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President Barack Obama’s package of actions affecting millions of people without legal immigration status received support from Catholic organizations, labor unions and immigration advocates even as critics contended that the steps he announced violated the Constitution. Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin supported the president’s plan, stating, “A significant percentage of people in our congregations who are undocumented live in families with both U.S. citizenship and legal status. Protecting children from getting separated from their parents, and husbands from their wives, should be a sacred act and extension of our ministries. We applaud the president’s actions as consistent with the family values guiding our country.” Angie Reyes, a member of Holy Spirit Parish in Indianapolis, rejoiced during a watch party hosted by the Indianapolis As part of the entertainment at the Intercultural Ministry Awards Dinner on Nov. 15 at the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center in Indianapolis, Congregational Action Network (IndyCAN) Filipino children perform a traditional Philippine “tinikling” dance, in which they step, hop and jump over and between moving bamboo sticks. at St. Anthony Parish in Indianapolis on (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) Nov. 20. She said that the president’s plan provides protection for her family. “Growing up in Indianapolis, the only Intercultural Ministry dinner recognizes home I’ve had since I was 6 years old, I didn’t have hope until last year when the president’s Deferred Action Program meant ‘there are no aliens in the family of God’ I would go to college, get a good job and reach my dreams,” Reyes, 18, said. “What By Natalie Hoefer good is all that if my father could be taken away at any moment? I applaud the president For one evening, the world seemed to come together in a symphony of color, for putting families before politics, and we costume, music and dance, united by faith and a celebration of culture. won’t stop fighting Catholics from various cultural backgrounds across central and southern until everyone is Indiana—Latinos, Africans, Vietnamese, Americans, Koreans, French, Filipinos, included.” African-Americans, Burmese—together made manifest the diversity of a faith whose Other advocates very name means “universal.” for the immigrant The inaugural archdiocesan Intercultural Ministry Awards Dinner was held on community, Nov. 15 at the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center in Indianapolis. including national “It’s like looking at the rainbow of the archdiocese, so many beautiful colors, and international See DIVERSITY, page 8 Church agencies, continued their call for Congress to Providence Sister Marikay Duffy receives an Intercultural Ministry Award from enact comprehensive Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin for her nearly four decades of service within the Catholic Hispanic Archbishop immigration reform community. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) Thomas G. Wenski that would include See IMMIGRATION, page 2 Pope Francis names Bishop Donald J. Hying to replace Bishop Dale J. Melczek in leading Gary Diocese

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Pope Francis Bishop Melczek is 76 years old. Canon law blessing for the faithful in the Archdiocese has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Donald requires a bishop to turn in his resignation of Milwaukee.” J. Hying of Milwaukee as bishop of at age 75. While serving the Milwaukee Church, Gary, Ind., and accepted the resignation of Gary’s new bishop will be installed the archbishop said, Bishop Hying has Bishop Dale J. Melczek, who has headed during a Jan. 6 Mass at Holy Angels shown an “unceasing commitment to the diocese since 1996. Cathedral in Gary. evangelization,” has “worked tirelessly The changes were announced on Nov. 24 “We will truly miss Bishop Hying’s in support of youth and adult Catholic in Washington by spiritual and organizations” and has been “a living Archbishop Carlo administrative example and compassionate advocate for Maria Vigano, leadership,” the sanctity of life.” apostolic nuncio to said Milwaukee Bishop Hying said he was “humbled, the United States. Archbishop Jerome honored and excited to embrace the call to Bishop Hying, E. Listecki. “While serve the Church in the Diocese of Gary.” 51, has been an we are sad to see He praised Bishop Melczek for doing “a auxiliary bishop him leave, we are superlative job as shepherd.” in Milwaukee grateful for his “I leave Milwaukee, my beloved since 2011, and is service and know hometown, with some sorrow, knowing that former rector of that he will continue I will miss my family and friends as well the archdiocese’s to be a blessing for as the priests, deacons, religious and lay Bishop St. Francis De Sales Bishop the people of Gary, leaders of our great archdiocese,” he said. Donald J. Hying Seminary. Dale J. Melczek just as he has been a See GARY, page 15 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, November 28, 2014

squandered what little credibility immigration reform,” said a IMMIGRATION he had left.” Nov. 17 letter to the president continued from page 1 Boehner said the president’s signed by leading top Democratic “my way or the highway approach senators. much of Obama’s executive makes it harder to build the trust House Democrats sent Obama a action announced on Nov. 20. with the American people that similar letter on Nov. 13 signed by Among the supporters is necessary to get things done 116 representatives who demanded of Obama’s action was on behalf of the country,” and “bold and meaningful executive Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski that now “Republicans are left action,” and said they would stand of Miami, chairman of the with the serious responsibility behind the president in his efforts U.S. bishops’ Committee on of upholding our oath of office. “to protect American families, Domestic Justice and Human We will not shrink from this duty strengthen local communities and Development. because our allegiance lies with grow the economy.” He was joined in watching the the American people. After the president’s president’s televised speech by “We will listen to them, work announcement, Senate Majority Immigrant families and people of various faith traditions gathered at more than 200 people attending with our members, and protect the Leader Harry Reid of Nevada St. Anthony Parish in Indianapolis on Nov. 20 to watch President Barack the archdiocese’s annual Constitution.” called the plan “great news” to Obama’s announcement on executive action on immigration. The event was Catholic Legal Services banquet As soon as the president keep families together. hosted by the Indianapolis Congregational Action Network (IndyCAN). Cheers celebrating the accomplishments finished speaking, several “The American people have resounded through the room as immigrant families learned the president’s of immigrant Americans in Republican leaders called his waited for us to fix our country’s program would provide administrative relief for nearly 5 million undocumented greater Miami. The response planned immigration reform an broken immigration system,” he immigrants. (Submitted photo) of the immigration lawyers in abuse of power because Obama said, in a statement, noting that attendance was generally positive, had not worked with Congress the lack of congressional action of St. Gabriel the Archangel Nov. 20 IndyCAN gathering at he said. on it. Some threatened to file on this issue left the president “no Parish in Indianapolis, said St. Anthony Parish. “What President Obama did lawsuits in an attempt to block the option but to take matters into his President Obama took a moral “As people of faith, our deepest will provide relief for a significant president’s actions. own hands.” stand for thousands of Hoosier convictions tell us that protecting number of people,” Archbishop Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, He also called the plan a families separated by the outdated the humanity of immigrants, Wenski told Catholic News said he “will not sit idly by and let “good first step” but “only a and broken immigration system who came to the United States to Service on Nov. 21. “But it’s just the president bypass Congress and temporary solution,” and urged that has torn Indiana families seek better lives for themselves that. It’s sort of like putting a our Constitution.” his Republican colleagues to apart for decades. and their children, puts our Band-Aid on a wound. We still In a statement released after “put their partisan politics aside “This action marks an historic communities on a path toward need Congress to act to provide the president’s speech, he said: and focus their efforts on passing moment in a long struggle for strengthening families and, comprehensive immigration “President Obama is not above legislation that will permanently a pathway to citizenship,” said ultimately, the moral values of reform. That’s the real solution.” the law and has no right to issue fix our broken immigration Father O’Mara, who attended the our nation.” † Archbishop Wenski urged executive amnesty. His actions system.” critics in Congress to “take a blatantly ignore the separations Among agencies working with deep breath, and get control of powers and the principles immigrant communities in the of themselves and enact our country was founded on. delivery of services, the plan was Catholic Charities to host comprehensive immigration The president has said 22 times welcomed. reform. previously that he does not At Catholic Charities USA, immigration info sessions “They should be able to do that have the power to legislate on Father Larry Snyder, president, Criterion staff report in a bipartisan way. What Obama immigration.” said the organization was did was provide relief for a Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, hopeful that Obama’s plan will Catholic Charities Indianapolis will conduct information significant number of people. But said immigration reform was lead to much-needed legislation sessions throughout December concerning President Barack it’s not sufficient. He couldn’t do needed, but he disagreed with to provide workers with a Obama’s plan to provide administrative relief for undocumented anything more than what he did. the president’s plan, saying the path to permanent citizenship. immigrants living in the United States. He did everything possible within borders must first be secured and He welcomed aspects of the During the five sessions, representatives of Catholic Charities his legal authority.” immigration laws enforced. president’s plan that would prevent Indianapolis will give “an overview of the president’s Elsewhere, some of the “The president’s actions families from being split up and administrative relief plan, a description of what is to be expected most vocal reactions came now make all of this harder, protect children fleeing violence in in the coming months, and what people can do to prepare,” from members of Congress. and are unfair to people in our their homeland. noted Tim Winn, supervisor of immigration legal services for Predictably, the comments broke immigration system who are “In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Catholic Charities Indianapolis. along party lines, and the debate doing things the right way,” he Jesus says that when we welcome Here are the days, times and locations of the scheduled sessions: among legislators on exactly said in a statement. a stranger in his name, we • Dec. 4 at 6 p.m.—Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic what shape immigration reform Even before the president welcome his presence into our Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. will take will likely continue into publicly announced his hearts,” Father Snyder said in a • Dec. 7 at 5:30 p.m.—St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish, the future. immigration plan, congressional statement. “In the faces of these 6000 W. 34th St., Indianapolis. In a statement released Democrats promised to stand men, women and children, we are • Dec. 14 at 1:30 p.m.—Holy Spirit Parish, 7243 E. 10th St., after Obama’s speech, House behind his efforts. called to see the face of Christ and Indianapolis. Speaker John Boehner of “Immigrant communities provide a just and compassionate • Dec. 15 at 6 p.m.—Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Ohio said: “By ignoring the have waited too long for welcome in a way that represents Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. will of the American people, House Republicans to catch their inherent dignity as fellow • Dec. 21at 5:30 p.m.—St. Philip Neri Parish, 550 N. Rural St., President Obama has cemented up with the American public’s daughters and sons of God.” Indianapolis. † his legacy of lawlessness and support for comprehensive Father Michael O’Mara, pastor

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By Sean Gallagher Ignatius Esser, who led Saint Meinrad from 1930-55, was highly involved in the The Second Vatican Council brought Modern Liturgical Movement, which led about renewal to many aspects of the life of the way to much of Vatican II’s renewal of the Church. the Church’s worship. But for many Catholics, the most “There was a spirit of [liturgical renewal] noticeable developments appeared 50 years there already long preceding the council,” ago this week—on Nov. 29, 1964. On Father Casey said. “Then, when the council that day in the archdiocese and across the came, they were ready.” United States, parts of the Mass began So was the faculty of the Latin School, for the first time to be prayed in English, led by its rector, the late Msgr. Joseph priests started facing the congregation, and Brokhage, whom Father Casey described the approach to liturgical music sounded a as “an excellent theologian and a very different note. fine liturgist.” Retired Father Clifford Vogelsang, who “When we saw where the council was was ordained a year and a half before the going, Msgr. Brokhage started talking about renewal, took the modifications in stride. it in our assemblies,” Father Casey said. “When I had my first Mass at “Then he demonstrated it.” Saint Meinrad, the day after my ordination, Msgr. Brokhage prepared the high I used the chapel in the former guest house. school seminarians so well for the liturgical That altar faced the congregation,” he said. renewal that they took a leading role “That was no problem for me.” in helping to prepare priests serving in Father Vogelsang’s first assignment, parishes across central and southern Indiana Seminarians worship together at a Mass in 1965 at the Archabbey Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln as assistant pastor at Our Lady of the for them. in St. Meinrad. The liturgical renewals called for by the Second Vatican Council had begun to be Greenwood Parish in Greenwood, “When it finally hit and you had to have implemented months earlier. The liturgical formation that seminarians have received at Saint Meinrad continued his preparation for the renewal in an altar facing the people, there was a team Seminary and School of Theology over the past half century have greatly affected the renewal of the the liturgy. of us that he put together,” Father Casey liturgy in the Church in central and southern Indiana. (Photo courtesy of Saint Meinrad Archives) “I had Mass in the gym,” he said. “That said. “We did demonstration Masses around altar was set up to face the people.” the archdiocese for priests in the deaneries.” also known as the propers of each Mass, a generation of priests that have helped The start of the implementation of the Looking back on those efforts, did not come with any accompanying implement the council’s liturgical renewal liturgical developments came naturally for Father Casey Gregorian chant. So, in many cases, new across central and southern Indiana and lay Catholics like Sheri Berg, a member of realizes that they music was composed for them on an almost in other dioceses across the country and St. Joan of Arc Parish in Indianapolis, who weren’t enough. week-to-week basis at the start of the around the world. was a student at San Diego State University “One weekend, implementation of the reforms. “It was wonderful,” Father Columba in San Diego at the time. you came in and Charles Gardner, who led the said. “You got to help explain why things “Those first liturgical changes did the Communion archdiocesan Secretariat for Spiritual Life were restructured this way and how not have much impact on our liturgies rail was there, and and Worship for more than 30 years until important the language that the people in our small chapel,” said Berg, who the next weekend, his retirement in 2013, experienced this spoke and understood was [in the liturgy].” worked in the 1990s for the archdiocesan without any firsthand when he was a college seminarian Office of Worship. “We had sung our explanation, the at Saint Meinrad in the mid-1960s. ‘The art of celebrating the liturgy well’ hymns in English and all recited the Latin Communion rail “[Liturgical music] was all In addition to allowing for the use of responses at Mass. Changing to some was gone,” he said. student-directed,” he said. “I was told the vernacular in the Mass, Vatican II’s responses in English and some Latin just Fr. Noah Casey “It was all coming that I was going to direct a group. I was liturgical renewal also gave the option of required a different book.” so fast that it was supposed to write my own music for the the priest facing the congregation during hard to catechize the priests and get them to propers. I experimented and tried to see the Mass. Varied quality of preparation assimilate it. what worked. It sat well with what it means “Once you did that, all of a sudden Many young priests like “In some ways, I wish that we had taken to be a student. You’re trying things. It felt your gestures, your facial expressions and Father Vogelsang and seminarians at the more time on catechesis and delayed the natural.” your tone voice became crucial,” Father time were prepared well for the renewal implementation a bit, not that catechesis is At the same time, given the perspective Columba said. “You have to be present to by the priestly formation they received at going to settle everything.” of 50 years, Gardner recognizes that not all what you are doing. You’re not there to the former Bishop Bruté Latin School in As it happened, though, the development of the experimentation in liturgical music entertain. You’re there to lead prayer.” Indianapolis, an archdiocesan-operated of the liturgy called for by the council went well. Father Vogelsang called this high school was implemented in a piecemeal fashion. “It certainly was the beginning of a attentiveness to facial expression and vocal seminary, and For example, on Nov. 29, 1964, only the period that was not necessarily highly tone, “stage presence.” Saint Meinrad Scripture readings and some of the prayers thought out,” he said. “Everybody grabbed “You can’t just stand there and mumble Seminary and of Mass were authorized to be proclaimed for things, some of it good, some of it not everything,” he said. “And an awful lot of School of Theology or prayed in the vernacular. The rest of the so good.” our priests had gotten into the habit of just in St. Meinrad. Mass was still prayed in Latin. Benedictine Father Columba Kelly, 84, mumbling the Latin.” Father Noah “It was a progression of changes, and returned to Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Father Vogelsang said introducing the Casey, pastor they were not uniform from place to January 1964 after completing graduate vernacular into the Mass and changing the of Our Lady of place,” said Berg. “It was no wonder that studies in sacred music in Rome. gestures and orientation of the celebrant Lourdes Parish in many people were confused. Something “I kind of had a front-row seat as the “made a big difference,” saying “it has Indianapolis, was that had always been consistent was that people were working on the documents,” forced better celebrations.” a sophomore at the way no longer.” Father Columba said. Father Robert Gilday, pastor Fr. Clifford Vogelsang Latin School in After returning to Saint Meinrad, he of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus 1964. He continued Changes in music helped implement the liturgical renewal in (Little Flower) Parish in Indianapolis, his priestly formation at Saint Meinrad, The implementation of some the community, including composing many agreed. He was a sophomore at the entered Saint Meinrad Archabbey and lived developments—like allowing the use of the chant melodies for English texts and psalm Latin School on Nov. 29, 1964, and as a monk until becoming an archdiocesan vernacular in the celebration of the Mass— tones for chanting the psalms in English. continued his priestly formation priest in 2007. resulted in other changes. He also was a part of the seminary at the former Saint Meinrad He noted that Benedictine Archabbot The translated antiphons, part of what is faculty at Saint Meinrad that prepared See RENEWAL, page 9 What was in the news on November 27, 1964? The ‘new Mass’ is introduced, and the third session of the Second Vatican Council closes By Brandon A. Evans first was the use of the vernacular in administering that the Eucharistic Fast has been reduced to one the sacraments, which became effective last Sept. 14. hour. This is official and is effective immediately. … This week, we continue to examine what was going on Installation of portable altars is being completed in As of Sunday, Nov. 29, the term ‘Holy Spirit’ will be in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through many churches this week, to be ready for Sunday’s used throughout the Archdiocese of Indianapolis to the pages of The Criterion. historic revisions in liturgical format.” designate the Third Person of the Trinity.” Here are some of the items found in the • 4th session due: Solemn ceremonies close council • Back from Council: Archbishop hails new liturgy November 27, 1964, issue of The Criterion: session • Peace parley slated on ‘Pacem in Terris’ • ‘New’ Mass liturgy to begin this Sunday: English “VATICAN CITY—With the proclamation of the • 140 CYO teams poised for basketball whistle to be used for the first time constitution on the nature of the Church and the • Partisanship seen: Dispute article on Pius XII “The faithful of the archdiocese—along with millions decrees on ecumenism and the Eastern Churches, • New St. Peter’s School dedicated in Franklin Co. of Catholics throughout the United States—will Pope Paul VI solemnly brought the third session of the inaugurate the ‘new liturgy’ on Sunday, Nov. 29. ecumenical council to a close in the presence of the The most obvious change in the Mass will be the entire body of the Church’s bishops. During the course introduction of English in large segments of the of the ceremony, he proclaimed Mary ‘Mother of the prayers and readings. Another ‘first’ in many churches Church’ and announced that the council will have its will be the celebration of the Mass ‘facing the ‘definitive conclusion in the fourth session.’ The date people,’ a change recommended, but not mandated, for this session was not announced, and speculation in by the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the council circles has ranged all the way from March of Sacred Liturgy. Several archdiocesan parishes and next year to sometime during 1966.” chapels made this basic change more than one year • 3rd session of council is criticized Read all of these stories from our ago, and have been using the privilege ever since. • Eucharistic Congress to open on Nov. 28 November 27, 1964, issue by logging on to our The innovations in the Mass are the second in a series • Official archives at www.CriterionOnline.com. † of liturgical reforms resulting from the council. The “His Holiness Pope Paul VI has announced in Rome Page 4 The Criterion Friday, November 28, 2014

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Be Our Guest/Mary McClusky A picture is worth countless lives I’ll always remember the first picture I saw of Life Fund matches these local dollars, of Christopher. enabling cash-strapped centers to help Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 I was flipping through my friend’s photo reluctant or abortion-minded parents to see Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor album, and suddenly their children in a new light. Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus encountered an Though difficult to measure, the impact ultrasound photo this program has made in many communities slipped loosely is beyond question. Many of the ultrasound between the pages. machines offer the latest three-dimensional Editorial Andrea’s creative way technology, allowing parents to see detailed, of announcing the real-time video images of their child. Several impending arrival of machines are mobile medical units the size her first child revealed of a laptop, allowing technicians to share the immense power with clients the “whoosh-whoosh” of their of images to grab our baby’s heartbeat. attention and spark Informal surveys by pregnancy centers a human connection. Ultrasounds are not confirm the anecdotal evidence that most simply medical information—they are family abortion-minded parents who view an photos and videos. ultrasound end up choosing life for their child. Thanks to advances in ultrasound Imagine the effect of 500 ultrasound machines technology, trained medical professionals and thousands of ultrasounds! at pregnancy care centers can increasingly The initiative has expanded to all 50 states, harness the power of images and sounds to as well as Canada and Jamaica. introduce parents to their unborn child in a “When we began this program five years particularly concrete way. ago, we hoped to put a machine in every Barbara Anne Cusack, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Often the mother and father begin to state,” said Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, Milwaukee, asks a question about marriage on Oct. 16 during the understand that they are parents of a child head of the Knights of Columbus. “But this 76th annual Canon Law Society of America convention in St. Louis. worthy of life, and they are spared the program has been even more successful (CNS photo/Lisa Johnston, St. Louis Review) medical risks and physical and emotional because of the great need and the generosity pain of abortion when they choose life for of brother knights from coast to coast. … their child. Not only has this program saved the lives of The Church and civil marriage Given the beautiful opportunity ultrasound countless unborn children, but it has saved Should the Catholic Church get than just discussing the matter. It has machines provide to save lives and begin many mothers—and fathers—from a lifetime out of the civil marriage business? on its website a pledge to be taken by parents’ loving relationship with their child, of regret.” It should be obvious that the Christian ministers to disengage civil it is quite fitting to celebrate a milestone in The Ultrasound Initiative is a wonderful Church and some segments of our and Christian marriage. their availability and use. The Knights of example of a partnership to support countless secular society no longer have the The pledge says, in part, “We Columbus, a Catholic fraternal benefit society mothers and fathers in choosing life for their same definition of marriage. The will no longer serve as agents of the dedicated to charitable service, recently children. We should all consider supporting Church believes and teaches that state in marriage. We will no longer presented their Ultrasound Initiative’s such initiatives in our own communities. marriage is a permanent partnership sign marriage certificates. We will 500th ultrasound machine to a Baltimore Through the Knights of Columbus between one man and one woman ask couples to seek civil marriage pregnancy care center. Ultrasound Initiative and other programs to ordered toward the good of the separately from their Church-related The Ultrasound Initiative encourages local expand the use of ultrasound technology, spouses and the procreation and vows and blessings. We will preside Knights’ councils to collaborate with diocesan more parents will experience the reality of education of children. only at those weddings that seek Respect Life directors and other community their unborn children and connect with the Our secular society believed that, to establish a Christian marriage in members to find qualified pro-life centers many resources and people who can help too, at one time, but many in it no accord with the principles articulated in their area. These centers are dedicated support them through an unexpected or longer do. Now marriage seems to and lived out from the beginning of to offering support and care to parents, to challenging pregnancy. be whatever people want it to be. It’s the Church’s life.” help them choose life-affirming options for still between two persons (so far), R. R. Reno, First Things’ editor, themselves and their unborn children. The (Mary McClusky is the assistant director but they can be of the same sex, the wrote in the magazine’s December local council partners with a pregnancy care for Project Rachel Ministry Development marriage can last for as long as the issue that we should drop the term center to raise half the cost of an ultrasound at the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, persons want it to last, and it has no “civil marriage” and adopt the term machine. The Knights’ national Culture U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.) † direct relationship with children. “government marriage,” since the There are Catholics, therefore, courts have redefined marriage, Looking Around/Fr. William Byron, S.J. who are questioning whether making it an institution entirely under Catholic clergy should participate in the state’s control. civil marriages, which they do when Therefore, he wrote, he believes Gratitude is the essence of religion they sign civil marriage certificates. in separation of Church and state. As the Thanksgiving season spills over less thought to the fact that Eucharist—what Clergy would continue to witness “The Church may participate in civil into Advent and Christmas, many people find they celebrate when they gather on Sundays the sacrament of matrimony, of marriage. It should not participate in themselves remarking that this is their favorite to remember their Lord in the breaking of the course, but would no longer exercise government marriage.” time of the year. bread—means thanks-giving, thanks-saying, the government’s power to declare In the Nov. 16 issue of Thanksgiving Day thanks-doing. As I said, central to and at the the marriage legal. Our Sunday Visitor, Helen Alvare, is, of course, a secular bottom of the meaning of religion, in my Philadelphia Archbishop Charles a law professor at George Mason feast day. Christmas is book, is gratitude. J. Chaput is the highest ranking University and a popular speaker, not. And most of those You don’t have to go very far into survey member of the hierarchy to suggest presented both sides of the argument who speak of “the research to discover that nobody likes an that the bishops consider the over whether or not the Church holidays” as a not-so- ingrate. We observe that as children. As Church’s role in civil marriage. should remain in the civil marriage artful dodge around the adults, however, we often fail to measure During a lecture in New York business. She concluded, “I would need to use the word ourselves on the gratitude scale. Success on Oct. 20, he warned that the rather that the Church be ordered out “Christmas”—which and security can make ingrates of us all. government might require clergy of the conversation on the meaning of is indeed a holy day— That’s more than a bit strange, but true who officiate at weddings to do so civil marriage than that we step aside seem to be oblivious nonetheless. Perhaps it says something about for same-sex marriages. voluntarily.” to the fact that “holiday” derives its very self and selfishness, or it may simply be “It’s hard to see how a priest or We agree. If Catholic clergy meaning from the word “holy.” spelling out a little lesson in human nature, bishop could, in good conscience, no longer signed legal marriage Thanksgiving, in full secular splendor, is which does have an insular, self-enclosing, sign a marriage certificate that certificates, couples wishing to have more than welcome in my religious lexicon. self-interested tendency. That may relate to the merely identifies spouse A both a religious and a legal marriage If I were pressed to reduce the entire meaning survival instinct. and spouse B,” he said. “This would have to have two ceremonies. of religion to one word, that word would be But human nature is also social, relational, dramatizes, in a concrete way, the This is common in many countries in gratitude. The case for making that one word outward-reaching, and needing to link and fact that we face some very hard the world, but not here. How many love instead of gratitude is worth attempting, bond in the quest for happiness. Human nature choices in a new marriage regime. couples would do that? Too many but I recall learning that it was God who may not be inclined naturally to share, but it Refusing to conduct civil marriages Catholic couples are already skipping first loved us, thus enabling us to love and would be an error to conclude that sharing now, as a matter of principled the sacrament of matrimony—if they therefore all we can be is grateful. Why? is unnatural when human happiness depends resistance, has vastly more witness bother to get married at all. Because God first loved us, he graced us. on it. So we have to learn to share. And we value than being kicked out of Besides, we really doubt that I am also fond of reminding anyone learn that through the development of our the marriage business later by the the courts or other parts of the who cares to listen that the old American sense of gratitude. government, which is a likely bet.” government will force clergy to vernacular used to express gratitude was As Thanksgiving moves toward Christmas, He added that he didn’t perform same-sex marriages. But “much obliged.” Obligation under God springs take a moment to assess your position on the necessarily agree with this approach, then, the way things have been going from a sense of gratitude. If you acknowledge gratitude scale. The closer you are to open and but thought that the bishops should lately, we could be wrong. gratitude as your rightful stance before God, generous sharing, the clearer the signal you discuss it. We don’t know if they The Church should make every you can begin to notice the presence of moral are sending to others that gratitude is driving did so during their annual fall effort to spread its beautiful teachings obligation in yourself to do or not do certain your decisions. And that’s exactly as it ought meeting in Baltimore. If they did, it about the meaning of matrimony, not things that God wants you to do or avoid. to be. was in private. give in to possible threats. Catholics speak of their Sunday The ecumenical and conservative “obligation” without giving much thought (Jesuit Father William Byron is university periodical First Things is doing more —John F. Fink to the notion of gratitude being in any way professor of business and society at associated with obligation, and they give even St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.) † The Criterion Friday, November 28, 2014 Page 5

Archbishop/Arzobispo Joseph W. Tobin

Rejoice in the Lord

Alégrense en el Señor

GA O UDE MIN TE IN DO

X MMXII

Waiting for the blessed hope is easier said than done “As we await the blessed hope, the second coming of our Lord and during the Advent season? Or does it tell celebrate Christmas without falling appearance of the glory of the great God Savior Jesus Christ. us something important about who we are into the trap of superficial or unrealistic and of our savior Jesus Christ who gave But there are different kinds of as “missionary disciples of Jesus Christ” expectations. It teaches us that the greatest himself for us” (Ti 2:13-14). waiting. As anyone who has been (as Pope Francis calls us)? gift of Christmas is the Lord himself. caught in a traffic jam on Interstate 65 As missionary disciples, I believe Advent shows us that a personal We pray about “waiting for the blessed knows, waiting can be frustrating. And that we encounter God first and foremost encounter with Jesus Christ is what we hope” every day in the Mass, and in a those who have found themselves in an in prayer and in the loving service of truly hope for at this time of year (and special way during Advent. Our faith emergency room know that waiting can be others that is nourished and sustained by always). It reminds us that all the joys teaches us that the Lord will come again. very painful. our prayer. of Christmas, and of the Lord’s second And we’re told that his coming will be a There is eager waiting—as when a Authentic prayer requires patience. We coming, can truly be ours—if we learn to time of great rejoicing, a time when every friend or family member is due to come open our hearts to God; we share with him wait for them prayerfully. tear will be wiped away and all our hopes home after a long absence. There is our deepest hopes and fears and desires; Waiting in hope is easier said than will be fulfilled. anxious waiting that comes after a tumor we ask for God’s help; we promise to be done. It requires patience, trust and a firm We believe this. It is an integral part has been removed and the results of the more faithful and to sin no more—with belief that God will hear and answer our of Christian hope. One day, the Lord will biopsy aren’t in yet. And many of us have the help of his grace. And then we wait for prayers. We hope that the Lord will give come again and the redemption of the experienced what might be called “angry God’s response. us everything we truly desire, and need, world (and our personal redemption) will waiting” when, for example, someone we Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has and that his coming again—this Christmas be complete. trusted to do something very important written that prayer is “hope in action.” It and at the end of time—will be our As a member of the Congregation of for us has so far failed to deliver on his or is action because we take the initiative and greatest source of joy. the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists), her promise. reach out to God who is always there— And, so, we pray: Maranâ thâ’ I have a keen awareness of this Waiting is not something we do our constant companion on every step of (Our Lord, come)! Help us wait patiently. fundamental truth of our faith. The willingly. We are used to the instant life’s journey. Prayer is also a profound Prepare us for Christmas and for your process that was initiated by God’s gratification of our desires, the quick fix. expression of hope because it requires that coming again in glory. Remove all the promise to his chosen people, the Jews, We don’t like waiting in long lines, and we let go of our need for an immediate or obstacles—our frustrations, pain and and that was realized in the fullness of we get irritated when the meal we ordered predetermined answer. Prayer teaches us anger—that prevent us from receiving you time by Christ’s Incarnation and by his in a restaurant takes longer to be served to wait—and to trust—in hope. with joy, so that we may share your love passion, death and resurrection, will be than we think it should. We begin the Church year with a with others as missionary disciples. May brought to fulfillment on the last day. So what does hopeful waiting mean for season of waiting, a time of expectation we be one with you always, our blessed We wait for this day, the us? Is it just a nice thing that we reflect on and longing. Advent prepares us to hope. †

‘Aguardar la bendita esperanza’ no es tan fácil como parece “Mientras aguardamos la bendita de aguardar. Como bien saben aquellos somos como “discípulos misioneros de sin caer en la trampa de las expectativas esperanza, es decir, la gloriosa venida de que han quedado atrapados en el tráfico Jesucristo” (tal como nos llama el papa superficiales o poco realistas. Nos nuestro gran Dios y Salvador Jesucristo” en la autopista 65, esperar puede resultar Francisco)? enseña que el obsequio más grande de la (Ti 2:13-14). agobiante. Y quienes se han encontrado Como discípulos misioneros, creo que Navidad es el Señor mismo. alguna vez en una sala de emergencia, encontramos a Dios, primero y principal, El Adviento nos enseña que lo que Todos los días durante la misa, y de saben que la espera puede ser muy en la oración y en el servicio amoroso que verdaderamente ansiamos en esta época un modo especial durante la temporada dolorosa. prestamos a los demás y que alimentamos del año (y siempre) es un encuentro del Adviento, oramos sobre “aguardar Por un lado, está la espera deseosa, y sustentamos con nuestras oraciones. personal con Jesucristo. Nos recuerda la bendita esperanza.” Nuestra fe nos como cuando un familiar o un amigo La oración auténtica exige paciencia. que realmente podremos disfrutar de enseña que el Señor vendrá nuevamente está a punto de regresar tras una larga Abrimos nuestros corazones a Dios; todas las alegrías de la Navidad y de la y nos dice que su venida será una época ausencia. Está la espera ansiosa posterior compartimos con Él nuestras esperanzas, segunda venida del Señor si aprendemos de gran alegría, un momento en el que a la extirpación de un tumor, cuando temores y deseos más profundos; le a esperarlas con recogimiento. toda lágrima será enjugada y que veremos todavía no se tienen los resultados de la pedimos ayuda; prometemos ser más Aguardar con esperanza no es tan realizadas todas nuestras esperanzas. biopsia. Y muchos de nosotros hemos fieles y no pecar más, con la ayuda de Su fácil como parece. Requiere paciencia, Creemos en esto ya que es un vivido lo que podríamos llamar una gracia. Y, a continuación, aguardamos la confianza y la creencia firme de que Dios componente integral de la esperanza “espera odiosa” cuando, por ejemplo, respuesta de Dios. escuchará y responderá nuestras súplicas. cristiana. Un día, el Señor vendrá otra alguien a quien le confiamos que hiciera El papa emérito Benedicto XVI Esperamos que el señor nos conceda todo vez y la obra de redención del mundo algo muy importante no cumple con lo escribió que la oración es “la esperanza aquello que verdaderamente deseamos (y nuestra propia redención personal) se prometido. en acción.” Es acción porque tomamos y necesitamos, y que su venida, tanto en completará. Esperar o aguardar no es algo la iniciativa y nos acercamos a Dios, esta Navidad como en el día final, sea Como integrante de la Congregación que hacemos naturalmente. Estamos que siempre está allí, constantemente nuestra máxima fuente de alegría. del Santísimo Redentor (Congregación acostumbrados a la gratificación acompañándonos en cada etapa de la Y así, rezamos: Maranâ thâ’ (Señor Redentorista), me encuentro plenamente inmediata de nuestros deseos, a las travesía de la vida. La oración también nuestro, ven)! Ayúdanos pacientemente. consciente de esta verdad fundamental de soluciones fáciles. No nos gusta esperar es una profunda expresión de esperanza Prepararnos para la Navidad y para tu nuestra fe. El proceso que comenzó con en las filas largas y nos irrita que la porque requiere que nos deshagamos de nueva avenida con gloria. Elimina todos la promesa que realizó Dios al pueblo comida que pedimos en el restaurante nuestra necesidad de recibir respuestas los obstáculos, nuestras frustraciones, elegido, a los judíos, y que llegó a su tarde más en llegar de lo que teníamos inmediatas o predeterminadas. La oración dolor e ira, que nos impiden recibirte con plenitud mediante la encarnación de pensado. nos enseña a esperar y a confiar con alegría, para que podamos compartir tu Cristo y su pasión, muerte y resurrección, ¿Qué significa para nosotros aguardar esperanza. amor con el prójimo como discípulos concluirá en el día final. con esperanza? ¿Acaso es tan solo una Comenzamos el año eclesiástico con misioneros. Que siempre seamos uno Aguardamos este día, la segunda frase bonita sobre la que reflexionamos una temporada de espera, un momento de contigo, nuestra bendita esperanza. † venida de nuestro Señor y Salvador durante la época del Adviento? ¿O nos expectativas y de añoranza. El Adviento Jesucristo; pero existen distintas formas dice algo importante acerca de quiénes nos prepara para celebrar la Navidad Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa Page 6 The Criterion Friday, November 28, 2014

Events Calendar December 3 59 Allendale, 9:25 a.m. parking goods, 30-40 exhibitors, raffle Hope and Healing Survivors Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, life ministry meeting 6-7 p.m. Archbishop O’Meara Catholic on Ohio Blvd., 9:30 a.m. for cash, free admission, adult of Suicide support group, Owens Hall, 1 Sisters of Information: Connie Kehl Fitch, Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., assemble on sidewalk in front luncheon $6, kindergarten to 7 p.m. Information: Providence, Saint Mary-of- [email protected] or Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, of Planned Parenthood at 30 S. 8-years-old $4, preschool and 317-851-8344. the-Woods. Christmas Fun 812-232-6517. Catholic, educational, 3rd St. for prayers, 10 a.m. under free, 12:30-4:30 p.m. at the Woods, cookie baking, December 18 charitable and social singles, travel to St. Patrick Adoration Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, sleigh rides, sing-a-long, visit Chapel at 1807 Poplar St. December 9 White Violet Center, with Santa, 1-4 p.m., children St. Joseph Parish, 1375 S. 50 and over, single, separated, Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. for Divine Mercy Chaplet, St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. 1 Sisters of Providence, and adults, $5 per person, widowed or divorced. New Third Thursday Adoration, completed around 10:30 a.m. 17th Ave., Beech Grove. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. registration deadline Dec. 6. members welcome. 6:30 p.m. interceding for women Ave Maria Guild, Christmas Christmas open house, Information: 812-535-2932 or Information: 317-243-0777. experiencing crisis pregnancy, St. Lawrence Parish, 6944 party and pitch-in, noon. 3-5 p.m. Information: [email protected]. 11 a.m.-7 p.m., with Mass at December 5 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. Information: 317-888-7625 or 812-535-2932 or 5:45 p.m. St. Joseph Parish, 1375 S. Craft fair, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., [email protected]. [email protected]. December 14 Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. bring a canned good to St. Michael the Archangel First Friday exposition of the help St. Vincent de Paul. Sacred Heart Parish December 12-14 Church, 3354 W. 30th St., December 20 Blessed Sacrament, rosary Information: 317-313-5534. Hall, 1125 S. Mount Saint Francis Indianapolis. Mass in French, St. Michael the Archangel and Benediction, 4-6 p.m., Meridian St., Indianapolis. Retreat Center, 1 p.m. Information: Church, 3354 W. 30th St., Mass 5:45 p.m. Information: December 7 Euchre party, seniors 101 Mt. St. Francis Drive, 317-523-4193 or Indianapolis. Helpers of All Saints Catholic Academy, 317-244-9002. and retirees, 12:30 p.m. Mt. St. Francis. [email protected]. God’s Precious Infants, Mass St. Paul Campus School, Information: 317-788-0522. Christmas Pottery Sale and Divine Mercy Chaplet at gymnasium, 9788 N. Dearborn December 6 featuring artists from St. Therese of the Infant Jesus 8:30 a.m., followed by prayer St. Michael the Archangel Road, New Alsace. Annual Our Lady of Perpetual Help the Mary Anderson (Little Flower) Church, 4720 E. at a local abortion center, and Church, 145 St. Michael Blvd., Christmas breakfast and Church, 1752 Scheller Lane, Center, Fri. 6-8 p.m., 13th St., Indianapolis. Class continued prayer at the church Brookville. First Saturday open house, Santa Claus will New Albany. “Sacred Relics Sat. and Sun. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. of ’63 monthly gathering, for those who wish to remain. Devotional Prayer Group, visit 9-11 a.m., school tours of the Saints: Treasures of Information: 812-923-8817 or 6 p.m. Mass, optional dinner Mass, Exposition of the 8 a.m.-noon, free will offering the Church,” exposition of [email protected]. afterward. Information: December 27 Blessed Sacrament, rosary, for breakfast. Information: sacred relics, 7 p.m., no charge. 317-408-6396. St. John the Evangelist confession, meditation, 8 a.m. allsaintscatholic.net/school. Information: 812-944-1184 or December 13 Church, 126 W. Georgia St., Information: 765-647-5462. [email protected]. St. Roch Parish, Family Life December 17 Indianapolis. Faithful Citizens Holy Name Parish, gym, Center, 3603 S. Meridian St., St. Joseph University Parish, Rosary procession, Mass, Helpers of God’s Precious 21 N. 16th St., Beech Grove. December 11 Indianapolis. Single Seniors 113 S. Fifth St., Terre Haute. 12:10 p.m., procession Infants Prayer Vigil, Women’s Altar Society St. Mark the Evangelist meeting, 1 p.m., age 50 Divine Mercy Chaplet and following Mass. Information: Terre Haute. 7:30 a.m. Mass Bazaar and Chili Luncheon, Parish, Cenacle (house on and over. Information: Pro-Life Mass, chaplet faithful.citizens2016@ at the Carmelite Monastery at crafts, holiday and baked parish grounds), Indianapolis. 317-784-4207. 4:30 p.m., Mass 5:15 p.m., pro- gmail.com. † Crèches on display at Saint Meinrad VIPs Thomas and Deborah (Phillips) Gallagher, members of St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville, will celebrate their 50th wedding Archabbey Library Dec. 5-Jan. 10 anniversary on Nov. 28. An exhibit of Christmas crèches Archdiocese of Indianapolis. The couple was married on Nov. 28, 1964, at St Joseph Church from around the world will be on The crèches selected for display in Shelbyville. display in the Saint Meinrad Archabbey represent a variety of styles and They are the parents of three children, Kelly Gallagher Kiley, Library, 200 Hill Drive, in St. Meinrad media, such as porcelain, wood, Sean Gallagher and the late Colleen Gallagher. from Dec. 5 through Jan. 10. glazed tile, glass, cloth, stone, metals They also have seven grandchildren. The display features crèches from and ceramic. They will renew their wedding vows on Nov. 29 at St. Joseph the monastery collection, as well as The exhibit is free and Church and celebrate their anniversary with their family and from the Catherine A. Smith Nativity open to the public. For library friends afterward. † Collection, which was donated to hours, call 812-357-6401 or Saint Meinrad in 2002 in memory of 800-987-7311, or log on to the her brother, Charles Patrick Smith. Archabbey Library’s website at Providence Health Care of Saint Mary-of- Catherine began collecting nativity www.saintmeinrad.edu/library. sets in 1971, purchasing many during The library will be closed on the-Woods receives Award for Excellence her extensive travels throughout Dec. 25-28 and Jan. 1, 3 and 4. Providence Health Care (PHC) timely referrals; and for the support the world. Her brother studied for Visitors may wish to arrive at least of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and understanding of the importance the priesthood at Saint Meinrad, 30 minutes before closing to view the in St. Mary-of-the-Woods, was of collaborative care when a patient is and later served as a priest in the exhibit. † named one of the recipients of the in need of hospice, palliative or home 2014 Great Lakes Caring Hospice and health care. Home Health Award for Excellence. This is the seventh year Great Lakes The facility was chosen from Caring has presented the award to more than 1,200 facilities, physicians its honorees. African-American and African Catholic and hospitals across Michigan, Originally serving only the Women’s Advent Retreat set for Dec. 5-6 Indiana and Ohio. Sisters of Providence, Providence According to PHC Director Health Care opened to patients from The archdiocesan Black Catholic city of Chicago. Gerald Dutton, this is the first time the the general public in 2012. PHC offers Ministry, part of the Office of The retreat runs from 6 p.m. on facility has received the award. top-rated holistic care for inpatient Intercultural Ministry, will hold their Dec. 5 and ends with 4 p.m. Mass on In a letter provided to Dutton, Great and outpatient physical, occupational, third African-American and African Dec. 6. Lakes Caring stated PHC was selected for speech and aquatic therapy, and Catholic Women’s Advent Retreat at The cost for the retreat is $64 for a its good communication between Great 24-hour skilled nursing care with Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., single room or $48 for a double. For Lakes Caring and the Providence Health private rooms. in Indianapolis on Dec. 5-6. commuters, the cost is $25 for Friday Care staff; for keeping in mind the needs For more information, log on to The retreat will be led by Society of evening and Saturday, or $20 for of patients and the importance of making www.PHCWoods.com. † the Daughters of the Heart of Mary Sister Saturday only. All prices covering Friday Anita Baird. The theme of the retreat is and Saturday include a small evening “Gifting the Spirit.” meal on Friday, and all prices include In 2013, Sister Anita was awarded breakfast and lunch on Saturday. an honorary doctor of ministry degree For more information or to register, from Catholic Theological Union contact Black Ministry coordinator in Chicago in recognition of her Franciscan Sister Jeannette Pruitt at outstanding contributions in the work 317-236-1474, 800-382-9836 ext. 1474, for racial justice in the Church and the or e-mail her at [email protected]. †

St. John Paul II Parish hosting National Night of Prayer for Life event on Dec. 8 St. John Paul II Parish, for Life includes adoration of the 2605 St. Joe Road W., in Sellersburg is Blessed Sacrament, recitation of the hosting a National Night of Prayer for rosary, time for silent prayer and Life event starting at 9 p.m. on Dec. 8 hymns. Special intentions include Spell Bowl champs and ending at 1 a.m. on Dec. 9. prayers for the Blessed Mother to The evening of prayer spans the re-establish a culture of life, a return The St. Roch Junior Spell Bowl Team of Indianapolis poses with their trophy after winning Feast of the Immaculate Conception of America to being one nation under their third straight state title in the Indiana Association of School Principals Spell Bowl State and the Feast of St. Juan Diego, God, a restoration of religious liberty, Championship. Led by Coaches Mary Ann Chamberlin and Carol Golden, the team correctly to whom Our Lady of Guadalupe, and worthiness for Christ’s peace. spelled 69 of a possible 72 words. The state finals were held at Purdue University on Nov. 15 patroness of the Americas and the The event is hosted by the parish’s in front of a standing-room-only crowd. The season started with nearly 180 teams, with unborn, appeared in Mexico on St. Gianni Pro-Life ministry. only 30 teams qualifying for the state finals. St. Roch’s margin of victory was an impressive Dec. 9, 1531. For more information, contact six words. Spellers Elizabeth Bradley, Elizabeth Eads, Eva Fox, Olivia Noone, Abigail Snyder, The National Night of Prayer Phyllis Burkholder at 812-246-2252. † Audrey Troxell, and Jacob West all had perfect scores. (Submitted photo) The Criterion Friday, November 28, 2014 Page 7 Volunteer, sisters recognized for ‘looking for the face of Christ’

By Natalie Hoefer

When Dr. Peter Blankenhorn became a partner in a medical practice in Indianapolis in 1988, he decided to volunteer doing medical visits at nursing homes. “Every week, I’d go to one of probably six different nursing homes on my afternoon off,” he said. “But I eventually stopped going to all of them because the care was so bad.” There was one exception, however—one nursing home he liked so much that he kept making rounds for the next 26 years: the St. Augustine Home for the Aged in Indianapolis, operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor. “It was so well run,” he said. “You could tell that everyone there cared about the patients. They were doing it because it was a mission, not because they were getting paid, and that makes a big difference.” After 26 years of serving at the home with no pay— including 15 years as its medical director—Blankenhorn has made a big difference at St. Augustine Home, too. For his efforts and for his “caring and listening,” says administrator and Mother Superior Sister Mary Vincent Mannion, the Little Sisters recognized Blankenhorn at a fundraising dinner on Nov. 14 in Indianapolis. “He’s been a wonderful, wonderful doctor,” said Mother Mary Vincent. “You could call him day or night. He was a real father to [the residents], as well as their doctor. They loved him.” The feeling was mutual. “I like the elderly,” said Blankenhorn. “They have so much to offer. They’re interesting people, if you talk to Seven of the nine Little Sisters of the Poor who operate the St. Augustine Home for the Aged in Indianapolis sing during the entrance them. They have great stories. It’s rewarding work.” hymn at a Nov. 14 Mass concelebrated by Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin prior to a fundraising dinner held on the sisters’ behalf. Blankenhorn, who attends a Presbyterian church with (Photos by Natalie Hoefer) his wife, Kristie, has worked for St. Vincent health network since they purchased his private practice several years ago. He retired from St. Vincent this summer to become the medical director for American United Life Insurance Co. (AUL) in Indianapolis. “I started doing life insurance work [as medical director] at AUL for a friend of mine when he would go out of town,” he said. “He’s retiring, and it just was a good time [for me to retire from medical practice]. “Health care is changing so much,” Blankenship explained. “It is no longer doctor/patient oriented. It’s insurance companies calling the rules, and nobody likes that. So that was my impetus to leave. “You don’t get the rewarding interaction you get from [working directly with] patients, but it’s nice for someone getting older.” After St. Vincent’s two-year non-compete term is completed, Blankenhorn said he hopes “to come back to the Little Sisters of the Poor and volunteer on weekends, see patients—whatever they need.” Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, who celebrated Mass immediately before the event and served as its keynote speaker, presented Blankenhorn with a framed Above, during a Nov. 14 fundraiser dinner, Dr. Peter Blankenship, left, and his commendation he signed, recognizing the doctor’s 26 years wife Kristie, smile as Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin prepares to call Blankenship of generous service to the Little Sisters of the Poor. to the podium to receive a framed commendation signed by the archbishop, “The way we look at the people we’re helping comes recognizing the doctor’s 26 years of volunteer service at the Little Sisters of the out of what we believe,” the archbishop said in his address Poor St. Augustine Home for the Aged in Indianapolis. before 380 attendees. “The sisters, in looking for the face of Christ in the ones who enter their home, are operating Right, Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin delivers a homily at a Mass he out of their belief. concelebrated prior to a fundraising dinner held on the Little Sisters of the “We thank the sisters for reminding us to sharpen our Poor’s behalf on Nov. 14 in Indianapolis. eyesight and to walk the talk, that in our response to faith we are doing it because of Christ.” Jim Zinc, who serves on the home’s advisory board, Mother Mary Vincent admitted. The fundraiser is held annually to help the Little Sisters said the Little Sister’s reserve accounts “are exhausted.” But like the Little Sisters’ founder, St. Jeanne Jugan, in their mission to house and care for the poor elderly. “The reserves are normally the result of legacies who worked “out of [God’s] providence through the “Since 1873, the Little Sisters of the Poor have been that are left to them throughout the year,” he said. “The generosity of others,” Mother Mary Vincent said the trying blessed to serve the poor elderly in Indiana,” said Mother legacies are just not what they’ve been in the past. People times are not so scary “when you trust in the providence Mary Vincent. tend to give a lot in December, but January and February of God. She said it costs approximately $4.8 million per year to are lean.” “I’ve lost sleep over many things, but never money.” operate St. Augustine Home, which houses 96 residents Mother Mary Vincent admitted that God sometimes and nine sisters. takes them “right to the brink. (For more information about the Little Sisters of the Poor’s “Our payroll alone is $260,000 a month,” she explained. “With the cutbacks in Medicaid funding and St. Augustine Home for the Aged in Indianapolis, log on to “And 67 percent of our income is from donations.” expenses going up, it is indeed a scary time,” www.littlesistersofthepoorindianapolis.org.) † Archdiocese seeks representatives to attend 2015 World Meeting of Families portion with three questions: of Families, and will take place in the the globe. 1) What gifts and strengths do you bring United States for the first time. It is The first World of Families took that would be beneficial to the pilgrimage expected to draw thousands of attendees place in Rome in 1994, the International to the World Meeting of Families? from more than 150 countries and more “Year of the Family,” and has been held 2) What do you hope to learn during the than 1 million pilgrims for the Sunday in Rio de Janeiro (1997); Rome (2000); Special to The Criterion pilgrimage? Mass at which Pope Francis will be the Manila (2003); Valencia, Spain (2006); 3) How do you plan on bringing back principal celebrant. Mexico City (2009); and Milan (2012). The Archdiocese of Indianapolis is what you learn to your family, parish and The theme for the 2015 World Meeting Financial assistance for participating in seeking families and individuals to become community to enhance and build up the of Families, “Love Is Our Mission: The the weeklong pilgrimage to Philadelphia part of an archdiocesan representative Christian family in the Church and society Family Fully Alive,” emphasizes the may be available. group at the 2015 World Meeting of within the Archdiocese of Indianapolis? impact of the love and life of families For more information, to nominate Families that will be held from Sept. 20-28, The application and nomination on society. This worldwide gathering a family or to apply as a family to 2015, in Philadelphia. deadline is Jan. 13, 2015. will allow families to hear distinguished represent the archdiocese at this historical Pope Francis has confirmed that he will The group from the archdiocese speakers, share thoughts, participate in event, please visit www.archindy.org/ attend the gathering, and celebrate Mass on will be diverse in family type (nuclear, dialogue and prayer and work together to wmf2015 or contact Scott Seibert at Sept. 26 for an estimated 1 million people. single-parent, blended, grandparents as grow as individuals and families while 800-317-236-1527 or 317-236-1527 or Families and individuals from across parents), state of life (married, divorced, focusing on the role of the Christian family e-mail [email protected]. central and southern Indiana will be never married, religious, priest, deacon) as in the Church and society. For general information regarding the selected to represent the archdiocese by well as in age, location in the archdiocese The World Meeting of Families was World Meeting of Families as well as application or nomination process, which and ethnicity. initiated by St. John Paul II to strengthen parish and school catechetical resources, includes family demographics and an essay This will be the eighth World Meeting the sacred bonds of families across visit www.worldmeeting2015.org. † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, November 28, 2014 DIVERSITY continued from page 1 traditions, histories, but lit with the light of Christ,” said Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin before saying the opening prayer. Franciscan Brother Moises Gutierrez, director of the archdiocesan Office of Intercultural Ministry, described the three-fold purpose of the event. “We want to show how diverse the archdiocese is, to celebrate that,” he said of the first reason. “Second, we want to celebrate the ministry that our three honorees have been doing for years and years serving the people from the different cultures. They are for us an example to follow.” The evening had a third component of raising money to assist in the works of the Office of Intercultural Ministry, Brother Moises explained. He said that funds raised will be used “to minister to the many cultural groups in formation [through the office’s Intercultural Pastoral Formation Institute], to help lay ministers develop skills, and [for] events to appreciate each other in our diversity.” Before the awards ceremony, the 400 attendees savored foods from around the world—all homemade by various ethnic groups. As with the food, the evening’s entertainment took attendees across Members of the archdiocesan Apostolate of French-Speaking Catholics’ choir sing a song of praise in French during the Intercultural Ministry Awards Dinner the globe, featuring traditional African, on Nov. 15. Many of those involved in the apostolate come from French-speaking African countries as well as from France, and participate in the Mass in Filipino and Mexican dances and French at St. Michael the Archangel Church in Indianapolis on the second Sunday of each month. (Photos by Natalie Hoefer) songs from a 17-year-old Vietnamese soloist, the choir of the Apostolate of French-Speaking Catholics, and the Gospel Choir of Holy Angels Parish in Indianapolis. “This is a great thing, to come with what you know of your culture and get together with others who share your values,” said Louis Dotsu, a native of Togo in West Africa and a member of St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg. “You take from them also, so that can enrich [you]. You learn, and you share what you know.” He sings in the archdiocesan Apostolate of French-Speaking Catholics’ choir, as does Anne Brouwer, a native of France who is also a member of St. Malachy Parish. “It’s humbling [to share your faith with those from other nations] because you get to meet people from different corners of the world,” said Brouwer. “Even just in the French group, we are so diverse, WRTV Channel 6 investigative reporter Rafael Sanchez, who served as emcee along with former WRTV Father Kenneth Taylor, pastor of St. Rita and because there are so many countries Channel 6 news anchor Grace Trahan-Rodecap at the Intercultural Ministry Awards Dinner on Nov. 15, Holy Angels parishes, both in Indianapolis, that are French-speaking. Getting to takes a “selfie” with Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, left, Trahan (partially obscured), Intercultural Ministry addresses the audience on Nov. 15 after sing and pray in my language—I didn’t Award winner Father Michael O’Mara, archdiocesan chancellor Annette “Mickey” Lentz, and Office of receiving an Intercultural Ministry Award for realize it would mean something to me, Intercultural Ministry director Franciscan Brother Moises Gutierrez. the important role he played in establishing an but it does.” intercultural ministry in the archdiocese. As director of religious education of four full-time people,” Father Taylor appreciate the “richness of diversity.” at culturally diverse St. Monica Parish said in his acceptance speech. He The archbishop quoted from the in Indianapolis, Mary Jo Thomas-Day resigned from the leadership position last apostolic exhortation “The Joy of the is appreciative of the archdiocese’s year after being elected as president of the Gospel,” in which, said Archbishop Office of Intercultural Ministry. National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus. Tobin, “Pope Francis wrote that ‘cultural “Being at St. Monica’s, being part Providence Sister Marikay Duffy diversity is not a threat to Church unity.’ of an intercultural community, I really received the Intercultural Ministry Award He said that ‘unity … is never uniformity support this evening,” she said. “I really for her 38 years of service to the Hispanic but a multifaceted and inviting harmony.’ believe in multiculturalism, that we’re all community in the archdiocese. “Pope Francis is calling for diversity one in Christ. No matter what our cultural “Was it challenging?” she asked in her because, again in his words, ‘The faith background, we all belong to the family address after receiving the award. “Yes. cannot be constricted to the limits of of God.” But did I love it? Yes, yes and yes. … I understanding and expression of any A Matachines dance group performs a For Claudette Young, a member learned to deepen my own faith, and trust one culture.’ We are not all the same, and traditional Mexican Matachina—a dance dating of St. Rita Parish in Indianapolis, the in the providence of God as I worked what a sad thing it would be if we were.” back to the time of the Spanish conquest of evening made her feel “filled with joy. alongside people who were doing the Archbishop Tobin went on to identify America—during the Intercultural Ministry This is a wonderful thing for my heart.” same, day after day.” three gifts that come from embracing Awards Dinner on Nov. 15. In this particular Young was in attendance to see her Father Michael O’Mara, pastor of cultural diversity. dance, Our Lady of Guadalupe is venerated by pastor Father Kenneth Taylor, who is St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in “First, and most importantly, it allows music and movement, and through her image also pastor of Holy Angels Parish in Indianapolis, also received an award for the Church in central and southern on the dancers’ costumes and headdresses. Indianapolis, receive one of the evening’s his dedicated service to the Hispanic Indiana to continue the double miracle three Intercultural Ministry Awards. The community. of Pentecost,” he said. Not only did platitudes, paternalism and patronizing award recognizes individuals for their “I go back to my days as pastor at Pentecost provide the miracle of each to a grateful appreciation of the gifts contributions and service to Catholics of St. Philip Neri [Parish in Indianapolis],” person hearing the Good News in his of other people. We can truly become a various cultural backgrounds. he said in his address. “On a railroad truss own language, the archbishop explained, ‘catholic’ Church.” Father Taylor was the first leader of [not far from the parish], there is a saying but also the miracle of the Holy Spirit Archbishop Tobin noted that “when we what was then called the archdiocesan by Mahatma Ghandi. It says, ‘The little creating unity. love our neighbor, we discover the face Office of Multicultural Ministry. When that you do may seem insignificant, but it The second gift of embracing different of God, and we experience the power of the ministry started in 1996, Father Taylor is most important that you do it.’ I think cultures that the archbishop identified is God’s love in us. was the only staff member, and even that that saying has had such an impact on me “the blessedness of the poor in spirit. … “No one should ever be called an position was only part time. through all of my ministry.” As Paul says throughout the second letter alien—there are no aliens—in the family “It’s an extra good sign from Archbishop Tobin delivered the to the Corinthians, God chooses the weak of God.” Archbishop Tobin that he was committed keynote address for the evening. He and the poor and makes them strong, so to focusing on highlighting the diversity noted that, having visited 71 countries it’s clear that it is his power that gets the (For more information on of the archdiocese, that he took the office, in his past leadership roles for the job done.” the archdiocesan Office of which for so many years was an office of Redemptorist religious order and Lastly, he said, “In embracing cultural Intercultural Ministry, log on to one person part time, and made an office speaking five languages, he has come to diversity and its unity, we can move from www.archindy.org/multicultural.) † The Criterion Friday, November 28, 2014 Page 9 Carmelite nun experiences trials on pathway to consecrated life

(Editor’s note: Pope Francis has designated The Year to discern that God might be calling her to a life as a for Consecrated Life to celebrate the life and ministry of Carmelite nun. However, advice she received from a religious men and women who serve Christ and the Church. spiritual director and a priest led her to put following this The year begins the weekend of Nov. 29-30, and ends on possible call on hold. Feb. 2, 2016, the World Day of Consecrated Life.) “I pushed away that thought and desire for two years,” she said. “But it never went away. It kept coming back.” By Sean Gallagher “Become a holy nun” Discalced Carmelite Sister Marianna So lives a hidden She was about to enter a Carmelite monastery in life in the Monastery of St. Joseph in Terre Haute. Long Beach, Calif., in 1985, when her mother suffered a For more than 20 years, she has prayed daily for the debilitating stroke. Church and the world as she gives service to her community “I was confused,” Sister Marianna said. “I thought it of contemplative Carmelite nuns that, by design, always was God’s will for me to enter religious life. But then she numbers around 12 members. became ill, and had no one to care for her except me.” The life that Sister Marianna leads—a life set apart for She chose to remain at home to care for her ailing the worship of God and intercession for his people—is mother. Looking back on that time, Sister Marianna says being honored in the Church during a Year of Consecrated that experience helped to prepare her for the religious life. Life, called for by Pope Francis, that starts this weekend. “I lived like a cloistered nun during those four years,” Sister Marianna says that the Year for Consecrated Life she said. “I stopped all of my activities and ministries in Discalced Carmelite Sister Marianna So, center, kneels in prayer will be “a time of renewal for me.” my parish. The only ministry I kept was an extraordinary in the chapel of the Monastery of St. Joseph in Terre Haute. (Photo “Hopefully, with a deepened faith and understanding, I minister of holy Communion in order to give my mother courtesy of Monastery of St. Joseph) will recommit myself in ever greater gratitude,” she said. Communion every day.” “During many years of living as a cloistered nun, I have Finally, her mother, knowing of her desire to become “A witness to … putting God first” come to believe that this is my calling, to acknowledge a nun, had Sister Marianna arrange for her to live in a While Sister Marianna was still a novice, the Carmelite him who is all powerful and ever-loving and to give thanks Catholic nursing home. community in Long Beach decided to close their monastery and praise, and like St. Teresa of Avila, to sing forever the Sister Marianna then entered the monastery in and disperse to other communities in the United States. mercies of the Lord.” Long Beach in 1989. She eventually was accepted into the Monastery of Though her life can seem very different from the vast A year later, her mother had to have surgery. She had St. Joseph in Terre Haute, and became the first of several majority of lay Catholics that make up the Church, the already suffered from the effects of her stroke for many nuns from cultures around the world to join the community. path that Sister Marianna walked toward her vocation is years, and now was enduring even more pain. Sister Although there are only 14 members, they hail from one experienced by many people today. Marianna was allowed to be at the hospital with her. Great Britain, South Korea, Trinidad, the United States and It was a life marked by walking away from the faith “When I went into the recovery room, my mother was Vietnam. of her childhood, having a conversion as a young adult, there, coming out of her anesthesia,” Sister Marianna said. “None of us chose each other,” Sister Marianna said. “It discerning a religious vocation, caring for her ailing mother “She was crying and calling out my name. I held her hand was Christ who brought all of us together. And in Christ, we and having her faith shaken by witnessing the pain and and told her that everything was fine and that the surgery remain and live our lives joyfully. That’s a witness. There is agony that preceded her mother’s death. was successful. diversity, yes. But there’s also unity.” Born in South Korea to fallen-away Catholics, “Then she told me, ‘I laid down all of my suffering and Carmelite Mother Anne Brackmann is the prioress of the Sister Marianna, 58, had little contact with the faith from pain for you, to become a holy nun.’ Those were her last Monastery of St. Joseph. She sees the unity of her diverse the time she was baptized and received her first Communion words to me.” community grounded in their common Carmelite culture. at age 8 until her young adult years in southern California, Sister Marianna returned to her monastery while her “We all embrace it,” she said. “Then, in the midst of where her family had emigrated when she was 18. mother went back to her nursing home. Shortly thereafter, living that, there are significant cultural elements that we her mother suffered another stroke, entered into a coma and try to learn from each other, primarily by the nuns from the Abandoning and returning to the faith did not regain consciousness. other cultures telling their stories.” Sister Marianna was baptized as a child only after her Living as a contemplative nun that is hidden both to the father died suddenly when she was 7. That sad event led “I began to feel angry at God” broader Church and the rest of the world, Sister Marianna is her mother to return to the Catholic faith that she had In the last four months of her mother’s life, still convinced that she and her fellow Carmelites provide a earlier abandoned. Sister Marianna saw her experience even more pain. prophetic witness to secular society. But soon thereafter, the family moved and again gave up The nutrition that her mother received through a feeding “The sacrifices we make living this daily life as the practice of the faith. tube increased her suffering and could not be digested by Carmelite nuns are a witness to the Church and the world It wasn’t until Sister Marianna was a young adult living her body. of the primacy of God’s existence and putting God first,” in southern California in the early 1980s that her mother had Previously, in Sister Marianna’s life of faith, a crucifix she said a more permanent conversion experience. After that, she had always spoken to her of God’s love. At the same time, Mother Anne shares with the tried to persuade her daughter to return to the Church. That vision of love utterly disappeared in the face of her Carmelite nuns that she leads an “admiration” for the lives Fully embracing what she called a “worldly life,” mother’s suffering. of faith that lay Catholics around the world seek to live Sister Marianna paid no heed to her mother’s invitations. “I began to see the cruelty of the crucifixion,” each day. “I had denied the existence of God,” Sister Marianna Sister Marianna said. “It didn’t comfort me anymore. It “We receive many requests for prayers,” Mother Anne said. “I had never known about God’s love, so I resisted became more of a desolation.” said. “They come primarily through the Internet. We see very strongly for a whole year. But she kept praying for me She even thought that God was cruel in allowing her the tragic situations that people are in, and the support and talking about God’s love.” mother to endure such trials. that they ask of our prayers. That just really motivates us After a while, her mother stopped talking to her daughter “I began to feel angry at God,” Sister Marianna said. “I very much.” about the faith, but her witness of living it began to contemplated taking revenge. I was very tempted. I was Sister Marianna knows that God might be calling some have an effect. thinking about how to do that. I thought that the perfect people living in the middle of the world to consecrate “She became quiet, but was offering me to Jesus and revenge would be to walk away from religious life, walk themselves to him as she has done. to our Blessed Mother. She offered me to them, saying, away from the Church, walk away from God. “They have to really listen to their hearts,” she said. ‘She is yours. Do whatever you want to do with her,’ ” “That would be my revenge, to turn my back on God.” “God speaks to our human hearts. It’s very important to Sister Marianna recalled. “That brought about my own She was about to act on those dark thoughts when she listen in silence to that soft, gentle nudging or calling of conversion experience [in 1982].” remembered her mother’s final words to her. God to consecration.” Sister Marianna fully embraced her faith, becoming “I couldn’t do that to her,” Sister Marianna said. “I involved in parish ministries and a charismatic couldn’t walk away from my mother. That kept me in (For more information about the prayer group. religious life. I always think about that every time I Carmelite Monastery of St. Joseph in Terre Haute, Within a couple of years, Sister Marianna began have a difficulty.” log on to www.heartsawake.org.) †

“More [archdiocesan] priests have been “A great grace in my life has always the face a little bit more. You ponder them RENEWAL formed [at Saint Meinrad] than anywhere been my engagement in the celebration a little bit more.” continued from page 3 else,” he said. “If you look at all of the of the Mass,” Father Beidelman said. At the same time, Gardner people that were there during the time of “Even before I was an altar server, I can acknowledges that the earlier music College before completing it at the change—which were big ordination classes remember really being aware of what was traditions in the Church that were quickly Pontifical North American College in most cases—that had a tremendous going on, being interested in it and being left behind when the liturgical reforms in Rome. impact on how the liturgy was celebrated drawn to it. I’ve had a love for my Mass all began to be implemented are starting to be He said that the faculty at Saint Meinrad by most of them.” my life. used again. instilled in him and his fellow seminarians “I think that was cultivated, not only “Some of the appreciation for that is a value of “ars celebrandi,” the art of ‘Engagement in celebration of Mass’ by my parents’ example and guidance of returning,” he said. “But it’s taken quite a celebrating the liturgy well. Father Patrick Beidelman, current me, but also my ability to comprehend it few years.” “One of the things that you learned executive director of the archdiocesan [in English], and perceive it, and to see it Even Father Beidelman, who never at Saint Meinrad in particular was the Secretariat for Spiritual Life and Worship done well.” experienced the Mass celebrated in Latin importance of good liturgy,” Father Gilday and pastor-rector of SS. Peter and Paul Retired Msgr. Frederick Easton while growing up, says that he has come to said. “You realize that celebrating well is Cathedral Parish in Indianapolis, was was ordained in 1966, two years after appreciate its use in liturgies where people important.” born in 1972, eight years after Vatican permission was given to use the vernacular who speak a variety of languages are Helping seminarians value celebrating II’s liturgical renewal began to be in the liturgy. Yet over the course of worshipping together. the liturgy well during a time when it was implemented. his nearly 50 years of priestly life and “On this occasion where we are developing rapidly was a challenge that He, too, received his priestly formation ministry, he has used his knowledge celebrating the use of our native Father Columba and his fellow faculty at Saint Meinrad and was ordained a priest of Latin constantly in his ministry languages,” Father Beidelman said, “we members were up to. in 1998. in canon law in the archdiocese’s also need to recall how helpful it would be “All of those people were dedicated to Yet, unlike the priests and seminarians Metropolitan Tribunal. … for us to remember that Latin still has making this new rite work,” he said. “We active at the time of the start of the Nevertheless, praying in the vernacular a place in what we’re about as a Church— had mutual support and the students, I implementation of the liturgical renewal in seems wholly natural to him. not as much in the everyday [experience] think, saw that.” 1964, he grew up experiencing the Mass “You’re praying in a language that for most of us, but certainly in some They saw it and were affected by it, said only in the vernacular and with the priest is more immediately conscious to you,” special celebrations to connect with folks Father Gilday. facing the congregation. Msgr. Easton said. “The words hit you in of other language groups.” † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, November 28, 2014 Jesus invites all to take risk ‘of being more,’ says Chicago archbishop

CHICAGO (CNS)—At that his grandparents helped communion with us is not for the his installation as the ninth to found. perfect, but is for the salvation archbishop of Chicago on Nov. 18, During his homily, the of souls, for the lost, the forlorn Archbishop Blase J. Cupich urged archbishop explained that all and those who are adrift,” the the congregation at Chicago’s four of his grandparents were archbishop said. “That is why now, Holy Name Cathedral to fearlessly immigrants from Croatia, and in our day, Peter, in his successor, share their faith recognizing that the date was meant to recognize Pope Francis, urges us to take up God calls them “to more” and “to immigrants. It’s also the feast of the task of crossing the seas to greater things.” St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, seek out, to invite and accompany Before an overflow crowd, the who ministered to native others, because the risen Christ is archbishop said he had “a bit of people, so the date recognizes in the boat with us,” he concluded. a panic attack” when he saw the both Native Americans and the Archbishop Cupich’s homily day’s Gospel reading was about contributions of religious sisters, was heard by a congregation Jesus walking on water and calling he said. that included seven cardinals his disciples to follow him. Talking about the day’s and about 95 archbishops and “I realize this new readings, he followed up his bishops as well as hundreds of responsibility is going to be remark about “Jesus walking on priests. It also was broadcast live Archbishop Blase J. Cupich walks down center aisle of Holy Name Cathedral demanding,” he said in his homily, water” and his quip about how on all Chicago news stations, the in Chicago at the start of his installation Mass on Nov. 18. Pope Francis named “but seriously folks, I don’t do he himself “can barely swim,” by Eternal Word Television Network Archbishop Cupich in September to succeed Cardinal Francis E. George as ‘walking on water.’ I can barely adding that among the lessons the and Relevant Radio. Chicago’s archbishop. (CNS photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, Reuters) swim. So I hope this image in Gospel story is meant to teach is All eight of the archbishop’s today’s Gospel is not reflective of that the experience of sharing life siblings attended the installation. anyone’s expectations.” with God should prompt us to seek They, and their children and During the Mass at Holy others to share that life with them, grandchildren, made for a family Name Cathedral, the Archdiocese just as Jesus sought his disciples group of about 55 people, most of Chicago welcomed its in the boat, even if it “seems so of whom arrived in Chicago on ninth archbishop with several daunting, as daunting as walking Nov. 17 and got to spend some outpourings of applause and on water.” time sightseeing before that gratitude for Archbishop Cupich To do that authentically, evening’s rite of reception for the and his predecessor, Cardinal Christians must reach back to new archbishop at the cathedral. Francis E. George. their own baptismal calling, he One evening, the family After Cardinal George began said. That’s what bishops must had dinner at the cardinal’s the Mass, Archbishop Carlo do as they continue to work residence cooked by the Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio in the aftermath of the sexual Polish women religious who to the United States, read abuse crisis. take care of the residence, the apostolic mandate from “Working together to protect according to Margaret Altman, Pope Francis appointing children, to bring healing to victim Archbishop Cupich’s sister. Archbishop Blase J. Cupich, left, talks with Cardinal Francis E. George during his Archbishop Cupich to Chicago, survivors, and to rebuild the trust “It was a lovely Polish meal,” installation at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on Nov. 18. Archbishop Cupich and he formally accepted. that has been shattered in our she told the Catholic New was named in September by Pope Francis to succeed Cardinal George, who Then Archbishop Vigano communities by our mishandling is World, Chicago’s archdiocesan retired as Chicago’s archbishop. (CNS photo/Antonio Perez, Reuters via Chicago Tribune) and Cardinal George escorted our sacred duty, as is holding each newspaper. Archbishop Cupich to the other accountable, for that is what They also took time for interested, they have confidence City was Margaret Simonson, cathedra, the bishop’s chair, and he we pledge to do,” he said. Chicago-style pizza and shopping, that new archbishop can navigate the chancellor, who said was presented with a crozier used Jesus does more than seek and the men in the family saw the waters. Chicago is fortunate to have by Cardinal George Mundelein. out his Apostles in that Gospel the Chicago Bears beat the “I think he’s very used to it,” Archbishop Cupich. A standing ovation from the passage, Archbishop Cupich said. Minnesota Vikings at Soldier Field said Bill Altman, Margaret’s “I think he was made for this congregation led directly into the He also invites Peter to join him on Nov. 16. husband. “He’ll do very well.” place,” she said. “I think he’s going “Gloria.” on the water. “Jesus invites us, not Many family members had Margaret Altman handled to do a great job for you.” It was the first time since only to take the risk of leaving our attended Archbishop Cupich’s getting dozens of Cupich relations One of the first people in becoming an archdiocese in 1880 comfort zone, but also to deal with ordination as a bishop in together and on the same page for the entrance procession for the that a Chicago archbishop lived to the tension involved in change ... Rapid City, S.D., in 1998, and his what turned out to be something Mass was Roland Nightingale, see the transfer of authority to a and to challenge each other to do installation as bishop of Spokane, of a family reunion, bringing in a Knight of Peter Claver. After new ordinary. so,” he said. Wash., in 2010, but the scale of members from California and the Mass, he said he enjoyed Archbishop Cupich chose the Then Jesus got into the boat, the events in Chicago was quite Kansas as well as Nebraska, the opportunity to hear the new date for his installation because despite all the fear, doubt and a bit bigger, said Kathy Schulte, among other places. She brought archbishop on the day he took his it is the commemoration of the jealousy that was ruling the Archbishop Cupich’s sister. a bag of red-and-white ribbons to seat in Holy Name Cathedral. dedication of the Basilicas of relationships among the Apostles, While his relatives said the the installation Mass to identify “It was nice,” he said. “I’m sure Sts. Peter and Paul in Rome. He he said, and that demonstrates how experience was more intense family members. he’ll be a blessing, and take us in grew up in Sts. 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IS-5987722 A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2014 by FaithAlive! Catholic News Service. Advent calls Catholics to be open to God’s surprises By David Gibson

Conventional wisdom holds that it is always in our best interests to be watchful, to remain on alert when going about daily life. We might otherwise be ambushed by unforeseen developments, surprises that disrupt our best laid plans or shake our hopes. Naturally, there are lots of surprises that everyone welcomes, the kind that renew hope and make us want to cheer. The more the better! The problem is that most of us experience many unpleasant surprises, the kinds that send us searching for consolation. Perhaps a sudden development at home or work alarms us. Maybe someone we greatly love makes a decision that frightens or unsettles us, leaving us feeling lost or confused. It might come as a blow when a 17-year-old announces out of the blue that he will not go to college, or a spouse refuses help in fighting an addiction or serious illness takes its toll on a family member. Then we wonder what is being asked of us and what steps to take next. Our roles, somewhat clear to us yesterday, are not as clear today. After some big surprises, life can feel uncomfortably unpredictable. Just when we have our work lives pretty much under control, or when our relationships at home are humming along smoothly, the ground underneath us shifts a little—or a lot. We may not like this, at least Pope Francis incenses a statue of Mary and relics of Sts. John XXIII and John Paul II as he celebrates Mass at the Verano cemetery in not immediately. Rome on Nov. 1, the feast of All Saints. Advent, which begins on Nov. 30, is a season, the pope has said, when we should be open like No wonder people become not only watchful, but Mary was to the surprises that God places in our lives. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) wary, particularly after one of life’s big surprises results in suffering for them. decided to divorce her quietly. of the Lord, who is likely to arrive by an unusual route Watchfulness, as it turns out, is a particular virtue of “Such was his intention when, behold, the angel of and to invite us to accompany him along it. the Advent season. “Watching is the virtue, the attitude the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, … ‘Do When an unexpected development disrupts plans of of pilgrims,” Pope Francis remarked during Advent last not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. ours, could it possibly mean that, as with Joseph, God year. This is a time to “open our souls in watchfulness.” For it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has has reserved another plan for us? Wary watchfulness did not seem to be what he had in been conceived’ ” (Mt. 1:18-20). Pope Francis often talks about God’s surprises. He mind, however. He hoped Christians in Advent would Joseph “was following a good plan for his life, but once recommended that people ask whether they “are watch “like Mary,” who was anticipating Jesus’ birth. God was reserving another plan for him,” Pope Francis afraid of what God might ask.” During Advent, he said, “the Holy Spirit moves in the commented last year during Advent. However, since Mary did “not hide her surprise” and “astonishment” heart of each one of us, forming this prayer within us: Joseph “always listened to the voice of God,” he “did not when the angel told her “that God, to become man, ‘Come, come!’ ” persist in following his own plan for his life.” had chosen her, a simple maid of Nazareth,” the pope In Advent, Christians wait expectantly for the surprise Furthermore, the pope continued, after hearing such noted. He proposed a question anyone might ask: “Do of Christmas—the coming of God into the world. Might “bewildering” news about Mary, Joseph “did not allow I let myself be surprised by God, as Mary was, or do I a more unexpected surprise of Christmas disrupt life bitterness to poison his soul.” remain caught up in my own safety zone?” for us, or prompt a shift in our best laid plans? Yes, but No doubt, it can be tough to meet the standard set Often “we seek God here, and he waits for us presumably not a change for the worse. by Joseph, particularly when we fear that a surprising there,” the pope observed on another occasion. For, Think of St. Joseph. He is a key biblical model for development may spell suffering for us or others. But here “God is a God of surprises. He always surprises us, Advent, someone hugely surprised in a manner that must Advent challenges us. always, always.” at first have felt sad and unpleasant. We read: Advent calls us to be watchful. It challenges us to be So be watchful in Advent. Try to see how God is “When [Jesus’] mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, on the lookout for God’s presence and his questions for us mysteriously at work in life’s big and little surprises. but before they lived together, she was found with child when life’s welcome and not-so-welcome surprises occur. through the Holy Spirit. … Since he was a righteous This is not a call to passivity or inaction when surprises (David Gibson served on Catholic News Service’s man, yet unwilling to expose her to shame, [Joseph] drop into our laps. But it is a call to watch for the coming editorial staff for 37 years.) †

Prepare for Christ’s second coming while making Christmas plans By Marcellino D’Ambrosio showed up, in person, working miracles beyond their we do?” The pastor says: “For God’s sake, Father, look wildest expectations. But they failed to recognize him. busy! Look busy!” Have you ever had one of those days when you wish How could this have happened? The analysis by Jesus It’s not a question of just being busy, but being busy God would show up, snap his fingers and work miracles? that we read about in Mark 13:33-37, the Gospel reading with the right things: pursuing God and doing his will. The people of Israel had years like that, groaning under for the First Sunday of Advent, is that they were asleep The Puritans recognized that holiday merriment the oppression of one tyrant after another. on the job. distracted people from the true meaning of Christ’s birth. The problem was that God answered their prayer. He Sure, they busied themselves with a variety of Their solution was to ban the holiday and its festivities. activities, including pious practices. But constant The Catholic approach is not to ban it, but to use it. movement can make you tune out or lull you to In the preoccupation of buying Christmas gifts for all sleep, like a baby on a long car ride. “Asleep” means of our loved ones, do we remember that God bestowed unconscious, unaware, lethargic. on us spiritual gifts designed to ready us for his coming? We are asked not just to believe that God exists, but There are the gifts of the sacraments, the treasury of to pursue him and his will for our lives. He promises Catholic prayer and spirituality, the rich heritage of to come again. Advent first and foremost is a time heroes and saints, charisms and gifts of the Holy Spirit. to remember that Christ is coming back, and that we Wouldn’t it be great if this year’s Christmas list was must be better prepared for his second coming than the filled with gifts that would help people unpack God’s Israelites were for his first one. spiritual gifts? We can give presents that have something But what has society done with Advent? It has to do with Jesus, whose birth we celebrate. We can turned it into the shopping days before Christmas, as if precede every visit to the shopping mall with a visit to we weren’t already distracted. Now it’s time to drown the Blessed Sacrament. out the still, small voice with the “fa-la-la-la-la” of Maybe as we deck the halls, we should devote equal Christmas carols. Between the frenzy at the mall and the attention to clothing ourselves with the virtues that will Monica Wallace, left, with brother MJ, sister Grace, and mother party at the office, it’s easy to forget the true reason for please him even more than the holly and the ivy. Christine, light an Advent wreath at their Maryland home. The the season. Catholic faith has many Advent traditions that help the faithful Have you heard the joke about the young priest who (Marcellino D’Ambrosio writes from Texas. He is prepare spiritually for Christmas and Christ’s second coming. rushes into the pastor’s office and says, “The Lord has co-founder of Crossroads Productions, an apostolate of (CNS photo/Tom McCarthy Jr., Catholic Review) been spotted walking up the aisle of the church. What do Catholic renewal and evangelization.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, November 28, 2014 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Old Testament: The story of the Maccabees Faithful marriages (Forty-seventh in a series of columns) 161 B.C. feast of Hanukkah. Alexander the Great’s successors took The author makes it clear that Judas’ offer a foretaste The First and Second Books of the culture of Greece to Jerusalem and victories came because of divine help, as he of the heavenly Maccabees are not included in Jewish its environs, prohibiting Jewish religious prayed before battles and praised God when Bibles. Hebrew Bibles end practices and turning the Temple into a he celebrated his victories. wedding feast with Chronicles even though shrine to Zeus. Some Jews eagerly went In Chapter 12 of Second Maccabees, the events in Ezra and along, while others did not. Judas took up a collection that he sent The season of Advent that begins this Nehemiah happened later. Eventually, practicing Jews were put to to Jerusalem as an expiatory sacrifice weekend is a time of joy that is ultimately However, the books were death. Chapter 6 of Second Maccabees tells for soldiers who died in battle while rooted in our hope for heaven. included in the Christian the story of the martyrdom of an old man wearing amulets sacred to the idols of Many marketing Old Testament when the named Eleazar, killed for refusing to eat Jamnia. He did that “inasmuch as he had professionals try to convince Church selected the books in pork, and Chapter 7 tells the inspiring story the resurrection of the dead in view” us at this time of year that its canon, and St. Jerome translated them. of a mother and her seven sons who were (2 Mc 12:43). “Thus he made atonement we can have heaven here on The events in Ezra and Nehemiah cruelly tortured and martyred. for the dead that they might be freed from Earth if we just receive the occurred from the sixth to the fourth Finally, Mattathias, of the priestly this sin” (2 Mc 12:46). This serves as perfect Christmas gift. centuries B.C. In Maccabees, we jump Hasmonean family, became infuriated when an Old Testament basis for the Catholic But we who seek to be ahead to the second century B.C. Between he witnessed a Jew offering sacrifice to belief in purgatory. Christ’s disciples know those periods, the most important the Greek gods. He killed the man and the After Judas was killed in battle, he better, even if we experience some happiness development was the conquering of most of king’s messenger, and then rallied the people was succeeded by his brother Jonathan. in exchanging gifts with friends and the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East of Modein, where he lived, to follow him. After Jonathan was assassinated, his loved ones. by Alexander the Great, and that’s where They tore down pagan altars and forcibly brother Simon took over and became During Advent, we prepare to celebrate First Maccabees starts. circumcised any uncircumcised Jewish boys. both secular leader and high priest. A Christ’s first coming into this world in his Unlike the two books of Samuel, Kings Mattathias died in 166 B.C. and period of peace ensued, but then the aged birth in Bethlehem. That blessed moment— and Chronicles, the two books of Maccabees was succeeded by his son Judas, called Simon was murdered along with two of and his life, passion, death and resurrection are not a continuous narrative. They are Maccabeus, derived from the Hebrew word his sons. Another son, John Hyrcanus, that followed—restored some of the joy of independent accounts of some of the same for hammer. First Maccabees tells of his continued the line. God’s kingdom that our world lost through events. First Maccabees tells the Jewish exploits in guerilla warfare, culminating The Hasmonean dynasty lasted about original sin. history from 175 B.C. to 134 B.C., while in the purification of the Temple in 80 years until the Roman general Pompey We know well that all creation groans Second Maccabees is from 180 B.C. to Jerusalem, which Jews celebrate with the conquered Jerusalem in 63 B.C. † under the ongoing effects of original sin. The good news that St. Paul shared with us about Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes this groaning is that it is the groaning of labor pains (Rom 8:22). One day is just not enough to list our thanks If, with the help of God’s grace, we endure this life’s unavoidable trials, we will This is the day the Lord has made. Let people, all kinds and colors and abilities, funny things, often inadvertently. They do experience a birth into a joy beyond measure us rejoice and be glad. And be thankful, not to mention interesting personalities ridiculous things and make really stupid in heaven, our full “revelation [as] the too. The longer we live, the more we realize and sometimes quirks. My conclusion is decisions sometimes, and then turn around children of God” (Rom 8:19). how much we have to be that most people are good inside, despite and make profound observations. Just when This birth into glory comes as the fruit thankful for. whatever damage in life has made their you’re about to write them off as hopeless, of an earlier marriage—the joining as one Personally, I’m grateful outsides prickly. My husband likes to call they do something grand and even noble. of Christ the bridegroom and his bride, that I’m not like the rest some of them my “orphans,” but I think of Others’ creativity and imagination are a the Church. of the sinners around me. them as mentors. We learn from each other. constant source of gratitude for me. They This marriage of Christ and the Church Just kidding. Actually, I’m One thing I am particularly thankful for write really funny skits or paint pictures that isn’t simply a theological concept or biblical thankful that, although I am is humor. For some unknown reason, I find seem like perfection captured in a few swift image. By God’s grace, it shapes married life indeed a sinner, God will humor in almost every person, situation or lines. They make music that sweeps the soul in the Church, which St. Paul reflected upon forgive me and let me try again. event. Humor seems to defuse anger and with joy. They do their hair or wear clothing in his Letter to the Ephesians. Part of that assurance comes from deflect the pain of some of the bad things that is so captivating and “right” that they He knew, however, that human words, something else I’m really grateful for— that can happen in life. Humor calms us seem to have come that way from birth. even those inspired by the Holy Spirit, having had parents who loved me and made and allows us to see things in a wider Sometimes, they offer wisdom with the ring could not fully explain the spiritual meaning me feel that I was an OK person. They perspective. It’s even good for us physically. of authentic experience. of the sacramental union of husband and supported me, talked to and listened to I’m so grateful that I could take the Naturally I’m thankful for good food, wife. In the end, Paul described marriage me, and let me go when it was time to be interests and talents God gave me and turn adequate clothing and a welcoming home. as “a great mystery,” one that is bound independent. That’s essentially what God them into meaningful work. I love words in But mostly I’m thankful for the people in up in the marriage of “Christ and his does, so who could ask for more? all forms: wordplay, word origins, nuances my life—husband, kids, grands and greats, Church” (Eph 5:32). I’m thankful that I had an excellent of word meaning, whatever. And that and superior friends, all of whom reflect Prayerfully reflecting on the profound life education, good teachers and appropriate pleasure translated into writing jobs which God’s grace for me and others. And let us be in Christ to which married couples are called motivation. School gave this only child a I’ve enjoyed, from parish and organizational thankful for our country, which early on has can be helpful in Advent when the busyness social opportunity with a bonus. I came newsletters to editing books to letters to had the good sense to make Thanksgiving a of our schedules intensifies, and it is easy away with continuing intellectual curiosity, the editor to writing for The Criterion. For national holiday. † to lose sight of the important purposes that and a secure base of knowledge and skill me, writing is a way to vent every idea and underlie our marriages. which has lasted a lifetime. It’s been not emotion I come up with. (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the I’ve been blessed with the chance to see only helpful, but fun. In a lighter vein, I’m thankful that people Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular the deep spiritual meaning of this beautiful I’ve been fortunate to meet many fine are so much fun to observe. They say columnist for The Criterion.) † sacrament in the weeks leading up to Advent as my extended family and I have Emmaus Walk/Debra Tomaselli prepared to celebrate the 50th anniversary of my parents, Tom and Debbi Gallagher, Celebrate Jesus, God’s gift of love today and every day who exchanged their vows of marriage on Nov. 28, 1964. “I’m starting my Christmas shopping this outlet? Or if school choirs didn’t visit the every day of the year! I’ve lived through 44 years of that weekend,” I said to a co-worker recently. mall wishing us a Merry Christmas? This, precisely, is what Christmas is marriage and 13 of my own. “So early?” she asked. Suppose we weren’t prompted to consider all about. On the one hand, I know from the many I nodded. “Last year, the sharing our resources, like our food, our And the commercialism? crazy and sometimes difficult circumstances holidays were so stressful time and our gifts, in some way, with family, Many of us don’t sew, bake, hammer or of life over that period that marriage on this that I’ve decided to get friends and neighbors. What would that build anything useful. Generations ago, you side of heaven is like any other sacrament. the shopping done before look like? had to. Thankfully, times have changed. It’s only a small foretaste of the infinite joy Thanksgiving. That way For a season, the spirit of Christmas Now we shop in malls. There’s Amazon. of heaven. there’s time for church surrounds us. It’s a spirit of love. We order online. Yet on the other hand, as fleeting as those presentations and holiday Some may measure the season Why should Christmas be any different? foretastes can sometimes be, they have given gatherings.” by retailers’ revenues, but it’s far However, it’s not about overspending. A me an experience of the richness of the “I don’t know why we do this more than that. note and a candy bar can be the sweetest gift. wedding feast of the Lamb that Christ has in to ourselves,” my associate said, It’s about the incalculable amount of love In God’s economy, a smile, a hug, a visit or store for us in heaven. shaking her head. that motivates those transactions. Without a silent prayer are priceless presents. And it’s not just me. My parents and all Before long, we found ourselves the love, there would be no inflated sales. So let the retail ratings soar. of the couples who have been married for bemoaning the fact that Christmas had Should we eliminate the commercialism But don’t forget why. 50 years or more across central and southern become too commercialized. Did people lose prompted by Christmas day? Balance what Don’t forget the love of God poured out Indiana have continually been filled with the real meaning of the season? Was it all we do throughout the year and eradicate the on us this Christmas day. Ponder the birth of new life by this grace. about retail sales? Why create all this stress? need to mark the occasion? the One sent to open the doors of heaven to In their grace-inspired faithfulness to their “I’d rather see people give gifts That would be like having someone’s you for eternity. vows, my parents and so many other spouses throughout the year, instead of just one day,” birthday pass without any special That’s the gift we celebrate on Christmas of their generation offer that foretaste of the she said. I nodded in absolute agreement. recognition. We treat you nicely all year day. And this gift is never-ending. The love heavenly wedding feast to young people of That weekend, however, as I took long, so why celebrate? of God pursues you today and all the days of my generation and those younger than me my Christmas list to the stores, I Could we really refrain from that? your life. living in the midst of a society that treats changed my mind. I couldn’t. You can be sure of that. marriage as disposable and malleable to the I realized a world without Christmas I want to celebrate you. I like to recognize You can celebrate that. point that it has no meaning. gift-giving would be very sad and cold, birthdays … yours, mine … and Jesus’. Today and every day. On this Thanksgiving weekend, then, indeed. We can and should give of ourselves give thanks for faith-filled couples like my Suppose there were no bell ringers for the throughout the year. We can still be (Debra Tomaselli writes from Altamonte parents and pray that all married couples Salvation Army? Suppose you never heard generous, create happy surprises, and make Springs, Florida. She can be reached at may become more vivid images of the “Joy to the World” piped though a retail someone smile … any day of the year … [email protected].) † marriage of Christ and his Church. † The Criterion Friday, November 28, 2014 Page 13

First Sunday of Advent/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, December 1 Friday, December 5 Sunday Readings Isaiah 2:1-5 Isaiah 29:17-24 Psalm 122:1-9 Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14 Sunday, November 30, 2014 Matthew 8:5-11 Matthew 9:27-31 • Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b, 64:2-7 draw more closely to God and also able to • 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 infuse the goodness of Christianity into the Tuesday, December 2 Saturday, December 6 • Mark 13:33-37 broader social circles in which they moved. Isaiah 11:1-10 St. Nicholas, bishop St. Mark’s Gospel is the source of the Psalm 72:7-8, 12-13, 17 Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26 This weekend, the Church begins last reading. It offers us a theme found Luke 10:21-24 Psalm 147:1-6 Advent. It also begins the use of Scripture quite often in the New Testament, namely readings from Year B of that Christ will come to Earth again. In this Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5a, 6-8 its three-year cycle of second coming, however, the Lord will be Wednesday, December 3 Sunday Mass readings. the victor. St. Francis Xavier, priest Sunday, December 7 It also is the start of When the Gospels were written, even in Isaiah 25:6-10a Second Sunday of Advent a new liturgical year. the case of the Gospel of Mark, arguably Psalm 23:1-6 Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 Each liturgical year is the oldest of the four as they now exist, Matthew 15:29-37 Psalm 85:9-14 carefully planned so Christians were numerous enough, and that the seasons and the geographically distributed enough, to catch 2 Peter 3:8-14 major feasts guide us the public eye. Yet they were not numerous Thursday, December 4 Mark 1:1-8 through our common enough to be able to stand against their St. John Damascene, priest and worship into a closer enemies. The prevailing culture was an doctor of the Church relationship with God in Christ. enemy. Soon, the political system would be Isaiah 26:1-6 The liturgical readings are chosen to an enemy. teach us about the Lord, to relay to us his Problems, if not dangers, lay ahead. Psalm 118:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a message and to make us better aware of The atmosphere was tense, uncertain and Matthew 7:21, 24-27 God’s mercy for us as humanity and for frightening. Thoughts of the second coming us individually. naturally were appealing. Jesus’ words The first reading is from the third section reminded the early Christians that they did of Isaiah. When it was composed, the Jews not know the future. Life for them could Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle were in a quite difficult situation. After change dramatically and suddenly. having been exiled for decades to Babylon, The message was clear. The only they had just been allowed to return to the permanent reality is God. If anyone truly is Permanent deacons can Holy Land. But this return brought them with God, there is no need to fear. home to no paradise. Life was miserable. preach homilies, celebrate the The prophet called for faith in God, not Reflection only as almighty, but as true to the covenant, Advent is much more than a religious to the belief that God would protect the gloss over the rush of preparing for sacrament of baptism Chosen People. Christmas. It is a call for personal I am confused about why deacons exchange of wedding vows or preside Isaiah appeals to God for relief in the conversion, to bring Christ into our hearts Qpreach homilies at Mass. Why should at funeral service, it is best for the name of the people. However, the prophet and lives. a deacon, rather than priest to advise the family in advance— does not say that the people are being Using Mark’s Gospel, it builds on the the priest, comment since many still expect that a priest treated unfairly, at least in terms of God’s belief that nothing else is as permanent on the Scripture will officiate. care for them. Isaiah makes clear that sin or as important as the reality of God and readings? Is this a new has led the people away from God, and that the reality of our need to be one with function in the Church Over the past few years, my faith this estrangement has produced their woes. God in Christ. today? Also, I’ve seen Qhas deepened, and I feel Jesus St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians Advent is an opportunity for us to deacons celebrate present with me. I want to know him provides the next reading. Counseling the encounter this reality, an opportunity to a baptism during a better, and I have begun to pray and to Christians of Corinth was a challenge for experience this union with God. Mass when a priest is read the Scriptures more, in addition to Paul. Not only did temptation and vice The busy nature of the season merely present. I was under attending Mass and praying the rosary. surround them on all sides, but also they serves to remind us to sharpen our focus. the impression that a I am not old or sick, but I have become argued among themselves. Paul had to call If we respond to this opportunity, then deacon could baptize only if a priest were more focused on passing on. The more I them to faithfulness. He sought to persuade Christmas becomes not a national holiday, not available. Has this been changed? consider the promise of Christ, the less them to put aside their differences with not even a religious commemoration, but (Richmond, Virginia) I want to live in this world. I assure you each other. a moment when we allow God to come that I am not suicidal, but my eyes are He saw disciples as having enormous more fully into our lives, having prepared Although the permanent diaconate already set on the final prize. religious potential, able themselves to ourselves for this wondrous encounter. † Awas restored by Blessed Paul VI in I know that the Gospel calls us to love 1967, the questions above seem to indicate and serve others after the example of that even today, nearly half a century Jesus, but why should I aspire to living a My Journey to God later, there is still some confusion about long time when I am just waiting for God a deacon’s role. Deacons can baptize, to call me home? What spiritual message witness marriages, preside over funeral must I be missing? Can you share some and burial services outside of Mass, wisdom on rekindling joy for this life? Meeting the Marginalized distribute holy Communion and preach a (Prospect, Kentucky) homily. They cannot celebrate Mass, hear By Sister Susan Marie Lindstrom, OSB confessions or administer the sacrament I really can’t find fault with anything of the anointing of the sick. They are Athat you are doing or thinking. Like We, richly blessed obligated to pray the Liturgy of the Hours. you, I look forward to heaven and believe hoarders cannot be. Deacons were chosen in the earliest days with all my heart in that which “eye has With open hands and open hearts of the Church with the special ministry of not seen, and ear has not heard, and we reach out serving the poor. what has not entered the human heart, and invite in, There are two kinds of deacons: what God has prepared for those who providing sustenance… transitional deacons, who are seminarians love him” (1 Cor 2:9). Not long ago, a compassion… in the final stage of their priestly woman told me on her deathbed what she presence… formation, and permanent deacons. thought it was going to be like to be with witness… Permanent deacons, ordained after several God in heaven: “Like a mother’s love— years of formation, may be single or times 10,000.” The paradigm shifts married. If they are single at the time of It is certainly right to aspire to that, from protecting what we have their ordination, however, they cannot and even to hope that it comes sooner to laying it on the table, get married later. They often have secular rather than later. The timing, though, is that those without may have jobs but also assist parish communities in all in God’s good hands, and meanwhile that those forgotten may be recognized, liturgies and in charitable ministries such we accept this earthly existence as God’s that those impoverished may know the wealth as visiting the sick or counseling families. gift, if only because it offers us the not merely of food, clothing and shelter When joining the priest at Mass, a chance to share God’s love and what lies but of beauty, leisure and companionship, deacon normally leads the penitential beyond with others. The Hebrews sang rite, proclaims the Gospel and the general in a Psalm, “Our mouths were filled with No longer turned inward in our search for God, intercessions, helps in distributing laughter, our tongues sang for joy. … but focused beyond, Communion and proclaims the The Lord had done great things for us” to the ever broadening circles dismissal rite. (Ps 126:2-3). On the night of the Last of humanity When a deacon baptizes or preaches, Supper, Jesus encouraged the Apostles whose lives intersect with ours each day. there is no requirement that a priest be to keep his commandments and then told unavailable. The Church’s Code of Canon them: “I have told you this so that my Law, for example, says simply that “the joy may be in you and your joy may be (Benedictine Sister Susan Marie Lindstrom is a member of Our Lady of Grace ordinary minister of baptism is a bishop, complete” (Jn 15:11). Monastery in Beech Grove, who teaches Theology at Bishop Chatard High School a presbyter or deacon” (#861). Often in in Indianapolis. In the basement of Ryves Youth Center in Terre Haute operated by parishes that have a deacon, the deacon (Questions may be sent to Terre Haute Catholic Charities, a volunteer hands a bag of food to a person in need preaches the homily on a regular rotation. Father Kenneth Doyle at at a Ham Giveaway on Dec. 20, 2013.) (Submitted photo) Pastorally, when a deacon is scheduled [email protected] and to celebrate a baptism, witness the 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208.) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, November 28, 2014

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Confessions are also heard are available on from noon to 1 p.m. each Friday. archdiocesan Web site Batesville Deanery • Dec. 15, 7 p.m. for Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Therese • Dec. 1, 6:30 p.m. at St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) at St. Therese of the During the season of Advent, • Dec. 2, 6-7 p.m. at St. Michael, Brookville Infant Jesus (Little Flower) the Archdiocese of Indianapolis • Dec. 3, 6:30 p.m. for St. Vincent de Paul, Shelby County • Dec. 18, 7 p.m. at St. Mary will have a special webpage at and St. Joseph, Shelbyville at St. Joseph, Shelbyville www.archindy.org/advent. • Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. at All Saints, Dearborn County, at Indianapolis North Deanery The page contains various the Yorkville campus • Dec. 14, 2 p.m. deanery service at St. Simon the Apostle Advent resources, including • Dec. 9, 7 p.m. St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, • Dec. 15, 7 p.m. deanery service at St. Luke the Evangelist links to the daily readings, past Aurora • Dec. 16, 7 p.m. deanery service at St. Luke the Evangelist reflections from Archbishop • Dec. 9, 6-7 p.m. at St. Michael, Brookville Emeritus Daniel M. Buechlein, • Dec. 10, 6:30 p.m. at St. Peter, Franklin County Indianapolis South Deanery penance service schedules, • Dec. 11, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Greensburg • Dec. 7, 2 p.m. at Good Shepherd images of past Criterion • Dec. 14, 1:30 p.m. for Immaculate Conception, • Dec. 10, 7 p.m. at St. Roch Christmas issue covers and Millhousen; St. Charles Borromeo, Milan; St. Maurice, • Dec. 15, 6:30 p.m. at Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ links of interest to other Advent Napoleon, and St. John, Osgood, at St. John, Osgood • Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Jude websites. † • Dec. 16, 6-8 p.m. at St. Michael, Brookville • Dec. 17, 7 p.m. at St. Mark the Evangelist • Dec. 17, 6:30 p.m. at St. Louis, Batesville • Dec. 18, 6 p.m. at St. Barnabas Pope Francis hears confession from a man during a • Dec. 18, 6:30 p.m. at St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, • Dec. 22, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Greenwood, penitential liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Bright Greenwood on March 28. Pope Francis surprised his liturgical • Dec. 18, 6:30 p.m. at St. Catherine of Siena, adviser by going to confession during the service. Decatur County, at the Enochsburg campus Indianapolis West Deanery (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano via Reuters) • Dec. 2, 7 p.m. at St. Monica Bloomington Deanery • Dec. 3, 7 p.m. at St. Thomas More, Mooresville • Dec. 6, 6:30 p.m. at Our Lady of the Springs, French Lick • Dec. 4, 7 p.m. at St. Anthony • Dec. 21, 4 p.m. at St. John the Baptist, Starlight • Dec. 9, 7 p.m. at St. Paul Catholic Center, Bloomington • Dec. 10, 7 p.m. at Mary, Queen of Peace, Danville • Dec. 10, 7 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours, Martinsville • Dec. 10, 7 p.m. at St. Michael the Archangel Seymour Deanery • Dec. 11, 7 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford • Dec. 11, 7 p.m. at St. Malachy, Brownsburg • Dec. 4, 7 p.m. for Most Sorrowful Mother of God, • Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Agnes, Nashville • Dec. 17, 7 p.m. at St. Gabriel the Archangel Vevay, and Prince of Peace, Madison, at Prince of Peace, • Dec. 17, 6:30 p.m. at St. Jude, Spencer • Dec. 18, 6:30 p.m. at St. Susanna, Plainfield Madison • Dec. 18, 6 p.m. at St. John the Apostle, Bloomington • Dec. 9, 7 p.m. at St. Bartholomew, Columbus New Albany Deanery • Dec. 11, 6:30 p.m. for St. Ann, Jennings County; St. Mary, Connersville Deanery • Nov. 30, 4:30 p.m. at St. Mary, New Albany (bilingual) North Vernon; and St. Joseph, Jennings County, at • Dec. 2, 7 p.m. at St. Elizabeth of Hungary, • Dec. 2, 7 p.m. for Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, St. Joseph, Jennings County Cambridge City Jeffersonville, and St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, at • Dec. 14, 2 p.m. for Holy Trinity, Edinburgh, and St. Rose • Dec. 3, 7 p.m. at St. Anne, New Castle St. Augustine, Jeffersonville of Lima, Franklin, at St. Rose of Lima, Franklin • Dec. 10, 6:30 p.m. at St. Gabriel, Connersville • Dec. 3, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Corydon • Dec. 17, 7 p.m. for Our Lady of Providence, Brownstown, • Dec. 11, 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary, Rushville • Dec. 4, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Lanesville and St. Ambrose, Seymour, at St. Ambrose, Seymour • Dec. 16, 6:30 p.m., following 5:15 p.m. Mass for • Dec. 10, 7 p.m. at St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Floyd County • Dec. 21, 4 p.m. for American Martyrs, Scottsburg and Richmond Catholic Community at St. Mary, Richmond • Dec. 10, 7 p.m. at St. Michael, Charlestown St. Patrick, Salem, at American Martyrs, Scottsburg • Dec. 11, 7 p.m. at St. Michael, Bradford Indianapolis East Deanery • Dec. 14, 3 p.m. at Holy Family, New Albany Terre Haute Deanery • Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m. at Holy Spirit • Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, • Dec. 9, 1:30 p.m. deanery service at Sacred Heart of • Dec. 4, 7 p.m. St. Philip Neri New Albany Jesus, Terre Haute • Dec. 10, 7 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle, Fortville • Dec. 17, 6:30 p.m. at St. John Paul II, Sellersburg • Dec. 9, 7 p.m., deanery service at St. Patrick, Terre Haute • Dec. 10, 7 p.m. at St. Michael, Greenfield • Dec. 17, 7 p.m. at St. Anthony of Padua, Clarksville • Dec. 10, 7 p.m., deanery service at Sacred Heart, • Dec. 11, 6 p.m. Holy Angels and St. Rita at St. Rita • Dec. 17, 7 p.m. St. Mary, Navilleton Clinton †

Wis., and spent three years, from 1994 to him a bishop in 1983. parish-based, small faith-sharing groups, GARY 1997, as a team member in La Sagrada In 1987, he was the director of followed by listening sessions in four areas continued from page 1 Familia Parroquia, Dominican Republic. St. John Paul’s visit to Detroit. In 1992, he of the diocese. He is fluent in Spanish. was appointed apostolic administrator of Bishop Melczek co-chaired He said he was grateful to From 2007 to 2011, he was rector of the Gary Diocese, was named coadjutor the Race Relations Council of Archbishop Listecki and Milwaukee St. Francis De Sales Seminary. Before that, bishop there in 1995 and a year later Northwest Indiana from 2002-07. Auxiliary Bishop Richard J. Sklba “for he spent two years as the seminary’s dean became head of the diocese, immediately On the national level, he is former their guidance, support and example of of formation. succeeding Bishop Norbert F. Gaughan chairman of the U.S. bishops’ committees service as I still continue to learn the Donald J. Hying was born on when he retired. on the diaconate, nominations and the episcopal ropes.” Aug. 18, 1963, in the Milwaukee suburb of In 2002, Bishop Melczek began to laity. He has been a member of several He added that the Milwaukee West Allis. He is the youngest of six sons. address the sin of racism in northwestern other committees, including human values, Archdiocese “will always be in my heart He holds bachelor’s degrees in history, Indiana as a major priority with his marriage and the family, budget and and prayers. I will be leaning on your philosophy and theology from Marquette first pastoral, “The Many Faces of finance, religious life and ministry, and prayers to carry me in this new spiritual University, a master of divinity degree Our Church: A Pastoral Letter on Cultural international policy. adventure.” from St. Francis de Sales Seminary, and is Diversity.” The bishop also is a former member of Pope Benedict XVI appointed currently completing his thesis for a doctor In parish-based discussions that the board of Catholic Relief Services, the then-Father Hying as an auxiliary of ministry degree from St. Mary of the followed the letter’s release, Catholics U.S. bishops’ overseas and relief agency. for Milwaukee on May 26, 2011. Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Ill. came together to examine the contributions He has made several international trips on Archbishop Listecki ordained him Bishop Melczek, a native of of their diverse cultures to the Church and behalf of CRS, including to the Philippines, a bishop on July 20 of that year. Detroit, was ordained to the priesthood to society. Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, He was ordained to the priesthood for the Detroit Archdiocese by The next year, Bishop Melczek wrote East Timor, Angola and Tanzania. on May 20, 1989, by Milwaukee then-Archbishop John Dearden in a second pastoral letter on racism, titled The Diocese of Gary covers about Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland. 1964. St. John Paul II named him an “Created in God’s Image: A Pastoral 1,800 square miles in northwestern Indiana. He served in parishes in Milwaukee, auxiliary bishop of Detroit in 1982; Letter on the Sin of Racism and a Call Catholics number 185,000 out of a total East Troy, Wis., and Menomonee Falls, then-Archbishop Edmund Szoka ordained to Conversion.” It also was discussed in population of about 794,000. †

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By John Shaughnessy

The celebration of a second straight state championship overflowed with the joyous screams, tight hugs and glowing smiles of the volleyball players. The joy extended into the stands where their fans, friends and families cheered, including the players’ dads who had donned the Blues Brothers outfits of black suits, black ties, black hats and black sunglasses in support of the theme their daughters embraced this season: “We’re on a mission.” Consider the mission of back-to-back state championships complete—and accomplished in remarkable style by the volleyball team of Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. High School in Clarksville. On Nov. 8, the Prov idence team once again won the Class 2A girls’ volleyball championship of the Indiana High School Athletic Association. The Pioneers beat the team from Southwood High School 25-17, Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. High School players and coaches are pictured with the Class 2A state volleyball trophy on Nov. 8 at Ball State University’s 25-14, 25-18 at Ball State University’s Worthen Arena in Muncie. (Submitted photo by Tom Fougerousse) Worthen Arena in Muncie. In sweeping the match, Providence continued an amazing post-season streak ‘Even good teams don’t get to the state championship once, and they’ve that began with its 2013 state champions. In the past two state tournaments, been to the state title match each of the past three seasons. They were on a Providence never lost a set, going 39-0 in mission, and they weren’t going to let anything or anyone get in their way.’ that stretch. While that streak connected the two teams, the two state championships —Terri Purichia, Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. High School provided different emotions for the head volleyball coach coach who led both squads. “This year was a lot different for me,” said Terri Purichia, who has been the Providence coach since 1998 and who overwhelming pride. I just enjoyed it so Bivens, Carlie Combs, Haley Libs, the state title match each of the past three had dreamed of a state championship for much more. I did not feel the pressure. Patricia Mattingly and Taylor Wilson. seasons,” their coach said. “They were on the school since she played there as a I knew we had something special in this “They were the perfect recipe,” a mission, and they weren’t going to let freshman in 1986. group of kids. Watching them battle all Purichia said about the seniors. “They anything or anyone get in their way. “Last year, I cried. I felt the pressure season long gave me such confidence that are really good friends outside the court. “They made it look easy, but it wasn’t had lifted. It had been a goal for a long they would find a way to win.” They’re extremely dedicated. They’re easy. They kept themselves focused. time, and I wondered if it was ever going Purichia gave the credit for the team’s great leaders, and they’re good students. They kept themselves humble. And they to happen. This year, I have a sense of success to its five seniors: Maddie And they have great character. They’ve kept enjoying everything along the way. done everything humanly possible to get To watch them finish it off like they did, to the level they are.” everyone was so happy for them.” In their four years of playing, the Purichia paused for a moment, and “Each one must seniors have set a standard of success the emotion she showed after last year’s that few teams ever accomplish. When championship flowed through as she said, they were freshmen, their team made it “I love this group of seniors so much.” GIVE to the semi-state of the tournament. As With all the team has accomplished, sophomores, they finished as state runners- Purichia just has one regret about as he has up. And the past two years, they earned the season. decided in his state championships. “I just hated for this season to be over, “Even good teams don’t get to the state because this group is just so much fun to championship once, and they’ve been to be around.” † heart, not reluctantly or Pope, creating six new saints, under compulsion, uses newly abbreviated formula for loves a God VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Using to err in such an important matter. 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