SPRING 2021 CROSSVIEW A PUBLICATION OF THE CROSIER FATHERS AND BROTHERS VOLUME 32 @ NO. 1 LENTEN Reflections from Crosiers Lent and Eastertide encapsulate the spiritual heart of the Crosier Order as we celebrate the Paschal Mystery of Jesus, His death and resurrection. We asked a few Crosiers to share their personal Lenten reflections with you, our readers. The Paschal Mystery transcends all time Baptism is immersion into the Paschal Mystery of Christ and each sacrament thereafter is a Christians have created metaphors to help them to participation in the Paschal Mystery (Catechism articulate their lived experiences of the Paschal of the Catholic Church 1115). Mystery of Christ. They say that the crucified and Fr. Tom Enneking, osc, has said that our spirituality risen Lord provides them with light shining amid is a liturgical one, and our Church says that every darkness, joy amid sadness, healing amid illness, liturgy, including the Liturgy of the Hours, is a peace in times of confusion and chaos, hope amid celebration of the Paschal Mystery (CCC 1200). evil (such as in concentration camps), forgiveness IN THIS ISSUE Since Crosiers are heavily invested in celebrating the amid sin (while we were yet sinners, we were saved) Liturgy of the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the and strength in times of weakness (when we are PAGE Hours, I see how the Paschal Mystery is at the center weak, we are strong). 3 of Crosier spirituality. Online formation program This is how I read the theology that comes out of refreshes mentors “The Paschal mystery of Christ is a real event Vatican II. The person who does the that occurred in human history, but it is baptizing is God. At the moment of —————— unique: all other historical events happen conception in the womb, God once, and then they pass away, baptizes each person and PAGE swallowed up in the past. The 5 incorporates that person into His Fr. Hubert and Br. Daniel Paschal Mystery of Christ, by Kingdom. Some people receive a reflect on racism contrast, cannot remain only in the sacramental baptism after they past, because by His death he are born, and that is when God —————— destroyed death, and all that Christ incorporates them into His is—all that He did and suffered for Church. Those who belong to PAGE 6 all—participates in the divine eternity, God’s Church will be saved if they Crosiers help address workforce and so transcends all times while being seek God with a sincere heart. Those housing issue in Onamia made present in them all. The event of the who belong to God’s Kingdom but not Cross and Resurrection abides and draws God’s Church will be saved if they seek God —————— everything toward life” (CCC 1085). with a sincere heart. My summary of that paragraph is that His suffering, This go-to poem during Lent PAGE S 8-9 dying and rising were real events that occurred in brings me closer to God Three Crosier members history, and simultaneously they occurred in divine celebrate milestone jubilees time. That means that they are unique in that they For several years now, each Lent I have taken to transcend all time. They are not confined to one reading a poem/prayer in a meditative fashion in —————— moment in history. They transcend all centuries and which God is the one who shows me that He loves are made present in every century. me above all. This poem comes from Fr. George PAGE Herbert, an Anglican priest of the 16th century. It 10 Fr. Ives Congar, OP, taught us that the Church is a Phoenix couple inspired appears in the back of the Liturgy of the Hours faith community that shares in the divine life of by Crosier mission (Breviary) volume for Lent. I treasure reading it each God’s community (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). By morning during Lent, and I highly recommend it to way of their sacramental baptism and their anyone as a practice for Lent or any time of the year. membership in the Church, Christian individuals share in the divine life of God’s community. [continued on page 3] SPRING 2021 1 LIVING COMMUNITY LIFE VIVIR LA VIDA DURING COVID-19 BROUGHT US CLOSER TOGETHER COMUNITARIA DURANTE EL COVID-19 NOS ACERCÓ MÁS By Fr. Tom Enneking, osc Por Padre Tom Enneking, osc On Dec. 1, I experienced a Of the twelve people living on campus, ten tested slight cough for about an positive for the virus, two of whom were El 1 de diciembre del 2020, tuve una tos leve durante hour, and then it went away. asymptomatic. The other two tested negative. aproximadamente una hora y luego desapareció. Al día The following day I felt fine, Thankfully, most of us experienced mild siguiente me sentí bien, terminando el día enseñando una ending the day with teaching a symptoms so that within a three-week period we clase virtual de tres horas para una cohorte de habla three-hour online class for a were able to come out of quarantine. hispana en el Instituto Kino de la Diócesis de Phoenix. Una Spanish-speaking cohort at the Kino Institute of vez más, me sentí bien y tuve buena energía al relacionarme By Dec. 20, enough of us had come out of con los participantes mientras continuamos el estudio de la the Diocese of Phoenix. Again, I felt fine and had quarantine that we were able to resume the live good energy as I engaged with the participants to Liturgia y los Sacramentos. Sin embargo, cuando me fui a stream of our liturgical services. The greatest la cama después de clases, comencé a sentir un gran continue the study of the Liturgy and Sacraments Christmas present we received was the ability as described in the Catechism of the Catholic malestar, fiebre y dolores corporales que me duraron toda to gather as a community to celebrate la noche. No pude evitar pensar que me había infectado Church. However, when I went to bed after the Christmas together as everyone was out of con el virus SARS-CoV-2. Me quedé en mi habitación al class, I began to experience great discomfort, quarantine by then. día siguiente para evitar el contacto con mis cohermanos y fever and body aches that lasted throughout el personal de nuestras oficinas. Pude hacerme la prueba el the night. I could not help but think Needless to say, we experienced fear, anxiety and a feeling of helplessness in viernes y recibí los resultados el lunes siguiente en los que that I had become infected with the di positivo para el virus. SARS-CoV-2 virus. I remained The greatest the face of this nasty virus. It was in my room the next day to very odd how each one of us had a Mientras tanto, otros cohermanos de la comunidad de avoid contact with my Christmas present different experience with the Phoenix también comenzaron a mostrar síntomas, por lo confreres and the staff in our we received was the various symptoms that are que quedó claro que el virus había decidido visitar nuestra comunidad. Inmediatamente entramos en cuarentena, offices. I was able to get caused by COVID-19. Some had ability to gather cerrando nuestro campus a cualquier visitante. Aquellos de tested on Friday and received high fevers, while others as a community to nosotros que teníamos síntomas nos quedamos en nuestras the results the following experienced only low-grade habitaciones y los cohermanos que aún estaban bien les Monday that I tested positive celebrate together. fevers. Some experienced extreme entregaban las comidas. A medida que pasaba el tiempo, for the virus. headaches, while others only had minor ones. Some lost their sense of más cohermanos mostraban síntomas, de modo que para el In the meantime, other confreres in taste and smell, while most did not. 13 de diciembre, habíamos reducido a tres que todavía the Phoenix community began estaban bien. Tuvimos que interrumpir la transmisión en exhibiting symptoms as well, so it became At the same time, we knew we were not alone vivo de nuestros servicios litúrgicos esa semana. De las 12 clear that the virus had decided to make its visit as the healthy confreres among us tended to personas que viven en el campus, 10 dieron positivo al to our community. We immediately went into those of us who needed to remain in our rooms. virus, dos de los cuales estaban asintomáticos. Los otros quarantine, closing our campus to any visitors. We were deeply touched by the incredible dos dieron negativo. Afortunadamente, la mayoría de Those of us who had symptoms remained in our generosity of so many friends who offered to nosotros experimentó síntomas leves, por lo que en un rooms with meals being delivered by the bring food as our regular kitchen operation shut período de tres semanas pudimos salir de la cuarentena. confreres who were still well. As time unfolded, down. At one point, we had to tell people we No hace falta decir que experimentamos miedo, ansiedad y more and more confreres exhibited symptoms so needed some time to consume all the food that un sentimiento de impotencia. Fue muy extraño cómo cada that by Dec. 13, we were down to three confreres had been donated so no further contributions uno de nosotros tuvo una experiencia diferente con los who were still well. We had to discontinue the were needed for a while! Those of us with the diversos síntomas que causa el COVID-19. Aquellos de live stream of our liturgical services that week. virus gained a deep sense of solidarity with the nosotros con el virus adquirimos un profundo sentido de many people in our country and world who solidaridad con las muchas personas en nuestro país y en el contracted the virus.