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Sooner Catholic www.soonercatholic.org October 30, 2016 www.archokc.org Go Make Disciples Jubilee Year of Mercy ends Nov. 20 Visit eight Oklahoma pilgrimage sites By Diane Clay The Sooner Catholic The Jubilee Year of Mercy, which The Cathedral of Our Lady of grace of complete ends Nov. 20, was designated by Perpetual Help, OKC; and exhaustive Pope Francis as an opportunity Saint Joseph Old Cathedral, forgiveness by the for Catholics worldwide to focus OKC; power of the love on spiritual and corporal works Saint Wenceslaus Catholic of the Father who of mercy as well as carrying out Church, Prague; excludes no one. general acts of kindness. Saint Gregory’s Abbey, The Jubilee Indul- During the jubilee year, Pope Shawnee; gence is thus full, Francis made available Jubilee In- Saint Peter Catholic Church, the fruit of the very dulgences received by visiting Holy Woodward; event that is to Doors, praying and participating in Saint Mary Catholic Church, be celebrated and the sacraments. Ponca City; experienced with In the Archdiocese of Oklahoma Holy Cross Catholic Church, In opening the faith, hope and City, Archbishop Coakley des- Madill; Year of Mercy, charity.” ignated eight Holy Doors at the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Pope Francis said, For download- following parishes: Church, Lawton. “I have asked the able passports for Church in this Jubilee Year to each Holy Door site, information rediscover the richness encom- on how to receive a Jubilee In- passed by the spiritual and cor- dulgence, lists of corporal and poral works of mercy. The expe- spiritual works of mercy, how to rience of mercy, indeed, becomes receive a commemorative pin, and visible in the witness of concrete how to receive an indulgence if signs as Jesus himself taught us. you can’t travel, go online to www. Each time that one of the faithful archokc.org/year-of-mercy/jubi- personally performs one or more lee-year-of-mercy-home, e-mail of these actions, he or she shall [email protected] or call (405) surely obtain the Jubilee Indul- 709-2721. gence. Hence, the commitment to Diane Clay is editor of the Sooner live by mercy so as to obtain the Catholic. Catholics Care. Catholics Vote. All Saints, All Souls “We need to participate for the common good. Sometimes we feasts a time to renew hear: a good Catholic is not interested in politics. This is not true: good Catholics immerse themselves in politics by offering hope, pope says the best of themselves so that the leader can govern.” - Pope All Saints Day Nov. 1; All Souls Day Nov. 2 Francis, Sept. 16, 2013 The Catholic bishops of the United States are pleased to By Cindy Wooden offer once again to the Catholic faithful “Forming Consciences Catholic News Service for Faithful Citizenship” (also in Spanish), our teaching docu- ment on the political responsibility of Catholics. This statement VATICAN CITY – At the end of the feast of All represents our guidance for Catholics in the exercise of their Saints, just before the sun set, Pope Francis cele- rights and duties as participants in our democracy. We urge our brated an outdoor Mass at Rome’s Verano cemetery pastors, lay and religious and urged Christians to hang on to hope as they faithful, and all people of refl ect on the promise that earthly life ends with eter- good will to use this state- nal life in heaven. ment to help form their In his homily at the evening Mass Nov. 1, Pope consciences; to teach those Francis set aside his prepared text, looked out at the entrusted to their care; to thousands of people gathered between long lines of contribute to civil and respectful public dialogue; and tombs and told them, “We refl ect and think about our to shape political choices in the coming election in own future and about all those who have gone before light of Catholic teaching. The statement lifts up our us and are now with the Lord.” dual heritage as both faithful Catholics and American “The Lord God, beauty, goodness, truth, tender- citizens with rights and duties as participants in the ness, the fullness of love – all that awaits us,” the civil order. pope said. “And all those who preceded us and died To learn about Catholic teaching related to elec- in the Lord are there,” in heaven with God. tions, the do’s and don’ts of election season, voter “Even the best of the saints were not saved by their education, prayer suggestions and other resources, go good works, the pope said, but by the blood of Christ. online to www.archokc.org. God is the one who saves, he is the one who car- ries us like father – at the end of our lives – to that heaven where our forebears are,” he said. The feast day reading from the 7th chapter of the Book of Revelation described a multitude of people from every race and nation standing before God. They were dressed in white, the pope said, because they were “washed in the blood of the Lamb. continued on Page 8 2 October 30, 2016 Sooner Catholic Sooner Catholic October 30, 2016 3 Put Out Into the Deep Find more Luke 5:4 Ada ministry welcomes East Central news on the Voting is a moral act University students website By Charles Albert By Sooner Catholic Staff The Sooner Catholic The presidential debates are now behind us and vidual virtue among the Additional coverage of On Wednesday evenings, said she looks forward to the pro- the Saint John’s Bible and to vari- Election Day is looming large. One of the most com- citizens of our nation. Church and archdiocesan Saint Joseph in Ada opens gram on Wednesday nights “as a ous Catholic youth conferences. mon reactions to the astonishing developments of this It was Plato who once its doors to students of all Saint Joseph – Ada calming and soothing evening just news and events, only on Charles Albert is a freelance election cycle is a troubling question: how did we get described the state as faiths for a “low stress” even- to talk and socialize with fellow www.soonercatholic.org: writer for the Sooner Catholic. here? Are these really the best candidates that our “the soul writ large.” The ing of Catholic relationship Information on Mass and Catholics.” nation has to choose from in electing the next presi- health of the state, of To send photos, event building and fellowship. ECU program Since the Catholic population dent of the United States? civil society, of a nation information or story ideas, Since students have a very (580) 332-4811 of ECU is small, Heard makes it Our major party candidates are both deeply fl awed. is a projection of the e-mail [email protected]. hectic, deadline-driven a point to invite her non-Catholic lifestyle, it was decided that friends to the Wednesday night One has boasted of his ability to grope women at health of the souls and Archbishop Paul S. Coakley http://stjosephada.com See calendar and briefs this program would be a program. will simply because of his celebrity status. It is never characters of its citizens. for events in OKC and Nor- “safe and comfortable” “I enjoy when we meditate, but acceptable to demean and commit violence against If our laws and policies turn a blind eye to the poor, it man during the 40 Days for environment for students to have 8:30 p.m., but can extend past one of my favorite spiritual activi- women! This candidate’s lack of impulse control has is because too many of us do the same. All of this is Life, which ends Nov. 6. one night “away.” midnight. ties is praying over Sacred Scrip- been on display in his failure to stay on topic during to say that if we fi nd ourselves asking how our nation In 2014, Doug and Sandy Poe “It is especially rewarding, seeing ture with a program called Lectio debates and refrain from offering crass and outra- got here, then we need to look within our own hearts. were directing the high school and observing the relationships Divina.” geous statements to reporters, hecklers and even During the Maccabean period of Jewish history ministry at Saint Joseph. Darby the students develop with each This method of prayer goes back supporters. These are not reassuring qualities for one there was widespread apostasy when the Jews, en- Heard, an East Central University other and with Christ. Catholics to the early monastic tradition. who might be entrusted with nuclear codes. amored by the ways of their foreign occupiers, sought (ECU) student, waited to meet with are in a minority at the univer- Tabi Bessong Ayuk Arrey is a The other major candidate to hide the mark of their the Poes to discuss starting a col- sity, and it can be of great comfort graduate student at ECU. Arrey has been a tireless advocate circumcision. They betrayed lege program. While she was wait- when they fi nd like-minded people was raised Catholic in the West Af- for abortion and same-sex their deepest identity as ing, Heard met Jesse Matthews, who help them in their faith jour- rican country of Cameroon. He is another ECU student anxious to studying a double major at ECU in marriage. Her inner circle God’s chosen people by ney,” Sandy Poe said. start a college program. So mutual Doug Poe added, “Many inter- clinical rehabilitation and mental has been caught strategiz- being ashamed of the very was their desire and enthusiasm, national students attending ECU health.