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view your local CINDY WOODEN diocesan pages Catholic News Service WASHINGTON | Dr. Anthony Fauci, di- rector of the National Institute of Allergy and ORLANDO Infectious Diseases, is used to addressing the country about steps to contain the coronavi- rus, but in mid-May he spoke directly to grad- DIOCESE uates of the nation’s 60 Jesuit high schools with words of encouragement and congratulations. “Please, hang in there. We need you to be smart, strong and resilient. With discipline and empathy, we will all get through this to- PALM BEACH gether,” he said in a recording sent to Jesuit high schools that many posted on their school websites. DIOCESE Fauci, who earned the nickname “Ameri- ca’s doctor” years ago and has advised six U.S. presidents on national health concerns, was Jesuit-educated in both high school — at Regis Dr. Anthony Fauci meets with New York City’s Regis High School students and the High School in New York — and college — at school’s president, Jesuit Father Daniel Lahart, in 2019. Fauci, who is the director of VENICE the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is a 1958 graduate of Regis. Massachusetts. (COURTESY REGIS HIGH SCHOOL | CNS DIOCESE The idea to have him talk to Jesuit high school graduates came from Jesuit Father “Two of these — precision of thought and ing too early and risking additional outbreaks Daniel Lahart, president of Regis High School. economy of expression — inform how I think, of coronavirus cases especially in vulnerable He told America magazine he had asked Fauci how I write and how I communicate with the populations. FEAST DAY to record a video message for the school’s on- public every day,” he said. He also stressed the Reopening too soon, without widespread line graduation ceremony but that idea ex- Jesuit emphasis on social justice and service is testing and contact tracing measures, he said, panded to another video message request af- especially important “during the present un- could trigger outbreaks that governments may ter another Jesuit school president said he had settling times.” not be able to control. He also warned that new a similar idea. “Now is the time, if ever there was one, for us hot spots could cause unnecessary suffering So, the Regis president asked if Fauci could to care selflessly about one another,” he said. and deaths and in turn set back efforts to help do a second, more general message for all Je- Father Lahart admitted the video messages local economies. suit high school seniors. were “an audacious ask of someone who is in- On the day of his testimony, more than The result is a two-and-a-half minute re- credibly busy and concerned with worldwide 80,684 people in the U.S. had died from COV- cording that begins with “warm greetings health,” but he also said Fauci “speaks so easily ID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, from Bethesda, Maryland” and ends with the about what his Jesuit education means to him, and more than 1.3 million people in the coun- doctor’s wishes of congratulations and advice so I presumed it wouldn’t take him long to film try had confirmation they’ve been exposed to to: “Stay safe and be well as you celebrate this either one.” it. important milestone of your life.” “Today, we also can all take pride that the Fauci also repeated his call for a vaccine “Currently, our lives have been upended by man who is probably the most trusted person and warned that it likely would not be ready a truly historic global pandemic,” Fauci said, in the United States is a graduate of a Jesuit by the next school year. adding that he was “profoundly aware that high school and a Jesuit college. He takes great Fauci earned the Presidential Medal of graduating during this time, and virtually, pride in his Jesuit education, and as he proudly Freedom from President George W. Bush for without your friends, classmates and teachers professes, it has formed his life and his career,” his work in Africa developing a program to close by is extremely difficult.” the priest said. stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. The nation’s top infectious disease expert The same week this video was posted on Je- During his Regis talk last May, when asked gave a shoutout to his own Jesuit education suit school YouTube accounts, Fauci gave tes- if there was anything that kept him up at night, by saying he often describes Regis High timony by video before the Senate Committee Fauci told the group that he sleeps well be- School as the “best educational experience” on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. He cause his days are usually so long, but he did he could have imagined. He said it was is observing a “modified quarantine” after be- have one worry. where he “became immersed in the intel- ing in contact with a White House staffer who “I worry about a pandemic,” he told fellow lectual rigor of a Jesuit education” and where tested positive for the coronavirus. Jesuit alums, saying he was concerned about he picked up key tenets of the Jesuit tradition In his May 12 remarks to Congress, which the potential emergence of a virus that could that have sustained him throughout his life have drawn criticism from President Donald attack the lungs, similar to the flu that killed and career. Trump, Fauci warned some states are reopen- millions in 1918 and 1919. n

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Walking from Camping World Stadium on Church Street to Division Avenue, hundreds of mourners, including elected officials, Christian leaders, and priests lament the deaths of innocent black men and women over the years. The walk is intended to promote healing and restoration within the community in Orlando. (GLENDA MEEKINS | FC) Catholics join Christian leaders in A Walk of Mourning and Restoration GLENDA MEEKINS of the Florida Catholic staff

ORLANDO | A sea of people dressed in black moved slowly and deliberately down Church Street in Orlando, June 5, 2020 as hundreds of people mourn George Floyd, an African American who died while in police custody in Minnesota on Memorial Day. The crowd remembered not only Floyd, but hundreds of others who died unjustly before him. It was the 10th day of public expressions of outrage over Floyd’s death, but this was different. This was “A Walk for Mourning and Restoration,” called for by Christian leaders to help pro- Father Leo Hodges of St. Andrew Parish in Orlando, left, seminarian mote healing through prayer. Zachary Parker, center, and behind him, Father David Scotchie of Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolón and Sherriff John Mina (in green) As the massive crowd walked Nativity Parish in Longwood, walk in solidarity with the community walk with Commissioner Regina Hall, right of Sheriff, in A Walk for beneath gray skies, verses of Scrip- to pray for repentance, restoration and healing, June 5, 2020 in Mourning and Restoration, June 5, 2020. The walk was led by mostly ture interspersed with the names Orlando’s Parramore neighborhood. (GLENDA MEEKINS | FC) Christian leaders in the community. (MAURICE BEAULIEU | FC) of 100 of the 400 lives lost due to racism since 2014 echoed through SEE RELATED STORIES, States following ‘the tragic death of sin of racism,” he added. “Today, I onciliation and peace for which we the air. The walk began at Camping Pages A4, A12-A13 George Floyd,’ which he attributed ask all Catholics to join me with our yearn.” World Stadium and continued for to ‘the sin of racism.’” Echoing Pope black brothers and sisters in pray- A portion of “Open Wide Our one mile to Division Avenue, on the one member of the body of Christ Francis’ words, he affirmed, “We ing.” Hearts,” a pastoral letter offered edge of the Parramore district. suffers, we all suffer because we are cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye “A Walk for Mourning and Res- by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Although only able to attend one body. Black men and women to racism and exclusion in any form toration” served as a reminder of Bishops in 2018 reads, “We read briefly, Bishop John Noonan told are suffering right now in our com- and yet claim to defend the sacred- whom we are called to be and of- the headlines that report the kill- the Florida Catholic, “As a religious munities because of the loss of re- ness of every human life.” fered the hope that it is indeed ing of unarmed African Americans leader, it is my duty to offer my sup- spect for all human life.” “Today, I join the Church in St. possible—to love one another and by law enforcement officials.” That port to Pastor Tim Johnson as he Recalling Pope Francis words Paul and Minneapolis, and in the be “our brother’s keeper” (Gn 4:9). verbiage could easily be a headline gathers all the religious leaders of to his general audience just days entire United States, in praying for Following Pope Francis’ request, from the day the video of Floyd’s Orlando to pray. As he said ‘a time earlier, Bishop Noonan noted the the repose of the soul of George “Let us pray for the consolation of death went viral. “So how is it that to weep, a time to mourn and a time pontiff’s “’great concern’ at ‘the dis- Floyd and of all those others who their grieving families and friends, to heal.’ St. Paul reminds us, when turbing social unrest’ in the United have lost their lives as a result of the and let us implore the national rec- PLEASE SEE WALK, A2 June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic YOUR ORLANDO COMMUNITY A2

WALK FROM A1 in 2020, we’re here?” asked Pastor Johnson of Orlando World Out- reach Center, who spearheaded the walk. Quoting from Ecclesiastes 3:4, the Protestant pastor said, “There’s a time to weep. There’s a time to mourn. There’s a time to heal. The tragedies we are dealing with in our nation, can’t be healed by us, because they’ve been caused by us…. You have to take it back to the manufacturer. The One who made us and loves us. We have not loved each other like we should… Today, we’re going to love each other be- cause we’re human beings created in the image of an amazing God.” As the crowd moved forward qui- etly, so did Father David Scotchie, pastor of Nativity Parish in Long- wood, alongside his father, Larry. Father Scotchie said he came, “to pray for peace and unity. Thoughts and prayers are not enough and si- lence is compliance, in a way,” Fa- Hundreds of people dressed in black mourn the death of George Floyd and the hundreds of others who die due to racism. (MAURICE ther Scotchie said. “So, by coming BEAULIEU | FC) together in a public way to mourn those who have died, we can make a difference. And we’re doing it as people of prayer, trusting in God to change hearts and helping us to follow Christ.” His father, Larry Scotchie, has been a longtime ad- vocate for life. “I was looking for an opportunity to participate in this to show support for all persons who have been abused like this,” he said. “From conception to natural death, we have to respect life. This is where it starts.” Not far from him was Father Leo Hodges, pastor of St. Andrew Parish in downtown Orlando. He grew up as a military child. “Unfortunately, my first ex- perience of racism was on the playground of my Catholic grade school,” he recalled. “I lived on an Air Force base before that, in Oki- nawa, and on base no one seemed to care what you looked like or what language your spoke, or the color of your skin.” His experience spoke to the heart of the lamentation portion of the event, where several Christian leaders asked for forgiveness, on be- half of a church often divided and Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolón, seated on stage second from right with a microphones, asks everyone attending A Walk for Restoration whose life may not always reflect and Healing to kneel. He led the crowd in prayer for those whose job it is to protect the community, for forgiveness of abuses, and for the image of God. change that honors the human dignity of everyone. (GLENDA MEEKINS | FC) “(As an African American), I felt connected — that I was help- focused on mourning and restora- each morning (Lam 3:23), so we who is also a parishioner at St. ship of the law enforcement pro- ing the conversation for peace and tion. “In the Beatitudes, Jesus says: mourn, and we will be comforted, James Cathedral. “We need to fession and, “For anyone who has reconciliation continue,” Father ‘Blessed are those who mourn for restored.” pray, for our nation to heal during ever been at the hands of a situation Hodges continued. “I felt a great they will be comforted.’ Not only The walk ended aptly on a stage this painful and uncertain time where an injustice has occurred… sadness over the reckless loss of life are we mourning the loss of George just off Division Avenue, a long held in our lives,” Rolón told the Flori- we are here to serve you. We are and the ongoing racism.” he said. Floyd’s life, but the total loss of re- demarcation for the separation of da Catholic. “We need to pray, for here committed to take a knee for As a priest, he hopes the message spect for the dignity of every human ethnic neighborhoods. Pastor John- the lives lost, and their loved ones any cause that will end police bru- conveyed by the event is, “That it life,” he said. “The words of Lamen- son said they chose that spot, “To reeling with their loss. We need to tality — anything that will harm a is possible to all get along. Catholic tations 3:17 express that loss very say that barriers must be broken.” pray, for peace and unity, that we human being…” he said. does mean universal. … Many like- well: ‘My life is deprived of peace, Speakers from the Chris- will rise from these challenges to- His words harkened those of the minded folks gathered to move an I have forgotten what happiness is; tian community addressed the gether a safer and stronger com- conference of Catholic bishops in agenda forward to build the King- my enduring hope, I said has per- mourners, as did elected offi- munity.” their letter, Open Wide Our Hearts. dom of God here in Orlando.” ished before the Lord’. As a Nation, cials Mayor Buddy Dyer, Orange The Catholic civil servant spoke “As followers of Christ, we seek to Missionary of Mercy, Father we grieve, but we recall those words County Sheriff John Mina, Com- from the heart, without a script, reclaim the God-given sanctity of Anthony Aarons could not attend, of Jesus and they bring us hope. The missioner Regina Hill and Or- asking those gathered to kneel. He each person’s inviolable human but was thankful the event was Lord’s acts of mercy are, renewed lando Police Chief Orlando Rolón asked for prayers over the leader- dignity.” n A3 YOUR ORLANDO COMMUNITY Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020

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(English); Saturday, 4 p.m. (English), seek-refuge-holy-mother-of-god/ • All Souls Parish, Sanford: youtube.com/channel/ • St. John Vianney Parish, 7 p.m. (Español); Sunday, 11 a.m., resources/. UCuQK2uhlBYY2WGlKAPxi0vQ. Daily, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. Orlando: Daily, Monday-Saturday, ccstpaul.com/. Adoration: Holy Redeemer (English); Sunday, 9:30 a.m. • Prince of Peace Parish, 8:30 a.m. (English); Daily, Monday- • St. Peter Parish, Deland: Parish, Kissimmee, Friday, 7:30 p.m., (English), 12:30 p.m. (Español), Ormond Beach: Daily, Monday- Friday, 6 p.m. (Español); Sunday Sunday Mass (both in English and Facebook @hredeemer/. Friday, 12:10 p.m. (English); 10:30 a.m. (English), 12:30 p.m. allsoulssanford.org/watch-the-mass. Spanish); School Mass (Wednesday), Daily Readings: usccb.org. Saturday 9 a.m. (English); (Español), youtube.com/channel/ A5 YOUR ORLANDO COMMUNITY Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020 Dominican Republic education mission continues amid pandemic GLENDA MEEKINS Holy Name of Jesus Parish mis- Orlando of the Florida Catholic staff sioner participated in different kindergarten construction and education mis- teacher Gylla Macgregor | It’s a Monday sions over the past year, along LAS LOMAS educates morning and students from La with Jimenez. Moved by the Do- children in Cueva are gathering in their minicans’ love of God and simple La Cueva, small, wooden church, colored in way of life, Crocker keeps in touch Dominican aqua blue paint. Furnished hum- daily with residents, continuing Republic, bly with a simple wooden ambo to help them from Indialantic. through and altar, the building is perched “When the quarantine came, WhatsApp along a mountain overlooking it was obvious we had to keep the video-chat verdant, fertile hills in the Las children in a classroom frame of after COVID-19 Lomas region of the Dominican mind,” Crocker said. “We had no forces schools Republic. idea then how long it would last. to close. The children take their seats, We were able to begin weeks be- (COURTESY) huddling around a cell phone. fore the Ministry of Education They’re waiting for their virtual asked teachers to begin sending video chat lesson from the United assignments by phone,” she said. States to begin, via WhatsApp. WhatsApp is popular in the Three young mothers are us- Dominican Republic because it ing their smart phones to con- is less expensive and those with nect the village’s 13 school-aged smart phones all use it. Crocker students with Orlando kinder- said there really was no other garten teacher, Gylla Macgregor, option for distance learning. De- Missioner Raquel Jimenez helps and Melbourne volunteer, Raquel spite the slight video delay, the students in La Cueva learn Jimenez of Our Lady of Lourdes method has proven efficient and English. The students gather Parish, to provide video-tutoring expedient. Crocker is constantly in their town’s church and call in small groups, four mornings a impressed by the people of Las Jimenez on a parent’s cell phone. week. Groups of two to six chil- Lomas, and especially those from (COURTESY) dren work with the teachers, who La Cueva who live on the farthest alternate days, while other stu- end of a mountain ridge. They are unspoiled.” dents are working on other as- “I’ve been going back ever It was that first trip in March signments. The key was to estab- since I met them… The people 2019 when Crocker decided she On a normal school day, stu- project manager used to oversee- lish a schedule and maintain the are incredibly generous, very, would stay in touch regularly. “In dents from La Cueva would walk ing things from afar, us helping school atmosphere. very warm-hearted and they have exchange, I hoped to understand up to two hours to reach Los Fri- Dominican mothers construct It is possible thanks to the ini- enormous trust in God,” Crocker where their deep faith comes from os. La Cueva’s 80 residents expe- classroom aids from the village’s tiative, ingenuity, and love of Jean noted. “They’re the kind of peo- because I wanted to be more like rienced the joy of running water arts-and-crafts box. They are Crocker and her volunteers. The ple you want more of in your life. them,” she acknowledged. just one year ago after comple- developing skills they can use to tion of an aqueduct – another help their children with home- mission project. Crocker and work in the future. Each morning, Jimenez were both volunteer mis- as soon as the students are ready, sioners who helped in its comple- they call Macgregor and Jimenez tion. Throughout the year, the for their lessons. small town’s residents have asked “This is an opportunity for our Crocker for help on several proj- children to learn more and to ects, from establishing vegetable have more knowledge,” mother gardens to a first-aid course and Delgado Pinales said. “And it is a a video-chat teaching how to use chance for the children to avoid baby thermometers, their first having to repeat an academic WhatsApp video-chat experience. year. The classes with the chil- When the mission schools dren are teaching me to put into closed in early March, students of practice all my knowledge.” Del- La Cueva did not have the option gado Pinales is studying math

13826-0612 of going home to work virtually and physics at the university, and from their laptops or checking hopes to become a teacher. them out from school. There is With the help of worksheets almost no WiFi and no electricity prepared by mission school staff in La Cueva. What they do have is and Ursuline Sister Bernadette a tenacity for resourcefulness and Mackay, diocesan mission office an avid desire to learn, which has director, students are remaining facilitated the success of distance on track. “This experiment with learning. ‘virtual school’ has truly been a Crocker encourages the mis- blessing for the 13 kids in La Cue- sioners involved and the Do- va,” Sister Mackay said. “Academ- minican volunteers as they strive ically they have advanced beyond to provide a good education for the imagined goal, but more im- the children of La Cueva. The portantly the dynamic and pow- Florida volunteers teach the chil- erful force of love has penetrated dren bible stories, how to solve deeply into the hearts and minds mathematics problems, play aca- of all who have been involved in demic games, sing educational this learning experiment. A truly songs, and speak a little English. Pentecostal moment has been Crocker, a retired General Motors evidenced.” n June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic YOUR ORLANDO COMMUNITY A6

ST. MARGARET MARY Students share firsthand stories of the Holocaust ELIZABETH WILSON than 160 people tuned in to watch ready to carry the torch. As they are Florida Catholic correspondent the film and participate in the stu- likely the last generation who will dent panel that was held online af- be able to meet Holocaust survivors WINTER PARK | Sonja Marche- terwards. and World War II veterans, they are sano’s mother smuggled out the “The film is a prayer. How poi- now committed to keeping their family’s silver Shabbat candlesticks gnant and extraordinary that in stories alive and empowered to in the baby’s basket when they were Scripture the Hebrew people speak stand up to hatred by spreading the forced to flee Germany in 1939. about a Holocaust to God; a sacri- love of Christ. Harry Lowenstein hid for two days fice to God and Jesus, a Jew, is the “I learned from Sonja to treat ev- in a stack of automobile tires to hide ultimate sacrifice to give us ever- eryone with respect and treat peo- from Nazi soldiers. lasting life,” said Carol Brinati, chief ple the way you would want to be Helen Greenspun survived in a operating officer of the Diocese of treated. I hope to spread the word to concentration camp on one piece Orlando, after viewing the film. future generations and to my fam- of bread and a bowl of watery soup “May our living be of this sacrifice ily about the experience I had with each day. of Jesus, God’s gift of love — the ab- her and what I learned,” said Emily, Eighth graders at St. Margaret solute Holocaust — so all life would part of the student team who inter- Mary Catholic School in Winter come to be in its fullness.” viewed Marchesano. Park heard these and many more The purpose of the program is “These eighth grade students at stories of bravery as they learned not only to tell the stories of the Ho- St. Margaret Mary are so impres- about the Holocaust this year. But locaust but also to inspire future sive. Honestly, so impressive and these stories didn’t come from their Sonja Marchesano with St. Margaret Mary Catholic School students generations to combat anti-Sem- mature and caring and empathetic teacher or a textbook, the students Max C., Emily D., Camille F., Zachary H., Donovan L. and Aubrey M. itism and all forms of hatred and that it is one of the few things giving heard the stories from the survivors (COURTESY PHOTO) intolerance. When the students me hope right now in such a cha- themselves. The school participat- began work on the documentary otic world,” said Rachel Luce-Hitt, ed in Names Not Numbers, a pro- after knowing what everybody went language arts teacher, Leslie Prie- in the Fall of 2019, there was no way education director at the Holocaust gram that makes students the “wit- through,” agreed classmate Cam- de. Students spent time doing their to know that it would premiere in a Memorial Resource and Education nesses to the witnesses” as they re- den. own research for historical context. time of national unrest and protests Center of Florida. cord oral history testimonies from Survivor Eva London-Ritt and From coming up with the questions of racial discrimination, making “Student after student has re- Holocaust survivors and World War liberator Gilbert Waganheim were to operating the cameras to editing the message of the survivors time- marked that their participation in II veterans. In the program’s 16- also interviewed, telling stories of one hour of material into a 20-min- lier than ever. the Names Not Numbers project year history, this is the first time a their lives before, during, and after ute documentary – everything was “Any child who’s born is a hu- and their encounters with the sur- Catholic school has taken part. the war. Meeting Holocaust sur- done by the students. man being. We are all human be- vivors has forever changed them,” “I remember talking about the vivors and recording their stories In addition to the oral history ings,” Greenspun said. “You should said principal Katie Walsh. “It is our Holocaust with my parents a few is the culmination of months of film, a documentary was also remember, this happened in my sincere hope that this video and the times throughout my life, but I preparation. Under the Names Not made chronicling the process and lifetime. This is not a story or a film. entire Names Not Numbers experi- didn’t really comprehend it until we Numbers program, students first including reflections from the stu- I lived through it.” ence will continue to foster respect had the opportunity to do Names learned interviewing techniques dents and clips from the interviews. “Learn from the past and make for the value and dignity of each not Numbers,” said Max, a St. Mar- from a professional journalist and This film, “Names Not Numbers: A what’s in front of you better than it person.” n garet Mary student. filming and editing techniques Movie in the Making” premiered ever was before,” Lowenstein said. “I feel like this experience from a professional filmmaker. virtually June 3, 2020 hosted by the “If you don’t tell the story it will hap- The film will be available to changed me because I will never They were mentored throughout Holocaust Memorial Resource and pen again.” watch at www.holocaustedu.org/ look at the Holocaust the same way this process by their English and Education Center of Florida. More St. Margaret Mary students are event/film until June 17, 2020. ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL SCHOOL Class legacy gift exudes faith and fellowship Editor’s note: Some last board. This year, the class chose to joy the last bit of their eighth-grade names were omitted to protect commemorate a space that was of year socializing, sharing commu- the privacy of youth. particular significance to them. nity and breaking bread on it.” She Originally set on grass and par- added, “With COVID, we didn’t go GLENDA MEEKINS tial concrete, the class of 2020 chose back to see it.” The circumstances of the Florida Catholic staff to pave their lunch area with bricks made the blessing, just prior to to enhance the school grounds. graduation, all the sweeter. ORLANDO | Eighth graders at “(The legacy committee) looked Father Miguel González, rector St. James Cathedral School prepare around for an area that needed a of St. James Cathedral, and Parochi- for graduation on a cloudy morning, little more life... it was a perfect area al Vicar Father Matthew Hawkins June 5, 2020. They are excited to go that would leave a lasting tribute,” prayed over the space and blessed check out the paved deck they are said Wendy T., a mother of an eighth it with holy water. Then the group leaving the school as a legacy gift grader who served on the four-per- of 56 students moved to the gymna- and find their name on the bricks son legacy committee. She said it sium for their graduation ceremony. surrounding the large cross sit- followed in step with one of their “When the parents and the ting at its center. The students were family mottos: “Leave everything families come together, we do great thankful for a chance to return to better than you found it.” (From left) Father Miguel Gonzalez, Father Matthew Hawkins and things at St. James,” acknowledged campus one last time and see their The 20-foot by 60-foot space seminarian Kyle Fennesy rejoice at finding the name of Father Wendy. Principal Jayme Hartmann gift completed and blessed. strewn with picnic tables runs the Gonzalez inscribed on one of the bricks after the deck blessing, June added, “It’s adds to the aesthetic Each year the graduating class of length of the middle school. “The 5, at St. James Cathedral School. (ANDREA NAVARRO | FC) value (of the school). It’s not only St. James Cathedral School leaves SJCS middle school deck is where pretty to look at, and... was a fabu- a legacy gift as a way of thanking my classmates and I shared laughs able to make memories and fellow- He also secured the brick donation, lous way to allow these kids to re- school staff for forming them in and memories during lunch. It’s the ship like we did.” making the project possible. ally show where their foundation is. the faith, preparing them for high place where my closest friendships With the help of Charles JeBai- Wendy noted, “The goal was They put it in bricks. It’s decorative. school, and leaving their mark. grew,” explained Alexandra, Wen- ley, another eighth grade parent, to have the deck completed over It’s religious. It’s a great represen- Past projects include stained glass, dy’s daughter. “By adding bricks, we his construction company MarJon spring break, so that when they tation of the foundation they built a Marian garden, and even a score- wanted the upcoming classes to be Construction, prepared the space. came back to school, they could en- here.” n A7 YOUR ORLANDO COMMUNITY Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020 Ministries overcome pandemic restrictions with personal touch

GLENDA MEEKINS ing the volunteer lay ministry phase week. McGinness-Gursky remind- they’re doing; where their needs York City area, the parish stepped of the Florida Catholic staff of this program,” Father Webster ed her volunteers this year, they are; to keep them in prayer and let up its prayer list and often adds the added. “COVID hasn’t changed our are all “called” to be caregivers. She them know when their loved one is deceased to daily Mass intentions. CLERMONT | While the pan- ministry, which is very good. It just requested her minsters make calls being prayed for, specifically dur- The added efforts by staff and min- demic draws on, parish sick and be- challenged us to be more creative.” on the days they used to go visit the ing certain Masses. We’ve been isters is making a difference. reavement ministries face the chal- Blessed Sacrament’s pastoral homebound, for some continuity. very lucky to be able to livestream With most of those in the pasto- lenge of providing mindful care to ministry serves six nursing homes, “To remind them that they are our daily Masses, so they’ve been ral ministry to the sick of advanced those they serve. At Blessed Sacra- providing a weekly service, until kept in prayer, and if they’re com- able to be virtually present at those age, there can be a resistance to us- ment Parish in Clermont, ministers pandemic restrictions limited inter- fortable to pray together, always re- liturgies.” ing technology. McGinniss-Gursky are offering a personal touch, while action. Under normal circumstanc- minding them they have to include During the limitation of 10 pres- said with the help of caregivers, respecting social distancing. es, Father Webster visited each per- their personal caregivers, the peo- ent at a funeral, the livestream has most are pleasantly surprised that “(COVID-19) hasn’t changed our son monthly to anoint them. Know- ple in their homes who are present- assisted family members to be a they can see their priest and their ministry,” said Father Robert Web- ing that would come to an end for a ly taking care of them – not to lose part of the services “in a way that church. ster, pastor. “It has made those of us while, Kathy McGinness-Gursky, sight of those sacrifices and maybe, is dignified, making them feel that “The idea of being able to (priests) who are doing visits to be director of Pastoral Care and Fam- to offer a spiritual communion so they are there and giving them that livestream Mass is like speaking more diligent in regards to distanc- ily Life, brought each person a small they don’t feel as disconnected.” feeling of closure after a loss,” Felt- a foreign language to many of the ing, contact, touch, and hygiene. cardboard sign naming the minis- Her team of 26 ministers call man added. So far, they’ve only had older adults,” she said. “For them, We’ve stepped it up.” ter who would be praying for them. about 64 homebound parishioners one funeral Mass in the church. “All this is a whole new world.” Most of the ministers to the sick Between diligent calls to the every week. She also encouraged of our funerals have opted for cre- McGinness-Gursky recounted are of a vulnerable age themselves. sick and bereaved, livestreamed volunteers to minister to one an- mation and a Mass at a later date the story of a homebound parishio- While the volunteers are not mak- Masses and funerals, special inten- other. “People who I know that are or there has been a committal ser- ner — Ms. Lynn. Two of the parish’s ing home visits, they are making tions, and an occasional call from by themselves or recently by them- vice at the cemetery and a Mass at a volunteers visited Ms. Lynn weekly weekly calls and step them up when a nursing home or family-member selves, or are alone, or a little bit later date,” Father Webster said. “In over the past three years. “These needed. “The interesting thing notifying the pastoral team that one more susceptible to being discon- short, we have flexibly done what two women make sure there is not down the line is going to be restart- or two might need an extra call that nected – I call them on a weekly ba- needs to be done. There’s no magic a week all year long that Ms. Lynn sis just to check in,” she said. formula.” is not visited,” she said with pride. When McGinniss-Gursky knows Most parishioners have chosen a Now that they may no longer go in a family-member has lost someone funeral liturgy, known as “The Fu- person, they call her weekly. or is about to lose a loved one, she neral Liturgy Outside of Mass.” The Her niece and caregiver, Carol, gets Kevin Feltman, director of Lit- casket is still present and blessed, affirmed the telephone visits pro- urgy, up to speed. She and Feltman but there is no Liturgy of the Eucha- vide a real “weekly perk” for her work closely together to minister rist, facilitating less contact. aunt, who looks forward to them. to the sick and bereaved at Blessed “We’re trying to walk a very McGinniss-Gursky said, the con- Sacrament. The communication fine line where the chief mourner versations “provide something joy- enables continuity of care and doesn’t have to become the bounc- ful for Carol, and Ms. Lynn to talk heighten awareness of how to best er at the funeral, as to who are the about, way after the call. I love the serve. 10 that can come,” Feltman said. phone calls – these ministers are As liturgy director, Feltman co- “They’re already dealing with special angels,” Ms. Lynn said. “We Premier Catholic Funeral Home ordinates funerals, another conten- the loss of a loved one, and now talk about so many different things tion in pandemic times. “We have they’re having to decide who is – our families, our concerns – we a team of bereavement ministers close enough to be at the funeral. always talk about how thankful we ON-SITE CREMATORY that make contact a week after It’s a very dfficult time for that. 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COMMENTARY : THE SPLENDOR OF OUR FAITH Learning from the teachings of Vatican II FATHER BLAKE BRITTON ABOUT THIS NEW COLUMN Special to the Florida Catholic At the invitation of the Florida understanding of the Church. My hope is Our Catholic faith can only be Catholic, Father Blake Britton will write that these articles will serve as a source of described as “splendorous”. “Splen- a series of reflections on Catholicism education and formation in our faith while entitled, The Splendor of Our Faith. Many simultaneously providing a springboard for dor” comes from the Latin word of the topics discussed will be based the reader to do further research. To this speciosa meaning “to shine forth” or on questions submitted to the paper by end, I will ensure to provide quotations “be brilliant”. The Swiss theologian readers. Father Britton said it does his and references in every article specifically Hans Urs von Balthasar reminds us heart well to “see such an interest among from Sacred Scripture and the writings of that speciosa is related to the word the faithful, especially Millennial and the ancient Church Fathers. Following the forma (“form”/ “shape”) which is a Gen Z Catholics, to rediscover the origins model of Vatican II, our first collection of derivative of formosus, the Latin of our religion. There is a wellspring of reflections will be about the sacred liturgy, word for “beautiful”. In other words, young Catholics in our diocese and indeed a topic of great import and sometimes when something is “splendorous” throughout our country who are yearning tension in the contemporary life of the it means that it brilliantly reveals for a more substantial and theological Church.” and conveys the beautiful. Prop- erly speaking, splendor is the “shin- ing through” of beauty in a way so ings of Vatican II. This is why Pope evangelizing and converting the grand and awe-inspiring that it is Emeritus Benedict XVI asserts that world to Christ. beyond description. That is Catholi- the primary evangelical Taking the words of cism; that is the Catholic Church… initiative of the Church in our Pope Emeritus to she is splendorous. Her liturgy, her our time is to rediscover heart, this new series in teachings, her saints, her history, the graces of the Second the Florida Catholic will her struggles, her triumphs…all Vatican Council and edu- be guided and informed of them are transcended with the cate the faithful through by the spirit of the Sec- light of God’s radiance. The Church its writings. ond Vatican Council. As and her faith are where the divine is In the opening docu- such, all of the articles manifested in history. ment of Vatican II, the published in this section In the end, to write about the bishops summarize their of the paper will be cat- Catholic Church is not simply to mission as a responsibil- echetical in nature, seek- outline teachings or moral prac- ity to “impart an ever- Father Britton ing to explain the basics tices. It is not enough to report data increasing vigor to the of our faith and imbue the and ethics. As Catholics, we are part Christian life of the faithful”. With souls of our readers with the tradi- of a story strewn with prestige and these words in mind, it is clear that tion of Mother Church. Thus, we ar- largesse, drama and adventure, the tendency to define Vatican II as rive at the title of our new series: The trial and glory. Our predecessors a “pastoral council”-although not Splendor of Our Faith. Blessed John XXIII is pictured in the Vatican Gardens with the dome of include the most accomplished incorrect-is most certainly incom- I want to thank the Florida St. Peter's Basilica in the background in this undated photo. Blessed and selfless people in world his- plete. More than anything, Vati- Catholic for prioritizing the spiri- John, who convened the Second Vatican Council, was canonized tory. No other institution has done can II was a mystogogical council, tual formation of our readers as along with St. John Paul II in 2014. (CATHOLIC PRESS PHOTO | CNS) more for the cultural, intellectual which is to say, a council dedicated well as allowing me this opportu- and societal enrichment of civiliza- to reacquainting the average Cath- nity to serve the People of God. The tion than the Catholic Church. We olic with the fundamentals of their Florida Catholic’s desire to support are philosophers and theologians, faith. In a world overrun by secu- such a series shows their stalwart builders and founders, artists and larism and materialism, the coun- dedication to building up the Body musicians, scientists and doctors, cil fathers recognized the need for of Christ. My prayer is that these kings and presidents, lawyers and a renewal and re-presentation of articles will help all of us grow in a teachers. Catholic genius spans the the Church’s essential uniqueness. deeper love and appreciation for the whole breath of human endeavor. Instead of being laden with legal- splendor of our faith. n Yet, all of its success is not to be istic or practical considerations, found in ambitious exploit or gru- the documents of Vatican II are Father Blake Britton, of the Diocese eling conquest, but rather, in the rich with spiritual and theological of Orlando, is an author of theologi- simple hearts of men and women reflection. In particular, the four cal publications and a contributing who sought to love their God and major constitutions provide a stun- writer to religious outlets including His creation after the model of our ning synthesis of our Catholic faith Bishop Robert Barron’s Word on Fire Savior: “Love one another as I have beginning with the Sacred Liturgy ministries and the Evangelization & loved you” (Jn 13:34). The Catholic as the “source and summit” and Culture journal. He is co-host of the Church is the world’s heartbeat. closing with the Church’s task of Burrowshire Podcast. When Jesus promised to be with His Apostles until the end of the age, He was referring to the Church (see Mt 28:20). Through the sacra- ments and ministry of the Catholic Church, Jesus is still in our midst, not as an idea or memory, but as a person fully alive. It was Joseph Cardinal Bernar- din who recognized the Second Vatican Council as the “most im- portant event in the life of the Cath- olic Church during the twentieth century”. Unfortunately, the initial Polish Auxiliary Bishop Karol Wojtyla of Krakow, wearing sunglasses, excitement revolving around the is pictured in St. Peter's Square in 1963 during the Second Vatican council has tapered off in the past Subscribe to our free e-Edition and get breaking news first. several decades. As a result, the 13937-0612 Council. The future Pope John Paul II helped draft council documents Visit the link below and enter your on religious liberty and the church in the modern world. (GIANCARLO vast majority of Catholics remain email address to subscribe. GIULIANI, CATHOLIC PRESS PHOTO | CNS) wholly unfamiliar with the teach- FACEBOOK @FLORIDACATHOLIC | June 12-18, 2020 FLORIDACatholic PALM BEACH DIOCESE

FYI Franciscan Sister Joan Daw- Sister Dawson retires again, son was born Feb. 13, 1941, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Dawson, formerly of Rochester, New York. She attended Good Counsel continues service in Tampa Elementary School and Nazareth Academy in Rochester, New CECILIA PADILLA of the Florida Catholic staff York. She entered the Francis- can Sisters of Allegany, New PALM BEACH GARDENS | If York, Sept. 8, 1959. She holds a you ask Franciscan Sister Joan bachelor’s degree in English from Dawson if she is looking forward to St. Bonaventure University in her retirement this month, she’ll re- New York and a master’s degree ply with a sweet chuckle, “Well, this in English from the University is the second time I’m retiring.” of Notre Dame in Indiana. In Sister Dawson retired from her 1975, she received her doctor- 20-year tenure as superintendent ate in educational leadership of Catholic schools for the Diocese of Palm Beach in 2011, and after six from Wayne State University in months of retirement found that Detroit. Sister Dawson has spent her time was much better served her religious life in the ministry as the diocese’s episcopal delegate of Catholic education. Between for religious. This “I’m not done yet” At left, a banner created 1963 and 1976, she was a high attitude is the hallmark of Sister by children is displayed at a school teacher of English in New Dawson’s 28 years of service to the luncheon honoring Sister Joan York, New Jersey and Florida. In diocese. She will celebrate her 60th Dawson, seen above, who retired 1976, she became a high school jubilee this year. as school superintendent in 2011. administrator in Fort Myers, Flori- Upon reflecting on her time in (FC FILE PHOTOS) the Diocese of Palm Beach, Sister da. From 1979 to 1991, Sister Dawson shared that it was the peo- son dedicated her time laying the tion journey. At her 50th jubilee, Dominican Sister Judy Rimbey, Dawson served as the superin- ple — whether in her role as super- foundation of the role itself and the she shared a story about her time business office manager at Cardi- tendent of Catholic schools in intendent or episcopal delegate for overall administration and educa- away in graduate school when she nal Newman High School, similarly the Diocese of St. Petersburg. In religious — that made her vocation tional mission for the 21 diocesan began to wonder “whether or not I reflected, “I have had the privilege 1991, she came to the Diocese to religious life so fruitful. schools at the time. Her hard work was making any difference in oth- to work with Sister Joan while serv- of Palm Beach and served as “I’ve always had a love for educa- secured the future of what is now er people’s lives being a religious.” ing on the diocese’s Commission for the superintendent of Catholic tion and the people you get to know the Office of Catholic Schools. “I Sister Dawson said a young woman Women Religious and have come to school until her retirement in working in schools,” Sister Dawson left the superintendence of Catho- in her class approached her to say appreciate Sister Joan’s strong con- said. “I’ve learned so much from lic schools in good hands with Mr. she had never met a sister before viction that all women and men are 2011. Shortly after, she assumed young people, whether students Gary Gelo. I wanted the department and felt that a woman like Sister called to serve the church – the peo- the role of episcopal delegate to or new teachers. When I left being and the schools to flourish beyond Joan would never talk to her or get ple of God. A particular experience religious men and women in the a superintendent, I was delighted just my time there,” said Sister Daw- to know her. that I remember so well, was when Diocese of Palm Beach. Within to find that the religious men and son. The lesson learned, said Sister she gave the keynote presentation her religious community, Sister women of our diocese inspired me Likewise, she has enhanced the Dawson, was not in what she did, at the Serra Club Day of Reflection Dawson has served as coordina- just as much.” projects facilitated by the episcopal but in her presence and being her- in October 2019. The theme of the tor for education from 1981- Sister Dawson shared that the delegate for religious to include a self that spoke to her fellow class- day was Women of the Church. 1984 and as general councilor Diocese of Palm Beach is home to yearly Mass for jubilarians celebrat- mate. “God didn’t want me to do Her belief, one that she clearly and religious men and women from a ed by Bishop Barbarito at the Cathe- any big, enormous work; he just unequivocally conveyed that day, from 1984-1992. She previously wide variety of places and orders. dral of St. Ignatius Loyola; a vespers wanted me to be there to say ‘hello’ was regardless of whether one has held memberships in many edu- In her role as episcopal delegate for service, in which the bishop also to that woman. It isn’t so much what chosen married life, single life or cational organizations, namely religious she acts as the liaison be- participates; a holy hour service in we do, but rather the fact that we are religious life, every woman has a the National Catholic Education tween the bishop and religious in celebration of World Day of Conse- ‘available’ when God needs us to be part in bringing about the kingdom Association, the Chief Adminis- the diocese. Her office provides ser- crated Life in which religious renew there for another.” of God.” trators of Catholic Education and vices and programs for the spiritual their vows; and a yearly keynote Simi Sahu, a young woman dis- Sister Anita Gabarczyk, the first the Florida Catholic Conference and personal growth of religious speaker who addresses matters that cerning to be a consecrated virgin, grade assistant at St. Joseph School Accreditation Committee. She and is the communications center influence religious life. spoke to Sister Dawson’s ability to in Stuart, said, “In the time that I for the diocese regarding these men “I strive to integrate religious and be there when needed most. “Given have known Sister Joan, I have been also served on the board of St. and women. the community often,” said Sister her office as the episcopal delegate deeply humbled by her witness and Mary’s Hospital in West Palm “In working with our diverse Dawson. “It’s important that the for religious, Sister Joan was the first dedication to religious life. Her sis- Beach and currently serves the population of religious, I’ve loved community sees the gift of religious person I met with concerning my terly support and love are, and al- Allegany Franciscan Ministries sharing insights, praying and serv- life. In the same regard, religious request to be a consecrated virgin ways will be, evident in her words Foundation. ing God’s people together. It has men and women have the oppor- in the Diocese of Palm Beach. She and actions.” Sister Gabarczyk built a strong sense of community tunity to express their perspective took the time to listen and helped noted that when she and her fel- for me. I especially enjoy seeing and love for the community during throughout the application, in- low Sisters of the Most Holy Soul of Tampa to live in community with how each religious chooses to live the receptions after these events. terview and formation. I’ve been Christ the Lord came to the United other retired women religious. She out his or her love for the Lord. I It’s powerful to hear their testimony blessed to experience the love of States from Poland, Sister Dawson intends to keep being a presence leave with great fondness for them of just being present in the commu- Jesus and the Church in a tangible had “a deep openness and welcom- in the community for anyone who all,” Sister Dawson said. nity.” way through her. I am particularly ing spirit to us, who were new to the might need her. “I hope to be of ser- At the time of her superinten- The power of presence is some- grateful for her warmth, openness country and culture.” vice to the community in Tampa; dence, the Diocese of Palm Beach thing that Sister Dawson has car- and faithfulness in the time I have Sister Dawson plans to move the sisters there do good work with was still quite new, and Sister Daw- ried with her throughout her voca- known her.” to the St. Elizabeth Residence in women in need. I’m not done yet.” n June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic YOUR PALM BEACH COMMUNITY A2 Diocese welcomes new vocations director CECILIA PADILLA new office at the Pastoral Center has talked me through the prepa- This call to religious life, said of the Florida Catholic staff in Palm Beach Gardens, an office rations he made for the summer. Father Daza-Jaller, is not only he remembers well, having been It’s comforting to have his guid- heard among men, but women PALM BEACH GARDENS | Af- there only a few years ago during ance, knowing he’s only an email as well. The new vocations di- ter just two short years of serving his own formation. or phone call away,” said Father rector intends to include women in the priesthood, Father Daniel This sense of familiarity is a Daza-Jaller. religious and women living in Daza-Jaller will step into the role source of happiness for Father However, the young priest is consecrated life in the forma- of vocations director for the Dio- Daza-Jaller, who spent his youth looking forward to implementing tion opportunities offered by the cese of Palm Beach, July 1, 2020. in the Diocese of Palm Beach. new projects and goals for the vo- vocations department. “When “When Bishop Barbarito came Born in Colombia, he moved to cations department. Father Daza- we think of vocations, we often to me with the news, I was ex- south Florida at a young age. His Jaller hopes to incorporate active think of the priesthood,” said cited but apprehensive,” Father involvement at St. Rita Parish in prayer groups among parishes Father Daza-Jaller, “but there is Daza-Jaller said. “I was worried Wellington fostered in him a love and youth groups to encourage such breadth to the word ‘voca- about all the things that I didn’t for his faith and a sense of com- vocations. “Prayer is key to the tions:’ religious life, married, know and would have to learn munity. Father Daza-Jaller grew call to vocations. It’s my goal to consecrated celibacy, laity. The in this new role. In the days that up getting to know the diocese combine prayer with visibility of Sisters of the Most Holy Soul of followed, there was a sense of through youth groups and ser- discernment in the faith commu- Christ the Lord in Stuart are an peace and beautiful acceptance vice projects, and as a teen was nity. For instance, there are regu- example of women religious who as I came to trust in the bishop’s confirmed by Bishop Barabrito. Father Daniel Daza-Jaller lar holy hours held around the are living examples of vocations choice, as I began to trust in the He fondly expressed that “the diocese where parishioners and in our diocese. It’s my hope to in- Father’s choice for me.” Church here birthed my inter- my fluency in Spanish is benefi- religious come together to pray. I vite them to speak to young girls The ability to discern his call- est in a vocation. The Diocese of cial for the Hispanic men want- want to coordinate youth groups more often.” ing when presented with a chal- Palm Beach is home.” ing to discern but who might not and other student-centric groups While Father Daza-Jaller accli- lenge is what makes Father Daza- “During my nine years in semi- be strong in the English language. to visit these holy hours as a way mates to the new responsibilities Jaller well-fitted for the role of nary, I asked myself, ‘What does it We can speak Spanish to each to keep vocations at the forefront and opportunities ahead, he is vocations director. He expressed meant to be a priest? What does other, making it easier to open up of people’s minds.” taking in the time left at St. An- that part of his own vocation as it mean to be a priest for the Dio- about the discernment process.” At St. Anastasia Church, Fa- astasia Parish. “My parishioners a priest is to lead others through cese of Palm Beach? How can I be Father Daza-Jaller also ex- ther Daza-Jaller was successful have been so supportive, but I their vocation journeys. “God is of service to this community spe- plained being bilingual helps in creating a discernment group know they will miss me. I will always calling us to something cifically?’ I think I will discover Spanish-speaking parents better for youths and young adults. He certainly miss them,” he said. greater. For me, that means walk- the answer to that question in my understand their son’s discern- hopes to collaborate with other “Now that churches have been ing with young men on their way new capacity,” Father Daza-Jaller ment process. “For the men who parishes to from these groups, opened for public Mass, it has to serve the Lord.” said. grew up in both cultures, being which, he says “create openness been a blessing to say goodbye in In the weeks to come, Fa- In addition to knowing the bilingual is a huge help, for them to religious life.” In a similar fash- person before starting on my new ther Daza-Jaller will leave his local community, Father Daza- and their families.” ion, Father Daza-Jaller aspires path.” n beloved St. Anastasia Parish in Jaller also brings a multi-cultural Since learning of his new posi- to strengthen the altar server Fort Pierce, where he served as perspective to the vocations de- tion, Father Daza-Jaller has been groups in parishes. “More often To learn more about the Office of parochial vicar, and get to know partment. Being fluent in Eng- working closely with Father Brian than not, young men hear a call Vocations, visit diocesepb.org/voca- his new residence at St. Paul of lish and Spanish is a blessing he Lehnert, the previous vocations to the priesthood because of their tions or contact Consuelo Minutoli the Cross Church in North Palm shares with the Anglo and His- director. “Father Lehnert has giv- involvement in altar serving,” he administrative assistant, at 561-775- Beach. He will also move into his panic communities. “I think that en me a lot of practical tips and said. 9552 or [email protected].

Kevin Faulkner, director of School expands children’s choir program music at St. Luke Catholic School and ALEEN STANTON both academically and spiritu- istrators are taking into consid- Florida Catholic correspondent Church in ally through its focus on liturgical eration social distancing regula- Palm Springs, music and Catholic identity,” Bac- tions according to the Center for prepares his PALM SPRINGS | In August, chus said. Disease Control and Prevention. classroom for St. Luke Catholic School in Palm When school reopens, St. Luke Choir rehearsals will remain the expansion Springs is determined to welcome School intends to increase the under the recommended group of the shool’s its students with the promise of choirs’ involvement in the Mass, numbers, with students spread choir program an expanded choir program. as well as their musical reper- six feet apart from each other. In in August. The boys’ and girls’ choirs at toire and ability level. This means addition, the boys’ choir and the (ALEEN St. Luke School are part of the choir rehearsals will be a regular girls’ choir will alternate singing STANTON | FC) nationally-acclaimed American activity on campus and in the between the Friday school Mass Federation Pueri Cantores, the church. Faulkner shared that in- and the 9 a.m. Sunday Mass. student choral organization of stead of students rehearsing be- “Our students are ordinary the Catholic Church that pro- fore and after school one to two kids, doing extraordinary things,” motes Catholic identity among times a week, rehearsals will take said Faulkner. “We will be the music students. The American place four times a week, Monday only school in south Florida ex- Federation Pueri Cantores previ- through Friday during school panding our choir involvement to ously held its annual Choral Fes- hours. this level. This is a huge move for tival and Mass at St. Luke Catholic Students from third to eighth us. Although it is an old form of Church in February 2020. Young grade are encouraged to join the incorporating liturgical music in people from throughout south choirs, with the opportunity of school curriculum, it represents William E. Boyes Florida came together to sing one taking piano and voice lessons. a new avenue for our students to John Farina shared repertoire at the Mass and In preparation for a future in the connect with the Mass.” n festival. school choir, students in second Peter Matwiczyk The expansion of the choir grade are taught to sing in Latin To learn more about the choir pro- • Wills, trusts and guardianship litigation program is the result of the col- so as to gain the appropriate gram at St. Luke Catholic School, laboration between Father An- skills to sing traditional hymns. contact Kevin Faulkner, director • Estate and trust planning and administration drew Brierley, pastor, Diann Bac- Faulkner also explained that stu- of music, at kevin.faulkner@st- chus, school principal, and Kevin dents can audition over the sum- lukeparish.com or visit stlukepal- 3300 PGA Blvd., Suite 600 [email protected] Faulkner, director of music. “Ex- mer with a simple song selection msprings.org. To learn about the Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 [email protected] panding the choir program adds such as “Happy Birthday.” American Federation Pueri Can- 561-694-7979 [email protected] depth to our school program Faulkner and school admin- tores, visit pcchoirs.org. 11202-0612 A3 YOUR PALM BEACH COMMUNITY Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020 Venturing into the heart of June

June is a month of fulfilled prom- However, it was through the visions ises and ones yet to come. This is of the Visitandine nun, St. Margaret especially true this year as we con- Mary Alacoque, that the devotion, tinue to move away from the quar- as we know it today, took its definite antine imposed by the coronavirus shape. It was she who received the FLORIDA to more of a semblance of normalcy 12 promises from the Sacred Heart in our lives. June holds the center at Paray-le-Monial in France during Catholic of the year. Its days are longer and the period 1673 to 1675. DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH brighter and it also holds the longest The liturgical observance of the day of the year on June 20, which feast was authorized by Pope Clem- Vol. 81, No. 15 marks the beginning of summer. ent the XIII in 1765 and Pope Pius IX The days of summer are extended the feast in 1856 9995 North Military Trail before us as we look ahead to the Universal Church. Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 to some more relaxed days. Pope Leo XII consecrated 561-775-9500 • Fax 561-630-2698 It is fitting that the humanity to the Sacred month of June brings the Heart in 1899. The feast PUBLISHER Bishop Gerald M. Barbarito celebration of the solem- was fixed on the Roman nity of the Sacred Heart of calendar in 1969, as the Fri- DIRECTOR OF Jesus, which we will cel- day following the second COMMUNICATIONS, MARKETING ebrate this year June 19. week after Pentecost and LIVING THE and SOCIAL MEDIA Indeed, June is the month was made a solemnity. De- Jennifer Trefelner TRUTH IN [email protected] of the Sacred Heart and LOVE votion to the Sacred Heart 561-775-9529 its many signs of fulfilled has received even more at- promises, hope and life are Bishop tention with the canoniza- DIOCESAN EDITOR quite appropriate for what Gerald tion April 30, 2000, of Sister Cecilia Padilla the sacred heart symbol- Barbarito Mary Faustina (1905-1938) [email protected] izes. 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LIVING AND WORKING THROUGH COVID-19 Physician reflects on faith during pandemic WENDY DWYER ‘One silver lining has Florida Catholic Correspondent been the resilience BOYNTON BEACH | As medical manifested by many professionals navigate challenges brought on by emergencies and colleagues, despite the tragedies with professionalism and challenges.’ pragmatism, the Palm Beach Phy- sicians Guild of the Catholic Medi- — Dr. Félix Rodríguez cal Association have relied on the Catholic faith to see them through this challenging time. faith,” Rodríguez said. The group, founded in 2016, is Members of the Palm Beach one of the youngest Catholic Medi- Physicians Guild have had to get cal Association guilds in Florida used to a very different way of pro- and is comprised of Catholic physi- viding medical care. To ensure the cians and healthcare professionals safety of their patients and them- whose mission is to “inform, orga- selves, healthcare providers must nize and inspire its membership in now suit up with personal protec- steadfast fidelity to the teachings of tive equipment, which often makes the Catholic church, and to uphold both providers and patients feel the principles of the Catholic faith more distant. in science and practice of medi- “It has been wrenching to see cine.” how some hospitalized patients — Helping shepherd the group of and nursing home patients, too — faithful healthcare professionals are facing many challenges alone through the pandemic is Dr. Félix because of the restrictions for visi- A. Rodríguez, a Boynton Beach on- tors. At the offices, we have had to cologist who serves as the current integrate the modality of telemedi- president of the Palm Beach Physi- cine, interacting for appointments cians Guild. via phone or video calls,” he said. These past few months have “This is something that is here to PHOTO BY FLAVIO LO SCALZO, REUTERS | CNS been “emotionally challenging” for stay; it’s not appropriate for all cir- all Catholics, Rodríguez said. But as cumstances, but it certainly has al- While it is true that the CO- spirational moments throughout “These measures are neces- a physician he relies on faith, along lowed taking care of patients who VID-19 pandemic has caused a the course of the crisis, too. sary in order to protect the health with medicine. would not leave their house for fear radical shift in how healthcare is “From the pastoral side of things, and safety of all clergy, parish staff “The pandemic process started of getting exposed to COVID-19.” provided, Rodríguez also believes it has been touching to see some of and the faithful. It’s a very Catholic during the beginning weeks of Lent, Rodríguez said there is also that it has had a profound impact our younger priests, including our thing to protect the vulnerable, so so the lockdown and the distancing an economic concern fac- on every other aspect of medicine very own Palm Beach Physicians abiding by these safety guidelines is from the sacraments became part ing some medical professionals, as and life. Guild chaplain, Father Dennis an act of charity,” he said. “I would of the ‘walk in the desert,’” he said. the quarantine impacted the num- “Our behavior towards one an- Gonzales, who is himself a nurse, go encourage the faithful to be as strict “Certainly, the whole Easter Sea- ber of patients who could be safely other has changed due to social to the hospitals, learn to use protec- as possible in following the guide- son was marked by an odd sense of seen at a given time. distancing, so this has added on tive equipment and respond to the lines from our bishops in Florida. … both celebration and longing. But, “Some local hospitals have pro- to the spiritual suffering many are needy,” Rodríguez said. Certain highly vulnerable individu- as I keep telling friends and Catho- vided either in-person or virtual experiencing,” he said. “Many have For Rodríguez, the spiritual walk als may actually need to continue lic colleagues, the Holy Spirit has counseling for healthcare profes- opted to delay important studies of facing this crisis without the to quarantine from public religious not been on quarantine, nor has he sionals affected in various ways and evaluations for fear of being ex- sacraments has been at times very services for health reasons, and our been maintaining ‘social distanc- during the crisis,” he said. “One posed to COVID-19, so for Catholic hard. He said returning to celebrate faith teaches us that our God is tru- ing’... and thanks be to the Lord for silver lining has been the resilience clinicians who are facing fear and the Liturgy on Pentecost Sunday ly a merciful and wise God.” n that.” manifested by many colleagues, anxiety, the challenge has been to was “a bittersweet experience” be- Rodríguez said online Masses despite the challenges. Again, the not lose sight of these issues as we cause everyone understands that For further information about Palm and various resources that have sense of not going through this evaluate patients.” physical distancing needs to be Beach Physicians Guild, visit the or- sprung up during the quarantine alone has been key to maintaining Rodríguez said there have been maintained at a time when we most ganization’s website at http://palm- have been important sources of a sound mind and spirit.” many beautiful, spiritual, and in- want to be close. beachcma.cathmed.org/ consolation and solace for many healthcare professionals. “Various Catholic podcasts have kept me grounded during this time, as well as being more intentional about Marcia J Mills, Attorney PLLC Scripture reading and devotions such as the rosary and the Divine Licensed FL MD DC NY Mercy chaplet.” Another supportive source has been the Florida Catholic Medical 40 years of experience Association, whose board mem- bers have maintained a digital con- nection via email and text messag- Simple Wills: $100 ing. 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Rose Flower Shop in Port St. Lucie, can tell you. The husband and wife Marta is an excellent know the exact combination of flow- designer.’ ers that offer inspiration and restore better moods. Donna Francavilla from St. Bernadette Church in Port Donna Francavilla St. Lucie is a frequent beneficiary of the Kissel’s talents with flower ar- and big-box retailers. “We’ve been rangements. “Bill has been a friend doing fine,” said Bill. “In fact, we had for a long time,” said Francavilla, a our best Mother’s Day this year.” former florist who heads a steward- A native of New York, Bill grew ship committee at the church that up in his mother’s flower shop at the stages flowers for Mass. “He’s been epicenter of the financial world— good to the church…he goes above the World Trade Center Concourse and beyond for us. He does drop-offs in Manhattan. He spent much of and is always very generous. Marta is his youth helping with orders and an excellent designer. When we have making deliveries on foot. In the big weddings, they allow me to use mid-1980s, their business partners their space.” ventured to Miami, and he moved During the COVID-19 pandemic, to Florida at the age of 19 to manage the Kissels have been a source of the shop. He opened a new loca- Bill Kissel, owner of Misty Rose Flower Shop, readies to deliver Pentecost Sunday arrangements bound comfort for the parishioners at St. tion at the Intercontinental Hotel in for St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton Church in Port St. Lucie. (DEBRA MAGRANN | FC) Bernadette Church. “Bill is aware of downtown Miami. Since then, Bill’s Church traditions and the liturgical enterprises have included the Pavil- around Florida and settled in Port St. talents and generosity. The organi- porter of what we do, helping people colors,” said Francavilla, “which is ion Hotel in Biscayne Bay; the Grand Lucie in 2003 with his current flower zation’s charity golf tournament was in need in our community.” a huge help when we need flowers Bay, Mayfair and Omni Hotels in the shop. looking for sponsorship and Bill, an Other nonprofits that receive his to reflect the liturgical season. Dur- Coconut Grove district; the legacy Throughout his business endeav- avid golfer, not only became a spon- assistance are Mary’s Shelter, a faith- ing the shutdown, I had some silks Costa Cruise Lines and Celebrity ors, Bill has maintained a humble sor but helped plan the event at St. based transitional home in Stuart on the altar and he said he’d donate Cruises. desire to assist churches and local James Golf Course where he was a that provides services for homeless, flowers until the church gets back to He eventually moved back to charities. Bill is keen on paying it member. Since then, said Schiffgens, pregnant women; Treasure Coast normal. He has a big heart.” New York to help care for his niece forward; he donates flowers for raf- Bill has been a supplier of flowers to Hospice; and the American Cancer Running the daily duties of a and nephew when his sister lost her fles and charities like local hospital St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, Society. n small enterprise can be trying espe- husband. There, he met Marta, his auxiliaries that raise money for free among others, in the Port St. Lucie cially when life is at a standstill. Yet wife of 16 years. Marta’s family in ambulance transport. area. For more information, contact Bill the Kissels have managed to thrive Poland owned a silk flower business, Don Schiffgens, from the St. Vin- “He very much supports the mis- or Marta Kissel at Misty Rose Flower when so many mom-and-pop shops providing silks and wreaths for cem- cent de Paul Thrift Store in Port St. sion of the St. Vincent de Paul Soci- Shop at (772) 340-0062 or visit misty- have folded along with restaurants etery plots. The couple road tripped Lucie, also approached Bill for his ety,” said Schiffgens. “He’s a big sup- roseflorist.com. WELCOME BACK TO CHURCH In joyous celebration of the reopening of churches in the Diocese of Palm Beach, the first grade class at St. Ann School in West Palm Beach made a “welcome back” poster for Father Nestor Rodriguez to share with congregants. (COURTESY) June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic YOUR PALM BEACH COMMUNITY A6

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TELEVISED MASS Father Bob Pope, pastor of St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in Fort Pierce, celebrates Mass on Trinity Sunday, LIVESTREAMING June 7, 2020. The parish livestreams Masses on Facebook @ stmarkftpierce. (SCREENSHOT) SPANISH MASSES Diocese of Palm Beach weekly Televised Catholic Fort Pierce, will livestream on its St. Joan of Arc Parish, Boca additional spiritual and devotional IN THE U.S. Mass: Sundays the Diocese of Palm Facebook page @notredamecc. Raton, will livestream Mass daily videos. You can access its YouTube Beach airs its Televised Catholic • CatholicTV, 8 a.m., 5:30 p.m., English Mass at 8 a.m.; Creole Mass at 10:45 a.m. on Facebook @ channel through its website, 10 p.m. Sundays at catholictv.org/ Mass from 10:30-11 a.m. on CW34 at 11 a.m. Adoration at noon. SaintJoanOfArcCatholicChurch. paulcross.org or Facebook page, @ WTVX, on the diocese Facebook masses/catholictv-mass. 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Peace, Delray Beach, will be Vero Beach, will livestream Mass p.m., and Sunday Mass at 8 a.m., SOCIAL MEDIA livestreaming Masses via Facebook on Facebook @StJohnVeroBeach 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 5 To read important updates, @Our-Lady-Queen-of-Peace- on Sundays at 10:30 a.m., and p.m. Visit stpeterjupiter.com or the PRAYER RESOURCES inspirational messages, worship Parish-106901287623014. In daily Mass at 8:30 a.m. Its YouTube parish app for more information. resources and more about the English, Mondays to Saturdays, 9 channel can be accessed on its St. Philip Benizi Church, Belle Liturgy of the Hours: Find Diocese of Palm Beach during a.m. and Sundays 11 a.m. and in website at stjotc.org. Glade, will livestream Masses on morning, daytime, evening and the coronavirus pandemic, visit Spanish, Tuesdays and Thursdays 7 St. Joseph Parish, Stuart, will Facebook @stphilipbellegladefl. night prayers online at universalis. diocesepb.org or visit the diocese’s p.m. and Sundays 9:30 a.m. Live stream Daily Mass at 9:00 a.m. St. Rita Parish, Wellington, com/-700/today.htm. Facebook page @DiocesePB. Our Lady Queen of the in English and Vigil Mass in Spanish will post Masses on its website at Pray the rosary with videos Stay in-the-know about the Apostles, Royal Palm Beach, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. through saintrita.com. for the mysteries of the rosary at Office of Catholic Schools at will be livestreaming via Facebook Facebook and YouTube. For more St. Sebastian Church, therosary.online/#luminous. diocesepbschools.org or follow Live @OLQACatholicChurch, then information, visit https://www. Sebastian, will livestream Sunday Light a candle online and them on Facebook, Twitter and posting to its website www.olqa.cc. sjcflorida.org/. Masses at 10 a.m. on Facebook @ share your prayer intentions from Instagram @DoPBCatholicSchools. Sacred Heart Parish, Lake St. Jude Parish, Boca Raton, SebastianCatholic. your home at stjohnneumann.org/ Worth, will livestream three will record daily Masses and upload St. Thomas More Parish, faith-miracles/light-a-candle-online. Masses Sundays: 11 a.m. in English, them to stjudeboca.org. Boynton Beach, offers Daily Prayer: English: LIVESTREAMING 1 p.m. in Spanish and 3 p.m. in St. Jude Catholic Church, livestreaming capability of Mass magnificat.com/free; Spanish: Creole. They will be shared on Tequesta, will livestream the at stmbb.org/live-streaming. Visit magnificat.com/gratis MASSES IN THE Facebook @SacredHeartCatholic 10:30 a.m. Sunday Mass at https:// the website for Mass schedule and ChurchLakeWorth. U.S. Conference of Catholic stjudecatholicchurch.net/live- further details. Bishops DIOCESE OF Sacred Heart Parish, stream/. St. Vincent Ferrer Parish, • Message from conference PALM BEACH Okeechobee, will livestream St. Juliana Parish, West Palm Delray Beach, will livestream Mass on its Facebook page @ president and prayer: usccb. Beach, will livestream two Sunday weekdays at 9 a.m., and Sundays at org/about/communications/usccb- Cathedral of St. Ignatius SacredHeartChurchOkeechobee Masses: 9 a.m. in English and 10 a.m. at stvincentferrer.com. All Loyola, Palm Beach Gardens, on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and daily president-reflection-and-prayer- 10:30 a.m. in Spanish. This will be Masses will be available for later during-coronavirus.cfm will live stream Daily Mass at 9:00 Mass at 8 a.m. through Facebook and You Tube @ viewing at stvincentferrer.com/ a.m and Sunday Mass at 10:30 a.m. St. Anastasia Parish, StJulianaCatholicChurch or on the • Resources for prayer mass-archives. and engagement during This will be from their website Fort Pierce, will provide website, stjulianacatholicchurch. Our Lady of Florida Spriritual www.cathedralpb.com. the community with liturgy, com. coronavirus: catholiccurrent.org/ Center, North Palm Beach, covid19/ Ascension Parish, Boca devotional opportunities and St. Lucie Parish, Port St. will livestream daily Masses at Raton, will livestream weekend prayer through social media. Visit Lucie, will livestream Mass at • Daily Scripture: USCCB daily 9 a.m. on its Facebook page @ readings in English can be found Masses via Facebook @ stanastasiachurch.org/ for more 9:30 a.m. Sundays. Masses are OurLadyofFlorida. AscensionBocaFl. Scroll down the information. also livestreamed in Spanish at at usccb.org/bible. USCCB daily page to find the video and click on St. Ann Parish, West Palm 11:30 a.m., and Mondays through readings in Spanish can be found the play button. Beach, will livestream Sunday Saturdays livestreaming the 8:30 LIVESTREAMING at usccb.org/bible/lecturas. Holy Cross Parish, Mass on the Historic St. Ann a.m. daily Mass. Access the live St. Vincent de Paul Seminary: Indiantown, will livestream on Church Facebook page and feed at stlucie.cc by clicking on MASSES IN THE U.S. Access Deacon Daily Reflections Facebook @HolyCrossCatholic website, stannchurchwpb.org (on “Video Main Church.” The church and 40 Hours Devotion before the ChurchIndiantown: English, 11:30 the home page click on Sunday bulletin will also be accessible on • EWTN will livestream daily Blessed Sacrament on Facebook @ a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Mass.) The times for both sites are the website. Mass at 8 a.m. ET from Our Lady SVdPSem. Fridays; Spanish, 11:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Saturdays in English, St. Luke Parish, Palm Springs, of the Angels Chapel in Irondale, Scott Hann: Access free Bible Tuesdays, Thursdays, Sundays; 1:30 p.m. in Spanish and 3 p.m. in will livestream on YouTube at 9 Alabama. Mass will be re-aired at study, Mass and meditations at Saturdays, 3 p.m. English, 4 p.m. Creole, both on Sunday. a.m. in English and 10:45 a.m. in noon ET and again at 7 p.m. and stpaulcenter.com/ Spanish. St. Bernadette Parish, Port St. Spanish. For more information, see midnight ET. Watch the livestream Holy Family Parish, Port St. Lucie, will livestream daily Masses its website stlukeparish.com. Mass at ewtn.com/tv/watch-live. You can also listen to the Mass on Lucie, will livestream Mass daily at through its YouTube channel St. Mark Parish, Boynton RADIO 8:30 a.m. on its Facebook page @ (please “like” its Facebook page St. the radio, SIRIUS/XM, or online at Beach, will Livestream Mass on ewtn.com/radio/listen-live. If you HolyFamilyCCPSLFL. Bernadette Catholic Church - Port Facebook @StMarkBoyntonBeach EWTN radio essentials: Various St. Lucie, FL). Its Masses will also be missed the livestream, the entirety devotions, such as the Rosary, Holy Name of Jesus Parish, St. Mark the Evangelist of the daily Mass can be found on West Palm Beach, will livestream shared on stbernadetteslw.org. the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the Parish, Fort Pierce, will livestream demand at video.ewtn.com/daily- Angelus, St. Michael’s Chaplet are Mass daily at 7:30 a.m. on its St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Sunday Mass at 12:30 p.m., on mass. Facebook page @myhnj. Parish, Port St. Lucie, will found find both EWTN Global Facebook @stmarkftpierce. • Local TV Channels: AT&T, Catholic Radio and EWTN Radio Holy Spirit Parish, Lantana, livestream the daily Mass via St. Martin de Porres Parish, Facebook @seaspsl, Mondays Channel 562; Comcast, Channel Essentials by going online to www. will share Mass on its website at Jensen Beach, will post Masses on 243; DirectTV, Channel 370; Dish, ewtn.com, clicking on Radio at the holyspiritlantana.com. through Fridays at 8:30 a.m., and its website at stmartindp.com. the 10 a.m. Sunday Mass. Channel 261. top of the page, then “Listen Live,” Mary Immaculate Parish, St. Paul of the Cross Parish, • CatholicTV: Mass will be and finally click on “United States” West Palm Beach, has Masses St. Francis of Assisi Parish, North Palm Beach, is providing where you will see a drop-down Riviera Beach, will post its livestreamed from the Basilica of available on YouTube on its both daily and Sunday Masses the Sacred Heart at the University menu with “Radio Essentials.” website at miwpb.com. YouTube Masses on its website through its YouTube channel, St. stfrancisofassisi1948.org. of Notre Dame’s campus in South Notre Dame Catholic Mission, Paul of the Cross NPB, as well as Bend, Indiana, at 10 a.m. Sundays, A7 NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL NEWS Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020 Marian shrine to welcome Rocky Mountain visitors

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CANMORE, Alberta | The Virgin Mary is sitting with her son Jesus in a lush Alberta forest, surrounded by deer drinking from a gurgling stream, with the majestic Three Sis- ters peaks in the background. “The window cries out to you ‘Rocky Mountains,’ and there is Our Lady in the midst of that,” said Father Nathan Siray, pastor of Our Lady of the Rockies Parish. “That’s kind of our number one devotional image to Our Lady of the Rockies that is completely unique to this building.” The powerful image is set in custom-made stained glass, one of the focal points of the new $20 mil- lion (US$14.8 million) church in the mountain community of Can- more, about 15 miles southeast of Banff. It’s a new church for the par- ish, which dates back to the 1800s, and the first Marian shrine in the Diocese of Calgary. Pilgrimages, conferences and other events are planned once pandemic restric- tions are eased. Bishop William McGrattan dedicated the new 17,000-square- Above is a view of the new Our Lady of the Rockies Church in Canmore, Alberta. Bishop William McGrattan of Calgary celebrated Mass at foot church May 30, 2020 during a the church May 30, 2020,. Below is a view of the interior of the church. (PHOTSO BY LINCOLN HO, GRANDIN MEDIA | CNS) Mass that was livestreamed on the Diocese of Calgary’s Facebook page small, and great things came from because of the restrictions. The first her. I think if we can embrace her public Mass in the new church will spirit, we’re going to do well going be celebrated June 8, 2020. forward.” Bishop McGrattan noted that The new church is at the edge of dedication came as Pope Francis town, off the Trans-Canada High- led the major shrines worldwide way, and figures prominently when in praying the rosary to implore motorists arrive. Mary’s intercession and protection The exterior design reflects a amid the coronavirus pandemic. European-style alpine church. In his homily, Bishop McGrat- That was the vision of Father Bryan tan recognized the spiritual foun- Frank, a former pastor of Our Lady dation of Our Lady of the Rockies of the Rockies, and Guy Turcotte, parishioners and the greater reach a parishioner and the developer of the church will have as a Marian Silvertip Resort in Canmore, who shrine. donated the roughly three-acre “In many ways our diocese, property for the church. under the patronage of Mary, we “We really got a tremendous gift should have a shrine church,” Bish- in having such a prime location so op McGrattan said. “We should have visible for this new church to be a place in which people, not only in built upon,” Father Siray said. “You our own diocese but throughout the know it’s pretty cool, as you’re com- world and in Canada, can come as ing on Highway 1, you see the turn- they come to the Rockies to see na- off to Canmore town center, and hall, kitchen, conference room, and ture’s cathedral. They can stop and as you crest the hill one of the first columbarium with 262 niches. Bishop William they can pray and they can experi- things you see is our bell tower. The official feast day for Our Lady McGrattan ence the great presence of God who “You couldn’t ask for a better lo- of the Rockies Parish is Aug. 22, the of Calgary, comes to dwell in our midst in these cation. We hope that it becomes a Queenship of Mary. And the feast Alberta, is seen humble abodes that we build.” bit of a beacon of hope for people day for its sister church in Banff is May 30, 2020, Father Siray said the roughly 300 here that there’s something good the Assumption of the Blessed Vir- during the families of Our Lady of the Rock- and beautiful and it wants to wel- gin Mary, a week earlier. designating of ies Parish were “ecstatic” that the come as many people as it can into “So we thought, in time, it would the new Our church building was completed it,” he said. a cool opportunity to really promote Lady of the and dedicated in May, which the Father Siray’s predecessor, Fa- those two feasts,” Father Siray said. Rockies Church church devotes to Mary. ther Wilbert Chin Jon, focused on Last summer, Our Lady of the in Canmore as the first “It’s going us take time to under- the interior with traditional archi- Rockies Parish organized its own Marian shrine stand our new identity as a shrine. tecture, liturgical art and a large bicycle pilgrimage from Banff to in the Diocese But the overwhelming sense I get supply of marble for the new altar Canmore. of Calgary from my people is, ‘This is incred- and ambo to blend both old and “We brought a carrier and put a (YUAN WANG, ible. Thank you,’” Father Siray new. statue of Mary up on it. It was quite COURTESY said. “I couldn’t help thinking The new Our Lady of the Rock- entertaining to meet people along DIOCESE OF this church is dedicated to Mary, ies church has a capacity for 425 the way as Mary goes by on the CALGARY | CNS) and Mary was always one humble people, double the number of the bike,” Father Siray said. “We’d like of heart. She was willing to start old church, and it includes a new to continue to do stuff like that.” n June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL NEWS A8

At left, volunteers plant vegetables at the Jubilee Garden of St. Francis de Sales Parish in Lake Zurich, Ill. At right, Father Ken Fleck, pastor of St. Geroge Parish in Tinley Park, Ill., tends to plants May 1, 2020, that will be planted in the parish’s “Seeds of Faith —Harvest of Hope” gardens. (PHOTOS BY KAREN CALLAWAY, CHICAGO CATHOLIC | CNS) Catholics tend gardens, supply pantries during pandemic

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE tion, so we do tomatillos,” she said. ‘Some people like to sit “We’re going to try potatoes this CHICAGO | For years, some par- year.” and weed. Some people ishes in the Chicago Archdiocese It’s a group effort. like to harvest. Some have maintained gardens whose “Everybody has different inter- produce was donated to local food ests. Some people like to sit and people love to mow the pantries. weed. Some people like to harvest. lawn. It’s amazing what With the rise in food insecurity Some people love to mow the lawn,” during COVID-19 sending more Frederickson said. “It’s amazing we get done.- people to food pantries than before, what we get done.” those ministries have taken on a They are able to harvest several — Sharon Fredrickson new importance. hundred pounds of fresh, organic Volunteers at the Jubilee Garden produce each year. of St. Francis de Sales Parish in Lake In the Centennial Garden at St. the Catholic Charities food pantry Zurich, a Chicago suburb, debated Paul of the Cross Church in subur- in Des Plaines, Illinois. whether they would be able to have ban Park Ridge, social-distancing “It’s a very tangible way to feed the garden at all this year because measures also are the priority this the hungry and people like to see of the pandemic. But when busi- year, according to Adrienne Timm, the fruit of their labors,” Timm said. nesses started opening up, they director of social service ministry at “It is about relationship and it’s made plans to start the garden the parish. The garden is in its ninth about hope. It’s not just how great with social-distancing measures year and produce is given to the we are that we’re doing this. We’re in place, said coordinator Sharon parish food pantry, which is open working together to make the king- Fredrickson. once a month. dom come here on earth.” No more than 10 people are al- They are using SignUpGenius to Father Ken Fleck, pastor of St. lowed in the garden at a time, and schedule times when people can George Parish in Tinley Park, an- all are encouraged to wear masks. be in the garden. Only one family, other Chicago suburb, has been “All of us wear gloves because or no more than three individuals, gardening since he was in fourth it’s dirty work,” Fredrickson said. can be in the garden at one time. grade and has turned several areas “Being in a garden by nature you’re Gloves are mandatory and they are of his parish into gardens with the typically far apart anyway. And by asking people to be aware of com- yields being donated to the Tinley its very nature, you’re outside.” mon surfaces, like the latch on the Park Food Bank. Volunteers plant vegetables at the Jubilee Garden of St. Francis de The Jubilee Garden began over garden gate. When school is in session, he Sales Parish in Lake Zurich, Ill., May 30, 2020. 20 years ago and uses a plot of land- When the parish put out the call uses the gardens to teach the school ed donated by a parishioner. Heavy for volunteers again this year, ev- students about the science behind fresh produce to the Tinley Park some for free. rains in early May meant volunteers eryone said yes. growing produce. Students will Food Pantry. But if they don’t make a donation, weren’t able to start planting in the “They said, ‘This gives us a sense seed the plants. He has apple trees “It’s living our faith,” Father Father Fleck said, they are asked to garden until the end of the month. of normalcy. It gives us a way to give on the property that he uses as a Fleck said. “What helps to keep us raise more than one plant, keeping Volunteers work in the gardens to others things that are fresh that teaching tool for the school stu- spiritually and emotionally healthy the produce from half of what they on Saturday mornings and produce they cannot always get from pan- dents. They harvest and process the is to think outside of the box that is take for their own families and do- is donated to the local St. Vincent de tries,’” Timm said. “Everyone is on apples then make apple muffins for ourselves. When you focus your at- nating the produce from the other Paul food pantry. board.” the food pantry. tention on the needs of others, all of half to the food pantry. “What makes it even harder this She said the garden, which al- “They’re learning religion and a sudden life has a purpose, it has He encourages parents to plant year with COVID-19 is you have a lot lows parishioners sections to plant, corporal works of mercy and a little meaning.” gardens with their children and do- of people who might not have been care for and harvest, is an effective chemistry, too,” Father Fleck said. The parish also grows hundreds nate some of the produce to a local on the other end of needing a food way to build community within the When church is open normally, of tomato and pepper plants in two food pantry. pantry, but they are now because of parish and families. They have 40 during the summer months, the greenhouses and buys about 1,000 “When parents and children so many layoffs,” Fredrickson told growing areas that include buckets, parish has baskets in the vesti- more tiny seedlings each spring and work together it reminds parents of the Chicago Catholic, newspaper of vines, raised bed gardens, an herb bule where parishioners can drop gives them to the school students the baptismal promises that they the Archdiocese of Chicago. garden and a butterfly garden. off fruit and vegetables from their to nurture. This year, after schools are the first teachers of the chil- They plant a variety of crops such “There’s a lot of good stuff that home gardens for donation to the were closed for the pandemic, Fa- dren,” the priest said. “Parents teach as tomatoes, string beans, zucchini comes out of it,” she said. “Our food food pantry. ther Fleck took over the nurturing. their children more so by their ex- and cucumbers. One parishioner pantry clients really love the fresh Last year, between the parish When they are ready to be plant- ample than by sending them to reli- plants pumpkins that are donated food. It’s about hopefully building gardens, which encompass about ed outdoors, the parish will make gious education classes.” n to the pantry for the kids around some sort of relationship beyond 2,800 square feet on the parish them available to parishioners. Halloween. ‘Here you go,’ because it’s a win-win grounds, and parishioners donat- They can make a donation to sum- Duriga is editor of the Chicago Cath- “We do a lot of tomatoes. We on both ends.” ing items from their own gardens, mer youth ministry programs in ex- olic, newspaper of the Archdiocese of also have a larger Hispanic popula- Any extra produce is donated to the parish gave 1,000 pounds of change for plants, or they can take Chicago. FACEBOOK @FLORIDACATHOLIC | June 12-18, 2020 FLORIDACatholic VENICE DIOCESE oin 30 days J of prayer to St. Joseph STAFF REPORT

VENICE | When Bishop Frank J. Dewane announced the Diocese of Venice would celebrate a “Year of St. Joseph” from March 19, 2020 to March 19, 2021, he promised a number of resources would be made available to help in this celebration. “St. Joseph is a figure who lead by example, while also offering powerful prayer and protection,” Bishop Dewane said of the saint who was the foster-father of Jesus Christ, is the Patriarch of the Universal Church and serves as guardian and protector of the Church and Her faithful. Therefore, as Father’s Day approaches June 21, 2020, and as we continue to deal with the impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 Pan- demic, it is fitting that the Diocese has made available a “30 Days of Prayer to St. Joseph” on the Diocesan website at dioceseofvenice. org/a-year-of-st-joseph. Available in English and Spanish, these 30 days of prayer symbolically honor each of the 30 years that Joseph spent with Jesus and Mary on earth, as according to tradition St. Joseph died just before Jesus entered public ministry. It is during these 30 days of prayer that we petition St. Find prayers in Joseph by his sufferings, sorrows and joys to hear our requests and carry them to God’s throne on English and high. Spanish on Saints and popes through the centuries have Page A2 spoken on St. Joseph’s influence to intercede as the faithful have turned to the saint as a powerful pa- tron and faithful guardian, father and friend. Many seek the intercessions of St. Joseph for healing and conversion, help with their children, a new job or home, and for all their needs of body and soul. St. Teresa of Avila, the Carmelite Doctor of the Church, frequently directed her sisters to “go to St. Joseph.” In her autobiography, St. Teresa wrote: “Would that I could persuade all men to be devout to this glorious saint, for I know by long experience what blessings he can obtain for us from God.” Not only is St. Joseph the patron of the Universal Church, but he is also the patron of fathers, carpenters, woodworkers, cabinet makers, laborers, bakers, confectioners and pastry-makers. As a father and laborer, St. Joseph’s intercession is often sought by those fathers who are unemployed or under employed. Sacred tradition also holds that Joseph was blessed to die with Jesus and Mary at his side, and as such is invoked as the patron of a happy death. This “Year of St. Joseph” also coincides to commemorate the 150th anniversary of St. Joseph being solemnly declared Patron of the Catholic Church by Pope Pius IX in his decree Quemadmodum Deus. Pope Leo XIII wrote in his 1889 encyclical on devotion to St. Joseph “Qua- mquam pluries,” “Men of every rank and country should fly to the trust and guard of the blessed Joseph,” especially fathers of families. St. Joseph is the patron saint of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, and the devotion to the saint by Pope Francis is well documented. Pope Francis formally inaugurated his papacy on St. Joseph’s feast day, March 19, 2013, and he has a spikenard, the flower used as a symbol of St. Joseph, on his coat-of-arms. At the beginning of his pontificate in 2013, Pope Francis confirmed a directive, which Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI had made, to include the name of St. Joseph permanently in the Eucharistic prayers used at most Masses in the Latin Rite. Pope Francis spoke about the importance of St. Joseph during his weekly general audience March 18, 2020, which was livestreamed during the lockdown in Italy caused by the Pandemic. The Holy Father said, “In life, in work, in family, in joy and in sorrow, he (St. Joseph) always looked for and loved the Lord, earning the praise Scripture of- fers of being a just and wise man. Always invoke him, especially in difficult times, and entrust your lives to this great saint.” Pope Francis also invited Catholics, especially in the midst of the Pandemic, to put their families “under the loving gaze of St. Joseph, guardian of the Holy Family and of our families.” During the Feast Day livestreamed Mass on March 19, 2020, the Pope said God chose “a just man, a man of faith” to raise His Son on Earth. The 30 days of prayer can be said during any 30-day period, but with Father’s Day upon us, now is a particularly opportune time to turn to St. Joseph, asking his help and guidance for all your needs, the needs of your family, loved ones, friends, and all those in need of prayer. n June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic YOUR VENICE COMMUNITY A2 30 days of Prayer to St. Joseph

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Bishop Dewane celebrates Masses at Parishes throughout Diocese

BOB REDDY “Since we have begun existing on and not being able to see people of the Florida Catholic staff the way we do now I try to be out as they are, but we need to do that and about in the Diocese at vari- right now.” SARASOTA | Bishop Frank J. ous Parishes,” Bishop Dewane ex- During this time of Pandemic, Dewane was the main celebrant plained. “We certainly have a new the Bishop said the faithful must ac- for the Vigil Mass June 6, 2020, at St. normal.” knowledge that Christ calls us to be Patrick Parish in Sarasota, Since resuming public Masses, a people of hope. “We must remain This visit was the latest in a se- Parishes are now functioning at believers and hope for the best — ries of Masses being celebrated by up to 50 percent capacity while for one another, for ourselves, but Bishop Dewane throughout the Di- also ensuring parishioners are most of all for our Faith. We have to ocese of Venice since public Masses wearing face coverings and main- have hope in Jesus Christ.” resumed May 18, 2020, in the wake taining appropriate social dis- For those who are older, are vul- of the COVID-19 Pandemic. tancing. In addition to other safe- nerable to illness or are not fully The Bishop celebrated Mass on ty and health precautions, extra comfortable to return to Mass, the Solemnity of the Ascension of sanitizing is taking place between the dispensation of the obligation the Lord and Pentecost at Epiphany Masses. to attend Sunday Mass continues Cathedral in Venice, as well as on “The good thing is that we gather through June 28, 2020. May 31, 2020, at St. Isabel Parish in as a community when we come The livestreaming Masses from Sanibel. The Bishop also presided to Mass — or are watching via the Diocese of Venice will continue over a Baccalaureate Mass at Ave livestream — and know that the (available on Facebook or at www. At top, Bishop Frank J. Dewane celebrates Mass at St. Isabel Parish in Maria Parish for the graduating Lord sees the good that you do,” dioceseofvenice.org) from the Sanibel on the Solemnity of Pentecost, May 31, 2020. Above, Bishop students of the Donahue Catholic Bishop Dewane said at St. Patrick Catholic Center at 9:15 a.m. daily Dewane, wearing a mask, greets the faithful following Mass at St. Academy of Ave Maria June 5, 2020. Parish. “It’s not ideal to have masks through June 28, 2020. n Patrick Parish in Sarasota June 6, 2020. (PHOTOS BY BOB REDDY | FC)

Catholic Community Foundation NEWSbrief Scam alert ness in the community and not to life-planning seminars to resume virtually respond or open any worrying at- It has been brought to the atten- tachments. Diocesan policy states tion of the Diocese of Venice that pa- no priest or staff within the Diocese STAFF REPORT rishioners have received text/email request donations in the form of gift messages from people pretending cards, PayPal, MoneyGram, etc. VENICE | Due to the corona- to be priests or Bishop Frank J. De- There is already an established virus, many Parishes in the Dio- wane and requesting donations in process in place on how parish- cese of Venice had to postpone the the form of gift cards and/or wire ioners can make donations and Life Planning Seminars that were transfers. The messages often greet participate in the life of the Parish. originally scheduled for this past the person by name and have the Whenever a parishioner is worried spring. 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It was there that ORDINATION INFORMATION of the Florida Catholic staff for his call to the priesthood were he met the numerous priests from his parents, Voguel Fils-Aime and Haiti who serve within the Dio- What: Ordination to the VENICE | At the age of 5, Tran- Philomene Remy. Though his cese. Priesthood of Franckel sitional Deacon Franckel Fils- mother passed away in 2011, he It was in January 2015 when Aime, first felt a call to the priest- credited both parents with a strong Deacon Fils-Aime entered St. Vin- Fils-Aime hood and his family always prayed faith and devotion, always praying cent de Paul Regional Seminary When: 11 a.m., Saturday, for and supported that call. that one of their children would beginning his theology and ESL June 27, 2020 “I heard the voice of God calling enter the priesthood. (English as a second language) me to serve him and His people “They never told any of us that studies. Where: Epiphany Cathe- through the Holy Priesthood, and we have to become a priest,” Dea- His first summer pastoral as- dral, 350 Tampa Ave. W., freely I discerned and answered con Fils-Aime explained. “They signment was at San Marco Parish Venice yes to His call,” Deacon Fils-Aime only taught us how to put God first on Marco Island, where Deacon By Whom: Ordaining explained. in our lives.” Fils-Aime said the Pastor, Father Prelate, Bishop Frank J. That lifelong call will be an- When he was young, he was Timothy Navin, as well as the staff, Dewane swered for Deacon Fils-Aime when sent to the Haitian capital of Port- helped him adjust to being in the Bishop Frank J. Dewane presides au-Prince. Two years after gradu- Diocese while still learning a new over the Ordination to the Priest- ating he entered the seminary in language. “Trusting in God, I am looking beautiful and often unseen Sacra- hood at 11 a.m. June 27, 2020, at the Dominican Republic studying He later held summer assign- forward to serving Him, to serve ments of the Church. It is a public Epiphany Cathedral, 350 Tampa to become a Franciscan Capu- ments at Our Lady of Grace Parish the Diocese of Venice and to be response to the Call to Holiness, Ave. W., Venice. The public is wel- chin Friar. He spent nine years in in Avon Park, St. Peter the Apostle available for Bishop’s needs for which comes with great responsi- come and encouraged to attend formation before discerning a call Parish in Naples, St. Joseph Parish the goodness of the Diocese. In bility and accountability. and a reception will follow in the to diocesan priesthood in Venice. in Bradenton, a summer Clinical my years of formation, I always While an ordination is the final Parish Hall. During this time, he studied in the Pastoral Education (CPE), a pro- feel the presence of the Holy Spirit step to the priesthood, it is not the A recent graduate of St. Vin- Dominican Republic and Brazil, gram based in Minnesota which in my life. If he wasn’t with me, I conclusion of priestly formation, cent de Paul Regional Seminary in eventually earning a philosophy provides training on how to spiri- would not have made it to where I it is just the beginning. During Boynton Beach, Deacon Fils-Aime degree from Centro Universitario tually care and minister to the sick am. Priesthood is not just a human the ordination, Deacon Fils-Aime felt great joy when he spoke with Franciscano in Brazil. and those in need. He also served choice, but it is God’s decision. God will freely present himself to serve Bishop Dewane about his upcom- Deacon Fils-Aime’s connection a pastoral year at Epiphany Cathe- called, and it is God who chose me. God, the Church and the Bishop of ing ordination. “That joy manifest- to the Diocese of Venice is through dral. The good thing is that when God the Diocese of Venice, and his suc- ing in my heart as if it was the first his uncle, Francis Paulemon, who As Deacon Fils-Aime prepares calls, He gives all that is necessary cessors. time I had seen the Light of God in would invite him to spend Christ- for ordination during the middle to make the journey.” He will also make a renewed my presence.” mas vacation in the Diocese. Each of the COVID-19 Pandemic he said The ordination of a transitional commitment to celibacy and Born in March 1979 in the Cor- year he would attend the Haitian that all his years of formation have deacon to the priesthood is consid- promise obedience. The reward for nillon region of Haiti in the town Independence Day Mass Jan. 1, prepared him to be a priest during ered a pivotal moment in the life of that choice is to have his life filled of Potino, he is the oldest of nine which is concelebrated by Bishop these difficult times. a Diocese. It is one of the most with the message of God. n Catholic Community Foundation presents new scholarship

STAFF REPORT recognition for 15 other Catholic Morse told all of the scholars that plications before determining the million in endowed support for Community Foundation scholars. they are already winners in life in worthiest applicant. Catholic Schools, Parishes, Sem- VENICE | The Catholic Com- Foundation Executive what they have shown The Catholic Community inarian education, programs for munity Foundation of Southwest Director Michael Morse and that the Foundation Foundation of Southwest Florida the needy, college scholarships Florida is proud to provide the Fred- said the late Dr. Schaerf is very proud to award Inc. was established to provide and more. n erick W. Schaerf, M.D., Ph.D. Neu- and his wife Melissa the Schaerf Scholarship, philanthropic opportunities roscience Scholarship to is Andrew Schaerf, M.S., A.R.N.P., and others, to worthy for individuals, such as Schaerf To learn more about the Catholic Taikas, a graduating senior from founded and managed students. scholarship, to create lasting gifts Community Foundation, contact Bishop Verot Catholic High School the Neuropsychiatric Re- “It is our privilege in support of Catholic programs Michael Morse at 941-441-1124 or in Fort Myers who is interested in search Center of South- to share these schol- and ministries within the Dio- by email at Morse@dioceseofven- pursuing a career in neuroscience west Florida, which has arships,” Morse said. cese of Venice. Last year alone, ice.org, or visit the Foundation at or a similar field. become a globally recog- “This is individuals and the Foundation distributed $1.2 www.CCFDioceseofvenice.org. The Schaerf Scholarship pro- nized clinical research families that believe very vides one $4,000 one-time scholar- site, specializing in Al- Andrew Taikas much in education and ship. Taikas, its first recipient, is a zheimer’s disease and re- supporting education parishioner at St. Katharine Drexel lated memory disorders. for our youth. They es- Parish in Cape Coral who will be The family chose to create a tablished these scholarships years attending Duke University in North scholarship with the Catholic Com- ago to provide these dollars going Carolina in the fall with a double munity Foundation to honor Dr. forward.” major using biology and Schaerf and to reward and Bishop Frank J. Dewane, joined chemistry to focus on a recognize a student in- by members of the Catholic Com- career in neuroscience. terested in pursuing a munity Foundation of Southwest “This scholarship career in the field that Florida Inc. Board, led the virtual will help me to al- meant so much to presentation ceremony from the leviate the financial them, Morse added. Catholic Center in Venice. debt for my family “They chose the The recipients of the Schaerf, and allow me to have Catholic Community Mary Fran Carroll and Coseg- more opportunities,” Foundation because lia scholarships were recognized Taikas said. “I want to they wanted to sup- for their outstanding academic learn and understand port a student graduat- achievements and for their com- genetics and the environment in- ing from their beloved Bishop Verot mitment of continuing their edu- fluences and how certain men- Catholic High School, and they cation. The ceremony is typically tal illnesses, and diseases come wanted the scholarship to be man- held in person, but the COVID-19 Subscribe to our free e-Edition and get breaking news first. about.” aged by a Foundation dedicated to Pandemic necessitated the virtual 13937-0612 The scholarship was presented fulfilling the mission of Christ,” he ceremony. Visit the link below and enter your virtually during a May 20, 2020, said. The Foundation Scholarship email address to subscribe. awards ceremony, which included During the virtual ceremony, Committee carefully reviewed ap- A5 YOUR VENICE COMMUNITY Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020

At left and center, clients of all ages receive food from Guadalupe Social Services in Immokalee June 3, 2020. The These young boys pushed aside their masks to enjoy ice Catholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc. food pantry has been serving hundreds of families since the COVID-19 cream donated through Catholic Charities June 5, 2020, at Pandemic began in late February. (COURTESY | ERIN CHOKR) St. Margaret Parish in Clewiston. (COURTESY) Catholic Charities leads way in Pandemic response

Tens of thousands fed, provided assistance as demand increases CATHOLIC CHARITIES INFORMATION STAFF REPORT If you need help • Thursdays, 9 a.m.-noon, St. Margaret Parish, 208 Dean Duff IMMOKALEE | A bag of food, If you need assistance from Cath- St., Clewiston some fruit and bread and a few olic Charities for food, financial sweets for the children brought assistance or tele-mental health • Fridays, 9-11 a.m., St. Leo the many smiles to the families who counseling, call the number for Great Parish, 28360 Beaumont came to Immokalee June 3, 2020, to your area listed below 9 a.m.-5 Road, Bonita Springs the food distribution at Guadalupe p.m., Monday-Friday: • Fridays, 9 a.m.-noon, Elizabeth Social Services of Catholic Charities • Sarasota, Manatee, DeSoto, K. Galeana Pantry, 4235 Michi- Diocese of Venice Inc. Hardee and Highlands counties: gan Avenue Link, Fort Myers Catholic Charities has been at 844-385-2407 the forefront of outreach into com- • Second and fourth Fridays, munities hardest hit by the CO- • Charlotte, Lee, Hendry and 9-11 a.m., St. Paul Parish, 1208 VID-19 Pandemic, assisting nearly A Catholic Charities donor provided money for an ice cream party Glades counties: 844-385-2423 E. Oak St. Arcadia 44,000 individuals in nearly 10 for children in Clewiston on June 5, 2020, in the Parish Hall of St. • Collier County: 844-385-2404 weeks, a massive increase in de- Margaret Parish with social distancing. (COURTESY) How to help mand in comparison to a normal Food distribution Catholic Charities Diocese of year when approximately 90,000 called the Catholic Charities hot- faces of the children and parents Venice Inc. is in urgent need of individuals are assisted through 37 lines seeking a variety of assistance. who know that they will have one Catholic Charities food distribu- your financial support during different programs. COVID-19 tele-mental health video less thing to worry about as they tion will take place only at the its response to the COVID-19 “Life is getting increasingly dif- and telephone therapy has assisted struggle through the crisis. following times and locations. Pandemic. To help, visit www. ficult for many of the individuals 520, while 233 families (714 indi- “We have been and continue Please call the regional number catholiccharitiesdov.org, donate reaching out to Catholic Charities,” viduals) have received emergency to deliver services,” Pereira said. for more information. or send a check to: Catholic said Catholic Charities CEO Philo- financial assistance. “Without missing a beat, we are • Monday-Friday, 9-11 a.m., Charities, Diocese of Venice Inc., mena Pereira. “In addition, the “Yet, through all the hardships, helping families in great need Guadalupe Social Services, 211 S. 5824 Bee Ridge Road, PMB 409, need for rent and utility assistance we have seen amazing love and across the 10-counties of the Dio- 9th St., Immokalee Sarasota, FL 34233-5065. has soared. Due to the continued generosity,” Pereira said. “We are cese of Venice.” n inability to work and earn a pay- so grateful for the support Catholic • Tuesdays, 9-11:30 a.m., Judy check, so many are struggling to put Charities continues to receive. As To support Catholic Charities Sullivan Family Resource Center, food on their table and keep a roof a result of that generosity, we can Diocese of Venice Inc, visit www. 3174 Tamiami Trail E., Naples over their heads.” help children and families suffering catholiccharitiesdov.org. The Immokalee site is one of six from the ramifications of COVID-19 emergency food distribution points virus.” throughout the Diocese of Venice Donors have been critical in that is being operated by Catholic ensuring Catholic Charities has NEWSbriefs Charities. In the period between the funds to continue to purchase March 24-31, 2020, Catholic Chari- food from the various regional food Food pantry open food at a different time or would Monday-Friday, and 5-7 p.m. ties reported distributing 425,873 banks. One donor provided money like to support the efforts to as- Wednesdays, following all social pounds of food such as canned to boost the spirits of children for an in Wauchula sist the community, call the Par- distancing protocols. Cars will goods, rice and beans and maseca ice cream party in Clewiston June St. Michael Parish in Wauch- ish at 863-773-4089. be directed through the parking to 37,557 individuals (11,300 house- 5, 2020. The event took place in the ula is the home to a food pantry lot and trunks will be loaded by holds). In addition, 389 elderly have Parish Hall of St. Margaret Parish which has been at the forefront Bradenton volunteers in protective gloves been assisted through a pantry on with social distancing and every- of the COVID-19 Pandemic re- and masks. Call 941-756-3732 if wheels outreach, while another one wearing a mask – except while sponse. To accommodate those Food Pantry you have any questions. You do 1,995 hot meals/sandwiches have eating the ice cream. who work, the food pantry is The St. Joseph Parish Food not need to be a regular client to been provided thanks to Three60 The reward for the dedicated open each Saturday, 7-8:45 a.m., Pantry, 2704 33rd Ave. W., Bra- receive food. To make a donation Market of Naples. Catholic Charities staff and volun- at the Parish 408 Heard Bridge denton, is open and distribut- of money or food, visit www.stjo- In the same period, 2,509 have teers is the grateful smile on the Road, Wauchula. If you need ing food from 9 a.m. to noon, epantry.com. June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic YOUR VENICE COMMUNITY A6 Donahue Academy, Ave Maria, students graduate One normal part of disrupted senior year

BOB REDDY ‘Never underestimate of the Florida Catholic staff yourself, particularly in AVE MARIA | Quentin Fair- your relationship with the child said he barely remembers the last day he was in school at Lord. Do the good things. the Donahue Catholic Academy Stand up. Speak out. Let of Ave Maria, but he will never forget his graduation commence- the world know who you ment, the first in-person school are.’ activity since early March. That graduation for the Class of 2020, along with a Baccalaureate — Bishop Frank J. Dewane Mass, took place on June 5, 2020 in the Ave Maria Parish Church, student carried a single white less than a mile from the school. rose that was placed in a vase be- Bishop Frank J. Dewane cel- fore a statue of the Blessed Virgin ebrated the Mass and remarked Mary at the front of the altar. how it is good that the Class of Bishop Dewane thanked the 2020 could come together for this parents for selecting to send important moment in their young their child to a Catholic school, lives. noting the sacrifice it took as The Donahue Catholic Academy of Ave Maria commencement took place June 5, 2020, in the Ave “We gather under different cir- well as confidence they had in Maria Parish church. Here Bishop Frank J. Dewane and Ave Maria Pastor Father Cory Mayer stand with cumstances, in the midst of the entrusting their child’s educa- the new graduates following a Baccalaureate Mass. Social distancing rules applied even for the photo. Pandemic, but our greeting and tion to the care of a Diocesan (BOB REDDY | FC) congratulations from a distance Catholic School. is heartfelt and warm,” Bishop The Bishop stressed that brilliance and as a man or woman turo Artiles and Nick Guernsey Valedictorian, said that they even Dewane said. through their Catholic education of faith you must let it shine. Have the first two students to graduate had a graduation in the midst of The Donahue class include 13 they have been given a great gift the confidence you need in your- having attended since its found- a coronavirus pandemic is itself graduates, of whom only 12 were of Faith, a call for a personal re- self. Hear that call of the Lord and ing completing all grades offered a miracle. able to attend. The other student lationship with Jesus Christ. With follow it wherever it leads.” from kindergarten through high “It is a testament to how much watched and was recognized re- that gift comes great responsibil- Following the Mass, the Bishop school. Donahue’s faculty cares about motely via a livestream. With the ity, to grow the gift of Faith and took photos with the graduates Abbey noted that the edu- its students – many graduating graduates sitting on the center continue to build upon their rela- on the steps of the church, main- cation offered at the Donahue classes will have no graduation, aisle, their family members sat tionship with Christ. taining social distancing. Academy has provided them with so we are very grateful to the Do- in the pew while everyone wore “Never underestimate your- The commencement ceremony invaluable gifts and created a nahue faculty, as well as to Father masks and otherwise maintained self, particularly in your rela- followed, with the prayers led by strong foundation upon which to Mayer and Bishop Dewane.” social distancing. Other well- tionship with the Lord,” Bishop Father Cory Mayer, Pastor of Ave go forth and succeed. “Donahue At the conclusion of the com- wishers, including faculty, staff, Dewane continued. Do the good Maria Parish, and Ben Hopper, is a foundation of faculty, staff mencement, the new graduates friends and other students from things; stand up; speak out; let Interim Diocese of Venice Super- and friends who not only edu- processed out and stood on the the school sat further back. the world know who you are. It is intendent of Schools present. cated us, but formed us. We have steps of the church for pictures The opening procession was my prayer that as you leave and Abbey Lawe, class Salutato- been gifted with all that Donahue and the traditional cap toss, con- led by the Principal, Dr. Dan go out into the world, that you rian, welcomed everyone for the has offered us – our foundation is cluding the one normal thing that Guernsey, playing the bagpipes will be motivated to be the Light commencement and noted that complete.” marked the conclusion of a sur- followed by the students. Each of Christ to others. That Light has this Class of 2020 included Ar- Quentin Fairchild, the class real senior year. n Sixth graders share lessons learned during lockdown

STAFF REPORT help students process situations small sampling: your family knows that you love • I can help my family during and learn from them,” Sister • Even in bad times, we’ll all them. this hard time. SARASOTA | The impact of Bonfield said. “For sure, this is have to be there for each other. • This experience really has • Life is boring during this the COVID-19 Pandemic lock- a moment in history that they • I do not have to be afraid of been making me even more sure time. I want to see my friends. I down and extended dis- will remember. Hopefully, failing because God is with me. that I want to be a teacher. just miss school. tance learning forced they will also remem- • Washing your hands is very • It is so important to spend • My family is always there for upon Catholic ber the life lessons important. quality time with your family. me. school students learned and apply • I have learned how to man- Hanging out with them more… • A small thing can become a in the Diocese of them in their fu- age my time, spend quality time allows me to see what their lives worldwide disaster. Venice, is diffi- tures.” with my family, and have fun. are like in the day. • Staying healthy is important. cult to quantify. As one might • If you don’t have something • I learned that teachers are • Being with your family 24/7 One St. Martha imagine, the re- you’re used to, you tend to miss working very hard to allow us to for a few months is not as bad as Catholic School sponses covered it a lot. even get a learning component it sounds, even with having two teacher in Sara- a wide spectrum • Life can throw anything during quarantine. older sisters. sota created a doc- of topics from being at you, but you have to push • My anxiety shouldn’t stop • Life is precious, and it needs ument for her sixth happy to sleep in late, through. me from doing things… because to be taken seriously because graders to evaluate the to proclaiming time man- • I learned that I am very for- coronavirus can’t and shouldn’t everything can change quickly time of eLearning. School Sister agement and organization are tunate to have these (online stop me from doing these things. and (you) usually end up miss- of Notre Dame Cathy Bonfield needed to succeed at distance Google classroom) meets and • You have to learn to deal ing something. added to that evaluation the fol- learning. However, others of- being able to have an education. with whatever comes your way. • Things can come at any time. lowing question: “What life les- fered a more practical and some- • Family is one of the most im- • The government makes lots I learned not to live in fear. son did you learn that you can times philosophical response. portant things in my life. of decisions. • Change is unexpected and apply to your future?” The 100 responses were post- • Be grateful for what you • It takes a lot of time to make teaches you lessons. Do not take “As a teacher for 50-plus years, ed on the St. Martha Catholic have, appreciating healthcare a vaccine. It takes a lot of time for anything for granted and enjoy I believe that it is important to School Facebook page. Here is a workers more, making sure that things to happen. every moment. n A7 YOUR VENICE COMMUNITY Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020

SANITIZING CHURCH

Father Ireneo Tovar, second from right, stands with Father Vincente Clemente, Pastor of St. James, left, Father Felix Gonzalez, Parochial Vicar of St. James and Father Jose Gonzalez following a Mass June 3, 2020. (COURTESY) Retired priest celebrates 70th anniversary of ordination LAKE PLACID | A small cel- working in his garden. The Mass missionary. He was sent to Africa ebration marked the 70th anni- was concelebrated by Father Jose during World War II to then-called versary of the ordination to the Gonzalez, Pastor of St. Catherine Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), which he priesthood of Father Ireneo Tovar Parish in Sebring and Dean of the loved. He spent 18 years as a priest June 3, 2020, at St. James Parish in Eastern Deanery, Father Vincente there, establishing churches where Lake Placid. Father Tovar has been Clemente, Pastor of St. James, there had been none. Later he was retired in Lake Placid for the past and Father Felix Gonzalez, Pa- reassigned to Camden, N.J., where 21 years. He has one living sister, rochial Vicar of St. James. Father he worked for more 20 years with a religious sister who is more than Tovar was born in Spain, and left the Spanish-speaking migrant 100 years old. At 95, he enjoys cel- Spain against his mother’s wishes population, before retiring to Flor- The Our Lady of the Angels Parish facilities manager is sanitizing the ebrating Mass at St. James and because he wanted to become a ida. church on May 30, 2020 using an electrostatic fogger filled with an environmentally friendly solution. This process cuts down on the time required to clean the Lakewood Ranch church between Masses and PARISH SUPPORTS OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE provides a safe and effective means of keeping the facilities clean for all who come to worship.

Online prayed how God is speaking to them. A Bible and journal are needed. Par- retreats ticipants will be emailed any ad- During the current health cri- ditional materials needed as the sis, Our Lady of Perpetual retreat unfolds. The cost is as Help Retreat Center in follows: three-day online Venice is offering on- retreat, $132.23; five- line three-day, five- day online retreat, day, and eight-day $203.98; and eight- retreats based on day online retreat, the spiritual exer- $306.48. All infor- cises of St. Ignatius. mation will be con- In these online re- fidential, and pass- treats, Father Mark Ya- word protected. Email varone, OMV, or Father Denise Riley at riley@ Lino Estradilla, OMV, trained olph-retreat.org to receive a The Peace and Justice Outreach of Our Lady of the Angels Parish in Lakewood Ranch adopted Catholic spiritual directors, will meet with code for online registration. Al- Charities Our Mother’s House as its charity throughout May. During that time, the group made three participants for an hour daily via low seven days from uploading a deliveries of donations for the babies and young mothers, with each larger than the previous. The a link provided. The goal is to help completed application until the donations were much appreciated by the facility which assists mothers and their young children who participants to pray and recognize beginning of a retreat. might otherwise be homeless. Prayers and resources are still available online Online resources Mass has resumed (effective May of Venice Mass live stream will a.m., on WFTX-TV (FOX-4). This critical time of crisis. 18, 2020), Bishop Frank J. Dewane continue from the Catholic Center same Mass can be found on the The Diocese of Venice is provid- A special coronavirus webpage announced that for those who are in Venice 9:15 a.m. daily through Diocese of Venice website at any ing an online platform and encour- is located on the Diocese of Venice at greater risk or anxious about June 28, 2020, and is available time during the week, www.dio- ages the Faithful to support their website homepage at www.dioce- returning at this time, that the through the Diocese website and ceseofvenice.org/tvmass. Check Parish. Visit https://dioceseofven- seofvenice.org. dispensation from the obligation Facebook pages. local listings for channel informa- ice.org/ways-to-give/parish-do- Resources include links to the to attend Sunday Mass remains In addition, the Televised Mass tion. nations-online/ to donate to your Mass, the prayer for Act of the Spir- in effect until June 28, 2020. The for the Homebound is available Parish. itual Communion, videos of the Faithful ought not to worry about throughout the Diocese each Parish donations The Faithful may also contrib- Stations of the Cross, Divine Mercy remaining home if they are con- Sunday. In northern parts of the During this challenging time in ute through their usual channels Chaplet and Pray the Rosary by fol- cerned for their wellbeing or that Diocese (Manatee, Highlands, the life and mission of the Diocese (e.g., envelopes, and through the lowing the links for the Diocese re- of other parishioners. Of course, Hardee, Sarasota, DeSoto and of Venice, our Parishes face in- Parish online giving option). Con- sponse to coronavirus included on those who are sick or have symp- Charlotte counties) the Mass airs creased risk of financial shortfalls tinue to pray for the repose of those the Diocese homepage. The U.S. toms associated with COVID-19 on television at 9:30 a.m. on the due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) who have died, for the recovery of Conference of Catholic Bishops are to stay home. CW Network. In the southern por- Pandemic and its effects on ev- those who are sick, for the strength website, www.usccb.org, also posts While Parishes have been asked tions of the Diocese (Collier, Lee, eryday life. Parishes depend on of healthcare workers and care- the daily Mass readings. to continue livestreaming until the Glades, Hendry and Charlotte weekly financial gifts to continue givers, as well as for an end to this While the celebration of public dispensation is lifted, the Diocese counties) the Mass airs at 10:30 their ministries, especially in this health crisis. June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic ADVERTISEMENT A8 Do you need a miracle? JOIN THE ST. ANTHONY NOVENA FOR GRACES AND BLESSINGS. Share your prayer requests and let us pray with you. WHY ST. ANTHONY? St. Anthony is known for finding everything – from lost souls to lost keys. So, when something has been lost, we pray to St. Anthony to help us. If you can, please send an offering for our Franciscan Missions in Central America. God bless you for your generosity.

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“I feel very at home here already,” Bishop-elect Toups Bishop-elect Toups said, referenc- ing the similarities of both his new to Florida faith home in Texas, and Louisiana, where he grew up. “To the whole family: ‘Thank you Catholic community of the Diocese of Beaumont, I look forward to join- for loving me.’ ing you permanently.” MAURICE BEAULIEU “So, what is my agenda for us as your new bishop?” he asked. “Very of the Florida Catholic staff simple: to proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord. And to love him and ORLANDO | With bittersweet to love the Church and to serve this joy, June 9, 2020 will be remem- Church that he gave us 2,000 years bered as a monumental day in the ago.” He added, “I look forward to career of Mgsr. David L. Toups, rec- an end to this global pandemic and tor and president of St. Vincent de to being able to fully reopen our Paul Seminary in Boynton Beach. parishes that we may all receive our Pope Francis made the announce- Eucharistic Lord once again.” ment earlier that day that Msgr. “To the African American com- Toups was appointed as the sixth munity, I desire to journey with you bishop of the Diocese of Beaumont, in peacefully conquering the sin of Texas. Immediately following the racism and injustice in our midst pope’s message, Msgr. Toups and today,” Bishop-elect Toups said. “As Bishop Curtis J. Guillory of the Dio- brothers and sisters in Christ, we cese of Beaumont took to Facebook Msgr. David L. Toups, president and rector of St. Bishop Curtis J. Guillory of Beaumont, Texas, is seen are people of hope.” Live to announce the news. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boyton Beach, at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome He saved his most heartfelt “This is a very special moment, Fla., is seen in this 2012 file photo. Pope Francis Jan. 21, 2020. Pope Francis accepted his resignation thanks for last. He spoke of his fam- a grace moment,” Bishop Guil- appointed him the new bishop of Beaumont, Texas, June 9 and named as his successor Msgr. David L. ily and the Catholics of Florida. “To lory said as he began his welcom- June 9, 2020. (CNS) Toups. (PAUL HARING | CNS) my dear family, my parents and first ing speech for Bishop-elect Toups. witnesses to the faith: Mom and dad Bishop Guillory, 76, was appointed many communities in the area. “Dr. said. “I am incredibly grateful for vicar at St. Francis Cabrini Parish in I know that you are still looking out to head the Beaumont Diocese in King said it so well, ‘We fear each the confidence that our Holy Father, Spring Hill, Florida. for me, please intercede for me to 2000 by St. John Paul II, two years other because we do not know each Pope Francis, has placed in me in Bishop-elect Toups served at the be a shepherd worthy of the name. after the pope named him as an other and we do not know each oth- naming me the sixth bishop of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops To my sister and brother and their auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese er because we do not communicate Diocese of Beaumont.” in Washington from 2007 to 2010 as wonderful families who mean the of Galveston-Houston. Bishop Guil- with one another,’” Bishop Guillory Born March 26, 1971, in Seattle, associate director of the Secretariat world to me, thank you for your love lory, one of 10 African American said. he attended Florida Southern Col- for Clergy, Consecrated Life and and support.” Catholic bishops, is the first African The thankful bishop-elect took to lege in Lakeland before entering Vocations. He is an international “To my faith family in Florida American bishop to head a diocese the podium and shared his appre- St. John Vianney College Seminary presenter and accomplished writer who I will dearly miss in the Dio- in Texas. ciation. “My heart is already over- in Miami. He was ordained to the authoring two books: “Reclaiming cese of St. Petersburg and St. Vin- He views Bishop-elect Toups pro- flowing with love for the faithful of priesthood June 14, 1997, for the St. Our Priestly Character” and “The cent de Paul Regional Seminary, motion to the Diocese of Beaumont Beaumont ever since I received the Petersburg Diocese, and his first Priests We Need: A Rector Speaks to you have been my support and my as a sign of unity and of hope for the call from the apostolic nuncio,” he parish assignment was as parochial His Seminarians.” life,” he said, emotionally. “Thank Romans 8:28 will be his motto, you for loving me. And I still count as it was special to his mother. “For on your prayers and friendship for those who love God, all things work many years to come.” together for good.” Although it was Bishop-elect Toups ended his his mother’s favorite Scripture, it speech addressing his new Texan is an unusual choice since Bishop- flock. “To my new family of the Dio- elect Toups will be sharing the same cese of Beaumont…I’m all yours. motto with fellow Bishop Guil- Thank you for welcoming me. And lory. “It (Romans 8:28) has been the I can’t wait to meet you. May my CONGRATULATIONS guide for my whole family for many heart be expanded to love you the years and it has guided our dioc- way God loves you.” Rev. Nicholas Zrallack esan family for the past 20,” he said. Bishop-elect Toups will be or- “As they say, if it ain’t broke don’t fix dained Aug. 21, 2020 at St. Anthony ON YOUR ORDINATION TO PRIESTHOOD it.” Cathedral Basilica. n 7,000 Subscribers AND GROWING!

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CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE The novena prayer asks God “This is Evil — “to bring together in your love all #BLM” is seen NEW HAVEN, Conn. | The whom hatred and racism have on a sign held Knights of Columbus called on the separated.” by Dominican nation’s Catholics to participate in “We must show love for one an- Sister Quincy a novena beginning June 7, 2020 to other, praying that all people come Howard of pray for national unity and an end to understand that injustice to any Washington to racism amid the unrest follow- black person is injustice to all per- during a ing the death of George Floyd at sons and that all of us, regardless of June 2, 2020, the hands of a Minneapolis police our differences, are children of God protest over officer. made in his image and likeness,” a visit by “We ask all people to come to- Anderson said. President Donald Trump gether in solidarity to forge a path For the Knights’ 2 million mem- and first forward — free of discrimination bers and their families, “this under- lady Melania and hate — for our nation,” said standing starts with prayer.” Trump to the Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson. “May we pray for the strength Supreme Knight Carl A. St. John Paul “The Knights join Pope Francis in to learn from the courageous ex- Anderson, CEO of the Knights of II National urging all to express their anger and ample of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Columbus, is seen in Washington Shrine. cries for justice in nonviolent ways and from the leadership of our Holy in this 2017 file photo. (PHOTOS to end the sin of racism.” Father, and to continue to work to BY TYLER June 7 is Trinity Sunday, which build a society that recognizes the missioned a black history by W.E.B. ORSBURN the Knights chose as the start of dignity and brotherhood of all.” Dubois, an influential African | CNS) the novena “because of its inher- According to the Knights, since American sociologist, historian, ent theme of unity,” said a June 3 its founding in 1882 by Father Mi- educator and rights activist during news release. A “Prayer to the Most chael J. McGivney, the Catholic the early 20th century, while it also proved a miracle attributed to the McGivney (1852-1890), was formal- Holy Trinity” for the novena can be fraternal organization “has been was “openly opposing the racial and intercession of Father McGivney, ly opened in Hartford, Connecticut, found at www.kofc.org/en/resourc- open to all races and nationalities.” religious intolerance of the Ku Klux clearing the way for his beatifica- in 1997, and he was given the title es/communications/national-uni- In World War I, it was the only orga- Klan,” the news release said. tion. It did not announce a date for “servant of God.” In March 2008, ty-novena.pdf. The last day of the nization to run integrated facilities. On May 27, the Vatican an- the beatification ceremony. the Catholic Church gave him the novena is June 15. In the 1920s, the Knights com- nounced Pope Francis had ap- The sainthood cause of Father title of “venerable.” n Holy Land Franciscans to observe popular St. Anthony novena, feast online

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE people they serve and for you, who In this join this novena with your own per- screenshot, WASHINGTON | The June 13 sonal intentions.” Franciscan feast of St. Anthony of Padua and St. Anthony of Padua, born Fer- Father Larry Dunham, of the novena, the nine days of prayer nando Martins de Bulhoes in Lis- Washington’s leading up to it, mark some of the bon, Portugal, in the 12th century, is Franciscan busiest times at Washington’s arguably one of the most venerated Monastery of Franciscan Monastery of the Holy of saints in Catholicism with many the Holy Land Land in America — and any temple devotees turning to his intercession in America, worldwide, for that matter, that ob- to find lost objects. He was noted leads a prayer serves his feast. for being a powerful orator and be- June 4, 2020, But this year, because of the cause he traveled throughout Italy at the start coronavirus pandemic, the Holy to preach, he also is known as a pa- if a novena Land friars and others who live at tron saint for travel and travelers. leading up the Washington monastery will He died in Padua in 1231 at age 35 to the June observe the celebrations with a and was beatified and canonized 13 feast of virtual novena and feast via video within a year of his death. St. Anthony posted daily at the monastery’s my- Devotees who believe he inter- of Padua. franciscan.org website or at https:// ceded for them or credit his in- myfranciscan.org/saint-anthony- tercession for a miracle received novena. sometimes donate bread, called St. “Because of restrictions still in Anthony bread, on his feast day and place, we can’t have the feast day sometimes during perpetual nove- together with dried lilies).” tion based on a quote from St. An- about those who have contracted Mass as we usually have it,” said Fa- nas around the world. This year, however, the friars are thony, who is a doctor of the church, the virus and are isolated in a hos- ther James Gardiner, a Franciscan A story about the tradition of the asking devotees who participate in meaning his writings have had a pital room.” Friar of the Atonement who lives at bread says that a woman prayed to the online novena and feast June particularly notable influence on “For us today, we hear St. An- the monastery. St. Anthony to restore her child who 4-13 to give bread to the poor in Catholic theology or spirituality. thony’s words allowing in light,” In the first video installment of drowned near the basilica bear- other forms. “When it is dark, we do not see he said. “St. Anthony urges us to al- the novena on June 4, Franciscan ing his name in Padua, promising “We have invited people to send how dusty and dirty our house is,” low some light into our house, into Father Greg Friedman explains she would offer grain for the poor their petitions so that we can all the saint wrote. “Only when the our rooms. Of course, St. Anthony that “Anthony is also the patron of in return. The sharing of the bread pray for them,” Father Gardiner place is flooded with sunlight do is speaking metaphorically here, the custody of the Holy Land, the to honor St. Anthony has become said. “We’re also livestreaming the we realize its awful condition. So, poetically. He’s talking about the international community of Fran- a popular practice in parishes that feast day Mass since only resident we need the light of God’s grace ‘house’ which is our heart, and the ciscan friars who serve in the places bear his name or in Franciscan-run friars can attend (socially distant, to show us the real state of our ‘light’ is God’s love, God’s presence. where Jesus and his first followers parishes. of course). Instead of taking blessed soul and induce us to clean up our “That ‘inner space’ is our true walked. The friars of this monas- The Franciscans at the monas- bread home, we’re inviting people hearts!” self and, in fact, it’s where God lives tery in Washington are part of that tery uphold that tradition. to send ‘bread’ in the form of do- Father Friedman asked view- within us, the light is already there; service as well. The feast day Mass at the monas- nations to help people in the Holy ers to reflect on that writing in the I think we’re called to open a door “On each of these nine days lead- tery, said Father Gardiner, “usually Land.” middle of the pandemic, saying that within our heart and perhaps to ex- ing to the feast of St. Anthony on includes the blessing of hundreds Donation instructions can be even as it has “required most of us perience God’s love as we are pres- June 13, we will ask the intercession of loaves of bread specially baked found at myfranciscan.org. to stay at home, perhaps even to stay ent there. May the love of God, the of the Padua saint for the mission in honor of St. Anthony (they’re On the first day of the novena in our rooms ... perhaps too confin- light of God, shine in you during the of the Holy Land Franciscans, the distributed at the end of the Mass this year, the friars offered a reflec- ing for some of us, but just think days of this novena.” n A11 QUICK READS Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020

NATION tant than ever for the church to and money laundering. If found provide solace and comfort to all, guilty, he faces up to 12 years in in the great tradition of American prison. The arrest is the latest chap- Catholic groups religious freedom. We look for- ter in the saga related to the London ward to working together with the property which first came to light urge court to county and city to continue the re- in early October when Vatican po- protect faith- opening process in a safe, coopera- lice conducted a raid on offices in tive and responsible manner,” he the Secretariat of State and the Vati- based foster care added. The city and county officials can financial oversight office. WASHINGTON | The U.S. Con- announced the modification of an ference of Catholic Bishops, the earlier public order outlining a re- Bishop writes Pennsylvania Catholic Conference opening process for a range of pub- and a few Catholic Charities agen- lic and private entities in response farewell letter to cies have joined more than 30 other to the slowing of COVID-19. This friend George Floyd religious groups, states and a group modification “means churches that of Congress members urging the wish to have services can do so up CAPE TOWN, South Africa | In Supreme Court to protect Philadel- to 25% of their capacity,” they said. a “farewell letter,” a bishop from phia’s faith-based foster care. The earlier cap implemented May Botswana recalled meeting and The groups filed friend-of-the 22 limited religious services to 50 befriending George Floyd and court briefs in early June in Fulton people regardless of the size of the his family on a visit to the United v. Philadelphia, which the court building. For some churches this Seven Catholics who call themselves the Kings Bay Plowshares are States. will hear next term to determine if meant a 5% capacity. seen April 4, 2018, before they entered the Naval Submarine Base Bishop Frank Nubuasah of Ga- Philadelphia can exclude a Catho- Kings Bay in Georgia to protest nuclear weapons. (KINGS BAY borone, Botswana, said he met lic social services agency from the Activist ordered to PLOWSHARES | CNS) Floyd in the early 1990s at a base- city’s foster care program because ball game in Three Rivers Stadium the agency does not accept same- pay restitution for anniversary of House passage of Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic, in Pittsburgh, when Floyd was on sex couples as foster parents. The naval base damage the American Dream and Prom- cited his limited stamina and the a trip there. Floyd, who was un- briefs argued that the court should ise Act, H.R. 6, which provides a advice of his physicians for his de- armed, died May 25, 2020 after allow the city’s Catholic social ser- BRUNSWICK, Ga. | One of the pathway to citizenship for those cision to resign. Funeral arrange- being pinned to the ground by a vice agency to continue its foster seven Catholic peace activists con- brought to the United States ille- ments are pending. Bishop Murry Minneapolis police officer during care role and protect faith-based victed on charges related to enter- gally as children by their parents. was appointed to the Diocese of an arrest. His death triggered pro- ministries nationwide to ensure ing a naval base in southeastern Best known as “Dreamers,” they Youngstown in 2007. tests and riots in the United States. they maintain their First Amend- Georgia and symbolically dam- are beneficiaries of the Deferred During his tenure, he served in The Ghana-born bishop said Floyd ment religious exercise rights. In aging weapons systems will not Action for Childhood Arrivals pro- other capacities with the U.S. Con- was “barely 20” when they met, 2018, Philadelphia stopped using return to prison for her role in the gram, or DACA. H.R. 6 also out- ference of Catholic Bishops, includ- before the Divine Word priest was the foster program of Catholic So- protest. Liz McAlister, 80, of New lines a citizenship path for holders ing chairman of the Ad Hoc Com- appointed a bishop in Botswana. cial Services of the Philadelphia London, Connecticut, was sen- of Temporary Protected Status, or mittee Against Racism, the Com- In his letter, which addresses Floyd Archdiocese because of the agen- tenced however, to three years of TPS, and Deferred Enforced De- mittee for Religious Liberty and the directly, the bishop recalled: “You cy’s policy of not placing children probation and ordered her to pay parture, known as DED. Committee on Catholic Education. came wearing blue jeans, T-shirt, with same-sex couples stressing restitution at the rate of $25 per TPS is a temporary immigration He also served as chairman of the a cap on, holding a huge paper that these unions go against church month as her part of the $33,500 the status provided to nationals of spe- board of the National Catholic Ed- cup filled with Coke in one hand teaching on traditional marriage. Navy said she and the other activ- cifically designated countries that ucational Association. He also was and a bag of popcorn in the other. A year later, the U.S. Court of Ap- ists caused at the at the Naval Sub- are confronting an ongoing armed appointed in 2015 to serve on the ... We got to chatting and become peals for the 3rd Circuit sided with marine Base Kings Bay on the night conflict, environmental disaster, or Synod of Bishops on the Family in friends.” the city, calling the agency’s poli- of April 4-5, 2018. extraordinary and temporary con- Rome. That same year, then-Ohio cies discriminatory. In its brief in U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey ditions. DED also is a temporary Gov. John Kasich named Bishop On environment, support of the Philadelphia Catho- Wood also waived any fine, citing immigration benefit for individuals Murry to the Ohio Task Force on lic agency, the USCCB, joined by McAlister’s voluntary poverty and from countries and regions facing Community-Police Relations. pope says: Don’t the Pennsylvania Catholic Confer- minimal income during a June 8 similar situations. look the other way ence, said Catholics have been in- hearing carried out by video con- “Today, sadly, Dreamers and volved in caring for the orphaned ference from the U.S. District Court TPS holders remain vulnerable WORLD VATICAN CITY | Building a since the early church and in the for the Southern District of Georgia and without permanent legal sta- healthier, better world depends on beginnings of the church in Amer- in Brunswick. tus,” Bishop Dorsonville said. “This Vatican arrests everyone, Pope Francis said in his ica. “This history, and the theologi- Wood said that the more than continued uncertainty for Dream- message marking World Environ- cal basis that animates it, together 17 months McAlister served in jail ers and TPS holders comes at a time broker involved ment Day June 5, 2020. make clear that providing foster following her arrest was sufficient during the COVID-19 pandemic “We cannot remain silent before care represents a core religious ex- for the crimes she had committed when many Dreamers and TPS in property deal the outcry when we realize the very ercise for Catholics,” it said. and declined to impose a stricter holders are, alongside U.S. citizens, VATICAN CITY | Vatican author- high costs of the destruction and sentence behind bars. McAlister, a on the front lines providing essen- ities arrested and took into custody exploitation of the ecosystem. This Health officials former member of the Religious of tial work for our country in health an Italian broker who was involved is not a time to continue looking the the Sacred Heart of Mary, and the care, food supply and transporta- in the Vatican Secretariat of State’s other way, indifferent to the signs lift ‘unfair’ cap other activists call themselves the tion.” majority stake purchase of a prop- that our planet is being plundered on worship size Kings Bay Plowshares. She told the erty in London’s posh Chelsea dis- and violated by greed for profit, court during the hearing she was Bishop Murry trict. In a statement released June very often in the name of progress,” MADISON, Wis. | Health of- motivated to act by Jesus’ call to 5, 2020 the Vatican said Gian Piero he wrote. “We have the chance to ficials in the city of Madison and nonviolence and the Bible. dies after two- Milano, Vatican chief prosecutor, reverse course, to commit our- in Dane County June 5 lifted a year battle with and his deputy, Alessandro Diddi, selves to a better, healthier world 50-person cap instituted for houses Migration chair: authorized the arrest of the broker, and to pass it on to future genera- of worship, a limitation that Madi- leukemia Gianluigi Torzi, after he was inter- tions. Everything depends on us, if son Bishop Donald J. Hying earlier Action needed on YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio | Bishop rogated at the Vatican prosecutor’s we really want it,” he added. called unjust and said was stifling ‘Dreamer,’ TPS bill George V. Murry, the fifth bishop office. The pope sent his message to the church’s “pastoral mission.” of the Diocese of Youngstown, died He was being held in a cell in the President Ivan Duque Marquez of Bishop Hying said the diocese was WASHINGTON | The chairman June 5 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Vatican police barracks, the state- Colombia, which had been sched- pleased city and county officials of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Hospital in New York, after a two- ment said. The arrest was “in rela- uled to host a global meeting for “have ended the unequal 50-per- Migration has urged the U.S. Sen- year battle with leukemia, the dio- tion to the well-known events con- World Environment Day. Events, son cap on religious gatherings. ate to take action and pass a bill cese announced. He was 71. nected with the sale of the London instead, were being held “virtually” As bishop, it is my duty to ensure to protect “Dreamers” and as well Bishop Murry had been admit- property on Sloane Avenue, which because of the COVID-19 pandem- that Sunday Mass be available as beneficiaries of the Temporary ted to Sloan Kettering for in-patient involved a network of companies ic. In his written message in Span- widely as possible to the Catho- Protected Status and Deferred En- treatment May 30, a few days after in which some officials of the Sec- ish, the pope said the pandemic lic faithful, while following best forced Departure programs. submitting a letter of resignation to retariat of State were present,” the served as a reminder that “in the practices when it comes to public Washington Auxiliary Bishop Pope Francis. The bishop, who was Vatican said. face of adversity, new paths always health,” he said. “Indeed, in a time Mario E. Dorsonville’s statement, receiving treatment for his illness Torzi faces charges of extortion, open in order for us to be united as of deep division, it is more impor- issued late June 4, came on the first from St. Elizabeth Youngstown embezzlement, aggravated fraud a great human family.” June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL NEWS A12

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY FORUM ‘Virus’ of racism discussed, praise to protesters demanding justice CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE was so grievous to do to another hu- man being. The image of God was WASHINGTON | Just as the world being abused in front of me.” is facing the coronavirus pandemic Archbishop Gregory said seeing and its deadly impact, racism like- the video of Floyd’s killing brought wise is a deadly virus that must be back a flood of memories. cured, Washington Archbishop “As a youngster, I was taken to Wilton D. Gregory said June 5, 2020. the viewing of Emmett Till,” he said, He made the comments dur- of the 14-year-old African Ameri- ing an online dialogue on racism can youth lynched in Mississippi in sponsored by Georgetown Univer- 1955, whose body was displayed in sity’s Initiative on Catholic Social an open casket in Chicago where he Thought and Public Life. The dia- grew up, and which was the home logue was viewed by 7,900 people city of young Wilton Gregory. watching it via livestream. The archbishop, who also issued During the panel discussion on a statement decrying the recent “Racism in our Streets and Struc- shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, tures: A Test of Faith, A Crisis for a young African American man, by Panelists are seen during a June 5, 2020, Georgetown University dialogue on racism in U.S. as a test of Our Nation,” Archbishop Gregory white assailants in Georgia, said faith and the nation. They are: Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory; Marcia Chatelain, associate was asked why he referred to racism that Floyd’s death reminded him of professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University; Ralph McCloud, director as a virus when he issued a state- “a whole collage of individuals who of the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development; Gloria Purvis, host of the EWTN radio ment about the death of George have been assassinated for no other show “Morning Glory”; and John Carr of Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought Floyd — the African American man reason than the color of their skin.” and Public Life. (COURTESY OF GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY’S INITIATIVE ON CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT who died while in police custody Chatelain said Americans were AND PUBLIC LIFE | CNS) May 25, 2020 when a white Minne- able to witness Floyd’s last mo- apolis officer knelt on his neck for ments, and are also “witnesses to by police officers. nearly nine minutes. the indifference that allows death “There’s a degree of stress and a “It’s an appropriate image at a to come that way. ... The knee on degree of trauma associated with moment when we’re all thinking that man’s neck was weighted by all being African American in 2020, about a virus that threatens us,” he of the systems that have sanctioned given all that we’ve experienced,” said. that behavior.” McCloud said. He noted how one Archbishop Gregory said ques- She said the protests across the of his nephews was paralyzed af- tions experts are asking in con- United States and around the world ter being shot by police. “His only fronting the coronavirus equally represent “a referendum about crime was walking away from the apply to racism: “How is racism, this capitalism, colonialism and at the police.” silent but deadly virus, passed on to heart of it, white supremacy. ... This Purvis, who is the chairperson other people? Is it learned at home? is about a series of interconnected for Black Catholics United for Life Is it transmitted through our struc- systems.” and a board member of the North- tures? Is it part of the air that we The educator noted the societal west Pregnancy Center, said the breathe, and how do we find a vac- inequities facing communities of pro-life and the racial justice move- cine, how can we protect ourselves, color are not new. In the commis- ments are both “animated by the how can we render it ineffective?” sions established to examine the Gospel imperative that we must A demonstrator is since in New York City June 6, 2020. (JEENAH He opened the discussion with deadly race riots of 1919, she said, defend the vulnerable and the op- MOON, REUTERS | CNS) a prayer. He asked God to “bless black leaders a century ago identi- pressed.” those who take to our streets to pro- fied the problems of “police brutal- She said the protests that fol- ... They are energized, and I want remarks, “We have to look at our test injustice” and also prayed law ity, not enough jobs, poor schools lowed George Floyd’s death have to encourage them to continue that own behavior. We have to change enforcement officers will have “a for our kids (and) lack of health happened because “we don’t want dialogue.” ourselves, we have to change our commitment to equal justice for all, care.” the power of the state used against John Carr, the director of the ini- communities, we have to change and respect for the lives and dignity McCloud, who is recovering after us ... We are equal citizens and do tiative who moderated the discus- our country, and we have to change of all those they serve and protect being diagnosed with COVID-19, not want police brutality on our sion on racism, said in his closing our church.” n from harm.” noted racism does not operate in a communities.” She added, “The real Floyd’s death, the nationwide vacuum, and he said many injustic- issue is that a human being had his protests it sparked and urgent calls es faced by minority communities life snuffed out by the very state that Saving a Life from a potential catastrophe to address racism were the key top- were factors in them being dispro- is paid to protect and serve. That’s ics discussed by the panelists, who portionately impacted by the virus what Black Lives Matter means. We EVERY 10 MINUTES also included Marcia Chatelain, and the health crisis and economic want to be able to walk, to live, and an associate professor of history downturn left in its wake. move without fear, like everybody and African American studies at He noted how many African else.” Georgetow University; Ralph Mc- Americans and other people of The panelists all expressed ad- Cloud, director of the Catholic color live in overcrowded housing miration for the people protesting Campaign for Human Develop- where social distancing is impos- racism and police brutality across ment, the U.S. bishops’ anti-poverty sible, in communities where health the country. program; and Gloria Purvis, host of care is inaccessible, and work in “I get so much hope, and I get but I’m never alone. ® the EWTN radio show “Morning service industries where they were so much inspiration from people I have Life Alert. Glory.” deemed “essential” and had to con- who are day in and day out in the The four panelists, who are all tinue working and possibly being streets,” Chatelain said. “They’ve African American, each shared the exposed to the virus. And he noted been undeterred by tear gas, unde- emotional reactions they felt when how the predominantly minority terred by threats of state violence. they, like people around the world, populations in prisons also faced I’m so deeply moved by everyone saw the videotape of Floyd’s death sickness and death from the virus who turns out the next day.” that was recorded by an onlooker because of crowded conditions Archbishop Gregory called it a “a AS SEEN ON during the arrest. there. big sign of hope is the huge number “I recall being physically sick, Knowing family members and of young people who have taken up TV almost to the point of fainting and friends sickened and dying of the this as a personal concern,” and he passing out,” McCloud said. virus has become a reality for many noted how “a group of young priests For a FREE brochure call: Purvis said when she watched minorities, he said. And this spring have decided by Zoom meeting to 13924-0612 it, “I remember saying, ‘Stop! In the has seen several notorious instanc- come up with proposals that they 1-888-970-0394 name of God, stop!’ I thought this es of black Americans being killed intend to implant in their parishes A13 NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL NEWS Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020 More Catholic clergy, laity join in BLM protests CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE CALL FROM POPE FRANCIS WASHINGTON | The streets in WASHINGTON | It’s called “tak- grass at El Paso’s Memorial Park, front of the White House of late ing a knee,” and many professional where a protest had taken place a have been filled with thousands athletes around the country have day earlier and closed his eyes. Was of youthful faces carrying signs or made the gesture publicly to protest he nervous? “Oh, yeah,” he said wearing T-shirts calling for racial police brutality. Lately, even police in a June 3 interview with Catholic justice, with fists raised in the air, or officers showing solidarity have News Service. “It’s difficult to know posing for selfies with a large “Black kneeled around the country before what a bishop should do. But I’ve Lives Matters” sign. those protesting the May 25 killing had some excellent advisers, people That sign now hangs on a tall of George Floyd, who died after and priests. I tried to listen to them, piece of fencing meant to keep the being filmed pinned to the ground listened to my heart. Sometimes, protesters out of Lafayette Park, the with a knee to his neck, constrained you just have to take the leap into place tourists would usually flock to by a police officer in Minneapolis. the unknown.” The photo of him and have their pictures taken with Until June 1, no Catholic bishop had kneeling went around the world via the iconic building in the back- publicly participated in the gesture Twitter and ended up on an Italian ground. but that day, Bishop Mark J. Seitz website for the Diocese of Rome. But on June 8, the space was filled of El Paso, Texas, became the first. Perhaps it was there that his boss, with women and men religious Msgr. Ray East, pastor of St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church in donning their habits and priests Surrounded by priests from his Pope Francis, saw it. On June 3, Washington, speaks during a prayerful protest outside the White with Roman collars; some carried diocese who also kneeled with him shortly after the bishop finished with House June 8, 2020, following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed rosaries and signs with Our Lady and holding a “Black Lives Mat- his daily Mass in El Paso, the pontiff African American man whose neck was pinned to the ground by of Guadalupe and the image of St. ter” sign, he put both knees on the gave him a ring. police for more than eight minutes before he was taken to the Oscar Romero. And hundreds of la- hospital. (BOB ROLLER | CNS) ity and at least two bishops from the Archdiocese of Washington joined now been charged with felony as- also for “those who have died and and defense of President Donald said she attended in solidarity with in the Catholic-centered protest. sault. whose names we don’t know,” said Trump, stopped to talk to her. others, but also to affirm church “The Catholic voice as a group, Washington Auxiliary Bishops Father Ejiogu. The event was to pray “That’s part of what today should teachings that say that “as Catho- as a family needs to be heard,” said Roy E. Campbell and Mario E. Dor- for justice and peace “and ask God be,” she said. “Others say, ‘What do lics, we really believe in equality for Father Cornelius Ejiogu, a member sonville attended the event that fea- for reconciliation,” he said. you think?” and I say, ‘What do you all people and we thought it was im- of the Society of St. Joseph of the tured prayer, songs and Bible read- “What we’re seeing these past think?’ That’s how America works, portant to come down and take part Sacred Heart, best known as the ings and a reading of names of black couple of weeks ... it’s not the na- not in judgment. It works in dia- in this service.” Josephites. He, along with others, Americans who died in violent acts tion that we want, the America we logue and we can disagree respect- “We really believe in the dignity helped organize the event. “I know of racial injustice, most recently believe in,” he said in an interview fully.” of every person,” she said. “We just a lot of priests and sisters have come George Floyd, with Catholic News Service. “Amer- Of course black lives matter, “but thought it was important to come out here individually to pray for His May 25, 2020 death, while ica is torn up by pride and racism all lives matter, beginning with the down and show support and soli- peace and justice, but we feel that pinned to the ground by a white and injustice. So, we want to use unborn,” she said, adding that she darity with our brothers and sisters. our church, as one, can come to- Minneapolis police officer seen in this opportunity to ask God to rec- believed no other president had It’s true that all lives matter but I gether.” a video pressuring his neck with oncile us.” done as much as Trump for the pro- think in our country, we have a his- Martin Gugino, 75, of Amherst, his knee for almost nine minutes, Catholics have joined the throngs life cause. tory of racism so that’s important New York, a member of the Catho- sparked protests, not just in the U.S., of protesters who have taken to the “I’m here to say Mr. Trump that we recognize that.” lic Worker Movement, was injured but in other parts of the world. streets of Washington since the has given us a voice for life,” she Though not everyone would June 4 when he fell and struck his Father Ejiogu said retired Bish- killing of Floyd, but the event was said. “He has stood for life and agree with the event, said Father head. A longtime peace activist, op John H. Ricard of Pensacola- a hope to unify Catholics to recog- for the Constitution of the United Ejiogu, he would continue to pray Gugino was described by a friend as Tallahassee, Florida, who lives in nize the injustice behind the kill- States.” for unity on the issue within the a “gentle person,” The Buffalo News Baltimore where he is the superior ings, he said. But to those like her, Father church as well as outside of the reported. general of the Josephites, did attend “I believe all lives matter, Jesus Ejiogu said, he just wanted to say church. The two officers, later identified the event. specifically would say all lives mat- that “we’re simply here to pray and “I can’t tell God what to do but as Robert McCabe and Aaron Tor- The crowd prayed for those ter, but is everybody in this country to call on our Blessed Mother of the I can ask,” he said. “What I’m ask- galski, were suspended and have whose names were called out but having the same justice? Do we all church, the saints, to help us to heal ing God with my friends, families have the same privileges? No. There so that we can recognize that black and parishioners who are helping are some folks who don’t have the lives matter, white lives matter, organize this, I’m praying to God same privileges,” Father Ejiogu Spanish lives matters, Asian lives to heal us. That’s all we can do is said. matter, all lives, yes, but there are a pray for healing and hopefully God Prepare for “So, we are saying that those few of those lives that seem to feel will heed our petitions and answer, power outages folks who are disenfranchised, that they do not matter. That’s all and our country may be much bet- those folks who are experienc- we’re calling for.” ter than it is because simply sitting with a Generac ing racism more, their lives matter Darwin Kemp, a member of the at home doing nothing just doesn’t home standby along with all lives,” he added. “So, Knights of Columbus in Washing- cut it for me.” it’s not a question of separation, no. ton, said he attended because, like, Along with the hundreds of who generator We’re asking God to heal us so we others, “people are sick and tired of joined the peaceful protest, which can recognize that we’re all broth- the injustice.” took a route from the White House ers and sisters.” “We all have gone through some fencing and ended at the National SCHEDULE YOUR FREE INHOME He said he recognized that not injustice for quite some time, in- Museum of African American His- ASSESSMENT TODAY! all Catholics agreed with what the cluding myself. I’ve been fighting tory and Culture, he chanted and 8559779861 group was setting out to do. for a long time, but I’ve been fight- prayed into the distance. One of them was Maryanne Pen- ing individually,” he said. He said the images that most nell, from Front Royal, Virginia, Now it’s time to do so as group, he have given him hope, even in the who was carrying a “Trump Pro- said, because racism needs to end. midst of the tense protests, were of Life” sign near the group. “I’m here “I hope that we all come together the young white, black, Asians, Lati- FREE7-Year Extended Warranty* so say pro-life is what matters,” she as one and be able to sit down, have nos, “people of all colors coming out A $695 Value! said. “All people, not based on your a conversation, even if we agree to and peacefully protesting.” skin or your nationality or your his- disagree, at least we’re having a “That’s the image that stood out O er valid March 16, 2020  June 30, 2020 tory, based on being an American or conversation and actually getting for me,” he said. being in America.” some things done,” he said. “Get And despite what others may say Special Financing Available What is needed is more dialogue, rid of racism. 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Mass in 1980 and four U.S. church- accused of killing six Jesuits and The attack on the priests was women — and forced thousands to two women working with the Soci- carried out under the pretext of flee the Central American country. ety of Jesus during El Salvador’s civ- searching for leftist rebels. A rifle A 1993 U.N. truth commission said il war went on trial June 8, 2020 in taken from the rebels was used in 75,000 people died in the war. Spain, offering hopes of justice for the murders in an attempt to pin the The commission, formed the crimes that have wallowed in im- crime on others. year after a peace accord was punity for more than three decades. Father Ignacio Ellacuria, rector signed, found Montano had attend- Inocente Orlando Montano, a of the Central American Univer- ed two meetings in which the at- former colonel in the Salvadoran sity and an important figure in the tack was planned, according to The army and former deputy defense peace talks, was killed in the attack. Guardian newspaper. Two other minister, appeared in a Spanish Also killed were Fathers Ignacio officers were convicted in El Salva- courtroom wearing a health mask Martin Baro, Juan Ramon Moreno, dor and served short sentences, but and seated in a wheelchair to face Amando Lopez, Segundo Montes were not considered masterminds charges of murder and a sentence and Joaquin Lopez. of the slayings. of up to 150 years in prison, if con- This file photo taken at Central American University in San Salvador, Julia Elba Ramos, a housekeeper, Montano lived 16 years in the victed. El Salvador, shows a memorial bearing the names of six Jesuits and her teenage daughter, Celina, United States until he was extra- Prosecutors allege Montano, 76, massacred in 1989 during El Salvador’s civil war. (LUIS GALDAMEZ, also were shot dead on the univer- dited to Spain in 2017. Montano was participated in “the decision, de- REUTERS | CNS) sity campus. expected to speak in his defense sign or execution of the killings” The murders of the Jesuits gen- June 10 and the trial is scheduled in 1989. It’s believed the attack was tion Front. tion law,” which allows it to assert erated international outrage and to end July 16. Montano has main- carried out to scuttle possible peace Spain pursued the case of the jurisdiction for especially heinous highlighted the horrors of a 12-year tained his innocence. talks between the U.S.-backed gov- slain Jesuits as five of the victims crimes. conflict pitting right-wing death Another suspect in the slayings, ernment forces and the leftist the were Spanish citizens. The coun- The priests were pulled from squads against leftist rebels. former Lt. 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A15 VATICAN NEWS Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020 Pope prays for those still hit by COVID-19, urges caution elsewhere CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE POPE CREATES Pope Francis greets the crowd VATICAN CITY | Pope Francis FUND FOR ROME as he leads the prayed for people living in coun- WORKERS Angelus from tries where COVID-19 is still caus- the window of his studio ing a huge number of deaths, and VATICAN CITY | With so many people left unemployed or in a overlooking St. he cautioned people in Italy to con- Peter’s Square tinue to be careful and follow health precarious position because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis at the Vatican precautions. launched a fund aimed specifically June 7, 2020. “Be careful, do not sing ‘Victory!’ at helping people in Rome strug- The pope urged yet, do not celebrate victory too gling economically in the wake of people to not soon! It remains necessary to follow the crisis. “This fund is meant to declare victory the rules in force carefully because be a sign that can urge people of against COVID-19 they are rules that help us to prevent goodwill to offer a concrete gesture but continue to the virus from gaining ground,” he of inclusion, especially toward those be careful and said June 7, 2020 after reciting the who are seeking comfort, hope follow health Angelus prayer from the window of and a recognition of their rights” precautions. the Apostolic Palace. and dignity as workers, wrote the (VATICAN He greeted the few hundred visi- pope, who is the bishop of Rome. MEDIA | CNS) tors who had assembled in St. Pe- The pope invited priests, citizens, ter’s Square, maintaining social dis- institutions and organizations to tancing and many wearing masks. donate to the fund, called “Gesu Seeing people in the square, Divino Lavoratore” (“Jesus the he said, was a sign that “the acute Divine Worker”) and he announced tral, South and North America, ac- goodness and boundless truth.” derness,” he said. phase” of the pandemic in Italy was he had made an initial allocation cording to the World Health Orga- “This is faith — to welcome God- At the center of Jesus’ every ges- over, which had led to the gradual of 1 million euro ($1.12 million) nization June 6. as-Love,” who gives himself in ture and word there is love, “the easing of restrictive measures. to the Rome diocesan Caritas. The Some countries were also see- Christ, “who moves us in the Holy love of the Father who sent his Son, But the pope cautioned everyone project was announced June 9 by ing “upticks” in COVID-19 cases Spirit,” the pope said. the love of the Holy Spirit that is the Vicariate of Rome. to continue to be careful. as lockdowns eased, which meant Christian life, he said, is letting within us,” he said. “Thanks be to God we are com- people had to continue to follow oneself be encountered by God be- He urged people to practice eu- ing out of the epicenter stronger, but He reminded people, however, precautions, Margaret Harris, a cause “he encounters us first” and charistic adoration because they always with the rules given the au- that “the virus continues to claim WHO spokesperson said from Ge- to trust in him, to search for him can find that love present in the thorities give us,” he said. many victims” in other countries. neva. and to love. Eucharist and “little by little, one’s The Vatican press office had an- “I wish to express my closeness In his Angelus talk, Pope Francis The pope also reminded people heart will become more patient, nounced the evening before that to those populations, to the sick and talked about the importance of the that the month of June was dedi- more generous, more merciful, in the last Vatican employee who had their families, and to all those who day’s feast of the Most Holy Trinity, cated in a special way to the Sacred imitation of the heart of Jesus.” tested positive for the coronavirus care for them. With our prayer, let which celebrates God as Father, Son Heart of Jesus. He also encouraged people to re- was now testing negative. A total of us be close to them.” and Holy Spirit. “Indeed, the human and divine cite, for the month of June, a short 12 cases were reported among Vati- The pandemic is claiming large The June 7 feast day “invites us heart of Jesus is the wellspring prayer his grandmother taught him, can employees since late February. numbers of victims in the United to let ourselves once again be fasci- where we can always draw upon “Jesus, let my heart resemble yours None of the 12 died. States and other countries in Cen- nated by the beauty of God; beauty, God’s mercy, forgiveness and ten- in all I do.” n Vatican to collaborate with Vatican reopens clinic, offers new video-streaming platform museums’ visits to health workers CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE ample of Pope Francis’ observation about “the great potential that new CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE VATICAN CITY | Vatican officials technologies offer us.” expressed their support for a new “We are before a gift from God, VATICAN CITY| Continuing video-on-demand service aimed at that is, a resource that can bring a phased reopening, the Vati- adding religious programming and good fruits,” Msgr. Vigano said. can’s free pediatric and maternal content to the already jam-packed The video-streaming site, which health clinic began welcoming field of video-streaming services. was developed by the Italian me- patients again June 3 and, as an During a news conference June dia distribution company Vetrya expression of gratitude, the Vati- 4, 2020 announcing the launch of and production company Officina can announced all medical per- “VatiVision,” the new streaming della Communicazione, features sonnel would enjoy free admit- site, Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the religious-themed programming as tance to the Vatican Museums Dicastery for Communication, said well as movies, documentaries and and to the papal summer villa at the platform will allow people to series related to art and culture. Castel Gandolfo. “access content of quality and value Unlike other video-streaming The Vatican Museums and Vati- Pope Francis is seen in a file photo visiting the Santa Marta pediatric that would be otherwise unobtain- sites, such as Netflix, Amazon can Apostolic Archives reopened clinic at the Vatican. The clinic is operated by the Daughters of able, lost or forgotten.” Prime or HBO Max, the VatiVision June 1. The museum and gardens Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and staffed by volunteer doctors “For this reason, I am happy that platform will not have a month- at Castel Gandolfo were set to open and nurses. (L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO VIA REUTERS | CNS) VatiVision will also distribute some ly payment plan for its service. June 6. content made in collaboration with Instead, it adopted a video-on- The St. Martha pediatric clin- the museum and the papal villa With a hospital or clinic ID card Vatican Media,” he said. demand structure akin to Apple ic, operated by the Daughters of at Castel Gandolfo, said it wanted or a professional association mem- Despite its name, Ruffini said iTunes and Google Play where us- Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and to show gratitude for the work that bership card, health care workers that VatiVision is an independent ers can either rent or purchase pro- staffed by volunteer doctors and doctors, nurses, lab technicians and one guest can enter the muse- initiative and that the Vatican is nei- grams. nurses, resumed its mission of and other staff at health care facili- ums for free June 8-13 or can have ther funding the service nor does it VatiVision will launch in Italy serving pregnant women and chil- ties throughout Italy provided dur- a free visit of the Castel Gandolfo have any say in what content will be June 8 and will eventually expand dren at no charge; most of those ing the worst part of the COVID-19 complex June 6 or 7 or June 13 or made available. to other countries in Europe and who use the clinic are immigrants pandemic. 14, since the villa is open only on VatiVision also received praise Asia, as well as North and South and refugees who do not have ac- The normal price for a ticket to weekends. from Msgr. Dario Vigano, vice chan- America. It will be available as an cess to the Italian health service. the Vatican Museums is 17 euros Reservations are required to en- cellor of the Pontifical Academy of app on Apple, Google Android and In a statement June 3, the of- ($19) and for the papal villa at Cas- sure that social distancing is pos- Sciences and Ruffini’s predecessor. Samsung for smartphones, tablets fice governing Vatican City State, tel Gandolfo, a ticket is 11 euros sible, and visitors to the museums The new platform, he said, is an ex- and smart TVs. n which includes responsibility for ($12.35). and papal villa must wear masks.n June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic FAITH ALIVE A16 People call me ‘Father,’ but I don’t have kids

People call me Father, but I don’t As a member of the community As a priest, I think one of the dances. Family gatherings. On have kids. And when folks call who is called to preach the word most fatherly things I do is listen. and on. me Father, they sure as heck don’t and preside at sacraments, I often Listening helps people live with, Priests too are given the gift of mean that I’m God. When Jesus am in awe of how God can connect sometimes just survive, the painful time to study the endlessly fascinat- says, “Call no one on earth your us as believers, often in and through mysteries of life. ing realities of our faith: Scripture, father” (Mt 23:9), he means do not the actions and words we sing and Why does a 53-year-old father of theology, spiritual reading and the replace God with anyone or any- say at Mass. And the Mass sends us three die of cancer, leaving his wife history of the church. We then have thing. And we certainly call one of to serve one another. to care for the kids, one with ex- the privilege and pleasure of shar- our parents Father. Parents usually have more than treme special needs? Why does un- ing what we’ve learned. The older I get, the more in awe enough to handle with their kids employment crash upon us? Why Priesthood and fatherhood are I am of the witness and self-sacrifi- and their sacrament of marriage. can I not overcome my addiction? relational realities. We mutually cial love parents have for their chil- Moms and dads concentrate on Why could we not hold our mar- help and save one another. We sac- dren. Such love reveals who and their family’s needs. Priests are riage together? rifice for one another. One of my how God is. When Jesus wanted charged with caring for everyone In such situations, we priest lis- favorite images of a father is from to let us know what God is like, he and everything in the community. ten and encourage and suggest an old movie, “Spencer’s Moun- told us about a good and loving par- When I took a course in pastoral ways to try and make a better to- tain.” Henry Fonda plays a miner ent (not about a priest. We priests care at Harvard University, Sharon Jesuit Father Richard Malloy, morrow. Sometimes the best we can who burns down and sacrifices his should think about that!). Parks taught us that “pastors care director of mission and ministry do in such situations is just be there, dream house so his son can go to Like good parents, God wants for the whole.” Priests and ministers at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School the way the young priest sticks close college and have a better life. the best for us and labors to pro- are the ones people come to when in Baltimore, is pictured in to Walt in the movie “Gran Torino.” We priests give up a family and vide. Good moms and dads do so the experts have run out of answers. Yellowstone National Park 2016. On the other hand, we priests children of our own, but we are much for their kids. For 15 years I Unlike other professionals who (NANCY WIECHEC | CNS) get to celebrate so much that is wild given so much more. We get to lived in first-year college dorms and concentrate on some aspect of soci- and wonderful, beautiful and bold, learn the lessons of our God of love watched moms and dads lug every- ety, like the law or education, priests it came to holy orders, they looked happy and hopeful. and share them with all peoples to thing from water to furniture into a care for everyone and everything. at me. I said, “This is your activity. Marriage vows as a bride’s eyes whom we are sent. The community kid’s room. We try and hold things together. You come up with what you think glisten with tears of joy as her of the church makes all this pos- They came back throughout the When things threaten to fall apart, symbolizes priesthood.” stunned new husband realizes sible. Thank you. n year to take their kid to watch a vol- we remind all to remember God is Egiberto, a lovable, goofy, the enormity of the transcenden- leyball or lacrosse game or see a with us, despite it all. 13-year-old, said, “Draw an ear.” We tal moment. First Communions, Jesuit Father Richard G. Malloy is play or just take their stellar son or In a youth group years ago, the all looked at him, a little confused, when cool little boys in blue suits director of mission and ministry darling daughter to dinner. And, kids had to come up with symbols wondering what he was getting at. and shined shoes, and little girls at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in they pay college costs! of the sacraments. A waterfall for He said, “Yeah, an ear.” “An ear?” in white dress with their hair Baltimore. He is author of “Being on Such parents inspire me to live baptism, an emergency room for one asked. “Yeah, an ear. Because carefully coiffed, receive Jesus. Fire: The Top Ten Essentials of Cath- out my call to be a priest, a “father.” the sacrament of the sick, etc. When priests listen.” Teen retreats. Parish picnics and olic Faith.” Faith, fathers and the real power of persuasion

MIKE NELSON “Immediately,” writes St. Mat- an active, church-going family ever Catholic News Service thew, “they left their boat and their since. father and followed him” (Mt 4:22). My wife and I are doubly blessed “My son,” says the Book of Prov- I shudder to imagine what would that our son, throughout his life, has erbs, “do not despise the Lord’s have happened if I or my brothers attended Mass willingly and, for discipline, and do not resent his re- were, let’s say, doing yardwork with the most part, joyfully (there was buke, because the Lord disciplines our dad, and a stranger came along one pastor, years ago, that he wasn’t those he loves, as a father the son he and said, “Follow me,” and we’d up too keen on, but then neither were delights in” (Prv 3:11-12). and left our dad holding the leaf we). He is a lector and usher, always If that’s the case, I must have rake. I’m not sure we’d have been lends a hand when (and often be- been one delightful son, seeing as anxious to return home anytime fore) he is asked, and is truly a son how my father — whom I loved very soon. his parents “delight in.” much — could have taught a master (Come to think of it, Scripture His attitude, I admit, contrasts class in “discipline” and “rebuke.” doesn’t tell us that James and John markedly with the one I sometimes And, like a lot of fathers, he had ever returned home, either.) had when my dad would drive my a way of getting his children to do It is, of course, possible to follow brothers and I to Sunday school. things they didn’t necessarily want Jesus and to love and honor our Well, not so much attitude as puz- to do. parents. “Children, obey your par- A man stands with his three sons at St. Pius V Parish in St. Louis in zlement over why my parents rarely Even Jesus’ heavenly father asked ents in the Lord, for this is right,” this 2014 photo. The Book of Proverbs says: “Train the young in the attended Sunday services them- him to do something that no father says St. Paul (Eph 6:1-3). “’Honor way they should go; even when old, they will not swerve from it.” selves. I know would ever suggest: sacrifice your father and mother.’ This is the (LISA JOHNSTON, ST. LOUIS REVIEW | CNS) In that regard, maybe it’s no his life for the sake of the world. first commandment with a prom- wonder I was away from church for Luke (22:42) tells us that Jesus ise, that it may go well with you and young in the way they should go; ing late. Which is why I am forever so long. The power of persuasion didn’t exactly want to do it (“Father, that you may enjoy long life on the even when old, they will not swerve blessed that my wife and toddler is more effective by action than by if you are willing, take this cup away earth.” from it” (22:6). son drew me not only back into words. Jesus never asked of his dis- from me”), but he dutifully acqui- But in the very next sentence The same book also tells us that church, but into the Catholic faith. ciples anything he wasn’t willing esced to his Father’s request (“Not (Eph 6:4), Paul has instructions “the fear of the Lord is a strong de- She, a lifelong Catholic, became to do himself. He taught and led by my will, but yours be done”). for fathers as well: “Fathers, do not fense, a refuge even for one’s chil- director of our parish preschool example. But then, Jesus himself was able provoke your children in anger, but dren” (Prv 14:26). That early faith when our son turned three, and I Perhaps his best example was ar- to get people to do things they might bring them up with the training and foundation — an awareness of and joined other dads (some regular ticulated by St. Paul to the people of not do otherwise. No one knew his instruction of the Lord.” belief in God the Father and his son churchgoers, some not) in “helping Corinth: “Stand firm in the faith, be power of persuasion better than his In that regard, I am grateful that Jesus — has been both refuge and out” — moving chairs, laying out courageous, be strong. Your every first disciples. my parents — both raised in fami- sustenance for me, even in my ado- floormats and setting up tables in act should be done with love” (1 Cor Two of them, James and John, lies who regularly attended church lescent and teen years, when I rarely the classrooms. 16:13-14). were working with their father, Ze- on Sundays — sent my brothers and attended church. Soon, I was attending Mass each Faith. Courage. Strength. Love. bedee, mending their fishing nets I to Lutheran Sunday School when To be honest, I was just as happy week with our son, and within two That’s a solid foundation for persua- in their boat, when Jesus called we were young. Such is the call of to spend my weekends playing years I was confirmed. That was 35 sion — and the best kind of march- them. the Book of Proverbs: “Train the games, watching TV and sleep- years ago, and we have remained ing orders for any dad. n A17 SUNDAY WORD and SCRIPTURE Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020

SCRIPTURE I’m starving! readings Thursday, June 11 Tuesday, June 16 Sunday, June 14 spond to and satisfy human hungers and death. At the same time Jesus speaks of Memorial of Saint 1 Kgs 21:17-29; Ps Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ thirsts—and not merely in “spiritual” ways. “real food and drink” in the Gospel of John, Barnabas, Apostle 51 : 3 - 4 , 5 - 6 a b , 11 a n d 1 6 ; Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a; Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20; 1 Cor Deuteronomy recounts that God allowed he also reminds us that this bread “come Acts 11:21b-26; 13:1-3; Mt 5:43-48 10:16-17; Jn 6:51-58 the people to be “afflicted with hunger” so down from heaven” nourishes into eternal 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6; Having recently been liberated, albeit that God could deliver manna, real food life. Mt 5:20-26 Wednesday, June 17 cautiously, from lockdown and extreme for them along their starvation-plagued While there may be a tendency, as we saw 2 Kgs 2:1, 6-14; Ps 31:20, social distancing, I made my way back to a forty-year sojourn through the desert. The last Sunday while wrestling with the reality Friday, June 12 21, 24; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 favorite fast food establishment. As I stood First Letter to the Corinthians raises ques- of the Holy Trinity, to completely spiritu- 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-16; six-feet away, observing the giant tions about the actions of drinking alize what the Body and Blood of the Lord Ps 27:7-8a, 8b-9abc, 13- Thursday, June 18 French fries marking the spots from the cup and eating the bread. is truly meant to do for those who eat and 14; Mt 5:27-32 where people in line were sup- John’s Gospel finds Jesus declar- drink of it, let us hear the visceral words of Sir 48:1-14; Ps 97:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7; Mt 6:7-15 posed to position themselves, I ing himself as “living bread; flesh third century St. Irenaeus: “When we drink Saturday, June 13 noticed a young boy standing with for the life of the world; true food the cup at the Eucharist, in which wine has his older sibling, staring wide-eyed and drink.” become Christ’s blood, his blood mixes with Memorial of St. Friday, June 19 at the illuminated menu screen as And yet within these readings, our blood, and they become one. Equally Anthony of Padua, priest and doctor of Solemnity of Most if he were beholding bounty under while grounded in bodily de- when we eat the bread, which has become Sacred Heart of Jesus the church the tree on Christmas morning. mands for food and drink, there is the body of Christ, his body mixes with our Dt 7:6-11; Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, Then before the cashier could pose a movement beyond physical sus- body, and they become one.” 1 Kgs 19:19-21; Ps 6-7, 8, 10; 1 Jn 4:7-16; him the question “what would you SUNDAY tenance alone. As Hellwig points God’s people are “starving” in so many 1 6 : 1 b - 2 a a n d 5 , 7 - 8 , 9 -1 0 ; Mt 11:25-30 like?” he blurted out, “I’m starv- WORD out, “Hunger has many meanings. ways—first and foremost from physical Mt 5:33-3 ing!” Basic hunger quickly broadens hunger, as well as in every other dimension Saturday, June 20 For this lad, “starvation” was an Father into the need for physical suste- of human life. Sunday, June 14 Memorial of the extreme exaggeration. But starva- Ben nance more generally—the need On this powerful festival, as we contem- Solemnity of the Body Immaculate Heart tion for much of the world is no Berinti, for warmth, cover, rest, clean air plate “the height and depth and length and and Blood of Christ of the Blessed Virgin laughing matter, nor is it some- and so on. But equally pervasive, breadth” of the Body and Blood of Christ, Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a; Mary thing to declare in a flippant way. CPPS equally important and far more may we never forget that while hunger and Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 2 Chr 24:17-25; Ps 89:4-5, Hunger, as theologian Monika subtle is the need to be loved into thirst are real, so too is the food and drink 19-20; 1 Cor 10:16-17; Jn 29-30, 31-32, 33-34; Hellwig once wrote, “cannot be being and the hunger in which that God provides—nourishment at every level 6:51-58 compartmentalized or tidied out of the need manifests itself.” of human living and beyond. And should Lk 2:41-51 way…it is elemental and basic. When it is In the words of Deuteronomy, “not by we dare to receive of these gifts, let us be Monday, June 15 Sunday, June 21 not soon satisfied, it becomes the central bread alone does one live but by every word prepared to, in the immortal words of St. 1 Kgs 21:1-16; Ps 5:2-3ab, Jer 20:10-13; Ps 69:8-10, business of the mind.” that comes from the mouth of God.” First Augustine, “Behold what you are, become 4b-6a, 6b-7; Mt 5:38-42 Hunger, with its corollary thirst, is at Corinthians pushes beyond simply eat- what you receive.” n 14, 17, 33-35; Rom 5:12- the heart of today’s feast, the Solemnity of ing and drinking by linking these human 15; Mt 10:26-33 the Body and Blood of Christ. The Word of satisfactions with the deeper participation Father Berinti serves as pastor of Immacu- God speaks about God’s great desire to re- in the experience of Christ’s suffering and late Conception Parish in Melbourne Beach. CLASSIFIED ADS

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These Catholic high school alumni participated in the video project for the class of 2020. They include from top left clockwise, Ansley Platts, Peter Jean- Marie, McKenzie Ivy, Father Fred Ruse, Jacoby Ford and Msgr. Robert Weiss. (SCREENSHOTS)

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MAURICE BEAULIEU AND as a reminder of “what these times JEAN GONZALEZ have been and what they mean.” of the Florida Catholic staff “This was a seed of an idea that grew into a beautiful video,” said ORLANDO | Despite not being Ann Borowski-Slade, associate able to complete their senior year editor of the Florida Catholic. “Our in the classroom, this year will be hope is the class of 2020 watch the memorable for the class of 2020. video with a smile, find some in- This year’s graduating class have spiration and a gain hope for their endured a worldwide virus, a quar- futures.” antine and will face a job market One of the youngest alumni was unlike other years — combining a Peter Jean-Marie, an independent recession with a conflicted reality fashion designer and 2015 graduate of life during a pandemic. of St. John Neumann Catholic High Because of these struggles, the School in Naples. He provided en- Florida Catholic wanted to offer a couraging words for the 2020 teens. special congratulations for gradu- “You are powerful,” he said. “Pow- ates of Catholic high schools in a erful enough to make a huge differ- special video tribute. The Florida ence. Powerful enough to change Catholic contacted all 12 Catholic the world. So, chase your dreams.” high schools in the partner dioceses Bishop Moore Catholic High of Orlando, Venice, and Palm Beach School 1964 alumni Msgr. Robert to garner the lists of graduates for Weiss honored the 2020 class. Msgr. Congratulations, stay safe, may God ALUMNI WORDS OF WISDOM this annual special section. Weiss served the St. Rose of Lima bless you all.” And this year, schools were Parish in Newtown, Connecticut, There was one person who To view the official video, visit www.youtube.com/ asked for another request — a list when the town’s elementary school offered congratulations who is watch?v=gG45BxjfgUo, or visit the Florida Catholic’s YouTube chan- of alumni who would offer video — Sandy Hook Elementary — suf- not an alumnus of the Catho- nel at www.youtube.com/channel/UCY3rUZiq2M--XtiJbQ3XUVw. congratulations to the class of 2020. fered from a tragic school shooting lic schools. Chief Jeff O’Dell of Alumni Schools responded enthusiastically in 2012. Kissimmee Police Department to the idea. Alumni were contacted “I hope that you go forth as the shared the very special connec- Father Fred Ruse, class of Msgr. Robert Weiss, class of by email, and some responded with class of 2020 that you use that for tion the department has with a 1967, Father Lopez, Daytona 1964, Bishop Moore, Orlando videos they shot at home, at their perfect vision for your future in 2020 graduate of Bishop Verot Beach Shannon McFee, class of parish or in their office. The Florida all that you do,” he said. “Choose High School in Fort Myers. Megan Peter Jean-Marie, class of 1986, St. John Neumann right and always stay close to the Catholic compiled the and edited O’Grady is the teenaged founder of 2015, St. John Neumann, Gov. Larry Hogan, class of the videos into an eight-minute Lord…my prayers are with you for a Blue Line Bears, a nonprofit orga- collection where alumni honored blessed and happy future.” nization with the goal of helping Naples 1974, Father Lopez the strength and persistence of the Shannon McFee, class of 1986 the children of fallen law enforce- Jeff O’Dell, chief of police, Andy and Lauren Seiler, class graduates as they applaud their from St. John Neumann Catholic ment officers cope with the devas- Kissimmee Police Department of 2005/2006, Trinity, Ocala transition into the future. High School, gave advice to the tating loss of a parent by sewing a Ansley Platts, class of 2007, Mary Santos-Olsen, class of From a fashion designer to two graduates. “The education I re- teddy bear out of the uniforms of John Carroll, Boca Raton 1981, Cardinal Newman, West priests, healthcare workers to a ceived there has served me well,” officers who died while on duty. McKenzie Ivy, class of 2009, Palm Beach he said, now a Collier County cir- judge, a professional athlete to a In 2018, Megan presented bears John Carroll Jacoby Ford, class of 2005, state governor, the alumni came cuit court judge. “Be who you are. to two families of the Kissimmee from all walks of life and from a Be true to yourself. Be true to those Police Department. Cardinal Newman variety of locations. McKenzie Ivy, around you. And be kind. And if you “Megan, because you have such a graduate of John Carroll High are, you are going to have tremen- a wonderful heart, and care enough School in Boca Raton, offered her dous success in the future.” to make a positive difference in High School in West Palm Beach in everybody that is graduating this words of encouragement while Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan gave people’s lives, I wanted to wish you 2005. For the video he didn’t sport a year. God bless and stay safe.” n serving as a nurse on the frontlines an uplifting speech to his fellow Fa- nothing but success in the future Raiders jersey. Instead he proudly of the COVID-19 in Chicago. Along ther Lopez Catholic High School and a huge congratulations from wore a Cardinal Newman T-shirt. To view the official video, with words of wisdom, Father graduates. “The COVID-19 pan- your friends at the Kissimmee Po- “I am really proud of everybody, visit www.youtube.com/ Fred Ruse, an Orlando priest who demic has required all of us to make lice Department,” O’Dell said. every single person,” Jacoby said. watch?v=gG45BxjfgUo, or visit graduated from Father Lopez High incredible sacrifices,” he said. “But The video closes with the words “The circumstances might be dif- the Florida Catholic’s YouTube School in Daytona Beach, offered a it in no way lessens the accomplish- from Jacoby Ford, a former wide re- ferent, but it never takes away from channel at www.youtube.com/ practical idea — put a face mask in ments or diminishes the achieve- ceiver for the Oakland Raiders, who the education you guys will get at channel/UCY3rUZiq2M--Xti- between two pages of the yearbook ments of each and every one of you. graduated from Cardinal Newman Cardinal Newman. … Good luck to JbQ3XUVw. 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324 graduates Sara Ballesteros Adam Bowling TOP HONORS Fabian Acebo Borrero Caroline Banuelos Caitlin Brauman Carlos Aceituno Brooke Barry Dylan Brazil Kristen Acker Gabby Bassous Avery Brennan Yulisa Alejandre Aaron Beaird Zachary Brewer Gerard Alipio Ashley Beauregard Paola Briceno Preston Altman Sofia Bejarano Ryan Brogan Maria Alvaro Nicholas Belanger Kolbie Brown Aiden Anderson Christopher Bell Antonio Bundy Brooke Anderson Barbara Bellagente William Burrow Lisandro Beltre Payton Burt Valedictorian Salutatorian Olivia Anderson Aaron Beaird Liam Sy Alexander Andre Isabella Bert Aaron Busbee Daniel Angarita Iliana Billiot Jack Bush Mateo Dziedzic Kianna Grinkey Lara Arnoletti Isabela Botto Erin Butts Ethan Ebel Thomas Groom William Augustine Caitlyn Boudreaux Gianna Cafaro Keller Eberly Katherine Grzeszczak Michael Baggio Elizabeth Bowie Edwin Calderon-Franco Michael Caliendo Jason Eiger Monica Guardino Christina Calpey Jose Elias Jacob Gulde Benjamin Calvert Destiny Ellenwood Paula Guzman Bishop Moore Catholic Raquel Calvo Ani Embree Joseph Guzzi HIGH SCHOOL Gabriela Campis James Etscorn Jacob Hair Sonia Canizalez Ann Ewing-Anderson Kristen Hamann CONGRATULATIONS TO Bailey Caradona Nathalie Falbo Olivia Hammett Kennedy Carbert Vaasay Farid Zachary Hancock THE CLASS OF 2020 Juan Carbonell Abreu Daniela Feijoo Aidan Hempsted Ariana Cardines Juliana Ferrara Molly Hencken Matias Cardozo Isabella Fimognari Keyshawn Hendrickson Christopher Carey Daniel Finnane Katherine Hernandez Christian Caserta Nicholas Flittner Lizette Hernandez Jonathan Casterline Kaitlyn Foran Alejandro Herrera Andre Celeste Joseph Formel McGwire Holbrook Claire Chang Parker Franks Benjamin Holderman Alexandria Chapman Delaney Fravel Timothy Holderman Natalie Chater Joseph Freis Liam Holmes Lucinda Connor Caroline Furey Elizabeth Hood “The Mighty One Delaney Cooper Nicholas Gagliardo Davies Hoy Michael Cote Nikole Galeano Zachary Hudson has done great Abigail Crant Madison Gallarelli Dan’Nyija Huey Daniel Cubillos Jackson Galley Bradley Hull things for me, and Dante Daniel Nicole Elizabeth Garcia Elizabeth Hursh Braxton Dann Kyle Garzon Samuel Iredell holy is His name.” Riley Dann Seamus Gavin Bryan Irwin LUKE 1:49 Blake D’Arville Sydney Geltz Francois Isaac Adrian Davis Chabellie Genao Cedrick Jean-Louis Anna-Maria Davis Jessica Giaimo Alexandra Jimenez Kaleigh Davis Jacob Gibson Kieran Jimenez Peter De Leon Hadyn Gillam Carlos Johary Andres DeJesus Kyle Girard Spencer Johnston Lauren Dempsey Devon Glicken Osyon Jones Brennan Dinga Hannah Goldson Jack Joseph Cameron Donadio Pedro Gonzalez De La Fuente Casey Joyce Barbara Dos Santos Aaron Gonzalez Jacob Katsur Grace Douglas Lauren Goulet Miranda Khourisader Emily Duhon Megan Grabenau Katarina Kilmer

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76 graduates Ray Antonio Davis Jr Tyler James Lyons TOP HONORS Caitlin Leigh Donaldson Steven Michael Martinez Alejandro Daniel Adente Madelyn Josephine Eden Victoria Marie Massaro Janelle Stephanie Aguirre Brian Jonathan Elliott Reddin Eriel Maza Yasmine Wael Alamm Christian Carl Ellis Cyerra Honesty Mcdonald Abraham Jose Alcala Janaye Latrice Fox Mary Elizabeth McMann Gabriel Alvarez Jay Anthony Frontanes Younggyun Moon Claudia Alexis Barrios Ziting Gan Emily Sarah Moran Javon Xaiver Bell Xiomara Marie Gonzalez Mark Victor Motsch II Joshua David Bennett Taylor Cameron Haggins Tristen Presley Mouser Valedictorian Salutatorian Bailey Heather Bowen Mark Victor AnaBelle Tomas David Hardigan Gabriel Alberto Ortiz- Francis Katherine Brooks Esmurria Motsch II Korynne Torres Sarah Isabel Hernandez Katherine Mia Bruschi Jailyn Elizabeth Ostrum Jared Daniel Hiller Alfredo Burey-Hernandez Marthe Behthanie Patient Gabriel Bryce Simpson Grace Anna Wardle Austin Michael Holden Emilia Raquel Cajiga- Joseph Augustine Peturis Mason Robert Skinner Tyler Scott Wilkinson Costianes Leah Nicole Jalovec Armani Jarrell Pinkston Joe Cellars Stubbs Aiden Garrett Williams Alfonso Canellas Crespo Nhu Quynh Jennifer Lam Stefani Michelle Pujalt AnaBelle Korynne Torres Matthew Thomas Williams Nicole Elizabeth Chambless Zaria Eyleese Lawrence Maria Fernanda Rodriguez Gabriela Nicole Torres Summer Lynn Williams Yuhan Chen Jeongseok Lee Velez Josiah Antonio Valery Coye’ Ma’Katlyn Wilson Caspian Michael Collany Jacob Thaddeus Lopez Maria Angela Rusin Isaac Andre Villafane Logan Wright Kara Telvis Colinsworth Wabby Montas Louis Jillian Ora Schiller Antwan Lamar Walker Katie Sarah Young Anthony Joseph Covitz Elizabeth Kimiko Lovely Anthony Assad Shoman

BISHOP MOORE Luc Meiller Daniel Pachelli Sidney Ruedas Nicholas Tarantino Gabriella Mendez Ysabelle Palafox Lauren Ruiz Noah Tatlonghari FROM B4 Isabella Mendez Maxim Pencak Mariana Ruiz Brandon Thomas Lindsay Merrill Caleb Perez Claire Ruiz-Ashley Joshua Thornburgh Connor Kindel Dave Mezier Sebastian Perez Brian Russell Adeleine Tilley Paulina Kowlessar Kylie Miller Nicholas Perrone Carlos Sabogal Angela Torres Rachel Kucharsky Skylar Mistura Katelyn Piscopo Renaud Saint-Fort Alejandra Trevett Jessica Kuehler Jonah Mitchell Tara Plante Matthew Salerno Charlize Triozzi Isadora Laet Sydney Mitchell Emma Poling Anthony Sanchez Chioma Uchegbu Giani Lebron Kenneth Moore Leonardo Priore Richard Sanfilippo Bryan Upegui Ronald LeDuc Arianna Morales Alejandro Quiroz Laysha Santillan-Perez Christian Valente Olivia Leeper John Moran Jason Ralph Jennifer Sanz Dominic Valente Brandon Leo Christina Moreland Alejandro Ramirez Brittany Saville Jenna Van Anda Cristian Leon Victoria Moreno Jonathan Ramos Henry Schaefer Ciarrah-Jolee Vazquez-Stolinas Anniston Lillard Sean Morrissey Alec Ramsbott Benjamin Schieffelin Valery Villarraga Juanita Londono Nicholas Morrissy Jack Ramsey Cristian Serrano Jeremiah Viravong Emma Lorey Isabella Moya Brooks Rask Sebastian Sevilla Jon Vollet Julianne Lozano Paula Nicole Nazario Ayl Ray Kaley Shea Alexander Votey Francisco Luigi Justin Nelson Ashley Regan Benjamin Shearman Kyle Wedekind Andrea Marquina Peter Newsome Taylor Reid Aikaterini Simeonidis Mali Weingarten Lily Martin Viet Nguyen Austin Reitz Kiran Singh William West Sarah Martin Sophia Nicolini Chloe Renner Gregory Smilek Alicia White Stephen Martin Stephanie Odom Carter Riddle Erin Smith Caroline Williams Morgan McAuliff Abby Ogier Regan Ritchey Patrick Snider Grant Williams Bryce McGill Brennan O’Kane Sofiya Rivera Jillian Sorondo Naiyah Wilson Alexander McGratty Alejandro Olivo Natalie Rodriguez Angela Sosinski Warren Woodward Jack McKeever Maryana Ortez Raul Rodriguez Regan Stanton Danielle Yee Nolan McNealy Davison Oser Trevor Roedema Meghan Stewart Juliana Zamudio Delano McNeil Shane O’Shaughnessy Ashley Rollen Liam Sy Rachel Zaremba Tyler McRorie Cameron Owens Emmalyn Romero Kevin Andrew Tan Christy Zephyr Maria Medina-Fernandez Danielle Owens Natalie Ross Andrew Taramykin Chris Zimmerman Theresa Owens Angelina Rubio Matthew Tarantino B6 CLASS of 2020 Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020 Melbourne Central Catholic High School

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St Francis Xavier School • 2055 Heitmann St • Fort Myers, FL 33901 • 239-334-7707 • www.stfrancisfortmyers.org 13964-0612 June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic CLASS of 2020 B9

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132 graduates Edward Hamburger TOP HONORS Skyler Metnick Riley Hamilton Gavin Adams Timothy Murphy Nicole Hand Chandler Allison Tanner Nash Max Harris Ryan Baker Giana Newsome Autstin Hartle Michael Barbier Simonetta Nigri Benjamin Hawley Kiara Barnes John Nowadly Max Henderson Michael Bavaro Miles Nowadly Robert Higgins Marlon Bayer Bridget O’Connor Sophia Hritz Abigail Bellenghi Dennis Paine Nicole Huckell Valedictorian Salutatorian Joseph Benante Leila Parks Ethan Hudson Graham Linehan Anna Klemeyer Abigail Biter Heather Pireaux Cassidy Hunter Ryan Bolduc Jordan Post Konor Iversen Enrique Santa Maria Tiffany Thomas Michael Bright Connor Powers Jakob Jackson Ethan Schaefer Isabella Thomsen Madison Brown Alessandra Radigan Joseph Jackson Andrea Seedorf Aidan Tibbetts Olivia Brown Izabella Rae Eliza Johnson Jonathan Shay Adam Toklowicz Cooper Callahan Olivia Ratner Carson Jones Lauren Shinn Francesca Tringali John Carroll Alexander Rees Brooke Kennedy Sophia Skirball Anjolina Ukmar Patrick Cendana Evan Rees Nicholas Kenney Drew Snyder Olivia Venafro Gabriel Copeland Dylan Robertson Anna Klemeyer Fynn Sroka Jackson Weger Kolby Crist Claire Robinson Anna Kollmeyer Santiago Stone Victoria Wilson Lucas Curci Connor Rockwell Joseph Lavelle Delaney Swain Paula Yellis Miles Curley Jared Romine Sophie Leereveld Sullivan Swink Trevor Yull Mary Day Tanner Russell Zoe Leereveld Michael Thayer Tony Zanoni Tyrelle Deener Matthew Saenz Thomas Levitt P. Sebastian Dentici Matthew Liebel Aaron Sham Dhanhai Andres Linares Anne Dickinson Beck Linehan Rhodora Academy, Naples Luca Dominguez Graham Linehan Molly Donaghy 13 graduates TOP HONORS Cassie Lloyd Laura Dowden Briella Longhitano Arturo Artiles Arguel Drotleff Cameron Lynch Ethan Dumer Jack Byrne Timothy Macri Lauren Duran Dante Cruz Kylie Mader Colin Fanchi Quentin Fairchild Derek Marra Reece Figlesthaler Faith Giovine Nathan Marshall Charles Foster Katherine Mavis Juan Gomez Mackenzie Getchell Lemeko Mayes Nick Guernsey Olivia Givens Shaymus McElderry Salutatorian Colin Golden Caitlin Kadlec Valedictorian Patrick McFadden Quentin Fairchild Abbey Lawe Ian Golden Abbey Lawe Emily McGregor Tiffany Graham Ismael Prieto Ruby McGregor Callum Grobler Patrick McNelis Mark Shapic Dominic Schneider Peter Williams B10 CLASS of 2020 Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020 Bishop Verot High School, Fort Myers 175 graduates TOP 18 GRADUATES ACHIEVE SUMMA CUM LAUDE HIGHEST HONORS

Arianna Addis Jason Scott Algeo Campbell Lee Allen Erin Rose Ardesia Elena Jocelyn Ausset Deisy Yurany Baumgardner Carter William Baxmann Anthony Steve Bethune Mason David Bevins Erin Ardesia Ethan Cossu Julia Danehy Spencer Ebenger Angelica Gibbons Ashlyn Elizabeth Bischoff Kelsie Monic Blanco Daniel Seth Blitz Sydney Elizabeth Bombassaro Joseph Anthony Bonadies Erin Michelle Brauch Emily Victoria Broomhead Delaney Isabelle Brown Stephanie Alexis-Marie Bruno Christiana Katherine Analise Cameron Ana Connor Lily Anne Buck Hellenbrand Kupsaw Lewis Moore Saavedra Shovlin Camron Ann Burdilla Mary Castillo Te’Quon Chatman Samantha Catherine Clark Ian Ray Cole-Carlo Katelynn Hailey Colon Jenna Anne Contorno Ethan Christopher Cossu Julia Martha Czerski Anthony Andrew Madison Allison Tyler Jacob Wener Sabrina Lauren D’Alessandro Stross Takais Tilton Traiger Vasco Vetter (Ashley) Xia Julia Anne Danehy Cole Destaven Crystal Angelica Gomez Reece Harrington Kyle Mateo James Devito Alexa Gonzalez Danielle Gina Latell Caitlin Rose Downing Sydney Kaitlyn Hajek Analise Grace Lewis Sydney Forbes Doyle Providing a challenging Evan Gregory Hargitt Kendall Marie Luthringer Matthew Steven Drayer and innovative curriculum Jessica Lynn Hawkins Nathan Tyler Lyons Brianna Marie Dutschke since 1989 Christiana Marie Hellenbrand Nicholas Andrew Martin Spencer Patrick Ebenger Catherine Herrera Elijah Marzella Rebecca Elizabeth Elia Alexis Marie Hollinger Richie Vincel Matchett Derrick Steven Erickson Building Faith, Hearts and Minds Spencer Drew Horlbeck Alexander Michael Maurer Angela Christine Evans Jenna Lorraine Howard Megan Olivia McMahon C hun zheng F ang Rachel Margaret Howard Chelsea Meehan Dominic J Febles Congratulations Caroline Grace Hudson Sean Austin Middleton Sofia Claire Feeney and blessings Dylan Michael Insolia McKenzie Newell Miller Ashleigh Gail Fennell to our Garsen Warren Jean Francois Isabella Leigh Miramontes Angela Marie Theresa Ficarro 2020 graduates Raymond Kayigwa Kateregga Cameron Mac Moore Johnathan Franz Flynn from all at Christian Burke Kearns Grace Catherine Moore Jordan Thomas Funk St. Andrew Catholic Olivia Marie Kennedy HaoLin Mu William Michael Galloway school and parish. Grace Mackenzie Kerns Ryan John Murphy 13347-0612 Olivia James Galloway Connor James Kiernan Kaitlyn Marie Nicolosi Vincent Michael Gargano Maxwell Andrew Kopko Savannah Rae Nippa 1509 SE 27th Street | Cape Coral, FL | (239) 772-3922 | www.standrewcs.org Oliver Thomas Garramone Jenna Nicholle Kotschessa John Herrling Nolan Owen David Garton Matthew D. Krupka Megan Elizabeth O’Grady Edward J Gaynor III Lucas J Kulon Austin Matthew Orme Brock Everett Gee Katherine Lynn Kupsaw Angelica Celeste Gibbons Alisha Marie Kurian PLEASE SEE BISHOP VEROT, B11 June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic CLASS of 2020 B11

BISHOP VEROT Isabella Paulette Sterrett Tyler Cole Vasco Hunter Matthew Stevens Christian Vendetti St. John FROM B10 Anthony James Stross Jacob Matthew Vetter Kara Anne Sullivan Gabriella Nicole Vetter Savannah Leigh Parker Zofia Charlotte Syska Andrew David Vieceli Neumann High Avery Dianne Paulsell Marc Daniel Taglieri Jr. Carsen Mitchell Volz Brandon Robert Peck Andrew Takais Alexis Karina Wadding Nicholas Perez Dylan Tansacha Charles Frank Weeks School, Naples Bryce Matthew Peters John Robert Taylor Jack Richard Welch Kaylee Ann Quattrone Madison Lee Tilton McKenna Lee Wherry TOP HONORS Elizabeth Julia Quimby Israel Isaiah Torres Micah John Wilkerwicz Gabriel A Quintana Kaia Jo Toscano Gavin M Wimberley Lily Jane Rafacz Allison Faustina Traiger Keegan Wise Nicholas Gordon Raymond Matteo Trunkett Faith Perrin Wood Maria Clara Alvarenga Rebelo Pinto Coleman Michael Tubbs Simiao Wu Denzel James Redd Karoline Marina Tyrrell Wener Xia Catherine Sarah Reszel Vincenzo Ricardo Roberto Kalani Mei Yap Vall-Llobera Benjamin Boyd Richmond Keyao Zhu Gabriel Onan Valverde Andre Monteiro Da Rocha Joshua Derrick Zingel Valedictorian Salutatorian Madison Olivia VanDress Alberto Macia Ryan O’Connor Laderick Charles Rugama Ana Sofia Saavedra Gabriela Lydia Saccone 69 graduates Samantha Hussey Isabella Sandra Saccone Michael Jacoby Jacob Aguirre Lesley Saldana Blanca Jean-Felix Melanie Aguirre Camille Anne Salomon Ryan Johnson Jaime Amoroso Hannah Grace Santoro Jakenson Josapha Noah Annicelli Arnold James Sarlo Jack Kirk Blake Bennett Morgan Elizabeth Schockling Rachel Krupka Mathew Bennett Shavonne Marguerite Anthony Kythreotis Timothy Birmingham Schrickel Nicolas Kythreotis Thomas Bolanos Vivian Grace Schropp Joe Landy Elise Bouchard Meghan Marie Senes Jack Loughery Benjamin Boucher Andrés Seoane Alberto Macia Megan Brown Connor Joseph Shovlin Madeline Maguire Jacob Bryant Traceybeth Trinity Smith AnnKara Marc Madeline Burt Noah Jacob Snider Justin Mathieu Danlela Castro Alexandria Marie Snyder Andrew Mitchell Dennis Cielenski Patrick Moore Jr. Lindsey Joan Stayoch Isabel Conejo Ryan O’Connor Duane Leo Stemle Haven Craft Fitzgerald Oliver Kevin Crews Anna Olson Clare Cuenya Chloe Pankita Matthew Culbert Jesse Petrisko Ashley De Armes John Paul Raiger Dom DiMercurio Sign-up for our Caitlin Randall Jacques Dreyfuss Anya Rawat Jenna Ellington Keith Reilly Exclusive Serena Fox Dayanara Roque onlineSign-up newsletter for our Vanessa Franco Andrew Saluan Jacob Garard Celine Sanchez Sign-up for our Kyleigh Garland Exclusive Jonathon Schafer Jake Glasser Justin Schwartz online newsletter Pablo Gomez Exclusive Sophie Shrader Peighton Grucci onlineTO SIGN-UP, newsletter Mackenzie Stanley Max Guillaume PLEASE VISIT: Sophia Strash Patrik Hamann Margaret Sullivan thefloridacatholic.org Shane Haviland Liberty Trimble /newsletterTO SIGN-UP, Julia Helm Gus Vickers PLEASE VISIT: David Hernandez III TO SIGN-UP, Gabriella Villalonga Julia Hofacker thefloridacatholic.orgPLEASE VISIT: Robert Walbert FLORIDA 13957-0612 Chloe Hoyt /newsletter Grant Wojcik thefloridacatholic.org Rhea Hussey Catholic/newsletter William Zonas FLORIDAFLORIDA CatholicCatholic B12 CLASS of 2020 Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020

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School, West Palm Beach 123 graduates TOP HONORS Leo Gardner IV Samuel Nichols, Jr. Nicholas Garraputa Macy Noto Madeline Adcock Hannah Garrett Harrison O’Donnell Allison Allianic James Getant Nathanel Olivier-Lambkin Mateo Arango Natalie Goffe Catherine Owens Lauren Bartl Daniella Gonzalez Natalia Panozzo Joseph Bernardin Elena Gonzalez Kendall Porter Ann Bertrand Chloe Graham Holly Pruitt Amanda Blakes Andrew Guildford Deanna Radcliffe Vince Bonanni Valedictorian Salutatorian Nicholas Guillen Alicia Ramos Claire Borland Andrea Turner Claire Borland Amy Guzman Gabriela Rivera Katherine Borland Andrew Hemstreet Bard Rockenbach Mari Brimlow Chloe Colbert Nicholas Falcone Sebastian Henkle Anthony Rodriguez Klementia Bujaj Dylan Connley Clare Farley Fabiana Hernandez Sebastian Romaguera Mara Camacho Cornelius Costelloe Jr. Tyler Febles Skylar Hines Taina Romeus James Cameron Andres Cuevas Harrison Feld Daniel Holmes Michael Sabatello Matthew Canale Baqué Jordan Dahl Jenny Fils Jennifer Jacobs Ana Maria Salazar John Cantando Kelly Denes Ashley Flynn Lilly James Cristian Sandoval Jedidiah Castricone Lugennee Derilus Michael Flynn Fadley Jean Simon Giancarlo Schiappa Ximena Cherres Nicholas Diedrich Nickson Frezin Rick-Paul Jean Simon Samire Senatus Luca Ciminella Jhiscar D’or Alexandria Garcia Christopher Kaczwara Daniel Sledge Olivia Colangelo Hailey Dowdy Regla Garcia Milo Keogh Riley Sousa Joseph Kleisley Matthew Suto Christopher LaCour Emma Timms Sydney Long Devin Tingling Hunter Love Allison Turner From stone tablets, Caroline Lunden Andrea Turner to your tablet... Adam Marciano Sebastian Valentin Isabel Marseille Vladimir Vibert Samari Martinez Madeline Viton Eleanor Mayes Austin Wallace Micah McKinney Jasper Walsh Christopher Mee Majesty Wiggins Nicholas Mee Charles Wilkinson III Faithfully adapting with the times Padraig Mee Jake Wise Frances Melendez-Rodriguez Drake Wright Brandt Melhado Jezabel Yeb Sebastian Merchan Katrina Zakala Donate • Renew • Subscribe Dillon Moya Casey Zele Daniel Mullen Riley Ziegler 1-888-275-9953 | 407-373-0075 | www.thefloridacatholic.org Layla Muth Neal Zottola-Lubic Jordan Neltner June 12-18, 2020 Facebook @FloridaCatholic CLASS of 2020 B13 John Carroll High School, Fort Pierce

98 graduates Enrique Crespo Justin Kramer TOP HONORS AJ Crocco Jacob Krauza Ashley Aliff Anthony D’Alessio Alexander Laettner Smarlensly Altenor Alana DeFlorio Mark (Jack) Leach Justin Arthur Lauren DiFederico Yufei Lei Erynn Back Tristan Ernsberger Gabrielle Levesque Savion Baker Devan Fischbeck Chris Loreto Valeria Bartra Dylan Fisher Andrew Lyons Cameron Bates Logan Folan Harrison MacDonald Veronica Beckford Christian Frahm Nicholas Macias Valedictorian Salutatorian Lillyanna Bienz Devan Fischbeck Gabrielle Richards Trevor Gelety Monica Malits Calvin Black Sophia Glenn Joshua Manor Isabelle Boehning Samantha Godwin Julia Martins Saul Perez Ethan Sierra Madison Boice Nathaniel Gornitzky Kaitlin Mathey Jonathan Plata Bryce Shevak Brooke Botterbusch Jaxon Grimes Alan McFarlane Cammeo Presutti Nicholas Skoch Jacob Boyd Colton Hamilton Ryan McNamee Gabrielle Richards Nicholas Steiner Pablo Bregolat Matthew Herzog Orla McQuaid Sarah Richmond Bennett Suba Kellen Brown Kylie Hess Brooke Miller Destiny Rodrigues Hayden Sullivan Abigail Capezza Christian Hullick Matthew Miller Jayla Rodriguez Markesha Thompson Katherine Capezza Kaden Hullick Roman Miranda Tomas Rodriguez Desmond Torres Randi Casalaspro Camila Iglesias Keegan Molloy Michael Russo Kyle Trabulsy Joseph Cerbone Brandon Jones Carrie Mosher Blaine Ryan Gabrielle Ulrich McKenzie Christopher Graham Kelley Taggert Mowery Luke Sammartino Evan Vanover Sara Clupny Elizabeth Kenney Alek Nieves Vontravius Sands Alexys Weideman Karson Collins Caitlin Koomen Phillip Oates Dylan Seissiger

‘For I know well the plans I have in mind for you—oracle of the LORD—plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope. When you call me, and come and pray to me, I will listen to you.’ — Jeremiah 29:11-12 B14 CLASS of 2020 Florida Catholic June 12-18, 2020 St. John Paul II Academy, Boca Raton

98 graduates Daniel DiMarzio Emilie Johnson TOP HONORS Huong Giang Do Gabriella Jones Reagan Abrami Serenah Duford Celia Kessler Rhian Alaniz Tyler Durland Valeria Krieg Maximo Alcantara Sebastien Etienne John Krolikowski Neftali Alcantara Camden Etten Marina Kukla Troy Alexander Andre Charles Fairbanks Robert Lastella Hunter Babey Erin Fallon Alex Lejarraga Morales Isabella Balestriere Sabrina Falter Justin Lipovich Marcos Barcessat R.A.Vacconcellos Joseph Ferguson Luis Lopez Valedictorian Salutatorian Matthew Mandaro Tommy Haag Mary Barlow Joseph Fimiani Cedric Louis Vincent Barone Lauren Fletcher Matthew Mandaro Sabrina Benson Dylan Francisco Isabella Marin Ashleigh O’Brien Ashton Smith Cole Blackstone Karsyn Freeman Alicia Martinez Isabella O’Rourke Sebastian Solares Fabrice Blanchet Emily Garcia Widmaier Maurice Angelina Palermo Tricia Sous Catalina Blanzaco Barreiro- Angel Jose Gonzalez Saez Francesca McMahon Hiurma Piquero Sabrina Strano Meiro Luis Javier Gonzalez Saez Wyatt McMeekin Dylan Renard Alex Supran Christina Boorin Bryce Grout Adriana Metzger Luke Rivara Grace Taylor Leah Brinkman Thomas Haag Alicia Metzger Albert Rodriguez Rosalie Tomas Maia Carasa Caroline Hall Jake Mockoviak Raul Saez Pena Jacob Torres Jovanni Catanzaro Chloe Hession Madisen Moore Francesca Salvatore Rachel Transleau Kyle Conger Jonathan Hines Michael Nanosky Valeria Santos Nicolas Uribe Joseph Davis Andrew Humphries Jack-Ryan Naumann Samir Schwab Cary Vick Stephanie De Varona Walkens Jacques Jahmila Noel Gianna Sesto Diep Vu Matthew Dering Erika Jean-Francois Nicholas Notoris Maiya Singer Emma Zimmer Ronald Desravines

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