VOLUME 20 NUMBER 4 SUMMER 2018 Introducing Our Nine Permanent Deacons Story on page 7 Four Men Ordained as Transitional Deacons Story on page 9 PAGE 2 - THE ARCH, SUMMER 2018 Fr. C. Lambertus Memoriam Fr. Eugene Lukasik Memoriam LAMBERTUS – Father Cyril Lambertus finished LUKASIK, Father his priestly work for the Lord Eugene Aged 86 on Friday, April 27th, 2018 at years of Moose Jaw, Whiterock, B.C. at the age of SK passed away 100 after serving as a priest peacefully on Monday, for almost 71 years. Father May 21, 2018. Father Lambertus was born May Eugene was born 30th, 1917 at the Glen Holly November 9, 1931 in farm family home four miles Czestochowa, Poland. east of Moose Jaw. He was ordained to the priesthood in Warsaw Father Lambertus completed in 1958. He left Poland his elementary studies at St. for America in 1968 Agnes School, Moose Jaw and lived in Houston, and his high school at St. Texas for a few years. Joseph’s College, Yorkton; and then studied at Campion College, Regina and St. Father Eugene came to the Regina Archdiocese in 1972 and Mary’s College, Brockville, Ontario.In September of 1943 was a Parish Priest in various places before coming to Moose he entered the Regina Diocesan Seminary for a four year Jaw in 1984. He served in Providence Hospital, Moose Jaw study of Theology. Union Hospital, St Anthony's Home, and Providence Place Father Lambertus was ordained a priest by Archbishop before retiring in 2005. Gerald Murray on June 8, 1947 at his parental parish church He is survived by his sister, Mary Smith of Tucson, Arizona. of St. Joseph’s, Moose Jaw. Over the next 37 years Father Lambertus served at Quinton, Radville, Minton, Benson, The Funeral Mass was celebrated on Friday, May 25, 2018 at Bienfait, Oxbow, Cedoux, Good Samaritan in Regina, and 10:00 a.m. in Church of Our Lady, Moose Jaw, Most Reverend Rowatt and was Chaplain at the Regina Correctional Centre Donald J. Bolen and the Clergy of the Archdiocese of Regina for the last six years of his active priestly ministry. con-celebrating. In the late 1980’s Fr Lambertus retired out at White Rock B.C.. A Funeral Mass was held at St. Eugene Parish , in Minton, Sk. 2018 NEW CLERGY APPOINTMENTS Rev. Yodel Cereno - Administrator of the parishes of St. Joseph, Whitewood; Holy Name of Mary, Broadview; and St. Elizabeth, Stockholm for a period of 3 years. Rev. Brad Fahlman - Assisting the Archbishop to help in dealing with challenges within the parishes, Archbishop’s Delegate for Victims of Clergy Sexual Abuse & assisting in putting in place a new protocol for victims of clergy sexual abuse and pastoral misconduct. - Associate Pastor of St. Cecilia Parish, Regina. Rev. Ed Hengen - Pastor of the parishes of the Church of Our Lady, Carlyle; Our Lady of LaSalette, Forget; Sacred Heart, Kenosee and the Reserves of Ocean Man & Pheasant Rump. Rev. John Mock - Pastor of the parishes of St. Mary’s, Grayson; St. Elizabeth, Killaly; St. Michael, Lemberg; Sacred Heart of Mary, Marieval, St. Paul’s, Sakimay Reserve, and the Reserves of Cowessess, Ochapowace, and Kahkewistahaw Rev. Antony Bruno Remigius Moduthagam - Administrator of the parish of Oxbow; St. Raphael, Cantal/Alida; and St. Jude, Carnduff for a period of two years. Rev. Thomas Mutavanattu - Administrator of the parish of St. Mary’s, Regina. Rev. Melchor Samonte - Administrator of the parishes of Christ the King, Shaunavon; Holy Family, Admiral; Immaculate Conception, Climax; and St. Patrick, Eastend. In order to strengthen the transition process into new parishes, a member of the personnel committee will be designated to be a dialogue partner to each newly appointed Pastor or Administrator. All the above appointments are for six (6) years unless otherwise indicated or unless the good of the Archdiocese requires otherwise. PAGE 3 - THE ARCH, SUMMER 2018 BERT PITZEL BIDS FAREWELL with terribly inadequate technology, journey can entail. I owe a great deal to to be done along side the matter of the three Bishops I have served under, completing my high school education. Bishops Peter Malon, Dan Bohan, Don Bolen, as well as the five Pastoral Later, I began my career as a classroom Directors. It was during this time that I teacher, a thirty year experience that began my love affair with Encyclicals included the supreme challenge of and other social justice writings. It teaching Christian education. All this, was in such readings that I was able together with the joys, struggles, to make some sense of this world, and demands of being husband, find hope, and see a way forward. father, presenter at the Lay Ministries Formation Program, and participant in My deepest gratitude goes to the various ministries in my parish of St. parishioners of the Archdiocese of Vincent de Paul, Weyburn, was to be Regina; I will not offer any names the backdrop and sufficient preparation here-you know who you are. You are in for my enormous undertaking. Moose Jaw, Swift Current, Esterhazy, I really don’t like the word ‘retirement'. Windthorst, Fort Qu’Appelle, Melville, So now that my 22 years of work Now some 22 years later, I think a Yorkton, Estevan, Weyburn, Maple as a Social Justice Coordinator is pretty solid approach, something I Creek, Lac Pelletier and various over, I will move on in the hope call the 'six-tracked program' awaits parishes in Regina. You are the that God isn’t through with me yet, the new coordinator. For the last two heroes who made it all happen, that something good will find me. months I have had the privilege of refugee sponsorship, different justice explaining the tracks to Tashia, telling workshops, Social Justice in Motion I remember the excitement I felt at 52 her the stories, and arranging meetings Conferencing, the 'road shows’ and years of age, upon the conclusion of my with some of the many people who meetings that made Restorative thirty-year classroom teaching career, have been part of my journey. But Justice and the TRC visible. Some of when I realized that I was to begin work the tracks are only foundational you are now engaged in the Laudato Si of gigantic proportions. I didn’t realize guides; the new Coordinator,Tashia workbook sessions, seeking to respond at the time that the work was to be Toupin, will be able to offer her own to the ecological crisis that is now part about beginning a journey that would significant gifts to deepen and expand of our legacy. There are the many spell out what that work would entail! the Social Justice ministry. I am people whose faithful work seeks to excited by the new possibilities. My Social Justice engagement would transform a culture unable to reverence life in all its stages and conditions. be a grand follow-up to earlier phases I am grateful to all ‘family members’ in of my life—the local fame that fell on the building who gather for prayer every To one and all, thank you for a good ball player, the toil and worry morning, as we listened to the Word of honouring me with your listening and of my final three years on the family God, found support and heard of the your participation. What an honour! farm when I was put in charge of many difficult struggles the human managing and working rocky land God bless, Bert Pitzel RAMA, VILLAGE OF THREE SAINTS by Frank Flegel This tiny village of 75 souls could become known as the Village of the Three Saints. Thanks to the generosity of Casmir and Maria Broda, their son Gordie and daughter- in-law Barb,and the efforts of St. Anthony’s Parish Council. Statues of Saints Gianna Beretta Molla, Pope John Paul II, and Mother Theresa of Calcutta, stand in a group on the East side of the church. With the Grotto of our Lady of Lourdes on the West the church is now bracketed by awe inspiring symbols of the faith commitment of the Rama parishioners. Rama was settled by Polish immigrants in the late 1800. It is located about an hour’s drive northwest of Yorkton. Soon after the first settlers arrived they began building signs of their faith; a church, then a grotto made of stones gathered from the surrounding fields completed in 1941. Here they hold an annual pilgrimage on August 14 -15 which has attracted thousands of people over the years. (Photo Courtesy of Enroute Photography, Yorkton) PAGE 4 - THE ARCH, SUMMER 2018 Chrism Mass Bringing the Good News By Frank Flegel The faithful came from across the “I’m thinking about her learning the hear.” The overwhelming good news, archdiocese to take part in the annual prayers, hearing the meadowlark for is that He has come. Chrism Mass for the blessing of the oils the first time in the Spring, learning to and renewal of the priestly promises of walk, to love and be loved by the family, service, and the congregation is asked falling in love and how that changed to renew their support prayers for them. her life and the lives of all of us who come from that love.” This year, for the first time, an ecumenical choir provided music He talked about her aging and the for the service. The singers were struggles she had. “I’m thinking this drawn from several Roman Catholic human condition that God made is churches, Knox Metropolitan United a beautiful, wonderful and amazing Church, Grace Mennonite Church and thing.” St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral. Archbishop Bolen also referred to “We all need the Good News that Jesus movies he recently watched on the brings,” said Archbishop Donald Bolen plane.