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Fe para cuidarla, vivirla, celebrarla y compartirla
“No hay prueba más verdadera de un gran amor por Dios que un gran amor por nuestro prójimo”. P. Thomas Judge, fundador de Trinity Missions
El sábado 13, al celebrar los 100 años de las Misiones Trinitarias en Misa celebrada por el obispo Kopacz, estuvieron presentes y concelebraron la Misa con el obispo varios sacerdotes Trinitarios.
Los Padres Mike Barth, custodio general de Trinity Missions, Odel Medina, Guy Wilson, Gustavo Amell, Raul Ventura, Alexis Zúñiga Velásquez, Robert “Bob” Goodyear estuvieron acompañados además por el Padre Mike O’Brien, pastor de Sacred Heart Canton.
En cada uno de ellos se reflejó la alegría y orgullo de pertenecer a esta congregación y de servir a las diferentes comunidades. El trabajo como equipo y la organización son un legado de años de servicio de la congregación. Esto también se vio reflejado en la celebración del centenario.
Los Padres Odel, Guy y Alexis hicieron las veces de anfitriones y logística, el Padre Gustavo estuvo encargado de abrir la ceremonia, el Padre Raúl Ventura, de visita, leyó el evangelio y el Padre Guy creó un collar de cerámica como recuerdo de la celebración del centenario, del cual cada asistente recibió una copia.
El peso de la tradición y éxito de la Misión Trinitaria es tangible en sus frutos y en los nuevos miembros, llamados a continuar la Misión del Padre Judge. Mississippi Católico comparte con ustedes la repuesta a una pregunta que se le hizo al padre Gustavo:
P: Como sacerdote joven, ¿qué reto se le impone al pertenecer a una organización con tan rica historia de servicio?
R: Más que un reto, creo que es una gran responsabilidad la de continuar con el gran legado que nos dejó nuestro fundador el P. Tomás Agustí Judge y que se expresa en el carisma de nuestra congregación religiosa: “La preservación de la fe con la meta que cada católico sea un apóstol.”
Cuando hablamos de “preservar la fe”, hablamos de ayudar a conservar el gran regalo de la fe que Dios no ha regalado, un regalo que hay que cuidarlo, cultivarlo, nutrirlo, y alimentarlo.
Y es en la manera en que cuidamos de nuestra fe que la vivimos, la celebramos y la compartimos.
Una manera en nosotros, los Siervos Misioneros de la Santísima Trinidad, respondemos a nuestro carisma es ayudando a los laicos a reconocer el gran potencial que tienen como apóstoles, hombres y mujeres llamados a seguir y a servir a Jesus en cada una de las actividades que realizan en la vida diaria, glorificando al Dios uno y Trino por medio de sus palabras y testimonio.
Sin embargo, en este trabajo misioneros nos encontramos con grandes retos y realidades humanas. A diario nos encontramos con inmigrantes que vienen a un país diferente, sin hablar la lengua, buscando seguir practicando su fe, y donde muchas veces son excluidos; nos encontramos con persona que viven en realidades de pobreza extrema y de violencia, que se sienten abandonados por las instituciones políticas y religiosas; encontramos personas que se han alejado de la Iglesia por la falta de testimonio de muchos de sus líderes religiosos; encontramos tantos hombres y mujeres que por las experiencias de sufrimiento en sus vidas se sienten abandonadas por Dios; encontramos familias que luchan día a día por tratar de vivir en amor y armonía y dar una buena educación en la fe a sus hijos.
Es en todos estos contextos, y muchos otros, es donde como Siervos Misioneros de la Santísima Trinidad tratamos de seguir a Jesús, siguiendo el ejemplo de nuestro fundador el Padre Judge, recordándole y animando a cada bautizado a vivir una vida apostólica, a reconocer y a compartir con otros la experiencia de amor del Dios uno y Trino en nuestras vidas. Bendita sea la Santa e Indivisa Trinidad, ahora y por los siglos de los siglos.
Formación de ministros de Proclamación de Palabra en Misión San Martín de Tours, Hazlehurst
El domingo 14 de noviembre, el Padre Vijaya Manohar Reddy Thanugundla condujo la bendición de un grupo de servidores de la misión San Martín de Tours en Hazlehurst.
Este grupo de 28 personas están atendiendo talleres de formación teórico-práctico en la formación de Proclamadores de la Palabra de Dios desde hace 4 meses. Mensualmente y durante 2 horas todos estos servidores asisten y participan activamente en su formación técnica y espiritual. La Coordinación de este grupo de ministros de la Proclamación de la Palabra está a cargo de Ali y Patricia López, Ministros de Pastoral de la Misión.
El propósito de estos talleres no es solo lograr que la proclamación de la palabra de Dios llegue con respeto y claridad a toda la feligresía, sino también incorporar esa palabra en la vida cotidiana, vivirla, experimentarla y que vaya transformando nuestras vidas.
Así, el acto celebrado por el Padre “Mano” y bendecidos además por el ministro Eucarístico, fue sellado con un “Aquí estoy Señor,” por parte de cada uno de los lectores con el compromiso de continuar en la formación, entendiendo que este acto no fue una graduación, sino un “Si” a continuar sirviendo en este Ministerio con la solemnidad y respeto que todos deben dar a la Palabra de Dios.
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Vírgenes y Santos
Santa Barbara, mártir. Dic. 4
Inmaculada Concepción de la Santísima Virgen María. Dic. 8
San Juan Diego. Dic. 9
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Dic. 12
Natividad de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo. Dic. 25
Sagrada Familia de Jesús, María y José. Dic. 27
Día de los Santos Inocentes. Dic. 28
Celebracion Virgen de Guadalupe
St. Anne Carthage: Procesión y Misa. Dic. 11
St. Joseph Holly Springs:
Novena Dic 3. Misa y fiesta Dic. 11, 6 p.m.
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Youth
Dinosaur takeover
Garden delight
(Bottom) Vincent and Shayla water the broccoli that they planted as a follow up to learning about the story of creation. (Photos courtesy of Sister Margaret Sue Broker)
Red Ribbon Week
Art: of Mass and of pumpkins
Exploring science
Signs along the road
JACKSON – As a part of National Vocations Awareness Week, we hear from our diocesan seminarians, and the encouragements they received as they began to ponder God’s will and the possibility they may be called to priesthood.
“Father Martin Ruane, my first pastor, was a big influence on me. Father Ruane was a joy-filled priest. A joy-filled priest gives a powerful witness to the light of Christ in the world.”
– Deacon Andrew Bowden
(Deacon Andrew will be ordained to the priesthood in May 2022.)
“I converted to Catholicism while I was pursuing my undergraduate degree after reading a copy of St. Augustine’s Confessions that I found in a used bookshop in Florida. I almost immediately began to feel a call to ordination.”
– Carlisle Beggerly
(Carlisle will be ordained to the diaconate in preparation for priesthood in June 2022.)
“I graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from New Mexico Tech. I had a couple job offers after I graduated. I accepted a job as a nuclear engineer, but before I could start working, I needed a security clearance. While I was waiting for that clearance, I went to confession one day, and a priest said that I should be a priest. When the priest said that, I said, ‘No way! I’ve always wanted a wife and kids.’ Then, I left, [but] what he said stuck with me, and I began my discernment.”
– Ryan Stoer
(Ryan is in his 2nd year of Theology studies, he is scheduled for priestly ordination in Spring 2024.)
“My first memory of Catholicism is seeing the funeral of St. John Paul II on television. At the time I was awestruck by all the proceedings. I had so many questions about what was happening and who this man was for whom the whole world was coming to a halt. I became more and more interested as I grew up.”
– Tristan Stovall
(Tristan is in his 2nd year of Theology studies, he is scheduled for priestly ordination in Spring 2024.)
“I first felt a desire for priesthood when I was a senior in high school. When I was in college, that desire grew. By participating in, and leading, mission trips to serve the homeless through the Catholic Campus Ministry I realized a desire I have to serve others. The more I did this, the deeper that desire grew and I felt a greater excitement for service to the people of God. The feeling of a call to priesthood became so great that I couldn’t ignore it…”
– Will Foggo
(Will is in his 2nd year of Pre-Theology studies, he is scheduled for priestly ordination in Spring 2026.)
“I was convinced that I would play college basketball. They say: ‘If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.’ In the summer of 2018 I went to a Catholic youth conference called Steubenville On the Bayou. It was a faith filled experience and was the first time I considered the priesthood. I had an amazing encounter with our Lord during the exposition of the Eucharist. After returning home I started to receive spiritual direction. This helped me to pre-discern my vocation.”
– Grayson Foley
(Grayson is in his 2nd year of Philosophy studies, he is scheduled for priestly ordination in Spring 2028.)
Please keep our seminarians (and religious discerners and postulants) in your prayers, and remember that you can be a great influence for young people just by sharing with them that they would make a great priest or religious.
Diocesan vocations events aim to give time and space to listen for God’s call
With so much distraction and ‘noise’ in the word, God’s call can be difficult to hear. The Department of Vocations is offering young men and women opportunities to retreat and listen to the call of God. Here is a timeline of what has happened, and what will happen in the coming months to give our young people time and space to listen.
June 2021 – Quo Vadis? I
The question where are you going was explored at this three-day retreat for young men who are open to priesthood. Father Nick and the diocesan seminarians led the retreat and gave talks to the 14 men in attendance.
November 19-21, 2021 – Quo Vadis? II
Coming off the success of the first retreat, the Diocese of Baton Rouge and the Diocese of Jackson have teamed up to offer another discernment retreat. Father Josh Johnson, vocation director for Baton Rouge and Father Nick Adam are leading the retreat along with seminarians from both dioceses. Young men ages 15-25 are invited to attend.
Winter/Spring 2022 – Nun Run II
The Department of Vocations is leading a trek north to visit several different religious communities in early 2022. Father Nick will begin recruitment in December for this trip. The first Nun Run was held in Fall of 2019 and was a huge success. Kathleen McMullin was on that trip and is now a postulant in a religious community!
The Department of Vocations also offers individual and small group visits to seminaries and religious communities based on need and circumstance. Several young men have been hosted at the seminary by Father Nick and our seminarians in the past year. If you are interested in any of these events, or want to know how you could help, please email nick.adam@jacksondiocese.org.
Charities Purple Dress Run raises awareness
JACKSON – About 200 runners and walkers grabbed their running shoes and purple dresses for Catholic Charities 10th annual Purple Dress Run at the District at Eastover in Northeast Jackson on Thursday, Oct. 21 in honor of National Domestic Violence Awareness month. Racers ran and walked through the Eastover neighborhood to raise awarness about domestic violence and to raise money for Catholic Charities domestic violence shelter.
If you need assistance escaping abuse, please call Catholic Charities Jackson at (601) 366-0222 or 1-800-273-9012 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE(7233) or chat online at www.hotline.org.
Knights bring Wreaths Across America to Clinton Cemetery
By Berta Mexidor
JACKSON – This year the Bishop R.O. Gerow Assembly 554 of the Knights of Columbus, has gotten involved in the Wreaths Across America program by sponsoring the Clinton Cemetery. They have identified approximately 250 veterans’ gravesites which they hope to lay wreaths on Dec. 18 at noon. The mission is to remember, honor and teach.
“What a beautiful and meaningful way to remember and honor our veterans during the Christmas season,” said the Knights of Columbus.
The wreaths are made of live greenery with a red velvet bow and cost $15. Wreaths can be purchased for an unspecified veteran at the Clinton Cemetery, for a specific veteran at the Clinton Cemetery, or for a veteran buried somewhere other than the Clinton Cemetery. Wreaths purchased for placement at other cemeteries will be available for pick up at Holy Savior Church at 714 Lindale Street in Clinton on Dec. 18 at 3 p.m. Wreaths must be purchased prior to Nov. 19, 2021, so orders can be placed.
Wreaths can be purchased online at https://kofc554.org/wreaths or by mail – just visit their website for details.
Church’s social teaching needed to combat greed, injustice, pope says
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – With many people around the world facing exclusion and inequality, the social teaching of the Catholic Church can inspire new economic systems that are more “people-centered,” Pope Francis said.
Christians must not “remain indifferent” to those affected by an “economic system that continues to discard people’s lives in the name of the god of money, fostering greed and destructive attitudes toward the resources of the earth and fueling various forms of injustice,” the pope said Oct. 23.
“Our response to injustice and exploitation must be more than mere condemnation,” he said. “First and foremost, it must be the active promotion of good: condemnation of what is wrong, yet promotion of what is good.”
The pope addressed participants of an international conference sponsored by the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation. The two-day conference reflected on “Solidarity, Cooperation and Responsibility: The antidotes to fight injustices, inequalities and exclusions.”
Established in 1993, the foundation seeks to promote the teaching of St. John Paul II’s 1991 encyclical on social and economic justice.
Pope Francis praised the foundation for its “commitment to financing study and research by young people on new models of economic and social development inspired by the church’s social doctrine.”
“This is important and greatly needed: in soil contaminated by the predominance of finance, we need to sow many small seeds that can bear fruit in an economy that is equitable and beneficial, humane and people-centered. We need possibilities able to become realities, and realities able to offer hope. This means putting into practice the social teaching of the church,” he said.
Reflecting on the conference’s theme, the pope said that solidarity, cooperation and responsibility represent the “three pillars of the church’s social teaching,” which places the human person at the center of “the social, economic and political order.”
Rather than an individualistic world view, the church’s teaching is based on the word of God that “seeks to promote integral human development on the basis of our faith in the God who became man.”
“In every sphere of life, today more than ever, we are bound to witness our concern for others, to think not only of ourselves, and to commit ourselves freely to the development of a more just and equitable society where forms of selfishness and partisan interests do not prevail,” the pope said.
Pope Francis said Christians must be inspired by the teachings of Jesus and care for others with a “love that transcends borders and limits,” giving witness that “it is possible to pass beyond the walls of selfishness and personal and national interest.”
“We can be ‘brothers and sisters all,’ and so we can and must think and work as ‘brothers and sisters of all,’” he said. “This may seem to be an unrealistic utopia. But we prefer to believe that it is a dream that can come true. For it is the dream of the triune God. With his help, it is a dream that can begin to become reality, also in our world.”
March for Life: Unborn must be part of current U.S. debate over inequality
By Kurt Jensen
WASHINGTON (CNS) – It’s a question Jeanne Mancini has already been asked so many times, she has an answer ready to go.
On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, an appeal by Mississippi to remove a lower court’s injunction on its law banning most abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.
Should the court rule in favor of the state law in a decision to be handed down next year, overturning Roe v. Wade and sending the abortion issue back to the states, will there still be a need for the annual rally and march in Washington?
Or will March for Life, a fixture since January 1974, instead become a decentralized arrangement of statewide marches?
“We will make an announcement if and when that happens,” Mancini, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, told Catholic News Service.
State marches that began a few years ago, she said, were not planned in anticipation of any Supreme Court decision, but rather as a way “to strengthen the grassroots” and provide opportunities for activism for those who don’t make the long trip to Washington.
Carrie Severino, president of Judicial Crisis Network, identified the challenge should the court uphold the Mississippi law. “It really just puts the ball back in (the states’) court. There should be 50 Marches for Life,” she said during the Oct. 27 announcement of next year’s theme, “Equality Begins in the Womb.”
“We want to expand this rigorous debate about inequality” to the unborn, Mancini said at the Heritage Foundation, where the theme was announced.
Calling the theme a cry for “inherent human dignity because of who we are in our essence,” she added, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to injustice everywhere, including in the womb.”
Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said in a statement that “it reclaims a key word – equality – and reminds us that unless children in the womb enjoy it, the rest of us lose it as well.”
The March for Life is scheduled for Jan. 21. The event, which starts with a rally near the National Mall followed by a march to the Supreme Court, is always held on a date near the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 rulings, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, companion rulings that legalized abortion nationwide.
“It’s going to be one of the most significant years for the march yet,” said Severino. “This court has an opportunity like none it has had before with the Dobbs case.”
The Mississippi law was enacted in 2018, but it never took effect because a federal appellate court immediately blocked its enforcement. The state’s single abortion clinic is still performing them.
With Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, as well as Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, Severino said, “we now have a majority of justices on the court who believe the Constitution must be interpreted according to its original understanding, and its original meaning.”
The turnout of more than 100,000 people for the 2020 March for Life is considered the all-time high for the event. Attendees packed the National Mall to hear President Donald Trump address the rally in person.
But in January of this year, the combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and heavy security following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol reduced the march to its smallest turnout – an invited core group of 80.
Instead of the usual march up Constitution Avenue, the group took a winding route through Washington streets to the Supreme Court and were joined midway by about 100 others.
“We never thought of not doing the march,” Mancini told CNS. But, she added, she didn’t think she could comment on whether any of the current plans represent “back to normal.”
Mancini, who has headed the march since 2012 when she took over from its founder, the late Nellie Gray, said: “I wouldn’t call any march I’ve been part of a predictable march. It’s always been a little bit unpredictable.”
The bus pilgrimages that traditionally bring thousands of marchers to the nation’s capital also are difficult to predict for 2022 until reservations are confirmed by organizers and bus companies.
At the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, Ed Konieczka, assistant director of university ministry, said their goal is to have 240 students, about 50 more than in 2020, head for Washington on five buses, with an event to be held in Bismarck coinciding with the national march.
John Pratt, director of youth ministry for the Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend, Indiana, told CNS that “if we are able to go, my sense would be that we would have about 80% of the participation as compared to recent years. In 2019 and 2020, we sent 10 busloads (just over 500 pilgrims) from our diocese.”
For 2022, he said, “350 to 400 (seven to eight busloads) is pretty realistic.”