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•Cardinal Pio Laghi, Prefect
of the Congregation of Catholic Education, will be the Homilist
at the Saint Patrick’s Seminary’s Centennial
Anniversary Mass Sunday, September 20, 1998 at 4:15 pm in St.
Mary’s Cathedral. A reception follows in Patron’s Hall,
lower level of the Church..
•Bishop-elect John C.
Wester will be ordained as Auxiliary Bishop
of the Archdiocese on Friday, September 18, 1998 at 11 am at St.
Mary’s Cathedral. Prayer Group leaders should encourage all
members to attend. •Vandals with a
slingshot damaged several large panes of
glass at St. Mary’s Cathedral recently causing $125,000
damage. During the past year, there have been 18 incidents of
vandalism to Catholic Churches in San Francisco according to
Maurice Healy, Archdiocesan Director of Communications.
•In Dies
Domini, ("The Day of the
Lord"), a recent apostolic letter, Pope John Paul II said
that Sunday prayer and rest is a human need and a religious
obligation. The Pope reaffirmed Church teaching that Catholics
must attend Sunday Mass and that other Sunday activities should
be in harmony with the sacred character of the day.
•Renew 2000 begins
during the week of October 4, 1998. You will be invited to join
one of the Small Faith Communities forming in your parish.
Meeting weekly for six weeks, they are structured around prayer,
Scripture and reflection to help you revitalize your Faith.
•Two TV Shows worth
watching: Ethics & Religion
NewsWeekly, a
half-hour show on PBS Channel 9, Sundays at 2 pm, or visit it at
www.pbs.org and Mosaic,
produced by the Archdiocese with CBS,
Sundays at 6 am on KPIX Channel 5
•The Catholic Distance
University is the first Catechetical
Institute in the Unites States with approval from the Vatican
Congregation for the Clergy to teach the Faith through distance
learning. CDU offers programs in adult education, undergraduate
college courses and two accredited Master Degree Programs in
Religious Studies. For further information, contact CDU toll-free
at 1-888-254-4CDU or visit their web page, www.CDU.edu
•Bishop Anthony M. Pilla
of Cleveland, president of the US Bishop's
Conference, said that Pope John Paul II’s apostolic letter
on the bishops’ conferences was not a restriction but an
affirmation that conferences can exercise teaching authority
"in their own name when there is unanimity among the bishops
or with the ‘recognitio’of
the Holy See… clarifies a situation that has been under
discussion for more than a decade."
•Fr. Lou Cerulli,
(Canada) will celebrate a Mass followed by a
Healing Service at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 751 Waverly St.,
Palo Alto at 7:30 pm, September 17. For more information, call
Mary Anne Trojak (650) 494-2496 ext. 15.
•Single Catholics Online http://www.singlecatholics.com is aimed at 18 and older
singles who are looking for other serious, loyal to the faith,
single Catholics to share life experiences.
•World Rosary Day will
be celebrated Oct 31. Prayer Groups and churches who would like
to participate in the World Rosary Day by organizing an event in
their city can contact rosario@churchforum.or.mx. The plans call
for the simultaneous prayer of many rosaries throughout the seven
continents.
•Pentecostal Lawyer, Vladimir
Ryakhovsky, is helping Russian Catholic parishes and other
religious denominations to register under Russia’s new law
on religion. His observations of religious persecution as a youth
help fuel his fervor for defending the rights of believers.
•"Pray American
Back to God!" Pray USA is on the web at http://www.usprayertrack.org
•United States Bishops’
web site offers answers to wide range of
questions about the Catholic Church and practical information: http://www.nccbuscc.org
.
You
can also check to see if a movie is
appropriate for your children to see: http://www.nccbuscc.org/comm/archives/98-076.htm
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