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3 DENVER CATHOLIC | DECEMBER 26, 2015-JANUARY 8, 2016 Vatican Notes Join Dr. Ted Sri and Fr. John Ignatius, SCJ, who will discuss the meaning of the Jubilee Year and how to live a spirituality of mercy. Be inspired by the merciful life and witness of Julia Greeley, Colorado's own "Angel of Charity." Mercy Chose Me A conference on living the Jubilee Year of Mercy Mass at 8:00 a.m., Conference 9:30 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. JANUARY , Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Hall Northglenn, CO Visit archden.org/mercy to register for this exciting event. (303) 715-3207 OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS Deacon Martin Hetzel, relieved of duties at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center and appointed deacon at Nativity Parish in Broomfi eld, eff ective Jan. 1, 2016 Deacon Gregory "Dusty" Martin, granted retirement from active ministry at St. Pius X eff ective Jan. 1, 2016 It's offi cial! Mother Teresa to be canonized A fter months of anticipation, the miracle allowing for the canon- ization of Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta has offi cially been approved by the Vatican, though as of now no specifi c date for the event has been given. Rumors of the canonization have been building for months. However, the Vatican made it offi cial in a Dec. 18 communique, which also recognized the heroic virtue of Fr. Giuseppe Ambrosoli of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, giving him the title "Venerable." Though Pope Francis met with Car- dinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, mere days ago to advance several causes of canonization, including an American, he met with the cardinal again in a private audience on his birthday, Dec. 17. In the course of the meeting the Pope accepted the miracle attributed to Mother Teresa of a Brazilian man inex- plicably cured of brain abscesses. Although no plans are offi cial, Cardinal Amato has previously suggested Sept. 4, 2016, which is being observed as a jubilee day for workers and volunteers of mercy, as a possible canonization date, since it is close to Sept. 5, the sister's feast day and the anniversary of her death. In September, Father Caetano Rizzi, the Vicar for Canonic aff airs in the Bra- zilian diocese of Santos and the Promoter of Justice for the miracle, told CNA that the Pope was interested in canonizing Mother Teresa during the Jubilee Year of Mercy, which is underway through Nov. 20, 2016. In his Dec. 17 meeting with Cardinal Amato, Pope Francis also approved of the heroic virtue of Fr. Adolfo of the Institute of the Brothers of Christian Schools, as well as that of layman Enrico Hahn. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu Aug. 26, 1910, in Skopje, Mace- donia. The youngest of three children, she attended a youth group run by a Jesuit priest called Sodality, which even- tually opened her to the call of service as a missionary sister. She joined the Sisters of Loretto at age 17 and was sent to Calcutta, where she taught at a high school. After contract- ing tuberculosis, she was sent to rest in Darjeeling, and it was on the way that she received what she called "an order" from God to leave the convent and live among the poor. The Vatican granted her permission to leave the Sisters of Loretto and to live her new call under the guidance of the Arch- bishop of Calcutta. After she left her convent, Mother Teresa began working in the slums, teaching poor children, and treating the sick in their homes. A year later, some of her former students joined her, and together they took in men, women and children who were dying in the gutters along the streets. In 1950, the Missionaries of Charity were born as a congregation of the Dio- cese of Calcutta. In 1952, the government granted them a house from which to con- tinue their mission of serving Calcutta's poor and forgotten. The congregation quickly grew from a single house for the dying and unwanted to nearly 500 houses around the world. Mother Teresa set up homes for pros- titutes, battered women, orphanages for poor children and houses for those suf- fering from AIDS. She was a fi erce defender of the unborn, and is known to have said, "If you hear of some woman who does not want to keep her child and wants to have an abortion, try to persuade her to bring him to me. I will love that child, seeing in him the sign of God's love." She died Sept. 5, 1997, and was beatifi ed just six years later by St. John Paul II, on Oct. 19, 2003. BY CNA/EWTN NEWS If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. — MOTHER TERESA PHOTO BY MANFRED FERRARI, 2003

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