2019 Football Preview inside CatholicThe TIMES The Diocese of Columbus’ News Source August 25, 2019 • 21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME • Volume 68:39 Inside this issue Deacon administrator: Deacon Frank Iannarino is the first deacon specifically appointed by Bishop Robert Brennan to be administrator of a parish, Page 2 Faith in Action: Mark Huddy reflects on the tragic mass shootings in Dayton and in Texas and says something needs to be done about gun violence in our country, Page 5 Scripture: Respond to the word of God and spread the Good News to all the world, Father Timothy Hayes writes, Page 19 DIOCESAN STUDENTS HEAD BACK TO SCHOOL Pages 3-4 Catholic Times 2 August 25, 2019 Deacon moves into new role as parish administrator This month, Deacon Frank Iannari- by Msgr. Anthony Missimi and Msgr. and chaplain and religious education Deacon Iannarino, as a deacon, can no began serving as deacon parish ad- John Cody, retired priests of the diocese. director at Columbus Bishop Watter- preach, conduct Eucharistic and Scrip- ministrator of Columbus St. John the St. John the Baptist was established son High School and continues part- ture services, perform baptisms, pre- Baptist Church after being appointed in 1898 as an Italian national parish, time diaconal ministry at Dublin St. pare couples for marriage, officiate at to the position in July by Bishop Rob- with no geographic boundaries, and Brigid of Kildare Church. weddings, assist with annulments and ert Brennan. is the only such parish in the diocese. As administrator, he reports direct- perform most other pastoral duties. He is the only deacon in the Diocese It is a landmark for motorists on In- ly to the bishop and Msgr. Stephan Although he can visit the sick, he of Columbus serving in such a posi- terstate 670 because its cross is easily Moloney, diocesan vicar general, and cannot administer the Sacrament of tion. Deacon Andy Duda is adminis- visible, and its annual Italian Festival keeps Father Lumpe, who also will Anointing of the Sick, nor can he trator of Newcomerstown St. Francis in October in the parish parking lot continue as diocesan vicar for priests, celebrate Mass or hear confessions. de Sales Church, overseeing day-to- attracts large crowds from throughout informed of actions he has taken. Those actions can be performed only day parish activities, but that parish central Ohio. “Bishop Brennan called me and by a priest. also has a priest moderator, Father For several years, St. John the said he didn’t want to appoint a priest The role of a deacon parish admin- Victor Wesolowski. Baptist and Columbus Sacred Heart as administrator at St. John the Bap- istrator is defined in the Diocese of For about 15 years until 2018, Co- Church have shared a priest as ad- tist, but didn’t want me to be admin- Columbus Guidelines for Deacons, lumbus St. Agnes and St. Aloysius ministrator. Father Robert Kitsmiller istrator of two parishes, so he chose which are based on a document is- churches had deacon administrators served in that role until Monday, Aug. Father Streitenberger for Sacred Heart sued in 2004 by the committee on the serving under the supervision of a 5, when he became rector of Colum- and selected me for St. John,” Deacon diaconate of the U.S. Conference of priest moderator. Deacon Bill Da- bus St. Joseph Cathedral, succeeding Iannarino said. Catholic Bishops. The committee’s vis was the first of those deacons, Father Michael Lumpe, who was ap- “My dad was baptized at St. John, chairman at the time was retired Co- succeeded by Deacons Jim Gorski, pointed vice rector for the college of and I’ve always felt a connection to the lumbus Bishop Frederick Campbell. George Zimmerman and Tom Phillips. liberal arts at the Pontifical College parish because of my Italian heritage, The guidelines, paraphrasing a 1997 Father Patrick Toner became pastor of Josephinum. so I told the bishop I’d be honored to Vatican document on the role of the the two parishes and of Columbus St. Bishop Brennan appointed Father provide a pastoral presence there. laity, say that a deacon parish admin- Mary Magdalene Church in 2018. Adam Streitenberger to succeed Father “I’ve already scheduled a wedding istrator is not to be appointed by the Deacons also have served in several Kitsmiller as administrator at Sacred and a couple baptisms at the church. I bishop “for reasons of convenience, instances as temporary administrators Heart and Deacon Iannarino to the will be at all the Sunday Masses there, but because of a true shortage of of parishes in the diocese when a pas- same position at St. John the Baptist. and my first priority is to be sure Mass priests” and that in such cases “there tor became ill or died. Father Streitenberger also will con- and the Sacraments continue to be is a clearly stated preference for dea- Deacon Iannarino is the first dea- tinue as parochial vicar at the cathe- celebrated there regularly. cons to fill this office of participating con specifically appointed by Bishop dral and was appointed to the new po- “The bishop told me that he fore- in the pastoral care of the parish.” Brennan to be administrator of a par- sition of coordinator of evangelization sees having more deacons playing an The guidelines also say a deacon ish so its parishioners can have con- for the diocese. active role in staffing parishes and that parish administrator “is not to comport stant pastoral care. Deacon Iannarino retains his current he thought it would be good for me to himself in such a way that he might be St. John the Baptist has one Sunday positions as director of the diocesan be one of the first. With the blessing of understood to be the de facto pastor.” Mass, celebrated on alternate Sundays Office of the Permanent Diaconate my wife, I gladly accepted.” Two men from diocese profess Holy Cross vows Michael Ryan and Brian Vetter from Profession of vows means they pastoral formation through the uni- the Diocese of Columbus made their have completed a year of prayer and versity’s master of divinity program. first profession of religious vows in the discernment at the congregation’s no- This period of formation usually takes Congregation of Holy Cross as they vitiate near Colorado Springs. about a year. A seminarian then profess- discern a calling to the priesthood. Ryan was involved in summer min- es perpetual vows and is ordained as Ryan, son of Bob and Mary Ginn istry at Holy Redeemer Church in Port- a deacon, followed generally in about Ryan of Columbus St. Catharine land, Oregon, and Vetter was at St. Igna- eight months by ordination as a priest. Brian Vetter of Also making his first Church, and Vetter, whose parents are tius the Martyr Church in Austin, Texas. After professing vows during the Dublin St. Brigid profession of vows John and Patricia Vetter of Dublin St. They and the other men who pro- Mass, the 12 men received the Holy of Kildare Church was Michael Ryan Brigid of Kildare Church, were among fessed their vows in Colorado will Cross habit and the congregation’s has made his first of Columbus St. 12 men professing vows on Saturday, live at Moreau Seminary at the Uni- profession of vows Catharine Church. Aug. 3, at Sacred Heart Church in versity of Notre Dame in Indiana and in the Congregation (Photos/ Congrega- Colorado Springs, Colorado. engage their theological studies and See HOLY CROSS, Page 21 of Holy Cross. tion of Holy Cross) Front Page photo: Bishop Robert J. 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([email protected]) Postmaster: Send address changes to Catholic Times, 197 E. Gay St., Columbus OH 43215. Please allow two to four weeks for change of address. August 25, 2019 Catholic Times 3 Firefighter-turned-teacher kindles love of God in students When Theodore “Chip” Roberts’ spent his life in the service of others. ical and written examinations and was He retired from the department on fifth- and sixth-grade religion stu- He is the youngest of five siblings, offered a commission as a city fire- Dec. 19, 2014, after a combined 34 dents at Westerville St. Paul School and one of his earliest memories is fighter in 1988. years of public service. “I loved being returned to his classroom on Wednes- helping a sibling who was born with His first assignment was as a fire- retired and being able to go to daily day, Aug. 21, they saw not only the a physical disability. “It was just part fighter and emergency medical Mass and a daily jog,” he said. But usual messages of welcome, but also a of my daily routine,” he said.