VOLUME 44 NUMBER 4 DIOCESE OF RAPID CITY, Diocesan Website: www.rapidcitydiocese.org SOUTH DAKOTA Informing Catholics in Western South Dakota since May 1973 World Youth Day, 2, 28 ‘Saint of the gutters,’ Mother Teresa, to be canonized Sept. 4 Rediscover Silence, 6 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The poor, the suffering and those who minister to them will be at the center of celebrations leading up to the canonization of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata at the Vatican. The main event — the canonization Mass — will begin at 10:30 a.m., Sept. 4, the Vatican announced. A “family feast” for the poor, a musical, Masses and prayer vigils will precede her canonization, according to programs published by the Vatican and by the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded. Families, Lifelong Learning & Known as the “saint of the gutters,” Mother Teresa was revered for Reaching Out, 13-15 ministering to the sick and the dying in some of the world's poorest neighborhoods. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 to an ethnic Albanian family in Skopje, in what is now part of Macedonia, Mother Teresa went to India as a Sister of Loreto in 1929. Receiving what she described as a “call within a call,” she began her missionary work with the poor and laid the foundation for what would become the Mission- aries of Charity. Following her death in 1997, St. John Paul II waived Terra Sancta Annual Giving the usual five-year waiting period and allowed the opening of the Society and Terra Sancta process to declare her sainthood. She was beatified in 2003. Guild, 16-18 The Vatican will anticipate the canonization of Blessed Teresa of Piedmont Parish Centennial, 24 Kolkata with a special postage stamp, which will be released Sept. 2, two days before Pope Francis officially declares her a saint. The Vatican Philatelic and Numismatic Office announced the stamp's re- lease Aug. 5 and distributed initial images of it. The 95-cent stamp features a wrinkled but radiant Mother Teresa smiling in her blue- trimmed, white sari. Overlaid on the design by Patrizio Daniele is another image of her holding the hand of a small child. (CNS photo/courtesy Vatican Philatelic and Numismatic Office) Mailing label 2 WRC Columns August 2016 World Youth Day They were seeking someone — Jesus Christ World Youth Day has come and gone. More than a million young peo- ple gathered in Poland — pilgrims seeking something in their lives. In re- ality, they were not seeking something, but someone, Jesus Christ. I was one of those pilgrims, along with 85 other bishops from the United States who met ‘yes’ to him with all your heart, to re- in Krakow for this global event. It is spond generously and to follow him! estimated that 40,000 people from the Don’t let your soul grow numb, but aim United States made the pilgrimage to be for the goal of a beautiful love which united with the Holy Father, Pope Fran- also demands sacrifice. Say a firm ‘no’ cis, for those days of prayer and cele- to the narcotic of success at any cost bration of our faith in Jesus Christ. and the sedative of worrying only about This was the first World Youth Day yourself and your own comfort.” that I have ever attended and I was not In spite of the heat and humidity the disappointed. I deeply enjoyed the last few days of World Youth Day, it is experience. Our host country, Poland, my sense that the young people, per- opened her arms to all of us. We felt haps all of us, came away with a new welcomed and loved, cared for and July 23, wooden barges float on the Dunajec River Gorge through the Pieniny sense of mission and a new sense of our secure. The Polish people were very Mountains. Bishop Robert Gruss joined the 46-member diocesan group that call to discipleship; that World Youth attended World Youth Days in Krakow, Poland. He is wearing the regional clothing of Day is not meant to be only a cherished friendly and their own love for Christ the raft operators. (Photo by Fr. Mark McCormick) and his church was evident. They memory, but to be lived in the concrete, seemed happy to be the host to so many in the forefront of serving others. In his dreams, our ways of seeing things. God to be lived in every corner of our lives. people from around the world. talk at the Stations of the Cross, he comes to break open everything that If this happens, then World Youth Day What I found most inspiring was the shared these words: keeps us closed in.” will have been a great success, not only enthusiasm, the beautiful spirit and the “Humanity today needs men and He told us to get off the couch and for the church in western South Dakota, prayerfulness of the young people and women, and especially young people stop being young “couch potatoes” but but for the entire world. their love and desire for Jesus. This was like yourselves, who do not wish to live “young people with shoes, or better, a great grace for me. It bolstered the their lives ‘halfway,’ young people boots laced” who go out into the world spirit of faith and hope in all of us. In ready to spend their lives freely in serv- and leave their mark in history that particular, I cherished the time I was ice to those of their brothers and sisters began at Pentecost. “The Lord wants to able to spend with the youth of our own who are poorest and most vulnerable, work one of the greatest miracles we diocese and to hear of their desires for in imitation of Christ who gave himself can experience; he wants to turn your World Youth Day in regard to their re- completely for our salvation. In the face hands, my hands, our hands, into signs lationship with Jesus. I want to thank of evil, suffering and sin, the only re- of reconciliation, of communion, of them for their willingness to share their sponse possible for a disciple of Jesus creation. He wants your hands to con- love for the Lord and for answering is the gift of self, even of one’s own life, tinue building the world of today. And their call to follow Jesus. in imitation of Christ; it is the attitude he wants to build that world with you.” Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, of service. Unless those who call them- As Pope Francis shared in his homily arrived in Krakow on July 28. Through- selves Christians live to serve, their at the closing Mass for World Youth out the days he was there, his encour- lives serve no good purpose. By their Day, we are to be like Zacchaeus who agement to the young people to live a lives, they deny Jesus Christ.” took a risk and put his life on the line life following Jesus came through over Pope Francis, in his homily at the for Jesus. “When it comes to Jesus, we Pope Francis walks with World Youth and over again. His messages spoke not Vigil Service on Saturday night, spoke cannot sit around waiting with arms Day pilgrims as he arrives for a July only to the young, but to all Christians, of how “God expects something from folded; he offers us life — we can’t 30 prayer vigil at the Field of Mercy if we really want to follow Christ. He all of us; how he hopes in us and comes respond by thinking about it or texting in Krakow, Poland. (CNS photo/Paul challenged the youth and all of us to be to open the doors of our lives, our a few words! Don’t be afraid to say Haring) August 2016 News WRC 3 Bishop’s Calendar Pope names six women, six men to August 16-September 18, 2016 panel to study women deacons Subject to change without notice VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has appointed six August 16, Tuesday men and six women to a commission to study the issue of Day of Mercy in all parishes August 20, Saturday women deacons, particularly their ministry in the early church. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Jubilee of Mercy Pilgrimage, Holy Cross, Timber Lake In addition to the 12 members named Aug. 2, the pope tapped August 21, Sunday Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, secretary of the Congregation 8:30 a.m. Mass, Install Fr. Mulloy as Pastor, St. Bernard, McLaughlin for the Doctrine of the Faith, to serve as president of the August 23, Tuesday 11:30 a.m. Western South Dakota Catholic Foundation Board Meeting, commission. The pope set up the commission at the request of Phyllis Zagano, Chancery Conference Room the International Union of Superiors General, the organization a senior 6 p.m. Mass, Install Fr. Dennis as Pastor, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Martin for the leaders of women’s religious orders around the world. research August 30, Tuesday Meeting the group in May, Pope Francis said that while his associate in 8:30 a.m. Investment Committee Meeting, Chancery understanding was that the women described as deacons in the the religion 9 a.m. Finance Council Meeting, Chancery Conference Room New Testament were not ordained as male deacons are today, department at 11:30 a.m. Family Heritage Alliance Luncheon, Cathedral Hofstra “it would be useful for the church to clarify this question.” 1:30 p.m. Envisioning Team Meeting, Cathedral University in 6 p.m.