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should contact Melissa Davis at (601)
270-1476. For other information about
the parade, contact Charles Childress at
(504) 975-2485 or e-mail charles.chil-
.
A silent auction will again be part
of the festival’s activities. If you would
like to donate items for the Irish-Italian
Festival Silent Auction this year, contact
Sharon McGregor at (601) 268-1879,
(601) 268-3576 or Sherry Finneran at
(601) 408-7209.
T-shirts will be available for purchase
Feb. 28-March 1 following Mass at the
church. Shirts are $10 and there is a lim-
ited quantity.
For more information about the 2015
Irish-Italian Festival, call the church at
(601) 264-5192; visit the church website
at
St. Thomas Aquinas
Irish Italian Fest
HATTIES-
BURG -- The
St.
Thomas
Aquinas Cath-
olic
Church
I r i s h - I t a l i an
Festival
re-
turns March 14
from 5-10 pm
at the church,
located at 3117
West Fourth
Street,
with
great food, music and fun for the entire
family. The church welcomes all mem-
bers of the Hattiesburg area community
and beyond to attend, including Mass
prior to the festival at 4 pm. The Irish-
Italian Parade will also be part of the fes-
tivities again, and will begin rolling the
morning of festival day at 10:30 am.
Keith’s Superstore has a number of
floats available for rental for the parade.
Organizations interested in being part of
the parade and in need of a float rental
KC Council 7087 Bingo
KILN -- Beginning March 4, Knights
of Columbus Council 7087 sponsors
Wednesday Night Bingo at the KC Hall,
22424 Hwy 603. Doors open at 6:30 pm
and Bingo starts at 7 pm. Refreshments
will be available.
Volunteers Needed!!!
St. Vincent de Paul Community Phar-
macy has an immediate need for volun-
teers to work on Monday mornings as
Program Screeners in our Moss Point
Extension Site. Screeners meet with pro-
spective clients to determine eligibility
for the program, and are an integral part
of our operation. Our Volunteer Screen-
ers use a set format to interview clients
and examine things such as: income, ex-
penses, available community resources,
and medicines being requested. Any ex-
perience working in the medical field,
case management, or social work is a
plus. Hours of work are 9 am to Noon.
For more information please call our of-
fice at (228) 374-9097 or visit our web-
site:
St. Charles Borromeo
Lenten Mission
PICAYUNE -- St. Charles Borromeo
Parish, 1000 Goodyear Blvd., will host a
Lenten Mission March 23-25 at 6:30 pm
each evening. This year’s Lenten Mis-
sion will be conducted by two Redemp-
torist Fathers: Father Steven Wilson,
CSsR, and Father Chuong Cao, CSsR.
Father Chuong currently serves as pastor
of two parishes in East Biloxi and Father
Steve spent ten years in the Diocese of
Biloxi until he was appointed to direct
the Redemptorist seminary program in
New York. The Theme of the Mission is
“Union with God.”
Over three nights, Father Steve and
Father Chuong will talk about exploring
those things that separate us from God,
how we overcome them, and the life that
follows. Both priests will be available for
individual confessions the hour imme-
diately preceding the mission and each
night will be followed with refreshments
and a time for fellowship.
St. Mary Seafood
Gumbo Dinner
WOOLMARKET -- The Knights of
Columbus will host a Seafood Gumbo
Dinner at St. Mary Catholic Church, 8343
Woolmarket Road, on Sunday, March 1,
9:30 am-2 pm. Dine-in or Take-out will
be available. Cost is $10 per bowl with
extras, child’s plate $7, one quart $15.
P
ope
-P
riests
From page 17
As Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he was a cardi-
nal-member of the congregation. After he presented the
reflection, he said, Cardinal Joachim Meisner “repri-
manded me a bit strongly over some things,” as well as
then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who “told me that
something very important was missing in the ‘ars cel-
ebrandi,’ which was the feeling of being before God.
And he was right, I had not spoken about this,” he said,
adding that both cardinals had given him good advice.
“For me the key of ‘ars celebrandi’ takes the path of
recovering the allure of beauty, the wonder both of the
person celebrating and the people, of entering in an
atmosphere that is spontaneous, normal and religious,
but isn’t artificial, and that way you recover a bit of the
wonder,” he said.
Sometimes there are priests who celebrate Mass in
a way that is “very sophisticated, artificial,” or who
“abuse the gestures” he said.
If the priest is “excessively” focused on the rubrics
that indicate the movements and particular gestures
during Mass and “rigid, I do not enter into the mystery”
because all one’s energy and attention are on the form,
he said.
The other extreme, he said, is “if I am a showman,
the protagonist” of the Mass, “then I do not enter into
the mystery” either.
While the idea is simple, “it is not easy” to elicit this
sense of wonder and mystery, he said. But nonetheless,
he said, the celebration of Mass is about entering into
and letting others enter into this mystery.
The celebrant “must pray before God, with the com-
munity,” in a genuine and natural way that avoids all
forms of “artificiality,” he said.
Concerning the homily, the pope again suggested
clergy read Jesuit Father Domenico Grasso’s
“Proclaiming God’s Message: A Study in the Theology
of Preaching”
and Jesuit Father Hugo Rahner’s
“Theology of Proclamation,”
adding that what distin-
guished Father Hugo Rahner from his theologian
brother, Jesuit Father Karl Rahner, was that “Hugo
writes clearly.”
Before the pope’s talk, Cardinal Agostino Vallini,
vicar of Rome, said he and his audience were ready to
reflect together with the pope on what French theolo-
gian Father “Louis Bouyer called the danger of the
‘nausea of the word’ in the liturgy caused by an infla-
tion of words that are at times repetitive, a bit trite,
obscure or moralistic and that do not pierce the heart.”
The cardinal said they try to preach well, but are
always looking for improvement.
“A good homily leaves its mark,” he said, while a
homily “that is lacking does not bear fruit and, on the
contrary, can even make people give up on Mass.”
“We want our words to set people’s hearts on fire”
and want the faithful “to be enlightened and encouraged
to live a new life and never be forced to suffer through
our homilies,” he said.
Pope urges cardinals to go in
search of the lost, bring them in
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church
cannot call itself church if it is a “closed caste” where
the sick, the wounded and sinners are shunned, Pope
Francis told the 20 new cardinals he created. “The
way of the church is precisely to leave her four walls
behind and to go out in search of those who are dis-
tant, those essentially on the outskirts of life,” the
pope said Feb. 15 as he celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s
Basilica with 19 of the churchmen who received their
red hats the day before and with about 140 other
members of the College of Cardinals. “Total open-
ness to serving others is our hallmark; it alone is our
title of honor,” he told the men often referred to as
“princes of the church.” The Mass capped a four-day
gathering of the cardinals. They met with Pope
Francis Feb. 12-13 to review ideas for the reform of
the Roman Curia and Vatican finances as well as the
progress made in the work of the Pontifical
Commission for the Protection of Minors. The pope’s
homily at Mass with the cardinals, the meditation on
love and charity he offered Feb. 14 when he created
the new cardinals and his exhortation that the Curia
reform emphasize its role of service echo remarks he
had made as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of
Buenos Aires at the meetings immediately preceding
his election in March 2013.
