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Photo by Jake Hattenberger Kingdom.] visited theUnited Pope BenedictXVI in September, when Newman inEngland John HenryCardinal the beatificationof Servant,” attended for “TheCatholic a regular columnist James Reidy, Ph.D., man’s beatification continued page11 [Editor’s Note:Fr. Cardinal New- continued page6 Page 2 The Catholic Servant October, 2010 Bringing the Faith into the home How we can break through the clouds of uncertainty and see more clearly By Niki Kalpakgian ing happen in our daily life: A ment it was to perceive that there is an appeal to an un- with the Emperor’s new phrase uttered doesn’t seem beauty that had been envelop- changing truth. Without this clothes. Folding quite right, but what was par- ing us the whole time. And foundation, ideologies run It seems that the closer we laundry the ticularly wrong with it? In the with the simultaneous advent rampant, logic appeals to the get to the top of that mountain, other day, midst of an argument the logic of the sun, we were filled with masses to support pet projects the more clarity we receive and something doesn’t flow, but where exactly warmth and sense of grandeur and the lukewarm nature of the better we can see. The same struck me as to refute the claim? Something at the same time. “niceness” takes the place of is true in the life of a Christian: odd but I feels wrong in the depths of us On earth, clarity comes honest dialog. When the uni- the closer we are to the Truth couldn’t put about supporting a person or through the person of Christ, versal appeal to truth is lacking (God) the greater our clarity in my finger on movement, but the precise rea- Who is Truth. And in Heaven then the ideology of the day, the situations of life. it. Was my son we can’t articulate. Often there is perfect sight (“face to the splendor of the moment and son’s jacket the end results of what we are face”) with God. So it seems the fading appeal of power can Kalpakgian really such unsure of seem harmless, so we that situations, difficulties, and lead people astray. But, in the Niki Kalpakgian is a free- dark beige? Shrugging my second-guess our hesitations. suffering can best be under- end, someone has to cry out lance writer living in Gaming, shoulders I figured it must be. But how can we help break stood in the light of Christ. Just like the boy in the tale of the Austria, with her husband and But wait; did that pair of paja- through the clouds of uncer- as I was confused and unsure Emperor’s New Clothes: “But two boys. mas always have such a bluish tainty? There is absolute truth when first folding that laundry, he hasn’t got anything on!” It tinge? Again, I figured I must (Christ), but how can we see it then understanding came when takes courage to face the harsh This article was funded by the be wrong; they were recently more clearly in daily life? I understood the cause. reality of truth; but the empti- St. Joseph the Worker Chair of bought and I just hadn’t looked I’m reminded of a recent But, the struggle for knowl- ness of faulty logic is experi- Writing sponsored by an anony- that closely. It wasn’t until I hike I took with my husband. edge precedes the light. Just as enced in the end. mous patron. brought out the pair of jeans Arising early, we hit the trail the first part of that early morn- The adage that you can fool from the pile that the truth hit by 6:45 A.M. and started as- ing hike was through the others but you can’t fool your- me. Yes, those are new dark cending the mountain. Our des- clouds and a steep uphill climb, self proves true in the end. Or, jeans. Of course, they bled dark tination: Dachstein glacier in so we too must wrestle with re- more appropriately, it might be blue onto all the lighter colored the western portion of Austria. ally knowing Christ; the call is that you can’t fool others when clothes. Now I knew I wasn’t Those first hours of hiking to move from external know- you are fooling yourself—as imagining the color shifts be- were straight up at a steep in- ing to an internal relationship. cause I had found the source, cline—and we were in the One philosophic proof for discovered the reality. midst of a hazy fog. The gor- God is the notion of “first St. Paul speaks of life here geous mountain ranges sur- cause.” Simply put, everything on earth as a period of seeing rounding us were there but in the world has it’s origin or truth by means of faith, often could not be seen. Then after beginning in something else. If unclearly: “For now we see in a about two hours we had hiked you trace things back far mirror dimly, but then face to high enough to be out of the enough, there logically has to face. Now I know in part; then fog and at about the same time be a beginning, a first cause. As I shall understand fully, even as the glorious sun was just mak- Christians we name this first I have been fully understood.” ing an appearance over the cause as God—Truth itself. (I Cor. 13:12) eastern mountain range. So when situations seem How often does the follow- What a breathtaking mo- hazy and logic appears faulty,

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“The Catholic Servant” is a tool for evangelization, cat- echesis and apologetics. Published monthly, it is dis- tributed free through parishes and through paid subscriptions ($15 per year). Board of Directors: Don Fier Fr. Joseph Johnson Daniel J. Kelly Patrick Shannon John Sondag Publisher/Editor: John Sondag Editorial Readers: Patrick Shannon Greg Smisek Don Fier Bookkeeper: George Stauner Circulation: Daniel and Jill Kelly Advertising Melissa Lenzmeier Phone: 612-916-5258 [email protected] Graphic Design Jodi Sandell [email protected] Our mailing address is: The Catholic Servant P.O. Box 24142 Minneapolis, MN 55424 October, 2010 The Catholic Servant Page 3 Scripture and the Sacraments Part III: The significance of the Jordan River for Baptism found in Old Testament By Fr. John Paul Echert they may know I am with you, what these stones mean you those put in place in the time of ter…. When he read the letter, as I was with Moses.’ …The shall answer, “The waters of Joshua, it means that the activ- the king of Israel tore his gar- Thus far people struck their tents to the Jordan ceased to flow be- ity of John the Baptist and the ments and exclaimed: ‘Am I a in our exami- cross the Jordan, with the fore the Ark of the Covenant of Baptism of Jesus occurred at god with power over life and nation of priests carrying the Ark of the the LORD when it crossed the the very place in the river death, that this man should Baptism we Covenant ahead of them. No Jordan.” Thus these stones are through which God had deliv- send someone to me to be have reflect- sooner had these priestly bear- to serve as a perpetual memori- ered His people into the land of cured of leprosy? … When El- ed upon as- ers of the ark waded into the al to the Israelites.’ The twelve Israel. Just as God had brought isha, the man of God, heard pects of the waters at the edge of the Jor- Israelites did as Joshua had His Old Covenant people into that the king of Israel had torn Old Testa- dan, which overflows all its commanded…. They are there the physical Promised Land his garments, he sent word to ment which banks during the entire season to this day.” (Joshua 3:1-4:9) through these waters, so in the the king: ‘… Let him come to Fr. Echert prefigured of the harvest, than the waters It appears that this memori- New Covenant His people will me and find out that there is a and prepared flowing from upstream halted, al marker served its purpose be brought through Baptism prophet in Israel.’ Naaman for this New Testament sacra- backing up in a solid mass for a long and well, for a millennium into the Promised Land of came and stopped at the door ment. Our final former very great distance indeed…. and a half or so later, the Bap- Heaven. of Elisha’s house. The prophet covenant consideration will fo- “After the entire nation had tist appears to have made refer- One other Old Testament sent him the message: ‘Go and cus upon the importance of the crossed the Jordan, the LORD ence to these twelve stones still Jordan River association worth wash seven times in the Jordan, Jordan River in the divine plan said to Joshua, ‘Choose twelve in place on the bank of the Jor- noting is that of a miraculous and your flesh will heal, and for Baptism. Of first impor- men from the people, one from dan: cleansing: you will be clean.’ But Naaman tance is the epic crossing of each tribe, and instruct them to “John wore clothing made “Naaman, the army com- went away angry, saying, ‘… this river by the Israelites, sim- take up twelve stones from this of camel’s hair and had a mander of the king of Aram, Are not the rivers of Damascus ilar to their exodus out of spot in the bed of the Jordan leather belt around his waist…. was highly esteemed and re- … better than all the waters of Egypt but now an ingress into where the priests have been At that time Jerusalem, all spected by his master, for Israel? Could I not wash in the Promised Land: standing motionless. Carry Judea, and the whole region through him the LORD had them and be cleansed?’ With “Joshua moved with all the them over with you and place around the Jordan were going brought victory to Aram. But this, he turned about in anger Israelites … to the Jordan.... them where you are to stay out to him and were being bap- valiant as he was, the man was and left. But his servants rea- Then the LORD said to Joshua, tonight…. In the future, these tized by him in the Jordan Riv- a leper. Now the Arameans had soned with him. ‘My father,’ ‘Today I will begin to exalt you are to be a sign among you. er they [confessed] their sins. captured from the land of Israel they said, ‘if the prophet had in the sight of all Israel, that When your children ask you When he saw many of the in a raid a little girl, who be- told you to do something ex- Pharisees and Sadducees com- came the servant of Naaman’s traordinary, would you not ing to his baptism, he said to wife. ‘If only my master would have done it? All the more them, ‘You brood of vipers! present himself to the prophet now! ...’ So Naaman went Who warned you to flee from in Samaria,’ she said to her down and plunged into the Jor- the coming wrath? Produce mistress, ‘he would cure him of dan seven times at the word of good fruit as evidence of your his leprosy.’ Naaman went and the man of God. His flesh be- repentance. And do not pre- told his lord just what the slave came again like the flesh of a sume to say to yourselves, “We girl from the land of Israel had little child, and he was clean. have Abraham as our father.” said. ‘Go,’ said the king of He returned with his whole ret- For I tell you, God can raise up Aram. ‘I will send along a let- inue to the man of God. On his children to Abraham from ter to the king of Israel.’ So arrival he stood before him and these stones.’” (Matt. 3:4-9) Naaman set out … to the king said, ‘Now I know that there is If indeed these stones were of Israel he brought the let- no God in all the earth, except in Israel….’” (II Kg. 5:1-15) Once again we see how a TRIDENTINE MASS SCHEDULE FOR SOUTH ST. PAUL physical reality of the Old Tes- tament foreshadowed a spiritu- Holy Trinity Church: al reality of the New: just as the 749 Sixth Ave South, South St. Paul. PH: 651-455-1302 waters of the Jordan cleansed Monday & Wednesday, 5:15 pm; Naaman of leprosy on his skin Friday, (except First Fridays)12:00 noon so the waters of the sacrament of Baptism wash away the lep- St. Augustine Church: rosy of sin from the soul. Next 408 Third Street North, South St. Paul. PH: 651-451-1212 month we will shift our focus Tuesday & Thursday, 8:00 am; Sunday, 11:30 am First Friday & Holy Days, 7:30 pm to the critical transition from the Old Covenant to the New as we examine the two great figures of John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ.

Fr. John Paul Echert, S.S.L., is the pastor of Holy Trinity Church and St. Augus- tine Church in South St. Paul, Minnesota.

This article was funded by the St. John Fisher Chair of Writing sponsored by anonymous donor. Page 4 The Catholic Servant October, 2010 St. Margaret Mary Alacoque is a messenger for Jesus’ Sacred Heart By Kristen Lang way, “... I was being consumed brother was able to return and purpose of this Hour was, in greater part only ingratitude, in His presence like a burning take charge of the home, which part, “... to mitigate in some by their irreverence and sacri- taper, in order to return Him meant that Margaret’s relatives way the bitterness which I felt leges, and by the coldness and “What a love for love....” After her fa- were no longer needed. This at that time on finding Myself contempt they have for Me in weakness it ther’s death, she was sent to homecoming brought peace abandoned by My apostles….” this sacrament of love….” is to love Je- study under nuns in Charolles, and joy back to the Alacoque (The Autobiography of Saint Our merciful Savior, how- sus Christ where she was permitted to re- household. Unfortunately, this Margaret Mary, TAN Books, ever, made twelve great only when ceive Holy Communion at the as well as other distractions 1986, p. 71) promises to St. Margaret Mary He caresses age of nine at a time when the caused Margaret and her fami- Upon relaying these revela- for those who make reparation us, and to be common age was twelve. In ly to put off for several years tions to her superior, Sister to His Sacred Heart. Among cold imme- her autobiography, St. Mar- that promise which had been Margaret Mary began to face them is the assurance of final diately once garet Mary expressed how her made during her illness. Final- intense criticism and disbelief perseverance for all who fer- Lang He afflicts life was changed by her First ly, however, Margaret’s deep- as well as accusations of fraud vently practice the Nine First us. This is not true love. Those Communion: “This Commu- est desires were realized on and delusions by many sur- Fridays devotion: “I promise who love thus, love them- nion shed such bitterness over June 12, 1671, when she en- rounding her. These severe tri- you, in the excessive mercy of selves too much to love God all my little pleasures and tered the convent of the Order als caused acute suffering to My Heart, that My all-power- with all their heart.” St. Mar- amusements that I was no of the Visitation founded by St. the saintly nun, whose health ful love will grant to all those garet Mary Alacoque, whose longer able to enjoy any of Francis de Sales at Paray-le- began to fail. Upon the elec- who communicate on the First childlike love for her God al- them, although I sought them Monial, France. tion of a new Mother Superior Friday of nine consecutive lowed her such close union eagerly.” Sister Margaret Mary strug- and with the testimony of her months, the grace of final pen- with Him, lived a life which The pure beauty of Mar- gled in those early days with a confessor, Father Claude de la itence; they shall not die in my revealed heroic virtue. She had garet’s holiness from an early regular practice of the nuns— Columbiere, opposition died disgrace, nor without receiving not only an immense capacity age is clearly evident. St. Mar- that of meditation. In the child- down and devotion to the Sa- the Sacraments, My Divine for humility and love, but her garet Mary wrote of the nuns like way with which she did cred Heart of Jesus began to Heart shall be their safe refuge childlike simplicity of inno- from her childhood. She re- everything, the young nun spread. Sister Margaret Mary in this last moment.” cence, love, honesty, and trust garded them as saints, desiring asked her Beloved Savior to later served as assistant to the St. Margaret Mary, pray for allowed her to be a light for to be as one of them that she, teach her this unfamiliar Mother Superior and Novice us! Christ in the dark world. too, could be a saint. What a method of prayer and He slow- Mistress before her death on On July 22, 1647, Claude sorrow it must have been when ly began to guide her. Before October 17, 1690. Her simple Kristen Lang is a freelance Alacoque and his wife Philib- she was forced to leave long, Jesus began to appear to holiness was recognized, first writer from Elk River, Min- erte welcomed their fifth child, Charolles, return home to cru- Sister Margaret Mary, reveal- through her beatification on nesota. a girl named Margaret Mary, el relatives, and be confined to ing His desire for His love to September 18, 1864, and again into their family. Her child- bed in illness. Margaret re- be made known to the world. on May 13, 1920, when she This article was funded by the hood was marked by unusual mained bedridden for several Over the course of a year and a was elevated to sainthood. St. Aloysius Gonzaga Chair of piety and great sorrow. Mar- years before she was healed half these visions continued, Jesus once told St. Mar- Writing sponsored by Aolysius and garet had a particular devotion through the intercession of the during which time Jesus asked garet Mary: “Behold this Heart Alice Mayers and Gerald and Gin- to Jesus in the Blessed Sacra- Blessed Mother with the Sister Margaret Mary to re- which has so loved men that it ny Zink. ment. In her autobiography, St. promise to give her life in the ceive Holy Communion on the has spared nothing, even to ex- Margaret Mary would later re- form of the desire clearly First Friday of every month as hausting and consuming itself, call her early love of Jesus in placed on her heart by God— well as make a regular Holy in order to testify its love. In the Blessed Sacrament in this as a nun. Soon Margaret’s Hour. Jesus told her that the return, I receive from the

England has produced its fair share of converts, including G.K. Chesterton By Dale Ahlquist bankers, lawyers, and royalty, the parts. Zimbabwe where he cared for And even though you’ve all of whom found their way to Brian Brindley was a flam- lepers. During the Rhodesian heard of the poet Gerard Man- Refer- Rome. Some of them became boyant Anglican canon, who war he was shot and killed by ley Hopkins, you probably ence books bishops and priests or nuns. had long defended the idea of supporters of Robert Mugabe. have never heard the reasons make the Some became saints and mar- Anglo-Catholicism, but when His cause for canonization has for his conversion, which in- most enjoy- tyrs. Some simply became rein- the Anglican Church decided to been opened. clude “common sense” and able reading vigorated by the ancient truth ordain women, he realized that Harold Riley had been an “reading the Bible.” He said when you’re in spite of the fact that the the two would never be the Anglican priest for 63 years, the Primacy of the Peter is not actually Catholic Church had been beat- same, and that all of Pope Leo converted, and was ordained a completely evident in the looking en to the ground in their coun- XIII’s century-old arguments Catholic priest at the age of 91! Gospels, especially in a text something try. There were high and low against a so-called Anglo- Thomas Arnold was a like “Thou art Peter, and upon up. You church Anglicans, Methodists Catholic Church had been right scholar and barrister who con- this Rock I will build my Ahlquist don’t have to and Presbyterians, Lutherans all along: “I felt as if I had verted in 1856. His Protestant Church.” The Protestant “eva- concentrate. You don’t have to and Baptists, Jews and Athe- been…selling vacuum cleaners wife wrote to Cardinal New- sions proposed for this alone follow a plot. You just grab an- ists. There were the famous, for 50 years, only to discover man accusing him of persuad- are enough to make one a other handful and nosh. I re- like Newman and Chesterton, suddenly that they didn’t ing her husband “to ignore ev- Catholic.” cently picked up a new book and the infamous, like Guy work.” ery social duty and become a There are plenty more fasci- called Roads to Rome by John Fawkes of the Gunpowder Plot. Ann Bond, who was re- pervert…From the bottom of nating stories with concise ex- Beaumont (St. Augustine’s There were saints like Edmund ceived in 1815, was the mother my heart I curse you for it.” cerpts in the converts’ own Press) that gives snapshots of Campion and sinners like Gra- of six sons, all of whom be- Mabel Norton went to live words. It is like walking some of the most notable con- ham Greene. But the majority came priests, and four daugh- in Portugal in 1910 as a young through a museum of apologet- versions in Britain since the of them (and what indeed ters, all of whom became nuns. girl. While still a Protestant, ics, only the statues breathe English Reformation, and I makes the book so interesting) Cyprian Blamires was an she was an eyewitness of the with life. I was inspired and ed- found that I could not put the are people you have never Evangelical minister who in “Miracle of the Sun” at Fatima, ucated, and I didn’t even real- book down. I already knew heard of. the 1970s looked into the histo- October 13, 1917, and was the ize it because each entry was so that the newly beatified John For instance: ry of the English Reformation only eyewitness to write a book fascinating. The faith is an ad- Henry Newman was one of the Sir Francis Burnand was a and was shocked to discover about it. venture we share all across the most important Catholic con- 19th century playwright who that the real heroes were the Bruno Scott James, after his ages. Hopefully we will each verts in England in the 19th arrived at his father’s home to Post-Reformation Catholics, conversion from Anglicanism add our own page to the story. century, not only because of his announce his decision to be- and found St. Thomas More’s became a Catholic priest in prominence as a great intellect, come Catholic. He was arguments in defense of the 1935. He concluded that the Dale Ahlquist is President but because of all the other promptly disinherited and the Church still compelling after Anglican Church “speaks with of the American Chesterton So- conversions that were directly butler escorted him out. five centuries. a well-bred voice but she does ciety and host of the EWTN se- and indirectly connected to his. Stanley James, who con- Dom Bede Griffiths was a not speak with authority.” He ries “G.K. Chesterton: The But there have been many dra- verted in 1923, had spent time former student of C.S. Lewis was the first administrator of Apostle of Common Sense.” matic and surprising and influ- as a tramp, a newspaper man- who went to India in 1955 and the newly restored Walsingham ential conversions in England ager, a cowboy, a soldier in the founded a monastery. shrine that had been destroyed in the last five hundred years. Spanish Civil War, a Noncon- John Randal Bradburne was by the reformers, and would sit This article was funded by the In these pages, I met writ- formist minister, and a labor the son of an Anglican clergy- and on the steps of the Slipper St. Benedicta of the Cross (Edith ers, artists, actors, musicians, activist. In choosing the man, brought up in a very cul- Chapel, in a black cassock, Stein) Chair of Writing sponsored soldiers, historians, mathemati- Catholic Church, he “chose the tured English family, read the head shorn, with a Siamese Cat by Dr. and Mrs. Raymond and cians, astronomers, politicians, whole against the part,” and it Catholic mystics, converted in on his shoulder, and greet pil- Mary Bonnabeau. diplomats, social workers, seems that he had tried most of 1947, and eventually went to grims to the shrine. October, 2010 The Catholic Servant Page 5 Family Life The family that plays music and sings together is the family that stays together By Mary Ann Sondag we’ll let her “off the hook” for ing band for his parish festival. have the kids entertain—one- mediately have a list of 32 acts an article for October. The oth- Next came our first daugh- by-one—when relatives would on the program—ranging from [Editor’s er Mary Ann is substituting.] ter who began accordion visit (the show could get long). grandchildren to grandparents, note: Mary lessons. That was a big instru- This certainly encouraged per- ages 6 to 86. Ann Kuhars- “That’s a B-flat, honey; B- ment for a little six-year-old. formance skills and helped to I would certainly recom- ki is running flat. Count—1-2-3; 1-2-3— Even with a three-quarter size get rid of stage fright. mend music in the family as an around the that’s it, 1-2-3.” (Mom’s famil- instrument her legs didn’t The many magical mo- antidote for the “I am so bored” country giv- iar words calling from the reach the floor when she ments compensated for the problems. Many wonderful ing pro-life kitchen to the practicing piano played—and it was always weaker times—recitals, school life-long friendships are talks (it’s Re- student in the living room.) Dad’s job to transport both her bands and orchestra, competi- formed as a result of love for spect Life I have always been a firm and the accordion. She still has tions in solo music contests, music. Sondag Month), so believer that learning to read her accordion and as a Drama summer music camps, high- I am eternally grateful for and appreciate music is as im- Therapist and Director of schoolers forming their own the grace of persistence in portant as math, reading, Recreation at a nursing home, little rock combos. I remember helping to develop our God- spelling, history, and all the she often delights and enter- one such group holding their given talents. I am sure there academic subjects. Just as “the tains the residents. practice sessions in our base- must be a special place in family that prays together— Each year we added more ment. Feeling sorry for them Heaven for musicians, and I stays together”—so does the until, at last count, we had having to carry all their equip- hope there’s a good supply of family that plays music and three piano players, one accor- ment up and down the stairs I instruments handy so that sings together stay together, dion player, three clarinetists, offered them use of my living maybe we might be rewarded and through the years whenev- three guitarists, three trum- room. The amplified sound was by being members of a heaven- er we get together there is al- peters, one saxophonist, one a test of my patience—but it ly group to accompany an an- ways “music.” trombonist, and one player of was the “vibration” of the very gelic concert. It all began when our oldest the mandolin and bongos. walls of the house as I tried to son was six years old. Grandpa Don’t get me wrong, it was relax in my bedroom that Mary Ann Sondag is a wid- surprised him with a new not always fun and games. It caused “All for the Honor and ow, mother, and grandmother Spinet piano, and lessons be- was almost a full-time job Glory of God” to pass through from Eugene, Oregon, and is gan. scheduling lessons, practice my lips more than once or an avid reader of “The Later, in middle school, he times, and finding private little twice. Catholic Servant.” added clarinet, and in high nooks and crannies for individ- As the years have passed school he became adept at ual practice. There was many a and all have dispersed to differ- This article was funded by the playing the organ. To this day, time when it took lots of words ent locations, their love of mu- St. Bernadette of Soubirous Chair he occasionally plays the organ of encouragement and praise to sic has accompanied them. of Writing sponsored by Thomas at his parish church, regularly keep the music rolling. [Edi- About every three or four and Barbara Janas. takes groups of volunteer musi- tor’s note: On at least one oc- years we have a family reunion cians to entertain at several casion, corporal punishment and one of the main events is a nursing homes, and enjoys or- was threatened by one of the “talent show.” One of my sons ganizing an impromptu march- parents.] My husband would once told me he was in charge of organizing a talent show and he had to prod and beg for vol- unteers—when all we had to do was announce in our newsletter The Church of St. Helena that we would be having our 3204 East 43rd St. family show and we would im- Minneapolis, MN 55406 presents SATURDAY BREAKFAST FOR MEN

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Page 8 The Catholic Servant October, 2010 Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, festivals and parties will abound By John Sondag mas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Halloween, interact and be in communion with one Wherever the Catholic sun and St. Patrick’s Day. I’ve been told that another, and ultimately, to be in com- I remember when doth shine when godless Communism fell in Rus- munion with God. Not to party or so- I was leaving for col- There’s always laughter sia, the society had been zapped of life. cialize is to be incomplete as a human and good red wine, lege, and my grand- At least, I’ve always found it so, Why wouldn’t it be? You take out God being. mother gave her Benedicamus Domino! and religion for 70 years, and you will Of course, when we attain Heaven farewell: “Now, don’t (By Hilaire Belloc) have nothing really to celebrate or live we will be with everyone else for eter- study too hard!” My for. (If the secularists get the upper hand nity, and we will be united in the one father objected, level, needs moments of levity, time for in our society and rid us of religious Being Who can fulfill all of our wants “Don’t tell him that!” parties, time for socialization, and time holidays such as Christmas, the same and desires. My father knew for prayer. phenomenon will happen here.) In a sense, it’s only when we know my proclivity to dis- Along the same lines, a friend who how to recreate and entertain ourselves Sondag We are created not just to work, but tractions. My grand- to contemplate that which is true, good, works in food catering commented that in leisure that we will know how to mother was concerned about a balance and beautiful. Granted, the academic people are not having as many parties work the way we should. For work is in living. life is rigorous, but young people need as they did in years gone by. (I’m sure ordered toward contemplative or leisure Dealing with that kind of balance, to see the interconnection between the the economy has something to do with activities. That’s why feast days and let me tell you a related story. A friend active and the contemplative life. To be this.) However, he added that when Sundays are so important. On these told about how she had transferred her grinding out studies without any associ- people attend parties, many want to go days Catholics are supposed to rest and child from a Catholic school to a presti- ation with light-hearted, enjoyable home rather than stay and socialize. enjoy the Lord and one another, and at- gious classical, liberal arts school, but times is missing the boat. What’s their big hurry? What are tend Mass. her child didn’t like the school (at least Even when the Church had a more they doing when they get home? These feasts are a foretaste of the fu- in part) because all they did was work austere regimen of fasting during Lent, Many of them are going home to sit ture—the best is yet to come! hard—no parties, no liturgies, no festi- she would allow Catholics to relax the in front of their computer or video vals. fast on Sundays in honor of the Lord’s games. John Sondag is Director of Reli- I thought to myself, “Good! Catholic Day. And, of course, even today, that Computer games can be a good gious Education at the Church of St. schools are doing it right.” “Wherever same penitential season halts on the thing (if their content is moral), but Helena in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Catholic sun doth shine, there’s al- feasts of St. Joseph and the Annuncia- when they draw people into themselves, publisher of “The Catholic Servant.” ways laughter and good red wine,” tion, both joyous occasions which occur there is a danger that they can damage wrote Hilaire Belloc. during Lent. the culture. And, of course, most people Now, I’m for demanding academic The truth be told, most secular holi- may be oblivious to the individualiza- work, but schools are to prepare young- days were derived from Church or reli- tion it is causing. sters for life, and life, even on a natural gious feast days—for instance, Christ- As human beings, we are created to Question and Answer The baptism of infants versus the baptism of adolescents who can choose By Fr. Paul La Fontaine Parents make lots of impor- life of God that comes to us in Lord’s great commission, “Go dren? tant decisions that affect their Baptism, we would want to therefore and make disciples Ques- children for the rest of their share that gift with everyone. of all nations, baptizing them Fr. Paul La Fontaine, M.A., tion: Why is lives without consulting them We would not want to deprive in the name of the Father and is pastor of St. Charles Bor- it so impor- or leaving it to them to decide them of that gift for even one of the Son and of the Holy romeo Church in Minneapolis, tant to have at some later date. For exam- minute. We would catch the Spirit, teaching them to ob- Minnesota. my child ple: their names, who their missionary spirit that fired serve all that I have command- baptized as parents and brothers and sis- Apostles and Evangelists ed you; and lo, I am with you This article was funded by the an infant? ters are, what country they be- down through the ages to leave always, to the close of the St. Teresa of Avila Chair of Writ- Why not let long to, where they live and their homelands and bring the age.” (Matt. 28:19-20) ing sponsored by an anonymous him choose when they eat and sleep, that Gospel to the ends of the earth. What better place to start patron. if he really they are going to go to school We would gladly accept our than with one’s very own chil- Fr. Paul wants to be- and where, and so on. Isn’t re- La Fontaine come a ligion (our relationship with Catholic God) even more important when he gets to be an adoles- than these? cent? After they reach a certain Answer: Canon 867, §1 of age, children can and do de- the 1983 Code of Canon Law cide to change any or all of of the Catholic Church states: these decisions for themselves. “Parents are obliged to take Until then, parents have a duty care that infants are baptized in to decide these things for the first few weeks; as soon as them. It’s part of their educa- possible after the birth or even tion. before it, they are go to the If we really understood the pastor to request the sacrament gift of grace, the share in the for their child and to be pre- pared properly for it.” In other words, it would be a grave sin to do otherwise. An excellent Spanish commentary on this canon explains further: “...there is no reason what- soever that exempts them [par- ents] from this duty, which is based on the necessity of this sacrament for supernatural life and salvation. This is why the Church has always condemned attitudes leading to the delay of Baptism. “The internal logic of the discipline on infant Baptism is based on the fact that supernat- ural life (like natural life) is not the result of the will of the subject: ‘Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent His Son to expiate our sins’ (I Jn. 4:10).” October, 2010 The Catholic Servant Page 9 continued from page 1 not the masters of it. So that Real Presence, in terms of Sac- Weigel didn’t changed, and it’s not go- rifice and Sacrament, and who so as soon as that project was two men who worked in very ing to change in the next pope himself embodied a manly, completed, I began collecting close [relationship] for nearly or the next 10-15 popes after priestly, Eucharistic piety that materials for what would in- 22 years. They are both prod- that. And the sooner every- will have a real effect into the evitably be the second volume ucts of the Catholic intellectual body understands that, [the future.... People need to under- that took account of the last renaissance… in the mid-twen- sooner] we can get back to do- stand that it’s going to take years of John Paul II. The sur- tieth century. They both met in ing what the Second Vatican decades to turn around the mis- prise in getting hold all of these the Second Vatican Council. Council called the Church to takes of decades.... But the key materials was the gift to me They are very different human do, which is to be an evangeli- to it is bishops who take seri- from some Polish historians of personalities, but I think each cal movement for the conver- ously their responsibility as the a cache of materials that they saw in the other a complemen- sion of the world. Chief Sanctifier of the diocese, had found in the archives of the tary set of gifts and skills, and I “Catholic Servant”: You which means they are chiefly Polish Secret Police, the think there has been, in terms mention in some of your talks responsible for the Sacrament archives of the Foreign Min- of Magisterium, a kind of virtu- about the last encyclical of and for the integrity of the istry of Poland’s Communist al seamlessness between John Pope John Paul II being his sacraments in their dioceses. government, the East German Paul II and Benedict XVI. One suffering and his death. It’s not the pope’s job to be the Stazi archives, which paint a of them came to the papacy in Please explain that. Prefect of Discipline in the remarkable portrait of the at age 58; the other came at 78. George Weigel: That’s the Liturgy in every parish in the Communist war against Karol That’s a rather significant dif- title of the last chapter of Part II world. Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, a ference, and that’s been obvi- of The End and The Beginning, certainly have maintained “Catholic Servant”: In fascinating portrait of the inter- ous in the way that the present it’s called the “Last Encycli- that Pope John Paul II was a this new millennium, we had action of the diplomacy of the pope, who is a much more pri- cal,” and that’s not a complicat- saintly man, and probably the clergy scandal that took Vatican with the Communist vate person than his predeces- ed business. I think the way in will be canonized somewhere place with respect to pe- negotiators in the 1970s and sor, has conducted his [pontifi- which the Pope invited the along the line. He has also dophilia. Could you comment 80s. So, I decided that this sec- cate]. But, the world seems to world to experience the mys- been criticized for a number on how this could have hap- ond book would begin actually imagine that popes are like tery of suffering conformed to of things, and I would like to pened under Pope John Paul by revisiting the story of Wo- governors of states—that poli- the death and resurrection of hear your take on the criti- II? jtyla versus Communism cy changes when popes Christ was his last teaching cisms. He’s been criticized George Weigel: Well, in through the prism of these new change. Popes don’t change moment. And it had a remark- for allowing abuses in the fact it didn’t under John Paul materials which have never policy. A pope may, in fact, able impact. It riveted the at- liturgy. He’s been criticized II, because the overwhelming been published in America, and tweak the way the Holy See tention of the world and me, for not having control of the number of these cases that then we go to the account of the goes through this or that, but and I think it had an enduring administrative offices the came to light in 2002 happened last years of the Pontificate and the doctrine of the Church is a impact on the lives of tens of way he could have or the way between the late sixties and the the book concludes with a very permanent feature in the millions or hundreds of mil- some of the popes have had. early eighties, so some of it extensive evaluation of the Church’s life, it’s not some- lions of people. He was a great How would you respond to happened under his time. The man and his legacy. thing that a Pope changes of his teacher, and all great teachers that? answer is twofold, and I dis- “Catholic Servant”: If you own will. And on all of the is- teach by example as well as by George Weigel: I think cuss this at great length in The had to paint with broad sues that the mainstream media word, and that’s what he did at both of these criticisms are ill- End and The Beginning. The strokes the papacy of John obsesses about—from celibacy the end. He invited the world, founded, frankly. The pope is Catholic priesthood was in a Paul and the papacy of Bene- to contraception to abor- as priests must invite the world, not the Liturgical Prefect of state of crisis in 1978, when dict XVI, could you contrast tion...—we’re not talking about to be an experience of the Discipline in the Catholic they elected Pope John Paul. them and tell me how you policy, we’re talking about the Paschal mystery as he was un- Church. It is simply absurd to More than forty thousand think they fit into the times in solemn Tradition of the dertaking his own, as he calls expect popes to enforce liturgi- priests had left the active min- which we’re living? Church. And popes are the ser- it, pulpit. cal discipline in St. Cunegun- istry, the largest defection since George Weigel: These are vant of that tradition, they’re Catholic Servant”: You da’s Parish in East Maintown, the Reformation. Seminaries Minnesota. It’s just not going were in very bad shape, and he to happen. That’s the local set about a systematic program bishop’s job. And I think of reforming the priesthood. Celebrate 35 years through his teaching on the Eu- That began to bite and to have charist and his synod on the a real effect, that was accelerat- of hope and help on campus Eucharist, and in his own man- ed after the synod on seminary ner of conducting the sacred reformation and the issuing of liturgy himself, the pope gave the 1992 Apostolic Exhorta- University LifeCare Center bishops all they needed to en- tion “Pastores dabo vobis.” force the liturgical discipline of And then there is this factor of 35th Anniversary Benefit Gala the Church. If the bishops who gets attracted to the priest- aren’t going to do that, it’s not hood, that I described before. going to happen. There are Cardinal William Baum said Featuring more than 2,500 Catholic dio- that John Paul II was the great- ceses in the world and tens of est vocations director in church Dr. Alveda King thousands of parishes. You can- history, and I think that’s true. not expect the pope to be per- Having said all that, it is Prolife and civil rights sonally responsible for the irre- also true that Pope and the en- tire Vatican were about four advocate and niece of sponsibility of priests who don’t follow liturgical norms. months behind the information Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. That having been said, I think curve in 2002. Americans the Pope did move towards thought the Pope was living restoring a sense of dignity to through this crisis of revelation Thursday, November 18, 2010 the liturgy, primarily by his re- after revelation after revela- form of the seminaries. The tion—not about things that 6:00 p.m. kind of young men that John were happening in 2002, but Nicollet Island Pavilion Paul II attracted to the priest- about things that were happen- hood, attracted to seminaries, ing in 1958, in 1965, in 1970, in Minneapolis are not going to be the clown- or whatever—at the same mo- Mass priests in the 21st centu- ment that they were, from Day 1. As I wrote in The Courage For reservations visit ry, just as they’re not going to be the abusive priests in the to be Catholic, and as I wrote www.ulifecare.org 21st century. So I think if one again in The End and The Be- ginning, the Pope was finding or call 612-623-3211 stepped back from the media obsessions of the moment, out in mid-April things that we from the abuse issue, and from knew in mid-January. And that Sponsored by: the hurt feelings of some is primarily the fault of the Catholics on liturgical matters Apostolic Nunciature in Wash- on the other hand, I think what ington, which was not keeping you find is a Pope who was, in the Vatican apprised of the ur- fact, a great reformer of the gency, and of the Curia, which priesthood, and a pope who in- [exhibited] the ingrained insti- sisted on the full meaning of tutional tendency to see this as the Church’s understanding of a media-generated hysteria the Eucharist, both in terms of Weigel continued page 10 Page 10 The Catholic Servant October, 2010 Weigel continued from page 9 archives were not secure. So ship. And in that sense, one of experienced “the more excel- all that’s very stressing. Sever- the photos in the book, the fa- lent way,” of which St. Paul when it wasn’t. Now once the idea of the Communists’ war al people have commented that mous photo of him embracing speaks, his entire life was de- Pope became clear, became in- against the Catholic Church. the first part of the book reads the cross on the last Good Fri- voted to inviting others to en- formed, got clear in mid-April, What’s genuinely striking out like a spy novel, which is a day of his life, which is pho- counter that more excellent 2002, that this was a genuine of these... materials in and out compliment, except that it’s not tographed from the back in the life. And that’s the way, I think, crisis, not a media crisis, the of Rome is the magnitude. fiction. All this stuff happened, papal apartment, watching the he will ultimately be remem- bishops had been extremely ir- Tens of millions of man-hours, and the documents are sitting Via Crucis at the Coliseum on bered, as the great Christian responsible or ill-advised in the billions upon billions of dol- in my safe at home. So it’s a television, is a perfect icon of witness of the late 20th and way they were handling this, lars. This was “all war, all the quite striking reminder of a pe- his entire life. I was asked end- early 21st century. he acted decisively: he called time,” as some Poles put it. riod that a lot of people are lessly on television the next the American Cardinals over, And I think people have very quickly forgetting. day whether they were not John Sondag is Director of they had an emergency meet- little sense of this, and it’s im- “Catholic Servant”: For showing the Pope’s face be- Religious Education at the ing, that meeting led to the portant to remember. From the my final question, what cause he looked too awful blah Church of St. Helena in Min- Dallas meeting, etc., etc., etc. moment Wojtyla became a virtue is the most pertinent to blah blah, and of course the an- neapolis, Minnesota and pub- But there was no question that bishop in 1958, he was under Pope John Paul’s legacy? swer was no. The Pope had lisher of “The Catholic Ser- the response was four months 24-hour surveillance, his resi- George Weigel: Let me never said “Look at me,” he vant.” late, and if you say “How can dences and offices were say first of all that I think the would always said “Look at Je- that happen in the Internet tapped. There were squadrons people of the Church have sus Christ.” And that was how world?” the simple answer is of secret police people follow- made their own judgment he understood the essence of the Vatican does not live in that ing him, there attempts to sub- clear. And they made be clear his own discipleship. Having world. You can deplore that, orn his associates, to recruit at the funeral. And now what you can applaud that, but that’s people who worked with him we are doing is waiting for the the fact. And it was even more as informants, agents, provoca- official processes of the so the fact in 2002 than it is to- teurs. Prior to the 1983 papal Church, which have their own day. I happen to think that’s visit, there was marshal law in integrity and wisdom, to catch very bad news; the Church is in Poland. There was an attempt up with the judgment of the the communications business, to blackmail the pope in a way people of the Church, which therefore it pays to be part of that’s quite disgusting, and I was rendered on April 8, 2005, the contemporary communica- describe in detail in the book. with those cries of Santo tions environment, if only to It was “all war, all the time.” Subito.... and all of this other try to shape that environment The other thing that I think business, which hadn’t hap- in a more evangelical way. But is quite amazing is the insou- pened since Gregory the Great that’s the reality of the matter. ciance of the Vatican bureau- in the early seventh century. And I think it created the im- cracy to attempts by a half I suppose what I would say pression that the Pope was not dozen Communist secret intel- about John Paul II in summa- paying attention or didn’t un- ligence services to penetrate ry… is that he was a radically derstand or—some people the Vatican, which they did converted Christian disciple, thought—didn’t care, which is successfully, because the Vati- and that everything he did, as just simply not true. can had no counterintelligence an intellectual, as a pastor, as a “Catholic Servant”: You capabilities and seemed unin- figure on the public stage, as a mentioned the new material terested in acquiring them. pope, is an expression of that that was recently made avail- John Paul II, I think, was aware radically converted disciple- able by the Polish historians. of this or at least intuited that it What is the most significant was likely to be the case on his fact or idea that’s come out of election in 1978. And so he re- this analysis that you’ve organized the routine so that all done? of the materials, particularly George Weigel: I think dealing with Poland, remained anyone who had been involved in the papal apartment, not in in the defense of religious free- the archives of the Secretary of dom behind the Iron Curtain State, because he had good rea- during the Cold War had some son to believe that their Have questions about your vocation? Call Fr. Peter Williams, Vocations Director Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis 651-962-6892 [email protected] Advertisement sponsored by the Serra Club of Midway St. Paul

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Pope brating with hundreds of in the Wall Street Journal of the Cardinal Newman continued from page 1 Benedict suggests their flavor priests and to hear no sound significance of the beatifica- of the Mass when he said, “By England), and when the latter in these words from his homi- when the vast crowd was not tion: “Newman died in 1890 our apostolic authority we de- proved to be Anglo and not ly: “Cardinal Newman’s motto, singing or responding, just a popularly considered a saint. clare that the Venerable Ser- Catholic, on to the fullness of ‘Heart speaks to heart,’ gives perfect silence of reverent faith Over a century later, the vant of God, John Henry New- the truth in the historic Church us an insight into his under- that began even before they Church is vindicating the judg- man, priest of the Congregation of Rome. standing of the Christian life as were waiting for the Mass to ment of the people of the U.K. of the Oratory, shall henceforth Having earlier spoken about a call to holiness, experienced begin. The feeling was palpa- and the whole English-speak- be invoked as Blessed.” Newman as a “wise man of as the profound desire of the ble that the sixty thousand pil- ing world. Pope Benedict’s de- That was the moment we God whose thought enlight- human heart to enter into inti- grims, spread out as far as the cision to preside over New- had been waiting for, a bright ened many consciences and mate communion with the eye could see, were one in faith man’s beatification reflects his moment indeed for Catholic who still today brings an ex- Heart of God. He reminds us with the Holy Father and the love and respect for a fellow England and the Church traordinary fascination,” Pope that faithfulness to prayer grad- man he and they had come theologian whose work he has throughout the world. It was Benedict in his homily singled ually transforms us into the di- there to honor. studied from his seminary the Church’s recognition of the out his “keen intellect and pro- vine likeness. As he wrote in For all who have been long days, and whose influence on heroic sanctity of the greatest lific pen.” Intellect and pen one of his fine sermons, ‘a devoted to Newman in his writ- the Second Vatican Council and most influential convert to gave us classic works on the habit of prayer, I say, has what ings, it was quite moving to made him perhaps the most in- the Catholic faith in modern development of Christian doc- may be called a natural effect hear this, the opening prayer of fluential theologian on the times. Following the truth trine, faith and reason, the true in spiritualizing and elevating the Mass: “O God, Who be- council, even though it was wherever it led and not count- nature of conscience, and uni- the soul. A man is not what he stowed on the priest Blessed meeting more than 70 years af- ing the cost, Newman went versity education. For many, was before; gradually … he has John Henry Newman the grace ter his death.” from Evangelicalism to Anglo- however, it is Newman’s spiri- imbibed a new set of ideas, and to follow Your kindly light and After the ceremony, I was Catholicism (the Church of tual writings that stand out as become imbued with fresh find peace in Your Church; gra- moving away with a large principles.’” ciously grant that, through his crowd of English priests when In whatever form he intercession and example, we they caught a glimpse of Pope wrote—theology, apologetics, may be led out of shadows and Benedict as he was leaving. "PARTNERS OF 'THE history, essays of all sorts, ser- images into the fullness of “Let’s hear it,” one of them mons, or novels—Newman’s truth.” This prayer echoes both shouted, and they let loose with CATHOLIC SERVANT'" “prolific pen” produced writ- Newman’s famous hymn, three “Hip Hip Hoorays”—for Help in the work of spreading, explaining, and defending the Catholic ings that for eloquence, preci- “Lead Kindly Light,” and the the Holy Father and the Faith by becoming a "Partner of 'The Catholic Servant'" with a mone- sion, and sheer beauty place inscription on his grave which Blessed John Henry Newman. tary gift to our publication him high among the finest captures his journey from the prose stylists in all of English shadows and mere images of Fr. 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Where: St. John Vianney Seminary, University of St. Thomas (St. Paul campus) For more information, contact SJV at 651-962-6825 or [email protected] Help him join the Team. Christ’s Team. Page 12 The Catholic Servant October, 2010 St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Her “little way” teaches us that our vocation is to love By Don Fier Corinthians, and also gave a stand that love, or charity, was and heart.” She came to realize was purified. beautiful explanation of her not only the root of all her de- that “Jesus does not demand Each of us, by cooperating St. Thérèse “little way” by way of analogy sires, but also the bond that great actions from us but sim- with God’s grace, can advance of Lisieux, the to a little bird in her letter to connects all members of the ply surrender and gratitude.” It in holiness and love in count- “Little Flower Sister Marie. Mystical Body of Christ. God is not the deed itself that makes less practical ways by practic- of Jesus,” St. Thérèse had a great de- gave her the clear inspiration it extraordinary, but the love ing the “little way” of St. whose feast sire for many vocations beyond that love was the key: “when- contained in the deed. Her lit- Thérèse. We can all relate to day we cele- that of “Carmelite, Spouse [of ever Thérèse loved, she con- tlest sacrifices and humilia- common opportunities that oc- brated on Oc- Jesus], and Mother [of souls]”: tributed to and participated in tions, done with great love, cur repeatedly in our daily tober 1, wrote warrior, priest, apostle, doctor, all the works of the entire were truly extraordinary deeds lives: listen when we’d rather a letter to her and martyr. She felt the need body.” When St. Paul writes in the eyes of God—she loved talk, secretly do little acts of older sister and desire to carry out heroic that love is the greatest of faith, with the love of charity, and kindness for others, practice Fier and godmoth- deeds for Jesus. The Little hope, and love in I Corinthians her actions were the actions of patience when others irritate er, Sister Marie of the Sacred Flower firmly believed a basic 13:13, St. Thérèse understood God. us, give up petty attachments Heart, approximately one year tenet of Catholic doctrine: God it to mean that if she possessed The road to sanctity that (e.g., not clinging to “special” before she died at the tender does not inspire unrealizable authentic love, the love of was shown to St. Thérèse, belongings or “certain” ways age of 24. As related in the desires, even though they benevolence for God and which came to be known as her of arranging things), take care ninth chapter in The Story of a seemed to conflict with her neighbor, she could be all “little way,” was to simply of- of unpleasant duties without Soul, Sister Marie had asked seeming powerlessness to ful- things to all people. By loving fer all of her “poor little actions delay rather than procrastinat- Thérèse to put down in writing fill what God had planted in heroically and suffering hero- and desires” to God with great ing, greet and smile at those “the secrets Jesus confides to her heart. When she opened the ically in the confines of her love. Her path was the “surren- who annoy us. In imitation of [my] little sister.” At the time, Epistles of St. Paul and started Carmelite monastery, she could der of the little child who St. Thérèse, ours, too, can be a St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus contemplating First Corinthi- reach out to the whole world. sleeps without fear in [her] Fa- vocation of love if we heroical- and the Holy Face (her name in ans, she didn’t initially see her- When we abide in love, we ther’s arms.” Another way of ly and joyfully strive to do all Carmel) was suffering a great self in any of the various voca- abide in God and one another. describing her “little way” is things to which we are called in deal with as yet undiagnosed tions that St. Paul enumerat- Is there any wonder that the attaining sanctity through “the our state of life with sacrificial tuberculosis, but was hiding ed—“first apostles, second Church has bestowed upon St. practice of hidden virtues, the love rather than for personal her sufferings and trials from prophets, third teachers, then Thérèse the title “Patron Saint ordinary virtues,” and that is gain or for mixed motives. her Carmelite community. workers of miracles, then heal- of Missionaries” even though what she did in an exemplary When she wrote the letter to ers, helpers, administrators, she never left her convent? manner. St. Thérèse never al- Don Fier serves on the Sister Marie, she knew interi- speakers in various kinds of The Little Flower desired to lowed any little opportunity for Board of Directors for “The orly that she did not have much tongues.” (I Cor 12:28) How- perform extraordinary deeds a sacrifice to escape—every Catholic Servant” and is a time remaining on this earth; ever, when she continued with for God, but realized her weak- look she gave, word she said, 2009 graduate of Ave Maria this had been revealed to her in chapter 13, she received the in- ness—that she was “too little to discomfort she endured—she University’s Institute for Pas- a mystical vision by Venerable spiration that she participated perform great actions.” She did with great love. Whenever toral Theology. Anne of Jesus. St. Thérèse in all vocations and exclaimed, came to look upon herself as a she unintentionally committed wrote of the insights she re- “… my vocation, at last I have “weak little bird, with only some small fault or imperfec- This article was funded by the ceived during her reflections found it … my vocation is light down as covering.” She tion, she immediately confided St. Francis de Sales Chair of Writ- upon chapters 12 and 13 of St. love.” was not a great soaring eagle, herself to the mercy of God, ing sponspored by Jeff and Susan Paul’s First Letter to the St. Thérèse came to under- but possessed “an eagle’s eyes knowing that by Him alone she Pitman.