Easter 2013 www.peterboroughdiocese.org Catholicthe voice of the Roman Catholic Herald Diocese of Peterborough Pope Francis 266th Successor of Peter Jorge Mario Bergoglio 1936, Dec. 17 Born, Buenos Aries, Argentina 1969, Dec. 13 Ordained, Jesuit Priest 1992, Jun. 27 Consecrated Bishop 1998, Feb. 28 Succeeded Archbishop 2001, Feb. 21 Elevated to Cardinal 2013, Mar. 13 Elected Pope The Diocese of Peterborough is grateful that God has given us a Holy Father endowed with evangelical humility. We pray his burdens may be light and strength may be great. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Regular contributors: Parishes: Donald Graham 14 Ennismore 16 Year of Faith 3 & 36 Kathleen Moquin 24 St.Alphonsus (Peterborough) 12 VEYO 6 David Beresford 26 Cobourg 21 PVNCCDSB 12 Krista Wood 30 Powassan 22 St. Peter’s Cemetery 15 Fr. Joseph Devereaux 33 Hastings 32 Catholic Women’s League 25 Bowmanville 35 Wayside Academy 27 Diocesan Family Life Office 31 VITAE AETERNAE VERBA HABES – 1 – www.peterboroughdiocese.org Catholic Herald Easter 2013 EDITORIAL Benedict XVI: FR. Ray Rick grand master chess champion n the very day he resigned the “Catholic” in their outlook already. OPetrine office, I debated with three What’s interesting is that the pope’s initiative of my closest colleagues whether or not respects the principles hammered out through 40 Pope Benedict might be a chess player. years of ecumenical dialogue. While striving for Consider: was his controversial speech increased unity among Christians, the official at the University of Regensburg, on 12 ecumenical movement never demands that “they” September 2006, a PR blunder or a turn into “us,” nor that “we” should turn into calculated move? The debate ended “them.” The Christian unity that is desired is not much faster than I would have expected, giving up any of the things that have nurtured our various relationships with the Lord. with the consensus that the pope surely Without forcing all Catholics to embrace them, Anglicanorum Coetibus allows some of knew what he was doing. the Anglican practices into the Catholic Church, while assuring everyone that these new For the record, the angry reaction Catholic communities share the same efficacious Sacraments that are important to the in much of the Islamic world following Catholic experience. Regensburg soon gave way to the continued on p. 4 creation of the Catholic-Muslim Forum. Made up primarily of renowned Muslim scholars, the Forum held its first meeting at the Vatican in November Vol. 10, No. 1 — Easter 2013 2008, with nearly fifty delegates discussing the theme “Love of God, Love of Neighbour.” NEXT ISSUE What might come of that Forum in the days and years to come? — Fall 2013 — I believe that Pope Benedict is one of the great popes, even if he isn’t well- will be distributed to the parishes in mid-September 2013. appreciated by everyone. During his Submissions must be received at the e-mail address below on or before August 8th. tenure in the Chair of St. Peter, he planted seeds. Some of them will bear Stories and photos of events from every parish and organization in the diocese their best fruit two hundred years from are welcome. Photos should be sent as attachments, not embedded in a text document, now. and the bigger the image file the better. Submissions as PDFs often do not reproduce well. 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Wednesday April 10th, 2013 Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World 7:00pm Gaudium et Spes Father Bill Moloney Wednesday May 15th, 2013 Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church 7:00pm Lumen Gentium (Focus on Chapter 8: The Blessed Virgin Mary) Father Neil Roy Wednesday June 12th, 2013 Overview of the Catechism of the Catholic Church 7:00pm On the Occasion of the 20th Anniversary of its Publication Father Tom Lynch Wednesday July 10th, 2013 Part One of the Catechism of the Catholic Church 7:00pm The Profession of Faith Father Stan Chu Ilo Wednesday August 7th, 2013 Part Two of the Catechism of the Catholic Church 7:00pm The Celebration of the Christian Mystery Father Jerry Tavares Wednesday September 11th, 2013 Part Three of the Catechism of the Catholic Church 7:00pm Life in Christ Father Joseph Devereaux Wednesday October 9th, 2013 Part Four of the Catechism of the Catholic Church 7:00pm Christian Prayer Father Damian Smullen Sunday November 24th, 2013 Celebration of Holy Mass to Close the Year of Faith 7:00pm Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Universal King VITAE AETERNAE VERBA HABES – 3 – www.peterboroughdiocese.org Catholic Herald Easter 2013 continued from p. 2 held an unpopular view of the Jewish Holocaust. Without analyzing the episode in detail, I suggest that Pope Benedict was exercising a ministry of forgiveness and Dare we to dream of a day when reconciliation – which is exactly what his critics wanted him to do for themselves, but there could be a Pentecostalorum apparently not for others. Coetibus, to bring in those Pentecostals Pope Benedict was a university professor with a keen intellect, so it is not who see a need for Papal and Episcopal surprising that he taught us throughout his pontificate, in a series of books, three authority and our system of Encyclical Letters, more than a hundred Apostolic Letters, and Sacraments? A bit far fetched perhaps, countless homilies and audiences. His repeated defense of the but it’s not as ridiculous as it would Second Vatican Council as being in continuity with all the have sounded before the glorious prior Tradition of the Church is, perhaps, his greatest reign of Benedict XVI. legacy, with a potential to greatly affect the fruits that T h e r e h a s a l s o b e e n are yet be harvested from that momentous event in movement in our relationships recent Church history. While too many people with the Orthodox world, dismiss the Council as a break with the past and especially with the Russian others celebrate it for exactly the same reason, Orthodox Church. Thinly- Benedict insists that the Council was both a veiled hostility toward product of the past and a step along the one Catholics in Russia just a continuous journey of the People of God. If decade or so ago has yielded widely heard, this simple idea will strengthen to cultural exchanges and the unity of the Church in the days ahead. plans to work together on The recent creation of a school of Latin in social and political Rome is another very interesting development. endeavours. At least some of His Holiness has declared that St. Augustine this new warmth can be cannot be understood completely in translation attributed to Benedict’s love and it is important that every generation have at of music and promotion of least a few people who can read, and learn from, Christian art, which are very the greatest minds of the past in the original important to the Russians. The language. While Latin may never return as a division between Catholicism and common tongue, but it must not be completely lost, Orthodoxy is roughly a thousand for losing Latin would mean losing much. years old, so bridging the gaps will Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation is likely another take time and effort.