THE MAGAZINE OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ST. THOMAS IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
October 2016 | catholicvi.com
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4 From the editor's desk THE CANONIZATION OF God's presence in the holy Eucharist FROM THE BISHOP 6 Special report ST. TERESA OF CALCUTTA The Most Reverend Herbert A. Bevard, Projects around the diocese Bishop of the Diocese of St. Thomas in n Sunday, September 4, 2016, Our the Virgin Islands 9 Local news Holy Father, Pope Francis, canonized Missionaries of Charity Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the renew solemn vows O Prayer to St. Teresa Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity. of Calcutta 10 School spotlight During that ceremony, Mother Teresa was St. Joseph High School canonized, her name was added to the list, or You allowed the thirsting "canon" of saints recognized by the Catholic love of Jesus on the cross 12 Pastor profile Church. Saint Teresa is revered the world over to become a living flame Keeping up with for all she accomplished with her work for the within you, and so, you Father Neil Scantlebury – poor and the needy. Her life was marked by a became the light of His The life of a priest thirst to serve the suffering Christ on the cross love to all people. Obtain by how she met and ministered to those who from the Sacred Heart of 14 Special report were suffering in this world. She spent her life Jesus what I implore in St. Teresa of Calcutta giving loving care to those most in need of her prayer. Teach me to allow kindness. Saint Teresa once said "holiness does Jesus to pierce my whole 22 Parish calendars not consist in doing extraordinary things. It being so completely that 25 ¡Buenas noticias! consists in accepting with a smile what Jesus my life too may radiate sends us. It consists in accepting the will of His love and love to God." In her simple theology, she said that others. Amen. ON THE COVER: bringing joy to an unhappy person is priceless.
Bishop Bevard at St. Patrick's in Frederiksted with administrator Father Boniface (on right) and parishioners. In the center, Deacon Tony Murray; and on his left and right are sacristans, Mrs. Patricia Duval Santiago and Missionaries of Charity on her mother, Mrs. St. Croix with portrait of St. Theresa Duval. Theresa of Kolkata, following Mass at Holy Cross on Sep. 4th.
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2 The Catholic Islander / October 2016 / www.catholicvi.com The Most Reverend Herbert A. Bevard, Bishop of the Diocese of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands presents
The Eighth Annual
Keys and Sword Award Benefit Saturday, February 11, 2017 Marriott Frenchman’s Reef Hotel | Grand Harbor Ballroom
Honoring the Knights and Dames of the Order of Malta of the Virgin Islands area
St. Thomas Jerry Woodhouse, KM | Christine Woodhouse,DM
AREA CO-CHAIRS
John Foster, KM | Claire Foster, DM | Carroll Rourke, DM
St. Croix Rita de Chabert-Schuster, OCDS, DM | Dr. Rizalina Batenga, MD, DM
Bishop’s Champagne Complimentary shuttle service from Reception | 6 p.m. Havensight Mall and Red Hook Ferry Dock to and from “The Reef”
Dinner | 7 p.m. Tickets and ad sponsorships are available from ticket sellers at each parish and Program with special all church offices. Refer to your parish entertainment and dancing bulletin for ticket seller names. 3 God's presence in the holy Eucharist
e is Risen. He is Lord. And He is in the room. How Heverything would change, and change quickly, if Jesus were honored, adored, worshipped as LORD and God at holy Mass as He should be! If each soul fell silent before, during and after Mass as if Jesus were speaking directly to each individual with words of forgiveness and mercy, you could hear a pin drop.
What we believe is shown in how we behave. Do we really believe God is real and present in the Eucharist? The priest at the altar offers up the prayers to God for the people, and then utters the words of FROM THE consecration: FOR THIS IS MY BODY, Jesus Christ EDITOR'S is physically, really and substantially present. Those DESK Catholics who have confessed and been absolved of their sins, and who have prepared themselves very By Father John Matthew Fewel well to receive holy Communion, come forward to receive his sacred body and his precious blood in such a transformed state as to put everything else aside, with mind, heart, soul and body completely fixed on what is about to happen. The most holy and meek manner of receiving our Lord, and the norm of the Church, is to kneel, and receive the Eucharist on the tongue. It is allowed in the U.S. and in certain places that holy Communion may be given on the hand. But in both cases, Our Lord must be received most carefully and reverently. A profound bow from the waist is to be offered before one steps forward to CASSIE HILL PROCESSION receive holy Communion in the hand. Both hands AND MASS are to be presented in the form of a cross — the right Hands are to be Parishioners from St. Thomas Catholic churches and presented in the hand under the left. If unable, one should receive organizations processed in the annual procession form of a cross on the tongue — not in the free hand, if the other is — the right hand of Our Lady of Cassie Hill. The procession was encumbered or otherwise occupied. under the left. followed by holy Mass at Holy Family Church.
4 The Catholic Islander / October 2016 / www.catholicvi.com LOCAL NEWS
(back row, from left:) Father Touchard Goula, Holy Cross Parochial Vicar, Sister Lovina Reyes, ICM, Deacon Reynoldo Modeste, Father E. Patrick Lynch, CSsR, pastor of Holy Cross and celebrant, Sister Mary Surupa, MC, Sister Mary Arvind, MC, Deacon David Capriola, Father John Mark, and Msgr. Michael Kosak. (front row, from left:) Sister Joan Lukong, DHFB, Sister Mary Dasai, ICM, Sister Mary Cecilius, MC, St. Theresa (portrait) of Calcutta, MC, Sister Mary Lily Francis, MC, Sister Elizabeth Dzemfe, DHFB, and Sister Gisella Kinyuy, DHFB.
Parishioners at Holy Cross Catholic Church serve refreshments in the parish hall following St. Theresa of Calcutta's canonization in Rome on September 4th by His Holiness Pope Francis, and holy Mass of thanksgiving celebrated at Holy Cross.
5 6 The Catholic Islander / October 2016 / www.catholicvi.com SPECIAL REPORT PROJECTS AROUND THE DIOCESE
Bishop Bevard and Father Blanchard at St. Patrick’s Newly remodeled rooms at Donder's Hall at Holy Cross Church in Catholic Church in Frederiksted. Some remodeling Christiansted, with chapel, being readied to afford accommodations for and rewiring going on included side paneling and a working missionaries to the Virgin Islands. new confessional seen in the background.
Bishop Bevard and construction crew on the newly terraced front steps of the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in downtown Charlotte Amalie. The new stone sidewalk in front of the handsome balustrade, alcoves, and rock finished wall will offer to passersby a measure of safety not allowed by the old, crumbling front steps of the cathedral; the bottom step of which, abutted the traffic lane. Stepping often hastily by, or having to cross Main St., against frequently rapidly moving auto traffic, heavy trucks and delivery vans, has since time immemorial been part and parcel of passing on foot in front of the cathedral. This hazard will soon be but a memory. Much as, a part of history will be this historic and practical beautification of the facade of the 168 year old Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul. 7 DIOCESAN PROJECTS
The interior construction of what will soon be the new school hall, or auditorium, at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School. Bishop Bevard is shown through the new facility by Vice Principal Father Bruce Anderson (left). Principal Father Eduardo Oritz- Santiago (right) joins them, with Contractor Jean Dragin and a group of students.
Father Louis Kemayou, St. Ann Barrenspot pastor, with Bishop Bevard, Deacon Mark, and server Tajil Baptiste, survey St. Ann's newly remodeled narthex (vestibule). Enclosed, it now allows for airconditioning, or, when the weather is cool and pleasant, open air through the large side glass doors.
Newly installed glass windows that allow St. Ann Barrenspot to be cooled by its new airconditioning unit. Seat pads add to color and beauty of the church, as well.
The new Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School entrance corridor, which opens onto Main Street. 8 LOCAL NEWS
Bishop Bevard offers Holy Mass at Missionaries of Charity Christiansted mission Priests of the diocese concelebrate
On the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Bishop Herbert Bevard received the renewal of solemn vows from the Missionaries of Charity at holy Mass in the convent at Christiansted. Concelebrating with the bishop were (l-r) Father John Fewel, Father John Mark and Father Goula. Sister Surupa, Sister Cecilius, Sister Lilly Francis and Sister Arvind renewed their vows.
PROTECTION Sister M. Arvind, OF CHILDREN MC, Sister M. Surupa, MC, Sister M. Cecilius, MC, The Diocese of and Sister M. Lilly St. Thomas in Francis, MC, offer the Virgin Islands the renewal of is committed the vows of their to protecting solemn profession children from all during holy Mass on the feast of harm. If you have the Immaculate knowledge of any Conception. church worker Bishop Herbert who may have Bevard celebrated abused a minor, the Mass in the please contact Missionaries of the diocesan Charity Convent child protection in Christiansted coordinator, and received their Callista Julien, at renewal of vows. 340.778.5773 or 340.772.4214.
9 SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT
Sister Quinn gives the workshop for the St. Croix Catholic school teachers in the St. Joseph High School library. ST. JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL
eachers from the three St. Archdiocese. During six hour and customary paper handouts T Croix Catholic schools began presentations on Monday and distributed at such meetings, Sr. the new school year with a two Tuesday, Sister Quinn Quinn created for her audience a day workshop held at St. Joseph presented methods special website with links to all High School. The event began and details for of the workshop materials Aug. 15 with Mass at St. Joseph teaching in the and topics covered. The Church celebrated by Father John diocesan Catholic two day program and Mark. After Mass, the teachers schools. Sr. Quinn accompanying website assembled in St. Joseph High illustrated her talks were designed especially School library, where they were with PowerPoint. for Catholic school given a presentation on Catholic There was eager teachers of the Diocese school teaching methods by Sister participation and of St. Thomas in the Virgin Edward Quinn, IHM, assistant discussion among the Islands. A link to that website superintendent of the Catholic teachers preparing for the new can be found at the top of the Schools of the Philadelphia school year. In place of the usual diocesan website at catholicvi.com.
Learn more about St. Joseph High School at www.sjhsvi.com
10 The Catholic Islander / September 2016 / www.catholicvi.com St. Joseph High School students spent time during their summer break in pursuit of advanced learning programs in Providence, R.I., Washington, D.C., and Key West, Fla.
Lailoni Cantor Lailoni Cantor, grade 10, took part in the Junior Statesmen Summer School Program at Georgetown University, June 27-July 10. A coordinator for the Junior Statesmen Program in the U.S.V.I. is Ernest Morris, Jr., a 1996 valedictorian of St. Joseph High School. After leaving St. Joseph, he received a scholarship to and graduated from Yale University.
Teachers from St. Joseph High School, St. Patrick’s School and St. Mary’s School participated in the workshop. Sister Edward Quinn, IHM is third from the right in the back row. One' Carrington During the second week in July, One' Carrington, grade 12, attended a course on race relations at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Miss Carrington also participated in the Junior Statesmen Program at Princeton University during the summer of 2015.
Kadysha Schoonmaker In mid-August, Kadysha Schoonmaker, grade 11, took part in a Coral Research and Conservation Program at the Mote Lab in Key West, Fla. Kadysha gained interesting and useful scientific knowledge, and said, “I learned how to better respect the water inhabitants and learned how (l to r) St. Joseph High School 12th grade students Wadeema Berry and Djenne Green are to help preserve and grow all smiles as they enter the St. Joseph High School office building on the first day of the new coral populations.” school year on Aug. 22, 2016. 11 Father Neil was born and raised in Barbados, and has been involved in the Church since boyhood. “My father was a deacon, and we were very active in the Church,” he says. “He would have me and my brothers do things like arrange the seats, sort the envelopes, things like that.” Faith was an important part of the Scantlebury household: from observing holy days to bedtime stories about the lives of the saints. “One that really interested me was that of Maximilian Kolbe, the Catholic priest who was martyred at Auschwitz (the infamous Nazis concentration death camp) when he chose to die in the place of another man.” At an early age, around 5 or 6, Father Neil recalls first having the desire to become a priest. “But as I grew, I also became interested in other things, such as sports like cricket — I used to play for my school and with my friends ... and then, later, young ladies began to look interesting,” he says, with a laugh. “I still had not strayed away from the Church,” he quickly adds. Still he had begun to struggle with the idea of a PASTOR PROFILE relationship, and wondered if God was calling him to married life. After graduating high school, Father Neil went to the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West KEEPING UP WITH Indies in Trinidad to study mechanical engineering. “Before I left, my pastor at the time said that I should go and offer my services to the college chaplain,” FATHER NEIL Father Neil says. “I didn’t really think anything of it, but, on reflection, that was something very practical that kept me close to and involved in the Church.” For SCANTELBURY– instance, while at college he met other young men interested in their Catholic faith, and they formed a THE LIFE OF A PRIEST household together — where they ate meals, prayed, attended Mass and lived in community. It was, Father BY PAUL MCAVOY Neil recalls, a very enriching time for his faith. Nearing graduation, Father Neil began to question nyone who thinks that priests live a quiet his career path: “I liked the math, I liked the design, I life should talk to Father Neil Scantlebury — liked to build,” he says. “But deep within me I strongly if they can manage to catch up with him! sensed that engineering was not for me. I asked the Between his work as pastor of Holy Family Parish, Lord, ‘What is it that you want me to do?’ And a his diocesan work as chancellor, teaching math and voice came through into my consciousness and heart, Scripture at Ss. Peter and Paul School and leading saying, ‘Priesthood.’ pilgrims on international trips, Father Neil gives new “I wasn’t too happy at first,” he says, noting that a meaning to the word "busy." Everywhere he goes, close friendship with a young lady at college did lead and in all he does, Father Neil radiates the joy of the to thoughts of marriage. But ultimately, after praying Gospel and a sincere love of the priesthood. about it, Father Neil wanted to explore God’s will for
12 The Catholic Islander / October 2016 / www.catholicvi.com him. By a happy coincidence, Father Neil had met where 21 years later he is back as pastor. His favorite Msgr. Michael Kosak at a prayer service in Trinidad, part of his vocation is celebrating the sacraments. and Msgr. Kosak invited him to come to St. Thomas “I enjoy being a priest, celebrating the holy sacrifice to teach for a year at Ss. Peter and Paul School. He of the Mass,” he says. “How can I repay the Lord for did, and found he very much liked St. Thomas and what he has done for me? The cup of salvation I shall the people of the Virgin Islands. In that time, he also raise. Celebrating the Mass is one of the greatest gifts discerned his vocation to the priesthood, and applied God has given me. to be a priest for St. Thomas. “I enjoy hearing confessions, giving absolution, “My parents were very happy for me,” he recalls. anointing of the sick. Preparing the soul to meet Jesus, “My brothers were saying, ‘Are you sure you want to to anoint someone and give them absolution and to do this?’ Typical brothers! But they were happy and see them just breathe their last, is like, ‘Wow! Go in supportive of my decision.” peace.’ To prepare someone to enter heaven is Bishop Seán O’Malley was sending young men to mind-boggling for me. It’s just a great gift study at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, and opportunity.” Md., so that's where Father Neil went for his five years In addition to his priestly duties, How can I of formation. Aside from challenges with the weather, Father Neil counts among his repay the Lord he had a good experience there. “I had never seen jobs those of teacher of math and for what he has done temperatures below 60 degrees!” he says. “I saw the religion at the Cathedral High for me? ... Celebrating people there playing Frisbee in shorts when it was that School, archivist for the diocese, the Mass is one of the cold, and I thought they were crazy ... I always made chancellor (assisting the bishop greatest gifts God has sure my room was nice and toasty, so much so that in many administrative matters) given me. the men above me did not need to turn on their heat.” and, recently, international traveler, The culture and the studies were an adjustment, but, as he was part of the diocese’s group luckily, Father Cecil Corneille had also gone to study at that went to World Youth Day in Poland. Mount St. Mary’s and the two became fast friends. The trip, which he called “a wonderful “That was a special time for me,” Father Neil says. time,” included trials (lost luggage), long hikes and “My spiritual director, Father Lou Kennedy, challenged being moved in enormous crowds. Throughout it all, me in a number of different ways to my benefit, and though, a sense of grace came to everyone who was I thank God for him. May God grant him eternal life there. “Some experienced the joys and the grace of and may he rest in peace.” Father Neil was ordained in God as we sang on the tram, as well as when we were 1995 at the Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul, and began in a big open field where we spent a vigil the night his ministry on St. Thomas at Holy Family Parish, before the Mass with the Holy Father ... Everyone who went there experienced a great blessing.” While there, Father Neil got to visit Auschwitz and the cell of St. Maximilian Kolbe, one of his boyhood heroes, and an inspiring example to him of what a priest should be ready to do for others. In all of his roles, Father Neil lives as a witness to the priestly vocation and the love that God has for his people of the Virgin Islands. Father Neil says it perfectly: “I became a priest to serve God’s people — to celebrate Mass and the sacraments; and it is keeping with my vocation of 'serving' that I also serve as a teacher and in the chancery.”
Michael, Neil and Joel Scantlebury with their father, Deacon Keith Scantlebury. The deacon lived his final days in residence with his son, Father Neil, in the rectory at Holy Family Catholic Church until shortly before departing this world for his eternal reward. 13 SPECIAL REPORT
HER LIFE HER WORK
Born in Skopje, Albania (now Macedonia), on August In 1952, Mother Teresa opened Kalighat Home for 26, 1910, Anjezë (Agnes) Gonxhe Bojaxhiu considered her the Dying in Calcutta, which was a free hospice for the baptismal day, August 27, her true birthday. When she was poor housed in an abandoned Hindu temple. All those growing up, Agnes’ mother extended an open invitation to the who came to the home received care consistent with city's poor to dine with her family, and told her daughter: “My their faith. Next came a home for those with Hansen’s child, never eat a single mouthful unless you are sharing it disease, or leprosy. She established outreach clinics with others.” When Agnes asked about the people eating with throughout Calcutta for those suffering from the them, her mother would respond, “Some of them are our dreaded disease. relations, but all of them are our people.” Lost children found a home with the From an early age, young Agnes was fascinated Missionaries of Charity at Nirmala by the lives of missionaries in Bengal. After Shishu Bhavan, a home for orphans deciding to pursue a consecrated religious and homeless youth. By 1960, life, Agnes arrived in Calcutta in 1929 to the missionaries were operating begin her novitiate. There, she learned orphanages and hospices all over Bengali and taught at St. Teresa’s India. In 1965, they expanded School. When she took first vows in their mission to Venezuela with 1931, she wanted to be named after ST. TERESA five sisters. Throughout the next St. Thérèse of Lisieux, but chose decade, more missions followed the Spanish spelling of Teresa, and until they had a presence on became Sister Mary Teresa. She made OF CALCUTTA every continent. her final profession of vows in 1937, Throughout the 1960s, and was first called Mother Teresa while 1970s and 1980s, Mother Teresa teaching at St. Mary’s School in Calcutta. founded the Missionaries of Charity In September 1946, Sister Teresa Brothers, the contemplative branch experienced what she later referred to as the of the sisters, the contemplative branch call within the call: “I was to leave the convent of the brothers and the Missionaries of and help the poor while living among them. It was an Charity Fathers. For the laity, she founded the order. To fail would have been to break the faith.” Co-Workers of Mother Teresa, the Sick and Suffering In 1948, she received permission to begin the Missionaries Co-Workers and, later, the Lay Missionaries of Charity. of Charity. Mother Teresa traded in her traditional habit She also founded the Corpus Christi Movement for and began wearing the simple cotton sari for which she Priests in 1981, as a “little way of holiness” for those became so well-known; she became an Indian citizen and who wished to share in her charism. received basic medical training. By 1949, a group of young Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in women had joined her, and the Missionaries of Charity went 1979 “for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome on to become officially recognized as a diocesan religious poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat congregation. They went into the slums of Calcutta to care for to peace.” She planned to use the approximately the sick and hungry. $190,000 in prize money to build more homes for the The mission of the congregation, then as now, was poor, “especially for the lepers.” articulated by Mother Teresa in her acceptance speech for As of 2015, the Missionaries of Charity numbered the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979: “In the poor it is the hungry 377 brothers and 5,029 sisters worldwide, who Christ that we are feeding, it is the naked Christ that we are were operating missions, schools and shelters in 137 clothing, it is the homeless Christ that we are giving shelter.” countries.
By blood, I am Albanian. Do not think that love in order to God still loves the By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, be genuine has to be extraordinary. world and He sends you I am a Catholic nun. As to my What we need is to love without HER WORDS and me to be His love calling, I belong to the world. getting tired. Be faithful in small and His compassion As to my heart, I belong entirely things because it is in them that to the poor. to the heart of Jesus. your strength lies.
14 The Catholic Islander / October 2016 / www.catholicvi.com HER DEATH
In March 1997, with significant problems impairing her health, Mother Teresa stepped down as superior general of the Missionaries of Charity. Following a final visit to Rome to visit Pope St. John Paul II, she returned to Calcutta, where she died on Sept. 5. The government of India gave her a state funeral, and she was buried at the motherhouse of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.
BEATIFICATION AND SAINTHOOD
In early 1999 — less than two years after Mother Teresa's death — Pope St. John Paul II waived the usual five-year waiting period and allowed her canonization cause to be opened. This was the first time a canonization cause was not subject to the five-year rule. In 2003, the Holy Father beatified Mother Teresa before a crowd of 300,000 in St. Peter Square. In advancing the cause for canonization, a miracle must be documented from the intercession of the blessed. In 2002, the Vatican recognized as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman. In 2015, Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to her that involved the healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumors. Pope Francis declared Blessed Teresa of Kolkata a saint at the Vatican on Sept. 4.
I am not sure exactly what heaven will God is the friend of The child is Who are be like, but I know that when we die and it silence. In the silence of the beauty of the least of my comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, our hearts, God speaks God present in brothers? The 'How many good things have you done in your of His love; with our the world; that poorest of the life?' Rather, He will ask, 'How much love did silence, we allow greatest gift to poor are. you put into what you did?' Jesus to love us. the family.
15 SAVE THE DATE
Keys and Sword Award Benefit FEBRUARY 11, 2017
Bishop Herbert A. Bevard is pleased to announce that the honorees for the Eighth Annual Keys and Sword 2017 Award Benefit are:
The Knights and Dames, Order of Malta of the Virgin Islands area
ST. THOMAS Jerry Woodhouse, KM | Christine Woodhouse,DM
AREA CO-CHAIRS
John Foster, KM | Claire Foster, DM | Carroll Rourke, DM
ST. CROIX Rita de Chabert-Schuster, OCDS, DM | Dr. Rizalina Batenga, MD, DM
16 The Catholic Islander / October 2016 / www.catholicvi.com ORDER OF MALTA OVERVIEW
The Order of Malta is a 900 years old lay religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. Since its foundation the Order’s mission has been to serve the sick and the poor through the works of its members. Today the Order of Malta has over 13,000 members worldwide dedicated to promoting God’s glory and to nurturing their spiritual life through charitable and relief efforts.
VIRGIN ISLANDS ORDER’S PROJECTS
Rosary Garden - Knights and Dames are involved in building a Rosary Garden at Our Lady of Perpetual Help church on St. Thomas, and at Holy Cross church on St. Croix. All proceeds of the sale will go to the Order of Malta Catholic Schools Scholarship fund. Natural Family Planning - Members are working in conjunction with parish priests on St. Thomas to make the teaching of Billings Ovulation Method a simple effective Natural Family Planning method part of the Pre Cana sessions. Halfway House - The existing facility was renovated with the help of our Knights and Dames. Our members are working with Catholic Charities on the planning and construction of the new facility. Nana Baby Home - It was co-founded by a Knight of Malta. Nana baby Home provides shelter and food to children from birth to age 12 who have no one to care from them. Prison Ministry - Support of the work of the Missionaries of Charity on St. Croix is ongoing. A similar outreach will be made to men and women detainees at facilities on St. Thomas, through distribution of Bibles and prayer books in English and Spanish. Lourdes Pilgrimages – Knights, Dames and Auxiliaries from St. Thomas and St. Croix travelled to Lourdes, France, April 28, 2010. The group included Lina Batenga, DM, Jerry Woodhouse, KM, Christine Woodhouse, DM, Rich and Leslie Carter, DM, Patrick Vivot, Aux, and Chris Highfield, a volunteer. They escorted a malade – a French term for those who seek a miraculous cure at the holy site – Arnold Highfield, and his wife as caregiver. Arnold is the father of Leslie Carter, DM. There were 5,000 members of the Order of Malta worldwide who participated in the 2010 pilgrimage. The knights and dames participate in an annual Order of Malta Lourdes pilgrimage and take with them a malade and caregiver. Haiti Support – The Virgin Islands area donated boxes of clothes and supplies to the victims of the earthquake in Port au Prince. The group also initiated a fundraising effort in support of Hopital Sacre Coeur. We hope that you will join Bishop Bevard, priests, deacons, parishioners and friends of the diocese, on Saturday, February 11, 2017, as we celebrate and honor this most worthy group of God's servants. Thank you, and God bless you! – The Keys and Sword Executive Committee 17 LOCAL NEWS
NEW ARCHBISHOP challenges we face as a NAMED FOR CATHOLIC Church and nation. We need this paradigm shift so ARCHDIOCESE OF that we can ameliorate and KINGSTON transform the society we live in. We need a society FROM THE GLEANER, JAMAICA — that is more wholesome and Kenneth Richards has been installed as conducive to our well-being the seventh Roman Catholic archbishop and to the advancement of Kingston. of our nation,” Archbishop Richards, a graduate of the St. Richards stated. Catherine High School, was installed at Taking over leadership the Holy Trinity Cathedral 31 years after during the Catholic Church’s he was ordained into the priesthood. celebration of the Jubilee Archbishop Richards moved to of Mercy, Archbishop Richards is also Antigua in 2012 when he was appointed expected to address strategies to make which is influenced by our temporal bishop of St John’s, Basseterre, and only the Church a more welcoming, merciful conditions and secularism. We respond recently returned to Jamaica. and modern spiritual home. from that point of view, rather than He is elated to return home at “We, the Church, have a role to play applying the perspective of — what this time and is determined to make in creating this paradigm shift. It’s very does God say and command about that a significant contribution to the simple to do, we just need to apply situation? If we live our lives according development of the nation. faith to how we analyze and interpret to the status quo, then we have not “I would like to see a paradigm shift the world we live in. We often yield to actualized that we are persons of faith,” with respect to how we address the the wounded human side of our being, said Archbishop Richards.
CATHOLIC CHARITIES’ FOOD DRIVE
Please collect the following items at your church, school or workplace and bring them to Catholic Charities: • P owdered milk, rice, lentils and beans • Inf ant formula and baby food • Canned meat and vegetables
READ ONLINE Father Simeon Gallagher, OFM, Cap., speaking about academics, spirituality, and Catholic The Catholic Islander at identity in the Sts. Peter and Paul school library, to the administration, faculty and staff at the CATHOLICISLANDER.COM start of the 2016-17 academic year.
18 The Catholic Islander / October 2016 / www.catholicvi.com LOCAL NEWS
Father Gallagher gave a day of reflection to the sisters, Daughters of the Holy Family, during his stay at the cathedral during the summer.
Bishop Herbert Bevard with his guest, Msgr. Cure Dominique Aubert, the rector of Chartre Cathedral, (left) and Msgr. Jerome Feudjio, rector of the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul.
Bishop Bevard celebrates holy Mass after the procession of Our Lady of Cassie Hill. Father Kerly Francois (praying) and Holy Family pastor Father Neil Scantlebury concelebrated, with Deacon Cassius Mathurin and Deacon Wilfredo Acosta assisting.
19 WE ARE THE DOERS OF THE WORD PREACHING WITH OUR LIVES.
"Behold, I am making "With God, all things all things new." are possible." Rev. 21.5 Luke 1:37
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"THE UPLIFT OF HUMAN DIGNITY"
20 The Catholic Islander / October 2016 / www.catholicvi.com Order of Malta Virgin Islands Area The Order of Malta is raising funds for Bishop Herbert Bevard’s Catholic Scholarship Program through the sale of commemorative bricks. The bricks will be installed in the Rosary Garden at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. This is a great way to remember a loved one or express gratitude to God for answering a prayer. Your message will last forever.
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Charismatic Prayer Men’s Prayer Group · Prayers in Spanish are offered at Ss. The Sons of Joseph and Mary meet at Peter and Paul Cathedral’s Hospitality Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church on Lounge on Mondays at 6 p.m. Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. · Holy Family Church holds evenings of charismatic prayer on Mondays at 7 p.m. Pro-life Bound 4 Life USVI, the diocesan pro-life Divine Mercy Chaplet group, meets at Our Lady of Perpetual · Altar servers from Ss. Peter and Paul Help Church every other week. There is Cathedral and Our Lady of Perpetual also a pro-life Holy Hour and Mass at 6 Help Church lead the Divine Mercy p.m. on the first Friday of the month. For Chaplet at Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral more information, visit Facebook.com/ on Mondays at 3 p.m. bound4lifeUSVI or call the OLPH Church · The chaplet is prayed at Our Lady of office at 340.774.0885. Perpetual Help Church on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. Our Lady of Fatima Devotion The Children of Mary lead a devotion Holy Hours/Eucharistic Adoration to Our Lady of Fatima at Holy Family · Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church has Church on the first Saturday of every Exposition on Tuesdays from 7:30 a.m. month at 4 p.m. until Benediction at 6 p.m. and on Fridays at 6 p.m., followed by Mass at 7 p.m. Rosary Walk Holy Family Parish's The Lord's · Holy Family Church and St. Anne Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral hosts a rosary Anointed pantomime group with pastor Chapel have Holy Hours with Exposition walk on the first Saturday of every month Father Neil Scantlebury. and Benediction on Fridays at 6 p.m., at 7 a.m., followed by Mass at 7:30 a.m. followed by Mass at 7 p.m. St. Joseph Workers Intercessory Prayer Group The St. Joseph Workers meet at A team is prepared to pray for the needs Holy Family Church’s Columban Hall of all who ask at Holy Family Church on on the second Sunday of every month Recitation of the Rosary Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at 9:30 a.m. Intention of sick parishioners at OLPH and the Order of Malta maladies: second Pro-life Rosary Wednesday of each month at 5:45 Pray a pro-life rosary at Our Lady of St. Vincent de Paul Society The Young Vincentians meet on the p.m. (followed by Mass) at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church on Wednesdays third Sunday of every month at 11:30 Perpetual Help Church in the Order of at 5:45 p.m. Malta Rosary Garden. Everyone is invited a.m. The adult members meet on the to attend. Legion of Mary fourth Saturday of every month at 3:30 p.m. Both groups meet in Holy Family · Presidium Mary, Morning Star, meets Church’s classroom. Legion of Mary at Our Lady of Perpetual Help every Presidium Mary, Mystical Rose, meets in Friday at 8 p.m. in the conference Holy Family Church’s classroom, Sundays room. For more information about the World Apostolate of Fatima at 4 p.m. Legion of Mary, call the church office at The World Apostolate of Fatima meets 340.774.0885. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church on Catholic Charities of the VI · Presidium María, Arca de la Alianza, Thursdays at 7:30 a.m. Catholic Charities serves the needy — holds meetings in Spanish at Ss. Peter through our shelter, soup kitchen and and Paul Cathedral’s Hospitality Lounge outreach programs — with help from the on Sundays at 2 p.m. Our Mother of Perpetual Help community. There is an ongoing need · Presidium Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, Devotions for financial support. Please contact us meets in the St. Anne Chapel Hall on Devotions to Our Mother of Perpetual at 340.777.8518 or [email protected] Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Help are prayed before Mass on to explore the many ways you can help. Wednesdays at: Thank you. Magnificat · Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral at Magnificat, an international ministry 6:45 a.m. and noon. Catholic Daughters of America to Catholic women, meets at Ss. Peter · Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church Court 2049 meets at Ss. Peter and Paul and Paul Cathedral’s Hospitality Lounge at 6:15 p.m. Cathedral’s Hospitality Lounge on the on the first Saturday of every month · Holy Family Church at 6:50 p.m. third Saturday of every month at 3 p.m. at 8 a.m. · St. Anne Chapel at 7 p.m.
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Adult Education Rosary Prayer Group The St. Patrick Alumni Association offers Cenacle of Our Lady of the Rosary Prayer an After School Tutorial Program, which Group meets at the Franciscan House is coordinated by Sister Claina Letang, every Tuesday at 5 p.m. ICM. They are now also operating as a Public Computer Center, which is part of Holy Hours/Eucharistic Adoration the ViNGN Digital Literacy Program. It All-day adoration occurs every Thursday is open to the public during scheduled after the 8:15 a.m. Mass until 6 p.m. mornings to mid-day. Knights of Columbus Bible Study Holy Cross Council 6482 meets at Holy Cross Church hosts Bible Holy Cross Church’s McAlpin Hall on the studies in McAlpin Hall on Wednesdays first and third Thursday of every month and Saturdays at 9 a.m., following at 6 p.m. morning Mass. St. Patrick Youth Ministry Carmelite Spirituality Come be with us and enjoy a variety of The Our Lady Star of the Sea Community exciting activities as St. Patrick parents shares Carmelite spirituality in the St. and youths mix work and play to spread Joseph Church Hospitality Lounge and the Gospel message on St. Croix. For Learning Center on the fourth Sunday of more information, contact Father each month at 1 p.m. Boniface Blanchard at 340.772.0138.
Charismatic Prayer Magnificat · St. Patrick Church has charismatic Magnificat, an international ministry to prayer in the chapel on the third Friday Catholic women, meets at Franciscan of each month at 6 p.m. House on the third Sunday of each month · St. Ann Church has charismatic prayer in at 3 p.m. Marian Hall on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Neo-catechumenal Way Cursillo Prayer Group The Neo-catechumenal Way leads a The Cursillo movement hosts a Spanish celebration of the word at St. Joseph Bishop Bevard and Deacon Mark under prayer meeting in the St. Michael Chapel Church on Mondays and Thursdays at the new air conditioner at St. Ann Church at St. Joseph Church on the last Monday 7 p.m. on St. Croix. of every month at 7 p.m. Our Mother of Perpetual Help Cursillo Ultreya Devotions Holy Cross Youth Ministry Cursillo members meet for Ultreya in Devotions to Our Mother of Perpetual Every Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. in the Cursillo office at St. Joseph Church Help are prayed at: McAlpin Hall, the youth group meets. on Thursdays after the 7 p.m. Mass. · St. Patrick Church on Wednesdays at Father Touchard is the spiritual advisor. Meetings are in Spanish. 6:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. Devotions to St. Gerard Majella · Holy Cross Church every Wednesday Shepherds of Christ Associates Devotions occur each Tuesday after the after the 6:30 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. Mass. The Shepherds of Christ Associates meet 6:30 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. Masses. Also on the First Saturday of each for prayer in the St. Michael Chapel of month at the 8:15 a.m. Mass. St. Joseph Church on Wednesdays at Divine Mercy Chaplet · S t. Joseph Church Wednesdays at 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. and on the second and fourth St. Joseph Church hosts Divine Mercy Sunday of every month at 5 p.m. devotions on the fourth Sunday of each Rosary for the Unborn month at 3 p.m. The hour-long program St. Joseph Church hosts a bilingual Spanish Prayer and Reflection includes the chaplet, prayers, adoration English/Spanish rosary for the unborn on Pray the rosary and share reflections and teachings of the Divine Mercy by Fridays at 6 p.m. on the readings of the coming Sunday Father John Mark. Mass at Holy Cross Church on alternate Santo Niño Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Meetings are in Franciscan Spirituality St. Joseph Church hosts devotions to Spanish. The Our Lady of the Angels fraternity the Santo Niño (the Holy Child Jesus) on of the Third Order of St. Francis shares the first Saturday of every month at 4:30 World Apostolate of Fatima Franciscan spirituality at Franciscan p.m. The sacrament of reconciliation is The World Apostolate of Fatima meets House on the fourth Sunday of each offered during this time. in the chapel at Holy Cross Church on month at 3 p.m. Tuesdays at 5 p.m.
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All-night Vigil Our Lady of Mount Carmel holds an all-night vigil on the first Friday of each month at 8 p.m.
Charismatic Prayer Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church hosts an evening of charismatic prayer on Thursdays at 7 p.m.
Eucharistic Adoration Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church has Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction on Thursdays from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Free Meals Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church’s Kallaloo Kitchen: Food for the Soul feeds the needy in the parish’s Guadalupe Hall on Mondays and Fridays at noon. Volunteers are welcomed.
Legion of Mary · Presidium Mary, Queen of Angels, meets at Our Lady of Mount Carmel on Saturdays after the 6 p.m. Mass. · Presidium Mary, Mystical Rose, meets Eventos Mensuales in Holy Family Church’s classroom, Sundays at 4 p.m.
Men’s Fellowship Oración Carismática Oración y Reflexión Men’s Fellowship meets the first and Las oraciones en español se ofrecen Se reza el Santo Rosario y se third Sunday of each month. en el Salón de Hospitalidad de la comparten las reflexiones de las Catedral de San Pedro y san Pablo lecturas del domingo siguiente, en Spanish Mass los lunes a las 6 p.m. la iglesia de Holy Cross los martes Our Lady of Mount Carmel has Spanish alternados a las 7 p.m. Las reuniones Mass at 6 p.m. Sundays. La Ultreya son en español. Los jueves después de la misa de las Sunday Mass in Coral Bay 7 p.m. los cursillistas tienen su Rosario por los no nacidos Mass is celebrated each Sunday at Ultreta. Las reunions en el trailer, en La iglesia de San José invita a los 12:30 p.m. at the John’s Folly Learning la oficina del Movimiento de Cursillos, rosarios bilingües en español e inglés Center in Coral Bay. For questions or y son en español. por los no nacidos todos los viernes transportation, call the church office at a la 6 p.m. 776.6339. Legión de María El presidium hispano María, Arca de Santo Niño la Alianza se reúne en el Salón de En la iglesia de San José se rezan las Hospitalidad de la Catedral de San devociones del Santo Niño (el Santo Pedro y San Pablo los domingos Niño Jesús) los primeros sábados de a las 2 p.m. cada mes a las 4:30 p.m. Durante este tiempo se ofrecen confesiones. READ ONLINE Nueva Misa en Español Read The Catholic Islander at La iglesia Nuestra Señora del CATHOLICISLANDER.COM Carmen de la isla de Saint John está ofreciendo una misa en español VISIT US ONLINE todos los domingos a las 6 p.m. The Diocese of St. Thomas El celebrante oficial es el padre in the Virgin Islands at Eduardo Ortiz Santiago, párroco de la CATHOLICVI.COM comunidad hispana de la catedral. 25 26 The Catholic Islander / October 2016 / www.catholicvi.com ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS IN THE CATHOLIC ISLANDER! Call 340.774.3166, Ext. 213, for rates.
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