Upcoming... Inside WEST RIVER Dedication Mass for Children’s Memorial Garden, Aug. 26, see p. 15 Summit, Sept.22, Informing Catholics in Western South Dakota since May 1973 see p. 8 Diocese of Rapid City Volume 47 Number 4 www.rapidcitydiocese.org AugustC atholic 2018 South Dakota Black Elk’s Cause Venerating relics of St. Pio Continues, p. 5 this garment. It was a moment of BY LAURIE HALLSTROM encountering God through St. A rare opportunity to venerate Francis and his own clothing. It Bishop Gruss Joins the relics of St. Pio of Pietrelcina helped me imagine his life. In Catholic Rural Life will be offered in the Diocese of seeing his clothing I could get in Board, p. 6 Rapid City, September 28-29 (see touch with him. It renewed my schedule at right). It will take faith and trust and made me want place at the Cathedral of Our to strive for a more holy life.” Lady of Perpetual Help. Veneration, or showing great Known to many as Padre Pio, respect to a deceased loved one, is he was a priest who bore the stig- a common practice similar to mata, or wounds of Christ. He decorating the grave of a relative. was canonized June 16, 2002, by According to Catholic Answers, then-Pope John Paul II. an organization dedicated to Terra Sancta Guild Vicar General, Fr. Michel answering questions about Annual Giving Society, Mulloy, said, “Relics bring us close Catholic Church teachings, dur- p. 11 to the saints, the men and women ing veneration Catholics do not We Walk by Faith, whom the church declares to be in worship the saint but ask their pp. 12-13 heaven. God worked powerfully in intercession for divine assistance their lives. Coming close to some- with prayers. thing that was a part of their lives, Mary Daniel, director of opens us up to the ways that God Liturgy for the cathedral, said, wants to work in our lives.” “We will be setting out two According to the Catholic wooden boxes at the front of the Encyclopedia, relics in the church by the handicap pews. Catholic Church are divided into Intercession requests and dona- three categories. First class relics tions for the St. Pio Foundation are a portion of a saint’s body. A will be placed in these boxes.” piece of bone would be an exam- Two Biblical examples of ple. Second classic relics are cloth- divine intervention through ob- ing or objects that were part of a jects include the woman who was saint’s life, perhaps a rosary. Third healed of severe bleeding just by Cathedral OLPH Schedule for Relics of St. Pio class relics are objects, like a piece touching the border of Jesus’ gar- Friday, September 28 Saturday, September 29 of cloth, that have been touched to ment in Lk 8:44. Or in Acts l 5:30 p.m. Votive Mass of St. Pio l 8 a.m. Mass for the Feast of the a first class relic. The relics of St. 19:11-12, “God did extraordinary and Reception of Relics with Archangels, Chapel Pio will be displayed in small miracles through Paul, so that even Bishop Robert Gruss l 8:30 a.m Perpetual Adoration of containers known as reliquaries. handkerchiefs and aprons that had l 6:30-10 p.m. Reconciliation the Blessed Sacrament resumes Describing a second class relic, touched him were taken to the sick, l 6:30 p.m. Veneration of Relics Chapel l Father Mulloy said, “I was in As- continues through Saturday at 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Reconciliation and their illnesses were cured and the l sisi, Italy, and saw the tunic that evil spirits left them.” 5:30 p.m. Noon Sung Rosary l 6:30 p.m. Perpetual Adoration of l 3 p.m. Chaplet of Divine Mercy St. Francis wore. It was amazing The foundation will also pro- the Blessed Sacrament resumes in l 5:30 p.m. Sunday Vigil Mass with to think that this holy man wore vide religious items for purchase. Our Lady’s Chapel Bishop Robert Gruss 2 WRC August 2018 Jesus wants to heal you and giveNo Greaterlife in Love abundance In so many places in the Gospel, people by hurtful events or uninvited traumas that •A tendency to become easily irritable How does one over- who were sick and suffering were brought happened in our childhood years from with others, to lash out at others, even peo- come these negative to Jesus, in hope of healing. Over and over which we still feel the effects. We are left ple who love you and have done you no emotions to receive again, Jesus touches them or they touch with inner wounds which cause emotional harm healing? 1) Believe that him. His healing love and mercy then be- pain, and we try to manage our lives so that •Low tolerance and/or irrational expec- these things are not come the source of new life for those who we get through each day with the least tations of others, expecting and demanding what defines you. What believed in his power. “Your faith has saved amount of suffering. Does this ring true in more from them than is reasonable defines you is Christ’s you,” he says over and over again. your life? Sometimes we are so good at •Feelings of anger, hate, resentment, etc. love. 2) Believe that Bishop Have you ever thought about the need managing life that simply to avoid pain has that seem to “rise up” within you at the Jesus wants to heal you Robert Gruss for healing in your own life; that Jesus de- become our norm and we don’t know that slightest offense from others and give life in abun- sires to give you that same new life? All of life can be any different. •Feelings of anger or resentment that are dance. Remember Diocese of us are wounded in some way, wounded by “I came so that they might have life and brought up by events from your past Jesus’ words, “Your faith Rapid City many different experiences of life, wounded have it more abundantly,” ( Jn 10:10). This •Difficulty in forgiving yourself and has saved you.” You promise of Jesus may seem like just a dream others, perhaps even God must have faith that he to many people. But these words of Jesus •Difficulty in feeling loved, in seeing can and wants to do from John’s Gospel reveal a gift that is of- clearly and realizing the love of others and this. fered to all of us. We know that he is not God in your life, as if a wall has been Over the years I have come across many speaking of material abundance, but a erected that blocks the flow of love into prayers that have helped me along the way deeper life in his love and mercy and heal- your life – leading to a deeper life in abundance. ing. But how often do we ask for this gift? •Self-hate Below are two prayers which have helped Or open our hearts to this gift? •Becoming easily frustrated with others, and which I pray daily with my morning In order to realize the need for inner with everyday tasks and responsibilities Liturgy of the Hours. They have helped me. healing, we must first identify the problem, •Perfectionism I hope and pray that they will help you and those emotional wounds, so that we can •Feelings of hopelessness lead you to the healing you seek — and the then seek the healing Jesus wants to give us. These are just a few common emotional promised life in abundance. They have Allow me to name a few common ones: wounds that diminish the life Jesus desires come from the “Manual of Minor •A hurt that doesn’t seem to go away for you. Exorcisms by Bishop Julian Porteous.” Prayer for Protection and Deliverance Prayer for Inner Healing Heavenly Father, I praise and thank you for all you have given me. Please cover Lord Jesus, you came to heal our wounded and troubled hearts. I beg me with the protective, precious blood of your Son, Jesus Christ, and increase your you to heal the torments that cause anxiety in my heart. I beg you, in a Holy Spirit in me with His gifts of wisdom, knowledge, understanding, hunger for particular way, to heal all who are the cause of sin. I beg you to come into prayer, guidance, and discernment to help me know your will and surrender to it my life and heal me of the psychological harms that struck me in my early more completely. years and from the injuries that they caused throughout my life. Father, please heal my negative emotions and any wounds in my heart and spirit. Lord Jesus, you know my burdens. I lay them all on your Good Send the sword of your Holy Spirit to sever and break all spells, curses, hexes, voodoo, Shepherd’s heart. I beseech you — by the merits of the great, open wound in and all negative genetic, inter-generational, and addictive material, past, present, or to your heart — to heal the small wounds that are mine. Heal the pain of my come, known or unknown, against me, my relationships, and family, finances, and memories, so that nothing that has happened to me will cause me to remain possessions. in pain and anguish, filled with anxiety. Father, I forgive and I ask forgiveness for my sins and failings, and I ask that my Heal, O Lord, whole person, body and mind, heart and will, soul and spirit, memory and emotions, all those wounds that have been the cause of all the evil attitudes and values be cleansed, renewed and protected by the most precious blood that is rooted in my life.