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1 Iside this issue 3 CUA Presidet Joh Garvey to speak at Red Mass 23 Hope at Carolie House i Bridgeport (Photos by Michelle Babyak) Please visit us o: at Fairfield Couty Catholics at dobevets, dobyouth Latest ews: bridgeportdiocese.com CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF VATICAN II Frak E. Metrusky, CFP Presidet ad Fiacial Advisor 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. SEE PAGE 6 FOR FULL EVENT DETAILS AND ADDITIONAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY VATICAN II EVENTS. Mass of the New Light ad additioal work by Peter Togi Saturday, October 13, :00 p.m. Chapel of the Holy Spirit This evet is free ad ope to the public. For further iformatio, cotact Ami Neville at or evillea@sacredheart.edu. Cocert Performace Premiere with SHU CHOIR ad soloists, jazz quartet ad oted composer Peter Togi

2 2 October 2012 Local News Oe step at a time toward the priesthood By BRIAN D. WALLACE The four area me who recetly etered St. Joh Fisher Semiary Residece to explore their vocatios say that the call to priesthood is experieced as a whisperig that ofte begis i early life ad develops gradually with prayer ad uderstadig. It was t like I was walkig aroud oe day ad saw a burig bush, says 19-year old Adrew Koleberg, a Triity High School graduate who has bee attedig the Uiversity of Coecticut Stamford campus as a history major. Beig a priest was always i the back of my mid, but it has bee a gradual uderstadig. Now it s time to give it a try ad see if it s for me, says Koleberg, whose twi brother, Steve, recetly joied the military after traiig i ROTC. Adrew s growig sese of vocatio is shared by the other me who moved ito the Joh Fisher Residece i Stamford o August 21 to begi orietatio for a life of prayer, learig, discermet. Amog the group are a research chemist, a taleted musi- cia, a iveterate traveler ad a cyclist. This year, all of them grew up i local parishes. Welcomig ew semiarias is always a joy for the Church, says Fr. Robert Kially, director of vocatios, but four homegrow vocatios are particularly good ews for the diocese. What a blessig to have me from Fairfield Couty respod to God s callig to the priesthood i the Church i Bridgeport. We ve bee out ad about costatly, always ivitig ad askig youg people iterested i a vocatio to joi i the coversatio at St. MOVE-IN DAY Tim Iaacoe of Norwalk moves i to St. Joh Fisher Semiary Residece i Stamford. He is oe of four Fairfield Couty me who will be discerig their vocatios as they take the first importat step toward the priesthood. (Photo by Amy Mortese) Joh Fisher. Fr. Kially says there are ow 16 semiarias i residece i Stamford ad a total of 37 me studyig for the priesthood from the diocese. He says that me ofte hear the call, but eed a eviromet of regular prayer ad spiritual directio that gives them the opportuity to kow if it s real. For 22-year old Tim Iaacoe of Norwalk, the idea of priesthood cotiued o page 11 Dabury school receives Blue Ribbo status DANBURY St. Joseph School i Dabury has received a Natioal Blue Ribbo award for 2012 from the Uited States Departmet of Educatio. U.S. Secretary of Educatio Are Duca made the aoucemet o September 7. St. Joseph s is oe of oly 50 private schools atiowide to receive the award. Schools hoored with the Natioal Blue Ribbo Schools award are committed to acceleratig studet achievemet ad preparig studets for success i college ad careers, says Duca i makig the aoucemet. To be eligible for a Blue Ribbo desigatio, St. Joseph School had to demostrate academic excellece, but that was oly the begiig of the process. It s ot just about test scores, Pricipal Lisa Lai said i a iterview with Dabury s News-Times. Test scores just get you i the door. Lai became pricipal of St. Joseph s three years ago. Startig WHETHER PARTICIPATING IN THE LIFE of faith or egagig i a atioal Lego League Robotics competitio, the studets of St. Joseph School cotiue to grow i faith ad kowledge. (Robotics photo by Deaa George; secod-graders at First Holy Commuio by Sharo Varia) with a already excellet school, she itroduced rigorous programmig to improve readig ad math scores, provided erichmet for studets ad staff, ad gave parets greater opportuities for ivolvemet. She credits the dedicatio of ON THE COVER ue is iss e th Isid k) babya le Michel s by e House Caroli e at 23 Hopi Brid geport Please visit us (Photo 3 idet Joh P CUA Pres speak at CAP to Garvey o: ok.com/ cs holi w.facebo at ww Couty Cat Fairfield itter.com/ w.tw th at ww ts, dobyou dobeve Latest ews: m ese.co rtdioc dgepo bri usky, CFP E. Metr Frak Presidet cial Advisor ad Fia Road er Dam Beav, CT 0661 Stratford (NPC), ratio ig Corpo al Pla t Advisor. aies. gh Natio Ivestme ated comp.8977 d throu ces offere a Registeredate ad urel, ad ory Servi separ ad Advis FINRA/SIPC NPC are Securities Member tmets ad ives lic Way Catho ATING THE 50TH ANN IVERSA ITIONAL ADD RY OF 50TH VATICA N II CAN k al wor itio ad add NTS. II EVE VATI SARY IVER ANN ter by Pe Spirit Holy Light l of the e New 0 p.m. Chape s of thtober 13, :0 Mas Oc CELEBR SEE PAGE 6 FOR FULL EVENT ILS AND DETA Togi CELEBRATING LIFE! Four moth old Emma Rose Souza of Shelto is baptized by Msgr. Robert Weiss, Pastor of St. Rose of Lima Parish i Newtow. Emma, bor May 23, 2012 i New Have, is the daughter of Stephe ad Melissa Souza. Her gradparets are also members of St. Rose of Lima Parish. Through Baptism we are freed from si ad rebor as sos ad daughter of God. The sacramet is the gateway to the life of the spirit. ABOVE THE MAST: Youg members of the family celebrate the birth of Emma Rose as she is also welcomed ito the larger Church family. Photos by Michelle Babyak i, r Tog rmatio. Pete er ifo poser furth eart.edu d com ay, lic. For sacredh ad ote the pub evillea@ Saturd quartet to 4 or jazz ad ope soloists, t is free at 203 IR ad eve CHO Neville This SHU Ami cotact iere with Prem ace orm Perf Cocert our teachers, the costat support of our parets ad, most otably, the studets. All have helped us reach for the stars ad receive this recogitio. St. Joseph s jois 12 Blue Ribbo schools i the Diocese of Bridgeport, says Dr. Margaret CONTENTS 5 18 SAINT V S PARISH NURSES Celebrate 20th Aiversary 10 KUDLOW TO SPEAK 20 CELEBRATING 50 YEARS Our Lady of Grace Parish 12 FAITHFUL CITIZENSHIP 29 FRIENDS WHO GOT AWAY Thomas Hicks ABA BY THE NUMBERS Thak You! For Catholic Charities, Dabury At CAPP breakfast 16 RESPECT FOR LIFE Billboards tell story Dames, superitedet of schools for the diocese. Their collective achievemet reaffirms the excellece of educatio i our Catholic schools. She otes that, with the additio of St. Joseph s, 43% of diocesa schools have bee recogized with the Natioal Blue Ribbo School award. Additioal schools are o track to apply for the recogitio i the comig year. Pricipal Lai poits out that, otable though Blue Ribbo status is, the strog Catholic faith that rus throughout life at St. Joseph s is the school s most outstadig attribute. St. Joseph School is ad will cotiue to be a exemplary school where faith ad kowledge come together, she says. Pricipal Lai will be i Washigto, DC, November 11-13, whe the Departmet of Educatio hoors the 219 public ad 50 private schools who eared the 2012 Natioal Blue Ribbo Award.

3 October Local News Archbishop & CUA presidet to speak at Red Mass STAMFORD The aual diocesa Red Mass for members of the legal professio will be celebrated o October 14 at 10 am i the Basilica of St. Joh the Evagelist. Archbishop Fracis A. Chullikatt, Titular Archbishop of Ostra, will be the pricipal celebrat ad homilist. Msgr. Jerald Doyle, diocesa admiistrator, ad Msgr. Stephe DiGiovai, pastor of St. Joh s, will cocelebrate. The geeral public is ivited to atted the Mass alog with members of the legal professio. Joh H. Garvey, Esq., presidet of the Catholic Uiversity of America, will be the guest of hoor ad featured speaker at the receptio at the Kights of Columbus Hall immediately followig the Mass. The Red Mass requests guidace from the Holy Spirit for all who seek justice, ad offers the opportuity to reflect o the resposibilities ad challeges faced by Catholic legal practitioers, Msgr. Doyle says. Both of our speakers have bee ivolved with religious liberty issues o a atioal ad iteratioal basis ad cotiue to speak out cocerig the plight of religious miorities across the globe. We look forward to their isights. Archbishop Fracis A. Chullikatt Archbishop Chullikatt was bor i Bolghatty, Idia, i 1953 ad ordaied a priest for the Diocese of Verapoly i He completed a doctorate i cao law ad etered the diplomatic service of the Holy See i He later served at Joh H. Garvey, Esq. the Apostolic Nuciatures i Hoduras, various coutries of souther Africa, the Philippies, at the Missio to the Uited Natios i New York ad at the Secretariat of State i the Vatica. He was appoited Apostolic Nucio to Iraq ad Jorda i April 2006, ad ordaied Titular Archbishop of Ostra i Jue of that year. Pope Beedict XVI appoited him Permaet Observer of the Holy See to the Uited Natios i New York i July He has bee eloquet i his cocer for the Christias of Mosul who were targeted durig the Iraqi coflict. Joh Garvey, J.D., a atioally reowed expert i costitutioal law, religious liberty ad the First Amedmet, took the helm at the Catholic Uiversity of America last July. He is the uiversity s 15th presidet. Garvey came to CUA from Bosto College Law School, where he had served as dea sice He brigs 30 years of experiece as a professor ad admiistrator i higher educatio to his positio at Catholic Uiversity. Garvey s faith ad his belief i the Catholic itellectual traditio have played a cetral role i his teachig ad scholarly research at may of the atio s top law schools. He was assistat to the solicitor geeral i the U.S. Departmet of Justice from ad presidet of the Associatio of America Law Schools from He also served o the Task Force o Terrorism for the America Bar Associatio. Garvey is the author of What Are Freedoms For? (Harvard Uiversity Press, 1996) ad the co-author of four books, icludig Sexuality ad the U.S. Catholic Church: Crisis ad Reewal (Herder & Herder, 2007), which wo a Catholic Press Associatio award, ad Religio ad the Costitutio (Aspe Publishers, secod editio, 2006), which wo the Jesuit Book Award from Alpha Sigma Nu. Garvey eared his J.D. i 1974 at Harvard Law School, where he served as treasurer of the Harvard Law Review, ad he eared a A.B. i 1970 from the Uiversity of Notre Dame. (The receptio bruch will be served at the Kights of Columbus Hall, 507 Shippa Ave., Stamford. Cost: $35. For more iformatio or reservatios, cotact Jea Talamelli: jtalamelli@diobpt.org or ) Archbishop Lori to be hoored at Ier-City Foudatio dier GREENWICH The Twety- First Aual Beefit Dier for The Ier-City Foudatio for Charity & Educatio will be held October 25 at the Hyatt Regecy Greewich. Archbishop William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore, will be hoored at the evet. Archbishop Lori is a past presidet of the Ier-City Foudatio. Durig his teure, more tha $18 millio i grats were awarded to early 150 agecies ad istitutios providig assistace, icludig food, clothig, shelter, couselig ad educatio to at-risk ad eedy childre ad adults of Fairfield Couty. The Midtow Me four stars from the origial cast of Jersey Boys will be the featured performers at the black tie gala. The group took Broadway by storm i oe of the biggest hits of all time ad ow they are reuited. Toy Award wier Christia Hoff, Michael Logoria, Daiel Reichard ad Toy Award omiee J. Robert Specer star i this oe-of-a-kid cocert experiece brigig to life their favorite Sixties Hits from The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Motow, The Four Seasos ad more. Durig their time i the mega-hit musical Jersey Boys, these four taleted artists shared the stage for over The Midtow Me a thousad performaces ad delighted televisio audieces with appearaces o the Today Show, The Late Show with David Letterma, ad Dick Clark s Rocki New Year s Eve. Barbara ad Ray Dalio are the evet sposors. Jeifer ad Peter Cieszko are chairig the 2012 Beefit Committee, assisted by Audrey ad Daiel Dorier, Hele ad Da FitzPatrick, Leah ad Alai Lebec, Vilma ad Dick Matteis, ad Bill Mitchell, who are servig as co-chairs of the committee. Dave Price, a fivetime Emmy Award wier ad achor for WNYW Good Day New York, will serve as master of ceremoies. The Ier-City Foudatio For Charity & Educatio has awarded more tha $24 millio i grats sice I additio to providig scholarship fuds for studets attedig diocesa schools i the Diocese of Bridgeport, other orgaizatios receivig grats iclude the Cardial Sheha Ceter, Carolie House, Ceter for Wome & Families, Commuity Closet, Domus Kids, George Washigto Carver Ceter, Homes for the Brave, Homes with Hope, Juior Achievemet, Kids i Crisis, Literacy Voluteers of America, Malta House, Mercy Learig Ceter, Norma F. Pfriem Breast Cacer Ceter, Regioal YMCA of Wester CT, Shepherds ad the Thomas Merto House of Hospitality. (Doatios ad ticket purchases may be made by visitig the Foudatio s website, www. iercityfoudatio.org, or by callig All cotributors will be listed i the dier program.)

4 4 October 2012 Local News Blue Mass celebrates courage of first respoders tio i God s mercy as described i the readig from Isaiah, Be strog, fear ot. Here is your God come to save you. He added that people of faith parter with God i carig for the world. Durig the offertory processio a firema s helmet, police officer s cap ad EMS stethoscope where brought forward by uiformed persoel ad placed o a table i frot of the altar. Msgr. Scheyd remided those i attedace that i the last NEW CANAAN With bagpipes soudig uder a clear blue September sky, fire, police, ad EMS persoel from Fairfield Couty filed ito St. Aloysius Church for the 11th Aual Blue Mass after a ight of storms that hit the regio. The Mass, established by Archbishop William E. Lori whe he served as Bishop of Bridgeport, is celebrated as a memorial to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks ad to hoor First Respoders throughout the diocese. It was held i New Caaa for the first time. Bishop Lori always atteded this Mass out of gratitude ad esteem for you, our brothers ad sisters who look after our health ad safety, said Msgr. William Scheyd, pastor of St. Aloysius, who cocelebrated the Mass with Msgr. Jerald A. Doyle, diocesa admiistrator, ad other priests. I his homily, Msgr. Scheyd said he grew up by a firehouse i Bridgeport ad respected the fire ad policeme for their willigess to help others. They are people who care about others, ad whe there was somethig bad, they were out to chage it, he said, otig that the work of First Respoders has its foudaweek aloe, First Respoders put their lives o the lie to rescue accidet victims o I-95, the Merritt Parkway ad a coutry road i Westo. After Mass, three First Respoders were called forward to the altar to receive Special Awards preseted by St. Augustie Medal of Service hoors parishioers BRIDGEPORT The Sait Augustie Medal of Service prayer service ad awards ceremoy will be held at Sait Augustie Cathedral, o October 27, begiig at 1 pm. A receptio will follow. The awardig of the St. Augustie Medals is a day of joy ad pride for the etire diocese as we recogize the faithful service of so may parishioers, says Msgr. Jerald A. Doyle, diocesa admiistrator, who will preset the medals. We look forward to this day throughout the year as a special time of recogitio ad gratitude. Pastors, priests ad deacos throughout the diocese accompay the recipiets as they come forward to be preseted the medal. More tha 100 medals will be awarded to idividuals ad couples from every parish ad diocesa miistries. Archbishop William E. Lori, the Bishop of Bridgeport, istituted the medal service i 2005 to recogize the usug heroes who uselfishly give of their time ad talets to build up parish commuities. O oe side of the medal is a image of Sait Augustie of Hippo, patro sait of the diocese. The reverse features the coat of arms of the diocese. (For more iformatio, cotact Jea Talamelli: or jtalamelli@diobpt.org.) Msgr. Doyle ad Deaco Joh Moraski, a Bridgeport police chaplai ad co-chair of the Blue Mass Committee. Police Officer Jeffrey Deak, a 18-year vetera of the New Caaa Police Departmet, was recogized for embodyig the spirit ad character see at 9/11 each ad every day he goes to work. Deak ad some of his fellow New Caaa officers also rushed to New York City o September 11, New Caaa Fire Departmet Captai Michael Socci was hoored for his efforts behid the developmet of the 9/11 Memorial stadig i the ceter of New Caaa. Socci uderstood that the loss of 343 firefighters o 9/11 touched the lives of firefighters ad other first respoders across the U.S. Grat Nelso, a member of Post 53 Darie Emergecy Medical Service, was hoored for joiig other Darie youth who comprised the tee emergecy post ad take a bold stad to help others. Msgr. Frak McGrath, pastor of St. Joh Parish, accepted the award o behalf of Nelso, who is away at school. I a stirrig coclusio to the service, fire, police ad EMS workers processed out of the church after Taps was souded ad the Natioal Athem was sug. The etire cogregatio the joied i sigig God Bless America as the first respoders (Photos by Jea Satopatre) walked out ito the bright su uder a huge America flag that was suspeded from ladder compay trucks. The Fourth Degree Kights of Columbus, Fairfield Couty Assemblies formed a hoor guard ad sposored the receptio followig the Mass. Sir Kight Michael F. Basso, Past District Deputy 36, co-chaired the evet.

5 October Appeal hits $11.2 millio...thak you Your gift made a differece i millio meals were served through Catholic Charities at Thomas Merto Ceter i Bridgeport, New Coveat House i Stamford, Morig Glory Program i Dabury, food patries ad seior utritio programs 100,000 households received the Fairfield Couty Catholic each moth 36,000 childre participated i religious educatio programs i our parishes; the Aual Bishop s Appeal fuded support services ad speakers for directors of religious educatio ad catechists 22,000 patiets were offered pastoral care, the Holy Eucharist ad the Sacramet of the Sick ad atteded Mass i the chapels at Bridgeport Hospital, Dabury Hospital, Greewich Hospital, Norwalk Hospital, ad Stamford Hospital 15,000 cliical sessios were provided through Catholic Charities through various metal health disciplies, icludig couselig, cliical social work, medicatio maagemet, ad marriage ad family therapy 11,000 childre were educated across 32 Catholic elemetary schools, five high schools, ad a special eeds school i Fairfield Couty; 40% of the schools are raked amog the top 10% of schools i the coutry 3,500 prisoers received spiritual couselig, the Sacramet of Recociliatio, ad Mass at the Bridgeport Correctioal Ceter, Garer Correctioal Istitutio i Newtow, ad the Federal Correctioal Istitute i Dabury 1,323 fiacial scholarships were provided to ier-city Catholic elemetary school studets to cover the gap betwee the cost of educatio ad amout afforded by families 945 residets were give spiritual cousel, received the sacramets ad participated i Mass at St. Camillus Heath Ceter i Stamford, St. Joseph Maor i Trumbull, ad Pope Joh Paul II Ceter for Health Care i Dabury 724 tees participated i diocesa-wide retreats, icludig Covivio at Sacred Heart Uiversity ad Fa the Fire Youth Rally at St. Rose of Lima Parish i Newtow 600 couples atteded a series of weeked retreats to explore their relatioships with oe aother ad the Church i preparatio for the Sacramet of Matrimoy. This program is partly fuded by participats 48 retired priests were supported, icludig 17 i residece at the Catherie Deis Keefe Quee of Clergy Residece i Stamford 37 me are i the process of discerig a vocatio to the priesthood at St. Joh Fisher Semiary i Stamford; Mout St. Mary i Emmitsburg, MD; the Potifical North America College i Rome; ad St. Cyril ad Methodius Semiary i Orchard Lake, MI. This year, 1 ma was ordaied to the priesthood ad 6 me were ordaied to the Trasitioal Diacoate 6 me were ordaied to the Permaet Diacoate; 6 more are curretly i formatio Idividual Parish Results Doors Pledged Goal % Goal VICARIATE 5 VICARIATE 4 VICARIATE 3 VICARIATE 2 VICARIATE 1 Basilica of Sait Joh the Evagelist, Stamford , ,000 89% Holy Name of Jesus, Stamford ,100 40,000 95% Holy Spirit, Stamford , , % Our Lady Star of the Sea, Stamford ,121 75, % Sacred Heart, Greewich ,422 50, % Sacred Heart, Stamford ,065 45,000 87% Sait Ages, Greewich 79 50,175 50, % Sait Beedict-Motserrat, Stamford ,439 60,000 64% Sait Bridget, Stamford ,941 55, % Sait Catherie of Siea, Riverside , ,000 87% Sait Cecilia, Stamford , ,000 99% Sait Clemet, Stamford ,365 50, % Sait Gabriel, Stamford ,815 55,000 89% Sait Joh, Darie , , % Sait Leo, Stamford , , % Sait Mary, Greewich , , % Sait Mary, Stamford ,741 45,000 91% Sait Maurice, Stamford ,185 60,000 95% Sait Michael, Greewich , , % Sait Paul, Greewich , , % Sait Roch, Greewich ,620 55, % Sait Thomas More, Darie , , % Assumptio, Westport , , % Our Lady of Fatima, Wilto , , % Sait Aloysius, New Caaa , , % Sait Fracis of Assisi, Westo ,235 95, % Sait Jerome, Norwalk ,656 70, % Sait Joseph, South Norwalk ,558 50, % Sait Ladislaus, South Norwalk 71 15,837 15, % Sait Luke, Westport , , % Sait Mary, Norwalk ,217 90, % Sait Matthew, Norwalk , , % Sait Philip, Norwalk ,304 80,000 97% Sait Thomas the Apostle, East Norwalk , , % Holy Cross, Fairfield 92 29,270 25, % Holy Family, Fairfield ,605 85, % Notre Dame, Easto , , % Our Lady of Assumptio, Fairfield , , % Sait Adrew, Bridgeport ,256 65, % Sait A, Bridgeport ,748 50,000 83% Sait Athoy of Padua, Fairfield ,189 80, % Sait Emery, Fairfield 88 22,549 20, % Sait George, Bridgeport ,000 20, % Sait Peter, Bridgeport ,383 40, % Sait Pius X, Fairfield , , % Sait Thomas Aquias, Fairfield , , % The Cathedral Parish, Bridgeport , , % Blessed Sacramet, Bridgeport 63 16,584 10, % Christ the Kig, Trumbull ,686 75, % Holy Name of Jesus, Stratford ,652 60, % Our Lady of Fatima, Bridgeport ,020 30,000 87% Our Lady of Grace, Stratford ,176 85, % Our Lady of Peace, Stratford ,713 60,000 93% Sait Catherie of Siea, Trumbull , , % Sait Charles Borromeo, Bridgeport ,740 45,000 93% Sait James, Stratford , ,000 94% Sait Joseph, Shelto ,049 90,000 88% Sait Jude, Moroe , , % Sait Lawrece, Shelto , ,000 89% Sait Margaret Mary Alacoque, Shelto ,775 50,000 92% Sait Mark, Stratford , , % Sait Mary, Bridgeport ,137 25, % Sait Michael the Archagel, Bridgeport ,000 45, % Sait Stephe, Trumbull ,823 95, % Sait Theresa, Trumbull , , % Saits Cyril ad Methodius Parish, Bridgeport 57 23,320 18, % Holy Triity Parish, Sherma ,810 60, % Immaculate Heart of Mary, Dabury ,330 20, % Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dabury ,494 25, % Sacred Heart, Dabury ,150 40, % Sacred Heart, Georgetow ,684 65, % Sait Edward, New Fairfield , , % Sait Elizabeth Seto, Ridgefield ,028 80, % Sait Gregory the Great, Dabury ,000 90, % Sait Joseph, Brookfield , , % Sait Joseph, Dabury , , % Sait Marguerite Bourgeoys, Brookfield ,497 65, % Sait Mary Parish, Bethel , , % Sait Mary, Ridgefield , , % Sait Patrick, Reddig Ridge ,685 45, % Sait Peter, Dabury , , % St. Rose of Lima, Newtow , , %

6 6 October 2012 Vatica II Vatica II: Patiece...fifty years is othig By GUIDO HORST ROME I a iterview with Vatica Isider, Church historia ad scholar of the Secod Vatica Coucil, Walter Cardial Bradmüller, says that Catholics should ot be surprised by the cotiuig cofusio over the teachigs of Vatica II, eve 50 years after the Coucil. Church history shows that it is commo for decades to pass before the faithful fully adjust to the teachigs of a Coucil, the cardial observes. He otes that Christological disputes cotiued to rage for a cetury after the Coucil of Nicea. Frakly, eve the Coucil of Tret was ot very fruitful util the Golde Jubilee of 1596, the Germa cardial adds. The Secod Vatica Coucil was a pastoral coucil that also provided dogmatic explaatios. Had there ever bee aythig like it previously i the history of the Church? Vatica II marked the begiig of a ew type of Coucil. The laguage that was used durig it ad the completeess of the texts show that the Coucil fathers were ot as much motivated by the eed to pass judgemet o cotroversial ew ecclesiastical ad theological issues, but rather by the wish to tur their attetio to public opiio withi the Church ad the etire world, i the spirit of the Auciatio. Should t a Coucil be declared a failure if fifty years o it has ot bee warmly received by the faithful? This is oe of those cliché questios that stem from a ew existetial setimet; that feelig of cofusio that is typical of our times. But what is fifty years after all?! Cast your mid back to the Coucil of Nicaea i 325. The disputes surroudig the dogma of this Coucil about the ature of the So, that is, whether he was made of the same substace as the Father or ot cotiued for more tha a hudred years. St. Ambrose was ordaied Bishop of Mila o the occasio of the fiftieth aiversary of the Coucil of Nicaea ad had to fight hard agaist the Arias who refused CELEBRATING THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL 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. to accept the Nicee provisios. Shortly afterwards came a ew Coucil: the First Coucil of Costatiople of 381 which was deemed ecessary i order to complete the professio of the faith at Nicaea. Durig this Coucil, St. Augustie was give the task of dealig with requests ad fightig back heretics util his death i 430. Frakly, eve the Coucil of Tret was ot very fruitful util the Golde Jubilee of It took a ew geeratio of bishops ad prelates to mature i the spirit of the Coucil before its effect could really be felt. We eed to allow ourselves a little more breathig space. Let us talk ow about the fruits which Vatica II produced. First of all, the Catechism of the Catholic Church i compariso with the Tridetie Catechism: after the Coucil of Tret, the Catechismus Romaus was lauched i order to provide parish priests, preachers etcetera with guidelies o how to preach ad aouce the Gospel or evagelize. Eve the 1983 Code of Cao Law ca be cosidered a cosequece of the Coucil. I must emphasize that the form of the post-cociliar liturgy, with all its distortios, is ot attributable to the Coucil or to the Liturgy Costitutio established durig Vatica II, which, by the way, has ot really bee implemeted eve to this day. The idiscrimiate removal of Lati ad Gregoria Chats from liturgical celebratios were ot acts prescribed by the Coucil. However, the liturgy has come to be see as a mirror image of Church life, subject to a orgaic historical evolutio. Beefit Plaig Services, LLC October 10, 11 ad 13, 2012 Sacred Heart Uiversity, 5151 Park Aveue, Fairfield, Coecticut All evets are free ad ope to the public. % PANEL DISCUSSION AND REFLECTION Wedesday, October 10, 7:00 p.m. Uiversity Commos PANELISTS: Ladislas Orsy - Visitig Professor of Law, Georgetow Uiversity Nicholas Lash - Theologia ad Author Gregory Baum - Professor Emeritus of Theological Ethics ad Sociology of Religio at McGill Uiversity, Caada CONVOCATION Thursday, October 11, 2:00 p.m. Chapel of the Holy Spirit PREMIERE OF A CONCERT PERFORMANCE OF MASS OF THE NEW LIGHT AND ADDITIONAL WORK BY NOTED COMPOSER PETER TOGNI Saturday, October 13, 7:00 p.m. Chapel of the Holy Spirit Mass of the 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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7 October Pastoral Services New director amed for Respect Life Miistry BRIDGEPORT The Office for Pastoral Services is pleased to aouce the appoitmet of Mauree Ciardiello as the ew director of the Respect Life Miistry. Mauree is uiquely suited for this miistry, says Damie O Coor, director of Pastoral Services, who otes that Mauree ad her husbad, Mario, have worked as voluteer preseters i the Marriage Preparatio Program. Her backgroud has give her the opportuity to work face to face with people dealig with sesitive issues. She truly is a gift from God as she cotiues to build upo the foudatio laid by the Sisters of Life. Sr. Mary Cocepta, SV, the former director, ad Sr. Beradette Thérèse, SV, have bee assiged by their order to a ew miistry. Mauree Ciardiello A Brox ative ad mother of three childre, Ciardiello ad her husbad are members of THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA Fid out how you ca be omiated for a $3,000 Parish Scholarship! Atted Catholic Uiversity s OPEN HOUSES October 14, 2012 November 11, 2012 Jauary 27, :15 a.m. 2:30 p.m. This is your chace to experiece Catholic Uiversity s strog, values-based educatio ad get the aswers you eed o importat topics such as academic programs, scholarships, fiacial aid, ad studyig i Washigto, D.C. Iterested i Architecture, Egieerig, Music, or Social Work? Atted oe of our academic focus programs o Friday, November 9, Let us kow you re comig! Register olie at Iterviews must be pre-scheduled by callig The Catholic Uiversity of America admits studets of ay race, color, atioal or ethic origi, sex, age, or disability. To request accommodatios for idividuals with disabilities, please call St. Catherie of Siea Parish i Trumbull. Her path to this miistry is a uusual oe. I was bor ad raised Catholic ad wet to Catholic schools, but I did t have a good hadle o my faith, she says. Whe her oldest child was preparig for his First Holy Commuio at St. Catherie s, she felt a pressig eed to lear about her faith from a adult perspective. That learig process led her to become a extraordiary miister of the Eucharist, with a particular miistry to the homeboud. Her faith deepeed whe she took part i a Cursillo retreat. The three-day Cursillo retreats lead participats R E A S O N. F A I T H. S E R V I C E. to a fourth day which takes i the rest of their life. Visits to the sick, homeboud ad hospitalized as a Eucharistic miister drew Ciardiello to eroll i the CPE (Cliical Pastoral Experiece) program at Bridgeport Hospital. You become ivolved i all stages of life, she says of the experiece. You meet ew moms with their ifats ad families facig ed of life decisios. I the emergecy room, you may see a ma who was walkig dow the street o a ormal day, ad i a split secod his life chaged. It really makes you see thigs i a differet light. The experiece gave me a ew appreciatio of our icredible gift of life. Ciardiello has already met with parish Respect Life coordiators ad hopes to use the office to help coordiate their efforts. We wat them to kow that they re ot aloe out there, she says. Together, we ca fid out what the eeds are ad see where we ca help. Although the Respect Life Miistry is committed to supportig the right to life, that support is ot solely focused o the issue of abortio. Rather, Ciardiello believes that Catholics are called to assist people at every stage of life s jourey. It ecompasses everyoe. We re already collaboratig with the diocesa miistry for people with disabilities. We wat to support the elderly i their later years ad assist families who have a member dealig with demetia or Alzheimer s disease. It s about lovig people wherever they are. (The Respect Life sectio of this issue begis o page 16. To cotact Mauree Ciardiello, call or mciardiello@diobpt.org.)

8 8 October 2012 World ad Natioal News Year of Faith begis Pope Beedict XVI has called the Church to observe a Year of Faith begiig October 11 of this year. This coicides with the 50th aiversary of the opeig of the Secod Vatica Coucil ad the 20th aiversary of the publicatio of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. This Year of Faith will cotiue util the Solemity of Christ the Kig i November The Pope had made the aoucemet last year at a Vatica coferece o ew evagelizatio. The Pope said the Year of Faith would give reewed eergy to the missio of the whole Church to lead me ad wome out of the desert they ofte are i ad toward the place of life: friedship with Christ who gives us fulless of life. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, first published i 1992, should serve as the hadbook for helpig Catholics rediscover the truths of faith ad deepe their uderstadig of church teachig. I additio to studyig the catechism ad gaiig a greater uderstadig of the creed, Pope Beedict said that the Year of Faith also must be accompaied with more acts of charity. Faith helps people recogize the face of Christ i those who are sufferig, ad it is his love that impels us to assist him wheever he becomes our eighbor alog the jourey of life, the Pope wrote. His parets ca t help him. They pray for someoe like you. Free cleft surgery which Your support ca provide free treatmet for poor childre with clefts. takes as little as 45 miutes $250 Surgery. $125 Half surgery. $ 50 Medicatios. $ Mr./Mrs./Ms. Zip ad costs as little as $250, Address City State Telephoe ca give desperate Credit Card # Expires Visa MasterCard AMEX Discover Sigature childre ot just a ew My check is eclosed. N12101F77NQAZC3 smile but a ew life. Smile Trai, P.O. Box 96210, Washigto, DC oe of the most productive charities dollar for deed i the world. The New York Times Doate olie: or call: Smile Trai is a 501 (c)(3) oprofit recogized by the IRS, ad all doatios to Smile Trai are tax-deductible i accordace with IRS regulatios Smile Trai. A WORKER erects a Lebaese flag atop a billboard depictig Pope Beedict XVI at the mai airport road i Beirut i preparatio for the Pope s arrival. (Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir) The U.S. Coferece of Catholic Bishops is suggestig te ways i which Catholics may observe the Year of Faith: goig to Mass ad Cofessio, readig the Bible, saits lives, the Catechism, the documets of the Secod Vatica Coucil, helpig the eedy, ivitig others to Mass, voluteerig at a parish, ad strivig to follow the Beatitudes. (For iformatio o evets i this diocese, check the Bits ad Pieces caledar sectio or visit the diocesa website: Pope Beedict s message of peace for the Middle East BEIRUT, Lebao O September 16, as he cocluded a three-day trip to Lebao, Pope Beedict XVI remarked that his visit had provided a example of iter-faith uity at a time of extreme tesios i the Middle East. The primary purpose of the Pope s trip was to release his apostolic exhortatio, Ecclesia i Medio Oriete, cocludig the work of the Syod for the Middle East. But the timig which took place as agry demostratios were eruptig all aroud the Islamic world made the Pope s visit a case study i iter-religious affairs. Despite the turmoil i the regio, the etire papal visit took place without icidet. Muslims seemed early as umerous as Lebaese Christias i the crowds that tured out to greet the Holy Father. Nevertheless, the bitter tesios of the Middle East were foremost i the mids of those who heard the Pope s public addresses ad i his meetigs with Lebao s political ad social leaders. O Suday morig, at a outdoor Mass, the Pope delivered a powerful appeal for peace. Sadly, the di of weapos cotiues to make itself heard, alog with the cry of the widow ad the orpha. Violece ad hatred ivade people s lives, ad the first victims are wome ad childre. The Church, the Pope said, is called to work tirelessly for peace, pavig the way for the victory of love over hate, forgiveess over revege, service over domiatio, humility over pride ad uity over divisio. Pope Beedict had a special word of praise for his host coutry, Lebao, otig that the atio has a proud traditio of religious tolerace. The happy coexistece of Islam ad Christiaity, two religios that have helped to shape great cultures, he said, is what makes for the origiality of social, political ad religious life i Lebao. Regecy Limousie Ic. Door to Door 24 Hours a day All Airports, Piers, ad Theatres New York City - Corporate Accouts Weddig & Special Occasios White Limousie, Chauffeured Licol Limousies & Regecy Tow Car Sedas Aytime, Aywhere Licesed by CT D.O.T.

9 October World ad Natioal News Africa s Christias ow outumber Muslims EL JADIDA, Morocco Africa Christias ow outumber the cotiet s Muslims, accordig to figures from the Ceter for Studies of New Religios (CESNUR). Speakig at a iteratioal coferece at Chouaib Doukkali Uiversity, Massimo Itrovige, the head of CESNUR, observed that ot everyoe is happy about this developmet. Islamic fudametalists, i particular, are dismayed to see the risig tide of Christiaity i Africa. Christias ow comprise 46.5% of the Africa populatio, with Muslims accoutig for 40.5% ad the remaider divided amog traditioal Africa faiths. Africas ow represet 20% of the world s Christia populatio, ad curret treds suggest that withi a decade Africa will outstrip Europe ad the Americas to become the cotiet with the world s largest Christia populatio. Cardial George calls for just immigratio policies CHICAGO, IL I a colum for the Chicago archdiocesa ewspaper, Cardial Fracis George has called for a more PARTICIPANTS IN THE AFRICA SYNOD i Rome retured to Africa via Lodo, where they cocelebrated a special Mass for Africa with Eglish bishops ad clergy. (Photo by cafodsouthwark) 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. huma ad just system of protectig our borders ad of admittig immigrats legally. Cardial George criticized schizophreic U.S. govermet policies that allow udocumeted immigrats to receive college educatios, oly to face the threat of deportatios. He observed that the umber of immigrats deported last year roughly 400,000 was double the umber from These deportatios frequetly divide families, he said: About 80,000 childre i this area have bee separated from at least oe of their parets. The cardial said that there seems little willigess amog political leaders to tackle the difficult problem of dealig with immigratio, despite the fact that 11 millio people are here without documets ad are, therefore, outside the law, but they are, evertheless, wove ito the fabric of our family ad social life, our parishes ad commuities, our ecoomy ad public life. Aciet catacomb discovered L AQUILA, Italy L Osservatore Romao reported i August that safety measures take i the wake of the 2009 L Aquila earthquake have led to the discovery of a fourth-cetury catacomb. I the small village of Sa Lorezo di Beffi, Acciao, 30 kilometres from L Aquila, the local church of Sa Lorezo was seriously damaged by the earthquake. Durig repairs, a aciet Christia catacomb was foud. The discovery adds it to the list of three i the Abruzzo regio east of Rome. The ew subterraea cemetery cosists of a mai tuel 100 feet log ad approximately five feet wide, which braches off ito two secodary tuels at a right agle. The small catacomb, datig back to the fourth cetury, reveals the presece of a Christia commuity i that area, followig religious peace. The Church had bee severely persecuted throughout the Roma Empire util the Edict of Mila i 313 gave them the liberty to practice their religio without molestatio. Ofte the celebratio of Mass, as well as burials, was coducted i the security of the udergroud catacombs. STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, & CIRCULATION Uited States Postal Service, Form 3526 Publicatio title: Fairfield Couty Catholic Publicatio umber: Issue frequecy: Mothly with combied Jue/July ad August/September No. of issues published aually: 10 Aual subscriptio price: $20 (i diocese); $50 (outside diocese) Mailig address: The Catholic Ceter, 238 Jewett Ave., Bridgeport, CT Publisher: Msgr. Jerald A. Doyle, JCD Editor: Bria D. Wallace Ower: Roma Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, Ic. Extet ad ature of circulatio (9/12): Avg. Actual # Copies # Copies Total # of copies 98,253 99,082 Total paid ad/ or requested circulatio 98,919 99,082 Total free distributio Total distributio 99,398 99,550 Office use, leftovers Total 99, ,050 Percet paid/ Requested circulatio 99.5% 99.5% 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 Holy Lad Fracisca Pilgrimages Year of Faith ONE CALL DOES IT ALL Flights, Trasportatio, Lodgig, Meals, Daily Mass, Access to the Holy Sites Pilgrimages catered to your eeds. Over 800 years experiece staffig the shries i the Holy Lad. Meet friars servig at shries i the Holy Lad. Support Holy Lad Christias. Book your oce-i-a-lifetime pilgrimage ow! ifo@holyladpilgrimages.org

10 10 October 2012 Local News Larry Kudlow to speak at Charities breakfast DANBURY Noted fiacial commetator, CNBC-TV host ad ecoomist, Larry Kudlow, will be the featured speaker at the Aual Catholic Charities of Dabury Celebrity Breakfast o November 19. Proceeds from the breakfast will beefit Catholic Charities programs icludig couselig ad behavioral health ad a wide rage of family ad commuity services. We re hoored that Larry Kudlow has chose to support our work at Catholic Charities. He has bee a true fried of the Diocese of Bridgeport ad of other groups that work to empower people ad give them the skills to lead idepedet lives, says Al Barber, presidet of Catholic Charities. Mauree Kup of Brookfield, presidet of the Catholic Charities Dabury Advisory Board, ad Aita Ragoa of Dabury, board member, are servig as co-chairs of the aual evet. Kudlow is host of CNBC s prime time The Kudlow Report (7 pm Moday-Friday). He is also the host of the Larry Kudlow Show, which broadcasts each Saturday from 10 am-1 pm o WABC radio ad is sydicated atioally. He is also CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, a ecoomic research firm. His blog, Moey Politics, ca be foud at He is a atioally sydicated columist, cotributig editor of Natioal Review magazie, as well as a columist ad ecoomics editor for Natioal Review O lie. He is also the author of America Abudace; The New Ecoomic ad Moral Prosperity. Durig Presidet Reaga s first term, Kudlow was the associate director for ecoomics ad plaig of the Office of Maagemet ad Budget, Executive Office of the Presidet, where he was egaged i the developmet of the admiistratio s ecoomic ad budget policy. He was formerly chief ecoomist ad seior maagig director of Bear Stears & Compay. He started his professioal career at the Federal Reserve Bak of New York where he worked i ope market operatios ad bak supervisio. Kudlow is the recipiet of umerous awards, icludig the Bishop s Humaitaria Award from Catholic Charities of Brookly ad Quees, Ambassadors for Missio Award from the Potifical Missio Societies of the Uited States ad Visioary Award from Coucil for Ecoomic Educatio. He is presetly o the Board of Directors of Cathedral Cluster Schools of the Diocese of Bridgeport, ad a former Fordham Uiversity Board of Trustees member. Kudlow was educated at the Uiversity of Rochester ad Priceto Uiversity s Woodrow Wilso School of Public ad Iteratioal Affairs. Catholic Charities Dabury has served people of all faiths i the greater Dabury area sice It provides couselig, adoptio, a family loa program, itesive family preservatio, paret educatio programs, ad other services. (To make a reservatio or to serve as a table sposor, call Fra Pearola: , ext. 22.) Missioaries of Faith Pray ad Give Geerously o World Missio Suday October 21, 2012 The Society for the Propagatio of the Faith $1.8 millio state grat for St. Vicet s College BRIDGEPORT Goveror Dael P. Malloy aouced i August that the State will provide a $1.8 millio grat to St. Vicet s College for the expasio of its facilities, which will lead to the educatio of hudreds of more studets i ursig ad other allied health disciplies. The grat comes at a time whe the college has expaded its erollmet ad course offerigs to meet the growig eeds of the healthcare marketplace. St. Vicet s has bee a parter i helpig provide valuable skills i the ursig ad healthcare fields to Coecticut residets, ad this grat will help the school to expad ad allow eve more course offerigs ad room for larger erollmet, Goveror Malloy said i aoucig the grat. Skills leared through istitutios like St. Vicet s are amog the reasos why we have oe of the most taleted workforces i the coutry. The atio is facig shortages i ursig ad other healthcare disciplies, especially i Coecticut, says Susa L. Davis, EdD, RN, presidet ad CEO, St. Vicet s Health Services. The Goveror uderstads the issues we face i providig quality health care to the residets of Coecticut, ad this grat will eable St. Vicet s College to offer more studets a opportuity for a educatio. Curretly, the College erolls more tha 800 studets who utilize a 40,000 square foot space adjacet to St. Vicet s Medical Ceter. Estimates show that erollmet, which has icreased by 180 studets i the past 18 moths will cotiue to grow. The college has played a sigificat role i educatig studets i the Fairfield ad New Have areas for more tha a cetury, says Martha Shouldis, EdD, presidet of St. Vicet s College. Uderstadig the eed for a larger footprit, the college, i cojuctio with the St. Vicet s Medical Ceter Foudatio, has raised $3.2 millio of a $5 millio ivestmet eeded to reovate the third floor of a recetly acquired buildig two blocks from the curret St. Vicet s College. This $1.8 millio grat closes the fudig gap to complete the $5 millio facility expasio project. By retrofittig the third floor of this property, the College will gai 13,000 square feet of space, which will iclude ew classrooms, laboratories, studet study ad gatherig spaces as well as faculty office space by the fall of The additioal space will eable the college to add degree programs as well as icrease erollmet. Proposed educatioal programs iclude a fouryear bachelor degree program i ursig, a bachelor degree completio program i radiologic scieces ad a bachelor degree completio program i healthcare admiistratio. Icreased erollmet estimates figure at 200 to 400 studets by More tha 90 percet of St. Vicet s College studets are residets of Fairfield or New Have Couties at the time of etry. Upo graduatio, the majority of them historically remai i Coecticut ad seek out employmet i the state; therefore, St. Vicet s College is poised to be a key player i addressig the healthcare shortages we face, adds Dr. Davis. (For iformatio o erollig i St. Vicet s College, call or visit the college website at

11 October Vocatio Semiarias from page 2 was formed very early i his life whe he discovered a love for the Mass. His ucle, a Augustiia priest, also created iterest by providig a role model. I remember keelig durig the Cosecratio, lookig at the priest ad thikig, That s what I really wat to do. There was o real explaatio for it, says Tim. Though he first thought of becomig a priest at the age of 12, he put it i the back of his mid ad did t cosider it seriously agai util he graduated from Merrimac College this May. He has played teor ad alto sax i college bads ad jazz esembles ad would be workig as a musicia if he did ot pursue the priesthood. Like others iterviewed for this article, 26 year-old Shae Nues of Fairfield heard the call early i his life, but at some poit tured his back o it. I walked away from my faith for years begiig i college. I really stopped goig to church, says Shae, who was bor ad raised i Shelto. But three years ago, his faith came back stroger tha ever, ad he kew he had to come to terms with his callig. After graduatig from Virgiia Military Istitute (VMI) i 2008, he foud a job at Ethoe, a specialty Tim Iaacoe Adrew Koleberg Shae Nues Brya Samaiego chemical ad techology compay i Orage. He was well paid ad about to be promoted last moth whe he told his employers that he was leavig to become a priest. They were shocked but very supportive ad happy for me, he says. I was really good at what I was doig, but it came dow to a career i research or a vocatio ad this is what I wat. Shae says that he had a ew car, ad a girl fried who loved him, but still felt a God-sized hole i his life that was t beig filled. I could t figure out the emptiess util I started goig back to church. I realized that the idea of priesthood has always bee there. As I got older, it became stroger, eve though I tried to igore it. Brya Samaiego, 17, of Bridgeport, says that his vocatio was formed by the example of Msgr. Aiceto Villamide, pastor of St. Peter Parish i Bridgeport. The 2012 graduate of Cetral High Maget School has always bee draw to the beauty of the Mass. I thik a iterest i Mass ad the Eucharist are a strog foudatio for ayoe s faith. My idea of becomig a priest was with me i my freshma year. I was just so used to attedig Mass. It makes me feel calm, peaceful ad very happy, says Bria, who graduated from the Regioal Aquaculture School i Bridgeport ad has a strog iterest i sciece. Though the self-described baby of the group, Brya is mature i faith. Though he s draw toward the priesthood, he realizes it s importat to test his vocatio ad to remai opemided at his age. I m goig ito the semiary a little bit ervous ad scared, but I kow I m goig to be aroud a good buch of priests ad semiarias there, ad the program is really well structured, he says. I ve always worked hard ad ever give up o aythig I wated. If I do t come out a priest, I kow I ll be a more rouded Christia. Gettig to the poit where they re ready to tell others that they are goig to pursue the priesthood is a importat step i the lives of the youg me who come to the Fisher residece. Adrew Koleberg says his buddies at UCo were take back whe he first told them they thought he would be locked away ad would ever see them agai. It was defiitely a Whoa momet, but the some of my Catholic frieds came aroud ad said I would be good for the job. My other frieds were pretty cool. They said they ever heard of ayoe doig it before, but they wated to kow more about the job details ad the life, says Adrew, who loves to travel ad has visited Russia ad Icelad i his recet advetures ad is plaig to go to Egypt i December. As the semiarias begi studies at St. Joh Fisher Residece, Sacred Heart Uiversity ad St. Joh s Uiversity i Quees, NY, they re lookig forward to deepeig their prayer life. They kow that, as priests, they ll stad out i a secular culture, but they re eager to proclaim the message of the Gospel. I thik priests of the future are really goig to have to deal with people where they are ad to evagelize, says Shae Nues. People are comig i with more struggles. Our job is to show them the Lord as someoe who loves them o matter how much society tells them they re ot lovable. Tim Iaacoe says he fids joy i aswerig the call of a lifetime. God calls me to the priesthood every day. The call is ofte silet ad mysterious. We are each called i differet ways to do somethig for God i our lives. For me, the aswer to that call is, Yes. Newspapers We are the proud priters of the Fairfield Couty Catholic for the past 20 years. Publicatios Shoppers Catalogs Magazies Directories Coupo Books College Course Catalogs Busiess & Fiacial Periodicals Free Stadig Iserts Advertisig Supplemets 205 Sprig Hill Road, Trumbull CT Call us for a free quote.

12 12 October 2012 Local News Faithful Citizeship topic of CAPP breakfast FAIRFIELD Fr. Richard Ryscavage, S.J., a leadig expert o immigratio ad foudig director of Fairfield Uiversity s Ceter for Faith ad Public Life, will be the keyote speaker at the seveth aual Commuio Breakfast for Busiess Leaders o October 28, held i Fairfield Uiversity s Oak Room. The breakfast, co-sposored by the Ceter for Faith ad Public Life ad the Fairfield Chapter of CAPP (Cetisimus Aus Pro Potifice) will begi with a 9 am Mass i the Ega Chapel of St. Igatius Loyola. Busiess professioals Breda Fisk, of Fairfield, ad Baret Phillips, IV, of Greewich, will be hoored by CAPP at the breakfast. Fr. Ryscavage s talk, Faithful Citizeship: Catholics ad the Presidetial Electio, will touch upo topical issues as Electio Day approaches. Fr. Ryscavage is professor of sociology ad iteratioal studies at Fairfield Uiversity. The Ceter for Faith ad Public Life studies problems where religio ad socio-political issues itersect. Amog its may edeavors, Fr. Ryscavage is leadig is a Ford Foudatio-fuded atioal study examiig the issues of udocumeted studets i higher educatio. Fr. Ryscavage is also helmig a Hagedor Foudatio-fuded pilot project to demostrate a more civil ad less coarse way of public debate about immigratio by framig the dialogue i the laguage of faith. I additio, he has held leadership positios with the Jesuit Refugee Service USA ad Catholic Legal Immigratio Network (CLINIC). While ruig the Uited States Coferece of Catholic Bishops Migratio ad Refugee Services Office, he was the mai advisor to the U.S. Catholic bishops o immigratio ad refugee policy. I 2006, the Vatica ivited Fr. Ryscavage to joi the delegatio of the Holy See to the Geeral Assembly of the Uited Natios where he participated i the dialogue o migratio sposored by the UN Secretary Geeral. Fisk ad Phillips will be hoored with the Busiess Fr. Richard Ryscavage, S.J. Leadership Award for their work i co-foudig Shepherds Ic. i 1997, as well as for their ogoig ivolvemet i the program. Shepherds is a odeomiatioal, oprofit program that provides fudig for disadvataged ier-city Coecticut youth, givig them the opportuity to attai a quality educatio at Catholic high schools while pairig them with a metor who serves as a role model over the four-year high school jourey. Breda ad Barey were chose for this award because they exemplified the applicatio of the core priciples of the Church s social doctrie, amely huma digity, solidarity ad subsidiarity, said Bill Fox, presidet of CAPP s Fairfield Couty Chapter. Shepherds recogizes the huma digity of all their studets ad, with the support of metors ad sposors, eables studets to obtai a quality Catholic high school educatio. Most are the first i their families to go o to college. For 23 years, Fisk was a FBI aget who upo retiremet from the bureau pursued a career as a busiess ower ad cosultat to a umber of major corporatios ad baks. Phillips is a recetly retired parter with the New York City law firm Skadde, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP ad affiliates. (For additioal iformatio about CAPP ad its Fairfield Couty Chapter, visit Additioal backgroud o Fairfield Uiversity s Ceter for Faith ad Public Life is available at There is limited seatig for the breakfast. To register, please call Cidy Russo, at , ext ) O f f i c e O f U d e r g r a d U a t e a d m i s s i O (800) FORDHAM eroll@fordham.edu eeo/aa

13 October Retreat A Oasis for Your Soul By PAM RITTMAN I d always wodered what a retreat would be like. The brochures ad iformatio I read i magazies or at church listed iterestig topics at ear ad distat retreat houses, some alog the ocea or estled i beautiful moutais. I thought if I atteded oe, it would be a way to get away from the daily demads ad challeges of life, deepe my faith ad love for God. My first retreat was give to me as a gift. I was blessed to have someoe who cared about my faith as much as he cared for me. I the cayos of New York City, my retreat house was a hideaway from the glamour, oise ad struggles of a city that ever sleeps. Secure i the warm hospitality of the us, I kew I was i store for a woderful weeked, surrouded by those who shared a similar love of God. Over the weeked, we listeed to presetatios, had group discussios ad took time for private reflectio. The teachigs touched my heart ad mid ad the Scriptures came alive. At meals, we shared with each other what ispired us i a special way. I cherished the quiet time as I reflected o Scripture ad took time for Adoratio ad prayer i the chapel, ad I left a reewed idividual grouded i Christ s love. I foud the experiece so peaceful ad restful that I have scheduled a retreat every year sice. I ve atteded group ad directed retreats throughout the years; there are also idividual, semi-silet ad silet oes. Whatever the choice, my retreats are a period of time set aside for prayer, meditatio ad study that ehaces my persoal faith walk. They put life i perspective. Through them I have made lifelog frieds who share my Catholic faith. Last Jauary I had the privilege of attedig a wome s retreat at Holy Family Passioist Retreat Ceter i West Hartford. The Passioists, a religious order fouded by Sait Paul of the Cross, focus o preachig missios ad retreats. This retreat was held i Jauary, after the holy seaso of Christmas, ad I thought it would be a woderful way to start the New Year after celebratig the birth of our Lord. Workshops led us to experiece Christ s presece i ordiary places, itroduced us to the practice of ceterig prayer, ad acquaited us with the role of saits i Catholic life. Wome of all ages atteded the group; some gave the retreat as a gift to a fried or family member. I meditated while walkig the labyrith o a surprisigly mild Jauary afteroo; other wome took time to follow the outdoor Statios of the Cross. Heart-liftig music i the chapel icreased the depth of the experiece. Whe the stress of everyday livig ad resposibilities has left you tired or eve questioig the poit of your faith the weeked or eve oe-day retreats are a chace to recharge. People arrive weary ad depleted, says Dr. Brado Nappi, the associate retreat director. O retreat, people are able to ope their eyes to what they have bee too busy or distracted to see the presece of God brigig peace alog each step of life s jourey. A Seaso of Promise is the retreat ceter s theme from ow through Jue of the comig year. Whe I am preparig a ew theme, I always ask, What good ews do I persoally eed to hear i my ow life? says Nappi. We Come to a Ope House: Oct 21 ad Dec 9! HOLY FAMILY RETREAT Associate Retreat Director Dr. Brado Nappi ejoys a visit to the sulit labyrith o a mild witer day. sift through what is happeig i our culture ad the evets that are touchig people s lives. The Holy Spirit always moves us i the directio of hope ad peace. I the same way that I take time to pla a vacatio every year I eed the fu ad the relaxatio ad the time away from my job I make retreat plas to ourish my spiritual life. Other people I kow do it, too. Husbads give the gift of a retreat i recogitio of their wives hard work, ad wome wat to see their me experiece the grace ad blessigs of God. Childre treat their parets to a spiritual break, ad parets treat their childre. My fried ad I parted our ways, but I will always remember ad treasure his life-chagig gift of that first retreat. (To lear more about retreats offered at the Holy Family Passioist Retreat Ceter, visit org, call , or fid them o Facebook ad Twitter. Holy Family Passioist Retreat Ceter is located at 303 Tuxis Road, West Hartford.) Etrace Exam october 13 or october :30 am Scholarships ad Fiacial Aid Available 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 I have grow to uderstad who I am ad who I m goig to be. Lauralto Hall Coecticut s First Catholic College-Prep School for Girls 200 High Street Milford Coecticut LauraltoHall.org the academy of our lady of mercy

14 14 Local News EDITORIAL For Me Without life ad breath, we have o other rights. That s why life, as oted i the Declaratio of Idepedece, comes before liberty ad the pursuit of happiess. Buildig a culture of life, though, is ot about savig ubor childre ad carig for their mothers. It s ot about brigig hope to those i priso or helpig immigrats or visitig the sick, or about parish urses or preschools. All the care ad cocer that is poured ito these thigs cotribute to the culture of life. Noe of them, ot eve the struggle to ed the carage of abortio, are at its foudatio. Noe of them will ultimately be successful uless we recogize the heart of all these works: You did it for me (Matthew 25: 40). We must see Jesus i the face of a frighteed teeager cotemplatig abortio, i a ma who has yet agai failed to coquer the addictio that led him to jail, i adult childre dealig with their mother s paiful last moths. We may ot approve or agree with their choices. We must love them, every bit as much as God loves us. Jesus, his love ad his sacrifice, is the corerstoe supportig every actio, every program that helps build a world overflowig with love ad life. For the Blue Mass o September 11, Msgr. William Scheyd, pastor of St. Aloysius Parish, spoke to fire, police, ad EMS persoel. His homily, delivered i that cotext, produced oe of the best descriptios of what it meas to build a culture of life: People of faith parter with God i carig for the world. The Catholic Vote Now we re i the home stretch of a electio that seems to have captured all the cotetio ad cofusio of a icreasigly divided coutry. Ad if we ca believe what we read, Catholics themselves are divided, about to split their votes equally betwee Democratic ad Republica cadidates. Yet beyod all of the hot-butto issues, this is o ordiary year. We ca ow add ew ad growig cocers over Religious Liberty to the list that divides us. Archbishop William E. Lori, who so capably led the Diocese of Bridgeport for a decade, has become a atioal leader i articulatig the threats to religious liberty posed by the federal health madate ad other icursios of the state ito the goverace of churches. This is a big momet for Catholic voters to step back from their party affiliatio, he said at this year s Kights of Columbus aual covetio i Aaheim, Califoria. Are ay of the cadidates of either party, or idepedets, stadig for somethig that is itrisically evil, evil o matter what the circumstaces? If that s the case, a Catholic, regardless of his party affiliatio, should t be votig for such a perso. Meawhile, i offerig a beedictio at the Democratic covetio, New York s Cardial Timothy Dola drove home a importat message whe he prayed, Thus do we praise you for the gift of life. Grat us the courage to defed it, life, without which o other rights are secure. We ask your beedictio o those waitig to be bor that they may be welcomed ad protected. He also reewed the call for religious liberty, defese of marriage ad oppositio to a healthcare madate that asks the church to violate its ow teachig. The Uited States Coferece of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has stated that it will ot tell Catholics how to cast their ballots or isist that they vote o oe issue, but as we prepare to head ito the votig booth, the message of our bishops is uified ad clear: the digity of the huma perso ad fudametal right to life should ever be violated. We should first ad foremost protect the most vulerable amog us with our vote. Yet the bishops do ot let ayoe off the hook, regardless of party. They also istruct the faithful i a cosistet life ethic that is opposed to the death pealty, to the excessive use of military force, to the exploitatio ad rejectio of immigrats, ad to the blamig of the poor for their ow sufferig. By this yardstick we all fall short. Ideed, the Church s respect for life across the board challeges us to heed Archbishop Lori s exhortatio that we ot thik as partisas but as Catholics. Based o that demadig ethic, we will all have a great deal of work left to do whe the electio is over. (For updates o electio issues, see the U.S. Coferece of Catholic Bishops website: EDITOR S CHOICE Cradled i the Hereafter (Reflectio of Sr. Fraces Smallkowski, pastoral care director at Pope Joh Paul II Ceter for Health Care, after the fueral of Regia Mattia.) The lovig image of a beloved mother Beig laid to rest Will remai i my heart s memory For as log as God permits. Cremais so getly cotaied Ad ecircled by soft touches Of carig hads moldig cloth Over a forever Tiffay vase. But the crow, the crow of glory Coroatig ot just God s Mother i heave But also Michele ad Deise s mother Whose crow of thors was replaced with glorious roses! Would that each of us Could be humaly retured to God By our loved oes I such utold majesty! Would that each of our lives Merited such loudly-spoke accolades That ca oly be give By those closest to tell! How blessed you are, Regia, Quee of Hearts who love you most! How blessed are all who have kow you; All whose lives you have graced! 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. Fa Farewell Dear Editor, I really ejoyed the woderful article o Collee Taylor. Like may other listeers, I ca say it has bee a treat listeig to Collee o WFUV radio over 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 Ralph Lazzaro Advertisig Maager rlazzaro@diobpt.org Bria A. Wallace Graphic Desiger bwallace@diobpt.org Jill Moroe Office Maager/Admi jmoroe@diobpt.org Soia Burs Spaish Editor* soiarburs@yahoo.com Madelie Ghilardi Copy Editor* * Cosultats Pastor October 2012 CLERGYAPPOINTMENTS Msgr. Jerald A. Doyle, JCD, Diocesa Admiistrator, has made the followig clergy appoitmets i the Diocese of Bridgeport: REV. JULIO LOPRESTI, IVE, Pastor, Sait George Parish, Bridgeport, to reassigmet by his commuity. Effective date was August 23. REV. WALTER FRUTADES, IVE, to Pastor, Sait George Parish, Bridgeport. Effective date was August 23. MSGR. THOMAS J. WHALEN, Pastor, Sait Margaret Mary Parish, Shelto, to Retiremet. Effective date is October 28. Admiistrator REV. JOHN J. STRONKOWSKI, Sabattical, to Admiistrator, Sait Margaret Mary Parish, Shelto. Effective date was September 1. Parochial Vicar REV. MARCEL ST. JEAN, Parochial Vicar, Sait Joseph Parish, Shelto, to Parochial Vicar, Sait Mary Parish ad Sait Beedict/Our Lady of Motserrat Parish, Stamford. Effective date was September 17. Part-time Parochial Vicar/ Part-time Spiritual Director REV. MICHAEL P. NOVAJOSKY, Parochial Vicar, Sait Jude Parish, Moroe, to Part-time Parochial Vicar, Sait Jude Parish, Moroe, ad Part-time Spiritual Director at St. Joseph High School, Trumbull. Effective date was September 1. Deaco the last few years. It was ice to lear that durig that time she has deepeed her faith ad is ow headig off to Irelad for further studies. Faie oir ort! Well doe! Greg Byres Greewich DEACON THOMAS CURRAN, to Deaco, Departmet of Campus Miistry at Fairfield Uiversity, Fairfield. Effective date was July 1. DEACON WILLIAM A. KONIERS, Deaco, Sait Pius X Parish, Fairfield, to Deaco, The Cathedral Parish, Bridgeport. Effective date was September 1. Rev. Msgr. Kevi Royal, Delegate for Clergy Persoel October, 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, Coecticut Copyright 2012, Diocese of Bridgeport

15 October Editorial They say time flies, ad I have log come to believe that, especially each year whe I celebrate my birthday! But the passig of time so quickly really hit me recetly whe I read stories celebratig the 50th aiversary of Vatica II! As that icredible period i the Catholic Church bega, I was livig i the ewly-formed Diocese of Rockville Cetre o Log Islad, NY, ad had the good fortue of beig hired by Msgr. Richard Haley to write for the Log Islad Catholic, the diocesa Rememberig a Great Priest of Vatica II A Woma s View By Atoiette Bosco Atoiette Bosco is a member of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Parish i Brookfield. paper he had fouded. I was a reporter ad feature writer for that fie publicatio for the ext 10 years. Ad yes, we did cover Vatica II, thaks to this brilliat editorial leader, who sadly died too youg, but lived log eough to lauch what he called a Vatica II diocesa paper! Durig this time I met so may icredible people, oe especially I shall ever forget. He was a Belgia prelate, the icredible Cardial Leo-Jozef Suees, who played a strog role i that mometous evet of the Catholic Church, particularly i his call for a triple dialogue with the faithful, with our separated brethre, with the o-christia world. I got to meet him i a uusual way. I had bee asked to be oe of the speakers at a major coferece beig held at the major semiary o Log Islad, ad Cardial Suees was there. He was so impressed (his words, ot mie) that the semiary had asked a woma to be a speaker that he wated to meet me. Log story short we became frieds! It meat a great deal to me as a reporter, a Catholic ad a woma to hear the wise words of this holy ma. He was way ahead of his time, such a progressive thiker, a promoter of ecumeism (which was still ot overly popular at that time), ad strogly devoted to Mary, mother of Lord Jesus. Later, whe I foud out that he had lost his father at age 4 ad was raised by a devoted mother, I was ot at all surprised at his profoud devotio to Jesus Mother Mary. I told him he should write a book that would ispire Vatica II Catholics, ad he smiled. I 1993, I got a surprise from his close fried, Margie Grace, wife of idustrialist Peter Grace, who wrote me, I kow i those good old days of Vatica II we had correspoded with you ad I thought you would be iterested i relivig some of those experieces. She set me a copy of a ew book by Cardial Suees! titled The Hidde Had of God. I this book he emphasizes the magitude ad importace of the role wome ca take i the Church. Obviously, that is oe of my cherished volumes i my bookcase! A setece I uderlied i that book are his words, Faith is a magifyig glass which helps us to see ad to discover God, secretly ad aoymously at work, i the chace evets of huma life. Ad he adds, the poit is that God acts i mysterious ways to brig people to Him, but always through other people. Most importat for me is that I received a card with a message i his ow hadwritig i April, 1993, three years before his death o May 6, 1996 at the age of 91. Received with joy your kid letter ad your commets o the book. May the Lord be your stregth i daily life ad your joy forever. I sed you a little booklet for Easter readig. With my cordial blessig, L.J. Cardial Suees. This is a gift I keep! Whe I got the ews about his death, I reread a treasure this great priest had set me, the homily he delivered at the opeig of the secod sessio of the Vatica Coucil, i memory of Pope Joh XXIII of holy ad veerated memory: He came, like Joh the Baptist, to bear witess to the light; to make the rough ways plai, to prepare a path, to show Christ to the world; like him, too, his missio was short, cut off by death History will surely judge that he opeed a ew era for the Church I believe sicerely that Cardial Suees took that same path! Morigs are a gift. Do you thik of them that way? I did t used to. But the kids are sometimes catatoic whe I get home i the eveig, so morig is ofte my oly real time with them. I m learig to love it. We are early risers. I fought it for years, beggig ad pleadig to be allowed just a few more precious momets of shut eye. Occasioally the kids would oblige, briefly. Niety secods later they d be back from their ow beds, twice as eager to go dowstairs. Do you kow how early it Morig has broke A Dad s View By Matthew Heessey Matthew Heessey ad his family are parishioers of St. Aloysius i New Caaa. is? I croak. You might as well ask who they re votig for. You d get the same blak look. So I ve resiged myself. For the ext few years, I ll be gettig up well before the proverbial cock crows. Most morigs I m wakeed by my middle child, Magdalea. She is six. Gettig out of bed is what she was bor to do. She is blessed to have discovered her true callig at a early age. There are other thigs she does well, ad other thigs she loves to do, but risig ad shiig is the trigger clause of her cotract with the world. I sometimes imagie that Magdalea wakes to the soud of urget voices whisperig oly to her. Get up! they say. Get up! Dora ad Elmo are eatig your breakfast ad playig with your toys! You re missig everythig! Get up! Most of the time we let Magdalea ito our bed. Strictly speakig, this is somethig you are ot supposed to do, as it rewards the child for beig a early bird ad provides a icetive for tomorrow s bad behavior. But bitter experiece has taught me that it s either the bed or the breakfast table, so we pull back the covers ad let her climb i. As she is mostly elbows ad kees, it is t log before oe of us gives i ad takes her dowstairs. My so usually is t far behid. Paddy is a America boy of the four-year-old variety, which meas there is o middle gear i his trasmissio. He has two speeds: out cold ad full blast. His eyes ope at first light, his aked feet hit the cold floor, ad i a istat he is by your side i the kitche, bleary-eyed ad demadig to kow, Wass for breffest, huh Dad? You have a choice, I say. Dirt Flakes or Mii Worms. No, Dad, yer juss bee silly. Wass the reeeeeel breffest, huh? Clara, the eight-year-old, is the oly oe to have figured out what every paret kows to be true: sleepig late is its ow reward. At her age, lougig i bed while your sibligs eat their breakfast is at least as good a optio as beig awake ad havig them aoy you while you eat yours. At the table, I cut baaas ito their cereal ad ask what they dreamt about. Mostly they do t remember. I ask them what they re lookig forward to about the day ahead. Mostly they ca t aswer. They are madly devoted to the here ad ow. Yesterday meas othig. Who reads old ews? Tomorrow is a o-etity to a child. Why worry about it whe today is already here? I watch them eat. They see me watchig ad smile with mouths full. What a blessig to be so preset. I have may dreams I wish I could forget. Ad there are may morigs whe I positively dread the day ahead. But beig with them for a hour or two is toic eough to beat back my mild misathropy. No matter how tired I am i the morig, or how much I wish I could stay i bed just a few miutes more, I summo the stregth to rise. I kow oe day I ll be eatig breffest i a gloomig peace with silece to spare. O that day I ll wish I had a little oodge to drag me out of bed before daw to ask me who puts the milk i the carto or why do t spoos have ames? As Yogi Berra said, it gets late You have a choice, I say. Dirt Flakes or Mii Worms. early aroud here. I do t wat to miss a miute of it.

16 16 October 2012 Respect Life Billboards carry a getle message of life By PAT HENNESSY A ifat gazed i puzzlemet from a billboard o a busy corer i Dabury. What about MY right to choose? he asked. The billboard, the first of several sposored by the Respect Life Committee at St. Mary Parish i Ridgefield this seaso, was i o way aggressive or cofrotatioal. We try to chage hearts ad mids by ecouragig people to use logic, says Hak Vosswikle, co-chair of the committee ad head of the billboard Direct Your Future at Sacred Heart. TOUR DAY... Wedesday, October 10 UPPER SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE...Wedesday, October 24 ALL SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE... Saturday, November 3 A Sacred Heart educatio ca chage a girl s view of herself. I our Broadcast Jouralism classes, studets work i a state-of-the-art studio writig, presetig, shootig, editig ad composig PSAs, ews shows, documetaries, ad other video projects regularly receivig local ad atioal awards for their work. It s just oe of the iovative learig experieces that eables our girls to discover their talets, grow i cofidece, ad achieve amazig success. They step up, they take aim, they produce ad ever agai do they see themselves i quite the same light. Greewich, CT project. The Pro-Life Committee has carefully chose their billboard locatios, both i Dabury ad i Bridgeport, placig them where they will be see by thousads of people o a daily basis. The campaigs have ever bee egative, adds Joh Papa, the committee s other co-chair. I thik that s importat. I a getle ad forgivig ad carig way, we re startig a dialog. We ve had othig but positive resposes. St. Mary s is proud of its Respect Life activities, which go A idepedet, Catholic school for girls from preschool through grade 12 o throughout the year. From the March for Life i Washigto, DC, to support for Birthright pregacy couselig ceters ad Project Rachel post-abortio healig, the committee works to develop the culture of life i Fairfield Couty. Because of their impact o so may people, the billboards are a importat part of that effort. The successful billboard campaig has bee i place for over te years, leadig thousads to cosider the message of life they carry. I m pleased that our parish Respect Life Committee has arraged for billboards to advertise a truth that lies at the heart of our Catholic faith the sactity of every huma life, created i the image ad likeess of God, says Msgr. Laurece Brokiewicz, St. Mary s pastor. I a letter to parishioers, Msgr. Brokiewicz poited out that over a millio childre are aborted every year. The vast majority of abortios occur because the mother is iflueced by fear, igorace, or pressure from others ad does ot realize that she has other optios, he wrote. The billboards which you sposor provide factual iformatio about the developmet of the pre-bor child, iformatio about adoptio, ad toll-free telephoe umbers of orgaizatios that assist wome i carryig their pregacies to term, or i healig for those hurtig after a abortio. He added that, Sadly, these may cotiue to be the oly pro-life messages that may ever see. The Respect Life Committee is curretly sposorig two Respect Life billboards i Dabury, both at busy itersectios. Due to the way traffic moves through the city, they lie at either side of the campus of Wester Coecticut State Uiversity (WestCONN). Because they are focused o developig a respect for life, the committee takes great care i choosig the images ad wordig for their message. We try to put them i the areas that eed the most help, that eed the most hope, says Papa. While the questioig baby graced the billboards i August, durig September the message showed a pesive youg woma, ad asked Pregat? Worried? Offerig practical support, the billboard carried the phoe umber for the Birthright Couselig Ceter i Dabury. The Birthright office is right dow the block, so the billboard may direct a youg woma to someoe who ca help her, observes Vosswikle. St. Mary s is also sposorig two billboards i Bridgeport i October. I keepig with its itet to reach the most people, the oe i dowtow Bridgeport will carry its message i both Eglish ad Spaish. St. Mary s is hopig that other parishes will joi the billboard campaig. Oe that already has is St. Rose of Lima Parish i Newtow. We started two years ago, says Helga Roegele, chair of the Respect Life Committee at St. Rose. Our first billboard showed a youg, pretty woma with a baby i her arm. It said Love is simple choose life. The billboards St. Rose sposors are alog Route 25, the mai artery betwee Bridgeport ad Dabury. Route 25 is a heavily traveled road, ad I thik this a good way to spread our message, says Roegele. It s platig a seed; gettig people to thik. As at St. Mary s, the Respect Life movemet at St. Rose is active throughout the year. Our baby bottle drive is ogoig, all year log, Roegele says. We ve collected over $5,000 to help local pregacy ceters. Durig a baby shower for the Daughters of Charity, parishioers set a va full of baby items for wome i crisis pregacies. I October, both parishes pla to sposor billboards with a Vote for Life message, featurig a ubor child with the message So I will have a chace, too. As the seasos chage, so will the message. Both parishes are plaig to sposor billboards durig the Christmas seaso showig the ubor Christ, a halo framig his head, with the cotiued o page 17

17 October Respect Life St. Fracis Preschool appoits ew director By ALINE WEILLER St. Fracis of Assisi Preschool has appoited Mariae Keith as its ew director. The preschool is located at the parish, i the heart of Westo. St. Fracis of Assisi Preschool was fouded i 1999 ad is oe of Fairfield Couty s oly parish preschool programs. Our preschool is a itegral part of the parish. It ot oly provides the academics that are steppig stoes for kidergarte, but urtures the childre s faith life ad fosters self-discovery ad a respect for others, says Fr. Michael Du, St. Fracis pastor. Keith arrives at St. Fracis with teachig experiece twety years strog. A ative Westoite, she obtaied her B.S. i Eglish literature from Mahattaville College ad a masters degree i elemetary educatio from the Uiversity of Bridgeport. She has taught at both the elemetary ad preschool level, was a preschool director at New Caaa s Top of the Raibow ad a program coordiator at St. Paul s Preschool i Billboards from page 16 sayig He s o his way. Papa hopes that may more parishes will get ivolved, if ot with billboards the with law posters o the parish grouds. MARIANNE KEITH was amed director at Sait Fracis of Assisi Preschool. Westport. I additio, Keith was a Metor Teacher at Norwalk Commuity College ad a preschool cosultat for childre with special eeds. With her husbad ad three childre, she a member of St. Fracis. Childre are bor with a iate desire to lear. At St. Fracis, we are committed to developig wellrouded childre ad lifelog learers able to reach their potetial. Both our pre-literacy ad pre-math programs will esure studets are equipped for their elemetary years, she says. Though the preschool is parish-ru, childre of all deomiatios atted. The school is accredited by the State of Coecticut. I recet years the staff has broadeed the curriculum with the additio of techology, foreig laguage, ad social sciece istructio. Based o curret demad, a Mommy ad Me oce-a-week, year-roud class for parets ad childre 18 moths-2 years old, will be added to the St. Fracis Preschool schedule. Our love to get umerous parishes to put oe up. It s a getle way, particularly at Christmas time, to get people thikig about the begiig of life. etrace exams Saturday, October 13, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, November 3, 8:30 a.m. Mommy ad Me program allows parets to observe their child s uique ature ad help them participate i meaigful, age-appropriate activities, Keith says. (Fall erollmet for the preschool is still ope. To register, visit the school or call Keith: For more details, visit Fairfield Prep A Jesuit, Catholic School of Excellece 1073 North Beso Road, Fairfield, CT admissios@fairfieldprep.org Apply Olie! > Admissios > Create_Accout I may tows, just like i Ridgefield, billboards are t allowed, he otes. But every parish has a campus, ad the law posters are iexpesive. I d (For more iformatio o Respect Life billboards or posters, cotact Mauree Ciardiello, diocesa director of Respect Life Miistry: )

18 18 October 2012 Respect Life Parish Nurse Program celebrates 20 years By DON HARRISON I ve had pastors tell me, That urse saved my life, says Sr. Mary Jea Tague, DC, RN, fouder ad coordiator of St. Vicet Medical Ceter s Parish Nurse Program. Nurses, by ad large, are ofte take for grated, see but ot heard. But this 57-year member of the Daughters of Charity order is determied that the 250 voluteer urses who comprise the Parish Nurse Program will be recogized for their vital work. O October 17, the Medical Ceter will play host to the 20th aiversary of the program with a dier at Testo s Ristorate i Bridgeport. The keyote speaker will be Msgr. William Scheyd, pastor of St. Aloysius Parish i New Caaa ad a logtime supporter of the parish urses. The Parish Nurse Program was started whe I was pastor at St. Augustie Cathedral (ow part of the Cathedral Parish) i Bridgeport. We had a very diverse commuity there, ad I was happy to be part of it, St Joseph High School As we choose... so we become says Msgr. Scheyd. Whe I moved o to St. Thomas i East Norwalk, I brought the program there. Ad the we established the Parish Nurse Program here at St. Aloysius. It s helpful i so may ways. What are the duties of a parish urse? Well, depedig o the momet or the situatio, she or he will serve as a health educator. As a health couselor. As a referral service. Ad ofte as a promoter for welless, by offerig blood pressure screeigs ad other programs. Ope House: Suday, October 21 at 1pm Etrace Exams: October 27 or November 17 at 8:15am Hutigto Turpike, Trumbull SR. MARY JEAN TAGUE, DC, RN (ceter), the foudig coordiator of St. Vicet Medical Ceter s Parish Nurse program, is flaked by Marily Faber (left), the program s liaiso urse, ad Claire Frillici, a retired urse who is active i the program at Our Lady of the Assumptio Parish i Fairfield. (Photo by Do Harriso) We just wat to keep the commuity healthy, says Sr. Mary Jea, whose years of service embrace missioary work as both urse ad pharmacist i Bolivia ( ) ad Agola ( ). Some of the participatig urses are full-time at the hospital, others work i agecies, ad some are employed i doctors offices. Some of the urses are retired, but they remai active by voluteerig at their parishes. Msgr. Scheyd calls Sr. Mary Jea a ethusiastic, woderful perso ad the perfect salesma for dealig with the public. Griffi Hospital i Derby lauched the first Parish Nurse Program i Coecticut. St. Vicet s Medical Ceter followed suit shortly thereafter, ad ow Dabury Hospital, the Hospital of St. Raphael i New Have, Lawrece + Memorial Hospital i New Lodo ad St. Mary s Hospital i Waterbury also sposor a program. Ideed, the Parish Nurse Program has become iteratioal i scope, with urses participatig i Caada, Great Britai, Scotlad, Australia, Ukraie, Korea, Malaysia, Palestie, South Africa, Nigeria ad several other Africa atios. We do so may thigs for the parish, says Claire Frillici, RN, a retired urse who has bee ivolved with the St. Vicet s Parish Nurse Program for some 18 years at Our Lady of the Assumptio Parish i Fairfield. I the early years, we did may fairs childre s fairs, health fairs. O the secod Suday of every moth, we do blood pressure screeigs after every Mass. Oce a moth, we prepare a etire meal for Operatio Hope. We also coduct flu cliics i October ad November. Oe might assume that the St. Vicet s program is largely Catholic i scope, but that is t the case. Nearly 35 Protestat churches are amog the 73 parishes ad cogregatios located i 16 Fairfield Couty tows ad cities curretly active i the program. Iroically, the Parish Nurse Program was created by a Luthera miister i Chicago i the 1980s. Marily Faber, RN, who works i Sr. Mary Jea s office ad holds the title Liaiso Nurse, is ivolved with the Parish Nurse Program at her church, Nichols Uited Methodist, i Trumbull. Amog her duties are editig the program s quarterly ewsletter, aptly amed Vital Sigs, ad assistig with the aual fall retreat (October 27 at the Nazareth Spiritual Life Ceter i Moroe) ad the aual statewide sprig symposium. The pastor at Nichols Uited Methodist, the Rev. Joseph Piccirillo, is a ethusiastic supporter of the program. I just ca t say eough how woderful the program is, he says. The urses are there for people i time of eed. They do blood pressure screeigs ad so may other thigs. They re great. (To register for the 20th aiversary celebratio of the Parish Nurse Program, cotact the St. Vicet s Parish Nurse Office: or visit mkuchma@stvicets.org.)

19 October Respect Life Agels i the priso FR. BERNARDO RODRIGUEZ (Fr. Rodriguez is the Catholic chaplai i the Bridgeport Correctioal Ceter ad Garer Correctioal Istitutio i Newtow.) The chow hall was full of tables ad chairs. I oe corer, about twety imates were listeig to the explaatio of a voluteer about the Gospel of the day. A youg ma, lookig dow ad with tears i his eyes, said: If someoe had told me this before, I would t be i jail. This is the great work that the voluteers brig to the jail. Sometimes we woder how thigs keep workig, whe everythig aroud looks so hard ad difficult, ad the we see the had of God multiplyig the few pieces of bread that everybody may eat it. I was i priso ad you visited me (Matt. 25, 36). That is icluded i the test that we have to pass at the ed, ad the Diocese of Bridgeport is doig its part. Lay people, Sisters, deacos ad priests every week brig the word of God to the prisos i Fairfield Couty. Sometimes I woder why these woderful people are visitig the imates. Ad I woder because this is the least glamorous ad ofte most frustratig of the miistries. You eed to fight some of the prejudices that exist i our society. The fear for your safety, for example, whe the reality is that you will ever be as safe as iside of a priso. Not just because the officers, but because the imates themselves will protect you. You do eed to have a lot of faith, because you almost ever see the fruit of your work. The imates that succeed do t come back to the jail ad you oly see the failures, the people that did t make it this time. But you keep workig, ot because you trust i your talets, but because you kow that God is behid the scees multiplyig your efforts. You eed to fight the public uderstadig of why waste your time ad work with people that hurt society, whe you kow that every imate is your brother ad God did t give up o him. Ad you keep goig to jail brigig hope, the love of God ad the joy of a Christia, tellig the imates that they are ot forgotte. Prisos are a battlegroud where the forces of evil try to coquer as may childre of God as they ca, ad you see the workig of God clearly as ever before. Sometimes I m amazed as I see the lightig of God i the darkest situatio, whe by your ow efforts it was impossible to plat a seed of hope. The voluteers are the first lie i this battlegroud. Yes, we have people like that. Christias who are comig from Bridgeport, Newtow, Fairfield, Stratford, Shelto. Good people; committed people with the fire of the love of God i their hearts. I m so grateful to them. The eed is so great ad I could t eve make a det by myself. Because this woderful group of voluteers, may of these eeds are solved. Please keep them i your prayers ad, if God is callig you, try to serve i the priso miistry. Remember the test that we have to pass. (For more iformatio o voluteerig for priso miistry, cotact the Office for Clergy ad Religious of the Diocese of Bridgeport: ) No oe wats to thik about it, but the purchase of cemetery property i advace of eed, is the smart thig to do! You ad your loved oes make the decisio together, ot others! You are uder ormal emotioal circumstaces! You have time to make the right decisio cocerig a selectio! You ca purchase cemetery property out of curret icome! The purchase of cemetery property is a ievitable task! You ca make the decisio ow, based o oe of the above reasos, or you ca wait util you have to decide at a time of great emotioal stress, whe families ca make the wrog decisio! At a time of eed, cemetery property must be paid for i full! Sometime i the distat future you will be thakful you took care of this importat matter ow! We recommed that you call your local cemetery for more iformatio. 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20 20 October 2012 Respect Life Our Lady of Grace School Celebrates 50 Years I 1948, ie Sisters of the cogregatio of the Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus ad Mary left Calabria, Italy. Their order was already expadig to other coutries, followig their missio to serve the people of God accordig to the eeds of each locality. I the Uited States, icreasig idustry after World War II ofte called both parets of youg families ito factory work. The ie Sisters ultimately decided to settle i the growig city of Stamford, where they would provide care ad educatio to childre of workig parets. Other groups of Sisters would evetually set up houses i Washigto, DC, Pesylvaia, ad Marylad. Over the ext several years, with great sacrifice ad perseverace, the Sisters purchased property o Glebrook Road i Stamford, self-fuded the costructio of the covet ad childcare ceter, ad opeed Our Lady of Grace Pre-School ad Kidergarte i True to the Sisters missio to serve others i eed, Our Lady of Grace School cotiues to serve as a o-profit facility focused o the educatioal ad developmetal eeds of the childre of workig parets. It was the first school i lower Fairfield Couty to offer a full-day program. Durig the past 50 years, over 5,000 childre have bee educated i a lovig ad urturig eviromet. I fact, curret erollmet icludes the childre ad gradchildre of former studets, demostratig the loyalty ad legacy this thrivig istitutio has geerated. I celebratio of its Golde Jubilee ad its 50 years of commitmet ad faithful to youg childre, Our Lady of Grace will host a Dier Dace ad CHILDREN THRIVE uder the care of the Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus ad Mary, who started Our Lady of Grace preschool i Stamford 50 years ago. At the ewly-fouded school, (far left) Sr. Ferada Scarlato, Mother Lillia Cairo, ad Sr. Daria Gecarelli take pleasure i the ewly-istalled image of Our Lady with her ifat so. This year s ewcomers beefit from the urturig love of Sr. Rosaa Ybaez ad Sr. Gesuia Gecarelli. car raffle of a 2013 Fiat 500 at the Italia Ceter o October 27. All proceeds from this evet will be used toward the costructio of a year-roud gymasium for the childre. (For more iformatio o the dier dace or to obtai raffle tickets, cotact Mary Lou Rialdi, Jubilee Committee chair: or marylou.rialdi@ ge.com. Detailed iformatio ca also be foud at

21 October Respect Life A story of faith ad hope The heartwarmig story of faith ad hope bega whe Eli the ubor so of Chad ad Ashley Judice was diagosed i the womb with a dreaded birth defect called spia bifida. The Judices were faced with the troublig questio of whether to abort the baby or cotiue with the pregacy. Chad Judice, author of Waitig for Eli: A Father s Jourey from Fear to Faith, will tell his movig pro-life story startig at 7 pm o October 22 at Our Lady of Assumptio Parish i Fairfield. His talk, hosted by the Respect Life Office ad the Miistry for People with Disabilities, is augmeted by a audio-visual presetatio that icludes music, family photos ad passages from the Scriptures. The medical literature idicates that 80 percet of parets i the U.S. who are iformed of this diagosis choose abortio. But the Judices did ot wat to be i that umber. Istead, they chose to pray for a miracle. Prior to the diagosis of his so, Chad Judice, a high school civics ad America history teacher, had told oe of his classes that his greatest fear i life would be to have a baby bor with a metal or physical hadicap. Ad i the blik of a eye, it became my reality, he says. A ispirig story of the fears ad hopes of a youg couple, his book bears witess to the power of faith, prayer ad perseverace. It is made eve more compellig by the author s descriptios ELI JUDICE (above) ad his dad Chad, author of Waitig for Eli: a Father s Jourey from Fear to Faith. of little miracles alog the way. These iclude the coversio of hudreds of high school studets to heartfelt prayers for the ubor child, the author s radical evolutio to a place of deep faith ad trust i God, ad the birth of their precious child. Judice will sell ad sig Waitig for Eli: A Father s Jourey from Fear to Faith. (Acadia House, $16.95) followig the presetatio i Fairfield. (I additio to the talk by Chad Judice, the Miistry for People with Disabilities is hostig a Iclusive Family Mass for people with special eeds ad their families, frieds ad staff o October 21 at 1 pm at St. Cecilia Parish i Stamford, followed by a receptio. For more iformatio o either of these evets, call Michelle O Mara: ) Are you ready for the future? Buildig Character, Faith ad Itellect. A exceptioally strog foudatio for college ad beyod. 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

22 22 October 2012 Vocatio God surprised Sr. Doris Marie WADING RIVER, NY I have come to kow all thigs are possible with God ad that GREENWICH CATHOLIC SCHOOL Where Learig Lives & Faith Grows God has may surprises, says Sr. Doris Marie Deae, CSFN, who celebrated her 25th aiversary with the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth this year. Her path to this jubilee certaily was oe of surprises. Her 25th weddig aiversary was already past history whe her husbad of 28 years died. Her search for spiritual support durig this difficult time led her to joi the Secular Fraciscas. She had bee a log-time voluteer at Pope Joh Paul Ceter for She wet o to serve for five years o the miisterial staff at St. Vicet s Medical Ceter i Bridgeport, while servig part time as the ovice director for the provice. (The CSFNs five U.S. provices merged i 2007.) Evetually, Sr. Doris Marie moved to Wadig River, NY, for Ope House Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Pre-Kidergarte - Grade 8 9:00 a.m. R. S. V. P x 100 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 SR. DORIS MARIE CELEBRATED her 25th jubilee with the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth this year. God has may surprises, she says, lookig back at the path that led to this day. Health Care i Dabury ad her devotio was well kow by the staff, icludig Sr. Fraces Smalkowski, CSFN, director of pastoral care. Over a umber of years, Doris had come to realize that belogig to the Secular Fraciscas had oly bee the begiig of her spiritual jourey. Oe ight she prayed to God ivite me ito a religious commuity. A few days later, Sr. Fraces was o the phoe, ivitig her to dier at the Motherhouse i Moroe. There, Sr. Doris Marie recalls, the road was clear! My future was walkig with Jesus. She atteded the Istitute for Religious Formatio at St. Louis Uiversity from ad the served as the director for ovices at the former Immaculate Heart of Mary Provice i Moroe for a year. her miistry. She served as the director of patiet care at Good Samarita Hospital ad Medical Ceter i West Islip, NY, ad curretly is a chaplai at Good Samarita Nursig Home i Sayville. A few days later, Sr. Fraces was o the phoe, ivitig her to dier at the Motherhouse i Moroe. There, Sr. Doris Marie recalls, the road was clear! My future was walkig with Jesus. Reflectig o her 25 years of religious life, Sr. Doris Marie otes, Most satisfyig is the fact that God has kept me close, alog with the support ad love of my sisters ad coworkers ad residets. There is othig more satisfyig tha the love of God ad the world he created. I had loged for more ad God blessed me with more tha I ca ever say i words!

23 October Review A sait for youg Christias By JAVIER SOEGAARD Fr. Aloysius Hribšek, a retired priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport ad a ative of Sloveia, offers Blessed Aloysius Grozde: A Teeage Witess for Christ the Kig, a small, egagig biography of his compatriot. He wats the very huma story of the youg ma, referred to throughout the book as Loyze, complete with his love for family, ature, faith, literature ad causig trouble to ispire faith at the Mariaum Istitute i Ljubljaa. The other studets would ofte pick o him because he was loely ad homesick. I oe of the fuier though defiitely ot to be ecouraged momets of Loyze s life, he oce respoded to a bully by displayig his obvious skill i kife-throwig. Who says saits caot have tempers! Thereafter, violece was ever Loyze s mai outlet for his feeligs ad frustratios, rather it was his poetry. Throughout the book, Fr. Hribšek does a woderful job of allowig Loyze s ow words to covey how deep this youg ma s faith ad emotios truly were. I some of his most profoud verses he says: It is so good to be aloe, Although by all the world ukow, Although igored by huma love, I kow I m loved by God above. Oh soud of silece, such sweet toe, Reflex of beauty, God s aloe, I sese its echo i my soul, Ow othig, yet possess it all. While the chapters illustratig Loyze s growth as a studet, a writer ad a leader provide a ispirig story about the huma spirit, it is the later chapters, which deal with Loyze s faith ad martyrdom, that most egage ad move the reader spiritually. The title of Chapter X reflects Loyze s ow persoal motto: The Holy Eucharist The Su of My Life. About his devotio to the Holy Mass, a fellow studet remarked, At least durig the last two years of his life, I do t recall a sigle day that he would omit receivig Commuio. Attedig Mass ad receivig Commuio were the ceter of his etire existece. This would be commedable i ay cotext, but give the violece the growig Commuist Partisas iflicted upo practicig Catholics, it was heroic. Readers who are accustomed to classic Christia martyrdom texts will ot fid aythig remiiscet of them i Fr. Hribšek s peultimate chapter. Blessed Loyze is ot recorded as recitig ay orate scriptural or liturgical verses to his captors. Rather, he stood siletly i God s Name as the soldiers publicly tortured him i a most horrible way. Readers should be wared that Fr. Hribšek does provide the precise, disturbig details of Loyze s martyrdom. However, it is clear that he does ot do this for the sake of illustratig juicy details, but rather to give the hoest story of a youg ma who gave his all for Jesus Christ ad the Church. The book is particularly appropriate for youg people because it emphasizes how Loyze s most huma qualities were, i fact, those which led him most to Christ. He is a great sait for youg Christias growig up i turbulet times, ad Fr. Hribšek should be thaked for offerig this story to the Eglish-speakig world. (Copies of Blessed Aloysius Grozde: A Teeage Witess for Christ the Kig are available through Holy Cross Parish i Fairfield. Cost: $14. For more iformatio, call the parish office: ) Carolie House begis fall semester BRIDGEPORT Mothers eedig to lear Eglish take time to atted school at Carolie House, which bega its ew school year o September 10. Located o Bridgeport s East Side, Carolie House is a odeomiatioal educatio ceter ru by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, teachig literacy ad life skills to ecoomically disadvataged immigrat wome ad providig child care ad early childhood traiig to their childre. All programs ad services are provided free of charge. Sice opeig its doors 17 years ago, Carolie House has urtured ad educated hudreds of wome ad childre. The ew school year icludes more classroom space thaks to the work of Two Brothers Old Restoratio o the 480 square foot buildig additio. This additio came just i time! says Sr. Peg Rega, SSND, executive director. We have a record high of over 100 registratios this year. Addig to the welcome for returig moms ad their childre is a beautifully maicured law ad revamped parkig lot complimets of Outdoor Law Services. (Carolie House is always i eed of voluteers to help teach Eglish ad life skills. For more iformatio, cotact Sr. Lorraie: or visit i youg people growig up i a turbulet eviromet. Loyze was bor i Gorje Vodale, Sloveia, o May 27, 1923, the illegitimate so of Frac Udov ad Marija Grozde. His birth was a source of shame, ad his mother had to labor tirelessly to support him. Growig up, Loyze s primary compaio was his aut, Ivaka. Despite Ivaka s love ad the lessos i faith ad prayer he received from his gradfather, Loyze s earliest days of life were spet feelig uwated, uloved. He would always be a outcast by his birth. It was ot util he bega his schoolig that Loyze discovered a world where he was valued ad distiguished. I these chapters, Fr. Hribšek succeeds i appealig to a broad group of youg people: the itelliget, the heartbroke, ad the troublemakers. Loyze, a extremely gifted studet, was oe of the few coutry boys erolled 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

24 24 October 2012 Sports Sacred Heart coach o the med By DON HARRISON Paul Gorham, the gruff but likeable ma who coaches football at Sacred Heart Uiversity, is t askig for a pity party, but few would fault him if he did. Gorham s life has bee tured topsy-turvy this year. Literally fightig for his survival agaist idiopathic pulmoary fibrosis, a disease of the lugs, he uderwet a double lug trasplat o March 4 i the Clevelad Cliic. After experiecig severe circulatory problems, cliic doctors were forced to amputate both legs below the kees i May. For a guy who was a All- Yakee Coferece tight ed at the Uiversity of New Hampshire ad who has eared his livelihood coachig the game at Sacred Heart for eight seasos, it was a jarrig witer ad sprig. He has bee fitted with prosthetics ad uses a walker to avigate his Cheshire home; a physical therapist appears three times a week. Ad yet the 51-year-old coach is stayig ivolved with the program; he s i touch with associate head coach Mark Nofri o a daily basis. I kow I ve bee dealt a bad 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. 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. FR. JERRY RYLE, director of Sacred Heart Uiversity s Campus Miistry, brigs SHU football coach Paul Gorham ad his family frot ad ceter at the Welcome Home Paul Mass held August 2 i the Chapel of the Holy Spirit. Paul ad Noree Gorham are the parets of Matthew, 20, ad Emma, 17. (Photo courtesy of Sacred Heart Uiversity) had, but I m ot goig to dwell o that, Gorham said i a telephoe iterview. Today was a great day. Tomorrow will be a great day The Fairfield Couty Sports Commissio will make Moday, October 15, a special day for the coach. That eveig Gorham will be preseted the Chelsea Cohe Courage Award at the commissio s eighth aual Sports Night dier at the Hyatt Regecy i Old Greewich. The award which recogizes somebody i the sports commuity who has demostrated ispiratioal stregth i battlig life-alterig challeges is sposored by the Forever Youg Foudatio, the charitable givig etity of former Greewich residet ad NFL Hall of Famer Steve Youg. I Gorham s ame, Forever Youg ad the FCSC will make a $2,000 doatio to the commissio s Chelsea Cohe Fitess Academy. The award is ice, some sort of ackowledgmet, Gorham says. But I d certaily ot like to be i the situatio to receive it. His spouse, Noree, who works i the medical field as a urse maager at Yale-New Have Hospital, says it s very iroic that her husbad was treated at the hospital this witer after experiecig breathig problems. It was at Yale that it was determied he would require the double lug trasplat. He s doig really well. He looks like hell; he s bee through a battle ad has lost a lot of weight, she says. Ever the optimist, Gorham has see a lot of good durig his legthy ordeal, which bega with a lug ifectio just after the Christmas holidays. Some oteworthy examples: The love ad devotio of Noree ad their two childre, Matthew, 20, ad Emma, 17. Matt is a juior at Brow Uiversity ad a tight ed o the Bruis football team, while Emma is a seior at Cheshire High School ad a tri-captai of the girls basketball team. I do t thik I would be here without Noree Gorham says. Just havig her here to decipher all the stuff early o whe I was sick was a blessig. The kidess of three frieds ad coachig colleagues at Brow, fellow head coach Phil Estes ad assistats Neil McGrath ad Mike Kelleher, who trasported Gorham home from Clevelad i a reted Licol Tow Car. Our golf foursome, he says. The support ad dedicatio of his log-time assistat ad liebackers coach Mark Nofri, who is directig the program i his absece. The geerosity of Laese Costructio, which has made the etraces ad master bathroom i the Gorham home hadicap-accessible. Gorham was also gratified by the uiversity s Welcome Home Paul Mass ad fudraiser i August, which raised $82,000. Approximately 300 people atteded the receptio held i the Lida E. McMaho Commos o the Sacred Heart campus; early that may gathered for the Mass i the Chapel of the Holy Spirit. It was overwhelmig that ight, Gorham says. They were expectig 100 people, ad 300 showed up. I m still receivig cards ad s from people; some of them I do t eve kow. It was a real tribute to Paul, Noree says of the fudraiser. It s touched his heart.

25 October 2012 Youth Resposibility of Catholic Citizes i a Free Society By KATHLEEN K. MORTON As Catholics i a free society, we are surrouded by challeges like poverty, abortio ad violece, which all damage the existece of humas created i the image ad likeess of God who are ofte ot able to sustai life because of society s distorted view of morality. It is our obligatio to assist ad support people who suffer these plights. As Catholics we must defed the digity of huma life, promote peace ad justice, uphold the family values that are beig destroyed. Beig Catholic i a free society is to have the ability to live our faith ad defed our religio while havig the resposibility to spread the word of God. Our first ad foremost resposibility is to Christ. Goig to Mass every week, receivig Holy Commuio, as well as livig the Gospel are all a part of beig a geuie Catholic. We are called to protect the importace of huma life by actively opposig abortio, the death pealty ad euthaasia. A millio babies are lost each year to abortio as the result of uwated pregacy ad to the destructio of huma embryos for the sake of research. It is ot eough to protest abortio, but to also provide assistace to wome so they are able to adequately raise the child they have coceived. As Catholics, we have to oppose euthaasia because it is ot our decisio, or a doctor s choice, to determie our time to die. Over 20,000 people die each year from euthaasia, ad we must oppose all legislatio ad practice of this travesty i the medical field. The way that society deals with crimials through capital puishmet is also regrettable. The defese of the commo good requires that a ujust assailat be redered uable to cause harm so a acceptable way to brig justice would be to put a crimial i jail. Killig them ad classifyig it as capital puishmet is simply a way to legalize murder, ad does ot, i the ed, brig justice to ayoe. I today s society we must ecourage true justice ad the sactity of all huma life. We must cocer ourselves with helpig the poor by voluteerig i shelters, food patries, ad soup kitches. As Catholics we must recogize those less fortuate ad help them overcome poverty. Esurig access to educatio, providig opportuities for decet work, ad givig adequate assistace to the vulerable are all admirable ways to promote Catholic teachigs. Accordig to Catholic Social Teachig, solidarity is a virtue that bids everyoe together so that we may all be oe family. This meas that we ot oly celebrate together, but suffer together as well. So, to put a ed to that sufferig, we must help the eedy i our commuities with our time, talets ad treasures. As Catholics i a free society, we are here to provide a example of moral people livig Christ-like lives i a society that ofte rejects God ad his teachigs. It is our resposibility to help spread the Gospel ot oly through our words, but our actios as well. By reachig out to the govermet o social issues, doatig time ad fiacial assistace to the Church, ad actively livig out the Gospel we ca meet ad eve exceed our obligatios as Catholics i our moder society. (Kathlee Morto, a 2012 Lauralto Hall graduate, lives i Moroe where she ad her family are members of St. Jude Parish. This essay wo the 2012 Kights of Columbus cotest: The Resposibility of the Catholic Citize i a Free Society. Milford Mayor Be Blake was the guest speaker whe Kathlee received the award. Kathlee is curretly attedig St. Joseph Uiversity i Philadelphia, PA.) 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 WHATEVER: a devotioal for twees Thoughts are powerful tools. They ca elighte ad elive, lead to actios that praise ad glorify God, or they ca drag a twee dow. The good ews is twees ca chage their lives by chagig their thoughts with help from WHATEVER: Livi the True, Noble, Totally Excellet Life! by Allia Zobel Nola. (Zoderkidz; October 2012; $6.99). WHATEVER is targeted specifically to girls 7-12; Our mid is oe of the Lord s most awesome gifts, says Zobel Nola. WHATEVER ca help twees use it to the fullest, so they ca ejoy the totally awesome life God iteded them to have. WHATEVER offers girls advice o how to stay true to God while dealig with everyday decisios, such as dressig appropriately, avoidig gossip ad white lies, curbig sarcasm, choosig frieds. The book also ecourages girls to rethik the egative aspect of the overused word, Whatever, ad istead, usig the les of Philippias 4:8, to thik positively about whatever is true, whatever is oble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, ad whatever is admirable. I focused o girls thikig about lovely thigs istead of gross or stupid thigs, says Nola. I the last chapters I focused o peace, ad how if you keep your mid full of the Whatever values, it will lead to a more peaceful life. Nola ad her husbad, Desmod, are members of St. Jerome Parish i Norwalk. (Nola will have two book sigigs i October. She will be at the Fairfield Uiversity Book Store, 1499 Post Rd., Fairfield , o October 13, from 3-4:30 pm; ad at Morigstar Books, 72 Newtow Rd., Dabury , o October 20 from 10:30 am-3:30 pm, with a readig at 11 am.) 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 October 7: Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary: Missa Ave maris stella (Victoria); Ave Maria (Victoria); (with the Studet Schola) Friday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.: Recital by Terrece B. Fay, tromboe & teor - with Alexis Zigale, piao: At the Ed of the Cetury: Music of Puccii, Vaugha Williams, Fizi, Larso, Filas. October 14: Twetieth Suday after Petecost: Missa D ug aultre amer (Josqui) October 21: Twety-First Suday after Petecost: Missa Au travail suis (Ockeghem) October 28: Feast of Christ the Kig: Missa O Rex gloriæ (Palestria) Thursday, November 1, 5:30 p.m.: All Saits Day: Missa Octavi toi (Lassus); Christe Redemptor omium (Victoria) (with the Studet Schola) Friday, November 2, 5:30 p.m.: All Souls Day: Missa pro defuctis (Lassus) November 4: Twety-Third Suday after Petecost: Missa Ua musque de Buscaya (Josqui) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 7:30 p.m.: ANNUAL ST. CECILIA CONCERT The St. Mary s Schola Catorum: Music of Dedicatio November 11: Twety-Fourth Suday after Petecost: Missa Mete tota (Févi) 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. 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26 26 October 2012 Obituaries Sr. Olimpia, 101 Sr. Olimpia Nowakowska, CSFN, a ative of Worcester, MA, died o August 21 at the age of 101 at the Sisters of Nazareth care facility i Moroe. The oldest of eight childre, Hele Nowakowska was bor i After movig to Philadelphia to atted Nazareth Academy, she joied the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth (CSFN). She taught i Philadelphia ad Brookly before beig set to Europe, professig her perpetual vows i Rome i 1935 after preparig at the CSFN ovitiate i Albao, Italy. She studied at Jagelloia Uiversity i Krakow, spedig aother three years i Europe. Returig to the States i 1938, she resumed her studies, earig a BA i educatio from Villaova Uiversity, Philadelphia. Later she was awarded her master s i Lati, Eglish ad Library Studies, also from Villaova. A laguage ad library scholar, Sr. Olimpia taught ad served as pricipal ad local superior i Philadelphia; upstate New York; Log Islad, Brookly ad Coecticut. She retired to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Provicialate i Moroe i She maaged the gift shop there util her fial retiremet at age 91 i Her creativity foud expressio i the gardes at the House of Prayer ad at the Moroe gift shop, where her crafts ad surprise packages were featured items. I her later years, cofied to her room at the covet i Moroe, Sr. Olimpia had these words o her wall: To love ad to be loved is the greatest joy i the world. Sr. Mary Elizabeth Tobi, RSCJ Sr. Mary Elizabeth Tobi, iteratioal ad local leader, educator, ad spiritual director, died at Teresia House i Albay, NY, o September 9. A extraordiary model of how to live religious FUNERAL GUIDE life, she loved life ad was always ready to take o a ew challege. Maribeth Tobi was bor August 1, 1917, i Albay ad was a aluma of Kewood Covet of the Sacred Heart there. She etered the Society of the Sacred Heart i 1939 ad made her fial vows o July 30, 1947, at the Society of the Sacred Heart motherhouse i Rome. Sr. Tobi eared a bachelor of arts degree i sociology from Mahattaville College, NY, ad a masters i guidace ad couselig from Fordham cotiued o page 29 Sr. Rosemary Delaey, SSND Sr. Rosemary Delaey, who served as a teacher, pricipal ad admiistrative assistat i schools i five differet East Coast states, died o September 10 at Lourdes Health Care Ceter i Wilto, of cardiac arrest. She was 83 years old ad had bee a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 63 years. Rosemary Delaey was bor o February 17, 1929, i New York City to Irish immigrat parets. She etered the School Sisters of Notre Dame, takig the religious ame of Sr. Nicholas Mari, ad professed her first vows i She professed her fial vows i Sr. Rosemary graduated from Nazareth College i Rochester, NY. She eared a master s i educatio admiistratio from Villaova Uiversity. She taught i New York, Georgia, Marylad, ad was a elemetary school pricipal i New Jersey before comig to Coecticut. I 1984, Sr. Rosemary joied the Trumbull-Moroe Catholic School System, servig as a secretary at St. Theresa School i Trumbull for five years. I 1990, she left the school miistry to become a admiistrative assistat i the fiace office of Villa Notre Dame, home to retired SSNDs i Wilto. She remaied i service there for 17 years, util retirig to prayer ad presece i NEIL F. HARDING Director/Ower Hardig FUNERAL HOME 203/ FAX 203/ POST ROAD EAST WESTPORT, CT Deceased Clergy of the Diocese of Bridgeport October 7-November 17 August Year 29 Rev. Joseph Lick October Year 14 Msgr. Raymod H. Guidoe Msgr. Joh V. Horga Kug Msgr. Beedict Tighe Bishop Walter W. Curtis Rev. Corelius J. Looey Msgr. David F. Bao Doald Foseca, Permaet Deaco Rev. Robert C. Frakli Joh Kucera, Permaet Deaco Rev. Michael A. D Elia Msgr. Leo M. Fi Rev. Fracis D. McKea November Year 3 Msgr. Joseph A. Heffera Thomas P. Freibott, Permaet Deaco Rev. Berard Dola Rev. Stephe A. Grivalsky Rev. Gerard C. Maso Msgr. Victor J. Torres-Frias Msgr. Alphose J. V. Fiedorczyk Rev. M. Steve Barrett, S.S Rev. Joh P. Odie 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 October Nuestra Voz Puertorriqueña es presidete del Club Rotario Por SONIA BURNS Dar de si mismo, ates de pesar e si mismo es el lema iteracioal del Club Rotario, que ombró presidete el pasado 26 de juio a la Señora Rosa Correa de Bridgeport. La Señora Correa es puertorriqueña y perteece a la Parroquia Catedral e Bridgeport. Co ua ceremoia llea de regocijo como lo merece la Señora Correa, la hora social fue etreteida por el grupo Dúo Herecia, compuesto por iños hispaos. Co sus tradicioales istrumetos puertorriqueños, el cuatro y la guitarra, deleitaro a los presetes co la bella música de Puerto Rico durate la jurametació. El Padre Gustavo A. Falla, director del miisterio de los católicos que habla español e la Diócesis de Bridgeport, participó e la emotiva ceremoia y efatizó el lema del Club durate su oració iicial, otado el compromiso de aportar y recaudar fodos para ayudar a los más ecesitados e las comuidades locales e iteracioales. Cuado se habla de liderazgo etre los católicos de habla hispaa e la Diócesis de Bridgeport es ecesario mecioar el ombre de Rosa Correa, dice el Padre Falla. Rosa, co su dedicació y etrega, ha represetado los itereses de la comuidad o sólo e el ámbito público sio tambié persoal. Segú el Padre Falla, ua coversació co Rosa Correa acerca de lo que ha sido el peregriar de los católicos de habla hispaa e uestra diócesis puede equivaler, fácilmete, a ua cátedra uiversitaria! Para ser presidete del Club Rotario es ecesario haber sido u líder comuitario, y esos requisitos fuero ecotrados e Rosa Correa. A través de los años, Bridgeport ha sido horado de teer como hija a la Señora Correa. Desde muy tempraa edad, después de su llegada de Puerto Rico, Rosa se ha dedicado al servicio de la comuidad y a la defesa de los derechos, a favor del hispao y del más ecesitado, ya sea e el campo social como los de la iglesia. Rosa ha perteecido a u si úmero de orgaizacioes comuitarias y diocesaas cuyos fies ha sido recoocidos a ivel local y acioal. El Club Rotario de Bridgeport fue fudado el 3 de marzo del año 1919, y ha ayudado a muchos programas desde su istalació. Este club abraza los grupos éticos, culturales, sociales y religiosos, y todos se ue para trabajar co el mismo fi para patrociar proyectos locales y e otras partes del mudo. Como presidete del Club durate el año 2012 al 2013, Rosa dice que va a exteder sus esfuerzos para ayudar a la iñez y jóvees de la ciudad de Bridgeport, FUNERAL GUIDE Collis Fueral Home 92 East Aveue Norwalk William A. Skidd William R. Kelley 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 INTERVIEWED BY BALTIMORE MEDIA, Rosa Correa spoke of Archbishop William E. Lori s achievemets i the Diocese of Bridgeport. She ad her husbad, Eddie, were amog the delegatio from this diocese ivited to Archbishop Lori s istallatio Mass. This Jue, she became the first Hispaic to be amed presidet of the Rotary Club i Bridgeport. (Photo by Pat Heessy) icluyedo ua galería de arte e colaboració co Housatoic Commuity College para estudiates de tercer año de escuela. Co el apoyo de la Fudació Aie E. Casey, durate el año cada iño e el tercer grado recibe u diccioario. Los miembros rotarios participará e los programas de lectura e la clase, Quiet Digity Without Extravagace Affordable Direct Crematio Title XIX Welcome Z Family owed for three geeratios Z Call for free iformative brochure Z or 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 tutores, metores, y orgaizará recaudació de abrigos y otras ecesidades básicas para los iños ecesitados e la ciudad. E Cetral High School e Bridgeport, el Club Iteract de Rotary participa siguiedo el lema del Club, bajo la direcció de su metor, la Señora Cathy Chimii. La Señora Correa cosiete de la importacia del Club Iteract, plaea establecerlo e los demás colegios de la ciudad. El Club Rotario proporcioa becas a los tres colegios secudarios de la Ciudad de Bridgeport y al colegio de Kolbe-Cathedral de la Diócesis de Bridgeport. El Club tambié recooce el trabajo de los maestros ejemplares de los dos sistemas educativos. El Club Rotario de Bridgeport tambié trabaja co el Festival de Barum para ayudar a los cetros de distribució de comida religiosos y sociales. Tambié los fodos recaudados aualmete ayuda a grupos si lucro e la comuidad que se esfuerza para mejorar la calidad de vida de muchas persoas que perteece a su orgaizació. Como presidete de ta importate orgaizació, o se le hará difícil a la Señora Correa desempeñar ta merecido cargo e sitoía co sus creecias religiosas, ella provee oportuidades para resaltar los valores culturales que caracteriza a uestra comuidad. E realidad somos más parecidos que diferetes, y uiedo uestros esfuerzos a través del Club Rotario, os ayuda a cumplir co uestro deber de servir y hacer vivir las palabras de Sa Fracisco de Asís Es Mejor Dar que Recibir, dice la Señora Correa. El Padre Falla idica que Rosa os da u ejemplo que ecesitamos seguir, especialmete e este tiempo e el que la preocupació por el bieestar de los demás parece haber pasado a u segudo o tercer plao. Cuado dedicamos uestro tiempo y taleto a la búsqueda del bie comú, damos muestra de lo que sigifica la caridad e acció, la idispesable misericordia de la que habla el Evagelio. Teemos ua deuda de gratitud co Rosa y co su familia, de hecho, co todos los que, desiteresadamete, promueve el bieestar de la comuidad.

28 28 October 2012 Colum Whe my o-sacrametal marriage eded, I moved i with my parets. My bedroom was i oe corer of the basemet family room. I wated to go to sleep for about a decade ad wake up with a differet life. Three days after I desceded upo my parets home, Dad tured to me while eatig breakfast, ad said, Get dressed. We re goig to Edwardsville. Okay. What s i Edwardsville? I asked. I m takig you to get your substitute teachig licese. Oh, Dad. The groa came from the depths, from that awful place where the pai had settled, a pai I was sure would ever Work is good therapy Catholic by Grace By Deise Bossert Deise Bossert is a atioally sydicated Catholic columist. leave. I did ot wat to substitute i ay classroom. I did ot wat to teach at all. I wated to go back to sleep ad stay i bed forever. Ad I did t wat a bed i the corer of their basemet. I wated my ow master bedroom ad the life I had expected to live. Work is good therapy, Deise. That oe lie would become oe of those dad-isms that would stay with me forever. I dragged myself away from the table, showered ad dressed. I spet the last six weeks of that school year substitutig i classrooms all over Collisville, Illiois. The calls came aroud five i the morig. The phoe hug o the wall above my head. I hated that phoe. I had a otepad by the bed o which to write the directios whe a call came. Through sleepy fog, I would scratch the ames of streets, alog with a series of rights ad lefts. I would hag up the phoe, doubtful that I could fid the school. Cofidet I did t wat to fid the school. Positive I eeded to fid the school because I was broke. My husbad ad I were separated but ot divorced. Havig o legal obligatio to cotribute to our fiacial eeds, my husbad decided that $40 a moth would suffice. Ad so, I relied o substitute teachig to get us through each moth. I did ot wat to live like this. I did ot wat to do aythig to support a life I did t ejoy. I wated to sleep. Ad ever wake up. I was supposed to be the happy mother of three childre, livig i suburbia, with a husbad. I was ot supposed to be substitutig i a kidergarte classroom whe my degree was i secodary Eglish educatio. O the way to the school, the tears would come. I could t hold them back. Tears ad more tears. I arrived at the schools each morig ad waited for five miutes to pass so that my face would retur to ormal after the oslaught of a early morig meltdow. I would check my face i the mirror. Get rid of the mascara uder my eyes. Ope the door ad step out of the car. Ad I would head ito the school. It was my daily routie for six weeks. Work is good therapy. Dad was t the oly oe who kew it was true. The Church kows it s true. We are all called to hold the uemployed ad the uderemployed i our hearts as we pray for work security. There is a digity i work. It ca get us out of ourselves. It restores hope, gets us dreamig agai. It makes us sleep better at ight. It gives us a reaso to get up. It helps us to pay the bills. It There is a digity i work. It gives us a reaso to get up. It remids us that we are still alive. remids us that we are still alive. It gets us through to aother job, a better job. It helps us to pipoit our stregths. It ca eve become a prayer. I thik it is also a kid of ritual. My ritual icluded submissio ad tears ad agoized lamets ad acceptace. Ad I got stroger. Miracle of miracles, I foud my way back to livig. Today, I get up early every morig. I choose to do it early eough that I ca go to daily Mass throughout the summer. Ad durig the school year early eough that I ca drive to a little school out i the middle of rural Missouri ad teach. I love teachig. I love, love, love it. Ad I still pray as I drive each morig. There are o tears. But it is still a ritual. Ad I suppose it is still good therapy, though I do t really eed it to be a kid of therapy aymore. Work is restorative. It really is. Pray that all may have meaigful employmet ad that the miracle-of-employmet will reew the hearts of so may who have forgotte how to embrace a morig surise. 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 October Colum The Frieds who got away We are molded ad remolded by those who have loved us, ad though the love may pass, we are, evertheless, their work, for good or bad (Fracois Mauriac). We all have oe: a story about a fried who got away. Ad at the heart of each story is the recogitio that we do t forget it the loss of a friedship. My life is riddled with holes where frieds oce were, people who were my compagos de voyage. It seems that friedship is so vulerable, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies. There was my boyhood buddy, Doald, with whom I Potpourri By Thomas H. Hicks Thomas Hicks is a member of St. Theresa Parish i Trumbull. oce ra had i had kickig up the leathery leaves dow Stahope Street so may years ago. There were all the small advetures we shared. That sweet compaio of my boyhood moved whe we were ie years old. It was a kid of heartbreak. I did t wat him to go. O movig day, Doald ad I promised we d keep i touch. We did t. The he ra dow the sidewalk, ad it was the last time I ever saw him. Whe I ca t sleep at ight, I sometimes thik about Doald. I woder where he is, what he s doig. Did he ever thik of me? I met Joh at college. The two of us had a chemistry together. There was the delicious feelig of uity ad safety together. We cowrote papers, spet several vacatios together. He was a fried with whom I was certai I would grow old. At a relatively youg age, Joh died of colo cacer. This may soud strage, but I thik that, though I expected Joh to die, I did ot expect him to stay dead. Whe he did stay dead, year after year, I was astoished by it. He is still sugly housed i my heart. There was Barbara, i the bloom of youg womahood, shyly ad effortlessly lovely. She wore o makeup ad just a little perfect jewelry. She made little motios which edeared her to me, like her etracig way of pursig ad partig her lips, tuckig a stray hair behid her ear while chattig, edig her seteces i a soft modulatio upwards. I could ever hear my ame i her fresh youg trill without a stir of pleasure. Ad she smiled a rare surise smile. I leared from her how sweet a huma presece could be, For a time she made me feel so ecessary. The relatioship looseed, somehow uraveled. I thik we recogized we were fudametally differet. We stayed i touch itermittetly through occasioal phoe calls, ad the it eded. Now I feel my heart skip a beat whe I see a youg woma of a certai femiie grace emerge from a Carvel or wait i frot of a Starbucks, givig someoe she suddely spots o the street a big smile as Barbara used to greet me. Barbara comes back to me. Where is she ow? Other friedships formed ad faded. There are may reasos why friedships fail or ed: life chages a move, a marriage, a baby, someoe s career success. Wouded pride plays a part, as do resetmets, a sese of betrayal. Oe or the other makes a misjudgmet, ad misuderstadigs are uresolved; words of apology or explaatio uspoke. Somethig shifts somewhere; thigs are ot as they used to be. Friedships ca blow up or fade out. Some friedships probably just ru their course, ru out of breath. As I look back o my life, I wish I had hadled some thigs differetly, tried to save what was there betwee us, ot let it flow away so easily. I hear the voice of love lost or ot pursued, a valued relatioship give up. I our ecouters with others we fail ad are failed. I some elemetal way lost frieds are ever reliquished. They are ghosts who will ot depart. They remai a presece, a regret, a ache. They caot be scraped away, they are idelible imprits. I believe frieds are ot part of our lives by accidet. They are assiged to us by God. Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us. I could ot imagie what I would have bee without them, or ca I imagie it to this day because they are i so may ways a part of me still. Aristotle said that frieds are eeded for happiess, they eoble huma life. May God bless ad guide all those frieds who came i ad out of my life. Perhaps the most astoishig thig is ot the friedships we have lost, but those we have kept. To have formed a few very deep ad lastig friedships is the blessig of a lifetime. Sr. Tobi from page 26 Uiversity. She later received a certificate i spirituality from the Jesuit School of Theology at Loyola Uiversity, Chicago, IL. From 1942 util 1961, Sr. Tobi served as teacher ad pricipal i Sacred Heart schools i Washigto, DC; Coecticut; Marylad; ad Pesylvaia. From , she was local superior for the Society of the Sacred Heart i Philadelphia. I 1964 she was called to serve as assistat geeral of the iteratioal Society of the Sacred Heart i Rome. She was resposible for dialogue ad commuicatio with all Eglish-speakig RSCJ throughout the world durig the post-vatica II years of chage. From , she worked as spiritual director ad couselor i retreat ceters i Bosto ad Washigto, DC. She was remembered at a Mass of Christia Burial o September 14 at Teresia House i Albay. Burial followed i the Kewood cemetery i Albay. SAINTLYLIVES BY ED WALDRON

30 30 October 2012 Bits & Pieces MARIAN LADIES GROUP at St. George Parish, Bridgeport, meets two Wed. a moth (Oct. 10 & 24). Mass i the chapel at 8 am; social ad Rosary follow. For more iformatio, call LOOK GOOD FEEL BETTER program to help female cacer patiets will be held at St. Vicet s Medical Ceter, Bridgeport, o Thurs., Oct. 11, from 1-3 pm. Luch is provided. Reservatios required. For more iformatio ad for reservatios, call FLANAGAN S WAKE: a off-broadway productio, will be show at St. A Parish, Bridgeport, o Fri., Oct. 12, at 7 pm. Tickets: $60/perso icludes the show, a beer or wie, ad a cored beef sadwich. For more 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 iformatio or for tickets, cotact or visit GOSPEL OF LIFE SOCIETY meets the secod Sat. of the moth (Oct. 13) at St. Mary Parish, Norwalk, at 10 am after the 9 am Pro-Life Mass. For more iformatio, cotact Eilee Biachii: or stmarygols@aol.com. MASS OF HEALING AND HOPE sposored by the Charismatic Reewal Office will be offered Mo., Oct. 15, at 7:30 pm at Christ the Kig Parish, Trumbull, with Fr. Larry Carew. For more iformatio, call MAGNIFICAT miistry to Catholic Wome will host a prayer breakfast o Sat., Oct. 20, from 9:30 am-12:30 pm at CATHOLIC PROFESSIONAL NETWORK FREE WINTERSTORAGE of Boat & Patio Cushios Whe we clea & saitize them Norwalk (203) Stamford (203) Stratford (203) the Amber Room Coloade, Dabury. Katherie Valetie will be the guest speaker. Cost: $25. No tickets at the door, register by Sat., Oct. 13. For more iformatio, cotact Fra Hood: or s.m.hood@sbcglobal.et. CATHOLIC FELLOWSHIP OF CT ivites Catholics i their 20s, 30s ad 40s, sigle or married, to a 5 pm Mass followed by a beer & pizza social at Assumptio Parish, Westport o Sat., Oct. 13. Meet ew faces ad coect with likemided Catholic professioals. No charge. For more ifo, go to catholicfellowship@ymail.com. SECULAR FRANCISCAN Holy Spirit Fraterity ivites everyoe to Day of Reflectio ad spiritual reewal with Fra Karpiej, OFS, of Sharig Christ Miistry at St. Emery Parish, Fairfield, o Sat., Oct. 13, from 9:30 am-3 pm. Brig a bag luch; driks provided. For more iformatio, call INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL will be held at St. Mary Parish, Norwalk, o Sat., Oct. 13. Ejoy food from over 20 coutries; live etertaimet. Servigs at 5:15 & 8:15 pm. Cost: Adults, $15; childre 5-12, $5; age 4 ad uder, free. For more iformatio call the parish: Fall 2012 SHARE for the Diocese of Bridgeport courses All the classes will be held o Tuesday ad Wedesday eveigs 7pm to 9pm at: Sacred Heart Uiversity Stamford Campus 12 Omega Drive, Stamford, CT Psalms: Fear, abadomet, doubt, thaksgivig, commuio, joy these are just some of the huma emotios we fid throughout the tremedous poetry of the 150 Psalms. Through our careful prayer ad study of these Psalms we rediscover the beautiful truth that our faith is ot measured by the quality of our cries, but by our egagemet with a total huma experiece before God. Most of all, through our study of the Psalms we WALK 4 WATER, a educatioal experiece, will be held Sat., Oct. 20, o the grouds of Fairfield Hills i Newtow. Water is a fudametal right, says David Plaue, a member of St. Rose of Lima Parish i Newtow. Access to clea water is essetial to basic huma digity. Participats will work the first mile ad a half empty-haded, ad carry two, two-liter bottles for the ext mile ad a half. For more iformatio, cotact Plaue: or david@digdeepwater.org. PASTA DINNER will be offered at Holy Cross Parish, Fairfield, o Sat., Oct. 13, at 6 pm. Cost: $10 adults, $5 childre 5-15; childre uder 5, free. For reservatios or more iformatio, call TAG SALE sposored by the Cofraterity of the Rosary at St. Theresa Parish, Trumbull, will be held Sat., Oct. 13, from 9:30 am-3 pm. For more iformatio, call WINE AND FOOD TASTING FESTIVAL will take will lear to pray both i the depths of our hearts ad i the liturgies of our Church. 6-week course: Wedesdays, October 10, 17, 24, November 7, 14 Istructor: Fr. Peter Lych $210 Iterfaith Dialogue: A examiatio of Church documets ad pertiet theological isights o relatios with other Christia faiths as well as with o-christia religios. 4-week course: Tuesdays, October 16, 23, 30, November 6 Istructor: Professor Michael Caaris $140 place at St. Gregory the Great Parish, Dabury, o Su., Oct. 14, from 6-8 pm. Sample wies ad offerigs from 20 restaurats. Cost: $20 prepaid; $25 at the door. For more iformatio or for tickets call Diaa: YEAR OF FATIH: Catholic Laity: Called ad Gifted is the theme of a presetatio by Dr. Joa Kelly for Christ the Kig Parish, Trumbull, Wome s Club o Mo., Oct. 15, at 10:30 am. All are ivited; suggested doa- SHARE (Sacred Heart Adult Religious Educatio) for the Diocese of Bridgeport is a four-year certificate program created through a partership betwee Sacred Heart Uiversity ad the Diocese of Bridgeport. This theology program for adults will help Catholics uderstad their faith ad empower them to put it ito actio. SHARE has a o-test format. Studets ca take oe or more classes, or complete the etire four-year certificate program from SHU ad the Diocese. Visit us o the web for more iformatio Catholic Social Teachig: A study of Catholic Social Teachig grouded i Scripture, the social ecyclicals, begiig with Rerum Novarum ad Gaudium et Spes. Special emphasis should be give to the pastoral letters ad other authoritative statemets by the U.S. bishops o the ecoomy, war ad peace, capital puishmet, immigratio, ad poverty. 6-week course: Tuesdays, November 13, 20, 27, December 4, 11, 18 Istructor: Dr. Jue-A Greeley $210 * Religious sisters i the diocese please SHARE@diobpt.org directly to register for courses, or call

31 October Bits & Pieces tio: $5. For more iformatio, call Pat: AUTUMN LECTURE SERIES Catholic Idetity: Reewig Our Appreciatio, with Dr. Joa Kelly, will be held eight Tues. eveigs at St. Pius X Parish, Fairfield, from 7:30-8:30 pm begiig Tues., Oct. 16. Course is complimetary. For more iformatio, call , ext. 10. CURSILLO ULTREYAS are held at locatios aroud the diocese: Thurs., Oct. 18, at St. Mary Parish, Bethel; at 7:30 pm; Wed., Oct. 24, at St. Mary Parish, Ridgefield, at 7:30 pm; Tues., Nov. 6, TBD, Bridgeport, at 7 pm; ad Thurs., Nov. 15, at St. Mary Parish, Bethel, at 7:30 pm. For more iformatio, cotact Jeaette: jkovacs@set.et. HOW CAN THE DREAM SURVIVE? a talk by Dr. Alveda Kig, iece of Dr. Marti Luther Kig, Jr., will be preseted at St. Theresa Parish, Trumbull, o Thurs., Oct. 18, at 7:30 pm. Doors ope at 6:30. No charge; free-will offerig. For more iformatio, call CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, St. Mary School, Bethel, 5k, 10k, Kids FuRu races will be held at the Bethel Muicipal Ceter o Thurs., Oct. 20, startig at 8:30 am. Stick aroud after the races for live music, refreshmets, ad a fitess & lifestyle vedor expo. For more iformatio, call the school, or register at HARVEST/HOLIDAY FAIR will be held at St. Mary Parish, Stamford, o Sat., Oct. 20, from 10 am-5 pm. Gifts ad crafts, bake sale, raffle, beverages ad luch items. Vedors welcome. For more iformatio, call Sharo MacKight: or smackight@optolie.et. YEAR OF FAITH presetatio: Your Faith has Saved You, by Fr. Peter Camero O.P., editor-i-chief of Magificat, will be held Mo., Oct. 22, at 7:30 pm at St. Rose of Lima Parish, Newtow. For more iformatio, call the parish: RAISING A SECURE CHILD: a series of talks o the importace of a child s early years by Doa Taylor, a specialist i early childhood educatio, will be held Tues. morigs at St. Lawrece Parish, Shelto: Oct. 23, ad Nov. 6 & Nov. 20, from 10 am-12 oo. For more iformatio, call INTERNATIONAL CONCERT PIANIST Vaessa Perez will perform at St. Luke Parish, Westport, o Fri., Oct. 26, at 7:30 pm. The cocert will beefit Carolie House i Bridgeport. Tickets: $65 icludes cocert ad dessert receptio. For more iformatio ad for tickets, call Carolie House: or GALA FUNDRAISER to beefit St. Theresa Parish, Trumbull, will be held at Vazzao s Four Seasos, Stratford, o Sat., Oct. 27. The Gala will hoor former pastor Msgr. Louis deprofio ad parishioer Toy Salce. For iformatio, call Terrace Walsh: or 2012fudraiser@sttheresatrumbull.org. HOLIDAY FAIR will be held at Our Lady of Grace Parish, Stratford, o Sat., Nov. 3, from 9 am-3 pm. Craft tables, bake sale, auctio, prizes. Luch available. For more iformatio, call CHRISTMAS FAIR will be held at our Lady of Good Cousel Chapel, Bridgeport, o Sat., Nov. 17, from 11 am-6 pm. Lots of food from hamburgers to stuffed cabbage, bake sale, crafts, white elephat corer. Vedor tables available for $25. To reserve a table, call Migdalia: LOOKING FOR VENDORS/CRAFTERS for the St. Bridget of Irelad Parish, Stamford, Holiday Boutique to be held Sat., Dec. 1. Cost: $60/table. For more iformatio, cotact the parish office: BridgetCT@aol.com or JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME a 15-day pilgrimage to the Holy Lad, Cairo ad Rome will be hosted by St. Mary ad St. Beedict-Our Lady of Motserrat parishes i Stamford with Fr. Rolado Torres startig Sat., Feb. 11, Cost: $4,023. For more iformatio, cotact Fr. Torres: or roladomalak@gmail.com. SPRING VACATION CRUISE to beefit the Playgroud Improvemet Fud at St. Lawrece School, Shelto, will take place o Apr , o the RCCL Oasis of the Seas. For more iformatio, call Home Care o Call PROFESSIONAL CARE IN THE COMFORTS OF HOME Compassioate I-Home Care Persoal Care Trasportatio Medical Remiders Meal Preparatio for Shoppig & Errads 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 Autum Lecture Series with Dr. Joa Kelly Catholic Idetity: Reewig Our Appreciatio begiig October 16, 2012 eight Tuesday eveigs 7:30-8:30pm i the Sait Pius X Religious Educatio Buildig 834 Brookside Drive, Fairfield, Coecticut All are welcome! Course is complimetary. For more iformatio , Ext. 10

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