TOP LOCAL NEWS May 3, 2008
Lobby Day participants put their faith into action
With
Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States still fresh in their
minds, more than 700 California Catholics and several of the state’s
bishops who came to Sacramento for Catholic Lobby Day carried with them
the Holy Father’s message of activism and hope.
Speakers in the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament and at a rally on the state Capitol steps referred to the pope’s call to live the Catholic faith in action.
Deaf Catholics find a welcoming home at Sacramento’s Newman Center
The
ASL interpretation is essential for deaf Catholics in the diocese and across
the nation. Since December, members of the Catholic deaf community in the
Sacramento area have gathered at the Newman Catholic Center near the campus
of California State University, Sacramento for the Sunday 10:30 a.m. Mass
translated by an interpreter.
“When I was a little girl, there was no access for deaf people at Mass,” recalled Barbara Ramos, a parishioner at the Newman Center. “My father had to teach me everything about the Mass.”
“Now we have full access with the hearing,” Ramos said. “We watch the interpreters and watch what they have to tell us and finally we have access to the word of God.”
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Priests offer yoga course inspired by Catholic spirituality, prayer
Yoga classes abound these days, with trendy “hot yoga” and “power yoga” classes marketing yoga as exercise, and standard-fare yoga classes at the local community center emphasizing flexibility and overall improvements in health. The few classes that focus on yoga’s spiritual benefits use the practice to enter into Hindu spirituality.
Not Father Issac’s yoga classes.
Father Issac Arickappalil, pastor of St. Mary Parish in Sacramento, and Father Francis Chirackal, St. Mary parochial vicar, teach a seven-week-long course in yoga that centers entirely around Catholic spirituality, theology and prayer.
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