Catholic Services Appeal 2013 English
Saint Thomas Aquinas Cathedral
Diocese of Reno
Reno, NV
7/30/16 CATHOLIC CHURCH RENO NEVADA
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The Roman Liturgy and Gregorian Chant (Excerpt)
From Regina Pacis Cantorum's September 2013 workshop on Gregorian Chant, in Reno, Nevada. Given by Fr. Francisco Nahoe, OFM Conv., rector of St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral.
Can We Free Our Minds in a Postcolonial World?
Reading Aristotle in Islamabad
Can We Free Our Minds in a Postcolonial World?
An event inspired by Oludamini Ogunnaike's article for Renovatio, Of Cannons and Canons
Recorded February 3, 2019 at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, CA.
Guests:
Oludamini Ogunnaike is an assistant professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. His research interests include the philosophical dimensions of postcolonial, colonial, and pre-colonial Islamic and indigenous religious traditions of West and North Africa. He has taught courses on Islam, Islamic philosophy, spirituality, art, and African and African diasporic religions. He is working on his first book entitled Sufism and Ifa: Ways of Knowing in Two West African Intellectual Traditions.
Father Francisco Nahoe is a Roman Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, and has served as promoter of the Franciscan Vietnam Mission, rector of Saint Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno, Nevada and postulant master of Saint Joseph of Cupertino Province. In the course of his thirty-four years as a Franciscan, he has also worked in Catholic radio, Catholic education, and Catholic campus ministry. His past teaching commitments include Bishop Montgomery High School in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Phillips Academy, and Dartmouth College. He currently teaches courses and serves as director of admissions at Zaytuna College.
Imam Zaid Shakir is a prominent American Muslim scholar and has taught courses in Arabic, Islamic spirituality, contemporary Muslim thought, Islamic history and politics, and Shafi’i fiqh at Zaytuna College. He is one of three co-founders of Zaytuna College, and he was a signatory of the 2007 letter “A Common Word Between Us and You,” an appeal for peace and cooperation between Christians and Muslims. He speaks and writes on a wide range of topics, and he is regularly included among the Western world’s most influential Muslims in The Muslim 500.
Event Description:
Colonialism universalized a decidedly modern educational system often at the expense of non-Western intellectual traditions. But in its pursuit of vocational literacy and competency in STEM-related fields, the modern system has abandoned its own classical tradition that arguably gave birth to it.
As a result, few of us today—in the West or in its former colonies—are truly literate in any intellectual tradition, whether European, Islamic, Dharmic, Chinese, or other. Meanwhile, calls for “decolonization” aim to diversify our education, for instance by adding more authors of African, Asian, and Middle-Eastern descent. But why do calls to diversify what we read fall short?
In a postcolonial world, interconnected once through brute domination and control and now through addictive technologies and travel, can we truly free our minds by relying only on our own intellectual tradition? Is there even such a thing as our own tradition given all of the influences upon the various traditions? Does “tradition” deny itself when it denies all aspects of itself, including the impact of other cultures upon it, whether by force or fortuitousness? Is Dickens part of South Asia as much as he is part of England given he has lived among their educated for more than a hundred years? Or do his characters mean nothing to them other than serve as a reminder of a colonial intrusion best jettisoned? Can Homer speak to our shared humanity, or does he merely represent a Western man? Does Rumi have wisdom to impart to everyman or does his poetry remain snaffled in the medieval world of Konya?
Tribute to Fallen Marine [James Cathey]
2nd Lt. Cathey died of injuries caused by an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations near Al Karmah, Iraq. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
More than 200 people, including Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., and state Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Nev., honored Marine Corps 2nd Lt. James Cathey, 24, during an emotional funeral Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno.
The Reno native was killed by an explosive device Aug. 21 after only one month in Iraq. His unit was operating and training with Iraqi security forces near Al Karmah and Fallujah.
James was a young man who was living his dream, serving as a Marine, the Rev. Tom Czack said. He was a kind, giving man who was serving his country.
For those who are peacemakers, they'll be the children of God. In this time of trial let us stand in faith, Czack added.
The service began with a procession of Marines who carried the casket to the front of the altar, with family members trailing behind.
In a brief address, his mother, Carolyn Cathey, described the lieutenant as a humble, selfless romantic.
He had a smile that would light up a room. He had those blue eyes that could talk without saying a word, she said. His life was short, but he accomplished a lot. Maybe we should all strive to be a little like James.
His wife, Katherine Cathey, found out that her child, due in five months, would be the boy that her husband knew it would be.
James Cathey was a graduate of Reno High School and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Marine 2nd Lt. James J. Cathey was killed in action on 08/21/05.
Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News
When 2nd Lt. James Cathey's body arrived at the Reno Airport, Marines climbed into the cargo hold of the plane and draped the flag over his casket as passengers watched the family gather on the tarmac. During the arrival of another Marine's casket last year at Denver International Airport, Major Steve Beck described the scene as one of the most powerful in the process: See the people in the windows? They'll sit right there in the plane, watching those Marines. You gotta wonder what's going through their minds, knowing that they're on the plane that brought him home, he said. They're going to remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives. They're going to remember bringing that Marine home. And they should.
The night before the burial of her husband's body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened herlaptop computer and played songs that reminded her of 'Cat,' and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it, she said. I think that's what he would have wanted.
In two pictures of 24 year old 2nd Lt. James J. Cathey's final trip home...Todd Heisler, Rocky Mountain News photographer, captured the solemnity, brotherly respect as well as the sorrow over the death of one of America's youthful fallen Marine Heroes. In Heisler's heartbreakingly sweet image of a pregnant Katherine Cathey sleeping for one last time beside her husband's coffin, ... while playing the couple's favorite tunes on her CD, .... he brought forth for all time, a searing picture of the awful pain of loss.
Cedric Muzik - Redondo Union (CA) Class of 2016