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 ANNOUNCEMENTS AT MASS

Pentecost Sunday
  May 19^th, 2012  

1. If anyone would like passes for Vespers on May 24th at 7pm and the Ordination of our new bishop on May 25th at 11am at the cathedral please give Nancy a call.

2. Our 2^nd collection this weekend was for Catholic Charities. Envelopes are in the pews and can be dropped off anytime.

 THE GENERAL INTERCESSIONS

May 19^th, 2012

Presider:  On the Birthday of our Church, let us pray to God for the needs of our Church here at Queen of All Saints, knowing that the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to God’s will:

Lector:     For our new bishop-elect Fr. Michael Barber and for our priests, Father Mike, Father Enrique, Father Peter and Father Jose. May the Lord renew them and bless them for their ministries ahead. We pray to the Lord:

Lector:     For our staff, ministry leaders and all volunteers. May they continue to serve with a new awareness of their gifts and centeredness on Christ. We pray to the Lord:

Lector:     For our school and all our youth programs. May they thrive with renewed hope and energy. We pray to the Lord:

Lector:     For unity among our parish communities. Despite being from different cultures, may we know we are one family gathered in love around the one table. We pray to the Lord:

Lector:     For all parishioners, especially those newly initiated, may we all strive for a more active eucharistic faith and a better relationship with Christ. We pray to the Lord:

Lector:     For all who are sick, especially, Pat Garidel, Angela Vigil, Lydia Pascal, Luana Lowes, Narciso Hernandez, Pat Vigil, Judith Flores, Debbie Knipp, Brunetta Martin, Karin Berg, Carmen Medina, Joan Magueri, Dennis Garidel, Terry Hurley, Richard Salvatore , Clyde and Claudia Blount and Eliza Begley(and______________________) and for all who have died, especially(_________________________) let us pray to the Lord:

Presider:  Father, you send your Spirit with gifts for each of us. In gratitude for all of our blessings we ask that you hear the prayers we offer through Christ our Lord. Amen.

    HABEMUS PAPAM!    

Pope Francis Elected Supreme Pontiff 13 March 2013
Formerly: Cardinal Priest, Title of S. Roberto Bellarmino

• Appointed by John Paul II on 21 February 2001
• Archbishop of Buenos Aires (28 February 1998– 13March 2013)
• Ordinary for Eastern-rite faithful in Argentina who lack an Ordinary of their own rite

Motto as Archbishop: "Miserando atque eligendo" - "Miserable yet chosen" Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was ordained for the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) on 13 December 1969 during his theological studies at the Theological Faculty of San Miguel.

As served as a novice master in San Miguel, where he also taught theology, and later was the Jesuit Provincial for Argentina (1973-1979) and Rector of the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel (1980-1986). After completing his doctoral dissertation in Germany, he served as a confessor and spiritual director in Córdoba.

On 20 May 1992 he was appointed titular Bishop of Auca and Auxiliary of Buenos Aires, receiving episcopal consecration on 27 June. On 3 June 1997 he was made Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires and succeeded Cardinal Antonio Quarracino on 28 February 1998. He is also the Ordinary for Eastern-rite faithful in Argentina who lack an Ordinary of their own rite. From 8 November 2005 until 8 November 2011 he served as President of the Bishops' Conference of Argentina.

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal by Bl. John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 2001, with the Title of S. Roberto Bellarmino (St. Robert Bellarmine).

During the 10th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, in October 2001, he served as the Adjunct Relator General. He was also a member of several curial congregations: For Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments; for the Clergy; for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, as well as the Pontifical Council for the Family and the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.

On 13 March 2013 Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ, was elected Supreme Pontiff on the second day of the Conclave, on the fifth ballot.

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 Editorial Note: It is my decision to grant the following two letters permanency on this website as important educational documents. It serves as a powerful example of how we can all learn to deal with those who chose to "bear false witness against their neighbors." Fr. Michael Cunningham is a wise teacher whom I look up to; one who believes in leading by example.

For my part, I believe that this great country we call home - these United States of America - has a special place in the world: To be the light and beacon - the "Shining City on the Hill" as President Ronald Reagan so fondly stated without appology. I believe our Declaration of Indepence and our Constitution is God-Inspired. "We are endowed by our Creator...," not an ever-powerful government. In the very 1st Amendment, the press is given a special right; along with that right comes the burden of responsibility. True professional journalists report facts free from bias. ALL are entitled to their own opinion, NONE are entitled to their own facts. Once we allow people to alter facts according to their personal bias, loss of freedom and tyrannical rule is sure to follow. 

Michael Souza, Webmanager

Contra Costa Times Cancellation Letter

To: The Editorial Staff of the Contra Costa Times
Re: Cancellation of Subscription
From: Fr. Michael Cunningham
Pastor of Queen of All Saints Church

I am sharing with the people of Queen of All Saints Church our decision to cancel our subscription to your paper.

I have felt for awhile that the only way the Catholic Church is ever mentioned in your paper is always in reference to abuse scandal. In case someone should forget what happened thirty or forty years ago a thorough review of the history of these tragic events is provided. Recently a letter came to light which you decided was front page news.

Information about this horrendous tragedy has brought about such a thorough reform that even ‘older ladies and gentlemen’ who have no more contact with children than the distribution of Eucharist in a Communion line must go through ‘safe children workshops’. We have been made painfully aware of what happened in the past, what ‘signs’ to look for in the present, as well as who and how to report it immediately.

I feel confident that our awareness is going to shed light on a problem that runs far deeper in our American culture than anyone is now willing to acknowledge, and beyond us the world, at least if you have seen the recent documentary on the ‘Dancing Boys of Afghanistan’. There are over 42,000 of us priests who work very hard with the nearly 70,000,000 in this country. When you compare our numbers with the now ‘former priests’ guilty of these statistics the percentage is very low. If the statistics quoted by Sam Miller*, the Jewish businessman, are reliable, our share in a much bigger issue is relatively small. We for our part are going to make sure this never happens again to the Body of Christ, and if it should happen, the ‘criminals’ involved will be dealt with swiftly.

You need not investigate the source of your anti-Catholic bias. Whether it comes from former Catholics who never knew the mystery of the cross of Jesus Christ or people of other persuasions who were raised on a diet of anti-Catholic rhetoric or people who are of no persuasion at all, who really cares? The moral standards of the church are in direct opposition to the standards of the world. This has always been the case and will no doubt continue.

So keep your staff and keep your paper far away from our front door. As far as what the Catholics who read this open letter will do, it is as in ‘all things catholic’, up to their own consciences to decide.

Sincerely yours,

Fr. Michael Cunningham

* Excerpts of an article written by non-Catholic Sam Miller - a prominent Cleveland Jewish businessman:

"Why would newspapers carry on a vendetta on one of the most important institutions that we have today in the United States, namely the Catholic Church?

Do you know - the Catholic Church educates 2.6 million students everyday at the cost to that Church of 10 billion dollars, and a savings on the other hand to the American taxpayer of 18 billion dollars? The graduates go on to graduate studies at the rate of 92%. The Church has 230 colleges and universities in the U.S. with an enrollment of 700,000 students.

The Catholic Church has a non-profit hospital system of 637 hospitals, which account for hospital treatment of 1 out of every 5 people - not just Catholics - in the United States today . . . But the press is vindictive and trying to totally denigrate in every way the Catholic Church in this country. They have blamed the disease of pedophilia on the Catholic Church, which is as irresponsible as blaming adultery on the institution of marriage.

Let me give you some figures that Catholics should know and remember. For example, 12% of the 300 Protestant clergy surveyed admitted at sexual intercourse with a parishioner; 38% acknowledged other inappropriate sexual contact in a study by the United Methodist Church, 41.8% of clergy women reported unwanted sexual behavior; 17% of laywomen have been sexually harassed.

Meanwhile, 1.7% of the Catholic clergy has been found guilty of pedophilia. 10% of the Protestant ministers have been found guilty of pedophilia. This is not a Catholic Problem. A study of American priests showed that most are happy in the priesthood and find it even better than they had expected, and that most, if given the choice, would choose to be priests again in face of all this obnoxious PR the church has been receiving.

The Catholic Church is bleeding from self-inflicted wounds. The agony that Catholics have felt and suffered is not necessarily the fault of the Church. You have been hurt by a small number of wayward priest that have probably been totally weeded out by now.

Walk with your shoulders high and your head higher. Be a proud member of the most important non-governmental agency in the United States. Then remember what Jeremiah said: ‘Stand by the roads, and look and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is and walk in it, and find rest for your souls’. Be proud to speak up for your faith with pride and reverence and learn what your Church does for all other religious.

Be proud that you’re a Catholic."