July 26, 2015 Volume 6, Number 15

The DIOCESAN Chronicle

News of the Diocese of Baker

Parish News: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Chiloquin A Celebration of Life Service was held Saturday, May 30, 2015, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church. The Mass was celebrated by Father Shiju Thuruthiyil, OSH, of St. Pius X parish in Klamath Falls. One hundred and five family members and friends attended both the Mass and the luncheon that followed in the parish hall, served by the Altar Society. Margaret Ann and her family were instrumental in the beginnings of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church. As a member of the Klamath Tribes, Margie truly enjoyed passing her Native culture to her children and grandchildren. At the luncheon, Margaret’s niece, Janice Miller, shared stories of their prominent Native American family. Beginning with a history of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church—before a Church was built in Chiloquin—her Great Grandmother, Ester Heart Anderson, opened her ranch so that people could attend Mass. Janice held a statue of the Blessed Mary which was present in the home when Masses were said at the ranch. She shared memories of her grandmother, Margaret’s mother, Mary Wright, who had eight boys and three girls. Several of the cousins shared a family tradition of baking a Potato Cake which was a recipe handed down from great grandmother to grandmother to mother to daughters. This cake is made and brought to every family gathering and was included as a dessert at the luncheon memorial. Everyone who attended the service enjoyed a slice while sharing with each other their memories of Margaret Ann Sandoval. —Danette Hood, Parish Office Manager

Diocese of Baker Vocation Committee We invite everyone in the Diocese of Baker to join us in prayer for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life. Vocations begin in each family, “Behind and before every vocation to the priesthood or to the consecrated life there is always the strong and intense prayer of someone: a grandmother, a grandfather, a mother, a father, a community...This is why Jesus said, “Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest,” that is, God the Father,

“to send out laborers into His harvest.” (Mt 9:38). Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only through prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.” —Vocation wisdom from Pope Francis

Pray daily and try to attend your monthly Adoration Holy Hour in your parish—praying for vocations in our diocese.

“If you are what you should be, then you will set the world on fire.” -St. Catherine of Siena

Mother Mary’s Daughters’

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Thoughts Along the Way Bishop Liam Cary

Pope Francis on “Our Common Home” II

In the final chapter of his encyclical Laudato Si Pope Francis highlights the role of Jesus Christ in “ecological conversion.” The Son of God “has taken unto himself this material world and now, risen, is intimately present to each being” by his divine power. The victorious Son of Mary “comes not from above, but from within; he comes that we might find him in this world of ours.” We can find the God-Man here because we can recognize him as one with a body like our own. “The acceptance of our bodies as God’s gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home,” Pope Francis teaches. “The Lord, in the culmination of the mystery of the Incarnation, chose to reach our intimate depths through a fragment of matter,” the Holy Bread of Life, which he gives us in Communion to confirm the God-given dignity of human life in the body. Therefore, the Pope says, “Learning to accept our body, to care for it and to respect its fullest meaning, is an essential element of any genuine human ecology.” But to respect my body to the full means I must care for every other embodied human life too, as well as the complex natural world that sustains it. “Thus the Eucharist . . . direct[s] us to be stewards of all creation,” Pope Francis says; for in the Mass “[t]he world which came forth from God’s hands returns to him in blessed and undivided adoration” as “an act of cosmic love.” But the Eucharist is always both matter and meal. Jesus’ body forever links him to the material universe, but he took a body to make himself bread. He gave us the Eucharist to satisfy our hunger, and he told us to go and do likewise, to bring bread to the hungry and good news to the poor. Thus does “the day of rest, centered on the Eucharist,” inspire “us to greater concern for nature and for the poor.” It inspires us to “ecological conversion.” For “we cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation [which] affects the most vulnerable people on the planet” with hunger and thirst. Eucharistic ecological conversion brings other issues into focus as well. “It is clearly inconsistent to combat trafficking in endangered species while remaining completely indifferent to human trafficking” (into which people are often driven by hunger), the Pope observes. Another striking inconsistency occurs when proponents of environmental integrity, “rightly demanding that

certain limits be imposed on scientific research, . . . fail to apply those same principles to human life” and “justify transgressing all boundaries when experimentation is carried out on living human embryos.” This raises a profound ecological question: “How can we genuinely teach the importance of concern for other vulnerable beings . . . if we fail to protect a human embryo . . . ?” In “the ‘culture of waste,’” the Holy Father said in May 2013, “people are thrown aside as if they were trash.” Unwanted frozen embryos are mouths we are unwilling to feed. The Bread of the Eucharist is a healing remedy for all that hardens the human heart against the hunger of the poor. In St. Luke’s account of the Multiplication of the Loaves, twelve baskets of broken bread are left over. “Twelve is the number of the tribes of Israel,” Pope Francis recalls; “it represents symbolically the whole people. And this tells us that when the food was shared fairly, with solidarity, no one was deprived of what he needed, every community could meet the needs of its poorest members.”

Pensamientos Del Camino

Obispo Liam Cary

El Papa Francisco en “Nuestro Hogar Común” II

En el capítulo final de su encíclica Laudato Si, el Papa Francisco destaca el papel de Jesucristo en la “conversión ecológica.” El Hijo de Dios “ha tomado para sí este mundo material y ahora, resucitado, está íntimamente presente para cada ser” por su poder divino. El Hijo Victorioso de María “no viene de arriba, sino desde adentro; él viene para que podamos encontrarlo en este mundo nuestro.” Podemos encontrar al Dios-Hombre aquí porque podemos reconocerlo como uno que viene con un cuerpo como el nuestro. “La aceptación de nuestros cuerpos como regalo de Dios es vital para dar la bienvenida y aceptar al mundo entero como un regalo del Padre y nuestro hogar común,” el Papa Francisco enseña. “El Señor, en la culminación del misterio de la Encarnación, escogió por llegar a nuestra profundidades íntimas a través de un fragmento de la materia,” el Sagrado Pan de Vida, el cual nos da él en la Comunión para confirmar la dignidad de la vida humana en el cuerpo. Por lo tanto, dice el Papa, “Aprendiendo a aceptar nuestro cuerpo, para cuidarlo y respetar su máximo significado, es un elemento esencial de toda auténtica ecología humana.” Respetar mi cuerpo al máximo significa que yo debo cuidar también de toda otra vida humana encarnada, así

como del complejo mundo natural que lo sostiene. Así, “la Eucaristía . . . nos dirige a ser buenos administradores de toda la creación,” Papa Francisco dice; porque en Misa “[e]l mundo nacido de las manos de Dios vuelve a él en bendita e indivisa adoración” como “un acto de amor cósmico.” Pero la Eucaristía siempre es ambos materia y alimento. El cuerpo de Jesús por siempre lo vincula al universo material, pero él tomó un cuerpo para hacerse pan. Él nos dio la Eucaristía para satisfacer nuestra hambre, y nos dijo que hiciéramos lo mismo, llevar el pan a los hambrientos y la buena nueva a los pobres. Así “el día de descanso, centrado en la Eucaristía”, nos inspira “a una mayor preocupación por la naturaleza y por los pobres.” Nos inspira a la “conversión ecológica.” Porque “no podemos combatir adecuadamente la degradación del medio ambiente a menos que asistamos a las causas relacionadas a la degradación humana y social [que] afecta a las personas más vulnerables en el planeta” con hambre y sed. La conversión ecológica por la Eucaristia también trae otros problemas a enfoque. “Es claramente inconsistente combatir el tráfico de especies en peligro de extinción mientras que se queda completamente indiferente al trafico de humanos,” observa el Papa. Otra inconsistencia sorprendente ocurre cuando los defensores de la integridad del medio ambiente, “con razón, exigiendo que ciertos límites sean impuestos en la investigación científica, . . . dejan de aplicar esos mismos principios para la vida humana” y “justifican transgredir todos los límites cuando se lleva a cabo la experimentación en embriones humanos vivos”. Esto plantea una pregunta ecológica profunda: “¿Cómo podemos sinceramente enseñar la importancia de preocupación por otros seres vulnerables . . . si fallamos de proteger a un embrión humano . . .?” En “la ‘cultura del desecho’”, el Santo Padre dijo en Mayo del 2013, “las personas son hechas a un lado como si fueran basura.” Los embriones congelados no deseados son bocas que no nos disponemos a alimentar. El Pan de la Eucaristía es un remedio curativo para todo lo que endurece el corazón humano en contra del hambre de los pobres. En el relato de San Lucas en la Multiplicación de los Panes, doce canastos de pan partido sobraron. “Doce es el número de las tribus de Israel,” el Papa Francisco recuerda; “representa simbólicamente a todo el pueblo. Y esto nos dice que cuando la comida se repartió justamente, con solidaridad, nadie fue privado de lo que necesitaba, cada comunidad puede satisfacer las necesidades de sus miembros más pobres.” Bishop Cary’s Schedule

July 26 Mass at St. Augustine in Merrill Mass at St. Francis Cabrini in Bonanza

Responding to the Needs

Within Our Catholic Schools

Your generous gift to the Bishop’s Annual Appeal ensures that Catholic education continues to be a lived priority in the Diocese of Baker. Last school year the Diocese joined in partnership with PACE (Pacific Alliance for Catholic Education), a program sponsored by the University of Portland. This year, with partial funding from the Bishop’s Appeal, PACE will provide us with four teachers, one will offer direct special education support to students at St. Thomas and St. Francis Schools. With PACE we continue to flesh out our commitment to serve the needs of all students in our Catholic schools. The Bishop’s Appeal continues to be heard. As of Wednesday, July 8, the following parishes have not only met but exceeded their goals:

St. Richard in Adel Holy Family in Arock St. Thomas Aquinas in Crane St. Katherine in Enterprise Our Lady of Angels in Hermiston St. William in Ione St. Elizabeth of Hungary in John Day St. Bernard in Jordan Valley St. Patrick in Lakeview St. Patrick in Madras St. Mary in Maupin St. John in Paisley St. Helen in Pilot Rock St. Thomas in Plush St. Joseph in Prineville St. Patrick in Vale

St. Kateri Tekakwitha in Warm Springs

Donations to the Appeal can be made online at the diocesan website (www.dioceseofbaker.org). Just click the icon (located on the home page) to read about the ministries that your Appeal dollars are supporting. Then review suggested gift plans and make your donation online. We greatly appreciate your generosity.

Scholarship Opportunity to World Youth Day 2016

Youth from various parishes throughout the Baker Diocese would like to attend World Youth Day in 2016. Some of these individuals will be struggling to come up with the full financial commitment of $3,400. Therefore, the Northern Deanery of the Baker Diocese (ND of BD) would like to set up a scholarship fund to help a few of these youth make this pilgrimage. We would like to able to offer three $1,000 scholarships. If you would like to donate a part or all to one of these scholarships you can contact Jacquie Hitzman at: hitzman4@msn.com or mail a check made out to ND of BD to 1403 NW Horn Avenue, Pendleton, OR 97801. The Scholarship applications will be available through July and will be dependent on the funds raised for the scholarships and applicants ability to come up with the remaining balance of the Pilgrimage to WYD. If you are a youth from the Baker Diocese who would like to attend WYD and feel a scholarship would make a difference in you being able to attend, please send a request for WYD materials and scholarship application to Jacquie at the email address above.

St. Vincent de Paul, Redmond The Redmond St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store at 1616 SW Veteran’s Way has become a major recycler in the area. In addition to all metals (washers, dryers, stoves, scrap metals) they have now added most electronics to their recycling program (i.e., TVs, printers, monitors, laptops, and mouses).

This is a valuable s e r v i c e t o t h e community and the environment, as it keeps several thousand pounds from going into the landfill each month.

Any of the above items may be dropped off at the thrift store in Redmond between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., M o n d a y t h r o u g h Saturday. If you are unsure of your item, call (541) 504-9840.

Knights of Columbus—St. Thomas, Redmond The Knights of Columbus Council #3636 in St Thomas parish, recruited 19 new First Degree members from the Hispanic Community that will form the Round Table in Redmond. Eleven were instituted on April 6, 2015, and eight on May 18. Once again; the Knights of Columbus principles of charity, unity, fraternity and patriotism are present in the Hispanic Community for the benefit of their families. On June 8, 2015, they had their first official meeting with the whole Council. On Sat., June 20, 2015, they gathered clean the church parking lot in preparation for the St. Thomas Feast celebration to be held on July 5th.

Caballeros de Colón—Sto Thomas de Redmond El Concilio de los Caballeros de Colón #3636 de la parroquia de Sto Thomas de Redmond, reclutó un total de 19 nuevos Caballeros de Colón de Primer Grado de la Comunidad Hispana que formarán la Mesa Redonda en Redmond. 11 de ellos fueron instituidos en Abril 6, 2015, y 8 en Mayo 18, 2015. Una vez más, los principios de caridad, unidad, fraternidad y patriotismo de los Caballeros de Colón están presentes en la Comunidad Hispana para beneficio de sus familias. En Junio 8, 2015, tuvieron su primera reunión oficial con todo el Concilio. El Sáb., Junio 20, 2015, se reunieron a limpiar el parqueadero de la iglesia en preparación para la Festividad de Santo Thomas.