Fatima Pilgrim Crescent City Cruz y Virgin De Statue Tours Native Appointed La JMJ Llegaron Diocese Chancellor of O.C. a México Page 7 Page 8 Pagina 19 NORTH COAST CATHOLIC The Newspaper of the Diocese of Santa Rosa • www.srdiocese.org • SEPTEMBER 2017 Noticias en español, pgs. 18-19 Restorative Justice in Santa Rosa—Living the Gospel Bishop Vasa celebrated the closing Mass and challenged the audience to celebrate the treasure of the Faith entrusted in each of their hearts. by Beth Griffin (Article appears in the recent Youth Gathering in Hayward Catholic Home Missions Newsletter) Bursting with Hope by Stephen Morris Steubenville NorCal landed at Cal State East Bay in from around NorCal, Oregon, and Hawaii to celebrate Hayward this July after years of prayers and planning the Catholic faith with a charismatic intensity. to bring the event to the Bay Area. Previously students The next large gathering of Catholic teens in NorCal would travel to San Diego to attend this transforma- will take place Sept 16th at Six-Flags in Vallejo, don’t tional conference. The weekend is comprised of pow- miss out! erful witness talks centering on the Mass, Eucharist, Santa Rosa teens and adults celebrated the Sacra- and Confessions. Life Teen, Inc. sponsored the event ments with great passion along hundreds of other in collaboration with Franciscan University of Steu- brothers and sisters from around NorCal. Families and volunteers gather for a “Get on the Bus” day benville, Ohio making it possible for over 1,000 teens (see Youth Gathering, page 4) to visit offenders on visiting day. Prison is not a permanent address for most offenders. Be Ready to Help Hurricane Harvey Men and women convicted of crimes will eventually return to their communities and try to reestablish relationships with family, friends, and others they Victims, U.S. Bishops Say knew before they were incarcerated. But reentry into society is rarely smooth. Temptations and tensions Washington D.C., Aug persist and offenders who have not made meaningful 27(CNA/EWTN News) - The changes to their lives and attitudes are at tremendous damage done by Hurricane risk of committing new crimes. Offenders, victims, Harvey is a cause for prayer and the families of both have unique needs that are and preparation to help the often overlooked in the criminal justice system. For storm’s victims, the U.S. Con- 25 years, the Diocese of Santa Rosa in Northwestern ference of Catholic Bishops California has operated a mostly all-volunteer pro- has said. “As the Archbish- gram to bring healing, understanding, and support to op of Galveston-Houston, those engaged with or affected by the system. Deacon this crisis hits very close to John Storm is director of the Catholic Restorative home,” conference president Justice Ministry, one of the programs supported by The U.S. bishops’ conference is working closely with local Cardinal Daniel DiNardo a Catholic Home Missions grant to the Diocese of dioceses, Catholic Charities USA and St. Vincent de Paul said Aug. 27. “In solidarity Santa Rosa. societies, as well as other relief organizations. (see Hurricane Harvey, page 6) (see Restorative Justice, page 8) No Man Can Serve Two Masters On September 13, unlike August, the three children come to us unannounced and unchosen. This was the Testament warnings of the prophets readily come of Fatima did arrive at the apparition site on time. case, as we saw last month, with the penance imposed to mind. The Messenger of Divine Mercy, Sister The message of September was not significantly on the children by Arturo Santos who imprisoned Faustina Kowalska and the children of Fatima are different from the previous messages. Speaking to and tormented them. That penance was not chosen more recent examples. Lucia, Our Lady said: Continue to pray the Rosary by the children but they did not shrink from it or The enemy of human nature, as Saint Ignatius of in order to obtain the end of the war. In October Our seek to avoid it. The rope, however, was a penance Loyola identifies the devil, would like us to believe Lord will come, as well as Our Lady of Sorrows and freely chosen by the children and willingly endured that God’s just wrath no longer exists and that the Our Lady of Carmel. Saint Joseph for the sake of the salvation of souls. age old battle between the spirit and the flesh is a will appear with the child Jesus to These young children manifested such thing of the past. Christ’s admonitions, however, bless the world. God is pleased with a high degree of self-sacrifice and will- and Mary’s admonitions at Fatima remind us that your sacrifices. He does not want ful determination with regard to pen- there is such a thing as God’s just wrath and that you to sleep with the rope on, but ance that Our Lady felt it necessary to the struggle between flesh and spirit which resulted only to wear it during the daytime.” lessen their exuberance. from the original fall are still spiritual realities. Jesus Lucia then presented to the Lady I suspect that it is not necessary challenged those who strayed from the right path some petitions for cures and was for Our Lady to intervene with us to that if they did not repent they would suffer the told: “Yes, I will cure some, but not teach us to diminish the intensity of loss of heaven and the pains of eternal torment. He others. In October I will perform our prayer, our fasting or our pen- repeatedly warned that His kingdom was not of this a miracle so that all may believe.” ances. Lucia and Saints Francisco world, that His true followers cannot and must not From the Bishop Then she rose and disappeared. and Jacinta heard the message of the live in the spirit of the world, and that only those The “rope” to which the Lady Lady and responded to that message who rejected the spirit of the world and its allure- referred was actually a rope which Bishop Robert F. Vasa is with an energy which is edifying and ments would be saved! This Fatima Centenary Year the sixth bishop of the the children had found earlier in the Diocese of Santa Rosa. humbling. We too hear the message is an occasion for us all to reflect again, and very year and which they divided into of Our Lady, which is the message of soberly, on the clear words of our Lord Himself: “No three parts and then each tied the Our Lord as well, and yet I suspect man can serve two masters... Enter by the narrow rope around their waists as a penance. The admo- that actively seeking opportunities to do penance is gate. … Not everyone who calls me “Lord, Lord” nition of Our Lady that they were not to wear the not high on our list of priorities. will enter the kingdom of heaven…But what of the rope while they slept was to assure that the children The course of human history is filled with exam- man who hears these words of mine and does not would not subject themselves to an excess of penance ples of man straying from the path of love, truth, act upon them. He is like a man who was foolish which could lead to health risks for them. The zeal goodness and light which our Creator sets before enough to build his house on sand. The rain came of these three children to embrace penance speaks us. Each time God’s people strayed He gently called down, the floods rose, the wind blew, and beat down to the seriousness with which they attended to the them back to Himself, to His Infinite love and mercy, on that house; down it fell with a great crash.” (cf. messages of the Lady. The message was consistently, either by grace or sometimes by sending a messenger Matthew 6:24 - 7:27) “Unless you do penance, you Pray and do penance. There are some penances which to urge them to return to the right path. The Old shall likewise perish.” (Luke 13:5) ❖ CONTENTS YOUTH GATHERING IN HAYWARD BURSTING WITH THE WORLDFAMOUS INTERNATIONAL PILGRIM NEWS BRIEFS ........................................................16 PRIESTLY HOPE ........................................................................1 VIRGIN STATUE OF FATIMA VISITS THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA ............................................................7 THE RISE OF THE ‘ALTRIGHT’ .................................17 ORDINATION RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN SANTA ROSALIVING THE GOSPEL .............................................................1 THEOLOGIAN PIA DE SOLENNI APPOINTED ORANGE NINGÚN SER HUMANO PUEDE SERVIR A DOS COUNTY CHANCELLOR .............................................8 MAESTROS .............................................................18 ANNIVERSARY BE READY TO HELP HURRICANE HARVEY VICTIMS, U.S. BISHOPS SAY ....................................................1 CHARLOTTESVILLE THROUGH THE EYES OF AN EX PADRE BALASWAMY, HUELES MAL? ....................18 WHITE SUPREMACIST ..............................................9 NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS .......................2 NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL ..........................................19 Rev. Peter Talcott, EWTN’S ‘CALLED AND CHOSEN’ .............................10 WHY YOUTUBE NEEDS CATHOLICS ..........................3 FROM ADDICTION TO ORDINATION: A HOMELESS Retired, St. Helena TIME FOR ACTION! .................................................11 MAN’S JOURNEY TO PRIESTHOOD .........................21 September 7, 1975 FR. THOMAS W. DEVEREAUX 19382017 .....................4 FREE ONLINE VIDEO SERIES CALENDAR .............................................................22 AMID NATIONWIDE CONTROVERSY, ST. JUNIPERO STARTS IN SEPTEMBER! .........................................12 SERRA STATUE VANDALIZED IN L.A.. .......................5 MARIAN SISTERS “A BIG THANK YOU!” FOR FATHER BALASWAMY GOVINDU, DO YOU STINK?....12 SUCCESSFUL BBQ! .................................................22 Prayer for Priests ANTI…WHAT? ........................................................6 Gracious and loving God, we thank your AN EXORCIST TALKS ABOUT ‘ANNABELLE’ AND THE HOW FAR I’LL GO ...................................................23 for the gift of our priests. Through them, we LETTER TO THE EDITOR ............................................6 POWER OF EVIL .....................................................13 experience your presence in the sacraments. YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY NEWS.............23 Help our priests to be strong in their vocation.