BeA special pro-life Not ministry supports parentsAfraid faced with difficult prenatal diagnoses Parish From the Bishop Year of Faith Ministry Profile Honoring Ministries, Lent Begins The Justice Embracing February 13 Theater Project Challenges from the bishop Honoring Ministries, Embracing Challenges t certain times in the life of the Church, our and more vocations. However, we cannot merely do so in a general focus is drawn ever more clearly to specific way. What about your children and ministries and Gospel challenges. The grandchildren, your family members months of January and February are filled or parishioners? They need to receive an invitation from you to consider the Awith such examples. At the time of this publication, we possibility that God may be calling are celebrating Respect Life Month, Vocations Awareness them to this marvelous life. They need Month, Month of Christian Unity and Catholic Schools to hear of your willingness to support them if God is calling them to be a Week. Above all else, in February we embrace the priest or religious. The Church needs Lenten call to conversion, the radical transformation you to be a vocation director! of our lives. With God’s grace, we seek to turn away In this Year of Faith, parents are reminded that they are the first from sin and be faithful to the Gospel reflected in our teachers of their children in the ways renewed commitment to prayer, fasting and almsgiving. of faith and that this responsibility must be one of their highest Allow me in this article to highlight Week of Christian Unity motivates us priorities. As we celebrate Catholic the realities the Church highlights to celebrate the unity that is ours as Schools Week, the Diocese renews for us in these months: brothers and sisters in Christ and its commitment to assist parents in Respect Life Month reminds us that to pray that the prayer of Jesus is this very special role and to provide each day is an opportunity to give fulfilled: that all may be one. How excellent schools where children can thanks to God for the precious gift important it is that we learn from pray daily and study and celebrate we all too often take for granted: the one another and work together in their Catholic faith five days a week. precious gift of life itself. It is essential bringing the Good News of Christ I am proud of our Catholic Schools that we meditate upon the truth to our communities. In this Year of and express profound thanks to all that we are uniquely created in the Faith, we are also invited to teach, Catholic educators for dedicating image and likeness of God and are share and convey our beliefs with their lives to this beautiful ministry. indeed temples of the Holy Spirit. those who may not understand who In the months of January and This reality inspires us to live purely we are and what we believe. As February the Church, in Her and chastely and to remain strong in we are often reminded, we do not wisdom, reminds us of our call to body and spirit. At the same time we impose; we propose, and we do so in revere the sacredness of all human recognize that our nation, in many truth and love. life and to offer prayer, witness and ways, fails to revere the sacredness of Vocations Awareness Week calls us advocacy on its protection; to work all human life, especially through its to remember the beloved priests for Christian unity; to promote legalization of abortion and the taking and religious who have served vocations to Priesthood and Religious of innocent lives each day. We must us throughout our lives and to Life and to celebrate the great role never grow tired of praying for the end pray for their eternal peace. It is Catholic Schools have played and of abortion, and we must match our also an opportunity to thank and continue to play in the life of the prayer with our witness and advocacy. encourage the priests and sisters Church and the faith formation of We must continue to work for the who generously serve us today our young people. dignity of all human persons without within our Diocese. Please do not We can respond to the call we have exception including the poor, elderly, underestimate what your words of received only with the grace that immigrant, prisoner and all who are so gratitude and support mean to them. comes from God, whose help and easily forgotten and dismissed. All our Also remember that all of us are divine assistance we seek each and efforts to protect life must be sustained called to be vocation directors. We every day of our lives. Through God’s in Jesus, the Source of all Life. must do our part, with God’s grace, special grace in the sacred Season Our belief in the dignity of all to give the Church more priests of Lent may we be drawn closer to persons leads us to treat all God’s and religious. The obvious way is Him and remain ever faithful to the people with respect and love. The to pray for this special intention Gospel. NC Catholics 2 Jan./Feb. 2013 | www.DioceseofRaleigh.org | www.NCCatholics.org table of contents inside Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge this issue PUBLISHER Frank Morock DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS From the Bishop Jan./Feb. 2012 • Vol. 10 : Issue 1 2 Honoring Ministries, Richard Reece Embracing Challenges EDITOR IN CHIEF Anjanette Wiley ADVERTISING MANAGER One Faith. One People. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge 8 Three Parishes Inaugurating Father Carlos Arce “Piggyback” Cathedral Rachelle D. 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Burbidge local news Years of Faith Over these 65 years, Maxine has steeped herself in the charism of her religious community, committing herself to “The renewal of the Church is also achieved through the making God’s Providence visible in the world. Inspired by witness offered by the lives of believers: by their very their Founders, Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler and existence in the world, Christians are called to radiate the Mother Marie de la Roche, the Sisters have a deeply rooted word of truth that the Lord Jesus has left us.” faith vision, leading them to trust that God’s love will provide (Porta Fidei: Apostolic Letter opening the Year of Faith) for them in every way. This year, the Sisters of Divine Providence, based in Pittsburgh, are exploring the meaning On February 2 at 11 a.m., Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the Lilies of the Field passage for their lives today. will offer the annual Diocesan Mass celebrating the World With no regrets about a life which, Maxine declares, Day for Consecrated Life. On that occasion two Sisters in has been richly blessed, she urges women today to reflect our Diocese will mark anniversaries signifying many years daily on the abundant gifts of their lives and ask, “How of faithful commitment to radiating the love of God by their can I return the love God gives me every day?” God’s living of the vowed, community life in service to others. call is to be found deep within the gifts of our lives, Maxine affirms. We need to use them. For Maxine this involves – Sister Maxine besides teaching -- just being with people, enjoying a good Tancraitor, CDP – inspirational movie, reading and traveling.