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Volume 29 Number 4 Calendar Article 1

11-2005

Spiritan Magazine Vol. 29 No. 4 Calendar

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Praying From the Editor

Volume 29, No. 4 November 2005 A call to prayer Spiritan Missionary News is produced by The Congregation of the Holy Ghost recent holiday in Ireland left many memories. Among them were two TransCanada Province contrasting approaches to prayer and praying. Editors: Fr. Gerald FitzGerald A Twice a day at noon and 6 p.m., RTE — the national radio and television Fr. Patrick Fitzpatrick station — broadcast the Angelus. The 3x3x3x9 chiming of the bells invited listeners Design & Layout: Tim Faller Design Inc. and viewers to pause a while, to stop what they were doing, and be still. On TV the accompanying images depicted men and women, young and old, taking time out CONTENTS from ordinary activities, interrupting work, raising heads in recognition indoors and 2 From the Editor: outdoors, just being silent and attentive. Without words, in a countrywide call to A call to prayer prayer, the bells of the Angelus invited listeners and viewers to tune in to God. Sunday Mass in several parishes included the praying of the Glory to God and the 3 Reflection: Creed by the whole congregation. The Glory to God was short enough that I more or Will Katrina open our eyes? less kept pace, finishing only a sentence behind the general body. The Creed, however, January — Photos by Carl Hiebert, left me breathless. By the halfway mark I was straggling, at the three quarters point I PWS&D had lost even more ground. Only by eliminating two or three of the “I believe in …” did I succeed in finishing within speaking distance of those around me. They were on February — Photo by Nicholas Rjabow, a roll, I was out of my class. iStockphoto I got to thinking about prayer. What’s it all about? Words, formulas, set prayers? March — Photo by Carl Hiebert, PWS&D Silent attention, saying nothing, just being present to the moment? All of the above? April — Photo by S. Leutenegger, I recalled a down-to-earth piece of advice: “Pray as you can, not as you can’t.” © Ateliers et Presses de Taizé, Whatever form it takes, at its deep heart’s core prayer is placing myself in the 71250 Taizé, France presence of God. In most cases that means stopping what I’m doing, at least for a minute or two. Perhaps Psalm 46 says it best: “Be still, and know that I am God.” Or if May — Photo by Andrei Tchernov, you prefer another translation: “Let be then, learn that I am God.” Anywhere, anytime. iStockphoto A grateful moment as the day dawns, a moment of thanks for a new beginning. A silent June — Photo by Christina Craft, moment before going to sleep, a moment to muse on the day gone by. Standing at the iStockphoto foot of a best friend’s grave. Dropping into a church for a visit. Having a few words July — Photo by Mark Aplet, iStockphoto with the Man Above about a son or daughter, a husband or wife, a sick neighbour or an upcoming surgery. August — Photo by Renee Lee, Such moments may include formal prayers, if they draw me into the presence of iStockphoto God. One of my early memories of going to bed was my mother’s question, “Have you September — Photo by Javad Montazeri, said your prayers?” Music too may help me enter the presence of God — Gregorian or PonkaWonka Taizé chants, background easy listening, instrumental accompaniment. Lighting a candle, gazing at the rising sun, contemplating a starry night, or a moon in its many October — Photo by Carl Hiebert, phases, kneeling, sitting, standing — whatever enables me to respond to the traditional PWS&D call to prayer, “Let us place ourselves in the presence of God.” November — Digital Stock Whatever its form, prayer is the means by which we spend time with God. What we December — Digital Stock say, if we say anything at all, is less important than being in the presence of God. Prayer is more a habit of the heart than a formula of words. Front cover: photo by Renee Lee, iStockphoto Our 2006 calendar, Praying, portrays human beings of many religions and different Back cover: Digital Stock ages, entering into the presence of God. Their postures vary, their gestures are Spiritan Missionary News is published four times expressive of what is deep within — they bow, they kneel, they clasp hands, they squat a year by the Spiritans, The Congregation of the Holy Ghost, 121 Victoria Park Ave. Toronto, ON around a cross, they sit and ponder, they make the Sign of the Cross, they pay a visit M4E 3S2. Tel: 416-698-2003. Fax: 416-698-1884. to the Blessed Sacrament in an otherwise empty church. Alone or with others, outside E-mail: [email protected]. All correspon- dence and changes of address should be sent to or inside a sacred place, they are attentive to a Presence within them, around them, this address. among them. They are tuning in to God. One year subscription: $10.00. Printed by Mediavision International, Toronto. 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Will Katrina open our eyes? Deirdre McLoughlin, Lay Spiritan

he Old Testament stories of famine, haphazard or totally unavailable. They religion. In the eyes of God not one of us is floods, wars and pestilence come to were refugees in their own town. greater or more important than the other. Tmind when I think about the last It is difficult not to compare the immedi- nine months: the tsunami in Asia, the war ate rescue effort on September 11, 2001 at Concern for others and its aftermath in Iraq, HIV/Aids rampant the Twin Towers in New York, the centre of It was most striking that many of the particularly in Africa, Hurricane Katrina wealth and power, and the initial abysmal impassioned pleas for help heard in the and the floods, loss of life, livelihood and effort in New Orleans, the home of the in- Superdome were not from people pleading property in her wake. It was overwhelming visible, les misérables. Katrina unmasked the for themselves, but for someone else whom to hear accounts of lives in ruins in the U.S., “dirty little secret” of pockets of poverty hid- they considered worse off. Their concern the wealthiest country in the world. den in most towns and cities of the world. was often for someone frail and sick, or for The plight of so many, mainly margin- Help eventually arrived amid much a young mother with no food or water or alized, was heart-breaking and provoked confusion, most people got water and food washing facilities for her little ones. TV real anger. Most of the people who could and were evacuated. Many perished. The captured the amazing scene of the young not evacuate when orders came were the President visited and made official tours of diabetic lapsing into a coma before our little ones: the powerless, the poor, the frail Louisiana and Mississippi. He promised eyes, the presence of the only nurse among elderly, the mentally ill, the illiterate, the billions of dollars in ongoing aid and 10,000 people, herself a refugee, testing the homeless — those who eked out an exis- declared an official Day of Prayer. glucose level, begging the crowd for insulin tence even at the best of times. They had which was offered almost immediately, probably slipped through the frayed securi- A wake-up call administering it, and reviving the young ty safety net in Louisiana and Mississippi, It is so easy to apportion blame, to sit in girl from certain death. I was reminded of two of the poorest states in the U.S. Over- one’s armchair and have all the answers, but the empathy of Jesus for the widow of looked by the powers that be, they had no perhaps this tragedy can be a wake-up call. Naim whose only son had died, and how, way of leaving the doomed city of New Katrina happened in North America. Surely seeing her sorrow, he was moved to restore Orleans. Mostly African American, they the mayhem, the chaos, and the dreadful the boy to life. In New Orleans too, despite remained trapped by poverty and class as confusion will make us more aware, raise the abominable conditions, it was evident Katrina crashed into the coast without our consciousness to a new level where we that mercy, kindness, concern and com- mercy followed by ocean surges, broken can truly open our eyes to that “dirty little passion were present. levees, and floods of unimaginable depth. secret”, that hidden face of poverty invisible I continue to pray for everyone involved Even after five days, the scene in New to most of us in our cities and towns, but in assisting the people of the stricken Gulf Orleans, the Big Easy, home of jazz and now made visible through our sisters and Coast, but most of all I pray for the perma- Mardi Gras, looked like a war zone. People brothers in New Orleans. As Marcus Borg, nently dispossessed, the poor, the frail and were dying with no water to drink, just theologian and author, said, “We have to the weak. The words of Jesus, “the meek putrid water all around, no food to eat, and crack open our hearts” and see we are all in- shall inherit the earth”, seem lodged in my

no power electrical or otherwise. Help was terconnected whatever our colour, race or heart. ■ Photo by Mike DuBose UMNS / ACT

Spiritan Missionary News / November 2005 3 In the name of and of the Father and of the Holy Spirit the Son Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1234567New Year’s Day First Friday

Mary, Mother of God World Day of Peace Spiritan Martyrs, Congo St. Basil and St. Gregory Most Holy Name of JesusSt. Elizabeth Seton St. John Neumann Blessed Brother André 8 9 1011121314

Epiphany of the Lord Baptism of the Lord St. Marguerite Bourgeoys 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Anthony, Abbot St. Agnes

Week of Prayer for 22Christian Unity 23 24 25 26 27 28

3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Francis de Sales Conversion of St. Paul St. Timothy and St. Titus St. Angela Merici St. Thomas Aquinas

Islamic New Year December 2005 February 29 30 31 123 1234 45678910 567891011 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 26 27 28 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. John Bosco

January 2006 www.Spiritans.com Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment… Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1234First Friday

Presentation of the Lord Francis Libermann Co-founder of the Spiritans St. Blase 567891011

St. Paul Miki and Our Lady of Lourdes 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time the Japanese Martyrs World Day of the Sick 12 13 14Valentine’s Day 15 16 17 18

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Cyril and St. Methodius 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

7th Sunday in Ordinary Time Chair of St. Peter, Apostle St. Polycarp

January March 26 27 28 1234567 1234 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 567891011 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 31 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time Blessed Daniel Brottier, Spiritan

February 2006 www.Spiritans.com I lift up my eyes to the mountains; from where shall come my help? My help shall come from the Lord who made heaven and earth. Psalm 121 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

February April First Friday 1234 1 1234 567891011 2345678 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 101112131415 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 26 27 28 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 St. Katherine Drexel Ash Wednesday 30 Fast and Abstinence World Day of Prayer 567891011Orthodox Lent Begins

1st Sunday of Lent St. John of God 12 13 14Purim 15 16 17St. Patrick’s Day 18

2nd Sunday of Lent 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

3rd Sunday of Lent St. Joseph, Patron of Canada Annunciation of the Lord 26 27 28 29 30 31

4th Sunday of Lent

March 2006 www.Spiritans.com Stay here and keep watch with me The hour has come Stay here and keep watch with me Watch and pray Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

March May 1234 123456 1 567891011 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 26 27 28 29 30 31 28 29 30 31

Daylight Saving Time First Friday 2345678begins

5th Sunday of Lent St. John Baptist de la Salle 9 101112131415Passover begins

Passion (Palm) Sunday Monday of Holy Week Tuesday of Holy Week Wednesday of Holy Week Holy Thursday Good Friday Holy Saturday 16Easter Sunday 17 18 19 20 21 22 Alleluia!

Resurrection of the Lord Easter Monday Easter Tuesday Easter Wednesday Easter Thursday Easter Friday Easter Saturday 23Orthodox Easter 24 25 26 27 28 29 2nd Sunday of Easter Divine Mercy Sunday St. Peter Chanel 3rd Sunday of Easter 30 St. FidelisSt. Mark, evangelist Our Lady of Good Counsel St. Louis Grignion de Montfort St. Catherine of Siena April 2006 www.Spiritans.com Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord, Lord, hear my voice. Psalm 130 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 123456First Friday

St. Joseph the Worker St. Athanasius St. Philip and St. James

World Day of Prayer 78910111213for Vocations

4th Sunday of Easter Our Lady of Fatima 14Mother’s Day 15 16 17 18 19 20

5th Sunday of Easter

Victoria Day Pentecost 21 22 23 24 25 26Novena begins 27

6th Sunday of Easter St. Bede St. Philip Neri St. Augustine of Canterbury

April June 28 29 30 31 1 123 2345678 45678910 9 101112131415 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 25 26 27 28 29 30 Ascension of the Lord Visitation of Mary 30

May 2006 www.Spiritans.com We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us, to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. First Nations prayer Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

May July First Friday 123456 1 123 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 2345678 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 9 101112131415 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 St. Charles Lwanga and 30 31 St. Justin the Ugandan Martyrs 45678910

Pentecost Sunday St. Boniface 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

The Most Holy Trinity St. Anthony of Padua 18Father’s Day 19 20 21 22 23 24

The Body and Blood of Christ St. Aloysius Gonzaga St. Thomas More Sacred Heart of Jesus St. John the Baptist 25 26 27 28 29 30

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Irenaeus St. Peter and St. Paul

June 2006 www.Spiritans.com Peace Peace Peace Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

June August Canada Day 123 12345 1 45678910 6789101112 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 25 26 27 28 29 30 27 28 29 30 31 2345678Independence Day (US) First Friday

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Thomas St. Elizabeth of Portugal St. Anthony Zaccaria St. Maria Goretti 9 101112131415

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Benedict Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha St. Bonaventure 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Mary Magdalene 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

17th Sunday St. Ignatius in Ordinary Time 30of Loyola 31 St. James, Apostle St. Joachim and St. Anne St. Martha July 2006 www.Spiritans.com Praise with elation, praise every morning, God’s re-creation of the new day! Eleanor Farjeon Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 12345First Friday

St. Alphonsus Liguori St. John Vianney 6789101112Civic Holiday

Transfiguration of the Lord 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Dominic St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross St. Lawrence St. Clare 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Maximilian Kolbe Assumption of Our Lady St. Stephen of Hungary St. John Eudes 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

20th Sunday in Ordinary TimeSt. Pius X, Pope Mary, Queen of Heaven St. Rose of Lima St. Bartholomew, Apostle St. Louis of France

July September 27 28 29 30 31 1 12 2345678 3456789 9 101112131415 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine Martyrdom of John the Baptist 30 31

August 2006 www.Spiritans.com Allah is great. Praise and glory be to you, O Allah. Blessed be your name… There is no God but you. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

August October First Friday 12345 1234567 12 6789101112 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 31 3456789Labour Day

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Birth of Mary Blessed Jacques Laval, Spiritan 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Holy Name of Mary St. John Chrysostom Triumph of the Cross Our Lady of Sorrows St. Cornelius and St. Cyprian

Rosh Hashana, 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1st Day

St. Andrew Kim, St. Paul Chong 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time and Korean Martyrs St. Matthew St. Padre Pio 24Ramadan 25 26 27 28 29 30

St. Michael, St. Gabriel and 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Canadian Martyrs St. Vincent de Paul St. Raphael St. Jerome

September 2006 www.Spiritans.com Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts which from thy bounty we are about to receive through Christ our Lord. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1234567Respect Life Sunday Yom Kippur First Friday Sukkoth 1st day

26th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Guardian Angels St. Francis of Assisi Our Lady of the Rosary

Vocation Awareness Thanksgiving Day 8Sunday 9(Canada) 1011121314

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

28th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Margaret Mary Alacoque St. Ignatius of Antioch St. Luke St. Paul of the Cross

World Mission Eid-ul-Fitr 22Sunday 23 24 25 26 27 28

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Anthony Mary Claret St. Simon and St. Jude

Daylight Saving Halloween September November Time ends 29 30 31 12 1234 3456789 567891011 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

October 2006 www.Spiritans.com For the peace of Jerusalem pray: “Peace be to your homes. May peace reign in your walls.” Psalm 122 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

October December First Friday 1234567 12 1234 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 3456789 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 All Saints All Souls Day St. Martin de Porres St. Charles Borromeo

Remembrance Day 567891011(Canada)

Dedication of the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Lateran Basilica in Rome St. Leo, Pope St. Martin of Tours 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Frances Xavier Cabrini St. Albert the Great St. Margaret of Scotland St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Thanksgiving Day 19 20 21 22 23(US) 24 25

St. Andrew Dung-Lac and 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Presentation of Mary St. Cecilia St. Clement & St. Columban Vietnamese Martyrs St. Catherine of Alexandria 26 27 28 29 30

Christ the King St. Andrew

November 2006 www.Spiritans.com Shine in our hearts Shine through the darkness Christ, be our light Bernadette Farrell Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

November January 2007 First Friday 1234 123456 12 567891011 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 30 31 3456789

1st Sunday of Advent St. John of Damascus St. Nicholas St. Ambrose Immaculate Conception of Mary St. Juan Diego 10 11 12 13 14 15Hanukkah begins 16

2nd Sunday of Advent St. Damascus Our Lady of Guadalupe St. Lucy St. John of the Cross 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

3rd Sunday of Advent

Christmas Day Boxing Day First Day of 24 25 26Kwaanza 27 28 29 30 Christmas Eve 4th Sunday New Year’s Eve of Advent

Holy Family 31 St. Stephen St. John, Apostle The Holy Innocents St. Thomas Becket December 2006 www.Spiritans.com Return Address: Spiritan Missionary News 121 Victoria Park Avenue Toronto, Ontario CANADA M4E 3S2 P.M.#40050389

May the light of Christ surround you the arms of Christ enfold you the power of Christ protect you the love of Christ watch over you for ever and ever. Amen.