Ministering Update

Diocese of Fairbanks - Mid-September 2017 - Volume 22 Number 6 St. Mark’s University Parish 40th Anniversary

Inside: Safe Environment Photos from Clergy Days Faith & Family Formation ACCB Statement on DACA Seminarian Dinner Fundraiser

~ 1 ~ Bishop & Diocesan The Diocesan Mission Statement Calendar We are people of God in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks. Blessed with a rich variety of backgrounds and talents, we strive to be a September living reflection of the Universal Church. 15-17 Nulato, Interior Meeting Through our baptism we continue Christ’s mission to further the and Bishop parish visit kingdom of God through the human family. We share our living faith 18-21 Bishop to San Diego, CA, by proclaiming the Gospel in word and example. Together we celebrate for Mission Appeal Christ’s presence in worship and sacraments. 20 St. Andrew Dinner In a spirit of justice, mercy and love, we dedicate ourselves not 22-25 Bishop to Diocese of only to minister to the people in the urban and rural areas of our Diocese Oakland, CA, for Mission but also to minister to the world community. Appeal Sep 29 Bethel, AK, Rural Deacon - Oct 1 Retreat Diocese of Fairbanks Newsletter “Ministering” is a publication of the Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks which October serves northern and western Alaska. Its purpose is to provide a regular 1 Safe Sunday opportunity for all ministries throughout the Diocese to share information 2-4 Bishop visit to Stebbins, so that our tremendous diversity may enrich our common mission of AK service to the people of our Diocese. 4-6 Bishop visit to St. Michael, If you have questions or suggestions for articles, please contact AK David Schienle at the Chancery at (907) 374-9500 or [email protected]. 7-8 Bishop visit to Unalakleet, Newsletter prepared by David Schienle for Catholic Bishop of Northern AK Alaska. 10 Juneau, AK, Ordination of Fr. Andrew Bellisario Follow Us Online @ 13-14 Catholic Schools of Fairbanks, HIPOW Auction Diocese of Fairbanks Diocese of Fairbanks 21-24 Bishop visit to Diocese of Yakima, WA Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks dioceseoffairbanks.org WWW 25-27 Bishop visit to Mt. Angel Seminary, OR 28-31 Bishop to Dallas, TX, for Credits Mission Appeal Editor Contributors Proofreaders David Schienle Rev. Robert Fath Deb Leibee The Diocesan Online Calendar may Rev. Tom Kuffel Misty Mealey be viewed at: Misty Mealey Leigh Scarboro http://dioceseoffairbanks.org Leigh Scarboro Barb Tolliver Barbara Tolliver Rev. Ross Tozzi Bp. Chad Zielinski Patty Walter Cover Image: Deacon George Bowder leads the entrance procession to the 40th Anniversary Mass of St. Mark’s University Parish. Frs. Gerald Ornowski, Thomas Sagili, Kaspar Mallavarapu, and Jim Kolbe follow behind Deacon George.

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Alaska Catholic Bishops Speak out on the Administration’s DACA Decision

We, the Catholic bishops of Alaska, remain united in heart and mind with our brother bishops across this nation in condemning the Administration’s decision today to suspend DACA. At the same time, we stand in strong solidarity with the 800,000 people and their families who have been protected under this provision, and who have called this their country for the primary part of their lives. We as a nation are better than this, and Congress must now act to correct this inhumane disrespect of our brothers and sisters in the one family of God.

These are not strangers living among us. They are students in our schools, people we see in the grocery store. They are the friends we have in our lives. America is their home.

DACA recipients deserve a legislative path to a secure future. Immigrants are the backbone of our country. This has not changed in over 200 years.

All people should be treated with dignity and respect regardless of their immigration status. We as Church recognize the dignity of every human being created in the image and likeness of God.

The USCCB issued the following statement:

“The cancellation of the DACA program is reprehensible. It causes unnecessary fear for DACA youth and their families. These youth entered the U.S. as minors and often know America as their only home. The Catholic Church has long watched with pride and admiration as DACA youth live out their daily lives with hope and a determination to flourish and contribute to society: continuing to work and provide for their families, continuing to serve in the military, and continuing to receive an education. Now, after months of anxiety and fear about their futures, these brave young people face deportation. This decision is unacceptable and does not reflect who we are as Americans.

The Church has recognized and proclaimed the need to welcome young people: ‘Whoever welcomes one of these children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me’ (Mark 9:37). Today, our nation has done the opposite of how Scripture calls us to respond. It is a step back from

Archdiocese of Anchorage * Diocese~ 3 ~of Fairbanks * Diocese of Juneau 225 Cordova Street * Anchorage, AK * 99501 907-297-7744 phone * 907-279-3885 fax the progress that we need to make as a country. Today’s actions represent a heartbreaking moment in our history that shows the absence of mercy and good will, and a short-sighted vision for the future. DACA youth are woven into the fabric of our country and of our Church, and are, by every social and human measure, American youth.

We strongly urge Congress to act and immediately resume work toward a legislative solution. We pledge our support to work on finding an expeditious means of protection for DACA youth.

As people of faith, we say to DACA youth – regardless of your immigration status, you are children of God and welcome in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church supports you and will advocate for you.”

+Archbishop Paul D. Etienne +Bishop Chad Zielinski Archdiocese of Anchorage Diocese of Fairbanks

Bishop Elect Andrew Bellisario, CM +Archbishop Emeritus Roger Schwietz, OMI Diocese of Juneau Archdiocese of Anchorage

~ 4 ~ Archdiocese of Anchorage * Diocese of Fairbanks * Diocese of Juneau 225 Cordova Street * Anchorage, AK * 99501 907-297-7744 phone * 907-279-3885 fax

DIOCESE OF FAIRBANKS 1316 Peger Road ˖ Fairbanks, Alaska ˖ 99709 ˖ 907-374-9500 ˖ Fax: 907-374-9580

OFFICE OF THE BISHOP 9 August 2017

My Dear Sons and Daughters in Christ:

With great joy, I share this first pastoral letter about the upcoming diocesan conference, “Families Fully Alive,” which will take place February 2018 in Fairbanks. It is a warm summer evening and I am sitting in my office reflecting on the two and a half years since I was called to be your bishop. Many emotions are running through my heart. Deep within me echo the words of Saint Augustine, when he became a bishop: “With you, I am a Christian; for you, I am a bishop.”1 There have been countless blessings (and multiple challenges) in my time as bishop, but since the beginning, you have welcomed me to walk with you on this pilgrimage of our beloved Diocese of Fairbanks. It seems as if it were yesterday when I awoke to the ringing from an unknown number, an unfamiliar voice at the other end giving me an even stranger message! Half-awake, I learned my life was about to change drastically. It was a call to a deeper level of commitment to my priestly vocation and I was humbled by what Pope Francis was entrusting to me: To become a bishop. But not just any bishop—a missionary bishop in northern Alaska, the largest diocesan territory in the United States, with parishioners from many different cultures. A great call, but at the same time, overwhelming. My thoughts raced towards heaven: “Thank you, Lord?” and “Your will be done.” Follow by, “But how am I going to do this?” Today, I reflect how God’s call can radically change our lives. We see during the visitation of Mary to Elizabeth that John the Baptist recognized his calling in the womb.2 Shortly after I was ordained a transitional deacon, my class was asked to give a homily on a scripture that had been influential in our vocational call. I had always been moved by the missionary passion and zeal of John the Baptist, so I gave a short reflection on “He must increase; I must decrease.”3 It is no surprise, then, that I also chose this verse as my Episcopal Motto. Then there was Saint Paul, who began by persecuting Christians, but through a divine call,4 came to understand that Christianity was actually the fulfillment of ancient prophecies and that Christ was the Messiah. It was this very real encounter with the Risen Christ that brought Paul to his knees and turned him into a missionary apostle. Nowadays, many of us find it hard to listen to God and hear His voice. We sometimes doubt His existence. Did God really create the universe and does He really care about us personally? To find these answers, we need to enter a sphere we call “mystery,” where we can see only part of the Truth. Our faith is a little like the universe--the more we learn, the more mysterious it becomes. My own experience has taught me that to understand God, I must get to know Him personally first–-I need to be in relationship with Him. I can’t just read a book about Him or listen to what others say. Our God communicates in a deeply relational way; He yearns to establish close, loving relationships with His children. He has designed us as creatures who only understand themselves through relationships with others. This is why the family is the foundation for human life. By nature, we are born of the intimate relationship between man and woman and hopefully, are raised in loving relationships with others.5 God established the family to help us grow, but sometimes, our families are not a good example of what they were meant to be.6 Yet no matter how broken, the family’s purpose is still revealed in our deep desire for authentic, intimate relationships with each other. We know God created humanity in His image and likeness,7 but what does this really mean? Scripture gives us the answer: “Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.”8 This is important because if we are created in God’s image and Christ is the image of God, then we are also created in the image of Christ. To fulfill our potential, then, means to become more and more Christ-like. For in doing so, we discover our dignity and that of our neighbor. And this journey begins with baptism. Pope Francis reminds us in his apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia of the dignity of being God’s children and of our call to become what we are meant to be. He shows us that spiritual growth is deeply rooted in the family, an institution present in Scripture from Genesis to the Book of Revelation.9 When you were baptized, the priest or deacon said: “You are a child of God for so indeed

1 Saint Augustine, Sermon 46 2 Lk. 1:41 3 Jn. 3:30 4 Acts 9:4-5 5 CCC, 371-372 6 …there is always arguing in marriage, sometimes the plates even fly. Yet we must not become saddened by this, this is the human condition. The secret is that love is stronger than the moment when there is arguing, and therefore I always advise spouses: do not let a day when you have argued end without making peace. Pope Francis, “Catechesis on Marriage,” 2 April 2014 7 Gen. 1:26-27 8 Col. 1:15 9 Amoris Laetia, 8-10

~ 5 ~ you are.” This means, “You are a big deal because you are created in the image and likeness of God.” And you are a big deal because the Most Holy Trinity has claimed you to be part of a very real relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Now allow me to guide you in a slightly different direction. It was the late Cardinal Avery Dulles who said, “Christ has three bodies in one person.”10 The first body, Jesus received from the Blessed Virgin Mary; the second, He gave us in His most precious Body and Blood of the Eucharist. And the third is what we call the Mystical Body, which is the Church.11 Through baptism, we become part of this Mystical Body and through the Eucharist; we receive His Body and gradually come to the fullness of Christ living within us. We need to see the intimate connection that exists between baptism and the Eucharist. Like baptism, the Eucharist brings us into an ever-growing closeness with God. In the Mass, we encounter the Risen Christ in the reading of his Word and it stirs within us a desire for conversion. Then we offer to God all of who we are, together with the simple gifts of bread and wine. Through the consecration, these gifts become transformed into the True Presence of Christ under the appearance of bread and wine. This humble appearance enables Jesus to encounter us in a most intimate way when we consume Him. And in this encounter, we are transformed, too. In an important and particular way, our membership in the Body of Christ comes to its fullness within the family. The New Testament speaks of “churches that meet in homes.”12 A family’s living space could turn into a domestic church, a setting for the Eucharist, the presence of Christ seated at its table.13 Jesus himself chose to live in a family with all its blessings and challenges. In fact, our primary witness to the world should be how we care for each other within the family: “But a body calls also for a multiplicity of members, which are linked together in such a way as to help one another. And as in the body when one member suffers, all the other members share its pain, and the healthy members come to the assistance of the ailing, so in the Church the individual members do not live for themselves alone, but also help their fellows, and all work in mutual collaboration for the common comfort and for the more perfect building up of the whole Body.”14 I came to understand this profound connection between family members in a beautiful way in 1996, when I was celebrating the Christmas Eve Mass at our parish. I was a young priest and poured all my passion into the homily that I directed to the little ones. In living colors, I painted the poverty of Mary and Joseph—how hard it was staying in a cold, uncomfortable stable with animals on a winter night with no heat. Suddenly, a little three-year-old girl ran to the nativity where little Baby Jesus was lying in the manger with no blanket. She tenderly picked up the infant, covered him with her little arms, and started to rock him like we do with living babies. She simply knew little Jesus needed help and she ran to give it to him. Just three years old and already she had a missionary heart. When we encounter the living Christ, He sends the fire of the Holy Spirit into our hearts. Jesus will make us His missionaries if we allow Him to. According to Pope Francis, “The Risen Lord poured out upon his disciples two forms of consolation: interior joy and the light of the paschal mystery. The joy of recognizing the presence of the Risen Jesus draws you into His Person and His will: for this very reason, it leads to mission.”15 Or as Pope St. John Paul II stated, “The Spirit leads the company of believers to ‘form a community,’ to be the Church. After Peter's first proclamation on the day of Pentecost and the conversions that followed, the first community takes shape (cf. Acts 2:42-47; 4:32-35). One of the central purposes of mission is to bring people together in hearing the Gospel, in fraternal communion, in prayer and in the Eucharist. To live in ‘fraternal communion’ (koinonia) means to be ‘of one heart and soul’ (Acts 4:32), establishing fellowship from every point of view: human, spiritual, and material. Indeed, a true Christian community is also committed to distributing earthly goods, so that no one is in want, and all can receive such goods ‘as they need’ (cf. Acts 2:45; 4:35). The first communities, made up of ‘glad and generous hearts’ (Acts 2:46), were open and missionary--they enjoyed ‘favor with all the people’ (Acts 2:47). Even before activity, mission means witness and a way of life that shines out to others.”16 Saint Paul writes in his second letter to Timothy: “For this reason, I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather of power and love and self-control.”17 My dear ones, God loves us and wants to be in a loving relationship with us. He builds us up through the Church’s sacraments and community and He calls us through Christ to become disciples and missionaries to this world. It is particularly within and through the family that the new evangelization will take place. There is much to be done and God is with us. Let us reflect the words of Pope Francis from Amoris Laetitia: “The family lives its spirituality precisely by being at one and the same time a domestic church and a vital cell for transforming the world.”18 May God bless your families and renew your mission in the upcoming Faith and Family Fully Alive Conference in February. May Mary, the Mother of our Lord and wife of St. Joseph, be our intercessor, model, and help in this endeavor.

In Christ our Lord

†Most Reverend Chad W. Zielinski Catholic Bishop of Northern Alaska

10 Card. Avery Dulles. “Christ’s Presence in the Eucharist: True, Real and Substantial,” Adoremus-Online Edition, 11(2), April 2005.. 11 Cf. Col 1:24 12 cf. 1 Cor 16:19; Rom 16:5; Col 4:15; Philem 2 13 Amoris Laetitia, 15 14 Mystici Corporis Christi, 15 15 “Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to Participants in the General Chapter of the Congregation of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ,” 24 June 2017 16 Redemptoris Missio, 26 17 2 Tim. 1:6-7 18 Amoris Laetitia, 391

~ 6 ~ Safe Environment Barbara Tolliver Safe Environment Coordinator

Attention all priests, deacons, should they be abused and how to paperwork for a background check. administrators, staff, teachers and avoid a bad situation. Any volunteers for the church or volunteers. Our diocese requires that All adults working with who are on church property when all youth who participate in religious children, including teachers, priests, children are around must receive a education, first Communion and/or deacons, catechists, administrators, background check and training in confirmation classes, RCIC, youth staff, secretaries, youth ministers, child safety. Again, all adult names outings, or Vacation Bible School and child care workers must be must be recorded and dated as to must receive training in how to stay trained to promote child safety. when the training occurred and what safe from abuse. This training is Please follow this diocesan training was presented. Submit this a mandate from the United States requirement. Use our training information to Barbara T. Tolliver, Conference of Catholic Bishops DVDs and then record by name Safe Environment Coordinator, (USCCB) in Washington, D.C., Our who received the training. These 1316 Peger Road, Fairbanks, AK, bishop, Most Rev. Chad Zielinski, confirmed training documents are 99709 or you may call (907) 374- supports this mandate. Your Safe to be sent to the Safe Environment 9516 for assistance in following Environment Office at the Chancery Office. these directives. Thank you! in Fairbanks has training DVDs that Also, any adult (18 years of are loaned out for the purpose of age or older) who stays overnight training our young about what to do on church property must submit

Calling all parishes, schools, and This means that our children will may choose a more agreeable time youth programs. With the school be taught what is acceptable and to fit your planned schedules. For year in full swing - our religious not acceptable behavior. What is more information, contact Barbara education and youth group good touch and what is bad touch T. Tolliver, the Safe Environment programs are starting up again. All needs to be addressed. The official Coordinator, at (907) 374-9516. youth programs require mandatory kickoff date this year for Safe Together, we can make a difference! presentations on child safety. Sunday is October 1st . Your parish

Sacramental Records, Official Catholic Directory, and Diocesan Directory Sacramental information is due to the Archives by September 30th. To track the status of records you can visit the archive website at: http://dioceseoffairbanks.org/ Records joomla/index.php/who-we-are/chancery-offices/sacramental-archive/28- 2011-received-records.

~ 7 ~ Seminarian Fundraiser a Success Despite Heavy Rain by Misty Mealey

Diocese of Fairbanks Photograph by David Schienle

Seminarian Fredrick Granheim helping to serve dinner

~ 8 ~ Between serving guests dinner, three of the diocese’s seminarians described the process of formation as they advance through priestly formation. Not even torrential whole time, you’re learning how to seminary in England, finished the downpours could dampen the spirits become a better person so you can presentation by describing the final of more than 50 supporters who be a good priest.” year of formation--the pastoral year. attended the diocese’s seminarian Seminarian Ben Doudna Granheim just finished his pastoral fundraising dinner in mid-August. followed Baer’s talk by sharing year at Sacred Heart Cathedral in The guests, who donated $80 each his experiences as a second- Fairbanks, and appreciated being for seminarian expenses, enjoyed year seminary student. Doudna able to share an entire liturgical year a three-course, oriental-style meal described seminary as a place with one community. He especially and drinks under tents in the front where men “learn to speak about enjoyed visiting people who were yard of the Blessed Pier Giorgio God and the truths He’s revealed, homebound, at the hospital, or Frassati House of Discernment in especially through the Church.” He incarcerated. “It allowed me to Fairbanks. added that while second-and third- serve people who might otherwise During dinner, three of year candidates do study abstract be forgotten,” he said. the diocese’s four seminarians theological concepts, they’re Granheim pointed out that spoke about the different stages of encouraged by professors to relate while Jesus appointed apostles, he their formation process; most are these ideas to concrete situations didn’t send them to evangelize right attending Mount Angel Seminary in in people’s lives. Seminary is away. “He trained them first,” said Oregon. Conor Baer, a seminarian academically rigorous, but its real Granheim, who is excited about who grew up in Washington state, purpose is to train candidates to “be working in a missionary diocese spoke about the first year of study, men of God who can take his love whose climate mirrors his arctic which includes several philosophy out to the world,” insisted Doudna, childhood home in northern Norway. courses. who is the only seminarian to have Before responding to God’s call to “You’re really learning how been born and raised in Alaska. the priesthood, Granheim worked to think about life and faith, which is Seminarian Fredrick as an information technology preparing you for the theology that’s Granheim, who grew up in Norway technician. coming later,” Baer said. “And the and attended his first three years of Proceeds from the

Fr. Robert Fath talking to supporters

~ 9 ~ seminarian dinner will help lengthy and thorough evaluation Zielinski and vocations director, Fr. defray the cost of training men process. Candidates must undergo Robert Fath. Interested men must for the priesthood, which costs a psychological test, background be practicing Catholics who have the diocese about $40,000 per check, and medical assessment, completed their sacraments, and year per candidate. Seminarians and have multiple in-depth have graduated from high school. are accepted to the diocese after a conversations with Bishop Chad

Seminarian Conor Baer Seminarian Ben Doudna serving dinner to supporters

Guests gather by the fire during closing prayer

~ 10 ~ What is Faith? Faith is innate!

By Fr. Tom Kuffel, Pastor St. Joseph Church in Nome, Alaska

Faith is a deep longing in our 2. In this world, I have choices. reconciliation so I can obtain hearts for love! Faith is a desire 3. My choices express what I happiness. Christian faith that keeps us focused on what love. commands self-sacrificial love. makes life worth living. Love 4. Each choice has Our faith is incomplete; makes life worth living. responsibilities and it desires something greater than Yet, faith today for many is consequences. myself. It is a desire to want more, the gospel of prosperity and peace, 5. Good and evil exist. to be more human. But remember, a message of health and wealth, 6. I am responsible for my I am made in the image God and a belief that I am privileged and choices! God is love. Faith seeks love. superior. Faith today means I am 7. My choices make up my life Faith is only complete when I am served. The gospel of many today – my happiness. filled with love and fill others with is that I deserve to be loved. my love. This worldly faith sells. Faith innately chooses Why be Catholic? Why be People buy it and demand special happiness as we are created to be a believer in the Gospel of Jesus? privileges and treatments at the happy. Happiness is not just being Because Christianity teaches us expense of using others. We content, comfortable, and gratified. that Divine Love is the ultimate become consumers of faith: I buy Happiness is not a state of being, purpose of my life and only God’s the faith that best fits my lifestyle. satisfied as the rich farmer was love will fill me and only by his Yet the faith of the Gospel after an abundant harvest. love will I be able to love others as of Jesus is a gift. Christian Faith Happiness is activity. I want to – as I should! teaches that : Happiness actively seeks meaning, 1. God created me out of love. purpose, and most importantly,

New Staff

Holly Hines has been hired as the new part-time receptionist for the Chancery. Nick Shamrell is the newest maintenance assistant. He will be working with Dale Chapman to assist with projects and maintenance needs.

Holly Hines Nick Shamrell

~ 11 ~ Bishop’s Travels August 25 to September 6

Bishop Chad Zielisnki with parishioners of St. Michael parish in McGrath, Alaska

New Clergy

Please welcome Fr. Yakubu Zirra Aiden and Fr. Alphonsus Afina. They have arrived this week to start serving in the Diocese of Fairbanks. Both are from the Diocese of Maiduguri, Nigeria.

Fr. Yakubu Zirra Aiden Fr. Alphonsus Afina

~ 12 ~ Adrian Dominican Sister who Served in Fairbanks Marks 75-Year Jubilee from Adrian Dominican Sisters

Sr. Carol Louise Hiller, O.P., at work on biography of Bishop Francis D. Gleeson, S.J.

August 23, 2017, Adrian, Michigan a bachelor’s degree in English Michigan before traveling to New – Adrian Dominican Sisters from from Siena Heights College (now Orleans for a few months to serve throughout the United States came University) in Adrian, a master’s in as a volunteer in the aftermath of home to their Motherhouse in English from DePaul University in Hurricane Katrina. She has been Adrian, Michigan, for a special Chicago, and a master’s degree in a resident at the Dominican Life week this summer to mark their library science from the University Center in Adrian, Michigan since Jubilees, their years of service and of Michigan. 2007. dedication to their Church and the Her earliest years of The Dominican Sisters of Congregation. The 2017 Jubilee teaching took her to Chicago, the Adrian are a congregation of nearly Class includes six sisters serving Diocese of Buffalo, New York, and 645 vowed women religious whose 75 years; 22 celebrating 70 years; Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and roots go back to St. Dominic in the 25 celebrating 60 years; and 14 back to Illinois before she began her 13th century. The sisters minister in celebrating 50 years. ministry as a high school librarian. 22 states and in four other nations: Sister Carol Louise She served in that profession in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Hiller, O.P., a native of Detroit Illinois, Florida, and Nevada before Norway, and the Philippines. The who served as a high school going to Fairbanks to serve as vision of the Adrian Dominican librarian in Fairbanks, Alaska is librarian for Monroe Catholic High Sisters is to “seek truth, make peace, marking 75 years with the Adrian School from 1976 to 1983. reverence life.” Dominican Sisters. She entered After a sabbatical year, We have a limited supply the Congregation on November 1, Sister Carol Louise served from of “Gleeson” books on hand in the 1941, professed her first vows on 1984 to 1990 as the school secretary Alaskan Shepherd office for $15. August 20, 1943, and made her final at All Saints Catholic Church in Call (907) 374-9532 to purchase profession on August 20, 1948. Hayward, California. She lived in your copy. Sister Carol Louise holds retirement in California and then in

~ 13 ~ St. Mark’s University Parish 40th Anniversary Celebration August 6, 2017

Diocese of Fairbanks Photograph by David Schienle

Parishioners during the Our Father

Photographer J.R. Ancheta preparing to take a group photo

~ 14 ~ Clergy Days August 22-24, 2017

Diocese of Fairbanks Photograph by David Schienle

Bishop Chad with priests

Priests gather for morning prayer to start Clergy Days

~ 15 ~ Bishop Chad Zielinski giving his homily during Clergy Days

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Kitchen Sized (Tall) Thank You!

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~ 17 ~ ~ 18 ~ SEPTEMBER 23, 2017* | 9AM-3 PM | RAVEN LANDING BUILDING 2 | MULTIPURPOSE ROOM | 1222 COWLES STREET Sr. Karen Martin, OSB, a Benedictine Sister, and Peggy Frank, OPA, an Associate of the Dominican Sisters of Peace, Order of Preachers, will facilitate the Voices of Hope Prayer Group on Tuesday, 9/19, and an Evening of Reflection on Thursday, 9/21, both at Sacred Heart Cathedral from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.

Additionally, they will present a Retreat, entitled "Continuing the Journey" at Raven Landing, Saturday, 9/23, from 9am to 3pm. All are invited to share in this Journey! Lunch will be available for $15. Continue with us and as we celebrate at the 4:30 pm Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral, followed by a shared meal and fellowship in the social hall. Sr. Karen and Peggy are both former parishioners of SHC. Sr. Karen served in music ministry as our organist and Peggy as cantor. Peggy also led the Voices of Hope Prayer group.

INFO/RSVP* ANN HAGESTEAD 388-2501 [email protected]

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