of Louis King of The Old Cathedral

209 Walnut Street Saint Louis, Missouri 63102 FIRST CATHEDRAL WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 2, 2020

PARISH FOUNDED IN 1770 PRESENT CHURCH DEDICATED IN 1834 Sunday August 2 Thursday August 6 8:00 AM Gerri Serritella 7:00 AM Charles R. Chernick, Sr. (popularly known as the Old Cathedral) 10:30 AM Family 12:10 PM Kathleen Thomas (Live Streamed) 209 Walnut Street 12:00 PM Richard Ottensmeier Friday August 7 St. Louis, Missouri 63102 5:00 PM Betsy Fiehler 7:00 AM John (Jack) Murphy 12:10 PM Jim Dwyer Phone: 314.231.3250 Monday August 3 Email: [email protected] 7:00 AM Patrick Duggan Saturday August 8 Website: www.oldcathedralstl.org 12:10 PM Carole Nelson 7:00 AM Pilots & Crew of Commercial & Military Aircraft Tuesday August 4 5:30 PM Louis Fagas 7:00 AM Andrew Jackson 12:10 PM Susan Vogel Sunday August 9 8:00 AM Parish Family Wednesday August 5 10:30 AM John (Jack) Murphy 7:00 AM Michael Kidney (Live Streamed)

12:10 PM Bonnie Nolan Baudino 12:00 PM Emily Simon Sunday Masses 5:00 PM Celebrant’s Intentions 5:30 PM (Saturday Evening) 8:00 AM, 10:30 AM, 12 NOON, Live Stream Mass

and 5:00 PM Welcome all Parishioners and Visitors of The Old Cathedral to our live stream service. During these

trying times, it is important to maintain spiritual communion with the Lord. We would like to offer you, Daily Masses for this purpose, the opportunity to attend a live stream Mass.

Monday through Friday Live Stream Mass 7:00 AM and 12:10 PM Sundays - 10:30 AM

SATURDAY– 7:00 AM You can access the live streams through the link on our homepage at:

www.oldcathedralstl.org

Readings for the week of August 2, 2020

Sunday: Is 55:1-3/Ps 145:8-9, 15-16, 17-18 [cf. 16]/Rom 8:35, 37-39/Mt 14:13-21 Monday: Jer 28:1-17/Ps 119:29, 43, 79, 80, 95, 102 [68b]/Mt 14:22-36 Confessions Tuesday: Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22/Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23 [17]/Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-14 Daily, 11:30 AM—12:00 PM Wednesday: Jer 31:1-7/Jer 31:10, 11-12ab, 13 [cf. 10d]/Mt 15:21-28 Saturdays, 4:30 PM—5:15 PM Thursday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14/Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9 [1a, 9a]/2 Pt 1:16-19/Mt 17:1-9 Friday: Na 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7/Dt 32:35cd-36ab, 39abcd, 41 [39c]/Mt 16:24-28 Marriage Saturday: Hb 1:12—2:4/Ps 9:8-9, 10-11, 12-13 [11b]/Mt 17:14-20 Please arrange at least six months in Next Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a/Ps 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14 [8]/Rom 9:1-5/Mt 14:22-33 advance of the desired date. To reserve a date or for more Observances for the week of August 2, 2020 information, please contact Tracy Marklein at 314.231.3250. Sunday: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: Weekday in Ordinary Time Tuesday: St. John Vianney, Priest Devotions Wednesday: The Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major Perpetual Help Devotions: Thursday: The Transfiguration of the Lord Tuesdays, 12:00 PM Friday: St. Sixtus II, , and Companions, Martyrs; St. Cajetan, Priest Saturday: St. Dominic, Priest Next Sunday: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time

We welcome our devoted Weekly Giving parishioners, neighbors who come so Sunday, 07/26/20 regularly, our downtown working The Old Cathedral has long been recog- people, Saint Louisans of all faiths nized as one of the most historic and and our many visitors from all over Online Donations $147.00 the world. Visitors $1568.00 beautiful churches of its time. Serving you in this beautiful Parish $1806.00 Our parish is proud of its more than 240 Old Cathedral is a privilege. year history as a self-supporting Roman

Total $3521.00 Catholic Parish. Your presence, prayer and Father Nicholas Smith Rector generous kindness continue to make it so. Director, Office of Sacred Worship Instructor, Kenrick -Glennon Seminary Your weekly envelope donations can still be made by mail or in person by check at the

Father Charles Samson Old Cathedral rectory or you can set up online donations at oldcathedralstl.org. In Residence By uniting as a parish community and with continued prayer, we will face these Faculty, Kenrick -Glennon Seminary challenging times with faith together.

Thank you for your continued support. Basilica of Saint Louis, King Dear Old Cathedral Parishioners and Visitors:

Many of us struggle to balance the demands in our life. How often do our conversations center on how busy we are and how much we have to do? Today’s readings speak into that pressure, into that rush, into our often overextended lives.

Paul asks the Romans, What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress … or peril, or the sword? No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. Isaiah offers us a similar comfort: All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, receive grain and eat; Come, without paying and without cost, drink wine and milk!

What are we hungry for? What do we thirst for? What are our deepest needs? The Lord tells us, come to the water! Drink and eat without cost. Receive Christ, whose love for you is stronger than death •– stronger than present or future things, stronger than powers or any other creature.

If God is truly calling us to care for others, to participate in the work God is doing in the world, then he also desires to give us everything we need to do so. This means we must try to reject the urge to be constantly “doing,” and instead root all our efforts in the truth that we are, first and foremost, infinitely loved.

We do not have to earn this love by doing more or better. We do not have to spend [our] money for what is not bread; [our] wages for what fails to satisfy. We need only to rely on the Lord; listen to him; heed his voice that we may have life and be renewed with the everlasting covenant.

As we approach the Eucharist today, the fulfillment of the covenant, let us bring our needs and our hunger to Christ. Let us confidently seek the renewal Christ wants to offer us. Let us open our hearts to be nourished by his love so that we can feed those he calls us to serve.

Blessings upon your week. Stay safe!!

-Father Smith

STEWARDSHIP

“Jesus said to them, Help us continue our story ‘There is no need for … them to go away; give them some food yourselves’.” (Matthew 14:16)

This is what Jesus said right before he fed the five thousand men. How often do we really place our trust in Jesus when the situation looks grim?

With Jesus, no gift is too small or insignificant when offered with love. But, we have to do our part. We should trust that Jesus will provide all Scan to make your gift. that we need. We need to believe that Jesus has a better plan in store for us.

Saint John Mary Vianney, Priest (August 4): Saint John Mary Vianney was born on May 8, 1786, and died on August 4, 1859. He is known as a patron of all priests and parish priests particularly. Saint John won the hearts of many priests precisely because his path to the priesthood was especially difficult. He began to study for the priesthood (his early schooling having been interrupted by the ), he found the studies, especially , a challenge. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1815. After three years as an assistant pastor/parochial vicar, he became pastor of the parish of Ars (population 230). He developed a reputation for his wisdom as a minister of the sacrament of reconciliation, and spent numerous hours in the confessional as people came from long distances to confess. He spent no less than eleven hours every day in the confessional during winter and sixteen hours in the summer.

Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in (August 5): The Basilica of Saint Mary Major is a papal major basilica (the others are ’s, Saint John Lateran, and Saint Paul outside the Walls) situated on the Esquiline Hill of Rome. The feast was originally called the Dedication of Saint Mary’s, and was celebrated only in Rome until the inserted for the first time into the General Roman Calendar, with “of the Snows” added to its name, in 1568. Legend has it that, during the pontificate of Liberius (352-366), a childless couple, wishing to dispose of their worldly goods, asked the Blessed Mother for a sign, which turned out to be the falling of snow on the Esquiline on the fifth of August. The Basilica of Saint Mary Major is the oldest basilica in the West dedicated to the Mother of God. Mary was declared (“God-bearer”) by the in 431.

Saint Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs; Saint Cajetan, Priest (August 7): Saint Sixtus II and Companions: The optional memorial of Saint Sixtuss II and companions puts today’s believers in contact with a particularly bloody time in the Church of Rome of the mid-third century. Saint Cornelius, who is honored on September 16, was martyred a few years earlier. Pontian and Hippolytus, commemorated on August 13, met their deaths two decades earlier. Sixtus II (died August 6, 258) was Bishop of Rome from August 31, 257, to his martyrdom during the persecution of the Emperor Valerian. He restored the relations with the African and Eastern churches which had been broken off by his predecessor, I, on the question of heretical raised by the heresy of Novatianism. In the persecutions under Valerian in 258, numerous bishops, priests, and were put to death. Sixtus was one of the first victims of this persecution, being beheaded on August 2. He was martyred along with six deacons—Januarius, Vincentius, Magnus, Stephanus, Felicissimus, and Agapitus. Lawrence of Rome, his best-known , suffered martyrdom on August 10, three days after his bishop. It is this Sixtus who is referred to by name in the Roman (Eucharistic Prayer I) of the Mass. Saint Cajetan, not to be confused with his contemporary, Thomas Cardinal Cajetan, who was a prominent figure in the controversies with Martin Luther, Saint Cajetan was born in October 1480, and studied law in Padua, receiving his degree as doctor in civil and canon law at age 24. In 1506 he worked as a diplomat for Pope Julius II, with whom he helped reconcile the Republic of Venice. Cajetan was ordained a priest in 1516. Recalled to Vicenza by the death of his mother, he founded in 1522 a hospital for incurables there. By 1523 he had established a hospital in Venice as well. His interests were as much or more devoted to spiritual healing than the physical kind, and he joined the “Oratory of Divine Love” in Rome. He intended to form a group that would combine the spirit of monasticism with the exercises of the active ministry. A new congregation was canonically erected by Pope Clement VII in 1524. One of Cajetan’s four companions was Giovanni Pietro Carafa, the Bishop of Chieti, elected first of the order, who later became Pope as Paul IV. From the name of the city of Chieti (in Latin: Theatre) arose the name which the order is known, the “.” The order grew at a fairly slow pace: there were only twelve Theatines in 1527 during the sack of Rome in 1527, during which Cajetan was tortured by the Spanish soldiers of Charles V. The Theatines managed to escape to Venice. There Cajetan met Emiliani (memorial February 8), whom he assisted in the establishment of his Congregation of Clerks Regular. In 1533 Cajetan founded a house in Naples. He died in Naples on August 7, 1547.

Saint Dominic, Priest (August 8): lived from 1170 to August 6, 1221. He was educated in the schools of Palencia. In 1191, when Spain was desolated by famine, young Dominic gave away his money and sold his clothes, furniture, and even precious manuscripts to feed the hungry. In 1194, he joined the Canons Regular in the canonry of Osma, following the rule of Saint Benedict. Dominic saw the need for a new type of organization to address the spiritual needs of the growing cities of the era, one that would combine dedication and systematic education, with more organizational flexibility than either monastic orders of the secular clergy. He was granted written authority in December 1216 and January 1217 by Pope Honorius III for an order to be named “The Order of Preachers.” In 1219, Pope Honorius III invited Saint Dominic and his companions to take up residence at the ancient Roman basilica of , which they did in early 1220.

All you Saints of God, pray for us. ’S COLUMN

Addressing structures of sin requires undivided hearts Healing our country thoroughly will take longer and cut deeper than most would like to admit

“Let it be done for you as you wish.” That’s what Jesus says to the Canaanite woman who asks for the healing of her daughter (Matthew 15). What if Jesus said the same to us about race relations?

The result, obviously, would depend on what we wish. The problem is that we wish for contradictory things.

We say that we want all people, in every situation, to respect the dignity of human nature that resides in every individual. That would, indeed, help to heal race relations! But then, when it comes to gender ideology, we want to set aside human nature, and let every individual determine for themselves what it means.

We say that we want our cities to be sanctuaries where every person is respected, where there’s a special concern to lift up those who are vulnerable for reasons that are not their fault, and where we help everyone achieve their full potential. That would, indeed, help to heal race relations! But then, when it comes to the unborn, who are also vulnerable for reasons that are not their fault, we want our cities to be sanctuaries where they can be killed with the greatest dispatch, crushing their potential.

What do we want as a nation, and as a city? We want contradictory things — morally, legally, and politically. As a result, when Jesus asks us what we want, we can’t respond to Him with a whole and undivided heart. And until we can, we won’t be able to receive the healing He offers.

At the start of the Babylonian Exile, the false prophet Hananiah came to the people with a message: “This time of difficulty will be short. The primary problem is an external enemy, and we’ll be free of it in two years.” Comforting, but misleading. God gave the prophet Jeremiah a deeper vision, but the truth wasn’t comforting: “This is a long-term issue. The problem is primarily inside of us, and will take 70 years to resolve.”

Why was the Exile such a long haul for ancient Israel? Because they had built up a tremendous amount of moral momentum in the wrong direction. That momentum wasn’t going to stop on a dime. It required an interior renewal that took several generations.

Like ancient Israel we have some deep structures of sin in our nation. We’ve given them a lot of momentum, and they come out in a lot of ways. If we really want to address the issue of race relations, we have to address the entire structure of sin that underlies our culture’s approach to human dignity and human nature — and that’s going to take time. Do we want to respect the dignity of human nature in every individual and create a sanctuary where the vulnerable can flourish? The evidence shows that we don’t yet want that with whole and undivided hearts.

I have great hope regarding what we might do to address race relations in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. We have a history of moving ahead of the national curve, going back to Cardinal Ritter’s integration of Catholic schools in 1947. In our own day, I’m tremendously grateful for the work that Joyce Jones is doing in the Office of Racial Harmony.

But the Church, like Jeremiah, needs to be ready to tell our culture a hard truth: This yoke is stronger than you think. Addressing it thoroughly will take longer, and cut deeper, than you’d probably like to admit.

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