Post-Abortion Programs Heal, Offer Hope

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NOTRE DAME D’HAITI’S Post-abortion programs NEW CHURCH NEARS COMPLETION heal, offer hope the wounded mothers, fathers, The Archdiocese of Miami Project Rachel and grandparents, siblings and offers two programs to help Rachel’s Vineyard friends. heal the emotional and spiri- Perhaps one of the most tual suffering that occur after provide mercy for deceptive myths of the pro- abortion: Project Rachel and choice movement is that a Rachel’s Vineyard. The pro- women — and woman can walk into an abor- grams are open to any woman, tion facility, have an abor- man, couple or family strug- men — after tion, and walk out unscathed. gling with the emotional and abortion The regrettable truth is that spiritual pain of abortion. Both abortion hurts women — and programs are confidential, ANNE DIBERNARDO anyone else connected to that safe and nonjudgmental. They Florida Catholic correspondent abortion. allow participants to gently MIAMI “These women and men explore those hidden burdens | Since the Su- who have experienced abor- and experience the mercy and preme Court’s landmark Roe tion have lived in hell since healing of God. v. Wade decision 40 years ago, that abortion. Most of them, in The following articles are more than 52 million abor- their denial, have never con- based on a lecture given ear- tions have been performed in nected all these things that lier this year by Groeber and the United States alone. have happened in their life — Christy Lopez-Acevedo, Ra- Yet, an abortion does not just which is self-destruction — to chel’s Vineyard volunteer fa- victimize unborn babies. The their abortion,” said Barbara cilitator, as part of the Catholic number of victims affected by Groeber, educational coordi- Culture Today lecture series the abortion increases expo- nator for the archdiocese’s Re- presented by St. Gregory Par- nentially when one considers spect Life Ministry. ish in Plantation. Project Rachel: Healing Above, members of GSD Construction Co. pose with the cross that will stand atop the new Notre Dame d’Haiti church building. After years of fundraising and months of construction, the new church is nearly complete. Below, parishioners take part in a cross-blessing the ‘saints of tomorrow’ ceremony, processing with the cross May 19 to the new building where workers placed it on the church’s roof. (PHOTOS COURTESY) One-on-one sessions help women stop living in denial, ‘let go’ of the secret ANNE DIBERNARDO Florida Catholic correspondent

MIAMI | For years, Barbara Groeber has worked with post- abortive women. She calls them the “saints of tomorrow.” Barbara Groeber, education coordinator for the archdiocese’s “They are the truly penitent Respect Life Ofﬁce, speaks about her work with post-abortive women (to) whom much has been women in Project Rachel. (ANNE DIBERNARDO | FC) given,” said Groeber, educational coordinator for the archdiocese’s reach that point where they accept post-abortive woman. It is such a Respect Life Ministry. “They truly that and they know that God loves privilege to be in that room and to see their sin for what it was and them, they are just the most amaz- see what God is doing to them.” they see that their only hope is that ing people. I’ve never seen such God loves them. And once they humility as I have seen with the PLEASE SEE RACHEL, 12 2 YOUR MIAMI COMMUNITY Florida Catholic July 2013 Bishop Fernando Isern honored at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish

Miami to take on a less stressful as- Our Lady of signment: On July 1, he began serving as pastor of St. Kieran Parish, Lourdes names located next to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Charity in Miami. refurbished parish The dedication of Our Lady of Lourdes’ refurbished hall took hall in his honor place June 16, Father’s Day. As the Florida Catholic staff current pastor, Msgr. Kenneth Schwanger, explained in a message to parishioners that was published MIAMI | Days after announcing in the parish bulletin: “Our pastors his retirement for health reasons, have cared for us with a father’s love Bishop Fernando Isern was back in and prepared us to embrace who we Miami to help dedicate Our Lady of are as a parish family and to share Lourdes’ newly refurbished parish our gifts with the world. Father Jo- hall, a facility which now bears his seph Currid, our first pastor, helped name. us bring Our Lady of Lourdes Par- Bishop Isern was tapped to be ish to life. Father Anthony Massi, bishop of Pueblo, Colo., in October the builder, helped us to provide a 2009, after serving as pastor of Our beautiful home in which our grow- Lady of Lourdes since 2002. His re- ing family could worship and work. tirement as diocesan bishop was And Father Fernando Isern fed Bishop Fernando Isern blesses announced by the Vatican June 13. and nurtured us so that the family those gathered June 16 at Our After attending a farewell ves- would grow and flourish — already Lady of Lourdes Parish in Miami. Msgr. Kenneth Schwanger, left, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes in pers service at the Pueblo cathedral testing the limits of our parish (PHOTOS BY ROBERTO AGUIRRE Miami, speaks during the dedication of the hall, as Bishop Fernando June 25, Bishop Isern returned to home.” Q | FC) Isern stands next to him. Mother of Our Redeemer turns 25 Hundreds, including founding pastor, gather for Mass of thanksgiving JONATHAN MARTINEZ Florida Catholic correspondent

MIAMI | Remembering their Mother of Our Redeemer’s pastor, humble beginnings and looking Father Jimmy Acevedo, addresses forward to a blooming future, hun- his congregation during a Mass dreds of Mother of Our Redeemer June 29 celebrating the parish’s parishioners celebrated their 25th anniversary. church’s 25th anniversary June 29. “It’s always great to return home thy, Mother of Our Redeemer serves to be with your family and this par- Catholics who live north of the Mi- ish is my family,” said Father Fer- ami Lakes/Hialeah area. The first nando Compaired, founding pas- Mass was celebrated at American tor. High School. The community then Father Compaired was the main moved to a storefront at a nearby celebrant of the anniversary Mass, shopping center. From 1988 to 2005, accompanied by current pastor Fa- Father Compaired led the congre- ther Jaime “Jimmy” Acevedo and gation through the trials and tribu- several priests who have helped out lation of growth. at the parish over the past 25 years. “I have been coming to this Father Fernando Compaired, founding pastor of Mother of Our Redeemer, tells the story of the parish’s “This church is filled with a great church since the very beginning. beginnings during the homily June 29. (PHOTOS BY JONATHAN MARTINEZ | FC) love, enthusiasm and an incred- This is more than a church to me; ible drive. It is great to be here and this is my home,” said Jose Luis applause. ing and worship space for a growing eight, which is staying on top of the celebrate again with them on this “Toby” Sanchez, one of the found- After years of fundraising, the community, which currently num- technology trend by utilizing iPads monumental occasion,” Father ing members of the parish. He was parish hall was built on the church’s bers more than 1,200 registered in the classroom. Compaired said. embraced by Father Compaired permanent site off Northwest 183rd families. Adding to its growth, in When Father Compaired retired, Established as a parish in 1988 during the offertory as a grateful Street, just a few blocks east of I-75. 2002 the parish added an elemen- by Archbishop Edward A. McCar- congregation erupted in cheers and The hall functions as both a meet- tary school, grades PK-3 through PLEASE SEE REDEEMER, 15 July 2013 www.theﬂoridacatholic.org YOUR MIAMI COMMUNITY 3 Curley-Notre Dame marks 60th MIAMI | Archbishop Curley Crow laws and widespread anti- before Miami-Dade County pub- committed to our mission — to events include: Notre Dame Prep will kick off a Catholicism in Florida. lic schools were integrated in foster acceptance and appre- r 0DUUIBOOJWFSTBSZ year’s worth of celebratory events The girls’ school counter- compliance with a federal court ciation of students of different reunion weekend including the to mark its 60th anniversary with part, Notre Dame Academy, was order. In 1981, the two schools cultural and economic back- 23rd annual alumni golf tourna- an opening-of-school-year Mass staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph merged, and the Congregation grounds.” ment/fundraiser and homecom- to be celebrated Thursday, Aug. of St. Augustine from 1953 to of Christian Brothers began ad- “Today we stand by our new ing game 29, at 10 a.m. by Archbishop 1959. The sisters had first come ministering the school in 1985. motto: ‘Honoring traditions and r 'FC GJGUI BOOVBM Thomas Wenski. to Florida in 1865 to minister to In 2012, ACND Prep welcomed its embracing the future,’” Romanik Heritage Day, a living history Now known as ACND Prep, former slaves. In 1916, three of first lay principal, 1984 alumnus added. “Since last year, we have lesson where alumni teach cur- the grade six through 12 Catholic them were arrested for violat- Douglas Romanik. ensured that all of our students rent students about their school’s preparatory school is located in ing a recently enacted state law, “Our fighting spirit has over receive an iPad and e-texts, and heritage and offer advice about Buena Vista, just north of Miami’s which prohibited white women the course of 60 years evolved to have continued to implement education and careers. Design District. Founded at the from teaching in “negro schools.” meet our changing community,” programs that adopt 21st-centu- r "QSJM EBUF BOE MPDB- start of the 1953-1954 school year, Bishop Curley led a vocal public said Romanik. “With the contin- ry pedagogical thinking. We wel- tion to be determined): 11th an- it owes half of its name to Arch- campaign on behalf of the sisters. ued admittance of students in come all of our alumni and the nual Hall of Fame Gala/fund- bishop Michael Joseph Curley, Largely due to his efforts, the law need, such as those sent through community to come visit us this raiser with honorary chairperson former bishop of St. Augustine was declared unconstitutional, Operation Pedro Pan and, most year and see what’s new.” Swanee di Mare, Notre Dame and later archbishop of Baltimore and the sisters were acquitted. recently, displaced Haitian stu- ACND Prep is located at 4949 Academy class of ’65. and Washington. Archbishop In 1960, Curley and Notre dents following the 2010 Haiti N.E. Second Ave., Miami, 33137. For updated information about Curley was a fighting Irishman Dame admitted their first Afri- earthquake, we have continued In addition to the Aug. 29 Mass, ACND Prep’s 60th anniversary who confronted both the Jim can- American students, 10 years to grow and develop as a school upcoming 60th anniversary events, visit www.acnd.net. Q

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APPOINTMENTS Archbishop Thomas Wenski has made the following appointments: No vacation from Effective July 1: Bishop Fernando Isern, pastor, St. Kieran, Miami. Father Alvaro Huertas, parochial administrator, Santa Barbara, FLORIDA Hialeah. Sunday Mass Father Miguel Gomez, pastor, Catholic San Isidro Mission, Pompano Beach. When I was a young seminar- tional Shrine of Mary, Queen of that we can grow in the grace nec- Father Peter Lin, chaplain, ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI ian, the rector, before dismissing the Universe still welcomes thou- essary to be faithful to our baptis- Port Everglades, in addition to the us for our summer break, would sands of such visitors each week. mal vocation to holiness. Chinese apostolate. Vol. 74, No. 9 admonish us: Remember, guys, The priests of the Shrine provide Finding a place to attend Mass Father Scott M. Circe, vice there’s no vacation from a voca- an important service to these va- while far from home may often rector, St. John Vianney College 9401 Biscayne Blvd. tion. This was certainly cationers in making the not be easy — but with the help of Seminary, Miami. Miami, FL 33138 Effective Aug. 8: 305-762-1131 Fax 305-762-1132 wise advice — we were Sacrament of Penance some advance planning, we can after all still seminarians readily available to them usually find one wherever we may Father Messias Albuquerque, PUBLISHER even when away from the and providing them the go. The website www.Masstimes. Scalabrinians, parochial vicar, St. Archbishop Thomas Wenski structured environment opportunity of partici- org has a listing of Mass schedules Vincent, Margate. DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS of the seminary with its pation in Sunday Mass. in parishes throughout the United Effective Sept. 1: Mary Ross Agosta fixed times for prayer and (And, when I had the oc- States. Also, most tourist-friendly Father Luis García, on sabbati- ARCHDIOCESAN EDITOR daily Mass. And I think casion to celebrate Mass places readily offer information cal through Nov. 30; parochial vicar, Ana Rodriguez-Soto this is wise counsel to FROM THE there, I often met many as to the location of the nearest St. Kieran, Miami, effective Dec. 1, [email protected] all of us Catholics even ARCHBISHOP of you from South Florida Catholic Church. 2013. 305-762-1131 as we plan for vacations at Sunday Mass.) As Catholics we belong to more that take us away from Thomas While there might not than just our parish — we are our homes and parishes. 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This column was originally homes. The Basilica of the Na- mental encounters with the Lord Lord” on the day in which we published in July 2010. 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La católico practicante, y las vacacio- Pero, al tomar ventaja de nuestros to prayers@thefloridacatholic.org vertía: “Jóvenes, recuerden que no basílica santuario de Mary, Queen nes no nos dispensan de este en- días de vacaciones para pasar tiem- All contents copyright © 2013, The Florida Catholic Inc., hay vacaciones de la vocación”. Era of the Universe (María, Reina del cuentro semanal con Cristo en el po con nuestros seres queridos y except stories and photos from Catholic News Service. un consejo sabio; después de todo, Universo) todavía recibe a miles de santo sacrificio de la misa, ya que descansar de todas las exigencias y éramos seminaristas aun cuando visitantes cada semana. Los sac- es a través de estos encuentros sac- rutinas del trabajo, no descuidem- estuviéramos lejos del ambiente erdotes del santuario ofrecen un ramentales con el Señor que crec- os “descansar en el Señor” durante estructurado del seminario, con servicio importante a estos turistas, emos en la gracia necesaria para ser el día en que conmemoramos su sus horarios fijos para la oración y al ofrecerles el sacramento de la fieles a nuestra vocación bautismal amor por nosotros en la Eucaristía la misa diaria. Me parece que este reconciliación y la oportunidad de a la santidad. dominical. es un consejo sabio para todos los participar en la misa dominical. 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NEWSbriefs Catholic Charismatic Conference Hilton Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel with a Mass to be celebrated by and Creole in several locations in HOPE Center (SJGGJO3Et%BOJB#FBDI '- Archbishop Thomas Wenski. Fol- Miami-Dade and Broward coun- collects backpacks lowing the Mass, the archbishop ties. The online program is of- Begins on Friday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. will bless the parish’s new multi- fered in English or Spanish and Ends on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 1 p.m. The HOPE (Helping Other purpose center, which will be of- consists of eight online courses People Everyday)Outreach Cen- ficially named the Father Joseph and eight in-person meetings SPEAKERS INCLUDE: ter in Davie is holding its annual T. Carney Enrichment Center. over a two-year period. James Archer-Chariscenter, Rev. Celsus Auguiste, Deacon Michel Duchaussee back-to-school drive to benefit Father Carney served as pastor of Graduates receive one of two children in kindergarten through Blessed Trinity for 30 years until certificates: Catholic Studies Saturday Mass Celebrant-Rev. Celsus Auguiste fifth grade. The goal is to collect his unexpected death Jan. 2, 2013, Certificate for those who are in- Sunday Mass Celebrant-Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski 400 new backpacks filled with at age 70. A small reception will terested in learning more about Music: Charley Stracuzzi with his band, Second Chance age-appropriate school supplies follow the Mass and blessing cer- the faith but are not certain about Robin Simons-Liturgical dancers, and others by Monday, Aug. 5, at 3 p.m. emony. Blessed Trinity is located their call to ministry; and a Pasto- Kathy Blanton, chairwoman at 4020 Curtiss Parkway, Miami ral Ministry Certificate for those )JMUPO'PSU-BVEFSEBMF"JSQPSU)PUFMJTPČFSJOHB of HOPE Outreach’s board of di- Springs. who desire to be commissioned rectors, said the donations “help to serve in a specific ministerial TQFDJBMSPPNSBUFVOUJM"VHGPSUIPTFBUUFOEJOH children begin the school year on area. $BMM $PEFccsam) for room reservation. equal footing with their peers.” School of Ministry Deadline for registration is HOPE is a nonprofit organization accepting new Aug. 31. Tuition consists of 20 $0/'&3&/$&13&Ȫ3&(*453"5*0/ started by members of St. David payments of $28 per person or $51 QFSQFSTPO]BUUIFEPPS]Teens no charge Parish in Davie. Along with sup- students per couple. The non-refundable plies, monetary donations and/ registration fee is $25 prior to July FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL 29659-0718 or gift cards are accepted and will The archdiocesan School of 31 or $50 thereafter. There is also be used to purchase school sup- Ministry is now accepting appli- a $100 per person or $200 per cou- Catholic Charismatic Services 954-961-1856 plies. Typical backpack supplies cations from the laity who desire ple non-refundable payment due include pencils, glue sticks, note to grow in their understanding in September. paper, composition books, cray- of the Catholic faith and in their Registration forms and an in- ons, color pencils, pens, safety ability to serve the Church. The formational brochure are post- scissors, baby wipes and Kleenex. two-year course deepens partici- ed on the archdiocesan web- Backpacks may be dropped off at pants’ knowledge of spirituality, site at www.miamiarch.org/lay HOPE Outreach Center, 4700 S.W. theology, and pastoral ministry. ministry, under the tab “School of 64 Ave., Suite A, in Davie. Call Courses are offered in a tradi- Ministry.” Those interested may 954-321-0909 or visit www.hope- tional classroom setting or on- also call the Office of Lay Ministry outrechfl.org. line. Traditional classes meet one at 305-762-1184 or email lmaff@ evening a week for two years, ex- theadom.org. Catholic Holy Family Society was founded in 1914 and cluding summers. These classes has been providing financial security through its insurance Tribunal offers are offered in English, Spanish products and annuities to Catholics and their families since training for 1915. 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Services administrator. t$BUIPMJD-FHBM4FSWJDFTBMTP “The applicant must answer who have been in takes walk-ins at any of their three seven basic questions on U.S. civ- South Florida locations: Ingraham ics and history,” she said. “If they US for years Building, 25 S.E. Second Ave., Suite pass the test they are given a date 220, Miami, 33131; 1914 N.W. 84 MARLENE QUARONI to take the citizenship oath.” Ave., Miami, 33172; campus of St. Anne Chung-Gonzalez stood Florida Catholic correspondent Stephen Parish, 6081 S.W. 21 St., in line with her daughter, Isabella, Miramar, 33023. 11. MIAMI | On June 22, Diego t'PSNPSFJOGPSNBUJPOBCPVU “I’ve been in the U.S. for 20 Giraldo stood up, raised his right the New Americans Campaign, call: years,” she said. “I’m Canadian hand and took the naturalization 1-855-622-6242; or visit www. and met my husband in Toronto oath, becoming a U.S. citizen cliniclegal.org (English and Creole) where I lived. He was originally or www.cambiatuvida.us (Spanish). along with 59 others at Miami- from Cuba and was naturalized Dade College’s Wolfson campus. at 6 years old in Miami. In 1993, “I am so proud and happy,” five years — or three years if mar- I moved to Miami and we were said the Colombian native as he ried to an American citizen — to married. This is our 20th anniver- posed for photos with his wife become U.S. citizens. In Miami, sary and this is my gift to him. My and 4-year-old daughter next to the campaign partnered with husband wants me to do my civic an American flag. “This is the Catholic Legal Services and sev- duty by voting and taking part in best country for me and my fam- eral other local organizations. jury duty.” ily.” As Giraldo was being sworn Inside the packed conference The new citizens came from 14 in, another building in the Wolf- center, Luisa Gonzalez rolled her countries: Argentina, Bahamas, son campus was filling up with 83-year-old mother, Hortensia Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Domini- hundreds of permanent residents Claudia Valliere sings and waves a flag June 22 as the citizenship Gonzalez, in a wheelchair to Mc- can Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, seeking help with their applica- swearing-in ceremony ends. Legal services providers joined together Grorty. They have lived in the U.S. Honduras, Lebanon, Nicaragua, tions for U.S. citizenship. More to assist permanent U.S. residents apply for citizenship during a for 30 years and are both seeking Senegal, Spain and Uzbekistan. waited their turn outside. mega-workshop the same day at the Wolfson campus of Miami-Dade citizenship. However, the dis- Before the swearing in, the new “About 900 people had regis- College. (MARLENE QUARONI | FC) abled woman would not be able to Americans watched a video show- tered online for appointments fill out the written U.S. citizenship ing immigrants in the late 19th with volunteer law students, those eligible to naturalize actu- “Citizenship should not only be test. McGrorty said that she would and early 20th centuries arriving trained paralegals and attorneys,” ally apply. Of the 8.5 million le- for rich people,” said McGrorty. be able to take the test orally. at Ellis Island in New York harbor said Randy McGrorty, supervising gal permanent residents eligible “We anticipate having another The event attracted local of- and seeing the Statue of Liberty for attorney for Catholic Legal Ser- for naturalization as of 2011, only workshop like this one, possibly ficials. A representative from Mi- the first time. They also listened to vices. “This workshop providing 757,434 were naturalized in 2012, in Broward. The number of per- ami-Dade’s Board of County Com- patriotic songs and speeches. free legal assistance is the biggest according to the U.S. Department manent residents in South Florida missioners presented McGrorty The swearing-in ceremony workshop we’ve ever had.” of Homeland Security’s Office of is estimated at about 350,000.” with a proclamation naming June was part of a daylong citizenship Ultimately, 1,000 people were Immigration Statistics. The full-service workshop fa- 22, 2013, as Catholic Legal Ser- mega-workshop sponsored by helped in Miami. Similar work- A main obstacle to applying for cilitated the process for applicants vices of the Archdiocese of Miami the New Americans Campaign, a shops, but on a smaller scale, have citizenship is the $680 application by providing them with copy ma- Day, and Miami Mayor Tomás Re- national network of legal service been held in Los Angeles, San fee charged by the U.S. Citizen- chines, identification photos tak- galado proclaimed it Citizenship providers which includes the U.S. Francisco, Houston and other cit- ship and Immigration Service. en and cut to size, and the 10-page Day in Miami. As immigration bishops’ CLINIC (Catholic Legal ies in Texas and Michigan. More However, said McGrorty, the fee application forms. Applicants reform is debated in Washington, Immigration Network). Their aim are being planned. can be waived if applicants re- were able to register for citizen- the South Florida Congressional is to encourage those who have Such events are extremely im- ceive food stamps, Medicaid or ship classes and received study delegation worked across party been legal residents for at least portant. Less than 10 percent of Social Security benefits. materials. Once the applications lines to support the workshop. Q DEATH PENALTY Gov. Scott signs Timely Justice Act JEAN GONZALEZ innocent person is an irreversible only 15 in support of the bill. as is certainly the case in Florida, who support capital punishment. of the Florida Catholic staff mistake of the most serious de- McCarron said the bishops have the state should not use the death Two suggestions McCarron offered gree, the most prudent course in appealed in person to the governor penalty. We are called to be ‘uncon- included life without the possibility ORLANDO | Gov. Rick Scott, our view was to veto this bill,” said to not sign death warrants, and be- ditionally pro-life’ and the bishops of parole and unanimous jury rec- who has signed 11 death warrants Michael McCarron, executive di- fore each execution they appeal to are weighing, with their commit- ommendation for a death sentence. since taking office, has signed the rector of the Florida Conference of him for commutation. Yet, while tees and other advisers, how this “It takes 12 people to agree in Timely Justice Act. While Scott’s Catholic Bishops. the dialogue has been sincere, Mc- teaching can be conveyed clearly order to convict someone of a mur- office stated the bill “improves the Citizens of Florida had voiced Carron admitted Scott’s signing of and persuasively, as it relates to the der, but it only takes seven people orderly administration of capital opinions of the act before the gov- the warrants is “disillusioning.” death penalty, and to all areas in- to agree about whether a person punishment” in Florida, oppo- ernor signed the bill June 14. Ac- “Our disappointment at this volving the sanctity of human life.” should live or die. Why isn’t that a nents of the bill, including Florida’s cording to Scott’s media office, as signing of the Timely Justice Act In the wake of the governor sign- unanimous decision?” McCarron bishops, believe the act heightens of June 13, the governor’s office re by Gov. Scott is eclipsed by our in- ing this bill, the conference said it said. the possibility that an innocent ceived 451 phone calls in regards to creasing distress at his recurring would continue to work toward Since reinstating the death pen- person on death row could be ex- Timely Justice, with 443 opposed to and rapid issuance of death war- proposing legislation that would alty in 1976, 77 prisoners have been ecuted. the bill; 14 letters, with 13 opposed; rants,” McCarron said. “But the offer incremental changes in the executed in Florida, while 24 peo- “We believe the possibility (of and 14,571 emails, with 14,565 op- bishops’ resolve remains solid and death penalty and, hopefully, ple have been exonerated — many executing an innocent person) ex- posed. In total, the office received committed to our Church teaching “change the hearts and minds” of well after serving more than 10 ists, and given that executing an 15,036 responses to the bill, with that when society can be kept safe, both legislators and constituents years on death row. Q July 2013 www.thefloridacatholic.org YOUR MIAMI COMMUNITY 7

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TOM TRACY About 20 U.S. Catholic school have to remain vigilant, that they Florida Catholic correspondent teachers and administrators from have to take into account the in- 10 states traveled to Israel June 26 nate, enduring humanity of the MIAMI | At the beginning of July, through July 3. other, meaning the Muslims,” said David Masters stood with other U.S. The New York-based Anti-Defa- Masters, remembering the conver- Catholic educators on Israel’s Golan mation League was founded in 1913 sations the group had with their Heights and looked toward the dis- to stop the defamation of Jewish guides on the Golan Heights and tant bombing and violent civil con- people, and is a civil rights agency many other places and holy sites in flict raging in Syrian territory. fighting anti-Semitism and bigotry. Israel. Several days later, as he and other Its Florida offices are in Boca Raton. In addition to visiting some of American pilgrims on a study tour “The Israelis kept telling us that the Catholic holy places, and swim- were preparing to depart Israel, the although they live in a dangerous Egyptian military were deposing neighborhood and although they PLEASE SEE MIDEAST, 10 that country’s polarizing president, Mohammed Morsi, leading to more violence and ongoing protests in another of the Holy Land’s countries. “We went up to the Golan Heights and were right there with the barbed wire on the edge of the hill looking down to Syria, and were hearing ‘boom, boom,’ and seeing the smoke rising with a sign point- ing to Damascus 60 miles away,” said Masters, who teaches theology at Msgr. Edward Pace High School and is an adjunct professor of world religions and peacemaking at St. Thomas University, both in Miami Gardens. A member of St. Stephen Parish in Miramar and a Miami native whose two children attend St. Jerome School in Fort Lauderdale, Masters’ tour of Israel and the Holy Land was made possible by the Anti-Defama- tion League’s Bearing Witness Ad- vanced Program for Catholic educa- Msgr. Chanel Jeanty, left, archdiocesan vicar general, and Brother tors. Participation requires a lengthy Bill Osmanski, religious superior of the Brothers of the Good application and approval process. Shepherd who staff Camillus House, pose June 28 with the meat Archbishop Thomas Wenski won from his wager with San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller. Because the Spurs lost to the FLORIDACatholic Heat in the NBA championship, 20 pounds of brisket and 10 pounds of fajitas, below, were shipped overnight via Fed Ex and delivered to Camillus House, which will split the winnings with its A great place to neighbor, the Missionaries of Charity. Both facilities minister to the homeless who congregate around Miami’s downtown. (ANA announce your RODRIGUEZ-SOTO | FC) special occasions

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and promote the historical records. Pa- New archdiocesan per, after all, doesn’t last forever. “The loss of documents is a loss of memory,” museum arising at Father Menendez said. “We need to know as much as possible now. History Corpus Christi Parish belongs to all of us.” JIM DAVIS He still needs $1 million to acquire Florida Catholic correspondent the remaining pieces of art and finish the chapel building. He is also seeking a $2 million endowment for a chair at a MIAMI | In a neighborhood of emp- university for the study and publication ty storefronts, faded paint and barred of the historical archives. windows sits a treasure of beauty and The second phase would be a three- knowledge. story museum: first floor, Cuban inde- For about a decade at Corpus Christi pendence; second floor, Florida histo- Parish, Father Jose Luis Menendez has ry, 1508-1821; third floor, more colonial been gathering artworks from Latin paintings and sculptures, plus rotating America’s under-appreciated colonial exhibits. period, plus documents from Florida’s The third phase of the project would Hispanic history — all housed in a rep- make an even bigger dream. It includes lica of an old Peruvian church. An artist’s rendering of the final a language school, a convention center When finished, La Iglesia-Museo Image of a 1593 letter from King Philip appearance of the altar at La Merced. and a parking garage. Total bill: about Perú de Nuestra Señora de la Merced II of Spain to a high ofﬁcial in Florida. NJMMJPO will house one of the largest collec- found a couple of paintings he once Father Menendez is well aware that tions of art and history of its kind — 105 “You’re surrounded by art. You can owned. Corpus Christi is an inner-city parish, paintings and sculptures, plus 410,000 listen and watch in the environment in Zamora first gave 5 percent of his lacking the deep pockets of more pros- historical records, a grand display of which it was created.” time to the cause, then 25 percent, then perous churches. Why, then, locate family links between Florida and Latin The four-story La Merced building is “120 percent,” he jokes. He even moved such a project there? He has a surpris- America. itself impressive. Crossing a broad pla- his office onto the premises. ing answer: education. “We want to give back something to za, visitors approach an ornate façade “I love it; I’m giving back to the com- “When you’re in a poor neighbor- the United States for what it has given built of coral from the Dominican Re- munity,” Zamora said. “This is a project hood, you have to help people leave us,” Father Menendez said. “It accepts public. Twin spires will someday sup- for my kids, my grandkids, everybody. their poorness behind. People stay us and gives us a chance to build a new port steeples. I’m happy that somehow, I helped this poor because their self-image is poor. life. We give the gift of our culture.” Upon entering towering cedar doors, to happen.” We want to break them out of that jail. A June 15 concert gave the public a visitors walk on travertine stones from *UXBTJO4QBJO BCPVUZFBSTBHP Breaking the limitations of home and rare opportunity to see the museum be- Brazil and can spot carved cedar col- that Father Menendez gained his love life is what art does.” fore it is finished. Frank Cooper, retired umns from Bolivia. The clerestory win- for art and music. It’s also where he got "U UIFQSJFTULOPXTIFNBZOPU music professor from the University of dows are made of translucent alabaster his first historic documents. He was or- see his artistic-historical Promised Miami, performed original pieces on a from Turkey. dained in Madrid, where a priest had Land finished. He’s fine with that. reproduction of a Baroque-era harp- “Nothing here is artificial,” Father 150 documents, and gave them to him. “That’s the problem of the Lord, not sichord, along with performers from Menendez said with pride. When Father Menendez came to the my problem,” Father Menendez said the Frost School of Music. The concert The building forms an elegant set- Father Jose Luis Menendez stands between two colonial artworks at La Merced church-museum. (PHOTOS BY JIM DAVIS | FC) "SDIEJPDFTFPG.JBNJJOUIFT IF with a smile. “You have to be faithful to was a fundraiser for Corpus Christi to ting for the oil paintings and statues began collecting others on his own. yourself at any moment. I may not see acquire the instrument, whose price is from the 17th and 18th centuries, all r 1PMZDISPNFXPPEFOTBJOUTUBUVFT tify with them. Art is spiritual. It can includes more than 400,000 digitized cal documents. He explained that from Florida project. By now, he feels driven to preserve it, but I believe the Lord will finish it.” Q expected to run about $18,000. from a vast area including Mexico, Bo- flanking the chancel area: Peter with touch your heart, not only change your documents and 10,000 originals, in- UIFUIUPUIFUIDFOUVSJFT 4QBJOJO- Zamora is one of a core of influen- La Merced, which seats up to 200, is livia, Peru and Ecuador. They include: his keys to the kingdom of heaven, Paul mind.” cluding: cluded St. Augustine and Havana in the tial allies who have gathered around the perfect venue for the refined sound r i5IF"TDFOTJPOPG.BSZuJOUIF with the sword that beheaded him. Half of the art collection is actually r "MFUUFSGSPN,JOH'FSEJOBOE same general region. Father Menendez’s work. They also in- of a harpsichord, Father Menendez Peruvian Cuzco style, which blended r "OFBSMZMJGFTJ[FTUBUVFPGUIF borrowed from an unnamed collec- and Queen Isabella, the Spanish mon- “The history of Cuba is the history of clude Baptist historian Marcos Antonio added. “It’s a place for people to see Spanish and Indian styles for faces with Archangel Michael, with sword, shield tor. To buy it for the museum will take archs who commissioned Columbus’ Florida,” Father Menendez said. Ramos, serving as a board member and the beauty of Baroque art, while hear- a “fresh, naïve” look, Father Menendez and helmet. $500,000. Whoever donates the cost voyages. Spain controlled Florida until the historical advisor; and Carol Damian, ing the music of the period,” he said. said. r i5IF%FGFOTFPGUIF&VDIBSJTU u will have the collection named after r "MFUUFSGSPN4QBJOT,JOH1IJMJQ T XIFOJUSFMJORVJTIFEUIFMBOEUP director of the Frost, recently named showing European kings arrayed him or her. II to the governor of Florida. Written in England. Spain then retook Florida a curator of the colonial art collection. Pictured against enemies of the Church — in- “Some good Christian has to love art JUTPOFPGUIFPMEFTULOPXOMFUUFST decade later, only to cede it to the Unit- ;BNPSB CFHBOXJUIBSUTUPSFTJO is one of cluding Moors and Protestants. and history,” Father Menendez said. about Florida. ed States in 1821. the Washington, D.C., area, then be- the 10,000 r 5IF HFOUMF i+PTFQI 8JUI UIF The museum was meant originally r 5IFGJSTUDPOTUJUVUJPOPG$VCB Just before the climactic Battle of came a private dealer for clients around original Christ Child,” Father Menendez’s fa- for Peruvian-Americans, one of the Yorktown, George Washington’s army documents TJHOFEJO XJUIBTJMLFOOBUJPOBM UIFXPSME)JTGPDVTTIJGUFEJO in the vorite picture in the collection. Why? communities around Corpus Chris- flag on the first two pages. was bogging down for lack of supplies. when a Peruvian collector sold him 12 historical He pauses, then said, “I don’t know. I ti, the priest said. But the longer he r 4XPSETBOEVOJGPSNTGSPNUIF He appealed to France, which commis- colonial-era paintings. archive, can touch God, many times, as love and worked on the project, the more he UIDFOUVSZTUSVHHMFGPS$VCBOJOEF- sioned an admiral to help. “Back then, you could give them which also beauty.” broadened the scope to other nations. pendence. 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Others want to come, make a r "OMFUUFSGSPN+PTFEF$PQ- page document from the admiral with After he moved to the Miami area in tures were the catechism of their time,” home and offer the best of your home. pinger, one of the last Spanish officials the complete account. BGSJFOEBQQSPBDIFEIJNBCPVU he explained. “But the pictures showed Freedom goes hand in hand with cul- ever to rule Florida. “After reading it, I was pleased as helping La Merced. Initially skepti- not only facts but feelings, conveying, ture.” Although he broadened the artworks a Cuban-American that our people cal about the idea of a “church-muse- for instance, how Mary felt at the An- The historical collection is less eye- to several nations, Father Menendez helped American independence,” said um,” Zamora finally accepted Father Father Jose Luis Menendez stands outside La Merced, the church-museum he is nunciation. Then, people could iden- catching, but no less impressive. It kept the focus to Cuba in the histori- Ray Zamora, manager of the Colonial Menendez’s invitation for a tour — and creating for the archdiocese. 8 YOUR MIAMI COMMUNITY YOUR MIAMI COMMUNITY 9 Art, music, history, Latin heritage

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About 200 archdiocesan donors gathered recently at the home of Epiphany parishioner Bunny Bastian to kick off preparations for a gala marking the Archdiocese of Miami’s 55th anniversary. The gala is set for Friday, Oct. 25, and proceeds will go toward helping the poor in South Florida, in keeping with what the archdiocese has been doing for the past 55 years. At left, Bunny Bastian, left, Father Richard Vigoa, and Raphael Bastian pose for a photo at the kickoff event. (COURTESY PHOTOS) MIDEAST: ‘Remember that every Palestinian you meet is somebody’s child’ FROM 7 projects, said that during the study tour he heard a lot of comments in ming in the Jordan River, the Medi- support of the so-called two-state terranean Sea and the Sea of Galilee, solution for peace between Israelis the Bearing Witness group explored and Palestinians. areas of common interest to Catho- “A lot of parents told their chil- lics and Jews, along with Holocaust dren, ‘Remember that every Pales- studies and a tour of Jerusalem’s Yad tinian you meet is somebody’s child Vashem, the memorial to Holocaust or parent or brother and you should victims. treat them with respect.’ I was sur- In the mixed-ethnic towns of prised that so many of the Jews said Haifa and Jaffa on Israel’s coast, the they need a two-state solution and group met with people in the Arab (Palestinians) should have a home- and Jewish community centers land too.” who are working to build peace and In reflecting on his first visit to strong personal and commercial re- the Holy Land, Masters said he real- lationships. ized how much Christians have in- “They told us that anybody who herited from the Jewish people. gets involved (with their peace- “(A)ll the values and virtues that building efforts) should dedicate at we Christians hold dear were first least three years to the projects so given by God to the Jewish people that the kids grow up together as who then enshrined them in writ- friends and do things in common, ing,” Masters said. “It was amazing so that when things get tough or pol- to be in places like the Shepherd’s iticians start ranting, they can view Field and to be looking up at the each other as people first,” Masters Church of Nativity. I wanted to kneel recalled. “A lot of the Jews told us down and kiss the ground. Some- the best neighbors to have are those times I would go to a corner and just with a vested interest in commerce.” thank God for the opportunity to be Masters, who has an extensive there.” Q background in Catholic missionary After the ceremony of baptismal renewal at Yardenit on the Jordan River, travelers on the Bearing Witness tour pose for a photo. From left are David Masters, Paul Homer, Stephani At the Shepherds’ Field near Bethlehem, Israel, David Masters, far right, poses with fellow travelers, Sobol-Pastor from left, John Thomas, Donna Tarney, Father Michael Dolan of the Archdiocese of Hartford, Conn., and Eleonora and Robin Siczek. Masters, who teaches at Msgr. Edward Pace High School and St. Thomas University, Straub. was invited to tour the Holy Land as part of the Anti-Defamation League’s Bearing Witness Advanced Program for Catholic educators. He traveled there June 26-July 3. (COURTESY PHOTOS) July 2013 www.theﬂoridacatholic.org YOUR MIAMI COMMUNITY 11 Father Patrick O’Shea, 76, an intellectual ‘without airs,’ dies Flower from 1992 to 1995 and then of his life, while on vacation in New York Times every year, and len said. Avid reader, sports again from 1997 until his death. But Rome he finagled his way into the Father O’Shea “would read it from “He is a man and priest without he had worked in the Archdiocese Second Vatican Council debates,” front to back every day,” Father airs and all the years I’ve known Fa- lover, friend to the of Miami since 1982: first at St. Ber- Father O’Dwyer recalled at the an- Mullen said. ther Pat I have never heard him ut- nadette in Hollywood niversary Mass. While But Father O’Shea was not an ter a hurtful word,” Father O’Dwyer homeless, served (1982-1989), then at Im- in Rome, Father O’Shea ivory tower intellectual, Father said at the anniversary Mass. “Well, maculate Conception met Cardinals Francis O’Dwyer said at the anniversary maybe once when his favorite jock- in area for 30 in Hialeah (1989-1992), Spellman and Rich- Mass. “He has more books than the ey didn’t make his move on time.” and briefly at St. Antho- ard Cushing, as well as National Archives, yet this priest Perhaps the best summation years ny in Fort Lauderdale noted theologians John can get the message of God’s love of Father O’Shea’s priesthood was ANA RODRIGUEZ-SOTO (1996-1997). He also Courtney Murray, Ed- across to the simplest of people.” given by Father O’Dwyer at that Florida Catholic staff taught at Msgr. Edward ward Shillebeeckx and He also was an avid sports fan, 50th anniversary celebration: “The Pace High School in Mi- Hans Kung. especially devoted to horse rac- Irish poet Sean Dunne said once ami Gardens from 1986 Father O’Shea later ing. Many people did not know he that to experience the true aroma HOLLYWOOD | The people of to 1988. pursued higher studies played Irish football as a young of Christianity we must copy the Little Flower Parish will remember “I know we all know at the University of Cal- man, and for a few years under rose. A rose doesn’t preach at any- Father Patrick O’Shea as a “great him as an Irishman, but ifornia-Berkeley, earn- Coach Don Shula he served as one. It doesn’t shout at anyone. It confessor” who loved celebrating the truth is he was born ing two master’s de- chaplain to the Miami Dolphins. simply spreads its fragrance and 7 a.m. Mass after taking long walks in America,” said Little Father Patrick grees simultaneously, “He was a legendary football the rose irresistibly draws people on Hollywood Beach. Flower’s pastor, Fa- O’Shea followed by a doctorate player,” Father Mullen said. “Irish to itself and its scent remains with They will remember that he ther Thomas O’Dwyer, in sociology. “Then in football, which is not like American them.” loved learning and had a passion during a Mass celebrating Father his Volkswagen bug he traveled to football or soccer. It’s brutal.” The funeral Mass for Father for reading, politics, traveling and O’Shea’s 50th anniversary in the Peru where he worked in the fields Above all, Father O’Shea loved O’Shea was celebrated July 12 at horse racing. He also held a special priesthood in 2011. in the antiplano with shepherds the Mass and was “a great con- Little Flower. He was to be bur- place in his heart for the homeless. Born in Chicago on March 13, while staying with the Irish Colum- fessor,” Father Mullen said. Little ied in Ireland, where members of “We get a lot of homeless people 1937, Father O’Shea was one of five ban Fathers,” Father O’Dwyer said. Flower is perhaps the only South a professional Irish football team here. They would always search children. His parents returned to In fact, according to Father Mul- Florida parish that offers confes- were to meet and escort the body him out at the parish here, ask for their native home in Kerry, Ireland, len, Father O’Shea traveled “from sions at 8 p.m. on Saturdays, and back to Kerry, according to Father Father Pat,” said Augustinian Fa- shortly after his birth. He eventu- Canada to the tip of Chile” in that Father O’Shea would often be the Mullen. “That’s going to be quite ther Richard Mullen, who serves ally entered St. Patrick’s Seminary Volkswagen, learning along the one hearing them. a funeral back in Ireland. He’ll be as parochial vicar at Little Flower. in Carlow and was ordained June way about all the different cultures Even in his last days, when he missed.” “The people here loved him. He 10, 1961, for the Archdiocese of Los in Latin America, especially those was in the hospital, bedridden and Father O’Shea is survived by his had a heart of gold.” Angeles. of the indigenous people. unable to eat, “he begged Father siblings, Mary Ellen, who lives in Father O’Shea, 76, died July 8 af- “He served in two parishes there As for reading, a parishioner Tom to just put a little particle of Hollywood; and Kathleen, Anthony ter a brief illness. He served at Little and in 1964, in one of the highlights bought him a subscription to The the host in his tongue,” Father Mul- and Michael, who live in Ireland. Q 12 YOUR MIAMI COMMUNITY Florida Catholic July 2013

RACHEL FIND OUT MORE ‘For years these women FROM 1 To initiate a Project Rachel coun- have been repressing Rachel’s Vineyard seling program, call 954-981-2984. all of this and they can’t Groeber serves as a trained ad- Anywhere else in the United States, viser for Project Rachel, one of two call 1-888-456-4673 and the call begin to heal until they retreat: Courage post-abortion healing programs of- will be automatically forwarded to a fered by the Archdiocese of Miami. local office. pull it all out, focus on it The other is the Rachel’s Vineyard and let it go.’ weekend retreat. Project Rachel is gram as a professional program. through the one-on-one, conducted once a week It is God who does this,” Groeber Barbara Groeber for one hour. There is no charge for said. “When you take the woman the program, during which each through you cannot believe it. It is brokenness abortion is treated separately. Proj- God who calls them into this.” them up front to help them try and ect Rachel sessions can last from At the beginning of the program, understand: ‘You’re not going crazy, two to six months, depending on the women are asked what they and yes your child is alive and your ANNE DIBERNARDO need Christ and we also need the situation. were like before they got pregnant. child loves you and God loves you. Florida Catholic correspondent to deal with the psychological “We don’t rush it,” Groeber said, They are asked to look back to the God has brought you here,’” Groe- portion of it. Our retreats are noting that the sessions are meant to day of the abortion and consider all ber added. MIAMI | Because of the si- very small, with 10 to 12 peo- last no longer than an hour because the events that have occurred since She compares the first four ses- lence and emotional numbness ple. It is very heavy, deep, deep they can be emotionally draining. then. sions of Project Rachel to cleaning that often surround an abortion work,” Lopez-Acevedo said. The people who accompany the “For years these women have out a closet. “You have to get all this experience, conflicting emo- In addition to a priest and a post-abortive women are trained been repressing all of this and they stuff out and you have to focus on tions both during and after the therapist, the retreat team con- advisers. can’t begin to heal until they pull it it, and it’s going to be painful,” she event may remain unresolved. sists of 14 counselors, women “We never try to portray the pro- all out, focus on it and let it go,” said said. “But then you can begin to let These buried feelings can sur- volunteers who are either post- Groeber. “If you have been in denial go of it. You can separate what you face later and may be symp- abortive, connected to an abor- for years and years — which most need to keep and what you can get toms of post-abortion trauma. tion, or have a calling to serve of them have been — it’s repressed. rid of. And then at that point she is “I have mothers who call and in the ministry. The sacrament For some of these women, nobody ready to go into the forgiveness stage say, ‘I paid and I helped (my of reconciliation is available Hiring knows and that is their guarded se- — identifying in her own heart who daughter) and I shouldn’t have,’ and the retreat closes with cret. ‘No one can know what I did.’ she is mad at.” or, ‘My daughter’s so broke and Mass. at your church or school? Maybe 10 years have passed and in- Men can also go through the pro- she’s made a choice and I need People who call to inquire stead of getting better it got worse.” gram. to go with her to show her that I about the retreat undergo a Looking for a job? Groeber explains that many post- “That’s a tough one,” Groeber love her anyway.’ I have fathers screening process to assess abortive women live in denial be- said. “Most of the time, they don’t who didn’t their readi- Get the word out with cause that is the only way they can think they’re mad at anybody, but have a say ness. get out of bed in the morning. they start to realize they are and that in the mat- FIND OUT MORE “They “I’ve seen the ones who don’t they have been hurt. And then we go ter as well might not be FLORIDA Rachel’s Vineyard retreats are get out of denial and it’s horrific — into the forgiveness area, then they as men who ready, or it held twice a year. The cost is $125 Catholic they’re suicidal a lot of times. So it is are ready to begin to connect with were part of per person, but no one is turned might be too a phenomenon that the brain puts that child.” the decision. away for lack of funds. Project soon,” said the person in so they can deal with Groeber strongly recommends You don’t Lopez-Ace- Job listings are accepted Rachel also accepts donations to their life. But you can’t live in denial that people go through Project Ra- realize the offset the costs involved in operat- vedo. “Even for publication in print forever. You have to start allowing chel before attending the Rachel’s impact it has ing the retreat. The next one will if someone and also listed on yourself to come out of it,” Groeber Vineyard retreat. on people,” take place Nov. 1-3. To learn more, can’t attend our website. said. “It’s not a good idea to go right said Christy visit www.rachelsvineyard.org or call a retreat, we “Some things you just want to tell into the retreat as they won’t get all Lopez-Ace- 305-479-9230. can direct For more information, contact the nuts and bolts. You need Ra- vedo, an at- them to the our advertising department at chel’s Vineyard after you go through torney who other re- mhaggerty@thefloridacatholic.org Project Rachel to be around others prosecutes sources we who have gone through it. They af- child abuse cases for the state have like Project Rachel.” 1-888-275-9953 firm each other,” she said. “They can of Florida and volunteers as a Lopez-Acevedo said the www.thefloridacatholic.org reason, ‘If these people are so beau- Rachel’s Vineyard facilitator in hardest part is talking to the tiful and they did what I did, then I the Archdiocese of Miami. people who call to inquire can’t be so bad.’ The retreat just real- Rachel’s Vineyard is a world- about attending a retreat. 14875 N.W. 77 Ave. ly brings things together for them,” wide ministry of Priests for Life. “I can stand in court and ar- Suite 100 she added. “I love both (programs); It provides participants with an gue any argument there is in Miami Lakes, FL 33014 I think these women and men need opportunity to examine their the world, but to ask someone 305-822-2380 both.” Q abortion experience, identify their history and why they are 954-676-5465 the ways that the loss has im- calling me has got to be one Fax: 305-824-0665 pacted them, and acknowledge Referral & Admissions Line of the hardest questions that I 305-351-7124 any unresolved feelings. ever have to ask a human be- LEARN ROSARY MAKING The retreat relies on spiritu- ing,” she said. “They could be Toll-free: 1-800-533-3933 LEWIS & COMPANY www.CatholicHospice.org al exercises, Gospel readings, driving or be anywhere and Contact us for a catalog Broward Monument SpecialCare@CatholicHospice. and introductory offer. and meditations. 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Dupuis A therapist and priest are talking about it.’” Q MEMORIAL and PLAQUES email: [email protected] Executive Director - present at every retreat. “We July 2013 www.theﬂoridacatholic.org YOUR MIAMI COMMUNITY 13 ‘God is merciful and he loves you’ more prodding, she reluctantly to attend.’ But lo and behold, I Why Christy agreed to her mother’s request to thought about it and went that bake something for the partici- night,” Lopez-Acevedo said. “I Lopez-Acevedo pants. had the most amazing weekend, Although she thought she would the most painful weekend, but the became a Rachel’s just bake a cheesecake to appease most incredible weekend. I real- her mother, something shifted in ized how I had been so impacted Vineyard volunteer her mentality as she began mak- all these years by a choice that ANNE DIBERNARDO ing it. She had a feeling that while someone so close to me had made. Florida Catholic correspondent she might be participating in a I had to deal with my actions and small way in the retreat by making how I had mistreated someone in a cheesecake, something deeper such an ugly way for a decision MIAMI | Christy Lopez-Aceve- would be taking place. they made for their own reasons.” do never imagined God would call “I had this feeling — I couldn’t Lopez-Acevedo left that retreat her to be involved in post-abortion explain it — but looking back, now convinced that a post-abortive ministry, especially since for years I understand,” Lopez-Acevedo ministry was in her future. She she did not budge from a pro- said. “It was God touching my life read “Forbidden Grief, the Un- choice philosophy. to peel away the pain that was spoken Pain of Abortion” by The- But it was her participation in there. So I baked the cheesecake resa Burke, the founder of Rachel’s a Rachel’s Vineyard retreat that and I brought it to her the next Vineyard. changed her view on abortion and morning, and there was just this “This whole world opened up prompted her to volunteer in the feeling about it.” to me about an issue that I did not post-abortion ministry. When she delivered the cheese- think affected me because I hadn’t “Rachel’s Vineyard is a wonder- cake to her mother, she told her made that choice,” she said. ful, healing and merciful experi- she would pray for her while she She also noted the connection ence for anyone who has been was at the weekend retreat. She between abortion and her job, touched by an abortion,” Lopez- began by praying a rosary in the prosecuting child abuse cases for Acevedo said. car on her way to her office. It was a the state of Florida. She realized When she was 20 and a prac- Friday and she was meditating on that Rachel’s Vineyard was some- ticing Catholic, Lopez-Acevedo’s the third sorrowful mystery, the thing she wanted to be a part of. mother offered her devastating crowning of thorns. When she attended her second re- news. She was pregnant and pro- “It is one of the decades that al- treat, as required, she went with a ceeded to abort not one, but two ways touches me the most and I different perspective. She realized of her unborn siblings, which were just couldn’t stop crying,” Lopez- she had a lot more pipes to clean conceived six weeks apart. Acevedo said. “I saw this darkness out. The news left Lopez-Acevedo inside of me that needed to go away “What I’ve learned through shell-shocked. She turned her and I saw it slowly peeling away.” the retreats we do is that there is back on her mother, yet became When she returned to her office, so much pain, shame and self- pro-choice and left the Catholic she called her mother to apologize loathing that people are walking Church. for the way she had treated her and around with,” she said. “If I could But a few years ago, Lopez-Ace- explained that she did not know just be there and say it’s OK, and vedo’s mother asked her to attend a what to do about it. God is merciful and he loves you. Rachel’s Vineyard retreat with her. “She said there is one slot open I can’t change the past or fix it, but At first, Lopez-Acevedo resisted on the retreat, why don’t you come? if I can at least show that mercy to her mom’s persistent invitation I thought, ‘Here we go again with someone else — (that) one person Christy Lopez-Acevedo, Rachel’s Vineyard volunteer facilitator, speaks to take part in the weekend. 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Reflections, Miami, 33150, cerrará su lista jan kom le li te femen. Virtus workshops help St. Andrew, 9950 N.W. 29 St., music, presentations. 786-797- parents, teachers and anyone who Coral Springs. Rosary, confession, 8818. July 2013 www.thefloridacatholic.org YOUR MIAMI COMMUNITY 15 Catechesis was volunteer’s call ANA RODRIGUEZ-SOTO back in New York in 1976, when ing for the Church, for God, for the Florida Catholic staff she worked for Arquimides Perez’s children who have no other way of shipping company. In 1992, after learning the Gospel.” MIAMI | For as long as Mother both families had moved to Mi- In fact, she did not even realize of Our Redeemer Parish has exist- ami, Freya Perez invited Diaz to the 25 years had passed until she started, Freya Perez has directed its re- Mother of Our Redeemer carnival. ed thinking about retirement. “It’s ligious education program. Even a “I had a good time at the festival. just been one year after the other.” bout with cancer 17 years ago could I had friends here,” Diaz said. But “I thank God for helping me so not keep her away. “I was not coming to church. I had much,” she added, recalling how “She used to come in her wheel- stopped.” even her doctor wondered how she chair and do everything,” said Fa- Perez convinced her to attend could keep up with the work while ther Jaime “Jimmy” Acevedo, pas- a Life in the Spirit seminar, which receiving chemotherapy. “It’s not tor, whose parish marked its 25th propelled Diaz’s return to the me. It’s Christ who lives in me,” she anniversary at the end of June. Church. She has volunteered as a said she told him, quoting St. Paul. All the while, she worked as a catechist for the past decade. “Little “God helps us when we need it the volunteer. “She never got paid for by little, the Lord was calling me. It most.” it,” said Susie Rodriguez, religious was Freya who started it,” she said. She also thanked her catechists, education coordinator at the par- “God prepares the way for us,” because “99.99 percent of what I do, ish. said Perez, who first took on the I could not do without you.” Perez officially retired from her role of catechist at her previous par- In retirement, Perez plans to director of religious education post ish, St. Benedict in Hialeah, where spend more time with her grand- at the end of this school year, and Freya Perez poses with Mother of Our Redeemer’s pastor, Father she volunteered for four years. She children and also indulge her love her fellow catechists threw a sur- Jaime “Jimmy” Acevedo, during her retirement party May 31. (ANA said that experience prepared her of traveling, joining her husband prise party in her honor. Also pres- RODRIGUEZ-SOTO | FC) to offer her services as DRE when for extended weekends away. ent were members of her family, in- Mother of Our Redeemer, a par- As she introduced her successor, cluding her husband, Arquimides Level 4 certification under the sys- computer.” ish much closer to her house, was Liliana Marcorella, Perez prom- Perez, their son and daughter, their tem that was in place until last year. “Freya has been a great example founded. ised, “She is going to be here with respective spouses and all six liv- That means attending 120 hours of determination, of love of God At one point, the parish had you, and every once in a while you ing grandchildren. (One grand- worth of workshops. and of everything,” said Maria 1,200 children enrolled in the reli- will see me around here as well.” daughter died of cancer at age 4.) “Catechesis was her call,” said Margarita Velasquez, a catechist at gious education program, many of In fact, she is considering work- Peter Ductram, director of the Ductram, who describes Perez as the parish since 2001 who was re- them Spanish-speakers from the ing with the Rite of Christian Initia- archdiocesan Office of Catechesis, “a woman who has a very clear un- cruited by Perez. western Miramar area just over the tion of Adults, teaching those who also attended the party. “Freya was derstanding of the history and also In the beginning, Velasquez did county line from where the church cannot attend the classes on Tues- one of the first DREs who came to the vision of catechesis.” not speak English very well, so Per- is located. Enrollment this year was day nights. Her fellow catechists visit me. She offered her service, “This is her lifetime passion,” ez suggested she start out by teach- a more manageable 435, but more predict she won’t be able to stay her time,” Ductram said, and gave said Rodriguez, adding that Ar- ing the first-graders who spoke than 100 children still make their away from the parish’s first Com- him some background on the his- quimides Perez was part of the only Spanish. Now she teaches first Communion each year. munion ceremonies. tory of the archdiocesan office. package. “He does everything on fifth-graders in English. “I think that was my mission,” “You will have me here always,” She also was among the few the computer because Freya’s not Another Perez recruit was Ana Perez said. “When you really feel Perez promised Father Acevedo, archdiocesan catechists to reach computer literate at all. He’s her Molina Diaz, who first met Perez that what you’re doing you are do- “because this is my home.” Q

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Why did you leave a secular career to become a priest? “When I went to college, I volunteered to lead rosary at lunch. A priest told my mother I should be a priest. I thought that was strange. In Miami, I got involved at St. Agatha and became friends with Father (now Bishop Felipe) Estevez. People FATHER ANDREW CHAN-A-SUE kept saying I should become a priest. I decided Administrator, I’d go to seminary; if I didn’t like it, I’d leave. But St. Bartholomew, Miramar when I got there, it just felt right.”

Born Aug. 1, 1953, in Georgetown, British Person/persons most surprised by your vocation: “My family. My mother asked if I had to do it. I Guiana (now Guyana), Father Chan-A-Sue’s name partied a lot. I wasn’t wild and crazy, but I danced is actually an anagram. His great-grandfather a lot. I had a fun-loving life.” was named Asue Chen, but when he immigrated Father Chan-A-Sue is pictured here in Kew to Guyana, he rendered it Chan-A-Sue. Father Did the priesthood make you give up fun? Gardens, London, in wintertime, around 1980. “I have fun in different ways. I like lively Masses. Chan-A-Sue first went into an accounting career. I’m always bobbing with the music.” He earned a diploma from Liverpool Polytechnic Person you most admire: in Liverpool, England, then joined the Institute of Favorite priestly assignment: “One is Nelson Mandela, for how he brought Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He “Everywhere. The culture is so egoistic that if South Africa from the brink of civil war.” we’re unhappy, (we think) it’s because of the worked for auditing companies in London, people around us. Happiness comes from making Your most memorable spiritual experience: Georgetown and Miami before answering the the best of the surroundings.” “My ordination. I was tired because I’d been doing a lot of work. When they put me on the floor, I call to the priesthood. He earned a degree in was afraid I’d fall asleep. But just after Archbishop philosophy at St. John Vianney College Seminary (Emeritus John C.) Favalora anointed my hands, I ‘ I like lively Masses. I’m always in Miami, and a master’s degree in divinity at felt a peace come over me.” bobbing with the music.’ St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Something most people don’t know about you: Beach. He was ordained for the Archdiocese of “I always look at the theological aspects of mov- Miami on May 13, 2000. Before coming to How do you like to spend time off? ies. ‘Snow White’ is about power and innocence. “Sometimes I go with friends to movies or The mirror sees the soul. The reflection is not the St. Bartholomew in October 2010, Father dinner. For restaurants, I always like to try physical but the inner (self). And a kiss brings Chan-A-Sue served at St. Maurice in Dania Beach, something new. And I like gardening.” Snow White back to life. Love conquers death.” Holy Family in North Miami, Blessed Trinity in Miami Springs and St. Andrew in Coral Springs. Last movie you liked: Your harshest critic: “‘Lincoln.’” He said, ‘Your compass may be “In every parish, 10 percent are going to love you true north, but you may have to go there by an because you’re the priest; 10 percent won’t like you indirect way.’ The lesson was that to get to a goal, because you remind them of someone they don’t you have to compromise.” like; 40 percent will warm up to you; and the other 40 percent are just fulfilling their Sunday Last book read: obligation. That’s the group you need to educate “‘The Infancy Narratives of Jesus of Nazareth,’ to become more active.” by Pope Benedict XVI. He comes with insight, speculating into the minds of the Gospel Motto, or favorite Scripture verse: characters.” St. Augustine: “Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands on earth but your hands, Other interests: yours are the eyes through which he looks with Football. The Hurricanes and the Dolphins. compassion on the world, yours are the feet with Archdiocese of Miami which he chooses to go about doing good, for as “I like to go to the games at Sun Life Stadium 9401 Biscayne Boulevard just down the road.” he is the head, so you are the members, and we are all one in Christ Jesus.” Miami, Florida 33138 305.762.1043 Fax 305.751.6227