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Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ
Last week’s activities began on St. Patrick’s Day with an early Mass at St. Patrick’s School in Rodeo. I visited the classrooms as the students arrived at 7:30 a.m. There was a lot of buzz in the air, as everyone was dressed for St. Patrick. Some kids even had green hair. I found very happy children, yet reverent and focused during the morning prayer-assembly and later at Mass. They also have a full kindergarten, as well as preschool, and what looked like pre-pre-preschool . . . for babies!
Just like when visiting Santa, babies cry when visiting the Bishop!
Later on St. Patrick’s Day we held the funeral Mass for Father Seamus Genovese. There was a very impressive turnout of parishioners and friends, as well as diocesan priests. Fr. Seamus was my neighbor . . . just a twenty minute walk across the top of Lake Merritt. He always had a drink and a place ready at the table for guests who dropped in for dinner. May he rest in peace!
On the evening of St. Patrick’s Day, when many people are having “a wee dram of the dew” or at least an Irish Coffee, a couple hundred parishioners of St. Joan of Arc parish in San Ramon came to hear me give a talk on “Discernment of Spirits, accordi
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New Oakland bishop looks to Pope Francis' example
Oakland, Calif., May 31, 2013 / 14:51 pm
Bishop Michael C. Barber, S.J., was ordained and installed as Bishop of Oakland on May 25, promising to follow Pope Francis' emphasis on caring the poor and the suffering.
"I would like to do for Oakland what Pope Francis is doing for the whole Church," Bishop Barber said in his remarks at the end of Mass at the Cathedral of Christ the Light.
"My vision is this: the priests take care of the people. The bishop takes care of the priests. And we all take care of the poor, the sick and the suffering – those suffering physically and spiritually," he said to a filled cathedral.
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, the previous Bishop of Oakland, served as the new bishop's principal consecrator.
The archbishop delivered the homily, saying that Pope Francis "certainly has given us much to think about, and not just think but do, to respond in kind to his example."
"He is calling us to reexamine our lives, calling us back to basics, to reflect more deeply," Archbishop Cordileone continued.
"Perhaps, for those in ordained ministry, the most striking of all is his style of preaching. He is so direct and so down-to-earth, getting down to the heart of the matter in a p