Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 94 No. 5 June 15, 2016 Climate change Orlando: Cupich decries targeting of gays Climate change is real; there is no debate. The argument is what it means to planet By David Gibson Catholic churchman to identify a in a statement issued June 12. per cent over last year, according Earth; the challenge is how likely reason the victims were sin - His comments came as details to the Chicago Tribune. Of those, to save the world. WASHINGTON (RNS) — gled out and raise the controver - emerged about the early morning at least 250 had been killed. — page 3 Chicago Archbishop Blase sial issue of access to weapons. attack by a Florida man — a The attacker in Orlando, Omar Cupich has decried the apparent “Our prayers and hearts are Muslim who pledged loyalty to Mateen, 29, who was killed in a Lobbying for targeting of gays and lesbians in with the victims of the mass the extremist Islamic State group shootout at the club with police, Vatican II the Orlando nightclub massacre shooting in Orlando, their fami - — that left 50 dead and more than recently bought a handgun and an and called for greater efforts on lies and our gay and lesbian 50 injured. AR-15-style assault rifle, the type At age 92, Bishop Remi gun control, the first senior U.S. brothers and sisters,” Cupich said It was the largest mass shoot - of weapon commonly used in De Roo is “trying to sound a ing in U.S. history mass shootings. wakeup call to all believers and the worst ter - “The people of the Archdio - — Christian or non-Christian ror attack since the cese of Chicago stand with the Sept. 11 attacks in alike — to victims and their loved ones, and 2001. reclaim that reaffirm our commitment, with vision of “In response to Pope Francis, to address the caus - Pope John hatred, we are es of such tragedy, including easy called to sow love. XXIII and access to deadly weapons,” In response to vio - to enter into Cupich said. “We can no longer lence, peace. And, stand by and do nothing.” the renewed in response to in - Earlier Sunday, the Vatican program tolerance, toler - released a statement saying that to which ance,” Cupich said. the attack prompted “the deepest Pope Francis invites us and Cupich, whose feelings of horror and condemna - which he has illustrated by city faces a scourge tion, of pain and turmoil” in the his way of life.” of gun violence, pope, who called for prayers for — page 3 also raised the is- the victims and their families. Garage sale sue of gun control. The Vatican statement added After Memorial that Francis hopes “that ways A nine-year-old child’s long - Day, the number of may be found, as soon as possi - people shot this ble, to effectively identify and ing to help people in another CNS/Tom Tracy part of the world touched year in Chicago contrast the causes of such terri- hundreds and raised some TRAGEDY IN ORLANDO — People gather in West Palm Beach, Fla., June 12 to was at about 1,500 $5,000 as family, parish, mourn those killed in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. — up more than 50 — RELIGION , page 23 school and community came together for a giant garage sale June 4 at St. Anne ‘Love the only power we have:’ Thévenot Parish in Saskatoon. — page 6 By Paula Fournier that who we are as human beings society, we don’t always see it Sometimes, he said, he has to Identity is that as long as I am useful, I’m that way. Suffering is something keep it moving. PRINCE ALBERT — The good for society.” we have tried to eliminate. Aches “I say to myself, isn’t that an “Our goal is to help our Prince Albert Seniors Advocacy He agreed people don’t like to and pains are got rid of through opportunity for me to realize I’m children grow up with a Centre held their monthly work - see others suffer. When children lotions and pills.” human? I should respect myself strong identity, speaking shop May 12 at Abbeyfield House. are sick, no one feels they are Having had polio at a young even in my pain or discourage- their language and standing Speakers included Bishop Albert useless. Parents and family offer age, Thévenot explained his leg proud,” said Delvin Thévenot, M. Afr., lawyer Philip comfort and presence. “Yet in our doesn’t always do what he wants. — CLARITY , page 4 Kanewiyakiho, master of Fourie, family physician Noeline ceremonies at the fourth Le Roux and law student Thomas Catholics need to lobby for patient options annual Indigenous Language Coertze. They spoke on multiple Celebration held May 15 issues, including advanced med - in Saskatoon. ical directives, Bill C-14, and liv - By Michael Swan care institutions and Catholics — page 7 ing and legal wills. The Catholic Register generally should be lobbying hard First to present was Thévenot, for a serious patient pathfinder Troubling who related the story of creation TORONTO (CCN) — Whether system. assumptions in which God created the form of it’s to protect consciences or vul - By referring patients to a cen - a body out of mud and called it nerable patients, the best hope for tralized agency — whose purpose The new movie Me Before man. “God gave his breath to us. limiting the scope of assisted sui - is not necessarily to deliver You “overflows with dehu - Giving us that gift is a responsi - cide in Canada now is a “robust patients into the hands of a will - manizing stereotypes about bility; we are stewards of the life third party option for all end-of- ing doctor but rather to lead them disability, from implications within us. Therefore, we must life care issues,” said Sister Nuala in a thorough look at all their that disabled people are protect, respect and love that life, Kenny as Bill C-14 wended its options, including palliative care things no more active than because that breath is divine and way from the House of Commons — doctors can be sure they are houseplants, to assumptions makes us a spiritual person. and through the Senate. not directly or indirectly involved that disability is a fate “God would say the only Kenny is the one-time head of in effecting or approving a sui - worse than death.” power we have is to love and be medical education at Toronto’s cide. They can also continue to — page 16 loved. How do we live together? Hospital for Sick Children, care for their patients even if doc - We create moral laws. For the last founding chair of the bioethics tor and patient disagree on assist - Music for liturgy 100 years, man has reasoned that program at Dalhousie University ed suicide, Kenny said. our discoveries and technologies in Halifax and a former deputy “Non-abandonment” of patients This week’s Prairie Mess - are in control. Slowly our society minister of health in Nova Scotia. is essential in the ethics of medi - enger features music selec - has started slipping to where we She advises Canada’s Catholic cine, said Kenny. tions for liturgy only understand individualism: bishops and the Catholic Health As of June 6, assisted suicide is from July 3, the me, myself and I. The more we Association of Canada on assisted a reality in Canada, though as of Catholic Register/Swan 14th Sunday in discover, the less we need of God. suicide. She was the one Catholic The Prairie Messenger’s press time Sister Nuala Kenny Ordinary Time, to He has been set aside.” member of the provincial and ter - it remained in a legal limbo as Sept. 25, the 26th He linked the disposable soci - ritorial advisory panel on the Parliament puts the final touches gave the federal government a year Sunday in Ordinary Time. ety to the concept of life being a issue, which also recommended a on Bill C-14. The legislation is the to have an assisted suicide law in — pages 11 - 14 commodity. centralized patient navigator sys - government’s response to the place. That deadline was extended “Pope Francis calls this the tem to legislators in Ottawa. Supreme Court of Canada’s Carter throwaway society. We are seeing Kenny believes Catholic health ruling from February 2015 that — KENNY , page 8 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS June 15, 2016 Jesus makes wine because tea is embarrassing: pope

By Carol Glatz came — as well as helping open all of humanity for all time. guide for a Christian life. of couples in St. Peter’s Square “the hearts of the disciples to the At the feast, he said, Jesus stip - “In Cana, Jesus’ disciples who were celebrating 50 years of VATICAN CITY (CNS) — faith,” he said. ulates a whole new covenant for become his family and the faith marriage. “Now that is the good Jesus’ first miracle of changing The miracles, or what John the “the servants of the Lord,” that is, of the church is born. All of us wine” for families, he said. water into wine expresses his Evangelist calls “signs,” were for the church, and a new mission: are invited to that wedding feast He thanked the couples for invitation to share in the joy of never meant to astonish people, “Do whatever he tells you.” so that the new wine will no their “beautiful witness,” which, the new covenant and reminds but to “reveal the father’s love,” “Serving the Lord means lis - longer run short.” he said, was something newly - people to do as he commands, the pope said. tening to and putting into practice Before beginning his catech - weds and young people today Pope Francis said. Jesus performing his first mir - his word,” the pope said; it is the esis, the pope honoured a group “must learn.” The miracle also shows how acle at the wedding feast in Cana he transformed the law of Moses is greatly significant, the pope — represented by water destined said. “Jesus manifests himself as for ritual purification — into the the bridegroom of the people of joy of the Gospel, which is repre - God” and reveals the nature and sented by wine, he said. depth of this relationship: “It is a “A feast needs to have wine” new covenant of love.” as an integral part of shared cele - “It’s like the story of two peo - bration, the pope said June 8 dur - ple in love,” he said. God and ing his weekly general audience. humanity seek each other out, “Imagine ending a wedding they meet, they celebrate and they reception drinking tea! It would be love each other. embarrassing,” he said, as a way “The church is Jesus’ family to emphasize why Mary was so into which he pours his love. It is worried when the wine was run - this love that the church safe - ning out at the wedding in Cana. guards and wants to offer every - “Water is needed for life, but one.” Living a Christian life is the wine expresses the abundance of response to God’s love, he added. a banquet and the joy of a feast,” Those Jesus calls to follow him he said. are united to him as a community, After a series of audience talks as a family, Pope Francis said, and dedicated to selected parables in they are all invited to a feast. the Gospel, the pope said the The miracle, he said, also day’s catechesis would look at the requires the servants to do exactly first of Jesus’ miracles. as Jesus tells them. “The wedding at Cana is much In fact, the pope said, the last more than a simple account of words the Gospel writers attribute CNS/Valentyn Ogirenko, Reuters Jesus’ first miracle,” the pope told to Mary are, “Do whatever he tells POPE PROMISES AID TO UKRAINE — People attend a rally organized by the trade union of atomists those gathered in St. Peter’s you,” leaving her command as a and nuclear workers in Kiev, Ukraine, May 31. Pope Francis has established a committee to distribute aid Square. kind of legacy she hands down to in Ukraine with an ecumenical, interreligious approach. The story sheds the first light on the “whole mystery of Christ” — who he really is and why he Pope sets up committee to distribute aid in Ukraine

By Cindy Wooden “There was a great response” of the five-member committee, said Eastern Ukraine, where fighting to the pope’s request for a special a Vatican statement. The Vatican- continues, and those who have VATICAN CITY (CNS) — collection April 24, said Jesuit based Caritas Internationalis and been forced to flee to other parts After making a personal dona - Father Federico Lombardi, Pontifical Council Cor Unum , of the country. tion and asking Catholic parishes Vatican spokesperson. which promotes charitable giving, In considering requests for aid, throughout Europe to take up a Some parishes and dioceses will name one committee member the Vatican said, priority should special collection for victims of are still forwarding the money to and Sobilo is asked to name the be given to proposals from the the war in Eastern Ukraine, Pope the Vatican, so an exact figure is other three. ecumenical and interreligious Francis has set up a predomi - not known, Lombardi said June 9, The committee members, the assemblies that exist in Ukraine nantly Ukrainian committee to but “it must be substantial” if the statement said, will be asked to and from individual bishops — distribute the funds and has pope thought a special committee volunteer their service “so that both Catholic and Orthodox — in asked that they go to projects was need to distribute it. the funds collected will be used parts of the country where the suggested first of all by the Auxiliary Bishop Jan Sobilo of effectively” to assist people in assemblies do not operate. assemblies of Ukraine’s religious the Latin-rite Diocese of Kharkiv- leaders. Zaporizhia will serve as president Vatican releases itinerary Council of Cardinals for pope on World Youth Day

discuss reform of curia By Carol Glatz camp survivors and pray alone in the bunker where Kolbe had been By Junno Arocho Esteves Clergy and the pontifical councils VATICAN CITY (CNS) — locked up. for Culture, Promoting Christian Pope Francis will visit the Nazi While the pope will be meeting VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Unity and Interreligious Dia - death camps of Auschwitz and with Polish government authori - Pope Francis and his international logue. Birkenau during his visit to ties as well as bishops and reli - Council of Cardinals studied ways Following the announcement Poland for World Youth Day in gious from Poland, the focus of in which the responsibilities of June 4 of the establishment of a Krakow. his visit will be the closing events Vatican offices can be simplified new Vatican office for laity, He will also commemorate the of World Youth Day, which has and harmonized. family and life, Lombardi told 1,050th anniversary of the theme: “Blessed are the merci - Jesuit Father Federico re porters that the council also Christianity in Poland, pray at the ful, for they will receive mercy.” Lombardi, Vatican spokesperson, discussed the possible respon - icon of the Black Madonna of Pope Francis will visit the briefed reporters on the council’s sibilities of a new office dedi - Czestochowa, and hear confes - Shrine of Divine Mercy in work on the final day of its meet - cated to charity, justice and sions and have lunch with some Krakow and walk through its ing June 6 - 8. peace. of the young people attending the Holy Door of Mercy. Local orga - Their reflections, he said, also The office would bring togeth - youth day gathering. nizers said he may pray before the delved into “possible forms of er four existing pontifical councils The pope’s visit July 27 - 31 tomb of St. Faustina Kowalska, decentralization in relation to responsible for promoting Cath- will be his 15th trip outside of who is buried there. episcopal conferences” around the olic charity, justice and peace, Italy. He will visit three cities, The 2016 WYD celebration world. providing pastoral assistance to give eight speeches and celebrate will mark the 30th anniversary of The nine-member council, health care workers and for mi - three masses. when St. John Paul II, the former CNS/Oliver Berg, EPA which assists the pope in matters grants, refugees and other itiner - Pope Francis will be visiting archbishop of Krakow, invited of church governance and the ant peoples. Auschwitz the year that marks the bishops all over the world to hold PAPAL RELIC STOLEN — Tourists look at a relic of St. John reform of the Roman Curia, also Several recommendations for 75th anniversary of the death of an annual event for youth in their Paul II in 2013 at the historic discussed the work of several the new office “were given to the St. Maximilian Kolbe, who dioceses. The first international cathedral in Cologne, Germany. Vatican offices, including: the pope for further study and the offered his life for another prison - gathering, now held every two or The relic, which contains a drop Congregation for Bishops, the consultations he deems appropri - er at the camp during the Second three years, was in 1987 in Buenos of the late pontiff’s blood, has Secretariat of State, as well as the ate,” he said. World War. The official WYD Aires, Argentina, where Pope been stolen from the cathedral, congregations for Catholic Edu - The council will meet again website, krakow2016.com, said Francis was born and ministered police said June 5. cation, Eastern Churches and Sept. 12 - 14, he said. the pope is expected to meet with before becoming pope. June 15, 2016 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 Climate change is real; there is no debate

By James Buchok to produce oil,” with a half barrel required to produce one barrel. WINNIPEG — Climate But, Guilbeault said, society is change is real, there is no debate; changing with increased invest - the argument is about what it ments in alternative energy such means for planet Earth, and for as solar and wind power, and a those who believe the crisis is growing proliferation of charging here, the challenge is how to save stations for electric vehicles. “For our world and ourselves. every $1 million invested in oil People devoted to the cause and gas, two jobs are created. The say there is good news, with a lot same investment in clean energy being done right now, such as the produces 15 jobs,” he said. Paris Climate Conference last Fossil fuel use can be cut by December that brought together 60 per cent by making cities 15,000 people from 195 countries, pedestrian-friendly, Guilbeault including heads of state, to set said. “The only thing we’re miss - greenhouse gas reduction targets. ing is political will.” “It was one of the biggest un- Genevieve Talbot, a research dertakings to address climate and advocacy officer with change in history,” said Steven Development and Peace, was in Guilbeault, a Paris attendee and Paris as an observer. She said president of Montreal-based non- D&P is new to advocating over governmental organization climate change, “but our partners Équiterre . The gathering included in the Global South are telling us producers of 95 per cent of the climate change is having an world’s greenhouse gas emissions J. Buchok impact. The value we bring is the “and almost everybody put some - DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE — From left: Kenton Lobe, Genevieve Talbot, Steven Guilbeault, Janelle focus on social justice and the thing on the table as to what they Delorme and Abraham Niziblian. mission of the church and our are going to do about it,” pope. To fight for the cause of cli - Guilbeault said, including small is a membership-led organization temperatures were on average winters, but it is getting less cold, mate change is part of social jus - Southern Hemisphere countries supported by parish collections, only four degrees cooler than and there will still be exceptions tice; it is climate justice, it is that cause far less damage than individual donations and govern - today. “Now,” said Guilbeault, such as the extreme cold of human rights and food security.” the north but suffer most from the ment grants. In its 40 years, D&P “we are heading to an average January 2015.” D&P has long been involved effects of climate change. has supported 15,200 projects in global temperature that is three Guilbeault described the in issues of land use and there, Guilbeault was part of a panel agriculture, education, community degrees higher. The scientific Arctic as “the canary in the Talbot said, Paris was a disap - on the outcomes of Paris, June 8 at action and advocacy for human community agrees the planet is mine,” saying since 1987 half the pointment. The final documents Canadian Mennonite University in rights in 70 countries. heading to a much warmer level Arctic’s ice thickness has been even avoided the word ‘land.’ Winnipeg, brought together by the Climate change is not about than humans have ever seen.” lost. “This is our planetary cool - “They say ‘sinks and reservoirs’ Manitoba office of Development the temperature in a city today or “It’s hard to talk about global ing system. The faster we lose of greenhouse gas. We know land and Peace. D&P is the internation - tomorrow, Guilbeault said; “it is warming in Canada where there ice, the faster the rest of the world is way more than that to so many al development organization of the about tendencies.” The last time is snow and cold,” he said. warms.” He said the Alberta oil Catholic Church in Canada. D&P Canada was covered in ice, global “We’re not going to stop having sands is “one of the dirtiest ways — FOOD SYSTEM , page 5 De Roo still energetically lobbying for Vatican II vision

By Glen Argan Affairs Commission when it The first point of renewal which from us.” De Roo’s heroes include St. Western Catholic Reporter issued its controversial Ethical De Roo raised in the interview Vatican II, however, taught John XXIII who called the coun - Reflections on the Economic was, perhaps surprisingly, mar - that the first priesthood is the cil and Pope Francis who is “liv - EDMONTON (CCN) — Fifty- Crisis at New Year’s in 1983. riage. Gaudium et Spes — the priesthood of the baptized. The ing out the vision we had in mind four years after being named a Ethical Reflections drew na- council’s Pastoral Constitution on ministerial priesthood has more in Vatican II.” bishop, Bishop Remi De Roo is tional headlines for months and the Church in the Modern World responsibility, but that responsi - still selling the merits of the Second sparked fevered debate across — “lays out a beautiful charter for bility is to provide order in the Vatican Council. At age 92, his Canada with even then prime the majority of human beings church so that the variety of gifts travel schedule is slowing down, minister Pierre Trudeau weighing which is to enter a permanent of all the baptized can be ex- but is far from drawing to a halt. in against the statement. covenant of life and love.” pressed more freely. “I speak on the council wher - De Roo recalls the bishops’ The sacrament of marriage is De Roo continues on through a ever I’m invited to go,” De Roo objecting to Trudeau’s policy of not simply a church ritual, he list of other fruits of the council — said in an interview during a wrestling inflation to the ground. said. “The celebration in the that it was a liturgical event and an recent trip to Edmonton to visit “We stood up and said, ‘Inflation church is the public manifestation ecumenical event, that it con - his longtime friend and co-author is not the problem; unemploy - of the couple’s intent to spend demned modern warfare, that of several books, Douglas Roche. ment is the biggest problem.’ ” their lives together.” Cath o lic songwriters began to use At the end of the hour-and-a- For De Roo, however, the Marriage is an irrevocable gift the Bible as the inspiration for half interview, the bishop is still Ethical Reflections statement was of self by both partners shown in their music, and that it opened the going strong, showing no signs of but one way of living out the the mental and physical sharing door to greater involvement by fatigue or any desire to draw the Vatican II vision. of life. It is more than an institu - women in the church. conversation to a close. That vision is, quite simply, the tion. The partners give the sacra - If the council has not been He’s lectured on Vatican II on vision of the Gospel. Every previ - ment to each other, day by day, fully implemented, it is because several continents, made close ous church council had a negative year by year. “The physical gift western society has become too friends in China and still gives a agenda of combating heresies and constitutes the sacrament.” rich and comfortable, too soaked couple of lectures a year on the meting out appropriate punish - Another contribution of the in individualism. council which changed the church. ments. council, De Roo said, was its However, De Roo said he WCR/G. Argan De Roo should know. He was Vatican II had a positive agen - “reclaiming” the biblical under - remains optimistic about imple - Bishop Remi De Roo ordained a bishop in October da; “it was a pause in history” standing of the church as the menting the council. He has seen 1962 at the ripe old age of 38 and during which the church reflected People of God. Even today, “countless groups” trying to live “I’m trying to sound a wakeup is one of only a handful of bish - on how to live out the Gospel, Vatican insiders resist using the out Vatican II, such as through the call to all believers — Christian ops still living who attended all how to respond to the promptings term because it implies that all pursuit of peace and justice, or non-Christian alike — to re - four council sessions. of the Holy Spirit. the baptized are equal. marching for human rights, pro - claim that vision of Pope John The travel is exhausting, but it That job is never complete, and In the 1920s and 1930s, Pope moting the dignity and equality of XXIII and to enter into the makes life meaningful, he said. Vatican II was not a four-year jun - Pius XI promoted lay involvement women, and going to developing renewed program to which Pope “I don’t mind getting up at 3 ket before everyone went home to in the church through various nations to perform simple tasks Francis invites us and which he a.m. to catch an early flight if I’m let life return to normal. So, De movements of Catholic Action. such as digging wells. has illustrated by his way of life.” doing something meaningful,” he Roo stays on the lecture circuit. Those movements were understood “You could make a litany of That vision is one of personal hu - continued. “There’s always time “We should re-examine our - as lay participation in the hierarchi - things that are being done. But mility and a church which must ac - to catch up on sleep, but there’s selves as to whether we’re taking cal apostolate of the bishops. “It they don’t get headlines.” cept its own frailty. “Jesus was not a not enough time to speak about the Gospel seriously,” he said. was all centred on the bishops.” Yet when asked about the de - Hollywood star. He was a sim ple Vatican II.” “There are no pat answers or sim - But as early as 1946, Pope Pius clining rate of church attendance, person; he lived a very simple life. That De Roo is focused on ple solutions to that.” XII stated that the laity must be- he responds, “My focus is not pri - He lived with the down and out. Vatican II might be a surprise to All are invited “to ask what am I come aware that they are the marily on numbers. The real issue “So, why should we be sur - some. His chief claim to national doing individually and what are we church. “Even today,” De Roo here is the quality of our disciple - prised we’re not getting the fame is that he was the chair of doing as communities in our re - said, “we talk about the church as ship. In what ways are we living Hollywood acclaim? We’re pil - the Canadian bishops’ Social spective parishes and faith groups.” though it were something separate the Gospel?” grims with a pilgrim saviour.” 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS June 15, 2016 Battle over meaning of human dignity underlies debate

By Deborah Gyapong the state says you are,” he said. dependent on us, dependent on always been a decline of morali - Under the traditional view, a our will, it becomes negotiable.” ty,” he said. OTTAWA (CCN) — A battle human being has dignity that no The modernist sees law “as a A rule of law, based on natural over the meaning of human digni - one, not even the person himself, construction like a skyscraper,” law, has always been a “wall to ty underlies the euthanasia de - can abrogate, he said. Even if the he said. Instead of being dis - resist the irresistible force of pas - bate, American philosopher and person declares he has no human cerned or discovered by reason, sion,” he said. It is also a bulwark author Peter Kreeft told a confer - value and wants his organs to be positive law is “willed or created against the demands of the will, ence organized by Catholic doc - harvested, that human dignity is by human beings.” “that tries to conform objective tors June 4. not given him by the state, by the Because so many people no reality to itself.” This battle is more significant culture, or by society and cannot longer live on farms, close to It is important for justice and than that of the Second World be taken away from him. nature, and their lives are so love to recognize equal human War in the 20th century, or the One of the most popular mod - shaped by technology and person - dignity for all as an essential battle between radical Islam and ernist philosophies in North Amer - al will, the whole notion that virtue, Kreeft said. western civilization in the 21st, ica is utilitarianism, he said. Utili - things have natures, and that acts The rejection of God and moral Kreeft told a public lecture orga - tarianism promotes the “great est can be natural or unnatural is absolutes is also the rejection of nized by the Canadian Federation happiness for the greatest number.” being lost, he said. conscience, he said. of Catholic Physicians’ Societies. That means you can have 50 A western society, which Kreeft said as a Christian he The war over human dignity cannibals happy because they eat Kreeft called Apostate-Chris - believes the law of God is written involves two opposing absolutes, the 51st, he said. Values are rela - tendom, is the first major culture in man’s heart, even if he does two opposing “goods,” he said, tive; human beings do not have in the world to depart from a nat - not believe in God. “You can’t and will not be solved until the CCN/D. Gyapong any objective value. “You create ural law basis for morality. Until commit a conscience-ectomy.” end of time. Peter Kreeft your own reality.” now, “all societies have believed However, he noted Aldous On one side is the growing In a collective form, modern - in some kind of intrinsic moral Huxley’s prophetic novel Brave popular view that human dignity is debate “modernism” and the ism holds that science and society law,” he said. New World, depicts a society relative, subjective and something other “traditionalism.” Though he create your value, Kreeft said. No such society has ever sur - where “conscience is quite dead.” one can lose, say for example if a noted some legal regimes do not Modernists and traditionalists vived, he said. The decay and “I hope Huxley’s wrong,” he wave washes away one’s bathing treat all human beings as persons are also in conflict regarding their destruction may be controlled for said. suit, or if one “farts at a dinner for the sake of the law, “all view of law and of nature, he a time, but eventually the society Kreeft said a basic principle party,” Kreeft said. The other side human beings are persons,” and said. Traditionalists hold a belief will fall, as did the Roman underlying human dignity is the holds the view each person has to deny that leads to “totalitarian - in natural law, a law that is “dis - Empire. Or the society can repent Golden Rule, to treat others as intrinsic, objective value, and is an ism.” cerned by reason rather than of its direction and find renewal, you would be treated. “No one end and not a means. “You are a person because you invented by the will,” he said. “If as did ancient Israel. wants to be treated as a thing, to Kreeft dubbed one side of the are a human being, not because the value of a human being is “The decline of religion has be used as an object,” he said. At the end of life, there is always a moment of clarity: Le Roux

Continued from page 1 wrong perception. God’s percep - law, we also have to acknowledge in the new Act, the government presented as just another treat - tion is you have life and purpose.” that there is a moral law giver. should state that it is still an ment option. ment. So what if we can’t do like Recently, a friend whose father The question is, who is that?” important policy goal to prevent “It should be the last resort, after others? We are a bouquet of flow - had terminal cancer was in horri - On the surface, Bill C-14 is assisted suicide.” someone has been informed of the ers with different colours and petals ble pain. The father begged his not all bad. However, there are He also emphasized that it is options, and there are many other that make the bouquet worthwhile son to do something; he couldn’t definitely a number of legal con - not contrary to the public’s inter - options with respect to pain relief. to look at. I see that we have lost stand the pain. The son called Le cerns. Prior to the bill being ta - est to express the view that partic - Currently, the Act doesn’t necessar - this understanding of pain as being Roux and her husband to ask bled, the Special Joint Committee ipating in a person’s death is ily require the doctor to inform the a contribution, an occasion of being them how he could help his father on Physician-Assisted Dying morally and legally wrong. patient about these other options.” able to express and receive love.” end his life. made concerning recommenda - He believes that medically Advice on possible strategies When Noeline Le Roux sees The doctor’s advice was that, tions in regard to the bill. assisted suicide, referred to by for advance medical directives patients on their deathbeds, she through his father’s suffering, As indicated in the recommen - Bill C-14 as “medical assistance and living and legal wills was believes there is a grace given by God’s grace was given to him and dations, the medical option for in dying,” should be considered a also presented. The talk was host - God in that suffering. As a Chris - his family. physical or psychological suffer - last resort and not a measure to be ed as part of Celebrate Life Week. tian, she believes that we are to “We need to believe that God, in ing included the non-terminally ill, go when our story is done. that time, will provide whatever minors and people with mental ill - “At the end, there is always a they need. ‘God is not done with ness. Theoretically, Fourie said, moment of clarity. Sometimes it your father yet,” I told him. “As he someone with severe depression can be minutes, hours or days. is a believer, his suffering is his tes - could go to a physician and After what seems to be the end timony on his belief in God. Medi - request to have their life ended. comes a renewal. Families are cine is to minimize the pain. Some - Other ways of treating that sometimes hopeful the family times we cannot stop it, but wait for person, such as counselling, member will get better.” God to finish what he has started.’’ could be set aside and the physi - After many years of practice Fourie shared that the same cian could say, “I will respect and witnessing, she believes it is family friend had personally your wishes. Let’s help you a moment to make amends, to thanked him and his wife for the administrate assisted suicide.” deal with whatever needs to be advice they gave. The friend said Fourie is involved with Chris - dealt with, in order for that per - that what Le Roux explained would tian Legal Fellowship (CLF), an son to pass into heaven. happen, did in fact happen. In that organization founded in the mid- “I believe God provides an time, he was able to make amends. 1970s that is fuelled by the convic - opportunity for us to give our “I’m really thankful for Chris - tion that, for the Christian lawyer, lives to him, if at that time the tian doctors with respect for this the practice of law is a vocation. person has not yet taken that step. issue, that they acknowledge that The organization consists of God is gracious, loving and kind. we need God. A prevailing attitude Christian lawyers represented by He wants to see all the people he is that we are trying to take God’s more than 30 denominations, and has given life to a chance to go to position. People are saying there has put together recommendations heaven to have another life there. are moral laws. The question aris - on Bill C-14. A letter addressing When this whole issue with es: what if someone in a position their concerns was submitted to assisted suicide occurred, I was of power, someone like Hitler, says the Standing Committee on Justice mortified and shocked.” he doesn’t like a certain group of and Human Rights during the first The first thing she shared with people? It seems to be that if soci - week in May 2016. her husband, lawyer Philip ety deems something to be right Among the concerns listed was Fourie, was her concern that the and it is the fashion, we should that the bill does not affirm that people that intervene on behalf of make a law and see if it works.” suicide prevention and sanctity of the ill and the unconscious might Fourie spoke of the Canadian life are important policy goals. not know they may be taking that Charter of Rights and Freedoms, “Once Parliament legalizes time of God’s grace away. where it says, “Whereas Canada assisted suicide, professional reg - “They will take the time of is founded upon principles that ulators, other bodies and societies grace away from that person. A recognize the supremacy of God at large may come to view it as a commodity we use and dispose of and the rule of law.” social good. I think the way it’s J. Weber — life is not like that. Life is “There is a reason it says that. unfortunately presented is that CYCLING TOWARD HOPE — “When the spirits are low, when the sanctity.” The moment we don’t recognize assisted suicide seems to be a day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly When bodies fail, people have that, it’s us determining what’s legal right, which is not what the seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the feeling they don’t contribute, right and wrong. The moment we Supreme Court decision set in the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” — they don’t belong. “That’s the say there’s such thing as a moral motion at all. It’s important that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle June 15, 2016 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 Many disappointed in Senate amendments to bill

By Deborah Gyapong required the additional safeguard a central or regional registry if they of a judicial authorization for all will not carry it out. Joyal also said OTTAWA (CCN) — Eutha - those not near end of life. institutions receiving public money nasia opponents who hoped the Advocates for the disabled have should not have the right to object. Senate might tighten safeguards asked for an arm’s length judicial “If it’s government money, it’s and add conscience protection in or tribunal authorization as an neutral money,” he said. assisted suicide and euthanasia important safeguard, but this Ferrier said she is not sur - Bill C-14 are disappointed and amendment was defeated. prised the bill didn’t pass. “The concerned. Batters said she believes Bill mood in the government right In fact, they say the Senate has C-14 is constitutional, but needs now is the ‘right to be killed’ is a made the bill worse. more safeguards. Constitutional fundament right. The whole thing The most troublesome amend - lawyer Gerald Chipeur, who also of doctors’ freedom of conscience ment for those concerned about testified before the Senate, also is not important to them.” vulnerable Canadians is the Sen - said he believes Bill C-14 as “The whole notion of con - ate’s passage of one put forward passed by the House of Commons science rights is something every by Liberal Senator Serge Joyal to is constitutional. single Canadian should take to remove the bill’s definition of Senators also rejected an the streets over,” said Brownrigg, “grievous and irremediable” and amend ment to protect the con - adding these rights are “hand in replace it with the much broader science rights of individuals and glove with freedom of religion wording of the Supreme Court of institutions to not participate in and freedom of speech.” Canada’s Carter decision. Bill C- assisted suicide and euthanasia or One bright light, however, is the 14 as passed by the House of to refer, put forward by Conserva - passage of Conservative Senator Commons had limited eligibility tive Senator Don Plett. Nicole Eaton’s amendment to Art Babych for assisted suicide or euthanasia Plett said many provinces are include a palliative care assess - to those whose death was “reason - FUNDAMENTAL VALUES — Opponents of euthanasia and assisted “quite clear they are not going to ment as a requirement for an ably foreseeable.” The amendment suicide held a rally on Parliament Hill in early June. The demonstra - provide conscientious protection assisted death. “It’s not perfect,” widens the criteria to include those tion was organized by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, the Living when it comes to referrals.” He said Unger, who seconded the who are chronically ill but not with Dignity Network and the Physicians Alliance Against Euthanasia. expressed concerns many doctors amendment. It’s one more thing As stated by the Supreme Court in Carter, “The sanctity of life is one near end of life, among others, of our most fundamental societal values.” will retire or stop practising. that “has to be checked off the list” putting the disabled at risk. “This is something that needed so someone can be eligible for an Senator Denise Batters told The Bill C-14 wording passed by at large really recognize the signifi - to pass, and for them to just strike assisted death. Unger said she journalists the Joyal amendment the House was “already too elas - cance of what’s being discussed this down out of hand I find quite hoped the assessment might help “basically blew the bill wide tic for our liking.” here,” said Conservative Senator frustrating,” he said. some patients change their minds. open” by striking out 15 lines of “My initial reaction was pure Betty Unger, a former registered Plett said the Liberal govern - Chipeur said the passage of the bill. sadness,” said Campaign Life nurse. She pointed out the Senate ment will accept the bill if the Bill C-14 “whether in any form” “It no longer says the condi - Coalition Ottawa lobbyist Johanne has had little time to reflect on the Senate passes the bill with the either that passed by the House of tion has to be serious,” said Brownrigg. While most Canadians bill. “The more Canadians learn Joyal amendment. “I believe my Commons or as amended by the Batters, who also saw her amend - she said do not realize what is hap - about it, the less they like it. We conscientious protection amend - Senate is “critical for the safe - ment to protect those with under - pening, those who are informed are seeing poll numbers changing.” ment would have passed had it guards that are there.” lying mental illness by extending and involved, “see the handwriting Joyal said he put forward the passed here.” “Over time we can address any the waiting period to 90 days and on the wall, the extremism that has amendment because of the “pre - The government has to find the deficiencies that become appar - adding a psychiatric assessment already come into play.” ponderance” of testimony by con - right balance between two com - ent,” he said, noting the federal defeated. Batters also put forward “We’ve come to the point that stitutional experts, including Peter peting rights, that of the patient law will only be the minimum. an amendment to restrict eligibili - Canada is so taken with the indi - Hogg, that Bill C-14 is unconstitu - seeking “medical aid in dying,” The provinces and territories can ty to those who are terminally ill, vidual that it fails to see society, so tional because it limited access to and the right to object of the “layer on” other limitations the but that too was defeated. the greater good of society is going categories of people the Supreme health care professional, he said. public deems important for pro - “(The Joyal amendment) is to be the victim of this radical indi - Court said had a right to a physi - The courts use the principle of tecting the vulnerable. very bad news,” said Physicians’ vidualism.” She warned that once cian-assisted death. “minimal impairment,” Joyal said, Bill C-14 needs the approval Alliance Against Euthanasia Dr. the “collective wisdom” and “good Joyal, however, also supported noting the provinces could look at of the House of Commons, the Catherine Ferrier. She noted the that has infused Canadian society an amendment by the Conserva - the Quebec model that Senate and the Queen, via the Quebec euthanasia requirement is gone, it’s gone.” tive leader in the Senate, Senator requires those who get a request Governor General, to pass, said requires a person be at end of life. “I don’t think Canadian people Claude Carignan, that would have for medical aid in dying to inform Chipeur. Otherwise the bill dies. Uncertainty, confusion reign for physicians over assisted suicide

By Michael Swan sion and more opinions than facts. and Dental Society. Bill C-14 were not amended,” Eu - advised to heed advice from their The Catholic Register “It’s a matter of weeks before Doctors have told Worthen that thanasia Prevention Coalition ex - various professional colleges. people (in health care) are going some hospitals have already put in ecutive director Alex Schaden berg “Health care providers should TORONTO (CCN) — With no to have to choose between their place procedures and protocols for wrote on his blog. “Bill C-14 contin - consult their regulatory colleges law in place to govern assisted sui - conscience and their career,” said doctor-assisted death. Some hospi - ues to allow anyone to cause death about any rules, guidelines or cide, physicians and vulnerable Deacon Larry Worthen, executive tals will force objecting doctors to by euthanasia or assisted suicide.” practices regarding medical assis - patients face uncertainty, confu - director of the Christian Medical refer for assisted suicide, even In Schadenberg’s reading of the tance in dying,” said a joint press though, said Worthen, “our physi - proposed law, “the bill only re - release from Health Minister Dr. Food system based on energy cians are just unable to refer” for quires them (doctors and nurse Eric Hoskins and Attorney Gen - reasons of conscience. practitioners) to ‘be of the opinion’ eral Madeleine Meilleur. Worthen and the doctors he that the person meets all of the cri - Guidelines issued by the Col - Continued from page 3 produced.” He quoted American represents want Bill C-14 passed, teria of the law. This is the lowest lege of Physicians and Surgeons of au thor and journalist Chris Hedges, but they also want the Senate to possible standard.” Ontario are bad news for Ontario people and especially indigenous saying, “Food, along with energy, add specific conscience protec - Worthen said lawmakers he has doctors who don’t want to be inv - people, and Paris did not address will be the most pressing issue of tions for objecting doctors and spoken to are sympathetic to the olved in killing patients, said Cath - this. How can we make sure Paris our age.” health care institutions. call for conscience protections. olic Health Association of Can ada is not making things worse for Lobe then spoke of the “We’re pleased with what’s “They feel that participation bioethicist Dr. Nuala Kenny. people living off the land? Paris Metanoia Farmers Co-operative there, but we want to be more spe - should be voluntary. We would Ontario’s medical college has did not consider the spiritual and operated by CMU students and cific,” he said. “We want to protect like to see that in the actual legis - in formed doctors they have a duty cultural relationship to land.” staff that produces 67 kinds of veg - facilities. We want to protect lation,” he said. to pro vide an “effective referral” to Kenton Lobe, an instructor at etables for 14 - 15 weeks each year against the requirement to refer.” The Pontifical Academy for a consenting doctor. The college, Canadian Mennonite University, and sells shares to the public in Through the CanadiansFor - Life is concerned about Canada’s how ever, does not regulate hospi - displayed a sun-filled scene of a return for a box of locally grown Conscience.ca website, set up by push for legalized, doctor-admin - tals, long-term care homes or hos - glowing field of canola and called vegetables every week. Lobe said an interfaith coalition of faith istered death. pic es. Their guidelines and regula - it “the most degraded land on the the co-operative uses “a couple of lead ers and physicians, the Chris - “We share the concerns of the tions only apply to individual doc - earth. We have distanced ourselves jerry cans” of gas each year and tian Medical and Dental Society church in Canada, especially for tors. from land,” said Lobe. “How far the rest of the energy comes from is asking Canadians to contact the recent developments in legis - “CPSO has been harsh on pro - does my food travel? The standard people, the sun and the rain. senators and urge them to amend lation in your country,” wrote the tection of conscience with its answer is 1,500 to 2,000 miles, Guilbeault said environmental - the assisted-dying legislation. academy’s co-ordinating secre - understanding of ‘effective refer - which is incredibly inefficient. The ists need to speak out about suc - The Euthanasia Prevention tary Rev. Scott Borgman in an ral,’ but the Manitoba college has food system is based on our energy cess stories. “We don’t talk Coalition is calling for the bill to email to The Catholic Register. been better,” wrote Kenny in an system, energy moves through our enough of the vision of the better be defeated if it cannot be ade - The Vatican office is in contact email. “Since conscience protection food system. Think of everything world we’re trying to build. We quately amended. and collaborating with the Cana - has been turfed to the provinces, required for agriculture and all the need to do a better job of telling “I recognize that conscience pro - dian Conference of Catholic we are not likely to have consisten - waste that happens, the energy stories of what we’re trying to tection language has improved . . . Bishops, Borgman said. cy. Protection of institutional con - required and the greenhouse gases accomplish.” but the most grievous sections of In Ontario, doctors are being science is far more unclear.” 6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS June 15, 2016 Student launches garage sale for Malawi parish

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski her own. I was speechless,” said teacher Laura Kuzub-Tremblay. SASKATOON — A nine-year- “We had been studying saints old child’s longing to help people and talking about being disciples, in another part of the world and I had been searching for a touched hundreds and raised year-end project to wrap up the some $5,000 as family, parish, unit. It was meant to be,” she school and community came said. The Grade 4/5 class spent together for a giant Kids Care time brainstorming ideas on how Garage Sale June 4 at St. Anne to help Sarah raise money to sup - Parish in Saskatoon. port Hope for Malawi. All proceeds will go to the Ideas included a bottle drive, charity Hope for Malawi to help collecting loose change and a St. Anne’s sister parish in Africa. bake sale. “Sarah informed us Sarah Molyneux wanted to find that her goal was to raise $60,” a way to help after she heard about said Kuzub-Tremblay. the needs in Malawi during a Pastor Rev. Matthew Ramsay homily at her parish. With support visited the classroom to share sto - from her family and approval from ries and pictures from a recent trip the parish, she launched the idea to Malawi, where he visited of a Saturday morning Kids Care Sacred Heart Cathedral in Zomba, Garage Sale of donated items. the parish that has twinned with “I really like how it turned St. Anne’s Parish in Saskatoon. out,” Sarah said. “I am happy “He told us about the foundation about what we can do for Hope for Malawi and how they Malawi. I’m hoping we can help are making a difference.” more people get education, and Hope for Malawi founders K. Yaworski that more people there can get the Peter and Elaine Zakreski, who CARE FOR MALAWI — Students in Laura Kuzub-Tremblay’s Grade 4-5 class at École Sister O’Brien things they need.” are also parishioners at St. Catholic School in Saskatoon joined forces to support their classmate Sarah Molyneux in her idea to organize a Sarah promoted the fundraising Anne’s, came to the classroom to parish garage sale to help a community in Africa through the local charitable organization Hope for Malawi. project in her parish and school, meet the students and watch them collecting donations of toys, count the change they had started Matthew had shared with us it shows that we really can make a and emailed grandparents and clothes and household items. Her collecting from friends and fami - about the orphans in Malawi,” difference,” said Seraphina. friends to get support. father, Cary Molyneux, designed a ly, she added. she said. “The details in the sto - “It makes me feel happy that “I went home and talked to my logo for the project, and her aunt, Students collected data and ries they remembered were pro - we can help other people,” said mom about it and she was really Sharon Leyne, helped produce a made graphs about Malawi and found. They had been touched Nathalie. excited because when I was promotional video. discussed ways to spread the and were now on the same mis - “A lot of people think kids can’t younger we used to live in a third Sarah approached her teacher word. “They knocked on doors, sion Sarah was — to help.” do what adults can, and we don’t world country as well,” said at École Sister O’Brien Catholic made posters and even wrote let - The week before the garage know as much as they do, but hav - Bettina, adding that her mother School, who responded enthusias - ters and emailed radio stations. A sale, Sarah and her classmates ing Sarah coming up with an idea encouraged her to earn money for tically and incorporated the pro - few of my students came to our shared insights and reflections on like this, and our whole class pitch - the project by setting up a lemon - ject into the curriculum for her staff meeting and explained to the what they had learned about ing in shows that actually kids can ade stand in front of her house. Grade 4/5 class. teachers our fundraising plans,” Malawi, their ideas for helping, and do things,” added Sharissa. “People were very generous.” “Sarah told me that she had said Kuzub-Tremblay. why they wanted to be involved. Students shared information For several students with con - written a letter to the parish and “The Grade 4/5s went class-to- “I thought it was a great thing about Malawi and the project nections to Africa through family got approved by Father Matthew class to present and share the to do and it really gives the stu - with family, friends and other stu - members, the Hope for Malawi to go ahead. She did everything on same stories and pictures Father dents a sense of responsibility, and dents in the school. One student’s project resonated. Others con - father slipped a photo of Malawi nected it to other outreach they into a presentation at work, and were involved in. “My mom’s Teamwork makes everyone grow talked about the project during a meeting. Other students texted — STUDENTS , page 10 By Kiply Lukan Yaworski Lay Employees Association of the “The best leaders make every - Diocese of Saskatoon (LEADS) one grow,” he said. “It starts by STM breaks ground SASKATOON — Building May 25 at the Cathedral of the having a multiplier mindset and effective teams that are both living Holy Family. intentionally wanting to nurture for new addition and modelling Christian leadership Some 35 attended the work - the strengths of other members on while effectively growing disci - shop from across the diocese. the team.” ples was the objective of an annual Workshop facilitator was Paul In an interdependent team SASKATOON — St. Thomas from across the campus.” day of formation hosted by the Magnus, professor of leadership model, the role of a leader is to be More College at the University of A 50-year-old air handling and management a liberator, “freeing people to be Saskatchewan has officially bro - unit, cold winter drafts, and lack and former presi - what God has gifted them to be,” ken ground on a new $5-million of an elevator to serve all floors dent at Briercrest as well as being one who chal - renewal and expansion to its cur - posed mounting challenges for the College in Caron - lenges, empowers, and encourages rent facilities. The North Building college. CFO and Director of port, Sask., who debate and diversity, said Magnus. Renewal Project includes major Administration Derrin Raffey pri - presented practical It is not just the leader that cre - additions and renewal to STM’s oritized these issues in designing ways to strengthen ates and enhances teamwork, he research library; increased energy the renewal project. a culture of team - added. “In some ways, you are efficiency and protection of the “We knew that to increase our work and to collab - more important to a team that you environment; an expansion of the energy efficiency and meet envi - orate effectively. are on, than you are to the team cafeteria, along with student-cen - ronmental challenges we needed to Magnus that you lead.” tred space, and installation of a replace the aging air handling unit described his goal He encouraged parish teams to five-storey elevator to provide and construct a new north entrance as providing in- “have holy conversations,” to access throughout the college. foyer,” said Raffey. “Building an sights and re - pray and celebrate together, and This new development is on elevator to serve all floors of the sources that would to consciously build a dream for the opposite side of the STM college and provide access for all help teams become how they want to operate as a campus from the major building persons has also been a longtime “dream releasers.” team and what they hope to addition that was completed in goal which will be welcomed by In growing disci - accomplish in their ministry. 2013. With this project, space will all.” ples, faith leaders In group discussion, Magnus be added to the main floor of the The new student lounge and can be either “multi - drew out the positives of team - STM library, bringing all the col - front reception area will provide pliers” or “diminish - work as a leadership model: lections to one floor and enabling meaningful new student-centred ers,” he said. Some teamwork brings more gifts to the expansion of the cafeteria. space. Student group offices and a leaders in spire, oth - table, building a synergy that is According to STM president Dr. new student lounge will form the ers have a neutral greater than the individual parts; Terry Downey, “this new addition largest part of the space. The reno - impact, while some it is life-giving, relationship- will enhance access for undergrad - vation of the lower library collec - actually “squelch” focused, builds unity and encour - uate and graduate students to the tion into a new reception area for the mission. He ages staff retention. unique collections in STM’s library the college will create space for stu - THANKSGIVING CONCERT — Last May challenged partici - Working as a team is ultimate - while also providing additional dent advisers who will be front and Rev. Roque Concepcion, pastor of St. Joseph pants to address the ly more effective than a hierarchi - research and study space. Our pop - centre at the college and allow for Parish in Prince Albert, held a thanksgiving con - question, “Is our cal model, he said. No single ular cafeteria, Choices, will now be easier access to Student Services. cert to celebrate his 17th anniversary of ordina - team functioning as leader is an unlimited resource: a able to adequately serve consistent - It is anticipated the building tion. Donations were accepted for the parish an intentional multi - ly heavy daily demand from our project will be completed in the refugee sponsorship program. plier?” — VITAL , page 7 own students and many others late spring of 2017. June 15, 2016 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 7 Strong identity helps students achieve more

By Andréa Ledding allowed to do, but here we are, a culture and our language.” couple of generations later,” said Harper thanked those who SASKATOON — The Saska - STC director of education Valerie work in the classroom supporting toon Tribal Council (STC), Greater Harper. “Today we have our kin - kids in learning their languages, Saskatoon Catholic Schools dergarten to Grade 5 students along with the community and (GSCS) and Saskatoon Public demonstrating their languages.” partners who have worked so hard Schools (SPS) joined forces May The partnership between the to improve the educational out - 17 to hold the fourth annual In - STC and the two Saskatoon school comes of all students, especially digenous Language Celebration systems and reserve schools has Aboriginal students, who have under the theme, “Honouring Our been an innovative and indige - been historically disadvantaged. Youth.” nous-based approach that has The speakers and members of the With support from Sask Culture, brought elders into school spaces grand entry were then presented along with hosting by E.D. Feehan to share counselling, historical per - with gifts from the students, Catholic High School, over 400 spectives, traditional ceremonies, including framed artwork and students from kindergarten to and indigenous perspectives. wooden ceremonial feather boxes Grade 5 participated in cultural “I know that many schools and for holding eagle feathers and activities that encompassed lan - STM classrooms start the day with medicines. guage and teachings. HONOURING YOUTH — The Saskatoon Tribal Council, Greater prayers and smudging, again The students then headed off “Our goal is to help our chil - Saskatoon Catholic Schools and Saskatoon Public Schools joined something that wasn’t allowed a to a full day of rotating half-hour dren grow up with a strong identi - forces May 17 to hold the fourth annual Indigenous Language few years ago,” noted Harper. “We workshops that included lacrosse, ty, speaking their language and Celebration under the theme, “Honouring Our Youth.” Here an elder are very pleased with the response traditional games and dancing, standing proud,” noted master of does moss bag teachings with students from One Arrow First Nation. to the TRC Call to Action. Lan - hoops, storytelling, beading, ceremonies Delvin Kanewiyakiho. guage and culture is a priority and drumming, moss bag teachings, After greetings from the members tant these learning experiences are strong; having strength in one’s it is going to be supported by the basket weaving, and acting led by of the grand entry, an opening to reclaim the culture and language identity will lift the student up government. We look forward to teachers, elders, community lead - prayer was said by Elder Melvina that was taken from them,” said more than any other strategy we that government support of our ers and experts. Eagle. Students from Muskoday SPS superintendent Barry Mc Dou - try. A strong identity will help our sang the national anthem in Cree gall. “The goal of the day is in the students achieve more, become re- (nehiyawak ) after the prayer and name: we want our students to love spected leaders and community Heroes promote literacy opening comments. their language and speak it with members.” “We know from the Call to Act - pride, whether it’s Michif, Cree, “There was a time not too long By Derrick Kunz Based on popular Comic-Con ion from the Truth and Reco - Da kota or Nakawe. We want our ago that our language and our cul - events featuring comic book nciliation Commission how impor - stu dents to feel strong and be ture was something we were not SASKATOON — Students at heroes and villains, the school Bishop Klein School in Saskatoon showcase featured the work of recently designed their own comic students in grades 5 to 8 who cre - Finance officers meet in Regina books, complete with 3D-printed ated their own comic books. characters, to promote youth liter - Using a 3D printer, students By Frank Flegel carry out the mission of the church. acy. brought their characters off the The greatest challenge facing most Comic-Klein, an event show - page and, using stop-motion ani - REGINA — Saskatoon Bishop of the financial officers is trying to casing their work, was held June 2 mation, brought them to life in a Donald Bolen told about 40 dioce - keep faith communities alive in the at the Catholic elementary school. short movie. san finance officers from across face of declining attendance at Special guest Tom Grummett, an “Superheroes are hugely popu - Canada meeting in Regina May 29 mass and declining population in artist with DC Comics who has lar. We thought it would be a great - June 2 their work is a vital part rural communities. “How do we worked on titles such as The New way to pique the interest of our stu - of serving the church. Bolen keep them alive so that they have a Titans, The Adventures of Super- dents,” said Kayla Elash, the Grade talked about mercy and frequently sense of God, a sense of being a man, Superboy, Power Company, 7 teacher at Bishop Klein who quoted Pope Francis on the sub - disciple of Christ and that they’re and Robin, was at the event, visiting spearheaded the initiative. “Block - ject, but he also pointed out being renewed in faith every day?” classrooms, answering questions buster movies, action figures and Gospel passages commenting on The conference was addressed and showing some of his work. other merchandise have their roots money — comments that could be by speakers representing banks, “I was the kind of kid who in comic books, so we went back to troubling for finance officers. accounting firms, global market - would read everything I could get those roots to stress the importance “Dioceses need financial stabili - ing strategists, investment firms, my hands on, and comic books of literacy and reading.” ty,” said Bolen, “and you provide lawyers, pension fund managers, grabbed my attention,” said Elash noted that adding mod - that,” but we don’t like to talk about fundraising specialists, represen - Grummett. “I’ve been fortunate; I ern touches with the 3D-printed it, he said. “Jesus talks a lot about tatives of charitable organizations was able to turn my passion for characters and stop-motion movie money and it makes us nervous.” F. Flegel and firms who work with charita - reading into a career. Maybe one made it interesting and relevant Jesus says not to accumulate, Bishop Donald Bolen ble and non-profit organizations. of these students will be able to for today’s technologically driven “but we need to accumulate to be This year’s conference was do the same.” students. successful,” said Bolen. He re - tions and the amount of funds hosted by the Archdiocese of ferred to the Sermon on the Mount, available with all the great pro - Regina and the dioceses of in which Christ told the disciples grams that are brought forward to Saskatoon and Prince Albert. not to worry about clothes, food or shelter as they went about preach - ing the Word. “He realized he was Interdependence vital sending them out ‘like sheep among the wolves,’ ” said the bish - op, quoting Matthew. Continued from page 6 their setting and context, to iden - Bolen told the finance officers tify challenges and team dysfunc - that they need to be in the world team model recognizes that fact, tion, and then envision where the in order to do their job, but not of and provides “an identity that team can change and adapt to the world. He gave some ques - runs deeper and wider.” achieve greater fusion in achiev - tions for them to ponder and A team model also reflects the ing their ministry goals. asked each table of delegates to Gospel and the kind of leadership Without interdependence, team think about them. Each table then modelled by Jesus, said Magnus. members don’t freely contribute responded to their discussion. “In a world where we have learned ideas, fearing they will be under - “It’s not really about the num - independence first and above all, it valued, judged or brushed aside; bers, it’s about serving the is hard for us to learn interdepen - they hesitate to speak in the team church,” said one group. Another dence. That is why it is so impor - meeting and instead hold “parking said it’s about dealing with mon - tant to model it,” he said. lot” team meetings, said Magnus. ey in a just way and being good Christ’s prayer from John 17 On a team without interdepen - stewards of what the people en - that his disciples might be one so dence, team members feel group trust to them. Another said to that the world will see and meetings are a waste of time, or STM focus on the mission and not so believe, and Jesus’ words to the the agenda is forced. Over time, much on regulations. disciples about leading as servants the best ideas are unheard. GRIFFIN’s 45TH — On May 15, the St. Thomas More College Chapel worshipping community celebrated Pentecost Sunday and a very spe - “You are at that cutting edge were cited by Magnus, who also Leaders can build interdepen - cial anniversary — Rev. Ron Griffin, CSB’s, 45th anniversary of ordi - used a ladder as a prop to demon - dent teams by admitting they are a between the world and the church,” nation to the priesthood. The majority of his priestly ministry has been Bolen said at the end of his talk. strate how Christ put aside his limited resource and honestly at STM, and he has been a gift to the college, to the congregation, and Regina archdiocesan financial glory to journey with us. seeking to be a “learner,” he said. to the Diocese of Saskatoon. “I’m here to thank him,” said Shelley officer Barry Wood, chair of the Magnus encouraged parish On an interdependent team, both Krull of the STM community, “for all that he has been and done for us organizing committee, said finance and ministry teams to work the team leader and the team over these many years. Since I am speaking on behalf of this entire officers spend a lot of time walking together to clarify the “who, why, members help every team mem - worshipping community, I hope that in my words all of you will feel that balance between the regula - what and how” of teamwork in ber find their voice. represented in some measure.” 8 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS June 15, 2016 One year later encyclical gets to heart of the matter

By Michael Swan Laudato Si’ to parish groups at as it applies to the entire human The Catholic Register least 50 times, and at high family. schools and colleges. “Every effort to protect and Revolution was once a bad The ecotheologian finds his improve our world entails pro - word — even The Beatles were most enthusiastic audiences found changes in ‘lifestyles, mod - against it. But ever since the late among ordinary, faithful parish - els of production and consump - Steve Jobs got hold of it and ioners who feel Pope Francis has tion, and the established struc - applied it to every new gadget to connected their common-sense tures of power which today gov - come off the Apple assembly understanding of Catholic morali - ern societies.’ ” wrote Francis. line, the word has lost its threat ty to the world they’re living in. He wasn’t talking about busi - and most of its meaning. “This is no longer something ness as usual. He addressed Pope Francis does not toss that is outside of your faith, or Laudato Si’ to every human being around idle talk about revolution. something only those fringe ele - and his subject was “Care for our But a year ago, in Laudato Si’ , ments in our tradition are talking Common Home.” his environmental encyclical that about. No. This is bringing it “The timing of it a year ago, laments the degradation we have front and centre,” said O’Hara. anticipating the Paris climate con - wreaked on our world, he started “If you want to be a good Catho- ference (in December), that was one. lic and a good Christian you have very important,” said John Dillon, “People often talk about it as to take this seriously. He (Pope ecological economy program co- ‘Oh, the encyclical on climate Francis) didn’t give any leeway ordinator for Canada’s ecumenical change?’ ” said Dennis Patrick on that.” social justice agency KAIROS. O’Hara, director of Toronto’s In 2013 and 2014 the pope had “Because people were looking for Elliott Allen Institute for Theolo - followed round after round of moral leadership going into the gy and Ecology. “I say, ‘Why do United Nations climate negotia - Paris conference.” you limit it so much?’ Yes, it talks tions and decided the world In Paris both scientists and about climate change. But it’s not deserved better than mealy- diplomats talked about the power about climate change per se. It’s mouthed, lawyerly bureaucratic of Pope Francis’ moral vision to about care for our common talk offered up in the teeth of a pull humans back from the brink home.” global crisis. People are dying. of self-destruction. The key word is “integral.” Refugees wander the globe. Entire Former U.S. Geological Sur- “The word integral, when he species are slipping off into geo - vey director and Science maga - speaks of integral ecology, re - logical history. The pontiff decid - zine editor Marcia McNutt said Michael Swan minds us that whatever we do to ed it was time somebody said the scientific arguments on cli - EXPANDING THE CONVERSATION — It’s been a year since the another we do to ourselves,” said something real, urgent and true. mate change are insufficient with - launch of Laudato Si’ , Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical. The O’Hara. “Respect others as you Issued June 18 last year, but out the moral argument Francis encyclical is credited with expanding the conversation on the environ - would respect yourself. That’s symbolically dated to the first provided in Laudato Si’ . mental degradation we have done to our planet. pretty biblical to me. That’s inte - Christian revolution on Pentecost “You can argue the science gral.” Sunday, the encyclical was a call until cows come home, but that Veerabhadran Ramanathan of sations with people, and make Twenty or 30 years ago, trying to arms. Pope Francis intended to just appeals to people’s intellect,” the Scripps Institution of Ocean- them feel that they do have access to apply theology to ecology overthrow our lethargy, passivity, McNutt said. “The pope’s argu - og raphy in San Diego talked to the social teachings of the brought snickers and scorn even fatalism and selfishness when it ment appeals to someone’s heart. about the need for a moral revo - church — that it’s not just for peo - at Catholic universities, said comes to how we treat our planet. Whenever you appeal to some - lution on climate. The world will ple studying in theology depart - O’Hara. In the last year, he has His revolution would require a one’s heart that’s a much more not act enough on climate ments. . . . It’s about real life.” been asked to speak about renewed sense of right and wrong powerful message.” change, Ra manathan said, “until Development and Peace was we teach this in every church, active on climate change long Medicine isn’t a deli counter: Kenny every mosque, every synagogue, before Laudato Si’ . Canada’s every temple.” Caritas agency has been hearing By the end of the Paris confer - about climate change from its Continued from page 1 tionally co-ordinated system. cial officials have detailed plans, ence countries had agreed to pro - partners for more than a decade. “In its final form, a pan- Worthen said. duce plans, policies and laws that After Laudato Si’ it became easi - by four months at the request of Canadian co-ordination system “Like an 811 number,” said would limit global warming to er to get Canadians to see the the newly elected Liberal govern - could serve a variety of functions, Worthen. “That 811 number would less than two degrees and aim for connections and moral conse - ment. including: linking patients to then direct them (patients) to that a 1.5-degree difference in 2050. quences rather than a series of Patient navigators for people providers for MAID (Medical navigator position who would help If you really were looking for isolated disasters that always considering assisted dying is not Assistance in Dying) and provid - them — hopefully first of all — to controversy, note the pope’s insis - seem to happen to the poor in far- some lonely, Catholic crusade. ing information on the full range identify alternatives and also to tence and clarity on economics, off places. Kenny’s demand is backed up by of end-of-life care options avail - help them get an assessment for said Dillon. “He’s found new words to the Canadian Medical Association. able,” said the communications medical aid in dying.” “You can’t really talk about explain these things to us,” said “It serves our two objectives department at Health Canada. The system has to be more doing something about climate Gauthier. “It’s about the culture — to respect conscience and as “The federal government will than just a dispatch service to link change without talking about the of disposal. We’re in this environ - well to facilitate patient access,” continue to work with provinces up willing doctors with patients broader economic context,” Dillon ment of very individualistic be - said Cécile Bensimon, the CMA’s and territories to support patients’ demanding a medical suicide, said. “There wasn’t much that was haviour and he has undone that. director of ethics. access to end-of-life care options said Kenny. A system of private new to Catholic social teaching. He’s given us a new challenge.” The CMA believes it has a and to respect the conscience self-referral might sidestep ob - The problem is that Catholic social It’s not a new challenge that commitment from Ottawa to set rights of health care providers.” jecting doctors, but it would also teaching is not well known.” sweeps away all the moral chal - up and fund patient navigators. Deacon Larry Worthen, execu - be “a capitulation to a market On science and on economics, lenges we have known in our “When the government intro - tive director of the Christian model of medicine,” she said. Pope Francis applied a moral lens times. War, extreme poverty, duced the draft legislation, Bill C- Medical and Dental Society, has Medicine isn’t a deli counter, that got people talking well be- oppression of women, racism, 14, as part of their response to the held talks with health officials in and Kenny insists the doctor- yond the Catholic world. parasitic profiteering and abortion Supreme Court decision, they also four provinces so far. He believes patient relationship must consist “It has reached audiences that all find their way into the pope’s committed to some non-legislative British Columbia, Alberta and of something more than patients maybe would not otherwise have sweeping application of Catholic measures,” Bensimon said. “One Saskatchewan are committed to ordering up procedures and pre - been reached,” Dillon said. moral reasoning to the world we of which was to work with prov - hiring patient navigators, while scriptions they’ve read about on “It was so new, something that live in. inces and territories to establish the Ontario government, in a the Internet. was bridging across social sectors “Since everything is interrelat - such a central co-ordinating mech - press release issued June 6, com - Many in Catholic health care and speaking to non-Catholics in a ed, concern for the protection of anism. . . . We do believe that they mitted itself to the patient naviga - are convinced provinces won’t very accessible way,” said Josianne nature is also incompatible with will make it happen.” tor model. court the disaster of Catholic hos - Gauthier, director of in-Canada the justification of abortion. How For now, Health Canada only “Ontario will establish a referral pitals and nursing homes shutting programs for the Canadian Cath - can we genuinely teach the im- has plans for a website. service to support physicians in down in the face of regulations olic Organization for Development portance of concern for other vul - “When the legislation is making an effective referral for that force Catholic institutions to and Peace. nerable beings, however trouble - passed, a federal website will pro - consultation and assessment for refer for assisted suicide, said Laudato Si’ has revolutionized some or inconvenient they may vide information on a range of possible medical-assistance-in- Kenny. But Kenny herself is not so Gauthier’s job. be, if we fail to protect a human end-of-life care options, including dying cases,” said the joint Minis - sure. “It’s actually been an incredible embryo, even when its presence palliative care,” a Health Canada try of Health and Attorney General “I am not enthusiastic that his - educational tool,” she said. “It’s is uncomfortable and creates dif - spokesperson wrote in an email to press release. “The service will torical protections will continue to made it a lot easier to have conver - ficulties?” Francis wrote. The Catholic Register. help connect physicians who are apply,” she wrote in an email. The website will include links un willing or unable to provide “Ob-Gyn has all but disappeared to palliative care resources and medical assistance in dying with from Catholic facilities and they contact information for assisted physicians who are willing to com - can be separated, but physician- www.prairiemessenger.ca suicide. plete a patient consultation and assisted death will be occurring The federal government is still assessment.” everywhere — mostly in the home talking to provinces about a na - Across Canada various provin - and community.” June 15, 2016 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 9 A city is shaken, but determined to keep the faith

By Mark I. Pinsky might have on the about Central Florida — again. In ©2016 Religion News Service Orlando community 2012, the Trayvon Martin shooting and on the charged in neighbouring Seminole County ORLANDO, Fla. (RNS) — U.S. debate on immi - turned the nation’s eyes this way. We may be at the centre of a met - gration. And just days ago, singer Christina ropolitan area two million strong, Much as Central Grimmie of The Voice was gunned but this is still a small town. So Florida has become down while signing autographs the shooting deaths of 50 people more cosmopolitan, ac- after a concert. early Sunday, June 12, at a dance cepting of its gay It is not an image the commu - club is sending shock waves well friends and neighbours, nity wants. First Unitarian Church beyond Central Florida’s gay it has also gotten to of Orlando opened their facilities community. know the growing Is - for temporary grief counselling My friend, Joel Hunter, pastor lamic community. when the LGBT centre was over - of Northland, the area’s largest Imam Muhammad whelmed. Evangelical church, was one of Musri, of the Islamic Rabbi Steven Engel, of the the first from the religious com - Society of Central Congregation of Reform Judaism munity to react to the shootings. Florida, a leader of in- in Orlando, said in an email to Hunter told NPR he was noti - terfaith activities in members of his congregation that fied of the shooting around 4 a.m. Or lando, rushed to the the city “has always had the repu - by an Orlando police officer, and scene of the shooting. tation as one of the most welcom - that shortly after he joined an “We are heartbro - ing and hospitable cities in the emergency meeting of communi - ken,” he told reporters world. Its diversity and sense of ty leaders. outside the crime hachnasat orchim , or welcoming “May God give comfort to the scene. “We are sad. It’s the stranger, are legendary.” hurting and change the hearts of RNS/Reuters/Steve Nesius not time for sensation - And that, he suggested will those who would harm others,” MOURNING FOR ORLANDO — Friends and family members embrace outside alized news, or a rush continue. he said. the Orlando Police Headquarters during the investigation of a shooting at the to judgment. We need “We are a very close commu - Central Florida’s gay commu - Pulse nightclub, where people were killed by a gunman, in Orlando, Fla. to look at this issue of nity especially when it comes to nity has become increasingly mass shooting because people of faith,” he said. “We are important to the city’s economy, drug counselling, educational and from corporate heavyweights with we have had one too many today.” standing strong and not letting a in cluding the annual just-conclud - employment support, plus a 24- many gay employees, like Disney, Imam Tariq Rasheed of the deranged gun-toting fanatic move ed Gay Days, centred at the theme hour crisis hotline. Universal, and Sea World, as well Islamic Center of Orlando also us from the values we hold dear. parks: Disney, Universal and Sea The house, which opened its as the Orlando Magic basketball condemned the violence: “No Our determination for mutual World. Gays are also a political doors in 2012, is emblematic of the team. In-kind gifts came from local religious tradition can ever justify respect, understanding and peace - force, with candidates routinely way Orlando has supported the outlets of Ikea and Microsoft. nor condone such ruthless and ful co-existence will not waver, seeking their endorsement. emerging gay community. When it The Pulse shootings have senseless acts of violence.” but on the contrary I think it will Resistance to the emergence and opened, Orlando Mayor Buddy sparked concerns about what This latest, most horrific strengthen us. But for now tears integration of the gay community Dyer cut the ribbon. In addition to impact the Muslim faith and the instance of gun violence will no flow for the indifference and des - was once centred among funda - the city of Orlando, support came immigrant parents of the shooter doubt cause people to wonder ecration of human life.” mentalist Christians but has largely faded. Gays, who once worshipped mostly at one or two area Metro - Religious roots of hatred resurface in Orlando politan Community Churches, are now prominent members of many By Yonat Shimron — may be a contributing factor to that condemn homosexuality and vigils were being planned across faith communities. ©2016 Religion News Service hatred against gays. those “who by their unrighteous - the country and in Canada, As elsewhere in the country, it’s Religious leaders from Pope ness suppress the truth.” including at Stonewall, the his - hard to find anyone who doesn’t One year after the United States Francis to the Florida chapter of Allen read from Romans 1:28- toric Greenwich Village gay inn have a family member, good friend Supreme Court ruled that gays can the Council on American-Islamic 32, which says: “God gave them where riots broke out in 1969 in or co-worker who is gay. legally marry across the country Relations sharply condemned the over to a depraved mind, so that response to police raids. Social connections between (same sex marriage has been in shooting. they do what ought not to be done. Thousands lined Santa Monica straights and gays are exception - place in Canada since 2005), and The Vatican’s spokesperson, They have become filled with Boulevard in West Hollywood ally strong. Thus the reverbera - at a time when most polls show a Rev. Federico Lombardi, said every kind of wickedness, evil, Sunday for the 46th annual LA tions of grief from the shooting majority of Americans support Pope Francis shares in the vic - greed and depravity. They are full Pride Parade. Organizers an- are rippling throughout the broad - LGBT equality, the mass shooting tims’ “indescribable suffering” of envy, murder, strife, deceit and nounced that the celebration would er community, especially among in Orlando, Fla., shocked many and “he entrusts them to the Lord malice. . . . Although they know begin with a moment of silence for young people. who had begun to take gay rights so they may find comfort.” God’s righteous decree that those the victims of the shooting. Shortly after news of the shoot - for granted. Muslim groups also con - who do such things deserve death, One of the owners of Or- ings hit the web, my 25-year-old Not only did the shootings at demned the killings. they not only continue to do these lando’s Pulse club, Barbara daughter called in tears from the Pulse nightclub occur during “The Muslim community joins very things but also approve of Poma, started the establishment to Melbourne, Australia, saying she Pride month, when LGBT people our fellow Americans in repudiat - those who practice them.” promote awareness of the area’s could easily have been at the Pulse and supporters in the U.S. and ing anyone or any group that A handful of biblical passages lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans - when the shootings took place. Canada celebrate the gains they would claim to justify or excuse condemn homosexuality. These gender community. Her brother The LGBT Community Center have made toward equality, they such an appalling act of vio - include perhaps the most oft re- died from AIDS, USA Today of Central Florida, which has set also took place at a gay club — lence,” read a statement from the peated: “If a man practices homo - reported. up counselling and a hotline for historically a safe gathering place Council on American-Islamic sexuality, having sex with another Poma opened Pulse on Orange assistance, is just blocks away for LGBT people, especially back Relations. The Florida chapter man as with a woman, both men Avenue with friend and co- from the affiliated Zebra Coali- when no other establishments also called on the Muslim com - have committed a detestable act. founder Ron Legler in 2004. tion House. That organization has would welcome them. munity to take part in a blood They must both be put to death, “It was important to create an been providing gay adolescents Suspected gunman Omar drive for those wounded in the for they are guilty of a capital atmosphere that embraced the and youth with an afternoon Mateen, 29, was armed with an attack. offence” (Lv 20:13). gay lifestyle with décor that drop-in centre, mental health and assault-type weapon and a hand - But such words from religious Likewise, the Quran condemns would make John proud,” Poma gun when he opened fire at the groups provided cold comfort to homosexuality and recommends wrote on the club’s website. Pulse nightclub, killing 50 peo - many gay activists. stoning as a form of punishment: “Most importantly, (we) coined Pinsky is a longtime Orlando ple. Mateen, who was killed in a “There’s such a cognitive dis - “For ye practice your lusts on the name Pulse for John’s heart - religion writer and author of “A shootout with police, was born in sonance for me when public offi - men in preference to women: ye beat — as a club that is John’s Jew Among the Evangelicals.” the U.S. to parents who emigrated cials ask us to pray when the are indeed a people transgressing inspiration, where he is kept alive from Afghanistan. majority of world religions pro - beyond bounds. . . . And we in the eyes of his friends and The New York Times reported mote anti-LGBT theology,” said rained down on them a shower family.” that Mateen called 911 shortly Eliel Cruz, executive director of (of brimstone)” (Quran 7:80-84). President Obama, speaking Are you before the attacks and pledged Faith in America, an organization But for many modern readers from the White House, reached out allegiance to ISIS. that attempts to end the harm to of Scripture, such passages are to LGBT people: “This is an espe - Moving? But Mateen’s father, Mir LGBT youth it says is caused by meant to be read in the context of cially heartbreaking day for all our Please let us know a Seddique, said his son was not dri - religious teachings. the time and should not be taken friends — our fellow Americans month in advance. ven by religious ideology. Instead, “This isn’t isolated to Muslim literally. — who are lesbian, gay, bisexual Write to: he said, Mateen seemed upset after beliefs. It’s seen in Christianity LGBT groups across the or transgender,” Obama said, not - Circulation Dept. Prairie Messenger seeing two gay men kissing in and it’s just as deadly,” added nation sprang into action Sunday. ing that the place where the attack Box 190 Miami a few months ago. Cruz, a former RNS columnist. Equality Florida, the state’s took place “is more than a night - Muenster, Sask. S0K 2Y0 If there was one message in Just last month in Congress, LGBT civil rights organization, club — it is a place of solidarity [email protected] the massacre, it seemed to be that Rep. Rick W. Allen, from began collecting contributions via and empowerment where people Undeliverable papers cost twice LGBT people are still not safe, Georgia’s 12th District, led a Re - a GoFundMe page to support the have come together to raise aware - as much to return. and that religious teachings — or publican policy group’s opening victims of the shooting. ness, to speak their minds and to at least a narrow reading of them prayer by reading Bible passages A host of demonstrations and advocate for their civil rights.” 10 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH June 15, 2016 Children of Mary has significant impact on parish

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Brent Kostyniuk

In the Ukrainian Catholic Time is also spent preparing for Church, the months of May and the girls’ participation in regular October are set aside for special divine liturgies, as well as such devotion to the Mother of God. special events as the Crowning of Commonly, this devotion takes Mary. In both instances, they the form of a Moleben , or prayer wear blue capes and white veils service, dedicated to her. in honour of Mary. Patterned after the divine liturgy, While Children of Mary and it includes general petitions, a Sodality do take an active part in Gospel reading specifically about various liturgies, these are far from Mary, direct petitions to her, and their only activities, as Victoria hymns in her honour. Kostyniuk explains. “Sodality is a Gracious Lady, you pray for tight-knit group of young ladies all those who with faith take ranging from Grade 7 to university refuge in your powerful protec - aged. We gather to pray and sing tion. We sinners ever in misery hymns, but we also do crafts and and affliction have no other have fun playing other games. The recourse to God than you. We are members of Sodality are also burdened by many sins, O Mother active volunteers in the church of God. We bow down before you. community. We often teach songs CHILDREN OF MARY — Young girls wear blue capes and white veils in honour of Mary at a Crowning Save your servants from every to younger members of the church of Mary Moleben , or prayer service, dedicated to her. calamity. and lead them in hymns during the Although special in its own liturgy. We have the privilege of acolytes. Through this the oppor - Theotokos is something I cannot important thing.” right, on occasion extra events are being able to grow together in tunity they grow in their relation - express in words. I know that this Helping young girls form a added to the Moleben . So it was faith, spiritually and physically. ship with God. However, this relationship she is developing with lifelong relationship with the that on the evening of May 25 St. During times of reflection and same privilege may be found as a Mary will last her a lifetime, Mother of God is both praisewor - Basil the Great Church in prayer, we closen our relationship member of the Children of Mary regardless of where her faith takes thy and vital. Children of Mary Edmonton saw children and with the Virgin Mary.” for girls. Through my 13 years as her and that to me is the most and Sodality do just that. young adults gather to add further The impact of Children of a mother, there have been count - beauty to the Moleben with a Mary and Sodality on the life of a less times that I have had to turn to Crowning of Mary ceremony. parish is significant. Not only do Mary and pray for her strength and Participants included very young the girls grow in faith, they guidance, from one mother to children from the parish’s pre- become active members of the another.” school sadochuk — little garden parish, often leading to lifelong Elizabeth also sees how her — program, as well as girls and service in that spiritual family. The daughter’s life is already being Retreats & Workshops young ladies from the Children of impact can also be very personal. affected. “To know that my daugh - Sacred in the City — Mary and Sodality organizations. Elizabeth Dokken recalls how her ter is developing her own relation - Margaret Silf Prior to the Moleben , a proces - own life has been affected. “As a ship with Mary through a program Thursday, June 30, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Cost: $65 commuter; + $85, $135 live-in sion made its way down the mother of five, I often find it diffi - like the Children of Mary is com - church’s central aisle. It began cult to find enough time in the day forting. In the busy world in which The Other Side of Chaos: Breaking Through When Life is with the youngest children carry - to offer all of my children the one- we live, I value faith formation Breaking Down! — Margaret Silf Friday, July 1, 7 p.m. to Sunday, July 3 ing individual flowers. Part way on-one faith formation that they so even more than ever before. To after lunch. Cost: $130 commuter; + $165; $275 live-in down the aisle, they stopped and deservingly need. I have always know that my daughter is, in many Moral Loneliness — The Congenital Ache of a Soulmate sang a verse of Immaculate Mary believed that boys are very privi - ways, being given the opportunity Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI Monday, July 11, 7 - 9 p.m. in Ukrainian. They then proceed - leged to be given the opportunity to form her faith with the loving Cost: $30 with supper; $15 presentation only. ed to the tetrapod in front of the to serve God by becoming and guiding hands of the Celebrating the Year of Mercy — From Paranoia to Metanoia sanctuary, on which an icon of Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI Tuesday, July 12, 9 a.m. - Thursday, July 14 lunch. Our Lady of Perpetual Help had Cost: $200 commuter; $260 commuter plus; $400 live-in. been placed. The children placed Students eager to share Iconography Retreat — Anne Mycyk and Gisele Bauche their flowers in vases on either Monday, July 18 through Friday, July 22, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. side of the icon. Two of the chil - Continued from page 6 God helped us, and God made us Cost: $450 commuter (includes lunch); $760 live-in (includes accommodation & meals). dren carried a wreath of flowers all. God made our world and we Triumph: Freedom Through Healing — Jerry and Donna Kristian set on a pillow. They, too, sang a friend lived in Fort McMurray, should do our part to help other Friday, July 29, 6 p.m. - Sunday, August 7, 3 p.m. verse of Immaculate Mary before and we donated clothes there people around us.” Registration: Call or email Queen’s House. Please check our website. proceeding to place the wreath in too,” said Noah. “It is really nice Nathalie added: “God sent Jesus 5-Day Silent Directed Retreat — Bishop Gerry Wiesner, OMI & front of the icon. knowing you are donating your to help people. I find that we can Dianne Mantyka. Sunday, August 14, 4 p.m. - Thursday, August 19, 2:30 p.m. During the Moleben , the stuff to a good cause.” help Malawi. They don’t deserve to Cost: $715 live-in only. (Registration, meals, room & spiritual direction.) young ladies of Sodality assisted “This is a good thing to do, live like that. It’s not their fault that in singing the responses. As well, you get to learn about other coun - they were born into a poor situa - for one ektenia — litany — all tries, and how we are so lucky,” tion. They should be helped.” SPIRITUAL FORMATION DAYS: as part of Spiritual Direction Formation the children sang the response. O Saturdays 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. added Danika. Abigail agreed, saying: “God June 18 Monastic Way: Benedictine Spirituality for Today – Sr. Mary Coswin, OSB Maria Maty Bozhe, molitisia za Students were eager to share created that country and he wants July 9 Biblical Spirituality: Spirituality of the Psalms – Bp. Wiesner & G. Bauche nas — O Mary Mother of God, what they had learned about us to help. It’s kind of like a test Cost: $40 per session (includes registration, refreshments and lunch). pray for us. Malawi, including facts about the to see if we will actually care.” Young girls may join Children country, descriptions of the food On the day of the sale — which of Mary as early as age five and and housing and how people live, featured dozens of tables over - Ongoing Events at Queen’s House continue through to their teen diseases that could be cured, as flowing with donated items and a Centering Prayer: Monday evenings 7 p.m. Holy Eucharist: Wednesdays, 3 p.m. (call to confirm time — all are welcome!) years, when they progress to well as insights into poverty and fundraising barbecue — several Journey with Scripture: Fr. Paul Fachet. $25 w/lunch. First Wed. of the month. Sodality. Both organizations aim injustice. They have also connect - classmates joined Sarah and other Taizé Prayer for Christian Unity: Second Tuesday of the month, 8 p.m. to instil within the girls a love for ed the project to faith and their volunteers in helping out. Unsold Day Away: Gisele Bauche. Second Wed. of the month. Cost: $25 w/lunch. the Mother of God. Through love of God. items were donated to the 24-Hour Eucharistic Adoration: Fourth Monday of the month, 12 p.m. -Tuesday, 12 p.m. prayer and lesson, the girls learn “The people in Malawi have Community Living Association, Personal Day(s) of Private Prayer: Book anytime. to model their lives after her. many more needs than you can the CWL Clothing Depot and the For program details visit www.queenshouse.org imagine. They have many people Saskatoon Friendship Inn. To register please call 306-242-1916 and orphans there, and there are In addition to collecting loose or email: [email protected] Kostyniuk, who lives in classes that have to be held out - change ($881.25), a bottle drive Edmonton, has a bachelor of the - side because there is no room in ($386.60), and a bake sale 601 Taylor Street West, Saskatoon, SK S7M 0C9 ology from Newman and is a free - the classrooms,” described Sarah. 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Hymn choices prepared by Bernadette Gasslein, Karen Koester, Heather Reid and Christina Ronzio. Please note that these selections are not meant to be prescriptive, but to help you in your choice of music that works for your community, with its resources and repertoire. Please note that along with the CBW III listings we have included a few listings from Celebrate in Song (CIS), which was meant to be a supplement to CBW III. Keep in mind that in July and August, people are travelling and parish musicians are often not practising (as much as at other times!) so familiar music is a wise option. Don’t forget to check out the listings for other hymnals other than the one your parish has. Many hymnals share the same repertoire, so you will probably find at least some suggestions taken from another hymnal in your own.

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2016 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

July 3, 2016 Opening hymn CBW 435 Lift High the Cross 540 Glory and Praise to Our God 536 Come, and Worship the Lord 515 In the Cross of Christ Fourteenth Sunday in OT CIS 6.16 Glory in the Cross 663 Save Us, O Lord 444 Lift High the Cross 881 Lift High the Cross (Holy Thursday vss)

Preparation CBW 439 The Master Came to 490 We Walk By Faith 217 Psalm 66: Cry Out to the Lord 610 Song of the Lord’s Goodness of Gifts Bring Good News (tune 438) 466 The King of Love My 630 Lord, Make Us Servants of Shepherd Is Your Peace

CIS 6.39 The Summons

Communion CBW 610 Taste and See 799 The Lord Is Kind and Merciful 553 Come with Me into the Fields 948 At the Table of Jesus

CIS 6.1 Bread for the World 328 Taste and See 508 In the Breaking of the Bread

Misericordes Sicut Pater (Hymn for the Jubilee Year of Mercy)

Closing CBW 504 Before the Sun Burned 626 Alleluia! Raise the Gospel 401 Lord, You Give the Great 686 Blest Be the Lord Bright Commission 377 The Spirit Sends Us Forth 508 Go to the World 599 Blest be the Lord

691 Lord, You Give the Great Commission

CIS 6.30 Table of the World

July 10, 2016 Opening hymn CBW 650 this Day God gives Me 557 Sing of the Lord’s Goodness 578 Anthem 742 The Church’s One Fifteenth Foundation Sunday in OT CIS 6.34 Let Us Go to the Altar 565 Immortal, Invisible God Only 558 Whatsoever You Do Wise

Preparation CBW 431 Christ, You Are the 424 For the Fruits of This Creation 342 Turn to Me 724 I Heard the Voice of Jesus of Gifts Fullness Say 367 See Us, Lord, About Your 352 In Your Love Remember Me CIS 6.31 Christ, Be Our Light Altar 590 Christ, Be Our Light

Communion 604 Seed, Scattered and Sown 365 I Am the Living Bread 584 Earthen Vessels 950 Take and Eat

CIS 6.4 Let Us Be Bread 783 How Lovely Is Your Dwelling 503 See Us, Lord, about Your Place Altar Misericordes Sicut Pater (Hymn for the Jubilee Year of Mercy)

Closing CBW 533 Sent Forth By God’s 374 Go Out, Go Out 691 Praise the Lord, My Soul 493 Change Our Hearts Blessing 420 How Great Thou Art 699 Give Thanks to the Lord 807 We Are Called 632 Wondrous Is Your Name

CIS 6.29 O God of Past and Present

July 17, 2016 Opening hymn CBW 442 Praise to You, 401 To You, O God, I Lift Up My 707 Lord of Glory 839 As We Gather at Your Table Sixteenth O Christ Our Saviour Soul Sunday in OT 713 Rain Down 837 Gather Your People 587 Gather Us In 431 Seek Ye First

583 As We Gather at Your Table

CIS 6.12 Gather Your People

Gasslein holds a licence in sacred theology with specialization in pastoral catechetics from the Institut catholique de Paris. For the past 40 years she has been engaged in various liturgical and cat- echetical ministries, leading workshops around the country and is editor of Worship, a journal published by Liturgical Press. She and her husband live in Edmonton.

Koester is a member of the National Council for Liturgical Music, a group that advises the CCCB. She earned a bachelor of education with music major at the University of Alberta, and has a grad- uate diploma in religious education at Newman Theological College. She has been actively involved in parish music ministry for over 30 years as a singer, choir director and occasional trumpeter at her parish, St. Joseph’s Basilica, and in the Archdiocese of Edmonton.

Reid is the director of music for St. Basil’s Parish in Ottawa. She has an undergraduate degree in music (Western) and a masters degree in liturgy from Notre Dame. Reid is a member of the music committee for the Ontario Liturgical Conference.

Ronzio is the director of the Liturgy Office for the Diocese of Hamilton. She holds an MA in liturgical studies from St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN. 12 Prairie Messenger June 15, 2016 ~ MUSIC FOR LITURGY ~

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2016 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

July 17, 2016 Preparation CBW 431 Christ, You Are the 399 This Alone 168 Psalm 15: Those Who Do 782 Only This I Want Continued of Gifts Fullness Justice 595 All Good Gifts 781 Lord, When You Came 444 Lord We Hear Your Word with Gladness

CIS 6.40 Faith and Truth and Life Bestowing

Communion CBW 597 Bread of Life 353 Bread for the World 646 Christians, Let Us Love One 946 Let Us Be Bread Another CIS 6.4 Let Us Be Bread 324 Gift of Finest Wheat 528 Bread for the World

Closing 521 Now let Us From This Table 421 Canticle of the Sun 693 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You 635 Let All Things Now Living Rise 547 All the Ends of the Earth 671 Glory and Praise to Our God CIS 6.30 Table of the World

July 24, 2016 Opening hymn CBW 561 O God, Beyond All 303 Gather The People 613 O God, Our Help in Ages 818 If You Believe and I Believe Seventeenth Praising Past Sunday in OT 654 Baptized in Water 598 O God Beyond All Praising CIS 6.34 Let Us Go to the Altar 351 Seek the Lord

Preparation CBW 431 Christ You Are the 431 Seek Ye First 251 Psalm 103: Loving and 658 Seek Ye First of Gifts Fullness Forgiving 476 Christians, Let Us Love 655 Increase Our Faith CIS 6.26 All For Your Glory One Another 710 I Have Loved You

701 Till the End of my Days, O Lord

Communion CBW 597 Bread of Life 799 The Lord Is Kind and Merciful 279 Psalm 138: On the Day I 924 Song of the Body of Christ Called CIS 6.4 Let Us Be Bread 635 Blest Are They 926 Life-Giving Bread 525 You Satisfy the Hungry Heart

Closing CBW 563 Sing A New Song 666 Seek the Lord 608 Seek Ye First the Kingdom 759 God Sends Us Forth of God 387 Sent Forth By God’s Blessing 690 Sing of the Lord’s Goodness

July 31, 2016 Opening hymn CBW 522 Blest Are They 663 Save Us, O Lord 301 Save Us, O Lord 855 Morning Has Broken Eighteenth Sunday in OT 657 As Morning Breaks (for a 423 I Sing the Mighty Power 704 For the Beauty of the Earth 607 Sing a New Song morning celebration of eucharist) of God

Preparation CBW 483 For You Are My God 351 One in Body, Heart and Mind 342 Turn to Me 749 Where Your Treasure Is of Gifts CIS 6.31 Christ Be Our Light 655 One Bread 652 Peace Prayer 628 You, Lord Are Both Lamb and Shepherd

Communion CBW 597 Bread of Life 342 One Bread, One Body 499 One Bread, One Body 932 One Bread, One Body

658 God, My God, You I Crave 349 I Am the Bread of Life 516 Seed, Scattered and Sown

CIS 6.4 Let Us Be Bread

Closing CBW 477 God of Day and God 421 Canticle of the Sun 717 Beatitudes 615 Holy God, We Praise Thy of Darkness Name 547 All the Ends of the Earth 622 Lord of All Hopefulness 534 Let All Things Now Living

505 Disciples’ Song

CIS 6.30 Table of the World

August 7, 2016 Opening hymn CBW 519 To Abraham and Sarah 663 Save Us, O Lord 592 Faith of Our Fathers 610 Sing of the Lord’s Goodness Nineteenth (Tune: 517) Sunday in OT 315 Let Us Go to the Altar 687 Sing Alleluia 677 A Living Faith 571 Praise the Lord with the Sound of Trumpet

CIS 6.34 Let Us Go to the Altar of God

Preparation CBW 445 Earthen vessels 596 Your Words are Spirit and Life 197 Psalm 33: Happy the People 680 We Walk By Faith of Gifts You Have Chosen CIS 6.15 There Is a Longing 691 Be Still My Soul 790 The Summons 575 Only This I Want

602 Be Not Afraid

Communion CBW 487 You Are Near 324 Gift of Finest Wheat 477 Holy Darkness 930 Taste and See

CIS 6.4 Let Us Be Bread 349 I Am the Bread of Life 485 In the Shadow of Your Wings 932 One Bread, One Body

518 The Supper of the Lord

Closing CBW 521 Now Let Us From 385 City of God 453 One Lord 579 Over My Head This Table Rise 490 We Walk By Faith 670 Sing a New Song CIS 6.23 Holy Is Your Name June 15, 2016 Prairie Messenger 13 ~ MUSIC FOR LITURGY ~

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2016 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

August 14, 2016 Opening hymn CBW 563 Sing a New Song 783 How Lovely Is Your Dwelling 546 God Has Chosen Me 845 Making Their Way Twentieth Place Sunday in OT CIS 6.31 Christ, Be Our Light 722 In the Day of the Lord 604 All the Ends of the Earth 302 Gather Us In

Preparation CBW 414 Send Us Your Spirit 596 Your Words are Spirit and 204 Psalm 40: God, My God, 813 God, Whose Purpose Is to of Gifts Life Come to My Aid Kindle

608 I Have Loved You 481 Parable 615 Holy God, We Praise Thy Name 678 May We Praise You

Communion 597 Bread of Life 799 The Lord Is Kind and Merciful 515 That There May Be Bread 937 Now In This Banquet

602 Eat This Bread 365 I Am the Living Bread 513 Our Blessing Cup

CIS 6.4 Let Us Be Bread

Closing CBW 533 Sent Forth by God’s 558 Sing a New Song 662 Praise to You, O Christ, 578 How Great Thou Art Blessings Our Savior 197 Praise to the Lord 497 Lord of All Hopefulness 664 Mighty Lord

CIS 6.25 We Shall Go Out

August 21, 2016 Opening hymn CBW 583 As We Gather at Your 592 All My Days 679 O Bless the Lord 848 Gather Us In Twenty-first Table Sunday in OT 542 From All That Dwell Below 571 Church of God 601 Gather Us Together the Skies 567 From East and West

Preparation CBW 545 Sing Out, Earth and 411 Earthen Vessels 677 We Praise You 837 Gather Your People of Gifts Skies 517 Come Unto Me 260 Psalm 117: Go Out and 717 Shelter Me O God CIS 6.26 All For Your Glory Tell the Good News 911 Many and Great

Communion CBW 490 Like A Shepherd 349 I Am the Bread of Life 660 What You Hear in the Dark 946 Let Us Be Bread

CIS 6.3 The Hand of the Lord 359 One Love Released 560 God of the Hungry Feeds Us 511 At That First Eucharist

Closing CBW 591 God Is Alive 392 Lead Me, Guide Me 671 Glory and Praise to Our God 985 Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory CIS 6.28 Go Make of All Disciples 534 Lift Up Your Hearts 566 We Are Companions on the Journey 685 How Can I Keep From Singing

August 28, 2016 Opening hymn CBW 583 As We Gather At Your 671 Loving and Forgiving 536 Come, Worship the Lord 839 As We Gather at Your Table Twenty-second Table (or use tune 743) Sunday in OT 305 Our God Is Here 727 This Day God Gives Me 424 I Come with Joy 394 At the Lamb’s High Feast CIS 6.12 Gather Your People

Preparation CBW 568 Praise to the Lord 391 Open My Eyes 576 Take, Lord, Receive 836 Coming Together For Wine of Gifts and For Bread 523 O Beauty, Ever Ancient 550 Servant Song 837 Gather Your People 530 Table of Plenty

Communion CBW 608 Now In this Banquet 635 Blest Are They 304 Jesus, Come to Us 937 Now In This Banquet

604 Seed, Scattered and Sown 331 Eat This Bread 522 Bread of Life

CIS 6.11 For Countless Blessings

Closing CBW 521 Now Let Us From This 540 Glory and Praise to Our God 548 City of God 766 City of God Table Rise 603 We Are the Light of the 557 Lord, Whose Love in CIS 6.30 Table of the World World Humble Service

September 4, 2016 Opening hymn CBW 435 Lift High the Cross 442 O God, Our Help in Ages 351 Seek the Lord 801 Take Up Your Cross Twenty-third Past (alternate tunes: 885, 853) Sunday in OT CIS 6.16 Glory in the Cross 668 I Sing the Mighty Power of (Easter verses) 547 All the Ends of the Earth God 606 Glory and Praise to Our God

Preparation CBW 354 Take Up your Cross 524 Holy Wisdom, Lamp of 228 Psalm 90: In Every Age 721 You Are Mine of Gifts Learning CIS 6.26 All For Your Glory 412 Everyone Moved by the Spirit 782 Only This I Want 504 All That Is Hidden

Communion CBW 6.11 Take and Eat 770 As the Deer Longs 364 Ubi Caritas 924 Song of the Body of Christ

CIS 6.8 Take and Eat 331 Eat This Bread 524 Behold the Lamb

6.11 For Countless Blessings 526 Come, Taste and See

Closing CBW 532 For the Fruits of All 543 O Bless the Lord 422 To Jesus Christ, Our 546 Go To the World Creation Sovereign King (use tune 612) 558 Sing a New Song 586 Take Up Your Cross 519 Sing to the Mountains 14 Prairie Messenger June 15, 2016 ~ MUSIC FOR LITURGY ~

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2016 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

September 11, Opening hymn CBW 443 There’s a Wideness 530 Peace 529 Gather Your People 665 Healing River of the Spirit 2016 in God’s Mercy Twenty-fourth 318 The God of All Grace 557 Lord, Whose Love in Humble 582 Rain Down Sunday in OT CIS 6.22 Loving and Forgiving Service

Preparation CBW 477 God of Day and God 205 Dona Nobis Pacem 209 Psalm 51: Create in Me 956 Our Father, We Have of Gifts of Darkness Wandered (or tune 769) 520 The Eyes and Hands of 468 Come Home 503 For the Healing of the Christ 964 The Master Came to Bring Nations 603 We Will Rise Again Good News

538 Behold A Broken World

Communion CBW 496 My Refuge, My Fortress 799 The Lord Is Kind and Merciful 528 Bread for the World 47 The Cry of the Poor

597 Bread of Life 319 Our Blessing Cup 708 Like a Shepherd 935 Draw Near

CIS 6.11 For Countless Blessings 508 In the Breaking of the Bread Misericordes Sicut Pater (Hymn for the Jubilee Year of Mercy)

Closing CBW 677 or 678 O Praise the 720 Lift High the Cross 657 We Are the Light of the World 803 For the Healing of the Nations Lord, My Soul or My Soul Gives Glory to the Lord 493 Faith of Our Fathers 700 Now Thank We All Our God

CIS 6.23 Holy Is Your Name

September 18, Opening hymn CBW 522 Blest Are They 310 Table of Plenty 685 Praise, My Soul, the King of 856 This Day God Gives Me 2016 Heaven Twenty-fifth CIS 6.34 Let Us Go to the Altar 597 In the Land There Is a Hunger 859 God of Day and God of Sunday in OT of God 686 Praise to the Lord of Darkness

Preparation CBW 634 Stewards of Light 491 Center of My Life 203 Psalm 34 The Cry of the 810 Let Justice Roll Like a River of Gifts Poor 658 Give Me Ears to Listen 592 We Are the Light of the 656 Christ, Be Our Light World

Communion CBW 610 Taste and See 464 Shepherd Me O God 601 O God, You Search Me 926 Life-Giving Bread

603 Gift of Finest Wheat 338 When We Eat This Bread 498 Bread of Life 47 The Cry of the Poor

CIS 6.1 Bread for the World 593 Center of My Life

6.11 For Countless Blessings

Closing CBW 477 God of Day and God 555 Sing Out Earth and Skies 560 God of all the Hungry 610 Sing of the Lord’s Goodness of Darkness Millions 198 Now Thank We All Our God CIS 6.30 Table of the World 453 One Lord

September 25, Opening hymn CBW 522 Blest Are They 614 Rain Down 686 Praise to the Lord 677 A Living Faith 2016 Twenty-sixth CIS 6.29 O God of Past and 303 Gather The People 689 Sing, O Sing 839 As We Gather at Your Table Sunday in OT Present 691 Praise the Lord, My Soul

Preparation CBW 476 Come and Journey 691 Be Still My Soul 283 Psalm 146: Lord, Come and 735 Blest Are They of Gifts with a Saviour Save Us 509 Unless A Grain of Wheat 728 Eye Has Not Seen CIS 6.15 There Is A Longing 650 Prayer of St. Francis

Communion CBW 603 Gift of Finest Wheat 483 Love One Another 522 Bread of Life 394 May We Be One

612 Drink in the Richness of God 357 Seed Scattered and Sown 550 Servant Song 940 Gift of Finest Wheat

CIS 6.1 Bread for the World

6.11 For Countless Blessings

Closing CBW 521 Now Let Us from This 603 We Are the Light of the World 415 All Praise and Glad 576 Canticle of the Sun Table Rise Thanksgiving 385 City of God 882 Ye Watchers and Ye Holy 678 My Soul Gives Glory to the 615 Amazing Grace Ones Lord 606 Glory and Praise to Our God CIS 6.25 We Shall Go Out

6.30 Table of the World June 15, 2016 DEEPENING OUR FAITH Prairie Messenger 15 Discipleship is an invitation of total commitment

Rev. Bill Stang, OMI, responded to the call from the us free, we are to become like Christ in making loving and newly formed Oblate province of OMI Lacombe to serve in serving others the greatest priority of our lives. He is care - Kenya. He let go of his ministry as chancellor in the ful to point out that we can do this only by being filled Liturgy Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas and spent the next six years with the Holy Spirit of the risen Lord, and led by the Spirit ministering as a missionary and finally founder and director who alone can give us the power to say no to selfishness and Life of a pre-novitiate in Kenya. That commitment entailed miss - or self-serving tendencies in our lives. ing the death and funeral of both a sister and his mother. He Jean Vanier, founder of the L’Arche homes for the men - literally lived the gospel we proclaimed today. tally challenged, is one person who, much like Elisha, Sylvain Lavoie, OMI St. Paul’s description of the reign of God in Romans is heard the call of God as a layperson. Giving up his career clear: it is the peace, joy and justice of the Holy Spirit. To as a teacher and professor, he invited two mentally chal - work for peace, to be full of joy and to have a right relation - lenged men to live with him in his home in Troisly, Elisha ploughing? He must have been a farmer. ship with God, to be reconciled with all others in our lives, France. His goal was to give them a caring family environ - There is a story of a farmer who was much loved by to accept ourselves as we are, and to care for all of God’s ment, instead of an often uncaring impersonal institution. all the animals on his farm. One day they all met to dis - creation is now our paramount task as followers of Jesus. Inspired by his radical call and response to that call, others cuss how they could express their love and appreciation Psalm 16 underlines that radical call: it is God who is joined him and a second home was opened by an Anglican to this farmer for his caring for them. The consensus our inheritance; we have no good apart from him. Those couple at Daybreak in Toronto. With that second home, was to offer him breakfast in bed of eggs and bacon. words reflect the title of a book written by Cardinal Sarah the movement of L’Arche was born. The hens agreed immediately and enthusiastically. The in Rome — God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith. Some years ago there was a TV series entitled pig, however, balked, saying that for the hens that Elisha, in the first reading, is a great example of how Thirtysomething. One episode went this way: A group of would be a day’s work, but for him it would be total we are to respond to that call. After a moment’s hesitation married men gathered for a social evening at a hotel. One commitment! he even let go of his profession, burning his plough to of the men felt attracted to the event manager with whom The readings today invite us to follow Jesus with total cook the oxen and feed the people so that he could be free he had to relate all evening in terms of arranging food, commitment, allowing no other priority in our lives than to follow Elijah. music, and drinks. She was attracted to him, too, and as to proclaim the kingdom of God by being his disciples and the evening went on the romantic chemistry intensified. “loving one another as we love ourselves.” 1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21 Finally, the moment came to part. The man stalled, thank - Thirteenth Sunday In the Gospel, Jesus is clear about the radicalness of Psalm 16 ing her again for her help. She, not wanting to lose the in Ordinary Time that call to proclaim the kingdom of God as a vocation, by Galatians 5:1, 13-18 moment, asked him, “Would you like to get together again June 26, 2016 our words, by our lives and by our commitment. More Luke 9:51-62 sometime?” The man hesitated, guiltily apologized for not important than having a home, secure job, family or circle being more forthright earlier, and drew on the moral of friends is the call to proclaim that the kingdom of God, The fact that Elisha was a farmer out in the field behind courage of his faith. Not without sweating a little blood, a whole new world order and way of life, has been inaugu - 12 yoke of oxen underlines that this call to follow Jesus is he said: “I am married. I need to go home to my wife.” rated by Jesus in us and among us, and we are to help not esoteric, meant for an elite, but directed to everyone, Ron Rolheiser, OMI, recounts that his father, perhaps build up that reign of God. regardless of status, position or station in life. the most moral man he’s ever known, used to tell him: St. Paul, in the second reading, resorts to paradoxical “Unless you can sweat blood like Jesus, you’ll never keep language to express the magnitude of being redeemed and a commitment, in marriage, in priesthood, or anywhere. Sylvain Lavoie, OMI, Archbishop Emeritus of the made holy by Christ, and how we are to respond. Christ That’s what it takes!” Archdiocese of Keewatin-The Pas, is chaplain at the Star has set us free from sin and our sinfulness, defects of char - The eucharist is itself a call to discipleship. We are of the North Retreat House in St. Albert, Alta. He contin - acter and our addictions, for freedom — but only to be empowered by God’s love in Jesus, through Word and ues to live out his motto, Regnum Dei Intra Vos (the king - slaves to one another! sacrament, to go out as disciples to love others as he has dom of God is among you), which is his overriding focus What Paul is stating is simply now that we have met loved us, and as we love ourselves. In short, we are to go and passion. and experienced Christ whose unconditional love has set and be the disciples that Jesus is calling us to be. Extraordinary sensitivity makes one more vulnerable to suffering

depth, and that the more painful they will flow more deeply into our terms with frustrations, or accepted something is the better it is for you lives because in a deeper opening to deflated expectations?” In spiritually. There is, of course, God we will stop falsely protecting Buckley then goes on to make some deep truth in this. Spiritual ourselves against pain and become a comparison between Socrates depth is inextricably connected to much more sensitive so that life can and Jesus, as a study in human Exile suffering, as the cross of Jesus flow more freely and more deeply excellence, and highlights how reveals, and Scripture does say that into us. In that sensitivity, we will Socrates appears, in many ways, Ron Rolheiser, OMI God chastises those who draw stop un consciously manipulating to be the stronger person. Like close to him. But there are count - everything so as to keep ourselves Jesus, he too was unjustly con - less ways to misunderstand this. secure and pain-free. Simply put, demned to death, but, unlike Jesus, Jesus did say that we must take we will experience deeper pain in he never went into fear and trem - Daniel Berrigan, in one of his On the one hand, all too com - up our cross daily and follow him our lives because, being more sensi - bling or “sweated blood” over his famous quips, once wrote: Before mon is the idea that if you wel - and that following him means pre - tive, we will be experiencing every - impending death. He drank the you get serious about Jesus, first come God into your life you will cisely accepting a special suffering. thing more deeply. poison with calm and died. Jesus, consider carefully how good you have an easier walk through life; But we might ask: Why? Why The opposite is also true. If as we know, didn’t undergo his are going to look on wood! God will spare you from many of should suffering enter into our lives someone, as a crass expression death with nearly the same calm. In saying this, he was trying to the illnesses and sufferings that more deeply because we take Jesus might put it, is so insensitive so as The superficial judgment, highlight something often radically afflict others. Conversely, many seriously? Shouldn’t the opposite be to be thick as plank, his own insen - Buckley suggests, is to see their misunderstood from almost every others nurse the feeling, if not true? Does true religion somehow sitivity will surely immunize him different reactions to death in the side, namely, how and why authen - explicit belief, that God means for stand against our natural exuber - against many sufferings and the light of their different deaths, cru - tic religion brings suffering into us to suffer, that there’s an intrinsic ance? Is suffering deep and joy pain of others will rarely disturb cifixion so much more horrible our lives. connection between suffering and superficial? And, what does this say his peace of mind. Of course, he than drinking poison. But that, about God? Is God masochistic? won’t experience meaning and joy Buckley submits, while containing Does God want and demand our very deeply either — that’s the some truth, is secondary, not the THE KENORA CATHOLIC suffering? Why is a certain inflow price tag for insensitivity. real reason. Why did Jesus struggle DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD of pain necessarily concomitant A number of years ago Michael more deeply with his death than with taking God seriously? Buckley, a California Jesuit, Socrates did with his? Because of Invites Applications for the following Position: Pain will flow into us more preached at the first mass of a his extraordinary sensitivity. Jesus deeply when we take God seriously, newly ordained priest. In his homi - was simply less able to protect not because God wants it or ly he didn’t ask the newly ordained himself against pain. He felt things Religious Education/ because pain is somehow more man if he was strong enough to be more deeply and consequently was blessed than joy. None of these. a priest, but rather if he was weak more liable to physical pain and Family Life Coordinator Suffering and pain are not what enough to be a priest. In teasing weariness, more sensitive to For further information please visit the God wants; they’re negatives, to be out what’s contained in that para - human rejection and contempt, eliminated in heaven. But, to the dox, Buckley helps answer the more affected by love and hate. Employment Opportunities section of our website at: extent that we take God seriously, question of why drawing nearer to Socrates was a great heroic www.kcdsb.on.ca God also means drawing nearer to man, no doubt, but, unlike Jesus or call (807) 468-9851 suffering: “Is this man deficient who wept over Jerusalem, he never Rolheiser, theologian, teacher enough so that he cannot ward off wept over Athens, never expressed

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By Charles Camosy chemotherapy or decades of pay - ©2016 Religion News Service ing for in-home caregivers. Ominously, California recently Are you generally healthy? legalized assisted suicide during a Got all of your parts working rea - special legislative session sonably well? The majority of designed to deal with its state those with power in our culture Medicaid budget shortfall. And in do. Canada, the Supreme Court’s Not surprisingly, we find that original Carter ruling has become many of our culture’s assump - the law, which means doctors tions and actions have an can’t be prosecuted under the “ableist” bias against those with Criminal Code if they help a disabilities. patient suffering from a Think this is just another con - “grievous and irremediable” ill - cept made up by leftist academics ness to die. pushing an agenda? That’s under - We have a saying in bioethics, standable. There are plenty of “A right to die risks becoming a examples of this kind of thing in duty to die.” our culture, but ableism is not one Virtually anyone can find the of them. one extreme case that makes Consider, for instance, a clas - assisted suicide seem like a rea - sic example of ableism: the abor - sonable idea. But once we allow tion of prenatal children because its legality, the assumptions of they have Down syndrome. our ableist culture will take over Depending on which poll you and push the law in directions its read, between 70 per cent and 90 CNS/Warner Bros. drafters never anticipated. per cent of babies with this prena - DEHUMANIZING STEREOTYPES — Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin star in Me Before You , a film that Physical pain doesn’t even tal diagnosis are killed. Why? Is “overflows with dehumanizing stereotypes about disability, from implications that disabled people are make the top five reasons people it because we have data that such things no more active than houseplants, to assumptions that disability is a fate worse than death.” request assisted suicide. The children cannot have good lives? most common reasons have to do Hardly. People with Down syn - off than we are. This kind of The Hollywood ableist tradi - eventual suicide is portrayed as with loss of autonomy and fear of drome are actually happier than uncritical judgment is simply tion continues even more blatant - benefiting both characters. becoming a burden on others. those without it. baked into our ableist cultural ly in the new movie Me Before The main complaint from But why is autonomy an essential Those who study ableism cake. You . Based on a book of the same nearly the entire disability com - part of a life worth living? Why know that most of us who do not Hollywood, it should come as name, Ladau notes that the story munity is that this is a cherry- is it bad to need the support have Down syndrome have an no surprise, bears deep responsi - “overflows with dehumanizing picked story used to justify an of others? unconscious bias against those bility for creating this kind of stereotypes about disability, from ablest assumption: namely, that Our culture is so blinded by its who do. We are unable to shake culture. Emily Ladau, a disabili - implications that disabled people the life of someone who cannot ableism assumptions that we ourselves out of ableist assump - ty rights activist, wrote in Salon are things no more active than walk is not worth living. never really ask these questions tions about the good life. that ableist filmmakers often use houseplants, to assumptions that The movie doesn’t portray the in a serious way. It turns out that the kinds of disabled people to tell stories of disability is a fate worse than actual views of most disabled But when we make policy with lives worth living are basically what she calls “inspiration death.” people. Instead, it perniciously these assumptions in mind, we the ones we happen to have. We porn.” Remember that scene in The story portrays the life of uses the story of an exceptional unwittingly risk creating an don’t need the actual data on Forrest Gump where he some - Will Traynor, a once able-bodied case to reinforce the harmful and ableist duty to die. Our autono - what kind of lives those with how magically breaks free of his man who becomes a quadriplegic inaccurate stereotype. my-obsessed utilitarian culture Down syndrome have — we “just leg braces and runs like the wind and then falls in love with his And harmful stereotypes can’t help but send the message know” they are objectively worse blows? And what about the caretaker Louisa Clark. Will has become harmful public policies. that disabled people have lives assumption in Million Dollar plans to kill himself via Dignitas, Lawrence Carter-Long, who less worth living. Baby when the boxer, Maggie, a Swiss organization that caters to became a disability activist And when movies are made Camosy is associate professor loses her ability to box? It is, of “assisted-suicide tourists” who after watching Million Dollar like Me Before You , we send a of theological and social ethics at course, that she request help to can’t find anyone to help kill Baby, notes “In different states, message to millions of people Fordham University. die. them in their home country. His insurance companies will pay that may result in their feeling for somebody’s medication in pressure to get out of the way in Books order to take their own life, but favour of those who can somebody has to go to Kick - “autonomously choose” to be a starter to get a wheelchair they “net benefit” to society. Martin invites us to a deeper friendship with Jesus need.” We would do well to listen to Overburdened health care sys - the disability rights community SEVEN LAST WORDS: An invitation to a deeper friendship with Jesus by James Martin, SJ. New York, tems are structurally coerced into about these matters and work Harper Collins, 2016. Hardcover, 134 pages, $23.99 (Can). Reviewed by Edwin Buettner situations where they prefer hard in resisting a culture of assisted suicide to, say, extended ableism. This book of reflections on the last words of world with us: “Shed a tear for those who suffer Jesus as he hung dying on the cross is based on Rev. bodily today — through thirst or hunger or naked - James Martin’s homilies as preached at St. Patrick’s ness or imprisonment or torture or famine or assault Cathedral in New York, at the request of Cardinal or abuse.” Clearly, the implication for followers of Timothy Dolan. The text’s style preserves a focused Christ is action: to bind the wounds of Jesus by Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa and spare homiletic format that bespeaks not only tending to those who suffer. the author’s depth of scriptural understanding but “Today you will be with me in Paradise.” These also attests to his personal faith. As is true of all words to the convicted man at his side express the Come with us to serve Africa either as a: effective preaching, Martin encourages the hope of the glorious transformation that awaits those reader/listener to connect the lived reality with the who suffer with Christ. Martin observes that Jesus’ * Lay Missionary for two years Paschal Mystery as recounted in the Gospels. wounds are very much present in the Gospel The seven “words” (more accurately, “sayings”) accounts of the resurrection appearances. Why? * Missionary Sister that form the basis of this book “offer a privileged Martin believes that the wounds are a graphic * “Praying Friend” access into Jesus’ life and therefore an entrée into reminder of Jesus’ solidarity with humankind. “The who he really is . . . someone with whom we can risen Christ carries within himself the experiences of enter more deeply into relationship.” Without in any his humanity and that includes suffering.” way denying Jesus’ divine nature, Martin empha - The author goes into some detail as to the physio - sizes the importance of regarding Jesus’ crucifixion logical aspects of death by crucifixion, perhaps as a as the quintessential sign of his humanity. When way of countering the tendency to complacency that Christians enter into the Passion, they encounter easily attaches to familiarity. Martin explains how “important intersection(s) between Jesus’ life and the cross was not simply the Romans’ preferred (their) own.” For those who can prayerfully partici - means of execution; its design ensured a long and pate in the via dolorosa , it is no longer an abstrac - excruciatingly painful death, “one of the most ago - tion, but an experiencing of Jesus’ uniting his own nizing ways to die.” MSOLA sufferings with the universal pain of humanity. From The book concludes with a reflection on the spiri - this perspective, atonement may best be understood tual blessings flowing from prayerful meditation on as God’s at-one-ment with creation. the crucifixion. These include: feeling less alone in Please contact us: Nonetheless, these homilies encourage readers the suffering that is humanity’s lot, becoming more [email protected] not to remain fixated on the sufferings of Jesus, but authentic in prayer (“holding nothing back”), and www.msolafrica.org to extend the compassion evoked by them toward recognizing Jesus as the door that opens into the the here and now pain of those who inhabit the mystery of God’s love. June 15, 2016 ARTS & CULTURE Prairie Messenger 17 Music-themed stories light up the big screen

pieces there’s an affecting sequence in which he takes Jane to meet his parents in rural Screenings Oklahoma, presenting his father, a former musician, with a record - & Meanings ing of a favourite tune, Born to be Blue. Instead the old man rebuffs the gesture with harsh words. Gerald Schmitz Baker’s struggles are tough to watch as he painfully relearns to Even in the silent era music tle to cheer about and Gaza has play, goes on treatment programs, has always been an important part been particularly afflicted. No is harassed by a parole officer and of the movie experience. Some wonder Mohammed’s musical forced to take jobs beneath his soundtracks have become clas - journey lifted spirits. Yet, as the talents. But he perseveres and sics. Many stories of musicians film notes, despite his position as with an assist from Dizzy have come to the screen in recent a UN goodwill ambassador and Gillespie lands a crucial come - years. I’ve already given high diplomatic passport, he still needs back gig at Birdland. Tragically, praise for the Sundance drama Israeli special permission to trav - it seems Baker could only hit per - Sing Street about teenagers who el in and out of his native Gaza. formance high notes under the form a band in 1980s Dublin, and The power of his music is that it influence. The movie ends as he the award-winning Sundance crosses borders that many cannot. chooses the drugs over Jane’s documentary Sonita about an Born to Be Blue support, moving to Europe to Afghan refugee girl in Iran who (Canada/U.K.) relaunch his career. (He died an finds inspiration in rap music to addict in Amsterdam in 1988.) overcome difficult circumstances Canadian-born writer-director Budreau’s unconventional Gerald Schmitz and cultural restrictions. Here are Robert Budreau takes considerable approach, which takes artistic BORN TO BE BLUE — Director of Born to Be Blue Robert Budreau other current titles to watch for. historical liberties in this inventive license with some biographical with Ethan Hawke, who stars as jazz great Chet Baker in the film, The Idol rendering of the high and lows of details, succeeds in capturing the attend the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, March 13, 2016. (Palestine/Argentina) famed jazz trumpeter Chet Baker’s spirit of Baker and his times. It’s a career while still remaining true to complex compelling portrait that period in the 1970s when the errat - hood and turbulent career, drawing Director and co-writer Hany its subject, convincingly played by shows his charismatic charm and ic Davis stopped performing pub - on biographies by sister Laura Abu-Assad’s stirring film is a dra - Ethan Hawke. The film, which humorous side as well as the dark licly. An insistent reporter, Dave Joplin and road manager John matic telling of the true story of premiered at the Toronto film fes - troubled moods that hurt him more Brill (Ewan McGregor), claiming Cooke. She was also granted Mohammed Assaf, a young tival last September, opens with than anyone else. As Hawke, who to be from Rolling Stone magazine access to a trove of Joplin’s per - Palestinian who overcame the Baker in a prison cell in Italy in gives an extraordinary perfor - hounds the reclusive drug-addled sonal letters to family and friends, poverty and violence of Gaza to 1966, in the throes of heroin mance, joked following the South Davis for an interview then gets passages from which are read by win the 2012 “Arab Idol” singing addiction and hallucination. Flash By Southwest Festival screening: mixed up in the artist’s disputa - singer Cat Power. contest. As children, Mohammed back to his sensational 1954 “Apparently if he had money and tious troubles with Columbia Interviews with surviving sib - (Kais Attalah), his irrepressible “Birdland” debut, heralded for its drugs, he was a lot of fun.” The Records over royalty monies and lings, friends, partners and band - older sister Nour (Hiba Attalah) “west coast swing,” though leav - important Canadian connections — run-ins with a shady producer, mates (Kris Kristofferson, and two other boys (one of whom, ing the great Miles Davis unim - partly filmed in Sudbury and Harper (Michael Stuhlbarg), and “Country” Joe McDonald) are Omar, later becomes a religious pressed (or more likely unhappy at financed by Telefilm — include the his protégé trumpeter “Junior” combined with archival footage militant), scrape together instru - being upstaged). Baker’s rapid rise superb musical arrangements by (Lakeith Lee Stanfield). In one that includes television appearances ments and perform to earn a little was accompanied by a turbulent Hamilton-born jazz pianist-com - episode an irate Davis pulls a gun (notably with Dick Cavett) and her money. Mohammed’s remarkable love life that introduced him to poser David Braid, which were on the suits and another subplot flamboyant presence at a high- singing voice draws special atten - heroin. Carmen Ejogo plays a integral to the production process. revolves around an allegedly school reunion. While Joplin’s vul - tion and mentorship. “We’ll be big character, Jane, who is a compos - Miles Ahead (U.S.) stolen master session tape that nerabilities are exposed we also get and we’ll change the world,” ite of his love interests, including Davis is determined to get back. the full measure of her epic talent enthuses Nour. Although tragedy in a 1960s Dino De Laurentiis Director/co-writer Don Fortunately beyond this rather through scenes from legendary per - strikes when she suffers kidney biopic, a misbegotten movie with - Cheadle casts himself as Miles ragged scattershot narrative some formances, first with the group Big failure, Nour remains an inspira - in a movie that was never com - Davis, another legendary jazz of Davis’s musical genius shines Brother and the Holding Company, tion to Mohammed as a young pleted. Fame only magnified trumpet player whose artistic through, especially in flashbacks then as a solo artist backed by the man (played by Tawfeek Barhom). Baker’s personal demons. He achievements were marred by to earlier career highpoints when Kosmic Blues Band and the Full While driving a taxi for a living he experienced what Marilyn Monroe addictions and personal tragedies. he was still with his first wife Tilt Boogie Band. never gives up his dream. said of Hollywood: “They’ll pay Again the approach taken is Frances (Emayatzy Corinealdi). The film had its television pre - Nicknamed “Tiger,” he first gets you two grand for a kiss and two unconventional involving consid - Cheadle is effective in capturing miere on PBS in early May as on the show “Palestine Star” then bucks for your soul.” erable invention. Rather than the Davis’s mercurial personality and part of the “American Masters” overcomes a series of huge obsta - By then Baker was a full- arc of a life story, the film drama - troubled life tending to extremes. series. cles to get to Cairo on a forged blown junkie. A brutal beating by tizes incidents during a five-year I just wish there was more of the Hired Gun (U.S. visa for auditions. Against all odds dealers that badly injured his music and less http://www.hiredgunthe - he makes it to the final competi - mouth sent his career into a nose - of the melo - film.com/) tion in Beirut where his triumph dive. His longtime agent and pro - drama. sets off scenes of mass jubilation ducer Dick Bock (Canadian Janis: Little Director Fran Strine’s docu - across the Palestinian territories. Callum Keith Rennie) deserted Girl Blue mentary, which premiered at the Palestinians have had very lit - him. 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Vatican experience, Klein wrote to protect creation? Alternatives found that the CPP is that “if transformation is as con - The United Church of Christ more heavily invested in fossil tagious as it seems to be here — in the USA has used Klein’s fuels than other funds. This Journey well, we might just stand a provocative book title in a con - means the CPP is more exposed chance of tackling climate gregational education guide that to climate risk. The CPP even to Justice change.” asks, This Changes Everything: spent $900 million to buy a frack - For Klein, “If climate change Even the Church? They ask if the ing oil company based in is taken seriously, it changes climate challenge will prompt Colorado. According to Friends Joe Gunn everything.” Meeting climate Christians to change the way they of the Earth, the CPP also owns targets the Canadian government do church and live out their faith. 34 companies involved in the has adopted will change the Here at home, there is truly worst climate polluting industries June 18th marks the first ment, Laudato Sí. Please resolve shape of our economy, the way much that can be done. Natural — coal mining and coal burning anniversary of Pope Francis’ to spend some quiet time with we travel, and many of our con - Resources Canada reports that 83 utilities. Many Canadians believe encyclical letter on the environ - this text, thinking about how your sumer habits. Christians may per cent of our energy still comes that the fiduciary responsibilities family and your congregation can well want to ask themselves if from carbon-emitting coal, oil and of such investments by public rise to the challenge of creating their family, their faith commu - natural gas, plus uranium. Canada entities should include minimiz - Gunn is the Ottawa-based the new, more environmentally nity, their church leadership and is seventh among G20 nations in ing climate risk, and started a executive director of Citizens for just world the pope envisions. their governments have started green energy investment. campaign to pressure the CPP Public Justice, www.cpj.ca, a Author and activist Naomi on this journey to climate jus - Whereas solar and wind ener - Investment Board to comply. Are member-driven, faith-based pub - Klein spoke at a Vatican press tice. If not, are we harmfully gy doubled between 2005 and religious organizations to which lic policy organization in Ottawa conference after the release of avoiding the task? Is it morally 2012, it still accounts for only you belong changing their invest - focused on ecological justice, Pope Francis’ encyclical on cli - acceptable to leave such a prob - three per cent of our total (and ment portfolios? refugee rights and poverty elimi - mate change. In an article for The lem to future generations that about 14 per cent comes from The federal government is cur - nation. New Yorker magazine about her could inherit fewer opportunities renewable hydro-electric power). rently consulting with Canadians Nonetheless, in 2013, 23,700 to ascertain their views on climate Canadians were directly change. My MP spoke at a town employed by the clean energy hall event in our riding where over industry, while 22,340 people 150 people participated. Will your were employed by the oilsands. family, or your faith community, Clean Energy Canada reports that get involved in such events? A the world will see 60 per cent of handy guide to allow you to offer the planet’s power mix come your own views to government is from zero-emission sources in the available at http://www.cpj.ca/cli - next 25 years. Alberta will end mate-consultation electricity generation from coal Gordon Laxer’s book After the by 2030, as Ontario already has. Sands suggests that “Every suc - Last year, twice as much money cessful economic and energy rev - was invested globally in renew - olution has been accompanied by able energy as in fossil fuels. a cultural revolution that inspires This year the money I put people to change their lives . . .” aside for retirement in RSPs was Pope Francis helped all transferred to fossil-free Christians to understand that investments. Several years ago spiritual principles lie at the root such options were much less of ecological justice. But neither available. However, one family’s religious conviction, nor leader - small holdings, while important ship statements, automatically to us, pale beside the possibilities translate into service of the com - of government policy to make a mon good. Communities of prac - real difference. tice and beneficial government In stark contrast, the Canada policies are needed to encourage Pension Plan (CPP) controls all of us to sustain environmen - Sandy Normand $282.6 billion of Canadians’ pen - tally helpful behaviours, congru - AN INVITATION — “There is something about the invitation at the end of a dock to dive, breathless, into sion plan contributions. The ent with our most deeply held the hold of water, cold and clean, completely encompassing,” writes Leah Perrault. Canadian Centre for Policy spiritual values. We outgrow childhood places, but never outgrow the need to be held

and several times I have been faced ing me, not just to communicate and every week I watch the two of with a simple and sincere question love, but also in a way that makes it them jump fearlessly into the pool in the midst of it: “Are you OK?” possible for me to do life. His hold to learn to swim, totally unaware Barefoot Each whisper of those words has gives me rest and possibility. of the ways they are holding me. propelled me inward, to sit deeply When the sun is shining, I am They keep me tethered to what and Preaching with God, to ask the question to the ignoring my allergies and going out really matters in this world when I source, the One who knows me to lie right down on the grass. would so easily go off wandering better than I know myself. Creation is a miraculous healer, and in search of something I already Strangely, I am well. I am full letting the earth bear the weight of have: the deep love of being with Leah Perrault to the brim with life and all its my world is a sweet relief. Minutes and for each other. Three little many possibilities, blessings, and with my fingers clinging to an people’s hunger brings me back to One of my favourite things ting in Mom’s lap, and too heavy challenges. I am tired and waking aging young mother and my hair the kitchen, to eat and drink and about being a kid was being held. for Dad to toss me in the air and rested for the first time in years. I tangled in the grass does more for share. Their waking in the night Children have the advantage in catch me. Along the road to grow - am walking the dog and visiting me than days with my lists and ties me to bedtime. Their need for being held because they are small ing into adulthood, I picked up a with my biggest little in the strategies for efficiency. play holds me back from working enough to fit into their parents’ resistance to being small and a fear mornings. My days are spent Depression awakened me to too much and too long. arms, into windowsills and clos - of being in need. I would far rather pouring everything I have into just how easy it is for me to iso - I think I am well enough, if only have the answers than say I do not my people and my longings and late myself, to withdraw from the because I am letting myself be held ets, and into all the best hiding know; I am more comfortable help - my passion. And I am being held. circles of support I have when I enough. To be held is to know just spots. Most of us outgrow the ing others than being helped. In all I think maybe the miracle of need them most. I have been set - how small and insignificant I am at places that hold us in childhood, my boldness, I have become shy the last year is that I have learned, ting phone dates and squeezing in the same time that I am reminded but none of us outgrow the need about taking the time to be held. at least a little, to seek out being visits, even if they must be short. how I can be someone else’s whole to be held. There is something about the held precisely in the spaces where I am calling when I need to be world. In this season of change, I Without noticing the day pass - invitation at the end of a dock to it is most difficult to do so. It held by the sound of their voices, have felt lost but always led. I have ing, I grew too big for the bottom dive, breathless, into the hold of feels a bit awkward sometimes, to hear them say the things I been held by a God whose arms of the linen closet, too tall for fit - water, cold and clean, completely like climbing into an unfamiliar already know and the things I had and heart and mercy I cannot out - encompassing. The active push of hammock which may not be tied forgotten. I have been grounded grow. God’s hands and chest have my feet off the dock met equally to the same tree when I awake in my chaos by the way that their beating hearts and UV rays. I am Perrault is a wife and mom, a by total reception. To be held up from a nap. It has been unsettling friendship and love transcends being held by a God whose love grateful employee of Emmanuel by water, buoyant, rather than and comforting at the same time. this season of my life, that their can handle the headlong way I Care, and a speaker, writer and annoyed. For maybe the first time in 15 voice and presence has been con - seem to need to dive into being consultant at www.leahperrault. Change has been my constant years in the arms of the same man, I stant when other things fall away. held, as if off the dock-end of my com companion for almost a year now, am letting go into him. He is hold - Our big littles are swimmers, own strength. June 15, 2016 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 19 What missed deadline says about assisted dying debate

By Mary J. Shariff lyzed the homicide section of the such a regime is now in the Code, they might have continued democratically elected hands of “I love deadlines. I love the to uphold the ban on euthanasia Parliament and deference is whooshing noise they make as they by lethal injection. Indeed, four owed. While Parliament has the go by,” English writer Douglas U.S. states that have legalized option of crafting a response sole - Adams once said. On June 6 — the physician-assisted death restrict it ly based on Carter , the constitu - deadline given to Parliament to cre - to people who can administer tionality of any new Criminal ate new legislation on assisted their own life-ending medication. Code amendments will depend on death — there was a pretty big The Supreme Court declared their compliance with the Charter whoosh. Some say this was be - of no force or effect the prohibi - of Rights and Freedoms. cause the Canadian government’s tion of PAD for a competent, con - Future socio-legal evaluation proposed legislation, Bill C-14, is senting adult person who has a may show that state-sanctioned not broad enough to comply with “grievous and irremediable med - lethal injection as a response to the Supreme Court’s Carter deci - ical condition” and is enduring suffering is a mistake. Recent sion. It seems to me, however, that intolerable suffering. However, cases from European countries the missed deadline is the result of the court properly acknowledged that permit euthanasia are provid - a seemingly widespread indiffer - that the scope of its declaration ing evidence in that regard. In the ence to the rule of law. responds “to the factual circum - meantime, Canada’s House of On a social policy issue as seri - stances of the case” and that it Commons is recommending a ous as deciding to give criminal made “no pronouncement on limit similar to that imposed in immunity to someone who inten - other situations where physician- four U.S. states: that criminal tionally causes the death of anoth - assisted dying may be sought.” immunity be granted only to cer - er, the appropriate law-making Yet we continue to hear ongo - tain health care practitioners who authority is Parliament, not the ing disagreement as to the inter - give medical aid in dying to adults court. Consistent with other courts pretation of Carter . “All in” pro - whose deaths “have become rea - around the world, the Canadian ponents of assisted death want to sonably foreseeable.” Supreme Court in Carter ac knowl - include mature minors, incompe - As stated by the Supreme edged the law-making au thority of tent or unconscious persons pur - Court in Carter , “The sanctity of Parliament on this controversial suant to advance directives, and life is one of our most fundamen - subject. Unlike these other courts, Art Babych persons with mental suffering — tal societal values.” The proposed however, the Su preme Court found DIE-IN — Opponents of euthanasia and assisted suicide stage a “die- none of which was at issue in limit provides room to encourage the prohibition on assisted death in” following a rally on Parliament Hill in early June. The demonstra - Carter . These proponents argue life-affirming responses to the unconstitutional and created no tion was organized by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, the Living that anything less than “all-in” wide range of circumstances that end of mischief in doing so, prov - with Dignity Network and the Physicians Alliance Against Euthanasia. will be found unconstitutional, shape the individual experience ing the old legal maxim that “hard either by relying on the declara - of suffering. Although euthanasia cases make bad law.” actually legalized in Carter . jective of the aiding or abetting tion outside Carter’s factual con - may now be a legal option for The Supreme Court did not Should taking a lethal drug (a suicide prohibition. Yet when it text or by projecting possible those who are dying, it must provide a definition of physician- form of suicide) be treated differ - comes to euthanasia (lethal injec - future Charter arguments. This is never be promoted as the solu - assisted death or dying (PAD), ently from having a doctor ad - tion administered by a physician advocacy, not legal interpretation. tion. Everyone deserves equal causing much disagreement as to minister the drug (a form of homi - or other health care personnel), it The Supreme Court properly protection and respect under the what termination of life acts were cide)? The court never addressed is the homicide section of the stated in the Carter case that law and it is incumbent on us to this question. Code — rather than the assisting “complex regulatory regimes are continue in our efforts to maxi - Rather, the court decided that suicide one — that is relevant. better created by Parliament than mize quality of life, participation Shariff is a law professor at the the Criminal Code prohibition If the Carter judges had ana - by the courts.” The creation of and inclusion in our society. University of Manitoba who against aiding or abetting suicide teaches bioethics and law. This is was overbroad because safe - reprinted with permission of the guards could be put in place to Take up the TRC Reading Challenge Winnipeg Free Press. A version of protect vulnerable people from this column appeared in the Free being induced to commit suicide requires dialogue, which means Press on June 8, 2016. at times of weakness — the ob - listening to truths expressed by indigenous peoples; and that we prefer to read the TRC report our - Pulpit selves rather than relying on oth - ers to interpret it for us. BOSCO FOUNDATION & Politics Manuel wants those who make John Bosco the pledge to begin their reading Child & Family Services Foundation Dennis Gruending by National Aboriginal Day on June 21. On that day, she’ll use the The John Bosco Child and Family Services Foundation (Bosco TRC Challenge website to publish Foundation) is a public foundation dedicated to the provision of the names of those who have made It’s been a year since the Truth Indian residential schools were buildings and facilities used for the treatment, education and the promise. “Take as long as you and Reconciliation Commission organized and largely financed by need to read it,” she says. “It’s not housing of children, adolescents and adults who are in need of (TRC) released its report into the the government but operated by a race. It’s a commitment.” support. history and legacy of Indian resi - Canadian churches. An estimated She also hopes that anyone dential schools. Yet most of us 150,000 Indian, Inuit and Métis Bosco Foundation believes in assisting non-profit and charitable taking up the challenge will invite have probably read little more than children were removed from their organizations who provide vital services which aid vulnerable at least one other person to do so: snippets of it or none at all. Now, homes, often forcibly, to attend. a friend, a local city councillor, people in our society. We do this by providing our facilities to Duncan, B.C.-based writer They were punished for speaking MLA, MP, local news reporter or various non-profit and charitable agencies at below market level Jennifer Manuel has created an their languages, lived in substan - national journalist. She says that rental rates. online campaign asking Canadians dard conditions and endured phys - invitation can be made in person, to pledge that we’ll read the entire ical, emotional and — in some Our facilities are used for social services group care, foster on the phone or by doing so pub - 380-page document. Manuel calls cases — sexual abuse. care, adult mental health care, the St. Francis Food Bank, two licly using social media, such as it The TRC Reading Challenge. TRC commissioners Murray Facebook or Twitter. AA groups and a NE Edmonton cadet core among others. 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By David Gibson humour that became a model for ©2016 Religion News Service African-Americans. “To the degree that the world When boxing star Cassius Clay ever agrees to stop screaming and declared himself a member of the find a locus of consensus, a decent controversial Nation of Islam back common ground, it did so on in 1964 and demanded to be called Muhammad Ali,” Thomas by his new name, Muhammad Ali, Boswell wrote in The Washington he shocked the world of sports and Post. rattled a nation already struggling “He stood by his beliefs, which with social unrest over civil rights qualified as eccentric, almost alien and the Vietnam War. to many, and took every form of But Ali’s conversion also punishment that the laws of his launched a pilgrimage of faith that country demanded. He paid the would take him from the fringes of price for his beliefs, right up to the Islam through its orthodox heart, Supreme Court, while never ceas - and from a virtual pariah to a glob - ing to speak out, especially against al ambassador for faith — his own racial injustice.” and others — as the key to peace. He was swept back into the For this legendary African- ring “with joy,” as Boswell wrote. American athlete from the South, Those years also marked a it was a journey spurred by the notable evolution in his religious enduring racial injustice that beliefs. In 1975, Ali formally America was only beginning to joined mainstream Sunni Islam address, and it was one that pre - and abandoned the Nation of saged important religious changes Islam, denouncing its teachings. and tensions that continue today. “The Nation of Islam taught Ali’s death late June 3 in a that white people were devils. I Phoenix-area hospital at 74 Action Images / MSI/File Photo don’t believe that now; in fact, I brought much of that remarkable MUSLIM PATHBREAKER — In this file photo Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) speaks to never really believed that,” Ali story to light once again for a pub - Muslims holding a book called Towards Understanding Islam written by Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi in wrote in a 2004 autobiography. lic that knew the acclaimed London in May 1966. Ali was in London for of his rematch with British Heavyweight Henry Cooper. “But when I was young, I had seen celebrity but may not have fol - and heard so many horrible stories lowed his winding spiritual path. sional boxer in the early 1960s he Even back then, when Clay “The act of joining was not about the white man that this made Ali was born in Louisville, Ky., also gravitated toward the more first became involved, the Nation something many of us particularly me stop and listen.” on Jan. 17, 1942, as Cassius fiery voices speaking out on of Islam and its leader at the time, liked,” Julian Bond, the civil rights In his later years, Ali went on Marcellus Clay Jr., a name shared behalf of African-Americans. Elijah Muhammad, was known for activist and politician, once said, to embrace Sufism, which is a with a 19th-century abolitionist. One of those was Malcolm X, demonizing whites and preaching according to The New York mystical approach to Islam that His father, a billboard painter, was who was key in introducing Clay racial separation. Times. has been an important Muslim tra - a Methodist but allowed Clay’s to the Nation of Islam, a In February 1964 in Miami, at “But the notion he’d do it — dition since the faith was founded. mother, who worked as a domes - group that was founded in Detroit the age of 22, Clay fought what that he’d jump out there, join this “Muhammad Ali, a man who tic, to raise their children as in the 1930s as an amalgam of would be his signature match, group that was so despised by stood by his principles despite crit - Baptists. Islamic teachings and messianic shocking the boxing world by tak - mainstream America, and be icism and hardship, exemplified a Young Cassius Clay was intro - claims. ing the heavyweight title from proud of it — sent a little thrill true patriot and a true Muslim,” duced to boxing when he was 12, The central goal of the Nation reigning champ Sonny Liston in through you.” Roula Allouch, national board and was so extraordinarily gifted of Islam — which traditional seven rounds. Yet it came at a cost to Ali. The chair of the Council on American- that through his teenage years he Islam does not consider authenti - He was at the height of his World Boxing Association barred Islamic Relations, said in a state - amassed numerous amateur titles, cally Muslim — was to empower fame, and his talent, and the very Ali after his conversion. Three ment at Ali’s passing. culminating with a gold medal in African-Americans. Its members next day he confirmed that he had years later, when Ali was drafted Ali was also deeply affected by the light heavyweight category in were often known simply as joined the Nation of Islam. Within to fight in the Vietnam War he his declining health; he was diag - the Rome Summer Olympics in “Black Muslims,” and its message a few weeks he said he would be cited his beliefs as the basis for his nosed with Parkinson’s disease — 1960. exerted a powerful draw on many known from then on as refusal to serve, and that would a degenerative neurological condi - But Ali, always a headstrong disaffected African-Americans Muhammad Ali. lead to a total exile from the sport. tion — about three years after he and often brash personality, was even as the movement underwent “Cassius Clay is a slave name,” “My conscience won’t let me retired from boxing in 1981. fast becoming aware of the racial numerous leadership struggles and he said. “I didn’t choose it and I go shoot my brother, or some “Now the things that once were inequities of his sport. “Boxing is schisms. don’t want it. I am Muhammad darker people, or some poor hun - so effortless — my strong voice a lot of white men watching two (The main iteration of the Ali, a free name — it means gry people in the mud for big and the quickness of my move - black men beat each other up,” as Nation of Islam is currently head - ‘beloved of God’ — and I insist powerful America,” as he put it. ments — are more difficult,” he he put it in one of his many mem - ed by Louis Farrakhan, whose people use it when people speak to “And shoot them for what? They once said. “But I get up every day orable lines. racially charged speeches and anti- me and of me.” never called me nigger, they never and try to live life to the fullest He saw the same dynamic, and Semitic remarks have become The move was controversial lynched me, they didn’t put no because each day is a gift from restiveness, in American society. hallmarks of the modern-day not only among whites but among dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of God.” While he gained fame as a profes - movement.) many blacks. my nationality, rape or kill my As Voice of America reported, mother and father. . . . How can I Ali’s daughter, Hana Yasmeen Ali, shoot them poor people? Just take said in 2005 that her father moved me to jail.” away from the staunchly religious Ali was convicted of draft eva - ways of his youth. sion in June 1967 and sentenced to “His health and his spirituality five years in prison. He remained have changed, and it’s not so out on bond while he appealed, much about being religious, but but he was barred from all boxing, about going out and making peo - from the age of 25 to almost 29 — ple happy, doing charity, and sup - his prime. porting people and causes,” she Yet those years also saw the said. beginning of a sea change in But Ali could still be outspoken American attitudes about the war, when he wanted to. and the implementation of land - In December, when Republican mark civil rights laws. Ali was no presidential hopeful Donald longer the outlier he had once Trump was threatening to bar been. Muslims from the U.S., Ali He was able to begin boxing released a statement that said the again in 1970, and a year later, the recent global terrorism crisis has U.S. Supreme Court overturned “perverted people’s views on what his draft evasion conviction in a Islam really is.” unanimous ruling. “We, as Muslims, have to stand As Ali started re-establishing up to those who use Islam to his reputation as a brilliant and advance their own personal agen - fearsome fighter, he also contin - da,” he said, without mentioning CNS/Action Images, MSI via Reuters ued to speak out against racism, Trump by name. “They have BOXING LEGEND — Boxing legend Muhammad Ali is seen in a 1967 photo with his trainer Angelo war and religious intolerance. All alienated many from learning Dundee ahead of his fight with Ernie Terrell at the Astrodome in Houston. Ali died June 3 at age 74 after a the while, he projected an long battle with Parkinson’s disease. unshakeable confidence and — ALI , page 21

June 15, 2016 CHURCH AT HOME Prairie Messenger 21 The daunting experience of being first-time parents

again if I had the chance. Others young woman there were only and that song holds memories of contemplating starting a family expectations. When I look back, bringing Gerard and his friend wonder Why have a baby? Why expectations might have been the Colby to see a Metallica concert Around the mess with a life you are handling thing that made my life. Without when they were in Grade 7. It’s for what is sure to be unpre - expectations, I sometimes wonder predictable that a mother bring - Kitchen Table dictable chaos? if I would have had that first ing boys to a metal concert They remember experiences child. needs to be as unobtrusive as they had as a child, and project In the week before Mother’s possible. Maureen Weber worry onto the unknown future. Day this year, first child asked me The first concert I ever took What if my child hates school as to give her a song request. She one of my kids to was The much as I did? What if my child has a weekly one-hour radio Tragically Hip in 1996. Janice Through a series of unfortu - day brought back memories of has no friends or feels isolated? show on a community radio sta - was 14. I’ll never forget the huge nate coincidences I am unable to carefully arranged drawers filled How will I cope with the prob - tion. Who could have predicted raucous crowd moving in undu - visit my daughter in Ottawa this with bright, tiny T-shirts and lems I experience as a parent? that? lating waves as the spotlight month. Leigh is 24 weeks preg - sleepers in anticipation of our People rarely project the pos - The song request was a tough scanned the smoky stadium, with nant and counting and, rather than first. I remember sitting in the itives. What if I can’t wait to assignment. I could have gone Janice a few rows down from me seeing the baby bump in person, I nursery in our very small apart - put my baby into the stroller back to my youth with a choice because we were unable to get have to be content with Snapchats ment, unable to imagine a baby in and walk on a shady street in from The Beatles ( Here Comes tickets together. to keep me apprised of her our midst. As a first-time parent I the heat of a July morning? the Sun ). We were a Beatles fami - Recently the Tragically Hip’s increasing girth. was terrified, and I suspect not What if his art pinned to the ly, but at age 12 one of my Gord Downie was diagnosed with She asks a lot of questions: much has changed. refrigerator door brings a smile favourite songs was Paul a brain tumour and since hearing What does a baby wear during the Back in high school I remem - to my face every day? What if McCartney’s Maybe I’m Amazed. the news I’ve read and listened to day? What is a receiving blanket? ber a friend telling me her mother we enjoy playing catch togeth - It was considered traitorous to a few of his past interviews. Is a bassinet necessary? would sometimes say she wished er? What if I like sharing music like one of the Beatles in the Asked how his family has influ - Unfolding an online order of she’d never had children. I’ve with her? wake of their breakup, so I was a enced his music (Downie and his baby outfits that arrived the other been asked if I’d do it all over The scenarios are as endless rebel. It might have been pre - wife have four children), his as they are unpre - dictable that my kids are rebels of response is unreserved: “They’ve dictable, but what is sorts too. given me a chance to see things predictable for a But I was more pulled to the again.” mother and a father songs that reminded me of my “They inspire everything. . . . is that having a kids. Route 101 — from 1982 You settle into the fact that you child expands their when Janice was born — by the let these kids affect you in their universe. A child great and positive ways, and that forces you to great Herb Alpert. It has just the sort of sunny upbeat dreamy can only affect your work in become larger in great and positive ways,” says spirit and be gener - hopefulness I needed when I wasn’t feeling it with a new Downie. ous with your love I can’t think of a better answer and your time and baby. to the question of why to start a your energy. Chil - Or maybe something from family. dren take up room. 1985 when Leigh was born. Tears In the end, the song I went Once a child comes for Fears’ Everybody Wants to with was my favourite from a into being she takes Rule the World. Good choice. group that is part of the sound - up room in your In 1989 when Allison was track of Janice’s and her siblings’ house, in your heart born the Fine Young Cannibals growing-up years — The Stone and mind, and that were making the charts. How Roses’ This Is the One . will never change, about She Drives Me Crazy? Just Significant because it was a spe - no matter how old joking. the child gets. Enter Sandman by Metallica cial song at Janice and Kalon’s People have kids was released the year after wedding — they walked in later now and it Gerard was born in 1990. I together while it played — I seems there’s more didn’t become a Metallica fan chose it in honour of their 11th M. Weber time to think about until the kids were a little older, annive rsary Mother’s Day week - GETTING READY — It can be a bit scary for first-time parents to prepare for the options. There actual - end. 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Orthodox Church plans synod ognize the Roman Catholic Church as a true apos - arrangements, and the patriarchate of Antioch, over a tolic church is another historical and theological bar - jurisdictional dispute involving Qatar.” The pan-Orthodox synod is meeting in Crete rier. They consider us heretics. John Chryssavgis, an archdeacon and theological June 19 - 26. This meeting will be watched closely The pan-Orthodox synod is of interest to Catholics adviser to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, by both Catholic and Orthodox faithful. because, led by recent popes, the efforts to give a united said he hopes the council will have an impact on It was St. John Paul II who emphasized that the Christian witness in the world is seen as a major goal. Orthodoxy similar to that of the Second Vatican church breathes with two lungs — the East and the Certainly some barriers have been overcome in the last Council on Catholicism — especially in the press for West. Roman Catholics have long been content to half-century, but more obstacles remain. A sign of the unity, within Orthodoxy and also with other churches think of themselves as the main, or only, body of the growing harmony is the friendship between Ecumenical and the wider world. church. We forget that Jesus was not born in the Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, traditionally Commenting on a possible boycott by some West. We forget that the first Christian communities the “first among equals” in the Orthodox world, and churches, Orthodox theologian Chryssavgis said the were located in a dozen or more centres in the East. recent popes. It was Bartholomew who invited Pope meeting will go ahead and will be binding: “If one or Rome became the centre of the western church. Francis to send observers to the meeting in Crete. more churches doesn’t attend, or withdraws during the Historical circumstances have made the Latin One of the obstacles the Orthodox face is the council, or is not present and doesn’t vote, all the deci - Church centred in Rome the dominant church body lack of unity among the independent (autocephalous) sions made will still hold and be binding for all and over time we became more and more centralized churches themselves. “In a sense, the Great and Holy Orthodox churches. A Great Council is above and under the pope and curia in Rome. Council of the Orthodox Church, conceived as a beyond any individual church council or synod . . . St. John Paul II made great efforts to reunite the gathering of all the heads of the 14 independent and it remains such even without the participation of eastern and western lungs of the church. A breach Orthodox churches around the world . . . has been at one or more church.” was made a thousand years ago for theological, his - least a millennium in the making,” says Vatican com - Orthodox leaders have fences to mend not only torical and cultural reasons. mentator John Allen Jr. “More proximately, planning with the Roman Catholic Church and with the Eastern Part of this breach was healed by the Union of has been underway since 1961, meaning more than a churches in union with Rome, they also have fences to Brest in 1596 when some Orthodox churches half-century.” mend between themselves. Many of their faithful are (including the Ukrainian Catholic Church) united Some of the objections to this year’s meeting more conservative than their leaders. Not all, for with Rome. But this process has been rejected by seem rather petty. “Recently, two of the 14 Orthodox example, were happy that Patriarch Bartholomew was many Orthodox churches. And this remains a stick - churches have floated boycotting (the meeting) — present at Pope Francis’ inaugural mass at the Vatican. ing point for the Orthodox church to this day. the Bulgarians, because they’re upset over some of That’s why the meeting will open June 19, which The fact that some Orthodox churches don’t rec - the documents up for discussion and also the seating is Pentecost on the Julian calendar. — PWN Canada needs to rethink its health care policy for the elderly

By Neena Chappell and and physician services. This public health and physician ser - One consequence has been an where proactive tradeoffs can be Marcus Hollander resulted in a shift in policy priori - vices. This in turn resulted in the increased focus on home care. made to substitute less costly Winnipeg ties in the 1990s from develop - integrated systems of care for While this is helpful and home home care for more expensive ment of an integrated national older adults being broken into care is necessary, it is essentially residential and hospital care. We need to revisit convention - care delivery system for seniors component parts, each competing an add-on cost unless it is part of al thinking on health care services to a focus on enhancements to for additional funds. an integrated system of care — LOW-LEVEL , page 23 for seniors so the system is sus - tainable for all Canadians. To do that, we need to over - Eventful 1976 visit to Soviet Union remembered come a number of mispercep - tions. By Don Telfer, Humboldt, Sask. rooms in the Intourist Hotel. The Our taxi stopped several blocks Shortly before midnight the First, there is a belief that a incident did not bother me as I away and we hoofed it back to the next day about a half-dozen of us, growing seniors population will When Len Marchand of had nothing to hide or reveal; I hotel, located near Red Square. including Marchand and a result in runaway costs that bank - Kamloops died June 3 at the age took it a step further and visited When the secretary saw the might French-Canadian with a bottle of rupt the health care system. But of 82, his name brought back the “spy room” on the top floor of of the Soviet military pass in scotch, boarded the Red Arrow research shows that growth in the memories of a trip we made the Intourist Hotel where men and front of our hotel — an endless Express for the seven-hour trip to seniors population will add less together to the former Soviet women joked about monitoring parade of squeaky-clean missiles, Leningrad (since renamed Saint than one per cent a year to health Union. our rooms with an old-fashioned tanks, soldiers, armoured person - Petersburg). I left the merry-mak - costs. In fact, the main factors dri - Marchand, the first status telephone exchange. nel vehicles — she had a nervous ers and returned to my compart - ving health care costs are increased Indian elected an MP and the first Later that night, we proceeded breakdown. The spying, the mili - ment on the train, and along the use of technology (including status Indian to serve in the feder - to return to our hotel to find it tary force, the Cold War pressure way opened a blind in the hall - drugs), the rising use of health ser - al Cabinet, had just been appoint - sealed off to vehicles — the mili - were overwhelming and she col - way to view the snowy moonlit vices across all ages and hikes in ed Minister of Small Business tary was holding exercises for the lapsed, which also deeply affect - wages for health care providers. and led the largest trade delega - annual October Revolution Day. ed Marchand. — SOVIET AGENT , page 23 A second related belief is that tion of business and government the percentage of provincial bud - to the former Soviet Union. It was gets consumed by health care is October 1976. increasing as a direct result of the Before we left Ottawa on a proportion of seniors. In fact, chartered Air Canada DC-8, the there is no runaway rise in health RCMP gave the 150-some Cana- care costs based on the percent - dians a pep talk on what not to do age of gross domestic product in the Soviet Union, especially spent on health care in Canada. talking critically of the Soviet There was only a minor increase, system in taxis, excessive drink - from 10 to 10.5 per cent, between ing and fraternizing with Russian 1992 and 2007. women (hookers), which to our After a major increase during surprise there were many openly the last financial crisis (11.9 per selling their wares. cent in 2009), the percentage has One night we attended a recep - declined as the economy recov - tion at the Soviet foreign minis - ers. The percentage of GDP spent ter’s lavish digs in Moscow. There on health care in Canada was were an estimated 200 or so peo - 10.7 per cent in 2013 — a modest ple crowded into a room about the increase since 1992. size of the Pioneer Bar in A third misperception is that Humboldt. It was standing room the health care system for seniors only. And noisy. Marchand’s sec - needs to focus on public health retary asked where the washroom was and a minute later someone walked up from the other side of Chappell is a professor in the the room and announced: “Over Institute on Aging and Lifelong there, ma’am.” Health and the Department of There was nothing made of the Sociology at the University of incident until we realized, as the Victoria; Hollander is a national RCMP had warned, we were health services and policy re - bugged — including our hotel searcher and president, Hollander CNS/Catholic Centre for Studies and Media in Amman Analytical Services Ltd. They REFUGEE WOMEN MAKE CHASUBLE FOR POPE — Iraqi refugee women who fled Islamic State recently published Aging in Telfer is a former editor and group violence in their homeland pose for a photo in Amman, Jordan, in early June. The Chaldean Canada (Oxford University publisher of the Humboldt Catholic women sent the hand-sewn chasuble to Pope Francis and asked him to pray for them and for Press). www.troymedia.com Journal. peace in their country. June 15, 2016 LETTERS Prairie Messenger 23

Couple not happy with artificial birth control advice

The Editor: In the article which was seen as such a gift to to live the sexual part of our rela - “Anglicans and Catholics ham - women at the time. It never ent - tionship. NFP necessitated com - mer out difficulties” (May 25 ered our minds to include God in munication and shared responsi - PM) I was saddened to read about decisions about having a family. bility and, most important, a the opposition of Catholics to We soon learned that artificial respect for God’s gift of fertile church teaching and overall birth control methods did little to and non-fertile times in every acceptance of artificial contracep - build relationship or make us a woman’s cycle. tion, with such a small percentage happy couple. By chance, a nurse I find it strange that today with embracing natural family plan - in Prince Edward Island men - all the emphasis on green living, ning (NFP). tioned NFP to me after the deliv - people do not embrace natural My husband and I began our ery of our third child because I family planning, but choose marriage in 1972 without any mentioned to her my frustration rather to add to the pollution of knowledge of NFP and quickly with birth control. What a differ - our bodies and our earth with arti - sought the advice of the medical ence. ficial hormones. — Shirley community for contraception We were given a healthy way MacKinnon, Oak Bluff, Man.

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Continued from page 1 forward “with the un shakable peace in our world.” The stone of grief resolve to change our nation and In Washington, Cardinal settled in my heart ble and absurd violence which so our world for the better.” Donald W. Wuerl said in a post with edges so rough and sharp deeply upsets the desire for peace He addressed the gun rights on his blog said that “the love of they cut each time I moved. of the American people and of the issue: “Our founding parents had Jesus Christ will prevail,” and All I could do was cry as life dragged me on. whole of humanity.” no knowledge of assault rifles while all too often “it appears that Days turned to weeks, Cupich has been one of the few which are intended to be weapons our civilization is walking weeks into years, U.S. prelates to speak out against of mass destruction. . . . It is long through the valley of the shadow slowly, bit by bit, gun violence and for gun control, past time to ban the sale of assault of death, we will fear no evil.” the sharp edges wore away. but his mention of the sexual ori - weapons. . . . If one is truly pro- He said all people of goodwill Life buffed the roughness, entation of the victims in the life, then embrace this issue also must stand together “in making turning the jagged rock attack at a gay nightclub was and work for the elimination of another impassioned appeal for into a smooth stone of remembrance. unusual, as most Catholic Church sales to those who would turn peace and security in our commu - leaders avoided acknowledging it. them on innocents.” nities and throughout the world.” By Marilyn Paul In a letter to the Chicago arch - Lynch also said that “sadly, it Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacra - diocesan Gay and Lesbian Out- is religion, including our own, mento, Calif., said that “the ugly reach, Cupich said: “For you here which targets, most verbally, and horror of hate” in Orlando “casts Letters to the editor today and throughout the whole also breeds contempt for gays, a chilling shadow from coast to lesbian and gay community, who lesbians and transgender people.” coast.” are particularly touched by the Many other Catholic leaders ex - “The sweetness of the Sabbath We welcome your response to articles published in the heinous crimes committed in pressed their grief and horror at the was saddened by the loss of life Prairie Messenger. Two-way communication assures every - Orlando, motivated by hate, driven massacre, and called for prayers. and the bitter taste of fear. Still, one of a better exposure to the truth. perhaps by mental instability and Orlando Bishop John G. the command to keep holy that We cannot publish any letters to the editor unless you give certainly empowered by a culture Noonan urged people of faith “to day can soothe and save us as we us your full name, your address and your telephone number. of violence, know this: The turn their hearts and souls” to now wrestle with the worries and (It is especially important to remember this if you are sending Archdiocese of Chicago stands God and pray for the victims, the the wounds left in the wake of your comments by email) . with you. I stand with you.” families and first responders. such brutality,” he said. Due to limited space we ask you to keep your letters short — He also urged Americans to “A sword has pierced the heart Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit 300 to 350 words maximum. The Prairie Messenger reserves the “find the courage to face forth - of our city,” he said in a statement. priest and popular writer, tweeted right to edit letters to conform to space requirements and newspa - rightly the falsehood that weap - “The healing power of Jesus early Sunday afternoon that while per style . ons of combat belong anywhere goes beyond our physical wounds he was not sure about the gun - in the civilian population.” but touches every level of our man’s motivations, “church lead - Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. humanity: physical, emotional, ers must speak out against hatred Soviet agent prevents Petersburg, said the mass shooting social, spiritual,” he said. “Jesus and violence directed against is “a time of sorrow . . . of dark - calls us to remain fervent in our LGBT people.” ness” but all “walk in the light of protection of life and human dig - (With files from Catholic News view of landscape solidarity and peace” and must go nity and to pray unceasingly for Service.) Continued from page 22 mission were planning contracts for the 1980 Summer Olympics, Low-level health care not the solution landscape, which resembled a which never happened because of winter scene out of the movie Dr. a U.S. protest over the Soviet in - Continued from page 22 A focus on home care for high- care system for all Canadians. Zhivago. Seconds later a KGB vasion of Afghanistan. needs seniors has resulted in A first step is for decision- agent who had been pretending he Meanwhile, Marchand, the son A fourth belief has been that models that integrate home care makers to recognize that a contin - was hammered with the merry- of illiterate parents who grew up the focus should be on individuals and family physician services. uing care system for older adults makers burst into the hallway and on a reserve and attended a resi - with high care needs and that rela - While such models can be part of is a key component of our health slammed down the shutter, “ Nyet ! dential school, was one of the first tively little attention need be given an integrated system, they don’t system — equivalent to hospital Nyet !” he shouted. That was the aboriginal students to enrol at the to preventive care for people who replace a continuum of support care, physician care and public end of viewing what obviously University of British Co lumbia. have a given health condition. that enhances quality of life and health. This would allow the the Soviets did not want western - He obtained a bachelor’s degree in However, the evidence seems to delays more expensive care. splintered components of home ers to see, the horribly decrepit agriculture, and a master’s degree indicate that, overall, individuals How damaging have these care, home support, residential peasant life. in range management. with low-level care needs who are popular misconceptions been to care facilities and geriatric units in It is unknown how well the He leaves his wife of 55 years, cut from care actually cost the sys - our health system? Policy makers hospitals to be brought together. trade mission fared, though one Donna Parr, daughter Lori tem more — they deteriorate faster have made choices based on them, Such a system would be the business executive did well. Jack Marchand, who is general manag - and are more likely to need more creating an apparent acceptance of third largest component of our Nodwell of Calgary, whose father er of Western Canada Theatre, costly residential and hospital care the fiscal status quo without look - health expenditures, after hospitals Bruce invented the famous huge and son Len Jr., who is a provin - than people who continue to ing for cost-saving efficiencies. and physician care. Given that most tracked transporters to traverse cial court judge. receive minimal preventive care. Clearly we need an integrated sys - of the parts are already in place in muskeg in northern Alberta, land - A memorial service was held The result is — perversely — an tem for older adults that increases most jurisdictions, it would cost ed a multimillion-dollar contract June 11 at Tk’emlups Indian Band incentive to get sicker quicker to the quality and continuity of care, relatively little to set up integrated through their Foremost Industries Pow Wow Arbour Grounds in qualify for publicly funded care and can reduce costs and enhance systems of care for the elderly. It for firefighting vehicles in Siberia. Kamloops with the burial to fol - services. the sustainability of the health would be money well spent. Incidentally, many on the trade low in Vernon.

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By Colleen Dulle News Service, was for the women ment stacked against the twoness radically different, but they are at the conference to see that “even of the sexes is also an environ - made for each other in the same WASHINGTON (CNS) — suggesting that there are two sexes ment against diversity of every way as male and female,” she said, When Helen Alvare first read that who are other but can collaborate type, coexistence in perfect quoting Wright. “Opposite poles Jesus did not “count equality with has become controversial,” and equality in the eyes of God.” within creation are made for union, God a thing to be grasped” (Phil that Christians need to confirm Alvare, who is a family and not competition.” 2:6), she was shocked. God’s intention for men and religion law professor at George She said that while women “Of course he was equal, why women to be different but equal. Mason University and a consul - cannot forget that they are heirs would we even be talking about In modern society, “we are tant for the Vatican’s Pontifical to a long struggle for equal grasping?” Alvare asked. encouraged to reject things that are Council for the Laity, serves as a rights, “as Christians, this model She realized that this model associated with women and instead Holy See delegate to various of not deeming equality some - applied to gender equality, an to be either like men or androgy - United Nations conferences on thing to be grasped at means that idea she shared in her talk on The nous or sexually fluid,” Alvare told women and family issues. we assert it. We live it. We can be Feminine Genius, addressed to the all-female audience, yet “the She said that women need to lawyers seeking to get it in the 350 women in their 20s at the two sexes symbolize all that can recognize their feminine gifts and law; we can be lay women seek - Given Catholic Young Women’s happen when different things work assert them in collaboration with ing to assert it in a group or at Leadership Forum June 8 in together: They create, they grow, men rather than “grasping at” an our job, but the end goal that Washington. they give new life.” equality that they already have in we’re seeking is not ‘I am better Her goal, she told Catholic She continued, “An environ - the eyes of God. Practically and the - than men,’ ‘I reject men,’ ‘I don’t ologically, she said, the sexes work - trust men,’ et cetera. It is to assert Swiss approve genetic ing together are better than either and achieve this equality but not men or women working alone. by harming the opposite sex.” CNS/Bob Roller She cited studies showing that She said that she would have Helen Alvare testing of embryos mixed-gender marketing teams liked to see this equality repre - are effective because the men sented in church decision-mak - dal in the Archdiocese of Phila- By Jonathan Luxmoore Morerod said medical research tend to develop strong marketing ing, for example, at the synod of delphia. should be “creative and innova - systems while the women are bishops on the family or in the She told CNS that she wanted OXFORD, England (CNS) — tive” in finding ways “to accept often better at figuring out how sexual abuse scandal. to end her talk by saying women Swiss Catholic Church officials every life and cure diseases.” the system will practically be “I would have said that you must be the ones to speak out in deplored the approval by voters of However, he added that the applied, and how to pitch the sys - needed a great deal more women favour of femininity and in- a modification to the country’s in newly legalized practice would tem in an appealing way. and families at the synod on the creased collaboration between the vitro fertilization law that would eliminate life “instead of dealing She also explained theologian family. I really didn’t understand sexes. permit genetic testing of embryos, with people,” in apparent viola - N.T. Wright’s view of the sexes the absence of a significant num - “No male can say the things allowing imperfect human tion of Switzerland’s 1999 federal as symbols of the unity of heaven ber of more women,” she said. that I said today,” she said. “If it’s embryos to be discarded. constitution, which states in its and earth. Alvare chaired the commission going to be said at all, it has to be The president of the Swiss preamble “the strength of a people Heaven and earth “are different, that investigated the abuse scan - said by women.” bishops’ conference called the is measured by the well-being of revision in voting June 5 “a step its weakest members.” backwards.” Experts said genetic testing Pope sending observers to Orthodox meeting “It jeopardizes the full protec - would help eliminate chromoso - tion of human life,” Bishop mal abnormalities such as Down By Cindy Wooden hopes for such a meeting for does not bring about unity is a Charles Morerod of Lausanne, syndrome, and involve the storing almost 100 years. Planning meet - negation of the prayer of Jesus at Geneva and Fribourg, said in a of 12 embryos for each treatment VATICAN CITY (CNS) — ings began in the 1960s, but even the Last Supper” that his disciples statement. cycle. Pope Francis will send high-level as the start date drew near, there be one, the bishop said. “It is “It is important for us to reas - The vote defied warnings by the observers to the pan-Orthodox were some fears that not all 14 hugely important for Christianity sure handicapped people that we bishops’ conference in April that council meeting in Crete as a sign self-governing Orthodox church - and, therefore, for the Catholic believe in their full dignity and the measure raised “serious ethical of respect, support and encour - es would send delegations. Church that the pan-Orthodox rejoice that their lives are accom - problems” by arbitrarily increasing agement of the Orthodox Church. The Orthodox Church of Bul- council be an effective sign of the panied by help from many others. the number of “stored embryos,” as The Holy and Great Council of garia demanded June 1 that the unity of Orthodoxy.” Recognizing the full dignity of all well as by selecting “who deserves the Orthodox Church was sched - meeting be postponed until a dis - Farrell said the Orthodox deci - human beings, above all the most to live” and stigmatizing those uled to open June 19, which is cussion could be held on its list of sion to open the meeting on vulnerable, is essential for a just already living with disabilities. Pentecost on the Julian calendar, concerns, which included criti - Pentecost is not simply symbolic, society,” he said. In another vote, the Catholic and run through June 26. cism of the how little the texts but is a spiritual affirmation that The measure will allow em- Church’s Justice and Peace Ecumenical Patriarch Barthol- under consideration could be the meeting and its deliberations bryos to be stored and screened Commission welcomed the omew of Constantinople invited amended. The Bulgarians also ob- must be guided by the Holy Spirit. for genetic defects before implan - approval of a modification in Pope Francis to send observers to jected to the invitation of ob serv- Among all the churches and tation. It was approved by 62.4 Switzerland’s asylum law that will the meeting on the Greek island ers from non-Orthodox churches Christian communities the Cath- per cent of voters June 5. Switzer - allow quicker processing of appli - of Crete, and the pope chose and said they would not partici - olic Church has formal relations land, with about 44 per cent of its cations and free legal advice and Cardinal Kurt Koch and Bishop pate if the meeting went ahead as with, the Orthodox are unique. 7.1 million citizens identifying as representation for asylum seekers. Brian Farrell, respectively the scheduled. The Catholic Church recognizes Catholic, is the last European The measure was approved by president and secretary of the After the Antiochian Orthodox the Orthodox as a “sister country to approve the practice. two-thirds of voters. Pontifical Council for Promoting Church also asked for a delay and church,” which has maintained Christian Unity. signalled a willingness to stay apostolic succession of its bish - Sending the Vatican’s top ecu - away from the meeting, a Russian ops, a valid priesthood and sacra - menical officers demonstrates Orthodox leader asked June 3 that ments. How ever, different that “it is the Holy Father’s judg - a pre-council meeting be held by Orthodox churches and, especial - ment that this is supremely June 10 to work out some of the ly different sectors within those important for the Orthodox, for remaining concerns. churches, do not always recog - our relationship with the The ecumenical patriarchate, nize the Catholic Church as a Orthodox Church and, beyond however, issued a statement June “sister church” with valid sacra - that, it’s supremely important for 6 saying the process already ments; the draft Or thodox docu - the Christian witness in a world agreed upon by the heads of the ment on relations with other that is ever more confused about 14 churches would not change Christian churches does not the role of religion,” Farrell told and calling upon all 14 churches directly address the issue, but Catholic News Service June 8. “to rise to the occasion and par - insists ecumenical dialogue is Council members — 24 bish - ticipate, on the pre-determined “imperative.” ops from each of the 14 auto - dates, in the sessions of the Holy “In the Catholic view,” Farrell cephalous Orthodox churches — and Great Council.” said, “Orthodoxy is the eastern are scheduled to approve six docu - The Catholic Church is hope - part of the church and, as Pope ments, including statements on: ful that the council will take John Paul often repeated, we long the mission of the Orthodox place, Farrell said. for the day that the church can Church in the contemporary “Every process that highlights breathe with both lungs” — East world; the pastoral care of and strengthens unity among and West. The council could be Orthodox living outside their Christ’s followers is in line with “a big step in the right direction,” church’s traditional homeland; the Gospel and every process that he said. CNS/Fiona Basile how the autonomy of new AUSTRALIAN MISSIONARY OF MERCY — Jesuit Father Richard Orthodox churches is determined; “In response to hatred, we are called to sow Shortall is a missionary of mercy for the Jubilee Year of Mercy, at St. rules regarding marriage; the Patrick and St. Brigid Church in Cooranbong, Australia. Shortall, one importance of fasting; and rela - love. In response to violence, peace. And, in of two missionaries of mercy in Australia, is travelling throughout the tions with other Christians. response to intolerance, tolerance.” Maitland-Newcastle diocese in a motor home to rural parishes that Leaders of the Orthodox — Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich, June 12, 2016 have no resident priest. churches have been discussing