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Luke9:23 forgiveness within ourdiocese. time ofspiritualrenewal forall generosity. Maythistruly bea God canneverbeoutdonein will ‘receive’ far more because during theSeasonofLent,we whatever wemay‘give’ need. will alwaysrespond toour uncertainty. OurfaithfulGod moments ofweaknessand assistance, especiallyduring these fortydaysaskfordivine Spirit justlikeJesus.During ourselves tobe led bythe important isthatweallow overwhelmed. Whatismost too much and then we will feel or hemayencourageustodo need to do anything forLent to convinceusthatwedonot be tempted.Thedevilmaytry in thewilderness,wetoowill peace inourworld. and toworkforjustice helps ustobemore generous society” (EG.187). Almsgiving them tobefullyapartof of thepoor, andforenabling the liberationandpromotion be aninstrument ofGodfor “ If anywant Let us never forget that Just asJesuswastempted Acts 3:19 March 2020 The Vineyard 2 Pray for mercy and healing The Rite of Lent is a time to reflect on healing wounded relationships and the pain we may have caused hristian our brothers and sisters in body, mind and spirit. Pray that the Holy Spirit, comforter of hearts, C may heal our wounds and transform our brokenness. Pray that we may have the courage, wisdom, humility and grace to act with justice. Initiation for Adults

The elect then went RCIA through an intense period of Prayer for Healing purification and enlightenment The Rite of God of endless love, ever caring, ever strong, leading up to the Easter Vigil Christian at which time they receive always present, always just: Initiation of the Sacraments of Initiation: You gave your only Son to save us by the blood Adults Baptism, Confirmation and of his cross. the Eucharist. This is the same A journey of practice we follow today. Faith Gentle Jesus, shepherd of peace, join to your While RCIA is meant for the unbaptized, in our modern own suffering the pain of all who have been hurt by BOB FOLEY world the majority of those in body, mind, and spirit by those who betrayed wishing to come into the Church the trust placed in them. The Rite of Christian are already baptized in another Initiation of Adults has been Christian denomination. The Church accepts all Trinitarian Hear our cries as we agonize over the harm done seen by many Catholics as one of those new-fangled things Baptisms as valid and those to our brothers and sisters. that are a legacy of Vatican II. persons are already considered Breathe wisdom into our prayers, soothe Before that the priest would to be members of the Body restless hearts with hope, steady shaken instruct the convert for twelve of Christ. They are generally referred to as “our separated spirits with faith: sessions one on one and then the individual was quietly brothers and sisters” and Show us the way to justice and wholeness, received into the Church. are seeking to come into full enlightened by truth and enfolded in your mercy. In reality, as with many communion with the Church. of the “new” things that came These inquirers are called Holy Spirit, comforter of hearts, heal your out of that great council, RCIA candidates and, after making a is a recovery of an ancient rite profession of faith, receive two people’s wounds and transform our brokenness. that goes back to the very roots sacraments of initiation at the Grant us courage and wisdom, humility of our Christian faith. For the Easter Vigil, Confirmation and and grace, so that we may act with justice first 800 years the journey the Eucharist. and find peace in you. from inquiry to the sacraments As you can see we have returned to our roots, but that We ask this through Christ, our Lord. of initiation was a long and arduous one sometimes is not merely an historical fact, taking years to complete. As it should also be a spiritual Amen. Christianity spread and second renewal. RCIA is a spiritual and subsequent generations journey that calls for a radical of Christians were baptized as conversion of not only the infants the process fell out of use catechumens and candidates, and finally was lost altogether. but also the whole Christian Let’s follow briefly the community. “Come to me, all you that are journey of a first century In the midst of our convert. First came a period of increasingly materialistic and weary and are carrying heavy evangelization, what today we secular society it is a call to say, refer to as a time of inquiry. This “YES” to God with all that it burdens, and I will give you was a time of no fixed duration implies. RCIA calls us all to a for inquiry and an introduction commitment of both time and rest. Take my yoke upon you, to the gospel. talent to help bring about God’s Upon expressing a desire kingdom here on earth. and learn from me; for I am to follow Christ the individual It is not easy. For many was accepted into the order of it means a radical change in gentle and humble in heart, catechumens. Today we bring priorities and lifestyle. To people into this order at the Rite answer God’s call is to enter and you will find rest for your of Acceptance, which is held in by the narrow gate as scripture the parish. The time spent in tells us. souls. For my yoke is easy, and the catechumenate would have RCIA is a lay ministry. depended on the progress of the Catechists and sponsors are my burden is light.” individual. drawn from the congregation When he or she was ready with the pastor acting as Matthew 11:28-30 they went through a liturgical spiritual advisor. ceremony called the Rite of It is imperative that we, Election or the Enrollment of the laity, get involved in the Names. Today this rite takes life of our respective parishes. place at the cathedral on the Say, “YES” to God’s call. Ask first Sunday of Lent. The your pastor about RCIA. Let us catechumens sign their names offer our God-given gifts to our in the Book of the Elect and are parish, not like the servant with called, from that time on, the one talent who buried it against elect. his master’s return. The Vineyard March 2020 3 Bishop Kirkpatrick installed as shepherd of Antigonish, NS

On February 3, 2020, Bishop Wayne Joseph Kirkpatrick was installed as the 10th Bishop of the Diocese of Antigonish. St. Ninian Cathedral in Antigonish was filled with Catholics from northeastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, as well as fellow bishops, clergy, colleagues and friends from across Canada. The Diocese of St. Catharines was well represented. Bishop Kirkpatrick received a tremendously warm welcome from the priests and laity of his new diocese. In his homily at the installation Mass, he thanked the organizers and commented on their thoughtful attention to detail, even adorning the Guests from the Diocese of St. Catharines who attended the installation of Bishop cathedral with flowers in the Wayne Kirkpatrick in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, were: (l-r) Bishop Gerard Bergie, colours of his coat of arms. He Diocese of St. Catharines; Sr. Louise Dillon, RHSJ, Hotel Dieu Shaver Hospital; Bishop also expressed his gratitude Wayne Kirkpatrick; Margaret Jong, vice chancellor, Diocese of St. Catharines; Fr. Bishop Wayne Kirkpatrick to Archbishop Brian Dunn, Raymond Fenech Gonzi, pastor, St. Mary, Welland; Fr. Paul MacNeil, pastor, Our Lady Photo by Ashley Pettipas his predecessor who is now of the Scapular, Niagara Falls. Coadjutor Archbishop of of in 2012. In Toronto Seminary. ordained there in 1879 and and 18 permanent deacons. Halifax-Yarmouth. he was responsible for the Cardinal Thomas Collins, became one of Toronto’s most Five religious communities Bishop Kirkpatrick was pastoral care of the Northern Archbishop of Toronto, who influential and long-serving of women also minister in the ordained to the priesthood Region of the archdiocese, spoke at the installation archbishops. diocese. in St. Catharines in 1984 and was Vicar for Religious, Vicar ceremony, noted that Bishop The Diocese of Antigonish We extend our best served in numerous pastoral for Francophones, and in Kirkpatrick is continuing in has 73 parishes, 21 missions wishes to Bishop Kirkpatrick and administrative roles in 2015, was given the additional the great spirit of Archbishop and 7 chapels served by and pray that he will be the diocese prior to being responsibility of serving as Neil McNeil, a native of 80 priests (diocesan and abundantly blessed in his ordained as Auxiliary Bishop president of St. Augustine Antigonish, who was religious, retired and inactive) new ministry. Bishop Wayne Kirkpatrick’s Coat of Arms The external heraldic The blue also calls to mind the names is Joseph, the lower of Alexandria, the patroness of symbols of dignity for a waters of baptism. Both the part of the shield bears a the diocese and cathedral that bishop of the Roman Catholic Celtic cross and the triangular carpenter’s square, an emblem bears her name, places where Church are those assigned shape symbolize a church of St. Joseph the Worker. It Bishop Kirkpatrick has lived by the Special Instruction of with a steeple. The blue is inscribed with the letters and ministered. The wheel Pope Paul VI on March 31, triangle is also reminiscent ‘JMJ’ signifying Jesus, Mary can also be seen as a reference 1969. These are a simple gold- of Niagara Falls, the most and Joseph, but here also to Bishop Kirkpatrick’s first coloured processional cross notable geographical feature a reference to his parents, baptismal name, Wayne, as a (placed behind the shield) and of the Diocese of St. Catharines James and Margaret, as well wainwright is a tradesperson above it the bishop’s green where he has lived and as his own middle name. His who is skilled in the making ecclesiastical hat with cords exercised his priestly ministry. episcopal ordination date is and repairing of wagons, one and 12 tassels, six per side, Bishop Kirkpatrick is a canon July 25, the Feast of James who may also fix damaged arranged in three rows also all lawyer and the upper part of the Apostle. St. Mary of the wheels; a fitting emblem for coloured green. the shield bears a traditional Assumption, his home parish pastoral ministry. The placing The Celtic cross above and depiction of the Tablets of Law in you. Just as the branch in St. Catharines from birth of the charges on the shield behind the shield call to mind or Ten Commandments. Grape cannot bear fruit by itself to ordination is symbolized creates the effect or shape of Bishop Kirkpatrick’s Irish vines are also a feature of the unless it abides in the vine, by the lily, emblematic of the a heart and to quote Bishop heritage with his mother’s upper part of the shield and neither can you unless you Blessed Virgin Mary and here Kirkpatrick, “The law of life is maiden name being Phelan along with the wheat stalks abide in me. I am the vine, you placed within the protective supreme.” and his surname Kirkpatrick, in the lower part of the shield. are the branches.” arms of St. Joseph’s carpenter Rev. Canon D.G. Bowyer meaning Church of Patrick. They give us the elements of Given that one of Bishop square. Centrally placed is the designed Bishop Kirkpatrick’s The main colours are red the Eucharist, bread and wine, Kirkpatrick’s baptismal broken wheel of St. Catherine Coat of Arms. and blue from the shield of the a symbol of Jesus Christ who Diocese of St. Catharines in is the bread of life. Vineyards Ontario, red being the colour are also a notable feature of Bocchinfuso Funeral Home Inc. associated with divine love, the Niagara area. The vines are compassion and sacrifice and a reference to John 15:4-5, the 2 Regent Street, PO Box 126 blue the colour associated source of Bishop Kirkpatrick’s with the Blessed Virgin Mary. motto: “Abide in me as I abide Thorold, Ontario L2V 3Y7 PH: 905-227-0161 www.Bocchinfusofh.com “Then when you call upon Compassion for our Families, me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. When Passion for our Community you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart, I will let you find me, says the Lord.” Jeremiah 29:12-14 March 2020 The Vineyard 4 Restoration work Gala supports Foundation for Catholic Education continues at Cathedral The Niagara Foundation for Catholic Education’s annual Benefit Gala will be held on April 17, 2020, at Club Roma, St. Catharines, with all proceeds going to the Foundation. The Niagara Foundation for Catholic Education is a charitable foundation that supports the Niagara Catholic District School Board in its mission to provide excellence in Catholic education to all its students. The Foundation supports scholarships and assistance with a variety of needs.

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Carlos Nunes, Director, Fine Painting Design restoration, works on the mural, The Road to Emmaus, on the ceiling of the Cathedral of St. Catherine of Alexandria as restoration continues toward the 175th anniversary with honouraary guest, a of the Cathedral. All ceiling paintings were newly created by Carlos Nunes. Most Reverend Gerard Bergie, D.D. Bishop of St. Catharines The mural of the Road to Emmaus and restoration of the paintings that adorn has been completed on the ceiling of the the back wall of the sanctuary. Cathedral of St. Catherine of Alexandria. Not only is the interior being renovated, Supporting students in need and providing scholarships Work has begun on the mural of the Trinity but the exterior is seeing extensive repairs and the images of the four evangelists to be to the stone work, eaves and roof. located in the sanctuary. We encourage you to go to the Cathedral Carlos Nunez of Fine Painting Design and see what wonders are being worked Friday, April 17, 2020 Restoration Limited says that the work both inside and outside our Mother Church. Club Roma Event & Conference Centre is progressing as expected as we journey If you wish to see the work Mass times 5:30 p.m. Antipasto Bar ~ 7:00 p.m. Dinner toward the 175th anniversary of the are: Saturday at 4:30 p.m., Sunday 8:30 building of what is now the Cathedral of a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.. $80.00/person

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78 Queenston Street, St. Catharines, Ontario L2R 2Z2 • 905.682.2458 • [email protected] Shop enjoy our excellent prices Volunteer your time at a local conference Donate your gently used items Pray for the success of our missions The Vineyard March 2020 5 Soup’sOn! aids Catholic Education: scholarship fund by JOE BARKOVIC the seniors who have difficulty Igniting Hope getting out and enjoying Another sell-out was camaraderie in the winter. Catholic Education Week is held each year in May recorded for the annual Lastly it is a very inexpensive in the 29 Catholic school boards across Ontario. For Soup’sOn! fund-raising donation to the Social Justice 2020 it will occur from May 3 – May 8. luncheon held January 31, 2020, Scholarship Fund.” The theme, Catholic Education: Igniting Hope, was at St. Kevin, Welland. Simunic, a retired teacher, Eight soups were prepared also said: “I still have children inspired from three sources—the recent Exhortation, by teams representing four local in my heart and am willing Christus Vivit, by , following the 2018 secondary schools, Niagara to help and encourage them Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith and College’s Canadian Food and become outstanding citizens. Vocational Discernment; the recent Ontario Bishops’ Wine Institute and Stephanie Keep up the great work.” pastoral letter, Renewing the Promise (2018); and the Lunch Lady, a Welland Grant Mitchell said the Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations by the Institute for Catholic small business. The event raises he was at his first-ever Education (2011). funds for the St. Kevin Social Soup’sOn! He was impressed Justice Scholarship. with the ‘smorgasbord’ of Celebrating the good work and hope of Catholic education now and in the future, The menu offered a soups, the casual and easy- the sub-themes chosen for Catholic Education Week are: selection of soups that appealed going atmosphere during to the diverse tastes of soup the luncheon and the great Monday: Our Hope in Christ lovers. Eastdale Secondary conversations at his table. A Tuesday: The Hope Within Us School, Welland, served up visitor to St. Kevin, he said there Wednesday: The Hope Among Us Vegetable Beef, which could also was no shortage of comments Thursday: Hope for the World be enjoyed with barley. Blessed from other diners about the Friday: A Future Full of Hope Trinity Catholic Secondary soups they were enjoying. He School, Grimsby, soup prep found himself going to the team came with Spicy Carrot, serving table for his second trip Coconut and Ginger. The team and purposely selecting soups from Canadian Food and Wine others were talking about. “This Institute brought two offerings has been a great experience,” he to the luncheon—Scottish said. Butter, Bean and Bacon Soup Wellander Claire and French-Canadian Tourtiere Masswohl, is a Soup’sOn! fan Soup, as did Welland’s École because the soups “…are great Franco-Niagara, Traditional on the taste-buds and because French Pea Soup and French it showcases the talents of the Onion Soup. Notre Dame participating soup-makers. It’s College School, Welland, team also a place to meet old friends offered up Straciatella. and make new ones,” she said. There were three seatings St. Kevin pastor, Fr. at Soup’sOn! —11 a.m., 12 noon Vijai Amirtharaj, CSC, said

Blessed Trinity Catholic Secondary School, Grimsby, soup prep team members (l-r) Lexia Poitras, Emma Poitras and Alex Phillips at their soup station. Chef instructor, Ray Poitras, brought ingredients used in Catholic Education Week Prayer their soup, Spicy Carrot, Ginger and Coconut, and displayed them on the serving table much to the delight of many diners. Loving God, and 1 p.m. Diners can return to the variety of soups served You sent your Son, Jesus, to be our hope. the serving table for repeated makes the annual luncheon We feel his promised Spirit at work within us; samplings during their 1-hour popular with diners. He We recognize his risen presence among us stay. Popular with the soups is a also said the event is an hot pepper bread from Spinosa’s important community-building as we gather in his name in prayer, Welland Bakery, along with two experience for the parish, one and celebrate the Eucharist. varieties of rolls—crusty white that has a large following, not and whole wheat. Apple juice, just in Welland, but from other water and coffee, the latter from nearby communities. He is the hope, Welland’s Black Sheep Lounge Almost $50,000 in which inspires us to share as members of the and Coffee Roasters, were also scholarship funding has been Catholic educational community, provided. awarded to graduating Grade in your Church’s mission to announce Many of the guests have 12 students over the years. been attending Soup’sOn! for In March applications will be the Good News to the whole world. years. One is Ann Simunic of available in secondary school Welland who has been to every guidance offices. Following the We thank you for the gift of Catholic education. luncheon. applicants interview process, “I am proud of the teachers the 2020 scholarships will be May it continue to be a place where Christ ignites within us, and the students who put in the presented at school graduation an abiding confidence, in a future filled with hope. effort to serve the public with ceremonies in June. their accomplishments,” she Tickets for Soup’sOn! go said. “It gives the youth a chance on sale every November and We make this prayer through Christ, our Lord. to interact with adults and are available at the parish office receive compliments for their weekdays and in the church foyer Amen. efforts. It is also a great lunch for before and after weekend Masses. 6 March 2020 The Vineyard Enhance your Lenten devotions with D & P by FRANK FOHR

How have you been preparing for Easter during this Lenten Season? Lent is a time for personal growth in faith and also a time for group reflection with friends and/or family. Many excellent resources Why support the Share for Lent are available from parish CCODP groups as well at the website www.devp. org Lent collection? One of the more popular resources affirm their rights and empowering for families and children is the Lenten calendar. It identifies and recommends them to choose the terms of their daily Lenten activities involving quizzes, development. All the work we prayers, reflections and almsgiving. It support is culturally appropriate, is designed as a pathway representing effective and rooted in local a journey or pilgrimage through Lent knowledge. culminating in Easter Sunday. Part of the mandate of CCODP Another valuable resource is the is to sensitize Canadians to global Solidarity Way of the Cross. It reflects on Frank Fohr injustices and empower us to ways that Christ’s suffering is profoundly act for change. It is important experienced by the less fortunate to acknowledge our shared members of the world today. The 2020 enriching your spiritual life this season responsibility for global injustices. edition focuses on the Amazon and such as Prayers of the Faithful for each Catholic social teaching, especially includes quotes from church documents Sunday in Lent. As a sacramental church, the preferential option for the poor such as the encyclical Laudato Si’ (Pope we recognize the power of physical and solidarity, directly inspire this Francis, 2015) and Populorum Progressio objects to focus our prayer. The resource work. (Pope Paul VI, 1968). A power-point booklet has suggestions for symbols that Created by the Canadian presentation can be downloaded to can be used for each week during Lent. Conference of Catholic Bishops, enhance communal celebrations. The Lenten Mini Magazine provides Leone Strilec CCODP is tasked with being the A new 2020 resource is the Family the latest information about some of the Church to the world and bringing the Bulletin. It provides reflections on the projects Development and Peace supports by LEONE STRILEC world into our Church. Pope Francis readings for the Sundays in Lent, as well through its partners in the Global South. For more than 50 years the urges everyone to be engaged and as some questions to ponder as a family Of course your Lenten devotions Canadian Catholic Organization for informed from the light of faith. In and a picture for children to colour. Also would not be complete without a Development and Peace – Caritas his letter to parishes, Bishop Gerard available is the prayer card featuring donation to the Share Lent collection in Canada, has been working in Bergie encourages all to participate the Prayer for Our Earth from Laudato your parish. Share Lent, the major source solidarity with the poor of the global in Solidarity Sunday’s Share Lent Si’ (Pope Francis, 2015). The website of funds for Development and Peace, south. In order to continue to do collection for CCODP. moreover contains short inspirational enables the official development agency this unique and effective work, the Ultimately, it is each one of us, videos which can be downloaded. of the Canadian to fulfill success of the Share Lent campaign with our thirst for social justice that The Campaign Guide and Liturgical its mandate of building a more just world. is essential. will open our hearts to the Share Resources booklet describes other Frank Fohr, National Council of Development At the heart of the international Lent campaign. We all have our inspirational recommendations for and Peace solidarity efforts of CCODP are own stories to tell as we have grown the partners, who organize to to understand our responsibility Fall Campaign sets stage for help their fellow citizens. In the to the global south. Please give Share Lent 2020 Amazon, partners are helping generously. Indigenous communities learn and Leone is diocesan chair of CCODP. injustices. The signatures of solidarity with the Mura and the Seringueiros amplify their voices, strengthen their resistance, and bring their case to the attention of authorities that have the power to uphold justice. Thanks to the generous donations made to CCODP over the past year, the partners of D & P were able to accept the invitation to take part in the Amazonian Synod October 2019 at the Vatican. They, along with representatives of the communities they serve, played active roles in the synod by giving testimonies of the realities of life in the Amazon and recommendations about how the Church can effectively minister to and protect this precious piece of creation. This is a Rebecca Rathbone wonderful example of what the generous by REBECCA RATHBONE donations of Catholics here in Canada Last fall, Catholics from the Diocese can accomplish for the Church’s mission of St. Catharines and across the country in the world. successfully took action to preserve With the synod over, it is up to the Amazon Rainforest and to help Catholics around the world to bring its defenders. Thanks to the great the spirit of it to life in home dioceses. leadership of CCODP parish and school This means taking action to defend the representatives, over 34,500 signatures Amazon by signing the solidarity letter were collected on a Solidarity Letter at www.devp.org/act, and participating addressed to two communities in Brazil generously in the 2020 Share Lent who are fighting to defend the Amazon. Campaign to support partners in the The campaign, titled For Our Amazon. Common Home, educated Canadians The Amazon is critically important about the importance of the Amazon not only to those who call it home, but Rainforest for both the health of the planet also for Canada. Even though we live and for the survival of humanity. Stories thousands of kilometres away, we breathe were told of the Mura Indigenous people Amazonian air and drink its waters. The and the traditional Seringueiros people— survival of the Amazon is synonymous both of whose lands are being stolen with the survival of the human race. It is by large corporations who are illegally up to all of us to continue to protect it. exploiting the riches of the Amazon for Rebecca Rathbone is CCODP animator for profit—and yet both are bravely taking a southwest Ontario. stand to protect the Amazon from these The Vineyard March 2020 7 D & P holds Share Lent workshop

Twice each year, CCODP invites to do about the situation as Catholic parishes to a workshop to raise Christians? awareness about the work of the In February, the second workshop Thoughts on the official international development was held to launch the Share Lent organization of the Catholic Church campaign and update those present Apostolic Exhortation: in Canada. In September, the fall about the current campaign. Other workshop introduced the annual articles in this edition of Vineyard Querida Amazonia, theme, which this year focused on the provide some of those details. It was Amazon. led by Rebecca Rathbone, animator Beloved Amazon These workshops are typically for St. Catharines, Hamilton and modelled on small group community London dioceses. Previously she What is the heart of the message of education as practised by many of the was the animator for the Maritime the exhortation? partner organizations in the global Provinces, as well as working in Rome south. Sometimes called ‘Train the helping to develop the youth program The title of the exhortation is Trainer’ workshops, the purpose is to for Caritas Internationalis. Querida Amazonia, Beloved Amazon, train participants with knowledge and Important elements of the and its heart is Pope Francis’ love for skills so when they return to parishes workshops are prayer and fellowship. the Amazon and the consequences of they can share what they have learnt. Occasionally workshops start with that love: a reversal of the common The format of each workshop the celebration of Mass; the February way of thinking about the relationship is see, judge, act. The first need is to workshop started with Pope Francis’ between wealth and poverty, between look at or see what is happening in Prayer For Our Earth from Laudato development and custody, between terms of the theme, in this case the Si’. Bishop Gerard Bergie offered defending cultural roots and openness Amazon rainforest and its people. The words of support and led us in grace. to the other. The pope describes for us second step is to judge the situation A complimentary lunch of the ‘resonances’ that the synodal process by analyzing it with eyes of faith. soup, sandwiches, fruit and beverages provoked in him. He does so in the form How do the bible and Catholic social was provided at each workshop as of four ‘great dreams’. Pope Francis teachings speak to the situation? The a thank you to those present for the dreams that in the Amazon region third step is to act. What are we called work they do in parishes. there might be a commitment on the Pope Francis part of everyone to defend the rights of the poorest, of the original peoples, of the least. He dreams of an Amazon and the care of this precious ‘biome’, Week 5: March 29–Solidarity Sunday that preserves its cultural wealth. His which acts as a filter and helps us to ecological dream is of an Amazon that avoid raising the earth’s temperature, This Lent, give from the heart for our Common Home. This Lent, takes care of its abundance of life. Finally, is fundamental to the health of the Development and Peace —Caritas Canada invites us to be in solidarity he dreams of Christian communities global climate. The Amazon, therefore, with the guardians of the Amazon rainforest and to care for our common capable of incarnating themselves in the concerns us all directly. In that region home. On this Solidarity Sunday, we extend warm thanks for your Amazon and of building a church with of the world, we see the importance of generosity. Your donation will help our sisters and brothers across the an integral ecology, which combines an Amazonian face. world. Thank you for helping us build a world of peace and justice.Give respect for nature with care for human to your Share Lent parish collection or at devp.org/give Concretely speaking, what does dignity. The Amazon’s future and the future of its peoples are decisive for ‘promoting’ the Amazon mean, maintaining the balance of the planet. as we read in the text of the In this perspective, it is important to exhortation? allow indigenous peoples to remain on their territories and to take care of their “For God so loved the world that he As Pope Francis explains, lands. The educational aspect is also of promoting the Amazon means making primary importance: to promote new gave his only Son, so that everyone sure that what flows from it is the behaviours and new attitudes in people. very best. It means not to colonize it, Many people living in that area have not to plunder it with massive mining assumed the typical customs of the big who believes in him may not perish projects and destroy the environment cities where consumerism and a throw- and threaten the indigenous peoples. At away culture reign. the same time, however, it also means but may have eternal life.” to avoid mythologizing the native Excerpts from an interview by Vatican Media cultures, excluding any intermingling, with Cardinal Michael Czerny, special John 3:16 or falling into an environmentalism secretary of the Synod for the Amazon. “…that is concerned for the biome but ignores the Amazonian peoples.” Identity and dialogue are two key words and Pope Francis explains that they are not at all opposed. Caring about the cultural values of the indigenous peoples concerns us all: we must feel co-responsible for the diversity of their cultures. From the pages of the exhortation, the Christian commitment also clearly emerges, which is far from either a closed nativism or an environmentalism that despises human beings as the ruin of the planet. In addition, it proposes a bold missionary spirit—to speak of Jesus and to bring his offer of new life to others—life to the full for each one and for everyone, taking care of creation, in relationship with God the Creator and with all our brothers and sisters.

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The fate of the Amazon affects us all, because everything is interconnected 8 Family & Youth matters March 2020 The Vineyard A family Lent, well spent DIOCESE OF ST. CATHARINES YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY HOSTS by TERRI PAUCO

As the liturgical season of God & Science: Lent begins and our church décor becomes simpler, bathed in purple, with messages of repentance and A Study Series renewal, our families are asked to embrace the pillars of prayer, fasting Using the video resource, and almsgiving. How can this be accomplished in a focused and From Nothing to Cosmos, meaningful way? How can this tie into by Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J. PH.D the rhythm of daily family life and the as its catalyst for discussion glamour of housework and homework, and faith reflection and the to and fro of shuttling kids from play-dates and practices? It is with intention and planning. FIVE THURSDAYS, 7-9 PM Terri Pauco APRIL 30 PRAYER MAY 7 Over the next weeks, really MAY 14 commit to attending a weekend can be spent together in conversations MAY 21 Mass. Say grace before family meals about what is important in your little MAY 28 and as parents and grandparents domestic church. openly discuss with children how CATHOLIC CENTRE you pray and what personal prayer 3400 MERRITTVILLE HWY, means to you. Locate some Lenten THOROLD. prayer resources—either on-line or distributed at your parish—that can Open to ages 16+ be read together daily, perhaps just Cost: $10 before the bedtime routine begins. 3 ways to register before April 24, 2020 Make plans to attend the Stations of Call: 905-684-0154 the Cross and celebrate the Sacrament Email: [email protected] of Reconciliation together, perhaps Online: https://forms.gle/irfBUESFCL4gi3Pp9t on March 28, the day individual ALMSGIVING confessions will be available in every The easiest way to give is to set up a parish across the diocese. collection jar for spare change that will be donated to the Share Lent campaign FASTING or another charity of your choice. A Identify what every family more challenging plan would be to member has decided to fast from and find ways to reach out in actual service help each other be accountable for to the marginalized, the poor and the these small sacrifices. Together, discuss elderly of your own neighbourhoods if a family fast is possible; perhaps and become instruments of God’s it is reducing TV and screen time, or mercy and light to others. scaling back the amount of money A family Lent well spent needs spent on entertainment or food. This commitment from each member of type of action will free up time that your little church.

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The environment Senior matters Climate change threatens The evolution of In Memoriam cards food production invitations to notify family cards became highly collectible and friends when the funeral and older Catholics remember by DENNIS MALONE was to be held and may have swapping these cards just as been used as a ticket to gain kids today swap baseball and Not a day goes by without admittance to the funeral hockey cards. After Vatican some news item about climate especially if the deceased was a II the use of holy cards was change and the threat it presents person of stature. The invitation relegated more to use as In to food production, coastal usually had a black border and Memoriam cards. flooding, extreme weather the usual symbols of death— Many of my older In events and mass migration. It’s the hourglass, grim reaper, Memoriam cards go back to the hard to ignore the seriousness father time—plus details of the earlier era when the imagery of the threat and the need to departed along with the time, was either a picture of the date and location of the funeral. Blessed Virgin, Sacred Heart, take wide-ranging action both Patricia Waters on a national scale and on a By the mid to late 1800s the Holy Family or one of a select by PATRICIA WATERS funeral invitation was replaced few saints. On the reverse was personal level. Dennis Malone Some of the projections by a small mourning or a similar format, name of the On my bedside table I have are almost too overwhelming it can be rightly argued that memorial card that was sent out deceased, dates of birth and a stack of In Memoriam cards to comprehend: the melting the fight to reduce climate after the funeral usually to those death and a prayer. collected over the years, during of polar ice caps will result in change must be fought on a who were not able to attend. These cards also the visitation at the passing a sea level rise of up to 1.6’ global level with all countries Most measured 3”x 4.5” and mentioned indulgences and/ of a family member, friend or rendering cities like New York committed to reducing the were constructed of heavy card or quarantines. Indulgences parishioner, as well as those uninhabitable; coral reefs will level of greenhouse gases they stock. They were made up of are prayers to be offered for the found in old family prayer be irreparably damaged; half produce, this does not mean intricate and formal designs that deceased, by the holder of the books. of all animal species will face that individuals are powerless were cut and embossed using card, for the number of days Piled in chronological extinction; and 400 million to make a difference with the symbolism very popular specified, asking for forgiveness order they remind me to say people will suffer from water their own lifestyles choices. during the Victorian Era. A of any sins the deceased may a prayer for the deceased on scarcity. It leaves us wondering Those choices are simple heavy black border framed the have committed while on earth. the anniversary of their death. if there is any hope and what and obvious though not card of pertinent information A quarantine is for a specified Over the years, while following can we possibly do to reverse always easy to make—eat less about the deceased along with time of 40 days of prayer by the this custom, I became aware of CO2 emissions and the meat and more plant based a prayer, poem or sentimental cardholder. the change in format, both in resultant global warming. food (this would have the words of remembrance. The Contemporary cards come the picture chosen as well as General estimates of greatest positive effect), limit cards were meant to be saved in a vast array of choices: the prayer or verse, especially the source of greenhouse discretionary airline flights, and placed in an album or religious, landscapes, hobbies, from the older memoriam cards gas emissions suggest that drive an energy efficient framed as a keepsake often with sport. Today, prayers have up to the more contemporary 25% come from electricity vehicle, make energy saving a lock of hair or a button from a been replaced for the most part ones. This so intrigued me that generation, 24% from animal changes around the home and uniform. by poems and remembrances I decided to do a little research agriculture (though some buy locally made products By the 20th century the selected from a variety of into the custom and evolution studies suggest this figure to whenever possible to avoid cards were folded with a scene sources. The cards are usually of these cards and what I found be as high as 51%), 24 % from long distance shipping. on the front and the deceased’s distributed at the visitation, may surprise you. manufacturing, 14% from We can be part of the name and information printed wake, funeral or memorial The printing of memoriam transportation and the balance change. We can all make small inside. As this card grew in service or they may be sent cards began with the invention from buildings and other but important contributions popularity it contained more to those who were unable to of lithography in the 1700s. miscellaneous sources. towards mitigating the effects information including poems, attend the services. Mourning cards, as they were In his book, We Are the of climate change. We can’t photos and artwork. Call them mourning originally called, became Weather, Jonathan Safran simply throw up our hands The Catholic Church began cards or memorial cards, popular in the 1800s and Foer, presents the moral and say we are powerless to printing holy cards at the same these keepsake remembrances were part of the strict rules of dilemma we all face. Although do anything as individuals. time (that is in the 1700’s) and are part of a funeral custom etiquette that were carefully as the volume grew the imagery we continue to practice—a observed during this era. varied drawing from a list of traditional way in which we The cards began as 10,000 recognized saints. Holy offer a lasting tribute to those A Prayer For Our Earth we love.

All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty. Fill us with peace, that we may live as brothers and sisters, harming no one. O God of the poor, help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this earth, so precious in your eyes. Bring healing to our lives, that we may protect the world and not prey on it, that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction. Touch the hearts of those who look only for gain at the expense of the poor and the earth. Teach us to discover the worth of each thing, to be filled with awe and contemplation, to recognize that we are profoundly united with every creature as we journey towards your infinite light. We thank you for being with us each day. Encourage us, we pray, in our struggle for justice, love and peace.

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