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Parish News: Holy Family Icon at St Francis in Bend The Icon of the Holy Family sponsored by the Knights of Columbus was displayed at St Francis of Assisi Parish between January 30 and February 7. The Holy Family Prayer Program is the 17th Marian Prayer Program sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, beginning with the first program, honoring Mary under her title of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in 1979. In preparation for the 1982 Centennial of the Order, the second prayer program was initiated, which highlighted the Holy Family. Since then, the Blessed Mother has been honored by her Knights under her titles of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Our Lady of Czestochowa, Our Lady of Pochaiv, Our Lady of the Assumption, Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Charity. These Order-wide programs of Marian Prayer have gathered together more than 16 million people at some 140,000 prayer services conducted at local councils and parishes. Parishioners at St Francis had the opportunity to pray in front of this image of the Holy Family. It was displayed at the weekend Masses and at the Holy Hour and Adoration during the week at the historic church. We thank the Knights of Columbus for bringing the image to us. — Fr. Julian Cassar, Pastor The Traditional Latin Mass in Bend The Extraordinary Form (Latin) Mass will be offered every other weekend at St. Francis of Assisi Historic Church on: February 21 2:15 p.m. High Mass (Sung) March 06 2:15 p.m. Low Mass March 20 2:15 p.m. High Mass (Sung) Save the Date Correction: In the last issue of this newsletter, under the Diocesan Events Schedule, we listed the incorrect date for the NW Catholic Men’s Conference in Pendleton. Please note that the correct dates are February 26-27, 2016. Parish News: New Stain Glass Window at St. John, Condon David Michael Jones, a Physicians Assistant who lived in and served the Condon community for about 38 years, passed away in January of 2015. Dave was well loved in Condon and was affectionately known as “Dr. Dave”. One of Dave’s hobbies was to work on the stained glass windows for St. John’s Church. His wife, Karen, was a member of the parish, but Dave was not. Anyway, there was this running joke between us of who would design and make a window for the Chapel. I kept telling Dave that since he had helped with the other windows, he should be the one to make that window, and he kept saying, “No, you should,” referring to me. So this was our debate. The morning of his funeral Mass, I received an email from his son, Tucker, and all it said was “Dad wins.” Sue Miller and Kathy Burres, parishioners of St. John, paid for the material, the Men’s Breakfast Club paid for the frame, and I designed and made the window. Within the next few weeks I hope to have a Caduceus (the medical symbol with the wings, snakes, etc.) made and attached to the lower left side of the window. —Fr. John McGuire, Temporary Administrator at St. John Illuminating our Parishes Blessed Sacrament in Ontario was founded in 1911 and is located in the eastern deanery. The parish has 680 registered families. St. Peter Catholic School was founded in 1979 and has 68 students attending. February 21, 2016 Volume 7, Number 4 The DIOCESAN Chronicle News of the Diocese of Baker Fr. Jose Mudakoyidil Pastor Fr. Christie Tissera Associate Pastor
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Parish News: Holy Family Icon at St Francis in Bend The Icon of the Holy Family sponsored by the Knights of Columbus was displayed at St Francis of Assisi Parish between January 30 and February 7. The Holy Family Prayer Program is the 17th Marian Prayer Program sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, beginning with the first program, honoring Mary under her title of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in 1979. In preparation for the 1982 Centennial of the Order, the second prayer program was initiated, which highlighted the Holy Family. Since then, the Blessed Mother has been honored by her Knights under her titles of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Our Lady of Czestochowa, Our Lady of Pochaiv, Our Lady of the Assumption, Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Charity.

These Order-wide programs of Marian Prayer have gathered together more than 16 million people at some 140,000 prayer services conducted at local councils and parishes. Parishioners at St Francis had the opportunity to pray

in front of this image of the Holy Family. It was displayed at the weekend Masses and at the Holy Hour and Adoration during the week at the historic church. We thank the Knights of Columbus for bringing the image to us. — Fr. Julian Cassar, Pastor

The Traditional Latin Mass in Bend The Extraordinary Form (Latin) Mass will be offered every other weekend at St. Francis of Assisi Historic Church on:

February 21 2:15 p.m. High Mass (Sung) March 06 2:15 p.m. Low Mass March 20 2:15 p.m. High Mass (Sung)

Save the Date Correction: In the last issue of this newsletter, under the Diocesan Events Schedule, we listed the incorrect date for the NW Catholic Men’s Conference in Pendleton. Please note that the correct dates are February 26-27, 2016.

Parish News: New Stain Glass Window at St. John, Condon David Michael Jones, a Physicians Assistant who lived in and served the Condon community for about 38 years, passed away in January of 2015. Dave was well loved in Condon and was affectionately known as “Dr. Dave”. One of Dave’s hobbies was to work on the stained glass windows for St. John’s Church. His wife, Karen, was a member of the parish, but Dave was not. Anyway, there was this running joke between us of who would design and make a window for the Chapel. I kept telling Dave that since he had helped with the other windows, he should be the one to make that window, and he kept saying, “No, you should,” referring to me. So this was our debate. The morning of his funeral Mass, I received an email from his son, Tucker, and all it said was “Dad wins.” Sue Miller and Kathy Burres, parishioners of St. John, paid for the material, the Men’s Breakfast Club paid for the frame, and I designed and made the window. Within the next few weeks I hope to have a Caduceus (the medical symbol with the wings, snakes, etc.) made and attached to the lower left side of the window. —Fr. John McGuire, Temporary Administrator at St. John

Illuminating our Parishes Blessed Sacrament in Ontario was founded in 1911 and is located in the eastern deanery. The parish has 680 registered families. St. Peter Catholic School was founded in 1979 and has 68 students attending.

February 21, 2016 Volume 7, Number 4

The DIOCESAN Chronicle

News of the Diocese of Baker

Fr. Jose Mudakoyidil

Pastor

Fr. Christie Tissera

Associate Pastor

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Thoughts Along the Way Bishop Liam Cary

School of Mercy

“There is a time for everything under heaven,” Scripture says—a time to give and a time to receive, a time to be merciful to others and a time to seek mercy for ourselves. For every charitable interaction is two-sided: a giver hands over the bread of compassion to a receiver who feeds on it. From one day to the next both roles in this decisive drama are yours and mine to play, so we need to learn to tell time: when to give mercy and when to receive it. Mercy meets misery, and misery is two-sided as well. There is no mistaking the toll it takes on a contorted body in a sick bed or on an unsheltered sleeper in the street. But this outer corporeal side of misery all too often veils an inner spiritual side as well: a mind abandoned by peace, a soul shattered by loss, a heart broken by betrayal. This miserable state of ours is precisely what Divine Mercy comes to touch and transform in Jesus Christ. His saving Gospel provokes us to recognize human misery for what it is, from the inside out. The more honestly I acknowledge my own misery from within, the more clearly I will see how much I need mercy from without—from the God Who saves me, from His children who console me. We will more convincingly impart mercy to the miserable if we have first discovered what surprising things can happen when we bring our misery to the merciful. One day years before I became a priest, my pastor treated me with great compassion in the confessional. As I stepped out, I said to myself, “It would be worth paying whatever it costs to be able to give just one other person the peace of soul that has just been given to me.” I’ve never forgotten that moment—and the desire it gave birth to. “It begins with your family / and soon it comes ‘round to your soul,” the poet Leonard Cohen sings. The family is our first and best school of mercy because it is there that we learn the earliest and longest-lasting lessons of how mercy works. At home growing up, in the normal course of an ordinary day, we saw the hungry fed, the naked clothed, the lonely comforted, the sinner admonished, the ignorant instructed, the sick cared for, the offender forgiven. Without the works of mercy, which of our families would make it through a week? We don’t usually think in such terms, of course, because, growing up, the fed and clothed and comforted were none other than our brothers, our sisters, and ourselves. We have been on the receiving end of mercy since our mother first drew us to her breast. “It begins with your family / and soon it comes

‘round to your soul.” Marriage and mercy go together inseparably in God’s saving design for our happiness. A man and a woman widen the embrace of their one-flesh union to include the children God gives them to be schooled in compassion, so they can apply lessons of mercy learned in family life to social and civic life as well. For our redemption hinges on the spread of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy from the heart of the family to the darkest corners of an uncomprehending world.

Pensamientos Del Camino

Obispo Liam Cary

Escuela de Misericordia

“Hay un tiempo para cada cosa bajo el cielo”, dice la Escritura—un tiempo para dar y un tiempo para recibir, un tiempo para ser misericordioso y un tiempo para buscar misericordia. Porque cada interacción benéfica tiene dos lados: el dador entrega el pan de compasión a un receptor que se alimenta de ella. Ambos papeles en este drama decisivo, son los suyos y los míos para jugar. Por lo tanto necesitamos aprender a decir la hora: cuando dar misericordia y cuando recibirla. La misericordia se encuentra con la miseria, y la miseria también tiene dos lados. No es difícil reconocerla en los cuerpos contorsionados de un enfermo en el lecho o de un durmiente en la calle. Pero este lado corporal externo de la miseria con demasiada frecuencia oculta un lado espiritual interior también: una mente abandonada por la paz, un alma destrozada por la pérdida, un corazón roto por la traición. Este estado miserable nuestro es precisamente lo que la Divina Misericordia viene a tocar y transformar en Jesucristo. Su Evangelio salvador nos provoca reconocer la miseria humana por lo que es, de adentro hacia afuera. Lo más honestamente que yo reconozca mi propia miseria desde adentro, lo más claro que podré ver lo mucho que necesito la misericordia desde afuera—del Dios Que me salva, de Sus hijos que me consuelan. Impartiremos la misericordia más efectivamente a los miserables si primero descubrimos las cosas sorprendentes que pueden suceder cuando traemos nuestra miseria a los misericordiosos. Un día, años antes de hacerme sacerdote, mi párroco me trató con gran compasión en el confesionario. Al salir, me dije a mi mismo, “Valdría la pena pagar cuanto costara para poder darle a una sola persona la paz del alma que acaba de ser dada a mi”. Nunca he olvidado ese momento—y el deseo al que dio a luz. “Comienza con tu familia / y pronto se regresa de vuelta a tu alma”, canta el poeta Leonard Cohen. La familia es nuestra primera y mejor escuela de misericordia

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porque es allí que aprendemos las lecciones mas tempranas y mas duraderas de cómo trabaja la misericordia. Creciendo en casa, en el curso normal de un día ordinario, vimos que se le daba de comer al hambriento, vestimenta al desnudo, consuelo al afligido, cuidado al enfermo, perdón al transgresor. Sin las obras de misericordia, ¿cuales de nuestras familias habrían superado la semana? Usualmente no pensamos en esos términos, por supuesto, porque, creciendo, los alimentados y vestidos y consolados no eran otros que nuestros hermanos, nuestras hermanas, y nosotros mismos. Hemos estado al lado del receptor de la misericordia ya que nuestra madre nos llamó por primera vez a su pecho. “Comienza con tu familia / y pronto se regresa de vuelta a tu alma”. El matrimonio y la misericordia van juntos inseparablemente en el diseño salvador de Dios para nuestra felicidad. Un hombre y una mujer extienden el abrazo de su unión de una sola carne para incluir a los hijos que Dios les de para ser educados en la compasión, para que puedan aplicar las lecciones aprendidas de la misericordia en la vida familiar a la vida social y cívica también. Porque nuestra redención depende de la difusión de las obras corporales y espirituales de misericordia desde el corazón de la familia hacía los rincones más oscuros de un mundo desconociente.

Vocation Discernment “Today the word of God speaks to us of mission.

Where does mission originate? The answer is simple: it originates from a call, the Lord’s call, and when he calls people, he does so with a view to sending them out. . . . The spread of the Gospel is not guaranteed either by the number of persons, or by the prestige of the institution, or by the quantity of available resources. What counts is to be permeated by the love of Christ, to let oneself be led by the Holy Spirit and to graft one’s own life onto the tree of life, which is the Lord’s Cross.”

— Pope Francis, Homily at Holy Mass with Seminarians, novices, and those discerning their vocation at the Vatican Basilica, Sunday, 7 July 2013

We are pleased to present the sixth Vocation story in the series of our Clergy testimonials. To read about other priests in our diocese, please go to the diocesan website and visit the Clergy page or the Vocation page for a link.

My name is Father Ildefonce Mapara, OSB, a Benedictine monk from Tanzania. I live in Klamath Falls at St. Pius X Catholic Church. I am in residence and do travel in different places in the country to seek funds for social projects in southern Tanzania. I am pleased to share with you my vocation story. I was born on 15th of July

1960 in southern Tanzania. I joined monastic life in 1987 and was ordained a priest on June 29th, 2000. Since I was about 10 years old I thought about being a priest. No one ever directly or indirectly asked me about becoming a priest. I had seen the missionary priests from Germany and thought it would be a good thing to be saying Mass for the people. But that was a child’s way of thinking. I did not know what was to come with that kind of a calling. As I went to school I was able to learn more about our Catholic faith. I had a very good catechist who taught catechism and Bible stories, a summary of the major events in the Bible. It was really an eye opening experience regarding the Catholic faith and its traditions. My dad was a very devoted Catholic and never missed Sunday Mass unless he was sick. This, too, had an impact in my life. It really imprinted in my mind the importance of doing what is supposed to be done by a believer. As my history was continuing to be unveiled I ended up going to a High School run by Benedictines. Seeing their lives I was attracted to them. But also during this time I could think a little more maturely and tried to decide who I wanted to be - a monk priest or get married. The gospel of Matthew in which Jesus condemns those that did not attend the needy persons kind of pushed me to choose life that will make me always aware of my obligation as a believer. So I came to a conclusion that monastic life or priesthood will put me in an environment that I will always be aware of my faith and live it. Today I think this was and is a sound reason to be a monk and a priest. I have the opportunity of saying Mass every day. I have to say my prayers every day. The schedule at the abbey is designed in a way that the whole day is centered around praying: in the morning (vigils and lauds), midday (midday prayer), late afternoon (vespers) and before going to bed (compline) plus many other spiritual exercises like meditation and retreats. When I look back now I see how my vocation to priesthood and religious life was fostered early on during my childhood and as I was growing. I really see God’s marvelous deeds through my dad and the exuberant catechist. Indeed I am thankful to God for the vocation He has given to me. — Fr. Ildefonce Mapara, OSB Order of Saint Benedict

Bishop Cary’s Schedule February 21 Rite of Election, St. Francis de Sales

Cathedral, Baker City

February 26-27 NW Catholic Men’s Conf., Pendleton

February 28 Meet with confirmandi in The Dalles

February 29 Convocation at legislature in Salem

March 2 Seminary Evaluations, Mt. Angel

March 3 Meet with confirmandi in Prineville

March 5-6 Knights of Columbus Retreat, Powell Butte

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The Power of Catholic Radio Tom Monaghan, founder and chairman of Legatus Magazine, writes that Catholic radio has the power to move hearts and save souls . . . “I believe that Catholic radio is a major reason why the faith is rebounding in the United States. Many converts tell me that Catholic radio was the reason they became Catholic.” Catholic presence on the airwaves has been steadily increasing in recent years and the Diocese of Baker has been presented with a unique opportunity to grow that presence here in Bend. Early last year, St. Francis of Assisi parishioner, Clayton Beck, presented a plan to Bishop Liam Cary and Barry Metzentine, Director of Evangelization and Catechesis, to bring a New Evangelization initiative to Central Oregon—a Catholic Radio Station—in the most cost-effective way to reach thousands of souls. “From the moment that Clayton presented the idea of launching a Catholic radio station in the Diocese of Baker the means to accomplish it has manifested every step of the way” says Barry Metzentine. “Clayton has been instrumental in leading this initiative over the past 18 months.” Indeed, many individuals have contributed their time, talent and money to make this a reality: Rod Fazzari, owner of KHSS 100.7 FM Catholic

Radio in Walla Walla, WA, paid for the initial FCC filing fees and provided expert guidance.

Dennis J. Kelly, attorney, provided Pro-bono legal services for the FCC application.

Stephen Gajdosik, President of Catholic Radio Association, for guidance throughout the process.

Dan Beougher, Bob Borlen, James Strelchun and Rick Wyman, all parishioners of St. Francis in Bend, have contributed a significant amount of time and resources (administrative and technical expertise) to a successful installation of equipment and securement of necessary local filing and permits in the final stages.

The call letters KFDS represent “Francis de Sales,” the Patron Saint of the Diocese of Baker. When the broadcast begins (must be in operation by March 16th), we will be streaming EWTN Catholic Radio 24 hours a day 7 days a week on 93.5 FM. Because this is a low power permit (LP-FM), only those in the Bend area will be able to receive the transmission on their radio. However, the broadcast will be available to anyone with access to the Internet. Plans are in the works to create a webpage for the St. Francis de Sales Catholic Radio Station—details forthcoming. Plans for the radio station include broadcasting Bishop's messages, homilies, prayers, appeals, local and diocesan events. Over time we will be developing a program format for both English and Spanish speaking audiences. “We see KFDS as a pilot-potential for future diocesan stations to reach many of our parishes that can benefit from the KFDS experience,” says Barry Metzentine. Consider the potential:

Radio for Local Faith Community would provide programs that will reinforce/support the faith of Catholics by providing a sense of unity and solidarity. Radio for the Local Parish would enhance and energize parish life and fellowship because it would be a tool to announce parish events (e.g., holiday fairs, speakers, meetings, ministry activities) as well as school activities (e.g., meetings, auction, awards, student events). Pastor's messages (e.g., homilies, special liturgies, appeals, schedules) could be broadcast for those who are homebound due to sickness or weather.

Catholic Radio has a personal impact because it engages the mind and heart of the individual listener and generates conversions and vocations which is supported by numerous testimonials. It addresses many of life’s important questions: who we are as image and likeness of God, how to live and share the Gospel message in our day-to-day lives, and provides an avenue of outreach to the lost, lonely and separated. It is through the generous donation of a few people that we are able to launch this Radio Station. For those who are interested in funding our ongoing operations, a Diocesan Radio Fund has been established with The Legacy of Faith Catholic Community Foundation. If you would like to contribute, please contact Terri Isom at the Chancery Office at (541) 388-4004 or [email protected] . This is a new evangelization initiative with high goals and expectations for the Diocese of Baker as we endeavor to reach out to all in our communities with the good news of Jesus Christ. St. Francis de Sales, pray for us!

Diocese of Baker to Launch New Radio Station KFDS

The antenna is installed in the south steeple of St. Francis of Assisi historic church. An equipment rack is in the choir loft.


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