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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011 studied and received their theological education and formation 25TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME at Saint Joseph’s Seminary. Is 55:6-9/Phil 1:20c-24, 27a/Mt 20:1-16a Without a doubt, one of the many blessings of this “Seek the Lord, while he may be found, call him Archdiocese is it’s extraordinary seminary system: Saint while he is near. Let the scoundrel forsake his way, Joseph’s Seminary, our major theologate located in the and the wicked his thoughts; let him turn to the Lord Dunwoodie section of Yonkers; the Saint John Neumann for mercy; to our God who is generous in Residence Seminary, a pre-seminary program now located in forgiving”… “conduct yourselves in a way worthy of Douglaston, Queens, for those attending college or in need of the gospel of Christ.” “Are you envious because I courses prior to entering major seminary; and the Cathedral am generous?” Preparatory Program for high school men considering a vocation to the priesthood. Fortunately, the People of God of Two special words in scripture should really move us. the archdiocese have never ceased to be as supportive as they They are mercy and generosity. Both are characteristics can be of their seminary system. of our God, yet often overlooked. Because the Lord is With this letter, I invite you to tmake a sacrificail offering to full of mercy and rich in kindness, we do not need to try the annual seminary collection, which will be conducted in our to convince Him to shower these gifts upon us. All we parishes over the weeekend of September 17 and 18. The cost need to do is acknowledge that these are God’s gifts to of preparing future priests is daunting, and for this reason we us for the asking. I do not have to try to convince God to count on your support. With it, we are able to continue our pour out His gifts on me. solid tradiation of excellence in the formation and academic training of candidates for the priesthood. Isaiah tells us to be like the children – seek the Lord. We What fond memories we all have of the visits of the two are to move in His direction, and when we do we find succsessors of St. Peter to the seminary;Bl. Pope John Paul II that He already is with us, waiting for us to call. If I in 1995 and Pope Benedict XVI three years ago. Christ has acknowledge that He is merciful and generous in given us His Chuch, with the guft of the priesthood to forgiving, then why wait to seek these special gifts He perpetuate the Eucharist, to preach the Gospel, and has for me, and for everyone. The sacraments of the to forgive sins. Eucharist and Reconciliation are great signs of these gifts. Please know how very grateful I am for whatever you are able to do in assisting our seminarians in becoming your good, God’s goodness can be multiplied as I live as a more dedicated, and holy priests one day soon. generous and forgiving person. He may be using me to touch the heart of someone else who is waiting, hurting With prayerful best wishes, I am, very truly yours in Christ, or searching and feels God is so distant. They couldn’t Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan be further from the truth. St. Dominic, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Martin de Porres,...these are just a few of the great saints of the Order of Preachers. HIS WORD TODAY by Rev. William J. Reilly 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 Julie Jordan Presents: New York Concerti Sinfonietta, OP, the vocation director for the Eastern Dominican Province Paul Hostetter, Conductor by calling (800) 529-1205 or log on to DominicanFriars.org VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras with Soprano and click on “Vocations.” 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 Join St. Joseph's Choir (11:30 AM Traditional Mass)

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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 The New Roman Missal committed priests of the Archdiocese of New York who have On the Art of Translation Prof. Anthony Esolen 12:10PM Frank Blum (living) The Structure of Sentences 5:30PM Peter Calanni SUNDAY, September 18 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time That concern for the sacred charater of our worship at Mass is Is 55:6-9/Phil 1:20c-24, 27a/Mt 20:1-16a made manifest in another way, beyond the choice of words 9:00 AM William Reed Townsend and the determination to render into English the beauty of the 11:30 AM Noel Martin Latin. It is made manifest in the length and the structure of the 6:00 PM MONDAY, September 19 St. Januarius sentences. This too is something that calls for explaination. Ezr 1:1-6/Lk 8:16-18 When we read, we can do all kinds of things that help us make 12:10 PM Julia Schieffelin sense of a dificult passage. We can insert a bookmark and put 5:30 PM Rosemary Mandia down the book for a while. We can turn the page back to TUESDAY September 20 St. Andrew Taegon Ezr 6:7-8, 12b, 14-20/Lk 8:19-21 something we had read before. We can glance ahead to see if 12:10 PM Tim Kennedy an explanation is coming. We can read the passage over again. 5:30 PM Mary Ghioto But we can do none of these things while we are listening to WEDNESDAY, September 21 Eph 4:1-7, 11-13/Mt 9:9-13 speech. Oratory, in other words, cannot work like straight 12:10 PM Tim Kennedy prose. It requires the linking devices of oral poetry. It requires 5:30 PM Joseph Cassano repitition of key words, parallell structures in grammar and THURSDAY, September 22 sense, balance of idea with idea and image with image, and- Hg 1:1-8/Lk 9:7-9/ 12:10PM Patrick Gregan something that people unused to oral poetry do not suspect- a 5:30PM minimum of full stops that inturupt the flowof declamation FRIDAY, September 23 and meaning. That is why Homer, who composed his great Hg 2:1-9/Lk 9:18-22 poems the Illiad and the Odyssey using his mind and his voice 12:10PM Jack Burns 5:30PM Aiden Fanning (living) and his ear, and not his hand and his eye, since these poems SATURDAY, September 24 would not be written down for centuries, and since, as Zec 2:5-9, 14-15a/Lk 9:43b-45 tradition has it, he was blind-it is why Homer employs long, 12:10PM Sally DeBella flowing,delicately balanced sentences, with man repeated 5:30PM Maura Markham (living) forms and phrases, so that the work could be heard , and more MONTHLY PARISH ACTIVITIES important than that, remembered. That is why when Martin Sunday Luther King Jr. addressed the hundreds of thousands on the Children’s Religious 10:00 AM Casserly Mall in Washington, he spoke in a series of long sentances Studies with all the balance and repitition of a Jerimiah or Isaiah, and 10:00 AM Scripture Discussion Library why so many of us still remember what he said was the vision Roman Forum 2:30 PM Casserly of his dream. Lectures 7:00 PM Casserly/ In oratory, as in oral poetry, every full stop is a breach and Grad Law runs the risk of losing the ear and the memory. Four Rectory Monday consecutive simple declartive sentences are, taken singly, 6:30 PM Centering Prayer Church easier to hear and to remember than one long and complex YACHT Club for Casserly/L 7:00 PM sentence would be, but would be, but taken together they are Young Adults ibrary like disconected boxcars bumping into each other on a Tuesday 7:00 PM Aquinas Circle of Casserly/L track.So there is an emiently practical reason, and an aesthetic Undergraduates ibrary reason, for translating a long sentence of oratory as a long Wednesday sentence of oratory. But there is still more.The elements of 6:30 PM Korean Catholic Casserly/L such sentences belong together. When we separate them into Students ibrary 1st Floor their own sentences, we lose the theological connections Lenten Confirmation 7:30 PM Back Class between them. They no longer form parts of an intricate Parlor whole. Indeed, we are often reduced to the ackward position Thursday of informing God of what he already knows, stopping in our 6:30 PM 1st /mo Pax Christi Bd Mtg PCMNY 7:00 PM Casserly/L Newman Club tracks, and then praying for something that occurs to us as an ibrary afterthought. That is not the new way of translation. 1st Floor- 7:00PM Scripture Study Back To Be Continued… Parlor Friday Novena/ Sacred 6:00 PM 1st/mo Church Heart 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 Alcoholics 6:00 PM Caserly Anonymous

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