PLANNED PARENTHOOD Planned Parenthood videos prompt Vol.The LI, No. 7 DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELD—CAPE Mirr GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI rJuly 24, 2015 One Church, East to West: Loving Jesus, Serving Jesus, Sharing Jesus investigations Jefferson City ver the past two weeks, The Center for Medical Progress has released un- dercover videos showing OPlanned Parenthood personnel God is LIMITLESS apparently discussing the sale of parts of aborted babies for research, and ways the abortion procedure Steubenville can be altered to preserve specifi- Conferences draw cally requested body parts. Planned Parenthood denounced the videos, a record 7,500+ which quickly spread through social media, and denied making a Catholic youth profit on the sale of aborted baby parts. In Missouri, Planned Parent- By J.B. Kelly hood said it does not participate in tissue donation programs and outh attending the 2015 follows applicable laws and sends Steubenville Conferences in tissue to pathology and then for Springfield Mid-America were medical disposal. encouraged through prayer, The undercover videos have Yfellowship, and the witness of reli- raised questions regarding the gious and lay speakers, to never settle legal, ethical, and psychological for simply “what the world offers,” implications of using fetal body but rather to be drawn closer to God parts procured from abortions. and to be ever-inspired by His limit- In one of the videos, Dr. less love and mercy. Deborah Nucatola, senior direc- The Mid-America sessions, tor of medical services for Planned coordinated by the Archdiocese of St. Parenthood Federation of America, Louis and hosted on the campus of mentions the Planned Parenthood Missouri State University in Spring- affiliate in St. Louis as an “un- field, drew more than 7,500 youth tapped” place to obtain specimens. over the weekends of July 10-12 and “One other place I would July 17-19. consider that you’re not thinking Bp. Edward Rice, an auxiliary about possibly is St. Louis,” she bishop of St. Louis, said that the said, adding that Dr. David Eisen- youth of the Church today are called berg is the medical director in St. to help renew the world, to rebuild Louis. “I think that’s definitely a society that often seems to be worth your while. And just looking hung up on expecting authentic and at the map, if there was one place enduring satisfaction from limited, that was untapped, I would say St. earthly things. Young people must Louis.” live “in the world, but not of the That has prompted a probe world,” Bp. Rice said. by members of the Missouri State “Leave behind what is super- Legislature. Senate Leader Tom ficial, leave behind those things Dempsey, R-St. Charles, announced that really fail to satisfy the human July 21 the creation of a special heart —leave behind those things committee to investigate the allega- and go deeper,” Bp. Rice exhorted ​​LIMITLESS—Billy Wilson of Holy Trinity Parish in Marshfield was one of ap- tions against Planned Parenthood. the youth during his homily at the proximately 400 youth from the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau who The Senate Interim Committee on Saturday, July 11, morning Mass. “Be attended the Steubenville Youth Conferences held on the campus of Missouri the Sanctity of Life, to be chaired State University in Springfield.Over 7,500 youth attended the recent Mid- See LIMITLESS / 10 America conferences under the theme LIMITLESS. (Photo by J.B. Kelly) See Planned Parenthood / 8 The Catechism in brief 1016 By death the soul is separated from the body, but in the resurrection God will give incorruptible life to our body, transformed by reunion with our soul. Just as Christ is risen and lives for ever, so all of us will rise at the last day. The Catechism of the Catholic Church compiles the living tradition of the Catholic Church and divides it into four sections: What Catholics believe (the Creed), how the faith is transmitted (worship and sacraments), how Catholics are called to live The next issue of The Mirror will be Aug 7, 2015. (moral life), and prayer. If you would like to receive the diocesan newspaper via Email in digital format, please contact Angie Toben at (417) 866-0841, or Email her: [email protected]. 2 The Mirror COLUMN/DIOCESAN NEWS July 24, 2015 THE WAY OF BEAUTY ‘The sacrament of the present moment’ Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo, CSJ Apostolate of the Laity: An overview ot until The Second Vatican in number. The crime of belief in Jesus Yves Congar and Edward Schille- Council was the vocation of Christ would likely be followed by beeckx, and diocesan priest, Josef the laity brought into sharp cruel death, a phenomenon that is Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict focus. Two thousand years today being repeated throughout the XVI). They saw the need of rekindling Nearlier, the early Church was made up world. the fiery zeal of the early lay Christians of bishops and lay disciples, at first and to revitalize their apostolic roles. Jewish converts, followed by those The​Middle​Ages​and​beyond from all walks of life. The timid and By 315 AD, Christianity was the A​variety​of​ministries the weak came. The deeply religious established religion of the Roman Standing shoulder-to-shoulder followed. Paul of Tarsus embraced The Empire. In the next century, the cleri- with others, lay people take their place Way only after being knocked to the cal and monastic states of life began to in public life and in the social milieu. ground. Then he summoned others to organize, expand, and win high praise. The roles in the Body of Christ are serve as his emissaries. Priests and monks separated them- varied, and everyone has a specific How did the apostolic Church selves from ordinary lay people. Nuns ministry that must be fulfilled. No grow from a few frightened men and were already cloistered. Whereas some substitutes will do. women to large numbers? Wasn’t it a monks entered a completely enclosed Lay faithful act as leaven in the high crime to join a sect that refused life, Benedictine monks educated sons masses bringing Gospel values directly to worship pagan gods? A community, of the rich but within the confines of to the world, their specific mission. ablaze with fervor and revealing the the monastery. A sharp hierarchical di- According to 1 Corinthians, chapter face of God, prompted others to “come vision arose: first bishops, clergy, then 12, the ministry of the Body is done in.” Nothing could surpass being gath- monks and friars who disparaged the through the duties inherent in the ered round its bishop celebrating the material and ‘evil’ world, and finally, work of each member. Eucharist. the laity. A bishop builds up his Local These baptized laity took their Church; a mother and father build up vocation so seriously that, if it became Vatican​II​and​beyond their family as the Domestic Church. necessary, they were ready and willing Ninety-eight percent of the in this country. They attracted young Secular institutes of men and women to die for their belief in Jesus Christ. Catholic faith-tradition is composed of men and women to weekly gatherings serve the world differently from the And many did. In the third century, the lay faithful, defined most often as that worshiped around the Eucharist. communities that follow the spirit Tertullian could say in his Apologeticus the People of the New Covenant, the Vibrant social apostolates like those of of St. Bruno or Charles de Foucauld. that “the blood of the martyrs was the People of God, or more precisely, the Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin wel- A person in public service ministers seed of the Church.” As the persecu- Body of Christ. In the years leading comed these young people. differently from those in the social tions intensified, converts multiplied up to The Second Vatican Council, lay It was not until the conciliar milieu. No one was more aware of movements such as the Grail began to Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity his ministry than Tim Russert who spring up not only in Europe but here and later, the 1987 World Synod on died in 2008. America lost a dedicated the Laity that the vocation of the laity and shrewd journalist, a devoted was placed on equal family man, and a devout, Catholic ​Glennonville​ footing with the gentleman. student​places​5th​ clergy and those in The manner is ordinary, as Fr. KHJM consecrated life. Holi- John LaFarge, SJ, wrote years ago. Catholic radio for Southeast Missouri ness, they affirmed, is What appears ordinary is far from a universal call. ordinary, however. It is the “sacrament From Jackson to the Bootheel On the eve of of the present moment,” a phrase used KHJM 89.1 FM brings the heart the Council, Pope by Fr. Jean-Pierre Caussade, SJ. ©CNA of Catholic Radio to the area. John XXIII assembled a group of prominent Sr. Roccasalvo, CSJ, holds degrees theologians: Jesuits in philosophy (PhL), musicology (PhD), Heart of Jesus Henri De Lubac, Jean theology (MA), and liturgical studies (PhD), Daniélou, and Karl and has taught at all levels of Catholic and Mary radio! 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