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Friday, April 25, 2003 Page 3 The Catholic Advance This Sunday is White Sunday' stewardship Jesus will always show us mercy The Christian community de scribed in Acts understood and practiced ORD total stewardship. St. Paul reports that the believers did not claim anything as their own, but held everything in common, and distributed to each whatever was needed. of the Sister Inna Hilger dies in Oklahoma By Msgr. William M.

Can In ancient times, those newly-baptized in the Easter Vigil received a white robe which they wore during the entire week after Easter. The robe was a symbol of their resurrection to grace and of their pledge to live always as a child of God. On this Sunday, the Sunday after Easter, they laid aside these robes as a sign that now they were full-fledged Catholic Christians, ready to assume their responsibilities in the Church. This Sunday then was called "The Sunday for the Laying Aside of the White Garments" (Dominica in Albis Deponendis), and later shortened to "White Sunday." During Easter week, the neo- son reflect this emphasis on what it means to be a Christian. Our first reading today teaches that we must be of one mind and one heart; we must care for each other.

The second reading reminds us that we have been born as children of God, and we must act like it by our love of each other. The Gospel not only gives us a vivid "proof of Jesus' resurrection. It also gives us hope if we should ever backslide into sin: Jesus gave the power to forgive sin to his Church; he still shows us his mercy. Let us live according to our dignity, but if we fail, turn back immediately to the Lord for forgiveness. (Msgr.

Carr is a retired priest of the Diocese of Wichita.) Second Sunday of Easter Acts I John and John phytes had intensive formation in the sacramental life; it was called the "Mystagogic Catechesis" or the teaching on the mysteries. Nowadays, our new Catholics receive this deepened appreciation throughout the Easter Season. The Sundays of the Easter Sea hospital's administrator from 1966-76. "Finances and medical care were daily challenges, but ones we were always able to meet," she recalled of the experience in a 1995 interview. "I am convinced that divine providence was at play during my work at the hospital." She returned to the U.S.

in November 1976 and served as administrator of Franciscan Villa in Broken Arrow, from 1979 to 1982. In 1982, Sister Irma returned to St. Francis Regional Medical Center, where she worked as a receptionist in Chaplain Services and in the east lobby of St. Francis and then in the front lobby of Via Christi-St. Francis until her retirement in 1997.

Following a religious life spanning nearly 70 years, former St. Francis campus nursing supervisor Sister M. Irma Hilger died Feb. 22 in Broken Arrow, Okla. She was a native of Ost, who entered the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother in 1935.

Sr. M. Irma ministered as supervisor of obstetrics at St. Francis Hospital from 1955-1958. In 1961 her missionary dreams were fulfilled when she traveled to St.

Lucia in the West Indies, establishing a government School of Nursing and rehabilitating and equipping an abandoned U.S. Air Force Hospital into a 100-bed government hospital, managed by the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother for over 25 years. Sister M. Irma served as the Golf tournament to benefit Catholic Charities' shelters io '2 I be awarded to the first- and second-place finishers in each flight and to winners of individual driving and putting contests. Check-in will begin at 7 a.m.

with shotgun play to start at 8 a.m., at Hidden Lakes Golf Course, 6020 S. Greenwich Road. To register for the tournament, golfers may call Dave McKinney at 316-266-6290 or Amy Zimmerman at 3 1 6-264-8344, Ext. 221. The funds raised at the tournament help support the vital efforts of Catholic Charities Harbor House, which served 1,521 women and children in 2002, and Catholic Charities Anthony Family Shelter, which served 494 men, women and children in the same year.

The Wichita Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) will host its Sixth Annual Golf Classic on Friday, May 16, to benefit Catholic Charities Harbor House, a shelter for abused women and their children and Catholic Charities Anthony Family Shelter, a shelter for homeless families. For $80, a golfer can participate in the flighted, four-person scramble format tournament and have a chance at winning $10,000 in a hole-in-one competition. The entry fee includes green fees, golf cart, tournament shirt and lunch. Participants may also purchase prize drawing tickets and bid in a live auction offering a variety of sport and garden items. Prizes will THE CATHOLIC ADVANCE (ISSN 0008-7904) Official Catholic Newspaper of the Diocese of Wichita Published by the Catholic Diocese of Wichita.a non-profit corporation 424 N.

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Postmaster: Please send change of address to The Catholic Advance, 424 N. Broadway, Wichita, KS 67202. Prayer sites Works by Kent Kaiser, a parishioner at Holy Name of Jesus Church, Bushton, have been installed outdoors nearthe church. A shrine housing a crucifix and the Stations of the Cross were recently installed by Kaiser and fellow parishioners. Jet Open Charity Golf tourney set for May 5 The Newman University Jet Open Charity Golf Tournament will be held Monday, May 5, at the Reflection Ridge Golf Club.

For more information contact Newman at 942-429 1 Fr. Sherman Orr, ext. 422; or Joe Childs, ext. 311. Wichita to participate in National Day of Prayer Larry Garcia, and Major Oliver Bergeron of McConnell Air Force Base.

Music will be a variety of congregational hymns as well as special songs by the Wichita Community Children's Choir, Jacobs Generation and Earnest Alexander. WICHITA A National Day of Prayer Observance will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 1, at Cessna Stadium. Among those offering, prayers from the podium will be Father Michael Nolan, Sister Rose Therese Bahr, Police Chief Norm Williams, Fire Chief IRflMSPUWr GET A NEW DRIVE IN LIFE WITH OUR REAL LOW DEAL! Advance on tape The Catholic Advance is available on cassette audio taps for those with visual or physical handicaps. Anyone interested in receiving the Advance on tape should call Ministry with Persons with Disabilities at 269-3900.

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