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Spring 2013 • Number 148 Lo Elgin, Essex, Huron, Kent,Nd Lambton, Middlesex, Norfolk,O Oxford and Perthn Counties 50 Cents NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF Spring 2013 • Number 148 LO Elgin, Essex, Huron, Kent,nd Lambton, Middlesex, Norfolk,O Oxford and PerthN Counties 50 Cents Regardless of age, pre-planning your cemetery arrangements together simply makes sense - financially and emotionally. See back page for details Plan for 2014 with Holy Land, Italy, Marian, For more information, Tour & Pilgrimage Opportunities Ireland, St. Anne’s tours and much more! contact George Cifa or Jennifer Fassina: 7-18 May 9-22 May 30 May-3 June 24-28 July 13-23 Sept. 7-17 October 15-26 October 1-12 November Poland Marian Pilgrimage Knights of Columbus Pilgrimage to St. Shrines of Italy In the Footsteps Italy Food & Israel & Jordan Nexion Canada Travel Pilgrimage to Fatima, Lourdes Washington Andre Bessette Pilgrimage of St. Paul with Wine with Sergio with Pastor 519-660-6966 x237 with Fr. D. 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The 76-year-old Jesuit Conception College in Santa district and on 21 December project based on communion “taking into account those who Archbishop of Buenos Aires is Fé and in 1966 he taught the 1993 was also entrusted with and evangelization. He had live there, its structure and its a prominent figure throughout same subject at the Colegio del the office of Vicar General of the four main goals: open and history”. He asked priests and lay the continent, yet remains a Salvatore in Buenos Aires. From Archdiocese. Thus it came as no brotherly communities, an people to work together. simple pastor deeply loved by 1967-70 he studied theology surprise when, on 3 June 1997, informed laity playing a lead his diocese, throughout which and obtained a degree from the he was raised to the dignity of he travelled extensively on the Colegio of San José. Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos underground and by bus during Aires. Not even nine months had the 15 years of his episcopal On 13 December 1969 he was passed when, upon the death ministry. ordained a priest by Archbishop of Cardinal Quarracino, he Ramón José Castellano. He succeeded him on 28 February “My people are poor and I continued his training between 1998, as Archbishop, Primate am one of them”, he has said 1970 and 1971 at the University of Argentina and Ordinary for more than once, explaining his of Alcalá de Henares, Spain, and Eastern-rite faithful in Argentina decision to live in an apartment on 22 April 1973 made his final who have no Ordinary of their and cook his own supper. profession with the Jesuits. Back own rite. in Argentina, he was novice He has always advised his master at Villa Barilari, San Three years later at the priests to show mercy and Miguel; professor at the Faculty Consistory of 21 February apostolic courage and to keep of Theology of San Miguel; 2001, John Paul II created him their doors open to everyone. consultor to the Province of Cardinal. He asked the faithful The worst thing that could the Society of Jesus and also not to come to Rome to celebrate happen to the Church, he has Rector of the Colegio Máximo his creation as Cardinal but said on various occasions, “is of the Faculty of Philosophy and rather to donate to the poor what what de Lubac called spiritual Theology. they would have spent on the worldliness”, which means, journey. “being self-centred”. And when On 31 July 1973 he was he speaks of social justice, he appointed Provincial of the Cardinal Bergoglio became ever calls people first of all to pick Jesuits in Argentina, an office more popular in Latin America. up the Catechism, to rediscover he held for six years. He then Despite this, he never relaxed the Ten Commandments and resumed his work in the his sober approach or his strict the Beatitudes. His project is university sector and from 1980 lifestyle, which some have simple: if you follow Christ, you to 1986 served once again as defined as almost “ascetic”. In understand that “trampling upon Rector of the Colegio de San this spirit of poverty, he declined a person’s dignity is a serious sin”. José, as well as parish priest, to be appointed as President again in San Miguel. In March of the Argentine Bishops’ He was born in Buenos Aires 1986 he went to Germany to Conference in 2002, but three on 17 December 1936, the finish his doctoral thesis; his years later he was elected and son of Italian immigrants. His superiors then sent him to the then, in 2008, reconfirmed for father, Mario, was an accountant Colegio del Salvador in Buenos a further three-year mandate. employed by the railways and Aires and next to the Jesuit Meanwhile in April 2005 he took his mother Regina Sivori was Church in the city of Córdoba as part in the Conclave in which a committed wife dedicated spiritual director and confessor. Pope Benedict XVI was elected. to raising their five children. He graduated as a chemical technician and then chose the path of the priesthood, entering the Diocesan Seminary of Villa Devoto. On 11 March 1958 he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. He completed his studies of the humanities in Chile and returned to Argentina in 1963 to graduate with a degree in philosophy from the Colegio de San José in San Miguel. From The Newspaper of the Diocese of London, Publisher: Diocese of London ISSN: 0831-9715 Editors: Mark Adkinson, established in 1980, is published quarterly in Publications Mail Agreement #: 41699033 March, June, September and December, Katharine Janzen with 45,000 copies distributed throughout Subscriptions 1070 Waterloo Street nine counties in southwestern Ontario: $12/year. Individual copies are 50 cents each. London, ON N6A 3Y2 Elgin, Essex, Huron, Kent, Lambton, 519-433-0658 x227 Middlesex, Norfolk, Oxford and Perth. Advertising [email protected] 2 Please visit www.dol.ca for latest rates. london’s Most experienced Stained Glass Craftsmen 97 Wharncliffe Rd. S. London, Ont. 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He is the first Jesuit tells us that we don’t need God. Our Church can no The Board of Governors of the former Camp to be pope and the first pope to choose the name longer take it for granted that people are going to find Olalondo (Our Lady of London), a very successful Francis. Already, we can see that he is bringing a fresh God in their lives. We need to be much more intentional children’s summer camp, has developed the Camp perspective to the papacy. in our pastoral efforts. We need to find new methods and Olalondo Memorial Fund. new energy, if we are to bring the Gospel to our young In the short time since his election, he has reached out people, to our families, to Catholics who are not coming This fund offers financial assistance to any to the world. His humility and simplicity are a powerful to Church, to people who are not part of any religion but individual, group or organization within the Catholic witness to Christ. In his homilies and discourses, he who, nonetheless, are searching for God in their lives. Diocese of London which best satisfies the criteria stresses that the Gospel calls us to care for the poor and The witness of Pope Francis is making a difference. It is of the fund and supports the objectives of the to protect the environment. People are moved by his an invitation to us to discover again the joy of meeting Diocesan Pastoral Plan. The fund is directed words and actions. Jesus and to bring this Good News to others. towards helping young children and youth to experience camping activities, projects and Everywhere I go, people are talking to me about Pope People everywhere – believers, and non-believers too – leadership opportunities. Francis. In urging our Church to look outward – to be a are excited about our new pope. 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