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Astronaut tells youths Welby’s Assumption Church Pope to see ‘dynamic fl- to follow their dreams celebrating anniversary Church’ in the U.S. Page 3 Page 12 Page 6 The Denver Catholic Rj^tster MAY 20, 1987 VOL. LXIII NO. 20 Colorado’s Largest Weekly CIRCULATION 80,394 32 PAGES 25 CENTS ■I -f Michael O’Meara/DCR Photo Archbishop J. Francis Stafford blessed Mel Miller’s horses, Bud and Starla, at Breunig, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Roggen. The archbishop visited the parish left, at the Linnebur farm at Roggen on May 15. In the center is Father Robert and offered Mass to celebrate the Feast of St. Isidore, patron of farmers. Celebrating the Feast of St. Isidore Commit yourself to being fuiiy alive, says Archbishop By Christine Capra When he died in 1976 both Ivan and his brother Earl ings dotting his farm as they battled the gusty winds Register Staff continued the tradition of farming the land. Today they that blew most of the day. The bunk house, quonset, are in partnership and share 6,000 acres of ground. grain barrels and tractor storage sheds were but a few Ivan and Alma Linnebur can look out over their of the sites the archbishop viewed. farm land in Roggen and view a patchwork quilt of Mostly wheat and some barley fill the expanse. deep greens and dusty browns. Their farm is northeast Diversification Self-sufficient of Denver in Weld County. Archbishop J. Francis Stafford spent the Feast of Yet, Ivan explains that it is their diversification Archbishop Stafford said he was impressed with St. Isidore, the patron of farms and ranches, visiting that has helped them weather the troubled times. They the size of their farm and its orderly appearance. Ivan the Linnebur farm. also raise hogs, which Ivan says have good market explained that they are self-sufficient and hardly ever The archbishop blessed the land, seeds, homes and value now.. need to come to town for machinery parts. animals of the farmers and ranchers, invoking God’s ‘‘It’s a nice living. We get to do everything we Joining in the tour of the farm were Dorothy and Jim Brophy who own a farm in Yuma: Father Robert favor on their work. want to do,” said Alma. The couple have four daughters The Linnebur farm dates back to 1929 when Ivan’s and one son. Fisher, associate pastor at St. Michael the Archangel’s father came from Kansas and purchased the land. Ivan led Archbishop Stafford to the various build Continued on page 4 Page 2 — The Denver Catholic Register, Wed., May 20,1987 T h e A r c h b is h o p ’s C o lu m n Male and female He created them The solitude of Adam My commentary continues on the words and con significance of his body. incredible mystery about his identity: he is “in the text (Gen. 1-3) of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew It is clear that the solitude of man (male and image of God.” Original solitude is the way by which 19:4-6. “Have you not read that he who made them female) in the second chapter of Genesis contains a key man discovers his dissimilarity to all other living from the beginning made them male and female and revelation concerning the meaning of human existence. creatures and whereby he asserts himself as a “per said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and The first account (Gen. 1) describes man’s creation in son ” before God-Yahweh in the visible world. mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall one act as “male and female,” whereas the second While still alone, man is placed in the “garden of become one. So they are no longer two but one.’ What account speaks first of the creation of man and only Eden ” where he is free to eat of every tree “but of the therefore God has joined together, let no man put afterwards of the woman from Adam’s “rib.” tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” Adam shall not asunder.’’ God-Yahweh speaks the following words about the eat of this tree for he shall die (Gen. 2:16-17). In this Being alone is not first man’s solitude: “It is not good that man should be commandment, God-Yahweh forms His first covenant; something we look for alone; I will make him a helper fit for him” (Gen. man thereby becomes a partner of the Absolute In ward to. We do not easily 2:18). These words appear in a wider context. Man’s original solitude, Adam not only becomes aware of his recall moments of past creation is connected first and foremost with the need self-knowledge, but also of his self-determination: he loneliness. Nor do we to “till the ground” (Gen. 2:5) and to undergo a speci has the capacity to choose to be faithful to his covenant readily enter into the fic test before God. “So out of the ground the Lord God with God (immortality) or to enter into the world of painful experience of lone formed every beast of the field and every bird of the “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (death) liness. We avoid the isola air and brought them to the man to see what he would This self-awareness is accomplished by one whom tion of an empty office or call them; and whatever the man called every living “the Lord God formed of dust from the ground and N house or waiting room. creature, that was its name” (Gen. 2:1). In this test of breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man We are frightened by the naming the animals, Adam developed an insight into became a living being” (Gen. 2:7). Man is conscious of loneliness associated with what being human meant. He became aware of his his superiority to material creation through typically aging. Charles Dickens essential difference from the world of animals: “but human behavior. It is in his capacity to work by “tilling has one of his characters for the man there was not found a helper fit for him” the earth” and “subduing it” that Adam discovers the in “ David Copperfield” (Gen. 2:20). unique structure of his material body. His body permits say: “I am a lone lorn creetur and everythink goes Adam’s original solitude is the story of his search him to be the author of truly human activity. Because contrairy with me.” for identity before it is a search for a mate. In distinc of his body, the first human becomes conscious of his Yet in the Yah wist account of creation (Gen. 2), tion from the world of animals with which he shares a solitude, his self-knowledge, and his self-determination the first human makes immense discoveries about body, Adam finds that in his body he is a unique subject 'This analysis of the original solitude of man calls himself in his original solitude. Through solitude, Adam of experience. Alone among all creatures he is called to us to reflect further on the deeper meanings of Genesis gained an inner awareness of his own uniqueness as a “till the earth;” consequently, he discovers that he is and of our experiences as emb^ied persons. person, intimate communion with God, a sense of his not on the same footing with any of the animals he has -hi. Francis Stafford own freedom, and an understanding of the religious named. This self-knowledge helps him to realize an Archbishop of Denver Official Appointments for priests ARCHBISHOP’S OFFICE 200 Josephine Street Three appointments have T Denver, CO 80206 been announced by the APPOINTMENTS archdiocese, effective July Reverend John J. Murphy appointed Chaplain of the 1. John P. McManamen Knights of Columbus Council 6905 of Father John Hilton, cur Christ the King Parish, Evergreen, Colorado, effective May 15, 1987. rently archdiocesan Reverend Robert Greenslade, appointed State Chaplain Chancellor and Secretary to for the Knights of Columbus for the State of Colorado, effec Archbishop J. Francis Staf tive May 15, 1987. ford, has been appointed Brother Kevin Carroll, O.P., to serve as a member of pastor of St. Andrew’s Par the Council for Religious. This appointment will continue ish in Wray for a period of until January 1, 1990. three years. Reverend Manuel Gabel appointed Pastor of Our Lady He will be replaced in the of the Mountains Parish, Estes Park, Colorado, effective July 1, 1987, for a period of six years. Chancellor position by Very Reverend John Rybolt, C.M., appointed a member Father Edward Hoffmann, of the ^esbyteral Council of the Archdiocese of Denver who will also be an ex-of- effective immediately. ficio member of the Presby Reverend John Hilton appointed Pastor of St. Andrew’s teral Council. Parish, Wray, and its mission of St. John’s Parish, Yuma, for Father Edward Buelt has a period of three years, effective July 1, 1987. been appointed Secretary Reverend Eklward Hoffmann appointed chancellor, to be and Master of Ceremonies Father John Hilton Father Edward Hoffmann Father Edward Buelt in residence with the archbishop, and an ex-officio members for the archbishop, with of the Presbyteral Council, for a period of three years, effec of Consultors in 1985. tive July 1, 1987. residency at St. James’ Par Father Edward Buelt also further studies at the Cath Reverend Eldward Buelt appointed Secretary and Master ish, Denver, and for Father Hoffman, who IS completed seminary studies olic University of America of Ceremonies for the Archbishop, also to be defender of the canonical reasons, he will currently studying in Rome at St.