More News The Seasonal Newsletter of St. Thomas More Catholic Parish Scranton, Pennsylvania Transfiguration 2018

Texas to learn how better to keep this en- and students to Maria Kaupas Academy will From the Pastor deavor growing – and connected to the other necessitate classroom space we simply do not schools of our diocese. Please pray for the possess. We have the school building, but it parents, teachers, and students of both our really is not useable space, so what exactly we Lower and Upper Schools as we begin our do with that structure must be determined, as third year offering this unique and enriching well. In short, we must formulate a strategic curriculum. plan for the growth we anticipate, and this will likely issue in a capital campaign imple- The renovations to the convent have mented next year or the year after. We are been funded through the donations of two grateful for how the Lord has blessed our generous benefactors and include updating work. Responsible stewardship means we the electricity and installing emergency light- must begin an intentional discussion about ing and exit signs. But the most common how best to receive future blessings. question I am asked about the renovation is, “What’s going to happen to Ron?” As you We hope by the fall, after Bishop Lopes’ know, four years ago Ron Morgese moved visit, that we will have a clearer picture of

Dear Members & Friends, into the convent and has served as an what precisely needs to be accomplished, and invaluable presence on campus, helping to we will have a discussion about how to do it When Bishop Steven Lopes arrives on maintain our grounds while generally keeping and how to pay for it. For the purpose of August 18, it will have been six years since St. an eye on the place. Having expressed a desire formulating an annual budget for operating Joseph Church was dedicated and two years to continue fulfilling this role, he will still rent expenses, our conclusions will be part of our since his last visitation. Much has happened a room on our campus, but now in an efficien- annual stewardship campaign this October. in the intervening two years, and as we cy apartment with its own entrance to the Any inauguration of a capital campaign will prepare for his time with us I want to take this building, completely separate from the school occur in conjunction with – and with the opportunity to explain how recent develop- facilities. We’re pleased to have Ron, because blessing of – Bishop Lopes, the objective of ments point to the future for our parish. we’re certain that the benefit of having his such accountability being that we do not bite eyes and ears on the Ferdinand Street side of off more than we can chew or do less than First, we have repurposed the convent our property is well worth the expense of that to which Jesus calls us. Please pray with this summer so that it can be used for the creating a new space for him. Nevertheless, me that we will be wise in our deliberations, expansion of Maria Kaupas Academy, now to we need donations of time and treasure to that Bishop Lopes, our father in Christ, will include an Upper School for high school-aged finish Ron’s new accommodations, so if you offer good counsel, and finally, that the Lord students. Our desire to offer an affordable, can make a contribution in this regard, please will provide for the mission He’s called us to classical Catholic education to our children is let me know. fulfill. part of a broader movement throughout the Church and, indeed, throughout our nation- The expansion in the coming years of our Looking forward to the beginning of the wide diocese. So many parishes and com- educational mission, and the growth of our school year, grateful for the support you’ve munities of the of the parish this is helping to fuel, means we must given to make this moment possible, and with Chair of St. Peter are considering or have discern how to facilitate our work and provide prayers for the eight young people to be con- begun ventures like ours that our Chancery in facilities for it. That is, even as we will soon firmed on the Anniversary of the Dedication Houston is offering a seminar in Houston increase Paul Campbell to full-time status, we of St. Joseph Church, I am, about how to advance our common goal. will require before long another paid em- Your servant in Christ, Katy Kadonoff, our parish bookkeeper and the ployee in the office. Moreover, while we can coordinator for Maria Kaupas Academy Upper expect that the renovated convent will hold The Rev. Eric L. Bergman School, will travel on our behalf next month to us over for the next two years, adding grades

Worship

Masses for the Bishop Lopes to Visit Assumption of Mary August 18-19 The Solemnity of the Assumption of the St. Joseph Church was opened and dedi- Blessed Virgin Mary – August 15 – is a Holy cated for the use of St. Thomas More Parish Day of Obligation; all Catholics in good stand- on August 18, 2012, a date which the Parish ing are obliged to assist a Mass on that day, continues to commemorate in two ways. Every year, we celebrate the Solemnity of the rehearsals more convenient to families, two Anniversary of the Dedication of a Church on adjustments will be made to the schedule: that date (or the closest Sunday); and every Rehearsals will begin at 3:45 p.m. (15 minutes two years, we host the Bishop on that same later than in prior years), allowing non-MKA occasion to confer the Sacrament of Confir- students adequate time to get to the church mation upon our Youth Confirmation Class. after school bussing, etc.; and rehearsal in the loft by all choristers will take place first, fol- lowed by the smaller musicianship classes, opposite the previous pattern. whether here at the Parish or at a more con- Teen and Adult members of the choir will venient time or location elsewhere. To that begin their Sunday morning rehearsals at 9:00 end, Said Masses will be offered on that day a.m. on Sunday, September 9, coinciding with at 7:00 a.m. and 12 noon. Solemn Mass will the resumption of Sunday School and all other be offered at our usual Wednesday Mass Parish programs after the summer break. time, 5:30 p.m. Please join us in celebration of this Holy Day! Fall Mass Schedule To that end, Bishop Steven Lopes will visit the With Maria Kaupas Academy set to run Parish on Saturday evening, August 18 for three days per week beginning this fall – and Adoration Continues Hiatus Confirmation (the Parish does not normally with daily Mass being a key feature of the offer a Saturday Vigil Mass, but will do so in Until November Academy schedule – said Masses will be this case). Then, on Sunday evening, August A reminder that Eucharistic Adoration offered at 11:30 a.m. on every Tuesday, Wed- 19, Bishop Lopes will for the first time ever continues its hiatus at the Parish until Novem- nesday, and Friday that the Academy is in ber, owing both to the summer break and to visit the Blessed John Henry Newman Society a fall pilgrimage by Fr. Bergman. This break – our mission congregation in the Lehigh applies not only to First Sunday adoration Valley – to greet our members there and after Mass and 24-hour adoration on First assess the progress of the mission. Needless to say, this will be an “all hands on deck” weekend for the Parish! Please plan to partici- pate, both to support our youth as they are confirmed, and to receive our Bishop as he visits our two congregations. session. The only change to the remainder of our weekly Mass schedule is that 7:00 a.m. Masses will no longer be offered on Tues- Choir Season Resumes days. Therefore, after Labor Day the full Mass September 5 & 9 schedule will be as follows:

Fridays & Saturdays, but to the attendant Choir School rehearsals and instruction Sunday: 10 a.m., 7 p.m. devotions such as First Friday Evensong, First (for choristers in grades 2 through 7) will re- Monday: 7 a.m. Saturday Mass & Confessions, etc. Rest sume on Wednesday afternoon, September Tuesday: 11:30 a.m. assured, these important devotions will all 5, concurrently with the first school day of Wednesday: 11:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m. return on November 2, 3, & 4. Maria Kaupas Academy. In an effort to make Thursday: 7 a.m. Friday: 7 a.m., 11:30 a.m.

Discipleship

Sunday School Planning All Programs Resume Meeting August 12 After Labor Day The annual Sunday School planning meet- Having taken a hiatus for the summer ing will be held after 10:00 a.m. Mass on months, all discipleship programs for children, Sunday, August 12. All parents and teachers, youth, and adults will resume their regular please plan to attend and offer your input as schedules after Labor Day, Monday, Septem- we plan the 2018-2019 Sunday School season. ber 3. Please join us for a rewarding season! Holy League Maria Kaupas Academy enroll their students only in those courses needed to supplement home schooling -- We look forward to a successful third Schedule Change though they may certainly enroll in all courses season of Maria Kaupas Academy, our exten- After several successful seasons meeting if they wish. sive homeschool assistance program providing twice per month on Monday evenings, the Holy The Upper School (9th grade & up) meets a comprehensive and rigorous Classical Cath- League – a parish-based network of men united on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and olic curriculum. This year we make a new in devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, com- presumes enrollment in the entire program, distinction between Lower School and Upper batting the forces of evil in today’s culture – will with humanities such as art, drama, and music School programs, the latter being launched as required alongside the academic disciplines, a new venture this fall. Course offerings include recognizing their essential role of both in Art, Drama, Geography, History, Latin, Litera- fostering the whole human person. ture, Mathematics, Music, Physical Education, Further materials and information are Science, Spanish, and Writing. linked below to provide parents with a more The Lower School (pre-K thru 8th grade) detailed assessment of the Academy. Inter- meets on Wednesdays & Fridays, and classes ested families should contact the Parish Office are available a la carte, enabling parents to to arrange to visit the campus, Pastor, and Academy leadership. resume its meetings after the summer break Lower School on a new schedule, now meeting on the first Brochure | Class Descriptions and third Wednesdays of each month. Our Upper School standard 5:30 p.m. Wednesday Mass will be followed by 6:15 p.m. men’s potluck supper Brochure | Education Plan and 7:00 Holy Hour with teaching and con- Both Schools fessions. All men are welcome! Fall 2018 Weekly Schedule 2018-2019 School Calendar

Fellowship

Parish Picnic August 11 schedule – the third Saturday of each month at 6:00 p.m. – on Saturday, September 15. The annual St. Thomas More Parish Pic- Please keep in mind that these events are nic is scheduled for Saturday, August 11 at intended not to be merely insular, but to Lackawanna State Park, where we will enjoy serve as a low-threshold opportunity for you to invite your non-Catholic or non-Christian friends and neighbors into our fellowship in an informal setting outside Sunday worship. Join us for free pizza supper, pool, ping-pong, board games, wi-fi, conversation, and a movie on the big screen! Thomas More Parishioners Larry & Carrie Chapp – our third annual Parish Pig Roast will be a free event, focused not upon fundraising, a full day of food, play, fellowship, games, but upon our parish family and their guests swimming, boating, and fishing. Join us for delighting in Christian fellowship with each this memorable event in our annual cycle of other over a delicious meal. Please plan to parish life, and consider inviting a friend! attend on Saturday evening, September 8,

and please consider inviting a non-Catholic or Free Parish Pig Roast non-Christian friend. September 8 We are pleased to announce that thanks Neighbor Nights to Resume to the generosity of Dorothy Day Catholic After taking the summer off, our parish Worker Farm – owned and operated by St. Neighbor Nights will resume their regular

Outreach

McGreevy Memorial Green to it. One at a time, the Parish purchased these and a children’s playground here in the densely lots, demolished the burned-out buildings on populated neighborhood of Providence. The Several years ago, a home immediately them, and leveled the ground, with a long-term project was conceived and the funds raised as adjacent to the Parish campus burned to the vision of creating much-needed green space a memorial to founding Parishioner Jerry ground, and severely damaged the home next Fall Rummage Sale Bus Stop Breakfast Outreach September 29 by Baltimore Parish The Parish will offer its annual Fall Rum- An exemplary outreach ministry by our mage Sale on Saturday, September 29, 8:00 sister Ordinariate Parish in Baltimore – Mount a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Local members and friends Calvary – has been highlighted in an online are warmly encouraged to donate items radio episode produced by the Archdiocese of between now and the sale. Volunteers will be Baltimore. With busy city bus stop just out needed for setup and pricing in the week lead- front of the Parish, the congregation decided to McGreevy, who was always extraordinarily ing up to the event, as well as staffing, baked begin serving hot nutritious breakfasts to those generous to the children of the Parish. goods, lunch cooks, and cleanup on the day of After several more years of slow-and- the sale. Please contact the Parish Office (570- steady fundraising with little further change to 343-0634 / [email protected] ) if you the property, we are delighted to report some have items to donate, and speak with Fr. significant developments. In July, men and Bergman if you can volunteer. boys of the Parish took the important first step of replacing the crumbled sidewalk on the Church Avenue face of the lot with freshly poured concrete, a critical public safety issue. awaiting bus rides on one Saturday morning And, the fencing that will enclose the property per month. The volunteers quickly realized that has been purchased, and awaits installation. their clientele was comprised almost exclusive- Once these improvements are complete, Jerry ly of heroin addicts frequenting the methadone McGreevy Memorial Parish Green will begin to clinic across the street from the bus stop, and serve the function always intended for it, as a thus began to engage in a ministry of providing recreational space for our students at Maria both physical and spiritual sustenance to those Kaupas Academy, and the other children of the suffering from addiction. Online readers can Parish. listen to the episode here.

Evangelization

Inquirer’s Class to New Parish Website The old parish website was built using rudimentary software just before tablets and Re-Appear This Fall Presentation September 9 smartphones exploded in popularity, and thus After a two-year hiatus, we are pleased to We are excited to announce the imminent it is not a mobile-friendly website that adjusts announce the re-launch of our Sunday evening launch of a brand new St. Thomas More Parish pleasingly in proportions and functionality Inquirer’s class, a welcoming, no-pressure op- website, and doubly excited to announce that when opened on a mobile device. The new site portunity for non-Christians, Protestants, and the website will be rolled out to the local Parish – built by Paul Campbell on a platform called e- lapsed Catholics to explore questions about the congregation during a special presentation on Catholic and intended for Catholic parishes – Sunday, September 9… the day all parish pro- will be far more user-friendly on phones, grams resume after the summer break. On that tablets, and computers alike, and far easier to day, in lieu of the Family Enrichment program keep current (another challenge of our current that normally falls on the second Sunday of the antiquated website). Please plan to attend the month, we will instead enjoy a light potluck launch presentation, and then forward the link lunch after 10:00 a.m. Mass and then view the to your friends and neighbors! new website on the Parish Hall movie screen, learning about the features and capabilities of Omaha Congregation the new site. Elevated to Parish Status One of the few instances of a former Epis- copal Parish amicably purchasing its property Christian faith and the . Each and bringing it into the Ordinariate is St. Bar- session includes free light supper, an engaging nabas Church in Omaha, Nebraska. The church DVD presentation, and group discussion about the topic of the video; all questions are wel- come. The 30-week class makes use of three ten-week courses strung together: The Alpha Course (a basic introduction to the Christian Faith), Symbolon I (knowing the Catholic faith), and Symbolon II (living the Catholic faith). A flyer for the class is included with this news- letter, and is online here; please share it with all family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues who might be interested! was officially received into the Ordinariate in Historic Ordinations for 2013 and dedicated its newly renovated worship space last year, and has now been Australian Ordinariate elevated to full Parish Status by Bishop Lopes. For several years, the Ordinariate of Our An interview with the bishop about these Lady of the Southern Cross has been looking events on Spirit Catholic Radio can be heard by forward to the reconciliation of many Anglicans online readers here. in the Torres Strait Islands (at least 274 islands between northern Australia and Papua New New Ordinariate Priests Guinea) to the Catholic Church. The OLSC web- enthusiastic about Archbishop Di Noia’s paper, site reports on a historic day for the Catholic “Anglican Patrimony: A Perspective from the in England and USA Church: Holy See.” Here are two excerpts: England’s Catholic Herald reports: “Eight “On June 9th in St Francis Xavier’s Catholic “I had my first experience of the Anglican new priests were ordained for the Ordinariate Church, West Cairns, Qld, Kopel Gibuma was communion, when, roaming New York City’s of Our Lady of Walsingham at the Birmingham the very first Torres Strait Islander to be theater district as a high school student one Oratory on Saturday [June 29]. Archbishop of ordained to the transitional Diaconate in the day, I came upon the Church of St. Mary the Birmingham Bernard Longley celebrated the Catholic Church. In observance of Torres Strait Virgin on West 46th Street. Eventually, I would Mass according to the Ordinariate Use of the Island tradition, Mr Gibuma was brought to the learn that this was not a Roman Catholic Roman Rite, carrying the crozier of Blessed door of the church by fellow Islanders, accom- church, as I had assumed, but an Episcopal John Henry Newman, the Ordinariate’s patron. panied by singing, guitars and the sound of church founded ... in 1868 [and] dedicated to traditional drummers. He was handed over by expressing the fullness of Catholic ritual and them to Msgr Harry Entwistle, Ordinary of the teaching within the Episcopal Church. ...That Ordinariate and Bp James Foley, Bp of Cairns day many years ago when I came upon what is who was to ordain him on behalf of the known affectionately as “Smoky Mary’s,”...that Ordinariate. The service was an impressive is the day that I fell in love with . blend of Catholic sacramental worship, devout “…With the inclusion of … a liturgical pro- piety which were enhanced by Torres Strait vision in Anglicanorum coetibus, the Holy See traditional customs. It was appropriate that the acknowledged the legitimate patrimony of Anglican ecclesial communities coming into full communion. ...The publication of Divine Wor- ship was of historic significance in that this is The Oratory is the home of the Shrine and the first time the Catholic Church acknow- Relics of Cardinal Newman. Two of the new ledged the value of liturgical forms in use in priests were the first to complete their forma- communities that emerged in the sixteenth tion entirely within the Ordinariate. The other century reformations and, moreover, under- six were former Anglican clergy. The number of taken to incorporate them.” The full paper is priests ordained for the Ordinariate was two available here. more than for England’s largest diocese – the gospel was read by the Rev Ralph Madigan who Archdiocese of Westminster – which ordained is the first permanent of Aboriginal six priests on the same day. The number of descent to be ordained in the Diocese of Cairns. 12 Anglican Nuns Who priests in the Ordinariate is now 100 exactly.” Following the service, Deacon Gibuma and the Became Catholic The full article – including many photographs – worshippers were greeted by traditional Though reporting events that took place is here. singing and dancing offered by Torres Strait in 2013, the National Catholic Register recently Meanwhile on the home front – also on islander singers and musicians. Dcn Kopel will published the compelling account of when “12 June 29 (the Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul, assist Fr Gordon Barnier, the parish priest of St fully habited nuns left their convent forever. one of the dates Bishop Lopes has established Clare, Cairns with Holy Cross Dauan.” They left with all they possessed. As the coach for ordinations), three new Catholic Priests drew away from their former home, other nuns were ordained at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Oxford Conference Explores similarly dressed waved “goodbye” to those Anglican Patrimony in the leaving. One group of nuns had settled for what they had always known; another had set out on Catholic Church an unknown path. Both groups knew they A recent conference in Oxford, England entitled The Gospel and the Catholic Church included high-ranking participants from both the Anglican and Catholic Churches, seeking “a greater common understanding of Anglican Patrimony in evangelical and catholic fullness.” would never see each other again. Of course, Among many others, speakers included Ang- there was the pain and the poignancy of having lican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali; Msgr. Keith to say farewell to those left behind who had Walsingham in Houston: Fr. Robert-Charles Newton, Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our shared their former community life. But there Bengry, Fr. Sean-Patrick Beahen, and Fr. Jason Lady of Walsingham; Msgr. Andrew Burnham, was also present a great joy, for just the pre- McCrimmon. These men were in addition to also of the Ordinariate; and Archbishop Augus- vious day, 10 of these 12 nuns (two having the four priests ordained on May 31, which we tine Di Noia, member of the Congregation of been received earlier) had been received into reported in our last newsletter. Photos of the the Doctrine of the Faith and a Dominican Friar. the Catholic Church and, for the first time, had ordination are available here, and a video can Texts of the presentations are all available received the Body and Blood of Christ.” The full be viewed here. here. Ordinariate circles have been particularly story is here. St. Thomas More Catholic Parish

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