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Multifaith challenges Church continues to preach: ‘He is risen’

Living in a multifaith world is By Cindy Wooden evil in all its varied forms,” Pope outreach to refugees and migrants, plants: lilies, roses, tulips, hya - a real-life challenge for and Junno Arocho Esteves Francis said before giving his victims of war and exploitation, cinths, daffodils, birch and linden. Muslim solemn Easter blessing. famine and loneliness. Preaching without a prepared women who VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With tens of thousands of peo - For the 30th year in a row, text, Pope Francis began — as he wear a Jesus is the risen shepherd who ple gathered in St. Peter’s Square Dutch farmers and florists blanket - did the night before at the Easter niqab. An - takes upon his shoulders “our April 16, the pope called on Chris - ed the area around the altar with Vigil — imagining the disciples gus Reid brothers and sisters crushed by tians to be instruments of Christ’s grass and 35,000 flowers and desolate because “the one they Institute loved so much was executed. He found that died.” only one in While they are huddling in three Canadians support a fear, the angel tells them, “He is person wearing the niqab. The risen.” And, the pope said, the same poll found that 46 per church continues to proclaim that cent of Canadians view Islam message always and everywhere, unfavourably, as opposed including to those whose lives are to 33 per cent who have a truly, unfairly difficult. generally favourable view. “It is the mystery of the corner - — page 3 stone that was discarded, but has become the foundation of our exis - Dangerous subject tence,” he said. And those who follow Jesus, “we pebbles,” find Matt Eisenbrandt, the author meaning even in the midst of suf - of a new book about the men fering because of sure hope in the who killed Archbishop resurrection. Oscar Romero while Pope Francis suggested every - celebrating mass 37 years one find a quiet place on Easter to ago, says the subject is still reflect on their problems and the dangerous to talk about. problems of the world and then tell — page 4 God, “I don’t know how this will Way of the Cross end, but I know Christ has risen.” Almost immediately after the Some 200 people participat - homily, a brief but intense rain ed in the Good Friday out - began to fall on the crowd, lead - door Way of the Cross ing people to scramble to find umbrellas, jackets or plastic bags through the streets of CNS/ L’Osservatore Romano Saskatoon. Reflections on to keep themselves dry. POPE’S EASTER MESSAGE BLESSING — Pope Francis delivers his Easter message and blessing “ urbi the suffering and death of et orbi ” (to the city and the world) from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 16. — RISEN , page 23 Jesus were connected to the suffering in our world today. — page 6 ‘Backbone’ is needed to eliminate nukes: Roche Called to Serve By Michael Swan clear weapons disarmament, says the Holy See on nuclear disarma - crossing “red lines” in Syria, to This week’s The Catholic Register former Canadian Ambassador for ment issues since 1989. North Korea expanding its nuclear Prairie Disarmament Doug Roche. “I’m calling on the Canadian weapons program and the U.S. Messenger TORONTO (CCN) — As ten - The retired Progressive Con- government to get some back - planning to spend $1 trillion mod - highlights sions rise between world powers servative senator charges that bone,” he said. ernizing its arsenal over 30 years. vocations to over events in Syria and Korea, Canada has given in to American Roche’s comments come as Late last month Pope Francis the religious Canada needs to show some demands which uphold U.S. diplomatic tensions are rising sent a message to representatives life. “backbone” when it comes to nu- interests in maintaining a nuclear among nations, from the United of the 132 nations who met at the — pages 12 - 18 weapons program. This abandon - States launching missiles into United Nations to discuss ways to ment of principle is “irresponsi - Syria after a chemical attack, to Open to Theodore court ble,” said Roche, who has advised Russia warning the U.S. against — OTTAWA, page 4 interpretation decision has far- Foodgrains Bank tour visits Lebanon There are at least three rea - reaching effects sons that the words from Jesus in Matthew 19 do not By Kiply Lukan Yaworski beyond food assistance.” Lebanon brought Zyla new insight prove that Pope Francis is By Frank Flegel Founded in 1983, Canadian and understanding into the refugee wrong in opening up the SASKATOON — While on a Foodgrains Bank is a partnership of situation in that country. possibility of some divorced REGINA — The judgment that recent Canadian Foodgrains Bank 15 churches and church agencies Lebanon is host to some 1.5 and remarried Catholics came out of a Yorkton court case learning tour to Lebanon, working to end global hunger. Food million refugees from the sur - receiving communion, involving Good Spirit Public Christine Zyla saw first-hand how assistance accounts for 62 per cent rounding region — many from relationships, community and of the organization’s programs — Syria, but also from Palestine, writes Thomas Reese, SJ. School Board and Christ the peace are being strengthened last year Foodgrains provided $26 some displaced for decades. — page 19 Teacher Catholic School Board has sent shock waves through the through food assistance. million in food assistance in 24 “One in four people in Culture of Saskatchewan education commu - “Sometimes food assistance countries, as well as $14 million in Lebanon is a refugee,” says Zyla. resistance nity — especially in Catholic can be very messy. We’ve seen agriculture and livelihood programs “The impact on the local commu - school boards. that with television coverage of in 31 countries. nity is huge. It is not even a ques - Despite four years of Pope Essentially, Queen’s Bench trucks bringing in food, showing A member of the board of direc - tion of whether they are welcom - Francis’ calls to break down Justice Donald Layh ruled that the a demeaning scrabble by desper - tors of the Canadian Foodgrains ing or not. They are dealing with walls erected out of fear and Government of Saskatchewan is ate people. But it can also be very Bank, Zyla also co-ordinates the a tremendous number of needy ivory towers built on arro - violating a section of the Charter eucharistic — becoming a source Office of Migration in the Roman people, and the community is try - gance, abuse survivor Marie of Rights and Freedoms under the of community-building and social Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon, ing to find ways to cope.” Collins said a kind of enclave Canadian Constitution by funding cohesion,” says Zyla. which assists parishes, organiza - Even before the most recent mentality can still be found non-Catholic students in Catholic “Food assistance can bring tions and small groups who are influx of refugees from the con - in some corners of the Curia. schools, and as of June 30, 2018, deep community connection, rela - involved in refugee sponsorship. In flict in Syria, which is entering its — page 20 such funding must end. tionship-building, peace-building. addition to providing information seventh year, Lebanon was a That is what I saw in Lebanon — about food assistance programs, — DECISION, page 24 food assistance that goes way the March 8 - 20 learning tour to — WORK, page 4 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS April 26, 2017 Mideast church leaders affirm Christian presence

BEIRUT (CNS) — In Easter find political and diplomatic solu - have ignited a fire they think burns rorism, criminal killing and burn - poor and the displaced by provid - messages, Catholic patriarchs in tions to conflicts and to lay the in its place, but it has spread.” ing,” Laham said. ing accommodation and related the Middle East deplored the foundations for a just, comprehen - He also condemned the “bla - In his Easter message from support to all, “regardless of their widespread carnage and suffer - sive and lasting peace” in the tant and repeated persecution of Baghdad, Chaldean Patriarch faith and ethnicity.” ing, yet affirmed the presence of region. He implored the interna - Christians” in Egypt. He called Louis Sako lamented the “suffer - In Jerusalem, Archbishop Christians in the region by calling tional community to stop countries upon “Muslims and Islamic coun - ing and daily grief” endured by Pierbattista Pizzaballa, apostolic upon their faithful to carry on from providing cover, aid and tries to take active positions and Christians in Iraq and the world. administrator of the Latin Patri - with hope. weapons to terrorist organizations. initiatives to deter this persecu - He asked government officials archate of Jerusalem, said knowl - From Bkerke, the patriarchal “It is shameful for the rulers of tion and to preserve the positive and religious authorities for con - edge and faith of the mystery of seat of the Maronite Catholic states — with financial and military image of Islam.” crete initiatives to support the the resurrection does not exempt Church in Lebanon, Cardinal influence — who have made our Rai reiterated that Christians continued existence of Christians the faithful from experiencing tri - Bechara Rai condemned “all kinds eastern land a land of war, killing have existed in Egypt and the in Iraq and to guarantee their als, pain and darkness. of wars, persecutions and attacks.” and destruction, a haven for terror - Arab countries for 2,000 years. rights as equal citizens. In countries such as Syria, Iraq Rai, Maronite patriarch, urged ist organizations and fundamental - “They laid the foundations of He encouraged Catholics “not and Lebanon, “it seems that hatred the international community “to ist movements,” Rai said. “They their civilizations before the ad - to dwell in (the) unsecured solu - and contempt in social and reli - vent of Islam by a half-century.” tion of immigration” but instead gious relations prevail over every - Closed hearts unable to be He assured all those who are “to return to their towns and their thing, and so human, religious and suffering that even if those wield - normal lives, keeping this strong civil respect have be come empty ing power “can destroy your homes bond with their history, heritage, words,” he said. “Woe to us if we surprised by the resurrection and the achievements of your civi - language and the memory of their surrender to all this.” lization, they will not be able to ancestors, saints and martyrs.” He praised Christians in those By Junno Arocho Esteves that begins from an event, wit - destroy your faith and love for your Although the Chaldean Church circumstances, saying they “remain nessed by Jesus’ first disciples,” homeland and hope in your hearts.” in Iraq has become a “small flock,” open, with serene confidence, to VATICAN CITY (CNS) — the pope said. Syrian-born Melkite Catholic the patriarch said, it continues to every collaboration. No word of Christian faith is a grace and can be St. Paul’s summary of those Patriarch Gregoire III Laham be a “lively, powerful, and ecu - hatred and contempt. No violent perceived only in the hearts of those who witnessed the risen Christ, he pointed out in his Easter message menically open-minded church” reaction, but only the serene and willing to be surprised by the joy of noted, ends by describing himself that in early church history, Chris - that helped and is still helping the correctly strong desire for justice.” the resurrection, Pope Francis said. as the “least worthy of all” given tians often were called “children “A closed heart, a rationalistic his dramatic history as a one-time of the Resurrection.” heart” is incapable of understand - adversary of the early Christians. “Can we forget that Damascus ing the Christian message which St. Paul “wasn’t a ‘choirboy.’ He and its surroundings are the place of has God’s love — manifested in was a persecutor of the church, the appearance of Jesus Christ, risen Christ’s victory over death — at its proud of his own convictions,” the from the dead, to his persecutor, centre, the pope said at his weekly pope said, departing from his pre - Saul, who had come to Damascus to destroy fledgling Christianity and general audience April 19. pared remarks. But “one day some - slaughter the children of the resur - “How beautiful it is to think that thing completely unpredictable hap - rection?” Laham said. Christianity is essentially this: It is pens: the encounter with the risen “Saul was converted by the not so much our search for God — Jesus on the road to Damascus.” light of Christ risen from the dead a search that is, truthfully, some - It is the surprise of this en - and was himself transformed from what shaky — but rather God’s counter, the pope continued, that persecutor of the children of the search for us,” the pope said. all Christians are called to experi - resurrection into a child and apos - The pope, bundled up in a ence “even if we are sinners.” tle of the resurrection,” he said. white overcoat due to the unusual - Like the first disciples who saw “We pray, with our children in ly chilly and windy weather, the stone overturned at Jesus’ tomb, our Arab Eastern world, for peace entered a packed St. Peter’s Square all men and women can find “hap - to return to our suffering coun - CNS/ L’Osservatore Romano in his popemobile. Im mediately, he piness, joy and life where everyone tries, especially Syria, Iraq and invited two girls and a boy, dressed thought there was only sadness, POPE BENEDICT’S BIRTHDAY — Retired Pope Benedict XVI and Palestine,” the patriarch said. Archbishop Georg Ganswein, prefect of the papal household, left, toast in their altar server robes, to board defeat and darkness,” the pope said. “We invite everyone to hope, men in traditional clothing with a beer during the German pontiff’s the vehicle and ride with him God, Pope Francis said, is especially in the face of scenes of 90th birthday celebration April 17 at the Vatican. The pope’s birthday around the square. greater than “nothingness and just death, violence, explosions, ter - was the previous day. 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 POPE VISITS PRISON ON HOLY THURSDAY — Pope Francis kiss - es the foot of an inmate April 13 at Paliano prison outside of Rome as  
  he celebrates Holy Thursday mass of the Lord’s Supper. The pontiff washed the feet of 12 inmates at the maximum security prison. April 26, 2017 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 Living in multifaith world is a real-life challenge

By Michael Swan game out of the religions of others, The Catholic Register are provocateurs,” Pope Francis told reporters just after the 2015 TORONTO (CCN) — The attack which killed 12 employees worst of it was the day Sumaiya of the French satirical weekly Desai went grocery shopping Charlie Hebdo . “And if they go with her then eight-year-old son. past the limit of acceptable speech, “I was just loading my gro - violent retaliation is to be expect - ceries in the car and a man comes ed. . . . There is a limit.” up to us,” Desai recalled. “Because It was not a popular stance I was wearing the niqab he says, when there was widespread out - ‘So little boy, when are you going rage over the murdered cartoon - to join the ISIS?’ ” ists and writers, but Pope Francis Desai’s son, Bilal, had no idea has been a consistent advocate for what the man was talking about. what he calls “healthy pluralism “How dare you talk to my little which respects differences and baby like that?” asked Desai before values them as such.” bundling her boy into the car. In Philadelphia in 2015, Pope “Just because I wear a niqab Francis directly addressed immi - doesn’t mean you can pick on my grants whose customs and faith baby boy like that.” are at odds with the mainstream. Desai is a Toronto-born moth - Catholic Register/Michael Swan “Please, you should never be er of four — a part-time school REAL-LIFE CHALLENGES — Sumaiya Desai, centre, realizes if her daughters Habeebah, left, and ashamed of your traditions,” he bus driver devoted to her family Faizah were to adopt the niqab, they would face much difficulty in Canada. said. and to her faith. She’s anxious to “By contributing your gifts, defend her hometown as open that’s when the stares come. . . . In Nationally, a recent survey which covers the face below the you will not only find your place and accepting. Toronto people are not exactly from the Angus Reid Institute eyes. The same poll found that here, you will help to renew soci - “In Toronto, it’s actually OK,” used to it, but they’re beginning to found that only one in three 46 per cent of Canadians view ety from within.” she told The Catholic Register . understand the whole reason why Canadians support a person Islam un favourably, as op posed But will we let them? “When I go outside of Toronto, we wear a niqab. It’s not as bad.” wearing the niqab — a veil to 33 per cent who have a gener - Desai knows well that if either ally favourable view. of her daughters — 17-year-old There is also significant disap - Faizah or 14-year-old Habeebah — Christians already united in common faith proval of the religious garb of were to adopt the niqab, it would devout Muslim women — the slam the door on career opportuni - By Marie-Louise Ternier- on in the past 50 years,” said are already truly united in our niqab — with 32 per cent accep - ties and shrink their social circles. Gommers Adeline Reihl, a lifelong common faith in God through the tance and the burka with 29 per “Yes, people obviously are Lutheran. “I also acknowledge person of Jesus Christ, that bap - cent. Clothing that declares a differ - going to judge us because of that WATROUS, Sask. — What that communication has not tism has joined us together in a ent, more familiar, piety gets broad one little piece of cloth we wear on happened in the 16th century that always filtered down (to the peo - divine covenant with both God support from Canadians. The most our face,” she said. “They don’t fragmented the western Christian ple) as it should have to explain and with one another, and that we widely supported is the traditional understand that it doesn’t take long church, and what has taken place what these dialogues contain. are justified by that faith alone. habits of Catholic religious women, to get behind that one piece of cloth in the past 50 years that is now This then prevents the average The differences that keep us apart supported and approved of by 88 and we’re just regular people.” mending these 500-year-old frac - parishioner to move forward in are caused by humans, not by per cent of Canadians. The kippah “Right now, we’re in a situation tures? This was the central ques - their impressions of the other God. or yarmulke worn by many Jewish where Islam has become identified tion addressed in a series of five churches.” By way of marking this lenten men gets 85 per cent support. with terrorism and all kinds of ter - sessions bringing together “For me it was exciting to see journey together, the Lutherans, Turbans required of Sikh men are rible things,” said Mosaic Institute Lutherans, Anglicans and Roman us come together for a common Roman Catholics and Anglicans supported by 77 per cent. Even the executive director Bernie Farber. Catholics in Watrous this past goal, to acknowledge, understand, of Watrous celebrated Good hijab or headscarf worn by many “Every Muslim in Canada Lent. The series entitled appreciate and respect each Friday together in the Catholic Muslim women has 75 per cent becomes wrongly identified with other,” according to parish of St. Ann’s in a worship support. this. We have a lot to learn about Lynn Tarasoff, a service that drew its prayers, Contempt for faith and for what Canadian Muslims are, what Roman Catholic. hymns and litanies from all three public displays of faith is an old Islam is and what it isn’t.” “It is exciting to traditions. The group is commit - form of hatred and one Pope Farber is the former CEO of the learn so much more ted to continued learning togeth - Francis has spoken out against. now defunct Canadian Jewish about Lutheran and er, and is now considering one of “People who speak badly about Congress and a longtime cam- Catholic practices the Anglican-Catholic documents religions or other religions, who and traditions, mov - as the basis for future study. make fun of them, who make a — ISLAM, page 7 ing from past misin - terpretations to a more united future, Canada’s religious tolerance on the rise said Anglican parish - ioner Linda Leslie. By Michael Swan niqab, or face veil. An even lower equivalent to a random probability “This 500th anniver - The Catholic Register percentage (29 per cent) support sample that would carry a margin sary of the women wearing the full body of error of plus-or-minus 2.5 per - Reformation is truly TORONTO (CCN) — Cana - covering known at the burka. The centage points, 19 times out of 20. a time for finding dians are still leery of Islam and hijab, or headscarf, gets support Hinduism, Judaism and Bud - and rediscovering mostly agitated by the veils and from 75 per cent of Canadians. dhism all have support of at least our common faith headscarves worn by a minority of By comparison, 88 per cent half of Canadians (49 per cent, 53 “Together in Christ” (available instead of only focusing on differ - Muslim women, but our general support Catholic religious women per cent and 58 per cent). Sikhism online) was produced for parish ences.” tolerance for religious diversity is wearing traditional habits, 85 per gets a thumbs up from 38 per cent study by a Canadian Lutheran- Julie Davies, a Catholic mar - actually on the rise, according to a cent support Jews wearing the and Islam comes in at the one-third Catholic working group. ried to her Anglican husband, survey released April 4 by the kippah or yarmulke and 77 per mark (33 per cent). But positive Through 12-minute video pre - found that the sessions fostered a Angus Reid Institute. cent support the turban required feeling for all of the minority reli - sentations, participant guides con - very open and accepting environ - While nearly half (46 per cent) of Sikh men. gions is on the rise, said Korzinski. taining prayers, discussion ques - ment. “There was no blaming of Canadians view Islam un - Christianity on the whole con - “You see that big jump in tions and biblical texts, the group each other for the divisions but favourably, favourable views of tinues to have steady, stable sup - Quebec for a number of different of between 15 - 21 participants instead I learned so much about Islam have increased by 10 points port from over two-thirds of religions,” he said. “It’s not just from the three churches learned our various traditions.” across the country since the last Canadians (68 per cent). Islam that’s being more fa- and prayed together, dispelled Joan Hanson, a Lutheran, con - Angus Reid Institute survey in “When you compare the static vourably viewed.” misunderstandings and false judg - curs: “I have come away with an 2013. The most dramatic rise in nature of responses on Chris tianity When religions are spoken of ments, and grew in mutual under - appreciation for how much has Canadians who say they have a pos - and then the positive nature on all in the abstract they get a more standing and appreciation of one been achieved over the past 50 itive view of Islam is in Quebec, of the other ones, that’s where you negative reaction than when the another’s traditions. years through the various coun - where support has doubled in four get kind of an interesting view of question is personal, Christianity “Yes, we all know one another cils and conferences/dialogues to years from 16 to 32 per cent. what’s happening in 2017,” said included. While a subdued 68 per in this small community, but we reconcile our differences and to Outside of Quebec, support for Angus Reid Institute research cent view Christianity favourably, don’t necessarily discuss our move us closer together. It was so Islam has been up and down — associate Dave Korzinski. an enthusiastic 85 per cent would respective faith traditions and informative and I have enjoyed 31 per cent in 2009, 24 per cent in Between Feb. 16 - 22, the non- approve one of their children practices,” said one participant. the dialogue at our local level, the 2013 and 34 per cent in 2017. profit Angus Reid Institute sur - marrying a Christian. “This is so enriching.” sharing of opinions and the real - What Muslim women wear has veyed over 1,500 adults online A healthy 43 per cent of Cana - The sessions “helped me to ization how very similar we are.” a big influence on Canadian atti - using their Angus Reid Forum dians are OK with their children gain new knowledge about the The greatest discovery — or tudes. One in three Canadians pool of willing survey respon - history of dialogue that has gone rather, rediscovery — is that we support a person wearing the dents. ARI believes its results are — FAITH, page 5 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS April 26, 2017 Romero murder still dangerous to discuss: author

By Agnieszka Krawczynski mass in a hospital chapel in San Eisenbrandt decid - The B.C. Catholic Salvador March 24, 1980. A judge ed to write a detailed in El Salvador was assigned to the account of the evi - VANCOUVER (CCN) — The case, but three days later suffered dence, some of which author of a new book about the an assassination attempt and dis - the public eye had men who killed Archbishop Oscar appeared. never seen before. Romero while celebrating mass 37 But the CJA had a lead. In 1987 However, he admits years ago says the subject is still the assassin’s getaway driver had he left much out of dangerous to talk about. testified in secret and under oath Assassination of a Matt Eisenbrandt and a team of that his boss was death squad Saint . “El Sal vador lawyers in the U.S. and El Sal- member Alvaro Saravia. That remains an incredibly vador were behind the only suc - same man was seen in San dangerous country, cessful legal case against Romero’s Francisco in 2001. CJA went after and even 37 years murderers to date, and although him. later, the Romero Assassination of a Saint contains “An amazing amount of evi - assassination is still new revelations, Eisen brandt said dence already existed,” said Eisen - very dangerous to he can’t reveal everything. brandt. talk about.” “There are people whose testi - Lawyers in the U.S. and El He added that mony I would love to include in Salvador also researched the com - Romero’s chapter in the book, but it is still too dan - plex political and military climate history is far from B.C. Catholic/A. Krawczynski gerous,” he told about 100 social and looked into Saravia’s superi - closed. While the ROMERO BOOK — Author Matt Eisenbrandt (right) signs a book for an audience justice activists in Vancouver ors. While collecting evidence, a church looks for - member at the launch of Assassination of a Saint in Vancouver April 3. April 3. laptop with sensitive information ward to his canon - The case against Romero’s was stolen, one American col - ization, some petitions in El bers crowded in St. James Com- “Thank you for writing the killers began when the U.S.-based league was followed by a vehicle Salvador are starting to surface munity Hall was Daysi Bonilla, mem o ries of my country, El Sal - Centre for Justice and Accoun ta- with tinted windows, and a witness about re opening his case. Con sul General for El Salvador in vador,” Bonilla said in halting bility got a tip that a man linked to in El Salvador was threatened. Among the 100 audience mem - Van cou ver. English. El Salvadorian death squads was Then, in 2004, they brought the living in California. case before a U.S. judge. In a “What we were able to do is to guarded courtroom, they found Work of NGOs a reason for stability bring a civil lawsuit. Our charges Saravia guilty. were extrajudicial killing and “We ended up winning the Continued from page 1 on the need for food security, the Sabra and Shatila Refugee crimes against humanity,” said case,” said Eisenbrandt. “He was which they determined exists Gathering (Lebanon often uses Eisenbrandt, who details the found legally responsible for complex society with sectarian “when all people have regular and the word gathering rather than endeavour in Assassination of a Archbishop Romero’s assassina - tensions. “It is astounding that dignified access to enough nutri - camp, since there are official and Saint . tion.” things have remained relatively tious food to live healthy and unofficial refugee camps), site of The CJA, a non-profit that aims The judge ruled Saravia would stable,” says Zyla. “The work of active lives.” a notorious 1982 massacre, and to bring torturers and war criminals have to pay $10 million in dam - NGOs is a big reason for that sta - The Mennonite Central heard a first-hand account of that living in the U.S. to account, began ages, but Saravia had fled his bility.” Committee hosted the group on event. looking for answers in 2001. When California home and vanished. When the group arrived in their arrival. “They have been Today, the Sabra Gathering Eisenbrandt joined the group as a “To this day, we have not yet got - Beirut, a representative of the working in Lebanon for a long includes temporary structures and young attorney, he found himself ten a penny.” Near East School of Theology time. The work they invited us to concrete buildings that are expand - on a historical mission. None of his superiors were gave an in-depth introduction to see and the people they invited us ing upward to make space for new “This was going to be the only brought before the court. “If we Lebanon. “Lebanon is a mosaic,” to meet were Palestinian refugees refugees coming in. “There is no trial ever in Archbishop Romero’s were going to bring one of them says Zyla. “Many different who fled to Lebanon as refugees attention to building codes; these murder,” said Eisenbrandt, who into the case, we would have to groups have crossed this land and in 1948, and are now hosting are precarious structures that block went on to become legal director have the most ironclad evidence stayed there. Lebanon has many refugees from Syria. more and more of the light. The of the CJA. you can imagine because these levels of history and complexity. “For MCC and other groups, children have no place to play, no Romero, a vocal advocate for guys are multimillionaires,” he Each piece is part of the story, but food assistance is a means for green space,” says Zyla. the poor and oppressed, was said. “You can imagine the fight none of it is the whole story.” peace-building, community-build - “The living conditions were gunned down while celebrating we would have on our hands.” Together the group reflected ing and intercultural relationship- harsh and noisy and crowded, but building. It is very eucharistic.” this was also a neighbourhood On one memorable day, the with friendly people who care Ottawa fears Trump trade negotiations learning tour visited a cedar about each other.” grove, experiencing the same The tour participants also wit - Continued from page 1 email. “If anything, it may make weapons state,” he said. “At the famous cedars of Lebanon that nessed the dignity provided disarmament more difficult.” same time, Canada is an active the ancient Phoenicians used to through a food voucher system of declare nuclear weapons illegal Previous bans of indiscriminate member of NATO, the North build ships, and Solomon used to assistance. “Rather than being under international law. weapons, such as chemical Atlantic Treaty Organization, build the temple in Jerusalem. given food directly, people receive “How sustainable is a stability weapons, were negotiated among which is an open nuclear weapons Strictly protected, the grove was a voucher so they can go to the based on fear when it actually countries who possessed stock - alliance with an overt policy of an oasis of sacred peace, local shops and choose what to increases fear and undermines piles, said the Global Affairs nuclear deterrence. . . . By virtue describes Zyla. High in altitude, buy, thereby supporting the local relationships of trust?” Pope spokesperson. of its membership in the NATO with snow on the ground, it was merchants, helping the local econ - Francis asked. Canadian disa rmament nego - nuclear planning group (Canada) reminiscent of the Scripture read - omy.” “The total elimination of nu- tiators are concentrating their is perpetuating the existence of ing for the day about the Food assistance is providing clear weapons becomes both a efforts on cutting off the pro - nuclear weapons and this logic Transfiguration. social cohesion in many settings, challenge and a moral and duction and trade in fissile that they are a legitimate means The learning tour met with adds Zyla, describing stops at humanitarian imperative.” materials needed to build to ensure national security.” members of a group known as Sidon, and at a number of other Canada wasn’t at the UN when nuclear bombs. Pope Francis calls the logic Popular Aid for Relief and refugee gatherings. When food the pope’s letter was read. It is A legal ban on nuclear weap ons behind nuclear deterrence illogi - Development (PARD), who are assistance is available to all, it one of 35 countries supporting a is more than a hollow, symbolic cal and immoral. working to provide relief to those builds peace. U.S.-led boycott of disarmament gesture, said Project Ploughshares “An ethics and a law based on affected by the war in Syria. “Palestinian refugees have been negotiations. executive director Cesar Jaramillo. the threat of mutual destruction Among the PARD representatives living in gatherings for 70 years. Roche has some advice for “There’s a chemical weapons — and possibly the destruction of were farmers who were delighted They live precariously. Legally they Canadian politicians: “Go to the convention. There’s a biological all mankind — are contradictory to meet farmers from Alberta and can’t own land, they are overcrowd - NATO allies and say, ‘This is an weapons convention. There’s an to the very spirit of the United Ontario who were part of the ed, with the only schools available intolerable position for NATO to arms trade treaty. There is no un- Nations,” he said learning tour. those set up by the United Nations. take.’ The hypocrisy is stagger - equivocal prohibition on nuclear Like every Pope since Pope “We were speaking through PARD has realized that food assis - ing.” weapons, which are by far the most John XXIII, Pope Francis wants interpreters, but the connection tance must be seen as being for all The Canadian government destructive of them all,” he said. the money now spent on ever was clear. It was an amazing — for longtime Palestinian refuges claims it fully supports “a world The Canadian ecumenical more advanced and destructive moment of farmer-to-farmer con - as well, not only the most recently free of nuclear weapons,” but that think-tank on peace and disarma - weapons systems invested in lift - nection,” says Zyla. arrived Syrian refugees. That brings the effort to ban them in interna - ment issues was in New York for ing nations out of poverty. Sharing a meal with the mem - cohesion and builds community,” tional law is counterproductive. the first round of talks on the UN Roche believes Canada’s ac- bers of PARD was another joyful says Zyla. “Negotiation of a nuclear nuclear weapons ban. The talks quiescence to U.S. demands on moment of communion between At one point the learning tour weapons ban without the partici - will resume June 15 - July 7. UN nuclear negotiations result people from different parts of the asked a group of Palestinian and pation of states that possess Jaramillo sees Canada playing from Ottawa’s fears that the world, of different faiths and Syrian refugees if they had any nuclear weapons is certain to be both sides of the disarmament Trump administration might pun - backgrounds, she related: “We message for Canadians. One ineffective and will not eliminate game. ish Canada in trade negotiations. saw beautiful examples of refugee said, “Keep your country, nuclear weapons,” a Global “The Canadian government “We have to stand up and say, Muslim and Christian people keep your peace, and thank God Affairs Canada spokesperson told presents itself as an international ‘These are not our values,’ ” he working together.” for it. You will not know what The Catholic Register in an responsible actor, a non-nuclear said. The learning tour also visited you have until you lose it.” April 26, 2017 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 Yousafzai given honorary Canadian citizenship

By Deborah Gyapong who was born in Dubai of Catholic parents originally from OTTAWA — Nobel Prize win - Goa, India. “Canada has been very ner Malala Yousafzai was given strong in the fight against terrorist the gift of honorary Canadian cit - groups like the Taliban. I think it’s izenship during Holy Week, and important for our Parliamentarians left behind some inspiring and to remember what exactly we challenging words for a couple of stand for and what we should young Catholic women who work strive to protect.” on Parliament Hill. In her speech, Yousafzai talked Yousafzai, 19, became the of the hatred which infects the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, two type of men who attacked her, years after the young Pakistani- hatred that is “destroying our born Muslim woman survived an democracies, our freedom of reli - assassination attempt by Taliban gion and our right to go to extremists intent on ending her school,” de Souza said. efforts to promote education for “Sometimes I do think we do girls in her homeland. forget these basic fundamental The story of her heroic cause in freedoms we have here that we the face of daily danger made her need to exercise in order to main - a international lightning rod for tain them,” de Souza said. justice. Canada first invited her to For de Souza, Yousafzai’s speak in the House of Commons courage and heroic actions repre - in 2014, but the scheduled appear - sent more than the various awards ance was the same day, Oct. 22, as and honours she has received. She Photo courtesy Jake Wright the shooting on Parliament Hill reminded her of St. Ireneaus’ say - that killed a soldier at the National INSPIRING CITIZEN — Malala Yousafzai, 19, who in 2014 became the youngest person to be awarded ing, “The glory of God is man War Memorial. the Nobel Peace Prize, received honorary Canadian citizenship on April 12 in Ottawa. fully alive.” On April 12, the invitation was “That quote is applicable to finally fulfilled and Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize winner visited She seems to literally exude activism are examples of that good our life, a model for all of us — became the sixth person to be interim Conservative Leader peace and acceptance, and all and a reminder that we often have awarded honorary Canadian citi - Rona Ambrose’s office. Catholics can learn from her a lot more in common with our man being fully alive, man being zenship. “Her faith has given her the example of forgiveness.” brothers and sisters of different fully free to be fully alive,” de Kelsey Regnier, 26, who ability to endure incredible suf - Regnier added: ”Sometimes I faiths than we think,” she said. Souza said. works in the Office of the Leader fering and has also given her feel as a person of faith that soci - Tricia de Souza, 22, who “It’s an important thing for our of the Opposition, not only lis - compassion and a disposition of ety seeks opportunities to point works in MP Garnett Genuis’s governments to remember — tened to Yousafzai’s speech from forgiveness toward those who out the evils committed in the office, said Yousafzai’s visit had being full of life beholding God. I the gallery of the House of tried to kill her,” Regnier said in name of religion and can over - been long anticipated. think her life and the actions she Commons, but also had a chance an email. “That willingness to look the good. “(Her speech) was important took are a manifestation of that to shake her hand when the young forgive can only come from faith. “Malala’s passion and her for many to hear,” said de Souza, kind of reality.” Aid agencies have high hopes for pope’s visit to Egypt

By Deborah Gyapong Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, the together, then everyone can do said. “The new government of grand imam of the Mosque of Al- it,” Lalonde said. “It encourages General Sisi wants to change that, OTTAWA (CCN) — Pope Azhar Ahmed Mohamed el- dialogue on other levels. With the to make life easier, to allow full Francis’ visit to Egypt April 28 - Tayeb, and Egyptian president Orthodox, it’s the same.” participation of Christians in soci - 29 could be so good for the coun - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Lalonde pointed out the Palm ety so Christians wouldn’t face try that fanatics have tried to “Another reason the attacks Sunday attacks were not “some - institutionalized discrimination derail it, say the Canadian direc - took place, the extremists don’t thing that just happened recent - anymore.” tors of two Catholic aid agencies. want the pope to meet with the ly,” but that similar attacks have “He’s made that public,” Hétu highest Muslim authority of gone on in recent years, such as said. “That’s part of the reason Egypt,” said CNEWA (Catholic one in Cairo last December at a the Muslim fanatics in Egypt Near East Welfare Association) chapel connected to the Coptic want to stop that.” Canada national director Carl Orthodox Cathedral in which 30 Both CNEWA and Aid to the Hétu. “For those people who were killed. Attacks have stepped Church in Need fund ongoing want violence all over the Middle up before the Arab Spring in projects in Egypt, through the East, the pope meeting the grand 2011, such as one in January of Catholic bishops in the country. imam of Egypt means we can that year in Alexandria that killed Christians make up about 10 talk, we can build peace and we 21. per cent of the Egyptian popu - can live in peace, Muslims and “You have incidents here and lation; the vast majority of Christians together like we have there, quite regularly, but overall those Christians are Coptic CCN/D. Gyapong for the last 1,400 years with its the situation is not as bad as in Orthodox. Marie-Claude Lalonde ups and downs and complexities, Syria or Iraq,” she said. but it is possible.” Hétu, however, pointed out “This meeting of the pope and that before the 2003 war in Iraq Faith still a dominant the grand imam would set the and the 2011 war in Syria the road map toward peace not only level of discrimination faced by personal phenomenon in Egypt but all over the Middle Christians in those two countries East,” Hétu said. This is opposite was “almost non-existent.” what groups such as the Islamic They tended to be from the Continued from page 3 informed debate. State, al-Qaida and other Islamist middle class, well-educated, had “We see religion as having a groups trying to control the businesses and were doing rela - marrying into a Muslim family, big place in public conversation,” CCN/D. Gyapong region want. tively well, he said. “In Egypt the 10 points higher than the number said Korzinski. Carl Hétu “(The pope’s visit) can only Christians are relatively poor who approve of Islam itself. The importance of faith in the be good,” said Lalonde. “Good compared to the other Christians The lower level of support for lives of ordinary Canadians has On Palm Sunday two separate on different levels. One level is of the Middle East. They live in religion in the abstract likely has persisted despite their waning bombings at Coptic Orthodox to show solidarity with Chris - rural areas, cannot have access to to do with Canadian discomfort attachment to religious institutions churches in different cities killed tians, to show them they are not certain types of jobs that are with religious institutions, said and formal religious practice. 44 people and injured many forgotten. It’s very important. restricted only to Muslims.” Korzinski. “You see fewer people going to more. Egypt has upped its securi - The pope is somehow looking “For many years churches “People have kind of soured on church and taking more active ty for the visit. after them.” could not be renovated or built that (institutional religion) in the roles in religious communities. Marie-Claude Lalonde, execu - The other level is the pope’s without a presidential decree,” he last 30, 40 years, as the trends But faith in a lot of senses is still tive director of Aid to the Church visit with the Orthodox pope and said. Baptized Christian children show,” he said. a very dominant, personal phe - in Need Canada, said the attacks the grand imam, she said. The who ended up in Egyptian Founded just two years ago, nomenon,” Korzinski said. were designed to “instil, drop by imam is “the Muslim authority in orphanages “would become the Angus Reid Institute has made “Faith is very important to drop, fear within the (Christian) the country and his speech is pret - Muslim automatically.” religion one of its most important them insofar as their own personal community.” ty much about dialogue.” “In Egypt there is an institu - survey subjects as it tracks social, faith is. The religious institutions The pope’s visit will include a “If the pope and the grand tionalized discrimination that did cultural and political trends in the don’t tend to get the more fa- meeting with the Coptic imam of Al-Azhar can speak not exist in Iraq and Syria,” Hétu hope of encouraging more vourable opinions.” 6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS April 26, 2017 Way of the Cross enacted on Saskatoon city streets

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski carrying their cross with them.” toon Pregnancy Options Centre The pain of having children in reflected on motherhood and the SASKATOON — Some 200 foster care, and the profound need pressures facing pregnant women. people braved rainy weather on for foster parents was the focus of “It has been said that to have a Good Friday, April 14, to follow a reflection by Hands at Work at child is to decide forever to have the cross through the streets of the ninth station, Jesus meets the your heart go walking outside Saskatoon, singing, praying, and women of Jerusalem. “Every day your body. It is a sacrificial love, a reflecting on the suffering and in our city, province and country vulnerable love. Is there any more death of Jesus, while connecting birth parents are separated from God-like act than to participate in his passion to suffering in our their children. But the number of the creation of a human being?” world today. foster parents with hearts ready to she asked. “And yet society sees The annual outdoor Way of the receive those children is shrink - motherhood as a curse, a burden, Cross is co-ordinated by the Justice ing. Vulnerable children have no an infringement. Women are told: and Peace Office of the Roman home willing to take them, and you can be a mother or you can be Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon, and new wounds grow.” educated. You can be a mom, but involves people of many Christian The plight of persecuted Chris - you will live in poverty. Is that the denominations. At each station a tians around the world was the best we can do? Society offers faith or community group led focus of prayer and reflection at women choice, and then leaves prayers and provided reflections. the 10th station, Jesus is crucified. them to suffer the effects of their At the first station in front of the “Today we enter into solidarity choice alone. Let us pray that we courthouse on Spadina Crescent, a with the many innocent victims would act as guardians toward all reflection prepared by the diocesan who have embraced the cost of mothers — those parenting, strug - Office of Migration was presented clinging to the cross while paying gling and grieving.” in conjunction with Scripture about the ultimate price,” prayed repre - At the 13th station, a represen - Jesus’ agony in the garden. sentatives of the diocesan Justice tative of the Knights of Columbus “Jesus withdrew to a secluded and Peace Office. “Let us pray for read a Scripture passage about the place to pray as was his custom. Christians in fragile areas of the death of Jesus on the cross. The He knew a time of great testing world for whom this sacred week crowd stood in silence before was ahead of him. He seeks has become a dangerous time.” moving to the final station on the strength for what is to come,” the Tim Yaworski Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish steps of St. Paul’s Co-Cathedral. crowd heard. “Imagine the thou - WAY OF THE CROSS — Some 200 people attended the annual out - led prayers and reflections at the Diocesan ecumenical officer sands of refugees who are at the door Way of the Cross in Saskatoon on Good Friday, reflecting on the 11th station, recalling Jesus’ Nicholas Jesson, diocesan admin - moment of being displaced, that suffering and death of Jesus and on suffering in our world. promise to the good thief. istrator Rev. Kevin McGee, and moment when they realize that “Teach us to reach out to our chair of Riverbend Presbytery, fleeing means leaving behind prayers for victims of crime, for On behalf of the Meewasin neighbour. When we think there United Church of Canada, Rev. everything they know, everything restorative justice, and for those Valley Authority, Brendan Bitz is nothing more we can do; when Kathleen James-Cavan, led the they have and love. They know oppressed by poverty and hurt by reflected on the life-giving need we are afraid of the ridicule we last reflection about Jesus being they are facing a time of great test - systemic inequities. for clean water at the seventh sta - might face; give us the courage to placed in the tomb. ing and trial as they run to seek Reflecting on Peter’s denial of tion where Jesus takes up the cross. reach out and forget about our “Jesus’ story does not end freedom, security and peace.” Jesus, the diocesan Hospital Chap- “Water is life. Without water, we own needs,” prayed parish life here, in the tomb of Good Friday. The reflection ended with a laincy office prayed for the sick, die. Caring for water with rever - director Debbie Ledoux. Our story does not end in tragedy prayer “for all those who see home the elderly and the suffering. ence and respect calls us individu - “Give us the courage to reach and despair. We need not flee like and all it means disappear behind “Their hearts cry out, ‘take my ally and collectively to be good out to our indigenous brothers and the disciples in fear for the future, them; for all those who cannot see hand, come be with me, I need stewards of this fundamental and sisters and understand the suffer - because we know as people of a home in the days ahead of them; your support, your comfort, will increasingly fragile resource.” ing they have endured. Help us to faith that Jesus will rise from this for all those who dwell in daily you pray with me?’ Like Peter, we At the eighth station, Bernice learn from them the sacredness of tomb, and so we live in faith and insecurity; for all those who are are called to serve with courage, Daratha presented a reflection on the land. Give us the cour age to hope that we too will rise with weary and without a safe place to compassion and love those who behalf of Development and Peace bring about change so that all of Christ on the last day.” rest their heads; for all families in are sick and elderly. We are called (Caritas Canada) about the suffering us will be strangers no more, but migration; help us to be generous, to open our eyes to see the face of of the people of South Sudan sisters and brothers living together just, and welcoming.” Christ in those who are in need.” because of civil war and famine. as family in your kingdom here on The betrayal of Jesus by Judas Representatives of L’Arche led She quoted her friend, a refugee earth, and with you in paradise.” BARTSCH,OBITUARY Sister Mary Albert was recalled at the second station, prayers at the sixth station, recall - from South Sudan who now lives in At the 12th station, recalling the School Sister of Notre Dame with a reflection by Nashi, a local ing Christ’s suffering endured out Regina: “I ask you to pray with me words of Jesus from the cross to Died at Notre Dame Convent on April 13, non-profit group that raises aware - of love for each human being. for our people in South Sudan as we his mother and his beloved disci - 2017, at the age of 97 and in her 78th ness and funds to battle human “Just as Jesus’ head was entan - become like Simon of Cyrene in ple, a representative of the Saska - year as a School Sister of Notre Dame. trafficking. gled in the crown of thorns, there Mass of Christian Burial for Sister Mary “Human trafficking is modern- are those in our communities who Albert was celebrated by Rev. Pablito Labado, chaplain, on April 18. Prede- day slavery. There are 27 million are entangled in other ways: in ceased by her parents Albert and men, women and children held as pain, sorrow, loneliness, anxiety, Armella (Bichler) Bartsch, her brothers, slaves throughout the world. and fear. Through Jesus’ example Albert, Carl, George, Nicholas, John and Forms of human trafficking exist of selfless suffering we too can her sisters, Rose Forrest and Amelia find the strength to accompany Leibel. Lovingly remembered by the both locally and globally and members of her religious community and include the sex trade and produc - the weary and broken-hearted in many nieces and nephews. Sister Mary tion of goods.” our communities,” said Wyndham Albert was born in Salvador, Other reflections included Thiessen of L’Arche Saskatoon. Saskatchewan. She entered Notre Dame Convent in Leipzig, Saskatchewan. After a few months she came to Waterdown to Christ understands complete her formation as a School Sister of Notre Dame. From 1939 - 1986 Sister Mary Albert served as homemaker in human suffering convents in Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and England. For 24 years she was at Notre Dame Convent By Louis Hradecki women and children. School, Lingfield, England. At this boarding “Good Friday is a reflection on and day school, she prepared meals for PRINCE ALBERT — the purpose of life and how we 70 boarders, as well as a hot luncheon Approximately 70 people of vari - are living our present situation — at noon for day students. In spite of long hours in the kitchen, she found additional ous denominations braved the how we love one another. That is time to work in the vegetable garden. weather — which included rain, really what this day is all about,” She also typed essays for the sisters sleet, wind, thunder and lightning the bishop commented. who were studying. In 1986 Sister Mary — to participate in the annual The procession concluded with Albert went to Saskatoon where she visited the elderly in nursing homes. In Good Friday Outdoor Way of the the last station being back at city Tim Yaworski 2008 she moved to Notre Dame Convent, Cross sponsored by the Roman hall. Afterward, all joined togeth - CHRISM MASS — With the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon Waterdown. In her retirement Sister Catholic Diocese of Prince Albert. er to recite the Lord’s Prayer and Mary Albert enjoyed her piano lessons. Bishop Albert Thévenot, to exchange the sign of peace. still awaiting the appointment of a bishop, Bishop Emeritus Gerald Her computer kept her in touch with Wiesner, OMI, presided at the annual diocesan celebration of the M.Afr., began the procession from When asked about the signifi - family and friends in Saskatchewan. Chrism Mass at the start of Holy Week, April 10. He blessed the sacred Throughout her life, Sister Mary Albert city hall. Various stops were made cance of this walk, P.A. diocese oils — the oil of the sick, the oil of catechumens and the sacred chrism considered her ministry as a service of in the downtown core. Here re - Evangelization and Catechesis — which were taken back by parish representatives from across the love. She died on Holy Thursday. The flections were made and prayers director Christine Taylor, one of diocese to be used in the celebration of sacraments in the year ahead. Gospel Acclamation for the liturgy was, were said for all those who are the event organizers, said that The retired bishop also led the reaffirmation of priestly service by “A new commandment I give to you, love suffering with addictions, mental “there is nothing of human suffer - priests from across the Saskatoon diocese. In his homily, Wiesner said one another as I have loved you.” May that all the baptized have been anointed to be missionary disciples, Sister Mary Albert enjoy the Fullness of health issues, homelessness, and ing that Christ does not under - God’s Love. also for the missing indigenous stand.” “sent to proclaim the mission and ministry of Jesus.” April 26, 2017 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 7 Partnership signs threat assessment protocol

By Frank Flegel Ministry of Justice, Corrections and Policing, the Regina Open REGINA — Violent events Door Society, Regina Fire and in schools are often predicted in Protective Services and City of advance by students threatening Regina Community Services before carrying out acts of vio - make up the current partnership, lence. To react quickly and in but more could be added when an organized way to that threat training is completed. is behind the Regina Human Regina Police Chief Evan Services Partnership Com - Bray said the protocol is impor - munity Threat and Assessment tant because it formalizes a part - Protocol signed April 10 by nership that already exists. “It Frank Flegel representatives of the partner - ensures that we have a protocol in THREAT ASSESSMENT PROTOCOL — Signatories to the Human Services Partnership Community ship. place and we know what to do Threat and Assessment Protocol signed April 10 in Regina include, from left: Trevor Ewart of the Regina The protocol is called a collab - when an emergency arises. We Police Service, Donna Ziegler of Regina Catholic Schools, and Catherine Gagne of Regina Public Schools. orative response to student threat- need to be sure to react quickly making behaviours. Regina and we need to make sure that we The protocol recognizes that caused the threat is supported to Services — Facilities for the Public and Catholic school divi - can identify the proper partner at often the individual threatening get healthy again. “We would see Catholic School Division Rodd sions, the Regina Police Service, the table to provide the informa - violence is troubled. if there is something we can do in Hoffart said quick action is the the Ministry of Social Services, tion we need to resolve that situa - Bray said the protocol would community health and safety to key to the protocol: “It is to give the Qu’Appelle Health Region tion and imminent threat to the also provide wrap-around support provide overall wellness for that signed members of the partner - Child and Youth Services, the community.” to ensure that the individual who individual and the individual’s ship access to critical information family.” on the potential threat in the most Parish marks St. Kateri’s feast day Superintendent of Education immediate fashion.” Ottawa evangelization By Kiply Lukan Yaworski Mohawks,’ as one of SASKATOON — A proces - your son’s summit to be live-streamed sion of prayer and song in the most faith - heart of Saskatoon was held April ful follow - SASKATOON — For the third missionary with the Society of Our 17 to mark St. Kateri Tekak - ers,” prayed consecutive year a New Evan ge - Lady of the Most Holy Trinity and witha’s feast day. Hill. “Help lization Summit live-streamed host author of Loved As I Am ; and Peter Organized by Our Lady of us to turn site will be available in the Roman Herbeck, director of missions for Gua dalupe Parish, the procession away all Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon. Renewal Ministries and television with the statue of St. Kateri evil and The 2017 host site is St. and radio host — and many others. Tekakwitha started at Guadalupe walk in her Therese Institute of Faith and The vision of the New Evan- House on Avenue J, continued to footsteps, Mission in Bruno, Sask., some 90 gelization Summit is that the whole St. Mary’s Parish on 20th Street, sharing our km east of Saskatoon, running church would be united in the mis - and returned past St. George’s love and from 7 p.m. May 12 until 4:30 sion of evangelization, and trained Ukrainian Cath olic Cathedral on concern p.m. May 13, with an option to to be able to fully live out their Avenue M before ending at with oth - attend Saturday only. identity as “missionary disciples,” Guadalupe House, where a soup ers.” The New Evangelization Sum - in the words of Pope Francis. and bannock supper concluded St. Kateri mit is a conference hosted in The summit offers inspiration the celebration. was born in Ottawa and live-streamed to some to all the baptized, but will be of Parish life director Debbie 1656 in 40 host sites across North America, particular interest to anyone in - Ledoux, Deacon Paul Labelle, what is now making available some of the most volved in pastoral work, outreach, Rev. Graham Hill, CSsR, and up state New dynamic, inspirational speakers in catechesis, teaching, or ministry; elder Gayle Weenie were among York, to a Kiply Yaworski the Catholic Church today. to priests and parish life directors; those leading the procession. Mohawk ST. KATERI FEAST DAY — Our Lady of Guadalupe Guest speakers this year include and to members of Parish Pastoral Bishop Bryan Bayda of the chief father Parish in Saskatoon held a procession with the statue of Bishop Robert Barron, Auxiliary Councils. Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of and an Al - St. Kateri Tekakwitha April 17 to mark the Canadian Bishop of Los Angeles and founder To register online, go to Saskatoon was also in atten - gonquin feast day of “The Lily of the Mohawks.” of Word on Fire Ministries (which www.NewEvangelization.ca. To dance. Christian produced the popular Catholicism book overnight accommodations “Loving God, we celebrate St. mother. 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8 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS April 26, 2017 Sister Davidson a model for mission work in north

By Evan Boudreau receive we will still we do (and) how we go about it,” The Catholic Register long for more. This is said Reilander. “It is important for the infinite world cre - fundraising and it is also important TORONTO (CCN) — Before ated for that love.” for networking. It is a way for us taking action, one must learn to Years of cultural to project our message and elabo - listen when it comes to mission oppression, forced rate on the need to help mission life in Canada. assimilation and liv - dioceses across the country. That’s a lesson that Sister Mary ing in communities “From there they can judge Jeanne Davidson has come to plagued by abuse has whether they want to become embrace after working for 15 left its scars on First involved with us.” years with three Cree communities Na tions. For many of the about 700 surrounding Peace River, Alta. “How deeply they attendees, that means becoming a “Missionary life today in the suffer,” said David - benefactor. church, we are being called to son, who also served “Through our gala we will net walk with, to come to know, one Peru’s indigenous probably a quarter of a million another,” said Davidson, a mis - from 1979 through dollars and it is a tremendous sionary with the School Sisters of 1984. “There are so effort to get all of that. You can Notre Dame. “We need to be in many trage dies and only have that in a major city like dialogue, we need to listen. They unexpected events that Toronto,” Reilander said before know what they need and they have happened and the event. know what they want.” yet there is so much Catholic Missions In Canada On April 6, Davidson’s work Photo courtesy of New Paramount Studios love in the people as I expects to spend $4.6 million this was recognized with the St. Joseph ST. JOSEPH AWARD — Sister Mary Jeanne Davidson, right, was honoured with came to know them.” year on missionaries and the Award at the Catholic Missions In Catholic Missions In Canada’s St. Joseph Award for her work in Canada’s mission Being a representa - maintenance of missionary dioce - Canada’s annual Tastes of Heaven territories. She is pictured here with former Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion tive of the Catholic ses. A portion of the funds also dinner in Vaughan, Ont. The din - at the annual Tastes of Heaven dinner April 6. Church, which operat - subsidizes the formation of semi - ner serves as a platform to recog - ed more than 60 per narians. Currently there are 39 nize the work of missionaries, as the tragedies that have happened handouts, she said. cent of Cana da’s residential seminarians being supported, well as help raise funds for because of addictions and alcohol. “It is not good for us to always schools, made gaining the trust of according to Reilander. Catholic Missions. Their families mean everything.” be a giver,” she said. “Welfare the First Nations people a chal - “There used to be an Oblate “The indigenous people I’ve Most of those Davidson minis - makes them passive; it is not lenge. priest in every parish (but) now come to know, they’re desiring to ters to aren’t able to provide for good.” They also need more than “One thing that I had to learn we are drastically lacking in become responsible for their fami - their families due to widespread money to be good spouses, par - and overcome is the native people priests,” he said. “That is what lies,” Davidson said. “They have unemployment on the reserves. ents and children. “It is not only take a long time to grow in trust,” are lacking today, an essential a profound love for their families The solution, however, can’t sim - material things,” said Davidson. said Davidson. resource that we don’t have.” in spite of all that we hear about ply be another course of social “No matter how much love we “It really does take time to There has been a gradual disap - really grow in trust.” pearance of the Oblate priests in Digital devices competing with parents Catholic Missions In Canada Canada’s remote northern parishes, is Davidson’s primary financial some of which are only accessible support, which allows her to keep by air. Not only has the workload By Josh Tng distractions, devices take young logical health and well-being.” in touch with the Cree communi - on missionaries increased, but so The B.C. Catholic children away from the real Once children develop as “sepa - ties she serves, about a 45-minute too has the scope of their work. world, removing the required rate beings, full of their own ideas, drive from her Peace River home. “They are dealing with things ABBOTSFORD (CCN) — stimuli to develop their cognitive intentions, meanings, aspirations, “I wouldn’t be able to cover that missionaries of the past never Digital devices are competing muscles. preferences, and values,” they are gas, upkeep on a vehicle and be dealt with,” said Reilander, who with parents to form a relation - “The problem with today’s fit to explore the technological jun - out there,” she said. “I don’t like served in missions in northern ship with their children, says a digital media and social connec - gle by themselves, she said. to be asking for a whole lot.” British Columbia and the Yukon. parenting expert. tivity is it takes children away “We should not send our chil - The dinner, which includes a “The role is probably more as “Among individuals aged 12 - from the adults who are meant to dren into the digital world empty- silent auction, is vital to Catholic social worker today.” 24 (in Canada), nearly 100 per be raising them,” MacNamara handed, with only their techno - Missions on several levels, said Tastes of Heaven helps bring cent of them use the Internet as of said. “It sabotages their ability to logical tools in tow,” MacNamara president Rev. 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Screenings & Meanings

Gerald Schmitz

Recently I reviewed the time Uber driver in Chicago and SXSW opening and closing head - aspiring stand-up comedian hop - liners Song to Song and Life . ing for a break. Emily, played by They were far from the only high- Zoe Kazan, is a recently divorced profile dramas playing to sold-out grad student with parental issues houses. Unfortunately I didn’t get of her own. They create winning in to see what appeared to have screen chemistry even as their been the fest’s biggest hits: Edgar relationship is severely tested. Wright’s Baby Driver , which Dramatic comedy doesn’t get any earned applause for its soundtrack better than this. as well as action sequences, and James Franco’s The Disaster Most Beautiful Island Artist , presented as a work in The title of this U.S./Spain co- progress. I did see David Leitch’s production, awarded the grand Atomic Blonde (and got the jury prize in the narrative compe - “Austin Goes Atomic” T-shirt), tition, is ironic to say the least. which also showed just once on Contemporary Manhattan is the Gerald Schmitz the crowded opening weekend. setting for a disturbing story that FILM PREMIERE — Director David Leitch (left), Charlize Theron, producer Beth Kono, and James The blonde in question is the Spanish writer-director-actress McAvoy, answer questions after the Atomic Blonde premiere March 12 at the South by Southwest festival impressive Charlize Theron, who Ana Asensio has sourced from in Austin, Texas. owns this spy thriller that harks her own experience. She plays back to the fall of the Berlin Wall Luciana, a struggling young ers in a bar, she is brutally sexual - boyfriend Eric (Nick Thune) for is afoot leading up to the office of in 1989, drawing on the graphic undocumented immigrant taking ly assaulted. She staggers home L.A. where she has a drudge edit - Jimmy Bierce (Jim Caviezel), an novel series The Coldest City . odd jobs to get by. Tempted by a before going to a hospital where ing job while struggling to make erstwhile friend and fellow rider She plays an MI6 agent sent to large promised payoff, Luciana is she cannot conceal the traumatic it as a comedian. Her sudden who is now the governor with Berlin to expose a traitorous dou - unknowingly drawn into a deadly truth from Matt and evidence is return is prompted by the passing bigger ideas. The evidence of this ble agent and secure dangerous situation by another immigrant collected in a rape kit. But the of her beloved kitty cared for by tall-in-the-saddle morality play Russian intelligence that could named Olga, whom she considers shaken Bonnie has great difficul - Eric and new perfectly successful shows a western genre that is extend the Cold War for decades. a friend. The tension builds as the ty confiding in others — dissem - girlfriend Celeste (Britt Lower). alive and kicking. Besides the Russians, she has to desperate circumstances of these bling to family, friends, and fel - The fur flies as sad-hilarious situ - deal with the wacky Berlin women are exploited, subjecting low workers. She doesn’t cope ations escalate and the possibility Small Town Crime bureau chief played by James them to terrifying risks for the well with the consequences, per - hovers of Emily and Eric getting In this noirish tale from writer- McAvoy (who was so creepy in gratification of others. Hint: not sonal or legal, so even her most their groove back. directors Ian and Eshom Nelms, Split ), a French intelligence recommended for anyone with supportive relationships suffer. John Hawkes sinks his teeth into femme fatale, and questioning by arachnophobia. The all-too-real complications of Flesh and Blood the role of washed-up alcoholic that agonized aftermath are what Mark Webber is the writer, ex-cop Mike Kendall who seeks a make this film so unsettling. director and central character in measure of redemption by inves - this amazing hybrid of documen - tigating the murder of a young The Most Hated Woman in tary and drama drawn from his woman who had fallen into drug America actual life and family situation in addiction and prostitution. Ignor - I confess to being fascinated Philadelphia. Mark faces a chal - ing police warnings and pretend - by this incredible true story lenging readjustment after return - ing to be a private investigator, directed by Tommy O’Haver, ing from a prison sentence to live Mike gets himself hired by the available on Netflix since March with his real mom, Cheri Honkala, girl’s wealthy grandfather (Robert 24. Veteran actress Melissa Leo and geeky half-brother Guillermo Forster) and teams up with a commands the screen in the role Santos, a bullied 13-year-old diag - pimp named “Mood” (Clifton of militant atheist Madalyn nosed with Asperger’s. Having Collins Jr.), while putting at risk skeptical bosses. The tangle of Dara Ju Murray O’Hair. The scourge of survived a tough environment of his adopted African-American murderous espionage and intrigue This film by first-time director conservative Christian hypocrites, abusive failed relationships, addic - sister Kelly (Octavia Spencer) features some wild fight scenes, and screenwriter Anthony Onah she wore the “most hated” epithet tions and homelessness, Cheri and her husband. Serial homicide, escapes, and jaw-dropping twists, also draws deeply on personal as a badge of honour. As a single shows uncommon strength as a blackmail and shootouts ensue to set to a propulsive musical score. immigrant experience. The pro - mom in Pittsburgh, she and son prominent social and political a satisfying conclusion midway Theron is terrific as the kickass tagonist, Seyi Ogunde (Aml Bill gained notoriety in a case activist (she was the Green party’s through the closing credits. lethal weapon who outsmarts the Ameen), is an upwardly mobile that resulted in the 1963 U.S. 2012 vice-presidential candidate). rest. The movie, scheduled for a young Nigerian immigrant, a Supreme Court decision ending The raw realism is especially pow - Small Crimes July release, quotes Machiavelli: Harvard grad with a rich white prayer in public schools. The erful in the estranged father-son Evan Katz directs another “It’s a double pleasure to deceive girlfriend, an outsider trying to fit blunt-spoken iconoclast would go encounters between Guillermo and noirish crime story co-written the deceiver.” Mission accom - in and make it as a Wall Street on to found a national American actual dad, “Big G,” and Mark, with Macon Blair from a novel by plished. financial analyst while living in Atheist movement with headquar - and the violent alcoholic father he David Zeltserman. The central Here are my picks for other New Jersey with his traditional ters in Austin, accumulating sig - literally had not seen since the age character is another outcast ex- SXSW dramatic selections that mom, sister and resented father nificant undeclared offshore of five. cop, Joe Denton (the excellent merit attention. who is disabled by a stroke. wealth. Her fatal mistake was to Nikolaj Coster-Waldau from Things fall apart as Seyi gets employ ex-con David Waters The Ballad of Lefty Brown Game of Thrones ), who’s served a The Big Sick drawn into a lifestyle of party (Josh Lucas) leading to a 1995 Veteran actor Bill Pullman, six-year sentence for attempted Although I skipped it at drugs and unethical financial kidnapping and grisly murder not terrific as the aging grizzled cow - murder. Returning to his parents’ Sundance, this audience favourite, scheming for which he takes the properly investigated for years. boy Lefty, also appears in the fes - home he increasingly clashes with also due for a July release, is fall. He’s the suspicious black The movie jumps around too tival favourite from Sundance, a disapproving religious mom among the year’s best movies. man in another arresting scene. much to be fully satisfying, but Walking Out ; both framed by (Jacki Weaver), though it’s his Don’t be put off by the title, But as the title, which means “bet - Leo — who gives a terrifying Montana’s rugged expansive vis - dad (Robert Forster, also in Small which refers to the real-life med - ter,” suggests, there is a road back portrayal as a strict Catholic nun tas. Helmed by Jared Moshé, this Town Crime ) who will deliver the ical crisis suffered by Emily that involves both forgiveness and in the Sundance drama Novitiate historical saga tells of rough fron - coup de grace. Joe is spurned by Gordon, who co-wrote the sharp a coming to terms with his roots. — makes it one to watch. tier justice as the interests behind his estranged ex-wife and two comedic script with her husband, the coming of the railroad clash daughters while getting entangled Kumail Nanjiani (best known as The Light of the Moon Mr. Roosevelt with defenders of the open range. in more deadly scenarios involv - the Pakistani guy on the hit HBO Writer-director Jessica Noël Wells is a delight as When Lefty’s longtime patron, ing a corrupt lawman (Gary Cole), series Silicon Valley ). The movie, Thomp son’s feature debut, which writer-director and lead actress in Eddie Johnson (Peter Fonda), a nurse turned co-conspirator love directed by Michael Showalter, earned an audience award, stars this offbeat film about an expired elected senator from the state, is interest (Canadian Molly Parker), tells the story of how they became Stephanie Beatriz as Bonnie, a cat and mixed-up relationships. It murdered, he’s left in charge of and an ex-army buddy (Blair) a couple despite the hostility of successful young architect living was a popular recipient of the Johnson’s ranch along with the primed for a shooting rampage. Kumail’s family determined that in Brooklyn with boyfriend Matt SXSW Louis Black “Lone Star” widow Laura (Kathy Baker). Watch for it coming to Netflix. he marry a Pakistani woman. (Michael Stahl-David). One night award. Wells plays the impetuous Even as Lefty seeks the killer, he Kumail plays himself as a some - after having drinks with co-work - Emily who has left Austin and is framed for the crime. Treachery — SXSW , page 21 10 Prairie Messenger CHURCH AT HOME April 26, 2017 Few appreciate difficult, undervalued work of serving

Few people appreciate how dif - before the right person when their and nearly dropped it because it ficult and exacting a job it can be. orders were ready. was too hot to handle. First of all, you have to be pleas - They must be in good shape, Another thing these women Around the ant all the time, and no one else I for the job is intensely physical. A have in common is that they are all know can manage that. Not all typical server will cumulatively paid minimum wage. If an enlight - Kitchen Table servers can, either, of course — a walk several miles between the ened government happens to raise few I have met have been breath - kitchen and their tables during a it, then servers’ pay will go up — takingly rude — but they pay the shift, often carrying heavy dishes otherwise, as one woman told me Donald Ward penalty in lost tips and eventually piled high with food. the other day, “I haven’t had a raise a lost job. They must have an almost in nine years.” She relies on tips to They always have to be pre - preternatural sense of balance. You keep herself and her daughter I know a woman from Nepal would run after dark with her sentable; frequently they are better see them walking among the tables above the poverty line. who is named Durga, after the brother keeping pace beside her on dressed than the people they serve. and booths with sometimes four or Servers in our society tend to Hindu warrior goddess who battles a bicycle. When she ran in qualify - They must also have good five plates in their hands and on be undervalued, and the really evil and demonic forces. I know a ing races in the daytime, crowds memories. I have seen servers take their arms. good ones rarely get the recogni - Lithuanian woman named Juste would gather to throw stones and orders from a table of five without They also seem to have a high tion they deserve. Simple justice (pronounced Yusta). I know a vegetables. Eventually, fearing for writing anything down, and then tolerance for pain. More than once would dictate that they be paid a Québécoise named Véronique, and her safety, she came to Canada, unerringly placing the right dish I have taken a plate from a server living wage. an Iraqi woman named Kaleeda. where she competed in the 2011 Chazia is from Pakistan. Claudia is Knights of Columbus Indoor from Peru. Yasmin is from Trinidad. Games in Saskatoon. What do these women have in Kaleeda, a Chaldean Catholic, common, aside from their exotic told me that she wept when she names? learned Saddam Hussein had been For one thing, they’re all immi - executed. She recognized that grants — except for Véronique, Saddam was a brutal dictator, but whose family is from Quebec (and at least under his regime it was there are sovereigntists who would safe to walk the streets of argue the point). Baghdad. When the U.S.-led coali - For another thing, they are all tion invaded in 2003 — in an fluent in at least two languages. action dubbed “Operation Iraqi Véronique speaks four, and Freedom” — the city became a Yasmin is studying Chinese. perilous place for a woman to be They are all highly accom - alone, even in the daytime, and plished in their individual ways. Kaleeda’s family fled to Canada. Aside from being multilingual, These women have one more Véronique holds three university thing in common: they are all degrees. servers at local restaurants in Chazia is a track and field ath - Saskatoon and Humboldt. lete — the only female member of It would be a mistake to assume Pakistan’s Olympic team at the that waiting on tables was the only 2000 Sydney Olympics. A job they could get. “I’m not ‘just a Catholic, she was hampered in her server,’ ” Véronique says. “I do it training by the strictures against because I love the work.” She likes women appearing in public in less meeting people, and she gets satis - Gideon than traditional Muslim attire, and faction from serving them. TAXING WORK — Few people appreciate how difficult and exacting it is to work as a server. Even though not alike, great friends can become family members

By Caitlin Ward than friends. She had moved far pened to be a friend of our fami - who had meant a lot to her and But I suppose that’s the thing away from her family up north to ly, said he could see how she what she admired about them, about family. You don’t have to It was this past Triduum that come to university. She felt iso - looked like me. I’m still not sure and second from the bottom was be alike at all to mean this much one of my best friends realized lated by being in the south, isolat - if he was fooled, or if he was my name: “speak like Caitlin.” to one another. just how different we are from ed from her culture, and alienated giving us a pass because she At supper she told one another. She had planned a by a rural, predominantly white wanted to be there and we need - my parents, possibly My telephone wakes me in the morning launch for her first book of poetry, community that didn’t understand ed her to be there. When her for the first time, how Have to get up to answer the call. and it fell on Holy Thursday. The her experience or her struggles. marriage broke up a few years much their friendship So I think I’ll go back to the family night before, I told her that at the She became a regular fixture at later, I was at her house almost had meant to her when Where no one can ring me at all. very least I would be quite late. my family home over the course every day for a month. we first met. The fact “I think I’m playing Peter in of the next two years. Our friend - On Good Friday of this year that our house had Living this life has its problems the Gospel story,” I told her. “So I ship extended to include my par - she and I spent most of the always been open to So I think that I’ll give it a break. won’t be there until after eight.” ents, and then my sister, who evening together. She told me her was something that Oh, I’m going back to the family lived an hour away in Saskatoon about her book launch, about got her through some ’Cause I’ve had about all I can take. Back to the Family at the time. how fun it had been but also how difficult years. We drank tea and ate oranges it felt like a lot of pressure. Was I think this past By Jetho Tull Master’s in the counting house every Thursday night for a whole this the direction her life was Triduum was the first Counting all his money. school year — she and another supposed to take? She was hilar - time we both realized Sister’s sitting by the mirror She wasn’t sure what that friend would show up unan - iously concerned that things just how very different She thinks her hair looks funny. meant, but she took it in stride. It nounced at the door after they wouldn’t be open because it was we are from one anoth - was later in the evening, when she finished their shifts in the com - Good Friday. I think it’s the first er. While I was at Holy And here am I thinking to myself told us some funny stories about puter lab and the library. They’d time she ever noticed that the Thursday service she Just wondering what things to do. her experiences being a keynote often stay until after midnight. Triduum was a thing. She was was launching a funny, speaker at a sex conference, that She and I moved away and supposed to go up north to be edgy book of poetry I think I enjoyed all my problems she turned to me and said, “We came back to Saskatchewan at with her family for Easter, but a about sex. But in certain Where didn’t I get nothing for free. live very different lives.” different times as we pursued snowstorm north of Prince ways we’ve been a lot Oh, I’m going back to the family She and I have been friends school and aspirations and hare- Albert kept her in Saskatoon. alike: we’re both ambi - Doing nothing is bothering me. since our first year of university. brained schemes. Over the I invited her to my parents’ tious, determined, and She had signed up to work on course of the years, regardless of house for supper on Sunday. She close to our families. I’ll get a train back to the city our college’s newspaper, and I where we were in the world or came over, tried to like the vegan We both write, albeit in That soft life is getting me down. asked if she would be interested how often we talked, she was icing on the cupcakes I made different ways and about There’s more fun away from the family in co-editing it with me. always one of my best friends. until I told her I didn’t think it different things. We Get some action when I pull into town. Actually, we became more When my mother went into the was very good, either. She asked both do our best to bal - hospital with a hemorrhagic how many hours I had been in ance our personal ambi - Everything I do is wrong, stroke almost nine years ago, she church the past three days. I told tion with the needs of What the hell was I thinking? came to the hospital and waited her it had only been six or seven our families. And now Ward is a Saskatoon-based free - Phone keeps ringing all day long with us during my mom’s hours, which I thought sounded she calls my parents lance writer who spends her days I got no time for thinking. (and most nights) working at a surgery. At that time of night reasonable but apparently isn’t. aunty and uncle. I am only family is allowed so she We drank wine and chatted. She cousin to her, and aunty small Catholic college. Her less And every day has the same old way told the guard she was our showed my parents the dedication to her six-year-old eloquent thoughts can be found at Of giving me too much to do. www.twitter.com/newsetofstrings cousin. The guard, who hap - in her book, a litany of women daughter. April 26, 2017 DEEPENING OUR FAITH Prairie Messenger 11 Keep our ears tuned to the voice of the Lord

you can see it from there!” That was 40 years ago and I have you abandoned me?” can still hear him complete with all the comedic timing I’m sure it was a sunny pastoral scene that came to and delivery of a Jack Benny. mind when Jesus said to his disciples: “He calls his own Liturgy What are the voices you hear in your head and heart? Is sheep by name and leads them out.” Where and when have it the voice of a spouse, parent, a teacher, a sibling? What you heard the voice of Jesus calling your name? How do and Life are the ones that have stuck with you over the years and you distinguish between his voice and your own inner do you recall the events surrounding the voices? voice? What events in your life have led you to realize it Most especially, the voices in our heads that put us was really his voice and not your own? Deacon Bob Williston down, belittle us, or make us feel less than valuable are Sometimes it takes moments of silence, listening to his voices that create great difficulties when it comes to build - word, some prayer, some good spiritual direction and ing self-confidence, self-esteem and courage to take risks. some deeper reflection into the mystery of his presence in My mother was a non-licensed real estate dealer when I Rev. Henry Nouwen calls this putting ourselves “under the and around us to better have an ear tuned to the voice of was growing up. We moved on an average of once every curse.” The negative things that are repeated over and over the Lord. But it almost always is a voice attached to some 10 months, as she bought a fixer-upper and with some seem to affirm or confirm something we feel is negative or event. It could be a tragic one, like someone’s death or ill - paint and a few improvements would sell it for a little bad about us. We seem to hear these negative voices more ness. It could be a positive thing, like the birth of a new - more than what she paid for it. Since this was in loudly than the positive ones. born or getting a new job. Vancouver in the 1950s and ’60s, I can’t imagine the Henry Nouwen suggests we ought to strengthen the Jesus reminds us today in the Gospel that his voice is money she could have made if she were wheeling and positive voices that come our way. He calls this “putting one that will lead and guide us. His voice will console, dealing in today’s market! ourselves under the blessing.” Peter, in today’s second challenge and prod us into new pastures, new possibilities There was always one remark she would make when reading, has a tender way of addressing us. He calls us and new ways of approaching life. His resurrection is our looking at a potential house to buy that seemed undesir - assurance of final victory over sin and death. Cling to his able to her. “It’s so UNINTERESTING!” she would say. I Acts 2:14a-36b-41 voice. Listen to his calling and mission and he will lead Fourth Sunday of Easter can just hear her voice, as clear as if it were yesterday. Psalm 23 you. Rev. David Cottingham was my partner on the 1 Peter 2:20b-25 In honour of my Uncle Mark’s life, I wrote a song for May 7, 2017 Redemptorist Mission Team for almost 30 years. As sum - John 10:1-10 his funeral that fits with the Shepherd’s voice in today’s mer ended and the fall schedule of missions came closer, Gospel: David would say: “I’m starting to paw at the ground,” “Beloved.” He reminds us that Jesus has borne our sins in “We’ll hear your voice in the times when we gather. anxious to get on the road and start a new year of travel. I his body. Though we have strayed, we have been called We’ll hear your voice in the stories we tell. can hear his voice as if it were yesterday. back by Jesus, the Good Shepherd. He reminds us that We’ll hear your voice in the sunshine and laughter. My Uncle Mark from Toronto came to our wedding in Jesus will be the “guardian of our souls.” We’ll hear your voice, telling us all is well.” Sarnia. When asked to get up and say a few words, my So, planting the voice of Jesus in our hearts and minds Come to think of it, wasn’t this the way the Gospel uncle said: “Well, Sarnia isn’t the end of the world . . . but will mean we can put our very selves under the protection message of Jesus first got told? The disciples began by of his blessing. He will guard over us. We can trust in him. describing his actions and his message. In that way, they Jesus would often say he heard the voice of his Father. could keep in their memories the voice of Jesus and what Williston gives parish missions and is a former mission - “This is my Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to he said in different places. May the voice of the risen Lord ary with the Redemptorists. He is also a song writer and him.” Even in the depths of his suffering, Jesus would cry be in your heart always! recording artist. out for the voice of his Father. “My God, my God, why Happy and blessed Easter Season, Beloved! Good friends are separated by 500 years of misunderstanding

tions, there remains in most of us insignificantly, today we also istry, on whether to emphasize an emotional “dis-ease,” an share the same prejudices and word or sacrament, on how to In inability to see the other fully as biases against us, whether these understand the presence of Christ one of our own. come from fundamentalists with - in the eucharist, on the number of And so in signing this card for in other religions or whether sacraments, on the place of sacra - Exile my separated Christian friend, I these come from over-zealous, mentals and devotions within dis - wrote: “To a fellow Christian, a over-secularized post-Christians cipleship, and on how Scripture brother in the Body of Christ, a within our own society. and tradition interplay with each Ron Rolheiser, OMI good friend, from whom I’m sep - To someone looking at us from other. In terms of moral issues, arated by 500 years of misunder - the outside, we, all the different the issues that divide us are also standing.” Christian denominations, look the “red button” issues within our The heart has its reasons, says what’s the cure? Personal contact, Five hundred years of misun - like a monolith, one faith, one society as a whole: abortion, gay Pascal, and sometimes those rea - friendship, and theological dia - derstanding, of separation, of sus - church, a single religion, our dif - marriage, birth control, and the sons have a long history. logue with those of other denomi - picion, of defensiveness — not ferences far overshadowed by our place of social justice within dis - Recently I signed a card for a nations and other faiths does help something that’s easily overcome, commonality. Sadly we tend not cipleship. But, even on these, friend, a devout Baptist, who was open our minds and hearts, but especially when at its core there to see ourselves like this from there’s more commonality than raised to have a suspicion of the fruit of centuries of bitter mis - sit issues about God, truth, and within, where our differences, difference among the churches. Roman Catholics. It’s something understanding doesn’t disappear religion. Granted, there has been more often than not based upon a Moreover, today the differ - he still struggles with, but, don’t so easily, especially when it’s in - much positive progress made in misunderstanding, are seen to ences on how we understand we all! History eventually infects stitutionally entrenched and nur - the past 50 years and many of the dwarf our common discipleship. many of the ecclesial and moral our DNA. Who of us is entirely tured as a prophetic protection of original, more blatant misunder - Yet the Epistle to the Ephe - issues that divide us are more free from suspicion of what’s reli - God and truth. And so, in regards standings have been overcome. sians tells us that, as Christians, temperamental than denomina - giously different from us? And to Christians of other denomina - But the effects of the historical we share one Lord, one faith, one tional , that is, they tend to be break with Christianity and the baptism, and one God who is more a question of one’s theology reaction to it are present today Father of all of us . At its most than of one’s denominational and are still seen everywhere, essential level, that’s true of all of affiliation. Granted, classical NOW AVAILABLE from high church offices, to us as Christians, despite our denominational theology still e-Edition subscriptions debates within the academy of denominational differences. 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By Kiply Lukan Yaworski ence with God, and pray for people and for one another.” SASKATOON — At Dis cern - She adds: “Many of my exter - ment House, the Sisters of the nal and internal challenges are Presentation of Mary offer a overcome thanks to my strong unique housing and faith experi - spirit fostered by prayer life in ence to young women seeking a this house.” place to live while studying or Another student from Viet - working in Saskatoon. nam, Nhi Nguyen, is living at “The living, eating, praying, Discernment House while she working, playing together is a studies English. “I came in mutually enriching experience,” September and I’m so happy and says Sister Cindy Lewans, PM. comfortable living here at Dis- “This is all within a home, a cernment house. We share our house of hospitality.” lives and work together every Sister Lucie Hamel, PM, adds: day,” says Nhi. “Sharing our home and our lives “When I have some troubles in with young women is a huge my life, I can share with them. blessing for us. Each year the Especially, one of the sisters helps young women bring a newness to me to study English so much. She our community life and as we live is always willing to help me and pray together, we challenge whenever I ask. The food here is each other to ever fresher ways of so good — I really like the cook - responding to the challenges of Sister Lucie Hamel, PM ies and cakes, which the sisters living the gospel values.” DISCERNMENT HOUSE — Established in Saskatoon in 1986, Discernment House provides an experience bake. Sometimes we have parties Located near the University of of community, prayer and spiritual growth to young women who come to live with the Sisters of the and play games together,” she Saskatchewan, Discernment House Presentation of Mary. says. “For me, the highlights are becomes home every fall for a new that sisters always pray — they group of young women who are Discernment House. rience that I never thought I brate Thanks giving and Easter, tell care about me and my family.” seeking affordable rent, an experi - “On my journey with God, would have.” jokes, have fun, discuss the ence of community, a homey which is by far reinforced by the Community life at Discern ment Gospels, share our living experi - — PROGRAMS , page 15 atmosphere, and opportunities for Sisters of The Presentation of House has also made a big differ - faith growth through prayer, reflec - Mary, I find myself listening to ence to Tram. “As an international tion, spiritual direction and service. God more,” says Tram, who is in student living far away from home, “Discernment House is first of her second year at Discernment the Discernment House is truly my all a community, companions on House. “Now I know how to pray warm shelter, where I have a com - the journey of faith in Christ,” with the scriptures. I am starting munity living experience. We share stresses Lewans. to have my favourite gospels, as I our thoughts and concerns, enjoy “Weekday mornings begin feel like Scripture speaks directly tasty homemade meals all together, with lauds and mass, shared not to me. This is my very new expe - exchange gifts at Christmas, cele - only with those who live within the house but also people from the city. We are nourished by the eucharist and the community which gathers, and a bond has grown over the years. Weekly community meetings give us the chance to pray with the Word, to build community, and offer a chance to help each other, (and) to laugh,” she says. Ongoing spiritual direction is also offered to the young women who come to live at Discernment House, notes Hamel. This is “an opportunity to savour one’s expe - rience of God’s love in a unique CComeome and Be Who you Are! way. It is a privileged space for reflection, for growing in aware - Reveal to othershers all they can be ness of one’s deeper identity.” She describes spiritual direction as a “path to greater peace and freedom” that helps to “carry one’s experience of grace, of the divine, into all of life.” Serving with compassion, Trusting in Providence Tram Nguyen, an international We walk in hope student from Vietnam who is Since 1861 working on her masters in educa - tional administration, said she www.providence.ca providencesisterstv.com appreciates the spiritual benefits of living with the sisters at

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By Jean Ko Din Although CRC does not have Brother The Catholic Register access to data specific to Cana - Denis Claivaz dian vocations, Scott said CRC said in his It is never too late to answer members have been seeing the five years as God’s call to religious life. American trend play out here for vocations Sister Christine Carbotte took years. director for her first vows with the Congre - Scott said many factors can the Presen - gation of Sisters of St. Joseph in contribute to later vocations. tation Canada last October at 53 years One issue prevalent in the Brothers in old. She hasn’t looked back United States is that religious Toronto, he since. communities are postponing the has worked “One of the really cool things formation program for men and with two about our spirituality is the look - women with significant student young men ing for more,” said Carbotte. debt. and 11 in “When I look back, I see that I “I know in the United States, middle age. am getting more and more satis - the average age for ordination to Claivaz fied in this life and this is really the priesthood is about 35, which said there are where I’m called to be.” indicates that candidates began two norms Carbotte had thought about seminary studies at 28 or 29,” he that exist for religious life as a teenager, but it said. his congrega - wasn’t until she was 48 that she Redemptorist Father Graham tion — one in really examined how she wanted Hill was ordained last June at the the develop - to find fulfilment. age of 54. He said he had always ing world and Many men and women dis - felt the pull to priesthood, but it one in the cover their call to religious voca - wasn’t until he was 45 that he developed Catholic Register/Jean Ko Din tion at a later stage in life. In was really able to listen to God’s world. NEVER TOO LATE — Sister Christine Carbotte (right) took her first vows with the fact, Rev. Thomas Scott, execu - call. “The vast Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada last October at 53 years old. She hasn’t tive director of the Canadian “Yes, I’m a newly ordained majority who looked back since. Reli gious Conference (CRC), priest, but I do have all of that are joining said it is becoming increasingly experience in industry and in our congregation are in Africa. ifications from their first life ments? I’m used to having my common in North America. life, and I think that equips me That tradition is holding on, that call. own personal bank account. But “For many years there was a really well for ministry,” said people are coming in at the end Although older candidates when I stepped back I realized, I distinction between vocations Hill, who is now working as pas - of their education in their mid- may not be able to offer their always had what I need,” said and late vocations, but I think tor of Our Lady of Guadalupe 20s,” said Claivaz. “In the devel - community with as many years Sister Michelle Gurlinski, 46, this has broken down both in the Parish in Saskatoon. oped world, very few young peo - of service, they make up for it in who took her first vows with the case of priesthood and religious “Many problems that people ple are joining religious life. the skills and experience. The Sisters of the Holy Names of life,” he told The Catholic are facing in their daily life were Those who are showing any biggest challenge in accepting Jesus and Mary in Winnipeg last Register in an email. problems I faced. . . . This notion interest are those who are in their older candidates is helping them year. “In the case of contempla - of late vocations is actually 40s and 50s.” shift from their individualistic “Everything is a gift and it’s tive and monastic communities, important and a great gift to the Claivaz said these middle- living habits to that of communi - not like when we enter religious it is often the case that candi - church because we bring so aged noviciates bring “a whole ty life. life, our needs aren’t taken care dates enter somewhat later in many different skills to the new spectrum to religious life” “I found myself thinking of. We always have what we life.” table.” be cause they have a list of qual - what do I do with these invest - need.” faith seeking understanding

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By Cindy Wooden and evangelization was an empha - the newer religious communities work, he said. America did, “and it seemed a sis on prayer, courage and, espe - that are attracting many youth are One of the tasks of religious very good thing.” VATICAN CITY (CNS) — cially, discernment. also a concern. orders in the church, he said, is to The focus, the pope said, will Catholic religious orders must A lack of expertise in discern - Some small, new religious provide the charismatic and be on the Mary of Catholic faith, have the courage to start new ment, he said, “is one of the orders “are really good and do prophetic impulse that can keep “not the postmistress who sends forms of outreach, knowing that greatest problems that we have in things seriously,” usually with the church, a diocese or parish out a letter every day saying, ‘My the only people who “never make priestly formation,” which focus - close support and guidance from from being totally absorbed with child, do this and then the next mistakes are those who never do es too much on “black and white” a bishop, he said. “But there are worldly concerns and keep its day do that.’ ” anything,” Pope Francis said. answers rather than on “the grey others that are born not from a ministers from thinking they are The true Mary “is the one who “We will get things wrong areas of life.” charism of the Holy Spirit, but “little princes.” generates Jesus in our hearts,” he sometimes, yes, but there is always “You look for the will of God human charisma, from charismat - “You don’t need to become a said. “The trend of the Madonna the mercy of God on our side,” following the true doctrine of the ic people who attract others by cardinal to think of yourself as a superstar, who puts herself at the Pope Francis told 140 superiors Gospel and not in the fixations of their alluring human skills. prince,” Pope Francis said. centre as a protagonist, is not general of men’s religious orders. an abstract doctrine,” the pope “Some are, I could say, Clericalism is a danger to the Catholic.” A transcript of questions and told the superiors. ‘restorationists’: they seem to pro - church, as is the gulf sometimes When he opened the session to answers from the pope’s three- By choosing “Young people, vide safety and instead they offer existing between religious orders questions, Pope Francis told the hour meeting with members of faith and vocational discernment” only rigidity,” the pope continued. in a diocese and the local bishop superiors they even could offer the Union of Superiors General as the theme for the synod of “When I am told that there is a and clergy, he said. “From a posi - criticisms because “misunder - last November was published bishops in 2018, the pope said he congregation that attracts many tion of isolation, you cannot help standings and tensions are part of Feb. 9 by the Jesuit-run journal, hopes to draw universal attention vocations, I confess, I am worried. one another.” life. And when they are criticisms La Civilta Cattolica . to the importance of helping The Spirit does not work with the The task of the church is not to that make us grow, I accept them, Running through Pope Francis’ young people discover God’s call. logic of human success.” shore up its institutions, but to set I respond.” responses to the questions on The decreasing number of In the end, the life of the com - out to help those who are materi - Asked later about how he youth ministry, religious life, his priests and religious in the West, munity members will prove ally or spiritually poor, the pope maintains his serenity, the pope personal approach to the papacy he said, is worrying, but some of whether or not it is the Lord at said. assured the superiors, “I do not One of the superiors present take tranquilizers.” He said the asked Pope Francis why he chose Italians may be on the right track a series of Marian themes for the when they suggest that to be at local celebrations of World Youth peace, “you need a healthy dose” Day in 2017 and 2018, as well as of “couldn’t care less.” for the international gathering in From the mo ment he was Panama in 2019. elected pope in March 2013, he “I did not choose them,” he said, he has had an experience of said; the bishops of Latin peace “and it has not left me.”

Paul Paproski, OSB RELIGIOUS ORDERS — Some Benedictine monks are seen on tour at the Vatican. Catholic religious orders must have the courage to start new forms of outreach, knowing that the only people who “never make mistakes are those who never do anything,” says Pope Francis. Prison ministry a rewarding experience

By Keri Kotyk driving rain and chilling wind, 16 experience, especially the venera - of the men and about 20 volun - tion of the cross. The humility, “ . . . it causes me to tremble, teers journeyed the way of the respect and awe evident in their tremble, . . .” These words from the cross through the yard at SCC, eyes, posture and attitude was Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions well-known hymn for Good Friday with the inmates taking a turn overwhelming. I was reminded of could also be used to describe the reading a reflection for each sta - the words of St. Anne’s pastor, experience of spending the Easter tion. With the different back - Rev. Matthew Ramsay, who said, Triduum with the inmates at the grounds and histories, and rea - “. . . if you look with love, you will Saskatoon Correctional Centre sons for being incarcerated, the see someone worthy of love . . .” (SCC). Once again this year it was one thing all these men have in The key is to look with love, not a moving experience to spend time common is their love for Christ. judgment. with the gentlemen at SCC. Each volunteer was asked to Easter morning brought 12 Holy Thursday brought out 19 pair up with an inmate and journey volunteers out to SCC to deliver a inmates for the mass of the Lord’s together through the yard. Because chocolate Easter bunny to each Supper, 12 of whom had their feet we had more volunteers than inmate. This is a wonderful washed by Rev. Mark Blom. inmates, I was the happy wander - opportunity to go out to all the These men were humbled by the er, milling around with everyone, units and greet each one individu - Who will keep the fire burning if not you? mere fact that a priest would which enabled me to observe. ally. At 1 p.m. on Easter Sunday kneel down and wash their feet in What I saw was touching: one Rev. Graham Hill celebrated mass Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions keep the fire burning such an act of service. Six of the gentleman kept holding open his with 28 inmates and several vol - through a life centred in God men were due to have their yard jacket over his volunteer to help unteers. It was, once again, a and fuelled by contemplation, communion, and mission. time, which is limited and there - protect him from the wind and meaningful celebration, with sev - fore precious to them, on rain; another stepped aside from eral inmates involved with the Join us! Thursday evening, but they chose under the protection of an umbrel - readings and intentions. to stay in the chapel for mass la and invited another volunteer to This will be my last year instead of going outside for their take shelter there instead of him. spending the Easter Triduum at Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions yard time. I wish all people could see the SCC because of a move to Regina 393 Gaboury Place On Good Friday, despite the humanity within these inmates, this summer, and I will miss this Winnipeg, MB R2H 0L5 instead of judging them by their wonderful experience. If you have Tel: 204-786-6051 Fax: 204-691-0640 actions, their mistakes. The Good a compassionate heart and a love email: [email protected] Kotyk is a member of St. Friday afternoon service with Rev. of people, I encourage you to get www.rndmcanada.org Anne’s Parish in Saskatoon. Mark Blom was an emotional involved in this amazing ministry. April 26, 2017 CALLED TO SERVE Prairie Messenger 15 Culture alone cannot be blamed for drop in vocations

By Cindy Wooden ment of reconcilia - allows it to progress solid in the tion, sincere dialogue faith.” VATICAN CITY (CNS) — among members, Religious orders must make a While there is a need to evange - “fraternal correction, commitment to training at least lize a culture that tells young peo - mercy toward the some of their members in the art ple money equals success and brother or sister who of “accompaniment” and spiritual commitments aren’t forever, stop - sins,” and shared direction, he said. ping the “hemorrhage” of people responsibility. “We can never insist enough leaving religious orders also Perseverance in on this need,” he said. “It is diffi - requires changes from the orders religious life, as with cult to remain faithful walking themselves, Pope Francis said. any vocation, requires alone or walking with the guid - “Alongside much holiness — the encouragement ance of brothers and sisters who there is much holiness in conse - and support of others, are not capable of attentive and crated life — there also are situa - the pope said, patient listening or who have not tions of counter-witness that make “because when a had adequate experience in reli - fidelity difficult,” the pope said brother or sister does gious life.” during a meeting with members of not find support with - “All of us who are consecrated, the Congregation for Institutes of in the community, he whether young or not so young, Consecrated Life and Societies of or she will seek it need help appropriate to the Apostolic Life and representatives elsewhere.” human, spiritual and vocational of religious orders. CNS/Paul Haring “Many times great moment we are living,” he said. The congregation held a ple - infidelities begin with A spiritual director or guide nary meeting in January which HOPE-FILLED MESSAGE — Pope Francis greets the crowd after delivering his little deviations or “must not create dependency,” Easter message and blessing “ urbi et orbi ” (to the city and the world) from the cen - focused on “fidelity and abandon - tral balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 16. Pope Francis frequently distractions,” he said. control or treat the other as a ment,” examining the factors that encourages the People of God to “show the beauty of following Christ and radiate “In this case, it is child, he said, but must help the contribute to a lifelong commit - hope and joy.” important to make St. person “discover the will of God ment to religious vows or to leav - Paul’s exhortation our and seek in everything to do that ing consecrated life. temporary, where people are “When hope diminishes and own: ‘Awake, o sleeper!’ ” which is most pleasing to the According to the Vatican’s encouraged to pursue their dreams there is no joy,” he said, “it’s an If a vocation is a “treasure,” Lord.” Central Statistics Office, from the but leave a “door open” in case it ugly thing.” Pope Francis said, then it must be Discernment, he said, “does end of 2004 to the end of 2014, does not work out and where The community life of reli - handled with care, cultivated with not only mean choosing between the number of religious-order “self-realization” is measured by gious orders is essential, he said, prayer and strengthened with “a good and evil, but between good priests in the world declined by money and power, not by fidelity and it must be nourished with good theological and spiritual for - and better, between what is good more than 2,500 to just under to the Gospel and Gospel values. community prayer, celebration of mation that defends it from the and what leads to identification 135,000; the number of religious Still, he said, the world of the mass, reception of the sacra - culture of the ephemeral and with Christ.” brothers dropped by 471 to just young people is “rich and chal - over 54,500; and the number of lenging — not negative, but com - women religious fell by almost plex.” Permanent diaconate formation underway 85,000 — 11 per cent — to about “We are not lacking young 683,000 religious. people who are very generous, By Kiply Lukan Yaworski open to married men over 35 practical formation and engage - Pope Francis, himself a Jesuit, who act in solidarity and are years of age, and single men over ment in justice and outreach, said that in some cases it becomes involved on a religious and social The next steps for the forma - 25 years of age — but details grounded in Catholic social teach - clear over time that a person level, young people who seek a tion of permanent deacons are about how permanent deacons are ing. Fifteen participants — men never truly had a vocation to reli - real spiritual life, young people now underway in the Roman formed and how they function and women, lay and religious — gious life and it is right for that who hunger for something differ - Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon. varies from diocese to diocese. are presently taking the inaugural person to follow God’s call else - ent than what the world offers,” With the decision to begin call - Having the JOY program as a year of the JOY program. where. But many other factors he said. “There are marvellous ing, forming and ordaining perma - prerequisite year re flects a strong Applications are now under - can influence a decision to leave, young people and there are nent deacons, the Diocese of diocesan focus on service and way for next year’s JOY program. he said, including situations with - many.” Saskatoon joins many other outreach when in an order or community. But the young also include Catholic dioceses across the world it comes to “Such situations are, among “many victims of the logic of in restoring this ancient practice. forming perma - others: routine, tiredness, the bur - worldliness, which can be sum - “The permanent diaconate, nent deacons, den of running institutions, inter - marized this way: searching for restored by the Second Vatican McGee notes. nal divisions, the search for success at any cost, for easy Council, in complete continuity In 2015, power — ‘climbers’ — a worldly money and easy pleasure,” Pope with ancient tradition and the spe - when Saska - way of governing the institute, a Francis said. cific decision of the Council of toon’s bishop service of authority that some - The response of the church Trent, has flourished in these last announced plans times becomes either authoritari - must be to reach out and “to decades in many parts of the to move forward anism or a ‘live and let live’ ” infect them with the joy of the church — with promising results, with both the attitude. Gospel and of belonging to especially for the urgent mission - JOY program Pope Francis told the group Christ.” ary work of new evangelization,” and the perma - that obviously it is more difficult The only way to attract young states a 1998 Vatican declaration nent diaconate in for young people to make a life - people to religious life and to about the Formation of Deacons. the diocese, he long commitment to a vocation help members stay, he said, is to Several men are presently dis - explained how when they are living in a culture “show the beauty of following cerning a call to the permanent dia - both answer a where everything is provisional or Christ and radiate hope and joy.” conate in the Saskatoon diocese. profound need Four men presently journeying for outreach and through this year’s diocesan service. Other programs offered Kip Yaworski Justice and Outreach Year (JOY) “We situated of Formation program have our discussion PERMANENT DIACONATE — Permanent Continued from page 12 ries, and how God is calling us to expressed interest in the perma - in the context of Deacon Paul Labelle, who moved to Saskatoon move forward.” nent diaconate, says Diocesan God’s call and from Ontario with his wife, Linda, several years Discernment House is also the Testimonies from weekend Administrator Rev. Kevin McGee. our response,” ago, is presently serving the community of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in the Saskatoon dio - location for other programs and participants illustrate the impact said Saskatoon The JOY program has been cese. Several men have come forward to discern retreats, including Advent and of the discernment retreats. One identified as a prerequisite for Bishop Donald the possibility of being ordained to the permanent lenten retreats for groups such as writes that it was “an energizing those discerning the diaconate in Bolen (now diaconate in Saskatoon. (The photo was taken at Time Out For Moms and for experience of faith and communi - our diocese, McGee explains. A Archbishop of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish St. Kateri proces - Presentation of Mary associates, ty,” while another says “the diaconate formation committee is Regina). sion/bannock and soup supper.) says Hamel. “These days offer retreat showed me where I am at now determining next steps for “We looked precious moments away from and gave me a direction forward.” these potential candidates in the at different models of the dia - To apply, or for more informa - busy active lives to pray, to share Another states: “I experienced year ahead. conate, and eventually experi - tion, see the JOY website: with each other, to be energized healing and peace.” It is presently envisioned that enced a coming together of minds www.joyformationprogram.com on our spiritual journeys.” The Sisters of the Presentation formation for deacons in the and hearts, as we were increasing - or contact Kate O’Gorman at Weekend discernment retreats of Mary are now taking applica - Diocese of Saskatoon will be ly drawn toward a vision of the (306) 659-5847 or email joy@ are also regularly offered “to tions to the Discernment House undertaken on an individual basis, diaconate that would have as its saskatoonrcdiocese.com young men and women who are live-in program for the fall of tailored to the education and primary focus a ministry of out - Those interested in discerning searching to grow in their aware - 2017. For more information con - experience of each candidate, reach which summoned the whole a call to the permanent diaconate ness of God’s action in their tact: Sister Lucie Hamel, PM, at says McGee. As with other holy church to reach out in service and in the diocese are invited to con - lives,” adds Sister Vivianne (306) 244-0726 or email her at orders, the discernment process compassion to places of great tact Diocesan Administrator Rev. Gareau, PM. For example, “one [email protected] or see the involves both the candidate and need,” said Bolen in 2015. Kevin McGee at (306) 659-5824 retreat gives time and guided website at www.presentationof the faith community. Running from September to or email bishopsoffice@saskatoon reflection on one’s personal sto - mary.ca The permanent diaconate is June, JOY offers once-a-month rcdiocese.com 16 Prairie Messenger CALLED TO SERVE April 26, 2017 Two brothers find common ground in vocation

By Evan Boudreau wasn’t going to hang out with my Favin, laughing, said that in the same seminary. aspect into parish life similar to The Catholic Register younger brother.” would have been fine with him. “I remember when I was going that in which they were raised in Even as the Alemão boys “I kind of wish he did” go to a to Serra House that I had to be the Middle East. You might think two brothers matured into men, their brotherly different seminary, he said. careful because my brother was “I see the role of the priest as who ended up studying for the bond never fully blossomed as Favin, who began his priestly there,” he said. “But to be honest helping in developing the social priesthood in the same seminary they continued to devote their formation one year before Ryan it wasn’t the biggest concern on side,” Favin said. “The priest can at the same time would have a lot lives to different pursuits. That in 2008, explained how the two my mind. The bigger concern was be something like a matchmaker in common. was until both men found them - were almost sent to separate sem - whether or not I wanted to actual - or good host. That aspect of being Not the Alemão brothers, selves at Serra House in Toronto inaries. ly do this.” a good host is essential.” Favin and Ryan. for priesthood discernment in “(They) didn’t want there to be Those concerns are in the past, Favin added that a good priest “It’s not that we hate each 2009 and pre-theology formation. conflict with there being two as Ryan now looks toward May will get to know each of his other or anything,” said Deacon “This was probably the first brothers there (at St. Augustine’s 13 when he and Favin, along with parishioners so that “when you Favin, the youngest of the family thing that we ever really did Seminary),” he said. three others, will be ordained. talk to someone you find a con - of four at 29. “It is just that we together,” said Ryan, unable to Ryan, who was able to carry And while the two followed very nection with someone else,” are two radically different people. pass up the opportunity to poke over a year’s worth of philosophy different paths prior to pursuing “You try to build little commu - Our interests are very different, fun at his younger brother. “They credits from his bachelor’s degree the priesthood, as priests they nities within your community,” our taste in friends is very differ - should have sent me to a different program, also considered the con - hope to accomplish the same he said. “People in Canada, they ent, what we choose to do in our place.” sequences of having his brother thing: to instil a deeper social may have many connections but free time is very different; I don’t they don’t have very deep con - even know what he does in his nections.” free time.” Building upon this idea, Ryan Next month the brothers will be recommends priests stand by the ordained together into the priest - parish’s main entrance and briefly hood to serve the Arch diocese of speak with parishioners, both Toronto. The last time two broth - prior to and after mass. ers were ordained on the same day “That takes time to build those in Toronto was 1992. kind of relationships,” he said. Born of Indian parents in the “Some of the parishes in Toronto Muslim-dominated United Arab are so large that you can barely Emirates, Favin and Ryan immi - know anybody.” grated to Canada in 2001 with Ryan discovered first-hand the their parents and two older sis - importance of relationships after ters. Growing up, Favin favoured immigrating from Abu Dhabi at the arts, passing time with music, 17 with his father, a part-time literature and video games while security guard still living in Ajax, his brother, Deacon Ryan, 33, Ont., and mother, who passed opted for athletics and academics. away in 2015. “We didn’t do too many things “The practice of our faith was together,” said Ryan, who earned very strong over there,” he said. a bachelor’s degree in plant mole - “I wouldn’t say it (faith) was cular biology from the University oppressed but we didn’t have the of Toronto. “We have a four-year freedom that we have here. It age gap (and) when you’re would have strengthened my faith younger that makes a difference. Catholic Register/Evan Boudreau in a sense to have been able to When I was in Grade 8 for exam - COMMON GROUND — Alemão brothers Favin, left, and Ryan, are separated by four years, but will be ple, he’d be in Grade 4 or 5 and I ordained together in the Archdiocese of Toronto. — NEWMAN, page 17

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By Rezebeth Noceja if you’re the first-born. However, about apostolic communities until Edmonton I went to Anawim, a zle was found, and it could not be the question about religious life I met the Sisters of Providence. food bank in inner-city Edmonton, ignored. “No matter what your plans haunted me. It was a constant An important factor in my dis - to help with ministering to the When I finally started my are, if it is not what God wants push-and-pull because I had diffi - cernment was how I could be of poor and I also went to a hospital application to enter as a candi - for you, it will not happen.” I culty admitting that I was attract - practical help to society. When I to be with a sister who takes com - date, I began to live with the have wondered what God wants ed to religious life. learned that the Sisters of munion to the sick. As my stay Sisters of Providence, I was wel - of me: “What if God wants me to I joined the Singles for Christ Providence go to the missions finished I was happy, yet scared. comed with love, and I know I community who and are very much involved in Happy because I was beginning to am in the right community. I encouraged me to society, I felt this to be a good feel at home, and scared because I know too that God has plans for “heed the call.” I match. knew what it meant. To me it felt me as I continue to discern the was already in- During my stay with them in like the missing piece of the puz - call to religious life. volved in the ministries, but I wanted some - Sisters answer urgent cry of migrants thing more. Dur- ing a retreat a By Sister Dolores Lavoie hospital, and in collaboration Francis asks us to create areas friend from the with the JRS (Jesuit Refugee where evangelical values such as community sug - A group of 10 sisters from Service) they also visit people fraternity, welcoming of diversity, gested I put my eight different congregations and who are in prison. The sisters and reciprocal love may thrive. discernment into countries are responding to the also visit those people who live He has reminded us that Jesus’ action. Later an - urgent call of migrants in three on the street or under the bridges last words were, “Go out to the other friend told different locations in Sicily. of the highway. whole world; proclaim the gospel me to visit con - Vicky, one of our Congolese sis - After contact with the sisters, a to all creation” (Mk 16, 15). This vents to see the ters, is working in Agrigento group of women involved in pros - is what the sisters are trying to do. way of life and to together with a Polish sister, and titution have know their char - one from Eritrea, in a centre that started follow - ism. She suggest - welcomes more than 300 women ing religion ed the Sisters of and children. classes! A Providence in With new arrivals constantly spirit of dia - Edmonton as it is coming from the sea, the number logue and lis - the nearest con - can reach as many as 700 people. tening in a vent to Fort The sisters try to speak with the simple and McMurray where migrants in their native tongue, humble way I lived. listening to them as they share are the two Although I their experiences of poverty, main tools of tried to contact anger and suffering, and praying contact. The Sisters of Providence other congrega - with those who ask the sisters to different lan - Rezebeth Noceja tions, it was the do so. They also prepare areas in guages which Sisters of Provi - the centre where the women and are useful for live a religious life?” It seemed a dence that I consciously tried to children can play and work. communica - silly idea and for a few years I contact and in September 2015 I The sisters also help in the tion with the tried to avoid it. After all, it was went for a week’s visit and Diocesan Caritas Centre, where migrants are: never discussed in the family and retreat. During the visit I recalled meals are distributed. In addition, English, it was out of the ordinary. my story from childhood in the they go out on the different city French, Filipino expectation dictates Philippines to adulthood spent streets, taking time to meet the Arabic, and that after studies you work on away from home, to Dubai and immigrants individually. They Swahili. your career and settle down with eventually to Canada. A Sister of also help build a positive relation - One of the a spouse so you can give your Providence helped me to see that ship between the local people and hopes and parents grandchildren, especially the bits and pieces of my past that the immigrants. plans of the led to my discernment of reli - In another Sicilian village a sisters for the gious life. She highlighted the group of four sisters works in a future is to Rezebeth Noceja was received moments in my life where God Welcoming Centre for young promote new was strongly present, even when I people. They also visit the sick in inter-congre - as a candidate to the Sisters of PERILOUS JOURNEY — An African migrant gazes gational pro - Providence on Dec. 18, 2016. She thought I was so far from God. out at the Mediterranean Sea in Agrigento, Sicily, in is now living in Calgary and in Where I grew up, the concept jects in the April 2016. Sister Maria Gaczol of the Society of ministry with the Sisters of of religious life is usually that of Lavoie is a Missionary Sister world. Sacred Heart says the boy was reflecting on his two P rovidence. contemplative life. I never knew of Our Lady of Africa. Pope friends who died at sea on their journey. Newman Centre involvement turning point

Continued from page 16 going to a place like the interested in the priesthood and Newman Centre,” Ryan said. even though I don’t think I really actually dialogue . . . because “There is no such thing as a was — I just sort of said that. I when we were over in the Middle Catholic chaplaincy in the don’t know why I said that, partly East we wouldn’t have had (those Middle East.” it was because I wanted to win conversations freely).” Catholic chaplaincy heavily the chaplaincy award in my A turning point in Ryan’s life influenced his brother’s decision school and I won it . . . so it was a came when he stumbled upon the to become a priest as well. happy ending.” Newman Centre, a Catholic youth “I wasn’t doing very well in After a couple more years and chaplaincy outreach at the my studies and I thought that the a number of retreats, Favin’s University of Toronto. There, he one thing that I have going for me lukewarm attitude about the experienced open dialogue about is my faith,” he said, reflecting on priesthood turned into a genuine faith, which led him into his his days as a secondary school desire. priestly vocation. student in Ajax. “So I told my “I wasn’t sure if this was what “For me the biggest thing was high school chaplain that I was God was calling me to,” said Contact us for further information Favin. “Finally I came to a come- Sr. Isabel Cid, SP and-see weekend here and I Tel: 780 720-6020 thought I might as well apply. I always thought that maybe I’ll be HOLY LAND in turmoil if I’m called or not PILGRIMAGE called, but that year was sort of it.” Nov. 21 - Dec. 3, 2017, with Fr. Pius Schroh And although their lives differ, Visiting: Jerusalem, Mt. of Olives, Bethlehem, Church of Nativity, Dead Sea, the priesthood has bonded them Sea of Galilee boat ride, Cana, Nazareth, Mount Tabor, together. Masada, daily mass & more . . . “I was like any sibling when a younger one comes along,” said CALL: GOSPA TOURS Ryan. “I was like who is this guy RR 5, Site 502, Box 9, Saskatoon, SK S7K 3J8 coming in to ruin my life. It is Ph: 306-931-7741 or Toll Free: 1-888-261-0781 only when you get to adulthood Email: [email protected] that that . . . disappears.” 18 Prairie Messenger CALLED TO SERVE April 26, 2017 Married priests no magic remedy to clergy shortage

byterate gradually welcomed his wife, Linda, inviting her to events that included Everyday mostly priests but also some other women. Theology “The nature of presbyterial fellow - Louise McEwan ship is increasing to including women where it never used Pope Francis is open to the pos - ed on a case-by-case basis. In to,” said Henderson. sibility of ordaining married men addition to spiritual and doctrinal In my view, the as priests, but don’t get too excit - considerations, matters of reputa - ordination of married ed. The Catholic Church moves at tion and economics are part of the men can foster inclu - a glacial pace and a cadre of mar - equation. sion of women in a ried priests won’t be joining the Rev. Dean Henderson of the patriarchal church. clerical ranks anytime soon. Diocese of Victoria is a former While not intentional, My initial reaction to the news Anglican priest. He came to the wives of married was cynical. Ordaining married Catholicism with his wife and five priests may be play - men seemed akin to inviting guys children. Henderson describes the ing an important role from the wrong side of the tracks journey toward the Catholic in bringing the per - Design Pics into an old boys club that needs priesthood as lengthy and ardu - spective of women to new members; it seemed like a ous. It was also a time of extraor - the authority struc - THE POSSIBILITY OF MARRIED PRIESTS — Married priests are filling gaps in an institution that is struggling with a lack of vocations, writes Louise McEwan. convenient way to shut women dinary scrutiny for him and his tures of the church. However, married clergymen present some unique challenges for a church with a And while some may out. But, upon reflection, I decid - family. celibate hierarchy, among them how to juggle family responsibilities with a ed that was unfair. I believe mar - Henderson has a staggering fear it, their presence demanding schedule. ried priests would be good for amount of responsibility. He is could open the door Roman Catholicism. chaplain at the University of for more meaningful involve - dramatically in the last half-cen - changes in the way we do When Francis made the com - Victoria; an assistant priest at the ment of women in all sorts of tury and the faithful are dwin - church,” says Henderson. ment to the German weekly Die cathedral; director of the voca - ministry, including positions of dling in numbers. “In every way, Hopefully that change comes Zeit , he was referring to viri pro - tions awareness team; oversees authority. (Of note, some dioce - we’ve got to make significant before the glaciers melt. bati . The term refers to married the marriage preparation pro - ses, such as Victoria, already Catholic men of strong faith and gram; is a member of the have women in key positions. In proven virtue, and who, if or - Permanent Diaconal formation Victoria, women hold the posi - dained, would likely be financial - team; and is in charge of the tions of chancellor and financial The Saskatchewan Benedictines ly self-sufficient. He wasn’t offer - council for promoting marriage officer.) invite you to experience ing to remove the discipline of and family life. Any discussion on the subject celibacy for seminarians, or sug - Men like Henderson are a boon of married priests must include a gesting that celibate priests could to a church suffering from a lack word on celibacy. In a culture that marry. of clerical vocations. Married is focused on individual autono - MONASTIC There are already a small num - priests are filling in gaps in an my, self-gratification, and which ber of married priests in North institution that is struggling, quite is sexually permissive, a celibate America and Europe, although literally, with a lack of manpower. priesthood seems archaic. LIFE these men are not from the ranks However, married clergymen pre - In Henderson’s opinion, op - by living with the monks of of viri probati . In 1980, then sent some unique challenges for a tional celibacy would increase Pope John Paul II created a provi - church with a celibate hierarchy. attraction to the Catholic priest - St. Peter’s Abbey sion that allowed Protestant min - A married priest, with a wife hood. Celibacy adds another isters who converted to Ca thol i - and fa mily, cos ts more than a dimension to the process of dis - To assist you in discerning your life vocation share cism to receive holy orders. celibate priest. As congregations cernment; it is difficult “to figure some time with the community of Benedictine monks While the provision is now c lose and S unday co lle cti ons dwindle, o ut if you can give yourself in by contacting: to four decades old, married the church could shy away from celibate love for the rest of your priests are still an exception, and ordaining married priests in the life to serve in the church.” their ordination represents a seis - name of frugalit y. As a married priest, Henderson Rudolph Novecosky, OSB, Vocation Director mic shift in a church that is resis - It’s cle ar from H enderson’s believes he can help others under - St. Peter’s Abbey tant to change. res pons ibilities that the d emand s stand and affirm the value of Box 10, Muenster, SK S0K 2Y0 Even with the provision, there on a priest’s tim e are sig nificant. celibacy. “Theologically, celibacy Ph. 306-682-1759 • Fax: 306-682-1750 is no automatic fast track into the Priestly ministry is not a nine-to- is a different way of looking upon priesthood for former Protestant five jo b. The time away from Christ’s love for the church with E-mail: [email protected] clergymen. Requests go through a fam ily can h ave a negative the emphasis on heaven, whereas CheckCheck outout ourour website:Web page: www.stpetersabbey.ca www.stpeters.sk.ca bishop to the pope, and are decid - impact on married and family the married state is the love of life. One wonders how a church Christ grounded in reality on the that prohibits divorce would han - earth. It is the complementary flip Trail, B.C., resident Louise dle a marriage breakup amongst side of the love of God for his McEwan is a freelance writer, one of its priests. people.” religion columnist and catechist. Consideration must also be While married priests are part She has degrees in English and given to the priest’s wife, who of the solution to the shortage of theology and is a former teacher. deserves to share in some way in priests, they are no magic remedy. She blogs at www.faithcolouredg - her husband’s relationship with The shortage of celibate priestly lasses.blogspot.ca. Reach her at the diocesan presbyterate. In vocations is a symptom of a larg - [email protected] Henderson’s case the local pres - er problem. Society has changed

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By Thomas Reese, SJ wrong in opening up the possibil - ity of some divorced and remar - Much of the negative discus - ried Catholics receiving commu - sion around the pope’s apostolic nion. exhortation Amoris Laetitia has First, Jesus said a lot of things focused on his opening the possi - that we do not observe literally bility of divorced and remarried without exception. Catholics receiving communion. In fact, in the Sermon on the His critics are quick to cite the Mount, right before Jesus’ words words of Jesus in Matthew 19: on divorce, he says, “If your right “Therefore, what God has eye causes you to sin, tear it out joined together, no human being and throw it away. It is better for must separate. . . . whoever you to lose one of your members divorces his wife (unless the mar - than to have your whole body riage is unlawful) and marries thrown into Gehenna. And if your another commits adultery.” right hand causes you to sin, cut it Design Pics Earlier in the Sermon on the off and throw it away. It is better OPEN TO INTERPRETATION — Jesus said a lot of things that we do not observe literally without excep - Mount, Jesus says, “whoever for you to lose one of your mem - tion, writes Thomas Reese, SJ. “Today we live in a different world. . . . How can we be so certain that Jesus divorces his wife (unless the mar - bers than to have your whole would respond in the same way to divorce today? . . . Divorce is not something to be shrugged off, but once riage is unlawful) causes her to body go into Gehenna.” it has happened and a marriage is dead, can there be a possibility for healing and life in the future?” commit adultery, and whoever And right after his words marries a divorced woman com - about divorce, he says, “Again (your) right cheek, turn the other to pass through the eye of a nee - Sodom and Gomorrah on the day mits adultery.” you have heard that it was said to one to him as well. If anyone dle than for one who is rich to of judgment than for that town.” These statements are clear and your ancestors, ‘Do not take a wants to go to law with you over enter the kingdom of God.” And in another place, Jesus definitive and end the discussion false oath, but make good to the your tunic, hand him your cloak “Call no one on earth your says, “whoever is angry with his in the minds of the critics of Pope Lord all that you vow.’ But I say as well. Should anyone press you father; you have but one Father in brother will be liable to judgment, Francis. “Jesus said it. Case to you, do not swear at all; not by into service for one mile, go with heaven.” and whoever says to his brother, closed.” But is it? heaven, for it is God’s throne; nor him for two miles. Give to the If you observe all of these on a ‘Raqa,’ will be answerable to the I will not attempt here to do a by the earth, for it is his footstool; one who asks of you, and do not literal level, I will send your Sanhedrin, and whoever says, scholarly analysis of the biblical nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city turn your back on one who wants name to the Congregation for the ‘You fool,’ will be liable to fiery issues involved in divorce and of the great King.” to borrow.” Causes of Saints. Since we don’t, Gehenna.” remarriage, but I think it is worth No one literally follows the If Christians believed and my question is, why do we insist When Jesus wants to threaten raising some questions about teaching of Jesus on gouging out practised this on a literal level, on enforcing the words of Jesus someone with hellfire, he knows whether these quotes should end an eye or cutting off a hand. And we would all have to be pacifists. on divorce literally without any how to do it! But even here, do the discussion. only an infinitesimally small There are lots of other quotes exception, when we find all sorts you really take him literally? There are at least three reasons group of Christians refuse to take from Matthew that we do not take of wiggle room in many of his The third point I would make that these words from Jesus do oaths in court because of the literally, or at least don’t observe other sayings? is that it is important to ask why not prove that Pope Francis is teaching of Jesus. rigorously: Second, Jesus does not list any Jesus is making a big deal about How do we determine which “Do not think that I have come punishment for divorce and divorce. Here the historical con - words of Jesus are to be treated as to abolish the law or the prophets. remarriage. He does not say such text is important. Note that Jesuit Father Thomas Reese is absolutes and which are open to I have come not to abolish but to persons will be consigned to hell - Matthew only speaks of men a senior analyst for NCR and interpretation? fulfil. Amen, I say to you, until fire. He does not say they should divorcing women. In Matthew 19, author of Inside the Vatican: The Immediately following Jesus’ heaven and earth pass away, not be excluded from the Christian he is responding to a question Politics and Organization of the words on oaths, he says, “Offer the smallest letter or the smallest community. He does not even say from the Pharisees, “Is it lawful Catholic Church. His email no resistance to one who is evil. part of a letter will pass from the they cannot go to communion. He for a man to divorce his wife for address is [email protected] When someone strikes you on law, until all things have taken does not say they cannot be for - any cause whatever?” place. Therefore, whoever breaks given. Where Jesus lived and taught, one of the least of these com - Yet, he does list punishment divorce was only available to mandments and teaches others to for other sins. In Matthew 25, for men. (Mark, whose gospel was do so will be called least in the example, he says: used in Rome, made the teaching BOSCO FOUNDATION kingdom of heaven. But whoever “Then he will say to those on of Jesus gender neutral because in John Bosco obeys and teaches these com - his left, ‘Depart from me, you Rome upper-class wives could mandments will be called greatest accursed, into the eternal fire pre - divorce their husbands.) Child & Family Services Foundation in the kingdom of heaven.” pared for the devil and his angels. I look upon Jesus’ teaching on “Do not store up for your - For I was hungry and you gave divorce as the first feminist legis - The John Bosco Child and Family Services Foundation (Bosco selves treasures on earth, where me no food, I was thirsty and you lation, because a divorced woman Foundation) is a public foundation dedicated to the provision of moth and decay destroy, and gave me no drink, stranger and was kicked out on the street with buildings and facilities used for the treatment, education and thieves break in and steal. But you gave me no welcome, naked no assets or alimony. Her father housing of children, adolescents and adults who are in need of store up treasures in heaven, and you gave me no clothing, ill would not take her back because support. where neither moth nor decay and in prison, and you did not she was a failure. No man would destroys, nor thieves break in and care for me.’ Then they will marry her. She had no education Bosco Foundation believes in assisting non-profit and charitable steal.” answer and say, ‘Lord, when did and few marketable skills. She organizations who provide vital services which aid vulnerable “No one can serve two mas - we see you hungry or thirsty or a would have to beg on the streets people in our society. We do this by providing our facilities to ters. He will either hate one and stranger or naked or ill or in or prostitute herself. various non-profit and charitable agencies at below market level love the other, or be devoted to prison, and not minister to your It was not until the 19th centu - rental rates. one and despise the other. You needs?’ He will answer them, ry that divorced women began to cannot serve God and mammon.” ‘Amen, I say to you, what you get some protection from the civil Our facilities are used for social services group care, foster “Therefore I tell you, do not did not do for one of these least law. As a result, divorce was care, adult mental health care, the St. Francis Food Bank, two worry about your life, what you ones, you did not do for me.’ And clearly a devastating injustice to AA groups and a NE Edmonton cadet core among others. will eat (or drink), or about your these will go off to eternal pun - women for most of human histo - body, what you will wear.” ishment, but the righteous to eter - ry. Jesus quite rightly condemned In addition, we provide volunteer services to assist two small non- “Whoever causes one of these nal life.” it since practically all divorces profit organizations working with low income seniors and victims little ones who believe in me to Any reading of the text would were done by powerful men to of stroke with fundraising and volunteer recruitment assistance. sin, it would be better for him to lead a neutral observer to con - powerless women. The Bosco Foundation is currently working with a large service have a great millstone hung clude that Jesus was much more Today we live in a different around his neck and to be organization on a joint project with the aim of providing upset by people who ignored the world. How can we be so certain drowned in the depths of the sea.” needy than he was by divorced that Jesus would respond in the affordable housing for low-income seniors. Then Peter approaching asked and remarried couples, yet the same way to divorce today? True, 100% of donations go toward charitable purposes. him, “Lord, if my brother sins church has made a much bigger most divorces involve sin, moral Administrative expenses are covered by other sources. against me, how often must I for - deal over divorce than our care of failure and great pain. True, in give him? As many as seven the poor. 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By Carol Glatz and defensiveness to protect an that are not actually normal,” said think that many church leaders institution over a possible victim. Collins, an Irish survivor of cleri - understand or at least they don’t VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Despite four years of Pope cal sex abuse, who had served on show many signs that they follow When a child-protection advocate Francis’ calls to break down walls the Pontifical Commission for the all the papal instructions on this.” resigned from a papal advisory erected out of fear and ivory tow - Protection of Minors since its Many problems that emerge board in early March, she did so ers built on arrogance, Marie inception in 2014. after formation are because of “a because of growing frustration Collins said a kind of enclave So when anything from the growing gap between the human with persistent resistance and a mentality could still be found in outside challenges the way things side and the spiritual side. People “toxic” sense of superiority from some corners of the Curia. have traditionally been done, “it may still say mass and prayers, but some in the Roman Curia. While there are many people is almost an instinct to resist it, they don’t feel connected to what A number of church leaders on who are “open and more willing and that is what’s so difficult,” they’re doing anymore. At a certain the front lines promoting child pro - to listen and learn,” the Curia and she told Catholic News Service point it becomes unbearable and tection policies have also long the Vatican tend to be “very much after her resignation. they act out or drop out,” he said. noted the biggest challenge they a closed-in system where people Attitudes that avoid or squelch “If you train people so they face is a cultural one — an aversion are talking to others with the same open, respectful dialogue are per - don’t show their real face and are to the unknown, playing it safe views and not being challenged at vasive in the wider church as threatened if they bring out the rather than speaking up, and denial all, and so things appear normal well, she said, and they have “to real issues” because they fear they be challenged right from the semi - will be shamed, ostracized or even nary on up.” Priests and religious dismissed from pursuing a voca - who “know how damaging this tion, then it is obvious people will clericalism is to the church” need not want to bring “the real stuff” CNS/Carol Glatz to start “speaking up in their own out into the open, he added. ranks” and working to eradicate it. Seminaries and religious life, CULTURE OF RESISTANCE — Marie Collins, an Irish survivor One priest working from within Zollner said, need to foster the of clerical sex abuse, who had is Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a psy - trust that “it’s safe” to explore served on the Pontifical Com- chologist and academic vice rector problems and tensions, and no one mission for the Protection of of the Pontifical Gregorian Uni - will be “dismissed, judged, shout - Minors since its inception in 2014, versity in Rome. He is also a mem - ed at or dealt with in a cold way said a kind of enclave mentality ber of the papal commission for when they show their real face.” could still be found in some cor - safeguarding; his work there focus - “I believe that many of the ners of the Curia. es on what is needed in priestly and young men don’t feel invited to religious formation — specifically talk about normal things, things sponsible for one’s own emotional, in selecting and fostering well-bal - that are normal for young people, spiritual and human growth are key anced, mature, responsible servants so they bury that,” which, accord - for creating accountable, responsi - of Christ who truly seek to “live ing to St. Ignatius, he said, lets ble leaders, who will someday be in out what they promised to do.” problems that could have been charge of a parish or a diocese and CNS/Paul Haring “From my understanding, this dealt with earlier “grow bigger its staff and community, said Jesuit SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN — Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of is the key to everything,” the and become like monsters.” Father Stefan Dartmann, rector of the Congregation for Bishops, Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a member of priest told CNS. However, he said, seminarians the Pontificium Collegium Ger - the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, and Cardinal There are many clear guidelines must be responsible for their own manicum et Hungaricum in Rome Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, for proper formation, particularly formation, even if their formators — a German-speaking seminary attend a seminar on safeguarding children at the Pontifical Gregorian from St. John Paul II and Pope are weak. serving dioceses in northern and University in Rome March 23. Benedict XVI, he said, but “I don’t Understanding and being re - central Europe. Run by the Jesuits, the college puts unique emphasis on strength - There’s a time for complaining and feeling defeated ening the seminarian’s sense of discernment and “co-responsibili - saken me?” (Mt 27:46). I went to Of course we need to stop the ty” in his formation, and students graduate school to learn that this complaining that needlessly and are allowed to be part of the col - is the first line of Psalm 22, and endlessly dumps our pain on oth - lege leadership team. Barefoot that the Jewish practice was to ers so we can drag them down The aim is to create men who refer to the Psalms by first line with us. And we need to stop the can ask, “What has to be done,” and Preaching rather than by number. This martyrdom that denies our pain. not just for themselves, but for the psalm is a lament. It ends with Pain needs a release valve, though. whole community, he told CNS. trust that God will deliver the suf - Some people, places, and spaces This is critical because “we’ve ferer, but not before it says all the are not safe for my pain. Releasing had bishops who we know never Leah Perrault things we feel when we suffer. in these places causes more harm asked” about protection training Alone. Despised. Misunderstood. — for me and for others. and protocols “because they felt Over the last couple of weeks I I worked harder and committed Wrong. Ashamed. Afraid. And yet I need places in my very uncomfortable, so they wait - have had several interesting con - more. And eventually I found We are going to feel these life where it is possible to be in ed,” he said. versations about complaining. One myself depressed and drowning things. Jesus felt them, and I dare the middle of a messy road to There is “no reason to avoid friend gave up complaining for in the hard stuff I had refused to say that it is even a gift of our exis - somewhere yet unknown. There going into the problems — it’s Lent. (It did not go very well, in her let out. I have read many articles tence that we have the capacity to are beautiful spaces where it is the other way around,” you are opinion.) Someone else was telling about ditching the complaining, feel them. Talking about them is safe to simply say what feels obliged to foresee and act, said me about how hard they are finding and how bad it is for us, but what not a sin, but clinging to them is. unjust, irritating, or wrong. Dartmann, who was at the tail things at the moment and then said, if there is time for complaining Whining about the challenges of Spoken aloud, these things lose end of his term as Jesuit provin - “But I chose this and others have it and feeling defeated? my life with no desire to be loved, some of their power and pressure. cial in Germany when the abuse so much worse, so I shouldn’t com - I think pain has a higher densi - challenged, or grown makes me a My people keep showing me that crisis in the church, including in plain.” In the last several weeks my ty than ease and joy. Packed into victim and my loved ones weight - they can handle me defeated. Jesuit schools, exploded in 2010. own grief has included a fair share small places, pain is pressurized. ed down and burdened; in the same They love me when I have noth - That experience, he said, was of arguing with God about how Just like my body braces a bit way, denying my pain, stuffing it ing left. Many assure me they “a Copernican revolution” for things could have been. While I when I open a bottle, I am hesi - into the corners of my soul, and have felt that way themselves. them because it put the point of resonate with ditching bad habits tant to open the containers hold - refusing to breathe it through my God can also handle my pain and view of the victims — not the and growing toward God, I want to ing my pain. It might pop in ways lips leaves me isolated and believ - turn it into something beautiful. church — at the centre of con - know how, exactly, we are defining I cannot control. I do not like ing that this pain makes me unlov - I need to whisper into the light cern. “I remember that ‘The truth complaining. feeling out of control so I pretend able or burdensome. all the things I fear. My pain is less - will set you free,’ was very im - Here’s the thing. For years until something or someone out - Jesus asks his friends to stay ened when it is shared with another portant for me” in learning to lis - leading up to my own journey side me pokes a hole in my with him, to pray with him who can help me to carry it, even ten to, accept and be transformed into and through depression, I did denial, my pretending, my having (Matthew 26:40). He begs God though they cannot take it away. I by so much scandal. not complain very much or very it all together. That poke releases for another way and he sweats have found that my perspective If people let themselves be often. When things were hard, pressurized pain like a volcano, (Luke 22:42-44). In the midst of usually changes when someone affected on a deeper level by frustrating, terrifying, or awful, I erupting with molten frustration pain, Jesus releases the pain, else gives me permission to laugh what abuse did and does to chil - kept a positive attitude, tried to that burns the people I love, and draws himself into his — imper - at my own restricted vision. dren, then protection policies can see things differently, or com - leaves ash in the air of my rela - fect — community, and cries out The only way through to resur - become a real “apostolic priori - pared my situation to something tionships. Then I beat myself up to God. We get to cry out. We get rection is the cross. My negative ty,” he said. worse. When I was overwhelmed, for failing and add more pain, and to ask for help, to wish for anoth - feelings and thoughts can become Instead, if it is only seen as more resolve to keep the explo - er way, to give ourselves time to the ground out of which new life just another “obligation” or yet sions from happening. accept what cannot be avoided. grows, if I neither cling to them another burden to add to an Perrault is a wife and mom, a From the cross, which my But there is a time for every sea - nor hide them away. I do not need already heavy curriculum or min - grateful employee of Emmanuel church has recently spent contem - son under heaven (Ecclesiastes 3) fixing when I am angry, hurting, istry, “then it has no effect and it Care, and a speaker, writer and plating, Jesus cried out, “My and that means there is a time to lonely, and exhausted. I just need doesn’t make me trustworthy,” consultant at www.leahperrault.com God, my God, why have you for - complain and feel defeated. a rest, and a friend. Dartmann said. April 26, 2017 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 21 Why provide only a half-welcome to refugees?

cent20Half per cent20Welcome. with Canada’s policy to offer ops adopted a resolution that every pdf). refugees loans to cover transporta - Catholic parish and religious com - In the first place, 97 per cent of tion, medical exams, travel docu - munity in Canada sponsor a Journey SAHs are either concerned, or very ments, etc. Refugees must start to refugee family. Many parishes did concerned, with long wait times repay these loans within 30 days of so; fewer contacted government to Justice from when an application is filed their arrival in Canada. However, concerning how to improve the with government and the eventual when the Liberals promised to system. The bishops went on to arrival of the sponsored refugees. expedite Syrian arrivals, the travel ask the government of Canada to Joe Gunn Refugees face logistical challenges loans were waived. Seventy-five “expand, accelerate, and facilitate in supplying application informa - per cent of SAHs noted that this the private sponsorship of refugees tion in arduous situations or con - policy is of concern, as it imposes during this time of urgent need.” Do you think Canada has done are groups that have a signed flict zones (such as the woman an unfair burden on those coming, Bishop Douglas Crosby, CCCB what it should to assist refugees? agreement with the federal govern - who was asked to provide expen - often with nothing, from other president, reiterated his concern “Definitely not yet,” seems to ment to receive and resettle sive DNA testing for her children parts of the globe. Statistics over the waiting times for Syrian be the reply of people directly refugees. Eighteen of these groups in an African refugee camp, in Canada reports that 34 per cent of and non-Syrian refugees in a letter involved in the private sponsorship are Roman Catholic dioceses.) CPJ order to prove she was their moth - newcomers to Canada live in to the minister on Oct. 6, 2016. of refugees across this country. obtained data from SAHs across er.) But delays can also occur at poverty — so why add this burden In order to sustain public inter - A review of the perspectives of Canada, by means of surveys and processing centres overseas, often on newly arrived refugees? est in the program, and to ensure Sponsorship Agreement Holders, direct interviews. As such, the due to scarce resources at visa Canadians can be proud that our refugees have the best possible or SAHs, was carried out by views expressed emanate from per - posts, or even at the Centralized country facilitated the entry of so chance of success here, the federal Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ) sons who have direct hands-on Processing Office in Winnipeg. A many Syrian refugees in 2015 - government would do well to work and released in mid-April. (SAHs experience with refugee reception community group willing to spon - 2016. Yet there is no reason to with SAHs and churches to elimi - and settlement in our communities. sor refugees cannot be kept waiting assume that the system is perfect, nate the policy hurdles that block CPJ’s study “A Half Welcome: for years, or interest will wane and or perfectly fair. An en gaged soci - effective private sponsorship. Gunn is the Ottawa-based Delays, Limits and Inequities in other uses will attract competing ety and culture can continue to If you think Canada has done executive director of Citizens for Canadian Private Sponsorship” uses for the collected funds. improve our capacity to assist vul - what it should to assist refugees, Public Justice, www.cpj.ca, a points to at least four major short - A related concern was ex pressed nerable asylum-seekers. 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The call to holiness The council, and spiritual writers, emphasize holy one must be constantly on one’s knees pray - that holiness is built on solid human virtues, not on ing.” The Fourth Sunday of Easter is designated entitled practices of human effort. These are all “unnatural and unattractive across the global church as a World Day of Prayer The council emphasized that holiness is images” we have seen portraying the vocation to for Vocations. expressed in love of neighbour and care for the holiness. It is a special day of prayer for priestly, diaconal earth. It teaches “by this holiness a more human This point is also brought out in a story about a and religious vocations. This issue of the Prairie manner of life is fostered also in earthly society” woman who longed to find out what heaven is like. Messenger features stories highlighting these min - (No. 40). She prayed constantly, “God, grant me in this life a istries in the church. In his message to the church as we entered the vision of paradise.” The question of vocations always reminds us third millennium, Pope John Paul II outlined seven One night she had a dream. An angel came and that all Christians are called to different vocations. pastoral initiatives for the church. His first priority led her to heaven. They walked down a street in It is clear church teaching that all are called to was holiness of life. He wrote, “First of all, I have paradise until they came to an ordinary-looking serve God and neighbour, regardless of their state no hesitation in saying that all pastoral initiatives house. The angel, pointing toward the house, said, of life. must be set in relation to holiness” ( Entering into “Go and look inside.” We no longer feel the strong impact the Second the new millennium , 30). The woman walked in the house and found a Vatican Council had with its Dogmatic Constitution Christian author Matthew Kelly, in his book A person preparing supper, another reading the news - on the Church ( Lumen Gentium ) when it empha - Call to Joy , notes that the idea of holiness is often paper, and children playing with their toys. sized in Chapter 5 that all Christians are called to misunderstood. Naturally, she was disappointed and returned to the holiness of life. “The world portrays a saint as someone who is a angel on the street. “Is this all there is to heaven?” It proclaimed: “All in the church, whether they social misfit, as someone who never smiles and she asked. belong to the hierarchy or are cared for by it, are who does not know how to enjoy himself or her - The angel replied, “Those people you saw in that called to holiness, according to the apostle’s say - self,” he writes. house are not in paradise, paradise is in them!” ing: ‘For this is the will of God, your sanctifica - People believe that holiness “is about running This pretty well sums up what holiness is all tion’ ” (No. 39). away and leaving the world. Some think that to be about. ‘Sacramental imagination’ helps us appreciate the world we live in

visual artists, authors, musicians, but it gave me a whole new way away somewhere). architects and (hopefully) our of expressing my thoughts. For example, consider HBO’s liturgists open our eyes to see Unfortunately, the best way of epic adventure Game of Thrones . God in creation. explaining this is to focus on Now, you’d think a sci-fi and fan - Building a And this is where my real some negative things first. I have tasy geek such as myself could motivation lies for writing this found I have a difficult time get behind a series about swords Culture of Life article. When I first started expressing why I despise certain and dragons, but after watching exploring the sacramental imagi - “works of art.” It’s not just that the first season and reading the nation, I suddenly realized that these works don’t move me. first three books, I never want to Mary Deutscher just knowing this phrase Rather, I actually feel they are touch the series again. I could changed the way I think about overrated and should never have handle the sloppy storytelling, but I learned a new phrase recent - divine life is dispensed to us.” art. Well, OK, maybe it didn’t been created (or at the very least ly and, since it’s not a phrase I This doesn’t mean these seven are change the way I think about it, they should have stayed locked — NEGATIVE , page 23 can casually drop into conversa - the only way grace can come to tion at the dog park to let every - us; it just means they are particu - one know how smart I am, I’ve larly good at getting the job done. decided to write an article about They open our hearts to receive Religious support Standing Rock Tribe it instead. The phrase is “sacra - what God is pouring out in abun - mental imagination” and it dance all around us. By Sister Cecilia Hudec, Halifax and as investors we are more inter - Nations Declaration on the Rights refers to our ability to see signs Which brings us to the sacra - twined than we think. of indigenous peoples (UNDRIP), of God’s grace in the created mental imagination. This phrase For much of the last year, The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe including the Free Prior and word. draws attention to the human unprecedented media, political and in North Dakota is deeply worried Informed Consent (FPIC) of Most readers of this column capacity to grow in our under - economic attention has been about the impact of the Dakota indigenous peoples for activities or are likely aware that the seven standing of our infinite God directed to a conflict simmering in Access Pipeline (DAPL) on its decisions that would affect them or sacraments are “efficacious signs through an appreciation of the a remote corner of North Dakota sacred sites, burial grounds and, in their territories and resources. of grace, instituted by Christ and finite world we live in, or, as St. between an indigenous community the event of a spill or leak, its For Canadians, UNDRIP is also entrusted to the church, by which Ignatius put it, “to seek God our and major pipeline developers. drinking water source. The tribe at the heart of the calls to action Lord in all things.” Although we This situation may seem distantly and U.S. federal agencies raised put out by the Truth and Recon- are all able to do this, it seems to removed from our own lives, but alarms about inadequate indige - ciliation Commission. In particu - Deutscher holds an MA in me the creative members of our as Canadians, as people of faith, nous consultation and environ - lar, the Truth and Reconciliation Public Ethics from St. Paul community are particularly good mental review. Commission calls on Canadian University in Ottawa. She recently at it. Whether they are world For months, indigenous peoples businesses to apply the principles, attained a PhD in public policy at renowned or just hanging their Hudec is canonical treasurer and supporters from across North norms, and standards in UNDRIP the University of Saskatchewan. work on the refrigerator, our of the Sisters of Charity. America congregated at Standing to corporate policies and activities Rock in peaceful protest to support involving indigenous peoples, the tribe. While the project was their lands and resources. delayed many months, ultimately it This call to action is not only was approved by the new U.S. relevant to businesses, but to any - administration and completed with one who holds investments in a Standing Rock’s concerns left on Canadian company. As religious the table, unaddressed. communities and institutions we It would be easy to disregard hold shares in Canadian compa - this situation as just another exam - nies through our pensions, trusts ple of the ideological division and foundations. With our shares between industry and environmen - comes the power and responsibili - talists. However, this reading ty to influence how these compa - misses the more fundamental sig - nies operate in society, including nificance of DAPL as a bell ensuring they operate in a way that weather for the state of indigenous respects the rights of indigenous rights in North America. peoples. The DAPL protest in North One way that the Sisters of Dakota was the largest gathering of Charity is taking up this responsi - Native Americans in over 100 bility is through shareholder en - years. It was also an important gagement. When we learned that event for indigenous peoples across Enbridge was buying into the the continent. First Nations, Métis DAPL project in the midst of the and Inuit peoples from Canada indigenous rights conflict, we travelled to North Dakota to sup - worked with the Shareholder port the Standing Rock Sioux or Association for Research and organized events in their home Education to reach out to the com- communities focused on water pro - pany to ask about the decision. tection and indigenous land rights. We then filed a shareholder res - CNS/Omar Sanadiki, Reuters Ultimately what they seek is for olution that asks Enbridge to re- SYRIANS CELEBRATE EASTER — Armenian Christian Scouts play music as they celebrate Easter business and government to respect April 16 in Damascus, Syria. their rights set out in the United — AMERICANS , page 23 April 26, 2017 LETTERS Prairie Messenger 23

Catholics need to examine our current ‘development mode’

The Editor: I recently read a works at the local level. even go the length of demanding lengthy letter to the Prairie 2. Ms. Zarowny did NOT call that the PM censor any articles Messenger from the legal counsel the K of C as being a “sinister that they may not agree with. We of the Knights of Columbus, L. organization.” then as a society are indeed in Martin Nussbaum in your March 8 3. She did NOT “twist the great peril. edition. church’s teachings about life.” The challenge does remain In his letter of defence of What I read from Ms. Zarowny’s with the Knights whether they are Supreme Knight Carl Anderson column was that she has challenged prepared to promote the absolute about his role as chief spokesperson the Knights of Columbus as well as need to have our current and for the Knights of Columbus during all of us Catholics to examine our future leaders bring forward poli - the 2016 U.S. election and the local current societies “development cies that will lead to a greater fair - Knights in general he viciously mode” which truly is unsustainable ness of equality and justice for the attacked Yvonne Zarowny personal - morally, economically and environ - 99 per cent of our worlds sisters ly. His comments also tried to in - mentally. and brothers while only one per timidate the Prairie Messenger to I was shocked to read that this cent of our population control cease and desist in publishing her challenge has threatened the more than 90 per cent of the deep and probing articles. Knights of Columbus to react in wealth of the world. Anne Wicks In my reading of her column this visceral and vindictive way. I think Mr. Nussbaum missed of the Jan. 25 PM: I was extremely disturbed that the point of Ms. Zarowny’s col - Hebrides 1. She has NOT defamed any the Knights of Columbus legal umn. — Bill Uruski, Arborg, Knights of Columbus and their counsel Mr. Nussbaum would Man. Oh Iona! Ancient and sacred beauty! Isle of ever-changing light Risen shepherd tirelessly seeks us and generous hospitality. To meet you is a delight . . . your blue mosaic sea Continued from page 1 The basilica was gently illumi - make us compromise the dignity wild and stormy . .. nated only by candlelight and the of others,” he said. bluebell on The Machair After celebrating the morning low light emanating from cell - Presiding over the Stations of heather on Lewisian in high places Easter mass, Pope Francis gave phones capturing the solemn pro - the Cross Good Friday, April 14, at lambs feeding on croftland his blessing “ urbi et orbi ,” to the cession. Rome’s Colosseum, Pope Francis Marram protecting shore lines city of Rome and the world. The bells of St. Peter’s pealed offered a prayer expressing both gannet diving Before reciting the blessing, he in the night, the sound echoing shame for the sins of humanity and waves crashing on Torridonian . . . told the crowd that “in every age through nearby Roman streets, hope in God’s mercy. where ancient lives in harmony with new. the risen shepherd tirelessly seeks announcing the joy of the Resur- A crowd of about 20,000 peo - Oh Iona! us, his brothers and sisters, wan - rection. ple joined the pope at the Rome I sing with joy for you! dering in the deserts of this world. During the vigil, Pope Francis landmark. They had passed By Anne Wicks With the marks of the passion — baptized 11 people: five women through two security checks and the wounds of his merciful love and six men from Spain, Czech Re - were watched over by a heavy — he draws us to follow him on public, Italy, the United States, Al - police presence given recent ter - his way, the way of life.” bania, Malta, Malaysia and China. rorist attacks in Europe. Negative scenes divorced Christ seeks out all those in One by one, the catechumens But the pope also prayed that need, he said. “He comes to meet approached the pope who asked Christians would be filled with them through our brothers and sis - them if they wished to receive the hope that comes from know - from beauty and goodness ters who treat them with respect baptism. After responding, “Yes, ing that “you do not treat us and kindness and help them to I do,” they lowered their heads as according to our merits, but only Continued from page 22 the war and violence of this hear his voice, an unforgettable the pope poured water over their according to the abundance of world. voice, a voice calling them back foreheads. your mercy.” something much worse was eating This is what real art does. It’s to friendship with God.” In his homily, reflecting on the away at me, and I can finally say not just an excuse to be ugly for Pope Francis mentioned a long Easter account from the Gospel of it was the lack of sacramental ugliness’s sake like so many of list of those for whom the Lord St. Matthew, the pope recalled the Americans imagination in this work. today’s more popular works of gives special attention, including women who went “with uncertain Many people would disagree art. Even negative things can victims of human trafficking, and weary steps” to Christ’s tomb. join investors with me, and they might even bring us closer to God, and if a abused children, victims of terror - The pope said the faces of claim I’m just not catching on to work of art doesn’t do that for me, ism and people forced to flee those women, full of sorrow and the fact that Game of Thrones is particularly as I become more their homes because of war, despair, reflect the faces of moth - Continued from page 22 being realistic when it portrays stodgy in my old age, I am very famine and poverty. ers, grandmothers, children and human beings at their worst likely to slander it whenever pos - “In the complex and often dra - young people who carry the “bur - port to all of its shareholders on its through scenes of violence, rape, sible (I’m looking at you, Fifty matic situations of today’s world, den of injustice and brutality.” process for identifying and incest and greed. But I would Shades of Grey ). may the risen Lord guide the steps The poor and the exploited, the addressing social and environmen - like to point out it is not ugliness What is perhaps most unfortu - of all those who work for justice lonely and the abandoned, and tal risks, particularly indigenous or violence that I find repellent; nate is the art that brings us away and peace,” Pope Francis said. “immigrants deprived of country, rights risks, when considering it is the way these negative from God is far easier to mass- “May he grant the leaders of house and family” suffer the acquisitions. Four American reli - things have been completely produce than what I would con - nations the courage they need to heartbreak reflected on the faces gious investors joined in filing our divorced from beauty, goodness sider true works of art. Our mass- prevent the spread of conflicts and of the women at the tomb who resolution at Enbridge. and truth. consumption of bad art might not to put a halt to the arms trade.” have seen “human dignity cruci - The resolution is on the ballot As a contrast, consider for a be so bad, except this junk food The pope also offered special fied,” he said. for the annual general meeting of moment one of the most moving for the soul stops us from seeking prayers for peace in Syria, South However, the pope added, in Enbridge shareholders on May 11. photographs of the 20th century: out and being nourished by true Sudan, Somalia, Congo and the silence of death, Jesus’ heart - It has already spurred conversa - Nick Ut’s “Napalm Girl,” of a art. Ukraine, and for a peaceful reso - beat resounds and his resurrection tion with the company about how young girl running down a road Fortunately, however, true lution of political tensions in comes as a gift and as “a trans - it can improve its indigenous naked and in visible agony from a works of art have a longer lasting Latin America. forming force” to a humanity bro - rights practices. We hope that a napalm attack. This picture is hor - effect. From the pillars of Gaudi’s The pope’s celebration of Easter ken by greed and war. strong result on the vote will sig - rendous. It is ugly. It is terrifying. cathedral to a get-well-soon card got underway the night before in a “In the Resurrection, Christ nal to Enbridge that reconciliation But it still shows the sacramental from a child, there are some packed St. Peter’s Basilica. rolled back the stone of the tomb, and respect for indigenous peo - imagination at work because in its works of art that can touch our The Easter Vigil began with but he wants also to break down ples are of upmost importance to ugliness it moves us closer to souls and move us toward our the lighting of the fire and Easter all the walls that keep us locked its shareholder. God. Creator. candle in the atrium of the basili - in our sterile pessimism, in our If you hold personal or institu - When I see this picture I want They remind us of God’s infi - ca. Walking behind the Easter carefully constructed ivory towers tional investments, we encourage to run into the scene and help that nite mercy by showing us our candle and carrying a candle of that isolate us from life, in our you to inquire into whether you girl. I want to be a better human own limitations. Through their his own, Pope Francis entered the compulsive need for security and hold Enbridge and how your being. I want to bring God’s love beauty, they open us to receive the basilica in darkness. in boundless ambition that can shares are being voted. to her in a way that cuts through grace of God.

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By Melanie Lidman of the sisters run group therapy reference to crimes against the sessions, others do individual Hutus before the genocide or KIGALI, Rwanda (CNS) — counselling as needed. They have revenge killings that took place The Benebikira Sisters, the oldest different backgrounds, including afterward. President Paul Kagame indigenous congregation in pastoral work or counselling, and is Tutsi, although it is illegal to Rwanda, have sisters who are go for continuing education on a speak of ethnicity in Rwanda, as teachers, nurses, pharmacists, for - regular basis, Nyirabaganwa said. part of a government initiative mators and administrators. But The role of listener is less for - called “ Ndi Umunyarwanda ” (“I they also have religious with a mal than therapist but fits better am a Rwandan”). unique title: Sister Listeners. with Rwandan culture, she said. Sisters find ways to work “The genocide created many “The sisters in charge of listening with in the acceptable government problems; some people don’t want are helping them spiritually. We framework of memorials to offer to live because of what happened,” help them to resolve and get their counselling services to all of said Sister Marie Venantie answers to their problems.” the victims, regardless of what Nyirabaganwa, superior of the Other congregations, including roles they played in the genocide. southern province of the Bene - the St. Boniface Sisters, adopted During the memorial period, bikira Sisters and the women’s the model of listeners, finding the sisters lead discussions and head of the Association des ways to blend psychological sup - prayers, providing spiritual sup - Superieurs Majeurs du Rwanda , port with Rwanda’s unique needs port during the official events and the national umbrella group for and culture. The role of these lis - outside counselling on a personal women and men religious. teners is especially important in basis. The 1994 Rwandan genocide, the springtime. “We work together with the when up to a million people were “In April, the country shuts government,” said Sister Donatille killed during 100 days of fighting down in memoriam for about two Mukurabayaza, the local superior and in the chaos before and after - weeks. It’s a period of remem - for the Bernardine Sisters in ward, lurks under the surface of brance,” said Nicole Sparbanie, a Kamonyi. Mukurabayaza trained every interaction, even though 23 Peace Corps volunteer from in Capacitar, an international CNS/Melanie Lidman, Global Sisters years have passed since the kill- Chicago who works with the mindfulness training aimed at rec - RWANDA SISTERS — Benebikira Sisters greet each other under the ers laid down their machetes. Bernardine Sisters in the village onciliation in conflict zones. shade of an avocado tree at their motherhouse in Save, Rwanda. The The country has successfully of Kamonyi, 40 kilometres out - Capacitar emphasizes internal bal - Benebikira Sisters, the oldest indigenous congregation in Rwanda, emerged from some of the physi - side of Kigali. Each village or ance and peace more than external have sisters who are teachers, nurses, pharmacists, formators, admin - cal devastation after the genocide, district has its own memorial, sharing that the Benebikira istrators — and listeners. and the economy is growing at usually a tomb and a mini-muse - “Listening Sisters” provide. Both impressive rates. But the country um. Addi tion ally, each district programs allow the sisters to offer to groups and individuals private - during the memorial period in is perched in a delicate balance, observes the anniversaries of counselling and spiritual support ly, and also to take a leading role April. as the people try to honour the major events that happened local - memory of those killed while ly during the 100-day genocide. firmly looking toward the future. “All the school kids walk Decision will greatly affect students, parents This balancing act comes into together, and they read the names focus each year April 7, the of people who died in that area. Continued from page 1 what this means for the division, school division. When that petition anniversary of the day the geno - They tell the stories of the vic - for Catholic education in was granted, the new division pur - cide started. It marks the begin - tims, and there is also art and Layh recognized his ruling Saskatchewan, and for all of the chased the Theodore school and re- ning of a three-month period music,” Sparbanie said. will have repercussions, which is families who choose Catholic named it St. Theodore. The public when the country turns inward to Because every local anniver - why he gave the province until education. This has already been board did not want to sell the remember. sary is marked annually during June 30, 2018, to adapt to the a 12-year journey, instigated by school to the new Catholic division “There are many problems in this 100-day period, newspaper changes. the public boards, and we don’t and the government had to inter - Rwanda, and many people have headlines and radio shows keep The Saskatchewan Catholic have much of an appetite to spend vene to make the sale take place. It mental problems because of the the focus on the country’s diffi - School Boards Association more on legal defence. However, was shortly after that the lawsuit genocide,” Nyirabaganwa said. cult past even as people try to (SCSBA) was to meet April 24 we have an obligation to stand up was launched by the Theodore “Those who killed have their own move on. with its legal team to review the for the constitutional rights of Public School Board and included problems, and those who lost Although the government se - ruling and determine a course of separate school divisions, so we the Government of Saskatchewan people due to the genocide have verely limits free speech inside action. In the interim, the SCSBA are giving serious consideration and Christ the Teacher Catholic their own problems.” Rwanda, some activists and inter - released the following statement to an appeal. In the event of an School Division as defendants. “Especially mothers who lost national organizations quietly from Tom Fortosky, a lawyer and appeal, a final decision would be The SCSBA and its member all of their children and husbands, question whether the government former SCSBA chair, on behalf of a long way down the road.” boards, recognizing a threat to or the young ones who lost all the is using the memorials to limit the SCSBA: Regina Archbishop Donald their constitutional right to a members of their family,” Nyira- opposition and maintain its “We are obviously disappoint - Bolen expressed his disappoint - minority faith-based school sys - ba ganwa added. “Many people authority. Official government ed with Justice Layh’s decision. ment in the ruling. “I am deeply tem, came to the defence of just need someone to listen. Some memorials, including the Kigali This greatly affects students and disheartened to hear of the deci - Christ the Teacher Catholic have HIV,” because rape by HIV- Genocide Memorial, call it “the parents in Christ the Teacher sion. I understand representatives School Division. Since then, mil - positive men was one of the tools Genocide against the Tutsi,” School Division in particular, and from the SCSBA are taking time lions of dollars from the public used to brutalize during the geno - which erases any reference to the families throughout the province. to better understand the lengthy and Catholic school divisions and cide. thousands of Hutus who were We’ll take some time to go over written decision. I offer my full the Government of Saskatchewan Six Benebikira Sisters are ded - killed, sometimes while protecting the 230-page decision, consult support, and that of the archdio - have been spent on the case. icated to listening full time. Some Tutsis. The title also negates any with our lawyers and process cese, to Christ the Teacher School It isn’t known exactly how Division and the SCSBA as they many non-Catholic students attend continue to defend the constitu - Catholic schools, but some esti - tional rights of separate school mates are in the range of about divisions in the province.” one-third of the population in This case began in 2003 when some divisions. Withdrawing the school board decided declining funds for non-Catholic students enrolments at the Theodore Public could result in teacher layoffs in School warranted its closure and Catholic schools, school closures, students would be bussed to and remove from non-Catholic Springside. Theodore is a commu - parents their choice of what school nity of about 340 (2006 Census), they wish their children to attend. 30 kilometres northwest of Yorkton A quick check Friday afternoon on the Yellowhead highway. by the Prairie Messenger with Parents did not want the school several Catholic school boards closed. However, non-Catholic revealed some concerned parents parents could not be part of any are already calling to determine petition to the government. The what impact the ruling will have minority Catholic community, on their children’s education. As which included Catholic parents of of the afternoon of April 21, the children in the school, petitioned Ministry of Education had not the government to form a Catholic issued a statement.

Gerald Schmitz Our listening creates a sanctuary for the home - EARTH DAY — The sun sets at the Elephant Camp in Victoria Falls National Park in Zimbabwe. Earth less parts within another person. Day, observed April 22 every year, marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental move - — Rachel Naomi Remen ment in 1970.