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ATTENDANCE
FOR CLASS
REUNION DECEMBER
14,15,16,
2014 SAN
FRANCISCO,
CALIFORNIA Harry Schlitt, Jan Schachern,
John Mulvihill, Marilyn Hardesty, Dakin Matthews, Ann Matthews, Charles Rooney, Geri Rooney, Michael Sheehan, Wayne Ressler,
Bard Zenson, Marilyn Zenson, Don Zanon, Geri Zanon, Jim Toner, Susan Toner, Don Schmitz, Jim Eblen, Joe Lynaugh, Martin Geraghty,
Paul Kwiatkowski, Harry Meyer, Bill McDonnell, Charles Mulligan, Jeri Mulligan, John Albosta, Tom Marlier, Barbara Marlier.
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Sunday, December 14, 2014
Arrival: San
Francisco Register at Holiday Inn Express Fisherman’s Wharf, 1300 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133, where the telephone is
(415) 486-0718.
5:00PM Opening Prayer at
the PORZIUNCOLA (610 Vallejo
St) Opening Mixer at
the Shrine of St. Francis (15 min walk, 5 min taxi)
Dress: Relaxed,
sweater or jacket suggested. 6:00 Dinner: IDEALe
(Chef Maurizio Bruschi, Roma) Hosted. 1315 Grant Street (between Vallejo and
Green Street). Phone: (415) 391-4129.
8:00 Hospitality
Suite OPEN: Holiday
(Hosted)
Monday, December
15, 2014
DIES NON…free to explore the city,
the wharf, Alcatraz, Golden Gate Bridge, Embarcadero.
3:45 Bus from Holiday
Inn to Shrine
4:00 Anniversary
Mass: Shrine of St. Francis (ALB/STOLE
suggested)
5:00 Bus to Golden
Gate Yacht Club (Hosted
Cocktails) Bob Mulhern.
6:15 Bus from GGYC
to Capurro’s on the Wharf Restaurant, 498 Jefferson Street, San Francisco, CA 94109. Telephone: (415) 771-9371.
Restaurant opened in 1946, and is two blocks from your hotel.
6:30 Dinner:
Capurro’s on the Wharf Chef: Paul
Capurro, San Francisco…Hosted
8:30 Hospitality
Suite Open
Tuesday, December
16, 2014
8:30 Mass for DISCEASED CLASSMATES: at HOTEL
(room announced). 9:00 Continental
Breakfast hosted followed by Open Forum: Facilitator:
Miles O’Brien Riley
10:30 Depart by Bus “bum
run” to Healdsburg in the Wine Country.
12:00 Hosted luncheon at MARTORANA FAMILY
VINEYARDS; BOCCE Tournament.
4:00 Bus Returns to Hotel. 5:00 Hospitality room open
till midnight Evening FREE for individuals to
experience dining at your pleasure. Wednesday,
December 17, 2014 DEPARTURE:
Anyone who
wished to remain made their own arrangements with the Hotel. For
groups going to the airport, the hotel was happy to arrange transportation. REUNION REGISTRATION: $200 PER PERSON, which covered the following six items: 1. Hospitality Suite: Monday/Tuesday 2. Opening Mixer:
Shrine of St. Francis 3. Opening Dinner IDEALe 4.
Celebratory Dinner Capurro 5. Bus Transportation to Wine Country 6. Memento Gift
***** THE THREE TOASTS Fr. Marty Geraghty, "TOAST TO POPE FRANCIS
I" 12/13/14 , on the occasion of the Reunion in San Francisco for the 50th anniversary
of the ordination of the 1965 class at North American College in Rome. Last summer at Castel Gandolfo, a young guy named Stefano
from northern Italy, an engineering student 19 years old, handed a letter to the Pope.
Francis took it and put it in his pocket and read it that night. The next day, Monday afternoon,
at 4 PM, Stefano in northern Italy gets a phone call. "Stefano, this is your
bishop Francesco.” Stefano doesn't believe it "This can't be." He says
"Stefano, I read your letter. It's a beautiful spiritual journey. I want to join you on your journey.” Stefan had used
the formal Italian "Lei,” the third person singular. This made all the
news in Italy. Francis said, "Stefano, Parliamoci del tu” the local way
of saying we will speak in the second person singular. "Say 'tu,’ don't say ‘lei’ Let us speak as friends; I am your brother.” I'm going to toast three
things tonight. I'm going to toast, what he calls "go to the periphery, and
smell like the sheep, if you call yourself a shepherd." I would like to toast
that tonight. I
would also like to toast which he calls the sense of hearing, an encounter. 50
years ago this year, when we were still in Rome, those of us who were in Rome at that time, we were there when Pope Paul VI
met with Patriarch Athanagorus at an encounter in Jerusalem, and said we have to get together East and West. Paul VI and Athanagorus said. "We have to heal the wounds." Then, two weeks ago, 50 years after we were there, Francis I met with Bartholomew
in Constantinople. Both of them used the words "full communion." It's taken 50 years, our 50 years, to get to where we are
talking about "full communion." And we're going to make it happen. As Francis said, "it can only happen by human encounter. We
have to look each other in the eye. We have to see each other. We have to embrace. That's the encounter, because Jesus
Christ himself is the encounter. If we do not encounter, we will not make this
next step.” I'm going to ask a toast to encounter. Finally, I'm going to ask you to toast the
third thing about this wonderful person that I like and I hope you like. He's
talking about "Synodality.” He's using this word in a new way, because,
it means, and it meant with Bartholomew, that we can have different marriage disciplines, and we can still be in full communion. You can do it that way and we can do it our way.
Maybe in our communion the Filipinos can feel one way and the Asians can feel another. And
we can still be the same church. Then he brought back an old word that we all love, "parousia”, "speak the truth with courage." He said, "Don't be afraid to say it, he told the bishops at the Synod, "don't hold
back because you think I'll be offended. Speak as the disciples spoke, with
frankness. Say what you believe that the Spirit has given you to say, even if
you think folks are going to disagree with you. Say it! And then listen humbly.” A whole new way of engaging
all the bishops of the world, and all of us as disciples. I invite you all to
toast this wonderful Francis I. Fr.
Jim Eblen, "Toast to The
North American College" 12/13/14
, on the occasion of the Reunion in San Francisco for the 50th anniversary of
the ordination of the 1965 class at North American College in Rome.
I toast the
college as a gateway. For me and
I hope
for many of you, as a young man the College told me what was Roman about the
Catholicism I practiced. It told
me in
those years what an ecumenical council looked like for real.
I toast the college as a gateway to what
theology can become with 27 different Jesuits putting their stamp on it.
I toast the
college for the diversity of ecclesial geography that I learned there, that
exists in America, and which has given me a sense always that, whatever our
diocese may be, I was able to know people all across the country in other
situations. Somehow that strengthened and gave hope to my faith, that it was
bigger than anything I knew, still, when we were back in this country.
Finally,
North American invited me and encouraged me to know the likes of all of you,
about as diverse a crowd as I could ever meet.
That has opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways that can never
close again because of all those gifts that have been received.
I am only thrilled that we can be here to
celebrate them, 50 years later. Dick Matthews, "Toast
to The NATION." 12/13/14
, on
the occasion of the Reunion in San Francisco for the 50th anniversary of the
ordination of the 1965 class at North American College in Rome.
I want to toast not so much the United States of America, as
the idea of the United States of
America. The deep contradiction
that
exists at the heart of our republic, which is not just unity in diversity, but
also the crazy idea that our government is built on the consent of the
governed, not a consent once given that can be withdrawn, but an unwithdrawable consent to be in a union -- an idea pretty
much invented by Abraham Lincoln
and his
principle behind the Civil War. It
was
not just that no state is so different from any other state that it cannot be
included in the union-- why we expanded from 13 to 50 states -- but also that
no state is so different that it ever has to be removed from the union or even can be removed from the union or can
even remove itself from the union. We
are bound together for life like galley slaves, lashed together, even to our
deepest enemies. Perhaps because
whatever our differences, we have to go together or the ship of state will
never sail.
What the idea of the union represents
is the simultaneous
acknowledgment and celebration off necessary unity and necessary diversity,
which is a macrocosm of our familial, social and even intimately personal
lives, riddled with contradictions, which we spend our lives trying to
reconcile. We are imperfect and
we keep
on going. So yes, our country was
colonized on the crime of genocide, our economies grew on the crime of slavery,
the state of our union now exists on the crime of social and economic inequality.
We have the burden of not one but many original sins. We almost never live up to our ideals, but
the ideals are still there in our founding documents, in our secular
Bible. Even when sometimes like
now, there
seems to be more division than unity, that crazy idea and ideal is still there in
the words that we are “all created equal.”
We have God-given rights that cannot be taken from us. We are entitled to govern ourselves and we
are indeed ultimately capable of it. And
though many we must still strive to become one without ever losing our
diversity. To which I add we will be judged as a nation and as a people by how
we help the helpless, and how we embrace into one the different.
So here's to us, always struggling to be
united as one America.
Click: North American College Class of 1965 Blogs Click for the latest Papal Documents, including Spe Salvi (30 Nov. 2008). |
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There are thousands of organizations, each with a specific purpose or goal. Since our classmates have shared "camerata
walks" twice a week in Rome, similar academic training at the Gregorian University, travel in Europe for three summers,
"bum runs" to various parts of Italy, countryside life at our Italian Villa, and international fellowship with students from
more than ninety-five countries, these are all good reasons to be an active class member. By building
an effective web site, we hope to get our class to join in a review of our common interests and memories. Perhaps
we can continue to build on these common interests and memories.
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