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February 2005 (20050201.Pdf) Ad Veritatem Volume 10 Issue 2 St. Thomas More Society of Orange County FEBRUARY 2005 “Because many things demand our attention, More stressed that active mortifications and set times of prayer are needed to keep the “heart afire” with the love of God.” Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage FEBRUARY MEETING: WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2005 NOON SPEAKER: FR. NORBERT WOOD, O. PRAEM “THE ‘DA VINCI CODE’ REVISITED” DETAILS ON PAGE 3 “Ad Veritatem” is Latin for “Toward the truth.” Page 2 Ad Veritatem THOMAS MORE SOCIETY BOARD OF DIRECTORS WHO WE ARE DAVID BELZ W W A Kuhn & Belz HON. MICHAEL BRENNER In 1966, the movie A Man For All Seasons inspired the Academy of Motion O. C. Superior Court Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize this film as the Picture of the Year. This was one of the few occasions in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and STEVEN COTUGNO Sciences where the life of a religious figure won the hearts of the motion picture Software Engineering Consultant industry’s elite. The central figure portrayed in Man For All Seasons was, of course, St. Thomas More, the great lawyer, statesman, apologist, husband, father and faith- JOHN FLYNN ful Catholic. In 2000, St. Thomas was honored as the Lawyer of the Millennium by Nossaman Guthner a secular panel of historians for the British Commonwealth. Shortly thereafter, John Knox & Elliott Paul II declared St. Thomas as the Patron Saint of Statesmen. RONALD GABLE Inspired by a homily given by Bishop Norman McFarland at the 1995 Red Economic & Financial Mass of Orange County, 5 “fearless” members of the Orange County bar met Analytics, Inc. shortly thereafter at the law offices of Rutan and Tucker in Costa Mesa. These law- DONALD A. HUNSBERGER yers all shared the realization that the legal practice takes a severe toll on the per- The Law Offices of sonal and spiritual lives of those involved in it and that many in the legal profession Donald A. Hunsberger had become too focused on the material life with the natural consequence being the DEBORAH KNEFEL de-emphasis on their spiritual life. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the Anaheim Deputy formation of a new organization for lawyers and judges in the County of Orange City Attorney with its mission being to publicly support and encourage the spiritual development of its members in their Catholic faith. The group chose as its patron St. Thomas ANNE LANPHAR First American Title More, the greatest lawyer of his time, who was a dedicated husband and father with Insurance Company a deep and profound commitment to his Catholic faith, his profession and his fellow man. Thus the St. Thomas More Society of Orange County was born. HON. DAVID MCEACHEN O. C. Superior Court Attendance at the monthly meetings in the early years was sporadic. Our spiritual director, Fr Hugh Barbour, wisely advised us not to worry about numbers JUDY PATNO because it was more important “to be than to do or say.” He encouraged the virtues Law Offices of Judy Patno of patience and perseverance. His sage advice, together with the guidance of the LISA RAMIREZ Holy Spirit and St. Thomas More, has led us to our current level of a fourteen mem- Consultant ber Board of Directors of lawyers and judges and a mailing list for the monthly newsletter of over 970. MICHAEL SHONAFELT Nossaman Guthner The goal of the Society is to inspire and lift up the minds and hearts of the Knox & Elliott legal community of Orange County to follow the example of St. Thomas More by integrating God in every aspect of their professional and personal lives. The Society WALLACE WADE Child Support Services seeks to accomplish this goal through inspirational speakers at monthly meetings, of OC this newsletter, the Red Mass, a website, an annual spiritual retreat and other events. The St. Thomas More Society also seeks to provide a haven where those who are GREGORY WEILER committed to their Catholic faith as well as those who are seeking to learn more Palmieri Tyler Weiner Wilhelm & Waldron about the Church, can find fellowship and encouragement in the face of overwhelm- ing media and cultural forces working against that pursuit. CHAPLAIN FR. HUGH BARBOUR, St. Thomas More, please pray for us. O. PRAEM, PH.D. St. Michael’s Abbey FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT David Belz at (949) 347-0447 or email to [email protected], or AD VERITATEM EDITORS ANNE LANPHAR Anne Lanphar at (714) 800-3225 or email to [email protected]. RONALD GABLE VISIT OUR WEBSITE at www.stthomasmore.net MICHAEL SHONAFELT Volume 10, Issue 2 Page 3 FEBRUARY FR. NORBERT WOOD, O. PRAEM MEETING “THE ‘DA VINCI CODE’ REVISITED” Fr. Wood will again review and explain the illogical and false anti-Christian assertions in the currently popular “Da Vinci Code.” WHEN: Jeffery Lee Wood was born in Oklahoma on October 12, 1956, one of 7 children. He NOON grew up in Pennsylvania and Minnesota. He entered the Norbertine Order at St. Michael’s Wed. Feb. 16 Abbey in Orange County in 1975 and was ordained in 1981. He attended the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in WHERE: Theology followed by three years of liturgical studies at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute First American of St. Anselm in Rome. Title Ins. Co. Within the Norbertine Order, he has served as the Associate Master of novices and 2 First American postulants and a teacher at St. Michael’s Abbey. He was the Master of professed and nov- Way, Santa Ana ices at the Norbertine monastery of Tepl in Villingen, Germany. Fr. Norbert was the local superior of the Norbertine community in San Pedro, California and a teacher at Mater Dei FOR DIRECTIONS and Mary Star of the Sea high schools. Fr. has also served on numerous religious and civic CALL (714) 800-3000 committees. For more information, please contact either David Belz at (949) 347-0447 or email to COST: [email protected], or Anne Lanphar at (714) 800-3225 or [email protected]. $10 for lunch EVERYONE IS WELCOME! SPECIAL LENTEN SERVICES CALENDAR DURING LENT, BUSCH LAW PRIVATE CHAPEL MASSES WILL BE HELD ON: MASSES WILL BE HELD ON: FATHER JOHN HILTZ REMINDERS ASH WEDNESDAY & FREE LUNCH PROVIDED. EVERY THURSDAY 2532 DUPONT AVE, IRVINE TIME: NOON EVERYONE IS WELCOME! EVERYONE IS WELCOME! RSVP NOT REQUIRED 4 18 A Message from our Chaplain Thought for the Day IN THIS ISSUE: Do Saints Go To Purgatory? A Carrot, an Egg or a Coffee Bean? 5 19 Truth or Myth? Message for Pope Paul John II Purgatory New Plenary Indulgence for Year of the Eucharist 7 Faith of Our Fathers: Purgatory 20 Truth or Myth: Purgatory More on Purgatory 12 Page 5 Scriptural Corner 22 13 Catechism Corner Purgatory Ash Wednesday: Our Shifting Understanding of Lent 24 17 From the Library Catholic Relief Services Faith of our Fathers: Purgatory Four Last Things, Supplication of Souls Page 7 & A Dialogue on Conscience Tsunami Relief Page 4 Ad Veritatem Father Hugh Barbour invites your questions about faith and morals. Please submit your question to Anne Lanphar at 1 First American Way, Santa Ana, CA 92707 or email to [email protected]. The Editorial Staff reserves the right to select which question will be submitted to Fr Hugh. DO SAINTS GO TO PURGATORY? FR HUGH BAROUR, O. PRAEM, PH.D. Our Chaplain QUESTION: When a person is declared a ‘blessed’ (beatus) or ‘saint’ of the A Church by the Holy Father, we know that person is in heaven. Does being a blessed or a saint mean that person went straight to heaven after death, or can MESSAGE even a saint spend some time in Purgatory? ANSWER: By canonizing someone as a saint (beatification being a major pre- FROM liminary step), the Church determines that he or she practiced the virtues of Christian life to an heroic degree, is now in heaven, and may be formally honored OUR in the Church's Liturgy. The saint is presented to the whole Church as a model Christian and invoked as an intercessor with God. But none of this means that the saint or blessed did not have to pass through purgatory before entering heaven. CHAPLAIN Pope St. Gregory the Great (A.D. 540-604) pointed out that those in authority have greater merits because of the good they accomplish by teaching and ruling, and so merit a high degree of heavenly glory. Yet because their faults also are greater and more damaging to others, they owe a greater debt to divine justice in purgatory. So it's possible to have an immense heavenly reward, and yet still be necessary to expiate the temporal effects due to sin in purgatory. St. Paul discusses this purification of suffering after death that some Chris- tians must pass through, and which we call “purgatory,” in 1 Corinthians 3:10-17. He describes this purification as taking place after death (verse 13, cf. Heb. 9:27), before being “saved” (verse 15) - that is, entering into the beatific vision - and that it involves suffering that is described as “passing through fire” (verse 15). Our Lord reminded us that, “To whom much has been given, much will be expected.” This is quite true of those who have been given the grace of great sanctity. St. Margaret Mary was apparently told by our Lord that her confessor, St. Claude La Colombiere, “passed through” purgatory after death. St. Peter Damian refers to seeing saints in purgatory. The only saints traditionally under- stood to go “straight to heaven” are the martyrs, but even this is only a devout, though well-founded, tradition.
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