Angelus News | August 26, 2022 | Vol. 7 No. 17

LOCAL
■ What’s goating
on at the cemetery?
Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver
City deployed a strange-looking
team of landscapers on its grounds
this summer.
For a few days, the cemetery
imported some 250 goats and sheep
— reportedly last used in Malibu —
to help “clear bushes and naturally
invasive plants,” the Culver City
News reported on Aug. 4.
Use of the animals for such purposes
is not uncommon in California,
since by grazing on brush they help
clear fire lines.
Adrian Marquez Alarcon, director
of Media Relations at the Archdiocese
of Los Angeles, said the use
of the animals to clear the hillsides
of overgrowth was “being done as a
natural alternative.”
“The mix of sheep and goats is
used because they eat different
things and together they are very
effective at keeping the growth of
brush and grasses at the proper
level,” she said.
■ Making Catholic leaders out of middle-schoolers
More than 225
middle-schoolers from
41 Catholic schools
around the archdiocese
participated in
a special leadership
program organized
by The Association
of Catholic Student
Councils (TACSC)
this summer.
The association’s
Summer Leadership
Conferences
were held at Loyola
Marymount University,
where students
TACSC student staff snapped a selfie with Archbishop José H. Gomez after Mass
at LMU on June 26. | TACSC
took part in activities aimed at developing “moral leaders to positively impact
our world” and forming “real world strategic planners, effective communicators,
lifelong mentors and servant leaders.”
Archbishop José H. Gomez celebrated Mass for students and their families at the
close of the first session. TACSC is celebrating its 40th anniversary on Oct. 21.
“Students learn who they can become from our incredible college and high
school staff and where they will go, being on a college campus,” said TACSC executive
director Heidi Johnson. “It is a life-changing experience for our delegates.”
TACSC has served more than 2,500 students this year, including through its
high school Core Leadership Team Program and Student Leadership Days.
Starting the school year strong — Seminarians of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
pray during Mass at this year’s Annual Seminarian Gathering at the Cathedral
of Our Lady of the Angels on Aug. 12. Archbishop José H. Gomez celebrated
Mass with the young men from St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo at St. Vibiana
Chapel before sharing lunch with them. | VICTOR ALEMÁN
■ All-star lineup of LA Catholics
to receive papal honors
Nineteen LA Catholics will be honored at a special vespers
prayer service on Sunday, Aug. 28, at the Cathedral of
Our Lady of the Angels at 3:30 p.m.
Archbishop José H. Gomez will confer papal honors of
Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice and Benemerenti on 15 lay men
and women and four religious sisters in the Archdiocese of
Los Angeles, in recognition for their service to the Church,
family, and community.
The honorees receiving Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice awards
are Sister Angela Hallahan, CHF, and Sylvia Mendivil
Salazar.
The late Richard Grant and his wife, Maria Grant, are
among those to be honored with Benemerenti awards.
The others are: Ana Marie Aguilera, Judy Lynn Fernandes,
Sister Mary Elizabeth Galt, BVM, Suzanne Healy, Patricia
Louise Hendricks-Whisnant, Robert Martinez, Donna
May McKennon, Robert Auguste McKennon, Margaret
Oberon, Sister Maryanne O’Neill, CSC, Sister Edith
Prendergast, RSC, Juanita Rios, Kathleen Sue Tonsich,
William “Bill” George Williams, and Jerry Cornelis Van
Wingerden.
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