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约翰·弗里德曼自1981年以来一直在基督复临安息日会担任牧师和行政人员. After graduating from Andrews University Theological Seminary, he and Malinda began their pastoral ministry in the New Jersey Conference before moving to the Rocky Mountain Conference in 1987 to pastor the Littleton, Colorado SDA Church. 1993年，约翰被呼召到北加州会议担任罗斯维尔的主任牧师, California SDA Church. 1998年，约翰在华盛顿会议上被任命为部长，开始了他的行政事工, Evangelism and Stewardship Director. In 2001 he was asked to serve as the Vice-President for Administration and in 2002, John was elected president of the Washington Conference, where he served for 14 years. He was elected in September 2016 to serve as president of the North Pacific Union. John is passionate about uplifting Jesus Christ and the eternal gospel before the world. 他喜欢看到生命因福音的大能和圣灵的工作而改变.
约翰喜欢读书，喜欢和妻子一起散步——尤其是沿着海岸线散步. John and Malinda have three special sons, two awesome daughters-in-law, and three wonderful grandchildren--all boys.
Joyce Newmyer joined the Walla Walla University board in 2016. She has a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from California State University, Fresno and a Master’s in Health Services Administration from St. Francis University.
乔伊斯是俄勒冈州复临医疗中心的主席，也是复临医疗中心的首席人事官. Previous to that, she served as president of Washington Adventist Hospital, chief operations officer of Shawnee Mission medical Center, and chief operations officer of Tennessee Christian Medical Center.
Her hobbies are painting, music, knitting, and reading. She is also a worship leader.
Joyce and her husband, G.J., have four adult children and four grandchildren.
College Place, Washington
John McVay is President of Walla Walla University in College Place, Washington, USA.
He and his family came to the Northwest in August 2006 from Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan where he served as Professor of New Testament and Associate Dean (1998-2000) and Dean (2000-2006) of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary. Earlier, John taught at Pacific Union College in Angwin, California for thirteen years in the Religion Department and ministered, for a time, as Senior Pastor of the campus church. Prior to his ministry at PUC, he served as a pastor in the states of Iowa and Georgia.
John is a graduate of Georgia-Cumberland Academy (Calhoun, Georgia), Southern Adventist University (Collegedale, Tennessee), Andrews University, and England’s Sheffield University, which awarded him a Ph.D. in New Testament studies in 1995. His dissertation focused on the theme of the church in the Epistle to the Ephesians. 作为后期保罗书信的专家，他定期为专业出版物撰稿.
Pam Aalborg McVay, John’s wife, is an obstetrics nurse and an event planner. They have two children, Marshall and Macy, both graduates of WWU who serve as pastors.
Federal Way, Washington
Douglas L. Bing joined the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees December 13, 2016.
Bing is regarded as a visionary, relational, 建立共识的领袖，喜欢与团队合作，并祷告寻求神的指引. 他在教会成长、植堂、外展、青年辅导和教育方面经验丰富.
Bing began his pastoral ministry in Omaha, Neb., as a youth and young adult pastor. He went on to pastor an academy campus church and a large metro church in Kansas before coming in 2001 to Washington Conference as ministerial director. He was elected vice president for administration in 2002, and functioned as an active part of the administrative team.
Bing earned a Master of Divinity degree from Andrews University. 他还获得了Union College的神学学士学位和会计学士学位. As a student at Union College, he spent a year in Indonesia as a student missionary.
Bing is supported in ministry by his wife, Wilma, and their three young adult children.
Gary Botimer rejoined the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees in 2022. He is a graduate of Loma Linda School of Medicine. And is a retired orthopedic surgeon.
He and his wife, Jacquie, have four children (all graduates of WWU as are their spouses) and seven grandchildren.
Columbus Candies, Jr.
Columbus Candies, Jr. became a member of the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees in 2022. He graduated from Loma Linda University in 1983 with a Bachelor in Physical Therapy, 在波特兰州立大学完成了卫生管理/公共管理研究生课程，并获得了MPA/HA学位, and received his Ph.D. in Education and Leadership from the University of Idaho in 2008.
Columbus opened his first private practice in 1984. He also opened and successfully managed over three dozen successful outpatient therapy clinics for organizations such as St Lukes Idaho Elks Rehab Services, RehabAuthority, 瑟斯顿县的普罗维登斯圣约瑟夫医院和直接骨科护理公司(一家全国性的骨科即时护理公司). 他最近的业务发展努力包括在德克萨斯州和加利福尼亚州开设门诊诊所. He has been a member of a number of local and regional health care committees, is an educator, innovator and visionary for the physical therapy profession.
Columbus has also been a leader in the churches he has attended serving as head elder while two churches in the north pacific union were transitioning between pastors. 他的外展热情包括卫生事工、青年、探路者和音乐事工.
He is passionate about education serving as a board member for the NPUC school board, a member of Auburn Adventist Academy’s Equity Diversity and Accountability Committee as well as serving as Ombuds for the Academy. Columbus is newly remarried with a total of 7 children and 6 grandchildren. Hobbies include Sports, Building and Design, Gardening and Landscaping. He loves being with family.
Travis Crumley joined the Walla Walla University Board in 2022. He graduated from Walla Walla University with a B.S.E. in computer engineering with minors in math and music.
He is a software engineer at Google specializing in front end web development. Travis works remotely from Kalispell, Montana. 他是卡利斯佩尔SDA教会的成员，也是他妻子在那里创办的敬拜团队的一员.
特拉维斯和他的妻子科拉(也是WWU校友)有一对10个月大的同卵双胞胎，达贾和泽琳. He enjoys skiing, most water activities, and hiking with his family in the mountains. Also enjoys playing games (both board and video games) with friends and making music.
Lowell Cooper joined the Walla Walla University board in 2016. He holds a master of divinity degree from Andrews University and a master’s degree from Loma Linda University School of Public Health. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Loma Linda University in 2011.
2015年，洛厄尔从基督复临安息日会(Seventh-day Adventist world church)总副总裁的职位上退休, a position he held since 1998. Prior to his employment at Adventist world church headquarters, Cooper held pastoral and departmental leadership roles in Canada followed by more than 16 years of service in Pakistan and India.
He and his wife, Rae Lee, now reside in the Tri-Cities (WA). They have two adult children.
Stephanie Gates joined the Walla Walla University Board in 2014. She is an alumni of Walla Walla College graduating in 1997 with a B.S. in Elementary Education and minors in both Health and Early Childhood Education. She completed her MAT in Leadership in 2005 at Walla Walla College as well.
Stephanie is the Principal of Cascade Christian Academy where she loves her job and the diversity of working with students age 1 through 12th grade.
She has had the wonderful pleasure of teaching a variety of grades. In Seattle she taught grades 1-3, K-2, 3-5, and finally 6th-8th. From Seattle, Stephanie and her family moved to Burlington where she taught 6th grade part time and was Vice-Principal of the K-12 school, Skagit Adventist School. In the spring of 2009 she became principal of Palisades Christian Academy. And then in the summer of 2012, she continued on to becoming the principal of CCA, where she is today.
Stephanie and her husband, Tim, have four children.
Keith Hallam joined the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees in 2022 when he was elected to serve as Vice President for Education at the North Pacific Union Conference.
Keith is a 1983 graduate of Walla Walla College, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Technology Education. 他在威斯康星学院开始了他的职业生涯，教授各种技术职业课程，并担任指导咨询, academic registrar, and administration. 1990年在安德鲁斯大学获得教育管理硕士学位, he moved into fulltime administration. Keith曾担任企业学院校长四年，并在奥本复临学院担任校长14年. 随后，他在波托马克会议上担任了八年的教育副主席，担任会议领导职务. Next, Keith answered a call to ministry at the Southern Union Conference as Associate Director for Secondary Education in July 2017 and then in 2021 served as Director for Education.
Seventh-day Adventist education means far more to Keith than private education. He has personal experience understanding the evangelism responsibility and potential that every teacher and administrator has for sharing the assurance of salvation given to each of us in Jesus Christ.
He and his wife of 40 years, Kandyce, have three grown children and five grandchildren.
Clint Hess joined the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees in 2022.
Clint是阿拉斯加美国联邦信贷联盟商业智能高级副总裁. He has a B.A. in economics and B.B.A. in finance from the University of Alaska, 获得阿拉斯加太平洋大学全球金融工商管理硕士学位.
Clint enjoys hiking, boating, travel, and learning. He and Nadya have two children, Zachary and Anna.
Walla Walla, Washington
Sergio Hernandez joined the Walla Walla University board in 2022. He is a graduate of Pacific Union College and Washington State University.
Sergio is a member of the Walla Walla University Church (Upper Columbia Conf.). His hobbies include biking, golfing, and spending time with his grandchildren.
Sergio and his wife, Wendy, a WWU graduate and immigration attorney, have two children and four grandchildren.
Yvonne Iwasa joined the Walla Walla University board in 2016. She earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Walla Walla University in 1988, and an MA in Sociology from California State University, Fullerton in 1992. She spent ten years of her professional career at Treasure Valley Community college where she was Social Science Department Chair and sociology instructor before leaving to be a full-time parent. She currently serves as a counselor in private practice in Boise, Idaho.
She is passionate about Adventist education.
Yvonne is married to Dan Iwasa who also attended WWU and is an optometrist. They live in Payette, Idaho and have three children: Carly, Makoto, and Chloe.
David Jamieson joined the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees after his election as the president of the Upper Columbia Conference in December 2021.
Before pastoring at Church in the Valley, Jamieson served as president of the Newfoundland Conference in Eastern Canada. He has traveled worldwide, speaking at conferences, 并为牧师及平信徒举办研讨会，重点介绍与教牧领导有关的主题, community outreach, and evangelism. Additionally, he has been the speaker-director for Faith Out Loud Canada, a 30-minute, five-days-a-week radio program, broadcast throughout all Canada.
Jamieson attended Canadian Union College (now Burman University). He later went on to receive a Master of Divinity degree from Andrews University in 1989 and returned in 2009 to receive a Doctor of Ministry degree with an emphasis in evangelism and church growth.
Jamieson and his wife, Shandra, have four children--Shantel, Stacia, Joshua, and Jared--all attended Walla Walla University. Shantel, their oldest child, lives in Burlington, Wash., with her husband, Nathan, and their son, Jamieson. Stacia, their second daughter, lives in Mount Vernon, Wash., with her husband Michael. 他们的大儿子约书亚、儿媳艾米丽和小儿子贾里德住在加利福尼亚州的洛马林达.
Steve Kreitner joined the Walla Walla University board in 2016. He graduated in 1989 from Southern Adventist University with a B.A. in History as well as religion minor and secondary education teaching certificate. In 1992 he earned his J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law.
Steve is the Associate General Counsel for Logan Health in Kalispell, Montana.
Steve is a member of the Kalispell Church (Montana Conf.). He enjoys spending time with family, skiing, running marathons and spending time in Glacier National Park.
Steve and his wife, Nancy, have three children, Elyse, Jonas and Olivia.
Mileen Loeffler joined the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees in 2022. Mileen has a B.S. in behavioral sciences and psychology from Loma Linda University.
Mileen retired from Integra in 2018 as the executive director of client services. She possess extensive knowledge and experience in the long-term care industry.
She is a fifth generation Seventh-day Adventist. 是奥本学院董事会成员，在财务和住房委员会任职吗.
Mileen has lived in Washington for 30 years and loves the rain! She has a daughter, a son, and two granddaughters.
Mileen and her husband were medical missionaries to Zimbabwe for three years. She taught classes at Anderson School while her husband did dentistry.
EuGene Lewis joined the WWU Board of Trustees in 2021, with service on the University Relations and Advancement Committee. He is the regional ministries coordinator of the Washington Conference and Emerald City Seventh-day Adventist Church senior pastor. He has served as senior pastor of several churches in the Pacific Northwest as well as associate pastor of the Oakwood College University Church.
EuGene served as captain and coach of the U.S. Air Force Basketball team, leading the team to seven consecutive championships
He enjoys restoring his '64 Buick Riviera
EuGene and Johnnette have two sons—Eugene and Alexander—and one grandson, Brandon.
Dan Linrud joined the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees after his election as the president of the Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists on December 19, 2016.
Linrud was born and raised in Northwest Washington State. 他曾就读于加拿大联合学院(现缅甸大学)，并获得神学学士学位. During this time he met and married his college sweetheart, Verlaine Corkum. Upon completion of his Bachelor degree, Linrud was hired by the Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference in Canada and sponsored to Seminary to earn his Master of Divinity at Andrews University. While at Seminary, 林鲁德转到华盛顿会议，1988-1998年在大西雅图地区担任牧师. In 1998, Pastor Dan accepted a call to serve in the Ontario Conference in Canada, first as Lead Pastor of a large church, and then as founding pastor of a new church plant based on small groups, that God blessed with growth from 16 to nearly 200. 2005年，林鲁德获得了在小组事工中门徒训练的博士学位. 2009年，Lindrud被任命为安大略省会议的执行秘书(行政副总裁). And in 2013 Linrud accepted the invitation to return to the Northwest to serve as Assistant to the President in the Oregon Conference.
林鲁德的个人使命宣言是:“与上帝和我可能认识的其他人建立真实的关系, love and serve Him and them, helping others reach their highest potential in Christ for His glory."
Bill McClendon joined the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees after his election as vice president of administration for the North Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in April 2018.
Bill and his wife, Shirlene, a teacher by trade and recently children's ministry pastor at Ellicott City, have one married daughter.
Kevin Miller joined the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees after his election as the president of the Alaska Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in July 2016. He has a B.A. in Theology from Southern Adventist University and an M.Div. from Liberty University.
He began serving as a pastor of the Northside SDA Church in Anchorage, Alaska in 2007. 2010年，他成为Northside的兼职牧师，并担任副总裁的兼职职责, ministerial for the Alaska Conference. He also serves as a chaplain with the Alaska National Guard Chaplain Corps.
Kevin and his wife, Paula, have three children, Kara, AJ, and Joshua.
Kathy Morgan joined the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees in 2022. She attended WWU, and graduated with a B.S. in nursing from Olympic College.
Kathy is an RN at St. 在迈克尔医院的心血管重症监护室担任兼职护理教授.
She as served in various positions at church including as well as Washington Conference Board of Education and Executive Committee. She enjoys gardening, reading, knitting, road trips, visiting national parks, and spending time with grandchildren.
Kathy met her husband, Dennis, at Walla Walla College. They have two sons, two daughters, and five grandchildren. Three of their children married WWU graduates/attendees.
Ken Norton joined the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees after his election as the president of the Montana Conference in March 2021.
Norton has a rich ministry history both in pastoral ministry and education. While president of the Guam-Micronesia Mission, he oversaw a mission field that sees numerous missionaries each year, many of them student teachers serving the mission’s more than 10 schools. He has a passion for church planting and evangelism, 曾担任佛罗里达会议教会植堂主任和平信徒传福音协会主席/主任.
His more than 22 years of pastor ministry experience has included serving on the pastoral team of the Collegedale Adventist Church on the campus of Southern Adventist University in Tennessee. He also served as an adjunct professor at SAU.
Norton and his wife, Julie, have two grown children, son Ken and daughter Michelle.
W. Todd Pascoe
W. Todd Pascoe joined the Walla Walla University board in 2016. He has a B.A. in History from Walla Walla University and a J.D. from Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark.
Todd is an attorney and has his own law firm. He specializes in criminal and family law, living out a calling to offer respect to each individual he serves. 他曾任教于宝石州立学院(1982-1985)，现在在哥伦比亚复临学院(2018年至今)共同教授Start Law。.
Todd enjoys spending time with his family, being active in church, sports, and exploring the outdoors from the Gorge to the Pacific. Todd and his wife, Laura, and are blessed with daughter, Savannah, who is attending Walla Walla University.
David Prest, Jr.
David Prest, Jr. became a member of Walla Walla University Board of Trustees after being elected conference president at the Idaho Conference in 2011.
David holds a B.A. degree in Theology, from Southern Missionary College.
David began his ministry in the Carolina Conference before heading to Alaska as pastor of the Hillside O’Malley Church for six years. For five of those years he was Pathfinder director.
Before accepting his post at the Idaho conference, David was the ministerial at the Montana Conference. 现在，作为爱达荷会议的主席，他主持了许多委员会，并参与了更多的委员会.
David and his wife, Ellen, have two sons: Jonathan and Michael.
Mark A. Remboldt was named to the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees in 2008 when he became the North Pacific Union Conference treasurer.
Remboldt has worked at the NPUC since January 2005 and has a background of domestic and international financial management experience. Before joining the NPUC, Remboldt worked with many church entities including the Mountainview, Northern California, and Washington conferences, Auburn Adventist Academy, and the former East Africa Division.
A 1981 graduate of WWU, Remboldt also holds a Master of Business Administration from Andrews University.
He and his wife, Janette, make their home in La Center, Washington, and have two children, Anthony and Amy, both students at WWU.
Paul Rhynard rejoined the Walla Walla University board in 2016. He previously served as a board member from 2006-2011.
He graduated from Walla Walla College in 2004 with a BBA in Finance, and an MBA from the University of Virginia-Darden School of Business in 2012. He is also a former president of the Associated Students of Walla Walla College.
Paul is the CEO of Wilkinson Baking Company, former executive vice president for the Joshua Green Corporation, and, most recently, chief strategy officer at Russell Investments.
Paul currently lives and works in Seattle and is married to Deanne Rhynard ('04). They have two boys, Ford and Otto.
New York, New York
Jaime Rodriguez joined the Walla Walla University board in 2016, 为学术规划委员会和西班牙裔服务机构工作组提供服务. He is a graduate of Milton-Stateline SDA School, Walla Walla Valley Academy, and Walla Walla University. He has an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Ph.D. in Latin American History from Columbia University.
Jaime is an Associate Professor of Global History at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. He enjoys coaching youth track, running, and attending symphony concerts, museum exhibits, and Broadway theater.
His wife, Linda Abdel-Malek (also a WWU alumnus) is a health care attorney. They have two young daughters, Lina and Selma, and are members of the Church of the Advent Hope in Manhattan.
Bruce Thorn joined the Walla Walla University Board of Trustees in 2022. He served prior terms on the WWU Board of Trustees, including service as vice chair.
Bruce graduated with a B.S. in business administration from Walla Walla University before earning a J.D. from Willamette University and an LLM, in taxation, from the University of Florida.
He is currently the Chief Operating Officer of AXCS Investments LLC. He has nearly 30 years of experience in real estate development and investing. He served as director, vice president, and secretary of Holiday Retirement Corp., 在出售公司及其附属公司之前，是世界上最大的高级住宅单位的所有者/运营商之一.
Walla Walla, Washington
Ron Wilkinson joined the Walla Walla University board in 2016, with service on the Audit Review, and Finance and Facilities committees.. He has a B.A. in theology from Walla Walla College.
He is an entrepreneur and is a strong supporter of Christian Education. He has served on a number of community boards. His hobbies include photography, reading, hiking, and travel.
Ron and Janet have three children, all of whom are graduates of Walla Walla University.
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3 edition of Legends of Saint Joseph, patron of the universal church found in the catalog.
Legends of Saint Joseph, patron of the universal church
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He is the patron saint of fathers, families, workers, a happy death, and the Universal Church. His feast days are: St. Joseph, Husband of Mary - March 19th; St. Joseph the Worker - May 1st; Book: The Truth About Saint Joseph. Joseph is the most hidden of the saints: 4/5(3). The Theology of St. Joseph it was made for an anniversary of the proclamation of Saint Joseph as Patron of the universal Church, declared by Pius IX, but it was not exhibited in Saint Peters.
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Joseph is also patron saint of the Universal Church, families, fathers, expectant mothers (pregnant women), travelers, immigrants, house sellers and buyers, craftsmen, engineers, and working people in general. We celebrate two feast days for Joseph: March 19 for Joseph the Husband of Mary and May 1 for Joseph the Worker.
Saint Joseph, Jesus’ earthly father and the spouse of the Virgin Mary. He is the patron saint of the universal church in Roman Catholicism, and his life is recorded in the Gospels, particularly Matthew and Luke.
Learn more about the life, genealogy, legends, and veneration of Saint Joseph. Joseph (Hebrew: יוֹסֵף , romanized: Yosef; Greek: Ἰωσήφ, romanized: Ioséph) is a figure in the canonical gospels who was married to Mary, Jesus' mother, and was Jesus' legal father.
Perspectives on Joseph as a historical figure are distinguished by some persons from a theological reading of the Gospel texts. Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Orthodox Attributes: Carpenter's square or tools, the infant.
O most poweful patriarch, Saint Joseph, patron of that universal Church which has always invoked thee in anxieties and tribulations; from the lofty seat of thy glory lovingly regard the Catholic world. Let it move thy paternal heart to see the mystical spouse of Christ and His vicar.
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Joseph is the most hidden of the saints a simple, retiring, and humble man of Nazareth. His exterior life reveals nothing extraordinary or striking.
Yet he is exalted by the Church as, next to Mary herself, the greatest of all the saints and even Patron of the Universal Church. Do you know why. Provided to YouTube by CDBaby Hymn to Saint Joseph (Patron of the Universal Church) Mary Oberle Hubley From Gate of Heaven, Part II: Patron of.
Prayers to St. Joseph, Patron of the Church. PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH AND THE HOLY FATHER. MOST POWERFUL Patriarch St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, which has always invoked thee in anxiety and trouble, from the exalted seat of thy glory cast a loving glance upon the whole Catholic world.
let thy fatherly heart be touched at the sight of the Mystical Spouse and the Vicar of Christ. Saint Anthony of Padua might be regarded as the saint of miracles, but he was also the saint of legends, too.
Take, for example, the legend that he is most famous for, that of being the patron. The Theology of St. Joseph. Saint Josephs Paternity of the Son of God. By José Antonio Varela Vidal. ROME, MA ().- Italian Father Tarcisio Stramare and Brazilian Father Alberto Santiago of the Congregation of Oblates of Saint Joseph, were appointed by their Congregation to the work of the Josephite Movement.
According to tradition, Joseph died sometime before the beginning of Jesus' public life. Because he died in the loving presence of Jesus and Mary, he is also invoked as the patron of a happy death. Joseph has two feast days. On Ma we honor him as the husband of Mary. On May 1, we celebrate Joseph's feast day as the patron saint of workers.
St. Joseph's role as universal patron is not only to protect the Church, but also to provide a "noble example, which transcends all individual states of life and serves as a model for the entire Christian community, whatever the condition and duties of each of its members may be.".
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On December 8,The Sacred Congregation of Rites promulgated the following decree, which communicated the decision of Pope Pius IX to declare St. Joseph Patron of the Universal Church, and which also raised St.
Joseph’s feast of March 19 to the rank of double of the first class. SAINT JOSEPH PATRON OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH. O most poweful patriarch, Saint Joseph, patron of that universal Church which has always invoked thee in anxieties and tribulations; from the lofty seat of thy glory lovingly regard the Catholic world.
Let it move thy paternal heart to see the mystical spouse of Christ and His vicar. The Sisters of St.
Joseph, centered in Aubenas, France, were granted permission in to add invocations to St. Joseph, "foster father of Jesus, husband of Mary, patron of the Catholic Church," in prayers with the Blessed Sacrament exposed after Benediction.
Already a patron saint of Mexico, Canada and Belgium, inJoseph was declared patron of the universal church by Pope Pius IX, and in Pope Pius XII established May 1 .Part Three details various Church approved devotions to Saint Joseph and explains why he was made Patron and Protector of the Universal Church, as well as Patron of a Happy Death.
This is followed by quotes from various Saints and other holy persons regarding the efficacy of imploring the help of this greatest and most powerful of Saints.


I am a missionary from the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from Nevada! I love being a missionary and I love being able to meet people in New York. I am serving in the western New York area for two years.
You may have wondered once or twice before in life what in the world am I doing here and what is the purpose of this life. How can I find peace in this life? Who am I, seriously? Perhaps you have wondered have wondered if there is something else out there. Maybe you are searching for something and you don't know what it is yet. You may have given up and don't believe there are answers anymore.
I promise you that all of those questions can be answered through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are all children of a loving Heavenly Father. We lived as his spirit children before we came to this life and he sent us here to earth to be tested. He has not abandoned us or left us here by ourselves. He does hear your prayers and answers them. I know from experience that our Heavenly Father does our prayers. He cares about you and knows what you are going through whatever it may be. He desires all of us to come back home to live with him again. He has sent prophets to earth from the beginning of time to teach us how to be able to return to live with him. Most importantly he sent his son Jesus Christ to come and make it possible for us to come home.
Heavenly Father has created this plan because he wants us to all be happy and to experience the same joy he has. He really is there! I promise you that if you take the slightest gamble to learn about Him and His Son Jesus Christ you will come to find out for yourself that these things are true and there is a God who loves you. He wants you to live with Him forever and your family forever. We don't try as missionaries to convince people of these things, but I know that each person on this earth can find out for themselves that these things are true.


John Mills is the Senior Clinic Consultant with Empowering Community Healthcare Outreach and an ordained elder at First Presbyterian Church in Mt. Airy, NC. He began his partnership with Pablo & Jan and the Presbyterians of Southern Mexico in 1998. He is one of the founding members of the Hebron USA Board of Directors and has served continuously since its inception. John brings valuable experience to the HUSA Board as both an expert in faith-based charitable medical clinic development and a former missionary in residence with Pablo & Jan in Ocosingo, Chiapas from 2006-2008.
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4. Allocate a portion of the church budget to be donated to the ministry at The Firehouse Shelter. The most important thing financially is that it becomes a regular, consistent, budgeted mission line item. Sending a check monthly helps us greatly with our cash flow. In the past, congregations have donated anywhere between .25%-1% of their annual gross budget to The Firehouse Shelter.
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age, he was a Whig; and to his last days a Union man.
As a Christian he was the admirer of piety and virtue in any sect. He would say "my father was a Presbyterian elder and my mother a Methodist; Bishop Asbury blessed me when a child, the Presbyterians taught me, and Humphrey Posey, a Baptist, prayed for me. I was brought up to love all good Christians."
He was for years a communicant of the Presbyterian church, and gave largely to its support. He was careful of money; economical in his expenses, punctual and precise, and faithful to his promises; simple in his habits and dress. He was little blessed by nature in personal appearance. "Certainly," says Governor Vance, "no man owed less to adventitious aids. His voice was peculiar and harsh; in person he was exceedingly ill formed and uncouth; his knees smote together in a most unmilitary manner."
But his countenance redeemed his person, and one may say as did Hamlet of his father--
--See what grace was seated on this brow!
A combination and a form indeed,
Where every God did seem to set his seal
To give the world assurance of a Man.
A recent writer (Dalton) on a "Few Hours at Poplar Mount," has recorded of Governor Swain some appropriate remarks from his life long friend, Hon. Weldon N. Edwards, that should be more permanently preserved:
"With Gov. Swain a vast store of historical and other information was buried, perhaps beyond the possibility of resurrection.
"There is no one left to us who can fill his place.
"He was wrapped up in the University, and it was a serious blow to the State when the practised and learned faculty was broken up by political interference and partisan malice. It was a grievous fault and a blunder not to be tolerated in any party.
"I have heard many of the friends of Gov. Swain state that he became melancholy and began to droop away on the termination of his duties as President of the University, and they believed a broken heart was as much the real cause of his death as the fall from his carriage. He felt 'the last link was broken' that united his heart and hopes to all earthly objects. The whole manner of the man was changed.
"His step was tottering and slow; his massive frame was bowed down in grief. His countenance, so wonted to be lifted up in smiles and playful wit, had already settled into the stern reality of the impending gloom and of perpetual silence.
"It was thus I met for the last time this distinguished man. He said: 'My friend, since I last saw you my connection with the University has been brought to a close; it was a trial I dreaded.'
"What he suffered can only be known to the Great Searcher of all human hearts. There has never been a parallel case of injustice, prejudice and folly. It was a blow aimed at education, science, and civilization, and society; to Governor Swain it was malignant parricide, and its baleful effects were felt throughout the Commonwealth. Col. Venable, the distinguished and learned head of the University of Virginia, when this subject was, soon after its occurrence, discussed, declared that there was no Governor of Virginia, not excepting Pierpoint, who would exhibit a control similar to that of our Governor over the University of North Carolina."
But another era has dawned on this venerable institution, and we trust that it will soon regain its pristine prosperity.
Connected with Gov. Swain and Professor Mitchell of the University was Rev. James Phillips, D. D. He was a native of England, born at Nevenden, Essex County, in 1792. His father was a Minister of the Church of England.
He came to America in 1818 with an elder brother, Samuel A. Phillips, and engaged in the profession of teaching at Harlem, where he had a flourishing school. In 1826 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the University of North Carolina, then in his 34th year. For forty years he labored to impress broad and deep the elements of science and knowledge; how faithfully that duty was performed many now alive can testify. As his life was useful so
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People living with HIV exist in our churches - we have an obligation to include & support them – they are members of our church family.
This is not only about reaching out to people living with HIV. It is also about recognising that HIV exists in the body of Christ – the church. There are insights, gifts and learning that people living with HIV can share with us if we invite them to do so.
Our starting place is to listen to the experiences of people living with HIV who may want and need our help and understanding – especially when they come to us for this or are already members of our community. By using this resource you have already begun to listen and reflect prayerfully upon what you and your church community can do. We hope that you will find this resource helps you to grow in faith yourself, and enable you to extend God’s love and compassion to those sisters and brothers who are living with HIV.
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FAITH WORKING THROUGH LOVE (Gal. 5: 6)
(A talk given at Saint John’s the Evangelist Church in Wellesley – March 2, 2015)
Pope Francis, our now not-so-new Pope, continues to mesmerize millions. It’s mind-blowing to think that six million people gathered together with Pope Francis at Manila Bay. As Francis himself would say – They came in great numbers because of the ardent faith of so many in the Philippines. To say the least about our not-so-new Holy Father, because of the “off the top of the head” style of airplane press conferences, I would describe Pope Francis as “predictably unpredictable” or “unpredictably predictable”. Many folks are very happy when the Pope travels from Rome to fields afar, for this will mean that there will be another airplane press conference in the offing, perhaps 30,000 feet over the waters of the Pacific.
Many of us here this evening, I’m sure, would admit that we are among those mesmerized by Jorge Bergoglio. Certainly, those here at the parish who are responsible for adult education planning in their search for a Lenten theme 2015 have made the suggestion that we revisit Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation – “The Joy of the Gospel”. The foci of this revisit are two in particular:
1. Paragraphs 11, 12 and 13, which concern the newness of Christ and the newness of the Gospel;
2. Paragraphs 34 to 39, a reflection on the heart of the Gospel, that is, the very heart of God’s Eternal Word made flesh for human salvation, and available to us in sacramental mystery.
Before moving to the task at hand, I suggest we pause and make a brief detour. At Christmastime I received four books as gifts. One is a treatise on the Eucharist, a book right up my theological alley. I also received two copies – one from Fr. Tom and one from Fr. Bryan, who obviously did not coordinate their gift giving – of Austen Ivereigh’s biography of Francis under the title – “The Great Reformer – Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope”. The fourth book is also a biography of Francis, entitled – “Pope Francis: Life and Revolution”, written by Elisabetta Piqué, an internationally respected newspaper reporter, long-time correspondent in Italy and at the Vatican for La Nacion, Argentina’s main newspaper. Elisabetta has known the Pope for many years. She is the only newspaper reporter to have predicted the election of Jorge Bergoglio. I shall make an altogether too brief reference to what life was like in Argentina, socially and politically, when young Jorge began his priestly ministry as a Jesuit in the 1960s and 1970s. This may help us to understand the adjective “radical” which has been applied to Father Bergoglio.
Argentina, like all the countries of North, South and Central America, lived under colonial rule. We in America dispossessed ourselves of colonialism in the 18th Century and the United States, in spite of such difficulties as the Civil War, has managed to have a stable form of government bringing together Federalism and States’ rights in a productive tension. This was not so in many Latin American countries and for our purposes not so for Argentina. Dictatorships from military coups took over from early attempts at democratic governments until the arrival on the scene of Juan Domingo Peron and his glamorous wife Evita. Peron’s rule at the beginning was most popular and served well the needs of the common people. Originally, Peronism and the Church seemed to work pretty well together. Then things began to deteriorate, resulting in another military coup and the exile of Peron to Spain. The failure of this military government involved the recalling of Peron to Argentina. Politically and socially the country and the Jesuits within the country were deeply divided about the future of Argentina – some wanted Peron, even though the later Peron was not as he first was when he was a young and inspiring leader; some wanted to follow the pattern of Cuban socialism; others supported a form of liberation theology, which consisted in a good measure of Marxist principles as understood in liberal academia circles; others, including a few bishops, wanted to restore the military and a more dictatorial rule for the sake of government stability. Young Father Bergoglio as Rector of the Jesuit Seminary and later as Provincial of the Argentinian Jesuits, though very much aware of, and concerned with, the social and political ideologies which were causing havoc throughout the country, was focused on the work of reform, first the work of seminary training, and then the work of reforming Jesuit life throughout the country. Bergoglio himself seems to be a born reformer but not in the sense of political or social agitation. If he had any particular personal view of social and political reform, it was the work of the Jesuits in Latin America before his time in terms of what has been called “the Jesuit reductions”, the Jesuit missions to the poor in the countries of Paraguay and Uruguay. Pope Francis is not a doctrinal or moral theologian, just as he is not a secular, political reformer, but a spiritual reformer, a pastoral theologian, deeply immersed in Ignatian spiritual theology, in the Ignatian rules for discernment, in the questions asked by Ignatius himself in response to God’s love for us – What have I done for Christ? What am I doing for Christ? What ought I to do for Christ? He is a radical reformer seeking to grasp the roots of the Gospel. The word “radical” comes from the word “radix,” which designates the root of things. Francis’s reform is a spiritual reform – changing peoples’ hearts, whether now at the Roman Curia, or in the work of the Church all over the world. So much for my inadequate detour!
Last Lent we spent some time reflecting on the impact of “The Joy of the Gospel”. It was my privilege to give three talks which centered on “the dream” of Pope Francis. I said at that time: “Joseph, from the pages of the Old Testament, was called by his brothers, who did not like him, “the dreamer”. Joseph from the pages of the New Testament was given providential help by way of his dreams. Martin Luther King had a dream which has profoundly impacted for the good our country’s social fabric. Now, our Holy Father Francis tells us that he too has a dream, and this evening we gather here to find out what the Pope’s dream is all about, and to ask ourselves whether under God’s grace we are willing to appropriate the Pope’s dream and thus come to know the joy of the Gospel.”
Francis calls his dream “a missionary option”. He writes: “I dream of a ‘missionary option’, that is, a mission impulse capable of transforming everything so that the Church’s customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channeled for the evangelization of today’s world rather than for her own self-preservation”. He describes this option as an ecclesial renewal that cannot be deferred.”
First we should note a bit of recent history. The exhortation “The Joy of the Gospel” is the papal response to and creative summary of the work that took place at the 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops that gathered in Rome in October 2012 to discuss “the New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith”. You may recall that it was Pope Benedict who presided over the 2012 Synod of Bishops. It was Benedict who had proposed the topic “Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith”. To prepare for the Synod Pope Benedict inaugurated the “Year of Faith”. To guide us through the Year of Faith, Pope Benedict issued his Apostolic Letter, “Porta Fidei”, the Door of Faith. It was Benedict who had already issued two excellent encyclicals – one on the virtue of charity and the second on the virtue of hope – and who began a third encyclical on faith which he left to Pope Francis to complete and make his own. Its title is, “Lumen Fidei” – the Light of Faith. Did we ever think we would see the day when two popes, one emeritus, would issue together one encyclical? The two popes are so very different in style and personality, but from my reading quite similar in their thinking.
Ivereigh has an interesting comment as he talks about Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis in tandem – “The syllabus, humility, prayer, dependence on Christ, was the same, but Benedict’s finely-honed crystalline texts, delivered in a quiet voice by a remote figure, were now being spoken and acted upon by a man who jumped out of a choir to make off-the-cuff remarks in physically affectionate encounters. Benedict clarified who is Christ and what it means to live in and through him; Francis recalls Christ our friend and savior. Francis was taking Benedict on the road.”
The document, Porta Fidei – The Door of Faith – initiating the “Year of Faith” – which was to begin on 11 October 2012, the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, reads as follows in paragraph 6: “The renewal of the Church is also achieved through the witness offered by the lives of believers: by their very existence in the world, Christians are called to radiate the word of truth that the Lord Jesus has left us. The Council itself, in the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, said this: While “Christ, ‘holy, innocent and undefiled’ (Heb 7:26) knew nothing of sin (cf. 2 Cor 5:21), but came only to expiate the sins of the people (cf. Heb 2:17)... the Church ... clasping sinners to its bosom, at once holy and always in need of purification, follows constantly the path of penance and renewal. The Church, ‘like a stranger in a foreign land, presses forward amid the persecutions of the world and the consolations of God’, announcing the cross and death of the Lord until he comes (cf. 1 Cor 11:26). But by the power of the risen Lord it is given strength to overcome, in patience and in love, its sorrow and its difficulties, both those that are from within and those that are from without, so that it may reveal in the world, faithfully, although with shadows, the mystery of its Lord until, in the end, it shall be manifested in full light.”
The Year of Faith, from this perspective, was a summons to an authentic and renewed conversion to the Lord, the one Saviour of the world. In the mystery of his death and resurrection, God has revealed in its fullness the Love that saves and calls us to conversion of life through the forgiveness of sins (cf. Acts 5:31). For Saint Paul, this Love ushers us into a new life: “We were buried ... with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom 6:4). Through faith, this new life shapes the whole of human existence according to the radical new reality of the resurrection. To the extent that he freely cooperates, man’s thoughts and affections, mentality and conduct are slowly purified and transformed, on a journey that is never completely finished in this life. “Faith working through love” (Gal 5:6) becomes a new criterion of understanding and action that changes the whole of human existence (cf. Rom 12:2; Col 3:9-10; Eph 4:17-24; 2 Cor 5:17).”
This last passage gives rise to many questions. I will suggest three, so important to Pope Francis and his project.
a) What are we to say about the newness of the Gospel?
b) When Pope Francis speaks about the heart of the Gospel, the heart of Christ, what does he have in mind? How are we to bring to speech what we find at the heart of the Gospel in such a say that our message is intelligent and intelligible, meaningful and relevant, beautiful and attractive, compelling and necessary?
c) To the extent that we cooperate with grace, our cooperation must be free but always under grace, how are our thoughts and affections, our mentality and conduct to be slowly purified and transformed on this journey of ours which St. Paul calls “faith working through love”? (Gal. 5:6)
a) Our first question this evening focuses on the newness of the Good News. I often think of a parishioner – Anna in Newton – to whom I used to bring the Eucharist on a regular basis. She had been bed-ridden for a couple of years. When I would enter her bedroom, she would struggle to sit up a bit and before I could say, “Good Morning, Anna. How are you and the Lord doing”, she would ask with great anticipated gladness, “What’s new?” She had no interest in asking a gossip-question, but I would say to her what Pope Francis is saying to us in “The Joy of the Gospel” – “You know, Anna, Jesus is new, his resurrection is new, his Eucharist is new”, and Anna would respond at once with a resounding “Amen”. Christ Jesus, in giving himself, brings all newness. Yes, God the Father, at work through Christ, his divine Son and in the Holy Spirit, has revealed his true and great love for us and thereby constantly reveals new life for all who follow him, no matter what their age and situation might be. The Book of Revelations tells us that Christ the Lord is the eternal Gospel, the eternal Good News. Is he not the same yesterday, today and forever? He is forever young. His being forever young makes us forever young and joyful. And what is joy? Joy, it has often been said, is the echo of God’s life within us. Thus Francis writes, “Whenever we make the effort to turn to the Gospel and recover its freshness, new avenues arise, new paths open up and we find new meanings for our lives and for our hope for today’s messy, materialist, warring, terrorist world.” Every form of evangelization is always new. The newness is first and foremost God’s work because God is the one who takes the initiative. In this question of newness, the primacy belongs to God; the newness is what the Lord himself mysteriously effects whereby he inspires us, guides us, accompanies us in a thousand ways. The Lord God has first loved us. Should we not, under his grace, love God in return? The joy involved in this sort of love is what sustained Jesus’ first disciples – many of whom received the grace of martyrdom. God has made us his new people. God has given each one of us new birth through water and the Holy Spirit. God gives us through the sacraments a new life that of itself can never end because it is a true share in God’s own life. God has made with us a new covenant, a new testament. God has given us a new law, a new command, a new song, the Easter Alleluia.
To buttress these assertions, we can ask ourselves – Do not the Scriptures tell us all this Good News?
a. Paul says to us in Romans – Do you not know that we who are baptized into Christ Jesus are baptized into his death? We were indeed buried with him in baptism unto death so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life.
b. As a result of our baptism, Paul reminds the Romans (12:2) – Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the newness of your mind that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.
c. Once again we rely on St. Paul (2 Cor 5:17). He writes to the Corinthians – “Whoever is in Christ is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold new things have come.”
d. (Eph 4:17-24) – “So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds; darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God…they have become callous and they have handed themselves over to licentiousness… That is not how you learned Christ, assuming that you have heard of him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus, that you should put away the old self of your former way of life… and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, created in God’s way in righteousness and holiness of truth.”
P.S.: We must admit, it seems to me, that this talk about newness is not without some difficulties. There’s no new Church. There’s no new Gospel. It’s rather a question of discovering the newness that exists in the deep roots of the Gospel, a newness that has attracted the saints down through history, a newness that can concern us all when changes come in our habitual ways of thinking and doing things. Changes are difficult also here in Wellesley’s two Catholic parishes. For example, St. John and St. Paul parishes are entering into a collaborative. Fr. Tom is leaving us after his many years of excellent pastoral service here at the parish. A new pastor has been appointed. We all will need good anchoring in our Catholic faith. We will need much good will from the Holy Spirit as we move ahead here in Wellesley. This example is a sort of sign of some of the unrest recently caused by the recent synod in Rome on Marriage and the Family. One writer, Gerard O’Connell, Roman correspondent for America Magazine makes the comment – “Reflecting on these fears and speaking with Cardinals and Bishops at the Synod, I began to understand that perhaps there could be deeper concerns here. The first relates to a possible shift from the prevailing understanding of the place and role of the sacraments in the life of the people of God to a somewhat different pastoral one and the consequences of this. Secondly, there is a perplexity about how to present mercy and inclusion in a way that does not undermine moral doctrine. Thirdly, there is uneasiness about the understanding of primacy, collegiality and synodality and about the way of exercising authority in the Church. At the Synod’s closing, the Pope responded to these fears. According to Mr. O’Connell, Pope Francis said, “God is not afraid of new things; that is why he is continually surprising us, opening our hearts and guiding us in unexpected ways. The Pope has reminded his hearers that he is a man of the Church and the members of the Synod have gathered “with Peter and under Peter” in the spirit of a longstanding Catholic understanding that the Church, in the variety of her charisms, cannot err: it is the beauty of “sensus fidei,” of that supernatural sense of the faith that is bestowed by the Holy Spirit so that together we can all enter into the heart of the Gospel and learn to follow Jesus in our lives and this should never serve as a source of confusion and discord.
b) This brings us to our second question. When Pope Francis speaks about the heart of the Gospel, the heart of Christ, what does he have in mind? How are we to bring to speech what we find at the heart of the Gospel in such a say that our message is intelligent and intelligible, meaningful and relevant, beautiful and attractive, compelling and necessary?
In other words, how are we to speak our faith to the world? How do we speak from the very heart of the Gospel? How do we do this in such a way that our message is seen as what it truly is – grand and joyous, intelligent and intelligible, relevant to our lives and beautiful? Can we simplify the message, uncomplicate the message without depriving it of its power and its truth? The Church speaks its message in three distinct, interrelated ways – evangelization, the language of which is proclamation; catechetics which gives us the necessary information for the intelligent practice of faith and the work of theology. The Pope’s direct focus in “The Joy of the Gospel” is primarily proclamation and catechetics.
Pope Francis reminds us that pastoral ministry must not be obsessed with a disjointed transmission of a multitude of doctrines. When we adopt a pastoral goal and a mission style, the message must concentrate on essentials – what is most beautiful, most good, most grand, most necessary. Listen to what is said in paragraph 36 of “The Joy of the Gospel”: “All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving direct expression to the heart of the Gospel. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead. In this sense, the Second Vatican Council explained, ‘in Catholic doctrine there exists an order or a ‘hierarchy’ of truths, since they vary in their relation to the foundation of the Christian faith’. This holds true as much for the dogmas of faith as for the whole corpus of the Church’s teaching, including her moral teaching.” With regard to this hierarchy of truths, one scholar writes – “Christianity is a deeply objective reality. It is first and foremost not a subjective experience; neither is it a simple adherence to a set of moral regulations nor even a sharing in a sacred tradition. None of these answers are false. There is indeed a subjective experience of God that can be had in prayer. There is the Christian Catholic ethics that would be faithfully lived out. There is also a participation in ancient traditions of worship and in adhering to a body of doctrines. But all these are consequences of Christianity rather than its essence as such. Christianity as a living reality does not emerge in us by our own strength nor does it bubble up from the depths of one’s spirit. It cannot be fixed in overly rigid formulae and definitions. It is above all the gift of new indestructible divine life.” As John’s Gospel says – “The thief comes only to steal, slaughter and destroy. I have come that they may have life abundantly.”
John Henry Newman, revered 19th Century scholar and churchman in Great Britain, recently beatified by Pope Benedict XVI, once composed a brief, unsophisticated act of faith which somebody set to music and is found in the Church’s “Liturgy of the Hours”. “Firmly I believe and truly”, Newman writes, “God is Three and God is One”. This is the foundational truth of our Catholic faith, the necessary mystery of our Three-Personed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Newman then writes – “And I next acknowledge duly mankind taken by the Son”. This is the absolutely free mystery of the Incarnation. What is meant by the “free mystery”? God’s Triune existence ever-was and ever-will be and even has to be, but there did not have to be the free mystery of the first Christmas. The fact of the first Christmas stems exclusively from the unfathomable love of God who willed to send us his only divine Son to be our Savior. This then leads Newman into the mystery of the Redemption – “And I trust and hope must fully in that mankind crucified, and I love supremely, solely, the Christ who for my sins has died”. But why does Newman believe these truths? He tells us in stanza three – “And I hold in veneration, for the love of Christ alone, holy Church as his creation and her teachings as his own”.
Contemporary theologians are indeed aware of the need of brief statements of our Catholic faith; however, their efforts have not been that successful. Theology is too complex a discipline. It seeks to speak to people of all cultures and languages all over the globe. Kahl Rahner from Germany, a distinguished theologian and prominent at the Second Vatican Council after completing a heavy German tome had this to say in a postscript to his readers: “After we have spent so many pages, the results for many readers might very well be that the clarity of our topic may have been obscured rather than being clarified in terms of its presentation.” Rahner himself then proceeded to formulate three brief Creedal statements. However, this does not seem to me to be what Pope Francis is looking for. What then is he looking for and where will we find it? Our Holy Father gives great stress to what he calls the experience of an encounter. This is a key word for serious contemporary theology. He tells us that he never tires of quoting his immediate papal predecessor who wrote: “Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or of a lofty idea. Rather, it is a most important encounter with an event, with a person, and this gives life to a new horizon and a decisive dimension.” Where will we experience this encounter? There is but one answer – at the Liturgy! At every Sunday Liturgy, at any Liturgy involving the sacraments, the risen Christ encounters us and we encounter him. We meet the risen Christ and he meets us in his mysteries – his birth, his epiphany, his public ministry, his passion and death, his resurrection, his ascension into glory and his sending us from the Father his Holy Spirit. We often say at Mass – “Lord Jesus, you came in history to gather us into the peace of God’s kingdom.” This is how the Lord Jesus encountered four fishermen on the shore of the Sea of Galilee; he encountered them and they encountered him through his words and through his deeds, just as all of us encounter one another in our everyday lives. Ever since the Lord Jesus returned to his heavenly Father in his glorious ascension, all the power resident in his sacred humanity, by the work of the Holy Spirit, passed over into our New Testament Scriptures and in the sacraments of the Church. This is why the Sunday Liturgy is our most important activity here in the parish, because it is in the Liturgy and at the Liturgy that the Church finds its true meaning and is strengthened for its journey. Just as the first disciples encountered Jesus and he them in human history, so we now encounter him and he us, really and truly in what we call sacramental mystery.
So much for our second question – faith seeking understanding and bringing that understanding to speech from the very heart of the Gospel.
c) Our third question has as its focus the ethical or moral dimension of things, as we ask – To the extent that we cooperate with God’s grace – our cooperation while free is always under God’s grace – how are our thoughts and affections, how are our mentality and conduct slowly purified and transformed on this life’s journey which St. Paul in writing to the Galatians calls – faith working through love (Gal. 5:6).
Paragraph 37 in “The Joy of the Gospel” is crucial. Pope Francis writes:
“Saint Thomas Aquinas taught that the Church’s moral teaching has its own “hierarchy”, in the virtues and in the acts which proceed from them. What counts above all else is “faith working through love” (Gal 5:6). Works of love directed to one’s neighbor are the most perfect external manifestation of the interior grace of the Spirit: “The foundation of the New Law is in the grace of the Holy Spirit, who is manifested in the faith which works through love”. Thomas thus explains that, as far as external works are concerned, mercy is the greatest of all the virtues: “In itself mercy is the greatest of the virtues, since all the others revolve around it and, more than this, it makes up for their deficiencies. This is particular to the superior virtue, and as such it is proper to God to have mercy, through which his omnipotence is manifested to the greatest degree.”
The first thing we can notice about paragraph 37 is that St. Paul calls charity the greatest of the virtues, while the Pope quotes from Thomas Aquinas that mercy is the greatest of virtues. There is no opposition here if we understand what mercy is. Mercy, Aquinas tells us, is love or charity in the face of misery. Charity is the greatest of the virtues because charity is God’s New Testament name, and charity is eternal like God. What St. Thomas says is that as far as external works are concerned, mercy is the greatest of all the virtues.
Secondly, Pope Francis notes in connection with St. Thomas’ teachings that the Church’s moral teaching has its own hierarchy. What counts above all else is “faith working through love”; in other words, what counts above all else is that works of love directed to one’s neighbor are the most perfect external manifestation of the interior graces of the Holy Spirit. In this context, we should note what I like to call “the semantic evolution of the great Gospel command – You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest command. The second is like it – You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commands. (Mt.) Some folks are surprised that these two commands did not initiate with Jesus, and in the beginning were separated, one from the other. The first part of the command is found in the Old Testament Book of Deuteronomy 6:5. The second part is found in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus 19:18. It was the Lord Jesus who brought the two together in his preaching as though they were two sides of but one coin. How indeed can we love God whom we do not see if we fail to love our neighbor, made in God’s image, whom we do see. By the time St. Paul was writing about the great commandment in his Letter to the Church in Rome, notice what he writes: “Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.” The commandments – you shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not covet, or whatever commandment there may be – are summed up in this saying – You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence love is the fulfillment of the law.
This brings us indeed to the heart of the Gospel. When we were discussing what God has given us through the Holy Spirit, we spoke of a new life, a new command, a new law. God gave his Old Testament people many laws – the Ten Commandments, the basic Old Testament moral law still incumbent on all who follow Christ, other bodies of laws regarding Jewish lifestyle, Jewish worship and Jewish dietary matters and the like. In this context we should note that St. John the Evangelist in his magnificent Prologue to his Gospel writes – In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us – that Word is the Lord Jesus, Son of God from all eternity, Son of Mary in human history. From his fullness, John writes, we have all received grace upon grace. While the law was given by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Listen to what St. Thomas Aquinas has to say about the Law of Christ and Law of Grace. He writes – What is characteristic of the law of the Gospel, called the new law, and wherein all its efficacy is based, is the grace of the Holy Spirit given through faith in Christ. Consequently, the new law is an unwritten law and is chiefly the grace itself of the Holy Spirit given to those who believe in Jesus Christ. What else are the divine laws written by God himself in our hearts but the very presence of the Holy Spirit. Nevertheless, Thomas continues, the new law contains certain things which dispose us to receive the grace of the Holy Spirit so we need to be instructed concerning them both by word and writing. Consequently, we should say that the new law, our new covenant, our New Testament, is in the first place a law that is inscribed in our hearts, but that secondarily, it is a written law. What then, we can ask, are these written laws that enable us to receive the grace of the Holy Spirit? They are the law of love, the law of forgiveness, the law of those who do not love us in return, the Beatitudes, Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount and Luke’s Sermon on the Plain, and the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. We touch here on an important theological theme in the relationship of the law and the law of the Gospel. You and I belong to God’s New Testament people. We are not God’s Old Testament people. As we have already quoted from John’s Gospel – the Law came through Moses; grace and truth have come from Jesus Christ. However, we must not equate Old Testament and New Testament with before Christ and after Christ; otherwise how could we account for the saints of the Old Law and those who have been baptized into Christ but are still struggling with the commands of the Mosaic Law? According to our Christian teaching, the old law is holy, spiritual and good, but it is imperfect when compared with the new law. The old law tells us what to do but does not give us the strength to do it. The new law is the grace of the Holy Spirit, quite sufficient in itself to be effective. The law is preparation for the Gospel as the catechism tells us, a prophecy of thing to come.
Hopefully the three questions which I have raised may prove helpful for your Lenten experience 2015. Our lives in Christ, begin in Baptism, constitute a journey that envisions a goal that involves but also transcends our lives this side of the grave. The season of Lent is like a journey within a journey which we undertake each year, not just because it is a law to be observed, but we journey with the very person, a divine person, who is the risen Christ, who accompanies us always along the way and whom we must encounter and befriend and follow more faithfully. (Benedict XVI) That delightful little book, The Imitation of Christ, exhorts us – “Pick up your cross and follow Jesus. In this way you will go to eternal life. He went before you carrying his cross, and died for you so that you would carry your cross and be willing to die for him. If you die with him, you will also live with him. And if you are his partner in sorrow, you will also be his partner in triumph.” Lent is like a refresher course through which we learn what it means to be truly Christian. Lent is an excellent opportunity to live out more consciously our Eucharistic encounter with the risen Christ, truly with us in sacramental mystery. Lent is a wonderful schooling whereby we learn how to meet Christ in his mysteries, how to live our sharing in the Lord’s paschal mystery – his dying and rising for the salvation of the world. Baptism is the sacrament of the Lord’s Easter mystery, his dying and his rising, and the sacrament of Baptism is the sacrament of our dying and rising with the Lord. The Lord’s saving death and resurrection were real and physical. Our dying and rising were very real but sacramental.
The Church describes the Lord’s Easter mystery as a passage, a transition, a transit from death to life. The Church describes our participation in the Lord’s paschal mystery as a passage, a transition, a transit from darkness to the light and joy of the Gospel, from sin to divine grace, the pledge of eternal happiness and wholeness, a passage from death to life. This suggests the all-important Lenten question – Have I passed, have we passed, from death to life this side of the grave, death to sin and inordinate self-love, life for God and for neighbor? Read the First Letter of St. John for an answer. John tells us that we know that we have passed from death to life if or because we love our brothers and sisters – and, who are my brothers and sisters, but all and anyone for whom the Lord Jesus offered his life on the cross. Pope Francis expresses all this in another way – as we have already seen – He tells us – and this is the key – “What counts above all else is faith working through love. Works of love directed to one’s neighbor are the most perfect external manifestation of the interior grace of the Holy Spirit.”


Today although we celebrate the Easter Bunny and hunt for baskets and eggs, let’s not forget the true meaning of the day.
Easter is the day when we celebrate Jesus Christ rising from the dead. Jesus is the Son of God and heroically gave His life to die for our sins. On the third day after He died — the day we now celebrate as Easter Sunday — His friends went to His grave, and found that He had risen from the dead. They saw an angel who told them, “Don’t be afraid! I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He isn’t here! He has been raised from the dead, just as He said it would happen.”
I won’t go too much further as I don’t want to preach to you but there are a few simple things you can do that will bring God into your life and allow you to be saved by Him. He offers you the chance for your sins to be forgiven and the gift of eternal life. Here are the four principals that tell you how you can receive the gift of God in your life.
1. God Loves You!
The Bible says, “God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life”
The problem is that
2. All of us have done, said or thought things that are wrong. This is called sin, and our sins have separated us from God.
The Bible says â€œAll have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.â€ God is perfect and holy, and our sins separate us from God forever. The Bible says â€œThe wages of sin is death.â€
The good news is that, about 2,000 years ago,
3. God sent His only Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins.
Jesus is the Son of God. He lived a sinless life and then died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins. â€œGod demonstrates His own love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.â€
Jesus rose from the dead and now He lives in heaven with God His Father. He offers us the gift of eternal life — of living forever with Him in heaven if we accept Him as our Lord and Savior. Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by Me.”
God reaches out in love to you and wants you to be His child. “As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe on His name.” You can choose to ask Jesus Christ to forgive your sins and come in to your life as your Lord and Savior.
4. If you want to accept Christ as Savior and turn from your sins, you can ask Him to be your Savior and Lord by praying a prayer like this:
“Lord Jesus, I believe you are the Son of God. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins.Â Please forgive my sins and give me the gift of eternal life.Â I ask you in to my life and heart to be my Lord and Savior. I want to serve you always.”
Hope you have a great day, take care and as always, God Bless!


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I have just finished a wonderful weekend in Deming, New Mexico. There is a real emergency there. Around 150 migrants are being dropped off in the city each day and the community is having to respond with shelter, food, hygienic needs, and clothing. This is just one small community among many where this is happening. The community is having to respond to a crisis being put upon them daily They are having to make contacts with sponsors throughout the U.S. to put families on buses and airplanes for some connection to stay with. The border patrol is overwhelmed with numbers in the thousands that they cannot process the number of people pouring into the country. Those arriving in Deming are people who have already been screened and have a contact in the U.S. For sure something needs to be done. God bless CitiLife Church and the other churches in the Deming community who are having to respond to this challenge forced upon their community.
I have been addressing the qualities of mercy and grace made available to us all in Christ. As believers in Christ, we have to be led by the Holy Spirit in life, but we know anything we hear or any decision we make is going to begin with mercy so we can find grace. Law always requires a judgment and mercy is the only judgment that can free us from law and lead us to the place where we can find grace. Without mercy, law condemns us. But with God’s mercy, Grace can empower us to overcome all things. Grace does not condone our sin, but it is the power of Christ’s life that transforms our hearts and minds to be as we should be in life. Mercy opens the door to God’s grace and God’s grace is His manifest presence that transforms all things and makes all things new. Paul wrote that we don’ t judge anyone according to the flesh anymore, not even Jesus. We can’t even judge perfect flesh as being the way unto life, even as Jesus was the way unto life in the flesh. We are left with the power of God’s mercy and grace in all things. Only Christ in us is the hope of glory.
2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. 16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
In Christ, all things are new. All things are new and are continually manifesting the power of God’s transformation in the place that is always new. That is the place of God grace. Grace does not measure our lives to judge us, it is the measurement of God’s life that transforms our lives by the power of God’s life. Law measures us and requires mercy, but grace measures us and changes our lives inside and out. Grace empowers us to overcome dysfunctions so our relationships with God and with one another become life-giving. We have often heard it said that everyone deserves to be loved. It is not true, no one deserves to be loved, but God loves us and so our wisdom begins in Him. In the reality of our attitudes and actions we don’t deserve to be loved, but in the reality of our Father’s heart He sees us all as deserving of His love. His measurement of love is supernatural, and it is transforming. It is sometimes confusing to our own understandings of love. We have to trust Him more than we trust what we think love is. We cannot measure His love by our definition of love. We must embrace Him in all that He is and allow His grace to measure our hearts, our minds, and even our physical lives to become as we should be in all things.
God does not measure love by what He gets, but by what can be given, and the fruit of love is life in a generational way. This is why a man and woman constitute the testimony of true covenant. They are two individuals who do not think alike. Their physical body parts are different. The way they perceive things is different. They are both strong in different ways. They are equal in value, but they have to have a supernatural miracle to become one flesh. It is the ordained nature by God, because when they come together it does not just meet their needs it produces life, even babies. It doesn’t just produce babies; it produces family in a multigenerational way. When the natural way of something cannot produce life, it is only a relationship of what one can get. When a relationship is solely based upon a revelation of deserving love, something is wrong in that foundation. We need to be grateful that we are loved. We need to receive that love, but like Jesus said we need to know the evidence will be life-giving water flowing out of us. We were born to be loved by God, but this is not an entitlement. It is a gift! Covenants based upon a revelation of the gift of the Giver become relationships that produce life in the generations of true family.
Ted J. Hanson
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By Maria I. Morgan One day – a 24-hour period of time. We’re all given the same number of minutes each day. For the most part, we determine how to use them. It’s been said that we make time for what’s important to us. So what’s important to you?
As you think back over the past week, how did you spend your time? Is there time you wished you had used differently?
Sometimes I’m selfish . . .
I’m a writer which means I spend a lot of time at home in front of my computer. If I’m not careful, I can get so absorbed in my writing projects that I avoid phone calls and don’t schedule time with friends. I get selfish with my time.
Over a year ago the Lord challenged me to step out of my comfortable writer’s zone and develop meaningful relationships with others:
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another. Romans 12:10
While I know God created me to live in relationship with others, I have to be intentional with my time to do just that. And boy has God blessed. As an older woman, I’ve had the opportunity to pour into the lives of younger ladies – to see them grow in their faith and walk with them through life’s ups and downs. The Lord has also developed friendships with other women who have been able to challenge and encourage me.
The battle between living for self and living selflessly is very real. If I’m not careful, I can be so focused on my agenda that I miss God’s still, small voice. The good news? When I submit to God and seek His will, He makes my path clear. He wants me to live a life that showcases Him. The Bible puts it this way:
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John 15:5
A fruitful life
If you’re anything like me, you want to live a life that’s fruitful. A life that shares the gospel of Jesus Christ. A life that is rich in love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Do you recognize these characteristics? They are the fruit of the Spirit.
The key to producing “much fruit” is abiding in Christ. He wants us to be fruitful.
Are you living for self or living a selfless life? What step will you take today to live selflessly?
Prayer: Heavenly Father, Thank You for reminding me of the importance of living a selfless life. Forgive me for my selfishness. Help me submit to Your will and to walk in the power of Your Holy Spirit. Make my life fruitful for You. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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Great article. I think we all get a little self absorbed at times. Thanks for sharing.