Every so often I should show you, my good readers, what is transpiring in my corner of San Francisco. Some say Star of the Sea parish and school is a delightful Catholic bubble in a City mostly expunged of religion. In fact, there is a good amount of right religion flourishing in my City, even if the Narrative Controllers (may I adduce the usual suspects in our mainstream media?) don’t speak about it, God bless them!
Our annual Walk for Life West Coast, for example, draws 40,000 people to joyfully celebrate God’s gift of human life, all along Market Street from City Hall to the Ferry Building.
Two weeks ago about a hundred of us followed five SFPD cruisers and five SPFP motorcycles along the City’s second biggest thoroughfare (Geary Boulevard) from the Cathedral to the parish. Fr. Javier and I held aloft the Blessed Sacrament, which brought smiles and bows from onlookers on streets and in apartment buildings. The police officers were no less joyful to be protecting such a procession.
Last Wednesday 250 young professionals met in debate on the question “Will Christianity Destroy the West?” One of Silicon Valley’s finest, Aditya Prathap, set up this Hamiliton Society to bring in speakers from across the country who debate the Bay Area’s brightest in social and philosophical conversations, which meets in our school auditorium monthly.
Earlier that same day, I had journeyed with our 8th graders through the Presidio praying the rosary for the souls of veterans who have lived and died in the service of our country. We prayed at San Francisco’s only remaining public cemetery, presiding serenely above the Golden Gate Bridge.
Every two weeks, a group of young adults brings food, coats, and prayers to the poorest of the poor on our streets, and, let me tell you, they are very well received! The homeless of San Francisco love to pray, and we love to spend time with them.
In February, a young Croatian who had been part of our young adults ten years ago was ordained to the priesthood and offered one of his first Masses at the parish, assisted by our school’s altar boys.
In March, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke preached at the 25th anniversary of a Hong Kong Cardinal (Ignatius Kung) who spent 30 years in prison for resisting government suppression of his church. In March of 2000, he had lain in state at my parish before being buried in Santa Clara. The last picture below is Cardinal Burke blessing one of our larger and more … ahem … winningly energetic Asian families, the redoubtable Dumlao clan.
Those are a few of my favorite things from this past year, all bright and beautiful blessings from the hand of the Almighty. The faith is alive and well here!
Our annual Walk for Life West Coast, for example, draws 40,000 people to joyfully celebrate God’s gift of human life, all along Market Street from City Hall to the Ferry Building.
Two weeks ago about a hundred of us followed five SFPD cruisers and five SPFP motorcycles along the City’s second biggest thoroughfare (Geary Boulevard) from the Cathedral to the parish. Fr. Javier and I held aloft the Blessed Sacrament, which brought smiles and bows from onlookers on streets and in apartment buildings. The police officers were no less joyful to be protecting such a procession.
Last Wednesday 250 young professionals met in debate on the question “Will Christianity Destroy the West?” One of Silicon Valley’s finest, Aditya Prathap, set up this Hamiliton Society to bring in speakers from across the country who debate the Bay Area’s brightest in social and philosophical conversations, which meets in our school auditorium monthly.
Earlier that same day, I had journeyed with our 8th graders through the Presidio praying the rosary for the souls of veterans who have lived and died in the service of our country. We prayed at San Francisco’s only remaining public cemetery, presiding serenely above the Golden Gate Bridge.
Every two weeks, a group of young adults brings food, coats, and prayers to the poorest of the poor on our streets, and, let me tell you, they are very well received! The homeless of San Francisco love to pray, and we love to spend time with them.
In February, a young Croatian who had been part of our young adults ten years ago was ordained to the priesthood and offered one of his first Masses at the parish, assisted by our school’s altar boys.
In March, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke preached at the 25th anniversary of a Hong Kong Cardinal (Ignatius Kung) who spent 30 years in prison for resisting government suppression of his church. In March of 2000, he had lain in state at my parish before being buried in Santa Clara. The last picture below is Cardinal Burke blessing one of our larger and more … ahem … winningly energetic Asian families, the redoubtable Dumlao clan.
Those are a few of my favorite things from this past year, all bright and beautiful blessings from the hand of the Almighty. The faith is alive and well here!
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