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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Priest Shortage Taking its Toll:

Diocese of San Bernardino says ‘priest shortage’ to blame for closure of desert parish

The Diocese of San Bernardino is closing a 50-year-old parish in the desert community of Joshua Tree, citing “the ongoing priest shortage” as the reason.

Effective Aug. 1, St. Christopher of the Desert church at 61261 Sunburst Drive in Joshua Tree, will close its doors, according to a news announcement on the diocesan website. The parish was founded in 1960 and has 281 registered families.

St. Christopher of the Desert “will become part of St. Mary of the Valley Parish, Yucca Valley in a new realignment plan for the Morongo Valley,” said the diocesan announcement, attributed to Bishop Gerald Barnes.

“The ongoing priest shortage, the aging of priests and the retiring of St. Christopher’s pastor, Father Ignatius Rasquina, were reasons given for the parish closure,” said the announcement.

Next month, priests of the Congregation of the Resurrection will be turning back Blessed John XXIII (formerly Resurrection Parish) in Fontana, and St. Thomas Moore Parish in Rialto to the diocese. Citing a shortage of priests in the Congregation of the Resurrection, Fr. Michael Danek, provincial superior for the order in the United States, announced in March that the Resurrectionist fathers would be leaving parishes in the San Bernardino diocese.

Also effective in July, the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette will transfer the pastoral care of two parishes in San Bernardino’s High Desert back to the diocese. The La Salettes are turning back Our Lady of the Desert Parish in Apple Valley and St. Paul Parish in Lucerne Valley to the diocese. The move comes after more than 16 years of service to High Desert parishes by the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette. The religious order will continue to administer St. Christopher’s Parish in Moreno Valley, and may be assigned an additional parish in the Moreno Valley area in the future, the diocesan newspaper reported earlier this year.

From http://www.calcatholic.com/

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

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