Calling their work “a sacred calling,” San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone addressed Catholic medical professionals gathered for the traditional White Mass for Medical Professionals at Mater Dolorosa Church in South San Francisco.
“You my brothers and sisters have this privilege and high call to enter people’s lives at a very vulnerable time but a time of great openness and possibility to the spiritual,” the Archbishop said in his homily at the Oct. 20 White Mass….
Archbishop Cordileone was joined by a number of hospital chaplains who concelebrated the Mass with him, several priests and pastors who are regulars at local hospitals while not official chaplains and Vicar General Father Patrick Summerhays, and Mater Dolorosa pastor Contemplative of St. Joseph Father Vito Perrone.
The Mass was followed by a reception in the parish hall where the archbishop spoke briefly. Also speaking about their ministries were representatives of the San Francisco Guild of the Catholic Medical Association, Bella Primary Care and the Northern California Clinic of the Order of Malta. The three organizations cosponsored the reception which was organized by the Archdiocesan Office of Human Life & Dignity.
Among those attending were representatives of RETA, the health care umbrella that oversees ethical health insurance for archdiocesan employees, a representative from Kaiser Permanente, and a group of medical students and one of their professors from UC Davis Medical School.
The White Mass, so named for the color traditionally worn by those in the healing profession of medicine, gathers health care professionals under the patronage of St. Luke to ask God’s blessing upon the patient, doctor, nurse, and caregiver alike. In the United States, the White Mass tradition was begun by the national Catholic Medical Association in the 1930s. Each year the Archdiocesan White Mass is held near the Oct. 18 Feast Day of St. Luke, evangelist and physician.
From the Archdiocese of San Francisco
How racist. A White Mass is laudable.
While a Black Mass is considered blasphemous.
Who owns the colors?
The Left and the establishment media.
Their “power” lies only in people’s minds.
They also think they own pronouns. They think they own the language.
They’re gonna be busy when the next terrorist attack occurs on U.S. soil.
They’ll be busy when the next pandemic happens. Or for the next serial killing spree. Or for the next time a giant tub of molasses runs through the streets. Or for the next megahurricane. Maybe even for the Big One.
They’ll always be busy. This comment just states the unnecessary obvious to make an irrelevant political point.
He got you to respond. So he scored at least one point.
Light and dark, day and night, white mass and black mass has nothing to do with skin color. It has to do with how the majority of people of all colors the world over prefer daytime to nighttime, thus terms like “the Children of Light” and “the Children of darkness”. Night is far more dangerous and scarier because it is much harder to see the dangers in front of us and to avoid them at night, whereas it is the opposite in the daytime. Also, there is more criminal activity done under the cover of night, and dangerous wild animals howl at night. That is not something you want to hear if you are outside.
Wow. People are doing a good thing and most of the posts are irrelevant and negative. Maybe we should commend the good and pray for health care providers and Church leaders. Being bad-tempered and off-topic are not Catholic virtues. When the sun comes up, do you complain that it’s going to go down?
When the glass is half-empty, do you insist on knocking it over?
It’s just the game called the internet.
Exactly!
“It is better to light just one candle than to curse the darkness”. These people are lighting candles.