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Page 14 The Catholic Register, July 16, 2012 Now Showing MITTENS AND HATS: Hannah (left) and Paige Baker place mittens and hats on the Jesse Tree at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Altoona on Monday, December 7. Items placed on the tree during Advent will be distributed by the parish’s Family Life Committee to underprivileged children through various social service agencies in Blair County. Third ‘Madea’ Not At Her Best In Latest Franchise Offering From Perry Order Regular Franciscan Father Frank Scornaienchi is pastor. By Kurt Jensen Catholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) -- Madea, the familiar, frequently mixed-up, but mostly moral force of nature in a muumuu, has one of her weaker outings in the laboriously titled “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection” (Lionsgate). Perhaps the formula is spent. Certainly, the feisty old gal -- writer-director Perry himself, of course, in drag -- has lost much of her comic impact, even when she’s applying seemingly undiminished physical impact to get her points across. This time around, the setup is that Madea is sheltering a white family because her nephew Brian (also Perry), an Atlanta district attorney, has asked her to help them. George Needleman (Eugene Levy), it seems, has for years been the innocent front man for a corporate Ponzi scheme connected to organized crime. Facing fraud charges on a Bernard Madoff scale and threatened by the mobsters as well, George needs a place to hide. What better spot, thinks Brian, than the house of his Aunt Madea? There, George is joined in Sunday Mass Broadcast Live from the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Altoona 10:00 a.m. WFBG Radio, 1290 AM Sunday Mass Telecast Live from Saint John Gualbert Cathedral Downtown Johnstown 11 a.m. - Noon WWCP - TV FOX Channel 8 Proclaim! 10:30 a.m. (Early Edition 5:30 a.m.) A half - hour of local Church news and features seclusion by wife Kate (Denise Richards), batty mother Barbara (Doris Roberts) and disrespectful son and daughter Howie (Devan Leos) and Cindy (Danielle Campbell). Madea’s initial reluctance in the face of Joe’s plan is tempered by the $4,000 a month she will receive for her hospitality. The massive crime, we learn, has even touched nearby, since Jake (Romeo Miller), the son of Pastor Nelson (John Amos), invested the church’s mortgage fund in one of the scheme’s front companies, losing it all in the fallout. Perry doesn’t traffic in the tasteless racial humor his scenario might suggest. Instead, he sticks to the broader -- and wellworn -- theme of the cultural shock that ensues when stuffy Caucasians mingle with earthy black folks. Madea, as always, sums up the obvious: “How do you expect me to hide five white people in a neighborhood that don’t even have white cats or white cars? They’ll stick out like me at a Republican convention. Do I look like I likes Newt Ginger?” Trademark Perry themes of respect for parents, adherence to one’s religious beliefs and selfconfidence carry the day. Madea advises the terrified Needleman, “I don’t let no one feel sorry for themselves in this house.” And the happy ending rushes in before you (or Madea) can proclaim, “Hallelujer!” The film contains slapstick violence as well as fleeting crass language and drug references. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Coming Up On ‘Proclaim!’ CNS Photo/Lionsgate TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION: Tyler Perry and Eugene Levy star in a scene from the movie “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection.” The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo/Lionsgate Upcoming guests on “Keeping The Faith,” Bishop Mark L. Bartchak’s segment of “Proclaim!” will include: July 22 - - Deacon Tom Boldin of Saint John the Evangelist Parish in Bellefonte and Tony DeGol, Secretary for Communications, preview the upcoming outdoor Mass for married couples and the upcoming Wedding Anniversary Liturgies. July 29 - - Monsignor Michael Becker, pastor of Saint John the Evangelist Parish in Altoona and coordinator of Campus Ministry, previews the upcoming outdoor Mass for students entering or returning to college.
The Catholic Register, July 16, 2012 Page 15 Carmelite Sisters Recall Memories Of Foundress (Continued From Page 16.) noted that the decree conferring 1965). “She was a true daughter “Everything Mother did the title “Venerable” on Mother of the Church,” said Sister was based on her commitment Saying “yes” to a Bishop’s Angeline Teresa recognizes her Joachim. “Her loyalty to the to God and to the Church,” Sister invitation to staff or open a “heroic virtues.” She reflected Church is something else that Joachim continued. “You home for the elderly came easily to their foundress, according to the five Carmelite Sisters who serve at Garvey Manor today. “Our first charism is the service of the elderly,” explained Sister Jacinta, “but our second charism, our second purpose, is the service of priests.” “we lived with her heroic virtues, we experienced them everyday in her presence, without even knowing it.” The Sisters said that it was possible to live with someone who exemplified the heroic virtues, and yet not be bowled over by her example, because Mother she taught us. Mother taught us that being faithful to the Church will keep you on track with where you need to be.” According to Sister Jacinta “Mother always was concerned with the spiritual formation of her Sisters. She wanted them to be grounded in love of God and always felt better when you left her than when you came into her presence. And even in her declining years there was a gentleness about her, a faithfulness to God that was tangible - - a real acceptance of His will. Mother was a model of what it means to age gracefully.” According to Sister Joachim Angeline was a simple, humble in Carmelite spirituality. She Sister Joachim said that “Mother had such a phenomenal regard for priests and for the priesthood. She would do anything to help a priest. She treated them like royalty, and that’s how she regarded them.” She explained that sometimes Mother person. “She didn’t like to be in the limelight,” said Sister Brendan. “She preferred to be in the background. She was humble and shy.” “There was a striking gen- VENERABLE MOTHER ANGELINE believed that excellent care of the residents would flow from that.. “She believed that Sisters needed to be well grounded spiritually and physically in order to be able to do the work of Mother Angeline Teresa, foundress of a Carmelite Sisterhood dedicated to an active apostolate, resembled Saint Therese, the Little Flower of Jesus, who lived her life as a Carmelite contemplative. Angeline, hoping to establish tleness in Mother,” said Sister TERESA our community. She stressed “Just like the Little Flower, a home for the aged in a particularly Joachim. “You never felt that the value of our prayer life, of Mother Angeline knew that you locality, would accept an she was someone aloof. You silence and contemplation, of don’t need to do big things, in invitation to work in a seminary or a Bishop’s residence first, as a never felt uncomfortable in her presence. She was never anything adhered too wherever the Little Sisters served. “They did not work and of recreation. Mother knew the value of living a bal- order to make a difference. You can do small things, and do them way of opening a door in a Diocese, other than truly a Mother serve butter. There was no anced life.” in an extraordinary way, and with a home for the aged to us all.” Thanksgiving dinner. Mother Sister Joachim remembered those little things will make a to follow. And from her high regard for the priesthood, there flowed Mother Angeline’s deep devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, her Sisters said. “She was a Eucharistically Each of the Sisters stressed that Mother Angeline had a great love for people - - the elderly to whom her community ministered and their families, her own religious Sisters and their families, and a host of other Angeline saw the necessity of changing customs so as to better serve the elderly in the American culture,” Sister Jacinta said. She went on to explain “Mother wanted to create a true home for the residents - - not an that Mother Angeline Teresa told her Sisters “that we should be ‘kinder than kindness itself.’ Well, she certainly lived her life that way. difference in someone’s life, in a Christ - centered environment.” minded person,” Sister Joachim friends. “Mother had a great institution. She wanted there said, “and her devotion to the Blessed Sacrament was instilled solicitude for all people,” said Sister Joachim, adding “She was to be a place where an elderly woman could have a corner of in us. always asking ‘Are you getting her own to hang her husband’s “That devotion to the enough to eat? Would you like picture, and put a piece or two Blessed Sacrament was the a cup of tea? How is your family?’ of furniture from her own home. Her hospitality to people She insisted that the people who strength of her life, and it was passed on to us. Our service to is part of her great legacy to our lived in our homes be called the elderly is not just clinical, it community.” ‘residents’ not ‘patients’ and that is Eucharistic.” That legacy of hospitality they be treated as if they were The five Carmelite Sisters is part of the founding charism living in their own home.” at Garvey Manor all knew their of the Carmelite Sisters for the To achieve that goal, Mother Angeline Teresa and six com- Venerable foundress. Sister Jacinta served as mistress of novland in 1893, Mother Angeline panions left the Little Sisters of Aged and Infirm. Born in Ire- ices when Mother Angeline was began her religious life with the Poor in 1929 and established Mother General. Each of them the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Carmelite Sisters for the was struck by the evident holiness of their Mother. gious superiors sent her to the nity now staffs 17 homes for the in France, in 1912. Her reli- Aged and Infirm. The commu- Sister Christine, who entered the community in 1950, convinced that life in the New one in Ireland. United States, and she became elderly in the United States, and recalled the day she was interviewed by Mother Angeline. “I ing for the elderly. or characterize Mother Angeline World meant a new way of car- The Sisters at Garvey Man- went home and just kept saying ‘I met a saint today. I met a Poor provided very good care gressive in embracing changes “The Little Sisters of the Teresa as a woman who was pro- saint today.’ When you were in in their homes,” said Sister Jacinta, that would lead to better care her presence, you could feel that “but those homes were for the elderly, and cautious and sanctity.” very institutional.” In addition, prudent in facing the changes Sister Joachim, who joined customs followed by the community in France were rigidly Second Vatican Council (1962 in the Church ushered in by the the Carmelite Sisters in 1967 -
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