BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH August 4, 2019 Staten Island, New York 10310
Reverend Monsignor Ferdinando Berardi, Pastor Reverend Francisco Lanzaderas Reverend Roland Antony Raj, MMI Deacon Christopher Wodzinski Reverend Monsignor Peter G. Finn, Pastor Emeritus
MASSES: Saturday in the Church: 5:00 PM (Vigil), Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM, 12:30 PM. Weekdays in the Church: 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM. Saturday in the Church: 9:00 AM. Holy Days in the Church: 7:00 PM (Vigil), 7:00, 9:00, 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday: 12:00 to 1:00 PM; 4:15 to 5:00 PM. Anytime upon reasonable request.
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Sunday at 2:00 PM. (Except during July & August, then only on the First and Third Sunday and other specified days) Arrangements should be made at least one month in advance with the priest of the Parish. Parents of a first child and parents who are new to Blessed Sacrament must attend a Baptism Instruction Class which is held the second Tuesday evening of every month (except July and August) at 7:30 P.M. in the Parish House Meeting Room. Godparents should be Practicing Catholics, and must obtain a Sponsor Certificate from their Parish.
SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY Arrangements should be made about six months in advance, with a priest of the Parish. Couples must attend Pre- Cana Conferences.
SICK CALLS - At any time.
MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA - Every Monday after the 9:00 AM Mass.
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION - First Friday from 12:00 Noon to 2:00 P.M.
NEW PARISHIONERS - Welcome to our Parish. We invite all parishioners to participate fully in our spiritual and social life. If you are new in the parish, please introduce yourself after Mass and register at the Parish House Office weekdays 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Kindly notify us if you change your address.
PARISH HOUSE 30 Manor Road 442-1581 http://www.blessedsacramentchurchsi.org
SCHOOL Mr. Joseph Cocozello Principal 830 Delafield Avenue 442-3090
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Sister Anne Dolores Van Wagenen, C.S.JB. - D.R.E. 830 Delafield Avenue 448-0378 PAGE TWO AUGUST 4, 2019 LETTERS OF SPONSORSHIP
Letters of Sponsorship can be issued only to PRAY FOR THE SICK members of our parish, who are registered at least The sick are comforted just knowing that you pray for them In your charity please remember: Douglas Pfleging, Jr., six months, regularly attend Mass, and receive the Phyllis Ribaudo, Ann Socci, Concetta Chicolo, Mary sacraments. Regular use of envelopes indicates Kenny, Jean Carter, Carolyn DeStefano, Robert Tursi, attendances at Mass. Sponsors are to be Baptized, Nicholas Toto, Marykate Rose, Peggy Travers, Mary Confirmed, and if married, have done so in Anne Blaine, Jean Cunningham, Jean Elmadary, Alan conformity with the laws of the Church. Out of town, March, Sebastian Lattuga, Grayce Novaro, Angela college students should receive a letter from their Siuzdak, Helen Ramsey, Katherine Barbera, Margaret campus minister. People in the military should Romani, Barbara Brown, Michael Caruso, Patricia receive a letter from their Chaplain. Connelly, Mary Belli, Mark Volpe, Linda Hansen, Marco Antonio Gonzalez, Larry Taylor, Jr., Kathy Quinlan, Jose IGNATIAN PRAYER GROUP Ruiz, Rosemary Callahan, Catherine Vitale, Capala Lusi, Jack McGarry, Brian Nelson, James McGarrigle, James This month we will be praying with Mark 5.24-34, Finnigan, Lelia Moran, Gail Kees, Cara Healy, Marion Jesus heals the woman who suffered hemorrhage. th Coolen, Michael Roskowinski, Jeff Orr, Debbie Caporale, On Saturday, Aug. 10 meeting is at Holy Family, Ana Ely Diaz, Ruth Orr, John G. Ferriera, Gina King, Elinor 366 Watchogue Road. Gather after the 8:30am Walshe, Joan Callahan, Joyce McDonough, Eileen Doran, Mass and begin prayer at 9:30am in the basement Lorrayne P., Lucille D’Arpe, Joanne Karundeny, Louis meeting room. Raiola, Mike Mancuso, Lucinda Bieber, Patrick Stach, Lorraine Esposito, Joseph Cashin, Ursula Cashin, Erna PRAYER FOR THOSE TRAVELING THIS SUMMER Hammerton, Linda Gagliardi and Karen Delgatto My holy angel guardian, ask the Lord to bless the journey which I undertake, that it may profit the health of my soul and body; that I may reach its end; and that, returning safe and sound, I may find all at home in good health. Do thou guard, guide, and SYMPATHY preserve us. Amen. Remember the souls for whom Mass will be offered during the week, especially:
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FROM THE CARDINAL towards the moon and it landed in the oak grove Dear friends in the Lord: beyond the right field scoreboard.” Babe Ruth’s out- In Kenya, most of the population is under 25 of-the-park home run put on a show for the fans while years old. The family always serves as the domestic helping his “Bustin’ Babes” win 15-4 over Lou Church - but with so many young people, families in Gehrig’s “Larrupin’ Lous.” Kenya have a special responsibility to encourage the spiritual development of their children. With your Just 16 days earlier, Ruth and Gehrig had led the support for the Solidarity fund for the Church in Africa, 1927 New York Yankees - often cited as the greatest Catholic families in Kenya and throughout Africa can team in the history of major league baseball - to a do just that. Thanks to your generosity, the Church in World Series victory. Now, the duo was nearing the Kenya has trained new ministers to help families build end of a three-week “barnstorming” tour, playing communities of love and foster a culture of life. exhibition games for charity in 21 cities from These new ministers help families build stronger Providence, RI to Los Angeles. relationships with one another and with God. Families are deepening their faith and learning Long before any major league teams were based in practical skills like active listening and conflict Western states, barnstorming tours were the only management. As the family becomes stronger, so too opportunity many fans had to get a glimpse of does the Church. professional ballplayers in action. Support the solidarity fund on August 10/11. The Church needs strong families to be witnesses to the The game in Stockton, like a number of others during joy of love. The Church in Africa needs your help to Ruth’s barnstorming tours, was sponsored by the ensure that all the faithful have the resources to help local Knights of Columbus. Both Ruth and his agent, then grow in our faith. To learn more visit Christy Walsh, who organized the tours, were www.usccb.org/africa. members of the Order. (Ruth had joined Pere With this letter, I invite you to be as generous as Marquette Council 271 in South Boston in 1919, his you possibly can be in making a sacrificial offering to last year playing for the Red Sox.) By sponsoring this crucially important and necessary ministry of the exhibition games, hosting the traveling stars and Church. organizing other events during Babe’s tours, the With gratitude and prayerful best wishes, I am, Knights of Columbus played a role in popularizing Faithfully in Christ, professional baseball. Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan Archbishop of New York George Herman “Babe” Ruth, known by many nicknames, was the most famous baseball player in AUGUST REFLECTIONS the US - though only seven of those states, plus With the historic accomplishments this year in Washington D.C. had major league teams during his Women’s Soccer, Championship Fed X Golf, and the 22-season career. unique honor to the remarkable Mariano Rivera in Baseball, we remember when “Bustin’ Babe Goes If you lived west of the Mississippi and couldn’t get to Barnstorming”. Columbia magazine of the Knights of St. Louis, Chicago or farther east to see a game, our Columbus recall the remarkable barn storming tour of best option was to hope the Bambino came to you. George Herman “Babe” Roth a legend in his own Walsh’s scrapbooks, preserved at the National lifetime as recounted by Andrew Fowle, K of C. Baseball Hall of Fame, chronicle how Ruth embarked on post-season tours through the 1920’s, appearing Bustin’ Babe Goes Barnstorming with vaudeville acts and playing exhibition games. A crowd of 2,500 people attended an exhibition game in Stockton, CA, to watch two of baseball’s greatest In early 1922, the Knights of Columbus in Milwaukee legends square off Oct. 24, 1927. The following day, hosted a banquet for Ruth and other guests. A an article in the Stockton Record titled “Babe Wallops contemporary account of the event notes that the Circuit Blow Over Bulwark” began: “He kissed one Knights in the area were invited to hear Ruth
PAGE FOUR “demonstrate his method of hitting’em over the fence and…relate some entertaining incidents in his baseball career.”
Before the season began that year, Commissioner of Baseball Kenesaw Mountain Landis levied a suspension against Ruth and Yankee teammate Bob Meusel for violating a rule that prohibited World Series participants from barnstorming. Ruth was suspended until May 20, but was allowed to play in a preseason exhibition tour with the Yankees.
On March 31, 1922, the team was in San Antonio to play the Brooklyn Dodgers. Prior to the Bambino’s first at bat, “The Knights entered the grounds in mass formation and surrounded the plate,” before giving Ruth an engraved, sterling silver ball and bat. One newspaper noted that the bat was modeled after Ruth’s own, adding, “Babe declares he will keep it as long as he lives.”
The Sultan of Swat then lived up to the expectations of his fans, hitting a home run over the right field fence - “the longest hit, according to local experts, that has been made in League Park.”
Commissioner Landis soon relented on the ban against World Series players touring. In the years that followed, the Babe continued to barnstorm with the help and hospitality of his brother Knights, as noted by Jane Leavy in her book The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created. (2018)
When Ruth arrived in town, local council officers were often on hand with the mayor to greet him. They sometimes escorted him from the train station to his hotel and presented him with K of C-branded flower wreaths. And a steady lineup of Knights of Columbus luncheons and dinners helped keep the “Colossus of Clout” colossal.
The Knights underwrote a game in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 1924, raising money for their charitable fund. In addition to Ruth, the game featured Meusel, Earl McNeely and others, attracting 7,000 fans. According to the Illustrated “Daily News, the Babe failed to “knock a couple over Washington Park right-field fence” as he had hoped, but he still had four hits, including a 400 foot double, and played a “corking good game around first base.”
Babe Ruth wasn’t the only baseball legend who was a member of the Knights of Columbus. Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack and New York Giants manager John McGraw, both Knights, led their respective teams to multiple World Series championships. Other Hall of Fame Knights include Johnny Evers, Hughie Jennings, Ed Walsh and Jim O’Rourke.
But the Great Bambino was the biggest star of them all, and the popularity of his postseason barnstorming reached its peak in 1927, when he was joined by Lou Gehrig for the 21 city tour. They were fresh off their now-legendary season in which the Yankees won 110 games and swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series. Ruth had hit 60 home runs, a single-season record that would stand until 1961. Gehrig was the league’s most valuable player, leading in doubles (52) and RBI’s (173).
Christy Walsh knew he could turn to K of C councils when planning the most significant barnstorming tour to date. He sold the tour as a “rivalry between Babe and Gehrig,” adding it was “just as intense as the rivalry of the Yanks and Pittsburgh in the recent World Series.” A number of councils hosted discussions with Ruth and Gehrig, and in Denver, Knights welcomed them with a “huge horseshoe floral offering” in front of “the largest crowd ever assembled at Merchants Park,” according to The Denver Post.
Knights in California sponsored several exhibition games, including those in Sacramento and Stockton. Before the later game, which benefited a K of C Christmas charity fund, an announcement was published in a local newspaper: “The game will not start until 3:30pm. This will permit all youngsters who wish to see the game to reach the ball park after school.”
Ruth always made time for children on his tours, frequently visiting them in orphanages and hospitals. Contemporary newspaper accounts note, for example, that he once visited with more than 1,000 children at a K of C New Year’s party outside Chicago and handed out baseballs to kids at a Knights event in San Francisco in 1927. During the 1927 barnstorming tour Ruth and Gehrig visited Boys Town orphanage in Omaha, founded a decade earlier by Fr. Edward Flanagan. According to an April 1928 Columbia article, “Babe talked to the boys on the value of his training in a similar institution when he was a boy.” Ruth had spent much of his youth at St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys in Baltimore, under the guidance of Xaverian Brother Matthias Boutilier.
When some people accused Babe of visiting children solely for publicity, he began asking sportswriters not to mention his visits. In a series for The Saturday Evening Post titled “My Hits - And My Errors,” he later wrote,”I reached the point where I got as much a kick out of my association with kids as they received from their meeting with me.”
Altogether, the Bustin’ Babes and Larrupin” Lous had played in front of more than 220,000 people during the 1927 tour, which finished in Los Angeles. Walsh’s K of C council then hosted Ruth and Gehrig in what it called the “Biggest Athletic Event of the Year” Nov. 1, right as post-season barnstorming had to end because of league rules. Following the 1928 season and another World Series championship, Ruth and Gehrig paired up again for another tour.
The West Coast would not get a major league team until 1958, when the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants relocated to Lost Angeles and San Francisco, respectively. Many of the most ardent fans remembered how, when they were still youngsters, Babe Ruth’s barnstorming tours helped to grow the national pastime.
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