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Bishop Herbert Bevard Ordains Father Eduardo Ortiz Santiago the Catholic the Newsletter of the Roman Catholic Diocese Notes from the Bishop’S Desk of St Catholic Spirituality: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross Liturgy Mini-Series: The New Mass Prayers What Is New in Our Catholic Schools? Priests Get New Appointments Bishop Herbert Bevard Ordains Father Eduardo Ortiz Santiago the Catholic The Newsletter of the Roman Catholic Diocese notes from the bishop’s desk of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands Most Reverend Herbert A. Bevard PUBLISHER Father Charles Crespo EDITOR Keys and Sword Bernetia Akin, Valerie Douté PROOFREADERS Award Benefit Br. James Petrait, OSFS WEB MASTER is Excellency, Bishop Herbert The award The Most Reverend Herbert A. Bevard, Bishop Deacon Emith Fludd Bevard, will present the Keys and honors one CIRCULATION of the Diocese of St. Thomas Sword Award posthumously to whose actions in the Virgin Islands. Sarah Jane von Haack H WRITER/ASSISTANT EDITOR friends and family of the late William “Bill” reflect the Lynne Hsu Dowling at a banquet gala dance benefitting the Gospel values of faith, selfless service, personal GRAPHIC DESIGNER Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral Restoration Project. sacrifice, respect and valor. Centered on the September 2011 • Vol. 27 : Issue 9 The third annual event will be held at the symbols of the patron saints of the cathedral, The Catholic Islander is published Marriott Frenchman’s Reef Resort and Hotel on Ss. Peter and Paul, this accolade celebrates those monthly by the Diocese of St. Thomas in Saturday, January 14, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. among us whose vision and character rise above the Virgin Islands. P.O. Box 301825, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, The Keys and Sword Award, bestowed the norm. 00803-1825 www.catholicislander.com by the Diocese of St. Thomas in the Virgin Tickets are available for $150. For more Telephone: (340) 774-3166 ext. 211, Fax: (340) 774-5816 Islands, recognizes the recipient’s extraordinary information, consult your parish bulletin, E-mail: [email protected] commitment and selfless dedication to serving call (340) 774-3166, Ext. 213, or e-mail © FAITH Catholic™. individuals as well as the general community. [email protected]. Please submit news, digital photography and Dinner with the Bishop Supports St. Mary School advertising for the October 2011 issue of At the St. Mary School Auction Gala Father Patrick Lynch, C.Ss.R., pastor of The Catholic Islander by fundraiser on February 5, two couples bid St. Patrick Church, also is invited, as he was the September 6, 2011. together and won the opportunity to have priest that brought Mr. Bourdon and Mr. Cole into Bishop Herbert Bevard as a dinner guest. Gary the Catholic Church as converts. At the dinner, and Gail Bourdon of St. Patrick Church and Mr. Bourdon will present Father Lynch with a Bruce and Arlyn Cole of Holy Cross Church will portrait he painted of the Blessed Virgin Mary. host the dinner at the Bourdon residence on The dinner will be catered by Teddy’s Restaurant, St. Croix on Friday, September 23. which donated its services for the auction. bishop’s calendar Thursday, September 15, meeting with Father Wayne Paysse of the Black and Indian Missions, Catholic Thursday, September 1, 10 a.m., Board of Directors Chancery, St. Thomas. meeting, Catholic Charities, St. Thomas. 13 Sunday, September 18, 10:30 a.m., Mass, On the cover: Father Eduardo Ortiz Santiago Thursday, September 8, 2 p.m., Installation Mass Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral, St. Thomas. and Bishop Herbert Bevard of Archbishop Charles Chaput, Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral Basilica, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wednesday, September 21, 10 a.m., St. Joseph High School Mass, St. Joseph Church, St. Croix. 4 Local News Friday, September 9, 7 p.m., St. Peter Claver Mass, 7 ¡Buenas Noticias! Center for Black Catholics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Friday, September 23, 4 p.m., dinner with benefactors 8 Save the Date of St. Mary School, St. Croix. 9 Catholic Charities September 10-11, Mission Appeal, Mater Ecclesiae 10 Catholic Education Church, West Berlin, New Jersey. Saturday, September 24, 6 p.m., Mass, Holy Cross Church, St. Croix. 10 Special Report: Tuesday, September 13, 6 p.m., Keys and Sword What is new at school? Award Benefit Steering Committee meeting, Ss. Peter Sunday, September 25, 11 a.m., Mass of Installation of 12 Liturgy Mini-Series and Paul Cathedral Hospitality Lounge, St. Thomas. Father John Wladyslaw Juszczak as pastor, Holy Cross 14 The Church in the World Church, St. Croix. 16 Saint of the Month Wednesday, September 14, 10 a.m., Quinquennial Report Committee meeting, Catholic Chancery, 18 Catholic Spirituality Monday, September 26, St. Mary School Mass, St. Thomas. Holy Cross Church, St. Croix. 20 Journey of Faith 22-26 Parish Calendars Wednesday, September 14, 6 p.m., Diocesan Finance Monday, September 26, St. Patrick School Mass, 22-26 Pride of the Parish Committee meeting, Catholic Chancery, St. Thomas. St. Patrick Church, St. Croix. 2 The Catholic Islander / September 2011 / www.catholicislander.com Liturgical Calendar: St. Gregory the Great, pope and doctor of the Church Sept. 3 | Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sept. 8 | St. Peter Claver, priest Sept. 9 | The Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sept. 12 | St. John Chrysostom, bishop and doctor of the Church Sept. 13 | St. Peter Claver Mass His Excellency, Bishop Herbert Bevard, will celebrate St. Anne Patronal Procession the annual St. Peter Claver Mass at the Center for Black As part of the annual procession celebrating the memorial of Catholics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Ss. Joachim and Anne, Bishop Herbert Bevard blessed the boats September 9. The Mass commemorates the saint’s at the bayside of Frenchtown on St. Thomas on July 23. During ministry to African-American slaves. the procession, a small choir led members of St. Anne Chapel in a French song to St. Anne. New Archbishop of Philadelphia Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Charles Chaput O.F.M., Cap., as the 13th bishop and ninth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. Archbishop Chaput will be installed on Thursday, September 8, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral Basilica. His Excellency, Bishop Herbert Bevard, will attend. Archbishop Chaput, 66, is a member of the Order of Friars Minor, Capuchin. He was ordained a priest in 1970 and at the age of 43 became bishop of the Diocese of Rapid City in South Dakota. Since 1997, he has served as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Denver in Colorado. A member of the Prairie Band Potowatami Tribe, archbishop Chaput is the second Native American to be ordained a bishop in the U.S. and the first Native American archbishop. Appointments The Redemptorist Fathers nominated Father John Holy Cross Church on Sunday, September 25, at the Wladyslaw Juszczak, C.Ss.R., as the new pastor at Holy Cross 11 a.m. Mass. Church on St. Croix, effective August 1. Father Juszczak was Bishop Bevard also appointed Father Eduardo Ortiz ordained in 1988 in Poland and is fluent in English, Spanish, Santiago as administrator of Our Lady of Perpetual Help French and Polish. He came to St. Croix from a two-year Church on St. Thomas, effective August 1. Bishop Bevard assignment in St. Lucia. announced the assignment at the end of Father Ortiz Father Juszczak replaced Father Kenneth Gaddy, C.Ss.R., Santiago’s ordination Mass at Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral on who begins a study sabbatical in the states. Father Andrzej July 30. Szorc, C.Ss.R., remains as parochial vicar at Holy Cross Church. Pictured below, Bishop Herbert Bevard welcomed Father Juszczak to his office at the Chancery on St. Thomas on July 29. Bishop Bevard will install Father Juszczak as pastor at Liturgical Calendar: St. Gregory the Great, pope and doctor of the Church Sept. 3 | Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sept. 8 | St. Peter Claver, priest Sept. 9 | The Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sept. 12 | St. John Chrysostom, bishop and doctor of the Church Sept. 13 | 3 local news news flash! Rest in Peace Prayers are solicited for the repose of the soul of news Catherine MacDonald, the mother of Father Kevin MacDonald, flash! New School Website Address C.Ss.R., parochial vicar at St. Patrick Church on St. Croix and St. Joseph High School on St. Croix has a new Juan Carlos Rivas, brother of Sister Digna Rivas, R.G.S., also website address and e-mail address. The new web address stationed on St. Croix. is www.sjhsvi.com, and the e-mail address associated Ms. MacDonald died in Massachusetts on July 25 after a long with the new domain is [email protected]. St. Joseph High illness. She was 88 years old. Father MacDonald is in the states School started the first high school website on St. Croix and returns to the Virgin Islands on September 13. He begins a on August 31, 1996. Since then, more than 135,000 mission at St. Anne Chapel on St. Thomas on September 19. people from all over the world have visited the website. Mr. Rivas died peacefully at home in Managua, Nicaragua, on July 29 following a long illness. One of 11 siblings, he was 57 news years old, married and the father of two married daughters and flash! Youth Conference Canceled proud grandfather of a little girl. The Catholic Youth Day conference scheduled for St. Patrick Church on St. Croix on September 2-4 has been postponed until 2012. The Diocesan Youth World Youth Day Ministry concluded that it needed more time in planning Father Neil Scantlebury, pastor of Holy Family Church on in order to make it the best it could be.
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