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1 Iside this issue 3 Aual Blue Mass set for September 9 12 Three parishes celebrate jubilees (Photos by Amy Mortese) Please visit us o: at Fairfield Couty Catholics at dobevets, dobyouth Latest ews: bridgeportdiocese.com Frak E. Metrusky, CFP Presidet ad Fiacial Advisor Brig your time. We ll make it cout As a part-time udergraduate at Uiversity College, you ll receive a outstadig educatio with lastig beefits: 945 Beaver Dam Road Stratford, CT Securities ad Advisory Services offered through Natioal Plaig Corporatio (NPC), Member FINRA/SIPC, ad a Registered Ivestmet Advisor. Catholic Way ivestmets ad NPC are separate ad urelated compaies. Career Preparatio Fall Terms begi August 27th Affordable Tuitio Flexible Schedulig Supportive Faculty ad Staff For more iformatio, Fairfield Campus: Stamford Campus: Start, to fiish.

2 2 September 2012 Local News Fa the Fire ispires faith High Eergy ad Ispirig Momets From a tug-of-war to a beautiful Tee Mass, the Fa the Fire Faith Rally ispired tees to develop their spirituality. Hudreds of youth throughout the diocese tured out for this year s Fa the Fire Faith Rally held o the grouds of St. Rose of Lima Parish i Newtow. With a mix of prayer, fu, ad faith-filled reflectio, the tees ejoyed a day of music, talks ad other activities. Christ Our Ceter was the theme of this year s evet. Special thaks go to Msgr. Robert Weiss, pastor of St. Rose, ad Rodd Blessey, youth miister. The chace for our tees to laugh, worship ad ope their hearts to Christ with other tees is a life chagig experiece, said Blessey. A Legacy Gift makes a impact o semiary FAIRFIELD The semiarias are our future ad I wat to be part of that by supportig them, says Susa Barrett, retired educator ad state legislator who has chose to remember the semiarias i her will. She recetly otified the diocese that she will be leavig a gift to the St. Joh Fisher Semiary Residece i Stamford to support vocatios i Fairfield Couty A lifelog Fairfield residet ad a proud member of the first class of Holy Family School, Barrett says she chose to remember the diocese through her estate because it will eable her to make a larger gift tha she could make i life, ad it will keep o givig whe she is goe. Jeff Machi, diocesa director of developmet, says that Legacy Gifts are a great way for people to support the work of the church through wills ad bequests, life isurace, charitable remaider trusts ad retiremet pla assets that eable eve people of modest meas to have a major impact o diocesa programs ad services. These gifts esure that the vital miistries of the diocese will be there i the future. They represet a powerful legacy alog with lastig persoal geerosity, Machi says. Barrett first became iterested i St. Joh Fisher whe a youg ma from her parish, ow Fr. Jeff Couture, bega his studies there for the priesthood. She saw how the semiary supports local vocatios ad the kid of formatio experieces it provides. I was there for his ordiatio, she says, Now Fr. Couture serves at St. Mary s i Bethel. He had such good guidace while at St. Joh Fisher. For me, that s a strog persoal coectio. Barrett has atteded Mass ad other evets at St. Joh Fisher, which ow has 17 semiarias i residece ad a total of 38 me ivolved i its programs. She always fids the atmosphere very welcomig, prayerful, ad affirmative. Fr. Bob Kially has doe a great job with the semiarias. It s just a great place to visit, says Barrett. Barrett is proud of beig the first female parish coucil presidet of Holy Family Parish, where her 90-year old, father, William Rusher Barrett, still serves as a usher. She also cotiues to serve as a Eucharistic Miister ad usher. 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More tha 11,000 childre ad youg people from birth to pre-k through grade 12 beefit from a faith-filled learig experiece, a safe ad supportive eviromet, ad a curriculum that ecourages academic excellece. COVER PHOTOS: St. Ambrose School studets photographed by Amy Mortese. ceter of her life, ad she has fod memories of attedig Mass ad prayer services with her late mother, Wilma, her father ad her brother, William Jr. We were always very ivolved with the parish. Dad remembers the little missio church. We prayed together as a family, ad we always kew we could cout o the Church, she says. I m ot a wealthy perso, says Barrett, a retired teacher who ow lives o a fixed icome, which is challegig i Fairfield Couty, but rememberig the semiary i my will is a way of makig a doatio whe I m o loger here. Whe my fial day comes, I ll have the certaity of my gift goig to the Church. (Legacy Gifts are permaetly recogized through erollmet i the Perpetual Light Society. For more iformatio o makig a Legacy Gift, cotact the Developmet Office of the Diocese of Bridgeport, 238 Jewett Aveue, Bridgeport CT , or call ) CONTENTS 4 19 SAINT PETER-SACRED HEART A iteratioal school 10 CATHOLIC WORK CAMP 22 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Diocesa educators o cuttig egde 13 SAINT MARGARET SHRINE 24 SPORTS: Sait Joseph s Vito Motelli retires SAINT JOHN BASILICA A stuig restoratio Sait Pius X kids go to work A prayerful destiatio 17 STUDENTS SUCCEED I Cathedral Cluster Schools

3 September Local News Blue Mass to Commemorate 9/11 BRIDGEPORT The Aual Diocesa Blue Mass hoorig fire, police ad rescue workers will be held o Suday, September 9, 2012 at St. Aloysius Church, 40 Maple Street, New Caaa, at 11:30 am. A receptio follows at the Stapleto Hall adjacet to the church. The Mass will be cocelebrated by Msgr. Jerald Doyle, diocesa admiistrator, ad area priests who serve as chaplais for local fire, police ad rescue compaies. The aual Blue Mass was iitiated by Bishop Lori to commemorate the lives of those who died i the tragedy of 9/11/2001. Law eforcemet, fire ad emergecy medical service persoel of Fairfield Couty of all faiths are ivited to atted the Mass ad receptio. Durig the Mass, special awards will be preseted to Police Officer Jeffrey Deak, New Caaa Police Departmet; Captai Michael Socci, New Caaa Fire Departmet; ad Emergecy Medical Techicia Grat Nelso, Darie Emergecy Medical Services. The Blue Mass takes its ame from the blue uiforms wor by police, fire ad emergecy services persoel who are hoored ad prayed for at the yearly mass ad receptio. The hoorees of all faiths were omiated by their respective chiefs ad chose from amog more tha 90 police, fire ad EMS departmets i Fairfield Couty. They have bee selected for the award because of their heroism ad sacrifice for others. Each time I see a patrol car or hear a fire egie or a ambulace, I realize that me ad wome have heard the Lord s call to love oe aother. I the words of the Lord, No oe has greater love tha this, to lay dow oe s life for oe s frieds. (Joh 15:13). Msgr. Doyle said i his ivitatio to uiformed persoel, we shall also remember those who died i the tragedy of 9-11, eleve years ago. The Blue Mass is a occasio to affirm ad ecourage you ad all who cotiue i that oble duty of protectig the life ad property of your fellow citizes. I persoally wat to thak you for your devoted service, he said Servig as 2011 Blue Mass chairs are Fr. Robert Post of St. Thomas More Parish i Darie, chaplai for Stamford Fire & Rescue Departmet; Sir Kight Michael F. Basso, Past District Deputy 36; ad Deaco Joh J. Moraski, chaplai Bridgeport Police Departmet. Chaplais of the Fairfield Couty fire, police ad emergecy medical service Departmets iclude: Fr. Charles Alle, S.J. Fairfield police; Fr. Richard Futie, Stamford police; Fr. Tom Lych, Stratford fire; Fr. Joseph Malloy, Bridgeport fire; Msgr. Frak McGrath, Westport fire ad police ad Noroto fire; Deaco Joh Moraski, Bridgeport police; Deaco William Murphy, Germatow (Dabury) fire; ad Fr. Raymod Petrucci, Dabury police. The Blue Mass is sposored by the Kights of Columbus. Fourth Degree Kights from various assemblies will process ito the Mass with emergecy persoel ad bagpipers. The Mass of Thaksgivig receptio is sposored by the Assemblies of the Kights of Columbus. (To lear more about this evet, cotact Jea Talamelli: ) Schools welcome three ew pricipals Mary Jo Bokuiewicz BRIDGEPORT The Office for Educatio of the Diocese of Bridgeport has aouced three ew iterim pricipals for the school year. Each of the iterim pricipals is grouded i our Catholic faith ad traditio as well as beig a experieced Catholic school educator, says Dr. Margaret Dames, superitedet of schools. They will provide the schools with strog leadership ad brig their uique gifts to the school commuity while we iitiate the collaborative search process. St. Joseph School, Brookfield Mary Jo Bokuiewicz is the ew pricipal of St. Joseph School i Brookfield. Parets ad studets already kow her well, as she first came to the school as iterim pricipal durig St. Joseph s sprig semester. Prior to her appoitmet at St. Joseph, Bokuiewicz was assistat pricipal at St. Rose of Lima School i Newtow. She ad her husbad, Ed, ad two college-age childre live i Newtow, where they are members of St. Rose Parish. Bor i Joliet, Il, Bokuiewicz graduated from Lewis Uiversity i Romeoville, Il. She majored i accoutig, with a mior i computer sciece. Takig a job at Arthur Aderse & Co. accoutig firm Chicago, she worked i software developmet, support ad traiig, becomig seior maager ad iteratioal liaiso. While at Arthur Aderso, her group developed the first Patricia A Griffi CDROM techology used i the accoutig field. Whe the family moved to Coecticut, Bokuiewicz took the opportuity to pursue a ew life path. Whe her childre erolled i St Rose of Lima, she became a resource ad study skills teacher there, givig childre the skill ad tools they eeded, just as she had for auditors durig her busiess career. Startig i 2003 she became a Phillip Adzima first grade teacher, holdig that positio for eight years before becomig assistat pricipal. Bokuiewicz was o the techology team assessig the itroductio of ipads o the pre-k ad kidergarte level i a pilot program coducted at St. Rose. With the support of her teachers, she has already made the commitmet to make St. Joseph s a outstadig STEM school. St. Joseph hosted a STEM (sciece, techology, egieerig ad mathematics) fair i May, with projects delivered by studets i Pre-K through eighth grade. A lifelog learer, Bokuiewicz will be cotiuig her ow educatioal pursuits at Sacred Heart Uiversity i Fairfield this fall, workig o a master s degree i literacy ad pursuig coursework toward a 092 certificatio. St. Joseph s is every ew pricipal s dream, she says. We re blessed to have dedicated, passioate teachers. Our pastor, Fr. Chip O Neil, is a drivig force behid the growth of the school, ad we have the support of a strog paret ad parish commuity. The childre of St. Joseph s are fortuate to have such strog ecouragemet i their academic ad spiritual growth. St. Jude School, Moroe Patricia A Griffi is the ew pricipal of St. Jude School i Moroe. A ative of Massachusetts, she holds her bachelor s degree i elemetary cotiued o page 16

4 4 September 2012 Local News Basilica paitig project completed By MSGR. STEPHEN DiGIOVANNI (Msgr. DiGiovai is the pastor of St. Joh the Evagelist Basilica i Stamford.) STAMFORD The ewlyrepaited Victoria Gothic Revival Basilica of St. Joh the Evagelist is complete! It is a beautiful gift ad a statemet that God is very real, ad we did it i the same maer as did the earliest parishioers: givig our best to God, i our ow way. The parish church of St. Joh was built i its ow idiosycratic versio of Eglish Gothic begiig i the 1870s. Origially desiged to be the largest stoe church i New Eglad by James Murphy, the regio s premier ecclesiastical architect, the project ra out of moey, with oly the basemet church ad lower course of the side walls ad trasepts completed i stoe. It had bee decided to ed the work, cappig the stuted buildig with a flat roof, whe a parishioer voluteered his talets ad ideas to complete the buildig. Joh Eis, a Irish immigrat who fought i the Uio Army durig the America Civil War, moved to Stamford from Chicago with his wife ad childre. His trade was the desiger of theatrical stage sets! Ad that is what he desiged for St. Joh s. To reduce the cost, Eis desiged a lofty vaulted ceilig, ot i carved stoe but i plaster ad wood lathig, with the upper clerestory of wood. While ot architecturally perfect, the desig produced acoustics that are, i fact, the best church acoustics i the State of Coecticut. The hammered ti exterior mimicked the carved stoe of the lower walls. The buildig was completed i 1886, albeit with a sigificat debt, to the hoorahs of the citizes of Stamford ad the praise of ewspapers from Bosto to Philadelphia laudig this largest of churches i the State of Coecticut as a local architectural woder, comparable to the cathedral i Mila! I typical St. Joh s style, parishioers doated the moey to build the best church of its day, adored with magificet staied-glass widows. Ad that is why the decisio was made ow to use the best the Joh Caig Studios to repait our Gothic Revival Basilica just as the earlier members of our parish iteded it to be: a beautiful gift to God, ad a statemet to Stamford that God is very real. He who humbled himself to become oe of us i order to raise us to share his diviity is worth such a expese. Ad our geerosity is a sig for others to tur their attetio ad hearts to the God who loves them. Joh Caig ad his crew of artisas expeded their talets lavishly o our basilica. Each of them approached their daily task as a way to hoor God, begiig their days i prayer, ad you ca see that i the beauty ad care of their work. I am grateful to them all for their hours spet here durig the phases of this project over the past three years. The colors ad desigs used were ot haphazardly chose. Each sait has sigature colors i Catholic art. The traditioal, masculie colors of St. Joh the Evagelist are red, gree, brow, ad silver (look at the crucifixio widow above the high altar: St. Joh is stadig o the right side of the cross ad his robes are his traditioal colors). Other colors from the widows were also used: i the crucifixio widow you ca see the deep blues ad turquoise i the sky. Those dark ad lighter toed blues are see i the ceilig colors; the turquoise is used to highlight the detail work i the capitals of the colums ad thi lies of color emphasizig the arches. Colors foud i the sactuary paitigs doe by aother parishioer, Thomas Magee, i 1927 were also used: dark red ad gold o the walls; silver ad blue o the ceilig. Our walls ow are various shades of gree, as a tribute to those foudig families of St. Joh s who were immigrats from Irelad. Likewise, alog the side aisles, betwee each of the Statios of the Cross, a smaller badig of gree ad gold serves as the decoratio, composed of golde vies ad shamrocks o a dark gree groud. The silver-ad-blue patter o the apse ceilig above the sactuary is repeated i the silver-adblue patter ow ruig dow the ceter of the trasept ad aisle ceiligs. They form a large cross, with Our Lord s ame i the cetral plaster roudel or boss: IHS, which are the first three letters of the ame Jesus i Greek. The other plaster roudels or decorative bosses alog the cetral ribs of the ceilig cotai golde pomegraates with red ceters: symbols of immortality i the Resurrectio. Each of the pillars is ow paited red, the same red Magee chose i 1927 for the sactuary. A simple gold patter of gothic arches decorates each pillar, ad the frot two have the gold crossed keys of St. Peter because we are a basilica, the Pope s church i Fairfield Couty. Crowig each pillar is a capital, i the shape of gilded acathus leaves, with touches of bright reds ad turquoise, take from the widows. Crowig each arch throughout the basilica is a symbol of oe of the Apostles. We have the origial eleve (mius Judas), Matthias (who took Judas place), ad Paul, who was called persoally by the Resurrected Christ to preach to the getiles. I am grateful to all our parishioers ad frieds of the parish who doated so geerously that the repaitig of our basilica might be completed. Their kidess provides beauty free of charge to everyoe who eters the basilica doors, that their hearts might be moved to the Author of all that is true, good, ad beautiful, Our Lord.

5 September Family Life New Director for Marriage & Family By JAVIER SOEGAARD The Office for Pastoral Services has aouced that Agela Matero has bee amed diocesa director for Marriage ad Family. Agela is a extremely gifted perso whom I feel God had chose for this positio. I believe that to work i the Pastoral Services Office, oe must be a perso of prayer, have a heartfelt desire to truly serve the parishes ad selflessly give all glory to God. Agela fits this model completely, says Damie O Coor, director of Pastoral Services. O Coor explais that the Office for Marriage ad Family serves parishes by providig miistries that assist egaged couples, married couples ad families who are strivig to live their Catholic Faith. The overall objective of the miistry is to promote ad support healthy, joyful ad holy mar- riages ad families. Sice 2008, Matero ad her husbad, Frak, have bee helpig Catholic couples as preseters for Worldwide Marriage Ecouter ad the diocesa Marriage Preparatio program. I 2010, they were amed the voluteer coordiatig couple for Marriage Preparatio. Their resposibilities icluded fidig faithful Catholic couples to become preseters for the diocese s egaged couples. Matero, a ative of Atlata, GA, ad aluma of Emory Uiversity, lives with her husbad ad their four childre i Shelto, where they are members of St. Joseph Parish. I am so excited to be i this positio because the Sacramet of Marriage is about more tha just a lifetime of commitmet, it s about the lifetime of grace we receive whe God is i our marriage says Matero. Auger to St. V s BRIDGEPORT Diae J. Auger has bee amed seior vice presidet of St. Vicet s Medical Ceter/St. Vicet s Health Services ad presidet/ CEO of St. Vicet s Medical Ceter Foudatio. She comes to St. Vicet s after servig as regioal chief executive officer with the America Red Cross, Coecticut ad Rhode Islad, ad iterim regioal chief executive officer for the Greater New York Regio, where she maaged delivery of service, fudraisig, govermet relatios ad operatios of the largest strategic regio i the coutry, servig 13 millio residets. Diae is a leader who will make major cotributios to St. Vicet s Health System as we move ito a time of great chage for hospitals ad health care i geeral, said St. Vicet s Health Services Presidet/CEO Susa L. Davis, EdD, RN. I kow her backgroud ad experiece will help positio us i the best possible way for the future challeges we face. Bor ad raised i Bridgeport, Auger has spet much of her career close to home. Prior to her 13 years with the America Red Cross, she was director of busiess developmet ad admiistratio for Ahlbi Ceters for Rehabilitatio Medicie i Bridgeport, vice presidet of marketig ad developmet for the Discovery Museum ad vice presidet, market segmetatio maager for People s Uited Bak, both also i Bridgeport. After earig her MBA with a cocetratio i maagemet ad marketig from Sacred Heart Uiversity i Fairfield, Auger later served as director of corporate relatios ad aual givig for the Uiversity. Auger lives i Stratford with her husbad Joe ad their three childre. They are members of St. James Parish. The Materos are astouded by the grace they witessed whe empowerig other couples who are tryig to live their life, their sacramet, ad realizig that they have a gift to share with others. She describes her curret situatio as a direct result of her vocatio to married life ad motherhood. My vocatio became my miistry, ad i tur my miistry became my career, she says. After ot havig bee a regular churchgoer i her adolescece, she ad her husbad made a promise to cultivate a deep ad abidig faith, ad to pass that o to their childre. Her joy about this decisio is umistakable. She says, Our family s faith is somethig that my husbad ad I formed together. It s the thig I m most proud of, the faith that he ad I have give my family. Sice her ow marriage was the impetus to truly live out her faith, Matero has a uique ability to idetify with ad miister to youg couples begiig their life together. Amog her goals for the future, she hopes to develop programmig to guide ewlywed couples through the first years of their marriage. Moreover, her focus is ot simply o those preparig for ad livig out the Sacramet of Marriage. I wat to get the message of Joh Paul II s Theology of the Body out to people of all ages to tees ad to families so together we ca explore the Holy Father s woderful message about the sacredess of who we are as people. The Diocesa Marriage Preparatio program is a twoday program for egaged couples which explores i depth the vows they will make o their weddig day. The Marriage ad Family Miistry also promotes Natural Family Plaig (NFP), the moral, healthy ad successful practice of plaig for childre. I the sprig ad fall, the it sposors the Weddig Jubilee Masses, ope to all parishes i the diocese, for couples celebratig marriages of 15, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, ad 50+ years. The Marriage ad Family Miistry offers family outreach opportuities ad assists those with questios about issues such as paretig after divorce, grievig after the death of a family member ad ehacig family commuicatio. (Agela Matero ca be reached at amatero@diobpt.org or ) Celebratig the FiFtieth aiversary of the secod vatica CouCil The Secod Vatica Coucil i 1962 led to the foudig of Sacred Heart Uiversity by Bishop Walter W. Curtis as the first Catholic uiversity i America led ad staffed by lay people. Sacred Heart will celebrate the 50th aiversary of Vatica II ad its close affiliatio with that historical occasio with a series of evets. october 10, 11 ad 13, 2012 Sacred Heart Uiversity, 5151 Park Aveue, Fairfield, Coecticut All evets are free % ad ope to the public. Pael discussio ad reflectio Wedesday, October 10, 7:00 p.m. Uiversity Commos PAelISTS: ladislas Orsy - Visitig Professor of law, Georgetow Uiversity icholas lash - Theologia ad Author Gregory Baum - Professor emeritus of Theological ethics ad Sociology of Religio at McGill Uiversity, Caada CovoCatio Thursday, October 11, 2:00 p.m. Chapel of the Holy Spirit Premiere of a CoCert PerFormaCe of mass of the ew light ad additioal work ComPosed by Peter togi Saturday, October 13, 7:00 p.m. Chapel of the Holy Spirit Mass of New Light was commissioed by Sacred Heart Uiversity i celebratio of its 50th aiversary ad i commemoratio of the 50th aiversary of the Secod Vatica Coucil. 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6 6 September 2012 Local News Fr. Falla leads outreach to Spaish-speakig By BRIAN D. WALLACE Fr. Gustavo Falla has bee amed director of miistry to Spaish-speakig Catholics for the Diocese of Bridgeport. His was appoited to the ew, fulltime post by Bishop William E. Lori shortly before he left to become Archbishop of Baltimore i May. Accordig to 2010 cesus statistics, more tha 155,000 Hispaics live i Fairfield Couty, a dramatic icrease over the previous cesus, represetig 16.9% of the total populatio of 917,000. Hispaics accout for fully a quarter of the Catholic populatio of this diocese. May are from South ad Cetral America but recetly more have come from Mexico. Before his appoitmet to this full time positio, Fr. Falla had bee servig both as admiistrator of the St. Augustie Cathedral Parish ad vicar for Hispaics. The diocese has a very log history of reachig out to Spaish speakig Catholics, eve before it was officially formed. Whe we were part of the Archdiocese of Hartford, we were already offerig may services, says Fr. Falla, who adds that he was grateful to Msgr. Aiceto Villamide, pastor of St. Peter Parish i Bridgeport, who served as the first diocesa vicar for Hispaics, ad to other priests who have miistered to the Hispaic commuity i the diocese. Fr. Falla said he will cotiue to do may of the same thigs he has doe over the past year i his ew post, but will ow be able to focus his etire miistry o the outreach to Hispaics. Oe of the first thigs he hopes to do is create a survey for all parishes i order to idetify eeds ad opportuities. We wat to look at maybe developig programs ad lookig for ways to move forward. The we ca gather the clergy ad all those reachig out to Spaish speakig Catholics. We eed to re-group ad to idetify ways we ca serve people better. The opportuities are there. Fr. Falla was bor i 1968 i Guadalajara de Buga, Valle, Colombia. He atteded the Semiario Jua Pablo II i Armeia, Colombia, where eared a B.A. i philosophy. I 1993, Fr. Falla became the first iteratioal cadidate to be accepted ito the formatio program at St. Joh Fisher Semiary Residece. He completed his semiary studies at Immaculate Coceptio Semiary at Seto Hall Uiversity i South Orage, NJ, ad was ordaied by Bishop Edward M. Ega o May 25, 1996 at St. Augustie Cathedral. Fr. Falla s first assigmet was at St. Charles Borromeo Parish i Bridgeport, where he later served as admiistrator. I 2001, he was amed chaplai of Sacred Heart Uiversity i Fairfield, with residece at St. Mary Parish i Norwalk. Durig that time he also served as a columist for Fairfield Couty Catholic. I 2004, Fr. Falla was amed pastor of St. Beedict-Our Lady of Motserrat Parish i Stamford, at the age of 35, makig him the yougest pastor i the diocese at the time. The parishes, which had bee cosolidated i 2000, icluded Hispaic ad Slovak parishioers. O Jauary 15, 2012, he was appoited admiistrator of St. Augustie Cathedral Parish by Bishop Lori, ad worked alogside Fr. Peter Leox durig the trasitio as St. Augustie s ad St. Patrick s bega their merger ito the ew Cathedral Parish. Fr. Falla reflects o immigrat faith ad America values: It is ofte said that the ew immigrats represet the future of the Church. They re ot the future, they re the preset. The ew immigrats are here ow alog with everybody else, ad the better we serve them, the better off we ll be. They re here with their gifts ad talets, struggles ad eeds. If we wait for the future, we will have lost them. We are all oe Catholic Church uder oe Shepherd. Immigratio has become a divisive issue i political life ad perhaps also i the Church. May people associate people of Hispaic descet with illegals. The madate of the Church is to welcome the strager. Ad as a matter of record, the diocese has welcomed the strager; ot oly the Spaish-speakig but

7 September News 65 years of dedicatio STAMFORD The Lafayette Assembly #109 4th Degree Kights of Columbus gave a testimoial dier to hoor Msgr. Thaddeus Malaowski s 65 years of dedicatio ad service to the Church. A Mass of Celebratio ad a dier were held at the Kights of Columbus Hall i Stamford o May 11. More tha 200 people were i attedace. Amog them (l-r) Bishop Basil H. Loste, Bishop Emeritus of the Eparchy of Stamford; Carmie J. Vaccaro, past Faithful Navigator; Jack Cavaaugh, columist ad author; Msgr. Malaowski; ad Mike Sadlock of Greewich. At age 96, Sadlock is the oldest livig major league baseball player. He oce played for the Brookly Dodgers ad three other professioal teams. Beefit Plaig Services, LLC Isurace Made Simple For you, your family, your busiess 2 Great Isurace Brokers i 1 coveiet locatio James P. Murphy & Associates Auto & Home, Busiess, Cotractors Professioal Liability Isurace 3 Belde Aveue, Norwalk, Coecticut (203) or the Vietamese, Polish, Cape Verdeas, the Nigerias ad so may others. However, ot every parish is prepared to take o the task. I oe way, there s little differece betwee both ew ad former immigrats; they were both rejected by society. The sad part is that ew oes i some cases are beig rejected by their ow by their fellow Catholics. That caot be allowed. It is ot cosistet with our faith or traditio. How importat is it to maitai biligual services withi our parishes? May of the older Spaishspeakig residets will eed service i their ow laguage, but we ca t cotiue teachig the childre i Spaish because they are growig up here i the U.S. ad are surrouded by the culture. They are Americas. We eed to reach out to them i our laguage, ad the childre eed to lear ad celebrate the faith i our laguage. If we do t teach the faith i Eglish to our childre, we re evetually goig to lose them. Catholic schools have traditioally played a strog role i servig immigrats ad buildig citizeship. I really wat to promote Catholic educatio. Oce educated, you are empowered. We eed to get Spaish-speakig studets ito our Catholic schools. God bless our public schools ad the may good teachers, but we ca best pass o the faith ad Catholic values to childre through our schools. What do ew arrivals brig to those of us who have bee here for geeratios? These ew Catholics to the area have a tremedous sese of Church, respect for the hierarchy, strog humility ad uderstadig of the eed for commuity. They kow that they have a shepherd ad they wat to worship with much faith. Ad they re ot afraid of expressig their faith publicly. What do they lear from us? The faithful i the U.S. have achieved what o other Catholics have achieved aywhere else i the world the level of orgaizatio, commitmet, sacrificial givig ad the dedicatio to Catholic educatio, which creates real beefit for the commuity. Catholics i the U.S. are exemplary. Ad whe ew arrivals here see that other Catholics have give despite the challeges ad rejectios they faced, they are ispired to step up ad do the same. Buildig Character, Faith ad Itellect OPEN HOUSE Suday, October 14 at 2:00 p.m. Please pre-register at otredame.org ENTRANCE EXAM Saturday, October 20 at 8:30 a.m. Lear more about our excitig ew partership with Sacred Heart Uiversity. 220 Jefferso Street Fairfield, CT Admissios Office

8 8 September 2012 World ad Natioal News Reewed respect for workers key to reewed ecoomy WASHINGTON, DC People of faith stad with people who ve bee left behid ad should seek ecoomic reewal that makes workers ad their families a cetral cocer, accordig to the aual Labor Day Statemet from the Committee o Domestic Justice ad Huma Developmet of the U.S. Coferece of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Millios of Americas suffer from uemploymet, uderemploymet or are livig i poverty as their basic eeds too ofte go umet. This represets a serious ecoomic ad moral failure for our atio, wrote the committee s chairma, Bishop Stephe E. Blaire of Stockto, CA, i the statemet, Placig Work ad Workers at the Ceter of Ecoomic Life. Bishop Blaire cited the 12 millio Americas officially uemployed, the millios more who are uderemployed or who have give up lookig for work, 10 millio workig poor families, ad 46 millio people, icludig 16 millio childre, livig i poverty, as a sig of a broke ecoomy. He cited the words of Pope Beedict XVI, who said poverty ofte results from a violatio of the digity of huma work, either because of a lack of job opportuities or because, i the words of Pope Joh Paul II, low value is put o work ad the rights that flow from it. Accordig to Bishop Blaire, the terrible huma costs of a Gift of Grace Priso Miistry ad Metor Traiig Program I was i priso ad you visited me... Have you bee iterested i voluteerig for Priso Miistry? The Office of Priso Miistry, Norwich offers preparatio ope to Catholics from Coecticut four Saturdays i the Fall, startig September 15, Biligual applicats are especially eeded. Share your gifts make a differece... For iformatio cotact Sheree Atoch at (860) X211 or priso@orwichdiocese.et. Preregistratio is required. ARSILLIOS M Televisio Appliaces Sub-Zero Wolf Vikig Thermador Audio Video Custom Home Theater Best Service ad Prices Family owed ad operated sice Black Rock Turpike Fairfield, CT FAX broke ecoomy iclude workers beig exploited or mistreated, stagat or fallig wages, ad stress o families. As a result, may employees struggle for just wages, a safe workplace, ad a voice i the ecoomy, but they caot purchase the goods they make, stay i the hotels they clea, or eat the food they harvest, prepare, or serve. A ecoomy that allows this exploitatio ad abuse demads our attetio ad actio, wrote Bishop Blaire. May God guide our atio i creatig a more just ecoomy that truly hoors the digity of work ad the rights of workers. (The full statemet ca be foud olie at Vatica aouces plas for Year of Faith VATICAN CITY At a press coferece, Archbishop Rio Fisichella outlied plas for the Year of Faith that will begi October 11. We must overcome the spiritual poverty affectig so may of our cotemporaries who o loger perceive the absece of God from their lives as a void that eeds to be filled, said the archbishop, who is the presidet of the Potifical Coucil for the New Evagelizatio. He observed that the Year of Faith marks the 50th aiversary of the opeig of Vatica II, ad the 20th aiversary of the publicatio of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Year of Faith will ope with a solem Eucharistic celebratio o October 11. The Syod of Bishops will meet i Rome i October to discuss the New Evagelizatio. Ad the moth will also see the caoizatio of seve ew saits, icludig Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha ad Maria Aa Cope. Archbishop Fisichella itroduced a web site for the Year of Faith, which provides iformatio i several differet laguages ad will be accessible by a variety of electroic devices. Catholics urge Cogress to protect food stamps WASHINGTON, DC The Uited States Coferece of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services, ad Natioal Catholic Rural Life Coferece are urgig Catholics to ask their seators ad represetatives to support ad stregthe programs i the FY 2013 Federal Budget ad appropriatios, ad the 2012 Farm Bill, that protect poor ad vulerable people i the Uited States ad aroud the world, advace the commo good, ad promote huma life ad digity. Cogress wet o its summer break without passig a farm bill, of which food stamps form a part. Cogress will take up the bill agai whe it recovees o September 10. I particular, Catholics are asked to urge Cogress to fully fud essetial domestic huger ad utritio programs icludig the Supplemetal Nutritio Assistace Program (formerly Food Stamps), which is uder threat from cuts ad structural chages that will harm hugry ad vulerable people, ad to support the Food for Peace iteratioal food assistace program. I additio, Catholics are asked to call upo Cogress to reduce agriculture subsidies overall ad target crop isurace to small ad medium-sized farms which truly eed assistace ad comply with sustaiable ad evirometally soud agriculture practices. Plaed Parethood ecouraged sex-selectio abortio AUSTIN, TX A udercover video recorded by pro-life activists has show a couselor at a Plaed Parethood cliic apparetly ecouragig a youg woma to have a sex-selectio abortio. Live Actio, a pro-life group that has exposed Plaed Parethood i several previous videos, recorded a sessio i a Austi cliic, i which a actress tells the couselor that she plas to abort if her ubor child is female. 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9 September World ad Natioal News Medicaid fudig, to determie the baby s sex, ad arrage a abortio if it is a girl. Lila Rose, the presidet of Live Actio, said that the video was the first i a series that the group would release to expose the prevalece of sex-selectio abortio. She charged that America abortioists are aidig ad abettig this horrific problem. I the past, Live Actio videos have show Plaed Parethood couselors apparetly violatig laws requirig the reportig of statutory rape, ad admittig that despite public claims their cliics do ot provide breastcacer screeigs. (Footage from six differet cliics i four differet states ca be viewed at Muslims i Keya vow to protect Christia churches GARISSA, Keya Reactig to a massacre at a Christia church i Garissa i July, a group of local Muslim leaders have promised to recruit voluteers to guard other Christia churches. Ada Wachu, who heads the Supreme Coucil of Keya Muslims, said that the Islamic commuity i Keya does ot wat to see sectaria divisios i the coutry. There are people out there who are determied to make Keya aother Nigeria, he said, alludig to the Christia- Muslim clashes i that coutry. We decided as solidarity that the Muslim youth will provide a vigilate service to the churches ot oly i Garissa but i ay other places that the Christias may deem fit. He said that it was ow up to the Muslim leaders i Garissa to orgaize how the estimated 30 churches i the tow would be protected. Muslims felt that because those Christias are a miority i their domai they must be protected at all cost. Evagelical college jois i suit agaist HHS madate WHEATON, Il Oe of the atio s leadig evagelical Protestat colleges, i partership with the Catholic Uiversity of America, has filed suit agaist the HHS madate. The madate, which is a regulatio uder the Patiet Protectio ad Affordable Care Act, forces both istitutios to violate their deeply held religious beliefs by providig access to abortio-causig drugs or payig severe fies, Wheato College said i a statemet. This alliace marks the first-ever partership betwee Catholic ad evagelical istitutios to oppose the same regulatio i the same court. Wheato College ad other distictively Christia istitutios are faced with a clear ad preset threat to our religious liberty, said Philip Ryke, the college s presidet. Our first presidet, the abolitioist Joatha Blachard, believed it was imperative to act i defese of freedom. I brigig this suit, we act i defese of freedom agai. Cardial examies Pope s teachig o eviromet VATICAN Pope Beedict s teachig o ecology helps Catholics to avoid extremes i thikig about the eviromet, accordig to the presidet of the Potifical Coucil for Justice ad Peace. Nature is either taboo (beyod huma touch) or should it be subjected to abuse, writes Peter Cardial Turkso. Similarly, ature is ot more protect her future Secure your Icome Do both with a Charitable Gift auity from CRS. Cotact CRS today: E crs.org/auities c , ext m plaedgivig@crs.org The official iteratioal humaitaria agecy of the Catholic commuity i the Uited States. importat tha huma, but equally the huma must ot presume to have the moopoly o all meaig ad desig i ature. Cardial Turkso lamets the chroic social ijustices that force the poor ito agricultural practices which result i wato deforestatio, erosio, desertificatio; or the warmogerig that leaves devastated ladscapes i its wake. He poits out that Pope Beedict developed the liks betwee atural ecology, or respect for ature, ad huma ecology. Experiece shows that disregard for the eviromet always harms huma coexistece, ad vice versa. The vital importace of huma ecology rests i this: to protect makid from self-destructio. 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10 10 September 2012 Youth Group Catholic Workcamp celebrates fellowship FAIRFIELD Fourtee-yearold Caroly Purdy of Fairfield ad other members of St. Pius X Parish, spet a week paitig houses, cleaig closets ad helpig the elderly ad they could t have had more fu! Caroly, sophomore at Fairfield Ludlow High School, was oe of 30 members of the St. Pius X Youth Group who traveled to Groto, Massachusetts, i early July to participate i the Catholic Heart Workcamp missio trip. She says that their big project was to pait the home of a elderly couple i Groto. They worked with brushes ad rollers to give the rach house a coat of light blue pait that delighted the owers. They were really ice ad they said it was a amazig job. I felt really good. It s so ice to be able to help people ad they were really appreciative, she says after returig home. Fr. Sam Kachuba ad adult parishioers served as chaperoes o the seve-day trip that brought the youg people together for youth fellowship ad Christia service. I was really excited ad wated to go, says Caroly, who has participated i previous missios. It was beyod my expectatios, ad just so great to meet other people ad see the effect of helpig others. Paitig a house was a big project to tackle. I thik Vatica II: A Uexpected Revolutio The program will celebrate the 50th Aiversary of the opeig of the Secod Vatica Coucil. Why was it called? What was revolutioary about the future role of the laity? How were we to live out the challeges of the Social Gospel? What is the legacyfor the 21st Cetury? Mauree Sulliva, OP, Ph.D. Paul Lakelad, Ph.D. Most Rev. Peter A. Rosazza, D.D. September 28-29, 2012 Wisdom House, Litchfield, CT Atted program Friday eveig, Saturday, or full program. Iformatio ad registratio: programs@wisdomhouse or Separate brochure available. A collaborative edeavor of the Ceter for Catholic Studies at Fairfield Uiversity, Fairfield, CT ad Wisdom House Retreat ad Coferece Ceter, Litchfield, CT WISDOM HOUSE 229 East Litchfield Rd. Litchfield, CT that s where my group leared most about each other ad the work we were doig, she says. The boys ad girls stayed at Lawrece Academy ad started ROME Dabury-based Navis Pictures was proud to lear that The War of the Vedée has wo the 2012 Mirabile Dictu Iteratioal Catholic Film Festival Special Jury Award for Best Film for Youg Audieces. A idepedet, Catholic film compay, Navis is dedicated to givig youg actors the chace to work o excellet, meaigful films. The War of the Vedee, set amid the terror ad persecutio durig the Frech Revolutio, features more tha 250 youg actors portrayig heroes, villais, ad ordiary towsfolk who wated to remai faithful to their faith. Jim Morlio, the film s director, the day with Mass each morig. They the worked from 9 am to 3 pm o a variety of service projects. The missio of the Catholic Workcamp programs across the coutry is to serve elderly, disabled ad eglected idividuals by helpig to beautify their homes ad revitalize commuity spaces. The Florida-based group was fouded by a youg couple who had performed missio service for other deomiatios ad wated to create a program specifically to egage Catholic youth through faithful work, prayer ad the sacramets. Fr. Michael Dogali, pastor of St. Pius, says he was proud of youth group members for truly sharig the love of Jesus with those who are eglected ad i eed. He says that the missio experiece empowered the youg people to live as disciples of Christ by servig others. Caroly Purdy ca t wait to sig up agai ext year because of the great people she met. It was amazig, she says. I leared that little thigs ca have the biggest impact o people. Da Guido, director of youth miistry, says the missio trip made the youg people aware of the poverty that they re ot used to seeig. A week-log trip immerses them i the lives of others ad makes the poverty real for them, says Guido, who accompaied the youth alog with six chaperoes from the parish. I thik it gives them a ew perspective ad level of humility. He says that daily Mass ad prayer coected the work they were doig with their faith ad the eed to serve others. It makes faith more alive for them, says Guido, who emphasizes that the missio trip brigs prayer ad good works together. Durig the week, they re doig both, ad learig that they work had i had. We do t do thigs just to feel good, but as Catholics we eed to give of ourselves to help others i eed. (St. Pius youth group stpiusyouthgroup@gmail.com. For a list of youth groups i Fairfield Couty go to idex.php/youth.) The War of the Vedée wis iteratioal award previously wrote, directed ad produced St. Beradette of Lourdes for Navis. It was a official selectio at the 2011 Joh Paul II Iteratioal Film Festival i Miami, FL, has bee broadcast o the Eteral Word Televisio Network (EWTN) ad is distributed i the USA by Igatius Press. The directors of the festival hope to come to New York City i late September for a special screeig of the film, ad to preset us with the award i perso, says Morlio. We share this tremedous hoor with the 256 youg people i the cast ad crew who made this possible. The Morlio family are members of St. Joseph Parish i Dabury.

11 September Travel Discoverig Normady & Rememberig D-Day By FRANK DeROSA D-Day has lived i my memory i the decades that have rolled by sice that uforgettable World War II turig poit. As te-yearolds i Brookly, my frieds ad I were aware of what was happeig across the Atlatic, eve without TV, the Iteret, tweets ad the like, ad we talked about it i class at P.S The Daily News ad the Philco radio kept us iformed. For me, the huma cost of the Normady ivasio ad what followed hit home early. Scat weeks after Jue 6, 1944, my cousi, Air Force Sergeat Guido Sigoretti, ad the crew he served with o a Flyig Fortress i support of the troops below, perished from firepower i the skies over Merseburg, Germay. You ever forget that. Through the years after hostilities eded, rivetig Greatest Geeratio tales i prit ad o the scree were vivid remiders of what our youg military faced o those explosive Frech beaches. A Normady vetera, drafted at 17, described for me the terror of wadig ashore o Omaha Beach with the secod wave. I made it through because of my mother s prayers, Rocco Moretto said. The Logest Day, both book ad film, grabbed my attetio. (A soberig memory: Years ago I was asked to cotact Corelius Rya, a Ridgefield residet who wrote the book that ispired the film, to ivite him to speak at a evet at Our Lady of Fatima i Wilto. Fidig his umber i the phoe book, I dialed it ad asked to speak with him. I m sorry, replied a shake voice at the other ed of the lie. He passed away durig the ight. ) All of this is to explai why, whe my wife hited that she d love to see Rome agai i this year of our 50th aiversary, I suggested that we also visit Normady, log fasciatig to me. Thus it bega, i Bayeux, two-hours by trai orthwest of Paris, i the Normady regio where the ative Camembert ad Calvados, the apple brady, are aplety. A small tow with a massive 11th-cetury cathedral, Notre Dame, it is the seat of a diocese whose boudary icludes Lisieux. It s also home to the Frak ad Liliae DeRosa of Wilto. famed Bayeux Tapestry that depicts the Norma Coquest i Close to the wartime beaches off the Eglish Chael, Bayeux is also ot too distat from Mot Sait Michel, the imposig oetime Beedictie moastery built o graite, with its challegig ascet to the abbey church some 250 feet above sea level. Cathy, a charmig Frech lady steeped i the details of D-Day, drove our small group to the ivasio sites, startig at Gold Beach at Arromaches, where British troops laded, the to Omaha ad Utah Beaches, destiatios for the America GIs. At Omaha, some artillery remaied i the sads ad o the kolls. We stepped through a Germa buker, its gu still i place. Carefully, we avoided barbed wire ear tuels where Germa soldiers took cover. At Poite du Hoch, we saw the graite moumet to the Ragers who scaled the 100-foot cliff to disarm Germa gus that threateed Utah ad Omaha Beaches. Ad we looked dow o the Chael, ow seree ad clear, its waters oce roiled scarlet with the blood of the brave Allies. Next, Cathy led us to the America Cemetery ad cotiued o page 29 Pilgrimage to the Holy Lad with Revered Terrece Walsh from St. Joh the Evagelist Church, Stamford, Coecticut November 9 to November 19, 2012 $2,900 per perso (icludig all taxes ad fuel charges) Newspapers Publicatios Shoppers Catalogs Magazies Directories Coupo Books College Course Catalogs Busiess & Fiacial Periodicals We are the proud priters of the Fairfield Couty Catholic for the past 20 years. Pope Beedict XVI has declared the Year of Faith begiig October 11, 2012 the 50th aiversary of the opeig of the Secod Vatica Coucil ad coclude November 24, 2013 the feast of Christ the Kig. The Vatica recommeds a Pilgrimage to fulfill the Year of Faith I the Holy Lad we will walk i the footsteps of Jesus, Mary, Joseph ad the apostles. A trip to the Holy Lad will make the Gospel come alive for you. Every Christia should take oe trip to the Holy Lad i their lifetime, if possible. We will also visit Qumra, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were foud. There will be ample time to take a mud bath i the Dead Sea which is recogized worldwide for its effectiveess i the treatmet of dermatological diseases, particularly Psoriasis, Atopic Dermatitis, ad more. The cost of the trip is $2,900 per perso, which icludes roudtrip airfare from New York (icludig all taxes), room ad two meals daily, ad all trasportatio for site seeig. For more details call Scott Scaria at or write to Polad-Medjugorje Pilgrimage, P.O. Box , East Hartford, CT or visit us o the web at Free Stadig Iserts Advertisig Supplemets 205 Sprig Hill Road, Trumbull CT Call us for a free quote.

12 12 September 2012 Parish News Parishes celebrate jubilees By MARIA O BRIEN ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC SCHOOL CHALLENGING MINDS, INSPIRING HEARTS 1962 was a busy year i Fairfield Couty. The populatio was explodig, streets ad houses were goig up o former farmlad ad cities were boomig. For the Church, too, it was a excitig time. The Diocese of Bridgeport had oly bee established i Bishop Walter W. Curtis, the secod Bishop of Bridgeport, followed the example of his predecessor, Lawrece Cardial Sheha, foudig ew parishes throughout the diocese. As the Church cotiued to grow, the youg diocese would see a astoudig 14 parishes established i the decade of the 1960s. The year 1962 saw three parishes ope, reflectig the diversity of the growig diocese. Our Lady of Fatima Parish i Bridgeport was fouded to support the large Portuguese populatio, draw by abudat maufacturig opportuities o Coecticut s largest idustrial city. Holy Spirit Parish was established i the orther part of Stamford to serve parishioers who had formerly traveled dow to St. Cecilia Parish, south of the Merritt Parkway. Christ the Kig Parish (origially amed Most Precious Blood) was created i respose to the growig desity of Trumbull, i a area that had bee home to family farms ot may years past. Christ the Kig Parish i Trumbull was fouded o September 15, The parish, the called Most Precious Blood, celebrated Mass i Trumbull High School util the church ad elemetary school were dedicated two years later. The parish chaged its ame i 1973 i respose to liturgical chages followig Vatica II. The parish feast day, the Feast of Christ the Kig (November 25 this year), completes the Church s liturgical caledar. After the school closed i 1973, plas bega for the rebuildig ad reovatio of the parish plat, icludig the costructio of a moder, semi-circular worship space i what had bee the former auditorium/gymasium. O Christmas Eve of 1983, a overflow crowd filled the ew church for its first Mass. Fr. Larry Carew is Christ the Kig s pastor. The parish will celebrate its foudatio o September 30 with a luch at Vazzao s Four Seasos i Stratford. Photos ad memorabilia of the parish s history will be o display at the evet. Holy Spirit Parish i Stamford was also established o September 15 it was a busy day altogether for Bishop Curtis. Followig a buildig drive ad groudbreakig, the first Mass was celebrated i the origial worship space o Easter Suday of Holy Spirit School opeed that fall. Groudbreakig for the curret church took place i Oe year later, o the Feast of Petecost, the parish s feast day, a crowd of over 400 people assembled for the dedicatio. Holy Spirit School, uder Pricipal Patricia Torche, cotiues to combie THE GOLDEN JUBILEE of Holy Spirit Parish i Stamford was recogized o the parish s feast day, Petecost Suday. Fr. Robert Hyl (ceter), pastor, was joied by Deaco Paul Jeigs; Msgr. William Scheyd, PA; ad Fr. William Galvi, MM, a Marykoll missioer. Holy Spirit is oe of three parishes to celebrate their 50th aiversary this year. excellece i educatio with the cocer for the developmet of each idividual child. Holy Spirit was privileged to be the settig for a historic Mass whe Cardial Igatius Ku Pi- Mei, Bishop of Shaghai, who spet 30 years i Chiese priso for his faith, celebrated a aiversary Mass to mark three milestoes: 20 years as a cardial, 50 years as a bishop, ad 70 years of priesthood. More tha 50 priests ad bishops gathered for the occasio. Fr. Robert Hyl is Holy Spirit s pastor. The parish will celebrate their golde jubilee with a gala dier dace held at the Italia Ceter i Stamford o September 21. Scarcely a week later, Bishop Curtis dedicated Our Lady of Fatima Church o September 23. The devout Portuguese commuity had celebrated Mass i the basemet while the church was built above them. Over time, parishioers have geerously cotributed to improvemets to the parish property, most recetly with the additio of a garde shrie i hoor of Our Lady of Fatima, completed i The parish icludes a child care ceter, opeed i 1990, which serves ot oly parish childre but may from the eighborhood s diverse populatio. The parish will hoor its 50th aiversary with a special dier at the Portuguese Vasco da Gama Club i Bridgeport o September 16. A outdoor Mass ad processio are plaed for September 23. SUPERIOR ACADEMICS AND A SAFE ENVIRONMENT Iteractive Sciece Park! Afterschool Activities Athletic Program Exteded Day Program Drama ad Music Program Spaish for Grades K-8 ipads i the Classroom Hads-o Sciece with the Maritime Aquarium Itergrated S.T.E.M program Ope House Suday, September 30, p.m. etrace exams Saturday, October 13, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, November 3, 8:30 a.m. Fairfield Prep A Jesuit, Catholic School of Excellece 1073 North Beso Road, Fairfield, CT admissios@fairfieldprep.org BIRTH THROUGH 8TH GRADE 139 West Rocks Road, Norwalk allsaitsorwalk.com All Saits Catholic School admits studets of ay race, color, ad atioal or ethic origi Apply Olie! > Admissios > Create_Accout

13 September 2012 Feature Shiig light at St. Margaret Shrie By DON HARRISON Doald Foust wore may hats throughout his legthy career i educatio teacher, guidace couselor, assistat pricipal, basketball coach. Today, some people kow this multi-faceted ma as the operator of Deaco Do s Drivig Service. Those who atted St. Margaret Shrie, located o Bridgeport s upper Park Aveue, appreciate Deaco Do for what he s accomplished i his ew role as the shrie s admiistrator of fiaces, facilities ad fuctios. He was appoited to the ewly created positio i Jauary by Bishop William E. Lori. As Deaco Do tells it, the pastor of a parish i Fairfield had requested his services ad he was prepared to joi this parish, but Bishop Lori iformed the deaco: I have other plas for you. Maybe you should pray about it. The bishop was well aware that Foust had prove his skills as a admiistrator at Blessed Sacramet ad Holy Rosary parishes. (Holy Rosary closed i Jauary as part of the diocese s reorgaizatio pla.) He is a cofidet perso, a people perso, who makes every effort to get people to come back together, says Sherry Varroe, the office maager who accompaied Foust from Holy Rosary to St. Margaret Shrie i mid- Jauary. He s gettig the Shrie back o its feet. For Varroe, it was a homecomig of sorts. She was a Shrie parishioer as a girl, ad her late father, Raymod Varroe, was the presidet of the Holy Name Society ad active i the aual Feast of St. Athoy. Deaco Foust, who was ordaied i 1998, is pleased to play a major role i St. Margaret Shrie s revival. The Shrie fell o hard times for a while, but it s made a ice comeback i recet years, he says. People are comig back. New families are joiig. Spirituality ad basketball, he says, have bee part of my etire life. I played at Stamford Catholic (ow Triity Catholic) High School ad I wet to St. Boaveture ad played o the freshma team. For a while, he cotemplated eterig the priesthood as a member of the Fracisca Brothers. His coachig credetials at Norwalk High School, Notre Dame Catholic Come to a Ope House: Oct 21 ad Dec 9! NEW FAMILIES ARE JOIN- ING, says Deaco Do Foust, St. Margaret Shrie s admiistrator of fiaces, facilities ad fuctios. The Shrie, set i a rustic parcel of lad o Bridgeport s Park Ave., was built durig World War II. High School i Fairfield ad the Uiversity of Bridgeport were so impressive that he was elected to the Coecticut Wome s Basketball Hall of Fame i A magetic ma, Foust has elisted voluteer support from Richard Loris, a logtime fried ad teachig colleague at Norwalk High, to oversee the upkeep ad refurbishig of the shrie s vast grouds ad facilities. A few logtime parishioers, otably Rosa Frazese ad Mary Kristy, have stepped forward to assist. This place is very special ad it s a joy to work here, says Loris, who puts i 15 to 20 hours a week. It s a real blessig to be able to do it to give glory to 13 God. Thak goodess we have some help ow. Loris list of duties ru the gamut, from repairig the religious statues to mowig the three acres plus of grass, weedig, puttig dow yards of mulch. You ame it. St. Margaret Shrie was created by Msgr. Emilio Iasiello, the pastor of St. Raphael Parish i Bridgeport, i December of 1941, just after America s etry ito World War II. He determied that the ew church to be built o a rough, rocky parcel called Columbus Park would be hallowed groud, dedicated to peace i the world, the protectio of parishioers servig i the war ad the memory of locals who gave their lives. The 1940s parishioers ad family members who were craftsme may of whom were Italia-America fashioed ad carved may parts of the shrie, icludig the altar. Ope House september 30, 1 3 pm rsvp x144 Etrace Exam october 13 or october :30 am Scholarships ad Fiacial Aid Available cotiued o page 16 Empowerig Wome for Life... balacig traditio ad iovatio, itellect ad athleticism, ad spirit ad cosciece. Most high schools offer four years of learig. A Abbey educatio lasts a lifetime. Visit our beautiful campus o Narragasett Bay ear Newport, Rhode Islad. For a campus tour cotact the Office of Admissio: portsmouth abbey school take root New Eglad s Catholic Beedictie Boardig School Lauralto Hall Coecticut s First Catholic College Prep School for Girls 200 High Street Milford Coecticut LauraltoHall.org I have grow to uderstad who I am ad who I m goig to be. trasfer studets welcome lauralto hall, the academy of our lady of mercy

14 14 Local News EDITORIAL Not really back Yellow school busses will soo be rollig agai. We ll see them ad remember, fodly or ot, our ow school days. School is back i sessio. Yes, it s i sessio but it s ot really back. Not uless your memories iclude istructio i Chiese, or prayers i Spaish, Frech ad Portuguese. Not uless your teachers gave you the freedom to solve problems o your ow, givig you a tur o the electrophoresis machie. I elemetary school. That s what school is i the 21st Cetury: a widow o the world, a challege, a opportuity to excel. The Catholic schools featured i this issue combie all that with the lived experiece of faith. There is o better foudatio o which to build a life. The schools we wet to prepared us well for the excitemet of the 20th Cetury, ad we flourished with their help. It s a ew milleium ow, callig for collaboratio, commuicatio, problem solvig ad a multicultural visio. A ew world is opeig up before our eyes; our childre will be i commad of it. So welcome the ew school year. Ejoy the traffic sarls those yellow busses make twice a day. Our future rides i them. Cocerig Faithful Citizeship Accordig to the latest polls, we ve already made up our mids. Oly a very small portio of the electorate remais susceptible to the early oe half billio dollars more i political ads that are likely to jam the airwaves betwee ow ad November. Beyod that, most of the firepower is aimed at the so-called swig states that will determie the wier. The buildig scale of charges ad couter-charges has created a kid of political tower of Babel; the more iformatio we get, the more we may be cofused or simply ready to tue out. Yet the Church s teachig with respect to political resposibility is very clear. I Formig Coscieces for Faithful Citizeship, the U.S. Catholic bishops tell us that we have a duty to safeguard the digity of every huma perso, particularly the most vulerable, ad to brig our covictios ito the public square. The documet gives us the opportuity to uderstad ad assimilate the Church s teachigs, which offer a complete moral framework with the right to life ad the digity of the huma perso at its ceter. The bishops teach us that the key is ot to vote from mere partisa or ideological agedas, but from the covictio, based o Church teachig, that sees all huma beigs as childre of God. As the electio ears, we urge all Catholics to visit the Uited States Coferece of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) website, org, ad read Formig Coscieces for Faithful Citizeship. It calls us to a higher level of citizeship ad perhaps, i these divided times, offers us a path to uity by developig a cosistet life ethic that guides our dual resposibility as faithful Catholics ad America citizes. Fleetig Summer Where did summer go? It seems like oly yesterday we were lookig forward to vacatios ad weeked getaways, ad ow we re o the heels of Labor Day. The older we get, the more time seems to disappear, but our fleetig sese of summer is more tha that. Are t we really seekig the certaity of havig lived deeply, of beig fully alive? For that, we eed more tha outdoor livig or eve a great vacatio. Our faith tells us we have to look elsewhere oly i reverece will we fid the fulless of time ad the depth of our existece. EDITOR S CHOICE Catholics for religious freedom I wish to applaud the decisio of the various etities of the Roma Catholic Church i the Uited States to file suit agaist the U.S. Departmet of Health ad Huma Services. It is essetial that represetatives of the Catholic Church i America step i frot of the U.S. govermet s advacig effort to abolish the God-give rights recogized i the coutry s foudig documets. We hold these truths to be self-evidet: That all me are created equal; that they are edowed by their Creator with certai ialieable rights... These are ot just facy words our atio s fouders used i what has become a model emulated by emergig atios over the past 200 years. These were the core beliefs of 56 me who pledged their lives, their fortues ad their sacred hoor to the creatio of a ew atio free of the bods of tyray, of religious persecutio ad ufettered taxatio. Oe atio, uder God, idivisible, with liberty ad justice for all. I would be extremely axious to obtai a expedited decisio i these suits, which have bee filed i 12 districts. They each have their ow particular uace ad oe judge could ot possibly keep those issues straight. It would udoubtedly result i a uacceptable delay i the evetual decisio. Deadlies i implemetig the program are approachig quickly, ot to metio the 2012 Presidetial electio. Peter Farrelly Shelto Office of Commuicatios Diocese of Bridgeport 238 Jewett Aveue Bridgeport, Coecticut telephoe fax fcc@diobpt.org web Couty Catholics USPS o.: Periodical postage paid at Bridgeport, CT 06601, ad additioal mailig offices. October is Respect Life Moth Msgr. Jerald A. Doyle, JCD Publisher Bria D. Wallace Executive Editor bwallace@ccfc-ct.org Pat Heessy Maagig Editor pheessy@diobpt.org Reée Stamatis Art Director rstamatis@diobpt.org Bria A. Wallace Graphic Desiger bwallace@diobpt.org Jill Moroe Office Maager/Admi jmoroe@diobpt.org Ralph Lazzaro Advertisig Maager rlazzaro@diobpt.org Soia Burs Spaish Editor* soiarburs@yahoo.com Madelie Ghilardi Copy Editor* * Cosultats Admiistrator September 2012 Respect Life Moth will be marked i the Diocese of Bridgeport with a special Mass o Suday, October 7, at St. Rose of Lima Parish at 12 oo. Check the Bits ad Pieces sectio of the October issue of Fairfield Couty Catholic or your parish bulleti for evets durig the moth. CLERGYAPPOINTMENTS Msgr. Jerald A. Doyle, JCD, Diocesa Admiistrator, has made the followig clergy appoitmet i the Diocese of Bridgeport: REV. WILLIAM M. QUINLAN, Residet Priest, Sait Leo Parish, Stamford, to Admiistrator, Our Lady of the Assumptio Parish, Fairfield. Father Quila will remai a Judge i Tribual. Effective date was August 1. Parochial Vicar REV. SHAWN W. CUTLER, Parochial Vicar, Sait Pius Parish, Fairfield, to Parochial Vicar, Sait Marguerite Bourgeoys Parish, Brookfield. Effective date was August 1. Deaco DEACON DONALD J. NAIMAN, Deaco, Sait Rose of Lima Parish, Newtow, to Deaco, Sait Joseph Parish, Dabury. Effective date was August 1. Rev. Msgr. Kevi Royal, Delegate for Clergy Persoel September, 2012 Circulatio Every registered Catholic household i Fairfield Couty is etitled to a subscriptio. To add or chage a address, call , or fcc@diobpt.org Aual Subscriptio Price $20 (withi diocese) $50 (outside diocese) Postmaster sed address chages to: Fairfield Couty Catholic, 238 Jewett Aveue, Bridgeport, CT Copyright 2012, Diocese of Bridgeport

15 September Editorial Every summer I take my daughter Mary ad my two daughters-i-law, Judi ad Sue, to see a Broadway play of their choice always a occasio to have a special time together with the rest of the family afterwards. This year they chose a play I had t yet heard of, Clyboure Park, playig at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Before the first act was half over, we i the audiece had traveled back to the fifties ad were uexpectedly re-experiecig what it was like to be a black woma or ma i those days. I m talkig, of course, about the racial prejudice Experiecig the Blidess of Racial Ijustice A Woma s View By Atoiette Bosco Atoiette Bosco is a member of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Parish i Brookfield. that flourished back the. Ad, oh yes, the writers of this play had the audiece laughig, hidig our discomfort as we remembered how it was betwee whites ad blacks i the history of our may past decades. But the came Act Two. Ah, ow we were i the year 2012, ad all was friedly, peaceful, fuy you get it, I m sure betwee white people ad black people. But ot quite. The authors rather brilliatly, usig a lot of humor, exposed a truth we like to dey racial prejudice is still alive ad well, eve if it appears to be hidde i our cotacts ad relatioships with, as we say, people of color. The play made me recall a week-log televisio program that got a lot of attetio back 35 years ago. It was called Roots, ad it was a ivitatio to feel pai, to begi to uderstad emotioally what it meat to be both black ad slave i the past two ceturies. Seeig this series, you had to ache for huma justice so that ever agai i our world could ma be so ihumae to ma. I wated my family ad frieds to feel this ijustice. Oe persoally surprisig outcome of this program for me was the discovery that so few people I spoke to had ever really looked at slavery before. They had ever thought about what it was to be forcefully take from oe Africa village, to be chaied to 100- plus other people i a stikig, vermi-ifested, disease-lade ship s hold, where food ad water were scarce ad you slept i your ow waste with your ski each day rottig away more ad more from festerig sores. I did quite by accidet. I had become acquaited with the huma tragedy of slavery whe I was a teeager. I was a avid reader, devourig books of all kids. I had come across a book writte by a Frech Jesuit priest i the early 1800s. He was Fr. Heri Gregoire, a democratic liberal, ivolved i politics, a oppoet of Napoleo, ad the first Frech churchma to seek the abolitio of slavery. He wrote, Frieds of slavery are ecessarily the eemies of humaity, ad attempted to expose the brutality of slavery by writig both of the horrors of the slave trade ad the huma qualities of the Negro slaves. Several decades later, I d had the good fortue to study oe summer at Oxford Uiversity i Great Britai ad uexpectedly oce more came across work by Fr. Gregoire. Agai, it was about the ijustice of slavery. He wrote that greed was such a powerful ifluece over the mid that Eglish ad Frech coloists believed, or preteded to believe, the black color of the Africas was sufficiet excuse ot oly for makig them slaves but also for treatig them worse tha aimals. He attempted to prove that Blacks have a kee ad peetratig mid ad high itellectual ad moral faculties i a treatise he wrote i 1810, tellig of the lives ad cotributios of 15 Blacks i sciece, literature ad the arts. Fr. Gregoire did ot live to see the abolitio of slavery. The emacipatio of slaves i Frech possessios fially occurred i 1850, 19 years after his death. This uusual Frech priest suffered great persoal pai i his life, maily because of his liberal policies. For that, his superiors took away his priestly faculties ad later had him excommuicated for disobediece. He remaied faithful to his vows, prayig for recociliatio with the Church util his death. I grieved readig of the treatmet he received. This good priest may have bee sileced, yet his voice made waves through two ceturies, eve reachig me! I Love You Ayway Whe the kids play together, there s ofte a lot of whiig. Sometimes there is toy hoardig. Almost always there is foot stompig ad arm stiffeig. It may be a fuctio of age they are 8, 6, ad 3 or it may just be that brothers ad sisters will occasioally get o each other s erves. The agai, maybe it s Magdalea. The kids get especially frustrated with her. I uderstad where they re comig from. I get frustrated with Magdalea, too. She s the 6-yearold. She s the oe with Dow A Dad s View By Matthew Heessey Matthew Heessey ad his family are parishioers of St. Aloysius i New Caaa. sydrome. We love Magdalea to pieces, of course, but she ca be a hadful. Kids with Dow sydrome are t always the little agels they are made out to be. Sometimes they are sweet as sugar plums. Sometimes they are devious little devils. They are a lot like the rest of us. The thig with Magdalea is that she almost ever does what you wat her to do. Rules mea othig to her. She ll liste to your istructios but the simply disregard them. She ofte puctuates her disregard with a o-sequitur, just to make you crazy. Her curret preferred respose to a questio she does t wat to aswer is, A cherry! What did you do at school today Magdalea? A cherry! Did you play with Teddy? Yes. Pause. A cherry! Magdalea s eyes close ad her head flies back. She roars with glee. Sweetie, I d prefer if you did t say A cherry! every time I ask you a questio. Daddy wats to kow what you did at school. Okay. At this poit, her face gets serious. Her eyes go squit, but oly a true sucker could miss the sparkle i them. Are you goig to say A cherry! agai? No. Promise? I promise. So, what did you do A cherry! Peals of hysterical laughter. Maybe it souds cute whe you read it, but i perso it ca make you wat to smash thigs. As putative growups, my wife ad I do our best to take this busiess i stride. We remember Magdalea s other challeges. We kow the progress she has made i overcomig them. Gettig her to stop sayig A cherry! i respose to every questio would be ice, but it is relatively low o the list of priorities. The kids, however, do t care about Magdalea s progress. They just kow that she ca be aoyig. Ad they have o compuctio about tellig her so. Ugh, stop it! Dad, she s doig it agai! What s she doig? She keeps sayig Hello lemo! every time I walk by. Whe I tell her to stop she just laughs i my face ad says it agai. She s sooooo aoyig. I like that Magdalea s sibligs do t cut her ay slack. They treat her the way she deserves to be treated, as a equal member of the family etitled to either special cosideratio or accommodatio. It s ot her Dow sydrome that makes her a special little agel, it s her humaity. My other kids do t realize it ow, ad they would t kow how to express it, but their attitude toward Magdalea is: You re aoyig, but I love you ayway. Ad is t that what true love is supposed to be? Is t that the same as ever havig to say you re sorry? It s how I imagie God thiks of me: You re extremely aoyig, but I love you ayway. Whe I disregard the rules, or whe my patiece fails me, I tur to God ad ask for His forgiveess. Luckily, His message is always the same: I love you ayway. I pray that the world will view Magdalea the way we do. We re all disabled i a way. We re all aoyig to someoe. At some poit we all disregard our explicit istructios. Ayoe readig this prepared to throw the first stoe? If so, here s what I have to say to you: A cherry!

16 16 September 2012 School News New Pricipals from page 3 educatio ad her M. Ed. i guidace ad couselig from Salem State College i Salem, MA. She also holds a secod GIs, Veteras ad Family master s degree, this oe i special educatio, from Fitchburg State College i Fitchburg, MA. Griffi, who ca poit with pride Commit your time. We ll give you value. As a part-time udergraduate studet you ll receive a outstadig educatio with lastig beefits: Career Preparatio Affordable Tuitio Flexible Schedulig Supportive Faculty ad Staff Fall Accelerated Terms Begi Moday August 27th Moday October 22d Fairfield Campus: Stamford Campus: to 20 years i educatio, also holds a Certificate i Educatioal Leadership from Sacred Heart Uiversity i Fairfield. I additio to teachig at St. Joseph School i Dabury ad Start, to fiish. St. A School i Bridgeport, Griffi was literacy chair at St. A s, ad was a Master Teacher i the Professioal Developmet Model of the Teachers Learig Commuity i the Cathedral Cluster. Griffi was hoored with the Tim Russet Make a Differece Award i November She ad her husbad, Gerry, are the parets of four grow childre. They are members of St. Lawrece Parish i Shelto. I believe that God has a pla for each of us ad kows where we ca best serve his people, Griffi says. I am excited that St. Jude School is withi his pla for me as a Catholic school educator. I am passioate about teachig ad learig, supportig teachers i best practice, ad itegratig Gospel values ito all that we do i our classrooms. Star of the Sea, Stamford Our Lady Star of the Sea School welcomes Phillip Adzima as their ew pricipal. A ative of Bridgeport, he graduated from Notre Dame Catholic High School ad holds his bachelor s degree ad teacher certificatio from Sacred Heart Uiversity i Fairfield ad his master s from Fairfield Uiversity. While ew to Star of the Sea, Adzima has spet 27 of his 40 years i educatio i the diocesa school system, begiig as a teacher at the former St. Pius X School i Fairfield. I additio to workig i this diocese, he was dea of studets at Fairfield Coutry Day School ad assistat pricipal at Notre Dame High School i West Have. He became pricipal of St. Mark School i Stratford i 1992, ad durig his 17 years there helped St. Mark s ear the Blue Ribbo School award i Sice 2009, Adzima has bee assistat pricipal ad juior high math teacher at Triity Catholic Middle School i Stamford. Durig his years i the diocesa school system, Pricipal Adzima has chaired umerous team visits for the New Eglad Associatio of Schools ad Colleges (NEASC), the regioal accreditatio associatio. He ad his wife, Phyllis, live i Milford, where they are members of St. Ages Parish. For those of us i Catholic schools, this is our vocatio ad ot merely a job, he says. Everyoe I have met at Our Lady Star of the Sea has bee welcomig ad extremely helpful. We are already a Blue Ribbo School, ad I will do my best for the childre, their families ad the teachers as we cotiue ito the 21st Cetury. Caterbury School A idepedet Catholic coeducatioal boardig ad day school for grades 9-12 OPEN HOUSE Saturday, October 13, 2012 a deeper kowledge a world of possibilities 101 Aspetuck Aveue New Milford, CT admissios@cbury.org St. Margaret Shrie from page 13 The chapel was dedicated by Bishop Maurice F. McAuliffe, Bishop of Hartford (the Diocese of Bridgeport had ot yet bee formed), o Sept. 20, Before the ed of World War II, the beautiful ew church was drawig thousads of visitors, may of whom would have their weddig photos take i this aturally rocky settig, where a brook cascades dow the steep sides of a ledge. People still come here for their weddig photos, Deaco Foust says. Reovatio of the Shrie bega uder the guidace of Fr. Alfoso Picoe, the admiistrator of St. Raphael s, who recogized the potetial of the site s atural beauty ad charmig chapel. Fr. Picoe udertook the challege of the Shrie s physical restoratio, ad is curretly its rector. Amog the outstadig features of the series of religious edifices ad works o the grouds is the Temple of Peace, dedicated to the me ad woma who served i the U.S. armed forces durig World War II. Atop the marble altar is a replica of Michelagelo s Pieta. While techically ot a parish, the Shrie has become the spiritual home of may old as well as ew families. Mass is celebrated i the 265-seat chapel weekdays at 8:15 am, there is a Saturday Vigil at 4 pm ad five Masses each Suday: 8:15 am, 9:30 am (the latter i Italia), 10:45 am, oo ad 6 pm. Masses are coducted by Fr. Picoe; Fr. Giadomeico Flora, parochial vicar; ad Fr. Grazioso Artuso, a retired priest i residece. Deaco Do supplies a well-crafted homily or two each week. (For iformatio about St. Margaret Shrie, call , SaitMargaretShrie@ gmail.com or visit

17 September School News Parets ethusiastic about Cathedral Cluster schools By PAT HENNESSY Why do parets choose Catholic schools for their childre? What makes them take o the fiacial challeges ecessary? This questio becomes most acute whe it is posed to parets i the ier city. A survey coducted just before the close of the school year asked parets i the Cathedral Educatio Cluster, composed of the six Catholic schools i Bridgeport, what cosideratios were most importat whe choosig a school for their childre. Resposes idicated overwhelmig agreemet o the three most importat areas: academic excellece, safe eviromet ad emphasis o faith ad values. The reputatio of Catholic schools has spread throughout the commuity. Most parets report that they heard about the excellece of Catholic schools from their frieds ad family. Parets have leared that atiowide, Catholic school studets score higher o math ad sciece tha their public school couterparts. I additio, thaks to the curriculum mappig iitiated through the Office for Educatio i the Diocese of Bridgeport, every sigle school i the diocese from Greewich to Brookfield to Bridgeport follows the same curriculum. Parets i Bridgeport kow that their fiacial sacrifices will, ideed, esure the best possible educatio for their childre. It s iterestig to ote that, although 40% of studets i the ier city schools of the Cluster are ot Catholic, more tha half of all parets say that the atmosphere of faith was their mai reaso for choosig a Catholic school. All diocesa schools are Catholic through ad through, ot just durig religio class: from morig prayer to livig Rosaries to commuity service, the life of the Church is fully expressed ad wove throughout the curriculum. I the survey, parets were asked to rate the effectiveess of their childre s school i a umber of areas. I the critical areas of academics, safety, ad a eviromet of faith, parets gave the schools a resoudig vote of approval, with each of the schools receivig a good or excellet ratig of over 80% i each area. I additio, parets gave the schools high marks for the carig attitude of teachers, the persoal iteractio betwee teachers ad their studets ad the care ad ivolvemet of pricipals. This data does ot surprise us but clearly cofirms that families uderstad the missio of our schools, says Sr. Joa Magetti, rscj, executive director of the Cathedral Educatio Cluster. For geeratios it has bee prove that Catholic schools are the backboe of America life. Our schools shape citizes who work hard, take resposibility for their ow lives ad that of others ad make decisios shaped o religious values ad a solid faith. I believe that childre lear by beig surrouded by lovig adults who trust ad care for them, teachers who are missio drive ad who challege them to brig out their ow gifts. No woder our six Bridgeport schools are such a strog alterative for the educatio of childre i Bridgeport. The fial questio of the survey sums up parets respose to Catholic educatio for their childre. Whe asked Would you recommed this school to frieds ad family, their ethusiasm sets the bare statistics aglow. Fully 95.5% of parets would heartily ecourage frieds ad family to eroll their childre i the schools of the Cathedral Cluster. Studet success Statistics, o matter how impressive, ca oly covey part of the story. A quick look at recet graduates from the six schools of the Cathedral Cluster puts a persoal face o their story of success. The studets collected thousads of dollars i scholarships ad a ucouted umber of awards from groups as diverse as the Kights of Columbus, the CT Academy of Scietists ad Egieers ad Joh Hopkis Talet Search. A partial listig icludes: St. Ambrose School: From the class of 2012, Taraija Kemp will be attedig Kolbe-Cathedral High School i Bridgeport; Tamia Brow, Isabelle Fracois, Malique Moses ad Ciara Rivera are all headed off for Notre Dame Catholic High School i Fairfield; Ashley Ebaks will be goig to St. Joseph High School i Trumbull ad Jhaad Thomas will atted Christia Heritage School, also i Trumbull. St. Adrew School: Alog with a umber of scholarships ad awards, St. Adrew s poits with pride to Jeremy Timperaza, valedictoria of the Class of 2012 from Kolbe. Jeremy was also oe of the first graduates of the High School Egieerig Academy at Kolbe. Jeremy, who iteds to study law, will atted UCONN with a full academic scholarship. St. A School: Patrick Bathelemy, who graduated from St. A i 2008, just graduated from Fairfield Prep ad is goig to UCONN this fall. Colli Nevis, CLASS OF 2003, just graduated from the Naval Academy i Aapolis, MD, ad is headig to Harvard Medical School this year. Dara Reyes, class of 2012, who was amed the first Biodiversity Youth Ambassador by the Natioal Parks Service, received a scholarship to Miss Hall s School i Pittsfield, MA. St. Augustie School: Of this year s graduates, Agelisse Meledez received a full academic scholarship to Notre Dame Catholic High School i Fairfield, while classmate Isabel Negro will also atted Notre Dame o the Liptak Scholarship, give by the Cardial Sheeha Ceter. Shae Harris received a full scholarship to Fairfield Prep. St. Peter School: Sea Alicia, who graduated i 2008 from St. Peter s, was salutatoria at Kolbe this year. He is goig o to study foresic sciece at the Uiversity of New Have. Two of St. Peter s studets received high school scholarships: Adrew Alle is headed for Notre Dame, while classmate Laure Butler is erolled i Laurelto Hall, Our Lady of Mercy Academy i Milford. St. Raphael School: Four studets from St. Raphael s, Lucas Satiago, Alto Lam, Ayeisha Presto ad Valerie Bie-Aime, have received four-year scholarships to Kolbe. Lucas is also a fialist for the Shepherd s Program at Kolbe, which would give him a full scholarship for all four years. I additio, Simoe Curti-Rugless is headed to Laurelto o a scholarship, while Sheille Moodie has a scholarship to atted Sacred Heart Academy i Hamde. Each year, almost 4,000 ew health related jobs are created i the state, ad the demad for skilled healthcare professioals cotiues to grow. Associate i Sciece Degrees i Nursig, Medical Assistig, Geeral Studies ad Radiography Short-term Certificate Programs leadig to etry-level employmet RN to BSN olie Ask about our NEW ONLINE BSRS baccalaureate completio program i radiologic scieces Cotiuig Educatio A track record of success for studets of all ages Lear about the degree ad certificate programs that ca put a rewardig health career withi reach. 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18 18 September 2012 School News Explorig her Irish- America Idetity By BRIAN D. WALLACE Here I feel Irish, there I feel America, says 22-year old Collee Taylor, who is about to leave for Irelad to begi work o a masters i Eglish ad Irish at Triity College, Dubli. Comig off a 4.0 GPA at Fordham Uiversity, where she graduated this May as class valedictoria ad as a fialist for the Iteratioal Mitchell Scholarship ad a alterate Fulbright scholar, she s lookig forward to deepeig her uderstadig of her Irish-America idetity. Whe she leaves i September, she ll also be sayig goodbye to more tha 75,000 people from the tri-state area who liste to her popular Irish music show Ceol a Gael every Suday morig o WFUV, 90.7 FM, a NPR affiliate whose o-air talet combies legeds of FM radio ad studets like Collee. The Sherma ative ad member of Holy Triity Parish says her fasciatio with Irish heritage ad culture bega to take shape whe she started to practice Irish dace at the age of seve at the Horga Academy of Irish Dace i Naugatuck. The dace steps ad the costume desigs, may which came from the Book of Kells, ethralled her. Like may Irish Americas, St. Joseph High School As you choose, so you become... Admissios Office Fid us o Facebook: www. Facebook.com/ SJCadets St. Joseph High School, Trumbull, Coecticut Why St. Joe s? Lear why whe you sca with your QR Reader! PEACEFUL FIELDS, rugged cliffs ad the sog of the sea lured Fordham Valedictoria Colee Taylor to Irelad, where she spet a year studyig Irish at Galway Uiversity. She leaves for Dubli i September to cotiue her studies i the lad of her acestors. she was curious about her family s history before they came to the U.S, but she had little kowledge of her acestors as if immigratio had obscured the past. I guess I started to search our history because we did t have stories haded dow to us. I ever kew my gradfathers at all ad my gradmothers died whe I was youg. We had the culture that came to us i our blood ad i the way we live our lives. While at Fordham, she miored i Irish Studies ad spet the summer of 2010 studyig Gaelic i a immersio program sposored by Fordham ad the Irish Govermet, ad later spet her juior year studyig Irish at Galway Uiversity i Wester Irelad. Oly about 5% of the populatio ow speaks Irish, but i places like Kerry ad Doegal it is the first laguage they lear, though most speak both Irish ad Eglish, she says. Her love for Irish culture ad learig also led to her uexpected success as host of the WFUV radio show. It was mostly pure luck, she says. Whe I came i as a freshma, the Gaelic Society was dormat ad I wated to lear more about Irish culture. Someoe put up a flyer askig for a studet to host a Irish music show ad I applied. Hostig the show for three years has give her the opportuity to meet ad iterview some of her idols, icludig Paddy Moloey of the Chieftais ad the members of Cherish the Ladies. While Fordham Uiversity opeed may doors for Collee Taylor, it also led to a deepeig of her faith. I thik Fordham made my faith so much stroger. I remember beig i high school ad Mom takig me to Mass, but I did t really wat to be there. At Fordham I took theology classes ad was able to approach the Church from its itellectual, creative ad artistic traditio. I love beig a Catholic ad beig a part of the history of the Church. She has t decided o a career yet, though she has some iterest i teachig at a uiversity ad she cotiues to write poetry, which serves as a bridge betwee the world her acestors left behid ad curiosity about her ow family history ad Irish-America idetity. She is quick to credit her early educatio at Sherma School ad New Milford High School for helpig to prepare her for success. She is also humbled by the gifts of those aroud her. I ever cosidered myself the smartest perso aroud, but I will work the hardest. At Fordham there were so may smart kids. I was astouded by their itelligece i the classroom, ad I always wated to get the most of out my classes ad the opportuity to lear. She s eager to leave for Dubli o September 12, but kows that she ll also miss her family, icludig her father, Joseph, mother Joi Burke Taylor ad her 15-year-old-brother, Daiel. I feel I ve had the best of both worlds, she says of beig America ad havig the opportuity to study i Irelad. Goig to Triity was always a dream of mie, she adds, Everythig about Irelad is poetry, the music, the ladscape ad the people. (To read Collee s poetry, go to Assessmet Admiistrators We are seekig motivated idividuals to proctor assessmet sessios with 4th-, 8th-, ad 12th-grade studets i schools for the Natioal Assessmet of Educatioal Progress. 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19 September School News Iteratioal school recogizes diversity By PAT HENNESSY Studets at St. Peter-Sacred Heart School i Dabury speak seve laguages ad come from 11 differet coutries. We are such a diverse commuity here, says Pricipal Mary McCormack. To meet the eeds of our childre, we decided to celebrate that diversity. their curricula ad see how they hadled a diverse studet body. They were astoished to fid that oe of the schools equaled their rage of ethic ad ecoomic backgrouds. Whe we wet to the U.N. Iteratioal School i New York, they greeted us warmly, recalls McCormack. Teachers of the diocesa curriculum map, says Joh Cook, deputy superitedet of schools for the diocese, who assisted i the developmet of St. Peter-Sacred Heart as a iteratioal school. Cook poits out that umber of elemets i the iteratioal curriculum were already i place i diocesa schools. Istructio i Spaish is already taught i all cotiued o page 21 Educatig Nurses. Metorig Leaders. A PARADE OF NATIONS held durig Catholic Schools Week displays the pride of St. Peter-Sacred Heart studets, who speak seve differet laguages ad come from 11 differet coutries. The school had already begu to respod to the varied cultures of its studets. A multicultural dier complete with music, daces ad sogs from their home culture performed by studets has bee a popular fixture with studets ad parets. A Parade of Natios with the lags of all the coutries represeted at the school was a highlight of Catholic Schools Week. Whe our Studet Coucil sposored a multicultural luch, parets were so ethusiastic they brought i eough food for two luches, McCormack says. The Sacred Heart campus is home to childre from eight weeks to four years old, i a variety of age appropriate classes. Older studets atted school at the St. Peter s Campus. Because of the demad, the St. Peter Campus is addig classes i the school s pre-k-4 Faith Formatio program. Iteratioal schools i the area start their curriculum at the kidergarte level. Startig this sprig, teachers i grades K through eight bega visitig schools i other cities to assess were pleased to fid that, i their curriculum, the U.N. school used may of the same workbooks already i place i Dabury. Somethig else, though, came as a complete surprise. Their diversity was t as great as ours, McCormack observes. Eve though they come from every cotiet, the majority of studets i the U.N. school have parets ivolved i govermet service. Dabury parets, o the other had, come from all icome levels ad all walks of life. Fidig a model closer to home, teachers visited Rogers IB School i Stamford. A maget school i the Stamford public school system, it bases its curriculum o the Iteratioal Baccalaureate Orgaizatio (IBO), a oprofit educatioal orgaizatio based i Geeva, Switzerlad. The curriculum ecourages studets to develop a sese of idetity as global citizes i the 21st cetury. We utilized the Iteratioal School missio statemets ad teachig practices to create a iteratioal-themed overlay Villaova Uiversity s College of Nursig prepares urses who are ethical leaders i the professio through its Augustiia Catholic emphasis o educatio i the liberal arts ad scieces. Create your ursig career foudatio through a dyamic college experiece with our: Future-orieted curriculum i acute ad primary care Cuttig-edge simulatio techology World-class cliical resources Iteratioal study ad guided research experieces Metorig by expert faculty Leadership ad service opportuities. Be part of a strog traditio of ursig excellece. Be a Villaova Nurse. Bachelor of Sciece i Nursig Ope House for High School Studets Suday, September October p.m. Villaova Uiversity campus Visit for more iformatio. BSN MSN DNP PhD CE

20 20 September 2012 School News Notre Dame adds Teachig & Learig Ceter By PAT HENNESSY Begiig with a special tutorig program this summer, the ew Teachig ad Learig Ceter at Notre Dame Catholic High School i Fairfield gives studets ad faculty a added resource for academic support. Our studets come from 30 tows ad over 50 differet schools, public ad private, otes Notre Dame s pricipal, Chris Cipriao. Some kids eed additioal skills or reiforcemet of cocepts. We wat to provide the academic support to make sure that all our studets achieve their full potetial. Because Notre Dame draws from such a wide area, the establishmet of a Learig Ceter was made part of the school s strategic pla. The pla, which was preseted i the fall of 2011, also calls for facilities updates, that, he says. DiPalma had already begu implemetig his visio for the Learig Ceter by providig oe-o-oe math support for ay icomig freshma durig three-weeks i July. I July Notre Dame lauched Jump Start, a oe-week math skills program desiged to reiforce math skills leared i juior high school. INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP ASSISTANCE are hallmarks of the Teachig ad Learig Ceter directed by Larry DiPalma (at right). The Ceter opeed i July with drop-i hours ad a program called Jump Start, desiged to reiforce math skills before the school year begis. ehaced alumi relatios ad expaded course offerigs. A pla begis o paper, but it s already becomig a reality, says Cipriao. He poits, amog other items, to the upgraded biology lab beig readied for the fall semester ad the expasio of the AP course offerigs durig the comig school year. These, as well as the closer relatioship with Sacred Heart Uiversity, have boosted the freshma class erollmet by 20% this year. The Learig Ceter will be directed by Larry DiPalma, who brigs a wealth of kowledge ad experiece with him to this positio. He recetly retired from Asoia public schools ad was the 2011 Coecticut recipiet of the Natioal Distiguished Pricipal Award. I additio to his duties as pricipal, he served as a K-8 math coordiator i the Asoia School System. Di Palma had bee the pricipal of the former Sacred Heart/St. Athoy School i Bridgeport util it closed i He has also taught courses i Sacred Heart Uiversity s Graduate School of Educatio. DiPalma is happy to be part of the diocesa school system agai. He poits with pride to Notre Dame s sloga Buildig character, faith ad itellect. It feels good to be able cotribute to The program focused o specific areas targeted from the school s etrace exam. Mr. DiPalma helped may studets, icludig me, to be more prepared, says icomig freshma Tim Furgiuele, who comes from All Saits School i Norwalk. I m grateful for it. This fall, the Learig Ceter will provide extra assistace to freshme ad sophomores studyig algebra ad geometry. Durig the year, strugglig studets will be assiged class time i the Learig Ceter i lieu of a study hall. It s like havig a double dose of math every day, says Pricipal Cipriao. He expects the Learig Ceter to grow ad chage as the year progresses. I see it evolvig durig the school year. We do t kow what it will look like i December, or what we ll be lookig at i Jue. I the future he ll cosider ways to iclude peer tutors, ad possibly trai adults or retired teachers who would like to come i to teach or metor a studet. We wat our kids to succeed, Cipriao cocludes. It s our job to give them the support they eed. (The Learig Ceter welcomes iterested adults who will like to be traied to tutor or metor a studet. For more iformatio, cotact Larry DiPalma: dipalma@ otredame.org.)

21 September School News Iteratioal from page 19 diocesa elemetary schools, ad Madari Chiese, startig at the kidergarte level, is beig added i the fall semester. Lookig ahead, teachers ad studets will parter with schools i Spaish, Portuguese, ad Chiese speakig coutries i project-based activities to form a true iteratioal coectio, Cook adds Oe of the basic elemets i a iteratioal school is a curriculum that supports the recogitio ad value of differet cultures, says McCormack. The school was able to put that elemet i place right away. Because our studets are already learig Spaish, we made oe Wedesday a Spaish-speakig day, with our prayers ad luch coversatio i Spaish. The followig week, our Haitia studets led the prayers i Frech, ad shared some coversatioal phrases we could use at luch. Startig i the fall, a differet laguage ad culture will be preseted each week, ad studets will take turs leadig the prayers i their ative laguage. Durig the comig year, global awareess will be built ito the curriculum. We have to thik with a iteratioal Welcome to the Class of 2016 les, McCormack says. The math room boasts a abacus five feet tall, ad math teacher James Hies shows studets how to do rapid calculatios o its beads. Social studies will look at curret evets with a global perspective. Art classes ca lik with subjects beig studied i social studies ad the laguage arts. The library will seek to add more books celebratig Chia ad Africa. Take as a whole, the iteratioal curriculum will ecourage studets appreciatio of each other s heritage, eriched by the teachig of their Catholic faith. Iteratioal schools teach respect for oe aother, says McCormack. Beig Catholic, WE ARE THE WORLD proclaims a bulleti board i the frot hallway of the St. Peter Campus of St. Peter-Sacred Heart School, oe of the most diverse schools i the area. we kow that each oe of us is a creatio of God, ad we live out that uderstadig i the daily practice of our Gospel values. It s a overall eviromet, ad we will be deepeig our awareess throughout the year. It s a opeeded process. Fairfield Prep 232 youg me, represetig 37 commuities ad 66 schools From the followig tows Asoia Armok Belle Mead Bethay Bethel Bridgeport Brookfield Darie East Norwalk Easto Fairfield Greewich Guilford Hamde Hutigto Madiso Milford Moroe Naples New Caaa New Have New Milford Newtow Norwalk Old Greewich Orage Oxford Ridgefield Riverside Sady Hook Shelto Southport Stamford Trumbull Westo Westport Wilto From the followig schools All Saits Catholic School Amity Regioal Middle School Bedford Middle School Cetral Middle School Chase Collegiate School Christia Heritage School Coleytow Middle School Coecticut Frieds School Coutry School Easter Middle School Elisabeth C. Adams School Fairfield Coutry Day School Fairfield Woods Middle School Flood Middle School Great Oak Middle School Greewich Catholic Elemetary School Hamde Middle School Harborside Middle School Hele Keller Middle School High Horizos Maget School Hillcrest Middle School Jockey Hollow Middle School Joh Withrop School Madiso Middle School Middlebrook School Middlesex Middle School Motessori School Multicultural Maget School Natha Hale Middle School New Begiigs Family Academy New Caaa Coutry School Newtow Middle School Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School Our Lady of the Assumptio School Park City Preparatory School Polso Middle School Rippowam Middle School Roger Ludlowe Middle School Roto Middle School Saxe Middle School Scofield Maget Middle School Shelto Itermediate School Side By Side Commuity School St. Aeda/St. Breda Catholic School $548,000 i fiacial aid awarded to this class. ($2.1 millio i total fiacial aid awarded this school year to all four classes.) All fiacial aid is awarded o the basis of eed. St. Aloysius Catholic School St. A School St. Augustie Cathedral School St. Catherie of Siea Catholic School St. Gabriel Catholic School St. James Catholic School St. Joseph Catholic School St. Jude Catholic School St. Lawrece Catholic School St. Mark Catholic School St. Rose School St. Thomas Aquias Catholic School Thomas Hooker School Thurgood Marshall Middle School Tomliso Middle School Triity Catholic Middle School Tur of River Middle School Uquowa School West Rocks Middle School West Shore Middle School Westo Middle School Wooster Itermediate School Fairfield College Preparatory School A Jesuit, Catholic School of Excellece

22 22 September 2012 School News Educators explore biomedical egieerig By PAT HENNESSY Thik about the trasfer of forces, preseter Mark Krotec said. Go toward the akle joit. GREENWICH CATHOLIC SCHOOL Where Learig Lives & Faith Grows Ope House Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Pre-Kidergarte - Grade 8 9:00 a.m. Fid the dramatic coectio betwee the leg ad the foot. The paistakig exploratio ad fasciatio of a ew challege durig this lab sessio R. S. V. P x 100 egaged his studets. Not studets i the ordiary sese at this biomedical egieerig sessio, educators from diocesa schools became the studets. For two days i August, a doze middle school ad high school sciece teachers worked i teams o a Tissue Egieerig project. They i tur will teach a ew approach to explorig life sciece, ot oly to their studets but to other teachers throughout the diocese. Krotec, a biology teacher at Greewich Catholic School is a Roma Catholic, co-educatioal day school for Pre-K through Grade 8 studets. We are located o 38 acres i the heart of Greewich. Our studets experiece a erichig spiritual eviromet, a diverse ad challegig curriculum ad a full rage of after school ad sports programs. To schedule a tour or receive a admissios packet, please call or us at ifo@gcsct.org Greewich Catholic School 471 North Street Greewich Coecticut ifo@gcsct.org Sacred Heart Academy STRONG VALUES. STRONG ACADEMICS. STRONG LEADERSHIP OPEN HOUSE Suday, October 14th, from 1 to 3 p.m. ENTRANCE EXAM Saturday, November 3rd, from 8 a.m. to oo For additioal iformatio, visit sacredhearthamde.org Fouded i 1946, Sacred Heart Academy is a idepedet, Catholic preparatory day school for qualified youg wome i grades ie through twelve. Elaie Lamboley Director of Admissios 265 Beham Street Hamde, CT Impelled by Christ s Love TRACE THE LIGAMENTS; see how they coect the leg to the foot. Christie Fahey, middle school sciece teacher at St. Gregory the Great School i Dabury, ad Bria Highlad, STEM coordiator for St. Joseph School i Brookfield, explore the mechaics of aatomy as teachers become studets i a biomedical egieerig workshop. (Photos by Pat Heessy) Cetral Catholic High School i Pittsburgh, PA, is the creator of the Pittsburgh Tissue Egieerig Iitiative, a biomedical egieerig program. The program emphasizes collaborative workig, creativity ad critical thikig. It ivolves takig a problem ad askig: What ca we do to solve this? says Joh Cook, deputy superitedet for the Diocese of Bridgeport, who was istrumetal i arragig for PTEI traiig for diocesa teachers. The challege i the workshop this summer week was a hot oe: LeBro James, the Miami Heat basketball star, has shattered his leg, collapsig after makig the wiig basket i a tight game. But the Olympics are comig fast we eed him for the America team. How ca we rebuild his tissue before the games start? It s fu, but it makes kids thik, Cook says of challeges like this. It pushes them to thik critically. Teachers participatig i the project had to lear ew ways of lookig at their subject. They explored the mechaics of aatomy (with chickes legs stadig i for LeBro s damaged limb), estimated the eeded growth factor employig math skills to check their distributios used a spectrophotometer to check cocetratios of solutios, worked with a gel electrophoresis apparatus for DNA aalysis ad gee expressio, ad built stroger boes. Our goal is to excite educators so they ca excite studets, Krotec explais. Readig ad followig a set of istructios does t achieve that purpose. It ruis the fu of discovery. I this process, you re lettig studets become idepedet scietists. Diocesa schools have already eared a reputatio for their excellece i itroducig STEM (sciece, techology, egieerig ad mathematics) istructio ito all levels of the curriculum. The beauty of the PTEI curriculum is that it is flexible; it ca be modified to work o may levels. We wo t just be itroducig biomedical egieerig to eighth graders, we ll be ecouragig studets to explore, lettig them make mistakes, says Katheri Siffi, the STEM coordiator at St. Rose of Lima School i Newtow. It s studet-cetered learig, agrees Da Walsh, who teaches AP biology at St. Joseph High School i Trumbull. You tell them, here s the idea you desig the experimet. The PTEI sessio was made possible through a grat from The Louis Calder Foudatio. As they hoped, these teachers will be spreadig the word, first to their

23 September School News ow schools ad the to the etire diocesa school system. We have a vetera staff, says Kevi Duleavy, chair of the sciece departmet of Immaculate High School i Dabury. Whe we have our first departmet meetig i August, the teachers will drik this iformatio up. We ll be usig it withi the first moth of school. Thaks to the Foudatio grat, participatig teachers will be able to take the materials, from pipettes to electrophoresis machies, back to their sciece labs. Our biggest challege is havig a stocked lab, says Bethay Blackwood, the freshma biology teacher at Kolbe-Cathedral High School i Bridgeport. This will give us the tools for a more hadso approach. Not oly will the compoets of the PETI iitiative become part of all levels of sciece exploratio i diocesa schools, they will fid a special home i the High School Egieerig Academy (HSEA) lauched by the Bridgeport diocesa schools i HSEA studets meet o Saturdays durig the school year to study civil egieerig, architecture, digital electroics ad egieerig desig ad developmet. Biomedical egieerig would make a ideal capstoe course for that program. This will be a excellet compoet to add to the HSEA course, says Bardhyl Gjoka, who guided the Egieerig Academy through its early years. A former teacher i Kolbe s excellet egieerig program, he has just become the assistat pricipal at All Saits School i Norwalk. This has bee a eye-opeer. We will be assessig how best to icorporate it ito the HSEA curriculum. Our missio at PETI is to grow future scietists, says Krotec, poitig out that the hottest jobs i the ew milleium are i the biomedical egieerig field. KOLBE CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL Home of the Champios CHAMPIONS IN ATHLETICS A history of success o the court ad o the field has come to the forefrot with the Cougars Champioships i basketball ad soccer. GIVING JUST ENOUGH iformatio to get them started, preseter Mark Krotec of the PTEI biomedical egieerig program gives diocesa sciece teachers a demostratio of fluid measuremet, the sets them free for hads-o experimetatio. Participats will itroduce the latest critical thikig ad problem solvig methods ito their classrooms. CHAMPIONS IN THE CLASSROOM A iovative approach to teachig gives our studets a edge i academics. Our small size provides a urturig, learig eviromet. 100% of recet graduates are attedig college. CHAMPIONS FOR JUSTICE Whether voluteerig i their commuity or trekkig across the globe to build a school i Mali, KC studets kow the importace of helpig those i eed. CHAMPIONS FOR THEIR FAITH I our chapel, our Cathedral, ad i our classroom, prayer guides our studets through their days ad through their lives. Come... Be a Champio! OPEN HOUSE ENTRANCE EXAM October 10, 2012 October 13, :00 P.M. 8:00 A.M. Call to Register: Visit our website: The opportuity to be aythig, the freedom to be yourself. UPPER SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE... Wedesday, October 24 ALL SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE...Saturday, November 3 I the close kit commuity at Covet of the Sacred Heart, girls are surrouded by supportive peers ad faculty who help develop their potetial. Our Middle School girls emerge well prepared for the academic rigors of high school. More importatly, they feel valued ad cofidet, have a strog sese of spirituality, ad feel free to be themselves as they prepare to challege the world. Greewich, CT A idepedet, Catholic school for girls from preschool through grade 12

24 24 September 2012 Sports After 50 years, Motelli bids St. Joseph adieu By DON HARRISON Numbers seem to aboud i the life of Vito M. Motelli. Some are roud, others are ot. By ay stadard, all are substatial. Eighty years of age. Fiftythree years of marriage (to the former Dolores Murphy). Six childre. Sevetee gradchildre. Fifty years of coachig basketball at oe high school, St. Joseph of Trumbull. Eight hudred sevety-eight coachig victories a high school record for New Eglad. Eleve state titles a high school record for Coecticut. O the morig of August 8, the ma with the gravelly voice ad warm heart aouced his retiremet as St. Joseph s oly head basketball coach at a ews coferece held at Vazzzao s Four Seasos i Stratford. The timig, he said, seemed appropriate. People have always asked (about retiremet), but the last couple of years, I ve always aswered It s ot my call, he told the assemblage of family, staff members, ews media ad, by may estimates, some 30 former St. Joseph players spaig his etire coachig career. I thik He set word dow that maybe this is the right time ad we ve got a good ma Perhaps the greatest joy i retirig is kowig you ca live life to its fullest. Maitaiig your idepedece ad helpig you ejoy life is our oly goal at Carmel Ridge ad Teresia Towers. Located o the grouds of St. Joseph s Maor, our uique retiremet commuity provides the support ad security you may eed to live life to its fullest, icludig 24-hour medical ad security services, ursig staff, shoppig trasportatio, ad optioal meal pla. Day-to-day livig is ehaced by a o-site chapel, library, recreatio hall, crafts room, swimmig pool, ad earby golfig. to take over. It s time. The good ma ad the patriarch s chose successor is Chris Watts, a All-State player o St. Joseph s 1986 ad 87 Class M state champioship teams ad a four-year letterwier at Providece. Watts has served as Motelli s assistat coach for may years. Motelli is proud of his multitude of accomplishmets: The back-to-back Class LL state champioships i his fial two seasos, which gave him 11 titles ad moved him past Charlie Betley (Hardig), Bob Saulsbury (Wilbur Cross) ad the late Sam Beder (Hillhouse), who wo ie apiece. His three Natioal Coach of the Year awards. His iductio ito the atioal ad Coecticut coaches halls of fame. The fact that 27 of his players wo McDoald s All-America recogitio ad 34 were selected to All-State teams. That the majority wet o to further their educatio ad several played at the NCAA Divisio-I level. Mere umbers tell oly a part of the Motelli story, though. He s led a faith-filled life, which took root with his parets, Salvatore ad Lucrezia Motelli Italia immigrats with limited formal educatio i upstate Bristol. My parets were very spiritual. My father worked two jobs, ad my mother dragged me to everythig i church, he recalled. He also credits three Roma Catholic priests for providig the guidace, ispiratio ad opportuities that led to the chair I sit i today. They were: Fr. Vicet Iaotti, a youg curate at St. Athoy Church (i Bristol) who got me ito CYO ball for three years. Fr. Joh McGough, a youg priest i the Diocese of Bridgeport office who promised, Whe you re doe with the Army, I m goig to have a job for you. After his discharge, Motelli retured to coach baseball ad teach physical educatio at Notre Dame High School prior to his shift to St. Joseph. Msgr. Bartholomew Laurello, the first pricipal at St. Joseph. They had formed a friedship while teachig at Notre Dame, ad Laurello told Motello, They ve promised me a high school ad I m takig you with me. James Olayos, the school s curret athletic director, has see Motelli through differet leses, first as coach ad father figure, ad sice 2002 as his supervisor. They ve experieced few problems through the years. I played guard o his first state champioship team i ad I was the captai i 1976 whe were ruer-up (to St. Thomas Aquias), said Olayos, holder of a law degree ad oce a practicig attorey. We practiced betwee four ad five hours a day ad he had every miute scripted. To this day he s still like that. Motelli, he says, is a very respectful perso. At first it was coach-player, ad the it evolved ito a friedship. We have a great relatioship. We would like to help you make the ext years the fiest of your life. To receive more iformatio or to schedule a visit, call i Coecticut or from out of state. Uits from $58,000. Iquire about our Retal Program startig from $995 per moth. Teresia Towers/Carmel Ridge Estates 6454 Mai Street Trumbull, Coecticut A o-deomiatioal facility owed by the Diocese of Bridgeport. Professioally maaged by Wi Residetial.

25 September 2012 Youth YOUCAT talks faith By ELISABETH McINTOSH Youth Page 25 I 2011, publishers across the world released a small, yellow, paperback book called the YOUCAT, i twety-five differet laguages. Its catchy title is the popular ickame for the ew Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church, a book compiled with the ethusiastic iput of Church leaders, teachers ad youth. Its missio: to educate ad ispire Catholic youg people to delve more deeply ito the doctrie ad teachigs of their faith. The itroductio of the YOUCAT cotais a deeply persoal message from Pope Beedict XVI, who etreats youg people to embrace this ew meas of catechesis ad to recogize its potetial to trasform their lives i Christ. Study this Catechism with passio ad perseverace. Make a sacrifice of your time for it! Study it i the quiet of your room form study groups ad etworks; share with each other o the Iteret. By all meas cotiue to talk with each other about your faith, the pope writes, You eed to kow what you believe. Each time I read these words, I am captivated by the Holy Father s challege: You eed to kow what you believe. He does ot mice words as he iforms the youth of the Church that we have a serious resposibility to lear about the teets of our faith. We must be able to defed our beliefs with itelliget argumets that are both itellectually persuasive ad sympathetic to every listeer, regardless of his beliefs. The YOUCAT offers a streamlied preparatio for our vital missio of evagelizatio i the moder world. Amidst today s culture, so cetered i materialism ad relativism, the Pope remids us that we truly eed to be soldiers for Christ. Adults who have grow up with the traditioal Catechism of the Catholic Church might ask, Why the ew format? Why ot just study the CCC? While the CCC is the ultimate summary of Catholic beliefs, tacklig more tha eight hudred pages of articles may be a bit overwhelmig. The YOUCAT, with its simple questio-ad-aswer format, is essetially a codesed versio of the official Catechism. It also has a user-friedly topical idex ad refereces to the correspodig topics i the CCC. I became familiar with the YOUCAT at last sprig s youth cogress, Covivio, at Sacred Heart Uiversity. The Maria Commuity of Recociliatio had received a doatio for the purchase of hudreds of YOUCATs, which they distributed to the group leaders. We used them to brush up o our ow kowledge as well as to aswer the questios of may participats throughout the weeked. By the last day, hudreds of youg people retured home with their ow YOUCATs, cocrete meas of addressig the challeges ad questios that they would face upo returig to their homes ad schools. Over the past several moths, my YOUCAT has become a favorite resource for fast ad accurate iformatio about my faith. As the Pope cofirms, it speaks to a challege to truly live out our Christia lives: It will ot make life easy for you, because it demads of you a ew life You eed God s help if your faith is ot goig to dry up like a dewdrop i the su. (A member of St. Joh the Evagelist Parish i Stamford, Elisabeth McItosh was salutatoria of St. Joseph High School Class of She will be attedig the Uiversity of Virgiia this fall.) Sait Mary s Church The Mother Church of Norwalk 669 West Ave., Norwalk Est Pastor: Fr. Greg J. Markey Parochial Vicar: Fr. Richard G. Cipolla I Residece: Fr. Paul N. Check, Director of Courage Deaco Stepha Geovese Choirmaster: David J. Hughes Cofessios: Moday-Friday: 11:30-12oo; Wedesday: 6:30-6:50pm; Saturday 3:00-4:30pm Suday Masses: 8:00am, 9:30am Extraordiary Form Solem High Mass, 11:30am Ordiary Form High Mass, 1:15pm i Spaish Music for the 9:30am Suday Solem High Lati Mass August 26: Thirteeth Suday after Petecost - Missa cum jubilo (Vatica Gradual, Mass IX); orga music of Laglais September 2: Fourteeth Suday after Petecost - Mass for Four Voices (Byrd); orga music of Marchad & Messiae September 9: Fifteeth Suday after Petecost - Missa Vecy la dase de Barbarie (Barbé); orga music of Titelouze September 16: Sixteeth Suday after Petecost - Missa Dum esset Summus Potifex (Palestria); orga music of Boëllma September 16, 5:00 p.m: Solem Vespers - motets by Victoria & Crecquillo September 23: Seveteeth Suday after Petecost - Missa Philippia (Cardoso); orga music of Touremire September 30: Eighteeth Suday after Petecost - Missa Quita (Lotti); orga music of Buxtehude Sait Mary s Bookstore Offerig a wide selectio of books, crucifixes, rosaries, sacrametals from Italy ad the Holy Lad, First Commuio ad Cofirmatio gifts, ad more. HOURS: Saturday 10-4pm Suday 11-1pm Tuesday ad Wedesday 12:45-1:30pm Located i Parish Ceter buildig behid Sait Mary Church VISA/MC ACCEPTED

26 26 Obituaries Sr. Crowe, OSU, 74 Sr. Patricia Crowe, OSU, died o Jue 25 at Quees Hospital i New York. She was 74 years old ad had bee a Ursulie Sister for more tha 50 years. Patricia Crowe was bor March 8, 1938, ad raised i Howard Beach, NY. She received a bachelor degree i elemetary educatio from St. Joh s Uiversity i Jamaica, Quees, ad a master of arts degree i art educatio from SUNY i New Paltz, NY, ad obtaied additioal certificatios i elemetary ad art educatio ad admiistratio. She etered the Cogregatio of the Ursulie Sisters of Tildok o September 8, 1956, takig the religious ame of Sr. Loretto. Sr. Patricia miistered for may years i educatio as both a teacher ad a pricipal. After teachig o the elemetary school level o Log Islad she came to the Diocese of Bridgeport, where she served as a art teacher at the former St. Mary High School i Greewich from I additio to her years i educatio, she served i bereavemet miistry ad cotiued to assist studets as a private tutor util A Mass of Christia Burial was celebrated for Sr. Patricia o Jue 28 i the chapel of St. Ursula Ceter i Blue Poit, NY followed by itermet i the St. Ursula Ceter cemetery. September 2012 Sr. Atoie Daiel Kipfig, SSND, dies at 100 Sr. Mary Atoie Daiel Kipfig, a school teacher, school pricipal, admiistrator ad parish miister i four states over five decades, died o Jue 15 at Lourdes Health Care Ceter i Wilto. She was 100 years old ad was celebratig her 80th jubilee as a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Elizabeth A Kipfig was bor i Westbury, NY, i The ith child i a family of 14 childre, she was baptized at St. Brigid Parish. The School Sisters of Notre Dame opeed St. Brigid School i 1918, ad Elizabeth, just 7, became oe of their first studets. She later wrote, For me it was love at first sight ad this love remaied a costat all through my school days. I 1929, after graduatig from St. Saviour High School i Brookly, she etered the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She was give the religious ame Mary Atoie Daiel ad made her first professio of vows i Sr. Atoie eared a bachelor s degree i educatio from what is today Notre Dame of Marylad Uiversity, ad she eared a master s i admiistratio from Seto Hall Uiversity i South Orage, NJ. Followig teachig assigmets i Marylad, she came to Coecticut. She was pricipal ad local leader at St. Stephe School i Trumbull from Followig her years of teachig, she shifted to pastoral miistry for several years. I additio to parish miistry, she offered pastoral care to the sisters at Lourdes Health Care Ceter, somethig she cotiued eve after movig to Villa Notre Dame, home to retired SSNDs, i Wilto. A Mass of Christia burial was celebrated at the chapel at Villa Notre Dame. FUNERAL GUIDE NEIL F. HARDING Director/Ower Hardig FUNERAL HOME 203/ FAX 203/ POST ROAD EAST WESTPORT, CT Deceased Clergy of the Diocese of Bridgeport August 26-October 6 August Year 26 Lawrece Cardial Sheha Rev. Vicet E. Fi Rev. Edmud C. O Coell Deaco Ramo Isidro September Year 2 Rev. Msgr. Fracis J. Prackus Rev. Msgr. Joh F. X. Walsh Rev. Msgr. Thomas F. Heaha Rev. Joh E. Fay Rev. Laurece F. Flaaga Rev. Richard Moaha Rev. Frak D. Yoia Rev. Joseph V. Rossitto Rev. William J. Cokli Rev. Joh A. Sulliva Rev. Robert L. Christopher Rev. Msgr. Normad A. Methe Rev. Joseph J. Maglioe Msgr. Edward B. Karl Rev. Frederick H. Olschefskie Rev. Msgr. Edmud J. Hussey Rev. Edward A. Morga October Year 3 Msgr. Joh H. Aderso Msgr. Victor Balcerak, O.F.M. Cov LOCATION is EVERYTHING We have 6 of them! The Coecticut Moumet Group Fairfield Couty Moumets, Norwalk Bates Moumet, Norwalk Bates Moumet, Dabury/Bethel Bates Moumet, New Milford D Elia Memorials, Greewich Fairfield Moumet, Stamford/Darie We also have Experiece, Kowledge, Craftsmaship, Itegrity, Uderstadig alog with fair pricig. A full service memorial compay. Family owed ad operated.

27 September Nuestra Voz Los católicos de habla hispaa e la diócesis Por EL PADRE GUSTAVO A. FALLA (El Padre Falla es director del miisterio de los católicos que habla español). De acuerdo a datos pastorales, los católicos de habla hispaa e el Codado de Fairfield ha estado presete e uestra Diócesis de Bridgeport icluso ates de su fudació e Oficialmete, durate el comiezo de uestra diócesis, se cotó co la presecia de uas cuatas familias católicas puertorriqueñas que había imigrado a esta área e busca de empleo. A través de los años, el úmero de católicos de habla hispaa ha crecido gradualmete y co este crecimieto de la població hemos visto tambié u icremeto tato e retos como e oportuidades. Los cetros migratorios por excelecia ha sido Stamford, Norwalk y Bridgeport, ciudades e las que la idustria ha ofrecido oportuidades a los uevos imigrates. Poco a poco, persoas proveietes de otros países latioamericaos se ha veido estableciedo a través del codado y así es como u bue úmero de cubaos, colombiaos, peruaos y ecuatoriaos ha poblado, e FUNERAL GUIDE Collis Fueral Home 92 East Aveue Norwalk William A. Skidd William R. Kelley bue úmero, estas y otras ciudades del Estado de Coecticut, desde hace más de seseta años. La ola migratoria de hispaoparlates creció admirablemete a partir de los años seteta trayedo así a persoas proveietes de España, Cetro América, el Caribe, México y de todo Sur América. Se puede decir que todos los países de habla española está represetados e uestro Codado de Fairfield y, de acuerdo co las proyeccioes del Ceso, e el año 2011 os costituimos e el 17.4% de la població del Codado de Fairfield, es decir, uas persoas de habla hispaa vivimos e esta pequeña regió del Estado de Coecticut (el Codado de Fairfield ocupa u territorio de 625 millas cuadradas, aproximadamete). De este gra úmero de persoas calculamos que u 70% al 75% somos católicos, es decir, uas persoas (el 30% al 35% de los católicos e el Codado de Fairfield somos de habla hispaa). Las cifras que hoy descubrimos hace au más evidete la ecesidad de aalizar el impacto de uestra presecia e la Iglesia Local. La Diócesis de Bridgeport hace u esfuerzo eorme al tratar de dar respuesta a las muy William G. Lahey, Jr. William P. Skidd Adrew D. Skidd Family owed for four geeratios 24 Hour Service Available Family Owed & Operated Sice 1920 Sympathy Arragemets Our Specialty Post Road Fairfield Quiet Digity Without Extravagace Affordable Direct Crematio Title XIX Welcome Z Family owed for three geeratios Z Call for free iformative brochure Z or variadas ecesidades de uestra comuidad de habla hispaa. Obviamete, la vida sacrametal ocupa el lugar primordial e el cuidado pastoral que se ofrece pero debemos recoocer que hay muchas otras formas como la comuidad recibe el beeficio de grades esfuerzos e su favor, desde servicios al imigrate hasta asistecia social. A través de Las Caridades Católicas, la Diócesis de Bridgeport, es decir, todos osotros, los católicos comprometidos co la fe, ofrecemos ayuda a miles de persoas que o tiee dode acudir. Si embargo, o estamos haciedo lo suficiete. No es u secreto que el elemeto clave para el progreso persoal y comuitario es ua buea educació. Ua buea educació cosiste o solamete e impartir y/o recibir ua gra catidad de iformació, sio e proveer y/u obteer ua geerosa y sólida formació. La iformació ofrece grades beeficios pero la formació hace que la persoa humaa se desarrolle e su totalidad. La iformació eriquece el coocimieto pero la formació da setido y propósito a la vida. Nosotros estamos llamados a la formació e Cristo que os cogrega. A través de ua buea formació podemos avazar de ua forma sigificativa y así cotribuir de la mejor maera a Pre-eed Fueral Plaig Matthew K. Murphy, Fueral Director 267 Greewich Aveue Greewich, CT Z Hadlig every detail Z I home arragemets Z Memorial service facility uestra Iglesia. Hay familias que ha hecho u gra esfuerzo al sacrificar cosas materiales para llevar a sus hijos a la escuela Católica y al hacerlo, como sabemos, ha optado por lo mejor: lo bueo cuesta. Esas familias, al ver los resultados de la educació y formació itegral de sus hijos e las escuelas Católicas, dode se ha ofrecido tato preparació pre-sacrametal como educació religiosa a los estudiates, e su gra mayoría, o se arrepiete de sus sacrificios, al cotrario, agradece el haberlo hecho. Las familias que tristemete o tiee como ofrecer ua educació e la escuela Católica a sus hijos puede y debe buscar ua buea formació religiosa para ellos a través de sus parroquias. La formació de iños y jóvees debe ser el primer reto al que os efretemos uidos pues es la primera y más importate oportuidad para la acció. Comezado por el hogar y siguiedo luego al ivel de la parroquia, os dedicamos a formar persoas uevas y comprometidas co la fe. Es por eso que, e uestros programas de educació religiosa, por ejemplo, o podemos coformaros co pasar iformació a iños y jóvees. Debemos esforzaros e formar católicos comprometidos de maera que, desde los comiezos mismos de la vida, estos seres a quiees amamos profudamete reciba la capacidad de coocer el setido y el propósito de sus propias vidas. Los padres de familia y las persoas ecargadas de educar a iños y jóvees debe familiarizarse co los programas ofrecidos e sus parroquias de maera que, idetificado bie qué es lo que sus hijos recibe, bie sea iformació o formació, exija que la educació religiosa de sus hijos sea la mejor posible. No podemos cotetaros co ua simple preparació pre-sacrametal de maera que los iños haga la Primera Comuió y la familia pueda salir de eso sio que, por el cotrario, se siga la orma diocesaa y a los iños se les ofrezca lo que les perteece a ellos: Ua sólida formació a través del programa de educació religiosa. La educació religiosa cotiued o page 28

28 28 September 2012 Colum From abortio to war, vigilate militias to hate groups, agry laguage to road rage, computer games to movies, violece holds so much of America society i its deadly grip. Coutless umbers of Americas have either become violet, are isesitive to the grave harm violece brigs, or are etertaied by it. These easily observable facts poit to a society that has sigificatly lost its respect for the digity of each huma life. There is o oe sigle solutio to America s obsessio with violece. A multi-faceted strategy must be employed. We eed to discover the values of kidess, courtesy, patiece, compassio ad selflessess. We eed to more faithfully seek God s getle wisdom, especially whe dealig America s deadly obsessio with gus Makig a Differece By Toy Magliao Toy Magliao is a sydicated social justice ad peace columist. with oppositio of ay kid. Ad i light of Jesus words ad example, we must break raks with our violet culture, ad love everyoe eve our eemies. Ad yes, we eed strict gu cotrol! The recet tragic mass murder i Aurora, Colorado, is but the latest i a log strig of similar horrific evets executed by metally ill or agry persos who easily purchased gus icludig assault weapos. Accordig to Joshua Horwitz, executive director of the Coalitio to Stop Gu Violece ( James Holmes, the suspected perpetrator of the Aurora killigs, had a questioable metal health history that should have preveted him from purchasig ay weapos. But istead, Holmes was able to outfit himself for war. Whe he walked ito the Cetury Aurora 16 theater, he wore full body armor ad carried four gus: two semiautomatic Glock hadgus, a 12-gauge shotgu, ad a AR-15 style assault rifle with a 100-roud drum magazie. The AR-15 was oe of the assault rifles baed uder a federal law that Cogress allowed to expire i It is ow clear they made a tragic mistake. Gus ca be sold i the U.S. without a backgroud check to scree out crimials or the metally ill. Accordig to the Brady Campaig to Prevet Gu Violece ( Sales betwee idividuals, uder federal law, do ot require a backgroud check. This meas that felos ca lie ad buy at gu shows ad other places where gus are readily available. Accordig to the Brady Campaig to Prevet Gu Violece, a gu i the home is far more likely to be used i a completed or attempted suicide, a crimial assault or homicide, or a accidetal shootig death, tha i a self-defese shootig. Of the more tha 30,000 average gu deaths per year i the U.S., the FBI s Expaded Homicide Data reports that oly about 200 of those killed are deemed legally justified selfdefese homicides by private citizes. Nearly all of the rest are gu ivolved murders ad suicides. Armed with the facts, we eed to urge our local, state ad atioal represetatives to pass strict, commo-sese gu cotrol laws that will sigificatly reduce the carage of gu-related murders ad suicides. Durig the Mass of Christia Habla Hispaa vease page 27 burial for 18-year-old Alexader Boik, oe of 12 people murdered i the Aurora shootig tragedy, Fr. Marti Lally said i his homily that Our presece here is a true sig that love is more powerful tha evil, that a getle presece is stroger tha bullets. If the day ever comes whe Christias ad all people of goodwill realize ad practice the Gospel truth that getle love is ideed more powerful that evil ad bullets, the kigdom of God will be upo us. exige que a los iños y jóvees se les permita participar costatemete e la Sata Misa. El día domigo, Día del Señor, es para que os acerquemos al Altar de Dios, escuchemos su palabra y os alimetemos de su presecia. Ofrecer educació religiosa si misa domiical es como platar si rociar co agua. Este es el comiezo. Esta es uestra primera oportuidad. Si la desperdiciamos hoy lo vamos a lametar mañaa cuado, tristemete, ya sea demasiado tarde. Seremos muchos e catidad los que os llamamos católicos de habla hispaa e uestra diócesis si embargo, es bueo pesar que estamos llamados a fortalecer la calidad a través de uestra formació itegral. Comezado por el hogar y cotiuado e la parroquia, jutos obteemos lo que ecesitamos y ofrecemos lo que podemos para el beeficio comú. Que Dios que os ha permitido hacer presecia e uestra diócesis os permita tambié formaros de la mejor maera. Do you kow that CROSBY COMMONS is a award wiig ASSISTED LIVING COMMUNITY located i your backyard? By Make ew frieds. Fid a ew leisure iterest. Crosby Commos at Ejoy fie diig. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY (203) Log Hill Aveue Shelto, CT ONE OF CT S LARGEST VOLUME HONDA DEALERS CT S FIRST ESTABLISHED HONDA DEALER APRIL 1973 Ope All Day Saturday for Service & Parts Seior Citize Discout 333 Bridgeport Ave Shelto M-Th 9am-9pm Fri 9am-6pm Sat 9am-5pm CALL CURTISS RYAN AT NEW & USED VEHICLES SALES SERVIICE PARTS BODY SHOP

29 September Colum Normady from page 11 Memorial overlookig Omaha Beach. Gray skies ad a occasioal drizzle seemed appropriate as we walked the paths betwee verdat laws. She stopped us i frot of two markers that stood sideby-side, each etched with the same family ame: Nilad brothers Sgt. Robert J., killed Jue 6 ad Lt. Presto T., killed the ext day. A report said that a third, Sgt. Edward, had bee killed i Burma. (He was foud to be alive a year later.) To save the Nilad parets from losig a fourth so, a search bega for paratrooper Sgt. Frederick, called Fritz. That effort loosely resembles the plot of the 1998 film, Savig Private Rya. Those who were there call the opeig scees of the Steve Spielberg epic, showig the brutal ladig o the beaches, vividly authetic. It was the real deal, Moretto said. Liberties were take, however, i the search for Rya, or Fritz. Not a small Army uit i Frace but a Catholic chaplai i Eglad, Fr. Fracis Sampso, foud him ad told him he was to retur to the U.S. for the rest of the war. Cathy s footote to history prompted research. Ulike the Ryas of Iowa, the Nilads home was Toawada, NY. Three of the boys atteded the Jesuits Caisius College ad Fritz later wet o to Georgetow for a detistry degree. Their father, Michael Nilad, served with Teddy Roosevelt s Rough Riders i the Spaish-America War. Cathy showed us where Teddy s sos, Brig. Ge. Teddy, Jr., ad Lt. Queti, were buried, just a few paces iroically from the Nilad brothers restig place. We did make it to Rome. Ad at the papal audiece to which we were grateful to receive tickets, we witessed a leap i wartime remembrace whe resoudig applause greeted a group of Wouded Warriors seated amog the faithful. It was hard for us ot to whisper a prayer of thaks for all those who have kept us safe. Come, let s away, we two aloe we ll live ad pray ad sig ad tell old tales, ad laugh (Kig Lear, ). It is the logest lastig relatioship most people have, loger tha the paret-child or husbad-wife relatioship. It is the relatioship betwee sibligs. The bod betwee brothers ad sisters is uique. It ofte is oe of the most profoud attachmets i huma life. Clearly, there are umerous pairs of sibligs who go through life ot resoatig to oe aother. The Bible tells how Cai murdered Abel. Jacob cheated Esau. Joseph s brothers sold him for twety shekels. The Prodigal s elder brother could t stad beig The Siblig Bod Potpourri By Thomas H. Hicks Thomas Hicks is a member of St. Theresa Parish i Trumbull. SAINTLYLIVES fully. There is o mistakig the affectio betwee them, a quiet udemostrative pleasure i oe aother s compay. They ca talk away the ight. They love to sit i silece, talkig of the old times. They are quick to perceive the way each other s mid ra. Oe ca sese the delicious feelig of uity, friedship, safety together. They ever seem to weary of each other s fellowship. The Talmud says that wherever brothers meet i love is holy groud ad God is glorified. Ay border where brothers meet i love is a temple ad God is delighted. I have kow sisters where oe ca sese the strog ad teder love which uites the two. They have a chemistry together, wodrous to see. I thik we all kow stories of sibligs called to help a brother or sister i a crisis ad who travel eormous geographical distaces. Whe I m with my ow brother, I have the feelig of almost meetig myself. How easy I feel i his compay, liberated from the ecessity of puttig up a false frot. We came from the same begiigs, have see the same sights alog the way. Memory is everywhere. My relatioship with him BY ED WALDRON i the same room with him. Ofte, at family gatherigs, old jealousies, hates, ad competitios belch forth aew. Sibligs ofte melt imperceptibly out of each other s existece. But for the most part, the siblig bod is oe of the richest huma experieces. However much sibligs may squabble as childre, thigs improve as they get older. Ideed, the bod becomes oe of life s most edurig ad ifluetial relatioships. Sibligs usually atteded the same schools, played with the same frieds, wore each other s clothes. They ted to be wove ito each other s lives, ad loyalty goes deep. I have kow brothers who complimet each other woderhas bee oe of the most ufailig helpful relatioships of my life. Siblig bods grow stroger with age. They particularly itesify whe sibligs reach old age. Growig close to death, they grow closer to each other. Research idicates that may positive qualities are associated with the oly child. They are likely to have high self-esteem, be self-sufficiet ad self-reliat. Oly childre ted to have high itelligece ad high motivatio to succeed. Studies do ot fid them to be ay loelier tha ooly childre. Very successful career wome are very likely to be a oly child. Yet they miss the compaioship ad security, both i childhood ad especially i adult years, that come from havig sibligs. As a oly child, oe is brother or sister to o oe, ad there are o ephews or ieces. Most of us might agree that the best thigs i our lives are the loves we have kow. They are the most divie parts of life, that part that is most like God. It is bliss to be someoe s brother or sister. With that bod we ca have some of the best that this life has to give.

30 30 September 2012 Bits & Pieces SUMMER FAIR will be held at St. Leo Parish, Stamford, Tues.-Sat., Aug. 28-Sept. 1. Foods, rides, games (oe price ride bracelets), bigo; live etertaimet each ight startig at 7:30. For more iformatio, call the parish: CURSILLO ULTREYAS are held at locatios aroud the diocese: Tues., Sept. 4, TBD, Bridgeport, at 7 pm; Thurs., Sept. 20, at St. Mary Parish, Bethel; at 7:30 pm; Wed., Sept. 26, at St. Mary Parish, Ridgefield, at 7:30 pm; ad Tues., Oct. 2, TBD, Bridgeport, at 7 pm. For more iformatio, cotact Ray: SHARE (Sacred Heart Adult Religious Educatio) for the Diocese of Bridgeport has aouced its fall courses. America Church History, taught Tues. i Sept.-Oct., will begi Sept. 4; Acts of the Apostles, held Wed., starts Sept. 5. All courses are from 7-9 pm at Sacred Heart Uiversity Stamford Campus, 12 Omega Drive. For more iformatio, cotact Gia Doarummo: or SHARE@diobpt.org. GOSPEL OF LIFE SOCIETY meets the secod Sat. of the moth (Sept. 8) at St. Mary Parish, Norwalk, at 10 am after the 9 am Pro-Life Mass. Se. Joseph Markley, Dist 16, will speak o the HHS madate ad other legislative issues. For more iformatio, cotact Eilee Biachii: or stmarygols@aol.com. PARISH PICNIC at the Cathedral Parish will take CATHOLIC PROFESSIONAL NETWORK place o the great law of St. Augustie Cathedral o Su. Sept. 9, from 11am-5 pm (rai date Sept.16). Ejoy Vietamese ad Spaish cuisie or hot dogs ad hamburgers. There will be live music, a raffle, ad a ail polishig booth for the ladies. For more iformatio, call or YEARS AT ST. JUDE SCHOOL: St. Jude School i Moroe will be celebratig its 50th aiversary with a Mass o Su., Sept. 9, at 12 oo i St. Jude Church. Receptio will follow i the school gym. We re lookig for alumi, alog with class photos ad memorabilia to display at the receptio. For more iformatio, call ANNUAL PICNIC will be held at Holy Cross Parish, Fairfield, o Su., Sept. 9. Day starts with Polka Mass at 11 am. Live etertaimet all day by the Polka Quads, Sloveia & America foods, games, crafts ad raffles. Rai or shie. For more iformatio, call the parish office: PARISH PICNIC will be held at St. Pius X Parish, Fairfield, o CELEBRATE CATHOLIC AMERICA a pilgrimage to Baltimore ad Philadelphia, will take place Su.-Mo., Oct Pilgrimage will iclude talks by Dr. Joa Kelly, Mass at the Natioal Shrie of Sait Elizabeth A Seto i Emmitsburg, MD, tour of America s first cathedral, the Basilica of the Natioal Shrie of the Assumptio of the Blessed Virgi Mary, i Baltimore, MD, ad visit to St. Katharie Drexel Natioal Shrie outside Philadelphia, PA. Cost: $219/perso icludes motor coach, lodgig, Suday dier ad Moday breakfast. Registratio deadlie: Fri., Sept. 28. For more iformatio ad to register cotact Gia Doarummo, director of Adult Formatio: or gdoarummo@diobpt.org. Su., Sept. 9, from 11 am-5 pm. The day starts with a outdoor Mass at 11 am. Fu follows with rides ad games, tag sale, baked goods, food, Italia Ice, Suy the Clow, ad music with a local DJ. For more iformatio, call the parish: WOMEN S GROUP at Christ the Kig Parish, Trumbull, will resume their mothly meetigs Mo., Sept. 10, from 10 am-12 oo i the parish hall. I additio to mothly socials ad iterestig speakers, there are opportuities to joi a book group, kittig/crochetig group, ad/or mahjog group. All wome are welcome to joi. For more iformatio, call CATHOLICISM: Jourey to the Heart of the Faith, will be facilitated by Fr. Michael Novajosky at St. Jude Parish, Moroe, startig Wed., Sept. 12, from 9:30-11:30 am. This 12-week study program, created by Fr. Robert Barro, will provide isight to ayoe who wishes to deepe his or her uderstadig of the faith. For more iformatio or to eroll, cotact Kathy Clark: , or loosovergraby@gmail.com. CATHOLIC SOCIAL RESIDENTIAL EMERGENCY DRAIN CLEANING MUNICIPAL COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE LICENSED & INSURED CATCH BASIN CLEANING HIGH VELOCITY WATER JETTING LARGE DIAMETER POWER RODDING or Office: 534 Surf Aveue Stratford TV PIPE INSPECTION AIR TESTING JET RODDING VACTOR SERVICE Home PC & Mac Help Computer Systems, Networks, , Iteret, Traiig & Tutorig MENTION THIS AD TO RECEIVE THE FAIRFIELD COUNTY CATHOLIC DISCOUNT! Sice 1963 SEASON TO CLEAN We provide rehab & ursig services for may eeds ad coditios. Some of these are: Strokes Total Joit Replacemets Orthopedic Disorders Neurological Disorders Cardiopulmoary Coditios Fractures Amputatios Muscular Disorders Post Surgical Care Woud Care IV Therapy St. Camillus Rehabilitatio & Nursig Ceter Short-Term Rehabilitatio Physical, Occupatioal, ad Speech Therapies offered six days per week Specialized Woud-Care Nurse Nurse Practitioer Services Cable televisio ad telephoe service Private rooms available Full recreatio program I-house Chapel/Daily Mass Medicare Medicaid Private/Isurace Maage care accepted Log term + Hospice Care available. Office: Cell: Fax: Elm Street Stamford, Coecticut 06902

31 31 September 2012 Bits & Pieces TEACHING ad how it relates to politics, culture ad the ecoomy will be the focus of a talk by Bob Nalewajek, the presidet of CAPP-USA, held Wed., Sept. 12, at the Alumi House of Fairfield Uiversity. All are welcome; there is o charge for admissio. For more iformatio, call William J. Fox, presidet of the Fairfield Couty Chapter of CAPP: MARIAN LADIES GROUP at St. George Parish, Bridgeport, meets two Weds. a moth. Their opeig meetig, Wed., Sept. 12, will begi with Mass i the chapel at 8 am, followed by meetig, social ad Rosary. O Sept. 26 they will begi discussio of Catholicism. New members welcome. For more iformatio, call CARD PARTY/ LUNCHEON will be held at St. Mary Parish, Stamford, o Fri., Sept. 14, from 12 oo-4 pm. (Door opes at 11 am.) Cost: $15/perso. For more iformatio ad for reservatios, call Vita Squillace: MASS OF HEALING AND HOPE sposored by the Charismatic Reewal Office will be offered Mo., Sept. 17, at 7:30 pm at St. Lawrece Parish, Shelto, with Fr. Charles Alle. For more iformatio, call BEREAVEMENT AND SUPPORT GROUP for ayoe grievig the loss of a loved oe is formig at St. Stephe Parish, Trumbull. Weekly meetigs will be held Weds. startig Sept. 19, from 4-5:30 pm or 6:30-8 pm. For more iformatio or to register, call the parish office: ALPHA EXPERIENCE, a 10-week opportuity to explore the meaig of life, will be itroduced at St. Joh Parish, Darie, o Wed., Sept. 19 with a complimetary Taste of Alpha dier from 7-8:30 pm. The dier will iclude.a itroductory video, Christiaity: Borig, Utrue, Irrelevat? The course will be held Wed., Sept. 26-Dec. 5, at two times: 9:30-11:15 am, ad 6:30-9 pm. Registratio: $20. For more iformatio or to register, go to com, or cotact Jea Beitez: TEEN ADORERS NEEDED to sped a Holy Hour with Jesus at St. Joseph Parish, Dabury, Adoratio & Basketball o Sat., Sept. 29, from 6-9 pm. Praise & Worship led by Dabury Emmaus. Joi us after Adoratio for games, prizes, free food, ad to shoot some hoops i the school gym. All high school tees are ivited. For more iformatio cotact David Roma: SaitJosephYG@gmail.com or MEN S RETREAT from The Cathedral Parish of St. Augustie ad St. Patrick will be held Wed.Fri., Oct. 5-7, at the Holy Family Passioist Retreat Ceter, 303 Tuxis Rd., West Hartford. For more iformatio, cotact Frak Dausilio: , or register olie at VENDORS NEEDED for a Harvest/Holiday Fair to be held at St. Mary Parish, Stamford, o Sat., Oct. 20, from 10 am-5 pm. New gifts ad crafts for the Hallowee, Thaksgivig ad Christmas seasos, bake sale, raffle, beverages ad luch items for purchase. For more iformatio, call Sharo MacKight: or smackight@optolie.et. Suday, September 9, :00am - 5:00pm Come Celebrate Outdoor Mass 11:00am Fu begis right after -Rides & Games -Italia Ice -Tag Sale -Suy the Clow -Food & Beer -Silet Auctio -Baked Goods -D.J. -Raffle (6 chaces to wi a visa gift card ) I theatres atiowide o September 14 Home Care o Call P R O F E S S I O N A L C A R E I N T H E CO M F O R T S O F H O M E Compassioate I-Home Care Persoal Care Trasportatio Meal Preparatio for Shoppig & Errads Medical Remiders Light Housekeepig No-Medical Private Pay Log-Term Care Isurace Accepted Licesed Boded Isured Co-ower Laura Icerto is a member of St. Athoy Parish i Fairfield homecareocall@gmail.com 1720 Post Road East Westport, Coecticut Home Care o Call is a diviso of ASearch, LLC, Co. DCP Reg.HCA Brig your family. Take a stad for freedom. Fid theatre & ticket iformatio at

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