Angelus News | October 25, 2019 | Vol. 4 No. 36
Young dancers from Ballet Folklórico Herencia Mexicana at St. Agatha in Mid-City at the first “Día de los Muertos” celebration 2014 at Calvary Cemetery in East LA. On Page 10, Pilar Marrero reports on how both the cultural and religious aspects of the traditional Mexican feast of “Día de los Muertos” (“Day of the Dead”) have created an opportunity for evangelization in Los Angeles. On Page 14, R.W. Dellinger gives a look into the daily reality of life and death seen through the eyes of three employees at a local Catholic cemetery.
Young dancers from Ballet Folklórico Herencia Mexicana at St. Agatha in Mid-City at the first “Día de los Muertos” celebration 2014 at Calvary Cemetery in East LA. On Page 10, Pilar Marrero reports on how both the cultural and religious aspects of the traditional Mexican feast of “Día de los Muertos” (“Day of the Dead”) have created an opportunity for evangelization in Los Angeles. On Page 14, R.W. Dellinger gives a look into the daily reality of life and death seen through the eyes of three employees at a local Catholic cemetery.
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LOCAL<br />
A Catholic megachurch in<br />
the San Joaquin Valley?<br />
Move over, East Coast. Soon, California will claim<br />
bragging rights to the country’s biggest parish church.<br />
A groundbreaking ceremony for a new Catholic church<br />
in Visalia, California, took place Oct. 15. Expected to<br />
open in spring 2021, St. Charles Borromeo Church<br />
will seat more than 3,000 people, surpassing the seating<br />
space of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York and the U.S’<br />
current largest, the Baltimore Basilica of the National<br />
Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in<br />
Maryland, which holds about 2,000.<br />
The new church is the result of a previous merger of<br />
three Visalia parishes and was first envisioned by former<br />
Bishop of Fresno John Steinbock, who died in 2010. <br />
An artistic rendering of the inside of St. Charles Borromeo Church in<br />
Visalia.<br />
DIOCESE OF FRESNO/RADIAN DESIGN GROUP<br />
DIOCESE OF OAKLAND/VATICAN NEWS<br />
Indian priest, archbishop die in crash<br />
A pastor in Oakland and a visiting archbishop from India<br />
were killed in an Oct. 10 traffic accident in <strong>No</strong>rthern<br />
California.<br />
Father Mathew Vellankal, pastor of St. Bonaventure<br />
Church in Concord, was traveling in a Toyota Prius on<br />
Route 20 north of Santa Rosa with Archbishop Dominica<br />
Jala of Shillong, India, when they were hit by a tractor-trailer<br />
truck.<br />
Both were killed while a third passenger, also a priest<br />
from India, was injured and taken to a local hospital in<br />
stable condition.<br />
“Father Vellankal’s joyous spirit and faith will be deeply<br />
missed,” said Bishop Michael C. Barber of Oakland in a<br />
statement. “May his soul and the soul of Archbishop Jala<br />
rest in the peace of Christ.”<br />
Jala had recently met Pope Francis Sept. 26 during an “ad<br />
limina” visit to Rome by a group of Indian bishops, and<br />
was in California visiting priest friends when the accident<br />
happened. His remains were brought back to India and his<br />
funeral celebrated Wednesday, Oct. 23. <br />
Father Matthew Vellankal (left) and Archbishop Dominica Jala.<br />
A passage toward priesthood<br />
Candidates for the priesthood hold candles symbolizing their baptism at<br />
the Admission to Candidacy Mass Oct. 18.<br />
Twenty-seven seminarians, including 18 for the Archdiocese<br />
of Los Angeles, took an important step toward the<br />
priesthood at a special Mass Oct. 18.<br />
The <strong>2019</strong> Admission to Candidacy for Holy Orders Mass<br />
was celebrated at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo by Bishop<br />
Edward Weisenburger of Tucson. In front of friends and<br />
family, seminarians from LA as well as from the Dioceses<br />
of Fresno, San Bernardino, Reno, and Orange publicly<br />
declared their intention to complete their preparation for<br />
holy orders at the Mass.<br />
You can watch the full video of the liturgy on the Photo &<br />
Video section of <strong>Angelus</strong><strong>News</strong>.com. <br />
ISABEL CACHO<br />
6 • ANGELUS • <strong>October</strong> <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2019</strong>
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