Corpus Christi Catholic Community in Pooler Held Blessing Ceremony For

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Corpus Christi Catholic Community in Pooler held blessing ceremony for new mission church site Savannah he groundbreaking ceremony TApril 22, which initiated eight months of construction, consist- ed of prayers, scripture readings, hymns and the blessing by Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., bishop of Savannah. Father Thomas J. Murphy, the pas- tor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Port Wentworth, said, “Today, we give glory to God and our Savior Jesus Christ as we work to build his kingdom on earth and shovel the first blessed dirt on our way to our final dedication as Corpus Christi Catholic Church.” A group of Catholic faithful in the Pooler area, the Pooler Catholic Community, has been raising money to build this facility at 1745 Benton Blvd. off of Pooler Parkway. The $4.2 million project is expected to be complete by early December 2018. The new 17,000-square-foot parish multipurpose building will be used for worship, pastoral offices, and religious education until a sanctuary can be constructed in the future. The Pooler Catholic Community, led by the Father Murphy, was found- ed on May 2, 2015, and the first Mass was held in a rented space at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church. Corpus Christi is a mission of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Port Wentworth Top, Members of the Pooler Catholic Community and dignitaries prepare to ceremoniously break ground on the proj- where Father Murphy is the pastor. ect. Above left and bottom left, Father Tom Murphy, Pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Port Wentworth addresses those gathered for the blessing of the Mission Church. Above right, Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM, Conv., exam- ines the infant sized shovel Eva Cook used, with the aid of her mother, representing the youngest member of the Pooler Catholic Community. Photographs by Michael J. Johnson Southern Cross, Page 2 Headline Hopscotch Thursday, April 26, 2018

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MAY 2018 1 Warner Robins: Sacred Heart Confirmation 2 Macon: Mount de Sales Baccalaureate 3 Macon: Holy Spirit Confirmation 4 Macon: St. Joseph Confirmation 5 Dublin: Immaculate Conception, St. Mark Confirmation 6 Savannah: Music of Sistine Chapel at Cathedral 8 Savannah: Council of Priests 8 Savannah: Cathedral Confirmation 9 Fort Valley: St. Juliana Confirmation 10 Columbus: St. Anne, Christ the King and & Our Lady of Kana Achot fills bowls with food in an emergency feeding program for mal- Lourdes Confirmation nourished children at the Loreto Girls School in Rumbek, South Sudan, April 1 1 Americus: St. Mary & St. Theresa Confirmation 18. The school, run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary -- the Loretto 12 Bainbridge: St. Joseph the Worker Confirmation Sisters -- of Ireland, has opened its compound to hundreds of nearby villag- 12 Tifton: Our Divine Saviour Confirmation ers facing hunger because of ongoing conflict and climate change. 13 Moultrie: Immaculate Conception Confirmation (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey) 14 Port Wentworth: Our Lady of Lourdes Confirmation 16 Savannah: St. Frances Cabrini School Mass 17 Vidalia: Sacred Heart Confirmation Catholic bishop pays means to be a devoted wife, a devoted mother and a very involved citizen - a 19 Savannah: Ordination of Permanent and Transitional Deacons tribute to Barbara Bush very, very faithful citizen of Houston. at Cathedral at Houston memorial We were so blessed to have her with us 19 Savannah: Knights of Columbus State Convention Mass Houston (CNS) and to have the type of example that the 20 Augusta: Aquinas Baccalaureate and Graduation etired Archbishop Joseph A. Bush family offers the nation,” he said. 23 Savannah: St. Vincent’s Academy Graduation RFiorenza of the Archdiocese 24 Albany: St. Teresa Confirmation of Galveston-Houston joined other In ‘historic’ move, pope 25 Albany: St. Teresa School Mass religious leaders in paying tribute to names three laywomen to 25 Warner Robins: Monsignor Fred Nijem’s 50th Ordination Barbara Bush April 19 during a cer- Anniversary emony described as a Celebration of doctrinal congregation 26 Douglas: St. Paul Confirmation Life in front of Houston City Hall April Vatican City (CNS) 27 Ray City: St. Anthony of Padua Confirmation 19. He described the former first lady ope Francis appointed three women 27 Waycross: St. Joseph Confirmation as a “faithful citizen besides being an Pas consultors to the Congregation 30 Brunswick: St. Francis Xavier Confirmation outstanding wife and mother.” The arch- for the Doctrine of the Faith. It marks bishop focused on her life of service the first time women and laypersons that continued long after she left the were named as active contributors -- not Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv. has White House when her husband George support staff. The Vatican newspaper, H.W. Bush served as the 41st President L’Osservatore Romano, called decision announced the following appointment: of the United States from 1989 to 1993. to appointment the women “historic.” Deacon Paul A. Gutting, formerly assigned to St. Anne Parish in Barbara Bush, the wife of the nation’s The Vatican announced the appoint- Richmond Hill, has been appointed to diaconal ministry at Sacred Heart 41st president and mother of the 43rd ments April 21. The new female con- Parish in Savannah, effective April 16, 2017. president, died at her home in Houston sultors are: Linda Ghisoni, born in Italy April 17 at the age of 92. “We’ve been in 1965, is one of two women Pope Deacon Tirso A. Castillo, M.D., AGAF, assigned to Immaculate blessed in this city to have Barbara Francis named to be undersecretaries Conception Parish in Dublin and missions, has been granted retirement Bush as an outstanding example of a of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family from active ministry due to medical issues. person who is truly involved in the city. and Life in 2017; Michelina Tenace, You know, she could have set back and born in Italy in 1954, is a professor and enjoyed life for 10, 15, 20 more years. head of the department of fundamental Correction celebrated during the full 50 But she got involved. She got involved theology at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian e were in error on page 9 of days of the Easter Season, that in education. She got involved with University; Laetitia Calmeyn, born in Wthe April 12 edition of the SC. is, from Easter to Pentecost. And children who needed to learn how to Belgium in 1975, is a consecrated virgin The Paschal candle, which used to the Ascension may be celebrated read and write,” the archbishop said. and teaches theology at the College des be snuffed out after the Gospel on in place of the Seventh Sunday of He said she visited Inner-City Catholic Bernardins in Paris. She is a nurse spe- “Ascension Thursday,” has been Easter in those nations (or in the Schools, a program in the Galveston- cializing in palliative care and received ordered since the Roman Missal U.S., those ecclesiastical provinces) Houston Archdiocese to share her love her doctorate from the John Paul II was revised in 1970, to continue to whose bishops approve its transfer for literacy and education. “Her life has Pontifical Theological Institute. burn at all Masses from Thursday. been an outstanding example of what it Southern Cross (USPS 505-680) is published bi-weekly, Publisher: Most Rev. Gregory J. 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He may be reached at (912) or services that conflict with Catholic 201-4061 or at- [email protected] Southern Cross, Page 4 Comentario en Español Thursday, April 26, 2018 ‘Rejoice and the Glad’ in the gift of holiness he latest document written by God is impossible. Pope Francis writes rules, customs, or ways of acting, to the work.” TPope Francis describes a centu- that “the Church has always been clear point that the faithful forget that God is Holiness for Pope Francis requires a ry-old path walked by countless of that a person’s perfection is measured greater than these things. fervent relationship with God without faithful Christians before us: the path not by the information or knowledge The path of holiness set forth by the forgetting that he will judge us based on of holiness. He begins the Apostolic they possess, but by the depth of their Beatitudes opens the soul to the active how we lived our lives in relationship Exhortation quoting the Beatitudes charity.” Truly knowing God cannot be working of Christ, who constantly with others (Matthew 25). “Our wor- which give the document its name, reduced to learning facts, but rather it renews all things. Among the many ship becomes pleasing to God when we “Gaudete et Exultate – Rejoice and involves opening oneself vulnerably so examples Pope Francis provides to devote ourselves to living generously, be glad.” In them, he argues, you that God can do his work in the soul. better follow the Beatitudes, he speaks and allow God’s gift, granted in prayer, find what constitutes holiness. “The Similarly, others think that the more of reacting with meekness and humility to be shown in our concern for our Beatitudes are like a Christian’s identity they do, the closer they are to God. toward others: “regard the faults and brothers and sisters.” card,” he writes. These challenging and Certainly our faith calls us to action, limitations of others with tenderness “Rejoice and be glad,” writes Saint direct instructions from Jesus describe but there is nothing you or I can do that and meekness, without an air of supe- Matthew in his Gospel, “for your what it means to be a faithful Christian. will merit us salvation since salvation is riority, [so] we can actually help them reward will be great in heaven.” Life in In a world where many base their a gift. God has loved us first, so every and stop wasting our energy on useless Christ brings joy and gladness achieved fidelity to Christ either on knowledge movement of God in the soul is initiat- complaining.” as a gift from God who never tires to they have attained, or works they have ed by him, not me. Pope Francis points He also writes that growing in holi- draw to himself each person he has performed, the pope challenges all to out that some who worship the human ness requires sowing peace: “the world created. This is ultimately not achieved recognize that salvation and holiness will and personal abilities wrongly of gossip, inhabited by negative and with the intellect nor the will alone, are gifts from God. Some wrongly believe that justification is achieved destructive people, does not bring but through a response to God’s initial believe that the more facts they know by their own efforts. He believes that peace. Such people are really the ene- prompting of the soul. Holiness in itself about the faith, and the better they the result of this attitude is “a self-cen- mies of peace… It is not easy to ‘make’ is God’s gift. can argue and win arguments about tered and elitist complacency, bereft this evangelical peace, which excludes God, the closer they are to God. Pope of true love… and finds expression in no one but embraces even those who Father Pablo Migone is chancellor of Francis states that this attitude based a variety of apparently unconnected are a bit odd, troublesome or difficult, the Diocese of Savannah and resides in on mere knowledge tries to tame the ways of thinking and acting.” At times demanding, different, beaten down by the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, mystery, yet taming the mystery of excessive importance is given to certain life or simply uninterested. It is hard Savannah.

Alegraos y Regocijaos en el don de la Santidad l último documento publicado por Ciertamente nuestra fe nos llama a la actitudes distintas”. Se da a veces ternura y mansedumbre, sin un aire de Eel Papa Francisco describe una acción, pero no hay nada que tu o yo excesiva importancia a ciertas normas, superioridad, podemos realmente ayudar trayectoria por la cual una infinidad de podamos hacer para merecer la salvación costumbres o maneras de actuar, hasta el y dejar de desperdiciar nuestra energía fieles han transitado: el camino de la ya que esta es un don de Dios. Dios punto que los fieles olvidan que Dios es en la inútil quejarse.” santidad. El Papa inicia su Exhortación nos ha amado primero, por lo tanto, más grande que estas cosas. También recalca que para crecer en Apostólica citando las bienaventuranzas todo movimiento de Dios en el alma es El camino de la santidad presentado santidad, hay que sembrar paz. “El de las cuales el documento toma su iniciado por él. El Papa Francisco señala en las bienaventuranzas prepara el mundo de las habladurías, hecho por nombre, “Gaudete et Exultate, Alegraos que algunos erróneamente creen que alma para recibir a Cristo quien todo gente que se dedica a criticar ya a y Regocijaos”. En ellas, enseña el la justificación se merita por esfuerzo renueva. Entre los muchos ejemplos destruir, no construye la paz… no es Papa, se encuentra lo que constituye propio, adorando así la voluntad que el Papa brinda para seguir mejor fácil construir esta paz evangélica que la santidad. “Las Bienaventuranzas humana y la capacidad personal. las bienaventuranzas, menciona la no excluye a nadie sino que integra son como el carnet de identidad del Francisco considera que esta actitud importancia de reaccionar hacia el también a los que son algo extraños, cristiano,” escribe Francisco. Estas es “una autocomplacencia egocéntrica prójimo con humildad y mansedumbre. a las personas difíciles y complicadas, enseñanzas desafiantes y directas de y elitista privada del verdadero Cuando consideramos “las fallas a los que reclaman atención, a los que Jesús describen lo que significa ser un amor… y se manifiesta en muchas y limitaciones de los demás con son diferentes, a quienes están muy fiel cristiano. golpeados por la vida”. En un mundo donde muchos basan La santidad requiere una ferviente su fidelidad a Cristo en el conocimiento relación con Dios sin olvidar que él que han alcanzado, u obras realizadas, nos juzgará basado en cómo vivimos el Papa nos desafía a reconocer que la ASSET MANAGEMENT AND nuestras vidas en relación con los demás salvación y santidad son dones de Dios. (Mateo, 25). “Nuestro culto agrada a Algunos erróneamente consideran que CONSULTING SERVICES Dios cuando allí llevamos los intentos de cuanta más información saben sobre la vivir con generosidad y cuando dejamos fe y cuantos más argumentos sobre Dios High Net Worth Individuals • Endowments & Foundations que el don de Dios que recibimos en pueden ganar, más cerca a Dios estarán. Estate Planning Services él se manifieste en la entrega a los El Papa Francisco declara que esta hermanos”. actitud basada en el mero conocimiento ...managing Diocesan investments since 2004! “Alegraos y Regocijaos,” escribe intenta domar el misterio, sin embargo, San Mateo en su evangelio, “porque su es imposible domar el misterio que es PATRICK J. DOUGLAS recompensa será grande en los cielos.” Dios. Francisco escribe que “ a largo Managing Director, Investments La vida en Cristo satisface con gozo y de la historia de la Iglesia quedó muy alegría, ambos dones de un Dios que claro que lo que mide la perfección de Parishioner // St. Mary’s On-The-Hill nunca se cansa de buscarnos. Esto no las personas es su grado de caridad, no se alcanza por medio del intelecto o la cantidad de datos y conocimientos Raymond James // Augusta, Georgia la voluntad a solas, sino a través de que acumulen. El conocimiento de Dios 706.821.2640 // 888.409.2640 una respuesta al llamado de Dios. La no se puede reducirse al aprendizaje de santidad en sí es un don de Dios. información, pero más bien se trata de abrir el corazón vulnerablemente para Padre Pablo Migone, es Canciller que Dios obre en el alma. de la Diocesis de Savannah y reside Otros consideran que cuanto Raymond James & Associates, Inc., member New York Stock Exchange/SIPC en la Catedral de San Juan Bautista, más obran, más se acercan a Dios. Savannah. Thursday, April 26, 2018 Catholic Communi cation Campaign Southern Cross, Page 5

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diosav.org/baseball-2018 Thursday, April 26, 2018 Feature Southern Cross, Page 7 Thanks to Bulletin editor, Richard Reid: Bishop Benjamin J. Keiley’s last interview t was 1925 and Bishop Benjamin requested. Before his condition pamphlets and programs during hotel in this very town and this IJ. Keiley’s time was running worsened, he would venture even Georgia’s worst period of discrim- very week and he fought in the out. He was retired, ill, blind and further afield, to the wedding of ination against Catholics, Jews and Confederate Army and I’m for going deaf. This visit from Richard one of his nieces in Brooklyn, African-Americans. him.” After that, according to a Reid, youthful editor of the Georgia where he officiated at the ceremo- Well-educated and born in story featured by Richard Reid in Bulletin of the Catholic Laymen’s ny. Occasionally, he gave sermons Massachusetts, Richard Reid his column in the Bulletin, there Association, would be memora- at Atlanta’s Sacred Heart Church. observed Bishop Keiley with an was no more argument. ble. The bishop’s illness had kept “Up to the time of his retirement,” insight that brought the bishop’s Reid continued: “This story and him hospitalized for some time in editor Reid afterward wrote, attitude and achievements to his many others Bishop Keiley told me Atlanta’s St. Joseph Infirmary, run “Bishop Keiley led a very active readers. He evidently enjoyed all in his own inimitable way. They are by the Sisters of Mercy. life..The loss of his sight must have his visits to Atlanta when the bish- interesting, but not only because According to an account by Reid been a great blow to him, but he op would recount humorous stories they are amusing, but because they published in the Bulletin following never complained, never lost his of incidents that had taken place reveal the regard others, not of the the bishop’s death, he (Reid) had cheerful disposition.” during his time as bishop of the faith, had for him after coming in spent some time with the ailing A true story teller, the bishop diocese. contact with him.” prelate, listening to his unerring could recount incidents in his early One such story, related to Reid Bishop Benjamin J. Keiley (1900- accounts of events, past and nearer life in Petersburg,Virginia where gleefully by Bishop Keiley, con- 1922) was the seventh bishop to the present. With a radio in his he had been, as a youth, a true sup- cerned a time when the bishop, of the Diocese of Savannah and room and kindly visitors who read porter of the Confederacy. At the making a Confirmation tour in at the time of his death in 1925, to him from the newspaper, Bishop same time, he brought missionary South Georgia, had had a long con- had served longer than any previ- Keiley continued to be jovial and order priests to care for African versation with the proprietor of a ous bishop of the diocese in that aware of all that was going on in Americans and was concerned for small hotel where he was staying. capacity. the world. Sitting in “a pleasant, their spiritual welfare. This seventh This man, who wasn’t Catholic and airy room,” the Bulletin editor bishop of the Catholic Diocese of wasn’t related to any Catholics, Columnist Rita H. Delorme is a reported, “his old friends in Atlanta Savannah also encouraged the foun- afterwards told a group of men volunteer in the Diocesan Archives. and some new ones would come dation of the Catholic Laymen’s gathered at the same hotel that they and read to him by the hour.” Society, which until the late 1930s, shouldn’t be so critical of Catholics What did they read to Bishop would lead the war against intol- and of the pope. Keiley? They read whatever he erance through its newspaper, “The pope was in this very

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Above, a student from Mercer University, Macon, soars down a zipline as she glides 750 feet to the next tower. Photographs by Jessica L. Marsala.

Students let their fears fly at spring campus ministry retreat By Jessica L. Marsala participating schools, of how the ROBERTA retreat impacted her. “But the best hite paint emerged from the way to get through it is through Wpaintbrushes, bottles and walking through them and having rollers in their hands, transforming that faith and knowing that God the rainbow of color beneath, now has your back and that he’s present dry. in our lives even when we don’t Though harmless on paper, these see it or don’t know it or don’t feel colorful words and designs — now it.” covered, crossed out or rewritten The retreat, which featured — represented the long list of con- Catholic musician Teresa crete fears, insecurities and ques- Peterson and her husband James tions that troubled their collegiate Shackleford as guest speakers and minds and that of their peers. worship leaders, stimulated stu- Not merely an art project, this dents with talks about how to be exercise in creativity exemplified fearless in discernment and battle, the overarching theme of the 2018 spring intercollegiate retreat — See Fearless on page 11 how to be fearless as Catholics — for which a record number of college and university students had Top right, students from Georgia gathered April 13-15. Southern University in Statesboro “It really emphasizes the point transform their painted fears into that we all have fears in our lives, dreams. Bottom right, after watch- whether maybe about love or ing the documentary “Fearless,” trusting God or whatever it may students, led by Father Chris Ortega, be,” said Jeannine Mari, a fresh- parochial vicar at St. Francis Xavier man at the Savannah School of Church in Brunswick, prayed with Art and Design, one of the seven and for the healing of their peers. Above, adoration, accompanied by praise and worship music performed by guest speaker Teresa Peterson on guitar, closed out the final night of retreat. Southern Cross, Page 10 Kids Chronicles Thursday, April 26, 2018 Peter sees a vision and baptizes the gentiles CHILDREN’S STORY: BIBLE ACCENT: By Jennifer Ficcaglia (CNS) When the gentiles were first being Word had reached the apostles converted, a debate arose: Should and other believers in Judea that the they also become Jews and follow the apostle Peter had done something Mosaic law? outrageous while visiting the town of In Acts 15, we read that Paul, Joppa. Barnabas and some others went to Not only had Peter agreed to enter Jerusalem to ask the apostles. the home of a gentile in Caesarea, but The apostles and the presbyters, he also preached the Gospel to the who also were church leaders, dis- man’s family and friends and baptized cussed the question with help from them! the Holy Spirit. The apostles and the other believers After much debate, Peter arose. were shocked. Jews were not allowed “You are well aware that from early to associate with gentiles. Peter’s days God made his choice among you friends demanded an explanation. that through my mouth the gentiles Peter said that he had been praying would hear the word of the Gospel while he was visiting in Joppa when and believe,” he said. “And God ... he had a vision. He described seeing bore witness by granting them the a large sheet in the sky. Holy Spirit just as he did us. ... Why, “Looking intently into it, I observed then, are you now putting God to the and saw the four-legged animals of test by placing on the shoulders of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles Holy Spirit told him to go with the that would save Cornelius and his the disciples a yoke that neither our and the birds of the sky,” Peter said. men who were coming to see him. household. ancestors nor we have been able to “I also heard a voice say to me, ‘Get “The Spirit told me to accompany “As I began to speak, the Holy bear?” up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.’” them without discriminating,” Peter Spirit fell upon them as it had upon James also shared his thoughts. Peter said he refused “because explained. us at the beginning,” Peter said, “and “It is my judgment, therefore, that nothing profane or unclean has ever So Peter and six other believers I remembered the word of the Lord, we ought to stop troubling the gen- entered my mouth.” went with the three gentiles to the how he had said, ‘John baptized with tiles who turn to God,” he said, “but The voice said in reply, “What God home of Cornelius, a gentile who had water but you will be baptized with tell them by letter to avoid pollu- has made clean, you are not to call found favor with God. Peter learned the Holy Spirit.’ If then God gave tion from idols, unlawful marriage, profane.” that an angel of God had visited them the same gift he gave to us the meat of strangled animals, and After hearing this three times, the Cornelius and told him to summon when we came to believe in the Lord blood.” vision ended, Peter said. Then the Peter, who would speak the word Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to So Paul, Barnabas and some oth- hinder God?” ers delivered a letter to the gentiles, Peter’s friends began to glorify telling them they did not have to God. become Jews and follow the entire “God has then granted life-giving Mosaic law in order to follow Jesus, repentance to the gentiles too,” they but to avoid the things that James had said. mentioned. “If you keep free of these, you will READ MORE ABOUT IT: be doing what is right,” they told the Acts 11 gentiles. “This is the first time there’s ever been you, so I wonder what wonderful things you will do…”

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Fearless from page 8 ridicule or rejection. “But I think that, I mean, along with seeing people my age having among other topics. such strong faith, just in general Zip lining, archery and rock portraying your faith, being proud climbing on the grounds of Camp of it — I think that’s what I have Grace, where the retreat was held, taken away from this retreat in also provided many opportunities terms of fearlessness,” Carrasco for students to show faith in the said. He added that he hopes to face of fear. bring this sense of fearlessness Nick Carrasco, a graduate back to Augusta with him and student at Augusta University, encourage his lukewarm Catholic remarked that the retreat gave him friends to better develop their rela- a new appreciation for how to be tionships with each other and with fearless by not being afraid of God. After a viewing of the docu- mentary, “Fearless,” produced by Schools and campuses filmmaker Maura Smith, Father with active campus Chris Ortega, parochial vicar ministries and their at St. Francis Xavier Church in Brunswick and its mission, helped appointed chaplains: lead the students to pray with and • Armstrong campus of for the healing of their peers, as Georgia Southern University: demonstrated by evangelizers in Father Jason Adams the movie. • Augusta University: Madeline Walz, a freshman at Father Vernon Knight SCAD, recounted how her hands • Columbus State University: ached because she had fallen while Father Brian O’Shaughnessy chasing bouncy balls during a • Georgia Southern University: game called “chaos.” Father John Johnson “And my hands were tingling, • Mercer University: kind of like someone was massag- Father John Wright ing my hands a little and they’re • Savannah State University: fine now,” Walz said of the healing Father John Johnson, chaplain of Catholic campus ministry at Georgia Deacon Hosea Bennett service’s impact. Southern University in Statesboro and pastor of St. Christopher Church in • Savannah College of Art and Claxton and its missions, consecrates the host at a Mass for the Catholic Design: Father Pablo Migone Jessica L. Marsala is Assistant to the Eagles and their FOCUS missionaries April 21 in the Sweetheart Circle on the • Valdosta State University: Editor of the Southern Cross. GSU campus. Deacon and seminarian Patrick May, who attended GSU before Father Dawid Kwiatkowski transferring to what was then Augusta State University, assisted Father Johnson at the altar. Photograph by Sarah Talbot. Southern Cross, Page 12 Commentary Thursday, April 26, 2018 Just do it he week before any major hol- of person I absolutely consider to be generally ends with a “woe is me” been happy just a few minutes before, Tiday or event is always crazy. free to detach from real-life chores to mentality because the world is filled Isabel was able to get back on track Moms everywhere know this. No just sit at the feet of the cross as long with people who have a calmer home, with her stuffed animal love. She just matter how hard we try to make as he would like. more money, less commitments and needed to spend less time stacking things peaceful and simple, the truth “How’s your Holy Week going,” I time a-plenty for sitting still. If you things up against those around her is family life requires our time and asked my friend. are looking for proof of this, it’s easy and simply enjoy what she had been attention, our willingness and desire “We are so busy” was his reply. to find. given. to just get the job done. Brother Malachy told me about all The best we can do is the thing we And so it is with us. We have what And so it was for me in those days the things that needed to be attended are called to do, whatever that may we have; we are doing the thing God before Easter. As much as I wanted to as his community prepared for be. That and waste no time thinking has asked us to do. We trust in God’s the Triduum to be exclusively about the Triduum. He was excited about about how easy everyone else has it. provision for us and his love for us, quiet contemplation of the events on everything to come, and focused on We went to a fundraiser yard sale and we recognize that doing what he those days so many years ago, there getting everything done for a peaceful at our school last week. Of course has called us to do will bring us peace was also food to prepare and family and joy-filled celebration. Henry and Isabel worked hard to and joy. gatherings to plan and Easter baskets Friars, it turns out, are just like the bring home as many trinkets as pos- Polish a chalice. Shop for a ham. that wouldn’t just fill themselves. rest of us. sible, and as it worked out (thanks Feed the hungry. Clothe the poor. I struggle sometimes with romanti- Of course my life as a married to my very committed approach of Whatever your mission looks like, cizing other people’s situations. I am woman with six children is not exact- saying no) Isabel found one oversized just do it. Do your work, and it will fairly confident that the empty nesters ly like that of my friend the friar. But stuffed animal (don’t judge) and draw you closer to God. have it way easier than me, that single what we had in common was work, Henry found two smaller ones. These people are the holiest. Other folks not and how it needed to be done. The were all thrown into the washing Rachel Swenson Balducci is a freelance in my same life position, I tell myself, work looked a little different — he machine as soon as we got home, and writer and member of Most Holy Trinity are free to observe and celebrate the was polishing chalices and ciboriums, not until the animals came out of the Church, Augusta. She can be reached at way God intended us to, whatever I was ironing khakis and oxford shirts dryer did Isabel realize she had one [email protected] that may be. — but each of us had a job we were less than Henry. About halfway through Holy Week called to do. She had been so happy and smitten I got a call from my friend Brother The key to real freedom in life is with her choice, until she saw that Malachy. He was helping me make trusting that what we are doing is Henry had more. plans for an upcoming trip for work exactly what God has us doing. If “Why did he get two when I only that would bring me to his neck of the I’m so wrapped up in looking at all get one,” she protested. Just like that, woods in New York. Here he was, a the folks who have it easier than me, comparing robbed her of her joy. friar — a man of the cloth — the kind I’m going to be unhappy. Comparison With a quick reminder that she had Reining in a germophobe on’t breathe, don’t breathe, don’t ‘Tilotin’,” Magan said, a joking refer- other day I’m washing my hands.” in completing a task of saying so Dbreathe,” Jesse said to himself ence to this young speller’s attempt to I decided to have a cleanliness con- many Hail Marys, Our Fathers or as he walked out of his room and spell lotion a year ago. “Your hands fab with our squeaky-clean specialist Glory Be’s, it’s about establishing a noticed the door open to the quaran- look horrible.” as we hauled off the trash to recycling deeper connection with God through tine zone in the next room over, cre- In Jesse’s defense, his Howard center. the meditation caused by repeating ated thanks to Simon’s stomach virus Hughes-esque fixation on cleanliness “What do you know about germs?” those prayers. diagnosis two days earlier. was not born out of a fascination with I quizzed. Jesus even warns of this saying, Spring Break had been wild and John Wesley’s idiom but more out “Did you know that microbes can “And when you are praying, do not crazy at the Halcombe House, but not of a real fear of another visit to the be found on everything?” he said, use meaningless repetition as the for the reasons normally attributed to Emergency Room. returning serve. Gentiles do, for they suppose that the overindulgences of college life. Thanks to a febrile seizure diagno- “Where did you learn that?” they will be heard for their many Rather, I had brought home some sort sis when he was one year old, any- “My book on germs. They help the words” (Matthew 6:7). of stomach bug from work that had time Jesse gets sick he runs the risk earth make soil, and then new plants Now that we have Jesse’s hand slowly worked its way through the of suffering a seizure from a sudden can grow. Some make medicine, and washing in check, please nobody tell house, and caused Jesse to inspire temperature spike that sends him to some make you sick.” him the lizard he held at the play- all of the little children to pull their the hospital drive-thru window. “So why do you wash your hands?” ground the other day was covered in shirts over their noses anytime they It had been less than six months “To keep germs away so you can Rotel. Otherwise, he’s liable to start came within eyesight or earshot of an since a stop at the Georgia Turtle stay healthy.” carrying a bar of Irish Spring in his infected party. Center had socked him with a debili- “But you know that washing your coat pocket, and we’ll never get to eat “You have to get out of daddy’s tating case of salmonella poisoning, a hands too much is a bad thing and cheese dip again. room or else you’ll get germs,” 104-degree fever and another seizure. can hurt you, too?” he’d holler down the hall anytime For six days, Jesse battled against “Yes sir.” Jason Halcombe has five sons and two AnnaMarie or Eli showed up in my what he called “the Rotel” (which What Jesse failed to realize is that, daughters. He and his wife, Magan, room, shirt over nose, making rounds makes for an awkward laugh anytime just like the old proverb, too much of are members of Immaculate Conception like miniature nurses. we make cheese dip). a good thing can actually be bad for Church, Dublin. Saying Jesse has a little fascination “I do not want to get the Rotel you. with germs is like saying Howard again,” Jesse would say in the follow- In the case of his hands, he was not Hughes had a casual interest with ing weeks when you’d find him in only scrubbing them raw; he was also cleanliness. front of a sink. not allowing his body to build up its He’s probably washing his hands Things were starting to get out of own defenses against the Rotel or any right now. hand, though. other diced chile combination. Earlier this winter, when Isaac and “Daddy, I touched the side of my As Catholics, we have to be careful I both suffered through the flu, Jesse shoe; should I wash my hands?” not to allow our Biblical prayer prac- began a handwashing campaign that “Daddy, I touched dirt; should I tices and traditions to become habit was literally taking the hide off his wash my hands?” and, thus, lose their effectiveness and knuckles. “I just touched the wood that Greg purpose. “Here you need some more touched, and since he was sick the The beauty of saying a rosary isn’t Thursday, April 26, 2018 Feature Southern Cross, Page 13

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e was in the wrong place at the wrong arrive. In theWrong second case, a high time, school wrongresult of individual placeprejudices. So, yes, a separated from your family. Imagine if, Htime. This statement is often used to student, lost on his way to school, was shot black person may be harsh to you because when you tried to protest injustice, you describe a victim of a freak accident or at by a homeowner. And Stephon Clark, you’re white, but because the system does risked arrest, violence, or deportation. a random act of violence. The customer unarmed, was shot by police 20 times. not oppress white people, you are not the Imagine if you were held in a prison who happens to be at the bank when it Eight of those bullets killed him in his victim of racism. or deportation center with no access to is robbed. The jogger who happens to be grandmother’s backyard. The police claim When those who choose to protest bond, either because you are too poor or hit by the car that jumped the curb. The they mistook the cell phone in his hand for against the injustice are in the public eye, bond is denied. In a surreal, Kafka-esque woman at the gas pump who is suddenly a weapon. they, too, are, in the eyes of many, in experience, you are caught in a web of carjacked. These examples are recent ones. We the wrong place at the wrong time. NFL oppression. This statement troubles me because it can name others from the past. Trayvon players who kneel during the anthem. There will be those who cannot imagine is inaccurate, to say the least. Those who Martin. Philando Castile. Sandra Bland. Black Lives Matter rallies and protests. this experience, and, as result, they will are going about their everyday lives who Eric Garner. Walter Scott. And the list goes Charlottesville counter-protesters. Wrong deny it as real. They will fall back on the fall victim to tragedy are not in the “wrong on. place, wrong time, and wrong “way” standard response: People who obey the place at the wrong time.” They are in the For Americans of color, going about according to many. law have nothing to fear. But evidence right place and the right time. The perpe- their everyday lives puts them at risk of These same admonishments were direct- points otherwise. trators or the random acts of violence are being in the wrong place at the wrong time. ed to Martin Luther King, Jr., when he led Christians have only to look at a victim in the wrong place at the wrong time. This The experience must be surreal. Living the Civil Rights protests. Ironically and of systemic oppression familiar to us all. euphemism actually, unwittingly, blames it daily must create an anxiety, a level of sadly, Dr. King’s legacy has been watered Jesus was in the wrong place at the wrong the victims for their fates. threat, beyond my imagination. down to make him less controversial. He time. Had he remained in Nazareth work- In an ironic, tragic twist, however, a To make matters worse, a large number was in the wrong place at the wrong time, ing with wood, he would not have been group of people in the United States are of white people discount or dismiss these or he would not have been shot dead. nailed to it. Had he not aligned himself finding themselves in the wrong place at experiences. Their default position is to In our current climate, the sense of with the oppressed and weak, he would not the wrong time, through no fault of their try to find fault with the victims. We’ve being in the wrong place at the wrong time have caught the attention of the powerful. own. And, too often, these victims are seen that played out over and over on the extends to immigrants and other minorities, Had he only chosen a more appropriate blamed. However, the blame falls on them Internet and in the media. In times past, in addition to blacks. Imagine the disorien- way of protest rather then toppling the not unwittingly but in order to protect a when I have written about racism, I receive tation of place experienced by Dreamers tables in the temple, he might have got well-entrenched system of discrimination responses that cast doubt on the actions of (DACA recipients) who were granted his point across in a less conspicuous, less and racism. the victims, not the actions of the perpetra- opportunities in 2012 and whose status offensive way. Where is the wrong place and when tors. (This was particularly prevalent when is now threatened. Imagine the challenge Just like the people of today who are is the wrong time for people of color? A I wrote about the Trayvon Martin murder.) of wearing a hijab or a turban in an envi- being mistreated and oppressed, Jesus was Starbucks when waiting for a friend. A Or people say, “What about black on ronment where hatred of their religions is in the right place, in the right time. Those home owner’s door when stopping to ask black crime?” as if that is some reason to stoked. Imagine being a transgender person who were not were the people who had the directions to school. Grandmother’s back- ignore racism. Or people say, “What about in the military. Wrong place. Wrong time. authority and the power to crucify him. yard at night. These are just three recent reverse racism?” as if it exists. Racism is a Imagine having to muster courage to incidents in which black men or boys were system in which the majority oppress the simply walk out the door of your home. Mary Hood Hart is a freelance writer victims because of the color of their skin. minority through the use of power. While Imagine if a routine traffic stop could lead and educator living in Pittsboro, NC. She In the first case, two Starbucks customers individuals may be prejudiced against a to your incarceration, deportation, or death. can be reached at were arrested because one asked to use group based on personal biases, systemic Imagine if your work place was vulnera- [email protected] the bathroom as they waited for a third to racism is intrinsic to society. It is not the ble to a raid that could lead to your being Thursday, April 26, 2018 Commentary Southern Cross, Page 15

“Rejoice and be glad! InsteadThe of “happy call the mighty,” to we holinesshear is universal Blessed are you, holy are you! “happy the meek”; instead of “happy are Rejoice and be glad! those who are filled with righteousness,” Yours is the Kingdom of God!” we hear “happy are those who hunger and he refrain of David Haas’ “Blest Are thirst for righteousness”—because they TThey,” cited above, is hauntingly beau- do not have or experience righteousness tiful, especially when sung with its des- in this life. cant. The refrain is taken from the Gospel Indeed, the first four Beatitudes in according to Matthew, chapter 5, verse Matthew 5 are profound and may disturb 12, in which Jesus Christ concludes his us, because they define who is eligible for Beatitudes with these words, adding “Thus the kingdom of heaven, not on the basis they persecuted the prophets who were of their strengths, but rather on the basis before you.” of their human deficiencies and weak- In 2015, Pope Francis gave the pilgrims nesses—the void within us that God alone attending his audience in St. Peter’s Square can fill. These beatitudes challenge us to this homework assignment: “Today, your look at ourselves very differently from the task is to read the fifth chapter of Matthew ways in which we usually do or prefer to where the Beatitudes are, and also to read do in our culture today—to ask ourselves, the 25th chapter where the questions are “ How or in what way am I impover- that we will be asked on judgment day.” In ished” instead of “How much do I have this column, we will ponder the Beatitudes ?”; to ask, “Do I know how to mourn my which begin the Sermon on the Mount losses—or have I become adept at deny- (Matthew 5-7), as a key to understanding ing them?”; to recognize our lowliness the Lord’s most famous sermon and to especially before God, rather than to bol- gain an insight as to why Pope Francis has ster our “self-esteem”; to confess our lack released an Apostolic Exhortation entitled, of moral uprightness, rather than to deny Gaudete et Exsultate, “Rejoice and Be it—in short, to acknowledge and embrace Glad,” taken from Matthew 5:12. our need for God’s grace, our inability to Pope Francis notes that, “In these save ourselves. Beatitudes, Jesus explained with great The second set of four Beatitudes in simplicity what it means to be holy: living Matthew 5 challenge us to let his grace simply, putting God first, trusting him and transform us into those who show mercy, not earthly wealth or power, being humble, into people of integrity (“the pure of Blessed Pier Giorgio, above, once wrote, “A Catholic cannot help but be mourning with and consoling others, being heart”), into peace makers and into those happy; sadness should be banished from their souls. merciful and forgiving, working for justice who accept the persecution that inevitably Image provided by Father Douglas K. Clark. in seeking peace with all.” comes with discipleship. The reward for of the great Italian newspaper, La Stampa. adoration and had been deeply moved What is so striking about the Beatitudes living the life of a disciple is nothing less Pier Giorgio was a joyful young man, by Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical, Rerum of Jesus is that they are so contrary to what than being happy (blessed) in the kingdom wealthy, athletic and handsome, who was Novarum, which opened his eyes to the his audience of first-century Galileans of heaven for all eternity as the holy chil- known for his gift for friendship and fun. needs of the poor. Because he had a hand- would have expected. Instead of “happy dren of God. He liked to smoke cheroots and to climb some allowance, Pier Giorgio gave as much are the rich, the gifted,” they heard, “happy To put a face on the holy blessedness, mountains with his friends, always urging of it to the poor as he could, unbeknownst are the poor (in spirit),” instead of “happy Pope Saint John Paul II declared “blessed” them “Verso l’alto” (“to the top”). Unlike to his family. His words and example had are those who rejoice,” we hear “happy a remarkable young man, Pier Giorgio his family, Pier Giorgio was a devout a profound effect in his native Turin. When are those who mourn”—happy the sad?!? Frassati (1901-25), the son of the founder Catholic, who attended daily Mass and he died at the age of 24 of polio, 20,000 people showed up for his funeral, to his family’s amazement. Sixty-five years later, on May 20, 1990, Pope John Paul beatified Pier Giorgio Frassati, calling him the “Man of the Eight Beatitudes.” Blessed Pier Giorgio once wrote, “A MISSIONARY Catholic cannot help but be happy; sad- ness should be banished from their souls. Suffering is not sadness, which is the worst disease. This disease is almost always caused by atheism, but the end for which we are created guides us along life’s path- way, which may be strewn with thorns, but is not sad. It is happy even through DISCIPLES suffering.” This young Italian man, whose life seems to us to have been cut short in a tragic way, exemplified the holiness preached by Jesus Christ, who is holiness incarnate. A layman and third-order Dominican, Pier Giogio lived in the world and not apart from it, and in his own way walked in the footsteps of the Master, verso l’alto. The Church reminds us, not least in Gaudete et Exsultate, that we are all called to do like- wise, for God’s call to holiness and blessed- ness is universal. Father Douglas K. Clark is pastor of St. Matthew Church in Statesboro. Southern Cross, Page 16 Feature Thursday, April 26, 2018 PILGRIMAGE TO IRELAND

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