriage Day. It is renew the “yes” of their wedding the most popular reading chosen every day, relying on the strength by couples for their wedding cer- that comes from the sacrament. emonies.” “The vocation to love is a The bishop said to fully grasp wonderful thing, the only force the meaning of St. Paul’s hymn to that can truly transform the love, we must look at the original world. Your family becomes Greek used — there are several a true domestic Church when words for love in Greek. Christ is at the center of your Bishop Rhoades told the marriage and when His love ani- congregation that he didn’t mates your relationship,” Bishop learn the Greek in seminary but Rhoades said. After the Mass the bishop instead learned it as a teen from Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades poses in front of statues of the Holy Family at St. Mary the Annunciation, Bristol, with Archbishop Fulton Sheen. joined about 30 couples at Das “It was late 1960s, early ‘70s Dutchman Essenhaus for dinner. two couples involved in the World Wide Marriage Encounter program. From left are Steve Zavodny and his wife and I was watching one of his TV Two of those couples were Steve Jan, Bishop Rhoades, Janine Brown and her husband Tony. The couples are both from Fort Wayne.

Defend traditional family, the dignity of being a child of God, and regulate inheritance. Meeting journalists at the turies: the recognition that the union so that is untouchable.” “But do not call it marriage,” he Vatican Feb. 4, Archbishop Paglia must be based on love between the rights of others, While the Church opposes rec- said. presented several of his council’s spouses. archbishop says ognizing gay unions as “marriage,” As an increasing number of planned activities for 2013, includ- However, he said, “the family is he said, it affirms the full dignity of states and nations move toward ing coordination of the Oct. 26-27 not just about affection.” Marriage VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While homosexual men and women. “If a recognizing same-sex unions, he international Pilgrimage of Families and true family life also must the Catholic Church opposes legal country outlawed homosexuality, I said Western societies “risk mak- to the Vatican for the Year of Faith. include the potential to generate sanctions against homosexual- would work to overturn it,” he said, ing decisions, which can have While the formal enrollment new life, to educate children as good ity and favors legal protections for adding that he believed there are consequences” that people haven’t process for the pilgrimage hasn’t human beings and good citizens and unmarried people living together, still “20 or 25 countries” that define thought about. opened, he said families interested to care for the weak. it must defend traditional marriage homosexuality as a crime. “Will the words ‘mother’ and in participating can send an email “Democracy needs solid and sta- for the good of society, said the Archbishop Paglia also called for ‘father’ disappear from our vocabu- to [email protected] to request ble families,” he said. The sharing, president of the Pontifical Council greater efforts to ensure legal protec- lary in favor of ‘Parent A’ and more information. caring and sacrificing people learn for the Family. tion and inheritance rights for people ‘Parent B’?” he asked, referring Archbishop Paglia said those in their families are what spurs them Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, who are living together, but not mar- to gay couples and their children. interested in the good of the human to extend their defense of the rights council president, said the Catholic ried. “To promote justice and to pro- “With millions of only children, will person should rejoice over one of of others to the social and political Church affirms “the equal dignity tect the weak,” he said, legal means the words ‘brother’ and ‘sister’ still the key evolutions in the under- realm, and to protect and care for of every child of God. No one lacks must be found to guarantee rights have any meaning?” standing of marriage over the cen- weaker members of society. February 10, 2013 COMMENTARY 15 The order of perfection, charity CRS Rice Bowl hose who desire to grow in list of imagined accomplishments. sanctity in accord with their And, at the end of each day, it will be “For Lent, For Life. What you Tbaptismal vocation to holi- painfully obvious that we have not GUEST give up for Lent changes lives.” GUEST ness of life often imagine their made nearly the progress we would This is the theme that sets the progress in terms of what might be like. COMMENTARY stage for Lenten commitments to called the order of perfection: “Be Frustration and despondency Catholic Relief Services (CRS) COMMENTARY perfect, as your heavenly Father is (the bane of the spiritual life, what Rice Bowl. During this Year of perfect,” Jesus clearly taught (Mt the Catholic spiritual tradition often Faith, we are asked to renew our 5:48). And certainly from one per- spirituality and deepen our faith calls “acedie”) can often attend such MSGR. MICHAEL HEINTZ MELISSA WHEELER spective, this is both faithful to the an examination of conscience, and in Christ. This Lent, CRS Rice Gospel and noble in intention. we can drive ourselves into a kind Bowl gives us all a beautiful However, the inherent perils of of perfectionism, which simply However, in changing the paradigm, opportunity to pray, fast and give environment in which we live, we seeing one’s progress in terms of the induces further frustration, because in re-crafting the way we conceive of alms in ways that can change respect the goodness of nature, a order of perfection are twofold: first, the perfection we rather unrealisti- the progress we desire, by recalibrat- lives. gift God has given to us. in this age (as Augustine reminds cally desire seems always to elude ing the standard from the goal or end Prayer: We pray for others in All of us can actively par- us) we will battle sin and temptation our grasp. as perfection to charity as the end, the global Church. We reflect on ticipate in CRS Rice Bowl. until we draw our last breath, and It might be more fruitful to we may find it much easier to make what type of person God calls us Priests, parish and school lead- we will ultimately be unable to reach change our model or paradigm of the progress without the angst of a kind to be, and we ask for His guid- ers, individuals and families can the kind of perfection to which we progress we desire. Perhaps rather of works-righteousness perfectionism ance in living up to our potential. incorporate the four components are called (if by that we mean an than operating within the order of that can dog us as we make our way Fasting: We fast, or give things of the program — prayer, fast- actualized and abiding sinlessness); perfection, we might consider re- toward heaven. up, as a reminder to remove ing, learning and giving — into that will be the gift bestowed upon envisioning our life in terms of the If we stop thinking of “perfec- things in our lives that get in the their Lenten observances. This us in the age to come; second, we order of charity. Now, it should be tion” as the goal and begin to see way of our relationship with God. year CRS has developed new can unwittingly begin to envision our made immediately clear that we are charity, the love of God poured into Fasting also reminds us of those progress in terms of fulfilling obliga- actually speaking of the same life, who experience hunger. resources to engage us in their work throughout Lent. tions, checking boxes, completing a the same desire, the same progress. Giving: We give alms with a ORDER, PAGE 16 Families and individuals, spirit of generosity to our broth- please take a free Rice Bowl ers and sisters in need, honoring when they are offered in your Jesus’ call to serve our neighbors. parish. Each Rice Bowl comes Rice Bowl is a tradition of with a spiritual guide that pro- God calls us to the work of salvation CRS, the official international vides weekly activities for you humanitarian agency of the and your family to connect your autobiographical. Paul declares Catholic community in the fasting and almsgiving to the that he himself is an Apostle, Reflection United States and is active in stories of our brothers and sisters THE having been called by the Lord. more than 100 countries world- For weeks, actually since in need. You can also try some However, he calls himself “least” wide helping more than 100 Christmas, the Church has been recipes from the featured coun- SUNDAY among the Apostles, since he, million of the world’s poorest introducing us, as it were, to Jesus. tries and participate in Rice Bowl unlike the others, once persecuted people. Five of these countries The great feasts of the Epiphany online by registering at crsrice- GOSPEL Christ living in the community of and of the Baptism of the Lord told are highlighted throughout Lent. Christians. • Week one: bowl.org or crsplatodearroz. MSGR. OWEN F. CAMPION us about Jesus. Improving agricul- org (Spanish) to receive weekly Still, God called him. Now, subtly but firmly, the ture in Burkina Faso Unrestrained by this sense of reflections via email. The website Church urges us to respond • Week two: Stopping tuberculo- provides an online giving option. personal unworthiness, Paul to this entry of Jesus into our sis in East Timor wholeheartedly responds to this Parish resources offered consciousness. How shall we • Week three: Early childhood 5th Sunday in calling. He is God’s instrument. include homily notes, bulletin respond? education in Lesotho Through him, God works the plan announcements, Prayers of the The Church answers the question • Week four: Fostering savings Faithful, Stations of the Cross, Ordinary Time of redemption and mercy. by putting before us three great St. Luke’s Gospel supplies in the Dominican Republic Lenten soup supper activities and Lk 5:1-11 figures in the tradition of holiness, • Week five: more, to bring the program into the last reading. This particular Isaiah, followed by Paul, and then Providing clean The Book of Isaiah is the all aspects of the parish Lenten passage shows the fine literary finally Peter. water in Pakistan source of the first reading observance. hand at work in the composition Each manifests his unworthiness During week six of Lent, Rice this weekend. Written before Schools and religious educa- of the Gospel of Luke, and by to be a part of the great and divine Bowl highlights the Diocese of the Babylonian conquest, this tion programs resources include extension the other Gospels. Here mission of salvation. Yet, fully Oakland, Calif., and the work prophecy was composed when, lesson plans for grades 1-12, vid- Luke uses the Gospel of Mark as realizing this unworthiness, God they have done helping those relatively speaking, and with eos and additional online resourc- a source, but then he adds details calls them each to a particular task. in need with contributions from some qualification, the southern es to use in the classroom. drawn from a source also used by Each person who hears the CRS Rice Bowl. Seventy-five kingdom of the Hebrews was John. word of Christ, and is healed and percent of contributions help the tranquil and prosperous. Of course, Jesus is the central strengthened by Christ’s life in poor and vulnerable outside our Nevertheless, Isaiah felt figure in the story. But, the next grace, has a holy task. Each believer country, while 25 percent of con- that he was called by God to most important figure is Peter. A has a role to play in the work of tributions address local hunger confront the people about their fisherman, along with his brother, salvation, beginning with his or and poverty issues within our infidelity to God or at least their Andrew, both of them living in her personal salvation. Everyone is diocese. lukewarmness in responding Capernaum, Peter was in his boat unworthy. Nevertheless, God calls CRS Rice Bowl is a great to their role as God’s special on the Sea of Galilee when Jesus us and will give us all that truly is opportunity to learn more about people. The story, told in this embarked. The Lord began to needed to be a disciple. Catholic social teaching by focus- reading, conveys by its drama preach to the people assembled ing on themes each week of Lent. and bluntness the totality required on the shore. • Week one: Option for the in Isaiah’s willingness to answer Then Jesus told Peter to row poor. We have the obligation to the divine calling to be a prophet. into deeper water and lower the READINGS reach out to those most in need. Here, in this reading, Isaiah nets into the water. Peter mildly Sunday: Is 6:1-2a, 3-8 Ps 138:1-5, 7-8 • Week two: Community and displays the fervor and power protests, saying that he and his 1 Cor 15:1-11 participation. How we participate that are typical of the writing in associates have been fishing all Monday: Gn 1:1-19 Ps 104:1-2a, 5-6, in our families and communi- all three sections of this ancient night, but with no success. 10, 12, 24, 35c Mk 6:53-56 ties, from our daily actions to our book. Nonetheless, Peter does as Tuesday: Gn 1:20-2:4a Ps 8:4-9 policy decisions, affects each and Paul’s First Epistle to the told. The result is that the nets are every person. Corinthians provides the next Mk 7:1-13 To order free materials for CRS Rice so filled with fish that Peter and Wednesday: Ash Wednesday: • Week three: Rights and reading. 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The oppor- Catholic Relief Services and the this admission, recognizing Friday: Is 58:1-9a Ps 51:3-6a, 18-19 tunity to work and earn a living is that James saw Jesus, and that Peter’s faith instead, and calling Mt 9:14-15 CRS Rice Bowl program contact a right of all people. mwheeler@ even 500 of those who believed Peter thereafter to fish for souls. Saturday: Is 58:9b-14 Ps 86:1-6 Melissa Wheeler at in the Gospel saw the risen Lord. • Week five: Care for God’s bishopdwenger.com Lk 5:27-32 or (260) The reading also is creation. Through protecting the 496-4700, ext. 323. 16 COMMENTARY February 10, 2013 The marriage debate III — SCRIPTURE SEARCH The nature of things Gospel for February 10, 2013 Luke 5: 1-11 ardinal Francis George of ness of things, in the 21st-century Chicago is, arguably, the Following is a word search based on the Gospel postmodern West. And where there THE reading for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle Cmost intellectually accom- is no culturally-affirmed convic- plished bishop in the history of the tion that some realities simply are, C: the message of the full net of fish. The words can American episcopate. Earlier this there will be a parallel intuition that CATHOLIC be found in all directions in the puzzle. year, when the Illinois legislature everything is fungible, plastic, mal- began to consider changing state leable: anything can be changed by DIFFERENCE STANDING THE LAKE GENNESARET law to “accommodate those of the an act of will. The legal ne plus ultra FISHERMEN NET ASKED same sex who wish to ‘marry’ one of this cultural phenomenon came in GEORGE WEIGEL PUT OUT SAT DOWN TAUGHT another” (as the cardinal put it), 2007, when the Spanish government SPEAKING SIMON THE DEEP Professor Dr. George gave the read- allowed Juan to become Juanita ALL NIGHT PARTNERS BOAT ers of his column in the Chicago on his/her national identity card by PETER KNEES SINFUL archdiocesan newspaper a lesson simply declaring (absent any surgi- The biggest losers, though, are JAMES SONS FOLLOWED in metaphysics —and, I suspect, a cal alteration) that he was now she. children, the pope argued. If chil- high-voltage intellectual jolt: Cardinal George was suggesting, dren are simply a lifestyle choice “Sexual relations between a correctly in my view, that same-sex in a “family” that is nothing other AT HIS KNEES man and a woman are naturally and “marriage” is the same, essentially than a willed arrangement for necessarily different from sexual incoherent denial of givenness man- mutual convenience, children lose NANASPEAK I NG relations between same-sex partners. ifest in Spain’s Law 3/2007. their rightful place and their right- PGELLATS I MON This truth is part of the common In his Christmas address to the ful dignity. Citing the chief rabbi of sense of the human race. It was Roman Curia last December, Pope France, Gilles Bernheim, Benedict EPETERASTEN I true before the existence of either Benedict XVI raised similar issues. argued that children are, in this E JONKTOKNJOD Church or State, and it will continue We deplore the “manipulation of bizarre new world, no longer the DKLWNNBEPFEN to be true when there is no State nature” today “where our environ- subject of rights. Rather, “the child of Illinois and no United States of ment is concerned,” the pope noted; has become an object to which EAUCSEMAJPKA people have a right and which they America. A proposal to change this but when it comes to human affairs, WSFHORSTKEAT truth about marriage in civil law human “nature” has become a mat- have a right to obtain.” The freedom is less a threat to religion than it is ter of our “choice.” Which means to be creative, which finds its most OKNEESHADELS an affront to human reason and the that we no longer experience our- awesome expression in procreation, LE I HJGHJRDEM common good of society. It means selves as unique composites of mat- has been reduced to the freedom to we are all to pretend to accept some- ter and spirit. The “matter” of our create myself, however I imagine LDSPUTOUTEHE thing we know is physically impos- humanness is mere ephemera; we myself to be. O I FALLN I GHTL sible. The Legislature might just as are merely, as Pope Benedict put it, The marriage debate is thus well repeal the law of gravity.” “spirit and will.” about more than the legal definition FKTPENWODTAS The crucial term here is “natu- Who are the big losers, the pope of marriage, although that is serious © 2013 Tri-C-A Publications www.tri-c-a-publications.com rally.” And if people were shocked asked, when societies and cultures enough. It’s a debate about whether by the cardinal’s suggestion that a lose their grip on the reality that there are any givens in the human same-sex “marriage” law would “man and women are complemen- condition, or whether willfulness be as fatuous as a statute repealing tary versions of what it means to be and self-assertion trump reality at the law of gravity, it’s because our human?” The family is certainly a every point. If they do, what hap-  60 Does on Seventh Day he 61 “__ and you philosophically-challenged culture loser: for if there is no “duality of pens to democracies built on self-  has lost any grip on what “nature” man and women” that is accepted as evident truths? shall receive” means, beyond that physical world the Way Things Are, than “neither ross ord   we venerate through such civic ritu- is the family any longer a reality” George Weigel 123 45678 91011 is Distinguished Senior  1 Decorative needle case als as recycling. established by anything other than Fellow of the Ethics and Public 12 13 14 2 Angel touched ember to There is little sense of the given- our willfulness. Policy Center in Washington, D.C. 15 16 17 3 Plateau 4 Legal “Friend of” 18 19 20 21 frame of reference, so to speak, will to a clarifying document produced 5 Cain fled here make us better or more devout folks by the International Theological 22 23 24 6 Swig 7 The Father often ORDER in itself, but rather we will keep first Commission in 1991 under the lead- 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 things first: love is the measure. And ership of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, painted as CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 33 34 35 36 8 God was seated on since love is a gift, we need only ask the experience of purgatory — an 37 38 39 40 9 A lot of 52 Across if from Him. He is more generous increase in the capacity to love is 10 Mary’s mother our hearts by the Holy Spirit, as the than we realize, and this liberates us what purgation looks like; if you 41 42 43 11 Purchase amount operative virtue in our sanctification, from the nonsensical effort of trying doubt this assertion, think for a 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 19 Moderate tempo immediately this should shift our to manufacture it from within by a moment about how hard it is to pray 52 53 54 55 (music) frame of reference from ourselves sheer act of our own will. for the good of someone whom you 21 Tightly woven cotton and our meager abilities to what God If sin (also following Augustine) cannot stand. There’s the proof that 56 57 58 23 Beverage has already given us in Christ, His is less a “something” in us, and more growing in charity can at times be 59 60 61 25 “Send down your Son, and desires to share ever more an “absence,” distortion, or damage painful.) Spirit like the __-fall” fully with us. No doubt the degree to of some good within or about us, In our desire to live each moment © 2013 www.tri-c-a-publications.com 26 Airport abbr. which we grow in charity is indeed and further if our focus becomes of the day animated by divine char- Based on these Scripture Readings: Jer 1:4-5, 17- 27 Whichever 19; 1 Cor 12:31-13:13; Lk 4:21-30 and Is 6:1-2a, 3-8; the degree to which we grow in per- deepening charity within us, the gift ity we will of course also fall short; 1 Cor 15:1-11; Lk 5:1-11 28 Actor does fection, but casting our progress in of divine charity fills us, including the change in our paradigm will not 30 Sky terms of charity makes us realize that the crevices hewn in us by sin, those result in our necessarily being more  33 Volcano 31 As the Sorrowful it is Christ living in us, principally “absences” carved out by disordered “perfect,” but it will perhaps bet- 1 Bible’s terebinth 34 American Mother is (but not exclusively) in and through self-love, and by the power of char- ter orient us on the way. By paying 4 Anxiety Cancer Society (abbr.) 32 Aurora the sacramental life, who engenders ity’s own “presence” and energy greater attention to charity at work 9 Scottish prefix 36 Hello! (Ital.) 35 Joseph’s boy His charity within us; it will become force out (or rather, fill in) all that is in and though us, and fretting less 12 Abraham did to Isaac 37 ___ State University 38 Paschal holiday less and less about ourselves and our dark and shadowy and correct all that about our own relative perfection 13 Jesus’ spoke graciously 39 Moving to 40 Many women were achievements (or, more often, bum- is distorted and disordered. (which can come to be viewed as a 14 Spanish “one” 41 Thai in Israel blings and failings). In short, the more we are filled commodity we manage), we can be 15 __ and downs 43 Zero 42 Silly 44 Lands of an estate If we spring from bed each with divine charity, the less “room,” liberated from false hopes rooted in 16 Lazy person 44 Information 48 Rationalism 45 Rewrite morning with the desire to love as so to speak, there will be for sin in our own accomplishments, the freer 17 Central nervous system 52 Flurry 46 Pout God loves, to live each moment of us. So rather than imagining our con- to accept and then extend to others 18 Abraham’s son 53 Type of dance 47 Ceases the day animated by divine charity version or purification principally as the divine charity, the love God has 20 Jeremiah 55 Jesus had to, for us 49 Belief (and of course all charity is divine in a matter of “rooting out” or removing revealed to us fully and completely in 22 Tree fruit 56 Extra 50 Christ died for that it begins with God’s gift, grace, this or that vice, sin or disordered Jesus, His Son. 24 Compass point 57 Given by Creator our ____ rather than merely our self-discipline desire, perhaps we might do better to 25 Find Lot’s wife here 58 East northeast 51 Shall inherit the earth and willpower), we might find our- imagine conversion as the increase 29 Wipe off 59 Did at Last Supper 54 Received selves making better progress. Not, in us of charity. (And it is pre- Msgr. Michael Heintz is pastor of St. Answer Key can be found on page 19 of course, that simply shifting our cisely this which marks, according Matthew Cathedral, South Bend. February 10, 2013 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 17

BISHOP DWENGER WRESTLING TEAM HOSTS CYO WRESTLING CAMP The Bishop Dwenger Wrestling Team will host a CYO Wrestling Camp March 4-15 and conclude with the CYO/South Bend tournament held at Marian High School on Saturday, March 16. All boys in grades 1-8 are welcome to participate. Camp for grades 1-4 will be held from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and grades 5-8 from 6:30-8 p.m. Registration will be on the first night, March 4, at Bishop Dwenger. Cost is $20 payable to John Tone. Please contact John Sports Tone for information at (260) 496-4701 or [email protected]. St. Vincent wins Gold league matchup In final week of regular

BY MICHELLE CASTLEMAN St. John the Baptist, Fort Wayne, Knight, Bruce Cadwell, St. and St. Joseph, Decatur, last Vincent Council 11353, reported season, ICCL’s Lions look week, 32-31 and 29-25. winners from the Knights of FORT WAYNE — The In the victory over St. John, Columbus district contest on Superbowl was not the only big Fort Wayne, Kennedy O’Boyle Sunday, Feb. 3. Advancing to the towards coveted crown scored 15 points and grabbed 17 regional competition in the game played over the week- and the stingy defensive press rebounds as the Panthers boys’ group will be BY JOE KOZINSKI end. The eighth-grade boys’ that set the stage for a 14-5 first came from behind in Joseph Sarrazine teams from St. Vincent and St. quarter. The Trojans had their Charles matched up in a clas- the fourth quarter. (10) from St. SOUTH BEND, MISHAWAKA opportunities, but the basket sic Gold League Catholic Youth Winnie O’Brien Vincent, Will — The final weekend of the seemed to shrink a couple of sizes Organization (CYO) “battle of chipped in five Oberley Inter-City Catholic League season every time the ball was shot in its the unbeatens.” steals and (13) from had a school trying to earn their direction. Like each time they have four assists, St. Louis first ever varsity basketball cham- The Lions of St. Pius not only met over the past four years, the while Victoria Academy pionship and another focused on assembled a trio of formidable game proved to be a defensive Cooper added and Ben being the spoiler. post players in Trent Stoner, showdown. The two teams have three assists Reidy (11), The Lions of St. Pius X were Walter Ellis and Brian Gursky, gone head to head several times and eight Bobby holding on to the league tiebreak- but during the second stanza, since the fifth grade. This time boards. Lomow er as they squared off against the three point shooters of Tony it was St. Vincent who came out In the St. (13) and a west side foe, the Trojans of Carmola, Zack Lattimer and on top by a score of 29-20. Final Joseph, Decatur, Luke Reidy Holy Family at Saint Joseph High Reece Jackowiak threw it in from league standings and tournament matchup, St. Vincent (14), all from St. School. beyond the arch and stretched the seedings will be determined after guard Brooke Kumfer John, New Haven. The Lions had treated the lead to 32-13 heading to intermis- next weekend when the Cardinals had her best game of the For the girls’ division, league like opposing gladiators sion. face St. Joseph, Decatur, and St. season with eight points and Maggie Castleman (10) and in the coliseum as they devoured Opening of the second half Vincent squares off against St. five rebounds. Kumfer nailed Grace Castleman (13) from St. their schedule with the exception would not be good for the Trojans Joseph-St. Elizabeth in the last two clutch free throws late in Louis Academy, Lucy Wagner of a hiccup in week two as their coach under his week of the CYO regular season. the fourth to seal the victory. (11) from St. Vincent and Tina against St. Matthew. breath commented, In girls’ seventh-grade action, O’Boyle added nine points, 12 Kindler (12) from St. John the Since then it has “sleepwalking is Coach Steve Pepe’s Raiders rebounds and a season-high Baptist, New Haven, will move been all green one word, no remained unbeaten in league play seven steals for the Panthers. The on. Top shooters for both boys and gold. hyphen,” as as St. John, New Haven, downed Panthers are now 10-10 and will and girls were the 13 year olds The Holy the Lions St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth, 32-24, face the Raiders in their final reg- with Castleman making 16-25 Family aggressive while the Panthers from St. ular season game this weekend. and Lomow sinking 19-25. contingency play pushed Vincent won two close ones over At the free throw line, Grand had been a the margin promising to 29 points team that would within the first fight and scrape two-and-a-half against all comers. minutes. They also boasted a couple of A Trojan time out, a wake up solid big men in Will Jeffers and call, gutsy play and a 10-2 run of Mark Mayfield. 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Justin Groves cut the margin As the Italian Catholic Church Commission to propose legal He said Jesus was a prophet to 47-26 with just six minutes marked Day for Life Feb. 3, the protections of human life from of love and truth, which are “two standing between St. Pius X and pope used his Sunday Angelus conception to its natural end. names for the same thing, two the coveted crown. address to echo the Italian bish- The pope also greeted the fac- names of God.” Visit Despite the tough and hard- ops’ call “to invest in life and ulty of the University of Rome’s — Carol Glatz nosed play of the Trojans, the the family, also as an effective college of medicine, encouraging diocesefwsb.org/ Lions stayed true to their game response” to the current economic them, especially professors of plan and fundamentally closed crisis. obstetrics and gynecology, “to TClife out the game, 53-38, placing them on top of the league entering the tournament. “Professional Insurance Services” “We have been focusing our practices on working hard play- •Life •Auto ing together as a team,” com- •Health •Home mented St. Pius X head coach, kintz •Annuities •Business Brian Stawski. “I think that we insurance •Disabilities •Liability have a number of kids that can agency •Medicare Supplements play high school basketball and we are working through some •Nursing Home Care motion offense to get them ready 111 North Third Street • Decatur for that level.” (260) 728-9290 •(260) 724-8042 • 1-800-589-5468 “As for the ICCL tournament, there are some very good www.kintzinsurance.com teams in the league and you can’t take anyone for granted,” added Stawski. “Christ the King, St. Matthew and St. Thomas are just PRINCIPAL a few that are very dangerous and have put together nice seasons.” Catholic High School Is your Faith Christ the King was look- ing for the upset of St. Pius (the St. Theodore Guerin High School, in Noblesville, Indiana, is accepting calling you to a Lions held the head to head tie applications for a Principal. breaker) as they closed out their Guerin Catholic, nationally recognized for Catholic identity, is a new career? season with an identical record diocesan (Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana), college preparatory school by dispatching Queen of Peace, 40-27, behind the double-digit dedicated to its mission of serving students (over 700) from diverse A Career Opportunity scoring efforts of Michael Minion backgrounds and preparing them to be servant leaders through authen- and Hunter West. tic faith formation, academic excellence and student life opportunities. Of a Lifetime! St. Thomas upended St. Joseph, 44-42, on Saturday and The Principal at Guerin Catholic reports to the President and CATHOLICS HELPING CATHOLICS completed the weekend sweep by provides direct supervision to the Academic and Athletic Directors, as Because of the tremendous growth of the Knights of more than doubling the Falcons well as the Dean of Students. The Principal also works collaboratively Columbus Insurance program, we have an opening of St. Jude, 49-21. with other directors of the school including Campus Ministry, Catholic for an additional full-time sales representative in Holy Cross was not as fortu- northeastern Indiana and are currently interviewing. nate as they played three games Mission, Advancement, Technology, Admissions, Finance and losing to Mishawaka Catholic, Communications. 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If you are a practical Catholic and are eligible to •Have budgeting and financial management experience. join the Knights of Columbus, with or without The candidate will also have achieved at least a Masters Degree in insurance experience, and would like to know Education, hold or be eligible for an Indiana Administrative license and more about joining our over 1400 full-time sales have 3-5 years of classroom teaching experience. Administrative professionals, mail, fax, or phone your response to: experience is preferred. Call Qualified candidates should email a current resume, cover letter and three reference letters, plus a pastor reference, to: Knights of Columbus (260) 456-2824 John J. Stackowicz, CLU, FICF, LUTCF, FSS Paul Lunsford, President of Guerin Catholic, 3609 E. Jefferson Blvd., or at [email protected]. South Bend, IN 46615-3035 (574) 968-2439 Preference will be given to applications submitted prior to February 28, 2013. Phone: 574-282-1082 FAX: 574-282-1083 EOE EMAIL: [email protected] to advertise. www.guerincatholic.org February 10, 2013 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 19 REST IN PEACE Arcola James R. Berghoff, 85, Monroeville What’s happening? Carl E. Becker, 89, St. Charles Borromeo Carl. A. Gromeaux, 93, St. Patrick St. Rose Helen M. Winebrenner, WHAT’S HAPPENING carries announcements about upcoming events in the diocese. Send in your Decatur 85, Most Precious New Haven Vernon Hebble Jr., Blood Humberto F. Guevara, announcement at least two weeks prior to the event. Mail to: Today’s Catholic, P.O. Box 11169, 66, St. Mary of the 80, St. John the Baptist James H. Brink, 56, Fort Wayne 46856; or email: [email protected]. Events that require an admission charge or Assumption St. Jude John C. Schnelker, 63, payment to participate will receive one free listing. For additional listings of that event, please call Russell H. Jauregui, St. John the Baptist Carroll A. Clemens, 85, our advertising sales staff at (260) 456-2824 to purchase space. 70, St. Mary of the St. Jude Plymouth Assumption Nicholas A. Rhoads, 35, Gustav J. Schmieman, Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday Celebration Sunday breakfast at St. Pius X Movie ‘October Baby’ to be shown Donaldson St. Michael 92, St. Therese South Bend — St. Augustine Granger — The Knights of Elkhart —The movie “October Sister Jude Cecilia South Bend Parish will have a Mardi Gras/ Columbus Council 4263 will Baby,” will be shown Sunday, Henken, 88, Catherine Granger Bridget Echard-Morris, Fat Tuesday celebration Tuesday, have pancake breakfasts Sunday, Feb. 10, from 2:30-4:30 p.m., Kasper Chapel William J. Suski, 71, Feb. 12, in the Community Room, 28, Christ the King Feb. 10, and March 10, from 9 Knights of Columbus Hall, 112 St. Pius X 1501 W. Washington St., from a.m. to noon at St. Pius X. Adults E. Lexington Ave. Free and Fort Wayne Donald F. Pierson 5-8 p.m. Tickets are $7 for adults $6, children 6-10 $3. sponsored by Holy Innocents of Wilma A. Biesiada, 97, Huntington Jr., 54, St. Matthew and $3 for children 4-10. Call Elkhart County and Knights of St. Charles Borromeo Sister Mary Karl, OLVM, Pat at (574) 259-8156 or Nora Cathedral Knights plan fish fry Columbus. Snacks provided. 106, Victory Noll at (574) 234-3502. Door prizes. Agustin Fuentes, South Bend — The Knights of Jadwiga Ejsmont, 88, Menu will include gumbo, dirty Annus Fidei 49, Cathedral of Sister Mary Edna Columbus Council 5521, 61533 St. Stanislaus rice, jambalaya and other New S. Ironwood Dr., will have a fish Notre Dame — A Celebration of the Immaculate Butler, OLVM, 93, Orleans cuisine. fry on Friday, Feb. 15, from 5-7 the Year of Faith in Word and Conception Victory Noll Rita J. Jun, 89, Corpus p.m. Adults $8, children (5-12) $3. Sacred Music inspired by Pope Christi Notre Dame Smoker planned Chicken strips for $8 and shrimp Ron E. Volz, 75, Mishawaka Fort Waynehe — St. Joseph-Hessen for $8.50he will be available. he Sacred Heart William R. Hobgood, Richard T. De Vreese, Cassel Notre Dame Smoker will 74, Queen of Peace 57, Christ the King be held on Sunday,ross Feb. 24,ord from Knights plan fishross fries ord ross ord James V. Brazill Sr., 81,      St. Peter 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Food, drinks, Granger — The Knights Council   Michael J. Richard, 47, Aida Lanzinger, 88, casino and Notre Dame Players St. Joseph Little Flower AJAR M A EHID4263E R will A have S POfish fries T Friday, SWA P E LM ANGST MAC Mary Catherine Hahn, will be present. Admission is $20 SAGA SA SS O BI Feb.H 15, I P March NONO 8 and 22, OHfrom I O T I E MOUT H UNO 81, St. John the Baptist presalePROF or $25 day P Tof SDevent. StagL IE 4-7FORSAKEN p.m. in the St. Pius X REDO gymna- UPS I DLER CNS + only. TicketsFR available I T OC at door.Y STsium. AdultsAGE $8, children GARTER 6-11 $4 I SAAC PROPHET NAT I ON CPU andZ children I ON under SPUME 6 free. NUT NNE Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Letter will be Friday, Feb. 22, in the F LEABAG ARMS URGES HEAL I NG DEADSEA ERASE on the Year of Faith is planned Luers caferia with doors open at LPN BLEST ENE NOR AM I SS DAY ETNA ACS C I AO for Sunday, Feb. 10, at 7:15 p.m. 6 p.m. Teams of two adults may STYE EPHESUS I NERT I A STOMP WAYNE TOWARDS at the Basilica of the Sacred play for $30 or $15 with dona- ERA HOMAGE EARLS ALES TAI NI L Heart. tion of bottle of wine or vodka. EYES RA I SE ATHENA NUN DEMESNE DE I SM Register to Angie Brown at LED BORN RSVP PH IThru L C LERG I ES ADO TANGO D I E Euchre night supports Luers Knight [email protected] by Feb. L AG AM I X GOAT SERE L I ES LYE T I P E N D OW E N E Fort Wayne — A euchre night 18. 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© 2013 Tri-C-A Publications © 2013 Tri-C-A Publications © 2013 Tri-C-A Publications TUESDAY, February 26: Topic - RECONCILIATION (Sacrament available) March WEDNESDAY: February 27 - Closing Mass with Bishop Rhoades - Topic - EUCHARIST 1 St. Joseph Church Brooklyn/Hale Avenues, Fort Wayne 2 Mt. Calvary Lutheran 1819 Reservation Drive, Fort Wayne All are Transportation available: Call 744-4393 8 St. Joseph Hessen Cassel US Hwy 27 South of 469 (drive thru only) welcome at Monday Break-out session for youth-grades 6-8 15 Cornerstone Youth Center 19819 Monroeville Rd., Monroeville 4500 Fairfield Ave Refreshments Monday & Wednesday after services 22 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Ch. 10700 Aboite Ctr Rd, Fort Wayne 46807 20 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC FEbrUary 10, 2013

How to LIGHT Go to Confession... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 May the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 6 ACT OF CONTRITION: After the priest has con- thePREPARATION: intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of all ferredACT your penance, OF prayCONTRITION: an Act of Contrition, the saints, expressing sorrow for your sins and resolving to sin whateverBefore good you going do and suffering to Confession, you endure, no more. AAfter suggested the Act ofpriest Contrition has is: con- heal your sins, helptake you some grow in holiness,time to prepare. My God,ferred your penance, pray an sinner to Himself through the mer- and reward you with eternal life. I am sorry for my sins with all my heart. 1BeginGo within peace. prayer, and reflect on 6ActIn choosingof Contrition, to do wrong expressing sor- its of the Cross. –Rite of Penance, no. 93 and failing to do good, A guide to make a good your life since your last confession. rowI have for sinned your against sins you and resolving to How1 havePREPARATION: you — Before in yourgoing to thoughts, confession, take sinwhom no I more.should love A above suggested all things. Act of Confession is located at right. some time to prepare. Begin with prayer, and I rmly intend, with your help, words andre ect onactions your life since— yourneglected last confession. to How Contritionto do penance, is: live Christ’shave you—in commands your thoughts, towords, “love and actions— the toMy sin no God,more, How to make a good neglected to live Christ’s commands to “love the and to avoid whatever leads me to sin. Lord, yourLord, your God, God, withwith all allyour your heart, with heart, all your OurI amSavior sorry Jesus Christ for my sins soul, and with all your mind,” and to “love your suffered and died for us. Confession with allneighbor your assoul, yourself” and (Mt with 22:37, all39)? yourAs a help withIn his all name, my my God,heart. have mercy. with this “examination of conscience,” you might (Rite of Penance, no. 45) mind,”review and theto Ten“love Commandments your neighbor or the Beatitudes In choosing to do wrong Confession is not difficult, but as yourself”(Ex 20:2-17; (Mt Dt 5:6-21;22:37, Mt 5:3-10;39)? or As Lk 6:20-26).a 7 ABSOLUTION:and failing The priest to dowill extendgood, his hands over it does require preparation. your head and pronounce the words of absolution. help 2withGREETING: this The“examination priest will welcome of you; con he -may YouI haverespond, sinned“Amen.” against You We should begin with prayer, CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ say a short blessing or read a Scripture passage. science,” you might review the Ten 8 PRAISE:whom The priestI should will usually love praise above the mercy allof placing ourselves in the pres- Father Rob Trujillo of Epiphany Church in Lake City, Fla., hears a young Commandments3 THE SIGN OF THE or CROSS: the BeatitudesTogether, you and the things.God and will invite you to do the same. For example, ence of God, our loving Father. priest will make the Sign of the Cross. You may then the priest may say, “Give thanks to the Lord for he man’s confession during a pro-life gathering at the Verizon Center in (Ex 20:2-17;begin your Dtconfession 5:6-21; with these Mt or 5:3-10; similar words: is Igood.” firmly And your intend, response wouldwith be, Your “His mercy help, We seek healing and forgiveness “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been [give endures for ever” (Rite of Penance, no. 47). Washington in 2012. or Lk 6:20-26).days, months, or years] since my last confession.” to do penance, through repentance and a resolve GREETING: 9 DISMISSAL:to sin Theno priest more, will conclude the sacrament, to sin no more. 4 CONFESSION: Confess all your sins to the priest. often saying, “Go in peace.” If youThe are priestunsure what will to say,welcome ask the priest for and to avoid whatever Then we review our lives Did I hate or quarrel with help. When you are nished, conclude with these or Examination of conscience you;similar he words: may “I am say sorry fora shortthese and blessall my sins.”- leads me to sin. anyone, or desire revenge? Did 2 f it has been a while since your last confession, since our last confession, search- ing or read a Scripture passage. Iremember,Our Savior “Do not fear”Jesus (Is 41:10). Christ The priest ing our thoughts, words, and Recall your sins. Prayerfully I refuse to forgive? Was I disre- 5 PENANCE: The priest will propose an act of pen- will help guide you. And feel free to take this how- THEance. TheSIGN penance OF might THE be prayer, CROSS: a work of mercy, to guidesuffered with you! and (For diedmore information, for us. visit actions for that which did not ask yourself what you have done spectful? or an act of charity. He might also counsel you on www.usccb.org/confession.) Did I get drunk? Did I take howTogether, to better live ayou Christian and life. the In His name, my God, have conform to God’s command to with full knowledge and full priest will make the Sign of mercy. illicit drugs? Copyright © 2013, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, love him and one another through consent against God’s and the DC. Scripture excerpts taken from the New American Bible, rev. ed. © 2010, 3the Cross.1991, 1986, 1970You Confraternity may of thenChristian Doctrine,begin Inc., withWashington, DC. 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Did I willfully look at pornog- Para ordenar recursos en español, llame al 800-235-8722 y presione 4 para hablar months,con un representante or years) del servicio sinceal cliente en español.my last 7pronounce the words of absolu- raphy, entertain impure thoughts, To make an examination of Did I put my faith in danger Confession.” tion. You respond, “Amen.” conscience: through readings contrary to or engage in impure conversations or actions? Did I use artificial CONFESSION: PRAISE: • Begin with a prayer asking Catholic teachings or involve- Confess all your sins to The priest will usually for God’s help. ment in non-Catholic sects? Did I means to prevent conception? Was I unfaithful to my spouse? the priest. praise the mercy of God and • Review your life with the engage in superstitious practices: 4If you are unsure what to say, 8will invite you to do the same. help of some questions, which are palm reading or fortune-telling? Did I engage in sexual activity outside of marriage? ask the priest for help. When you For example, the priest may say, based on the Ten Commandments Did I take the name of God in are finished, conclude with these “Give thanks to the Lord for He • Tell God how truly sorry you vain? Did I curse or take a false Did I steal or damage another’s property? Have I been honest and or similar words: “I am sorry for is good.” And your response are for your sins. oath? these and all my sins.” would be, “His mercy endures for • Make a firm resolution not to Did I miss Mass on Sundays just in my business relations? Have I been responsive to the PENANCE: ever” (Rite of Penance, no. 47). sin again. or holy days of obligation through The priest will propose an DISMISSAL: The Light Is On For You my own fault? Am I attentive at needs of the poor and respected the dignity of others? act of penance. The priest will conclude materials provide the following Mass? Did I keep fast and absti- 5The penance might be prayer, the sacrament, often saying, Did I tell lies? Did I sin by examination of conscience. nence on the prescribed days? a work of mercy or an act of char- 9“Go in peace.” Did I disobey my parents and calumny, or detraction, of others? Did I judge others rashly in seri- ity. He might also counsel you on lawful superiors in important how to better live a Christian life. matters? ous matters? MARIAN PROCESSION AT YOUTH RETREAT Bishop Dwenger

PHOTO PROVIDED BY JUDY KOHRMAN Spiritual Life n Life of Service n Academic Life n Active Life Seventy-five teens gathered at Fort Wayne’s Our Lady of the Angels Oratory on Dec. 1 as part of a teen retreat FRESHMAN REGISTRATION titled, “Fatima’s Call to Youth.” The day included First February 19-21, 2013 n 6:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday devotions, talks about the Fatima message For more information, to schedule a personal tour, or to plan a shadow visit, please contact Cindy Johnson and a Marian procession. The event was organized by the at (260) 496-4703 or [email protected]. Franciscan Brothers Minor and the Fort Wayne-South Bend Division of the World Apostolate of Fatima. www.bishopdwenger.com