Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 93 No. 30 January 20, 2016 Meet the press Archbishop Daniel Bohan dies in Regina Before he was elected pontiff, Pope Francis REGINA — Archbishop Daniel John Paul II appointed him arch - appointed co-chair of the newly had a reputation for not Bohan ended his earthly life Jan. 15 bishop of the Regina archdiocese formed National Roman Catholic/ liking to do interviews. at 6 a.m. in Regina’s Pasqua Hos - on March 30, 2005. Bohan was Evangelical Dialogue. Something happened pital after a long battle with cancer. one of the last appointments made In 2012 Bohan was appointed to change his mind. Archbishop Bohan was born by Pope John Paul II, now St. to the Pontifical Council for Inter- — page 2 Nov. 8, 1941, in Yarmouth, N.S., John Paul II. Religious Dialogue and also where his father was in the mili - The archbishop began his long became a member of the Board of Holding tension tary. He was the first child in a involvement in ecumenism in Governors for Catholic Missions family of six who grew up in 1999 when he was appointed as in Canada and in 2014 he was We live trying to balance Moncton, N.B., where he received the Roman Catholic representative appointed as one of three CCCB a tension of opposites his early education. to the Gospel, Ecumenical and delegates on the Canadian Council within, writes Cedric Speyer He entered Halifax’s Holy Theology Committee of the Mari- of Churches (CCC). As a member in Outlooks from the Inner Heart Seminary in 1963 and was time Conference of the United of the Pontifical Council, he pre - Life. But how do we ordained a priest May 13, 1967. Church of Canada. Shortly after sented letters from the council to successfully achieve Along the way he obtained an arts his appointment as Auxiliary members of the Regina Sikh, that balance? degree, from St. Thomas Uni - Bishop of Toronto he was appoint - Hindu, and Muslim communities — page 9 versity, Chatham, N.B., a theology ed to the Social Affairs Committee recognizing and ac knowledging A different tune degree from Holy Heart Seminary, of the Canadian Con ference of their religious days and building a sacred theology degree from Catholic Bishops (CCCB). He is bridges with those communities. Flegel Finding a way to repurpose Université Laval, Quebec, and a past chair of the Episcopal Bohan leaves to mourn his an old upright piano is a masters of theology degree from Commission for Chris tian Unity, mother, Rita, in Moncton, two Archbishop Daniel Bohan Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. Religious Relations with the Jews, sisters, three brothers all residing more useful metaphor for bishop is appointed. the new year than the cliché He taught moral theology at Holy and Interfaith Dialogue and re - in the Maritimes, many nephews, Heart Seminary prior to his mained on the committee after his nieces, grandnephews, grand - Funeral arrangements: Visita - of “starting from scratch,” appointment as bishop. chairship. He is past chair of the nieces, and the priests, religious, tion begins at Holy Rosary writes Gerry Turcotte. Bohan served as pastor in sev - Board of the National Catholic archdiocesan staff and lay people Cathedral at 9 a.m., Jan. 21, until — page 10 eral Maritime parishes before Broadcasting Council and past of the Regina archdiocese. 7 p.m. Evening prayer begins at 7 Formidable being appointed Auxiliary Bishop president of the Assembly of Vicar-general Rev. Lorne with visitation concluding at 9 of Toronto May 14, 2003, and Western Bishops. He sat on the ad Crozon will assume the duties of p.m. The funeral mass will be film features ordained bishop in July 3, 2003, hoc committee for Aboriginal archbishop until the archdiocesan held Jan. 22, at 10:30 a.m. in his home parish of St. Augus - Ministry of the Assem bly of consulters elect an administrator Among movies to take note tine’s Church, Moncton. Pope Western Bishops and was recently who will serve until a new arch - American of early in the new year is The Revenant, Deadline extended on euthanasia legislation Anglicans filmed mostly in By Deborah Gyapong “medical aid in dying law.” yet in the works. suspended Canada and The federal government had The SCC also granted Quebec starring OTTAWA (CCN) — The sought a six-month extension on an exemption from the extension By Simon Caldwell Leonardo Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) the Carter decision that struck that keeps the Criminal Code pro - DiCaprio. It has received on Jan. 15 granted the federal down Canada’s Criminal Code visions against euthanasia and MANCHESTER, England 12 Academy Award government an additional four provisions against assisted suicide assisted suicide in place. The (CNS) — Because of the U.S. nominations. months to craft legislation on last February. The SCC had sus - court also granted individual Epis copal Church’s moves to uni - — page 12 assisted dying. pended the decision for a year to exemptions to suffering individu - laterally change canon law to allow Football fanatics The same day, Quebec report - give Parliament time to respond als who may apply for an physi - same-sex marriage, Anglican lead - ed its first patient to die by lethal but the Feb. 6 deadline was rapid - cian-assisted death through a ers voted to suspend Episcopalians The film Concussion has injection under its so-called ly approaching with no legislation superior court judge. from positions representing the focused attention on the While the nine Anglican communion and from world of SCC justices were participating in some Anglican profession - unanimous in grant ing bodies. al football the extension, they Primates meeting in Canter - and, more were sharply di vided bury, England, said that for three specifical - on the 5/4 ma jority’s years, members of the Episcopal ly, on the decision to grant the Church will be barred sitting on violence of Quebec and in di - Anglican bodies making decisions vidual exemptions. on doctrine and polity and from football The majority said representing the communion on and they granted the Que - ecumenical and interfaith bodies. the resulting bec exemption because The move comes in response catastrophic injuries. the Attorney General to a policy allowing gay mar - — page 14 of Canada did not riages, adopted last year by the Music for liturgy oppose it. The justices General Convention, or governing said their doing so body, of the Episcopal Church, This week’s Prairie “should not be taken as the Anglican Church in the Messenger features music expressing any view as United States. selections for liturgy from to the validity” of The change in canon law in the Ash Quebec’s medical aid U.S. has been strongly opposed by Wednesday, in dying act. many of the theologically conserv - Feb. 10, to The majority ar - ative African churches, some of the Second Catholic Register/Swan gued individual ex- whose leaders had threatened to emptions should be walk out of the five-day primate Sunday of ETHIOPIAN DROUGHT CRISIS — As the worst Ethiopian drought in 60 years Easter, granted so as to not meeting if the Episcopal Church threatens as many as 20 million people living in more than half of Africa’s second “prolong the suffer - April 3. This set includes largest country, Catholic aid agencies in the desperate nation are asking for help as was not penalized for its actions. selections for the Triduum. the crisis continues into 2016. The worldwide Caritas network launched an appeal ing” of those who met The suspension was announced — pages 16-21 for 1.5 million Euros ($2.3 million) in August. Development and Peace has so far the criteria they iden - in a statement issued by the pri - responded with two new emergency relief projects. It is contributing $130,000 to tified in Carter: mates Jan. 14, a day earlier than help 1,400 families in the Tigray region get enough food and has sent another “adults who have a planned because of leaks to the $200,000 to Caritas Ethiopia to deliver food, water and basic health care to 98,500 grievous, intolerable media. families. The Canadian government has donated $30 million in emergency human - itarian assistance. — ISSUES , p. 3 — DEPARTURE , page 23 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS January 20, 2016 God’s mercy is constant and limitless, pope says

By Junno Arocho Esteves who are so small, so incapable,” Jesus Christ, the mercy of the son who is indignant and does not Istanbul on Jan. 12. The attack he said at his weekly general Father is revealed in its complete - want to celebrate, this son who claimed the lives of 10 people and VATICAN CITY (CNS) — audience Jan. 13. ness.” remained at home but lived more left 15 wounded. Turkish officials God’s mercy is constant and lim - In his first general audience of Speaking to some 6,000 peo - like a servant than as a son,” the said the bomber belonged to the itless; he is faithful in his mercy the new year, the pope began a ple gathered in the Paul VI audi - pope said. “But the father stoops so-called Islamic State terrorist for his children, even when they new series of talks on mercy, ence hall, the pope began by down to him as well, inviting him group. are unfaithful, Pope Francis said. reflecting on its description in the reflecting on the biblical descrip - to enter, seeking to open his heart The pope prayed that “the The greatness and power of Bible, where from the “Old tion of God who is “merciful and to love, so that none remain Lord, the merciful, give eternal God unfolds in his “love for us, Testament to the full revelation of gracious, slow to anger and rich excluded from the feast of mercy. peace to the deceased, comfort to in love and faithfulness.” Mercy is a feast.” their relatives, firm solidarity to The pope said the Bible com - The beauty of God’s love and the whole society, and convert the pares God’s merciful love to the faithfulness shows affection, hearts of the violent.” tenderness and love of a mother grace and goodness, he said, and who seeks “to love, protect, help is nothing like the superficiality (and) is quick to give everything, of a “soap opera love.” even herself” for her children. “It is love that takes the first “That is the image that this word step; it does not depend on human suggests,” he said. It is “a love merits but on an immense gen - that can be defined, in a good erosity,” he said. “It is the divine way, as ‘visceral.’ ” solicitude that nothing can stop, God’s graciousness, he contin - not even sin because he knows to ued, is exemplified in his com - go beyond sin, to overcome evil passion for the weak and the poor and to forgive.” along with his readiness to God’s mercy and faithfulness, receive, understand and forgive. he added, is a stable presence that This aspect is seen in the father of strengthens faith and gives Chris- the prodigal son who did not latch tians the opportunity to experi - on to resentment against his son, ence his love, especially during CNS/Paul Haring but rather “continued to wait for the Holy Year of Mercy. POPE GENERAL AUDIENCE — Pope Francis places his zucchetto him.” At the end of the audience, on a man as he meets the disabled during his general audience in Paul “Great is his love and joy at Pope Francis led the faithful in VI hall at the Vatican Jan. 13. The pope is beginning a new series of having found him again; and then praying for the families and vic - talks on mercy. he goes and also calls his oldest tims of a suicide bomb attack in Modern-day popes bravely meet the press, reporters

By Carol Glatz L’Osservatore Romano newspa - XXIII’s secretary, now-Cardinal The real turning point in the per. Loris Capovilla, contacted Indro papal approach to the press came VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Vian traces in great detail the Montanelli, who was working for with Blessed Paul VI toward the Before he was elected pontiff, history of papal interviews, and the Italian daily, Corriere della end of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis had a reputation for how these universal pastors Sera . Vian said. One evening in 1965, not liking to do interviews. became increasingly confident The journalist said, years later, the pope sat down with another “Really, I don’t give interviews. and open to the world’s media. the pope had wanted an interview reporter from Corriere della Sera , But I don’t know why. I can’t, The first pope in modern histo - with a writer who wasn’t a part of Alberto Cavallari, who said the CNS/Cristian Gennari that’s just how it is. I find it a bit ry to enter the so-called lions’ den “the Catholic world” and there - pope “explicitly rejected the classic PAPAL RETREAT MASTER — tiresome, but I’m grateful for your was — aptly — Pope Leo XIII fore skipped over his coworker — monologue of the popes.” Servite Father Ermes Ronchi, an company,” he told the more than when he sat down in July 1892 a Catholic and veteran Vatican Cavallari wrote that the pope Italian theologian, has been asked 70 journalists from all over the with Caroline Remy — an anar - reporter, Silvio Negro. told him times had changed and by Pope Francis to lead the pope’s world accompanying him aboard chist, feminist, lapsed Catholic today “millions of people no annual lenten retreat in Ariccia, a his first papal flight to Brazil for and one of the best-known longer have any religious faith. town about 40 kilometres south - World Youth Day in July 2013. reporters of the time in France. Hence the need for the church to east of Rome. Ronchi is pictured The pope, who was unafraid of The twice-divorced 37-year- open itself up. We need to address in Rome in this 2012 file photo. breaking long-held practices, old, whose pen name was those who no longer believe and looked like he was ready to end a “Severine,” had written to the those who no longer believe in us.” A day at the decades-long tradition of taking Vatican secretary of state, pre - Blessed Paul saw sitting down questions from reporters on papal senting herself as “a woman who with the secular press as the next circus for poor flights. had been Christian” but remem - necessary form of papal commu - One veteran journalist from bers the importance of “loving the nication — “This is dialogue,” Mexico sought to reassure the least and defending the weak,” Cavallari reported the pope as By Junno Arocho Esteves new pope that even though he and as “a socialist who, even if saying. might feel he’d been thrown into not in a state of grace, has kept Blessed Paul was the first pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) — the lions’ den by coming to the intact in her wounded heart a to invite the press onto the papal Poor residents, the homeless, back of the plane to meet the deep respect for the faith” and plane to travel with him during refu gees and some prisoners were press, “the truth is that we aren’t esteem for the aging pontiff. his trips abroad, Vian wrote. offered a special treat by the that ferocious.” The first papal interview in While Blessed Paul would Vatican: a circus show. Something eventually hap - history was quickly arranged and simply greet those flying with The papal Almoner’s Office pened to change his mind be - lasted 70 minutes, Vian wrote. him, St. John Paul II started announced that the Rony Roller cause, six days later, on the return Remy, who took no notes dur - speaking directly to journalists Circus in Rome made all 2,000 trip back to Rome, Pope Francis ing the encounter, spent that after - during the flights and began the seats in their big top venue avail - opened the floor to journalists, noon writing the story and sub - aboard-the-papal-plane news con - able for a free show Jan. 14. answering every question posed mitted a draft the next day to the ferences, which continued under Doctors and nurses from the in an 80-minute session. secretary of state, who only made Pope Benedict XVI and, despite Vatican’s health clinic were to be And ever since then, the pastor a few rewrites before it appeared his initial fears, Pope Francis. on hand at the event to offer free who never liked interviews has on the front page of Le Figaro , On that flight back from checkups and medical care from become the most-interviewed Vian said. Brazil, Pope Francis told its mobile unit to those in need. pope in history. Just a few months before, Pope CNS/Paul Haring reporters how happy and spiritu - The show was to open with a The nearly 600 responses he’s Leo had sat down with Ernest ally renewed he was to have been song dedicated to Pope Francis, given to reporters’ questions in Judet, the French editor of what PAPAL PRESS CONFERENCE cast among the throngs of young written by a homeless singer-song - less than three years are now would soon become the world’s — Pope Francis speaks to media people. He said foregoing heavy writer from Spain as a way to compiled in a 368-page book, in largest newspaper, Le Petit aboard his flight from Asuncion, security meant “I could be with “give thanks to the Holy Father for Paraguay, to Rome in this July Journal this latest gesture of being close” Italian only, titled Pope Francis . The private audience, 12, 2015, file photo. The first pope the people, hug them, greet them, Replies: Every Interview and Vian said, does not count as an in modern history to do an inter - without armour-proof cars. It’s to others, the papal Almoner’s Press Conference. actual interview since the pope view with a reporter was Pope the security of trusting in the peo - Office said in a statement. While Pope Francis is the most met the editor, not to take ques - Leo XIII in 1892. ple” and God. The papal almoner said this prolific with the press, his late- tions, but to give him a “declara - “I prefer the craziness of being gift offered by the circus perform - blooming bravery turns out to be a tion” — essentially the gist of his Montanelli said the papal invita - out and running the risk,” he said, ers could also be “an encourage - common trait of modern-day upcoming encyclical On the tion scandalized his editor, who which may be what led to him to ment for our poorer brothers and popes, according to the book’s Church and State in France. “did not like the pope giving an take that other risk of being cast sisters to overcome the hardships introduction, written by Giovanni The next time a pope sat down interview at all,” and especially not to the den at the back of the plane and difficulties in life that often Maria Vian, a church historian and with a reporter was on Palm to a secular outlet: “In his mind, the where, he admitted, “I’ve seen the times seem too great and insur - editor-in-chief of the Vatican’s Sunday in 1959 after St. John pope should be speaking in Latin.” lions weren’t so ferocious.” mountable.” January 20, 2016 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 Practise what you teach, cardinal tells teachers

By Evan Boudreau dom, to help people to understand read, teach what you believe and to be a Catholic every step of the The Catholic Register the purpose of life. That is some - practise what you teach,” said way and not just in the classroom.” thing that is fundamental to all of Collins. Mark Siolek, religious educa - TORONTO (CCN) — us as Catholic teachers.” The cardinal’s message struck tion course director for the On tario Catholic teachers should be gen - That role has become increas - a cord with teacher Mae Fortades. English Catholic Teacher’s uine in their faith and countercul - ingly important as large segments “You have to be an advocate Association, which organized the tural agents of holy wisdom, par - of Canadian society reject their for your faith, not just in the lecture as part of an advanced ticularly at a time when assisted Christian roots, he added. classroom, but you have to live it qualifications course, was not sur - suicide and euthanasia are com - “We need all the more in every day,” she said. “When you prised by the concerns about the ing to Canada, said Cardinal Catholic education to be counter - approach Catholic education with religious formation of students. Thomas Collins. cultural, to speak up for the human that fire and you approach it with “With the teaching of religion At a Jan. 11 event hosted by person and not be swayed by all of the sense that you want to make a you can easily just say, well, I’m the teachers’ union, the Toronto the powerful forces that we have difference, you see that they (stu - going to show this film or watch archbishop lamented that society in our popular culture,” he said. dents) correspond back. These this program,” he said. “People is “swimming in a culture that As the leaders of tomorrow, students want to learn about their will say that religion is not as often treats people like things.” Catholic students need to be faith but I believe that they are important as science and math, He urged teachers to become exposed to holy wisdom as found just not given the spark.” but every discipline is important.” stewards of holy wisdom to curb in the Bible and in the works of She said despite an eagerness Collins challenged teachers to the systemic watering down of writers such as St. Thomas among students to learn about go beyond their current under - CCN/D. Gyapong faith in society. Aquinas and G. K. Chesterton, religion, many are unfamiliar standing of faith and encouraged Cardinal Thomas Collins The cardinal noted that it was Collins said. But he added texts with Catholic teaching. them to read the Bible and the the final day for objections to be alone will not do the job. Catholic “At the end of the day, faith has Catechism of the Catholic Church. completely,” he said. “(But) when submitted to the College of Physi - students must also be exposed to been watered down because people “If they (students) are given a you see true Catholic faith, pure cians and Surgeons of Ontario Catholic teachers who are gen - refuse to be advocates for it,” she watered down version (of faith) and true, it sets the heart on fire regarding the college’s proposal to uine in their faith. said. “So the only way to be a Cath - they will go off and say they are and we need that in Catholic compel doctors who object to “You must believe what you olic educator is to advocate for that, Christians or they leave the faith schools.” assisted suicide to refer patients to other doctors willing to end a patient’s life. As further evidence Muslims coping with Middle East horrors that Canadian society is becoming “colder and darker,” Collins point - By Frank Flegel ducer of the TV series Little who are interested in religions.” need to care about First Nations ed to last year’s Supreme Court of Mosque on the Prairie, author of He gave as an example the de - and be part of the solutions.” Canada ruling that will make REGINA — “I think Muslims Laughing all the way to the velopment of calligraphy that was The rise of ISIS is not because assisted suicide legal on Feb. 6. are becoming more adept at out - Mosque, and is working on a used to “highlight Quranic verses of any inherent evil in Islam, “This is where education has a reach, in civic engagement and novel. Helewa teaches religion, in artistic forms.” He also noted “which is ridiculous,” but instead role,” he said. “The great ques - being part of the wider communi - including Islam, at Campion that Islam, like other religions, is is the result of the Bush adminis - tions of life and death are before ty,” said Zarqa Nawaz, TV pro - College, University of Regina, changing “and is being challenged tration attacking Iraq without rea - us. We need people to see the big - ducer and author. She, along with and grew up among Muslims by the invasion of secularism.” son. “It was a big political mis - ger, deeper picture.” Dr. Sami Helewa, SJ, in two sepa - while living in the Middle East. Nawaz said Muslims are part of take. It destroyed the power struc - He called on teachers to lead rate interviews with the Prairie Both Nawaz and Helewa sug - the larger community. “We can’t ture in the Middle East and by example. Messenger, discussed Islam and gested people should perhaps just be raising money for their own allowed others to move in.” “Knowledge is good, skill is talked about how local Muslims study some history to better causes but they have to join forces Helewa said his approach in good, understanding is good but are dealing with the negative and understand the positive role Islam with the wider community. We are teaching Islam is one of respect. nothing is as good as holy wis - sometimes horrific images coming has played in the world. all together and we need to look “I think Islamic history and dom,” he said. “What matters in out of the strife in the Middle East. Both said what is being perpe - toward social justice for everyone. Islamic culture, Islamic religion life is to be a steward of holy wis - Nawaz is the creator and pro - trated in the name of Islam is not As Muslims we need to care about are really good topics to study to mainstream and most Muslims are the homeless situation in appreciate its influence on many simply working, looking after their Saskatchewan, what can we do; we civilizations.” families, the same as everyone else in society. Helewa ac knowledged that most of the negative image of Issues extremely complex Islam comes from the media. “It focuses more on the radical Continued from page 1 mate the suffering of those who groups than the usual day-to-day must wait an additional four typical Muslim life and people and irremediable medical condi - months, “neither do we underesti - who are productive in their own tion.” mate the complexity of the issues societies.” “The prejudice to the rights that surround the fundamental ques - Helewa said people look at flowing from the four-month tion of when it should be lawful to Islam as a religion, but it is also a extension outweighs countervail - commit acts that would otherwise civilization. “It is important to ing considerations,” the justices constitute criminal conduct.” study Islam in its historical con - wrote. “Moreover, the grant of an “The complexity results not text to see how it spread,” and get exemption from the extension to only from the profound moral and to know more about Islam as a Quebec raises concerns of fairness ethical dimensions of the question, civilization, its culture, “for and equality across the country.” but also from the overlapping fed - example, its art. This is an area The minority, which included eral and provincial legislative that is neglected and it’s not very Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, competence in relation to it,” the hot even among many academics said while they did not underesti - minority wrote. “The Court unani - mously held in its judgment on the Canadian Syriac-Catholics merits that these are matters most appropriately addressed by the get new bishop, exarchate legislative process. We remain of that view. That the legislative process needs more time is regret - OTTAWA (CCN) — On Jan. 7, seven parishes and missions. table, but it does not undermine Pope Francis erected an exarchate Ordained a priest for the Syrian the point that it is the best way to for Syro-Catholics in Canada and Catholic Patriarchal Eparchy in address this issue.” appointed Rev. Antoine Nassif as 1992, Bishop-elect Nassif was Euthanasia opponents reacted their new exarch. rector of the Patriarchal Seminary with concern. Euthanasia Preven - The new see, called an exar - of Charfet in Lebanon at the time tion Coalition executive director chate because it is not quite large of his election as well as vice-pas - Alex Schadenberg said the SCC in enough to be called an eparchy, tor in two parishes. He speaks allowing superior court justices to Andrea Langlois the equivalent of a diocese in English, French and Italian. allow individual exemptions have, Eastern Catholic churches, will The pope’s decision to erect in effect, “legalized” euthanasia YEAR OF MERCY — On Dec. 8, Bishop Albert Thévenot, M. Afr., be based in Laval, Que. Syriac the Apostolic Exarchate for and assisted suicide “without any began the Jubilee Year of Mercy by blessing the two centre front doors Cath o lics, who have been pre - Syriac Catholics in Canada fol - definition on how a superior court of the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Prince Albert. During his remarks he explained when we move through a door, we are opening our heart to sent in Canada since 1976, had lowed consultations with the judge can make decisions to allow adventure. “A door is a passage, an invitation to change from what I was been part of the Eparchy of Our Canadian Conference of Catholic people to die by lethal injections to what I am called to do as a disciple of Christ . . . we have these doors Lady of Deliverance that cov - Bishops’ Permanent Council. or lethal doses.” to remind us that God is inviting us to a new life. We have one door here ered the United States and The liturgical language of the “This gives the judges no para - to bring us moments of grace; Mary was full of grace. We are called this Canada. Syriac Catholic Church is Syriac, meters,” he said. “It is wide open year, to do a journey, to change, to listen and open our hearts to that The new exarchate serves 16,000 a dialect of Aramaic, the language to the decision of the judge on mercy of God and to help others open their hearts to the mercy of God.” Syriac Catholics with five priests in Jesus used. how he or she feels that day.” 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS January 20, 2016 Book recounts history of St. Joseph’s in Edmonton

By Ramon Gonzalez the Christian Brothers who ran Western Catholic Reporter the college only had teaching experience in primary and sec - EDMONTON (CCN) — ondary schools, not at the univer - When Henry Joseph O’Leary sity level. became the second archbishop of Munro said rather than focus - Edmonton in 1920, he dreamed of ing on academics, the brothers building a Catholic college that emphasized the residence in order would educate students in the to nurture and develop Catholic Christian intellectual tradition. young men to be leaders in the He originally wanted a stand- community and in their Christian alone Catholic university but faith. “By de-emphasizing their ended up settling for a college academic mission largely because affiliated with the University of of their innate deficiencies, they Alberta. The arrangement was left the college with their initial similar to the one St. Michael’s ambition unfulfilled.” College had achieved 20 years Munro said the brothers did earlier with the University of their best, but did not have the Toronto. means to teach at the university That’s how St. Joseph’s College level and lacked the reputation to at the U of A came to be in 1927. secure a respected place for Cath- Administered by the Basilian olic scholarship at the U of A. Fathers since 1963, the college Pressure from members of the teaches undergraduate courses in Catholic community led to the applied ethics, philosophy, reli - ousting of the Christian Brothers gious education and theology. In in 1963. They were replaced with total, 29 theology courses and nine Winterforce Media the Basilians, who have strength - philosophy courses taught at St. SAINT JOSEPH’S COLLEGE — Saint Joseph’s College is on the north campus of the University of ened the academic dimension of Joe’s are listed for credit in the U Alberta in Edmonton. A new book by Kenneth Munro tells the story of how a small Roman Catholic insti - St. Joseph’s to the point it is now of A’s faculty of arts. tution came to exist at the heart of a secular university. a leader in teaching the Catholic According to Kenneth Munro, intellectual tradition. author of the recently published lege across the river and taught in and several bishops, proposed the job. Kersch and McLeod One project incomplete when St. Joseph’s College: University French, thus failing to gain affilia - establishing one stand-alone accepted his offer. the college opened its doors in of Alberta, O’Leary soon realized tion. Catholic college for Western The main point of the book, 1927 was the residence. O’Leary his hope for a stand-alone Cath- O’Leary realized a Catholic Canada and rejected Catholic Munro says, is to tell the story of could only find sufficient funds to olic university was not practical. college affiliated with the U of A colleges affiliated with secular the man at the centre of the col - build a male residence. For one, University of Alberta and built on the university institutions. lege’s origins — Archbishop “In the last 90 years several president Henry Marshall Tory grounds was the most viable O’Leary disagreed and went O’Leary. attempts have been made to build a and Alberta Premier Alexander option. He wanted the Basilians ahead with his University of “Here we have a bishop who women’s residence to complete Rutherford both opposed the idea. to operate it but when this con - Alberta project, eventually strik - had a vision for a men’s and Archbishop O’Leary’s dream,” They wanted only one non-sectar - gregation was unable to come, he ing a deal that would see St. wom en’s college on a secular writes Munro. “Under the guid - ian university to serve the popula - turned to the Christian Brothers Joseph’s affiliated with the uni - campus, which would provide ance of Archbishop Richard Smith, tion of Alberta. of La Salle, who managed the versity. That agreement wasn’t sound academics, a residence for finally, Archbishop’s O’Leary’s Tory believed small sectarian college from 1926 until 1963. ideal but was practical, the arch - both men and women, and a com - dream has been realized.” A wom - colleges were unable to offer the At more than 500 pages, bishop conceded. munity in which all Catholics on en’s residence next to the college scientific education required in Munro’s book provides an exten - Munro is well qualified to campus could congregate.” was opened this fall. the 20th century and favoured sive, detailed history of the col - write the history of St. Joseph’s O’Leary built the college with St. Joseph’s College, the book, Christian denominational colleges lege. However, he is careful to College. He is a professor emeri - a grant from the Carnegie can be purchased at the college or affiliated with state universities. give readers valuable information tus at the U of A, where he taught Foundation in the U.S. However, from Friesen Press Bookstore. He believed the church could about all characters involved and for 40 years. He was academic inject goodness into the life of a some of the political struggles. dean of St. Joseph’s during his state university. We learn, for example, that as last four years of active service at With this in mind, the U of A O’Leary negotiated with the U of the university. began to offer land for church col - A, there was a heated debate in In April 2013, Rev. Terry leges on campus in 1910. The the Catholic hierarchy over what Kersch, current president of the BOSCO FOUNDATION Meth odists and Presbyterians type of colleges and universities college, and Rev. Don McLeod John Bosco quickly took advantage of the offer. they should support — stand- asked Munro if he knew of some - Bishop Emile Legal, O’Leary’s alone institutions or affiliated body who could write the history Child & Family Services Foundation predecessor, was excited about the Catholic colleges on existing uni - of St. Joseph’s College. The John Bosco Child and Family Services Foundation (Bosco possibility but was unable to get versity campuses. Since Munro was nearly a year things rolling. He invited the Rev. George Dale, with into retirement and searching for Foundation) is a public foundation dedicated to the provision of French Jesuits, who set up a col - strong support from the Jesuits a project, he offered to take on buildings and facilities used for the treatment, education and housing of children, adolescents and adults who are in need of ‘Spanking’ provision in code under review support. Bosco Foundation believes in assisting non-profit and charitable organizations who provide vital services which aid vulnerable By Deborah Gyapong the Truth and Reconciliation in some situations,” she said. Commission’s 94 calls to action,” A special education teacher people in our society. We do this by providing our facilities to OTTAWA (CCN) — The said Andrew Gowing, a spokes - she knows has often been “kicked various non-profit and charitable agencies at below market level Liberal government has promised person for Canada’s Attorney and pummelled by a fairly strong rental rates. to abolish the so-called “spank - General Jody Wilson-Raybould in young fellow with disabilities,” Our facilities are used for social services group care, foster ing” provision of the Criminal an email: “At this point, however, she said. A teacher should be care, adult mental health care, the St. Francis Food Bank, two Code that allows parents and it would be premature to com - allowed to restrain someone in teachers to use reasonable force ment on the potential legislative self-defence or to prevent them, AA groups and a NE Edmonton cadet core among others. in disciplining children. or policy approaches that may be say, from jumping out a window. In addition, we provide volunteer services to assist two small non- The move is in conjunction taken to address this particular This is different from using the profit organizations working with low income seniors and victims with Prime Minister Justin issue.” strap as a punishment, she added. Trudeau’s promise to implement Section 43 reads as follows: The word “reasonable” allows of stroke with fundraising and volunteer recruitment assistance. every one of the 94 Calls to “Every schoolteacher, parent or people to work out how in differ - The Bosco Foundation is currently working with a large service Action of the Truth and Recon - person standing in the place of a ent situations to prevent harm to organization on a joint project with the aim of providing ciliation Commission’s report on parent is justified in using force the students and to the teachers, affordable housing for low-income seniors. the legacy of Indian residential by way of correction toward a she said. schools. pupil or child, as the case may be, “In the home situation, I think 100% of donations go toward charitable purposes. Under the heading of Edu - who is under his care, if the force it’s awfully overdone to say Administrative expenses are covered by other sources. cation, Call to Action #6 asks for does not exceed what is reason - minor reprimands should be ille - the repeal of Section 43 of the able under the circumstances.” gal, or to put a label on a parent Please forward your donation to: Criminal Code of Canada but Canadian Catholic Bioethics either driven to distraction by a Bosco Foundation exactly how the recommendation Institute executive director Moira kid not old enough to listen to 315-6770 129 Avenue NW, Edmonton, AB T5C 1V7 will be reflected in legislation McQueen said the use of the reason, or holding a kid very N remains to be seen. word “reasonable” is key. If the closely to prevent him from dam- Tel: (780) 809-8585 Fax: (780) 809-8586 “The Government remains law says no physical force is to be www.boscofoundation.com *Charitable Tax Number: 85985 8664 RT0001* committed to implementing all of used, “it could be very dangerous — PROTECTION , page 5 January 20, 2016 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 Church of the Gesù in heart of Montreal is a gem

By Alan Hustak with God through art, with the Catholic Register special understanding that “historically, many of the great artists made MONTREAL — The Church their way through the church.” of the Gesù is in the heart of The Gesù was built in 1865 as Montreal, just east of Place Ville a college chapel 30 years before Marie. Hidden from view, in part Montreal had a proper Roman by a high stone wall, its main Catholic cathedral. To understand doors are four metres above street why events occurred in that order level and the marquees between it is necessary to understand 19th- the ascending spiral staircases century ecclesiastical politics. mean it is easily mistaken for a After New France became a theatre. Which the Church of the British possession in 1763, the Gesù also happens to be. Jesuits, who had been in New There is really no other church France for 150 years, were ex- like it in Canada. The city land - pelled from British North America mark is celebrating its 150th an ni - and their estates seized by the versary. It holds the remains of crown. The Sulpicians owned the three of the Jesuit Canadian mar - Island of Montreal and were tyrs and is a former college chapel allowed to keep their seigneurial that had its basement converted rights. Tensions arose in 1819 into an auditorium in 1923. when Quebec appointed Jean- One of Montreal’s oldest cul - Jacques Lartigue as Montreal’s tural centres, the auditorium auxiliary bishop. launched such important Quebec The Sulpicians resented the acts as Anciens du Gesù , Théatre unilateral appointment and re- Rideau Vert and Théatre du fused to allow Lartigue to use Nouveau-Monde . The careers of their church of Notre Dame as a notable cultural figures Jean cathedral. This unleashed a A. Hustak Gascon, Jean Louis Roux and lengthy schism between the Sul - MONTREAL CHURCH — Rev. Daniel Leblond, inside the Church of the Gesù, the Jesuit church in Gratien Gelinas were nurtured at picians and the diocesan bishops. Montreal celebrating its 150th year. Leblond is the church’s rector. the Gesù. In order to consolidate his Perhaps because of its proxim - episcopal authority and wrest vases by an Italian master, carve an image of Mary or face Quebec government, however, ity to Place des Arts and Mon - control of his diocese from the Giovanni Gagliardi, as well as a execution. The soldiers, who were had embarked on the so-called treal’s arts and entertainment dis - Sulpicians, Lartigue’s successor, copy of Carravagio’s death of St. not artisans, awoke the next morn - Quiet Revolution and began to trict, the rector, Rev. Daniel Bishop Ignace Bourget, invited Francis Xavier. ing to find the ornate statue in distance itself from faith-based Leblond, opened the church itself the Jesuits to return to Montreal An ornate reliquary contains their cell. They were released and public institutions. The university in 1995 as a creative arts centre. in 1842 to open a school which the remains of Jesuit martyrs took the carving back to France was never built. College St. Thanks to Leblond’s efforts could rival College Montreal, Charles Garnier, Gabriel Lalemant where it graced the royal chapel. Marie closed in 1969 and its the Gesù has become a sanctuary which the Sulpicians had run and Jean de Brebeuf. The original was burned during buildings were torn down in for what Université de Montreal since 1767. It took six years Among the church treasures is the French revolution but the 1976, eventually replaced by a theology professor Solange before the Jesuits finally opened a replica of the original statue of ashes were entrusted to the Jesuits skyscraper. Lefebvre calls a community of College St. Marie. Notre Dame de Liesse. The legend and deposited in the base of a Proceeds from sale of the “fragile Catholics” — a place of Bourget then launched a public surrounding the statue goes back copy they brought to Montreal. property permitted the Jesuits to worship for those who have dis - appeal for funds to build the to the Crusades when three cap - In 1960, the Jesuits announced restore the Gesù in 1984. The tanced themselves from the promised college chapel that tured French soldiers prayed in plans to demolish the Gesù and Gesù was declared a Quebec his - church in Quebec but accept its would be a copy of Chiesa del their prison cells to Mary. Over - the adjoining College St. Marie to toric monument in 1975 and rec - spiritual teachings. Santissimo Nome di Gesù , the hearing their devotion, a Muslim make way for the campus of a ognized as a Canadian cultural Leblond, who is also a former Jesuits’ mother church in Rome. princess asked the captives to planned Catholic university. The heritage property in 2012. provincial of the French-speaking The appeal failed and extravagant Jesuit province in Canada, is a plans were scaled back by the Protection of parents, teachers a concern professional artist and photogra - Irish-born architect Patrick pher. He admits a certain tension Keeley. The Gesù finally opened exists between the Gesù’s ongo - Dec. 3, 1865. Continued from page 4 though the Superior Court of Based on following the latest re - ing religious role and its evolu - The Baroque grandeur of the Ontario determined spanking is search on how children attach to tion as an arts centre. church is deceptive. When you aging himself or someone else,” not child abuse.” parents and how good attachment “Art is not religion, but art and enter, the nave appears truncated she said. “It could look very vio - “The section is concerned pro - makes children want to imitate to religion are not opposites, they until you reach the transept lent to other people, but necessary tection of parents and teachers from please their parents, Mrozek said, complement each other,” he says. which soars three stories (23 for the situation.” being criminalized, from being “I am no fan of spanking.” The church has a role to play metres) and the space opens to At the same time McQueen charged with assault with using rea - But the danger of eliminating to encourage people to interact six magnificent side altars. The raised concerns about corporal sonable force in directing, teaching, Section 43 means “a risk good grey and gold trompe l’oeil fres - punishment. “I think that it is dan - correcting children in the home and parents will be getting visits from coes are by 19th-century New gerous, I do have a problem with schools and in playgrounds and in the Children’s Aid Society,” she Hustak is a freelance writer in York decorator Daniel Muller. that, especially if people are angry. public,” Watts said. “There are situ - said. It could also pit children Montreal. There are also two massive can - There should be a balance.” ations that call for intervention with against parents. Sometimes a “reasonable physical force, such as removing a Criminalizing the use of force, spank may be the best thing, even child from the situation.” as has happened in other coun - to bring someone to his or her Institute of Marriage and tries, such as Sweden, has led “to senses,” she said. Family Canada (IMFC) executive a great increase in removing chil - A gift for Section 43 has withstood 10 director Andrea Mrozek said they dren from the family and putting attempts in Parliament to abolish oppose removing Section 43 them in foster care,” Watts said. RCIA candidates it, as well as a court challenge that because it could lead to “state Last February, Pope Francis went all the way to the Supreme intrusion and infringement on the raised the issue of spanking in one Court of Canada in 2004. REAL family and will, in effect, crimi - of his weekly general audiences. newlywed couples Women of Canada along with nalize very good parents.” “One time, I heard a father in a Focus on the Family intervened in “What we know from the meeting with married couples say Pastors, parish councils, or CWL and KC councils: those court cases. research, there is a very clear dis - ‘I sometimes have to smack my Give the newlywed couples or RCIA candidates of “Our main concern is the pro - tinction to be made between children a bit, but never in the face your parish a gift they will cherish all year. Give them a tection of parents and teachers,” abuse and spanking being used as so as to not humiliate them,’ ” gift subscription to the Prairie Messenger. said REAL Women of Canada a disciplinary tool,” she said. Pope Francis was quoted as saying. researcher Diane Watts. “The sec - At the same time, Mrozek said The pope said the father tion of the Criminal Code is not she would personally not put showed he respected his children’s It costs only $13.00 really a debate about spanking, spanking at the top of any tool dignity. “He has to punish them prepaid tax included whether it is good or bad, al - box for disciplining children. but does it justly and moves on.” Using the Cana Gift Plan, you pay only 1/3 the cost and we pay the rest. Send for Cana Gift Order Forms now: Cana Gifts, Prairie Messenger, Advertise in the Prairie Messenger Box 190, Muenster, SK S0K 2Y0 Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5 p.m. Ph. 306-682-1772 Fax 306-682-5285 Phone: (306) 682-1772 Fax: (306) 682-5285 e-mail: [email protected] email: [email protected] 6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS January 20, 2016 L’Arche opens a second house in Saskatoon

By Darlene Polachic living in the Valley View institu - marks and Christmas cards. tionships and getting to know musicians,” Thiessen says. “It’s a The StarPhoenix tion near Moose Jaw. “One hun - They’ve also done some pottery people with disabilities and their social time and a support system dred and eighty people with dis - and cardmaking families. The vision was revived for like-minded people. SASKATOON — In February abilities live there, and it is a prior - “We’ve started selling the craft - in 2000 and Friends of L’Arche “I know parents who have 2016, exactly eight years after its ity of the government to relocate ed items,” Thiessen says. “The was formed. build strong relationships there. first home opened in Saskatoon, them all. Two of the people com - goal is to grow the workshop pro - The group meets the third And we’ve seen people who were L’Arche Saskatoon will welcome ing to our second L’Arche house gram over time and possibly turn Wednesday of every month in terribly shy in the beginning now residents to its second house. are coming from Valley View.” it into a paying industry.” Grace-Westminster Hall. Fifty or comfortable coming to a micro - L’Arche serves individuals with Providing quality activities for “The workshop project seems 60 people share pizza and salads phone and sharing what’s going high-needs disabilities, says direc - L’Arche residents is an ongoing to work well for our people. and enjoy an activity of some sort on in their life.” tor Wyndham Thiessen. “Each priority. A recent innovation is Some of them have tried other from 5:30 to 8 p.m. “We meet, For more information contact home has four residents plus four the establishment of a workshop work placements, but prefer this. eat, play drama games or bingo, Thiessen at 306-262-7243 or live-in assistants. Our homes fol - program that enables group mem - It’s more relaxed and they’re or enjoy guest performers or [email protected] low the model of the L’Arche bers to be involved with healthy, involved in meaningful activities. communities first established in productive activities. The pro - It’s also an opportunity to be with France by Jean Vanier where gram is partly social, but aims to other people and build relation - assistants live in the same house as fulfil its motto of “Making art, ships.” the individuals they assist.” making friends, making peace.” “Variety is important for our The multi-bedroom dwelling With funding from the Minis - people,” Thiessen says. “Doing L’Arche Saskatoon recently ac - try of Social Services, the pro - different things prevents bore - quired is on Christopher Lane, a gram has moved from part-time dom. They have a range of abili - block from the first house. to full-time status, and a grant ties and skills. A couple are able “We are on target to welcome from the Kinsmen Foundation to take the bus to the workshop the first two people in February,” provided for the purchase of a program. Others have higher Thiessen says, “and are seeking wheelchair-accessible van. needs. It’s a challenge to figure donations of quality furniture and The home base for the work - out ways everyone can participate other household items for the new shop program is Zion Lutheran and be involved.” house.” Church. Thiessen says group The L’Arche community in- He says some renovations still members go out in the morning, cludes a group called Friends of need to be done, including con - do something fun in the city — L’Arche which gathers monthly. verting the double attached front “maybe go for coffee, or go for a This is a collection of people garage into two bedrooms and a walk” — then return to the who came to hear Jean Vanier bathroom. “We have two future church for lunch and some cre - speak about L’Arche at Queen’s residents who are in wheelchairs.” ative activity. House in the 70s. The group The house is part of a province- Volunteers assist with the ac - wanted to start a L’Arche Home wide initiative to provide new tivities. One is a weaver who in Saskatoon, but were coun - homes for individuals currently taught the group to make book - selled to start by building rela - Fundraiser held for justice group

By Brigid Ward community. At that time, Hurri - have a place to bring their goods cane David had recently devastat - and sell them directly to buyers, SASKATOON — On Thurs- ed the area, and Canadian mining as well as purchase goods they day, Jan. 7, a steak night fundrais - companies were threatening the need. er was held at the Sutherland Bar farmland and living environment Esteban Polanco, La Federa - in Saskatoon by a new solidarity- of the people. La Federación ción’s founder and current execu - based social justice group made up organized and developed a net - tive director, has called the market L’Arche Saskatoon primarily of students and recent work of resources and labour to an “alternative economy” that L’ARCHE — Joshua Smith (left) and Cody Stack do some baking at alumni of St. Thomas More form a coffee-growing co-opera - supports producers and consumers L’Arche Saskatoon, which is preparing to welcome residents to a sec - College and the University of tive, among other initiatives, to through direct action. The pro - ond home in the city. Saskatchewan. They were raising support themselves, their families posed market place is an initiative money to facilitate a grassroots co- and their community. of La Federación and some work Core neighbourhood grocery operative farming organization in CAFE’s current project is col - has already been done. the mountains surrounding the city lecting the necessary funds to help Funds raised by CAFE will be of Bonao in the Dominican La Federación build a Soli darity used to facilitate local planning store closing in Saskatoon Republic. Market in a location central to the and building. Founding CAFE The Saskatoon group, called communities, colloquially known member Irena Smith is currently SASKATOON — Low sales the decision to close the store nec - Canadian Amigos of the Federa- as “the bridge.” CAFE also pro - residing at La Federación , con - and a challenging market are forc - essary.” tion (CAFE), work with La moted their Internet-based fund - ducting demographic research for ing Good Food Junction to shut The Good Food Junction co-op Federación de Campesinos Hacía raising campaign for the proposed the organization under the super - its doors in Saskatoon’s core (GFJ) opened in September 2012, el Progreso (FCHP). Cooper marketplace (or Colmado) on the vision of Caitlin Ward, principle neighbourhood. after a grassroots fundraising ini - Muirhead, Anson Liski and Go Fund Me website. investigator and Engaged Learn- The Good Food Junction (GFJ) tiative that involved many local Kassia Krawchuk — all founding The 25 small communities that ing Co-ordinator at St. Thomas Co-operative board of directors churches and community organi - members of CAFE — spoke at make up La Federación are geo - More College. announced they will be closing zations. The co-operative was a the fundraiser about La Feder - graphically isolated, and a mar - Though CAFE is not officially the grocery store located adjacent community-led initiative respond - ación , a group formed in the ketplace of this type would mean affiliated with the University of to Station 20 West on 20th Street ing to a lack of affordable fresh 1990s to address adversity in their that the farmers in the area would Saskatchewan or St. Thomas in Saskatoon as of Jan. 27, 2016. food in Saskatoon’s west-side More College, most of CAFE’s The decision comes after three core neighbourhoods, after the members are alumni of STM’s years of insufficient sales to sup - community’s last remaining gro - Intercordia Program, and first port the store, despite the efforts cery store closed in the 1990s. encountered La Federación and of the co-operative’s board, man - Operating with a focus on ad- its community through their par - agement and staff to profitably dressing food security in the com - ticipation in the program. operate a grocery store within a munity, the co-operative grocery Intercordia, a Canada-wide challenging industry and highly store grew to some 1,800 members organization, is co-ordinated at competitive marketplace. in its three years of operation. STM by Ward. It facilitates a soli - “It was important to the board Krueger says, “Despite strong darity-based variety of experien - and the core members of the co- member growth and unwavering tial learning, in which students op, that the store provide exem - core support, the store could not live with and learn from host plary service and offer a wide vari - generate sufficient sales in the communities in the Global South. ety of high-quality fresh foods at highly competitive, low-margin Students apply to the program an accessible price. Unfortunately, grocery industry to sustain itself.” and complete a course during the the co-op was not able to meet our The GFJ store’s closing Jan. school year, before travelling to customers’ expectations with 27, will be preceded by a liquida - their host communities. They respect to product offerings and tion sale starting Jan. 15. complete further coursework for prices. The co-op’s low sales Board members expressed sin - STM while they are there and on reflect this,” says board vice-chair cere thanks to the Good Food FacetoFace their return to Canada. In the past, Audra Krueger. Junction’s donors, members, staff, FACETOFACE — Some 330 people attended the United Conference communities in Nicaragua, “Our inability to overcome the and many customers for their sup - presented by FacetoFace Ministries Nov. 21 - 22 at the Cathedral of the Bosnia, Ukraine, Mexico, Ghana, complex challenges of running an port and genuine efforts to address Holy Family in Saskatoon, with a youth track and an adult track Honduras, and Ecuador have also independent grocery store in an food security in Saskatoon’s core exploring the theme of mercy through talks, music, prayer and worship. hosted Intercordia students. under-served community made neighbourhoods. January 20, 2016 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 7 Former Colombian journalist now deacon in Canada

By Philippe Vaillancourt the FARC and the paramilitary. I ‘Welcome home.’ This made a dif - always asked them to stop human ference for me,” Lozada recounted. QUEBEC CITY (CNS) — A rights violations: Human life is the Ouellet — who lived for a well-known personality in most important, whatever the con - while in Colombia — made him a Colombia, he fled to Canada to text. But one day, I was told: ‘You, pastoral agent and asked him take stay alive. Uprooted, new to the you’re a military objective.’ ” charge of the Latino community of French language, he lived in pre - The threats became more in - Quebec City, a role he still plays. cariousness in Quebec City, draw - sistent. Among the 6,000 members of this ing strength to live from his fami - “A man came to see me in my community, fewer than 300 usual - ly and his faith. Now he is in office. We were talking, and he ly attend Sunday mass in Spanish. charge of the Latino community put a gun on the table. He said: “Our goal is integration, not to of the Archdiocese of Quebec. ‘You have 72 hours to leave this have a ministry among ourselves Here is the exceptional story country. If we find you after that, and become a ghetto. We call it a of a refugee. you’re a dead man,’” said Lozada. ‘passage’ ministry.” Deacon Arismendy Lozada Forced to flee to Canada with He said some moments are glanced at his cellphone. News his wife and daughter, he went to harder than others. In August, a alerts flashed on his screen, alter - Quebec City, where the exhilara - Colombian couple from his com - nating among soccer, religion and tion of the first days quickly faded munity, Julian Esteban Muneton politics. From his office in Saint- as a new harsh reality set in: cul - Vasquez, 29, and his eight-month Mathieu’s rectory in the Sainte- tural shock, learning French and pregnant wife, Ingrid Zamorano, Foy borough of Quebec City, he financial difficulties. He received 30, died in a car accident when still follows the feats of Bogota’s student loans to learn social ser - hit by a drunk driver. Lozada Santafecito soccer club. However, vice in college, but since it was knew the couple well. the ever-present news about Can- not enough money to support his “Julian and Ingrid came to the ada’s plan to welcome 25,000 CNS/Philippe Vaillancourt, Presence family, he had to find a job. After Spanish mass,” he said. “They were Syrian refugees made him pensive. REFUGEE EXPERIENCE — Deacon Arismendy Lozada, who came being turned down many times, he an example of integration. One year “We come with a luggage full to Canada in 2003 as a refugee from Colombia, is pictured Jan. 7 at the ended up cleaning buildings. after their arrival, they both had a of dreams. When the plane touch - Saint-Mathieu rectory in Quebec City. “I have to confess: The first job. Last September, they were sup - es down, everything is wonder - night I went cleaning, I found posed to start university. I blessed ful,” he said, thinking about refu - C. Cirrhosis almost killed him. being a “mundane” Catholic to an bathrooms that were in really, her womb during mass.” gees now arriving on Canadian “When we face death, we start “engaged” Catholic — to the really, bad shape. I cried. I said: Life must go on, he said, just soil. He knows what he is talking to question ourselves,” he said. point where he would enter the ‘Lord, what I am doing here?’ But like for all the refugees, including about: In order to stay alive, he “I was Catholic, like every - seminary and, ironically, see the after a second and a third night, I Muslims, now coming to Canada. fled Colombia in 2003 and ended body. I went to church some - same priest he thought so bother - started thanking the Lord: ‘Thank “When we have love, it rejects up in Canada. times. Back then, I had a radio some become his spiritual direc - you, because of this I will have fear. This is what we must have: If he could speak with every station in the small town where I tor. After a year and meeting the money to feed my family.’ We did Love for our neighbour. To offer single Syrian refugee, he would was born. The priest came to me woman he would marry in 2000, not want to leech off the system. a welcome that will make a dif - say: “Stay hopeful, stay faithful.” one day and asked if I could do a he agreed with his bishop to be- As a family, we had a dream, and ference. It is up to every one of us Born in the 1960s in the Co - live one-hour transmission of the come a permanent deacon. because of that, we wanted to to do our part.” lombian department of Caqueta, mass. I thought to myself that it Because of his fame and his find a job.” “Our Muslim brothers and sis - he grew up to become a respected would make me lose money, but I reputation for social involvement, The year he left Colombia was ters have values,” he said. “They journalist, writing and doing said ‘yes’ so he would leave me he was asked to become a peace the year he was supposed to be live their faith in a way, and we some radio and television. be,” he recalled. “But after my ill - councillor for the talks between ordained a deacon. He had all his live our faith our way. But it’s the Known for his social sensitivity, ness, I started my quest: Who am the government and the Revolu - papers, and a meeting with same faith. And when we have he was elected journalist-of-the- I? Where I am? Why I am here? tionary Armed Forces of Co- Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec faith, we have values. Our Muslim year by his association in 1989. And one day, I wondered what lombia, or FARC. This commit - would put him back on track. brothers have a lot of values.” But his life took an unexpected God wanted with me. . . .” ment would eventually force him “When I met with Cardinal “Canada is a welcoming land turn when, hospitalized, a blood These questions led him on a to flee to Canada. Ouellet, I was expecting a cold man. of peace that has a priceless trea - transfusion left him with hepatitis process where he went from “I was receiving threats from But he took me in his arms and said: sure: its values.” For sister, there is no ‘typical’ day in ministry of service

Sister Bernadette Feist, OSU, a new member of the CMIC board of governors, shares this article about her typical day in the missions. This is from the winter issue of Catholic Missions In Canada and is reprinted with permission.

By Sister Bernadette Feist, OSU Driving out of the city, a stop at Superstore for bread buns for This was one day in the city of the Friday “Too Good To Be Regina, one hour from our Valley Threw,” where about 60 lunches Native Ministry in Lebret, Sask. are served weekly. 10 a.m.: We have a SARA Into the evening, a phone call: meeting (Sisters Association of “Could you please come and pray Regina Archdiocese) to prepare with us? Mom will soon leave us, for celebrating “Consecrated she’s asking for you.” Life” year, declared by Pope My reply: “Give me tonight to Francis. rearrange my tomorrow (confir - 12:30 noon: Mass at Campion mation gatherings) and I’ll see College to meet with Rev. John you in the morning.” But — Meehan, SJ, who presents month - where do they live in Regina? ly teachings to First Nations Abraham set out for a land he did parishioners at the Valley Native not know (Hebrews). By faith he Ministry Program. Then, over to arrived. So did I. And so the fol - Burns Hanley to pick up religious lowing stories to share. supplies and materials to use in Irene’s last goodbye ministry for 25 reserve communi - CMIC ties. Then, a visit to Webb’s Just recently, many of us gath - NEVER A TYPICAL DAY IN MINISTRY — Sister Bernadette Feist, OSU, on right, with, from left: Copier for toner. Ink ran out the ered at the home of the late Arlene Johnson, from Peepeekisis, and Zelda Bear and her brother Terry from Standing Buffalo, at the day before. Francis and Irene Desnomie on drop-in centre, Too Good to Be Threw. the Peepeekisis First Nation, for the traditional wake of recently her journey with her, as friends when called upon. I accepted the dog under the porch steps feeding Ursuline Sister Bernadette deceased Irene Desnomie. and family gathered on the reserve tobacco and joined in their prayers her young did not bite me, or Feist, pastoral administrator at I was present as a friend of the for the wake. The event was taken as the evening passed. even stir.” Valley Native Ministry in the family for 35 years, and as one of up with much visiting, story - At some point, I was able to More stories followed about Archdiocese of Regina, writes that others who had come for prayers telling, drum-songs speaking, and speak what was “so right” to those years, but the most impor - she has one wish this year: “One of the sick and receiving of holy meeting relatives and visitors. share. I told of the experience of tant one was when I visited the more person to work among, and communion in Irene’s home in Time passed quickly, and after a first coming to the house 35 years day before she died. After prayers share the gifts of, First Nations Regina. The day before she died, couple of hours, an elder came and ago, when the late Irene had said and a couple hours with her fami- culture by listening and praying family had called me — at Irene’s gave me a hen pouch of tobacco, to me, “You must be very wel - with our native peoples.” request — I could only continue asking if I would say a few words come in our home, because the — TIME , page 8 8 Prairie Messenger FEATURE January 20, 2016 Archbishop in Belgium seeks euthanasia opt out

By Tom Heneghan state subsidies they receive. ©2016 Religion News Service Senate President Christine Defraigne, from the liberal Belgium is embroiled in a reli - Reformist Movement party, said gious freedom controversy after the euthanasia law was clear. the new head of the country’s “Freedom of conscience does not Roman Catholic Church demand - apply to hospitals,” she said. ed that faith-run hospitals and Defending the Catholic position, nursing homes have the right to lawyer Fernand Keuleneer — a for - refuse euthanasia to patients. mer member of the federal eutha - A 2002 law decriminalized nasia commission that reviews euthanasia for terminally ill death requests — said the law fore - adults and it has the support of a saw a conscience clause for doctors large majority of public opinion but did not mention institutions. and politicians. But opposition in “The law does not create . . . a this historically Catholic country funda mental right to euthanasia,” has grown as lawmakers extended he argued. the practice to including terminal - The 2002 decriminalization ly ill children and people with law was originally only for termi - severe psychological problems. nally ill patients with diseases At the end of a long interview like cancer. Religious leaders and with the daily Het Belang van some conservative politicians Limburg the day after Christmas, have long opposed euthanasia, the new primate of Belgium, Jozef but public acceptance has grown De Kesel, acknowledged that over the years — especially in RNS/REUTERS/Eric Vidal many secular-minded Belgians Flanders, the Dutch-speaking EUTHANASIA CONTROVERSY — Archbishop Jozef De Kesel speaks as he is named Archbishop of had no problem with abortion or northern region with about 60 per Mechelen-Brussels, during a mass in Mechelen on Dec. 12, 2015. Kesel has demanded that faith-run hospi - euthanasia. cent of the population — and vol - tals and nursing homes have the right to refuse euthanasia to patients. “But it is not obvious from my untary deaths have risen steadily. faith,” said De Kesel, who is the From 235 deaths in 2003, the come his violent sexual impulses. been sued for refusing to euthanize A court is due to rule on the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels. total climbed to 953 by 2010 and This decision was reversed a a 74-year-old patient. case in April. “I think that we have the right, on then jumped to 1,432 in 2012 and week before he was to die, possi - an institutional level, to decide not 1,924 in 2014. About 80 per cent bly because about 15 other con - to do it. I am thinking, for exam - of the cases are in Flanders, victs also applied for euthanasia ple, of our hospitals.” where people may be influenced after his request was granted. The statement surprised many by the neighbouring Netherlands, While cases like these stiff - because De Kesel’s reputation as which also passed a law in 2002 ened the resolve of euthanasia a moderate made him a popular after turning an official blind eye opponents, public acceptance was choice when the pope appointed to the practice since the 1970s. so widespread that newspapers Retreats & Workshops him to succeed his arch-conserva - As public acceptance grew in expressed surprise at the negative Maranatha Yoga — tive predecessor Andre-Joseph Belgium, the criteria for accepting comments made abroad when the Kate O’Gorman. Leonard last month. requests for euthanasia were loos - Parliament voted in 2014 to allow Mondays, Jan. 25 - March 21, 7:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Cost: $10 drop-in. “We were happy when he ened to the point that unusual terminally ill children to opt — Silent Directed Retreat: “Be still and know that I am arrived, he seemed like an open cases began to appear in the news. with parental consent — to die. God” (Ps 46:10) — Dianne Mantyka and Bishop Gerry Wiesner, OMI. man and I had great hopes for In 2013, identical 45-year-old “I’m annoyed at hearing ‘you Friday, Jan. 29, 7 p.m. - Sunday, Jan. 31, lunch. Cost: $345, live-in only. him,” said Jacqueline Herremans, twin brothers, deaf since birth, got kill children’ in the foreign An Introduction to the Enneagram head of the Association for the lethal injections after they began to media. We don’t use that kind of Sarah Donnelly and Sister Marie Gorsalitz, OSU. Right to Die with Dignity. “I go blind and told doctors they could language anymore. It’s a very dif - Saturday, Jan. 30, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Cost: $55, includes lunch. didn’t expect comments like this.” not bear not seeing each other. That ferent debate on a different Exploring Ecological Spirituality for Today Several politicians and right- same year, a 44-year-old man born level,” said Bart Sturtewagen, Sr. Judy Schachtel. Tuesday evenings, Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, 7 - 9 p.m. to-die advocates promptly came female was euthanized because he editor-in-chief of the centre-right Cost $10/session or $30 for all when paid at once. out against the idea, saying reli - suffered “unbearable psychological newspaper De Standaard . The gious heath care centres could not suffering” after several botched sex- left-wing daily De Morgen said The Book of Exodus — Paul Fachet, OMI. opt out of providing a legal med - change operations. Belgians should be proud to be First Wednesday of the month, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Feb. 3, March 2. Cost: $15. ical service because they are A serial murderer and rapist “ethically progressive leaders.” A Day Away — Gisele Bauche. financed by taxpayers through was granted permission for med - Public opinion and politicians Second Wednesday of the month, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Feb. 10, March 9. ically assisted suicide in 2014 due agreed. An opinion poll in 2013 Cost: $25, w/lunch. to the mental anguish he suffered before the vote on allowing Women in Ministry Friday Luncheons Heneghan writes about reli - since he had no prospect of re - eutha nasia for children showed gion from Paris. Marie-Louise Ternier-Gommers and Rev. Amanda Currie. lease because he could not over - that 74 per cent of those surveyed Fri., Feb. 12, March 11, 12 - 1:30 p.m. Cost: $10. supported the reform. When it The Five Love languages: A St. Valentine’s Day Workshop came to the legislative vote, large ‘Then it was time to listen’ majorities backed it in both hous - Sarah Donnelly. Sat., Feb. 13, 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Cost: $35, includes lunch. es of Parliament. Spiritual Formation Day: Prayer and Discernment Continued from page 7 ourselves or if we are with others, With such widespread support Bishop Gerry Wiesner, OMI. Sat., Feb. 13, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. but also say the Our Father before for euthanasia, and the once-pow - Cost: $55, includes lunch. ly, Irene said to me: “If you have going to sleep. Now, would Sister erful Catholic Church reduced to Did You Ever Wonder? Common Witness Project of to go now, that’s OK, it is done.” please come and lead us in this an average five per cent atten - the Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue of Canada She had earlier also received holy prayer?” dance at Sunday mass, De Kesel’s Marie-Louise Ternier-Gommers. Wed. evenings, Feb. 17, 24, March 2, 9, 16, communion with us. And then she He invited all to join hands, comments could seem to be back - 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Cost: $10/session or $45/series. *Please note: this series added, “But they should feed you connecting with the casket before ground noise that politicians is being offered at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Humboldt. first.” us, encircling the drums in the cen - could ignore. Transitions: Your Journey of Transformation Through Yes, I did enjoy soup, sand - tre of the people, as we all prayed But the church still plays an Grief and Loss. Sarah Donnelly. wiches, coffee, and more visiting. Our Father. Now that you have important role in Belgium’s mixed Thurs., Feb. 18, 7 p.m. - Sun. Feb. 21, lunch. Cost: $390, live-in. Then I returned to Irene for my read these stories, take a minute of private and public health care sys - goodbye. We began to talk about quiet time and pray the Our Father. tem. Private Catholic institutions Ongoing Events at Queen’s House every line in Ecclesiastes — Funerals among First Nations provide about three-quarters of Centering Prayer: Monday evenings 7 p.m. O Taizé Prayer for “There is a time . . .” Finally, I said Peoples are a great “teaching” time the hospital beds in Flanders and Christian Unity: Second Tuesday of the month, 8 p.m. O O to her, “Irene, now it is time for me and experience of inculturation. 42 per cent in French-speaking Personal Day(s) of Private Prayer: Book anytime to go.” Her eyes lit up, shone like Drum songs in Piapot south Belgium, or Wallonia. They Queen’s House Weekly Celebration of Holy Eucharist: Wednesdays, 3 p.m. (call to confirm time — all are warmly welcome!) O stars, and with a big smile on her also run roughly a third of the 24-Hour Eucharistic Adoration: face, she said: “And me, too.” At Piapot, elders spoke of the nursing homes in the country. Fourth Monday of the month, 12 p.m. -Tuesday, 12 p.m. The following day, family had history their ancestors had left The Catholic hospitals, which called that Irene had completed her them. There were drums to begin receive state subsidies, officially For program details visit www.queenshouse.org journey here on earth, peacefully the celebration of mass — joining offer only palliative care for end- To register please call 306-242-1916 going to her God. The traditional faith and culture — as was the life of-life patients, but not all of or email: [email protected] wake continued, until close to experience of Connie Iron, anoth - them have an outright ban on 8:00, when one of the sons spoke. er recently deceased. 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black and white morality. Let’s image that represents a quality or mind’s eye a rippled lake tinged pause on that note for another virtue you would like to manifest with the glow of sunset, or a telling quote: more consistently. For instance, if loved one whose beauty shines Outlooks from “If only it were all so simple! you choose compassion you could through their face. Now try to If only there were evil people imagine a healer at work. Then hold that sense of beauty when the Inner Life somewhere insidiously commit - call up a scene that contradicts it, actively imagining a foul garbage ting evil deeds, and it were neces - such as a prison camp with cruel dump or in close quarters with sary only to separate them from guards overseeing it; see if you someone you find repulsive. Cedric Speyer the rest of us and destroy them. can maintain your compassion as The object of the exercise: But the line dividing good and you place yourself in that setting. finding the centre of the cross, evil cuts through the heart of If you can’t, then compassionately which is built into every “Most would agree that our planet is in a bit of a mess; it seems like every human being. And who is witness your resistance. encounter and life situation, we’ve lost our way. There is far too much shadow being projected out; willing to destroy a piece of his Choose another quality, such beginning with both life and each person seems to be trying to take their insecurity out on others. own heart?” — Aleksandr as beauty. Experience in your death being Life-giving. And we are all collectively beating up on the planet. If you heal your - Solzhenitsyn self, you truncate a line of darkness that would have been passed down That brings us back to the dark to you, via your family line, for thousands of years . . . this is something or shadow side we would disown to think about.” — Stuart Wilde in favour of being a creature of light if our humanity wasn’t lost “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intol - in the bargain. Angels have a dif - erant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to ferent job description than we do. these teachers.” — Kahlil Gibran In the human condition, we are all too familiar with what brings Most of us would agree that What then? We are not always out the worst in us, those who get love, joy, peace, patience, kind - big enough to make room within on our nerves at best, and at worst ness, goodness, faithfulness, gen - ourselves for the enemy without, . . . well, the worst does have a tleness and self-control in service not to mention loving them way of coming home to roost, of higher purposes are all good accordingly, as we would love doesn’t it? As one exasperated qualities and redemptive virtues. ourselves. It can also lead to a husband once told me, “You try Yet most of us have also had the futile inner wrestling match if we being married to it!” experience of those ideals feeling impose an ethic of spiritual gen - The truth is we are all married remote and inaccessible when erosity on the situation. Even if to it. Do we therefore look to our we’re in reactive mode to trouble - we did win that battle, the one own shadow nature to heal the some persons or events. Then the between the “bad me” and the darkness we see in others? Or do “pain-body” takes over, with its “good I,” so to speak, it sustains we simply blame and shame resentful ledger of every time the split and reinforces the divid - them according to our judgment we’ve been hurt or offended in the ed self, the half-life of the ego. of their subhuman state? The same way. Then “the religion of So how then, do we live “on consequence of that would be to our better moments” doesn’t help earth as it is in heaven”? actively reject or passively shun us. Emotional toxicity prevails. Experience has shown, whether those who appear to spoil our it’s from the individual soul’s peace. workshop in the privacy of our Yet there is an alternative. We Speyer is a Benedictine Oblate own rooms or in the family and can welcome the psychological or as well as Clinical Supervisor of community crucible, that it’s the social enemy as a spiritual friend E-Counselling for a major employ - courage to hold the very human in disguise, calling forth our par - ee & family assistance program position, the one in the middle ticular soul work. We can expand and creative director, InnerView between heaven and earth, con - instead of contract. When we see Guidance International (IGI). He taining the tension of opposites. the darkness descending in the holds master’s degrees in creative The very crux of creative life is form of some personal or univer - writing, counselling psychology, the ability to embrace apparent sal evil, we can name it in order and education. As a pioneer of e- contradictions: busyness/stillness, to invoke the antidote in our own counselling in Canada, he devel - solitude/intimacy, for just a cou - being and behaviour, aligned with J. Weber oped and implemented a short- ple of examples, and of course our preferred state and chosen SOUL WORK — “The very crux of creative life is the ability to term counselling model for online the core duality — good and evil. values. embrace apparent contradictions,” writes Cedric Speyer — practitioners, edited a textbook on The alternative is to project and To practise: sit quietly, close darkness/light, busyness/stillness, solitude/intimacy. . . . “The alterna - the subject, and does related free - polarize, which we see rampant in your eyes and visualize a land - tive is to project and polarize, which we see rampant in the world these lance writing. the world these days, with its scape, symbol, encounter, or days, with its black and white morality.” Practising spirituality like we are learning to walk

tive. Scared herself a little. knowing it does not seem to I have grown tired of the pace Grinned. Sat down. Rested. change them. I am critical and I of my life lately. I am weary of Tried it again. have sharp edges. I used to hide the rushing and my own impa - Barefoot So it is with spirituality. It’s these things (in organized and tience, so at the same time as not just a hipster buzzword. pretty shoe box systems I found Charlize was taking the time to and Preaching Spirituality is nothing other than on Pinterest), dressed up like learn to walk, I was ready to take the practices that allow us to live assets, afraid that if others knew the word “hurry” out of my peacefully in reality. When I run them, they would feel the same vocabulary. I am practising gen - out of solutions for making my way about me that I felt about tleness with time. Since then, we Leah Perrault own life work and realize that I myself: disappointed. And when I have been late more often. I have cannot build the world the way I couldn’t keep stuffing things into tied more shoes and dried more Over the last several weeks, moment. I love the stubborn want it all the time, I find that I that pretty closet anymore, it blew tears. We have laughed in the our baby girl has been learning to refusal to walk on anyone else’s am ready to practise a spirituality up and I realized everyone mudroom more. And I have walk — a deeply spiritual prac - terms. I love the way walking that changes my life. already knew. And they loved me failed as many times as I have tice, if you ask me. It begins with moves from a curiosity, to a Reaching the legal age of anyway. succeeded. So I sit down. Rest. tentative and almost unintentional determination, to an assumption. adulthood somehow gave me the What if the great spiritual mas - Try again. experimentation before it gives Grace shows up in such ordi - impression that I was in charge of ters are not people who have it all Every time I see my kids’ way to gradual practising, when nary things. When Charlize’s first my growth. When I find myself together, but people who learn faces instead of my watch, God circumstances (like siblings, food steps spanned the end of one year trapped in that illusion, I can how to love their weakest selves? delights in me. When I mess up or pets) do not require the speed and the beginning of another, laugh instead of trying to force What if spiritual beginners and and say sorry, God’s eyes fill with of crawling. I love the thrill of something new happened in me: myself with resolutions and spiritual masters have one key proud tears. We are so desperate - success written all over their the concept of resolution gave resolve. When I am ready, I can thing in common: they practise ly loved, as we are. When I am faces when they realize they can way to readiness. practise some more. What if the walking peacefully, both when ready to stop beating myself up, do it, even if it is only for a Charlize did not plan to walk. great spiritual masters are not they don’t know how and when to stop assuming that I have the She did not understand it as a people who have it all together, they think they have it mastered. answers, to stop planning my suc - concept, Google it, break it into but people who learn how to love We all begin to practise walking cess to death, I am ready to walk Perrault is a wife and mom, a steps and write deadlines in her their weakest selves? without knowing how. Spiri- barefoot into practising spirituali - grateful employee of Emmanuel agenda. Her natural curiosity I am impatient and arrogant. I tuality invites us to continue to ty as though I have never been Care, and a speaker, writer and aligned with her growth to make am suffocatingly helpful. I adore practise so we can find the same here before. I am ready to be consultant at www.leahperrault. a miracle. She pushed herself to eating and despise exercise. My delight in it that we found the loved and to grow, to practise com standing. Saw a new perspec - standards are unreachable and first time. walking all over again. 10 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH January 20, 2016 Sister’s life and work has impact across generations

with sadochok . We now see how the program has influenced the mothers who were in sadochok ; they are now bringing their chil - dren to sadochok .” Both Lungs Katherine Bily is one of those now bringing a second generation to benefit from Sister Petronella’s Brent Kostyniuk spiritual guidance. “Thirty-three years ago, I was a student in Sister Petronella’s four-year-old Sometimes you are given a gift With the both the moral and sadochok program, and I looked but don’t realize just how special financial support of the St. Basil’s forward to seeing my friends two it really is. The gift may be some - Ukrainian Catholic Women’s mornings every week. She taught thing you received a long time League (UCWL), a sadocho k — us how to sing Ukrainian folk ago, or perhaps it simply blends little garden — program was songs, how to count in Ukrainian, in so well that you hardly realize established. Sister Petronella and even a few dance steps. We it is there. The gift could be an agreed to be the teacher of the 24 practised for the Christmas and heirloom of unrealized value, children who had enrolled. Mother’s Day concerts and which has always been in your Eventually the program expanded waved to our parents in the audi - family, passed down through the to include classes for three-, four- ence. We wore costumes for the generations. Or the gift could be a and five-year-olds, all benefitting concerts — angels, shepherds, person, a person who somehow from this unassuming woman elves, snowflakes — and Sister exhibits all of these traits. For who has dedicated her life to Petronella told us that, on stage, nearly five decades, St. Basil building the church. singing for Jesus, we truly were Parish in Edmonton has had just This is not to say that Sister angels! Today I have a daughter such a gift — Sister Petronella Petronella is not appreciated. in Sister Petronella’s four-year- Dybka, SSMI. Lena Sloboda, honorary life old sadochok program. Her class - Back in 1967, St. Basil cele - member of the UCWL, is eager to mates are also children of Sister’s brated the completion of the new let people know just what Sister former students. Now I get to parish complex consisting of the Petronella has contributed to St. watch her on the same stage, in church, a large monastery and the Basil over half a century. the same costumes, singing the significant Cultural Centre. “We all know that the devel - same songs to Jesus.” The sado - Moving from an extremely small opment and growth of a parish chok Christmas concert remains a parish hall — which was in fact depends on the formation of its highlight of the annual parish cal - the original St. Anthony’s children. It is evident that endar. Church, now on display at Fort Sister Petronella’s apostolic While the sadochok program Edmonton Park — to the Cultural work and service among the is a remarkable accomplishment Centre was an almost unbeliev - chil dren did much to assist the in itself, Sister Petronella did not able blessing. In addition to the efforts of our parish pastors in hesitate to take on more duties BUILDING THE CHURCH — Sister Petronella Dybka, SSMI, is seen main hall, which could seat some the development and growth of when asked. From 1968 until here with children holding their Easter baskets in 2015. Over the years 700 people, there would now be our parish.” 1997 she assumed the responsi - Sister Petronella has taught hundreds of children in the sadochok pro - dedicated rooms for the youth of Mrs. Sloboda notes that St. bility of preparing St. Basil’s gram. In providing fertile ground for future enthusiastic parishioners, the parish and, significantly, a Basil’s sadochok program pro - children to receive the first she has built up the church over the generations. children’s kindergarten. vides fertile ground for future solemn holy eucharist. During enthusiastic parishioners. “We that time she taught some 1,800 year, Sister was given even more culture, to leading the Children observe that children who attend children. Sister also prepared responsibility as spiritual director of Mary choir, Sister has always Kostyniuk, who lives in sadochok classes continue with first communicants in the two of St. Basil’s Children of Mary, a supported me, no matter what. I Edmonton, has a bachelor of the - church programs. We see them rural parishes of Calmar and program for girls aged five to 12. can’t thank her enough for doing ology from Newman and is a free - serve as altar boys, enter Children Thorsby. For 15 years beginning At regular meetings, the girls so.” lance writer. He and his wife Bev of Mary. Later, they take an in 1983, she served as catechist learn about their faith and No one is certain just how have been married for 37 years active part in the parish. Their for the annual St. Basil summer Ukrainian traditions. Divine litur - many children have been influ - and have eight grandchildren. establishment in the parish begins camp at Pigeon Lake. That same gies are regularly enhanced with enced by Sister Petronella over their presence in veils and blue the years, but the number is cer - capes. tainly in the thousands. Equally In a new year: singing a different tune Each of those girls has a spe - immeasurable is the contribu - cial story to tell about how tion these children have made year ahead, fears and successes, Sister Petronella has influenced to the church in their adult goals and objectives. And it is her life. Victoria Kostyniuk is years. always a time to say thank you for one of them. “Sister has always Today, Sister Petronella’s the blessings in my life, no matter been a huge role model in my warmth, deep spirituality, kind - Figure of how hard or how difficult the prior life. She always encourages me ness and joy attract children, as year has been. to be a leader in our church they have for nearly 50 years — a Speech I don’t want to draw an overly community. From nurturing my remarkable achievement by this long bow here, but it seems to me love for Ukrainian dance and hidden treasure. Dr. Gerry Turcotte that the repurposed piano is a more useful metaphor for the new year than the cliché of “starting I will solve my riddle to the ideas to repurpose otherwise dead from scratch.” The reality is that NOW AVAILABLE music of the harp. — Psalm 49:9 pianos. One of these caught my we begin each new year by repur - e-Edition subscriptions fancy, so on New Year’s Eve, my posing the last. 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I always follow a number we’re put together, to acknowl - One Year $37.00 Two Years $67.00 J J until a better instrument was of rituals on New Year’s Day. One edge the beauty of who we are U.S. $126.00 Foreign $152.00 needed. When we discovered that of these is to engage in key priori - and how God made us, and also Applicable tax included J J the soundboard on the first piano ty activities, this on the unscientif - to reimagine the possibilities for New Renewal was irreparably damaged, it ic premise that how you start your transformation. Like our humble became a large, useless, dust-col - year will be a template for how the piano, we should be true to who Name: ______lecting sculpture in the dining rest of it unfolds. For me this we are, even while playing a dif - room. means spending quality time with ferent tune. The important thing Address: ______Recently another friend sent my family, completing one impor - is to always look for the potential City/Town: ______Prov: ______me a website featuring creative tant work task, and starting a cre - within every object, situation and ative project. I also set aside time individual, and then find ways to Postal Code: ______Tel: ______for meditation and prayer. This, help that potential emerge. That’s Turcotte is president of St. inevitably, compels me to review an upright resolution if ever there Visa/MC: ______Expiry: ______Mary’s University in Calgary. issues that matter, priorities for the was one. January 20, 2016 DEEPENING OUR FAITH Prairie Messenger 11 Learning to love well is the work of a lifetime

son?” And Jesus feels that, in spite of this, they will expect and throw him off a cliff, but we might be more than a little him to perform miracles in Nazareth as he had been doing skeptical, making him feel rejected by those who know him. in Capernaum, because his reputation had begun to spread. Perhaps some of us have had this experience. How Liturgy It becomes obvious that he does not intend to do this have we reacted? We might not claim to be prophets, but and says what has come to us down through the ages: “No we might have done or accomplished something that and Life prophet is accepted in his home town.” This enrages the brought recognition elsewhere, and when we went home Nazarenes and they try to throw him off a cliff. But Jesus we might hope that someone who knows us would com - just quietly “went on his way.” ment. How would we react if no one did? Jesus knows Lorette Noble Suppose Jesus was to appear in any one of our villages, exactly how we might feel, since he experienced this. And towns or cities today, someone we had seen grow up among the example he gives us is to simply pass through town us, who learned the trade of his father, went school with our and go on our way, continuing to do good things. This Sunday’s Gospel tells us about Jesus’ visit to kids, and then left town. One day he returns, comes to The second reading today is Paul’s message about Nazareth, where he grew up with Joseph and Mary. It church as he used to, and is invited to do one of the readings. love, and is surely the best known of all his writings. We takes place not too long after he began his public life. He It could be from Jeremiah (the first reading) where have heard it many times, especially at weddings. And had been baptized by John the Baptist and those present at God says that he had predestined him to be a prophet and, what a challenge it is! Paul is obviously well aware of this, the time heard a voice from the heavens saying, “this is even if rejected, God would always be with him. Or it as he begins this first letter to the Corinthians admitting my Beloved, in whom I am well pleased.” could be the one the Gospel tells us is from Isaiah that that even if he can speak in tongues, have prophetic pow - Christ had also spent 40 days in the desert where he ers, understand all mysteries, be able to move mountains was tempted by the devil. And he had been going around Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19 with just faith, and give away all his possessions, he is Fourth Sunday in Galilee preaching in synagogues and doing miracles heal - Psalm 71 only a noisy gong, a clanging cymbal — in fact, he is Ordinary Time ing sick people. Then he decides to visit Nazareth and, on 1 Corinthians 12:31 - 13:13 nothing if he does not have love. January 31, 2016 the Sabbath, “he went as usual to the synagogue” and read Luke 4:21-30 What a beautiful description Paul gives us of love in all the Scriptures. its aspects, in all the ways it may be experienced, given and At first the local people were amazed and spoke well Jesus reads about the Spirit of the Lord being upon him, shared. And he reminds us that, in spite of everything that of him, until some began asking, “Is this not Joseph’s sending him out to bring good news to the poor, proclaim might happen in our everyday lives, we can try to remember liberty to captives, make the blind see again, free those that “Love never ends.” Paul urges us to look at ourselves who are oppressed, and tell everyone that the time has honestly and ask: are we envious, boastful, arrogant or rude? Noble was pastoral animator in an elementary Catholic come when God will save his people. This person we’ve Do we ever insist on having our own way? Are we ever irri - school for 30 years, produced community television pro - known from childhood ends by saying that this Scripture table or resentful? Or can we say that we are mostly patient grams for 11 years in the 1980s and ’90s, was animator reading has been fulfilled in our hearing and he’s the per - and kind, living with hope no matter what goes wrong? for her diocesan English Region from 2000 - 2006 and is son who has been sent by God and is going to do all this. Actually, I do know some people who come pretty past national president of the CWL (2006 - 2008). She What would our reaction be to this person? close to being loving most of the time. At least whenever I lives in Candiac, Que. Hopefully we would not want to drag him out of town see them. But it’s a life’s work, trying to get it right, isn’t it? We need to regularly set down our burdens so our souls can catch up

That happens to us too in life, what happened. Yet when I go she sees how rich and precious except mostly we never wait for back and read an account of what her experience was and, because In our souls to catch up. We contin - I did each day, I’m always of the burden and stress, how lit - ue on without them, sometimes amazed as how rich and full life tle her soul was present then to for years. What’s meant by this? was on those days, except that I what she was actually undergo - Exile Mostly it means that we struggle wasn’t much aware of it at the ing. to be in the present moment, to time. While actually living This can be multiplied with a be inside our own skins, to be through those days, mostly I was thousand examples. We’ve all Ron Rolheiser, OMI aware of the richness of our own struggling to get my work done, read accounts wherein someone experience. 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My intent in keeping this there, just a lot of routine, work that is, I would try to keep my living as porters were hired one suading them to go on. Asked journal is to record the deeper and hurry. soul more present and more day to carry a huge load of sup - why they couldn’t continue, they things I’m aware of throughout This is probably not atypical. aware. plies for a group on safari. Their answered: “We can’t go on; we each day, but mostly what I end Most of us, I suspect, live most For most of us, I fear, our loads were unusually heavy and have to wait for our souls to catch up actually writing down is a sim - of our days not very aware of souls will only catch up with us the trek through the jungle was on up with us.” ple chronology of my day — a how rich our lives are, forever when, finally, we are in a retire - daybook, a bare, no-frills recount - leaving our souls behind. 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There have been fine docu - to a society ball as her fictional the general’s ill-fated son. So far, mentaries before pointing the fin - “cousin” Lili sets off a chain of so bad. ger, notably Charles Ferguson’s events beyond her control. What Then the questions start taking Screenings Oscar-winning Inside Job. What began as an innocent prank over: Who made the stew? Who McKay has done successfully is quickly turns into a dramatic poisoned the coffee? Who’s try - & Meanings to make a hugely enjoyable drama struggle as Einar increasingly ing to free Daisy? Which of them using humour to drive home a questions his sexuality. Gerda is are imposters? Who is that other serious message about a complex naturally distressed when Einar as gunfighter (Channing Tatum) hid - Gerald Schmitz subject. (While McKay’s back - Lili becomes the objection of ing in the basement? Chapter five ground is in comedy he’s also a affections by a young homosexu - enlightens on the murder and Flying today to Park City, Stanley led by an irascible money supporter of outspoken socialist al man, Henrik (Ben Whishaw). mayhem earlier that morning, all Utah, to cover the 32nd Sundance manager, Mark Baum (Steve Democrat presidential aspirant Einar’s childhood friend Hans leading up to a gorefest in which Film Festival, I’m anticipating a Carell). Baum still broods over a Bernie Sanders.) Writes Michael also enters the picture. the only question is: Does anyone raft of world premieres, some of brother’s suicide and his qualms Lewis approvingly in Vanity Fair: Convinced that Lili is his/her survive? That makes more than which will eventually make it to and histrionics add an edge of “Wall Street, like a clever pervert, true nature, the personality of eight but who’s counting? Canadian screens. In the mean - manic-depressive tragedy and is often suspected but seldom Einar disappears in Lili’s determi - As Roy Orbison’s Vietnam-era time here are four major releases guilty conscience to the biting understood and never convicted. nation to be a pioneer of risky sex There Won’t Be Many Coming already in theatres that merit satire. It is my hope that (this movie) reassignment surgery, a decision Home plays over the end credits attention, including the triple Even more bizarre is the might actually help change the sit - supported by Gerda. “God made (clue: strike the “m’ in many), Golden Globe winner The behaviour of real-life California uation.” me a woman,” Lili insists. “The there’s one thing I can agree on: Revenant (best picture, director, neurologist turned hedge-fund The Danish Girl doctor is curing me of the sick - this sure is a hateful movie. actor) which is nominated for a manager Dr. Michael Burry ness in which I was disguised.” The Revenant (U.S.) leading 12 Academy Awards. (Christian Bale). In 2006, con - (U.K./Germany/U.S.) But such a radical action for the The Big Short (U.S.) vinced of the certainty of an time has no happy ending in this Partly based on Michael’s imminent financial implosion, he Eddie Redmayne has an Oscar careful telling of that traumatic Punke’s eponymous 2002 novel, Author Michael Lewis shorts the mortgage market big best-actor nomination, following transition. which was inspired by actual (Moneyball, Liar’s Poker) never time by betting on its failure. In his 2015 win for playing Stephen The Hateful Eight (U.S.) events during the 1820s on thought his 2010 book The Big other words, the worse the quality America’s rugged Dakotan fron - Short: Inside the Doomsday of the corruptly packaged finan - Director Quentin Tarantino’s tier, last year’s big Oscar winner Machine could be made into an cial products he buys, the bigger eighth film, with its epic conceits Alejandro González Iñárritu entertaining mass-audience the eventual payoff. His impatient of an overture and intermission in (Birdman) helms an epic wide- movie. How to explain on screen incredulous investors mutiny the 70mm version, has preten - screen production fully justifying complex speculative instruments until later in 2007 his bet reaps sions of being a great wide-screen its 156-minute runtime. The tale from credit default swaps to col - them spectacular rewards. western saga played out on a win - of survival and revenge begins in lateralized debt obligations Another storyline involves a try frontier (Colorado standing in a large camp of trappers led by (CDOs)? How to make an engag - pair of small-time Colorado for Wyoming) in the years after Captain Andrew Henry ing story out of the unusual investors — Jamie Shipley (Finn the Civil War. It turns into a (Domhnall Gleason) that includes manoeuvres employed by some Wittrock) and Charlie Geller three-hour slog ending up the guide Hugh Glass (Leonardo market mavericks who anticipat - (John Magaro) — with big ambi - drenched in Tarantino’s trade - DiCaprio in a career-topping per - ed, in order to profit from, the tions who get wind of the short - mark blood and guts without the formance), his half-Pawnee son subprime mortgage meltdown ing opportunity of a lifetime and glory. Hawk (Forrest Goodluck) with that preceded the 2008 financial convince high-rolling mentor Ben In the striking opening image whom he speaks in the native crash? With an assist from Brad Rickert (Pitt) to deal at the big the camera pans out from a snow- tongue, the young Jim Bridger Pitt, who also plays the role of a boys table on their behalf. The encrusted stone crucifix to reveal (Will Poulter), and the hot-tem - key investor among the stellar result is an impressive windfall a horse-drawn stagecoach pered, partly scalped John cast of financial traders, director amid the carnage of bank failures approaching across a white Fitzgerald (an almost unrecogniz - Adam McKay has turned the and consequent crisis of confi - wilderness expanse. What fol - able Tom Hardy). Focus Features trick. dence and credit. lows, however, is as anti- The action is soon savagely McKay uses a variety of tech - Accompanying the comic THE DANISH GIRL — Eddie Christian as it gets. The passen - fast and furious as a raiding party niques to probe and puncture the absurdity of the capitalist excess - Redmayne has been nominated gers are John Ruth (Kurt Russell), of Arikara warriors attacks, seiz - fraudulent froth of financial mar - es these situations expose is a pal - for an Oscar for best actor in the “the hangman,” who’s taking his film The Danish Girl. ing pelts and horses. A decimated ket exuberance, including a mem - pable churning anger at a corrupt “wanted dead or alive” prisoner, group escapes by river barge. orable vignette of a naked starlet system. The fallout is no laughing Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason More savage still is the next (Margot Robbie) giving the matter: described in an endnote as Hawking, with another striking Leigh), to Red Rock where he attack, of a she-bear on Glass straight goods on a financial $5 trillion of financial losses, physical transformation based on expects to collect the $10,000 when he is hunting alone. Thrice derivative while sipping cham - eight million lost jobs, six million a real person, Danish landscape reward. The stage picks up two mauled, the gravely injured Glass pagne in a bubble bath. He some - Americans losing their homes. painter Einar Wegener who horseless gunslingers before is retrieved, barely breathing, able times has Ryan Gosling’s com - Baum, whose group cashes in became a transgender woman arriving at Minnie’s to make only guttural sounds posite character of Jared Vennett while so many others on the street named Lili Elbe. In director Tom Haberdashery as a blizzard closes through a ripped larynx, surely a narrate the plays to the camera. are devastated, rails that the most Hooper’s delicate adaptation of in — Union army Maj. Marquis dying man. With winter Vennett is a slick banking insider responsible, those “too big to David Ebershoff’s loosely bio - Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a approaching in a hostile territory with the lowdown on the housing fail,” get bailed out by taxpayers graphical novel, we meet Einar as bounty hunter with a load of bod - the men need to make haste back bubble’s massive toxic assets — while populist blame falls on a slightly effeminate smartly ies, and rebel renegade Chris to the sanctuary of Fort Kiowa. triple-A-rated due to the craven “immigrants and the poor.” dressed gentleman in 1926 Mannix (Walton Goggins) who Fitzgerald wants Glass quickly collusion of the ratings agencies The guilty have not been pun - Copenhagen, apparently happily claims to be the new sheriff in put out of his misery but, for a — accumulating on the balance ished and there’s a warning it could married to fellow artist Gerda town. big payoff, agrees to stay back sheets of Wall Street’s biggest happen again. Led Zeppelin’s omi - (Alicia Vikander). Gerda’s whim - Except there’s no Minnie, or with Hawk and Bridger to care financial firms. He approaches a nous When the Levee Breaks plays sical suggestion that he don Sweet Dave. Instead they’re for Glass until it’s time for a group affiliated with Morgan over the closing credits. women’s garb and accompany her greeted by a Mexican, “Señor “proper burial.” Bob” (Demián Adding murder and deception Bichir), with a story to Fitzgerald’s treachery, Glass to explain their will be abandoned but refuses to absence. The other die, promising retribution over guests are a white- his son’s body. What follows is a haired Confederate tale of impossible survival over general, Sandy several hundred kilometres of Smithers (Bruce mountainous terrain and icy Dern), a big ol’ rivers. Glass, like a wounded wild cowboy, Joe Gage animal, at first crawls on all (Michael Madsen), fours. He’s stoked by a revenant and a Brit, Oswaldo revenge, fortified by bison Mobray (Tim innards, protected by a horse’s Roth), claiming to belly (don’t ask), aided by a lone be the official hang - Pawnee hunter on horseback, man. That Marquis until the latter meets a bad end at is black is an the hands of a vile gang of thiev - excuse for lots of ing French-speaking trappers who racist as well as fully live up to their warning “on Fox raw, vulgar dia - est tous des sauvages” (“we are THE REVENANT — In a “career-topping performance,” Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Hugh Glass in Oscar winner logue, and a partic - all savages”). There are halluci- Alejandro González Iñárritu’s epic film The Revenant. The film has received 12 Academy Award nominations including ularly disgusting best actor, best picture and best director. flashback involving — AWESOME , page 15 January 20, 2016 Prairie Messenger 13 14 Prairie Messenger ARTS & CULTURE January 20, 2016 Fans are having second thoughts about football

By Charles Camosy admit that the game receiver as he comes over the ©2015 Religion News Service was causing serious middle, gives me a thrill. brain damage to many But it is precisely this aspect Imagine a major motion pic - of its players. His of the game that is so morally ture about NFL football, featuring medical breakthrough problematic. As long as we con - Will Smith as the superstar lead came with examining tinue to support a game deeply actor, which got solid reviews. the brain of the great connected to violence, each of us How do you think its opening Pittsburgh Steeler is implicated in the terrible toll weekend would go in our foot - Mike Webster — who this is taking on football players ball-obsessed culture? died at age 50, living in their retirement. Just such a movie, Concussion, in a van, regularly fir - The game has changed its rela - opened on Christmas Day and fin - ing a Taser on himself tionship to violence before. In ished that weekend in an embar - to deal with the pain. CNS/Columbia Pictures 1905, 18 players died from their rassing sixth place — behind a ter - Since then we’ve CONCUSSION — Will Smith stars in the film Concussion as Dr. Bennet Omalu, a football injuries. In response, rible Alvin and the Chipmunks come to know the sto - forensic neuropathologist who discovers that repeated brain bruises like those President Teddy Roosevelt sum - film. ries of many others football players experience can lead to a condition that can cause severe dementia. moned coaches and athletic direc - The reason for this is related to who have been affect - tors to the White House with the the reason meat-eaters don’t like ed by football concussions. Brett The NFL, under severe legal ing combination of ridiculous ath - goal of “reducing the element of to look at animals in factory Favre cannot remember his and social pressure in recent years, letic talent, the complexity of a brutality in play.” farms and abortion-rights ac - daughter’s childhood and has pub - has taken some steps to address the grand master chess match, and Football must again funda - tivists don’t like to look at what licly said he would not permit any problem, adding new penalties for raw caveman force. mentally change its relationship abortion does to prenatal chil - child of his to play football. Dave “targeting” the head of an oppos - Growing up a football fan in with violence. Though such dren. The ostrich approach keeps Duerson and Junior Seau had ing player and putting protocols in Wisconsin during the 1990s, I was changes will likely cause short- us from having to think about the brain injuries that led them to take place for those who suffer head obsessed with the rise of the Green term growing pains and com - moral implications of the prac - their own lives. Super Bowl-win - injuries. But as Concussion direc - Bay Packers’ Mike Holmgren, a plaints from the fans, the wild tices we support. ning quarterback Jim McMahon tor Pete Landesman rightly notes, coach who pulled no punches in popularity of fantasy football, North Americans are addicted said of his struggles: “I am glad I “there’s a very limited range of connecting the sport to violence. which focuses on things like to football — especially in the don’t have any weapons in my things they can actually do” with “Football is about physically touchdowns, yards, receptions U.S. at this time of year — and house or else I am pretty sure I the game as it currently exists. pounding the opponent. If you and interceptions, indicates foot - we simply don’t want to be con - wouldn’t be here. It got to be that I take a back seat to no one want to win this game, you have to ball would still flourish without fronted with the results of the vio - bad.” when it comes to love of football. beat the crap out of these guys,” the violence. lence inherent in the game. Even if one’s life is not in The game has been a very impor - he said. But this will not happen with - But no fan can watch Con - immediate jeopardy, plenty of tant source of community for my As much as I love to try to rec - out pressure from the fans. We cussion without being so confront - NFL players can relate to Super friends and family. (Indeed, ognize a zone blitz, or am awed must make our desire for change ed. Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, Bowl winner Leonard Marshall, because my parents met on a train by a wide receiver laying out for loud and clear. And, yes, we a man who heroically challenged who said, “I just noticed that my going to see Notre Dame play a diving touchdown reception, I should refuse to watch and other - the NFL juggernaut and forced it to behaviour was starting to change. Alabama for the 1973 national have to admit there is a primal wise support the game as it cur - . . . I would forget things, forget championship, I literally wouldn’t part of me that loves the violence. rently exists. financial responsibilities, take exist if it weren’t for football.) I’m not proud of it, but a blind- Perhaps this should be the Camosy is associate professor things for granted, have a short Left unrestrained, I could easily side hit on the opponent’s quar - final weekend we watch football of theological and social ethics at fuse with my daughter, a short watch five, six games in a typical terback, or a ball-hawking safety until it fundamentally changes its Fordham University. fuse with my ex.” weekend. Football is an intoxicat - taking out an opponent’s wide relationship with violence. Remembering great artist includes knowing work comes from human being

By Caitlin Ward them in a way that he never had indiscretions almost sound sheep - women by so many men we con - to me: a departure from the ish in their indictments. Others sider great. When I heard the news on everyday and from the social respond that they’d rather not That being said, of course, it Mon day morning that David mores that plague your average think about it, or that it’s not the doesn’t change the fact that his Bowie had died the night before, teenager, male or female (or, as time to talk about it, or that it’s music was meaningful and beau - the first thing I did was get in this is Bowie, possibly some - not relevant to his legacy. tiful, and his art irrevocably touch with my sister and a close where in-between). He’s the sort I tend to disagree on all changed the face of western cul - friend from high school. I had to of artist you could get lost inside, counts. Things remain insistently ture. The trouble, for me at least, see how they were doing. Both fitting yourself into the worlds he present whether we want to talk is that I don’t know how to feel were sad. The former wept. The constructed in his songs, the peo - about them or not. There are few about it. I don’t know how to latter was stoic. ple he played in his films. As more pertinent mo ments to talk remember David Bowie. “Crazy. So sad. So young,” musician and also as actor, he about someone’s she said. “I don’t know how I was permission to be a stranger behaviour than Fame, makes a man take things over would have gotten through high version of yourself, or perhaps on the occasion Fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow school without him.” more accurately, an authentic of their death, Fame, puts you there where things are hollow Much of my late teens and version of yourself. It’s only a wheth er the be - Fame early 20s was spent listening to particular kind of artist who can haviour was good David Bowie, first in my parents’ do that for his or her audience. or bad. Fame, it’s not your brain, it’s just the flame cars, and then eventually my own David Bowie It’s a particular kind of vision. Legacy, That burns your change to keep you insane car: Hunky Dory if I were with And all of that — well, so say though . . . that’s Fame my sister; some part of the Sound pressive. He reincarnated himself the million tributes that have always the part I & Vision box set if I were with a dozen times, falling in and out poured in about David Bowie need to work out Fame, what you like is in the limo my friend. Both were more of different personas that were since he died. I don’t mean to be for myself. What Fame, what you get is no tomorrow affected by the death than I was. more and less himself: in the first flippant. I believe the things I’ve precisely is a Fame, what you need you have to borrow decade of his career alone, he said about him to be true, but lega cy? Is it Fame Fame went from Davie Jones to David most of these insights are not meant to be an unique to me, or my feelings accurate repre - Fame, “Nein! It’s mine!” is just his line David Bowie Bowie to Ziggy Stardust, back to David Bowie, and then to the about the man. People whom I sentation of what To bind your time, it drives you to, crime Thin White Duke. He maintained had no idea liked Bowie have dis - someone was? Is Fame Don’t get me wrong — I cer - a successful career for the better played loving tributes to the man it a testament to Could it be the best, could it be? tainly like David Bowie a lot. I part of 40 years, writing music on social media and in real life. the impact a per - Really be, really, babe? appreciate a fair amount of his that was always intrinsically There are other voices, too, son or thing has Could it be, my babe, could it, babe? music, and he seems to have been David Bowie, yet always current, though. The ones that quietly but on our lives and Really, really? a generally intelligent and and always relevant. Unlike other insistently remind us that Bowie culture? And in Is it any wonder I reject you first? thoughtful person. More than that, artists who’ve been around a very was not only that larger-than-life either case, how Fame, fame, fame, fame though, as an artist he was im - long time, most notably the persona in whom we could fash - is the fact of his Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool Rolling Stones, Bowie was never ion an identity or a home. He’s committing statu - accused of carrying on past his also the cocaine-addled man who tory rape not rele - Fame Ward is a Saskatoon- sell-by date. He never reached it. slept with 15-year-old girls in the vant? I think it Fame, bully for you, chilly for me based freelance writer who For the two I checked in with mid-1970s, when he was nearly says a great deal Got to get a rain check on pain spends her days (and most the morning after his death, 30 years old. Because he was so about our culture Fame nights) working at a small though, he was more than just an good at what he did, and so that we’ll willing - Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, Catholic college. Her less elo - artist to admire. Both having dis - loved, and so intelligent in his ly forgive or for - fame, fame, quent thoughts can be found at covered him in their mid-teens, conversations on so many things, get or ignore the (repeated) www.twitter.com/newsetofstrings Bowie symbolized freedom to the voices mentioning those mistreatment of What’s your name?

January 20, 2016 CHURCH AT HOME Prairie Messenger 15 ‘If it takes a village to raise a child . . .’

You can forget, sort of. At least the details, if you don’t “go there.” You can forgive. People Around the can forgive almost anything. But there is life past forgiveness and Kitchen Table in that life there is still infection . And that’s the messed-up part. The infection is called shame, so Maureen Weber deep-rooted it evades healing even with years of therapy. It has nothing to do with memory and A couple of weekends ago I has nothing to do with me. It can’t forgiveness. It’s just there, saw the movie Spotlight, the film be happening. Or else, it’s exag - beyond thought. Part of you, like about the Boston Globe Spotlight gerated. After all, this person is skin. investigative team of reporters known, friendly, kind, responsi - Shame lives inside issuing that broke the sexual abuse scan - ble, contributes to the community. directives. Make yourself small, dal in the Catholic Church in Surely this isn’t true. so small, as not to be noticed. 2002. A few days after seeing the The Village has a million Unobtrusive. Be thin in mind and movie the City of Swift Current rationalizations. What’s a kid body. Shrink when you’re with issued a public apology to the compared to a Village? Villagers others so no one will have to victims of Graham James, a hock - would rather deal with their own touch you. Be invisible. ey coach and sexual predator who niggling suspicions than take the Shame tells you your very in the 1980s devastated the lives risk of investigating. And any - presence is offensive. It is the of a number of junior hockey way, these are kids . Kids get sense that everyone can see the players. things wrong, make things up, flaw inside — it emanates like a Some may question why a city don’t they? No one is really being foul smell — and, no matter should apologize for the actions hurt, right? How bad can it be? what you do, it can’t be dis - of one criminal, or why the They’ll forget about it. Bounce guised. Not by artfully tied church should be held responsible back. They’re resilient. scarves, expertly applied makeup for the actions of disturbed indi - We hear of adult abuse victims or a fit physique. Shame sets up viduals. But a quote from the who turn to alcohol and drugs, a prescription for perfection in Spotlight film stays with me. A behave recklessly and sometimes order for you to be acceptable, Boston lawyer for some of the take their own lives. They must and berates you when it cannot Rupture. Janice Weber victims, Mitchell Garabedian, be the exceptions, we tell our - be attained. Shame is demanding tells a reporter, “If it takes a vil - selves. The poor sods who and cruel. No mercy. child’s soul, impairing relation - posed to be in the business of lage to raise a child, it takes a vil - couldn’t forgive and forget. Shame makes you cold — ships — with the self, with oth - saving souls, yet after hundreds lage to abuse one.” Maybe some of you are sick you’re a dead fish. No one wants ers, and with God. It is the work of years it cannot take responsi - Pedophiles, we have learned, of hearing about this. Well, to hug a dead fish and fish don’t of a lifetime to mend the breach. bility for the systemic destruction have multiple victims, sometimes except for the high-profile abuse have arms so they shouldn’t hug It took a city — an earthly city of countless souls. numbering in the hundreds in victims who turn their lives anyway. Shame makes you hesi - — 20 years to apologize for the If it takes a village to abuse a crimes that go undetected for around: Sheldon Kennedy. tant to hug your grown children crimes of one man. What about child, it is the village’s responsi - years. Confounded people shake Theoren Fleury. Oprah Winfrey. because it tells you they are old God’s city? The church is sup - bility to take part in the healing. their heads and wonder how. But Tyler Perry. Carlos Santana. enough to feel the disease and be someone, maybe many, always Yeah, we figure. You can talk disappointed. Disappointed with Awesome cinematography know , or suspect , or have at least about it if you’ve done some - you. a tiny hunch that something is off , thing awesome. The rest of you Shame tells you not to trust. It is movie’s other triumph and they let it go, look the other quit blaming and just get over is not trusting that you can be way, push it from their minds, yourselves. loved, and not trusting those who perhaps to protect the reputation It’s not that simple. One of the love you. Shame is suspicion. 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Hymn choices prepared by Bernadette Gasslein, Karen Koester, Heather Reid and Christina Ronzio. Please note that these selections are not meant to be prescriptive, but to help you in your choice of music that works for your community, with its resources and repertoire. Don’t be afraid to repeat selections from week to week; consider adding just one new piece per season. Keep in mind that: (1) the Easter Triduum is one feast in several celebrations spread over three days; (2) the days of the Easter Season “above all others are the days for the singing of the Alleluia” (General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar); (3) CIS = Celebrate in Song; and (4) Misericordes Sicut Pater = Hymn for the Holy Year of Mercy.

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2016 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

February 10, 2016 Entrance Song/ 371 O Sun of Justice, Fill Our 128 Again We Keep This Solemn 343 The Glory of These Forty 487 Again We Keep This Solemn Ash Wednesday Chant Hearts Fast Days Fast

CIS 6.12 Gather Your People 665 Change Our Hearts 474 From Ashes to the Living Font v 1,2,4 6.18 Led By the Spirit

Distribution of 621A Grant to Us, O Lord 114 With These Ashes 340 Ashes 469 Remember You Are Dust Ashes 415 Spirit Blowing Through 669 With the Lord 209 Psalm 51: Create in Me 486 Dust and Ashes Creation 210 Psalm 51: Give Me a New 623 O My People, Turn to Me Heart

342 Turn to Me

Offertory Song/ 374 With Our God 667 Turn to Me 349 Change Our Hearts 493 Change Our Hearts Chant CIS 6.19 This Season Calls Us 118 Now Is the Acceptable Time 484 Hosea

6.20 Living Spirit, Holy Fire

Communion Song/ 597 D and A Bread of Life 320 Bread of Life 503 See Us, Lord, about Your Altar 500 Ubi Caritas Chant 496 My Refuge, My Fortress, 353 Bread for the World 646 Keep in Mind My God in Whom I Trust

CIS 6.22 Loving and Forgiving

Misericorde Sicut Pater

Final Song 357 Be With Me, Lord 125 Led By the Spirit 578 Anthem 962 Ashes

129 From the Depths We Cry 481 The Glory of These Forty to Thee Days

February 14, 2016 Entrance Song/ 86 Litany of the Saints 32 Litany of Saints 677 We Praise You 483 Forty Days and Forty Nights First Sunday Chant of Lent 357 Be With Me, Lord 120 Forty Days and Forty Nights 678 May We Praise You 481 The Glory of These Forty Days CIS: 6.17 Jesus, Tempted in the Desert

6.18 Led by the Spirit

6.19 This Season Calls Us

Offertory Song/ 429 Word of God 432 On Eagle’s Wings 598 On Eagle’s Wings 491 Jesus the Lord Chant 530 There Is One Lord 667 Turn to Me 230 Psalm 91: Be with Me, Lord 788 Come and Journey With a Saviour CIS 6.35 O Christ, You Speak the Names of God

Communion Song/ 496 My Refuge, My Fortress, 330 This Bread That We Share 499 One Bread, One Body 489 Merciful God (Lent refrain) Chant My God in Whom I Trust 331 Eat This Bread 608 Now in This Banquet

Misericorde Sicut Pater

Final Song 477 God of Day and God of 488 There’s a Wideness in God’s 345 Forty Days and Forty Nights 492 Jerusalem My Destiny Darkness Mercy 348 Lord, Who throughout These 801 Take Up Your Cross 374 With Our God 377 The Spirit Sends Us Forth Forty Days

Gasslein holds a licence in sacred theology with specialization in pastoral catechetics from the Institut catholique de Paris. For the past 40 years she has been engaged in various liturgical and catechetical ministries, leading workshops around the country and is editor of Worship, a journal published by Liturgical Press. She and her husband live in Edmonton.

Koester is a member of the National Council for Liturgical Music, a group that advises the CCCB. She earned a bachelor of education with music major at the University of Alberta, and has a graduate diploma in religious education at Newman Theological College. She has been actively involved in parish music ministry for over 30 years as a singer, choir director and occasional trumpeter at her parish, St. Joseph’s Basilica, and in the Archdiocese of Edmonton.

Reid is the director of music for St. Basil’s Parish in Ottawa. She has an undergraduate degree in music (Western) and a masters degree in liturgy from Notre Dame. Currently she is a member of the CCCB national commission for liturgy and the sacraments (NCLS) and the vice-chair of the Ontario Liturgical Conference.

Ronzio is the director of the Liturgy Office for the Diocese of Hamilton. She holds an MA in liturgical studies from St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN. January 20, 2016 Prairie Messenger 17 ~ MUSIC FOR LITURGY ~

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2016 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

February 21, 2016 Entrance Song/ 561 O God, Beyond All Praising 668 Remember Your Love 485 In the Shadow of Your Wings 877 How Good Lord to Be Here Second Sunday Chant of Lent 585 Christians, Lift Up Your Hearts 579 In the Day of the Lord 491 Yes, I Shall Arise 878 Transform Us

581 Church of God 424 At the Name of Jesus

443 Transfiguration

Offertory Song/ 434 O Light of Light, Love Given 597 In the Land There Is a Hunger 341 Save Your People 493 Change Our Hearts Chant Birth (could also be sung to the tunes at 352 or 382) 682 The Lord Is My Light 191 Psalm 27: The Goodness of the Lord CIS 6.35 O Christ, You Speak the Names of God

Communion Song/ 496 My Refuge, My Fortress, 133 Transfiguration 188 Psalm 27: The Lord is My 937 Now in This Banquet Chant My God in Whom I Trust Light (Lent refrain) 502 Transfigure Us, O Lord Misericorde Sicut Pater 522 Bread of Life

521 Look Beyond

Final Song 477 God of Day and God of 125 Led By the Spirit 444 Lift High the Cross 474 From Ashes to the Living Font Darkness - Year C Sunday 2 for 3rd verse 508 Out of Darkness 707 Lord of Glory CIS 6.31 Christ, Be Our Light

6.18 Led by the Spirit

February 28, 2016 Entrance Song/ 360 Eternal Lord of Love 667 Turn to Me 685 Praise, my Soul, the King of 487 Again We Keep This Solemn Third Sunday Chant Heaven Fast of Lent CIS 6.12 Gather Your People 668 Remember Your Love 639 There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy

Offertory Song/ 366 O Raise Your Eyes on High 459 Be Still And Know That I Am 251 Psalm 103: Loving and 794 I Am For You Chant God Forgiving 519 To Abraham and Sarah 482 The Cross of Jesus 134 Beyond the Days 710 I Have Loved You 530 Here I Am, Lord

CIS 6.35 O Christ, You Speak the Names of God

Communion Song/ 496 My Refuge, My Fortress, 783 How Lovely Is Your Dwelling 527 Jesus, the Bread of Life 937 Now in This Banquet Chant my God in Whom I Trust Place (Lent refrain) 528 Bread for the World 608 Now in this Banquet 323 To Be Your Bread 489 Merciful God (Lent refrain)

621 A Grant to Us, O Lord

CIS 6.22 Loving and Forgiving

Misericorde Sicut Pater

Final Song 352 Again We Keep This Solemn 540 Glory and Praise to Our God 568 They’ll Know We Are 475 Tree of Life Fast Christians 138 Lord, Who Throughout These 474 From Ashes to the Living Font Forty Days 343 The Glory of These Forty - Year C Sunday 3 for 3rd verse Days

March 6, 2016 Entrance Song/ 443 There’s A Wideness in God’s 315 Let Us Go to the Altar 526 Come, Taste and See 956 Our Father We Have Fourth Sunday Chant Mercy Wandered of Lent 813 Let Us Go Rejoicing 713 Rain Down 361 Great God of Mercy 686 Praise to the Lord

354 Somebody’s Knockin’ at Your Door

Offertory Song/ 622 I Will Sweep Away Your 517 Come Unto Me 342 Turn to Me 665 Healing River of the Spirit Chant Transgressions 468 Shelter Me O God 468 Come Home 960 Healer of Our Every Ill 623 O My People, Turn to Me 471 Hosea CIS 6.35 O Christ, You Speak the Names of God 472 Return to the Lord Your God

Communion Song/ 496 My Refuge, My Fortress, 324 Gift of Finest Wheat 199 Psalm 34: Taste and See 489 Merciful God (Lent refrain) Chant My God in Whom I Trust 509 Unless A Grain of Wheat 200 Psalm 34: Taste and See 937 Now in This Banquet CIS 6.22 Loving and Forgiving (Lent refrain)

Misericorde Sicut Pater

Final Song 373 Tree of Life 504 All That Is Hidden 715 Lead Me, Lord 685 How Can I Keep From Singing? 620 Forgive Our Sins as We 579 In the Day of the Lord 622 Lord of All Hopefulness Forgive

560 God Is Love! The Heavens Are Telling

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SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2016 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

March 13, 2016 Entrance Song/ 443 There’s A Wideness in God’s 668 Remember Your Love 618 All That We Have 474 From Ashes to the Living Font Fifth Sunday Chant Mercy Sunday 5 Year C for 3rd verse of Lent 774 Be Merciful, O Lord 346 By Your Cross 361 Great God of Mercy 493 Change Our Hearts 365 Jesus, Lord

Offertory Song/ 481 Be Not Afraid 652 You Have Called Us 477 Holy Darkness 964 The Master Came to Bring Chant Good News 622 I Will Sweep Away Your 671 Loving and Forgiving 271 Psalm 126: The Lord Has Transgressions Done Great Things 965 Forgive Our Sins

480 Amazing Grace! 272 Psalm 126: The Lord Has 782 Only This I Want Done Great Things CIS 6.35 O Christ, You Speak the Names of God 454 River of Glory 456 Wade in the Water

Communion Song/ 496 My Refuge, My Fortress, 587 We Are Many Parts 575 Only This I Want 783 Unless a Grain of Wheat Chant My God in Whom I Trust 478 Ubi Caritas 648 Peace is Flowing Like a River 489 Merciful God (Lent refrain) 363 Healer of Our Every Ill 620 There is a Longing Misericorde Sicut Pater

Final Song 538 Behold A Broken World, 589 Grateful 633 I Heard the Voice of Jesus 643 What Wondrous Love is This We Pray 645 God of Day and God of 344 With the Lord 373 Tree of Life Darkness CIS 6.23 Holy Is Your Name

March 20, 2016 Procession 59, 60 21, 22, 140 Hosanna to the Son 357 Blessings on the King 496 Palm Sunday Processional Palm Sunday of David 358 Hosanna to the Son of David

Entrance Song/ 62 All Glory, Praise and Honour 735 At the Name of Jesus 356 All Glory, Laud and Honor 498 All Glory, Laud and Honour Chant 738 Crown Him With Many 572 The King of Glory Crowns

Offertory Song/ 687 Though in the Form of God 498 Jesus, Lord 360 Behold the Lamb of God 512 O Sacred Head Chant 427 At the Name of Jesus 519 For the Sake of Christ 661 Jesus Christ, Inner Light 514 Behold the Wood

Communion Song/ 496 My Refuge, My Fortress, 153 Behold the Lamb 506 To Be Your Bread 783 Unless a Grain of Wheat Chant My God in Whom I Trust 509 Unless a Grain of Wheat 513 Our Blessing Cup 432 Jesus the Lord 362 No Greater Love 379 Behold the Wood Misericorde Sicut Pater

Final Song 377 The Lord Is Now Exalted 728 Rejoice the Lord Is King 662 Praise to You, O Christ, 492 Jerusalem My Destiny Our Savior 378 O Sacred Head 730 Hail Redeemer King Divine 570 All Hail the Power of Jesus’ 669 Beautiful Savior Name 373 Tree of Life 382 When I Behold the Wondrous Cross 370 Salvator Mundi CIS 6.16 Glory in the Cross (Good Friday verses)

THE PASCHAL TRIDUUM Holy Thursday Opening hymn 435 Lift High the Cross 719 Glory in the Cross 530 Table of Plenty 881 Lift High the Cross Mass of the Lord’s Supper 424 I Come with Joy 720 Lift High the Cross 534 Gather Us Together 377 The Lord Is Now Exalted 578 Worthy Is the Lamb (tune 62) 169 At the Lamb’s High Feast 375 At The Lamb’s High Feast 597A Bread of Life 583 As We Gather At This Table

368 O Cross of Christ

Washing of Feet 67 Ubi Caritas 145 Jesu, Jesu 361 Jesu, Jesu 506 Song of the Lord’s Command 376 Where True Love and Charity 146 As I Have Done For You 364 Ubi Caritas 500 or 696 or 705 Ubi Caritas are Found 144 Faith, Hope and Love 595 Christians, Let Us Love One Another 143 No Greater Love 480 God Is Love 483 Love One Another 476 Christians, Let Us Love One Another 481 Ubi Caritas 337 Ubi Caritas January 20, 2016 Prairie Messenger 19 ~ MUSIC FOR LITURGY ~

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2016 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

Holy Thursday Preparation 432 Jesus, the Lord 731 Jesus, the Lord 257 Psalm 116: Our Blessing Cup 508 Song of the Lord’s Supper cont’d of Gifts 687 Though in the Form of God 735 At the Name of Jesus 513 Our Blessing Cup 569 At the Name of Jesus

507 Lord, Whose Love in Humble 506 Now We Remain 645 Love One Another Ubi Caritas (See above, if not Service (also to the tune at 583 (See also unused selections for used for footwashing) or 475) (See also unused Washing of Feet) selections for Washing of Feet)

Communion 599 No Greater Love 366 Lord, by Your Cross and 362 No Greater Love 926 Life-Giving Bread Procession Resurrection 600 Our Daily Bread 513 Our Blessing Cup 923 Table Song 312 Here At This Table 602 Eat This Bread 518 The Supper of the Lord 931 Come to the Banquet 313 Now As We Gather 603 Gift of Finest Wheat 938 Come to the Feast 320 Bread of Life 611 Take and Eat 924 Song of the Body of Christ 347 God’s Holy Gifts 612 Drink in the Richness of God 344 Spirit and Grace CIS 6.1 Bread for the World 353 Bread for the World 6.2 Dona Nobis Pacem 346 Unless A Grain of Wheat 6.3 The Hand of the Lord feeds Us 153 Behold the Lamb of God 6.4 Let Us Be Bread 483 Love One Another 6.8 Take and Eat

Transfer of the 68 or 68b Pange Lingua Gloriosi 25 Sing My Tongue, the Savior’s 366 Sing, My Tongue, the Savior’s 509 Pange Lingua (Hail Our Blessed Sacrament (Hail Our Savior’s Glorious Body) Glory/Pange Lingua, Gloriosi Glory (Down in Adoration Falling) Saviour’s Glorious Body)

Celebration of the Entrance In silence Lord’s Passion

Veneration of 380 Jesus, Remember Me 155 Behold the Cross 367 O Sacred Head, Surrounded 514 Behold the Wood the Cross 368 O Cross of Christ 735 At the Name of Jesus 368 Were You There 475 Tree of Life

373 Tree of Life 731 Jesus the Lord 369 Behold the Wood 510 Jesus Remember Me

377 The Lord Is Now Exalted 136 Faithful Cross 370 Jesus the Lord 511 Were You There

379 Behold the Wood 642 What Wondrous Love is This 512 O Sacred Head

432 Jesus, the Lord 515 In the Cross of Christ

435 Lift High the Cross

6.16 Glory in the Cross (p. 132)

Communion (See Communion Procession 366 Lord By Your Cross and 362 No Greater Love (See Holy Thursday suggestions) Procession Holy Thursday) Resurrection 513 Our Blessing Cup 153 Behold the Lamb of God 518 The Supper of the Lord

Easter Vigil Exsultet: see the Roman Missal

Psalmody For the psalms please see CBW III, Living with Christ Missal, CCCB Website: http://nlo.cccb.ca/index.php/nclm: Gather 1048-1054

Gospel Acclamation

Solemn Alleluia or another Alleluia

Litany of the Saints 86 32 376 Litany of the Saints 1056

727 377 Litany of the Saints (note that neither of these has the new responses; see Roman Missal for revised Litany of the Saints)

Acclamation after 87 179 Springs of Water, Bless the 458 You Have Put On Christ 127 baptism Lord 460 We Have Been Baptized 334 Celtic Alleluia (refrain only) 176 Jubilate Deo in Christ

During the 614 Baptized in Water 35, 936, 937 I Saw Water Flowing 454 River of Glory 903 Baptized in Water Sprinkling of the Assembly 613 A Living Hope 179 Springs of Water 455 Flow River Flow 1057 Springs of Water 549B Celtic Alleluia 654 Baptized in Water 873 Shall We Gather at the River 546 Strong Is God’s Love for Us 657 River of Glory 899 Sweet Refreshment 394 The Light of Christ 661 Come to the River 383 Alleluia, Give Thanks to the 614 Rain Down Risen Lord 934 Water of Life 570 Laudate, Omnes Gentes CIS 6.12 Gather Your People 20 Prairie Messenger January 20, 2016 ~ MUSIC FOR LITURGY ~

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2016 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

Easter Vigil Preparation 384 Christ Is Alive! 172 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen 385 Behold the Glory of God 520 This is the Feast of Victory cont’d of Gifts Again 385 Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today 386 Up From the Earth 522 This is a Day of New 178 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Beginnings 386 Good Christians All, Rejoice Today 393 Join in the Dance and Sing 523 Christ the Lord is Risen Today 735 At the Name of Jesus 393 Something Which Is Known 525 The Strife is O’er 184 Jesus Is Risen 395 The Strife Is O’er 534 Now the Green Blade Rises 180 Three Days 398 We Know That Christ Is Raised

403 Now the Green Blade Rises

CIS 6.16 Glory in the Cross (p. 133)

Communion 404 O Sons and Daughters 172 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen 498 Bread of Life 334 Celtic Alleluia Procession (See also Holy Thursday for both Again (if not already sung) CBW and CIS) 519 I Am the Living Bread 173 Ye Sons and Daughters 532 O Sons and Daughters 525 Gift of Finest Wheat (See Holy Thursday suggestions) 578 Worthy Is the Lamb

333 Behold the Lamb

153 Behold the Lamb of God

483 Love One Another (See also Holy Thursday)

Closing 389 Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today 164 Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today 381 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen 540 Jesus Christ is Risen Today Today 383 Alleluia! Give Thanks to the 573 Alleluia! Give Thanks to the 524 Alleluia No. 1 Risen Lord Risen Lord 394 At the Lamb’s High Feast 542 That Easter Day With Joy CIS 6.21 Join in the Dance 171 Alleluia, Alleluia Let the Holy 397 This Is the Day Was Bright Anthem Rise (See also Preparation of Gifts) 539 Sing With All the Saints in Glory

March 27, 2016 Opening hymn 389 Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today 164 Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today 382 Now the Green Blade Rises 540 Jesus Christ is Risen Today EASTER SUNDAY 171 Alleluia, Alleluia Let the Holy 387 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen 523 Christ the Lord is Risen Today Anthem Rise Today

184 Jesus Is Risen

568 Festival Canticle

Sequence 385 Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today 36 Christians to the Paschal Victim 380 Eastertide Carol 1065 (Easter Sequence) 690 Sequence for Easter 178 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Today

163 Christ Is Arisen

Preparation 384 Christ Is Alive! 172 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen 383 This Day Was Made by the 520 This is the Feast of Victory of Gifts Again Lord 385 Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today 578 Alleluia Christ is Risen 178 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen 393 Join in the Dance 386 Good Christians All, Rejoice Today 534 Now the Green Blade Rises and Sing 158 Out of Darkness 522 This is a Day of New 393 Something Which Is Known Beginnings 184Jesus Is Risen 395 The Strife Is O’er 949 Alleluia! Sing to Jesus 180 Three Days 398 We Know That Christ Is Raised

403 Now the Green Blade Rises

Communion 404 O Sons and Daughters 173 Ye Sons and Daughters 498 Bread of Life 532 O Sons and Daughters Procession (See also Holy Thursday) 578 Worthy Is the Lamb 519 I Am the Living Bread 334 Celtic Alleluia (See Holy Thursday suggestions) 333 Behold the Lamb

483 Love One Another (See also Holy Thursday)

Closing 389 Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today 164 Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today 384 The Strife is O’er 540 Jesus Christ is Risen Today (If not sung at opening) 383 Alleluia! Give Thanks to the 573 Alleluia! Give Thanks to the 389 Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks Risen Lord Risen Lord 542 That Easter Day With Joy Was Bright CIS 6.21 Join in the Dance 171 Alleluia, Alleluia Let the Holy Anthem Rise 539 Sing With All the Saints in 6.25 We Shall Go Out Glory 185 This Joyful Eastertide 524 Alleluia No. 1 177 Resucito Lord (See also Preparation of Gifts) January 20, 2016 Prairie Messenger 21 ~ MUSIC FOR LITURGY ~

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2016 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

April 3, 2016 Entrance Song/ 392 That Eastertide with Joy Was 170 Alleluia! Alleluia! 394 At the Lamb’s High Feast 523 Christ the Lord is Risen Today Second Sunday Chant Bright of Easter 164 Jesus Christ Is Risen Today 419 Alleluia! Sing to Jesus 534 Now the Green Blade Rises (Divine Mercy 393 Something Which is Known Sunday) 568 Festival Canticle: Worthy 683 All the Ends of the Earth CIS 6.21 Join in the Dance Is Christ

161 Alleluia! Love Is Alive

Offertory Song/ 403 Now the Green Blade Rises 163 Christ Is Arisen 344 With the Lord 532 O Sons and Daughters Chant 431 Christ, You are the Fullness 36 Christians To The Paschal 278 Psalm 136: Eternal Is His 680 We Walk By Faith Victim Mercy 454 Now from the Heavens Descending 166 Now the Green Blade Rises

Misericorde Sicut Pater 506 Now We Remain

Communion Song/ 404 O Sons and Daughters 317 Give Us, O Lord 529 Gather Your People 529 Surrexit Christus Chant 605 I Am the Living Bread 344 Spirit and Grace 563 We Are One Body 922 Without Seeing You

CIS 6.9 We Believe This is Jesus 332 In the Breaking of the Bread 929 Joyous Cup

573 Alleluia, Alleluia Give Thanks to the Risen Lord (See also Holy Thursday)

Final Song 437 Crown Him with Many Crowns 167 The Day of Resurrection 398 Be Joyful, Mary, Heavenly 568 Rejoice the Lord is King! Queen 614 Baptized in Water 173 Ye Sons and Daughters 542 That Easter Day With Joy 400 Hail the Day that Sees Him Was Bright CIS 6.16 Glory in the Cross 178 Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Rise (Easter verses) Today 687 Sing Alleluia 183 Christ Is Alive

Please note that the next set of Music Selections for Liturgy will be featured in the March 23, 2016, issue of the Prairie Messenger, and will include the Sundays from April 10, the Third Sunday of Easter, to June 26, the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. 22 Prairie Messenger EDITORIALS January 20, 2016

Reach out to strangers impact of talking to strangers while commuting. In addition, the stranger sitting next to them was They recruited commuters on subways and buses in much happier as well after their conversation. One of the themes of Pope Francis’ pontificate is Chicago. Then the participants were split into two “Humans are social animals,” says Juliana his emphasis to reach out to people on the peripheries. groups. One half was instructed to commute as usual, Schroeder, coauthor of the University of Chicago He encourages bishops, pastors and ordinary parish - complete with earbuds and smartphones. The other paper. “(R)esearch shows, again and again, that con - ioners alike to reach out to those on the peripheries of half, in return for a $5 Starbucks gift card, was necting socially with others makes people happier church and society, because that’s the model God sets instructed to chat with the person who sat down next and even healthier.” for us. Though we were estranged from him, God to them. In another set of experiments, the Chicago team continued to be faithful and sent his Son to die for us. “Everybody said, ‘That’s a terrible idea, I don’t found that people often misinterpret other peoples’ We are to follow God’s example of not excluding want to do it, it’s going to be a disaster,’ ” said Harvard silence. “It turns out that people are interested in anyone as an outcast or beyond our hospitality. This business professor Michael Norton who studies how talking to others, but they interpret other people’s is central to the new evangelization Pope Francis people can make themselves happier. “But when (the behaviour (that is, not talking) as evidence that they wants all of us to adopt. researchers) called (the participants) later, people who don’t want to talk,” says Schroeder. It seems there’s another advantage to reaching did business as usual with their earbuds in and texting In other words, people across from you on the out to strangers — beyond that of making them feel the entire time were not as happy as the people who train aren’t silent because they don’t want to talk — welcome. According to studies in the behaviourial forced themselves to chat with a stranger.” they are silent because they take your silence as a cue sciences, when we interact with strangers we become By the end of the train ride, commuters who that you don’t want to talk. happier ourselves. talked to a stranger reported having a significantly The researchers’ advice is to start a conversation This finding goes against conventional intuition, more positive commute than those who had sat in with that person on his iPhone across the aisle. He whereby people want to protect their private space solitude. Interestingly, those participants who did may be just as eager for some human contact as you. and allow others their own space. Most people prefer engage with strangers had predicted precisely the That may be the motive as well for Pope Francis’ not to break through this personal bubble. opposite experience. This demonstrates a widespread advice to reach out to those on the peripheries. They A recent study from the University of Chicago misunderstanding of the psychological consequences may be just as eager for some human (church) con - Booth School of Business looked at the emotional of even casual social engagement with strangers. tact as you. And you’ll both be happier. — PWN Some crimes in church law for which Catholics can be punished

current church practice. confession, absolution of one’s first part concerns offences against Among the reserved cases, it is accomplice in a sin against the religious and the unity of the probably the one relating to sexu - sixth commandment, pretending to church. Among these we find refer - al abuse of minors by clerics that celebrate mass without consecrat - ence to apostasy (denial of the Canon Law attracted the most attention. ing both the bread and the wine. divinity of Christ), heresy (denial There is not a canonical penalty if Another delict that was intro - of one or more truths of the faith), For Today the person abusing the minor is duced, and not found in the 1983 and schism (breaking ecclesial not a cleric, although, of course, legislation, concerns a woman who communion to join or found anoth - Rev. Frank Morrisey there can be criminal proceedings attempts to receive priestly ordina - er church or ecclesial community). against the perpetrator before the tion. In such an instance, there is an In these three in stances, there is an secular courts. automatic excommunication im - automatic excommunication In addition to giving general presumed to have been aware of In fact, most of the reserved posed on her and on the person who because the person no longer wish - principles relating to the imposi - the law and the consequences for cases refer to clerics (bishops, attempts to perform the ordination. es to be a member of the church. tion and lifting of penalties, the non-observance. In others, it is up priests, deacons). They include, The various crimes and penal - Code of Canon Law also has a sec - to the ecclesiastical judge to among others, breaking the seal of ties are divided into sections. The — DIFFERENT , page 23 tion where some 40 canonical determine which penalty is appro - crimes (called delicts of “offences” priate, keeping in mind the para - in the code) are listed and appro - meters established in the law. School boards resist heavy-handed order priate penalties prescribed. After the code was issued, St. In some cases, the penalty is John Paul II introduced a number By Bishop B. Henry, Calgary homily was that only the com - address the board’s responsibility automatic because the person is of changes in 2001. He outlined mandment of love, in all of its as it relates to the LBTQ commu - what he considered to be the more It saddens me to say but totali - simplicity — steady, unassuming, nity. . . . As part of my review, I serious canonical crimes, and tar ianism is alive and well in but firm in conviction and in com - will also be looking for evidence Morrisey is a professor emeri - decided that, in every case, the Alberta mitment to others — can save us. of policy and regulations or proce - tus of canon law at Saint Paul diocesan bishop or the religious Prior to becoming pope, Cardi- We need to re-root ourselves in a dures related specifically to University, Ottawa, and has been superior would have to submit the nal Jorge Bergoglio on May 25, sovereign love that is simple and Section 16.1 of the School Act and very active over the years in the situation to the Holy See, for final 2012, gave a Te Deum homily deep, to love God above all else the support for the establishment field of canon law, especially as it judgment. Although this provision commemorating the establishment and our neighbour as ourselves. of gay-straight alliances (GSAs) applies to dioceses and religious seriously restricted a bishop’s of Argentina’s first national gov - Two forms of deception impede and queer-straight alliances institutes. This is his 41st article right to impose penalties, it sought ernment following the revolution the realization of any plan as a (QSAs). . . .” in a series. to bring about some uniformity in of 1810. The major thrust of his nation, i.e., the madness of rela - The Alberta Government Guide- tivism and the madness of power lines issued on Jan. 13 show no evi - as a monolithic ideology. dence of consultation with or sensi - “Relativism, under the guise of tivity to the Catholic community. respect for differences, is homoge - They breathe pure secularism. nized into transgression and dema - This approach and directive goguery; it allows anything, be - smack of the madness of relativism cause it wishes to avoid being bur - and the forceful imposition of a par - dened by all the inconveniences ticular narrow-minded, anti-Cath - required of a mature courage to up - olic ideology. Such a totalitarian hold values and principles. Rela - approach is not in accordance with tivism, is curiously, absolutist and the Supreme Court of Canada opin - totalitarian. Relativism does not ion (Loyola) delivered on March allow for any differing opinion. In 19, 2015, and must be rejected. no way does it differ from an atti - Catholic schools share a foun - tude of “shut up” or “don’t get dational belief that all children are involved.”’ loved by God, are individually Power as a monolithic ideology unique and that the school has a is another lie which accentuates mission to help each student to narrow-mindedness and seeks fulfil their God-given potential in dominance over others. Conse - all aspects of their persons: physi - quently, social trust, the root and cally, academically, socially, fruit of love is eroded. morally and spiritually. On Nov. 5, 2015, David Our Catholic schools are com - Eggen, the minister of education mitted to supporting inclusive issued an edict to board chairs of communities that teach care and public, separate, Francophone and compassion for every person, charter school boards re learning regardless of age, race, sex, gender environments that respect diversi - or sexual orientation, and require ty and foster a sense of belonging. that every person be treated with CNS/Toby Melville, Reuters Board policies are to be shared dignity and respect. ANGLICANS SUSPEND EPISCOPALIANS — Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, spiritu - with him, together with the Our teaching is rather simple al leader of the Anglican communion, speaks with protesters on the grounds of England’s Canterbury required regulations or proce - and direct. God created beings as Cathedral, which was closed for a meeting of primates of the Anglican Church. At the meeting, Anglican dures by March 31, 2016. leaders sanctioned American Episcopalians over same-sex marriage. “It is important to specifically — GOD CREATED , page 23 January 20, 2016 Prairie Messenger 23 Fundamental departure from faith

Continued from page 1 are gay or lesbian, this will bring the next three years “will be used more pain. to find deeper unity within the It said the changes in teaching “For many who have felt and Anglican communion.” on marriage in the Episcopal been rejected by the church be - The cardinal noted that the Church represent a “fundamental cause of who they are, for many official Anglican-Roman Catholic departure from the faith and who have felt and been rejected by International Commission, the teaching held by the majority of families and communities, our official body for Catholic- our provinces on the doctrine of church opening itself in love was a Anglican theological dialogue, is marriage,” which it defined as a sign of hope,” he continued. “And discussing on a general level what lifelong union between a man and this will add pain on top of pain.” the Anglican primates were deal - a woman. The Global Anglican Future ing with at their meeting. The change had caused “deep Conference, a coalition of conser - “On the one hand, there is the pain,” impaired the Anglican com - vative Anglican leaders from relationship between the local munion by placing “huge strains” around the world, welcomed the church and the universal church,” on its unity, and created “deeper suspension, adding that “this while on the other hand there is a mistrust between us,” the state - action must not be seen as an end, need “to find greater unity” in Gamache ment said. but as a beginning.” The suspen - dealing with ethical questions. The policy set a precedent that sion infuriated gay rights activists, “These are the principal themes of Closed/Open could be copied by other prov- however, with some travelling to our dialogue and have become vis - inces, such as Canada, where Canterbury Jan. 15 to demonstrate ible now in the Anglican commu - Closed! said the sign. Anglicans will vote on same-sex at a “vigil” outside the meeting. nion. It would be beautiful if our Disappointed tourists, marriage in July, and this “could Paulist Father Ron Roberson, dialogue was able to be of help to we chose another destination, further exacerbate this situation,” associate director of the U.S. the Anglican communion so that it found red cliffs, an arch, the statement said. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ would find its unity again.” church-like spires It added that the primates had Secretariat for Ecumenical and The Episcopal Church, which reaching for brilliant sky. expressed a “unanimous commit - Inter-religious Affairs, said he has about two million members, Life’s like that too, ment to walk together” and had doubted the suspension would is among the most liberal of sometimes. asked Archbishop Justin Welby of have an impact on ARCUSA, the Anglican provinces in the world We never know Canterbury, spiritual leader of the 50-year-old dialogue between the and has continuously divided what change in plans worldwide Anglican communion, Episcopal Church and the USCCB opinion among Anglicans with its might open to appoint a “task group” to work Committee on Ecumenism and policies. other doors. toward dialogue, trust and healing Inter-religious Affairs. Tensions came to the fore in By Donna Gamache among the provinces. He told Catholic News Service 2003 when Canon Gene Robinson, The Jan. 11 - 15 meeting Jan. 14 that while “the statement who was openly gay, was elected brought together 39 Anglican pri - of the primates could be open to an Episcopal bishop. Soon after - Different categories treat mates to reflect on the challenges different interpretations,” in the ward, then-Archbishop Rowan posed to the unity of their com - bilateral dialogue, “the Episcopal Williams of Canterbury asked the different types of offences munion. Church never claimed to represent Episcopal Church and the Angli- Episcopal Church Presiding the other Anglican provinces.” can Church of Canada to halt any Bishop Michael B. Curry ad - Each province of the Anglican future such ordinations and to Continued from page 22 priest. There are also those who dressed his fellow bishops before communion is independent and with draw from the Anglican illegally hold on to an ecclesiasti - they voted for suspension, telling runs its own affairs; even the Arch- Consultative Council. Another offence mentioned in cal office: for instance, a parish them that Episcopalians were bishop of Canterbury has no au- After Mary Douglas Glasspool, this section concerns a person priest who has been removed or committed to creating “an inclu - thority over an individual province a lesbian, was ordained as suffra - who, for a sacrilegious purposes, transferred, but who refuses to sive church.” like the Episcopal Church or the gan bishop of Los Angeles in desecrates the Sacred Species (for vacate the parish. “This decision will bring real Anglican Church of Canada. 2010, Williams barred members of instance in pretending to celebrate Other canons refer to crimes pain,” he said in comments he Cardinal Kurt Koch, president the Episcopal Church from repre - a Black Mass). Such a person is of falsehood (such as issuing later released to the Episcopal of the Pontifical Council for Pro - senting the Anglican communion also excommunicated; absolution false certificates), and offences News Service. “For fellow disci - moting Christian Unity, told Vati - on international ecumenical dia - from this offence is reserved to against special obligations (such ples of Jesus in our church who can Radio Jan. 15 that he hopes logue commissions. the Holy See. There are also as celibacy for clerics, sexual offences against the faith or the abuse). church itself, such as using the A final general category refers God created both body and sex as good media to excite hatred of or even to offences against human life contempt for the faith. and liberty, such as abduction, Continued from page 22 religious and ordained — need to GSAs and QSAs are highly A second category concerns imprisonment, mutilation. There acquire the virtue of chastity. politicized ideological clubs which offences against church authori - is also a separate canon on abor - male and female. In doing so, he “Chastity means the successful seek to cure society of “homopho - ties and the freedom of the tion; because of the importance of gave equal dignity to both man integration of sexuality within the bia” and “heterosexism,” and church. These include laying vio - this issue today, we will speak and woman. In his plan, men and person and thus, the inner unity of which accept the idea that all forms lent hands on the person of the more at length of it in the next women should respect and accept man in his bodily and spiritual of consensual sexual expression are Holy Father or on a bishop or column. their sexual identity. God created being.” (CCC, no. 2337). legitimate. The view of sexuality cleric. In the first case, involving A final canon in Book VI of both the body and sex as good. Chastity unites our sexuality that they espouse is not Catholic. an attempted assassination of the the code allows for punishment Hence, we do not approach sexu - with our entire human nature. It The Supreme Court held that “to pope, absolution is again reserved against those who, in various ality with fear or with hostility to approaches sexuality as related to tell a Catholic school how to explain to the Holy See. ways, cause scandal in the com - the flesh. It is a gift of God by our spiritual natures so that sex is its faith undermines the liberty of the Unfortunately, in recent years, munity because of their non- which men and women participate seen as more than a physical act. members of its community who we have seen such attempts observance of divine or ecclesias - in his saving plan and respond to Sexuality affects the whole person have chosen to give effect to the col - against Blessed Paul VI and St. tical law. This is a very general his call to grow in holiness. be cause of the unity of body and lective dimension of their religious John Paul II. Then also, persons canon, and, in the eyes of some, it The Catechism of the Catholic soul. Jesus is the model of chastity. beliefs by participating in a denomi - who obstinately speak out against could be open to abuse, even Church states that sexuality in- “Chastity includes an appren - national school” (para. 62). “It church doctrine are also to be though one of its clauses says the volves the whole person. “Sexu - ticeship in self-mastery which is a amounts to requiring a Catholic in - warned and, if they persist, are to norm can be applied “only when ality affects all aspects of the training in human freedom” (CCC, stitution to speak about Catholicism be punished. The same would the special gravity of the violation human person in the unity of his no. 2339). The acquisition of in terms defined by the state rather apply to those who provoke per - requires it.” body and soul. It especially con - chastity depends on self-discipline than by its own understanding of sons to disobedience against The list is now much shorter cerns affectivity, the capacity to and leads to internal freedom, Catholicism” (par. 63), and “it also church authorities. than it was in the 1917 code, thus love and procreate, and in a more which enables human beings to interferes with the rights of parents A third category refers to those reflecting the church’s desire not general way the aptitude of form - temper sexual desires according to to transmit the Catholic faith to their who usurp ecclesiastical offices, to be identified with punishment, ing bonds of communion with oth - God’s plan for the appropriate children” and the “rights of parents such as pretending to celebrate and hoping that all its members ers” (CCC, no. 2332). expression of love in the marital to guide their children‘s religious mass or to give sacramental abso - will live up to their obligations as All persons — married, single, relationship of a man and a woman. upbringing” (para. 64 & 65). lution when the person is not a committed Christians.

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By Tom Heneghan mark the anniversary together and which the Catholic Church does and undermined the gospel mes - Almighty — originally written for presented the Reformation as the not allow with other Chris tians. sage. “We deeply regret the evil a Lutheran church in Germany — PARIS (RNS) — Catholics start of a shared 500-year journey When a Lutheran woman mar - things that Catholics and Luther - or meditative chants such as Veni and Lutherans have made another rather than a single and divisive ried to a Catholic asked Pope ans have mutually done to each Sancte Spiritus from the ecumeni - step toward joint commemoration historical event. Francis about this during his visit other,” it says. cal community of Taizé in France. of the 500th anniversary of the The latest guidelines say all ser - to her church in Rome last “This common prayer marks a Readers are told to cite pas - Reformation in 2017 by issuing vices should stress the concepts of November, he said he couldn’t very special moment in our com - sages in From Conflict to Com - common liturgical guidelines for thanksgiving, repentance and com - decide the question but hinted mon journey from conflict to munion that explain why Catho lics ecumenical services to mark the mon commitment, with the main strongly that he supported it. communion,” the Rev. Martin and Lutherans should gather in occasion. focus on Jesus. The guidelines “It is a question that each per - Junge, general secretary of LWF, prayer, and presiders are instructed The guidelines, in a booklet were presented Jan. 11 by the son must answer for themselves and Cardinal Kurt Koch, head of to lead a prayer that laments “that called Common Prayer, provide a Geneva-based Lutheran federation . . . there is one baptism, one the Vatican’s ecumenical depart - even good actions of reform and template for an ecumenical ser - and the Vatican’s Pon tifical Coun - faith, one Lord, so talk to the ment, said in a joint letter accom - renewal had often unintended neg - vice, complete with suggested cil for Promoting Christian Unity. Lord and move forward,” he told panying the guidelines. ative consequences.” prayers, appropriate hymns and The Reformation, which began the congregation, which broke The booklet suggests that ecu - For a Gospel reading, it sug - themes for sermons. with the publication of Martin out in applause. menical services have two pre - gests John 15, in which Jesus Catholic leaders in Luther’s Luther’s 95 Theses in 1517, divid - The Common Prayer booklet siders, one Catholic and one compares himself to a vine and home country of Germany, where ed Western Christianity as Protes- stresses the shared beliefs Lutheran, and several prayer says his followers are its branch - interest in the anniversary is tants broke away from Roman between Roman Catholicism’s readers of both faiths. es. The service should include strongest, at first balked at the Catholicism and formed their own 1.2 billion members and the 75 They should use hymns known recitation of two common prayers, idea of “celebrating” what churches. Until about 50 years million Lutherans around the to both Catholics and Protestants, the Apostles’ Creed and the Luther ans there had already ago, the two sides observed each world and advises readers that its such as Praise to the Lord, the Lord’s Prayer. named the Reformationsjubiläum other with suspicion across a deep recommendations can be adjusted (Reformation Jubilee). theological divide. according to the country and lan - Rome’s Jews applaud pope But detailed talks between the But ecumenical discussions in guage in which they are used. Lutheran World Federation and the recent decades have reached such a The section on repentance during his visit to synagogue Vatican produced a 93-page report reconciliation that theologians admits the post-Reformation wars titled From Conflict to Communion recently suggested they explore the of religion caused “the deaths of in 2013 that announced they would possibility of sharing communion, hundreds of thousands of people” By Cindy Wooden bid him farewell the same way; he stood and applauded with the con - ROME (CNS) — While the gregation when honour was paid Pro-life Catholics to use social media Catholic Church affirms that sal - to the handful of survivors of the vation comes through Jesus, it Nazi Holocaust who were present WASHINGTON (CNS) — As also recognizes that God is faith - for the event. the Jan. 22 anniversary of the Roe ful and has not revoked his “Their sufferings, anguish and vs. Wade decision approached, the covenant with the Jewish people, tears must never be forgotten,” chair of the U.S. bishops’ Com- Pope Francis said. the pope said. “And the past must mittee on Pro-Life Activities urged Interrupted repeatedly with be a lesson to us for the present everyone concerned about “the applause at Rome’s main syna - and the future. The Shoah teaches tragedy of abortion” to re commit gogue Jan. 17, the pope said the us that maximum vigilance is themselves to a “vision of life and church “recognizes the irrevoca - always needed in order to inter - love, a vision that excludes no bility of the Old Covenant and the vene quickly in defence of human one.” constant and faithful love of God dignity and peace.” Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of for Israel.” Pope Francis was the third New York also called on The statement, which he already pope to visit the Rome synagogue Catholics to participate in a new had made in his 2013 exhortation, and Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, the “9 Days for Life” campaign The Joy of the Gospel, was repeat - chief rabbi of Rome, said that in launched by the U.S. bishops’ ed in a recent document by the Jewish tradition “an act repeated Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities. Pontifical Commission for Reli- three times becomes chazaqa , a The centrepiece of the campaign gious Relations with the Jews. The fixed tradition.” is a Jan. 16 - 24 novena, which has document reaffirmed Pope Bene - The pope, the rabbi, the presi - “as its overarching in tention the dict XVI’s teaching that the church dent of the Rome Jewish commu - end to abortion, ac cording to the “neither conducts nor supports” nity and the president of the website 9daysforlife.com. Details any institutional missionary initia - Union of Italian Jewish Com - about the campaign also are tive directed toward Jews. munities all recalled the visits of explained in a YouTube video: CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz While frigid winter tempera - St. John Paul II in 1986 and of http://youtube/gxJwfcefUiU PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT SHIFTS FOCUS — Mother Agnes Mary tures finally arrived in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. And The campaign makes use of Donovan, superior general of the Sisters of Life, walks with other pro- Pope Francis received the warmest they all spoke of the “new era” in something the founders of the pro- life advocates during the March for Life in Washington Jan. 22, 2015. of welcomes at the synagogue. Catholic-Jewish relations that life movement decades ago would The visit featured an exchange began with the Second Vatican never have imagined: social me dia. A Leaders’ Toolkit with vari - dren,” he continued. “Yet many of standing ovations. Members of Council and its declaration Nostra The novena is meant to be shared ous resources and graphics is who support important goals of the Jewish community greeted the Aetate on relations with non- with the online community through available for parishes, schools, the pro-life movement do not pope on their feet applauding and Christian religions. social media posts, videos and self - dioceses, ministries and other identify as ‘pro-life,’ a fact ies labelled #9DaysforLife. organizations to use to promote which should lead us to examine Each day’s prayer guide — in involvement in the campaign. It how we present our pro-life English or Spanish — can be can be accessed via this link: vision to others.” accessed through an app, email or http://tinyurl.com/j6lrmqc Dolan said that “even as text message and people can fol - “Most Americans oppose a poli - Americans remain troubled by low the novena campaign on cy allowing legal abortion for virtu - abortion,” what he described as a Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. ally any reason — though many powerful and well-funded lobby Those taking part can express still do not realize that this is what feels “that abortion must be cele - why they are involved in the pro- the Supreme Court gave us,” Dolan brated as a positive good for life movement and what it means said in a statement released Jan. 15. women and society, and those to them and receive daily email The Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. who cannot in conscience provide messages or texts reminding them Bolton Supreme Court decisions it are to be condemned for prac - to pray and providing suggested in 1973 legalized abortion virtual - tising substandard medicine and readings. ly on demand. waging a ‘war on women.’ ’’ In addition to a prayer to end “Most want to protect unborn He expressed regret that in abortion, there also is a focus on a children at later stages of preg - 2015 Congress did not pass into wide range of life issues. Par ti - nancy, to regulate or limit the law the Abortion Non-Dis crim i - cipants are urged to discuss these practice of abortion, and to stop nation Act, which would have issues and even are provided dis - the use of taxpayer dollars for protected medical workers’ right cussion topics and activities. the destruction of unborn chil - to decline to participate in elec - tive abortions because of their religious or moral objections. There must be always remaining in every life, The cardinal also said the Year CNS/Paul Haring some place for the singing of angels, some of Mercy called by Pope Francis POPE VISITS ROME SYNAGOGUE — Pope Francis and Rabbi place for that which in itself is breathless and is a time for women and men to Riccardo Di Segni, the chief rabbi of Rome, hold a codex containing find healing through the Catholic five pages of Jewish biblical commentary during the pope’s visit to the beautiful. Church’s Project Rachel post- main synagogue in Rome Jan. 17. The 14th-century codex was the — Howard Thurman abortion ministry. pope’s gift to the Jewish community of Rome.