Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 95 No. 45 May 9, 2018 Last PM No forgiveness until oppression stops With this issue, Vol. 95, No. 45, the Prairie Messenger By James Buchok health and healing needs of First As the eldest of six, she took care Centre at the University of ends publication. Nation and Métis communities. of her siblings when her mother, Manitoba. She, too, is a child of WINNIPEG — Dr. Barry Residential school survivors and her then second husband, residential school survivors. Lavallee doesn’t mince words entered those institutions in good would leave the children, “some - “So much was taken through Forgiveness when he talks about residential health but came out anemic and times for days.” residential schools and the colo - schools, the health of indigenous malnourished. “The patterns are But now she tries to learn what nial system,” she said. She tries to Seventy-three per cent of people in Canada, and racism. no different than Auschwitz,” she can about residential schools, recover some of the losses, begin - churchgoing women who “Residential schools were the Lavallee said, adding that students in workshops and support groups. ning with continuing to learn her have experienced an product of the government and might enter at a Grade 3 level Growing up for her “would have native languages. abortion are not sure if institutions like the Catholic “and exit with Grade 1.” Today, he been a lot different without resi - “I acknowledge my experience forgiveness applies to them, Church and the purpose was to said, the life expectancy of an dential schools.” as a child of residential school says Laura Lewis, executive kill the proxy to the land. Is it pos - indigenous person in Manitoba is Christine Cyr is a Cree/Métis survivors and I never apologize director of the Canadian sible to forgive and forget? No. seven to eight years less than a woman from Winnipeg and direc - There is no forgiveness until non-indigenous person. tor of the Indigenous Student — RECOnCiLiaTiOn , page 19 Association of Pregnancy oppression stops.” Lavallee said racism can be Support Services. Lavallee was part of a panel at “interrupted, the next time some - — page 3 St. Ignatius Church in Winnipeg one accuses the chiefs of being Mission territory April 20, the third such session of drunks or says indigenous women an ongoing Truth and Reconcilia - are poor moms ask them, ‘Can tion dialogue between parish - you explain that to me?’ If you do, “Our baptismal call is to be ioners of St. Ignatius and St. you’ve made it safer for an indige - missionary disciples,” says Kateri Tekakwitha Aboriginal nous person to be there.” Daniel Pettipas, evangeliza - Church. Elsie Moar, 71, is a parishioner tion co-ordinator at St. Lavallee, a member of the at St. Kateri and originally from Anne’s Parish in Saskatoon. Saul teaux and Métis communi - the Skownan First Nation, a “When we leave our church - ties, is a family physician special - Saulteaux community. As a child es on Sunday, we are going izing in indigenous health and a she felt the effects that residential into mission territory.” member of the University of school had on her mother, a sur - Manitoba faculty of medicine. His vivor. “She was never happy, and — page 6 clinical work has focused on the she took it out on us,” Moar said. Words matter Philippine cardinal tolls bells “All of this began with words,” Holocaust survivor to call attention to murders Max Eisen told some 1,200 students who had gathered at MANILA, Philippines (CNS) olic priest and a broadcast journal - Resurrection Church in — Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle ist were the most recent vic tims of Regina to called for church bells in the arch - assassinations. Thuong Truong, RNDM hear Eisen diocese to toll at 8 p.m. each day Rev. Mark Ventura was shot to tell his story. to protest the continuing spate of death after celebrating mass in RECOnCiLiaTiOn DiaLOGUE — participants in a panel discussion killings in the country. Cagayan province April 29. april 20 in Winnipeg, the third session of an ongoing Truth and “The Nazi Reconciliation dialogue between parishioners of St. ignatius Church propaganda Tagle invited the faithful “to pause, remember and pray” for and St. Kateri Tekakwitha aboriginal Church in Winnipeg, included, machine Ventura, the second priest to be from the left: Elsie moar, moderator Joan molloy, Dr. Barry Lavallee, was very killed in four months. In De - and Christine Cyr. efficient. It dehumanized cember, Rev. Marcelito Paez was Jews, took their property. shot dead in the province of Nueva Restore cemetery where They told us we were going Ecija. to work on farms, but it all “It’s sad that a priest was killed Ukrainian immigrants buried ended like this,” and he . . . and even if he’s not a priest, a showed a photo of the person. Isn’t he a gift from God? By Deborah Gyapong housed women and children. Auschwitz death camp. Is it that easy nowadays to just kill and throw someone away?” asked Luciuk said he hopes the peti - — page 7 Tagle. OTTAWA (CCN) — A tion, sponsored by Conservative Our mission Tagle said the tolling of the Kingston-based academic hopes a MP James Bezan, will prompt the bells is a call to everybody to com - new petition will prompt the government “to do the right Canadian government to restore a thing,” and restore the cemetery “Many of us are saddened mit to actions of truth, justice, cemetery where Ukrainian immi - now owned privately by a farmer by the Prairie Messenger’s love, and respect for God’s gift of human life and dignity. grants who died in a Quebec who has allowed the gravesites for demise, but we must under - “The bells beg us to transform internment camp are buried. 16 internees and several children stand that the mission it the mourning of our people into “The Government of Canada, to be overtaken by boreal forest. undertook remains our hope and peace,” he said. between 1914 and 1920, under The federal government had mission: bring the message Archbishop Sergio Utleg of powers of the War Measures Act, turned the cemetery over to the of Jesus alive in a world Tuguegarao has appealed to au- interned 8,759 men, women and Quebec government in 1936, and crying for him,” writes thorities for a speedy investigation children in 24 camps,” said Quebec sold it to the farmer in Michael Dougherty. into the killing of Ventura, 37. The Lubomyr Luciuk, a professor of 1988. CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz — page 13 priest was among those who op - political geography at the Royal The Ukrainians sent to Spirit Cardinal Luis antonio Tagle posed black sand mining in the Military College, who initiated the Lake came primarily from Mon - In praise of books province of Cagayan. e-petition E-1643 to the Heritage treal and many were Ukrainian He said the tolling of the bells “There have been too many Minister on April 17. Greek Catholics who attended the In her last column for the will “haunt the perpetrators of vio - murders already done with Many of these interned indi - St. Michael the Archangel Greek Prairie Messenger , Edna lence and killing to remember impunity in our country by assas - viduals were Ukrainians who had Catholic Church. Froese salutes “the veritable their victims, never to forget sins. . . . May this be the last,” immigrated from the Austro- Most Canadians do not know them,” reported ucanews.com. Hungarian Empire, he said. They Ukrainians were interned during fort of books with which Utleg added. “The bells beckon us to re - A day after the shooting of were sent to remote camps, the First World War, and afterward I have built meaning member the dead . . . and to ask Ventura, assassins also shot broad - among them the one called Spirit during the 1917 Bolshevik Revo - into my life.” God to remember them,” said a cast journalist Edmund Sestoso in Lake in the Abitibi region of lution in Russia, Luciuk said. — page 15 statement from the cardinal. the central Philippine city of Quebec, near Amos. This was one Ucanews.com reported a Cath - Dumaguete. of two such camps that also — CampaiGn , page 5 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS May 9, 2018 Pope asks bishops to agree on intercommunion

By Cindy Wooden The pope had invited six Ger- Eucharist .’’ May 3. In his letter to the Vatican, communities.” man bishops and the general secre - However, the Vatican said, “a which prompted the meeting, he At the urging of the council, VATICAN CITY (CNS) — tary of the bishops’ conference to not insignificant number” of bish - had asked whether the guidelines many bishops’ conferences around Pope Francis asked the bishops of Rome for a May 3 meeting with ops, including seven who head were not simply pastoral, but went the world have published pastoral Germany to continue working top officials from the Congre gation dioceses, could not give their to the heart of Catholic faith and guidelines that list the occasions together to find broader consensus for the Doctrine of the Faith, the assent to the document. “These practice, and whether the German on which such eucharistic sharing on guidelines for allowing a Pontifical Council for Promoting seven turned to the Congregation guidelines could have a wider would be acceptable. Protestant married to a Catholic to Christian Unity and the Pontifical for the Doctrine of the Faith, the impact on the question of eucha - Visiting a Lutheran parish in receive the eucharist. Council for Legislative Texts. Pontifical Council for Promoting ristic hospitality in countries Rome in November 2015, a “Pope Francis appreciates the In February, the Vatican state - Christian Unity and the Pontifical around the world. Lutheran woman married to a ecumenical commitment of the ment said, “more than three-quar - Council for Legislative Texts.” The text of the German guide - Catholic asked Pope Francis why German bishops and asks them to ters of the members” of the Ger- Pope Francis invited leaders of lines has not been made public, she could not receive communion find, in a spirit of ecclesial com - man bishops’ conference approved the bishops’ conference and some but it is widely assumed to foresee when she went to mass with her munion, a result as unanimously a “pastoral handbook titled, Walk - of the bishops opposed to the situations in which a Lutheran husband. as possible,” the German bishops ing with Christ — In the Foot steps guidelines to come to the Vatican married to a Roman Catholic and The pope responded that he were told, according to a Vatican of Unity: Mixed Marriages and for a discussion with officials regularly attending mass with the could not issue a general rule on statement. Com mon Participation in the from the three offices. Catholic spouse could receive the shared communion, but the couple “Various points of view were eucharist and not only on special should pray, study and then act discussed; for example, how the occasions like the baptism or first according to their consciences. question relates to the faith and to communion of their child. For the Catholic Church, he pastoral care, its relevance for the The council for Christian unity’s said, “it is true that sharing (the universal church and its juridical 1993 Directory for the Appli cation eucharist) is saying that there are dimension,” the Vatican statement of Principles and Norms on Ecu - no differences between us, that we said, without providing further menism said, the Catholic Church have the same doctrine,” which details. “recognizes that in certain circum - the official Catholic-Lutheran dia - Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki stances, by way of exception, and logue has yet to prove. “But I ask of Cologne, one of the seven Ger - under certain conditions, access to myself, ‘Don’t we have the same man bishops who objected to the these sacraments may be permitted, baptism?’ And if we have the conference guidelines, participat - or even commended, for Christians same baptism, then we must walk ed in the meeting at the Vatican of other churches and ecclesial together.” Congo bishop highlights hunger, illness

By Jonathan Luxmoore

OXFORD, England (CNS) — A Catholic bishop from the Republic of Congo lamented that persistent corruption and poverty have left many of priests hungry and ill while the country’s wealth CNS/Elisabeth Schomaker, KNA remains dominated by a “handful BiSHOpS DiSCUSS inTERCOmmUniOn — Cardinal Rainer maria of the rich and powerful.” Woelki of Cologne, left, talks with Cardinal Reinhard marx of munich Bishop Bienvenu Manamika and Freising, president of the German bishops’ conference. They dis - Bafouakouahou of Dolisie said the agree about whether the bishops’ conference has the authority to devel - church in the violence-torn country op its own guidelines about non-Catholic spouses receiving communion. faces “challenges from syncretism, Protestant sects and Islam, but Pope emphasizes faith says above all from disease.” “Only two of our dioceses, CNS/Robert Carrubba, EPA Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire, can COnGO pROTESTS CORRUpTiOn — protestors attempt to leave the ‘no’ to Satan, ‘yes’ to God pay their priests appropriately safe heaven of a church during violent protests late January in Kinshasa, while others struggle,” he ex - Congo. a Catholic bishop lamented that persistent corruption and plained in an interview with Aid By Carol Glatz Christ” and to be able to “truly poverty have left many priests hungry and ill while the country’s wealth embrace others,” he said. to the Church in Need. “In my remains dominated by a “handful of the rich and powerful.” VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “The devil divides and God own, the first concern is to ensure and “colonial.” lamic organizations offered better Baptism requires rejecting Satan always unites the community, the priests get enough food. But if However, in a report, Aid to the employment opportunities and and professing one’s full faith in people” in one body, he said. they have serious health prob - Church in Need confirmed eco - higher pay for young people, and God, Pope Francis said. During the baptismal rite, he lems, I have no idea what we do.” nomic hardship was widespread had recently recruited one of his Only by being able to say “no” said, the individual is asked to The diocese lacked clean among Catholic clergy, citing a own altar servers. to the devil, his works and empty respond in the first person, to drinking water and local adults lack of funds for religious litera - “There’s only one seminary promises “am I able to say ‘yes’ to reject evil and profess his or her and children at the Catholic ture and evangelization. here,” the bishop said, “and we’d God, who calls me to conform faith as a sign of choosing to be school routinely died from water- Although he often explains the like to focus on recognizing true myself to him in thoughts and personally responsible in this daily born illnesses, the bishop said. church’s work at local markets vocations and providing a better deeds,” he said. commitment of trusting in God Further, he added, poverty had and at mass, the bishop said, Is- education for priests.” “It is not possible to follow and walking with him. worsened because of a decline in Christ (while) imposing precondi - The profession of faith reflects oil prices and widespread corrup - tions,” he said May 2 during his a commitment — aided by bap - tion and public hospital employ - weekly general audience in St. tism — to be strong and persevere ees had been on strike for months Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circum - Peter’s Square. throughout all of life’s trials and over government failure to “subsi - stances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Continuing his series of talks temptations, he added. dize basic medicines.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 on the sacrament of baptism, the “Rejecting sin, the temptations “The Congolese are poor peo - ple in a rich country with abun - pope looked at the importance of of evil, Satan — the source and Thank you from the staff of Prairie Messenger and St. the heart being ready to receive cause of every sin — and faith in dant oil reserves, where all the the gift of new life from God what the church believes” are not wealth is shared by a handful of Peter’s Press to those who attended our farewell on through the baptismal water and temporary or provisional commit - the rich and powerful,” Bafoua - April 28, and to those who were with us in spirit. We the Holy Spirit. When a child is ments asked only at baptism, Pope kouahou said. have been blessed with the love and loyal support of “Politicians here see the Cath - presented for baptism, its parents Francis said. family and friends throughout the Prairie Messenger’s and godparents renew the vows of They are required throughout olic Church as the only institution their own baptism in rejecting sin life, he said, and “the presence of capable of challenging them, so long life. and professing faith in Jesus. the Holy Spirit will give you the they’ve sought to weaken it by pil - “Either you are with God or with strength to fight well” against evil lorying us and financially backing “I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my the devil,” the pope said, which is and temptation. other confessions,” he charged. why the renunciation of sin and the Whenever people bless them - The church’s Justice and Peace prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your profession of faith are “two acts selves with holy water, he said, Commission has levelled corrup - partnership in the Gospel from the first day until now, being tightly connected to each other.” they should recall with joy and tion allegations against the gov - confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will One must break with the past gratitude the gift they received on ernment of President Denis Sassou carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. and its sinful attachments, “leav - the day of their baptism and they Nguesso, who was last re-elected — Philippians 1:3-6 ing them behind in order to ask for the grace to persevere and in 2016 and has rejected embez - embark on the new way, which is live “immersed” in God’s love. zlement investigations as “racist” May 9, 2018 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 Support not adequate for post-abortive women

By anne-marie Hughes was safe to talk to a pastor, and over of the subject out of compassion watched that journey and was com - especially women’s groups. This half had never shared their experi - and concern that it might cause fortable speaking about abortion in study revealed that even women NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. — ence with anyone. more suffering and shame, the his church, a pastor who had asked involved in their churches weren’t “When I read that 73 per cent of “It highlighted that the church silence can have a damaging effect. the question, “How do I get help talking about the abortion.” church-going women who experi - was not a place where women felt The Healing Conversations speaking about this?” and then The hope is that the video and enced abortion were not sure if for - they could find healing, freedom book let describes one woman’s ex - address pastors watching the video.’ the booklet will be seen by 2,000 giveness applied to them, I could - and forgiveness in Christ,” said perience, voicing what many feel: In the video, Pastor Paul pastors and church leaders, with n’t get it out of my mind,” says Dr. Lewis, “and that needed to be “Does my abortion on a scale of all Martin from Grace Fellowship the potential to impact 40,000 Laura Lewis, executive director of addressed.” other sins, rank so despicably high Church in Toronto speaks about post-abortive women in Canada. the Canadian Asso cia tion of Preg- While many would like to be - that, though forgivable, cannot be the need to assume that, within The booklet includes more nancy Support Services (CAPSS). lieve that the experience of going to mentioned, not at the pulpit, not every congregation, there are practical suggestions. Sermon top - church regularly would give post- with prayer partners, not ever . . . women who have had abortions. ics are outlined, with Scripture ref - abortive women confidence in not anywhere? Let me tell you that The statistics bear this out. erences, and there are recommen - receiving support and healing from is a very lonely place to be.” “When you speak about this dations for talking to women who their congregation, the study found Lewis explained that in making issue, you need to speak in the have experienced an abortion. that that was not their experience. the video it was important to have tone and compassion that repre - Reaching this number of women Both post-abortive churchgoers and a story for people to relate to. “We sents that she is sitting there in can ripple through their wider cir - non-churchgoers reported that they filmed a story of a woman who front of you.” What was helpful to cle. Often those close to them, like expected or had received judgmen - was suffering, even though she Martin was making connections friends who may have driven them tal or condemning reactions equally. went to church.” with his local Pregnancy Care to the appointment, the father of Regular churchgoers were no more In the video, she describes Centre and asking for advice about the child, mothers, fathers and confident that they wouldn’t be con - learning Bible verses and hearing how to talk about these issues. entire families may have been demned, and over 57 per cent had about Jesus’ love, but somehow it Lewis sees using Healing affected in one way or another and told no one at their church about didn’t seem to take hold, she did - Conversations in the larger church carry burdens of their own. their abortion. n’t really en counter it. “It wasn’t community as a needed resource. Lewis sees a time when wom - “We heard that pastors didn’t until she made a connection with “People need to be aware that, en who have experienced abortion really know how to speak about the local preg nancy centre that with one in four women being and healing will become more abortion from the pulpit. They things changed and she started her affected by abortion, they are in vocal. “Some women who have would see people shutting down journey.” the room. Creating a safe place for felt healing and freedom are ready Anne-Marie Hughes when they brought it up,” Lewis The video cuts between the story women to share their secret and to speak about it. It will be these Dr. Laura Lewis, mD explained. “They knew it was a and a pastor who speaks about the speak about things they may feel a women who know whole freedom hard topic, so they would avoid it. issue from his point of view. “We lot of shame about, would be very and forgiveness that will bring a Speaking at the national CAPSS At CAPSS we realized we had wanted to have a pastor who had relevant to any church group, change in the culture.” conference held April 17 - 20 in more practical experience with Niagara Falls, Lewis talked about post-abortive women and maybe how this realization became the we could share those insights.” Church is listening to what youth want impetus for a new mission that she Out of this need for change hopes will reach some 2,000 pas - came the Healing Conversations By agnieszka Krawczynski “Very often I hear: ‘Oh, the ginning of a new movement in the tors across Canada. video and booklet. The video The B.C. Catholic young people of today, they are church that takes its youth seriously. The statistic identified came begins with the statistics in order different.’ Of course they are dif - “They don’t listen to the elders from a 2015 Care Net survey of to show people the extent to VANCOUVER (CCN) — ferent! And some will even say: because they don’t see the elders 1,000 church-attending women. The which women view abortion as Young people are not the future of ‘The lost generation.’ Are they listening to them,” he said. study asked a series of questions of different than other sins. the church. According to Cardinal lost? Or have we lost them?” “I believe the process of this 1,000 post-abortive wom en about “We highlight for pastors that Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, they Tagle, a bishop since 2001, said synod is what we want to do daily, how they felt about their local abortion is the same as other sins,” are the present. he has learned many things from not just during the synod. Can we church. Not only did the survey find says Lewis, “and that if it’s ap - “The youth are a barometer for young people. “They’re not a listen to one another? When the that three-quarters of the women felt proached in a balanced way, it can many things about the present cul - ‘problem.’ They have a lot of re- young people know they are lis - forgiveness might not apply to them, be talked about from the pulpit.” ture,” he told The B.C. Catholic dur - sources for the good of society and tened to, maybe they will to the but that 57 per cent weren’t sure if it While many clergy steer clear ing his March visit to Van couver. the church, if only we can tap into elders.” “I learned this from business them and give them the space to So, what do young people want people and those in advertising. If share the good that is in them.” from the church? A pre-synod meet - they want to sell a product, or if they In preparation for the synod in ing in Rome with several bishops are thinking of what new product to October, extensive consultations and 300 young people (with anoth - manufacture and how to package it, with young people have been held er 15,000 tuning in online) March BOSCO FOUNDATION they always turn to the youth.” across the globe. At the synod it- 19 - 24 came up with some interest - John Bosco He said as Rome gears up for a self, representatives from around ing answers. Child & Family Services Foundation Synod on Youth and Vocational the world will present the results of “Today’s young people are Discernment this fall, the church these discussions to Pope Francis longing for an authentic church,” The John Bosco Child and Family Services Foundation (Bosco would do well to listen to its and others. Foundation) is a public foundation dedicated to the provision of younger members, too. 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By michael Swan The two sides have committed to But South Koreans are not on the Korean peninsula, in Nigeria tinuously prayed for this issue of The Catholic Register negotiations that would include naive about the negotiating tactics and in Syria. Prior to the dramatic peace for several decades. For the United States and China in or the ambitions of North Korea’s April 27 meeting between South my congregation, I put this agen - Koreans are ready for peace, order to officially end the 1950 - iron-fisted regime, said Rev. Korean president Moon Jae-In and da of the border summit on the reconciliation and unification, but 53 Korean war. Young-Suck Simon Moon, a per - North Korea’s Kim Jung Un, the church bulletin for April. We those hopes are riding on what “It is such a great moment in manent deacon at St. Agnes Kim pope urged “transparent dialogue.” have prayed together during the happens next between North Korean history,” Presbyterian pas - Korean Parish in Coquitlam, B.C. In words reminiscent of Pope public worship services.” Korea’s Kim Jung Un and U.S. tor and ecumenical theologian Before his retirement in 2016, Paul VI, Pope Francis urged the In the North, where Moon has President Donald Trump, Christian Rev. Kwang Sun wrote in an Moon chaired the department of Korean leaders to “have the cour - visited several times with official experts on Korea have told The email from Seoul. international relations in South age that comes from hope, becom - South Korean delegations, prayers Catholic Register . “Without meeting, dialogue Korea’s Kangnam University and ing ‘artisans’ of peace.” for peace are drowned out by the Leaders of North and South and friendship, how do you make founded the Cana dian Studies pro - Even if Koreans are now talk - Kim regime’s constant presence in Korea moved toward reconcilia - a further step to build up peace on gram at the university. He still ing, much rests on what happens every aspect of daily life. tion April 27 when they signed a the Korean peninsula?” he asked. serves as vice-president of the when Trump is added to the mix, “North Korea is entirely a po- declaration to work toward “per - “Meet ing is the first step toward Society of Catholic Theology and said Moon. lice state and people were strug - manent” peace and “complete de- national unity, which is the final Thought in Ko rea and has been a “It is impossible to overestimate gling for food,” Moon said “North nuclearization” on the peninsula. goal.” member of South Korea’s special the suspicion that exists between Korea’s Stalinist system is based ad visory committee North Korea and the U.S. 70 years on total devotion of the individual for the Min is try of after the end of the Korean War,” to an ideology. . . . Many outsiders Unificat ion. Moon wrote in an email. “There’s say the ideology largely resembles “North Korea a real chance Trump could be a religion or cult and refugees’ has used diplomat - walking into a massive trap. accounts say those who oppose it ic coercion and Trump’s own inexperience in high- are dealt with severely, often end - brinkmanship, stakes diplomatic negotiations ing up in prison camps.” twinned with offers increases the size of his gamble.” Moon believes the best hope for of talks and de - For Christians in South Korea a productive dialogue between Kim mands for conces - the prospect of a peace treaty and and Trump may be in Pope Francis’ sions to cheat their eventual reunification is exciting April 29 suggestion that a third way to a nuclear ar - but challenging, said Sun. country should mediate be tween senal,” said Moon. “The denuclearization process them. Canada has had official diplo - Pope Francis, is more complicated, since anoth - matic ties with North Korea since calling the dialogue er important key is held in the 2001, though it has not yet estab - between the nations hands of Mr. Trump,” he said. lished an embassy in Pyongyang. a “cour ageous com - The large Christian minority Religion is not irrelevant to the mitment,” has asked (more than 40 per cent of the popu - peace and denuclearization pro - Catholics world - lation in South Korea, but a perse - cess, said Moon. wide to join him in cuted and vanishing presence in the “When Mr. Moon Jae-In was praying a rosary for North) has often been a force for elected to be president of South Grandin Media/Lincoln Ho peace during the peace and reconciliation, said Sun. Korea in May 2017, I proposed to inSTaLLaTiOn maSS — Bishop Gregory Bittman blesses onlookers during his month of May, par - “A voice of peace undercut by president-elect Moon’s camp they installation mass in Kelowna. ticularly for peace church divisions,” is how Sun de- send a special envoy to deliver his scribes South Korea’s Christians. personal greetings to Pope Francis,” “Conservative Christians, either he said. Bittman installed as bishop of Nelson Catholic or Protestant, reveal their “Mr. Moon is a practising Cath - negative response to the peace olic and he accepted my idea and By andrew Ehrkamp and his salvation, “to all the peoples of Among the bishops from across process in Korea. On the other hand, named Archbishop Kim Hee- Lincoln Ho the world to the very ends of the Canada who attended the installa - many Christians hope to establish a Joong as a special envoy to deliver Grandin media world.” tion were Cardinal Thomas peaceful and united Korea. the new South Korean govern - “St. Mark, and all of the evan - Collins, Archbishop Richard Smith “The river of peace is flowing ment’s active intention to strength - KELOWNA, B.C. (CCN) — gelists who follow after the Apos - and we Koreans will praise God. en their co-operation for peace and Following the example of St. Mark, tles, show us that Jesus’ words to — FiRST naTiOnS , page 5 . . . The Korean church has con - security of the Korean peninsula.” Catholics are called to be evangel - evangelize were not lost on them. ists, spreading the Gospel in their Nor can they be with us,” Bittman individual way even in a society told his new diocese of nearly increasingly hostile to faith, says 80,000 Catholics. Bishop Gregory Bittman. Bittman continued to state that “As Pope Francis said, true evangelization was — and still is evangelization takes place under — key to the future of the church. the action of the Holy Spirit,” “Just think . . . had the Apostles As we say goodbye to the Prairie Messenger with sadness, we look Bittman said in his installation kept to themselves or restricted cere mony April 25 as the new shep - the Good News to a select few, or to the future with hope. The Catholic Dioceses and Eparchy in herd of the Diocese of Nelson, B.C. adopted the attitude of indiffer - An Invitation to PM subscribers: “This means as evangelizers, ence and didn’t care about their Saskatchewan are each discerning how they might develop links to we need to listen to the prompt - fellow human beings and did not ensure that local Catholic news, resources, and events can be shared ings of the Holy Spirit and to use proclaim the salvation to be found the gifts that we have been given, in Jesus Christ,’ ” he said. “Would with our faithful. in order to fulfil our mission to there have been a church?” evangelize. This way we can As the Apostles and early dis - introduce the world to Christ and ciples were called to evangelize, As a Prairie Messenger subscriber, if you wish to stay connected bring to everyone you meet, the so is each individual Christian — joy of the Gospel.” despite temptations “to keep through whatever electronic means of communication are developed, Bittman served as Auxiliary quiet, to keep the faith to our - Bishop of Edmonton — his home - selves . . . or to live what could be the Prairie Messenger invites you to submit your name and email town — for nearly six years before called a secret Christian life where his appointment as the new Bishop no one would even know or even address to: [email protected] with the subject heading of Nelson, succeeding Rev. John guess that we are Christian,” Corriveau who is retiring. Bittman said. “followup.” We will email you regarding any future plans. Bittman said his priority is to “Unfortunately the secular world Your information will not be used for any other purposes. get to know the Diocese of Nelson encourages this. It wants faith out of and to have the community get to the public square. It wants the voice know him. of faith to be silenced. Ultimately it Bittman noted in his first hom - wants a faithless, godless world,” he ily, on the feast day of St. Mark, said. that the writer of the Gospel was a “As Christians, whose very “timid evangelist” when com - mis sion is to evangelize, we can - pared to the “fiery and superzeal - not be indifferent to this. Certainly ous” of St. Paul during the early we cannot buy into it or go along days of the church. with it. This goes against the very The Catholic Dioceses and Eparchy of Saskatchewan He said all Christians are words of Jesus in our Gospel. This tasked with a mission in their own goes against the mission of the join in exending our gatit de and asking abundant blessings individual way, to follow in Jesus’ church, which was entrusted to her call to spread the Good News of by Jesus.” on the staff of the Prairie Messenger and the monks at St. Peter’s Abbey. May 9, 2018 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 At rally, students send message of support, peace

By Jean Ko Din opment and Peace. The Catholic Register At the rally representatives from 18 Catholic high schools in TORONTO (CCN) — Eunice the Greater Toronto Area present - Gichuhi and her family came to ed a stack of postcards which con - Canada for more opportunity, but tained signatures of almost 20,000 it didn’t mean that she would for - students. get the community she left In the postcards, which were behind. destined for the prime minister’s Growing up in Kenya, the then office, signatories called for the 11-year-old Gichuhi knew exactly Canadian government to commit what it meant to not have the same to peace-building efforts of opportunities as the boys. She saw women around the world. it in her elders, her neighbours The rally took place just two and even her classmates. days after 10 people died when a So when Gichuhi, attended a van struck pedestrians on the side - student rally April 25 organized walk along a stretch of Yonge by Development and Peace, it Street. In light of this violence, wasn’t just for a social justice Stocking said it was even more cause — it was a personal one. important for students to be pres - She joined more than 500 high ent and visible. school students at Toronto’s Catholic Register/Jean Ko Din “Now more than ever to have a Nathan Phillips Square, asking for STUDEnT pEaCE RaLLY — Eunice Gichuhi shares her poetry at a student peace rally. voice for peace is vital,” he said. more peace-building efforts that “I think it’s great for Toronto to support women around the world. increase in the last federal budget, flame that was originally lit by of you,” said Luke Stocking, see there are young people saying “When you go to school, you students are still concerned that it Pope John Paul (it) ignites a fire rally organizer and Central ‘no’ to the violence that we saw in see that most of the kids are boys is not enough to get us much fur - for peace in each and every one Ontario animator for De vel - our city.” and you’re just like, ‘Why are ther past Canada’s current contri - there not girls in school?’ Or like bution levels of 0.26 per cent,” Campaign should be about memory, not money when you go to the villages and according to a statement by De - you find a lot of the girls are just velopment and Peace. at home cleaning,” said Gichuhi, Inspired by the campaign, Continued from page 1 the land, offered him an honorari - calls for the Canadian government now 17. “The awareness of this Gichuhi performed spoken word um for hiring a caretaker, Luciuk to “use whatever measures neces - oppression is raised at such a poetry she wrote about women When he was working on his said. “All we want to do is acquire sary to provide for the archaeologi - young age that when you come peace builders working with De- master’s degree at Queens, Luciuk the property, restore the cemetery, cal examination, resto ra tion, recon - here (to Canada), all you want to vel opment and Peace around the began to research the internment have a ceremony.” secration and limited ongoing site do is just make changes.” world. in 1978, when he came across “We are not interested in open - visits for commemorative and reli - Since November last year, the “Women at the heart of peace, / people who had been interned. He ing it up to the public, except gious services to the Spirit Lake Canadian Catholic Organization Supporting women is supporting had no idea this had happened. may be one day a year,” he said. internee cemetery, working in col - for Development and Peace — peace, / Without them the world In the mid-1980s, the Ukrain - Near the site the Spirit Lake laboration with the Canadian First Caritas Canada has been running would cease to exist,” Gichuhi ian Canadian Civil Liberties Camp Corporation runs a small World War Intern ment Recognition an education and action campaign said at the rally. Association formed to gain recog - museum near the internment site. Fund, Ukrainian Canadian Civil titled “Women at the Heart of The rally began at the City nition of the internment, based on Luciuk has written the Bishop Liberties Associa tion and Ukrainian Peace.” The campaign calls for the Hall’s Peace Garden where stu - the recognition given to the Japa - of Amos, and Pope Francis asking Canadian Con gress, so hallowing Canadian government to meet the dents reflected on a monument nese who were interned in the for their support in restoring and the victims of Canada’s first nation - United Nations’ goal for wealthy containing the eternal flame Second World War, he said. reconsecrating the Spirit Lake al internment operations. countries to contribute 0.7 per cent which was lit by Pope St. John In 2008, they achieved a settle - cemetery. The e-petition (https://peti - of their gross national income to Paul II from the Memorial for ment that established the Cana - “This is such a simple matter to tions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/ development assistance. Peace in Hiroshima in 1981. dian First World War Recognition solve,” Luciuk said, noting there’s Sign/e-1643) is open until August. “While encouraged by the “I hope that by looking at the Fund, and $10 million of “sym - an endowment fund that can pay for Since it was launched it has gar - bolic redress,” Luciuk said. This the cemetery’s upkeep. The petition nered more than 600 signatures. fund has a formal mandate to Hierarchy should be honest restore internee cemeteries, and has successfully done so in other Reach out to First Nations Continued from page 3 longer seen as the main stream” locations. where people look for the meaning When speaking to a woman Continued from page 4 “It’s beautiful. I’m out in the said a document published on the of life. who had survived the Spirit Lake country again, and it reminds me Vatican’s website after the meet - “We have found that young peo - internment, she told Luciuk, of Edmonton, and Archbishop of when I was a parish priest (in ings. ple want authentic witnesses — “Your campaign should be about Luigi Bonazzi — the papal nuncio rural Alberta). I listen to the birds “We want to say, especially to men and women who vibrantly memory, not money.” to Canada — who brought greet - in the morning. It’s peaceful. I’m the hierarchy of the church, that express their faith and relationship “I want people to remember,” ings from Pope Francis to a crowd looking at the mountains.” they should be a transparent, wel - with Jesus while encouraging oth - she said, telling Luciuk if people which also included First Nations That sense of humour was re - coming, honest, inviting, commu - ers to approach, meet, and fall in had remembered what had hap - elders and leaders. ciprocated, even during the instal - nicative, accessible, joyful, and love with Jesus themselves.” pened to the Ukrainians during the That continuing outreach to the lation ceremony. interactive community.” The B.C. Catholic asked two lo- First World War, the Japanese indigenous community is among “We are looking forward to your It also said young people gravi - cal young adults for their thoughts might not have been interned in the challenges facing Bittman. visit to our parish and our parish tate toward communities they feel on what they’d like to see from the the Second World War. “One big one for me is opening missions,” said Sylvia Jurys, presi - empowered in, which means synod and the Catholic Church. At least 16 bodies are buried at the church evermore to the gifted - dent of the Nelson Diocese churches and families need to work “I’m very thankful that Pope the Spirit Lake cemetery, maybe ness of our First Nations peoples,” Catholic Women’s League of Can- harder to create a sense of belong - Francis has made youth and young 19, Luciuk said. “Some died try - said outgoing Bishop John Corri - ada, who spoke on behalf of the ing and provide good role models. adults a priority and is seeking the ing to escape; others died of work- veau. “It would bring great rich - laity in the diocese. “There is often disagreement help and input of this demograph - related injuries.” Others died in ness to our diocese.” “We hope that you will take time among young people, both within ic,” said Rachel Wong, a communi - the Spanish Influenza epidemic of “He will be a wonderful Bishop to take in the magnificent vistas of the church and in the wider world, cations student at Simon Fraser 1918, so moving the remains to a of Nelson,” added Cardinal Thomas our beautiful province of British about some of her teachings which University. new site would be prohibitively Collins of Toronto. “I was delighted Columbia” through the Kootenays are especially controversial today,” Matthew Furtado, a youth min - expensive. during the time I was Archbishop of into the wine country from the such as contraception, abortion, istry co-ordinator at St. Matthew’s “We thought it would be a sim - Edmonton with the tremendous towns in the south Oka nagan “and homosexuality, cohabitation, mar - Parish in Surrey, was thrilled to see ple matter for landowner to open up work that Bishop Bittman did when their big bold reds to Kelowna riage, and the priesthood. the pre-synod document encourage cemetery to be reconsecrated,” he was chancellor and, of course, as where the pinot noirs are magnifi - “As a result, they may want the young people to use social media to Luciuk said, noting that al most all auxiliary bishop more recently.” cent, and also the char donnay.” church to change her teaching or at evangelize, take a gap year to serve the crosses have now been knocked For now, Bittman said his first Jurys also mentioned that the least to have access to a better in missions, be creative, appreciate over or disappeared. priority is to acclimatize to the 1,500 members of the 23 chapters explanation,” but “even though silent prayer, and share personal He attributed “no malicious in - Diocese of Nelson community, of the Catholic Women’s League there is internal debate, young testimonies. tent” to the farmer, but described both metaphorically and literally in the diocese, “are old enough to Catholics whose convictions are in Furtado and Wong, along with the cemetery as “in the back end — with his signature sense of be your mother and are anxious to conflict with official teaching still several other young adults, partici - of nowhere,” now being overtak - humour. meet you.” desire to be part of the church.” pated in a national youth consulta - en by the boreal forest. “Of course everything is brand She also made a promise to The document also discussed tion hosted by Salt and Light “He’s a farmer, he’s not inter - new. I feel totally lost. I don’t Bittman, known for his penchant the challenges facing young people Television Oct. 10, 2017. ested in maintaining a cemetery,” know my way around. I’ve been for candy. and their use of technology and More information about the syn - Luciuk said. using Google Maps constantly just “You know that infamous can - social media, as well as the grow - od coming up this October is avail - They approached the farmer to find a store,” Bittman joked in dy bowl? We assure you that it ing sense that religion is “no able at http://www.synod2018.va several times, offering to pay for an interview. will always be full.” 6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS May 9, 2018 Evangelization the task of missionary disciples

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski tor at St. Anne’s Parish. “When we A range of speakers was fea - the reality of Christ. them, to give them the patience leave our churches on Sunday, we tured, including one local voice, “Authentic love must guide and grace that they need to become SASKATOON — St. Anne are going into mission territory.” Christy Dupuis, who provides every effort of evangelization,” who God is asking them to be.” Catholic Church was the Saska- With the parish’s eucharistic pastoral ministry at Immaculate said Dupuis, “not guilt or judg - When it comes to evangeliza - toon host site for a New Evan - chapel open for adoration and the Heart of Mary Parish in Martens- ment or fear. Love is going to be tion, she said, “We need to rely on gelization Summit (NES) broad - Paschal candle at the front of the ville, Sask. the doorway for conversion.” the Holy Spirit. Get up and root cast from Ottawa to gatherings room, the local site offered prayer Drawing on her experience with Building a relationship, trusting yourselves in the Scriptures. Pray. across Canada and around the times as well as praise and wor - Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO), and being open with each other are We cannot do this work without it.” world. ship, displays, a table of resources a university evangelization move - needed, she said. “As missionaries It’s not enough to sit and talk NES speakers April 27 and 28 for sale by Universal Church ment founded at the Uni versity of we need to spend a lot of time lis - about evangelization, Dupuis addressed the meaning and chal - Supplies, child care, and opportu - Saskatchewan, Dupuis shared her tening, understanding the people said, but we need to “push the lenges of the New Evangelization nities for small group discussion. own conversion experience and we are getting to know.” ignition switch,” and be persist - and the call of the baptized to be “The theme of the New Evan - what she has learned about being a Dupuis said that evangelization ent, and actually do the work of an missionary disciples. Participants gelization Summit — the three val - missionary over the years. should be undertaken one person at evangelist. “Do not be afraid to heard how the New Evange liza - ues — that we bring to the table She stressed the power of per - a time, as a journey of accompani - pour yourself out in service so that tion is about proclaiming the each year are to inspire, to form, sonal testimony. “Our stories are ment: “We need to be willing to others may receive the fullness of Gospel and introducing Christ and and to connect,” Pettipas told the one of the most powerful tools walk with them, to encourage who they are called to be.” his saving mission in a modern crowd. “Let us be open to inspira - that we have as missionaries,” she world where even the baptized are tion from the Holy Spirit, to our said. “More than anything, people Remai establishes bursaries not necessarily evangelized. speakers, and be open to changing need to hear an authentic witness, “Our baptismal call is to be our mindset and our perspective. an authentic telling of God’s pres - missionary disciples,” said Daniel We want you to feel part of some - ence in our lives. Your stories at St. Thomas More College Pettipas, evangelization co-ordina - thing bigger than yourself.” have the power to communicate By Karen massett

St. Peter’s reaches for new goals SASKATOON — Through a pledge of $30,000, Henry Remai By paul paproski, OSB has established two new STM bur - saries and contributed to an en- MUENSTER, Sask. — Stu - dowed chair at the Catholic college dents who spend time reading in at the University of Saskatche wan. St. Peter’s College (SPC) library With annual tuition and fees for now have a more pleasant atmos - Arts and Sciences students ap - phere for their work, according to proaching $6,000, these new bur - SPC president Robert Harasym - saries will provide funding for chuk. The library has nine stained deserving recipients. glass windows that incorporate The Henry Remai Emergency themes important to Benedictine Student Bursary of $2,000 will education. The windows were provide funding for students who funded by benefactors and are part are in acute need of financial sup - of an ongoing effort by the college port and are at risk of withdrawing administration to offer quality from university as a result. STM education amidst a welcoming The Henry Remai Aboriginal Henry Remai atmosphere, he said. Student Bursary will provide one to Plans are underway to find Paul Paproski, OSB four bursaries ranging from $1,000 tion of indigenous spirituality and advance reconciliation. sponsors to place six stained glass LiBRaRY WinDOWS — new stained glass windows in St. peter’s to $4,000 to Aboriginal students. Remai attended elementary and windows in the hallway outside College library have themes important to Benedictine education. The Recognizing the value of providing support to first-year students at high school in Carrot River, Sask., the library. The stained glass will windows are part of an ongoing effort by the college to improve the STM, preference will be given to and subsequently earned his BA bring more beauty to the walkway learning atmosphere for students. Themes of the nine stained glass win - continuing students who have par - and BEd degrees at the University that connects the college to St. dows include: love, prayer, stewardship, stability, conversion, obedi - ticipated as a mentor in programs of Saskatchewan. He went on to Peter’s Abbey guest wing and stu - ence, discipline, humility and community. dent residence. The college is for new Aboriginal students. receive a master’s degree in educa - already an impressive facility and program offers a large selection of right combination of courses and Remai has also provided fund - tion from the University of Alberta. the administration is always striv - writing and language classes, supports for academic and person - ing for the STM Endowed Chair in Remai’s career teaching mathe - ing to make it even more beauti - Harasymchuk remarked. The ma - al success,” Harasymchuk com - Indigenous Spirituality and Recon- matics at Holy Cross High School ful, he remarked. terial prepares students for a mented. ciliation. This chair was established spanned 26 years. In recognition of “It has already been 10 years career in writing and publishing, “We will be exploring some in 2016 by an initial endowment his dedication to students and his since the college facilities were and it enables them to pursue a exciting projects for the coming from the Basilian Fathers who contributions to mathematics edu - extensively renovated, with a $16- four-year degree program at the years that will help us reduce our founded St. Thomas More College. cation, he was awarded the Prime million investment in upgrading University of Saskatchewan. dependence on traditional energy Remai’s support will encourage Minister’s Award for Teach ing Ex - Michael Hall (the college build - The Student Services offices sources and launch some innova - and foster awareness and apprecia - cellence in the area of Mathe ma- ing), the SportsPlex fitness centre provide assistance in meeting the tive new programs.” tics, and the Master and gym. We have state-of-the-art demands of course work and St. Peter’s College (Michael Teaching Award from science labs, comfortable student applying for more than $70,000 Hall) was built in 1921 when the Sas katchewan lounges and study rooms, wi-fi worth of SPC scholarships. Stu - Abbot Michael Ott, OSB, was the Mathe ma tics Society. throughout the buildings and great dent Services personnel help plan leader of the Benedictine commu - “I have very fond residences,” Harasymchuk com - events for students throughout the nity. The building was named in memories of the time I mented. year, and are responsible, as well, honour of Abbot Michael who ini - spent at St. Thomas Students have access to a cur - for promoting SPC to communi - tiated the construction of the col - More,” says Remai. riculum that offers a large variety of ties across the province. The stu - lege. Michael Hall became a resi - “The positive Catho lic courses that complete most first- dent recruitment staff will be dential high school just after it environment was very year requirements for arts and sci - expanded this fall — from two opened in November of 1921. supporting for a kid ence, business, education, engineer - positions to three, he said. High school students lived in a from rural Sas katch - ing and a large number of profes - The work of Student Services dormitory on the top floor. ewan. My most fervent sional programs at the Uni versity of has helped increase enrolment The building served as a wish is that stu dents Saskatchewan. New classes have over the past several years, in monastery for the monks who Kiply Yaworski will avail themselves been offered recently, in the Cree which more than 130 full- and lived on the third floor. They gath - SaCRamEnTaL pREpaRaTiOn — Dr. of the many resources language ( nêhiyawêwin }, religious part-time students have registered ered for prayer in their chapel at Debbie Zeni, mD, was one of the leaders of a of fered at STM. The studies, computer science, and writ - for classes each year. The college the south end of the third floor. sacramental preparation workshop for cate - fellowship there can ing. Student grades appear on is anticipating enrolment to con - The other floors were reserved for chists, parents and parish leaders held april 21 lead to lifelong friend - University of Saskatchewan tran - tinue to be strong. Recruitment offices and classrooms. Everyone at St. Francis Xavier parish in Saskatoon. ships.” scripts because SPC is an affiliate of staff are promoting the college to ate in dining rooms on the bottom Offered in conjunction with the Catechesis of STM is grateful for the university. a larger audience and plans are floor. the Good Shepherd association of Canada this gift from an alum - The average class size at SPC underway to offer a greater vari - In 1926, the college became (CGS), the workshop led by Zeni and Carolyne nus and proud to rec - is smaller than at the larger uni - ety of courses. affiliated with the University of marie petch offered insights into preparing chil - ognize the support versity, which means the student- “The college is always consult - Saskatchewan. In 1968, it was dren for the celebration of the sacraments of from an accomplished teacher ratio is lower, giving stu - ing with our alumni, donors, stu - registered as a corporate body. reconciliation, confirmation and first eucharist. educator whose contri - dents greater access to professors, dents, the Order of St. Benedict The 46,000-square-foot infra - The two leaders also offered an april 22 - 27 butions to students, the he said. The average class size and the larger community to better structure was renovated between training session in Saskatoon for Level 1 (ages 3 community and the may have 15 - 18 students in the understand the needs of our current 2008 and 2012. The new fitness to 6 years) CGS catechists. There are currently province reflect the first year. and future learners. This helps to centre opened to students and staff three GSC atriums offering catechesis to young values STM hopes to A two-year Writing Diploma ensure we are always offering the in 2010. children in the Diocese of Saskatoon. instil in its students. May 9, 2018 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 7 Holocaust ‘began with words’: survivor

By Frank Flegel two brothers in happier times. His Chief Commissioner of the Sas - him removed from a gurney that two brothers, his parents and his katchewan Human Rights Com - was likely taking him to the gas REGINA — It was so quiet you grandparents did not survive. mis sion, David Arnott, spoke prior chambers. could hear a pin drop as Holo caust Eisen also showed photos of to Eisen’s presentation, telling the “The standing rule at the camp survivor Max Eisen told his per - the walking skeletons who were students that words matter. He also was, if you could not walk away sonal story to 1,200 students from barely alive when they were liber - told the students that Saskatch e- from the hospital after three days’ three school divisions bussed to ated by Allied forces. There were wan’s Human Rights Commission treatment, you were taken to the Resurrection Church April 26 to also photos of piles of bodies and and all Human Rights Com mis- gas chamber,” said Eisen. “The hear Eisen tell of his experiences. Nazi soldiers with rifles pointed at sions as well as the United Nations Hungarian doctor had me taken The event was hosted by the Jewish prisoners. Declaration on Human Rights off the stretcher and gave me the Regina Catholic School Division, “All of this began with words,” were all the result of the Holocaust, job of keeping his operating room who invited students from Regina Eisen said. “The Nazi propaganda and were all efforts to prevent any - clean.” Public and Prairie Valley school machine was very efficient. It de- thing like the Holocaust from hap - Eisen told the students, “Before divisions to sit in on the presenta - humanized Jews, took their prop - pening again. Anti-Semitism still he was taken to the gas chambers, tion. erty, their belongings, and all their exists in Canada, he told the stu - my father told me if I survived I The Prairie Messenger inter - possessions. They told us we were dents, noting there were 1,700 doc - was to tell the world what hap - viewed several students after the going to work on farms, but it all umented incidents last year. pened here.” presentation and asked what they ended like this,” he said, showing The Regina Catholic School Auschwitz was eventually lib - knew about the Holocaust. Some a photo on the projection screen of Division has developed a curricu - erated by an American army unit. Frank Flegel had heard a little about it but were conditions in the Auschwitz death lum on the Holocaust which next Eisen came to Canada in 1949. max Eisen shocked when they heard Eisen camp. year will include visits to the Ger - He has been speaking about the describing his personal experiences. “It all began with words,” he man and Polish concentration and Holocaust for the past 29 years. Warman. He came to Regina at the “I didn’t know it was so bru - repeated. “Bad things happen death camps. His book, By Chance Alone , de - invitation of Domenic Scuglia, tal,” said one, and her friend nod - when good people do nothing.” Eisen credited a Hungarian tails his life and Holocaust experi - director of education for the Re gina ded in agreement. He urged his audience to be up - doc tor in Auschwitz for saving his ences. Eisen has made speaking Catholic School Division. Contact The Holocaust story is familiar standers, and not bystanders. life. Eisen had suffered a brutal about the Holocaust his personal was made through the Simon to most adults, but it became per - “You have freedom in Canada, but beating to his head from a gun mission so that nothing like it ever Wiesenthal Centre in Toronto. sonal to the students when Eisen freedom comes with responsibili - butt wielded by a guard. The doc - happens again. While he was in Regina, Eisen showed photos of himself with his ty.” tor operated on him and later had Eisen was in Saskatche wan to took part in a Yom HaShoah Holo - speak to the Saskatchewan Police caust memorial service at Beth CWL diocesan convention held Chiefs Association meeting in Jacob Synagogue.

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski Regina diocesan president Mar - as a social worker as well as her Christ spoke to each of us i lyn Schuck and Prince Albert current law practice. KINDERSLEY, Sask. — The diocesan president Shirley La mou - Offering insights recorded in By Kiply Lukan Yaworski not a pious story, it is not a myth. 83rd annual Saskatoon Diocesan reux also brought greetings. Sas - her book Everyday Grace: Find ing Christianity begins with radically Convention of the Catholic Wom - ka toon diocesan president Van - Your Extraordinary in Ordi nary SASKATOON — New Evan - transformed lives, in a place you en’s League (CWL) was held Dresar and CWL provincial pres - Events , Carlson urged her listeners ge lization Summit speaker George can go to today.” It is “to under - April 23 at St. Joseph Parish in id ent Margaret Schwab each pro - to be present, to be open and to be Weigel examined the origin of the stand again, that, like those trans - Kindersley, with 196 attending the vided a report to delegates. positive. This conscious effort pro - New Evangelization in the unfold - formed lives of 2,000 years ago, daylong event. VanDresar described a number vides a way to be attentive to the ing of church history: “I think we we are called by our encounter of initiatives undertaken during the workings of grace, and to keeping are living in an extraordinarily with the risen Christ to offer his past year, including a CWL work - God in the forefront. “We must put privileged moment in the 2,000- friendship to the world.” shop held in five locations across things in perspective, the good and year history of the church,” he The transformation of the the diocese, and news about an - the bad,” she said. “We must main - said. church of the Counter-Reforma tion niversary milestones for various tain our heavenly focus.” Speaking at the Ottawa event into the church of the New Evan - councils. Concluding her term as A number of standing commit - broadcast to host sites around the gelization has come “just in time,” dio ce san president, VanDresar tees delivered reports, covering world, the theologian, author, and added Weigel. While the church of urged members to “step out of your such areas as organization, spiritual biographer of Pope John Paul ll the Counter-Reformation could comfort zone. It is truly amazing development, Christian family life, pointed to this as one of the mo - count on the surrounding culture to how each of us can affect our coun - community life, communications, ments in history when the Catholic help pass along the faith, “we now cils and our community for the bet - health and education, and the oper - faith is taking on “a new expres - know that is no longer the case. ter, if we just have the courage, like ations of the CWL Cloth ing Depot. sion in order to meet the chal - The cultural air we breathe not only Mary, to say yes.” A motion calling for every lenges of being the pilgrim people does not help transmit the faith, it is Schwab reminded members of CWL council in the Roman Cath - of God in a given age.” toxic.” the upcoming provincial conven - o lic Diocese of Saskatoon to write The latest challenge for the pil - “To be the church of the New tion June 3 - 4 in Regina, and the letters to government expressing grim church is to be the church of Evangelization is going to mean, national CWL convention to be concerns about the legalization of the New Evangelization, he said. for all the people of the Church, a held in Winnipeg in August. marijuana and the minimum age The movement has its roots in the deepened friendship with the Lord Kiply Yaworski Former national CWL president of consumption was also passed. election of Pope Leo XIII in 1878, Jesus, through regular immersion Carla Carlson Barb Dowding led a strategic plan - As the business portion of the which marked the beginning of in the Word of God, a more fre - ning workshop, gathering feedback convention drew to a close, dioce - “the church’s great project of not quent encounter with the sacra - Parish delegates, spiritual advi - about a national effort to chart goals san spiritual adviser Claire Heron conceding to the modern world ments, and, above all, by owning sors, provincial and national lead - and concrete steps for the Catholic spoke on behalf of the CWL spiri - and not rejecting the modern our baptism.” ers, and a number of special guests Women’s League at every level. tual advisers in attendance, and a world, but seeking to convert the Another challenge Weigel pre - participated in the convention, Rev. Emmanuel Mbah gave a lively group of organizers invited modern world,” said Weigel. sented to NES participants was to which included the election of a brief presentation about his new members to next year’s diocesan Efforts undertaken under Pope grow in self-awareness, and rec - new executive, discussion of a pro - book, Living in Dominion . Mbah CWL convention to be held in Leo Xlll ultimately led to an ognize that we must respond to the posed national strategic plan, guest described how the idea for the Watson on May 11, 2019. explosion of Catholic intellectual mission field that exists all around speakers, and committee reports, book began several years ago when A new diocesan CWL execu - life, Scripture study, the develop - us. as well as mass with Bishop Mark his home diocese in Nigeria chose tive was elected to conclude the ment of Catholic Social Teaching, “Missionary territory today is Hagemoen and a number of priests “living in dominion” as its annual convention, and members were and eventually the Second Vatican your kitchen table. It is your from across the diocese. A banquet theme, based on the passage from commissioned and blessed by the Council, which was launched by neighbourhood association. It is concluded the event. Genesis in which God gives Adam bishop at the celebration of the Pope John XXIII in 1958 and your workplace. It is your life as a The convention theme was and Eve dominion over the earth, eucharist. completed by Pope Paul VI. citizen. It is your life as a con - “Inspired by the Spirit, Women calling on them to nurture creation The new executive includes “Vatican ll was intended to be a sumer. All these are arenas of mis - Respond to God’s Call.” and to live in balance. President Ingrid Eggerman of Wat - great missionary council.” sionary activity.” MC Paula Haubrich opened the “After some months in Canada, son; Past-President Marlene Van- Weigel described a number of The words of Christ to “go and day with words of welcome, and I discovered that what I am trying Dresar; President-Elect Edna ways how, under the leadership of make disciples” were spoken to outgoing Saskatoon Diocesan to address cuts across cultures,” Hodgson of Bruno; Recording Pope John Paul II, the Vatican ll each of us on the day of our bap - CWL president Marlene VanDresar he said. “This book is about inte - Secretary Margot de la Gorgen - understanding of the church as “a tism, Weigel stressed: “We are be - called the meeting to order. gration. This is what Living in diere of Holy Family, Saskatoon; communion of disciples in mis - ing called to be part of the birthing Darlene Possberg, chair of the Dominion is all about: striking a and Treasurer Connie Chrichton of sion” became clearer. of the church of the New Evange - spiritual development committee, balance.” St. Mary, Saskatoon; as well as He reflected on John Paul ll’s lization, which is the church of the led morning prayer. A number of Guest speaker Carla Carlson of committee chairs Audrey Zim mer- trip to the Holy Land at the dawn apostles. If we can own that mis - special guests brought greetings, Swift Current, Sask., shared expe - man of Englefeld; Mary Kehrig of of the third millennium: “He was sionary discipleship, we will not including Rev. Emmanuel Azike, riences from her life and career Holy Family, Saskatoon; June in effect picking up the entire only embody what we were called OP, pastor of St. Joseph Parish, as that demonstrated how “everyday Gorgchuck of St. Peter the Apostle, Catholic Church . . . and taking us to be at our baptism, we may begin, well as representatives of local gov - grace” breaks through in ordinary Saskatoon; Wendy De Sa of St. to the places of salvation history, in converting others, to convert this ernment, the Knights of Co lum bus encounters of life — offering sto - Patrick, Saskatoon; and Paula so that we could touch and feel culture, and give the nations a new and the ecumenical community. ries and examples from her work Haubrich of Kindersley. and see the fact that Christianity is gift of freedom. 8 Prairie Messenger May 9, 2018 May 9, 2018 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 9 On the lines: parish assistants are unsung heroes

By Jean Ko Din once Father Dan came, I got more Tess and Marga Bondoc are a The Catholic Register responsibilities,” said Kelly. mother-daughter team at Holy In May, St. Joan of Arc is cele - Family Parish in Whitby, Ont. It was an otherwise quiet brating its 100th year anniversary Tess, 50, was hired in 2010. It was Wednes day morning when a and the parish is as busy as ever. her first job after immigrating to woman walked into the parish “It allows me to be relaxed Canada from the Philippines. office of St. Joan of Arc in Toronto. knowing that (Kelly) knows the But even if it wasn’t her job, She was in tears. daily adminis-trivia that I don’t Tess said she would still be doing She was looking to meet with a have to concentrate on because I the same thing. priest but the parish secretary, can depend on the fact that she “Even back in the Philippines, I Rosanne Kelly, was the only one knows what she’s doing and she was involved in the church. I was working in the office that day. The stays on top of these things,” said involved in baptismal preparation pastor was away on retreat and the Callahan. “And I can come and go, class, marriage prep classes . . . associate pastor was visiting a knowing that she’ll take care of I’ve done all of that back home so local nursing home. this.” coming here, it wasn’t difficult for For Kelly, it me to transition in this church,” is a 24/7 job. Tess said. She often finds Moving to a new country is a herself work - difficult transition, but Tess said ing well out - she and her family of five found side her office comfort in belonging to the parish hours, but she community. doesn’t mind. “For me, it’s being a part of a

The church is family. It’s to belong. It’s being a Photo courtesy Peter Leitmann like a second part of something that’s bigger home to her. than myself and I can only see this peter Leitmann with St. Boniface pastor Rev. mark Robson. “I live only in a church.” about 15 min - Tess is now passing on her love tary to office manager. “That happens quite often, utes away from for parish life to her oldest child, “It’s just a change of title, I especially on the phone. Someone the church so 22-year-old daughter Marga. don’t really call myself that,” she calls in and I get called ‘Father’ it’s easy for me When Tess is away from the office said. “Everyone calls me the parish right away and well, I’m a father of to come any - running workshops and attending secretary and I don’t mind.” three young children, but I’m not a time,” she said. seminars, Marga is hired part-time Outside of her full-time duties, Father of the people.” “If Father (Cal - as the receptionist. Tess volunteers as a lector, a cate - Leitmann’s official title is la han) is away “It’s important to us that people chist for communion classes and a parish animator. This means that for the week - feel valued and important so there member of the parish council. on top of his regular office work as end, I’d come is always someone at the front secretary, he manages the various down early in when the church is open,” said Stephanie Nargoz, director of programs and events that take the morning to Tess. Human Resources at the Arch - place in the parish. Leitmann has a open up the On a daily basis, Tess has to diocese of Toronto, said the role of background in youth ministry, so church for the deal with unusual requests from the parish secretary has changed one of his main initiatives has been 8:30 mass and I the priests, parishioners and some - dramatically even in the span of to grow the EDGE and LifeTeen might come times, passersby. One of the more five years, let alone two or three programs for elementary and high down late at unusual but common requests is decades. Many have seen their school students. Photo courtesy Tess Bondoc night to close when people come into the office roles evolve. Laura Cumming, who is the Tess and marga Bondoc form a mother-daughter the church.” with their old statues, crosses and “Technology is a big one,” said human resources director for the team at Holy Family in Whitby, Ont. Having other sacramentals. Nargoz. “There has been a shift Archdiocese of Winnipeg, said she Kelly is inval u - “They would leave it with me, from typewriters and now we have is seeing the same pattern in her “She told me she was having able, said Callahan, because it like bags or boxes of them, because computer technology. There’s a lot diocese’s 67 parishes and 21 mis - difficulties with her son who wasn’t allows him to bring his full atten - they say the items are blessed and of change in the positioning of the sion churches. well and I could relate to it be cause tion to the pastoral care and min - they don’t want to throw them role. The titling has changed. The “I can probably count (the num - I have a son in Vancouver,” said istry around the community. He can away,” said Tess. “They leave it parish secretary title is still there ber of male secretaries) on one Kelly. “As a mother, I talked to her spend his day meeting with parish with me whether I want to take it or but we’re seeing a move to admin - hand,” said Cumming. with similar problems but that’s not groups, going to meetings or visit - not.” istrative assistant or office admin - Both Nargoz and Cumming really church-related. It’s just she ing hospitals and nursing homes. Holy Family parish has accu - istrator.” said they are seeing more men came to the door and needed some - Sometimes, he als o relies on mulated quite a collection, said Even in the past three years as apply for the role in the past few body to listen so I listened.” Kelly when settling disputes at the Tess. As often as they can, she and director, Nargoz said the Human years, but, regardless of the gender, Kelly said moments like these church. pastor Rev. Laszlo Nagy gift the Resources office has put more they see the job as demanding. happen at least once a week at St. “The other thing is the good items to people who need them. emphasis on professional perform - “I think a lot of times, the parish Joan of Arc Church in Toronto. Her cop, bad cop,” said Callahan. “If When Tess is not greeting peo - ance reviews. She uncovered a per - secretaries feel that people don’t job description may say parish sec - she says no, it’s a lot less painful ple, answering phone calls or formance review template from think they do as much as they do retary, but Kelly is sometimes for people than if I say no because checking emails, she is bookkeep - 1985 which listed categories like and these ladies, and the men, called to be a counsellor, a book - I’m expected to say yes all the time ing, scheduling appointments, pro - “neatness” or “dress.” “I know work very hard. Our priests kind of keeper, an event planner or a refer - as the pastor. So I get to always be cessing sacramental documents, there was one person who I chatted keep them on their toes,” said ee. Basically anything the parish the nice guy.” doing the payroll, updating the with that said they couldn’t wear Cumming. needs her to be. “As secretaries, we know when parish website and the parish pants to work when they first start - The typical salary of parish sec - The unsung hero of parish life, to hide the pastors,” Kelly joked. smartphone app. ed,” said Nargoz. “A lot of it retary can range from about the parish secretary — or adminis - “And we don’t let people know Late last year, Tess’s title offi - focused on appearance of the $30,000 to $60,000 a year. The trative assistant as some prefer — that.” cially changed from parish secre - incumbent versus the role itself. So range is based on their hours of is both the face and the drive now, you would see more of a move work, their responsibilities, their behind the church community. to what is the work they are accom - experience and even the size of the Every day, they answer calls, bal - plishing.” parish. ance books, put out fires and make The role of parish secretary is The turnover rate for these sure the flock is looked after. traditionally a female role and for roles are often very low across the Kelly’s pastor and boss, Rev. Dan the most part, it still is. Within the Canadian dioceses. Many see Callahan, jokes that the parish sec - Archdiocese of Toronto, Nargoz their work as more than just a job retary is not a pastor’s sidekick, but said she only knows of two male but a service. They enjoy going more like a partner in crime. secretaries in its 221 parishes. above and beyond the call of duty Kelly has been a member of her One of them, 41-year-old Peter and they often do, which is why parish for 45 years and she has Leitmann, is the only male parish many choose this as a lifetime worked as the parish secretary for secretary who works full time in career. 32 of those years. Her job has the archdiocese. He has been grown from just greeting people working at St. Boniface Parish in Eighty-three-year-old Ida Foch and answering phone calls to han - Scarborough for almost two years, is currently enjoying retirement dling priests’ schedules and taking but sometimes people are still after 37 years as secretary at St. care of the sacristy. She has taken aback when they see a man Mary Immaculate Church in worked with five different pastors in the office. Richmond Hill, Ont. When she and witnessed the parish shift “Sometimes people get kind of was first hired to work part time administration from the Priests of shocked when they come in and they during the Advent season in 1980, the Sacred Heart to the Franciscan Photo courtesy Boots Montano see a man. They’d say, ‘We’re look - she worked with a typewriter and a Friars of the Atonement. ida Foch was given a fond farewell by parishioners after serving St. ing for the secretary’ and I’d say, “The job just kept growing and mary immaculate Church for 37 years. ‘You got him,’ ” Leitmann laughed. — COmpaSSiOn, page 14 10 Prairie Messenger ARTS & CULTURE May 9, 2018 A sendoff highlighting the 17th Tribeca Film Festival

notably Bianca (Noo- mi Rapace) to his side — gave rise to the so- Screenings called “Stock holm syndrome.” Also & Meanings based on actual events, and given that I was staying next to Gerald Schmitz the legendary Chelsea Hotel, I should men - Forget the juggernaut of Aven - Belgium). (Others in less success - tion Ondi Timoner’s gers: Infinity War , my last week - ful films: French actress Léa Sey - Mapplethorpe , about end of April wrapped New York’s doux opposite Ewan McGregor in the controversial pho - Tribeca festival showcasing selec - Drake Doremus’s futurist human/ tographer who died of tions from 46 countries and al most robot tale Zoe , a Canadian co-pro - AIDS and famously 9,000 submissions. Before it start - duction; Alia Shawkat ( Blaze ) in hung out there with ed I also saw Lynne Ramsay’s sav - the lesbian romance Duck Butter ; singer Patti Smith be- age thriller You Were Never Really Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a fore becoming a gay Here , based on the Jona than Ames transgressive standup comic in All icon. (The Chelsea novel. Cannes awarded it best About Nina ; Liv Hill as an ex - was immortalized in a screenplay and best actor to ploited teen in Jellyfish; Mar - Leonard Cohen song Gerald Schmitz Joaquin Phoenix in the role of Joe, guerite Bouchard in the Quebec and is where Sir Ar - SHORT DOCUmEnTaRY aWaRD-WinnER — at Tribeca, a panel discusses the a battled-scarred, haunted charac - teen sex comedy Charlotte a du thur C. Clarke wrote award-winning 22-minute documentary Notes from Dunblane: Lessons from a ter who, while caring for an ailing Fun (Slut in a Good Way ).) 2001: A Space Odys - School Shooting . From left: director Kim a. Snyder; producer maria Cuomo Cole; elderly mother, gets hired to rescue Local hero, writer-director- sey , the classic Ku - msgr. Bob Weiss; Rev. Basil O’Sullivan; parkland shooting student survivor Dylan children from sex rings. He does so actor Edward Burns hits a home brick film of which is Young (as well as Ryan Dietsch, not pictured). with extreme prejudice when a job run with Summertime , set in Long having a 50th anniver - for a well-connected politician pro - Island’s Rockaway Beach circa sary revival at Cannes this month.) Moving to the documentary coverage of the Trump presiden - pels the scenario, with its immer - 1983, sporting a great ensemble of On to the hybrid of docudrama selections, Tribeca premiered the cy. It’s scheduled for broadcast in sive images and soundscapes young actors and a fabulous period with Danish provocateur Mads first episodes of two terrific docu - late May (http://www.sho.com/ (score by Jonny Greenwood) into a soundtrack. The vibe is un - Brügger’s subversive satire The series. Just as the 50th anniversary the-fourth-estate). deeper circle of hell. Dark, disturb - abashedly feel-good with no smok - Saint Bernard Syndicate in which of Rev. Martin Luther King’s Tribeca tuned into the political ing, and unforgettable. ing, drug-taking or f-words . . . school chums Rasmus Bruun and assassination has sparked new moment with introductory video From the festival (check out the miraculous. Frederik Cilius Jørgensen (actual films, Bobby Kennedy for Presi - segments that connected to wom en online guide: https://www.tribe Awarded best international nar - Danish comedians) head to Chong- dent recalls another figure of hope speaking out (https://www.timesup cafilm.com/filmguide), the follow - rative, Marios Piperides’ Smug - qing, China, with a scheme to sell and tragedy. Directed by an Afri - now.com/) and to citizen activism ing highlights a number of dramat - gling Hendrix (Cyprus/Greece/ Saint Bernard dogs to a Chinese can-American woman, Dawn (https://www.rockthevote.org/). In ic and documentary features, sev - Germany) is a great shaggy dog elite that covets pedigree dogs. Porter, the series streaming on that vein, among the feature-length eral shorts, docuseries and a virtu - satire about the misadventures of Having been diagnosed with ALS, Netflix combines archival materi - documentaries is Norah Sha - al reality presentation. Greek Cypriot Yiannis when his Rasmus presses on as the whole al with contemporary interviews. piro’s Time for Ilhan (https: canine companion, “Jimi,” bolts wacky blend of fact and fiction The Tribeca panel on it included //www.timeforilhanfilm.com/), through the divided island’s UN goes to the dogs. Bruun received Bobby’s daughter Kerry Kennedy the inspiring story of former buffer zone and gets trapped on the the jury’s best-actor prize in the whose book Robert F. Kennedy: Somali refugee Ilhan Omar’s Turkish side. international competition. The best Ripples of Hope will be released successful run for the Minnesota Writer-director Amélie van actor award for U.S. narrative went June 5. Even more timely given state legislature. She took on a Elmbt’s The Elephant and the to Jeffrey Wright as a longtime Donald Trump’s war on the media longtime incumbent to become Butterfly (Belgium/France) gets an inmate awaiting release in the as “enemies of the people” was the first Somali Muslim immi - extraordinary performance from powerfully realistic prison drama the premiere of the Showtime grant woman elected to public Lina Doillon as the little girl, Elsa, O.G. directed by Madeleine Sack - series The Fourth Estate directed office in the U.S. In Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Nico, who discovers that her accidental ler, another filmmaker with a doc - by Liz Garbus, which goes behind 1988 (Italy/Belgium) Danish ac - babysitter, Antoine (Thomas Blan - umentary background. the scenes of The New York Times — FiLm , page 11 tress Trine Dyrholm gives an aston - chard), is actually her father. Two ishing performance as singer other excellent child performances: Christa Päffgen, known as Nico, in Sarah Casu as 10-year-old Vittoria The monks of St. Peter’s Abbey thank the staff of the last years of a tormented life. torn between two mother figures in Veteran film writer Kent Jones Daughter of Mine (Italy/Germany/ the Prairie Messenger and St. Peter’s Press, past and present, helms the major jury award winner, Switzerland); Milan Hurduc as Diane , with Mary Kay Place a won - nine-year-old Dragos in Ioana for their dedication to excellence in producing der to behold in the lead role of an Uricaru’s Lemonade (Romania/ aging widow searching for atone - Canada/Germany) about an immi - a quality newspaper over the past century. ment while trying to pull her son, grant mother, Mara (Mãlina Mano - May God bless you in all your future endeavours. Brian (Jake Lacy), out of the throes vici), whose desperation to maintain of addiction. Canadian director her American residency is exploited Jason Reitman and writer Diablo by an unethical immigration officer. Cody team up again for Tully in I’m generally not a fan of the which a harried mom, Marlo (the horror zombie genre, but the excellent Charlize Theron), finds an Australian “midnight” selection, unusual but effective way to cope Cargo, by directors Ben Howling with the arrival of a third child. and Yolanda Ramke, with Martin Other films had strong female Freeman in the role of a father try - roles, including those of fictional ing to save his child, added a com - American women on death row in pelling Aboriginal angle to the Hagar Ben-Asher’s chilling and allegory of the human causes and affecting Dead Women Walking . consequences of a modern envi - Michael Mayer’s adaptation of ronmental plague. Speaking of Chekov’s The Seagull has Annette death and after, Shawn Snyder’s Bening as the celebrated actress To Dust is an excellent two-han - Irina, Saoirse Ronan as the young der between Géza Röhrig ( Son of ingénue who beguiles Irina’s part - Saul ) as a Hasidic Jewish cantor, ner Boris, and Elisabeth Moss as Shmuel, grieving his wife’s death, the bitter Masha, who resents both. and Matthew Broderick as the Elle Fanning is convincing as the biology teacher he involves in his 19th-century teenage author of obsession with what happened to Frankenstein or The Modern her bodily remains. Prometheus in Haifaa Al Man - In Stockholm , Ethan Hawke, sour’s Mary Shelley . Joy Rieger back working with Canadian received a jury best-actress award writer-director Robert Budreau for her role as the teenage Lana (Born to be Blue ), is terrific as dreaming of escape from a run - Lars, the Bob Dylan-loving robber All 95 volumes of the Prairie Messenger, and the down community on Israel’s bumbler whose antics in a bizarre Mediterranean coast in Keren Ben 1973 bank heist in the Swedish liturgical music suggestions, will be available at: www.prairiemessenger.ca Rafael’s Virgins (Israel/France/ capital — turning several hostages, May 9, 2018 ARTS & CULTURE Prairie Messenger 11 In film, look for what engages

Continued from page 10 Two about the November 2005 age of “industrial shows,” expen - massacre of 24 men, women and sive musicals made exclusively for Neil Gelinas’ Into the Oka vango children in Haditha, Iraq, during private corporate clients, as (https://www.nationalgeographic. the American occupation. (The searched out by Steve Young, a com/films/okavango/) chronicles horrific events were dramatized longtime writer for the David an epic four-month 1,500-mile in Nick Broomfield’s 2007 film, Letterman show. expedition across three countries Battle for Haditha .) Epstein un - (An gola, Bots wana, Namibia) to covers a miscarriage of justice in * * * document what is happening in a what became the biggest and river basin that is among the last costliest trial in Marine Corps The documentary film that remaining wetland wildernesses history, with the probable perpe - made the strongest impression on under increasing pressure from trators granted immunity despite me was the award-winning 22- human activity. Another conserva - perjuring themselves. Moreover, minute Notes from Dunblane: tion perspective comes from John the testimony of the sole sur - Lessons from a School Shooting Kasbe’s When Lambs Become vivor, a young girl, was kept out (https://www.facebook.com/notes Lions , capturing the frontlines of of the proceedings, and the gen - fromdunblane/) directed by Kim the battle to protect wildlife in eral re sponsible for signing off Snyder who also made Newtown Paul Paproski, OSB Kenya pitting park rangers against was none other than Trump’s cur - (https://www.newtownfilm.com/), elephant hunters and the illegal rent de fence secretary James about the 2012 shooting of first- in Honour Of The Prairie Messenger ivory trade. Nicolas Brown’s The Mattis. graders at Sandy Hook. In March Serengeti Rules addresses critical There were excellent docs deal - 1996 a massacre of primary The sowers plowed the fields research into the role of “keystone ing with diverse, sometimes bi - school children took place in the of the mind with the word, species” in the restoration of vul - zarre, aspects of American culture. Scottish village of Dunblane, planted the seeds of hope nerable ecosystems. The audience award went to shocking Britain and leading to near the sparks of truth, and The jury award went to writer- Dyana Winkler and Tina Brown’s tough gun controls and no recur - watered them with wisdom. director Gabrielle Brady’s Island United Skates , about the rise and rence since. of the Hungry Ghosts (Germany/ fall of roller-skating rinks fre - The Sandy Hook massacre All they could do then was U.K./Australia http://www.christ - quented by African Americans, prompted Dunblane’s Catholic leave it in the hands of masislandfilm.com/), which con - ending on an upbeat note. Tom pastor, Rev. Basil O’Sullivan, to the Creator of the universe. trasts the beauty of Christmas Dumican’s No Greater Law inves - reach out to Newtown parish It was a long work of trust Island, and its remarkable migra - tigated children’s deaths among an priest Msgr. Bob Weiss. The film, tion of red crabs from jungle to Idaho sect called “Followers of which notes that 1,600 mass in this harsh and beautiful land. shore, with the presence of a high- Christ” that believes in faith heal - shootings have occurred in the security detention facility in ing alone. Assia Boundaoui’s The U.S. since Sandy Hook, concen - Now the sowers slowly rock which the Australian government Feeling of Being Watched digs trates on the efforts of post-trau - in the chairs of experience, holds asylum seekers, some suf - into FBI surveillance of a predom - matic healing and exchange of trusting the new reapers fering from trauma and torture, inantly Mus lim Arab-American correspondence between the two heading to the golden fields for indefinite periods. PJ Raval’s community in Illinois. Laura Catholic priests, both of whom with cellphones in their hands. Call Her Ganda (U.S./Philippines Brownson’s Netflix production were present for a special post- By Michael Dallaire http://www.callherganda.com/) The Rachel Divide looks into the screening panel that also included probes the case of a transgender controversy over Rachel Dolezal, several survivors from the Valen - Filipina woman, Jennifer Laude, who was born white but became a tine’s Day 2018 Parkland school awesome sight that evoked a plan - Film Festival (http://oneworld - murdered by a U.S. Marine pro - self-identified black activist. In shooting involved in the “march etary consciousness as never be - filmfestival.ca/), the longest run - tected by the Visiting Forces terms of the arts, Jeff Kaufman’s for our lives” campaign. fore. The icon image of our blue ning documentary film festival in Agreement, in order to understand Every Act of Life is a revealing Also deserving mention is the planet against the blackness of Canada’s capital, now in its 29th why it became a sensational flash - tribute to acclaimed playwright half-hour Earthrise (http://www. space had a powerful impact on the year. I am also on the board of the point in the Philippines post-colo - Terrence McNally. The Albert earthrisefilm.com/) about the first astronauts and the world, offering a Group of 78, which is devoting its nial evolution. Maysles award for best new direc - image of earth from space captured perspective of Earth as a shared next annual conference in U.S. Marines and the killing tor went to Dava Whisenant for 50 years ago in 1968 by the Apollo home transcending national, politi - September to the theme “Meeting of foreign civilians is also at the the highly entertaining Bathtubs 8 astronauts who recount their cal, and religious boundaries. the Climate Chal lenge: Ac - heart of Michael Epstein’s House Over Broadway , about the golden experiences and memories of an Finally, Tribeca’s “Cinema 360” celerating the Transition to a Past- program premiered the virtual real - Carbon World” (http://group ity docuseries This is Climate 78.org/annual-policy-conference- Change , created by Danfung 2018/). As part of that, the G78 Dennis and Eric Strauss, that and One World Arts will be pre - immerses viewers in the realities of senting a special screening of the an unfolding global crisis as it has documentary Anote’s Ark (http: an impact on people and places. //www.anotesark.com/) by Ca- The experiences range from melt - nadian filmmaker Matthieu Rytz. ing ice and disappearing glaciers to A reminder that we are all in the raging wildfires to rainforest same boat when it comes to the destruction to the desertification of imperative of protecting our planet once-fertile lands — all signs of for future generations. ecosystems in peril that call for an My last word is to look for the imperative of collective action. best in the cinematic experience Although this is my last Prairie — for what engages as well as Messenge r column, I will continue entertains by moving audiences to follow the film scene as presi - and illuminating the signs of the dent of One World Arts and a pro - times. 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@devpeace 12 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH May 9, 2018 Converted into Christ: the real purpose of eucharist

By Bernadette Gasslein Jesus more, we transform more Christ, then I must live and be as he God’s eyes” ( Sacramentum Cari - harmony, the voices of the whole into Jesus. Just as the bread and is: in self-emptying love that is tatis , 47). That of course, includes assembly led by the music min - Most Catholics know that dur - wine are converted into the Body stronger than death, in ongoing con - our own lives. istry proclaim our communion, ing the celebration of the eucha- and Blood of Christ, those who cern and compassion for the least Just before he prays the institu - our coming into deeper union with rist, by the power of the Holy receive them with faith are trans - among us. I live with all the bap - tion narrative, the priest prays, Christ and the other members of Spirit called down on the bread formed into a living Eucharist. . . . tized in the dance of love that is the “by the same Spirit graciously his body. This motley crew of and wine, these gifts, which earth Because when you receive the Trinity. make holy these gifts . . . that they saints and sinners is being trans - has given and human hands have eucharist, you become the Body of This is the mystery of the eu - may become the Body and Blood formed into the Body of Christ. made, are changed into the Body Christ. This is beautiful, very charist that for centuries we have of your Son . . .” Just after the We, too, are changed. This is the and Blood of Christ. What few of beautiful. While it unites us with failed to hand on from generation Institution narrative, he prays ultimate purpose of eucharist: to us know that a second change, one Christ, tearing us from our selfish - to generation in any systematic again, “grant that we, who are change us. We say Amen to the that is just as important, happens ness, communion opens us and way. Since the eucharistic de - nourished by the Body and Blood sacramental Body and Blood of in our eucharistic celebration. We unites us to all those who are one bates of the Middle Ages, we of your Son and filled with his Christ, and to our own reality as too are changed as we share in his in him. This is the prodigy of com - have fo cused almost exclusively Holy Spirit, may become one Body of Christ. We say Amen to body and blood. munion: we become what we on the change that happens in the body, one spirit in Christ.” letting go of anything that would In his March 21, 2018, catech - receive!” (Translation: Vatican bread and wine. But if we listen This “coming into union,” into keep us from being the Body of esis on the eucharist Pope Francis Press Office) to the prayers of the mass, and oneness, into communion, is a Christ in our world. highlighted this change (see the This is not some new-fangled read the General Instruction of thread that runs through the whole “Go in peace, glorifying the March 28 Prairie Messenger theory. Pope Francis quotes the the Roman Missal, it’s all there. eucharist. Listen for it! And then Lord by your life.” Suddenly, this story, page 3). Pope Francis said: fourth century St. Augustine who But, since we don’t expect it, we we who are being made one pray mission with which we are dis - “Al though it is we who move in “helps us to understand it, when don’t see how this transformation the Lord’s Prayer, to “ Our missed from the eucharistic table procession to receive communion, he tells us about the light received is set out. At the Presentation of Father”; we share the sign of at each celebration takes on new . . . it is actually Christ who comes in hearing Christ say: ‘I am the the Gifts, we bring our gifts: peace, and pray “grant (the contours. We have not just re - to us to assimilate us to him. There food of strong men; grow, and bread and wine, and ourselves. church) peace and unity .” Then ceived the eucharistic body and is an encounter with Jesus! To be you shall feed upon me; nor shall The General In struc tion com - we begin the communion proces - blood of the Lord. By that recep - nourished by the eucharist means you convert me, like the food of ments: “Even though the faithful sion which is to be accompanied tion we are also transformed more to allow oneself (to) be changed as your flesh, into you, but you shall no longer bring from their own by the communion song, “its pur - deeply into his body. We were we receive. . . . Each time we be converted into me’ ” ( Con - possessions the bread and wine pose being to express the spiritual made members of that body when receive communion, we resemble fessions VII, 10, 16: PL 32, 742). intended for the liturgy as was union of the communicants by we were baptized; our sharing in And recent popes — both St. John once the case, nevertheless the means of the unity of their voices , the eucharist reconstitutes us as Paul II and Emeritus Pope rite of carrying up the offerings to show gladness of heart, and to his body. The consequences of Gasslein holds a licence in Benedict XVI — have reiterated still keeps its spiritual efficacy bring out more clearly the ‘ com - this sharing in communion are sacred theology with specializa - this in their own writings. It is a and significance.” How can we munitarian ’ character of the pro - profound: we are sent forth to be tion in pastoral catechetics from longstanding, but overlooked de scribe this significance? Emeri - cession to receive the eucharist” his enduring presence in the taber - the Institut catholique de Paris . aspect of our understanding of tus Pope Benedict puts it well: “In (General Instruction of the Roman nacle of the world; we are sent For the past 40 years she has eucharist. the bread and wine that we bring Missal , 86). forth to act with him, and through been engaged in various liturgi - We are converted into Christ. to the altar all creation is taken up Our common song during the him, and in him. To us can be cal and catechetical ministries, This awesome mystery both attracts by Christ the re deemer to be procession makes audible the applied the same verbs that we leading workshops around the me and terrifies me. Attracts, be - transformed and presented to the work of the Spirit who is fashion - apply to the eucharistic bread. country and is editor of Worship, cause there is nothing that can offer Father (144). In this way we also ing us more deeply into the eccle - Like Christ, we are to be broken a journal published by Liturgical any human being more healing, bring to the altar all the pain and sial Body of Christ as we receive and given, poured out for the life Press. She and her husband live more dignity, more life! Terrifies, suffering of the world in the cer - the sacramental Body of Christ. of the world. To this we have said in Edmonton. because if I am converted into tainty that everything has value in Whether we sing in unity or in “Amen.”

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TThehe Catholic Register is grateful for a war shareedd with the Prairie Messengernger for morm e than y We will miss you. catholicregisterr.or.org Canada’’ss national Catholic newspaper since 1893 May 9, 2018 DEEPENING OUR FAITH Prairie Messenger 13 Our Pentecost challenge comes to us continually

giving of the law to Moses on Mount Sinai or Horeb. As the early church developed, the Jewish Liturgy Pentecost came to take on a specifically Christian significance, the descent of the Holy and Life Spirit on the apostles. Pentecost for Christians marked the shift in God’s redemptive purpose for humanity from only the first chosen people, Michael Dougherty “descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,” to everyone, everywhere and in every time. Does the Holy Spirit still move us? It would Before his resurrection the Gospel of John tells of a time be impossible to look over the last 2,000 years of when the disciples hid in a locked house. They still focused our collective church history and not intuit the inwardly and found themselves paralyzed by the fear of what Holy Spirit moving through it. The People of hostile authorities both civil and religious might do to them. God continually stray, as witnessed in the Jewish This embattled Jewish community of only a handful of Torah and testament and as we see around us women and men had believed their teacher, Jesus, was the now. Prophets and holy people emerge constant - Messiah, but they wavered. Had their leader truly risen from ly to challenge us to return to our true calling as the dead? Suddenly he stood among them and said “Peace be daughters and sons of the Lord. with you. As the Father sent me so I send you.” “He breathed The power and privileges granted to the on them and said to them ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’ ” church by the Roman emperor Constantine as “And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like a the quid pro quo of stabilizing a fracturing CNS/Gregory Shemitz rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where empire. However, this led quickly to corruption a scene from pentecost is depicted in artwork at Our Lady of Divine they were sitting.” This vivid description in the Acts of the and abuse of power. The monastic movement providence Church in providenciales, Turks and Caicos islands. Apostles marks another entry of the Holy Spirit at a crucial under inspirational leaders like Benedict of moment in our religious history. “(A) tongue of fire rested Nursia grew as a counter to this. A half a millennium later his next phrase for a fuller understanding of his idea. “Great on each of them.” It filled the disciples with a holy zeal. church wealth again sparked a wide divergence from the men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise This signified the breakout of the proto-church from their founding vision of Jesus. influence and not authority: still more when you superadd Jerusalem and Israel centric evangelizing focus. The wider Inspirational guides like Francis of Assisi presented a the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.” understanding of their founding mission enabled a broader clear critique of the deviant behaviours and offered volun - What about our own time? Church officials of the missionary impulse to sweep over them, facilitating the tary poverty and living a simple lifestyle as a vehicle to highest rank are called to account. Misogynistic and patri - rapid expansion of what was to become Christianity across archal structures weighted down by medieval institutional the circum-Mediterranean world. acts 2, 1-11 accretions block needed reforms. Reconciliation efforts on pentecost In its first days the disciples found a ready audience psalm 104 a wide variety of concerns are blocked. and support community in the Jewish community in dias - 1 Corinthians 12, 3b-7 We are and will be continually challenged to address may 20, 2018 pora from Cappadocia to Pamphylia, both now in modern- John 20, 19-23 the ills that afflict us either individually, or as communities, day Turkey. They continued to rely on familiar Jewish cus - church and in our world. I have personally met and been toms and traditions. For the Jewish people the feast of ensure righteousness. Inquisitions, burnings at the stake inspired by people like Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez, Pentecost initially had been a celebration of thanksgiving at and myriad other abuses like the Albigensian or Huguenot Gustavo Gutiérrez, Paulo Friere, and dozens of other wit - the end of the first grain harvest and a formal end on the massacres and Jewish pogroms mar our history. The church nesses shared by prophetic organizations like Development 50th day to the time of Passover. Even for the Jewish peo - even survived the notorious scandals of the Medici and and Peace or KAIROS. They, like the Prairie Messenger , ple the meaning evolved. Borgia popes in the Renaissance era. have affirmed that the spirit continues to move among us. The Romans destroyed the second temple in Jerusalem The suppression of intellectuals like Galileo or the More voices will emerge. in AD 70. This attack on the core of their culture came in legitimizing of slavery, and a hundred other wrong turns Many of us are saddened by the Prairie Messenger’s response to the Jewish revolt against them. Following this were made, but still the saints and reformers showed us that demise, but we must understand that the mission it under - calamity the Jewish Pentecost came to focus more on the the spirit moves among us constantly calling us back to the took remains our mission: bring the message of Jesus alive truth and light. in a world crying for him. It has been an honour and a priv - The classic saying of great Catholic intellectual of the ilege to write for the PM . Dougherty is co-chair of the Social Justice Committee at 19th century Lord Acton continues to ring true. “Power tends Our Pentecost comes continually. Will we accept our Sacred Heart Cathedral in Whitehorse, Yukon. to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Add on “tongues of fire”? Poverty, chastity, and obedience in a secular age

places its hope in material riches, terms of meaning and in the hap - something and Someone higher generally identifies chastity with piness and joy of a shared life. than oneself, as seen in the human In frigidity, and values individual Likewise for the vow of chasti - and religious commitments in per - freedom above all else? ty. Properly understood, it is not a sons from Jesus, to Teilhard de Well, no doubt, poverty, chasti - missing out on the joys of sexual - Chardin, to Dag Hammarskjold, to Exile ty, and obedience are seen as rad - ity. It’s a rich modality of sexuali - Simone Weil, to Mother Teresa, to ically countercultural; but that’s ty itself, given that being sexual Jean Vanier, to Daniel Berrigan. In mostly because they are generally means more than having sex. each of these we see a person who Ron Rolheiser, OMI not very well understood (some - Sexuality is a beautiful God-given walked this earth in a freedom we times even by those who are liv - drive within us for lots of things: can only envy, but clearly too in a ing them out). For the most part community, friendship, together - freedom that’s predicated on a gen - Cardinal Francis George was heaven, a world within which there they are seen as a drastic renunci - ness, wholeness, family, play, al - uflecting of one’s individual will to once asked what he thought of the will be no guns, where relational ation, the sacrificing of a full life, truism, enjoyment, delight, cre - something higher than itself. radical pacifism of people like exclusivities will not exist as they the unnatural denial of one’s sexu - ativity, genital consummation, Our thoughts and our feelings Dorothy Day and Daniel Berrigan, exist now, where family will not be ality, and the adolescent signing and for everything that takes us are strongly influenced by the cul - prophetic figures who believed in based on biology, blood, or mar - over of one’s freedom and creativ - beyond our aloneness and makes tural software within which we find absolute non-violence. How can riage, where there will be no poor ity. But that’s a misunderstanding. us generative. And so the very real ourselves. Thus, given how our cul - this be practical, he was asked. It’s people, and where everything will Poverty, chastity, and obedience joys that are found in community, ture understands riches, sex, and utterly naive to believe we can live belong to everyone. are not a missing out on riches, friendship, and service of others freedom today, this may well be the without police and without soldiers. I thought of that recently as I sexuality, and freedom. They are are not a second-rate substitute for most difficult time in many cen - This was his reply: The world was conducting a workshop on reli - rather a genuine, rich, modality of sex. They bring their own sexual turies to make the vows of poverty, needs pacifists in the same way as gious life for a group of young peo - riches, sexuality, and freedom. flourishing in terms of leading us chastity, and obedience and live it needs vowed celibates: they’re ple who were discerning wheth er or The vow of poverty isn’t pri - out of our aloneness. them out. Small wonder religious not practical. They’re out of place not to enter vowed religious life. marily about living with cheaper The same holds true for obedi - communities are not flooded with in this world. But they point to the My task was not to try to persuade things, not having a dishwasher ence. Properly understood, it’s not applications. But because it is more eschatological world, the world of them to join a religious community, and doing your own housework. a missing out on real freedom. difficult than ever, it is also more but to help them understand what It’s also not about renouncing the Rather, it’s a rich modality of free - important than ever that a number that life, should they join it, would kinds of riches that can make for dom itself, one practised by Jesus of women and men choose, volun - Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, entail. That meant, of course, long the full flourishing of life. A life of (who repeatedly says: “I do noth - tarily, to prophetically live out these and award-winning author, is discussions on the three vows that voluntary poverty is a lived way ing on my own. I do only the vows. president of the Oblate School of people take to be in religious life: of saying that all material posses - Father’s will.”) Obedience, as a And their seeming sacrifice Theology in San Antonio, Texas. poverty, chastity, and obedience sions are gift, that the world religious vow, is not an immature will be amply rewarded because, He can be contacted through his (classically termed “the Evan geli - belongs to everyone, that nobody sacrificing of one’s freedom and paradoxically, poverty brings its website: www.ronrolheiser.com. cal Counsels”). owns a country, and that nobody’s adulthood. It’s rather a radical sub- own riches, chastity brings its Now on Facebook: www.face - What’s to be said about pover - needs are first. It’s a vow against mitting of one’s human ego (with own flourishing, and obedience book.com/ronrolheiserwebsite ty, chastity, and obedience in a consumerism and tribalism, and it all its wounds, desires, lusts, pri - provides us with the deepest of all www.ronrolheiser.com world that, for the most part, brings its own wonderful riches in vate ambitions, and envies) to human freedoms. 14 Prairie Messenger FEATURE May 9, 2018 It takes a community to call a priest or pastor

the People of God in all denomi - Now living Christian disciple - spirit and among our people. national diversity packed the wor - ship in the Anglican household of We don’t make journeys like ship space, hungering for a “taste God is opening new spiritual vis - this in isolation. In this final col - Double of heaven” where divisions and tas and blessings. Meanwhile, my umn of Double Belonging I ex - barriers melted away: take and Roman Catholic family of origin tend a heartfelt thank you for the eat, take and drink, all of you. continues to occupy a cherished company and friendship, prayers Belonging Maybe a number of firsts oc- place in my heart. In her bosom and support of so many on this curred: Roman Catholic clergy my faith was nourished and my road toward priestly ministry. It Rev. Marie-Louise Ternier present, some joining in the laying vocation was born. I truly live a truly takes a community to call a on of hands, another bowing his double belonging. The increasing priest/pastor. Pray that I will con - head for my first priestly blessing opportunities for joint ministry tinue to fulfil this sacred trust Looking out at the crowd that Ordained a priest. I still struggle afterward; a religious sister leading with my local Catholic priest and faithfully, placing my priesthood had filled the Anglican cathedral, I to find the words. The impact of music at the Anglican eu cha rist the his parishioners are therefore at the service of the full visible was amazed, surprised, and over - the experience was profound in my next morning while persons from sources of deep joy and immense unity of God’s one, holy, catholic whelmed. They had come from own heart-mind-spirit, in my expe - various traditions served as aco lyte, gratitude, weaving unity in my and apostolic church. everywhere: friends and family, col - rience of church, and in the effects readers, communion assistants; leagues and ecumenical co-workers. upon my current ministry. Given communion bread baked by an The church catholic was present in the ecumenical makeup of the Anglican-RC couple; those with Compassion is necessary its fullest sense: Pente costal, Baptist, assembly that night, I felt truly different beliefs finding a space of United, Presby terian, Lutheran, ordained by and into the one, holy, respect and hospitality while get - Continued from page 9 the office and he was just very con - Anglican and Roman Catholic. catholic and apostolic church in the ting caught up in the joy and grati - fused and he wanted to have some Especially Rom an Catholic: a sea of broadest/fullest sense of that term. tude of the occasion. wall of file cabinets. help,” she said. them along with several priests and I have always been mindful of That I may at last taste the joy Foch, who retired in 2016, used “We had many, many people one higher-ranking official. The the role the faith community plays of fulfilling this vocation still to enter all of the registered parish - come in for help, for food or happy grins spoke volumes: I was when one claims a call to min - feels like a miracle. What seemed ioners and organize their donations money, and so this was an instance not the only one who had looked istry; one is called by and for the elusive for more than 26 years has using a file folder system. The which it was very hard for me to forward to this moment. community, never for oneself. come to pass. At the same time it office didn’t transition into a com - handle.” In the midst of this ecumenical Now this crucial role was ex - was always there, for the priestly puter database until about 1983 to Foch said she and the pastor community of faith I claimed my pressed in the most tangible way call lived in my heart as an ani - 1985. She had a volunteer parish - were able to sit the young man call before the bishop, made vows possible — the community’s pres - mating light, a wellspring of grace ioner come by once in a while to down on a couch in one of the and promises, and knelt for the ence and participation was their and love. Several months later, I help her meticulously enter the priests’ office. They never called “holy huddle” — Anglican, Lu - fiat. A deepening and affirmation, clearly have not recovered from information into a database. the police. They just let him rest. theran, United and Presbyterian blessing and mandate all rolled the intensity and holiness of it all “I think the hardest part (of the When he became a little more clergy colleagues and two Roman into one holy Spirit-filled act of — I hope I never will. job) for me was when I had to learn sober, they gave him a phone num - Catholic priests joined the bishop ordination. No wonder I still Nothing is wasted in God’s bookkeeping,” said Foch. ber for the St. Vincent de Paul in the solemn laying on of hands. struggle to find words. econ omy. I am now pastoring two In all her years working at St. Society and sent him on his way. The next morning I presided rural parishes, Anglican and Lu - Mary Immaculate, Foch said there “I always just try to be honest, over the (Anglican) holy eucharist theran. All the pieces of my life’s was never a dull moment. Both the kind, friendly and compassionate Marie-Louise Ternier is an An - for the first time in a Catholic puzzle have come together: for - doorbell and the phone rang con - to everyone who comes in,” said gli can priest. This column is co- retreat centre, which included a mation and ministry experiences stantly and about 20 or more people Foch. “Many times, I am the first published with the Saskatchewan renewal of marriage vows for Jim of the past 26 years are now all came in and out of the office all day. face they see when they walk into Anglican. Marie-Louise blogs at and I — it was our wedding an- bearing fruit in these two small “One time we had a young man, the church, so I tried to represent http://graceatsixty.wordpress.com niversary. Like the night before, parishes on the Canadian Prairies. he was on drugs, and he came into that the best way I could.”

May 9, 2018 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 15 These fragments I have shored against my ruin

By Edna Froese old stories, remnants of forgotten almost all the columns I have writ - myths, tag ends of religious cere - ten for the PM , some book or books The title is T.S. Eliot’s line in mony, glimpses of relationships have hovered in the background, the last stanza of “The Waste more bored than tragic. providing a focus or si lently direct - Land,” his 1922 cry for meaning When I first encountered the ing the process by which I tried to in a world where all had seeming - poem as an undergraduate, newly - make sense of some experience or ly gone mad. In the wake of the wed and full of joy, I hated it. Not observed phenomenon. pointless slaughter of the First even three years of English courses This is not to disregard the World War, the old verities had had given me tools enough to make teaching and influence of many lost their hold. Eliot responded sense of the senseless. Yet a patient good people who taught me values with a lengthy poem of seemingly professor (kudos to the young Dr. and lessons without which I would disconnected fragments: bits of Ron Marken) initiated us into the have lost my way far more fre - very human enterprise of making quently than I already have. It is meaning out of the shards that litter just that as the Prairie Messenger Froese taught English litera - all lives, eventually — precious gives way to other means of com - ture at St. Thomas More College fragments that we gather and cling munication and community-build - in Saskatoon for many years until to as a way of holding chaos at bay. ing, I want to praise the power of her retirement. She currently In this, my last column for the the written word and honour the works part time as academic edi - Prairie Messenger , I salute the ver - friendship of all those many writ - tor while relishing the freedom to itable fort of books with which I ers who invited me to enter their A “fort of books” Edna Froese read and write for pleasure. have built meaning into my life. In experiences, or their characters’, for my benefit. As Adele Wiseman wish, and the Internet makes fused, struggling, student, and once wrote about her own love searching for quotations easy. Yet I again as an instructor who relied affair with literature, in “stories cannot part with my well-worn on all those books to supply exact - life was in a sense holding still for copy. It was lent (given?) to me by ly the right lines for the moment — (her) to look at and learn from and my sister for my very first seminar my religious collection is a record make judgments on” (Memoirs 7). class; it had already been copiously of a journey, with very little cir - My copies of T.S. Eliot’s Se - annotated with her delicate script. cling back to my former self. Retreats & Workshops lected Poetry and Four Quartets During that difficult, painful While once upon a time, the very are almost in tatters now. 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As Hamlet ruefully ing of Christianity, accomplished SEVEN DAY SILENT DIRECTED RETREAT: Come Away With Me . . . poetry could ex pand the soul and — and gratefully — observed, through writing that was beautiful Dianne Mantyka and Bishop Gerry Wiesner, OMI revivify the world. “There’s a divinity that shapes our as literature and logical as a map, Friday, June 29, 4 p.m. - Thursday, July 5, 2:30 p.m. Many other old literature text - ends, / Rough-hew them how we established a friendship that contin - Cost: $995 (includes meals, accommodations and spiritual direction). books (anthologies, poetry, novels) will.” Indeed. ues. If nothing else, the collection is Please register by June 19th. still claim space on my bookshelves The religious shelves of my there to stand behind his masterful SUMMER STILLNESS 2018 — Rev. 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the leader in everything. In a large even a learning partnership. We Finally, the task of building rela - school — over 500 students — have seen students more excited tionships so that we are truly “one lead ership must be shared. My role about their studies than ever before. with all.” Students and staff, Catholic is to clear the path for those staff or They have an increased sense of through the efforts of dedicated students who have an area of ownership that, combined with the central office staff, are provided expertise or a passion that will ben - values of their faith development, with an opportunity to embrace Connections efit our school community. I believe allows them to celebrate deeply and truth and reconciliation and grow in it is only through this shared lead - fully the level of achievement that is honour of and respect for our Lynn M. Colquhoun ership that each individual can earned. indigenous nations.”’We are all serve the community to the best of treaty people” is commonly heard their ability and we thrive as a I am always amazed by the wel - within school buildings and at Holy Family School system it means to learn and lead and community. — Dean Loberg, come I receive when I, as a central events. We reach out in stewardship strives to really “live holy fami - share with others while our most school-based administrator office employee, visit any one of the of our time, talents and treasure to ly.” We are storytellers and story - senior Board of Trustees members schools in our division. It doesn’t meet the needs of our neighbours makers treating all members of would reflect on the same. The incredible fact is that all of matter whether I am greeted by one and friends who might not have the our communities as they would these roles are honoured and filled of the littlest learners or energized ability to achieve on their own. like to be treated. This means Holy Family is an amazing whenever anything takes place in adolescents or caring adults, I am We celebrate those who give seeking to understand first! — G. place to lead, learn and grow. As Holy Family. The best part is, they always made to feel welcome and great effort and support us in our Keith, Director of Education a lifelong learner, I am continual - might be filled by staff, students or respected. I believe that our schools education journey. We recognize ly inspired by our staff who enthu - other members. One can never be do a terrific job of teaching every - the value of having our parish It is our belief in Holy Family siastically engage our students in too sure where to direct the credit for one to identify the Christ Child in communities participate in and RCSSD #140 that we do need to their learning journey and our a successful event. It might be that a each of us and help us feel loved. provide support for our Catholic embrace the meaning of this Cree students who are problem solvers, student group such as Student — Lynn Colquhoun, co-ordinator education objectives and goals. word Wahkohtowin , and be “ in critical thinkers and innovators. Leadership Committee or perhaps good relationship; kinship beyond Our future is bright! — Chad the School Community Council the immediate family .” We spend so Fingler, Superintendent made up of parents or the office staff much of our time learning and lead - of the school, principal and adminis - ing together, it is best if we consid - One area to consider is leader - trative assistant, have taken the lead er one another sister or brother. ship. Whether it would be the shar - and made great things happen for all ing of the leadership in planning participants. The key message: be There are many moments school masses, assemblies and cel - sure and show gratitude and appre - throughout the year where I am ebrations, or the opening of doors ciation. Pause and give thanks when simply taken aback by the for an after-hours movie you are part of a community that reverence our young night, the various citi - succeeds by getting all jobs done! people show for Jesus. zens of the school Whether it be from community clearly “Start children off on the way the good works of understood the role they should go, and even when they our weekly gospel they played in mak - are old they will not turn from it” assemblies or our ing it successful. (Prv 22:6). The success of our stu - annual passion play, Each community dents at Sacred Heart School/École In 1897, six Sisters from St. Brieuc, France arrived in Prince Albert, with the mission “to make Jesus Christ known and loved.” it’s wonderful to see activity needs organ - Sacré Coeur is a shared co-opera - my staff and students izers. These people tion between home, school and truly try their best to walk generate a plan, gather community. We work together with Prairie Providence as his disciples. — Darrell materials and disseminate key families and through partnerships Perras, school-based administrator information. Motiva tors are needed. to give our students opportunities BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION JUNE 2018 These people en courage attendance to grow, reflect and experience THE DAUGHTERS OF PROVIDENCE Our annual theme this year took and participation and spread the learning that they may not other - LES FILLES DE LA PROVIDENCE us on a journey to better understand word. Facilities arrangers have a job wise have. Our dream as teachers community and the need for us all to do. These people make sure the and leaders is to be able to build a In 1818, the dream of the order’s founding Sisters, Anne­ foundation within each of our chil - to be leaders, learners and builders seats are available, the presentation Marie Cartel, Marie Conan, Fanny Chaplain and Esther of relationships. We recognized technology is working and the dren that is full of faith, hope and early on that, although four distinct sound is of good quality. Hosts play love. We work diligently to see each Beauchemain, guided by Father Jean­Marie de la Mennais, geographical areas, there were an important role. These people and every child achieve their was to provide an education for the very poor: the many many commonly ac cepted under - welcome guests, ensure that every - dreams which in years to come will homeless children in Brittany, France. standings of what a community is, thing runs smoothly and deal with continue to support the growth and does and provides. Our “communi - the challenges that arise. development of our wonderful com - In 1897, six sisters from Saint­Brieuc, France, arrived in ty” needed to be one that was munity. — Amber Hilstrom, Prince Albert, Canada, which was then in the Northwest Ter­ deeply rooted in the teachings of I am still relatively new to St. school-based administrator ritories, with the Mission to “Make Jesus Christ Known and our Catholic faith. We needed to Michael School, so my experience Loved”, firmly rooted in God’s Providence, with The Blessed ensure that the good news of Jesus is that of coming into an estab - The second key area of consider - Virgin Mary and St. Joseph as companions and models. Christ continued to provide the lished family and community. That ation — learning. Our students are foundation for all that we do on our can be either a blessing or a curse: engaged in a deeper learning model For 120 of these 200 years, there have been a total of 225 Catholic education mission. but in my case it has definitely been where pathways to achieving an out - prairie women who have ministered as Les Filles de la Prov­ We soon found that the chal - a blessing. There was already a come are created. These pathways lenges and celebrations were sim - community in and around the involve the teacher and student plan - idence throughout Canada and beyond, including the United ilar across the geographical areas school of strong leaders and amaz - ning together for the achievement of States, Europe, South America and Africa. At times these we serve. We were reminded that ing learners. My role has been to the outcome. Student voice dictates Daughters of Providence have partnered with other congre­ the message of our theme needed foster the leadership of others and whether the experience will involve gations, including the Brothers of Christian Instruction, the to reach throughout the organiza - to model servant leadership. In any a change in environment, the lever - Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the Grey Nuns, the tion entirely. Our earliest entrant school, there are too many needs aging of digital technologies, a vari - Maryknolls and most recently the Daughters of Providence learner would come to know what and priorities for one person to be ety of learning strategies, or perhaps of Nebbi Uganda. “Today it is with grateful hearts that we seek to A heartfelt thank you, Prairie Messenger, live with simplicity the reality of our presence among you, our brothers and sisters. Our loving care is from Manitoba Provincial Council of rooted in contemplation of the Word and in prayer.” The Catholic Women’s League of Canada ­ Les Filles de la Providence Come and celebrate the Bicentennial! June 10, 2018 at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Prince Albert for your many years of having been Mass: 11:00 a.m., followed by cold buffet /program (English with some French) the voice that weekly subscribers relied upon June 17, 2018 at Sts­Martyrs­Canadiens Parish, Saskatoon to nourish and remain current Mass: 10:00 a.m., followed by cold buffet /program (Bilingual with translation) about their Catholic faith. Info/RSVP: contact Sr. Dolores Bussière, FDLP, 306­954­1830 or email: [email protected]

May 9, 2018 CHURCH AT HOME Prairie Messenger 17 There are things I will miss . . .

and good actions in the church and the wider Christian communi - ty and, in this manner, fostered Around the openness to others, the desire for justice and resistance to ‘the glob - alization of indifference’ ” (Pope Kitchen Table Francis) . . . (Montreal). Many were one-time notes. Maureen Weber But some wrote a second time, and a third and, from North Palm Beach, Florida (thank you for A few weeks ago my daughter Late in fall there have been your prayers, Jeanette L.), to Janice visited St. Peter’s Press to countless red sunsets that glow Alabama, up to Washington, D.C, take a few pictures, and spent like stained glass through the parts of the Maritimes, through more time than she had intended stand of tall fir trees on the west places in Quebec, Ontario, the contemplating the beauty of a side. The pines whisper — or roar Prairie provinces, to the far cor - place that contains within it the — depending on the strength of ners of B.C. and up to Yukon, tools of a dying era. the wind. friendships were formed. One Nobody really knows where it These are among the things I even prayed a novena to St. Jude is. The press is on 100 College will miss when the whoosh and when one of my cats was missing Drive, but you’ll have a hard time clack of the Heidelberg grows (we found him — thank you, finding it driving into Muenster if silent, and the smell of ink fades. Jeannette T.). I’ve met almost you don’t know where you’re But what I’ll most miss is the none of these people, and yet our going. It’s past the railway tracks, people with whom I’ve corre - sharing of stories has been enrich - around a curve and down beyond sponded these 24 years. Rela- ing and fulfilling. the creek that runs under the grav - tionships built slowly at first, but Often, however, I did meet el road. as email became the common people in person. My work at the The road is flanked by a row of mode of communication, and as Prairie Messenger has led to three Some things I will miss. M. Weber elms on one side, and an open our website grew, our reach be- lifelong friendships. Roma, field on the other. Further along, came wider. Strangers would Lloyd, and Gerald (Gerry) at first My former boss, friend, and trated, bored; who love, and then the elms line both sides of the write to say how moved they’d corresponded only with regard to mentor, Andrew Britz, OSB, hate; who are loyal and then road and form a canopy of green been by something they’d read. deadlines, but, as the years passed loved to write about the saints in betray; who know kindness and in the summer, and deep gold in I have dozens of saved mes - and we got together over bottles our midst. He acknowledged it is then hurt another; who give all the fall. If you’re lucky enough to sages from readers who took the of wine, barbecued steaks, and difficult for anyone to identify day and collapse in resentment experience thick hoarfrost in win - time to say, “I just wanted to take city strolls, I have found in each of with the stories of martyrs, or when night descends; who make ter, it’s magic. this opportunity to thank you for them a kindred spirit. those who have given away every - mistakes and then apologize; who Depending on the time of year, all the wonderful work you and * * * * * thing to work among the poorest forgive as they are forgiven. chickadees and nuthatches hang the other contributors do to make When I was younger I believed of the poor. The effort to pick up and start out in the shrubs by the parking the Prairie Messenger such a nothing could surprise me, as if In his “All Saints” editorial from again, and again, is the pursuit of lot and give a perfunctory greet - breath of fresh air . . .” (Van cou- low expectations could signify November 2000, Andrew wrote, holiness, whether we are aware of ing. Generations of birds at the ver). sophistication. Working at the PM “We are called to visualize our - it, or even believe it. Because we abbey are used to human contact “There is so much to love taught me the joy of surprise: selves as part of a mighty throng are good. That, to me, is not a sur - — they don’t beg for sunflower about the PM and the quality of — an empty half-page with a dazzled before the very throne of prise. seeds and peanuts, they expect articles regularly featured” looming deadline would be filled, God — to see ourselves as part of * * * * * them. I once put out an empty (Saltcoats). more often than seemed possible, the communion of saints.” A couple of weeks ago, on the hand just for the pleasure of feel - “Keep up your good work. I by someone sending an unsolicit - This was a revelation to me. first really beautiful morning after ing their airy feathery-ness brush say this to you: the Prairie ed piece of beautiful writing; “ . . . Most of us are not ready a long winter, I arrived at work my fingers. The birds made me Messenger has been and continues — an emailed poem could to find our meaning in grandiose wearing my rubber boots. They’re feel cheap, and rightly so. I never to be the best Catholic paper in flood my head with light; stories of cosmic proportions,” he necessary for about five days in extended an empty hand again. this country . . . (Toronto). — poets found our paper; wrote. “But in the stories of Sts. spring, for about five steps from In December I’ve loved arriv - “I want to congratulate the — sometimes people changed Anthony and Jude, of Sts. Eliza- the car to the sidewalk. A paper- ing in morning darkness, Lucille’s Prairie Messenger for . . . (a spe - their minds; beth and Hildegarde, of Grandma thin transparent layer of ice had coffee already brewing and Christ - cific issue). I spent over two hours — I could make someone’s and Uncle Bill, of our spouse and formed over a puddle on the grass. mas lights gracing the desks with reading it! It reported and com - day. close friend — in these stories we Crows in the distance asserted soft radiance. mented on so many good words * * * * * are called upon to find our place their dominance over the other - in the communion of saints . . . ” wise still soundscape. 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Guidelines for dying doctors who examined him said not much could be terms of reference, therefore, are to be found in the done; they could only make him comfortable. On April intention of the will and in the methods used.’ With the advances in technology, it’s becoming 23, the Italian government granted citizenship to the “Euthanasia must be distinguished from the deci - harder to decide when it’s best to terminate treatment boy so he could be evacuated by a waiting air ambu - sion to forego so-called ‘aggressive medical treatment,’ for someone who is dying. The recent case of Alfie lance helicopter. in other words, medical procedures which no longer cor - Evans, who died April 28, is a case in point. The affair attracted worldwide attention as church respond to the real situation of the patient, either Alfie was 23 months old. He suffered from an leaders were accused of being unfaithful to church because they are by now disproportionate to any expect - incurable degenerative neurological condition. teaching. The Bishops’ Conference of England and ed results or because they impose an excessive burden Doctors in Liverpool, England, judged that it was in Wales defended the actions of the hospital. on the patient and his family. In such situations, when the “best interests” of Alfie to be allowed to die. The American National Right to Life president Carol death is clearly imminent and inevitable, one can in con - case was taken to the courts, to settle a dispute between Tobias, for example, said in an April 29 statement that science ‘refuse forms of treatment that would only the parents and the doctors. British judges decided that “no parent should ever be forced to the sidelines while secure a precarious and burdensome prolongation of nothing could be done to save Alfie. the government decides whether their child will life, so long as the normal care due to the sick person in Alfie’s parents, Tom and Kate, were young — 19 receive medical treatment or not.” similar cases is not interrupted.’ Certainly there is a and 18 years of age, respectively — when Alfie was She said: “Let’s be clear: Alfie Evans was sen - moral obligation to care for oneself and to allow oneself born on May 9, 2016. tenced to death by Britain’s National Health System to be cared for, but this duty must take account of con - They were assisted in their struggle by a small (Service) and the High Court. Their intransigent com - crete circumstances. It needs to be determined whether group of people outside Britain, according to Robert mitment to the country’s faulty single-payer health the means of treatment available are objectively propor - Mickens, writing in La Croix International . In an arti - system led them to conclude it was better for Alfie to tionate to the prospects for improvement. To forego cle entitled, “The ‘pro life’ zealots who manipulated die than leave the country and receive potentially life- extraordinary or disproportionate means is not the the end-of-life tragedy of a British toddler,” Mickens saving treatment elsewhere.” equivalent of suicide or euthanasia; it rather expresses reported that the zealots entered the young couple’s Cardinal Vincent Nichols, archbishop of West - acceptance of the human condition in the face of death.” lives several months ago, uninvited and entirely on minster, London, said he believes everything possible Mickens commented: the Alfie affair “has been a their own initiative. was done to help Alfie, and criticized those who sad and heart-wrenching saga. And it has been marked “These people befriended Tom and Kate and “sought political capital” from the tragedy “without by a blistering degree of bitterness and divisiveness ended up playing a key role in advising the young cou - knowing the facts.” stoked by certain journalists who have shown not an ple’s course of action and, especially, in helping to Some decades ago, the church distinguished ounce of shame for deliberately peddling falsehoods as make Alfie’s saga known throughout the world.” between ordinary and extraordinary treatment to help if they were facts. They have worked as tools and fel - He commented, “These outside forces actually medical staff and families decide when a person could low activists of the people who became self-appointed exploited this young family to advance their own polit - be allowed to die a natural death instead of being kept advisers to Alfie’s parents.” ically motivated agendas. They accused the doctors of artificially alive for days or weeks. It is not easy for Death is rarely an invited guest, especially for a one of the world’s finest pediatric hospitals as being family and friends to watch a loved one die. But it is a young family; emotions run high and facts are difficult cruel and deceptive. They pilloried England’s Catholic fact of life. to accept. bishops for acting like Pontius Pilate. They called for The issue of euthanasia and the recent focus on We trust the Prairie Messenger has helped our the sacking of Pope Francis’ handpicked president of assisted suicide serve only to confuse the issue today. readers navigate their way through the difficult deci - the Pontifical Academy for Life. And they even chas - Church teaching was spelled out by Pope John sions they face in our increasingly complex world. The tised Britain’s Royal Family for not ‘saving’ Alfie, Paul II in his encyclical, Evangelium Vitae (No. 65). Alfie affair may be an example where we need some while branding the United Kingdom a police state and “For a correct moral judgment on euthanasia, in clarity and background to understand what is happen - dictatorship.” the first place a clear definition is required. Euthanasia ing, and why. The parents appealed to Pope Francis, who met in the strict sense is understood to be an action or omis - We urge our readers to keep a vigilant and critical Alfie’s father. The Vatican-owned Bambino Gesu hos - sion which of itself and by intention causes death, with attitude in all they read, whether it’s fit or unfit to pital in Rome offered to care for Alfie, although the the purpose of eliminating all suffering. ‘Euthanasia’s print! — PWN Some advice is not helpful for persons struggling with cancer

By Rod andrews, Saskatoon the walls of my life.” Her illness Current. The interviewer asked us in a moment of despair or con - Kate says, “Life does not keep, caused her to reflect deeply on her “How do you keep your faith when fusion . . . is a friend who cares.” but love does.” “You are a person to be loved, life and her relationship with God. there is no cure for not a problem to be solved.” Kate She protested, “Does cancer not your disease and Bowler, a professor at Duke care I have plans?” “Does cancer you do not know Divinity School in Durham, North not care that I have tried to be a how much time Carolina, is 38 years old and a good person?” “I have so much you have left?” young mother. She studies the reli - that I love.” She replied, “I gious belief “that health, wealth She talks about a neighbour don’t have to try and happiness will come to those who came to their door and quite so hard to who believe.” She tries to under - attempted to comfort her husband. achieve God’s nod stand why many people believe The well-meaning woman told of approval. What I that a person with the right kind of him, “There is a reason for every - need is for every - faith will be healthy, prosperous thing.” one to come along - and happy. “I’d love to hear it,” Kate’s hus - side and fill in the Her own faith has been chal - band responded. “Pardon?” was gaps.” She finds lenged by a diagnosis of colon can - the startled neighbour’s response. joy in everything cer. Friends and colleagues offer “I’d love to hear the reason my that comes in the comfort and advice. Not all their wife is dying.” There is not a rea - course of a day: words are helpful. They try to son for everything. Some things “what is big and solve her problem for her. She just evade all reason. Kate’s latest book brave and also needs to be loved. is called Everything Happens for a what is small and Three years ago she was busy in Reason and Other Lies I Have cuddly.” her office when the phone rang. A Lived . Other people began their Henri Nouwen woman “who sounded like she had sentences with “At least.” “At least was a Dutch priest many phone calls to make” told you have a husband, at least you who reflected her, “The tests came back. You have a son, at least you live close deeply on faith and Ken Nowakowski Photo have stage four colon cancer. You to a hospital,” and so on. Sentences suffering. Nouwen need to come in.” Kate’s response beginning with “At least” do not wrote: “When we UKRainian BiSHOpS mEET — The annual meeting of the Ukrainian Catholic was: “But I have a son.” help a young mother with incur - honestly ask our - bishops of Canada and the United States of america was held april 30 - may 4 at Originally from Manitoba and able cancer. selves which per - Seton Retreat Centre, in Kelowna, B.C., in the Eparchy of new Westminster. From raised as a Mennonite, Kate was Kate has a suggestion for peo - sons in our lives left, is Bishop andriy Rabiy, administrator of the archeparchy of philadelphia; thrust into a world of hospital beds, ple who say, “God never gives us mean the most to Bishop David motiuk, eparch of Edmonton; archbishop Stefan Soroka, emeritus of intravenous therapy and physical more than we can handle.” “In- us, we often find the archeparchy of philadelphia; Bishop paul Chomnycky, eparch of Stamford; pain. She “lives from scan to stead of speaking theology, why that it is those who, metropolitan archbishop Lawrence Huculak, OSBm, of the archeparchy of scan.” “Cancer has kicked down not be the faith your friend needs? instead of giving Winnipeg; Bishop Bohdan Danylo of the Eparchy of parma; Bishop Ken Help shoulder her burden instead advice, solutions or nowakowski, eparch of new Westminster; Bishop Bryan Bayda, CSsR, eparch of of blithely reassuring her that she cures, have chosen Saskatoon; and Bishop Venedykt aleksiychuk, eparch of Chicago. The bishops dis - Andrews is a retired Anglican should be self-sufficient in han - rather to share our cussed topics in preparation for the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic bishop. This article appeared in the dling hard times.” pain.” Church to be held in Lviv, Ukraine in September. These included English translation April Country Guide. Reprinted Kate was interviewed recently “The friend who of liturgical services, development of catechetical programs, vocations to the priestly with permission. on the CBC radio program The can be silent with and religious life and priestly ongoing formation, cantors institutes, etc. May 9, 2018 LETTERS Prairie Messenger 19

VICS ad in PM changed life of small-town prairie teacher Reconciliation happens by

The Editor: I just put down the memory lane. It was while I was me her blessing. Dermot wisely May 2 issue of the Prairie Mes - 25 years of age and four years into went with her positive vibe of the getting to know each other senger . I was delighted to see that my first go around at teaching in big guy from small-town Sas - the advertisement for VICS was rural Saskatchewan that, while katchewan. And there followed Continued from page 1 able. There has been lots of healing, part of the publication to the very searching for that “something” to two tours with VICS, my joining but there’s still a long way to go.” end. Delighted because it was in calm the “Holy Restlessness” that the Spiritans and eventually the for my tears. It makes me sad and Cyr said she does fewer such Humboldt, a town near Muenster, I felt, the advertisement for VICS privilege of serving for some time angry,” Cyr said. “Angry because it presentations like these than in the that I began my teaching career popped out of the pages of the as VICS director. has been 25 years of learning and past because of the pain it recre - and where I spent five years as part PM . I wrote away (writing is what Today (May 3) as I read that acknowledging my story and that of ates in her. But she came to this of the PM /Benedictine monastery one did those many years ago; yes second-to-last issue, I wonder my community. In so many ways it session at the request of Sister groupies. with an envelope and a stamp) to what if VICS never advertised is both beautiful and horrible.” Marilyn Gibney, one of the organ - I received my first issue of the the far away planet called in the PM , what if I had never She said she and her husband’s izers, and one of Cyr’s teachers at PM in 1973 and for the past 45 “Toronto.” Then, like most early heard of this big city organiza - parents and both their grandparents St. Mary’s Academy. years I have been a faithful sub - VICS volunteers, I be gan a corre - tion that would change the life are residential school survivors, “and To introduce the evening, the scriber. The PM even sent issues spondence and lengthy late-night of this small-town prairie boy we have been learning about what pastor at St. Ignatius, Rev. Frank to Kenya and The Gambia when I phone conversations with Dermot forever? Thanks so much, happened over 500 years. In my Obrigewitsch, said truth and rec - was a VICS volunteer; even Doran. Prairie Messen ger , for being family there is a history of abuse and onciliation “happens by getting to though they came six weeks or I was not to meet Dermot until there and allowing one VICS trauma. As grownups we were seven know each other better. One can two months late, I read every just before I went overseas but I advertisement to change my life siblings who never hugged, we were accept and forgive the better one word. was sent off to Regina to be inter - forever. — Rev. Bob Colburn, raised in a way that it was not accept - knows the other person.” And the PM and that VICS viewed by returned VICS volun - Toronto, ViCS Volun teer, advertisement brings me back to teer and my friend for over 40 Kenya 1978 - 80; The Gambia PM covered Christian view on issues the point of this little trip down years, Dolores Fehr. Dolores gave 1980 - 82 The Editor: Prairie Messenger , will I do without the PM ? It will Where is the accountability for LifeSiteNews? you have been my help and encour - take a tremendous amount of time ager when I was catechism teacher, to cover just some aspects via the The Editor: I don’t remember “our” dissension, spirit of jeal - is given high priority.” So where co-ordinator, choir member, liturgy Internet. who said it, but some cleric said ousy and/or competition? Paul is the balance? It is more like co-ordinator, CWL and lately with Thank you for the work you there would be more trouble evan - wrote in 1 Corinthians 12:13, “For distortion. And who are they the MAiD and conscience in medi - did. You have been a blessing to gelizing from “within” the church by one Spirit we were all baptized accountable to? Accusations cine issues. us, your readers. Now receive, than from “without.” No truer a into one body, whether Jew or that are made of in nuendos with I could rely on you to cover the God willing, his blessing in the statement was ever made. The Greek, whether D&P or no ac countability or transparen - Christian view of issues covered coming years. — Karin Lotoski, example of squabbles and accusa - LifeSiteNews , whether slaves or cy should be investigated, but in the print and TV media. What West St. paul, man. tions from LifeSiteNews was free, and we were all made to settled once and for all by the never truer of fighting from “with - drink of one Spirit.” bishops and management of A heartfelt farewell to a trusted mentor in.” To me, the question is clear organizations in a “unified” re - This makes me ask several that the “issue” is not about sponse. The Editor: How do we say I know that everything has it’s questions. Where is the unity in the “abortion” or pro-life (we are all Spreading accusations widely “thank you” and “goodbye”? time. I trust and respect the deci - church? 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Conference of Catholic Bishops with issues in other cultures and Ghetto ( PM , April 25). He was morning it was with six kids “There were two major political and Development and Peace — countries. The current Canadian absent from grade school the day instead of just five. parties in Poland, both almost Caritas Canada are at it again. The government’s requirement to the Nazis removed all the children Peter was then secreted to a entirely Catholic (this was parable of the Good Samaritan sign accepting its “ethical plat - from the Warsaw ghetto and hid - small rural orphanage, given fake Poland!) and neither party would (Luke 10:30-37) seems to have form” to re ceive its federal grant den in a hollow step when people baptismal papers by the parish accept Jews as members. been misunderstood by many of for the Canada Summer Job pro - realized what was happening. priest and hidden by the nuns until But the Communists welcomed West ern Canada’s 25 bishops who gram is very similar. The CCCB A very brave Polish lady with liberated by the Russian Army in everyone and so, if a Jew was at met in February 2018. Their action is very much opposed to it (and five kids got him out. She was a 1945. all interested in politics, they interprets the parable as if the priest rightly so). It is really the same night cleaner in a Nazi building After escaping Communist joined the Communist party, be - asked the victim: are you a approach. which abutted the ghetto, showed Poland in the late 1970s, he emi - cause it was the only party they Catholic?; and the Levite asked: do It is a shame that the new head up for work one evening with her grated to Canada and moved to could join!” — Joe Foy, you hold to Catholic Church’s sex - of the D&P has been bullied from five kids in tow, convinced the Halifax, where we worked togeth - Hantsport, n.S. uality prescriptions? ( PM , April true charity — the love of one’s 11). neighbour in need (Luke 19:10). Former diocesan editor recalls history of events she covered No scripture scholar consulted When the CCCB and D&P con - comes close to this “interpreta - flict appeared a few years ago, our The Editor: It is with great week. I had a number of reporters munities have also appreciated tion.” The Samaritan, the graced family found other Christian- sorrow that I am witnessing the in my “stable of writers,” who our coverage. human one, did what he was able based organizations for our out - demise of the Prairie Messenger . fanned out through the city and This is the end of an era. I con - to do to his human brother, an reach for development and justice. This paper has been a part of life towns gathering news. gratulate the monks of St. Peter’s action of God’s mercy. 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By Cindy Wooden Bishops, but constantly finding Pope Francis. and in pastoral work as a whole, as ing, dialogue and communal dis - ways to live and work in the world The International Theological well as from their specific compe - cernment.” VATICAN CITY (CNS) — with a greater sense of the value Commission is a board of theolo - tence in the various spheres of cul - Without a conversion of hearts The Catholic Church needs to of the prayers, experience and gians, appointed by the pope, who tural and social life.” and minds, it said, the existing seek the input, commitment and advice of everyone in the church advise the doctrinal congregation. Any process of church discern - structures of synodality will be talents of all of its members if it is — including laypeople, the docu - The new document explored ment, the theologians wrote, “simple masks without heart or a to be truly catholic and to evan - ment said. Pope Francis’ frequent calls for should begin with a consultation face.” gelize effectively, said a new doc - “Synodality in the Life and the church to be “synodal” or of the laity and for that to be effec - Because the Holy Spirit works ument from the International Mission of the Church” was pub - char acterized by “walking togeth - tive, laymen and laywomen must within all the baptized, it said, Theological Commission. lished in early May with the er” as the pilgrim people of God. be given more opportunities for “the renewal of the synodal life of Pope Francis has called for the approval of Archbishop Luis The theologians said a synodal education in the faith and more the church requires activating church to be “synodal,” which Ladaria, prefect of the Congre- attitude and way of being church spaces in the church where they processes of consultation with the does not just mean holding regular ga tion for the Doctrine of the flowed naturally from the Second can learn to express themselves. whole People of God,” including meetings of the world Synod of Faith, and the authorization of Vatican Council’s description of Greater effectiveness also re - laymen and laywomen. the church as a communion and its quires overcoming “a clerical Synodality, it said, promotes emphasis on the responsibility of mentality that risks keeping them the baptismal dignity and call of all Catholics for the church’s life at the margins of church life,” the all Catholics, values the presence and mission, although each person document said. of different gifts given by the has been given different gifts and Calling for “conversion for a Holy Spirit and recognizes the roles by the Holy Spirit. renewed synodality,” the docu - specific ministry entrusted to pas - The document explored ways ment emphasized the need for all tors and bishops in communion the church already exercises syn - church members to be better edu - with the pope for the preservation odality, including through parish cated in “the spirituality of com - of the faith and the renewal of the councils, diocesan presbyteral munion and the practice of listen - church. councils, national bishops’ confer - ences, regional councils of bish - U.S. stem cell biologist ops, the synods of bishops of the Eastern Catholic churches, the world Synod of Bishops and ecu - appointed to science academy menical councils, like Vatican II. While synodality is based on By Carol Glatz at developing therapies that en- the baptismal gifts and responsi - hance wound repair and impact the bilities of each Catholic, the docu - VATICAN CITY (CNS) — stem cells of tumours, it said. ment said, it is not a call for some Pope Francis named a pioneering Born in Hinsdale, Illinois, she form of a Catholic parliament. U.S. scientist specializing in stem earned a degree in chemistry from The pope and the bishops, assisted cell research to the Pontifical the University of Illinois and got by their priests, still retain their Academy for Sciences. her PhD in biochemistry from decision-making authority. Elaine Fuchs, professor and Princeton University. She was the But “the participation of the lay head of the laboratory of mam - first woman hired in the biochem - faithful is essential,” the document malian cell biology and develop - istry department at the University CNS/Paul Haring said. “They are the vast majority ment at The Rockefeller Uni - of Chicago in 1980. aCTORS pLaY CaRDinaLS in mOViE — an actor playing a cardi - of the People of God and there is versity in New York, was appoint - In addition to working at Roc - nal gives his blessing as actor-cardinals return to the set while working much to learn from their participa - ed to the papal think tank, accord - ke feller University, she is also an on an upcoming netflix movie, The Pope , in Rome may 7. The film tion in the various ex pressions of ing to a Vatican press release pub - investigator at the Howard Hughes focuses on the transition between pope Benedict XVi and pope Francis. the life and mission of the eccle - lished May 5, her birthday. Medical Institute — a philanthrop - it is expected to be released in 2019. sial community, in popular piety Fuchs, 68, has done ground- ic organization working to advance breaking research on the biology of biomedical research and science skin stem cells, studying how these education. Pope praises retired Pope Benedict cells make and repair tissues, how She is a member of many top they “communicate” with other science associations, including the By Cindy Wooden of questioning on a theoretical and tion to refuse any dependence on neighbouring cells, and how the National Academy of Medicine, practical level the totalitarian claim love that is not a person’s love for communication malfunctions in and is the recipient of numerous VATICAN CITY (CNS) — For of the Marxist state and the atheist his own ego, for ‘the I and its de - cancer and aging, according to the awards, including the National more than 50 years, the writings of ideology on which it was based.” sires,’ and, consequently, the dan - press release. The re search is aimed Medal of Science. retired Pope Benedict XVI on the Pope Francis said the contrast ger of the ‘colonization’ of con - relationship between faith and pol - Ratzinger saw between Christiani- sciences by an ideology that de - itics have insisted that the measure ty and Marxism or communism nies the basic certainty that of human freedom is the extent to definitely was not the focus on the humankind exists as male and which each person acknowledges poor and the need to fight inequal - female to whom the task of the being dependent on the love of ity. transmission of life is assigned,” God, Pope Francis wrote. “We must learn — once again, Pope Francis said. The future pope’s “direct expe - not only at the theoretical level, but A new set of human “rights,” rience of Nazi totalitarianism led in the way we think and act — that Pope Francis wrote, is actually him from the time he was a young alongside the real presence of lead ing to the self-destruction of academic to reflect on the limits of Jesus in the church and in the humanity, as Pope Benedict had obedience to the state in favour of sacrament, there exists that other pointed out. The self-destructive the freedom of obedience to God,” real presence of Jesus in the little attitudes “have a single common Pope Francis commented in the ones, in the trampled of this world, denominator that consists in a sin - preface to a new book. in the last, in whom he wants us to gle, great denial: the denial of “Liberating Freedom: Faith and find him,” Pope Francis quoted the dependence on love, the denial that Politics in the Third Millennium” cardinal as writing. man and woman are creatures of is a collection of essays written The key difference between God, lovingly made by him in his over the course of several decades, Marxism and Christianity in the image and to whom they yearn as including during Pope Benedict’s retired pope’s writing, he said, lies the deer longs for running water.” eight years as pope. It is scheduled in the relationship each sees be- “When we deny this depend - to be published in Italian by Can- tween redemption and liberation. ence between creature and creator, tagalli in May 11. The website “Does redemption occur through this relationship of love,” Pope Vatican Insider posted Pope liberation from all dependence or is Francis wrote, “we renounce the CNS/Max Rossi, Reuters Francis’ preface May 6 and Vatican the only way to liberation the com - true greatness of the human being nEOCaTECHUmEnaL anniVERSaRY in ROmE — pope Francis News posted an English translation plete dependence on love, which (and) the bulwark of human free - greets people during a gathering of the neocatechumenal Way at Tor the next day. would then also be true freedom?” dom and dignity.” Vergata, a field on the edge of Rome, may 5. Some 100,000 members of Pope Francis said that when he quotes Pope Bene dict as writing. Pope Francis said reading the the movement welcomed the pope as they celebrated the 50th anniver - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger worked The retired pope’s insight is rel - retired pope’s essays “can help all sary of the movement. also pictured is Kiko arguello, co-founder of the alongside St. John Paul II, “he evant and urgent today, Pope of us not only to understand our neocatechumenal Way, playing guitar. pope Francis told the gathering elaborated and proposed a Chris - Francis wrote. “In fact, today more present and find a solid orientation that sharing the Gospel means being a witness to love, responding to tian vision of human rights capable than ever there is the same tempta - for the future, but they also can be questions and patiently walking alongside people, not dictating how and a real source of inspiration for when they take the next step. political action that, by placing the The archived issues of the Prairie Messenger, family, solidarity and equality at and the liturgical music suggestions, will be available at: the centre of its attention and plan - Walls turned sideways are bridges. www.prairiemessenger.ca ning, truly looks to the future with — Angela Davis foresight.”