February 11, 2021 | Issue 39 Black Catholic Mass Celebrates Witnesses of Light to Break Chains of Darkness By Jen Reed to live our lives in the way The Catholic Witness that they lived their lives, Images of seven so that the faith continues Black Catholics placed to spread and the light of at the altar during our witness will overcome the Diocese’s Black the darkness,” he told The Catholic Apostolate Catholic Witness. Mass shared a dual The annual Mass, message for those sponsored by the Diocese’s in the congregation: Black Catholic Apostolate, remember and is celebrated in conjunction celebrate the good and with Black History Month. holy works they did in It was held on Feb. 7 at their lives, and stand St. Francis of Assisi in on their shoulders to Harrisburg. continue sharing their Father Deogratias light. Rwegasira, AJ, served as The portraited faces the principal celebrant, were of six on the as recently-appointed way to sainthood – spiritual moderator of the Venerable Augustus apostolate. He was joined Tolton, Venerable at the altar by several JEN REED, THE CATHOLIC WITNESS Pierre Toussaint, Young women clap along to traditional spiritual Black priests serving in the Servant of God Julia music at the Black Catholic Apostolate Mass. Diocese and clergy from Greeley, Servant of the parish. God Henriette Delille, Deacon Timothy Tilghman of In his homily, Deacon Servant of God Mother Mary the Archdiocese of Washington, Tilghman encouraged the Elizabeth Lange and Servant guest homilist for the Mass. congregation to be witnesses of God Sister Thea Bowma – “It’s great to see the six to the light in order to break the and of St. Josephine Bakhita, African-American candidates for chains of darkness and despair. canonized in 2000. sainthood on the altar, but there “What is it that we’re called They are but among are many saints who are not to do today?” Deacon Tilghman countless Black Catholics who canonized who have shown us have shown us the way, said More APOSTOLATE the way, and it’s important for us page 7 February 11, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 2 Change in Distribution of Ashes this Year Follows Ancient Custom By Jen Reed between our clergy and parishioners, allowing The Catholic Witness us to maintain worship spaces that are as safe The distribution of ashes on Ash Wednesday as can be made during this continued time of will look a little different this year. pandemic.” The Vatican has given guidance about their Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, is Feb. distribution in light of safety measures during the 17 this year. It is a day of abstinence from meat coronavirus pandemic. for all Catholics 14 years of age and older, and is Instead of marking the forehead with ashes in a day of fasting for healthy individuals age 18-59. the form of a Cross, clergy will sprinkle ashes on Find Lenten resources online at www. top of the heads of those receiving them. hbgdiocese.org/lent. “Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline Position Available: Diocesan Catholic of the Sacraments, issued this instruction on Youth Organization (CYO) Director the modification of the distribution of ashes for The Secretariat for Catholic Life and this year,” explained Father Joshua Brommer, Evangelization of the Diocese of Harrisburg Director of the Diocesan Office of Divine Worship. is seeking an individual to fill the part- “It follows the ancient and biblical custom of time position of Diocesan Catholic Youth sprinkling ashes on the top of the head.” Organization (CYO) Director. Position is The Congregation for Divine Worship and the responsible for overseeing all areas of the Discipline of the Sacraments published the note Diocesan CYO Basketball Program, with on Jan. 12, and directed clergy to say the formula approximately 3,000 grade school and high for distributing the ashes once to everyone school players on approximately 250 teams present, rather than to each person. and nearly 500 coaches. The priest or deacon, therefore, will say the Applicants will be expected to be in full formula once – “Repent, and believe in the compliance with the Diocese of Harrisburg Gospel,’ or ‘Remember that you are dust, and Youth Protection Program and accountable to dust you shall return” – instead of to each to the Diocesan Director of Evangelization individual. and Catechesis. Hourly compensation He will cleanse his hands and put on a face commensurate with experience. Application mask before distributing the ashes. He will then deadline is March 5, 2021. sprinkle ashes over the head of each individual in For more information, contact the Office of silence. Evangelization and Catechesis at jgontis@ “The sprinkling of ashes on top of the head is hbgdiocese.org. a common practice followed in many parts of the Send resume and cover letter to: world,” said Bishop Ronald Gainer. “This method [email protected] of distribution will limit the personal contact

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AP Story Misrepresents Church Finances, Expert Says By Jonah McKeown employees. entities, the article gives the Catholic News Agency The loans, given by the Small impression that “this is all one A Feb. 4 investigative story Business Administration, were budget with fungible dollars”— from the Associated Press approved on a first come, first a “gross misrepresentation” inaccurately portrays “the served basis. According to that belies a “fundamental Roman Catholic Church” as reports, an estimated 12,000- ignorance” of Church finances a “giant corporate monolith” 13,000 of the 17,000 Catholic in the U.S. that raked in federal aid while parishes in the U.S. applied, The article goes on to claim sitting on billions of dollars that and most were encouraged to that the total assets for all they could have used to pay do so by their dioceses. Catholic entities in the U.S., employees, a canon and civil According to the AP’s including dioceses, parishes, law expert told CNA. analysis, “dioceses” and “other and charities, totals more than In reality, “the Roman Catholic institutions” collectively $10 billion and in some cases Catholic Church” in the U.S. is received about $3 billion from increased slightly over the made up of tens of thousands the PPP program, leading the course of the pandemic. of separate nonprofits, most of authors to conclude that “the Importantly, to reach the which did not have legal access Roman Catholic Church” was $10 billion figure, the AP “also to liquid cash necessary to perhaps “the biggest beneficiary included funding that dioceses pay their employees when the of the paycheck program.” had opted to designate for pandemic took hold last year. Father Pius Pietrzyk, OP, special projects instead of The CARES Act, passed in a canon and civil lawyer and general expenses; excess cash March 2020, initially authorized a professor at St. Patrick that parishes and their affiliates some $350 billion in loans to Seminary in Menlo Park, deposit with their diocese’s small businesses, known as the California, told CNA that in savings and loan; and lines of Paycheck Protection Program, conflating the finances of credit dioceses typically have which was intended to allow dioceses with those of individual with outside banks.” them to continue to pay their parishes and other Catholic The AP story does not assert that dioceses or other Catholic The Diocese of Harrisburg entities committed fraud or offers congratulations and broke the law by applying for prayerful best wishes to and receiving PPP loans, but Most Reverend Larry J. a strong theme in the article Kulick, on the occasion of is that “the Roman Catholic his Ordination as the 6th Church” did not need the loans, Bishop of Greensburg. and could have afforded to Bishop Kulick’s Mass of continue to pay its employees Ordination and Installation with the assets “the Church” was being celebrated at had on hand. press time on the afternoon The story is similar to a story of Thursday, February 11. the AP published during July A news article and photos 2020, which criticized the “U.S. of the Ordination will be Roman Catholic Church” for published online at www. accepting what appeared at the hbgdiocese.org and in next week’s edition of The More FEDERAL AID Catholic Witness. page 4 February 11, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 4 FEDERAL AID contined from 3 time to be $1.4-3.5 billion worth of PPP loans. But there is, both legally and financially, no single entity that is the “U.S. Roman Catholic Church.” Nearly each of the nation’s 17,000 parishes operates as its own nonprofit, and weekly donations help to employ the priest, along with the employees who maintain the parish and its ministries. The distinction in civil law is important, but the distinction in canon law— the law governing the Church— is also crucial to understand, and CNA/SHUTTERSTOCK applies to every diocese in the world. which functions like a bank; deposits can then be “Juridic persons” are defined in canon law withdrawn at any time for any reason. as either aggregates of persons, or aggregates Importantly, dioceses do not— as the AP of things, i.e. goods. Canon law protects the asserts— have the power to use the deposited financial independence of each juridic person, money, which belongs to the parishes, as they such as a parish. A “parish” is defined in canon see fit. law as “a portion of the people of God.” “The bishop has no authority in canon law to Under canon law, the assets of a parish are simply swoop in and clean out the bank account managed by the pastor and are not “owned” by of a parish, nor does he have that ability in civil the bishop, although he does exercise a certain law if they are separately established,” Father degree of governance over them, Father Pietrzyk Pietrzyk pointed out. explained. The AP story also does not adequately Some— but only a minority— of U.S. portray Catholic endowments or foundations, dioceses are incorporated in civil law as a many of which are required by law to respect “corporation sole”, whereby all Church assets the intentions of donors and be used for specific within the diocese are owned by the bishop. The purposes, Father Pietrzyk said. Vatican has discouraged this form of corporate The foundations, too, are also separate civil organization because of its incongruency with and canonical entities from the dioceses, and are canon law. not subject to the bishop’s whims, he noted. The canonical structure of the Church is, in For example, the AP reports that the some ways, similar to the federal system in the Archdiocese of Chicago “had more than $1 billion U.S., Pietrzyk said. The federal government in cash and investments in its headquarters and exercises governance in individual states, but it cemetery division as of May [2020],” while at does not “own” individual states, and thus cannot the same time “Chicago’s parishes, schools and take funds away from one state budget and give ministries accumulated at least $77 million in them to another state. paycheck protection funds.” Catholic schools are, like parishes, separate The story implies that a fund specifically legal entities and their employees work for the earmarked for cemeteries could somehow be school, not for the diocese. repurposed to pay for salaries— a legal and This does not mean that there is no free flow practical impossibility, Father Pietrzyk said. of money between dioceses and parishes. All “You can’t, either in civil or canon law, simply parishes are taxed by their dioceses. move those funds around contrary to the wishes In addition, many dioceses operate “savings of the donor,” he said. and loans,” whereby parishes send excess money to a reserve fund managed by the diocese More FEDERAL AID page 5 February 11, 2021• The Catholic WITNESS- 5 FEDERAL AID share resources. have saved about 18.6 million contined from 4 That being said, the AP U.S. jobs. story displays “incredible 20/20 Even with PPP money, “The diocese can’t simply hindsight,” Father Pietrzyk some dioceses, such as San scoop out the cemetery fund noted, and seems to gloss over Francisco’s, still had to cut to start paying salaries for the uncertainty of the period salaries— but, as the PPP schoolteachers. That would be in which the PPP program first intended, did not have to resort fraud...they could be liable for launched. to mass firings. prosecution for something like “There was a nationwide The AP does not cite any that.” sense of panic within the evidence that “Catholic entities” The AP story includes quotes Church at the time these funds unjustly took money away from from an anonymous pastor in “a were available. No vaccine in more deserving candidates. Western state” as well as Father sight, didn’t know how long Catholic entities, taken as a James Connell, former vice the pandemic would go on, whole, appear to have received, chancellor of the Milwaukee everything was being shut at most, about 0.6% of the Archdiocese, who asserted that down. Initial numbers from funds so far disbursed from the “Catholic entities did not need dioceses were that donations PPP program. government aid” and should were way down, as people Guidance from the SBA on have instead, out of love of themselves were uncertain eligibility for the loans stated neighbor, left the funds for small about their future.” that “no otherwise eligible businesses to use. At that time, a massive organization will be disqualified Part of the reason for reorganization of Church assets from receiving a loan because their assertions was the fact was not possible, legally and of the religious nature, religious that many dioceses did not practically. Without another identity, or religious speech of experience the catastrophic immediate source of income, the organization.” downturn in assets that many especially for small parishes PPP funds are still expected in 2020, thanks in part without much reserves, available for businesses that to a healthy rebounding of the large-scale firings of church need them, albeit with more stock market. employees could have taken restrictions than in previous The investments made by place, Father Pietrzyk said. rounds. All told, with Congress many Catholic entities turned By the AP’s own admission, adding $284 billion to the out to be safer than they could dioceses reported that their program in December, the have been, Father Pietrzyk said, hardest-hit churches saw PPP program is expected to with the stock market largely income drop by 40% or more eventually disburse nearly $1 recovering since the start of the before donations began trillion in loans. pandemic. But “nobody knew to rebound months later, Another implication from that in June.” and schools took hits when the AP story worth refuting, “To say that the Church fundraisers were canceled and Father Pietrzyk said, is that should not have taken that families had trouble paying nonprofit, tax-exempt entities money in June because things tuition. are somehow less deserving of are really rosy [next] January is The purpose of the PPP, in government largess. absurd,” he asserted. part, was to relieve the nation’s It makes sense to allow Catholic financial experts unemployment system and nonprofits access to PPP have recommended to Catholic keep people employed, and funds, he said, because PPP News Agency in the past evidence shows that it likely was intended to cover worker’s that parishes and dioceses succeeded. Economists working salaries— workers who pay especially well-prepared for a with the Treasury Department’s income tax. crisis ought to consider calling Office of Economic Policy said up struggling parishes or More FEDERAL AID in December that the PPP may dioceses voluntarily to offer to page 6 February 11, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 6 FEDERAL AID York received was used solely justice, also wrote a response contined from 5 for the purposes outlined in the to the July AP story, defending The PPP loans did not directly law, that is to continue to pay the use of the PPP by Catholic enrich the nonprofit entities employees their salaries and parishes, hospitals, schools, that received them, but rather benefits. Not one penny of that dioceses, and social service went straight to the employees. money was used in any way agencies. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of to settle lawsuits or pay victim- “The Paycheck Protection New York noted this fact in a survivors of abuse. Program was designed to letter he released following “We have none of this money protect the jobs of Americans the AP’s July 2020 story. The left. It has all be [sic] distributed from all walks of life, regardless archdiocese, as well as many of to our workers, and the of whether they work for for- the archdioceses’ parishes, had government is carefully auditing profit or non-profit employers, received PPP loans. it.” faith-based or secular,” “Make no mistake, the money Archbishop Paul Coakley of Archbishop Coakley wrote. that the Archdiocese of New Oklahoma City, chair of the US “The Catholic Church is bishops’ committee on domestic the largest non-governmental supplier of social services in the Catholic Men: Defenders of the Faith United States. Each year, our parishes, schools and ministries Virtual Conference for Men serve millions of people in need, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion. The novel coronavirus only intensified the needs of the people we serve and the demand for our ministries. The loans we applied for enabled our essential ministries to continue to function in a time of national emergency.” Bishop Ronald W. Gainer, DD, JCL Dr. William Donohue Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ, PhD Bishop of Harrisburg President, The Catholic League President, The Magis Center “In addition, shutdown orders and economic fallout associated with the virus have affected everyone, including the thousands of Catholic ministries -- churches, schools, healthcare and social services -- that employ about 1 million people in

Fr. Frederick L. Miller, STD Fr. John Szada, PhD Mr. Tony Devlin the United States,” Archbishop Archdiocese of Newark Exorcist, Diocese of Harrisburg Army Investigator & Analyst Coakley added. 8:30am Online Platform Opens “These loans have been MARCH an essential lifeline to keep 9:00am Opening Remarks hundreds of thousands of 20th The Harrisburg Diocesan Men’s Conference will be virtual employees on payroll, ensure this year. All those who register will receive a link to join the conference live, as well as a recording of the event. families maintain their health 2021 insurance, and enable lay per Register at: workers to continue serving www.hbgdiocese.org/event/mens-conference $10 person their brothers and sisters during

Presented by the Office of Evangelization & Catechesis for the Diocese of Harrisburg this crisis.” February 11, 2021• The Catholic WITNESS- 7 APOSTOLATE his glory, in his power, in his continued from 1 love? Or do they see somebody else?” Deacon Tilghman posed. asked. He encouraged the “When we go into the faithful to revisit the day’s village, when we go into the Gospel passage (Mark 1:29- neighborhood, when we go into 39) of Jesus meeting Simon’s the nation, when we go into the ill mother-in-law, and others schools and the statehouses, who were sick with disease or and even when we go to Capitol possessed by demons. Hill, we go with the faith of our “There was sickness in ancestors who are part of this the neighborhood, there was community of saints. This is our sickness in the nation, and there faith, and this is our Church.” was darkness throughout the Inspiring the congregation world,” said Deacon Tilghman. in the sung chorus of “There is “We’re all asking the question: Power in the Name of Jesus,” how do we overcome the Deacon Tilghman remarked: sickness and the darkness? “When we witness, we break … When the darkness comes, the chains of darkness and and if the Spirit intervenes, Deacon Timothy Tilghman, despair, and we radiate the light the power of our witness and guest homilist from Our Lady and the love of Christ. This is the good trouble that we bring of Perpetual Help Parish in our faith. This is our Church. cause the demons to depart.” Washington, D.C., delivers a This is what we celebrate today. “There is a question for us message about being witnesses This is what we celebrate every to ask, we who are the Church: of light to conquer darkness. day.” Who do people see when we come? Do they see Jesus in ‘Be Who We are On Paper’ can take to witness against Deacon racial injustice. Tilghman In an interview with The serves at Witness, Deacon Tilghman Our Lady of said the challenge for the Black Perpetual Catholic community is the Help Parish, challenge for the Church in the an African- United States: “If people of American color don’t stay in the Church, parish in it’s not just the people of color Washington that suffer; the entire Church that is suffers,” he said. “We cannot celebrating afford to lose the beacons of its 100th the light. We have to do a lot anniversary of work to make sure we invite this year. Part everyone in, and people feel at of his ministry home and have the opportunity includes to witness. meeting “We have to meet with young people. The Church is not a Father Deogratias Rwegasira, AJ, spiritual African- demographic. The Church is moderator of the Black Catholic Apostolate, American distributes Communion during the apostolate’s Catholics on More APOSTOLATE Mass on Feb. 7. actions they page 8 February 11, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 8 Its spiritual moderator is A member of the congregation takes Father Deogratias Rwegasira, a video at the conclusion of the Black AJ, and the coordinator is Catholic Apostolate Mass. Angelé Mbassi. Activities of the apostolate include regular Masses, participation in national conferences and an annual summer picnic. Father Rwegasira will be featured in “The Called” in next Thursday’s edition of The Witness. (Learn more about the Black Catholic Apostolate at www. hbgdiocese.org/multicultural- ministries/. To learn more about APOSTOLATE the Diocesan Annual Campaign, continued from 7 “We just need to be,” he said. including how you can support a body of people. Everybody “The power of our witness, the important ministries of the knows the demographics; when we are Church, is going to Diocese, visit www.hbgdiocese. nobody knows the people in the attract people to come. It’s real, org/giving/diocesan-annual- neighborhood,” he said. it’s authentic, it’s true, it’s loving, campaign.) Asked what specific action and it’s very powerful.” the Church can take in this About effort, Deacon Tilghman The Diocese’s Black referenced the words of Dr. Catholic Apostolate Martin Luther King, Jr., in his was established more final sermon on April 3, 1968, than 30 years ago to the night before his death: “All address the economic we say to America is, ‘Be true to and spiritual concerns what you said on paper.’” of people with African “We just need to be the ancestry, and to Church that we are on paper,” promote leadership, Deacon Tilghman remarked. “If foster evangelization you read about the Church in and address issues of the documents of Vatican II, and racial injustice through especially if you read about the family and educational Church in the documents written programs. Today, by Pope Francis – Evagelii those undertakings Gaudium, Laudato Si’, Fantelli remain a mission of the Tutti – you have a description apostolate. of a living and breathing Under the auspices institution, a body of people of the Diocesan that loves people and stands Office of Multicultural for justice. They’re not looking Ministries, the Black to meet demographics, they’re Catholic Apostolate is looking to meet the person on indirectly supported the ground and love them in the by the Diocesan place where they are. Annual Campaign. February 11, 2021• The Catholic WITNESS- 9 Remembering Angela Orsini, Witness Contributor and Archives Volunteer By Jen Reed through her story telling. She was well-traveled The Catholic Witness and a living treasure-trove of interesting facts Angela Orsini, a volunteer in the Archives at the about people and places, from U.S. presidents, Diocese of Harrisburg since 2012 and a longtime Civil War battlefields and Church leaders to sites friend of The Catholic in Rome and Lourdes, Witness staff and author among the many places of the “Saint Spotlight” she visited. And she column, died on Feb. loved sharing stories 1 at Carolyn’s House about her parents, of Hospice of Central the many priests she Pennsylvania. had come to know Angie was a staple throughout her 73 years, at the Diocesan Center and her loving cousins prior to the pandemic, who were her faithful eager to share her caretakers at the end of love for history, the her life. Church and writing. A Whenever she visited graduate of St. Francis us at The Witness – of Assisi School and even as she took on the Bishop McDevitt High rigors of chemotherapy School, she was COURTESY OF MEG RYAN – Angie always came a Division Secretary Angela Orsini, left, celebrates with fellow with a smile and words at the Pennsylvania Diocesan Archives volunteer Regina Zogby at a of encouragement. Historical and Museum Diocesan Christmas dinner several years ago. Sometimes she came Commission’s Division with personal gifts too: of Archives and holy cards or medals of Manuscripts, and the patron saints during our Division of Archival and time of need, inspiring Records Management photographs of days Services for 30 years. gone by, or programs She was also a from a special liturgy Eucharistic Minister years ago. and parish archivist at And she loved to St. Francis of Assisi in laugh and reminisce. Harrisburg for nearly She’d share memories three decades. of her dancing days Firm in her faith, and from when she studied with a vast knowledge and taught dance, and and enjoyment of took the stage at local history, Angie shared theaters. “Believe it or her talents with the COURTESY OF DIOCESAN ARCHIVES not, there was a time Diocese – researching Angela Orsini is seen in this photo with Father when these gams could and cataloging in Baker greeting Pope John Paul II at the Papal really move,” she’d say. Archives, leading Palace in Rome on June 30, 1989. Angie enjoyed the Catholic elementary camaraderie of those school field trips at the Diocesan Center, and at the Diocesan Center, especially over lunches authoring a regular Witness column on the lives of and coffee in the dining room, at Masses for saints, venerables and servants of God. employees, and at the annual Christmas party, Angie gave in other ways, too – most notably More ANGELA, page 10 February 11, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 10

ANGELA, continued from 9 held out hope for a return to volunteering in the Archives. where she’d always be the first one to put on a In tribute to our friend, we share two of her pair of reindeer antlers. “Saint Spotlight” pieces on her favorite saints – The drain of cancer and the treatments in Thérèse of Lisieux and Bernadette – to whom her fight against it took their toll on Angie, who, she referred as being among her “many friends even in the most trying times of her illness, still in Heaven.” found valiant ways to write for The Witness and

St. Thérèse of Lisiuex, Impoverished, the family lived in a dank former “The Little Flower” prison and Bernadette contracted cholera 1873-1897 and suffered lifelong asthma which may have Feast Day – October 1 contributed to her four-foot-seven-inch stature Patroness of the Missions and little schooling. On February 11, 1858, while gathering wood with her sisters, she heard a Marie François Thérèse voice and saw a vision of a beautiful lady in Martin was born January 2, a niche in the grotto of Massabielle. No one 1873, in Alençon, France. She believed Bernadette’s account. Her parents and did not fully comprehend what authorities forbade her to return to the grotto, the Carmel was, but at 15 desired to enter. On but she did. The lady asked her to return on 14 September 24, 1890, she received her Carmelite consecutive days. On February 25, as an act of veil in Lisieux as Sister Thérèse of the Child penance, the lady asked Bernadette “to drink of Jesus and the Holy Face. Although young, she the water of the spring, to wash in it and to eat was an accomplished artist, playwright/poetess, of the herb that grew there.” The mud became composer of prayers and avid letter writer. a spring and flows to this day. On March 2, the Knowing that she could not do great things, she lady instructed that “a chapel should be built adopted her “Little Way” – childlike surrender to and a procession formed.” Then, on March 25, God in everything, joyful humility, confidence and Bernadette asked the lady her name and she trust in His mercy and kindness, perseverance in answered, “I am the Immaculate Conception.” prayer and love in all things. Because Bernadette was a simple soul, the During her seven years in Carmel, she bishop especially could not believe what she suffered spiritually and physically, offering all to said because the dogma of the Immaculate God. At her last agony from tuberculosis she Conception had not yet been proclaimed. said, “If I had not had faith I would have taken my Eventually, thousands came to the grotto. life without hesitation.” On September 30, 1897, Bernadette entered the Sisters of Charity at she succumbed, saying, “O, I love Him. My God, Nevers, France, and became known as Sister I love you.” She was canonized in 1925. She Marie-Bernard. While there, she contracted is principal patroness of the missions with St. tuberculosis of the lungs and bone. When asked Francis Xavier, second patroness of France with about the apparitions, she replied, “The Virgin St. Joan of Arc, and a daughter of the Church. used me as a broom to remove dust. When Compiled by Angela M. Orsini, October 2018 the work is done, the broom is put behind St. Bernadette Soubirous the door again.” Bernadette died on April 16, 1844-1879 1879, at age 35. Her incorrupt body, encased Feast Day: April 16 in wax, lies in a gold and crystal reliquary in the Patroness of illnesses, people Chapel of St. Bernadette in the Motherhouse at ridiculed for their piety and Nevers. She was canonized by Pope Pius XI on Lourdes, France December 8, 1933, the 75th anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. Bernadette Soubirous was Compiled by Angela M. Orsini, March 2019 born in Lourdes, France, on January 7, 1844. February 11, 2021• The Catholic WITNESS- 11 Catholic Schools Week is always an exciting time for Catholic Schools Week students, teachers and families. This year’s celebration was even more meaningful, as schools celebrated in-person Celebrations learning, and showed much-deserved appreciation for the dedication and efforts of teachers and administration. The following photos were submitted from our Catholic schools.

Clockwise from top right: St Joseph in York, Delone Catholic in McSherrystown, St. Patrick in Carlisle, Resurrection in Lancaster, Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Ephrata and St. Joseph in Mechanicsburg February 11, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 12

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Para reportar la sospecha del abuso de un menor a manos de un official, empleado o voluntario de St. Theresa School in New Cumberland la iglesia, también llame al número de teléfono created a “HEROES” quilt for their gratuíto de ayuda diocesana: Catholic Schools Week display. Each square of the quilt was created by student 1-800-626-1608 o envíe correo electrónico: and staff member’s artwork of what makes [email protected] someone a hero. The winning theme this year was from sixth grader,Sophie Lapore. HEROES stands for Helping Everyone Reach Our Eternal Salvation.

Mary’s Way of the Cross with the Council of Catholic Women A Walk to Jerusalem: Join the Harrisburg Diocesan Spiritual and Physical Council of Catholic Women in Exercise Program praying Mary’s Way of the Cross, Sponsored by the Harrisburg each Wednesday during Lent Diocesan Council of at 7 p.m., beginning on Ash Catholic Women Wednesday. In these Stations, we will see and feel, through Mary’s perspective, Journey begins Ash Wednesday what Jesus experienced on the The virtual Walk to Jerusalem permits way to Calvary. pilgrims to join at any time and to

individually choose their exercise, Send an e-mail to [email protected] for whether physical or spiritual. information on how to connect to this weekly prayer via Zoom or by phone. Visit hdccw.webs.com to learn more about the program and to register. February 11, 2021• The Catholic WITNESS- 13 but they, as Peace: A Heartbeat with Creation all children By Sister Geralyn Schmidt, SCC discovered perfect peace.” do, begin The Catholic Witness I share this story with you to resemble I grew up in Northeastern as I continue my series on the God, their true New Jersey. While I know Beatitudes. Let’s focus on, Father. True that those who are born in “Blessed are the peacemakers, peacemakers Pennsylvania really doubt that for they will be called children of are faithful to New Jersey could be beautiful, God.” the message I grew up in a truly wonderful Peace. In today’s pandemic of Christ; area full of uncharted woods, world, peace can seem a far off, they see Him “Thoughts from a old growth trees, lakes and impossible thing. Our world is in the faces of Catholic Evangelist” streams and even a watershed! at war with itself, and all of us, every single Within five minutes of where I including me, are the infantry man and woman. grew up, there was a large area in this army. Think about it this Recently, I came across of woods, many hiking trails and way: Have you ever heard a short film on YouTube a reservoir. The area is called something about someone and called Butterfly Circus.1 The Butler or Kakeout Reservoir then repeated it to another while description of the film says: and it is still open for those who embellishing it to make it more “At the height of the Great want to hike. sensational? If you can say, Depression, the showman One day, as a middle “Yes,” then you are guilty, as am (Eduardo Verastegui) of a schooler, I was visiting the I, of giving Peace a black eye. renowned circus leads his watershed alone. I was sitting Words are not the only troupe through the devastated on a rock along the shore. weapons in this war. Have you American landscape, lifting the I remember the day was ever used social media, or spirits of audiences along the absolutely beautiful: blue re-Tweeted, reposted, texted, way. During their travels they sky, white puffy clouds, a or shared by another means discover Will (Nick Vujicic), a warm breeze and penetrating something destructive about man without limbs, at a carnival sunshine. Being alone, I someone? If you answered, sideshow, but after an intriguing remember singing a song at the “Yes,” then social media has encounter with the showman top of my lungs and listening to become a modern-day arsenal he becomes driven to hope my voice echo over the water. for destroying Peace. against everything he has ever I laughed at my “less-than- Have you truly owned that believed.” (From YouTube) melodious” voice. I got quiet the reason why the world is the I encourage you to watch this and I listened. I could hear the way it is, is because all of us short film, and don’t forget to lapping of the water at my feet, have not stood up and lived out bring some tissues with you! As the rush of the water down the what we are called to be? This the film attests, peacemakers waterfall behind me, the twerp “being” is being a Child of God! are individuals who can see of the barn swallows and the Let me say this again: If you God’s beauty buried beneath distant cry of a hawk. have been baptized, you are a flesh, or circumstances that All this was a precursor for Child of God! could make some folks doubt a moment in which I realized Peacemakers are made that God even cares. Being a there was a “heartbeat” in when we choose to foster peacemaker is hard work and nature. That heartbeat and true friendship within society. requires an openness of mind mine became one just for an Peacemakers are individuals and of heart. Such openness instance. It was such a grace who can calmly speak the truth makes your heart beat as because it was the first time without insulting, screaming, one with everything that God that I truly felt at one with intimidation, or back biting. They creates! creation and with the Creator. live out their baptismal promises 1https://www.youtube.com/ I remember saying out loud to to such a degree that they are watch?v=y_MCwlY6zzg myself, “What just happened? I not only called children of God February 11, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 14 The Catholic Book Blogger’s Review

Praying with Jesus and Faustina During Lent And in Times of Suffering by Susan Tassone

By Pete Socks 6. Jesus and St. Faustina Special to The WItness on Making a Good What can I say? Susan Confession Tassone has done it again! Of particular note is the When it comes to prayer Appendix. Included are an books with purpose, I have overview of the Chaplet of found Susan’s various titles to Divine Mercy, the promises of be a great go-to source. This the chaplet, as well as a little things I really liked about the Lent, we are treated with yet gem. A Novena to the Divine book was something that was another. Praying with Jesus Mercy for the Conversion of tucked away in an Appendix of and Faustina During Lent the World is perhaps one of the book and that is The Novena And in Times of Suffering is the most needed novenas of to the Divine Mercy for the Susan’s latest and it will be a our time. We are living during Conversion of the World. Now, valuable asset to your Lenten a time of darkness. We simply I’m sure that when you were journey this year and beyond. cannot deny that. It’s all around compiling this book, our current If you have never us and it’s pressing in. What situation in this country was the encountered a book by Susan the world needs right now is the furthest thing from your mind. Tassone, you are missing out. promise of Divine Mercy. We I’m sure no one imagined we’d Known as “The Purgatory as Catholics MUST become be where we are today. So what Lady,” Susan has a deep Divine Mercy warriors with are your thoughts on the current devotion to the Holy Souls one objective in mind: Saving situation? And how can devotion in Purgatory, Jesus, Divine our world from the clutches of to Divine Mercy help? Mercy and St. Faustina. She Satan and his minions. Susan Tassone: Well, you has written multiple books on I have been on a quest to know, our country is roiling in each topic. find resources that can help anger. It’s, you know, it’s a mess. This book is divided into us do just that. Many choices And so, what does Jesus want six sections of meditations as have come from the late to tell us? He wants to remind follows: 1800s to early 1900s. There us of His mercy and His love. 1. Praying with Jesus is just something about these And he told us that his greatest and Faustina during classic books from what seems attributes were his word, His Lent and in Times of another age. Susan Tassone love and His mercy. Suffering is rooted in the truths taught First of all, be merciful to 2. Meditations on the back then. I’d encourage you to yourself, and be merciful to Passion and the Way make her latest book a part of others, to exercise mercy, to of the Cross with St. your Lenten devotional journey. forgive yourself and others, to Faustina Not only can it change you, share disagreements without 3. Taking Refuge in the but it may just help change the becoming disagreeable, and to Wounds of Jesus world. turn to Divine Mercy, for advice 4. Uniting Our Sufferings and comfort. That’s what I think, with Our Lady’s 5. Litanies for Lent and in Interview Highlight: More BOOK REVIEW Times of Suffering Pete Socks: One of the page 15 February 11, 2021• The Catholic WITNESS- 15 BOOK REVIEW, continued from 14 these novenas. In fact, that novena is a novena for the world. Every group is covered in that the messages were for St. Faustina. And in her novena. That novena is supposed to be prayed day, it applies to us now, more than ever. It’s a all year round. reminder. He wants to tell us that He loves us. He wants us to join those prayers, our fasting, And that’s number one, in all the books and the our labors, our sufferings, our mortifications with whole diary, that He created you, He suffered for His because, He said, “they will have power you and He died for you, that you’re His beloved, before my Father.” He said, help me save souls, you have a mission to feel fulfilled like no one join these sufferings to my passion and offer else, and no one will ever be able to fulfill your them to the Father. And he said, your suffering mission, ever. There’s only you, there’s only one will become a source of your sanctification. you, there will never be another one like you. Full Interview link: https://catholicstand.com/ Also, we’re not alone. He’s with us. Be at praying-with-jesus-and-faustina-during-lent- peace, do not fear death, go to Confession, do episode-204-with-susan-tassone/ His will because that’s the way out of purgatory.

Say the Chaplet and receive Holy Communion frequently. Adore and sacrifice and fast, and fast Harrisburg Diocesan in ways you know. Council of Catholic Women These things that He said, these practices and our sufferings, that will help Him rescue souls. He “SAVE THE DATE” said there’s one price by which a soul is bought 95th Annual Convention, and that is suffering united to His suffering. And held virtually He says to join in these prayers, these litanies, Saturday, April 17, 2021 Walking with Jesus to Calvary “Rejoice and Be Thankful” Keynote Speaker: Sarah Christmyer Virtual Youth Lenten Retreat Workshop Presenters: • Donna Giberti - “Finding Forgiveness on the El Camino de Santiago de Compostela” • Kelly Gollick “ - Active Listening Basics – How to be a Better Listener” Join Chris Wood for an • Tina Kowalski - “SHINE”-Faith Based engaging hour of reflection on Exercise Program Jesus’ final steps to Calvary, exploring His fear, pain and hdccw.webs.com/hdccw-convention suffering and how you can grow closer to Him. Nominess Accepted for Our Lady of Good Counsel Award When: February 20 This award will recognize a woman in the Time: 1 - 2 p.m. Diocese who has made a significant Who: Youth, contribution at any level in the Council 7th - 12th of Catholic Women. The inaugural grades recipient will be awarded at the Registration: Free (donations appreciated) convetion. Nomination packets can be Register at: https://hbgdiocese.formstack.com/forms/ found at https://hdccw.webs.com/olgc- virtual_lenten_retreat award. The deadline for nominations is Register By: Thursday, Feb. 18 March 17. February 11, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 16 OBITUARIES Deceased Clergy The names of the following deceased persons have been submitted by Please pray for the following their parishes. Please remember in your prayers the happy repose of clergy who died in January during these recently departed souls and the consolation of their loved ones. the past 25 years: Bloomsburg Marisa Magnuson Deacon Stephen Bankos, 1996 St. Columba: Anna McCarty Father Paul Miller, 2004 Dudley Cooley Anna Fedock Father Joseph Celia, 2005 Buchanan Valley Lebanon Deacon Matthew Culley, 2005 St. Ignatius Loyola: Assumption BVM: Father Philip DeChico, 2006 Betty Armstrong Mary Louise Allwein James Uhrich Father Robert Strome, 2007 Camp Hill Raymond Fox Msgr. Lawrence Overbaugh, 2008 Good Shepherd: Mary Ceresini Will Jean Vorse Father Brian Conrad, 2011 Melissa Santella Deacon James Sneeringer, 2011 Carlisle Carol Radesky Father Joseph Hilbert, 2014 St. Patrick: John Krick Cecelia J. “Sue” Leonard Paul Hirlinger Father Louis P. Ogden, 2015 Theresa Kutz Deacon Robert Mack, 2018 Catawissa John Landis Deacon Martin McCarthy, 2019 Our Lady of Mercy: Helene Eisenhauer Paul Milo Irene M. Jessick St. Cecilia: Tina Detweiler Trevorton Conewago St. Patrick: Sacred Heart of Jesus: Mount Carmel Joseph M. Donovan Frederick Noel Divine Redeemer: Eugene Glowacki Waynesboro Danville Gilda L. Kalinoski-Scott St. Andrew the Apostle: St. Joseph: Elizabeth B. Greco Richard Bricker Ann Nicodemus Donald McDonald Our Lady of Mount Carmel: Alexander Milho Harrisburg Anna Mae Kushner John Navolio St. Catherine Labouré: Robert Polinski Robert J. O’Toole Mary Minnici Richard Collier Dorothea Peters Anne Titler M. Elizabeth Powers Rohrerstown Kenneth Youngmann St. Francis of Assisi: St. Leo the Great: Angela Orsini MaryAnn Mowery York Hershey Richard J. Bergan Immaculate Conception BVM: St. Joan of Arc: Kathleen Hidenfelter Selinsgrove Rodney Rooney Richard Baiocchi St. Pius X: Lancaster Robert Chesny St. Joseph: St. John Neumann: Duane Gottsch Steelton Catherine Knouse Anna Marie Bare Prince of Peace: Robert Queppet Alfred Carricato Mary Jane Garden Rosemary (Rodgers) Flamini February 11, 2021• The Catholic WITNESS- 17 LENTEN FISH DINNERS Reel-in some delicious meals this Lent at a number of fish dinners hosted by parishes and councils. Dinners are take-out only.

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Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Cornwall, St. Francis Xavier Parish in Gettysburg, Lenten Fish Dinners, Wednesdays Feb. 3-March Lenten Fish Fry Dinners on Fridays, Feb. 19, 31 from 4-7 p.m. Walk in and take out, or drive up 26, March 5, 12 and 19 at Xavier Center, 465 only. Baked or fried fish, baked or fried potatoes Table Rock Road, Gettysburg. Menu includes and coleslaw or applesauce and a Bernie’s fried haddock, mac and cheese, seasoned Bakers homemade dessert for $10. potatoes, roasted vegetables, and corn pudding. Curbside pick-up only, subject to change due St. Peter Parish in Columbia, Lenten Fish Fry, to COVID-19. Call 717-334-4048 or visit www. Feb. 19 through March 26. Take-out service only, stfxcc.org or www.sfxpccw.org for more from 4-6:30 p.m., at the Parish Center, Second information, menu and updates. and Union Streets. Customers will be asked to wear masks and practice social distancing. Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Enola is hosting Customers are asked to call in orders at 717- 6 dinners during Lent on Fridays, Feb. 19 and 26, 684-0414 Wednesday or Thursday evening and March 5, 12, 19 and 26. All dinners are take- from 6-8 p.m. each week prior to the Friday out only, from 4-7 p.m. Menu includes seasoned Fish Fry. Orders can also be placed via e-mail baked cod, church-made baked macaroni & at [email protected]. The order must cheese, church-made pierogis, veggies, stewed be in by 8 p.m. the Thursday prior to the Fish tomatoes, cole slaw, roll, dessert and bottled Fry. A limited number of walk-in orders will be water. Baked fish dinners and fish and pierogi available. Menu includes platters of baked dinners are $12. Mac and cheese dinners and haddock, crab cakes, fried filet of fish, and fried pierogi dinners are $10. Children are $5 for shrimp. Baked macaroni and cheese, cole slaw, any meal. Visit the website for updates, www. stewed tomatoes and a dinner roll are included ourladyoflourdesenola.org. in the price of the platter. Two sandwiches are also on the menu: fried fish filet and crab cake. Holy Angels Parish in Kulpmont will serve Side orders of macaroni and cheese, stewed Lenten fish dinners on Fridays during Lent from tomatoes, cole slaw and soup may also be 4-5:30 p.m. or until sold out. Take-out only, purchased. The homemade soups, cream of from the parish activity center. Donation of $10 crab, potato and cheesy broccoli, will rotate includes baked fish, potato, vegetable, cole slaw, each week. A variety of individually wrapped applesauce or fruit cocktail, soup, bread and baked goods made by the women of the parish dessert! Masks required. will also be available. The event is sponsored by the Parish Council of Catholic Women with assistance from men of the parish and is open More FISH DINNERS to the public. Proceeds are used to fund various page 18 activities in the parish. February 11, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 18 FISH DINNERS Knights of Columbus on at 1575 New Danville continued from 17 Pike in Lancaster, Lenten take-out dinners on Fridays Feb. 19-April 2. Meals are $15 plus tax, St. Cecilia Parish in Lebanon, Lenten Fish kids’ meals are $6 plus tax, and family meals for Dinner, take-out only, Fridays Feb. 19-March 26 four are $50 plus tax. Kids’ meals are macaroni from 4-7 p.m. at the social hall on East Lehman and cheese and fish sticks. All meals include a Street. Dinners are $10 and include fried or side salad, roll and butter and dessert. Curbside baked haddock, fries or baked potato, pepper pickup; we will bring your order to your car cabbage, roll and butter and assorted desserts. when you arrive. Order must be placed no later than the Wednesday prior to the Friday event. Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary Credit or debit is preferred, payment is made at Parish in Middletown, Fish Fry in drive-thru the time of pickup which runs from 5-7:30 p.m. fashion beginning Friday, Feb. 19 and continuing Place orders by calling Stephanie at 717-286- weekly through March 26 from 5-8 p.m. Menu 7449. Feb. 19: Yuengling beer battered haddock, includes fish & chips, baked haddock, fried macaroni and cheese, and broccoli. Feb. 26: shrimp, pierogies, mac n cheese, fish sandwich, Steamed shrimp, rice pilaf, mixed vegetables. cole slaw, and veggies. Three desserts will be March 5: Homemade crab cakes, roasted available: chocolate cake with peanut butter potatoes, baby carrots. March 12: Broiled salmon icing, chocolate fudge cake, and lemon berry with mango salsa, rice, spinach. March 19: mascarpone cake. The school campus lot will Cod with lemon butter, buttered pasta, cheesy only be accessible after 4:30 p.m. No call-in cauliflower. March 26: Fish and chips, coleslaw. orders may be placed. All orders are first- April 2: Crab cakes with shrimp, baked potato, come, first-serve in the manner of a fast-food green beans. drive-thru. Cash, check, MasterCard, Visa, and Discover cards are accepted. Handmade Knights of Columbus of Our Lady of Good chocolate eggs will also be available in peanut Counsel and St. Bernadette, Fish Fry at St. butter milk chocolate, peanut butter dark Bernadette in Duncannon Feb. 19 and March 5 chocolate, coconut dark chocolate, and butter and 19 from 4-7 p.m. or until sold out. Cost is $10 cream milk chocolate. Each egg is $1.00. For for adults, $5 for children and free for children more information, including full menu (subject to under 3. The meal will include fried fish fillet, mac change) and campus diagram, visit www.ssbvm. and cheese, vegetable, stewed tomatoes, bread org. roll and applesauce. This will be a drive-thru event only. Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Parish in Elysburg, Lenten Fish Dinners, Feb. 19, March 5 Seton Suppers at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and March 19 from 4-6 p.m. Take-out only. Cost Parish in Mechanicsburg, Feb. 27, March 27 is $9 per platter, which includes baked haddock and April 24. Monthly homemade drive-through with butter and lemon, fingerling potatoes, dinners on the 4th Saturday of the month. vegetable, cole slaw, roll and butter. Upcoming meals are Feb. 27: “Not a Friday, but Still a Fish Dinner” with potato-crusted cod, Holy Spirit Parish in Palmyra, Fish Fry on baked potato, coleslaw, roll & butter. March Fridays during Lent, Feb. 19-March 26 from 3-7 27: “Early Easter” with ham, sweet potato, p.m. Served curbside to-go. Order online through roasted vegetables, roll & butter. April 24: the parish website or place an order from your “Signs of Spring” with chicken stir-fry, rice, spring car when you arrive. Food will be delivered to vegetables. Learn more and pre-order online at your vehicle. Menu includes Atlantic haddock, https://www.steas.net/setonsuppers/. crab cakes, shrimp, clam strips, pierogi dinner. Seafood dinners include cole slaw or apple sauce, fries and a dinner roll. Extra sides include fries, pierogies, soup, mac n cheese, crab cake, apple sauce and cole slaw. February 11, 2021• The Catholic WITNESS- 19 for politics and social justice. contacted via your email for a DIOCESAN Her interests reflect God as link. Creator & Teacher. This retreat Pilgrimage to the Holy NOTEBOOK is silent and is intended to be Masses & Land in 2022 with Father contemplative. It will be a time Michael Reid, pastor of St. Prayer Services for personal prayer and meeting Vincent de Paul Parish in In conjunction with the privately twice with a spiritual Hanover. Father Reid will National 40 Days for Life director to discuss one’s lead a group of 24 pilgrims Campaign, a Jericho Prayer experience of God in prayer. on an active and spiritual March will be held on Saturdays The cost of the retreat is $70 tour of the Holy Land, Jan. February 20, 27, and March and the registration deadline 31-Feb. 11, 2022. The 12-day th. 6, 13, 20, 27 in Lebanon. The is Friday, Feb. 12 You can itinerary organized by Select Jericho Prayer March is a silent, register online at www.sscm. International Tours includes prayerful march to make a org or by calling 570-275- Mount Tabor, Nazareth, Cana, visible, public awareness for 0910. Registration will be Galilee, Tabgha, Magdala, the pro-life movement to end limited to 5 total participants. Mount of Beatitudes, the evil of abortion. Arrive After registering, you will be Capernaum, Mount and assemble in prayer groups contacted via your email for a Carmel, Caesaria Maritima, any time between 10 a.m. and link. Bethlehem, Shepherd’s Field, noon in front of Assumption Jericho, Baptism Site, The Virtual, Silent, 24 Hour BVM Church at South 8th and Dead Sea (with optional visit Directed Retreat, Feb. 19th Cumberland Streets. As people to Masada), Mount of Olives, at 7 p.m. to Feb. 20th at 7 p.m. arrive, you will go out in groups. Mount Zion, Jerusalem, St The virtual retreat is presented Directions, prayer sheets, Anne’s Church, and Ein by LuAnn Sgrecci O’Connell, and banners will be given for Karem. Land and Air cost a life-long explorer, learner the walk, which should take is $3,695; a deposit of $500 and teacher. Her degrees in approximately 30 to 45 minutes. is required by Oct. 3, 2021. economics and public policy Join us for all the Saturdays, or Flights depart from and return analysis inform her concern choose any weekend. There is no to Newark International for politics and social justice. need to register. For information, Airport. For a brochure and Her interests reflect God as contact Lucy at 717-926-4075 or other information, please Creator & Teacher. This retreat [email protected] or Sandra at contact Father Reid at 717- is silent and is intended to be 717-838-5243. 637-4625, ext. 113. contemplative. It will be a time Retreats & for personal prayer and meeting Education & Pilgrimages privately once with a spiritual Enrichment director to discuss one’s

Virtual Silent Directed experience of God in prayer. Diocesan Office of Weekend Retreat, Feb. 19th The cost of the retreat is $35 Vocations’ bi-monthly Zoom st . Young at 7 p.m. to Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. and the registration deadline discernment group men (junior year in high The virtual retreat is presented is Friday, Feb. 12th. You can school through young adults) by LuAnn Sgrecci O’Connell, register online at www.sscm. are invited to take part in this a life-long explorer, learner org or by calling 570-275- online discussion. To register, and teacher. Her degrees in 0910. Registration will be e-mail the Office of Vocations economics and public policy limited to 5 total participants. analysis inform her concern After registering, you will be More NOTEBOOK, page 20 February 11, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 20 at [email protected] “Overcoming the Evil Within” A Woman’s Concern Life with a valid e-mail address by Father Wade L. J. Menezes, Message T-Shirt Design and mailing address so that CPM, led by Susan Brinkmann, Contest for grades K-12 is the discussion material may be OCDS, beginning Feb. 15. underway. A Woman’s Concern mailed. The Zoom discernment “Queen of Militants” by Emil is a pro-life parenting and group meets on the 2nd and 4th Neubert, S.M., S.T.D., fall 2021 pregnancy resource center in Monday of the month from 8-9 study. For more information, Lancaster. Individual kids, p.m. contact Chris Arnold at classes, youth groups, small “Truth, Beauty and [email protected] or groups, Bible clubs, etc. are Goodness” Evangelization 717-379-6041. welcome to submit entries. Speaker Series – “A Closer One lucky winner will have Look at Some of the Titles Events & their T-shirt created, displayed of Good St. Joseph,” Zoom Fundraisers at our Annual Partners’ event, presentation on Feb. 22 from Holy Infant Parish in and sold on our website. Help 7-8:30 p.m. Guest presenter Manchester is selling candy us spread a positive pro- is Father Mark Wilke, pastor Easter eggs. A limited number life message in our world of Sacred Heart of Jesus of homemade chocolate peanut today by participating. Find Parish in Lewisburg and St. butter and coconut eggs can be contest details at:https://www. George Mission in Mifflinburg. bought individually for $1.25 friendsofawc.com/contest/ For Presentation will look at a each or $15 per dozen. Call the additional information, contact few of the titles of St. Joseph parish office at 717-266-5286 to Mary Ann at MaryAnnA@ during the Year of St. Joseph order. pregnancylancaster.com. proclaimed by Pope Francis. The public is invited to Register by Feb. 19 at noon at attend York Catholic High Job Openings https://hbgdiocese.formstack. School’s Winter Open House com/forms/speaker_series. on Sunday, Feb. 21, from 12-2 of The documentary “Pray, p.m. by appointment. Learn the Diocese of Harrisburg the Story of Patrick Peyton” what life at YC is like and see is seeking a full-time will be shown on Feb. 14 at everything YC has to offer Financial Assistant in their 2 p.m. at the Allen Theatre, students (grades 7-12) and their Administrative Office. This 36 E Main St., Annville. The families. Take a tour of the position requires a mature, documentary highlights the life newly renovated campus, talk detail-oriented individual of Father Patrick Peyton, who with York Catholic teachers with above average keyboard promoted praying the Rosary and administrators, meet skills, excellent organizational and who coined the famous current students and hear their and interpersonal skills with phrase, “families that pray experiences, and learn about the the ability to understand together, stay together.” Each 45+ sports and 60+ activities and follow instructions and ticket is $10; only 150 tickets available. Reserve your spot work independently. Must will be sold in order to comply today! Space is limited and pre- be proficient in Microsoft with Covid-19 regulations. registration is required to attend. applications, most especially Tickets are on sale now on Social distancing and mask Word, Outlook and Excel. Must the theatre website: www. protocol will be observed. For have an adequate background allentheatre.com. more information, contact York in business and bookkeeping or Women of Grace Catholic High School at 717- More NOTEBOOK, page 21 upcoming studies: Book study 846-8871, ext. 220. February 11, 2021• The Catholic WITNESS- 21 accounting. Please send résumé and excellent spelling and Looking for a one to two to: Catholic Charities, attention grammatical skills. The year commitment following Carole Klinger, 4800 Union person should be proficient in completion of certification Deposit Road, Harrisburg, Microsoft applications, most training. For questions, or PA 17111, or via e-mail to especially Word, Outlook and to submit a cover letter and [email protected]. Excel. Cordial and effective résumé, contact Leslie Moyer, St. Rose of Lima Parish communication with people Program Director, at lmoyer@ in York seeks a full-time are essential. The position may unfiltered-truth.com. Learn more Parish Secretary, Monday include some physicality, the about the program at www. to Thursday, 9 a.m.3:30 p.m. ability to move through several Unfiltered-Truth.com. and Friday from 9 a.m.-noon. buildings, as well as bending, Holy Name of Jesus Position will be responsible climbing stairs and lifting. High School in Harrisburg has an for the daily operations of the school diploma, preferably with immediate opening for a full- parish office, including clerical business curriculum, required. time computer teacher and work, minor administrative and Associate degree in office school IT person. Candidates business details. Other duties administration helpful. Two must possess academic include preparing Mass cards to three years’ related work excellence and a dedication and recording information in experience preferred. Send a to educating the whole child. the Mass Intention Register; cover letter, résumé and two Applicants for this position must maintaining sacramental letters of recommendation to be adept at developing lessons registries; preparing parish Father Dominic Azagbor, OP, at for Computer Technology. bulletin(s) and calendar data [email protected] The IT position would include entry, including Diocesan by Feb. 22. but not limited to network, Annual Campaign, parish Morning Star Clinics in hardware, database system, census, statistics and collections; Harrisburg is seeking a P/T security, software programs, ordering and maintaining instructor to teach nationally and technology support to records of office supplies recognized REAL Essentials faculty and staff. Teachers in and religious supplies and curriculum in greater Harrisburg the school work cooperatively materials; communicating with middle and high schools and to meet the needs of students. Diocesan offices, vendors and community organizations. The Interested candidates are to send parishioners, and other related program teaches foundational their résumé to Sister Rita at tasks as assigned. Position skills to develop healthy [email protected] requires an experienced, relationships, empowering or call Sister Rita at 717-657- detail-oriented individual teens to make wise decisions 1704. with above average keyboard and promoting sexual Undefeated Courage is skills, excellent organizational risk avoidance to seeking nurses to staff its and interpersonal skills with achieve optimal health. Teaching mobile ultrasound unit. Shifts the ability to understand and experience with this age available M-F 8am-4pm, FTE: follow instructions, as well group is required; the PRN with no maximum as work independently. The ability to constructively and hours. Hourly rate: $22. PA person should possess an overall enthusiastically engage teens RN license is required for this knowledge of general office is essential. An individual who position. Must be trained in procedures, familiarity with can be a role model and mentor limited obstetric abdominal/ office equipment (computer, to male students preferred. The transvaginal ultrasound or open typewriter, copier, fax machine, program utilizes both in-person postage meter, adding machine) and remote instruction formats. More NOTEBOOK, page 22 February 11, 2021 • The Catholic WITNESS- 22 NOTEBOOK, from 21 Schools in the Diocese of Harrisburg are currently looking for educators, specifically to training. The mobile unit will be deployed long term substitutes that are ready to join our to abortion clinics to change the way abortion- team in the Harrisburg area. Teachers in all grades minded women look at their pregnancy. The and all subject areas are needed. Certification is mission of Undefeated Courage is to help women preferred but not required. Catholic Schools in choose life for their baby and themselves. the Diocese of Harrisburg provide safe, joyful Undefeated Courage is a sidewalk advocacy school environments that follow current scientific organization in Central Pennsylvania that best practices on schooling during a pandemic. provides prayer, pregnancy testing, education on For more information or to find a school location pregnancy, referral to local pregnancy care centers near you, click on https://www.hbgdiocese.org/ and other social/legal services outside of abortion find-catholic-school/. Send your résumé and letter clinics at no cost or judgement. A free ultrasound of interest to either the location near you or to is an obstetrical tool used to evaluate the health of [email protected]. You may the pregnancy and can be a method for abortion- also call the Harrisburg Diocese Department of minded women to make informed decisions about Catholic Schools for more information at 717- their pregnancy after reviewing their ultrasounds. 657-4804 ext. 222. Visit https://www.undefeatedcourage.org/ employment.html for more information and an application.

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