SEPTEMBER 4, 2011 Sponsored by the Fordham Center on Religion & Culture 23ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Pope Auditorium, 113 West 60th Street Ez 33:7-9/Rom 13:8-10/Mt 18:15-20 Free and Open to the Public “…You son of man, I have appointed watchman for the house of Israel, when you hear me say . This forum will look at “Voters, Bishops and Presidential something, you shall warn them for me… But if you Elections” from the perspective of recent Catholic history, the warn the wicked, trying to turn him from his way, bishops’ conference, and conservative and liberal Catholics. and he refuses to turn from his way, he shall die for With John Carr (USCCB), Robert George (Princeton), his guilt, but you shall save yourself… ‘If your Stephen Schneck (Catholic University); moderated by Peter brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault Steinfels. More at: www.Fordham.edu/religculture between you and him alone’… ‘you shall love your RSVP: 212.636.7347, [email protected] neighbor as yourself. Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence love is the fulfillment of the law.’” Sunday School When something is wrong we respond in two ways. We It is not too early to consider introducing your overlook and ignore it, accepting it as part of life saying child to God by enrolling in our Sunday School or thinking ‘everybody is doing it’ and look the other way. Program. Our children meet for their age The second response calls us to help the person appropriate treatment of the Sunday Scriptures recognize the fault, error or sin, in order to protect him or and after Mass, continue to learn more of the Catholic Faith. her from evil consequences. (We are to concentrate on Anyone interested in participating in the program should the help, not just the criticism.) contact Thom Sabatelli for more detailed information and/or registration forms. They can either email him at Ezekiel and the prophets in scripture were given this [email protected] awesome task, to call God’s people back to the Lord. Or call 1-917-602-1224. This will help us get an early start Jesus came to complete what the prophets were unable on estimating registers for each age group. Sunday School will to accomplish. He came to offer the gift of reconciliation resume in late September for humankind, because we ‘just didn’t get it.’ He took the ten commandments, summarized them with two, Remembering and Healing…in their Honor love of God and love of neighbor. He provided extensive A 9/11 Remembrence Concert examples how to put them into practice as He taught of Schola Cantorum on Hudson will perform at the final judgment – the hungry, thirty, naked, immigrant, St. John’s Chruch in the Village-Waverly Pl. and 11th Street prisoner and sick – or through the parables – the Good September 10th at 8pm Samaritan, forgiving father or prodigal son.

St. Paul in the last quote asks us to reflect upon how we Theology on Tap-NYC: From White Collar to, well… can and should live the scriptures this week. Do his White Collar: On September 26, 2011, Fr Robert Mucci, words offer help or a challenge? Hopefully both! canon lawyer and priest in the Diocese of Brooklyn, will . address Theology on Tap about his personal vocation story HIS WORD TODAY by Rev. William J. Reilly and how we can find our own vocation. Before he became a priest, Fr Mucci was a chief actuary and on the board of directors for his company. ToTNYC is located at Klub 45 Room-Connolly’s Bar, 121 West 45th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues. Event begins at 7:30pm and ends around 9pm. Please be advised that the rectory will be closed on September For more info, visit www.totnyc.org 5th in observance of Labor Day. The 12:10 Mass is the only Mass of the day. Have a happy and safe holiday! The Roman Forum Lectures are back! St. Dominic, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Martin de Porres,...these Fervent Catholics on a Ship of Fools: are just a few of the great saints of the Order of Preachers. From the Fall of Constantinople to the Reuchlinstreit Lecturer: John Rao D.Phil. Oxford University Have you ever considered a vocation to be a Dominican Assoc. Prof. of History, St. John’s University brother or a priest? The next vocation weekend at the Dominican House of Studies will be Sept. 30- 9/18- City-States, “New Monarchies”, and Popes: Part One Oct. 2, 2011 in Washington DC. Contact Fr. Benedict Croell 10/2-An Unending Ottoman Advance OP, the vocation director for the Eastern Dominican Province All sessions meet on Sundays at 2:30pm by calling (800) 529-1205 or log on to DominicanFriars.org $10.00 at the door and click on “Vocations.” St. Joseph’s Church Hall- 371 Sixth Ave. NEW ROMAN MISSAL Faithful Citizenship I: Voters, Bishops and On the Art of Translation--Professor Anthony Esolen Presidential Elections Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 6-8 PM Continued from Last Week….

The Lord’s offering to go to the centurion’s house is a 12:10PM Carl & Angelo Conetta foreshadowing of his entering the house of our body, in the 5:30PM Oliver Forand SUNDAY, September 4 23nd Sunday in Ordinary Time form of bread. His is the action, his is the offer; he is the one Ez 33:7-9/Rom 13:8-10/Mt 18:15-20 who wishes to take up his dwelling within us. 9:00 AM Eamon Newman (living) A Language of Prayer 11:30 AM The translation we are adopting is, I affirm, more faithful to 6:00 PM Theodore Luty Sr. MONDAY, September 5 Labor Day- Office Closed the original, both in it’s accuracy and in it’s humble and Col 1:24-2:3/Lk 6:6-11 generous submission. And this leads me to a crucial point 12:10 PM George Cannon about about the language of faith. Consider the difference TUESDAY September 6 between a grand piano and a toy piano, or between a coronet Col 2:6-15/Lk 6:12-19 12:10 PM James Kelly and a harmonica. You may play a C on each instrument, and 5:30 PM in a certain sense they will all be playing one note; you will WEDNESDAY, September 7 recognize the pitch as the same. But it would be absurd to Col 3:1-11/Lk 6:20-26 12:10 PM suppose that there is no difference- and indeed all the 5:30 PM differnce in the world-between the grand piano and the toy THURSDAY, September 8 Feast of the Nativity of the Bl. Virgin Mary piano, or between the coronet and the harmonica. The grand Mi: 5:1-4a or Rm 8:28-30/Mt 1:1-16, 18-23 or 1:18-23 piano is an instrument of surpassing power, the toy piano is 12:10PM Mary Mazzeo 5:30PM but a child’s half-comical imitation. The coronet is an FRIDAY, September 9 St. Peter Claver instrument for proclaiming the approach of a king; the 1 Tm 1:1-2, 12-14/Lk 6:39-42 harmonica, for a lonely farmer boy out in the fields, musing 12:10PM Josephine Madden about the lovely girl in the village nearby. 5:30PM SATURDAY, September 10 As in music, so in language. There are many instruments that 1 Tm 1:15-17/Lk 6:43-49 play in English; consider the rough banter of boys on a street 12:10PM Robert J. Hart corner; the colorless formality of an office memorandum; the 5:30PM Joanna Sigmund tender phrases of a love letter, tinged with nostalgia; the intricacy of poetry in meter and rhyme. So the question is not MONTHLY PARISH ACTIVITIES Sunday simply, “How do we translate this Latin into English?” byt Children’s Religious 10:00 AM Casserly “What instrument in English is best for this instrument in Studies Latin?” How do we translate the language of prayer? And 10:00 AM Scripture Discussion Library there is a language of prayer Roman Forum 2:30 PM Casserly I have heard it said that when Jesus prayed, he used the Lectures common language of the people. The implication is that there 7:00 PM Casserly/ Grad Law should be no real difference between the style of our prayers Rectory and the style, say, of our letters to the editor. But the premise Monday 6:30 PM Centering Prayer Church is wrong, and so is the conclusion. The fact is, there was no YACHT Club for Casserly/L 7:00 PM such thing as one “common language of the people.” That is Young Adults ibrary because, as I’ve suggested, language is a many splendored Tuesday thing. The farmer in old Quebec speaks in a courtly way to his 7:00 PM Aquinas Circle of Casserly/L Undergraduates ibrary wife –but not so his horse or his dog. A solider writing home Wednesday to his beloved allows himself flights of fancy that would be 6:30 PM Korean Catholic Casserly/L laughed at in the barracks. Every language too has a sacral Students ibrary 1st Floor register. That was true of the Aramaic that Jesus spoke. More Lenten Confirmation 7:30 PM Back than that, when Jesus gathered with his disciples to celebrate Class Parlor the sacred feasts, or when he read in the synagogues, it was Thursday not the Aramaic that he read, and not Aramaic psalms that he 6:30 PM 1st /mo Pax Christi Bd Mtg PCMNY 7:00 PM Casserly/L sang, but Hebrew, the ancient language of his people. Newman Club TO BE CONTINUED…. ibrary 1st Floor- 7:00PM Scripture Study Back Prayer for 9/11 Anniversary Parlor Almighty God, you have committed to us the ministry of Friday Novena/ Sacred reconciliation of your son, Jesus Christ; give us the 6:00 PM 1st/mo Church Heart confidence in your power to forgive, as your son forgave 6:15 PM St. Egidio Prayer Church humankind from the Cross. in his name, bless and Saturday enable us to be witnesses for your forgiveness at work 10:00-3:00 PM Soup Kitchen Casserly where we live. Unite us in a sacred fellowship to heal the 12:30 PM 1st/mo Blessing of the Sick Church Alcoholics 6:00 PM Caserly hostilities we see, and give us the grace to love another Anonymous in the name of Jesus Christ and to rejoice in the eternal fellowship of his disciples. Amen

FEAST DAYS, SCRIPTURE CITATIONS AND SPECIAL INTENTIONS FOR THIS WEEK SATURDAY, September 3 St. Gregory the Great Col 1:21-23/Lk 6:1-5