Valentine's Day (observed)

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Hey everybody,

It\u2019s Fat Tuesday, and you\u2019re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post.

I don\u2019t know about all of you, but where I live, today is both Fat Tuesday and, de facto, Valentine\u2019s Day (Observed), since Ash Wednesday would seem an inappropriate time for that commemoration of romantic love which we attach to St. Valentine\u2019s martyrdom. 

Valentine\u2019s Day (Observed) means my kids this morning are enjoying chocolates and candy hearts, with the full understanding that they\u2019ve got to finish their bounty before tomorrow morning, when our family will get serious about spiritually preparing for the Lord\u2019s Passion, and his Resurrection.

And this morning, Mrs. Flynn dropped a little bit of a surprise on me. 

See, when I asked her last week about Valentine\u2019s Day, Mrs. Flynn assured me that we don\u2019t observe the holiday between ourselves. 

\u201CWe actually never do anything for Valentine\u2019s Day,\u201D she said. \u201CDon\u2019t you remember?\u201D

I have been married almost 20 years, but I have no idea about our Valentine\u2019s Day customs, so I readily assented. 

But after assuring me that we exchange nothing, my favorite Valentine left this morning on the breakfast table a box of my very favorite candy.  

Luckily, I predicted that surprise might happen, and last week I ordered for Mrs. Flynn a tasty treat from her favorite baker, which I\u2019ll pick up later today, thus restoring balance to the universe.  

As to Lent, we\u2019ll pick up our family rosary practice during the holy season, start turning off tv more, and make some other fasts.

On a personal level, I\u2019ve got some planned fasts lined up for Lent, and some planned spiritual disciplines. Each Lent, I try to take up the spiritual discipline of hand-copying Scripture, which I find to be both edifying and demanding \u2014 especially the needed fortitude to stick with it through the course of Lent.

I also aim to better commit to my promises of intercessory prayer for other people. I\u2019ve always been struck by the discipline of St. John Henry Newman on this. Insisting that intercessory prayer is the ordinary duty of the Christian, Newman was good about carrying with him his long list of people to pray for, with specific intentions and requests, and about spending time with the Lord and that list every day. 

When I promise to pray for someone, I try to do it as soon as the promise is made, so I won\u2019t forget. But I think there\u2019s something important to consistency and regularity about those prayers, so that\u2019s what I\u2019m aiming for this Lent.  

And whatever else you\u2019re doing this Lent, readers, you might be among the millions of Americans who find yourselves eating fast food fish ahead of Easter. If so, you should check out Brendan Hodge\u2019s excellent taste/price/value analysis of some of the best Lenten fish sandwiches. 

Really, give it a read. It\u2019s a classic Brendan analysis, and that\u2019s a very good thing.

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The news

Let\u2019s start with this:

Because of a federal rule change, thousands of priests, brothers, nuns, and religious sisters could be required to leave the United States in the next few years, while their applications for permanent residency are backlogged, with little prospect for relief in sight.  

The issue could have dramatic impact on parishes and dioceses across the United States \u2014 and yet it\u2019s gotten almost no attention from most Catholics. 

And diocesan, religious order, and USCCB leaders told me that\u2019s too bad, since they\u2019re hoping that pressure on the federal government might spur a rule change. 

Without change, this situation is a very big deal. With the number of foreign-born parish pastors continuing to grow, the situation could impact a lot of parishes. 

Really, this is a pretty big deal for the life of the Church \u2014 and if you don\u2019t know about it yet, you should read the story here.  

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\u2014A Michigan priest, Fr. David Rosenberg, was convicted of eight felonies Friday, after a jury found he stole more than $830,000 from elderly priests for whom he supposedly helped to care \u2014 including one priest on his deathbed.

As financial crime among clergy becomes more widely known, dioceses are learning in real time how to respond canonically to situations like Fr. Roseberg\u2019s \u2014 and how to prevent them in the first place. 

If you\u2019re an avid Pillar reader, you may have read about Fr. Rosenberg\u2019s case back in September. Whether you did or you didn\u2019t, read the latest here. 

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The head of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church criticized authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala Saturday after a man was trampled to death by an elephant.

Indian elephants are up to 10 feet tall and can weigh as much as 11,000 pounds.

According to Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil, Indian officials are chronically negligent when it comes to the prevention of animal attacks. And the Church says that when the government won\u2019t intervene, the poor are put at risk.

Read about it.

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\u2014The Vatican\u2019s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors is preparing to publish its very first annual report on the Church\u2019s global efforts to protect minors and vulnerable adults from abuse.

Figuring out how to undertake that task \u2014 and produce a serious and credible result \u2014 is no small feat.

So the pope appointed in 2022 Maud de Boer-Buquicchio to help lead the process \u2014 a Dutch jurist who spent six years as the UN\u2019s special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children.

In an in-depth and important interview, De Boer-Buquicchio talked with The Pillar about the report and its significance.

If you\u2019re concerned about the Vatican\u2019s role in child and youth protection, this interview is invaluable reading.

\u2014Finally, a longread from Michelle La Rosa that you\u2019ll want to spend time with.

If you spend much time in Catholic circles, you\u2019ll hear a lot of people talking about the importance of \u201Csacred music.\u201D 

But what people mean by the term \u201Csacred music\u201D is often pretty vague, and even when they have specifics, there are a number of contradictory or competing ideas about what kind of music the Church says should be featured at Mass.

Michelle talked with a diocesan bishop, some liturgical scholars, and some parish musicians, as she aimed to unpack the Church\u2019s documents on sacred music and sacred worship \u2014 to answer a simple, but often contentious question: What exactly is sacred music? 

This is a great read, with a reasonable range of perspectives, and a lot to think about.

Don\u2019t miss it.

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A thing of beauty

St. Kateri Tekakwitha was baptized a Catholic in 1676, at the age of 20. She had spent most of her childhood living with extended family, after her parents died of smallpox when she was four. The same smallpox outbreak had left Kateri nearly blind.

She heard the Gospel nine years before she was baptized a Christian, and became a catechumen when she was 18, spending almost two years preparing for her baptism.

As a Christian, Kateri loved to pray. But she faced hostility in her community, and even her family, from neighbors and relatives who accused her of witchcraft or sorcery.

In that context, Kateri developed some discreet habits and practices of prayer \u2014 For example, to pray the rosary, she dropped small stones along paths outside her village, praying as she stepped on each stone, while she seemed to be taking a walk. 

I tell you all this because I was in the Diocese of Gallup, New Mexico, this weekend \u2014 a diocese mostly comprised of the territory of the Navajo nation, and including other Indigenous pueblos established as reservations in federal law. Much of the diocese is populated with Native American Catholics, whose culture and heritage are present in the life of the Church there.

To better express and honor that, the Gallup diocese is building at its retreat center a rosary walk inspired by St. Kateri \u2014 a series of paths in a pine and pi\u00F1on canyon, where pilgrims will be able to walk the rosary, as Kateri did. Small shrines along the way are being hand built of adobe bricks, using the traditional methods of the region. Eventually there will be even a small chapel among them. 

It\u2019s a beautiful place. 

Now, in recent weeks, the St. Kateri Rosary Walk project has advertised a bit in Pillar newsletters and podcasts, inviting young men to consider applying for a summer working on the rosary walk project.

But this right here, what I\u2019m writing now, isn\u2019t an advertisement. Instead, it\u2019s my own reflection, having visited a beautiful project, in the poorest diocese of America. 

I was struck by the inculturation of the project, which incorporates both Kateri\u2019s prayer devotion and local building methods and practices.

I was also struck by the beauty of an invitation to come and pray in the quiet solace of the high desert, some of America\u2019s most beautiful country.

And I was struck by the power of witness embedded in the project itself \u2014 that Catholics in America\u2019s poorest diocese have decided to build something beautiful for the Lord, to help raise our sights toward the heavens, even in a tucked away corner of the United States, off the beaten path for most travelers. 

We need beautiful things. They give glory to God, and they point us to his transcendent beauty. No matter our material circumstances, we need beauty to point us beyond this world, into the glory of the next. 

I\u2019m grateful that the Catholics of Gallup, New Mexico reminded me of that this weekend. 

Visit the St. Kateri rosary walk, if you can.

And while you\u2019re in Gallup, you can visit the cool, old, historic El Rancho Hotel, where movie stars once stayed while they shot westerns in the redstone canyons outside of town.

It\u2019s worth seeing:

And pray for the success of the rosary walk project, if you would. 

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Thank you.

Please be assured of our prayers. And please pray for us. We need it.

And happy Lent, so to speak.

Yours in Christ,

JD Flynneditor-in-chiefThe Pillar

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