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Bishop Gorman HS to graduate 54 seniors
By CET
TYLER
– Fifty-four students will graduate May 23 from Bishop T.K. Gorman
Catholic High School during a 6 p.m. ceremony at Haddad Gymnasium.
The class is led by valedictorian Sarah Jane Gleason, a daughter of Ron
and Sue Gleason. She is a member of the National Honor Society and has
placed on the Principal’s Honor Roll throughout her career at Gorman.
During her freshman year, Gleason received the Christus Award. A member
of the school’s track team, she was awarded a Rev. Jerome Milton
Scholarship award and was named captain of the team her junior and
senior years. In addition to athletics, Gleason was involved with the
Gorman academic team and served as part of the youth rally staff. She
will attend Texas A&M University in the fall.
Emily Margaret Droder, a daughter of Robert and Kathryn Droder, was
named class salutatorian. Droder is a member of the National Honor
Society, the Gorman academic team, the Crusader fine arts team, the
student council and the student ambassador program. She also
participated in the school’s basketball and tennis programs, was a
member of the Junior Symphony League and received the Windsor Service
award her senior year. She will attend Carnegie Mellon University in
the fall.
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Speaking in Tyler temple, priest says Holocaust a grim warning
By SUSAN DE MATTEO
TYLER
– The Nazi Holocaust is both a gruesome blot on humanity’s history and
a grim warning for humanity’s future, said Servite Father John T.
Pawlikowski.
Father Pawlikowski, a professor of social ethics at Catholic
Theological Union in Chicago, is a noted expert on the Holocaust,
having written extensively on it. He also is president of the
International Council of Christians and Jews and served for more than
20 years on the U.S. National Holocaust Memorial Council and its
Committee on Conscience. Appointed to the council at its establishment
in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter and serving under Presidents George
H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, he also helped establish and design the
U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
He was in Tyler May 2 and spoke at Temple Beth El for Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Rabbi Neal Katz said his invitation to Father Pawlikowski was part of
his ongoing effort to present the Holocaust through its different
aspects.
“I know there were some people who were surprised when they saw it in
the bulletin,” he said. “I had some people say, ‘A priest?’ But we
realize the Holocaust is not just an issue of Jewish suffering, but an
issue of universal suffering. And the Catholic Church has made
tremendous strides in dealing with the Holocaust and putting it into
spiritual perspective, just as the Jewish community seeks to do.”
Though Father Pawlikowski’s talk was part of a special Shabbat service
remembering the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust, several
Catholics attended, which Rabbi Katz welcomed as a sign of hope.
“If you believe that the first level of combating intolerance is
education, that’s where we are.
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Bishop Corrada: Flint building not mere architecture
FLINT
– The new education building at St. Mary Magdalene Parish in Flint is
more than an architectural achievement, said Bishop Álvaro Corrada, SJ;
it is a testament to the faith, hope and love of the community that
built it.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” Bishop Corrada said at the May
11 blessing of the 18,500-square-foot structure. “The depth of the
iceberg down into the water is much bigger than anything you can look
at. That depth is what this community of faith is. Our faith, our hope,
our charity and love, is what pulls together an edifice like this.”
But that faith, he said, is not the accomplishment of people, but the
gift of the Holy Spirit, given through the sacraments of baptism,
confirmation and Eucharist. Such a faith, he said, can be seen in the
parish’s patroness, Mary Magdalene.
“The faith Mary Magdalene had is the faith to believe and to trust
beyond the way humans trust to the way God trusts,” the bishop said.
“God trusts in us even though we are sinners. He believes in us. He
sent his beloved son to die for us. That is how deep God’s trust is.”
Such a trust, he said, can come only through hope in Jesus Christ.
“We have many hopes,” he said. “We have big hopes and small hopes, and
all our hopes must be linked together like the beads on a rosary. But
those hopes, big and small, have to be linked to a much deeper hope,
the hope that throws you into everlasting life, into heaven itself. The
little and big hopes collapse if they are not linked to the larger hope
of eternal life. We have to place all our hopes in the eternal
Jerusalem.
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Bishop to ordain three in Tyler on May 24
By CET
TYLER
– Bishop Álvaro Corrada, SJ, will administer the sacrament of holy
orders to Deacon José Luís Vidarte, John Jairo Gomez and Peter Gerard
McGrath May 24 at 10 a.m. in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
He will ordain Deacon Vidarte to the priesthood and Gomez and McGrath
to the diaconate as a step toward their ordinations as priests.
Deacon Vidarte, 27, is a native of Chichayo, Peru. He is one of five
children of Juan Vidarte and Rosa María Risco, and was ordained a
deacon last May. He has been serving in Sacred Heart Parish in
Nacogdoches, and has also served in Christ the King Parish in Kilgore
and the cathedral parish.
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Two priests reassigned, one leaving diocese
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TYLER – Two priests have received new assignments in the Tyler Diocese, while a third leaves his ministry in Nacogdoches.
Fransalian Father Luke Kallarickal was named administrator of St. Boniface Church in Chandler, effective June 2.
Ordained in 1988 for the Missionaries of St. Frances de Sales, Father
Kallarickal worked in several pastoral and educational ministries in
India before arriving in East Texas in 1997.
He was appointed administrator of St. Therese Church in Center and
oversaw its mission, Epiphany Church in Timpson. He served as priest in
charge of the Chandler church for three years before being named
chaplain of Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler in 2005.
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PROFILE:The people have a tremendous love for this parish, and generosity, and one thing leads to another – we accomplish things
By JO ANNE FLORES EMBLETON
MALAKOFF
– Growing involved in parish ministry has been such “a complete
turnaround, that you can’t imagine the impact it has on your spiritual
life,” said Pat Rummel, a member of Mary, Queen of Heaven Parish. “The
more you’re involved, the more you become (immersed) in your spiritual
life. One thing follows another.”
A retiree from the Dallas Metroplex, Pat said she imagined living on Cedar Creek Reservoir would entail a life of ease.
“I
was gonna sit in that chair, put my feet up and read books,” she
laughed. “You know, go get a cold beer out of the fridge every now and
then and just read.”
However, she quickly came to realize all
that “free” time could be spent doing the things she couldn’t during
her career as an operating room nurse at St. Paul’s Hospital in Dallas.
“I
was in supervisory positions and on call 24/7, so consequently, I
couldn’t get involved in too many other things. We belonged to the
church in Farmers Branch, Mary Immaculate, and my son went to CCD
there. He made his First Communion there. But I can’t say I was
actively involved; it just didn’t fit into my schedule.”
But in
1992, she and Dick, widowed neighbors who married the previous year,
moved to East Texas after locating a site on the lake. “We started
looking around and we found this little community out here, with three
houses in the whole area, pretty much just vacant, so we bought a lot
and built a house. And it turned out to be the best move we ever made.”
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