DOCSLIB.ORG

Ita Ford & Maura Clarke

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Ita Ford & Maura Clarke WOMEN Resource WITNESSES OF MERCY CELEBRATING THE EXTRAORDINARY WITNESS EDUCATION OF WOMEN DURING THE YEAR OF MERCY Ita Ford & Maura Clarke “I Will Walk With You” the feeling impotent? Can I say to my Ita Ford was born in Brooklyn, New neighbors I have no solutions to this York on April 23,1940. After college situation; I don’t know the answers, but I will walk with you, search with you, be at Marymount, she joined the with you. Can let myself be evangelized Maryknoll Sisters in 1961. Health by this opportunity? Can I look at and problems forced her to leave after accept my own poorness as I learn it three years. This was a difficult from the poor ones? personal trial her as she saw her But even in the midst of this plans derailed. For the next seven anguished searching, Ita was years she worked as an editor for known for her lively and generous a publishing company and then spirit. Maryknoll friends said of reapplied to Maryknoll and was her, “Ita’s buoyant personality, accepted. In 1973 she arrived in The destinies of Ita her wit, her sense of humor and Chile only a few months before the fun were striking contrast to the Ford, Maura Clarke, U.S.-backed military coup suffering and pain she experienced Jean Donovan and overthrowing Salvador Allende’s throughout her life. Her twinkling Dorothy Kazel were democratically elected eyes and elfin grin would surface joined together in just government. The following irrepressibly even in the midst of the last months of their years were bitter and filled with poverty and sorrow.” bloodshed. Thousands lives. Murdered together of suspected government by National Guardsmen Commitment to justice opponents were detained, In 1980 Ita and Carla responded in El Salvador in 1980, executed, or disappeared. to a call for help from El Salvador’s their deaths became Thousands more endured torture Archbishop Oscar Romero. While a martyrdom for the and imprisonment. Ita lived in a poor enroute to their new mission they church of the poor shantytown in Santiago with Sr. Carl learned of his assassination on in El Salvador and for a Piette. There they ministered March 24, 1980. They were about to the poor during a time of thousands of Christians to join the martyred church of El repression, fear and increasing Salvador. in the United States. misery. Ita’s years in Chile made a profound impact. In 1977, coping In June, the two nuns began with feelings of inadequacy, she working with the Emergency wrote: Refugee Committee in Chalatenango. They witnessed Am I willing to suffer with the people here, the suffering of the powerless, first-hand the Salvadoran reality: the homeless, the persecuted, friend saying, the victims of savage repression “I do feel, and today I can say, now I and the counterinsurgency and have a heart of flesh. “ And Ita said, “You ‘re right, we do have hearts of the violence of a ruthless military flesh now. The Salvadoran people dictatorship determined to wipe have converted us.” out any trace of opposition. Ita and Carla wrote to Maryknoll Following Carla’s death, Sr. President Melinda Roper: Maura Clarke who was exploring the possibility of working in El Since the death of Monsignor Romero the news coverage on Salvador has Salvador, came to help Ita in the declined to almost nothing. The refugee work in Chalatenango. Committee fears that decisive action Maura was a great personal will he taken by our [U.S.] government support, and said of her new under the guise of ‘stopping colleague, “Ita is a powerful communism’ — and that all of Central example, a blessing to be with America will be involved if it happens. her.” But real healing came It’s a heavy scene — but if we have a preferential option for the poor as for Ita at the five-day regional well as a commitment for justice as a assembly of Maryknoll Sisters basis for the coming of the Kingdom, on Thanksgiving weekend we ‘re going to have to take sides in in Nicaragua. Friends there El Salvador — correction — we have. said they saw her old spirit returning. At the closing liturgy on “The Salvadoran People Have December 1, Ita read a passage “You’re right, we do Converted Us” from one of Romero’s final On August 23 Carla and Ita took have hearts of flesh homilies: their jeep to pick up a political Christ invites us not to fear now. The Salvadoran prisoner and take him home, a people have converted persecution because, believe me, service they often performed brothers and sisters, the one who us.” for those whose lives were is committed to the poor must risk threatened with violence. On the same fate as the poor, and in El Ita Ford the way back they were caught Salvador we know what the fate of in a flash flood. Carla pushed the poor signifies: to disappear, to be Ita out the jeep window. As the tortured, to be held captive and to be f rampaging water carried her ound dead. downstream, Ita remembered The following day, December 2, praying, “Receive me, Lord, I’m 1980, she and Maura boarded a coming.” Finally she managed plane to return to El Salvador. to grab onto a branch and pull herself to the river bank. Sister Maura Clarke, M.M. “The Angel of Our Land” Carla’s body was found the next Maura Clarke was born on morning. For Ita, the impact of January 13,1931, and lived in the loss of her dearest friend Queens, New York. She joined was profound. It also left her Maryknoll in 1950 and in 1959 with the question of why she had was sent to Siuna, a remote city been spared. After the tragedy, in eastern Nicaragua. There she catechist Noemi Ortiz visited her taught school and did pastoral and wrote: work in a Capuchin parish. After we rescued Ita from the waters, By 1972 she was working in I remember Ita [lying] on the bed and Managua, when a devastating we were all around her, and she was earthquake hit this capital city. sharing the following with us. She said that Carla had just written a letter to a An estimated ten to twenty thousand people perished. desperate. Trapped on an upper floor of She returned for a visit in 1980, the parish house, the Maryknoll in time for the first anniversary Sisters devised a rope of sheets, celebration of the victory. She climbed down and began was described as “bubbling with tending the wounded and joy” at the spirit she found upon digging bodies of the dead her return, a spirit of incredible from the rubble. Friends said of relief, of hope and freedom after Maura, “She was out-standing the 45-year Somoza dynasty. And in her generosity…She would she was happy to be back with give whatever she had to the her friends of 20 long years. poor. She was accustomed to living in poverty.” Others said “Will I Be Faithful?” she was “supportive…always But Maura had also been saw the good in others…was pondering the appeal of very gentle…could always make Archbishop Romero for help in those whose lives she touched El Salvador. On August 5, just feel loved.” In Nicaragua, she two and a half weeks before the was known by the people as “the death of Sr. Carla Piette, Maura angel of our land.” Clarke went to El Salvador to In 1977 Maura returned to the explore the possibility of working United States to take her turn there. It was a hard decision doing the work of mission and to leave behind 20 years of vocation promotion. Traveling in relationships in Nicaragua at various parts of the country with such an exciting moment in the Maryknoll Sisters’ World its history, and to take on the Awareness Team, she once said: human and pastoral challenge “I see in this work a channel for of El Salvador in a time of awakening real concern for the persecution. After Carla’s death, victims of injustice in today’s her Maryknoll sister, Ita Ford “Christ invites us not world; a means to work for needed help. Maura decided to to fear persecution change, and to share…deep journey to El Salvador to work because, believe concern for the sufferings of the at Ita’s side. She was quickly me, brothers and poor and marginalized, the non- immersed in emergency work for sisters, the one who is persons of our human family.” the victims of the repression. She committed to the poor Maura was not in Nicaragua for wrote: must risk the same fate the July 1979, fall of the Somoza We have the refugees, women and as the poor, and in El dictatorship, but she greeted the children, outside our door and some Salvador we know what news with joy. After 20 years in of their stories are incredible. What is the country, she knew only too happening here is all so impossible, the fate of the poor well the the effect this military but happening. The endurance of signifies: to disappear, the poor and their faith through this to be tortured, to be dictatorship had on the lives of terrible pain is constantly pulling me the people. She had seen for to a deeper faith response. held captive and to be herself how the international The days were often difficult and found dead.” earthquake relief money ended the internal struggle radically up in the pockets of the elite… Archbishop challenging: the dictator Anastasia Somosa, Oscar Romero his family and his friends.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • A History of Political Murder in Latin America Clear of Conflict, Children Anywhere, and the Elderly—All These Have Been Its Victims
    Chapter 1 Targets and Victims His dance of death was famous. In 1463, Bernt Notke painted a life-sized, thirty-meter-long “Totentanz” that snaked around the chapel walls of the Marienkirche in Lübeck, the picturesque port town outside Hamburg in northern Germany. Individuals covering the entire medieval social spec- trum were represented, ranging from the Pope, the Emperor and Empress, and a King, followed by (among others) a duke, an abbot, a nobleman, a merchant, a maiden, a peasant, and even an infant. All danced reluctantly with grinning images of the reaper in his inexorable procession. Today only photos remain. Allied bombers destroyed the church during World War II. If Notke were somehow transported to Latin America five hundred years later to produce a new version, he would find no less diverse a group to portray: a popular politician, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, shot down on a main thoroughfare in Bogotá; a churchman, Archbishop Oscar Romero, murdered while celebrating mass in San Salvador; a revolutionary, Che Guevara, sum- marily executed after his surrender to the Bolivian army; journalists Rodolfo Walsh and Irma Flaquer, disappeared in Argentina and Guatemala; an activ- ist lawyer and nun, Digna Ochoa, murdered in her office for defending human rights in Mexico; a soldier, General Carlos Prats, murdered in exile for standing up for democratic government in Chile; a pioneering human rights organizer, Azucena Villaflor, disappeared from in front of her home in Buenos Aires never to be seen again. They could all dance together, these and many other messengers of change cut down by this modern plague.
    [Show full text]
  • “Your Love and Your Grace. It Is All I Need.” Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J. Week of November 16, 2017
    “Your love and your grace. It is all I need.” Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J. Week of November 16, 2017 How many times had they prayed in solitude and in public, “Give me your love and your grace. It is all I need?” A thousand times? In the end, they had no time to utter lengthy prayers, perhaps not even this final verse of St. Ignatius’ self-offering. Leisurely, they had prayed it for years. Now they were suddenly called on to live it in death. In the stealth of night, in those early hours of November 16th, 1989, six Jesuits were prodded from a deep sleep and dragged out of their beds to the grounds of their University of Central America. That moment had come when the prayer of self-giving would ask of them a final Yes. They were not entirely caught by surprise. Their residence had been visited a few days before. It was a warning as though to say: ‘Teach, but stay out of our business.’ Of all people, a young student of the Jesuit high school was enlisted to execute in cold blood six Jesuits, their cook and her daughter: Ignacio Ellacuría, the University Rector, an internationally known philosopher and tireless in his efforts to promote peace through his writings, conferences and travels abroad; . They also split open his head and spread his brains on the grass to make it clear why he had been killed. They certainly understood the symbolism of the head, the seat of the intellect. Segundo Montes. Head of the University of Central America sociology department, director of the new human rights institute, superior of the Jesuit community.
    [Show full text]
  • Saints for Our Time from the EDITOR FEATURED STORIES DEPARTMENTS
    U.S. Catholic Church in mission overseas ® Winter 2021 maryknollmagazine.org Saints for Our Time FROM THE EDITOR FEATURED STORIES DEPARTMENTS n the centerspread of this issue of Maryknoll we quote Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship, which Despite Restrictions of 2 From the Editor Iwas released shortly before we wrapped up this edition and sent it to the COVID-19, a New Priest Is 10 printer. The encyclical is an important document that focuses on the central Ordained at Maryknoll Photo Meditation by David R. Aquije 4 theme of this pontiff’s papacy: We are all brothers and sisters of the human family living on our common home, our beleaguered planet Earth. Displaced by War 8 Missioner Tales The joint leadership of the Maryknoll family, which includes priests, in South Sudan 18 brothers, sisters and lay people, issued a statement of resounding support by Michael Bassano, M.M. 16 Spirituality and agreement with the pope’s message, calling it a historic document on ‘Our People Have Already peace and dialogue that offers a vision for global healing from deep social 40 In Memoriam and economic divisions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We embrace Canonized Them’ by Rhina Guidos 24 the pope’s call,” the statement says, “for all people of good will to commit to 48 Orbis Books the sense of belonging to a single human family and the dream of working together for justice and peace—a call that includes embracing diversity, A Listener and Healer 56 World Watch encounter, and dialogue, and rejecting war, nuclear weapons, and the death by Rick Dixon, MKLM 30 penalty.” 58 Partners in Mission This magazine issue is already filled with articles that clearly reflect the Finding Christmas very interconnected commonality that Pope Francis preaches, but please by Martin Shea, M.M.
    [Show full text]
  • Index to the US Department of State Documents Collection, 2010
    Description of document: Index to the US Department of State Documents Collection, 2010 Requested date: 13-May-2010 Released date: 03-December-2010 Posted date: 09-May-2011 Source of document: Freedom of Information Act Officer Office of Information Programs and Services A/GIS/IPS/RL US Department of State Washington, D. C. 20522-8100 Fax: 202-261-8579 Notes: This index lists documents the State Department has released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) The number in the right-most column on the released pages indicates the number of microfiche sheets available for each topic/request The governmentattic.org web site (“the site”) is noncommercial and free to the public. The site and materials made available on the site, such as this file, are for reference only. The governmentattic.org web site and its principals have made every effort to make this information as complete and as accurate as possible, however, there may be mistakes and omissions, both typographical and in content. The governmentattic.org web site and its principals shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused, or alleged to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the information provided on the governmentattic.org web site or in this file. The public records published on the site were obtained from government agencies using proper legal channels. Each document is identified as to the source. Any concerns about the contents of the site should be directed to the agency originating the document in question. GovernmentAttic.org is not responsible for the contents of documents published on the website.
    [Show full text]
  • (B) (6) 1 2 [Right Margin: J.S
    f [Illegible stamp in right margin] EL SALVADOR: FROM THE GENOCIDE OF THE MILITARY JUNTA TO THE HOPE OF THE INSURRECTIONAL STRUGGLE [Stamp in right margin: University of(Illegible), El Salvador, C.A.] [Illegible stamp] [Emblem] LEGAL AID ARCHBISHOPRIC OF SAN SALVADOR R4957 NYC Translation #101587 (Spanish) (b) (6) 1 2 [Right margin: J.S. CAI'7,1ASUNIVERSITY, C1DAI, El Salvador, C.A.] INDEX Page INTRODUCTION 3 TYPICAL CASES OF THE PRACTICE OF GENOCIDE IN EL SALVADOR 5 I. POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS AND PARTIES RESPONSIBLE 7 Presentation of significant eases 11 Evidence against the Government and FF.AA. of El Salvador 16 I[. DISAPPEARANCES/CAPTURES FOR POLITICAL REASONS 17 Ill. GENERAL REPRESSION 19 IV. PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH 21 GENOCIDE AND WAR OF EXTERMINATION IN EL SALVADOR 31 I. BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION 33 If. GENOCIDE: THE SUBJECT THAT CONCERNS US 34 Ill, EXTERMINATION IN EL SALVADOR? 35 IV. ASPECTS OF INTENTIONALITY 39 V. BY WAY OF CONCLUSION 48 THE RIGHT TO EXERCISE LEGITIMATE DEFENSE: POPULAR INSUR- RECTION 51 I. BACKGROUND 53 II. IMPOSITION OF NAPOLEON DUARTE AND ABDUL GUTIERREZ 55 IIL APPEAL TO THE WORLD'S CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATIONS 56 1V. APPEAL TO THE WORLD'S GOVERNMENTS 57 V. APPEAL TO THE WORLD'S CHRISTIANS AND MEN OF GOOD WILL 57 PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE 59 R4958 NYC Translation #101587 (Spanish) (b) (6) 2 3 INTRODUCTION OPEN LETTER TO THE PROGRESSIVE MEN, PEOPLES AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD When we intend to express ourselves, we are always conditioned by the socio- historical reality in which we are immersed On this date of January 15, 1981, our reality is of war, with the threat - which is more than a shadow - of direct North American intervention.
    [Show full text]
  • Junior High Church History, Chapter Review
    Junior High Church History, Chapter Review Chapter 3 “Blessed Are the Persecuted” 1. ________ of the Church are those who witness to their faith in Christ by suffering death. a. The laity b. Members c. Priests d. Martyrs 2. The martyrs’ courage and heroism testified to their faith in the ________, their hope in the eternal life promised by Christ, and their love for Christ. a. Church’s ability to save them b. teachings of St. Paul c. Paschal Mystery d. love they had for others 3. As the early Church spread, ________ refused to offer sacrifice to the Roman gods. a. Israelites b. Gentiles c. Greeks d. Christians 4. The Christians’ “rebellious activity” led to ________. a. protests on the street b. positions in government for them c. persecutions d. acceptance 5. ________ refused to worship Roman gods and was put to death. a. John the Baptist b. Saint Ignatius of Antioch c. Mary, the Mother of Jesus d. Mary Magdalene 6. Roman imperial authorities believed that condemning Ignatius to death would ________ the faith of the Church in Antioch. a. strengthen b. weaken c. increase d. help 7. Saints Agatha, Agnes, and Lucy were ________ because of their faith in the Church. a. forgiven b. released c. kidnapped d. martyred 8. ________ was killed because he told the prefect of Rome that the poor were the “true treasures of the Church”. a. Saint Lawrence the Deacon b. The Pope c. Saint Stephen d. Jesus 9. ________ values, customs, and practices infiltrated the societies where the Church lived during the first centuries of the Church.
    [Show full text]
  • Western Pennsylvaniaâ•Žs First Martyr: Father Gerard A. Donovan, M.M
    4 Western Pennsylvania’s First Martyr: Father Gerard A. Donovan, M.M. Go forth, farewell for life, O dearest brothers; Proclaim afar the sweetest name of God. We meet again one day in heaven’s land of blessings. Farewell, brothers, farewell.” – Charles-François Gounod’s missionary hymn, refrain sung at the annual Maryknoll Departure Ceremony1 John C. Bates Western Pennsylvania was true missionary territory well into the 30 miles east of the city of Mukden (today, Shenyang),6 would 19th century. A small number of colonial Catholics who migrated serve as headquarters for this new mission. to the area after the British secured control from the French was later joined by German and Irish immigrants seeking freedom, Maryknoll would become, to many, the best-known Catholic land, and employment. Used to privation in the “old country,” missionary order in the United States. Its monthly, The Field Afar the new arrivals survived and thrived. Their children, typically (later renamed Maryknoll magazine), enjoyed a broad national raised in modest circumstances, were no less able to cope with readership. That magazine, missionary appeals at parishes, teaching the challenges occasioned by an industrializing society. Imbued sisters’ encouragement of mission-mindedness among students in with the faith of their parents, this next generation of young parochial schools, and newspaper and radio coverage of mission- men and women responded to appeals by the Catholic Church ary activities abroad served to encourage vocations among young to become missionaries and evangelize the Americans who sought to become mission- 7 parts of the world where the Gospel had aries.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual PILGRIMAGE/RETREAT
    TO CENTRAL AMERICA PILGRIMAGE/RETREAT Annual PO Box 302, Maryknoll, NY 10545-0302 Maryknoll, PO Box 302, Annual PILGRIMAGE/RETREAT Fr. David La Buda, M.M. TO CENTRAL AMERICA January 10-21, 2022 Fr. Robert Dueweke, OSA For more information, contact Kris East Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers P.O. Box 302 Maryknoll, NY 10545-0302 510-276-5021 [email protected] www.maryknollpilgrimage.org “The violence we preach is the Stamp Place violence of love” Here Bro. Octavio Duran Archbishop Oscar Romero PN 30975-21 Pilgrimage Retreat 2022.indd 1 5/4/21 3:42 PM A 10 DAY SPIRITUAL Witness statements FROM PREVIOUS JOURNEY FOR BISHOPS, PILGRIMAGE/RETREAT PARTICIPANTS PRIESTS, BROTHERS AND “I find it difficult to express in words PERMANENT DEACONS the impact that this pilgrimage/retreat of January 14th-25th, 2019 had on me. I felt alk in the footsteps of modern day connected to these inspirational martyrs Wmartyrs. Learn why these coura- in a way that could not have been possible geous women and men, caught up in situations without the personal testimonies of others of civil war in which the people they served and and our physical presences in the sites of the Catholic Church itself suffered persecution, their martyrdom. Am eternally grateful!” were able to give their lives as witnesses of Jesus Christ. “By far this was a blessed pilgrimage – better than Rome, Ireland, France.” We will visit the tomb of Saint Archbishop Romero and celebrate Mass at the altar where “My participation in the Maryknoll he was assassinated. We will also visit the site Pilgrimage/Retreat to Central America in El Salvador where Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford, during January 2019 impressed on me the Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel power of the preached word of God.” Fr.
    [Show full text]
  • Northwest Catholic Women's Convocation
    Northwest Catholic Women’s Convocation IIi April 22-23, 2005 AUTHOR TITLE PUBL. YR SYNOPSIS Vivienne SM “The State, the Moro Greenwood Press 2001 This essay by Angeles is included in “Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, #65: Angeles, Ph.D. National Liberation Front, Religious Fundamentalism in Developing Countries” by Santosh C. Saha. and Islamic Resurgence in the Philippines” Betsey Beckman, A Retreat With Our Lady, St. Anthony 1997 Co-authored with Nina O’Connor and J. Michael Sparough. M.M. Dominic & Ignatius: Praying Messenger Press With Our Bodies Full Body Blessing: St. Anthony 1992 A superb meditation work that can be used for individual and group praise and movement. Praying with Movement Messenger Press Frida Berrigan “Proud to be an American? Common May “The weapons industry- companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon and Northrop Not While it Chooses Bombs Dreams 2, Grumman- are also pretty tone deaf. With the country on a permanent war footing, the sky is Over Bread.” NewsCenter 2003 literally the limit for America's second most heavily subsidized industry.” Read more of Frida’s numer commentaries and articles at www.AlterNet.org/authors/5482 and at www.jonahhouse.org/frida_index.htm . “Now you see, now you In these times Sept. “U.S. military researchers are hard at work developing directed-energy weapons that could be don’t: The Pentagon’s 29, used to destroy communication lines, power grids, or fuel dumps, or to zero in on part of a Blinding Lasers” 2002 vehicle, like the engine.” But are they safe for civilian populations? Mary Boys, SNJM, Has God Only One Blessing? Paulist Press 2000 This compelling book makes academic scholarship highly accessible.
    [Show full text]
  • Thirty Years Later: Remembering the U.S. Churchwomen in El Salvador and the United States
    Thirty Years Later: Remembering the U.S. Churchwomen in El Salvador and the United States Theresa Keeley U.S. Catholic Historian, Volume 38, Number 4, Fall 2020, pp. 119-144 (Article) Published by The Catholic University of America Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2020.0025 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/772045 [ Access provided at 15 Jul 2021 20:16 GMT from University of Louisville ] Thirty Years Later: Remembering the U.S. Churchwomen in El Salvador and the United States Theresa Keeley* On December 2, 1980, Salvadoran National Guardsmen—armed by the U.S. government—raped and murdered four U.S. missionaries: Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel, and Maryknoll lay missioner Jean Donovan. Thirty years later, in late 2010, I traveled to El Salvador as part of a delegation to commemorate the anniver- sary of their deaths. Returning to the United States in early 2011, I attended a memorial for them in Washington, D.C., and expected to see continuity with the past: the promotion of the missionaries as a source of inspiration and expressions of anger at the U.S. role in El Salvador. The women continued to inspire, but the focus on the U.S. government was nearly absent. Instead, commemorative events in El Salvador evoked disappointment with the insti- tutional Catholic Church, and the Washington, D.C., remembrance stressed Maryknoll Sisters’ political influence. These differences underscored that remembering the U.S. churchwomen was not just about one memory, but dif- ferent kinds of memories for different communities.
    [Show full text]
  • Issue 27: January 2021 Registered Charity No
    Romeronews Issue 27: January 2021 Registered Charity no. 1110069 IN THIS ISSUE Romero Week 2021 Roses in December Once more our hopes to organise a full calendar of events for the Romero Week I in March have been disappointed. We Celebration in London Gemma Simmonds CJ had expected to be able to re-schedule many of the events planned for the 40th II Anniversary in 2020, which were Commemoration in Rome Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ cancelled by last year’s lockdown. But coronavirus continues to have an III enormous impact on our lives both in the The Case for Sainthood? UK and across the world. IV The events that are currently planned, To what do they call us today? either live or streamed are as follows: Justice for the UCA Martyrs Saturday March 13th 11.00am Book Review – Martyrdom National Ecumenical Service St. Martin in the Fields, London News in Brief Wednesday March 24th 6.00pm i) El Mozote Ecumenical Service ii) Winds of Change Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool iii) 29 Years of Peace? with Archbishop Malcom McMahon St. Oscar Romero Parish Liverpool Saturday March 27th 12.30pm Romero Anniversary Mass Books and Resources St. George’s Cathedral, Southwark with Archbishop John Wilson 2 www.romerotrust.org.uk The 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of Roses in December the women was commemorated across the world, In Rome, Pope Francis praised them at In dedicating this edition of Romero the end his General Audience on the News to Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford and anniversary of their death, saying: Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy "Today is the 40th anniversary of Kazel and laywoman Jean Donovan, we the death of four missionaries killed recall the title of the 1982 documentary in El Salvador..
    [Show full text]
  • Prek – 12 Religion Course of Study Diocese of Toledo 2018
    PreK – 12 Religion Course of Study --- Diocese of Toledo --- 2018 PreK – 12 Religion Course of Study Diocese of Toledo 2018 Page 1 of 260 PreK – 12 Religion Course of Study --- Diocese of Toledo --- 2018 Page 2 of 260 PreK – 12 Religion Course of Study --- Diocese of Toledo --- 2018 TABLEU OF CONTENTS PreKU – 8 Course of Study U Introduction .......................................................................................................................7 PreK – 8 Content Structure: Scripture and Pillars of Catechism ..............................9 PreK – 8 Subjects by Grade Chart ...............................................................................11 Grade Pre-K ....................................................................................................................13 Grade K ............................................................................................................................20 Grade 1 ............................................................................................................................29 Grade 2 ............................................................................................................................43 Grade 3 ............................................................................................................................58 Grade 4 ............................................................................................................................72 Grade 5 ............................................................................................................................85
    [Show full text]