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Gulf Pine Catholic • May 31, 2019 24 Priestly ordination of Braxton Necaise scheduled for Saturday at Nativity Cathedral BY TERRY DICKSON BILOXI -- Bishop Louis F. Kihneman III will ordain Braxton James Necaise to the priesthood on Saturday, June 1, at 10:30 a.m. at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral, 870 Howard Avenue. The ordina- tion will be live streamed at www.biloxidio- cese.org . A reception will follow in the Sacred Heart Center, located directly behind the cathedral. Necaise will celebrate his first Mass on Sunday, June 2, at 11:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church in Dedeaux. Both celebrtions are open to the public. Necaise, 33, is the son of Don Necaise and Mary Lynn Necaise of Kiln. The Kiln native was ordained a transi- tional deacon last summer. Since then, he has been busy finishing his studies at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. He graduated with a Master of Divinity earlier this month. Necaise said he can hardly believe that his ordination day is almost here. “I can say that I am beyond humbled by the great gift in which our Lord has called me to,” he said. “The five years of formation at Notre Dame Seminary have come to a conclusion and now it is time for me to head to the trenches and work with the people of God. I look forward to helping those who I encounter grow closer to our Lord each and every day.” Necaise said there are a lot of thoughts running through his mind, with the predomi- nant thought being, “The reality that, despite my imperfections, I have been chosen by God to minister to His people, the people of Biloxi.” “I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the prayerful support of the faithful of the Biloxi Diocese,” he said. “It was because of the ‘yes’ to God of others that I have had the courage to discern if God was calling me to the priest- hood -- thank you to you all for your yes!” Necaise said he is most grateful for those who have accompanied him on his journey to priesthood. “To the countless individuals who have prayed for me I am truly thankful for your prayers and support,” he said. “Please join us on June 1 at the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Biloxi at 10:30 a.m.” Deacon Braxton Necaise Throwing away food is like throwing away people, pope says BY CAROL GLATZ Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis condemned food waste, saying throwing away food is like throwing away people. “Waste reveals an indifference toward things and toward those who go without,” he said May 18. “To throw food away means to throw people away,” he told members and volunteers of the European Federation of Food Banks, including the Food Bank of Italy, which was marking its 30th anniversary. He thanked the organizations for all they do in pro- viding food to those who are hungry while fighting against food waste. “You take what is thrown into the vicious cycle of waste and insert it into the ‘virtuous circle’ of good use,” he said, saying their work is like what trees do -- taking in pollution to give back oxygen to those in need. “It is scandalous today not to notice how precious food is” and how much of it ends up wasted, he said. “Wasting what is good is a nasty habit” that can creep in anywhere, even in charitable works, for exam- ple, when good intentions are blocked by bureaucracy or excessive administrative costs or when they “become forms of welfare that do not lead to authentic develop- ment.” Charity today “requires intelligence, the capacity for planning and continuity,” and for people to care about each other, seeking to restore human dignity, the pope said. He told those involved in food banks that their work shows -- with action and not words -- that progress “advances each time we walk with those who are left behind.” “The economy has a profound need of this,” he said, lamenting how “the frenetic scramble for money is accompanied by an interior frailty,” disorientation and a loss of meaning. “What I care about is an economy that is more humane, that has a soul, and not a reckless machine that crushes human beings,” Pope Francis said. Too many people are left without work, dignity or hope “and still others are oppressed by inhuman demands of production” that have a negative impact on the family and personal relationships. The pope said it pains him when he hears parents say they have little time in the day to play with their children because they go to work when the children are still asleep and get home when they are already in bed. “This is inhuman: this vertigo of inhuman work.” “Instead of serving humanity,” he said, the economy “enslaves us, subjugates us to monetary mechanisms” that are increasingly difficult to control. “We need to encourage models of growth based on social equality, on the dignity of human persons, on families, on the future of young people, on respect for the environment,” he said. “Even if evil is at large in the world, with God’s help and the good will of so many like yourselves, the world can be a better place,” he said.