What does true mercy look like?

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FROM THE ARCHBISHOP
The sensitive spiritual
works of mercy
5
SAINTS OF THE MONTH
An American immigrant and
the patron of artists
6
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Pope Francis on ChristianMuslim relations
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THE FAITHFUL SERVANT
What to look for in a college
9
YOUR FAMILY MATTERS
Celebrating Christmas
in January
CATHOLIC HOME
10 AThree
Kings Cake
for Epiphany
12
ASK FATHER
Why pray for souls
in purgatory?
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A CATHOLIC VIEW
Jesus Christ, the ultimate
social outcast
& EVENTS
28 NEWS
Mass for Life, Catholic
Advocacy Day and
a Day of Mercy
VOICES
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ourselves, “Do I truly desire the good of
we must be careful not to add to it by unkindness, sarcasm, gossip or greed.
the other person?”
Forgiving injuries. Anger is a prison,
It is essential to remember that
and until we forgive we remain in its grasp.
works of mercy have as their goal an
Even though vengeance might seem justified
encounter with Christ. This is espeor even encouraged by others, it never helps.
FAITH
cially true for the spiritual works of
To the contrary, it feeds the cycle of anger and
mercy, because they deal with delicate
violence. When we have been wronged, the
and deeply personal matters.
place to begin is by praying for the persons
The spiritual works of mercy require
who have wronged us. If we find it difficult
the prudence and discretion that come
to forgive them, we ask God to help us put his
only from the Holy Spirit. As we conforgiveness into practice. Sadly, much of life at
sider them, we ask for the grace never
every level is manipulated by anger and lack of
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forgiveness. Jesus broke the cycle of anger by
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forgiving us. He has embraced us in his mercy
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the intention to “fix” them. That is a
so that we, too, may be merciful.
far cry from gently leading them to an encounter with Jesus.
Bearing wrongs patiently. No one is called
Only he can heal and save. Perhaps we simply make the
to be a doormat, and we certainly have the right to stand
introduction — but he will do the rest.
up for ourselves. However, if we constantly seek to prove
Instructing the ignorant. Every Christian is an apostle ourselves right, to blame others, and to whine about every
sent to give witness to the good news. But before we can
misfortune that befalls us, we will fail to learn a crucial
do so we make sure we know the good news, that we have
lesson Jesus taught: to turn the other cheek and rely on God
steeped ourselves in it, and that we do our best to practice it. alone. Fighting every battle might mean that we simply hone
This deed of mercy is not about debate or winning arguour fighting skills, push others around in the process, and
ments. It is about the enlightenment that God desires for
perpetuate the cycle of violence — but never learn the meekeveryone when they meet the truth in his Son. Gently and re- ness that characterized Jesus and his mercy.
spectfully, we speak the truth and introduce others to Jesus.
Praying for the living and the dead. Intercessory
Advising the doubtful. Everyone occasionally strugprayer is a daily part of Christian life, for it both expresses
gles with doubt, and it can lead to anxiety and confusion.
and nourishes our communion in faith. Jesus is always interOften the anxiety is more disturbing than the doubt. Enceding for us, and we join our prayers to his. It is helpful to
couraging others when they are plagued with doubt, helping
remember that it is not just we who pray for the dead; they
them see the presence of God in their lives, and patiently
also pray for us.
explaining that God does not walk away from us when we
On a final note, it is important to remember that the
struggle with faith are ways of offering spiritual comfort. It
works of mercy are never undertaken for public recognition.
helps to remember that even when one doubts God’s exis“Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that
tence or his love, he still exists and he still loves us!
people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recomConverting the sinner. First it must be said that the
pense from your heavenly Father. … When you give alms,
grace of conversion comes from God alone. We do not apdo not let your left hand know what your right is doing, so
proach others with the intention to fix them; we might turn
that your almsgiving may be secret. And your Father who
them away. Instead we explain God’s mercy and encoursees in secret will repay you.” (Matthew 6:1-4)
age them to seek him. In a certain situation, we might be
My acts of mercy are actually not “my” good works. It is
called to point out the error of someone’s ways, but we do so Christ, alive in me, who acts through me. As I allow him to
humbly, and only after prayer, as fellow sinners who rely on
direct me by his grace, the corporal and spiritual works of
God’s mercy ourselves.
mercy become “second nature” to me — and draw me closer
to my Lord.
Comforting the sorrowful. As with the corporal
works of mercy, we are called to console the grieving. There
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is sorrow of many kinds, however, and attentiveness to the
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SAINTS OF THE MONTH
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how
will you
St. Marianne Cope
live
your faith
this Lent?
Immigrant
sister
ministered to
sick in Hawaii
1838–1918
Feast day:
January 23
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Barbara Koob was born
in Germany, and moved
to the United States with her family when she was 2. She
entered the Sisters of St. Francis in Syracuse, New York,
serving for 20 years as a teacher and hospital administrator. In 1883 she traveled with six sisters to Hawaii to
minister to people with Hansen’s disease, then known
as leprosy. In 1888, they opened a home on Molokai for
women and girls with the disease, and continued the
work of St. Damien de Veuster after his death. Mother
Marianne died on Molokai; her feast is her birthday. At
her canonization in 2012, Pope Benedict XVI called her
“a shining example of the tradition of Catholic nursing
sisters and of the spirit of her beloved St. Francis.”
Pray together
Fast in solidarity
Give to change lives
Blessed Fra Angelico
Patron of
artists began
each work
with prayer
c. 1400–1455
Feast day:
February 18
CNS
Fra Giovanni da Fiesole,
known as Blessed Fra
Angelico, was an early Renaissance painter. After joining
the Dominicans in 1420, he began illustrating manuscripts and choir books, beginning each new work with
a prayer. His religious altarpieces, paintings and frescoes
exploited color for spatial and emotional effect. Fra
Angelico, meaning “angelic brother,” decorated an entire
Florentine monastery and two Roman chapels. Notable
works include his Annunciation and Descent from the
Cross. He declined an appointment as archbishop of
Florence and was officially beatified by Pope John Paul
II in 1982. Art students often leave written prayers near
his tomb in the Church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in
Rome.
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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY:
40 YEARS AGO
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Bicentennial Catholic
Angie King
Headlines from NWCatholic.org
Students at Assumption School in Bellingham formed a “human food chain”
stretching 300 yards from the Church of the Assumption to Hope House,
a multiservice outreach center located on Assumption’s campus. After
attending a prayer service Nov. 23, the school’s 206 students formed a sort
of bucket brigade, passing 3,000 cans and boxes of donated food from one
student to the next, until the donations reached the Hope House storage
shed. Read more in the local news section at NWCatholic.org, where you’ll
also find these stories:
• Holy Family Parish, Seattle, creates new Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine.
• Archbishop J. Peter Sartain dedicated the new Immaculate
Conception Church in Mount Vernon Nov. 11.
• Parishioners at St. Vincent de Paul, Federal Way, are working to open
The “average” Catholic in the
Archdiocese of Seattle during
America’s bicentennial year was
a college-educated Caucasian
woman in her 30s, married and
a homemaker, with two children
living at home. That’s according to
the results of a survey completed
by 86,000 Catholics from 125
parishes published in the Feb.
6, 1976, edition of The Catholic
Northwest Progress. “Mrs. Average
Catholic” felt that the church met
her needs as a Catholic, had no
objection to married priests, did
not believe women should be
priests, was opposed to abortion,
but thought the church should
reevaluate its position on birth
control.
a day shelter for the homeless.
• Local tribunal advocates help divorced Catholics navigate the
annulment process.
QUOTABLE
“Christians
and Muslims
are brothers
and sisters,
and we must
act as such.”
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POPE FRANCIS,
in a Nov. 30 tweet
from his Twitter
account,
@Pontifex
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36%
Decline in the total number
of priests in the U.S. between
1970 and 2015 — from 59,192 to
37,578 — according to the Center
for Applied Research in the
Apostolate. During that time, the
number of American Catholics per
priest more than doubled, to 1,800.
IN MEMORIAM
Dominican Sister Maureen Driscoll, Nov. 16
Providence Sister Mary Ann Meyer, Nov. 16
Franciscan Sister Marie Evelyn Sinnett,
Oct. 10
Please remember recently deceased
priests, deacons, sisters and brothers in
your prayers.
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HIGHER EDUCATION:
Will it get you where you want to go?
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from participating in God’s work of helping other
n January through early spring, high
people. When we choose a discipline to study
school seniors and parents team up
in higher education, our focus shouldn’t just be
on what we like to do, it should also be on what
to make big decisions about higher
other people need. I loved studying political scieducation. With Bloomberg Business
ence, but I knew a public administration degree
estimating that, in 30 years, the cost of a
would make it possible for me to do work other
people needed.
university education has increased 1,120
Go where you will get what you need.
percent and the University of Washington
Once
you have a sense of what you want to do,
DEACON
estimating tuition and living expenses for
it’s time to compare the paths different schools ofERIC PAIGE
resident students at $27,034 annually, it’s
fer us to get there. Our oldest daughter Elizabeth’s
interest in the workings of the human body and
clear the stakes are high. As usual, our
her sense of compassion led her to consider a career in nursfaith offers some practical insights into getting
ing. After evaluating a number of good schools, she chose
these decisions right.
the University of Portland. She liked the way the school
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taught. She also liked that the university offered direct entry
into the nursing program, letting her get started right away
with the subject she cared about most.
The most important thing to consider about a school is
how well it will get you to where God wants you to be. If
God is calling you to be an engineer, go to a school that
will teach you engineering well. Don’t worry too much
about whether people are
impressed with its name or
whether its football team is
any good. Focus on whether
it will get you where you
want to go.
Faith matters, lots. A
true education demands a
prayerful partnership with
God, who wants to be with
us every step of the way as
we go through this important time of growth. Before
choosing a school, make
sure that it will be easy to
participate in Mass and find
spiritual nourishment. Find
out about the strength of the
campus ministry program
or the Newman Center. A
real education will not only
develop the gifts we have
been given, it will draw us
closer to the One who gave
us those gifts.
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Start early choosing a profession. The word profession comes from the monastic tradition of professing vows
and offering work as a form of service to the community.
The Catholic faith calls every one of us to think of our profession as how we develop our God-given talents and offer
them in service for the community — how we participate
in God’s ongoing work in
creation.
God literally wants every
one of us to partner with
him. Figuring out how takes
lots of time and prayer.
Parents, this means that we
need to encourage our children to start thinking about
the gifts God gave them
years before it’s time to
decide what to do. Getting
a good academic foundation is part of this. But so
is observing where our
children seem to have a gift,
particularly if that gift enables them to do things that
other people find difficult
or unpleasant: mathematics,
public speaking, resolving
conflict, fixing things, etc.
Remember it’s about
service. In monastic life, a
monk might be really interested in a form of work, but
if the community doesn’t
need that work, then it’s not
the monk’s profession. The
joy of a profession comes
Deacon Eric Paige is the
director of the Archbishop
Brunett Retreat Center at the
Palisades. Contact him at eric.
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YO U R FA M I LY M AT T E R S
Christmas
in January
in the domestic church
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brightened Christendom. Some families give the
hristmas lasts until Jan. 10 this year.
children a little present on each of these twelve days.
Though the stores have switched
4. Chalk your door with an Epiphany
their displays from Christmas décor
house blessing. On the lintel above the door,
to weight-loss accessories and Super
write the symbols “20 + C + M + B + 16” while
saying: “The three Wise Men, Caspar, Melchior
Bowl gear, if you visit any Catholic
and Balthazar, followed the star of God’s Son
Church you will encounter smells like
who became human 2,015 years ago. May Christ
pine, balsam and incense. You will see
bless our home and remain with us throughout
SARAH
BARTEL
the new year. Amen.” (Source: carmelites.net.)
Christmas trees sparkling with lights and
5. The Magi’s gifts represent Christ’s kingsanctuaries lush with velvety poinsettias.
ship, priesthood and death. Arrange a gold, frankincense
You will hear Christmas songs sung at Mass. And and myrrh scavenger hunt, using a “Three Kings Gifts” kit.
you’ll hear the story of the Nativity over and over This would be a great activity for an Epiphany party — joining forces with other families helps keep the festive atmoagain. It is as if we need time to let the grace of
sphere going!
Christmas soak in.
6. Bake an Epiphany King Cake or Gallette des Rois
By late December, however, our consumer culture is sick
of Christmas. It has been celebrating it since November with
a glut of holiday products and treats, a frenzy of seasonal
activities, and lots of shopping. But the church has been
waiting for the Lord through the holy season of Advent with
silence, prayer and penance. Now that he is here, the church
is ready to revel in Christmas with all her senses!
How can Catholic moms and dads continue celebrating
Christmas in the domestic churches of our families after
our neighbors have already taken down their trees? Being
countercultural is challenging, but by creating a rich Catholic culture at home with traditions based on the liturgical
year, we can give the next generation the gift of a deep love
for our faith, wrapped up in the intimacy, affection and joy
of family life.
Here are 12 tips, ideas and resources to help make your
family’s Twelve (plus!) Days of Christmas merry and bright
with Christ’s light:
1. Keep Advent simple. Try to minimize extra preChristmas activities, bustle, parties and treats, and seek ways
to pray, practice works of charity and wait for the Lord. Take
the family to receive the sacrament of reconciliation.
2. Celebrate Christmas starting Dec. 25! After attending Christ’s Mass, now we Catholics cue the Christmas
music, the cookies, the parties and decorations! Keep that tree
up, play the Christmas music, pour the eggnog and rejoice!
3. The Twelve Days of Christmas: The 12 days between
Christmas and the traditional date for Epiphany used to be
when Christmas parties, plays, concerts and merrymaking
with a hidden bean or porcelain charm inside (see page 10).
Whoever finds the bean in their piece wears a crown!
7. Find clever Catholic Christmas crafts on sites like
catholicicing.com.
8. Read beautiful Christmas picture books, such as
those listed at showerofroses.blogspot.com.
9. Find recipe ideas at catholiccuisine.com, familyfeastandferia.com and in books like A Continual Feast by
Evelyn Birge Vitz.
10. Watch all your favorite Christmas movies.
11. Candlelight read-aloud nights. We are a family
of literature nerds, so for us, quiet evenings spent listening to
favorite Christmas poems and stories like O. Henry’s “The
Gift of the Magi” imbue dreary January days with a glow
of Christmas magic. The candlelight and mulled cider help.
Jesus came as the Word of God, so soaking up pretty words
seems fitting.
12. Recall your children’s baptisms on the feast of
the Baptism of the Lord, Jan. 10, by lighting their baptismal
candles at dinnertime. Shells are a symbol of baptism, so you
can make pasta shells for dinner.
Changing our holiday habits to align more closely with
the life of the church is challenging — just as changing our
hearts is. However, in both cases, there is joy in the process
of conversion which fills us with more of Christ’s life!
Sarah Bartel, a member of St. Andrew Parish in Sumner, holds
a doctorate in moral theology and ethics from The Catholic
University of America, where she specialized in marriage, family,
sexual ethics and bioethics. Her website is www.drsarahbartel.com.
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A C AT H O L I C H O M E
E piphany
Roscón de Reyes
is the manifestation
of all we love
• 2 packages active dry yeast
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons milk, warmed
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon finely grated
orange zest
• 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon
zest
Rachel Bauer
Three Kings Cake is a Hispanic tradition showing
reverence for the Christ Child
C
arlos Palacián grew up in Spain, where Christmas gifts appear
on Jan. 6, the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord (which we
mark this year on Sunday, Jan. 3). Carlos remembers cleaning and
polishing one shoe the night before and placing it in the living room
so the Three Kings would have a spot to leave his gifts.
“In the morning, whatever was around your shoe was
yours,” said Carlos, now 48 and a member of Christ the
King Parish in Seattle. “Pretty much all of Spain celebrated
the same.”
That meant his two sisters and parents also had carefully placed shoes so the Magi wouldn’t miss them. Villages
and cities celebrated with parades; the Palacián family
went to Mass; and, always a constant, the clan dined with
their grandparents. Carlos doesn’t remember a specific
JANET
holiday menu, but he says without fail the meal included
CLEAVELAND
Three Kings Cake, or Roscón de Reyes, with its Christ
Child trinket tucked inside.
In St. Matthew’s Gospel we have the account of the epiphany, or manifestation, of the Christ Child to the Wise Men, representatives of the non-Jewish
world. It was a huge deal for non-Jewish converts to Christianity that the King
of the Jews would manifest himself as their Savior as well.
This year, I am making the Three Kings cake that the Spanish-speaking world
holds so dear. (Other European countries and Eastern-rite churches have their
versions of the cake, too.) I found Roscón de Reyes in older Spanish cookbooks.
I’ve modified and combined the recipes somewhat, in one attempt using dried
apricots and cherries instead of candied fruit — just a personal preference.
I hold hope that this feast will gain popularity in this country, as it has in one
corner of our state. Lois and Del Brown of Raymond in Pacific County have a
large, extended family. Christmas is taken up with Mass and family gatherings.
Lois said they wanted some special time for friends after Christmas. Epiphany
seemed perfect.
Lois and her husband, members of St. Lawrence Parish, found cards with gold
accents and drawings of the adoring Magi. She used them for invitations. She
threw a potluck and invited Father Paul Kaech, her pastor. She did not serve the
cake, but she honored two guests who got the gold paper plates marked “king”
or “queen” on the bottom.
So let us join the Browns and Palaciáns in remembering the Three Kings who
traveled so far under hardship to discover the Christ Child.
Janet Cleaveland is a member of the Proto-Cathedral of St. James the Greater
in Vancouver.
10 Northwest Catholic / January/February 2016 / NWCatholic.org
• 4 tablespoons butter, softened
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons dark rum
• 2 teaspoons orange-flower
water (optional)
• 1/4 cup sliced almonds
• candied fruit, or dried apricots
and cherries, for decoration
• 1 large almond, filbert or
plastic trinket of the Baby
Jesus (I didn’t add anything,
bowing to fears that someone
might choke)
Mix the yeast with 1 teaspoon sugar
and the warmed milk. Stir in 3 tablespoons of flour to make a wet paste.
Let stand in a warm place for about
20 minutes.
Sift the remaining flour with the salt
into a large bowl and stir in the rest of
the sugar and the orange and lemon
zests. Cut in the butter until the mixture resembles fine bread crumbs.
Beat the eggs with the rum and
orange-flower water. (I substituted
orange oil with a little water. You can
get orange-flower water online or at
Mediterranean specialty shops.) Make
a well in the middle of the flour, and
add the eggs and the yeast paste. Mix
a sticky dough, but then push the mixture around with your hands for about
10 minutes to get the dough to lose its
stickiness.
Put the dough on a lightly floured
surface and continue to knead, probably for another 10 minutes. It needs
to be smooth and elastic. Place the
dough in an oiled bowl, cover with a
towel and leave in a warm place for
about an hour.
Punch the dough down. Slip in the
trinket, if you so choose, then shape
the dough into a ring, joining the ends,
and place on an oiled cookie sheet.
Cover again and let it rise for about
45 minutes.
Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Brush the top with lightly beaten egg
white and sprinkle on the almonds and
other decorations. Bake 20 minutes.
Cool on a wire rack.
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A S K FAT H E R
Why do we pray
for the souls in
Q
A
I am a recent convert to Catholicism from an evangelical Protestant background, and I
am having a difficult time with the Catholic doctrine of purgatory! More specifically, I am
struggling with why we pray for those who are in purgatory in the first place. If they will
get to heaven, why do we need to pray for them?
As a fellow convert to the Catholic faith, I share your struggle in trying to come to grips
with what Catholics believe about purgatory. And in recent times, purgatory seems to be
one of those forgotten teachings — rarely do we hear it preached about at Sunday Masses
or taught in parish faith formation courses.
Even though we might not hear much about it
and sins are purified and cleansed so that we can
explicitly, belief about purgatory is actually a part
be perfected for that place of ultimate perfection.
of daily Catholic practice. In every single Mass,
Far from being an outmoded dogma, purgatory
for instance, we pray for the faithful departed
actually affirms God’s endless love and mercy for
during the eucharistic prayer and usually during
each of us!
the intercessions. Which faithfully departed souls
The belief that our prayers can and do assist
are we praying for? Those in heaven or in hell?
those blessed souls in purgatory goes all the way
Not likely. Who, then? You guessed it: those in
back to the beginning of church history. In the
purgatory.
ancient catacombs, for instance, there are inscripFATHER CAL
Your question, why we pray for the blessed
tions of actual prayers for the dead and others
CHRISTIANSEN
souls in purgatory if they will eventually get to
asking for prayers for them. In the fourth century,
heaven anyway, strikes to the core of what it means to be a
St. John Chyrsostom wrote, “Let us help and commemoCatholic Christian. Before actually answering your quesrate [the dead]. If Job’s sons were purified by their father’s
tion, we should be clear on exactly what purgatory is. The
sacrifice, why would we doubt that our offerings for the
Catechism of the Catholic Church explains, “All who die in
dead bring them some consolation?” He was following and
God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are affirming a long-standing church belief and practice, that
indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they the living pray for the dead.
undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary
So why do we pray for the dead? For me, the belief in purto enter the joy of heaven.” (CCC 1030) Speaking of heaven,
gatory lies at the center of our Catholic faith because of our
Revelation 21:27 says that “nothing unclean will enter it.”
sense of family. As a family we pray for one another, and
Catholics believe that heaven is a place of perfect purity,
those faithfully departed who are not quite in heaven need
beauty, love and holiness, and only what is perfect and clean our prayers, just as we need each other’s prayers. As a priest,
may enter it.
I have seen many prayers answered, and I firmly believe
Some people, when our Lord calls them from this life to
that our prayers for the faithful departed in purgatory —
the next, even though they are free from mortal sin, can
that they be sped along to their heavenly reward — will be
carry with them the attachment to sin and disorder; their
answered as well.
hearts are not yet completely oriented toward God and holiMay God’s blessings be with you today and always!
ness. God, in his mercy and eternal love for us, still wants
Father Cal Christiansen is pastor of St. Pius X Parish in
these souls to be with him; he desires us to be perfect, but
Mountlake Terrace. Send your questions for “Ask Father” to
editor@seattlearch.org.
he will not reject that which is imperfect. Purgatory is the
place of transition where attachments to disordered passions
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A C AT H O L I C V I E W
HIGH SCHOOL
DANCES and the
LENTEN
DESERT
W
hen I was in high school, every
February saw the annual ritual of
“Sadie Hawkins Day.” Sadie Hawkins
was a character in the old cartoon strip
“Li’l Abner” who took things into her
own hands when it came to datin’,
courtin’ and all the rest of the male/
female froufrou that so occupies the
adolescent mind. She didn’t wait for a
guy to ask her out. She asked him.
I swung to the opposite pole and accounted for
my sense of unique isolation by accusing myself
of being a peculiarly revolting specimen whom
my fellow human beings could not be expected to
tolerate for long.
What never occurred to me in high school was
that I was not unique at all, and that the great
mass of my fellow human beings felt as isolated,
klutzy, stupid and unlovable as I did. I was so fretful about getting “in” that it never occurred to me
MARK SHEA
that a) most people were as “out” as I was and
b) “in” was not all that worth getting.
It was our Lord, in his Catholic Church, who began to heal
So, once a year, in honor of dear Sadie, my alma mater held this terrible sense of being outcast. For our Lord is, if anything, the center of all things. He is as “in” as you can get, the
a dance where the girls asked the guys out for a change. The
heart of all life, the center of all being, the very fountainhead
net result of this arrangement was to create a social situation
of existence. And yet, right here, I found a paradox.
in which a small but stable group of insecure boys were reFor the Son of Man is cast out by men. More than that, he
minded for four years straight that no girl in the school would
deliberately turns his back on all the social climbing, cliques
touch them with a barge pole. Your on-the-scene corresponand posturing that so occupied my high school mind (and
dent is here to tell you that this is but one of the reasons
continue to occupy the more sophisticated high school lunchGraduation Day 1976 was a tremendous relief to me. It was
also a reason that February, for many years, triggered in me a rooms known as Hollywood, Washington, D.C., and New
York). When the Sinmeister offered him a chance to be People
deep and abiding gloom.
Magazine’s Most Fascinating Person of A.D. 30 (“All this will
To a non-Christian like me, it was the least worthwhile
I give you,” said Satan, “if you will bow down and worship
month in the calendar. Christmas was dead and gone while
me”) our Lord chose the obscurity and ostracism I so feared.
dark winter still hung around. After Presidents Day, there
When offered all the kingdoms of the world, he opted for the
wasn’t going to be another holiday till spring break. Homedesert. Why?
work was only going to increase. And here was the Marquis
Because he knew that at the center of this dog-eat-dog
de Sadie, putting up posters all over the school to remind
world there is no there there. He came, not to get in, but to
you that, on top of everything else, pretty much everybody
get us. Where I was so sweaty about making something of
in the world — except for you — was lovable and fascinating
myself in order to finally be lovable, he had long ago made
to somebody.
nothing of himself — because he loved us. He came to heal
In high school, I profoundly believed in my unique social
the leper.
leprousness, in my transcendent repulsiveness to the opposite
sex, and in my utter failure to be part of the In Crowd. On
Mark Shea is a member of Blessed Sacrament Parish in Seattle.
my worst days, I congratulated myself that this uniqueness
His blog “Catholic and Enjoying It!” is at www.patheos.com/
blogs/markshea.
was due to my vast intellectual superiority over the masses
who Just Couldn’t Understand Me. On my next-worst days,
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ultimate social outcast
Congratulations to this year’s
graduates and their families!
South Sound Catholic
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C O V E R F E AT U R E
HIGH SCHOOL WINNER
True mercy:
Not deserved, still given
What does true
mercy look like?
Answers from our student
essay contest winners
For the third annual Northwest
Catholic Student Essay Contest,
we asked Catholic school students
to reflect, in light of Pope
Francis’ declaration of the Holy
Year of Mercy, on the question
“What does true mercy look
like?” Entries poured in from
34 Catholic schools in Western
Washington.
The essays were judged by a
panel drawn from the staffs of
Northwest Catholic, the Office for
Catholic Schools and the Fulcrum
Foundation, which supports
Catholic schools in the Archdiocese
of Seattle. We are proud to present
the winning high school, middle
school and elementary school
essays.
By Mary Grace Curran
Ste
phe
n
“Let’s try to finish this quickly so we can play the
game.” “Do we really have to do this?” “I went to confession in second grade. Once is enough.” Dozens of
CYO high school campers uttered these phrases as we
piled into the chapel for our evening prayer and reconciliation service. Excited to engage in the next activity
planned for the night, we teenagers were not exactly
jumping at the idea of spending an hour in adoration, reconciliation and prayer. Surprisingly, only a few
minutes into the service, people started lining up to go
to confession. Those not in line were praying, singing
along with the worship music, and gazing upon the
Blessed Sacrament. An incredible aura of peace was
present in the chapel, unlike the distractions and boredom I usually faced during prayer.
About a half an hour into the service, a boy walked
out of the confessional. After making his way to the
back of the room, he sat down, putting his head in
his hands. Another camper approached the boy and
walked with him out of the chapel. I could hear the
boy sobbing outside, and at once knew complete
forgiveness and mercy overwhelmed him. Following
that, many campers joined together outside, forming prayer circles, and several returned teary-eyed.
Sitting on the floor of the chapel praying, I began
to more fully realize why Jesus died on the cross
and the effect it has on us. At any age, but especially
as teenagers, we are hesitant to go to confession
and tend to think, “God cannot love me because of
this; what I have done is too terrible for forgiveness.” That night, we discovered not only does
God forgive us for every sin, he is waiting to do
so with open, welcoming arms. Before this, many
had blocked out any desire to go to confession
because of fear. Now, realizing forgiveness was
the best thing we could receive, everyone experienced true mercy.
The service quickly turned to three hours
instead of one, and almost everyone attended
confession. We ran out of time to play the scheduled game, but everyone had forgotten about it
anyway. Later that week at the evening campfire, the
boy shared a poem. The beginning was about sin and
darkness, but at the end he said, “I have been
forgiven, now my soul is clean.” The entire camp
exploded in applause, and everyone was smiling, knowing he had experienced true mercy.
Seeing this happen reestablished my knowledge that
God never abandons us, always forgives us, and sends
waves of mercy toward us from every direction. We
just have to be open to it, and that night we all learned
how to do that. The next time you think, “How could
God ever forgive me for this?,” think again. He wants to
show you mercy more than you know.
Bra
she
ar
Stephen Brashear
Northwest Catholic mourns the
death of Sue Mecham, the managing
director of the Fulcrum Foundation.
Just two weeks after helping to
choose these winning essays, Mecham
died unexpectedly Nov. 15, at the age
of 58. She was a joyful and generous
supporter of this essay contest and,
more importantly, of Catholic schools
and their students.
Mary Grace Curran is a sophomore at
John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Burien.
MIDDLE SCHOOL WINNER
Dig a little deeper
By Manoli Tramountanas
Stephen Brashear
Manoli Tramountanas is an eighthgrader at St. John School in Seattle.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WINNER
Even if they’re not sorry
By Audrey Zdunich
When I was younger, I remember being with my
mom in a store full of fragile, breakable things.
She told me to “stay close” and “look with your
eyes, not your hands.” So, when I accidentally
knocked a vase off the shelf and it shattered into
a hundred little pieces, I knew I was in big trouble
and was going to be punished. However — and to
this day I still don’t understand why — my mom
gathered me in her arms and whispered, “Everything will be OK. I’ll take care of it.” That is when
I really started to understand what
mercy looked and felt like.
My teacher shared a quote with
me by Peter Kreeft that says: “It
is mercy, not justice or courage or
even heroism, that alone can defeat
evil.” I hear about many of the harsh
and horrible things happening all
over the world and the terrible
people who cause these things,
but I try to see the good people
like policemen, doctors and
individuals who show mercy by
helping and being kind to others
who may or may not deserve it.
I watched the news when
Pope Francis made his visit to
the United States, and I think his
message to people everywhere
was full of mercy. His words were
gentle, loving and peaceful, not
full of judgment with all the
wrong in the world.
I’ve come to see that mercy
isn’t just showing kindness to
someone who does or doesn’t deserve it. Mercy is forgiving and helping
someone who may not even be sorry.
That is what mercy looks and feels like
to me.
Stephen Br
ashear
True mercy is God’s love and forgiveness. At least,
that is what we have always been taught. I never gave
this much thought — until I sat down to write this essay.
My first thought was to give examples of what I consider to be true mercy in my daily life — isn’t mercy when
my teachers don’t assign any homework? Isn’t mercy
when I am free to go to the skate park after school with
my friends? Or how about when I can get an extra hour
of sleep? But the more I thought about it, I realized
these mercies are minor compared to the mercy God
shows us. God doesn’t punish us, but instead loves and
forgives us, even though we are all sinners. And God
shows us this true mercy every day, even if we get tons
of homework, even if we are too busy to hang out with
our friends, and even if we are sleep-deprived. God’s
unconditional love is the definition of true mercy.
Humans are imperfect; everyone makes
mistakes. This makes God’s mercy very
important. In today’s world, it seems
like people are relying less on God and
prayers. Instead, they think God does
not love them, or pay special attention
to them. They are wrong. God loved
them before they were even born.
God loves every one of us and
that is why he sacrificed his one
and only Son for us. Instead of
turning away from God, they
should turn toward him. Instead
of relying less on God, people
need God’s mercy more. If you
ever think that God doesn’t
show you true mercy, be thankful to be alive — because the gift
of God’s love is (and always has
been) our best evidence of God’s
true mercy.
What is true mercy? I think God
would reply, “True mercy is the love
and forgiveness I show you every
day.” Some people are oblivious to
God’s love and mercy. That doesn’t
mean it doesn’t exist; it just means
they have to dig a little deeper to
find it.
Steph
e
n Bra
shear
Audrey Zdunich is a fourth-grader at
St. Rose School in Longview.
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God’s healing touch
Suffering and profound recovery led
John Sullivan to help others through
prayer ministry
By Jean Parietti
T
he fear had an unrelenting grip on John
Sullivan.
It was like waking up and seeing a grizzly
bear at the foot of the bed, but “you couldn’t run
and you couldn’t fight and you were locked in that
horrible feeling until … you could finally fall asleep,”
Sullivan said, describing the effects of the mental
illness that first afflicted him at 19.
Officially, Sullivan was suffering from obsessive
compulsive neurosis with scrupulosity — an
excessive worry about sin — and a free-floating
anxiety. But the medical words couldn’t adequately
describe his suffering.
“You’re going through this terrible depression and
stark raging fear and there’s no peace,” Sullivan
said. “I know there’s a hell. I’ve lived on the
outskirts.”
Over the next 16 years, Sullivan’s illness disrupted his life, landing
him in the hospital four times. Follow-up treatment involved heavy
doses of medications with unpleasant side effects.
Through the turmoil of those years, Sullivan found help from
Catholic priests and a caring doctor. Then, in 1981 or 1982, while a
guest at a meeting of a Christian women’s group, an Episcopal priest
laid hands on Sullivan and prayed over him. The experience was
transformative.
“I’ve just been healed of manic depression,” Sullivan told the priest
(who advised him to see his doctor).
Within a month, under his doctor’s supervision, Sullivan stopped
taking all medications for mental illness.
“I know God heals,” Sullivan said. “I’ve seen it. I’ve experienced it
myself.”
Before his illness, “if someone came to me and said, ‘I’m going
through this terrible depression,’ I’d say, ‘Hey, I’ll light a candle for
you,’ say a prayer and move on,” Sullivan said.
“I was going to be a great choral director and composer. [But] God
says, ‘No, I want you to go to another school. I want you to learn
something,’” he said with a chuckle.
Bringing healing to others
Sullivan’s illness gave him a firsthand understanding of extreme
suffering; his healing gave him the impetus to bring the gift of healing
prayer to others in need.
Through the Institute for Christian Ministries, founded locally
by Dominican Father Leo Thomas and several laypeople, Sullivan
completed two years of prayer minister formation. In 1987, he helped
start the Prayer for Healing Ministry at St. Luke Parish in Shoreline,
Stephen Brashear
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Stephen Brashear
where he was choir director. When he became music director ‘Like a resurrection’
at Our Lady of Perpetual Help/Immaculate Conception
Sullivan came into the church at birth, the youngest of five
parishes in Everett in 1994, Sullivan worked with others to
children in an Irish Catholic family in Minneapolis. Musical
establish the ministry there.
talent was part of his extended family’s DNA. His mother
More than 20 years later, the ministry continues at the
was the organist and choir director at the family’s partwo Everett parishes, where about three dozen people have
ish, Holy Rosary, where Sullivan began serving at Mass in
been trained as ministers. After Sunday Masses, two-memfourth grade. Sullivan’s father worked for a large bank but
ber teams pray confidentially with anyone in need, and can
also was a tenor soloist.
meet weekly with those whose needs are greater.
After being taught by Dominicans in grade school and
“Probably one of the most Christian things you can do is
French Christian Brothers in high school, Sullivan chose to
listen to someone without judging them,” Sullivan said. Prayattend the College of St. Thomas in neighboring St. Paul. He
ing with people helps them realize “God is listening to them
decided to study chemistry, but after one semester, realized
and not judging them,” he said. “A lot of healing takes place.” “it wasn’t my cup of tea.”
Over the years, the parish prayer ministers have heard stories
Continuing with the required college courses, Sullivan
of physical, spiritual, emotional and relationship healings. God didn’t know what he wanted to do. Then, in the fall of
may not provide the healing requested,
1961, he began experiencing obsessivebut “he will give you the healing that you
compulsive symptoms. “It’s a terrible
“God permits suffering in
most need at that point in your life,” Sulaffliction because you have no peace,”
livan explained.
our lives, but draws much
he said. “It’s constant worry about this
Healing prayer goes hand-in-hand with
or that.”
the medical profession, Sullivan said. “It’s good out of it if we allow it.”
Although Sullivan found help from a
not: Either get prayer or go to the doctor.
Dominican
priest at his parish who had
John Sullivan
It’s both,” he said, citing the “honor the
training in psychology, eventually he
doctor” message in Sirach 38:1–14.
was hospitalized for two weeks. After
Those working as healing prayer ministers are a dedicated
things settled down, Sullivan’s brother, Dan, invited him
group of people who take their call seriously, said Father
to come to Seattle and live with him. So Sullivan boarded a
Bryan Hersey, pastor of the two Everett parishes. “Even
train, leaving behind the dirty piles of late-winter snow.
though they’re not counselors, they really bring a sense of
When the train reached the Puyallup valley on April 1,
professionalism to it,” he said, and know “when to send the
1962, the daffodils were in their full glory.
people to the priest.”
“I had just gone through this horrible depression, terrible
Dolores Righi, commissioned as a prayer minister last
fear,” Sullivan said. “It was like a resurrection.”
May, said the ministry has brought her closer to Christ. “You
know how he commissioned the apostles — ‘Go out two by
Gains and setbacks
two,’ and do his work? That’s what we’re doing,” she said.
In Seattle, Sullivan began life anew. He earned a music deIn the early church, healing was a principal way of evange- gree from Seattle University in 1965, with dreams of becomlizing, Sullivan said. Today’s healing prayer ministry coning a college choral director and composer. “The last thing
tinues that mission. “People have come back to the church
that I thought that I would do was music in the church,”
through this ministry, [and] come into the church,” he said.
Sullivan said.
But that’s exactly what happened after graduation: He was
hired as choir director at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Seattle, the Dominican church he and Dan had been attending.
He also began post-graduate music studies at the University
of Washington.
Two years later, though, “everything kind of went sideways,”
Sullivan said. He quit school and was hospitalized for about
two weeks for a major depression. He had to quit his job.
Out of the hospital but taking many medications, “I went
through a lot of funky jobs,” Sullivan said. “It’s hard to hold
a job because you’re dealing with all this stuff.”
At Dan’s insistence, Sullivan joined his brother as a member of the Blessed Sacrament choir. The new director was
Sullivan’s former UW choral professor; the next three years
were like a nonstop class for Sullivan.
While singing at Blessed Sacrament, Sullivan was hired
as choir director at St. Luke’s, where he met his future wife
(they married in 1972 and had two children). Sullivan also
began directing the choir at St. Louise Parish in Bellevue and
was teaching at Catholic grade schools. Studying to get a
teaching certificate, Sullivan was “knocking out the A’s,” but
living on little sleep while helping at a Christmas tree lot to
make some extra money.
“Without knowing it, I was getting higher and that’s when
I had my first manic episode,” he said. “A full-blown manic
episode gets psychotic and you start losing touch with reality. That threw me in the hospital.”
After being treated in a closed ward for several days, Sullivan looked up to see Father Joseph Fulton, his pastor from
Blessed Sacrament, approaching in full Dominican habit.
“He comes into my room … he quietly prays, he leaves, and
[in] less than a week, I’m out. It was very special.”
But just a year or two later came another major depression, with a lengthier hospital stay. Sullivan’s marriage
ended, but he took care of his young children every Saturday
he could, with the support of both families. He taught at
Catholic schools and continued as St. Luke’s choir director
until a new pastor arrived in 1981.
It was around that time that Sullivan was a guest at a
Women’s Aglow meeting, where he was “slain in the Spirit”
— falling to the floor while being prayed over — and felt
miraculously healed.
Drawing good from suffering
Contact the Prayer for Healing ministry at
Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Perpetual
Help parishes in Everett at 425-349-7014.
Read Dominican Father Leo Thomas’ books,
Healing as a Parish Ministry: Mending Body, Mind,
and Spirit and Healing Ministry: A Practical Guide
(both co-authored by Jan Alkire).
Attend a charismatic healing Mass sponsored by
the Western Washington Catholic Charismatic
Renewal. Learn more at wwccr.org.
He could no longer do his job, but his pastor, Father
Hersey, suggested Sullivan keep directing the choir and supervising the prayer ministry. Since 2014, Sullivan’s bipolar
illness has been in remission, and he now takes only a small
dose of a single medication.
Sullivan knows the recurrence of his illness could raise
questions about his healing. He points out that even Lazarus,
who Jesus raised from the dead, eventually died again — but
that didn’t take away from the miracle of his resurrection.
By sharing his story, Sullivan hopes others in need will seek
out healing prayer, realizing “God actually still heals today.”
And he hopes to help remove the stigma and labels attached to mental illness. Saying someone “is bipolar” is like
saying someone “is cancer,” Sullivan said. “You’re not your
disease. You’re God’s child and you just happen to be suffering from this thing.”
If not for his faith and God’s grace, Sullivan said, “I could
have very much ended up like Robin Williams or Vincent
Van Gogh. I would have traded two broken legs, two broken
arms, for one of those depressions, especially with the fear.”
Working in the healing prayer ministry makes sense of it all.
“God permits suffering in our lives, but draws much good
out of it if we allow it,” Sullivan said.
“It’s like God says, ‘I want you to go to this particular
school. It’s going to be painful, it’s going to hurt. Out of
that, I’m going to heal you, but then I want you to take this
to your brothers and sisters and give them hope and bring
my healing to them.’”
Stephen Brashear
For 25 years after that, Sullivan was off psychotropic
medications. His life got back on track.
In Everett, where Sullivan started the prayer ministry in
1994, he eventually became responsible for all outreach
ministries. He listened and prayed with people in need who
came to his office. “I loved my work,” he said.
At Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sullivan also fell in love
— with Carmen, who he first spotted in the congregation
from his perch in the choir loft. The couple, married 20
years ago on the feast of the Epiphany, became partners in
prayer ministry, taking two more years of training so they
could help train others.
Sullivan continued composing music, a pursuit that began
in college (his works include Masses written in honor of St.
Luke and Mary, the Immaculate Conception).
Then he and Carmen were thrown a curve. Sullivan’s bipolar illness recurred in 2007, and he was hospitalized twice
over the next six years. Besides getting medical help, Sullivan sought the counsel of priests and healing prayer from
the ministers at his parish.
HEALING PRAYER RESOURCES
John Sullivan is a choir director and composer. Listen to
some of his works at NWCatholic.org/features.
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Teaching
graces
Kennedy Catholic’s Kale
Dyer incorporates faith into
coaching and classes
Stephen Brashear
By Anna Weaver
and his wife Adrianne focus on bringing forth grace — grace
to heal brokenness, fulfill one’s potential, and provide God’s
t’s a sunny Tuesday morning in Kale Dyer’s
presence and forgiveness.
first physics class of the day at John F. Kennedy
“I think that’s kind of my metaphor for teaching, trying to
Catholic High School, and 22 students are
be an example of God’s grace in the lives of students,” Dyer
said. That could mean writing letters of recommendation or
planning for an egg drop project. They’ve gone
checking in on a student who seems to be having a bad day.
over the calculations, watched a MythBusters
It also means incorporating faith into less overtly religious
episode on the topic and reviewed college-level
academic subjects. For instance, Dyer said he likes to talk to
his science students about the history of science and scienegg drops for ideas.
tists’ faith backgrounds.
The pairs and trios of students discuss whether they’ll
“A lot of times the scientific discoveries were driven by a
go with a parachute or airbag option to
desire to understand the creator of this
“A lot of times the
try and keep their egg from breaking
mysterious universe,” he said. “And so, if
when it’s dropped from the third story
you can understand the universe, maybe
scientific discoveries
of Kennedy Catholic. Some already have
you can understand the creator.”
prototypes to show Dyer, who walks from were driven by a desire to
“During class when he does prayer, he’s
group to group answering questions.
very religious and takes the time to pray
“This egg is going to live. I can feel it,”
understand the creator of with us and ask us if we have intentions,”
he jokes with one group that has a fistful
said senior Katie Thomas. She also loves
this mysterious universe.” that he’s joyful.
of straws ready to incorporate into their
design.
“Kids would say he’s one of the more
Kale Dyer
Seniors Steven Santos and Joseph Tapiaengaging teachers,” Kennedy Catholic
Beeman plan to use straws as scaffolding around a Styropresident Michael Prato said, adding that Dyer is “as Cathofoam cup containing their egg to redirect force away from it. lic a person as I know.”
Both students appreciate that Dyer does hands-on projects
Approaching Catholicism
like this one. “Because once you can relate to something,
But Dyer wasn’t always Catholic. He and his older sister
you start sort of seeing how it works, and then you start askwere raised by their parents in Monroe and later moved to
ing the bigger questions behind it,” Steven said.
Enumclaw, where he graduated from high school. His materGetting his students to look at the bigger questions, in
nal grandmother, Jeannie Dyer, was Catholic, and as a child,
learning and in faith, is Dyer’s goal as a Catholic schoolKale remembers saying grace before meals at her house and
teacher. In his science and math classes, as a golf coach and
spotting Catholic items in her house.
as a club adviser, he focuses on the dignity of the human
But his family attended various Protestant churches
person and “seeing all my kids as being filled with the handthroughout his childhood, and Dyer considered himself
print of God and wanting to be someone who adds to that
Presbyterian by the time he started college at Western Washand fosters that.”
ington University in Bellingham. There he played on the golf
Grace as a teaching metaphor
team, earned a teaching degree in math and physics and met
In their work and in raising their two sons, Dyer said he
a fellow student, Adrianne, who would become his wife.
I
After he’d finished student teaching, Dyer was introduced
to Young Life, a nondenominational Christian program that
focuses on ministering to teens and young adults. He liked
how Young Life leaders shared their faith through everyday
interactions with young people rather than preaching at
them. It’s an approach he uses today at Kennedy Catholic.
Dyer eventually became a Young Life area director and
earned a master’s degree in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary Northwest. Adrianne and Kale got married
in 1997.
Adrianne is a cradle Catholic from New Mexico and said
she’d always hoped Dyer would become Catholic, especially
so they could raise their future kids Catholic together. For
the first year or so after they were married, the Dyers attended Sunday Mass together. And between 2000 and 2004,
if you had asked him where he went to church, Dyer would
have named St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Burien.
But becoming Catholic was still an ongoing discernment
process for him. Another milestone in that journey was
when Dyer met Father Rock Sassano, a retired priest from
the Archdiocese of Portland, through a mutual friend when
Dyer was still in college. They would have long discussions
about the differences between the Protestant and Catholic
traditions and the importance of picking a faith tradition for
one’s kids. “Rock had said to me, ‘Be the best person of faith
that you can,’” Dyer recalled.
In 2004, Dyer started the RCIA process, and he was
received into full communion with the Catholic Church
at Easter 2005.
Successful leadership
Around that same time, Dyer started working at Kennedy
Catholic, first as a golf coach and then also as a religion,
math and science teacher.
The golf teams excelled under Dyer’s coaching with a 159-5
record for the boys and a 128-15 record for the girls over the
last 12 years. Both teams finished this season undefeated, and
for the first time there was enough funding to hire a separate
girls coach.
Dyer is just as passionate about teaching as he is about
coaching. He wants students to think of their education as
“being a learner versus a point accumulator,” a lesson he
picked up from one of his high school teachers, Tim Tubbs,
who also taught math and coached golf.
Several of his physics students mentioned that Dyer
doesn’t spoon-feed them answers but encourages them to
work things out on their own.
“He gives you all the tools you need to succeed, and then
you have to find a way,” said senior Connor Loats. “And I
find that you learn a lot better that way.”
Dyer also advises the cooking club (he’s an avid cook) and
created a Catholic version of Young Life at Kennedy Catholic called Lancer Life. It focuses on “faith, fun and friends,
and then the occasional food,” he said. The group has met
for breakfast before school and gone on camping trips,
among other activities; Kale and Adrianne led it together
before she left her campus ministry position at the school to
become a chaplain resident at Harborview Medical Center
this year.
Dyer and fellow Kennedy Catholic teacher Ryan Kyler
have teamed up as entertainment at school retreats and
twice hosted a popular school auction prize — a student
movie night with Dyer and Kyler.
“He cares about faith being significant for kids in a meaningful way,” Adrianne said, whether it’s in the classroom or
in casual conversation.
Just as various people acted as stepping stones on his faith
journey, so too does Dyer want to guide his students. “I have
that opportunity to be one of those people that is part of the
path, of the journey of kids,” he said.
Family life
Stephen Brashear
Besides teaching at Catholic schools, the Dyers believe in
a Catholic education for their sons. Jackson, 14, is at St. Anthony School in Renton and applying to Kennedy Catholic
for the next school year. Isaac, 4, is likely to start kindergarten at the family’s parish school, St. Francis of Assisi.
Adrianne’s family has a “rich Catholic tradition,” and last
summer, Dyer was able to take Jackson to experience a part
of that. The two went on a weeklong, 100-mile pilgrimage
for vocations in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. They walked
with Jackson’s godfather and 45 others, praying, singing,
carrying a cross and bunking down at different churches at
night.
It was a significant trip for both father and son, Dyer said.
“For him that journey is transitioning from boyhood to
manhood. We both saw and experienced how important
community and others are in that journey,” Dyer said. “I
experienced the richness of the Catholic faith and the unique
expression of that in New Mexico.”
“We slept in churches. We walked before the sun came
up. We covered 100 miles and I’d do it again if the opportunity was there,” he added.
The pilgrimage for vocations later got Dyer thinking about
how teaching is in many ways his own vocation. “It’s hard
to think of doing something else when I see teaching right
now as being a response to who I am,” he said.
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Sufrir con paciencia los defectos del prójimo. No
con ternura hacia un encuentro con Jesús. Solo Él puede
estamos llamados a ser tapetes de nadie y tenemos derecho
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Enseñar al que no sabe. Cada cristiano es un apóstol
lamentándonos de nuestras desgracias, perderemos la oporenviado a dar testimonio de la buena nueva. Pero para eso
tunidad de aprender la crucial lección que Jesús nos enseñó:
tenemos que asegurarnos de que conocemos la buena nueva, poner la otra mejilla y confiar por completo en Dios. Pelear
de que nos hemos imbuido nosotros mismos en ella y que
todas las batallas puede significar que confiamos en nuestras
nos esforzamos en practicarla. Este acto de misericordia no
destrezas y capacidades, sacando del camino a los demás,
significa debatir o ganar discusiones. Es recibir la luz que
perpetuando así el ciclo de violencia, sin aprender jamás la
Dios desea para todos cuando encontramos la verdad en su
mansedumbre y misericordia de Jesús.
Hijo. Con ternura y respeto proclamamos la verdad y preOrar por los vivos y los difuntos. La oración de intersentamos a Jesús a los demás.
cesión es parte de nuestro cristianismo cotidiano, pues maniDar buen consejo al que lo necesita. Todos en algu- fiesta y nutre nuestra comunión en la fe. Jesús está siempre
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confusión y la ansiedad. Con frecuencia la ansiedad es más
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perturbadora que la duda. Animar a otros cuando los invade los muertos, también ellos oran por nosotros.
la duda, ayudándoles a ver la presencia de Dios en sus vidas,
Para finalizar, es importante recordar que no ejercemos
con paciencia explicarles que Dios no nos abandona cuando
obras de misericordia para ser reconocidos en público.
tenemos luchas de fe son maneras de ofrecer solaz espiritual.
“Tengan cuidado de no hacer obras buenas para ser vistos
No está de más recordar que aun cuando dudemos de la
por los demás; de ser así no tendrán recompensa de su Padre
existencia de Dios o de su amor, ¡Él existe y nos ama!
celestial. … Cuando den limosna, no dejen que su mano
Corregir al que yerra. Hay que decir de antemano
izquierda sepa lo que hace su derecha, para que su limosna
que la conversión viene solo de Dios. No nos acercamos a
permanezca en secreto. Y su Padre, que ve en lo secreto los
los demás con la intención de arreglarlos; pues así solo los
recompensará.” (Mateo 6,1-4)
alejaremos más. Más bien les mostramos la misericordia de
Mis actos de misericordia no son “míos”. Es Cristo que
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girme con su gracia, las obras corporales y espirituales de
ser con humildad y después de haber orado, como pecadores misericordia se hacen una “segunda naturaleza” en mí y me
que confiamos también nosotros mismos en la misericordia
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de Dios.
Envíe sus intenciones de oración a la Lista de Oración del
Consolar al afligido. Como en las obras corporales
Arzobispo Sartain a: Archdiocese of Seattle, 710 Ninth Ave.,
de misericordia, estamos llamados a consolar al afligido.
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Barbara Koob nació en
Alemania y emigró a
los Estados Unidos con su familia cuando tenía dos años.
Se unió a las Hermanas de la Tercera Orden Regular de
Sn. Francisco en Siracusa, Nueva York, sirviendo por
20 años como maestra y administradora de un hospital.
En 1883 viajó con seis hermanas a Hawái para atender
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la obra de Sn. Damián de Veuster tras su muerte. La
Madre Mariana murió en Moloka i. Su fiesta es el día
de su nacimiento. En su canonización en 2012, el Papa
Benedicto XVI la llamó “un brillante ejemplo de la
tradición de las religiosas católicas enfermeras y del
espíritu de su amado Sn. Francisco.”
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de coros, iniciando cada nueva obra con una oración.
Sus retablos, pinturas y frescos religiosos aprovechaban
el color al máximo para provocar un efecto espacial y
emocional. Fra Angélico, que significa “hermano angélico”, decoró un monasterio entero en Florencia y dos
capillas en Roma. Entre sus obras notables se cuentan su
Anunciación y El Descendimiento de la Cruz. Rechazó el
nombramiento de arzobispo de Florencia. Fue beatificado
por el Papa Sn. Juan Pablo II en 1982. Los estudiantes de
arte suelen dejar oraciones escritas cerca de su tumba en
la basílica de Santa María Sopra Minerva en Roma. Es
patrono de los artistas.
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( I N E N G L I S H : N W C AT H O L I C . O R G )
Creer es …
crear
Vida de fe
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‘Muéstrame tu fe sin obras,
y yo por mis obras te
mostraré mi fe’ (Santiago 2,18)
que están a nuestro derredor. El amor expande el
Para mí la fe es: “la respuesta gozosa en
corazón, expande a la persona y la hace plural, lo
la vida a la experiencia personal de haber
hace transformar el yo en un nosotros.
sido encontrado por alguien que me ama”.
Cualquier hombre o mujer que esté o haya estado
Fe vivida
enamorado sabe que esa experiencia le cambió la
La fe como encuentro amoroso con Dios nos
existencia en todos sentidos.
lleva a gastar tiempo con la persona amada. Los
A partir de ese encuentro amoroso, una alegre
diálogos con la persona amada son diálogos
fuerza interior nos hizo tener una valentía y
íntimos que llenan de felicidad y placer a los
arrojo para acciones que antes hubiéramos
OBISPO EUSEBIO
enamorados. Para el creyente, esos diálogos se
considerado fuera de nuestro alcance. Sin ninguna
ELIZONDO, M.SP.S.
realizan en la oración. En esa intimidad se conoce
certeza tangible, empleamos en esos momentos lo
siempre más al amado. Ahí descubrimos los
mejor de nuestros recursos en persecución de lo
gustos
de
Dios,
sus preferencias, sus penas, sus dolores, lo
que otros considerarían solo como ideales no realizables.
que
le
desagrada,
etc.; en esa intimidad descubrimos nuestra
La vida amorosa es vida de fe, creer nos impulsa a crear.
capacidad de generar cambios en nuestra vida, por el puro
La persona que nos ha salido al encuentro nos ha hecho
gozo de complacer a ese que nos ama y amamos.
descubrirnos valiosos, nos ha dado una nueva dignidad y
Dios nos ha amado hasta el extremo de hacerse uno de
por lo mismo ha generado cambios en nuestra mente, en
nosotros
en Jesús para que el amor divino fuera tangible en
nuestro cuerpo y en nuestros deseos. Los enamorados logran
nuestra humanidad. Al vivir entre nosotros nos permitió
hazañas que todos admiramos.
Dios ha salido al encuentro de esos hombres y mujeres que conocer lo que le agrada y desagrada, lo que desea lograr en
cada uno y lo que quiere impedir en nuestras vidas. Su amor
los creyentes llamamos santos. Esa experiencia amorosa los
nos empuja a vivir imitándolo. Su cuerpo y su sangre que
ha hecho capaces de acciones que a los demás nos parecen
recibimos en la Eucaristía nos hace capaces de seguirlo. Su
proezas, pero para ellos es el gozoso resultado de ese
pasión por la justicia se convierte en nuestra propia pasión.
encuentro amoroso, de ese salto de fe.
Su urgencia por promover la hermandad universal se hace
La palabra mártir que usamos en español viene
parte de nuestra urgencia de vida. Su rechazo de la violencia,
directamente del idioma griego y significa precisamente
el odio o las divisiones raciales, enraíza en nuestro corazón y
testigo. El Papa Paulo VI solía decir que: “en el mundo hoy,
nos hace vibrar en sintonía con sus sentimientos.
más que maestros, necesitamos testigos”. El Papa Francisco
La fe no es una idea, la fe es una relación. La fe es un
nos ha invitado insistentemente a escuchar el clamor de
encuentro
transformador de la existencia. Ese encuentro
nuestros hermanos; nos llama a involucrarnos tan de cerca
amoroso genera el ferviente deseo de embellecer la propia
con cada persona que esté buscando a Jesús, que podamos
vida para ofrecerla como regalo al amado. El gozo personal
sufrir y gozar con ellos. Que podamos ser mártires-testigos
de ese encuentro se manifiesta en toda nuestra vida y
de las alegrías y penas, de las búsquedas y luchas de cada
uno de los que quieren ser discípulos-misioneros del amor de relaciones con los demás. La fe en el amado, nos hace
crear un nuevo estilo de vida personal. Nos hace inventar
Jesucristo en nuestro mundo.
nuevas formas de perdón, de solidaridad, de sanación. Esas
Ser testigo, ser mártir es una responsabilidad y una
gozosas relaciones son nuestro mejor servicio, son nuestro
dignidad que parecería más allá de nuestro alcance, a no
mejor apostolado, son las que nos convierten en auténticos
ser que sea consecuencia de estar enamorado. Sn. Pablo
misioneros de la alegría, en auténticos mártires-testigos en
decía: “El amor de Cristo nos apremia.” (2 Corintios 5,14)
cualquier situación de nuestra vida.
Podríamos parafrasear esto diciendo que el amor de Cristo
La fe de María creó para toda la humanidad la historia de
nos empuja, nos impele más allá de lo que nosotros mismos
salvación
que hacemos nuestra cada día.
hubiéramos deseado. Ese amor desacomoda nuestro estilo de
vida personal ya aprendido, ya establecido. Diríamos que ese Eusebio Elizondo, M.Sp.S., es obispo auxiliar de Seattle y vicario
para el ministerio hispano.
amor nos hace gozosamente sufrir las consecuencias de los
cambios que se generan en nuestra vida, y en la vida de los
S E M I L L A S D E L A PA L A B R A
( I N E N G L I S H : N W C AT H O L I C . O R G )
Hagamos un solo propósito para 2016:
Seamos misericordiosos
Saquemos provecho al Jubileo de la Misericordia
y seamos mejores personas este año
I
nuestros hijos lo que no saben; daremos
niciamos cada año con la esperanza de
consejos sin imponerlos a quienes nos lo pidan;
tener una vida mejor. Pareciera
nos atreveremos a corregir a quien sabemos
muchas veces que anhelábamos que el
que hierra en vez de seguir callando; no nos
desentenderemos del dolor de quienes nos rodean
año viejo concluyera, con la urgencia de
y los consolaremos; seremos más pacientes y
cerrar un capítulo que quizás fue muy
tolerantes que antes con las imperfecciones de
amargo en nuestra vida. Al cambiar de
los demás; dedicaremos más tiempo a rezar por
página hacia el capítulo nuevo que nos
vivos y muertos … y sin duda lo más desafiante:
¡Seremos más generosos para perdonar y más
ofrece la vida que Dios nos ha dado,
MAURICIO I. PÉREZ
firmes con nosotros mismos para desterrar el
esperamos que este año sea mejor que
rencor de nuestro corazón!
el anterior. Y anhelamos a la vez, ser nosotros
El propósito de ser más misericordiosos basta y sobra
para
que seamos mejores personas y mejores hijos de Dios
mismos mejores que antes.
Este 2016 resulta muy especial. Se trata del Jubileo de la
Misericordia. Un año santo para superar aquella carencia
de misericordia que tanto preocupa al Papa Francisco y
que vemos que claramente va fracturando las vidas de
cada persona, de cada familia y de cada sociedad. Muchas
veces incluso, la vida de cada parroquia se ve afectada por
esta falta de misericordia. Y el papa quiere que este año,
superemos esa crisis. Caminando con paso firme por “las
sendas del Señor, que son misericordia y fidelidad para los
que guardan su alianza y sus mandatos.” (Salmo 25,10)
Conviene repetirnos a diario la frase del Sermón de la
Montaña: “Bienaventurados los misericordiosos, porque
ellos alcanzarán misericordia.” (Mateo 5,7) Si nos tomamos
a pecho nuestra religión, este 2016 nuestra lista de
buenos propósitos debería reducirse a uno solo: Ser más
misericordiosos que antes.
Porque este solo propósito, bien vivido, se traducirá en un
manantial de misericordia que brotará de nuestro corazón:
Alimentaremos a más personas hambrientas que nos tienden
la mano; ofreceremos nuestra casa a quienes precisen de
compañía; donaremos más ropa a las personas que necesitan
cobijo en la calle; sacrificaremos más nuestro preciado
tiempo personal para visitar a las personas enfermas y para
asistir a los funerales de nuestros familiares o amigos.
Igualmente, tendremos más paciencia al enseñar a
este año. Repasar estos dos párrafos anteriores nos hace
comprender por qué la urgencia del Papa Francisco de hacer
de este, un mundo más misericordioso. Y es que, siendo
misericordiosos, reflejamos la imagen de Dios y nos hacemos
más semejantes a Él: “Sean misericordiosos como su Padre
es misericordioso.” (Lucas 6,36)
Por el contrario, la falta de misericordia hace a las
personas egoístas e insensibles, desinteresadas y apáticas,
intolerantes e incomprensivas, despiadadas y vengativas,
rencorosas y agresivas. ¡Y por eso el mundo está como
está! Por eso Francisco quiere que aprendamos todos a
ser misericordiosos. Solo así seremos merecedores de la
misericordia de Dios.
Trabajemos pues, empezando en nuestro hogar, por ser
artífices de la misericordia. Por dejar de provocar conflictos
y amargura. Más bien, resolviendo nosotros mismos
cualquier tensión, disgusto o conflicto que esté robando
la paz a cada miembro de nuestra familia y a toda nuestra
familia en consecuencia.
Trabajemos por la misericordia todos los días, recordando
que celebramos este gran jubileo, y seremos bienaventurados,
porque recibiremos de Dios su misericordia.
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Day of Mercy
Upcoming retreats
Stephen Brashear
As part of the Year of Mercy called
by Pope Francis, priests from
across the Archdiocese of Seattle
— including Archbishop J. Peter
Sartain and Auxiliary Bishop Eusebio
Elizondo — will hear confessions
throughout a special Day of Mercy,
Saturday, March 5, at St. James
Cathedral in Seattle.
The Archbishop
Brunett Retreat
Center at the
Palisades in
Federal Way
has several
weekend
retreats coming
up, including:
Feb. 12–14:
“The Surprising
Sacrament
of Matrimony” led by Father Tom
Vandenberg.
Msgr. Brian
Bransfield
Catholic Advocacy Day
Join hundreds of
Catholics from
around Washington
state for Catholic
Advocacy Day, an
annual opportunity
for prayer, education
and advocacy on
behalf of the poor
and vulnerable, on
Monday, Feb. 8. The
day, with the theme
“Proclaim Justice
and Life for All,”
begins at 9 a.m. with
legislative briefings and Mass at St. Michael Church in Olympia, followed
by appointments with legislators. Chartered buses depart from Bellevue,
Bellingham, Burlington, Everett, Federal Way, Kirkland, Renton, Seattle,
Tacoma and Vancouver. Register by Jan. 18 at ipjc.org.
Feb. 12–14: Shakespeare’s Henry IV,
Part 1 led by Father Stephen Rowan.
March 11–13: Women’s silent Lenten
retreat led by Salesian Father Tom
Landgraff.
Stephen Brashear
March 18–20: Palm Sunday silent
retreat led by Msgr. Scott Friend of
Little Rock, Arkansas.
April 1–3: Men’s silent retreat
led by Msgr. Brian Bransfield,
general secretary-elect of the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops.
To register, visit
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Christian Unity
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Feb. 10 is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, the season of intense
spiritual preparation for the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection on Easter,
March 27. During Lent, Catholics are called to penances and works of
charity that reflect a deep desire for conversion of heart. The minimum
requirements for Catholics include:
The annual
Week of
Prayer for
Christian
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the theme
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Mighty Acts
of the Lord,”
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and Order of the World Council
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Mackenzie Jorgensen
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Robin Gunderson
Mass for Life
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at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey. The Mass precedes
the Washington State March for Life, at noon at the state
Capitol in Olympia, which annually draws thousands to
mark the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme
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Mackenzie received an Aspirations in Computing award from
the National Center for Women
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founding a computer coding club
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Our Lady of the Lake School and
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Technologists, to start more coding clubs. A member of
Our Lady of the Lake Parish, she is also a competitive
Irish step dancer.
Nathanial Post
Seattle Preparatory School
Senior
Nathanial “has shown a great
deal of focus and perseverance”
as a four-year member of the
Panther football program, said
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and being named first-team all-league
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The Malissa Perry
I
painting.
She is a breath of fresh air in a world
full of people trying to conform. She
can’t impress others with her knowledge, looks, conversation or wealth,
and so she gives us the gift of a Christlike acceptance based not on external
things but on an open heart. L’Arche
founder Jean Vanier once said, “People
with intellectual disabilities are so
spontaneous and true! They attract
and awaken the heart. Their thirst for
friendship, love and communion leaves
no one indifferent. Either you harden
your heart to their cry and reject them,
or you open your heart and enter into
a relationship built on trust, simple,
tender gestures and few words.”
Christen Mattix is a member of Sacred
Heart Parish in Bellingham.
Sunrise in Your Smile
by Christen Mattix
Christen Mattix
Little did I know this job would
change my life. I started working two
overnight shifts a week, which allowed
me to make art on the other days.
But I struggled to find meaning in my
work as a caregiver and realized that I
needed to make art out of the experience. With the approval of my supervisors, I began making bold portraits of
Malissa on large pieces of plywood.
This work changed how I saw Malissa — I became much more aware of
the presence of Jesus in her, how much
God loves her and works through her.
But a wonderful surprise awaited us
all. Last spring, as an experiment, we
gave Malissa a canvas, and she hasn’t
stopped painting since. Malissa is
nonverbal, but her paintings give ex-
The Malissa Perry Project,
an exhibit featuring Perry’s
abstractions and Christen
Mattix’s portraits of Perry, is
on display through Jan. 31 at
St. Joseph Medical Center in
Bellingham. You can see the
paintings online at facebook.com/
themalissaperryproject.
Christen Mattix
had just returned to
pression to a rich, enigmatic inner life.
Bellingham after spending
She creates dense, atmospheric layers
of marker, glitter and paint that sugsix months at a Cistercian
gest nebulae, tidal pools or glittering
monastery discerning God’s
geodes. The surfaces of her paintings
direction for my life. I realized
incorporate found objects like shoethat God wanted me
laces, beads and balloons
culled from her daily life.
back in the world,
Malissa is not powerful
working as an artist.
in the eyes of the world, but
Bewildered but trying
she has tremendous power
in the kingdom of God.
to stay open to God’s
When Jesus said blessed
leading, I was at a
are the poor and the meek,
grocery store when
I’m sure he was thinking
of people like Malissa. She
a woman — an
CHRISTEN MATTIX
is a devout Catholic who
acquaintance from a
receives Communion every
Catholic prayer meeting
week through a faithful eucharistic
minister who visits her home. She loves
— tapped me on the shoulder
to turn on her battery-powered candle
and asked if I needed a job.
and pray with her caregivers — whethThis had never happened to
er or not they are Catholic. (She’s a bit
me before. In a matter of days,
of an evangelist!) Her childlike dependency has drawn together a beautiful
I had an interview lined up to
community of women who act as her
work with a woman with Down caregivers and friends. Malissa’s gifts
syndrome and autism named
to others are simple but profound — a
radiant smile, a joyful dance, a glittery
Malissa Perry.
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