25Thsunday in Ordinary Time
September 18, 2011
25thSunday in ordinary time
Is 55:6-9/Phil 1:20c-24, 27a/Mt 20:1-16a
“Seek the Lord, while he may be found, call him while he is near. Let the scoundrel forsake his way, and the wicked his thoughts; let him turn to the Lord for mercy; to our God who is generous in forgiving”… “conduct yourselves in a way worthy of the gospel of Christ.” “Are you envious because I am generous?”
Two special words in scripture should really move us. They are mercy and generosity. Both are characteristics of our God, yet often overlooked. Because the Lord is full of mercy and rich in kindness, we do not need to try to convince Him to shower these gifts upon us. All we need to do is acknowledge that these are God’s gifts to us for the asking. I do not have to try to convince God to pour out His gifts on me.
Isaiah tells us to be like the children – seek the Lord. We are to move in His direction, and when we do we find that He already is with us, waiting for us to call.If I acknowledge that He is merciful and generous in forgiving, then why wait to seek these special gifts He has for me, and for everyone. The sacraments of the Eucharist and Reconciliation are great signs of these gifts.
God’s goodness can be multiplied as I live as a more generous and forgiving person. He may be using me to touch the heart of someone else who is waiting, hurting or searching and feels God is so distant. They couldn’t be further from the truth.
HIS WORDTODAYby Rev. William J. Reilly
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Julie Jordan Presents: New York Concerti Sinfonietta, Paul Hostetter, Conductor
VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras with Soprano Madeline Bender and an Orchestra of 8 Cellos
BEETHOVEN: PIano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op.15, I. II. III. with Julie Jordan
ELGAR: Cello Concerto with Benjamin Capps
Reception to follow for the audience to meet the musicians.
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Dear Friends in the Lord,
Since it’s opening in 1896, the message of Jesus Christ has been proclaimed, lived and celebrated by the dedicated and committed priests of the Archdiocese of New York who have studied and received their theological education and formation at Saint Joseph’s Seminary.
Without a doubt, one of the many blessings of this Archdiocese is it’s extraordinary seminary system: Saint Joseph’s Seminary, our major theologate located in the Dunwoodie section of Yonkers; the Saint John Neumann Residence Seminary, a pre-seminary program now located in Douglaston, Queens, for those attending college or in need of courses prior to entering major seminary; and the Cathedral Preparatory Program for high school men considering a vocation to the priesthood. Fortunately, the People of God of the archdiocese have never ceased to be as supportive as they can be of their seminary system.
With this letter, I invite you to tmake a sacrificail offering to the annual seminary collection, which will be conducted in our parishes over the weeekend of September 17 and 18. The cost of preparing future priests is daunting, and for this reason we count on your support. With it, we are able to continue our solid tradiation of excellence in the formation and academic training of candidates for the priesthood.
What fond memories we all have of the visits of the two succsessors of St. Peter to the seminary;Bl. Pope John Paul II in 1995 and Pope Benedict XVI three years ago. Christ has given us His Chuch, with the guft of the priesthood to perpetuate the Eucharist, to preach the Gospel, and
to forgive sins.
Please know how very grateful I am for whatever you are able to do in assisting our seminarians in becoming your good, dedicated, and holy priests one day soon.
With prayerful best wishes, I am, very truly yours in Christ,
Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan
St. Dominic, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Martin de Porres,...these are just a few of the great saints of the Order of Preachers.Have you ever considered a vocation to be a Dominican brother or a priest? The next vocation weekend at the Dominican House of Studies will be Sept. 30-
Oct. 2, 2011 in Washington DC. Contact Fr. Benedict Croell OP, the vocation director for the Eastern Dominican Province by calling (800) 529-1205 or log on to DominicanFriars.org and click on “Vocations.”
Join St. Joseph's Choir (11:30 AM Traditional Mass)
Are you an accomplished singer? Do you read music? Are you able to sing on pitch? Then, we need you! We are currently looking for committed singers to take part in our liturgy. We meet on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. Audition required. Please email the Director of Music, Jin Krista Kang, at
The New Roman Missal
On the Art of Translation
Prof. Anthony Esolen
The Structure of Sentences
That concern for the sacred charater of our worship at Mass is made manifest in another way, beyond the choice of words and the determination to render into English the beauty of the Latin. It is made manifest in the length and the structure of the sentences. This too is something that calls for explaination.
When we read, we can do all kinds of things that help us make sense of a dificult passage. We can insert a bookmark and put down the book for a while. We can turn the page back to something we had read before. We can glance ahead to see if an explanation is coming. We can read the passage over again. But we can do none of these things while we are listening to speech. Oratory, in other words, cannot work like straight prose. It requires the linking devices of oral poetry. It requires repitition of key words, parallell structures in grammar and sense, balance of idea with idea and image with image, and-something that people unused to oral poetry do not suspect- a minimum of full stops that inturupt the flowof declamation and meaning. That is why Homer, who composed his great poems the Illiad and the Odyssey using his mind and his voice and his ear, and not his hand and his eye, since these poems would not be written down for centuries, and since, as tradition has it, he was blind-it is why Homer employs long, flowing,delicately balanced sentences, with man repeated forms and phrases, so that the work could be heard , and more important than that, remembered. That is why when Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the hundreds of thousands on the Mall in Washington, he spoke in a series of long sentances with all the balance and repitition of a Jerimiah or Isaiah, and why so many of us still remember what he said was the vision of his dream.
In oratory, as in oral poetry, every full stop is a breach and runs the risk of losing the ear and the memory. Four consecutive simple declartive sentences are, taken singly, easier to hear and to remember than one long and complex sentence would be, but would be, but taken together they are like disconected boxcars bumping into each other on a track.So there is an emiently practical reason, and an aesthetic reason, for translating a long sentence of oratory as a long sentence of oratory. But there is still more.The elements of such sentences belong together. When we separate them into their own sentences, we lose the theological connections between them. They no longer form parts of an intricate whole. Indeed, we are often reduced to the ackward position of informing God of what he already knows, stopping in our tracks, and then praying for something that occurs to us as an afterthought. That is not the new way of translation.
To Be Continued…
FEAST DAYS, SCRIPTURE CITATIONS
AND SPECIAL INTENTIONS FOR THIS WEEK
SATURDAY, September 17 St. Robert Bellarmine
1 Tm 6:13-16/Lk 8:4-15
12:10PM Frank Blum (living)
5:30PM Peter Calanni
SUNDAY, September 18 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Is 55:6-9/Phil 1:20c-24, 27a/Mt 20:1-16a
9:00 AM William Reed Townsend
11:30AM Noel Martin
6:00 PM
MONDAY, September 19 St. Januarius
Ezr 1:1-6/Lk 8:16-18
12:10 PM Julia Schieffelin
5:30 PMRosemary Mandia
TUESDAYSeptember 20 St. Andrew Taegon
Ezr 6:7-8, 12b, 14-20/Lk 8:19-21
12:10 PM Tim Kennedy
5:30 PM Mary Ghioto
WEDNESDAY, September21
Eph 4:1-7, 11-13/Mt 9:9-13
12:10 PM Tim Kennedy
5:30 PM Joseph Cassano
THURSDAY,September 22
Hg 1:1-8/Lk 9:7-9/
12:10PM Patrick Gregan
5:30PM
FRIDAY,September 23
Hg 2:1-9/Lk 9:18-22
12:10PMJack Burns
5:30PM Aiden Fanning (living)
SATURDAY,September 24
Zec 2:5-9, 14-15a/Lk 9:43b-45
12:10PM Sally DeBella
5:30PM Maura Markham (living)
MONTHLY PARISH ACTIVITIES
Sunday10:00 AM / Children’s Religious Studies / Casserly
10:00 AM / Scripture Discussion / Library
2:30 PM / Roman Forum Lectures / Casserly
7:00 PM / Grad Law / Casserly/Rectory
Monday
6:30 PM / Centering Prayer / Church
7:00 PM / YACHT Club for Young Adults / Casserly/Library
Tuesday
7:00 PM / Aquinas Circle of Undergraduates / Casserly/Library
Wednesday
6:30 PM / Korean Catholic Students / Casserly/Library
7:30 PM / Lenten Confirmation Class / 1st Floor Back Parlor
Thursday
6:30 PM 1st /mo / Pax Christi Bd Mtg / PCMNY
7:00 PM / Newman Club / Casserly/Library
7:00PM / Scripture Study / 1st Floor-Back Parlor
Friday
6:00 PM 1st/mo / Novena/ Sacred Heart / Church
6:15 PM / St. Egidio Prayer / Church
Saturday
10:00-3:00 PM / Soup Kitchen / Casserly
12:30 PM 1st/mo / Blessing of the Sick / Church
6:00 PM / Alcoholics Anonymous / Caserly