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5TH SUNDAY IN OUR HOMELESS ORDINARY TIME Our Homeless Jesus sculpture has received quite a bit of media attention recently. FEBRUARY 10, 2019 Apparently the press learned that an ambulance had been dispatched to -e Basilica

thinking that a person was sleeping on the bench. -is

MASS TIMES story did not surprise me. I have personally witnessed 5rst responders getting out of an ambulance ready to Saturday 5:00pm help the person on the bench, only to realize that it was a sculpture. I watched them use their phones to take some Sunday pictures, maybe to alert their colleagues. 7:30, 9:30, 11:30am 4:30, 6:30pm -e artist, Timothy Schmalz, intentionally created a very realistic sculpture which he hoped would push us to face Monday-Friday the persistent problem of homelessness. As I write this 7:00am and Noon Saint Joseph Chapel letter, it is -28 degrees Fahrenheit. Even in these temperatures some people will have no choice but to Nursery spend the night outside. Available Sunday 9:30am Mass Johan van Parys for children through I know that not everyone loves our Homeless Jesus. Some Director of Liturgy and Sacred Arts age 4. people think we should not represent the resurrected Jesus e Basilica of Saint Mary Accessibility in the image of a homeless person. However, by depicting Center East bronze doors and Jesus as a homeless person or more importantly, being asked to see Jesus in homeless ground level doors for accessible people we simply illustrate the message of Matthew 25: “Truly I tell you, whatever you entrance. Wheelchairs available did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” upon request. Others have argued that the money spent on the Homeless Jesus should have been used

to alleviate the su>ering of those in need. -e Basilica has a very strong commitment to

helping all those in need. Our approach is two-pronged: alleviation and education. -us, on the one hand we o>er direct help to those in need and we work to change systems that cause and perpetuate poverty and inequality. On the other hand we are also intent on changing people’s hearts and minds so that they too might be moved to help those in need. And that is exactly what the Homeless Jesus intends to do: change people’s heart and mind.

-e sculpture is not so much about the bronze Jesus it represents, but rather about the su>ering person in whom we ought to recognize Jesus. Many of us are a bit more like MyParish App Get Connected—-e Basilica Peter than like Mary. Peter courageously declared to Jesus that he would never leave him, app is now available. and yet he denied knowing Jesus after his arrest and he ran away when Jesus was cruci5ed. By contrast without making grandiose statements, Mary, the Mother of Jesus Download in your iPhone or together with Mary of Magdala and John the Beloved, stayed with him. -ey were not Android app store today. 88 N 17th St, Minneapolis, MN 55403 | 612.333.1381 | mary.org continued Column continued from page 1 able to prevent his death but they stayed with him even as he was dying on the THIS WEEK cross.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10 We received Homeless Jesus last November. Since then we have seen people Guided tours after 9:30 and 11:30am Mass quietly sitting on the bench next to him with their hands placed on his pierced feet. We have found Howers and a lit candle left beside him. And just a few 11:00am It’s Complicated weeks ago as the winter was setting in, someone lovingly covered him with a red blanket. It is our hope that the Homeless Jesus will move us to similar and MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11 even greater acts of kindness not just to the sculpture but more importantly to 9:30am SVdP Shoe Ministry the people it represents.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 9:30am SVdP Outreach Ministry 10:30am Street Voices of Change 5:30pm Taizé Prayer 6:00pm Mental Health Film Festival 6:00pm Lector Rehearsal* PENUMBRA THEATRE 7:00pm Mundus Rehearsal* BASILICA PARTNERS WITH PENUMBRA THEATRE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Over the few years, -e Basilica of Saint Mary has prayerfully been 9:00am SVdP Sandwich Ministry developing a parish-wide, faith 5lled-response to racism. Rooted in our 9:30am SVdP Outreach Ministry Catholic Faith, this e>ort will create a safe place for discovery and 5:30pm Disability Awareness discernment, ritualizing respectful dialogue. It will provide multi-faceted Ministry learning experiences that include sharing stories/relationship building, art 5:45pm Chorister Rehearsal* and media, speakers, workshops, and working with community organizations. 7:00pm Cathedral Choir Rehearsal* It will be sustained over time, seeking to propel transformation and change 7:00pm Juventus Rehearsal* individually and collectively.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 -e initiative on racism coincides with implementation of the new Basilica 9:15am Morning Prayer Strategic Plan. -is new plan calls us to promote inclusivity as an 9:30am SVdP Outreach Ministry institution—addressing cultural and religious divides. We are called to 10:00am Crossroads Book Club support and welcome those who have been marginalized and seek 12:00pm Prisoners or Patients? Task interventions in the systems that perpetuate marginalization. Force

6:00pm Pathways To ful5ll these goals, we are beginning a partnership with the Penumbra 6:30pm Emmaus Ministry ReHection -eatre. Penumbra -eater is the largest and among the oldest African 7:15pm BYA Bible Study American theatre companies in the country. -ey produce artistically excellent, thought-provoking, and socially responsible drama that illuminates FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 10:00am Centering Prayer the depth and breadth of the black experience. 12:00pm Hennepin Connections Team Meeting -e partnership with Penumbra -eatre will begin this Lent. It will carry over several years, gradually folding in more and more of our parish community. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Penumbra will customize each workshop to 5t the unique needs of -e 9:00am Reconciliation Basilica. Its programming is rigorous and immersive. Together, we are grateful 9:30am SVdP Shoe Ministry for the opportunity to build deep, ongoing relationships. 9:30am Downtown Coalition for Grief Support -e Penumbra RACE Workshop invites precipitants to Learn, ReHect and Act. 7:30pm AA Meeting Learn: Explore how race, gender, class and other identify markers shape our opportunities, success, safety and circumstances. ReHect: Become aware of

how our intersectional identities determine how we see the world and how *Registration/tickets/audition required the world sees us. Act: Practice intervening in oppressive behaviors as they happen.

Look for ways to get involved in the Basilica/Penumbra partnership. For more information contact Janice at 612.317.3477 or [email protected]. 2

MUSIC LITURGY & SACRED ART

GUEST MUSICIANS TAIZÉ PRAYER WITH INDIVIDUAL CONFESSIONS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 5:30PM, SAINT JOSEPH CHAPEL SUNDAY, FEBURARY 10, 4:30PM -is service is characterized by mantra-like singing of simple, yet beautiful SeVy Gospel Quartet songs, following the Taizé community tradition of communal prayer focused

on reconciliation and healing. MACPHAIL SPOTLIGHT SERIES:

LISZT’S SPIRITUAL JOURNEY MASS ON PRESIDENTS’ DAY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 7:00PM MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 7:00AM, SAINT JOSEPH CHAPEL Sonata in B minor Eucharist will be celebrated at 7:00am in the Saint Joseph Chapel. -ere will be “Pensée des morts” from Harmonies no Noon Mass. Basilica Campus and O ces are closed. poétiques et religieuses Vexilla regis

prodeunt DECORATING FOR LENT Richard Tostenson, piano TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 8:30AM, BASILICA Tickets: 612.767.5250 Volunteers are needed to help decorate -e Basilica for Lent. For more Nineteenth century superstar pianist information, contact Travis at [email protected] or sign-up on line at Franz Liszt was fascinated with mary.org. Catholicism throughout his life. He ASH WEDNESDAY became increasingly drawn to a WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, BASILICA spiritual life, and eventually took minor holy orders in the Catholic Eucharist at 7:00am, Noon, 5:30pm, 7:30pm Church. Join virtuoso pianist Richard Soup Supper in Teresa of Calcutta Hall at 6:30pm Tostenson as he performs some of Liszt’s most impressive secular and FRIDAYS OF LENT spiritual works in the stunning EUCHARIST 7:00AM, NOON, 6:00PM, SAINT JOSEPH CHAPEL atmosphere of -e Basilica of Saint STATIONS OF THE CROSS, 7:00PM, BASILICA

Mary. ICON CLASSES SATURDAYS, MARCH 9, 30 & APRIL 6, 13, 9:00AM-1:00PM THRESHOLD SINGERS Painting or writing an Icon is a prayerful meditative process. -e Basilica -e Basilica -reshold Singers is a o>ers the opportunity to experience this during Lent. -e image selected for group of volunteer singers who o>er the 2019 Icon Class is Saint Francis of Assisi or Saint Seraphim of Sarov. sacred songs and hymns to those Deb Korluka will lead these workshops. Contact Deb at 612.889.5868 to living or dying with serious illness. register. Available by invitation to family, friends, and loved ones at home, in a hospital, nursing home, or hospice setting. Contact Wendy at ART EXHIBIT 612.317.3474 or wcadu>@mary.org for ECCE HOMO: BEHOLD THE MAN more information. SANDRA BOWDEN COLLECTION WEDDING REUNION FEBRUARY 1-APRIL 28 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 JOHN XXIII GALLERY & TERESA OF CALCUTTA HALL 5:00PM -is exhibition includes images from the early 17th century to contemporary All who have celebrated the works, designed to place the viewer at the scene where Jesus was condemned Sacrament of Marriage at -e Basilica by the crowd as described in Matthew 27.Among the artists included are are invited to this special evening. Jacques Callot, Georges Rouault, Schmidt-Rotlu>, Otto Dix, Odilon Redon, 5:00pm Mass with Blessing of Couples. Bruce Herman, and Tyrus Clutter. Reception immediately following in lower level. Cocktail reception: $25/ ARCHIVES EXHIBIT per couple or $12.50/per individual. THE BASILICA BELLS Please register online at mary.org/ weddingreunion. Call 612.317.3405 for A historical collection of information about bells hanging in the east and west more information. towers of -e Basilica. 3

CHRISTIAN LIFE GET INVOLVED

MENTAL HEALTH FILM FESTIVAL: AWAY FROM HER THANK YOU TO… TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 6:00PM DOORS, FILMS 6:30PM all of the volunteers who helped with SAINT AMBROSE ROOM, GROUND LEVEL our recent hosting week of Families Starring Julie Christie, a 5lm about a couple married for 44 years and the e>ect Moving Forward! Your commitment to the wife’s dementia has on their relationship. Nan Vest and Terry Eggan lead a this important St. Vincent de Paul post 5lm discussion about caregiving. -e Mental Health Film Festival ministry, providing temporary shelter continues February 19 and 26. Movie snacks and conversation with each 5lm. for local parents and kids, is GREATLY For more information, contact Janet Grove at [email protected] or appreciated! 612.317.3508. WARMING HANDS AND HEARTS DISABILITY AWARENESS MINISTRY Gloves and mittens are always in high WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 5:30PM demand this time of year for guests at COWLEY CENTER, BERNTSON ROOM St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP) Outreach Interested in working to make -e Basilica’s campus barrier free? Join our and Shoe Ministry. If you’d like to committee and make a di>erence in the lives of our parishioners and many provide some winter warmth for our guests who come here. We are currently looking at all spaces on campus and guests, just drop items at the rectory planning for Disability Awareness Month in October. We meet the second and let the receptionist know they are Wednesday of each month. Dinner is served! Contact Janet at 612.3167.3508 or for SVdP. -ank you! [email protected] for more information. GRIEVING? PRISONERS OR PATIENTS? SATURDAYS, 9:30-11:30AM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 12:00-1:00PM COWLEY CENTER WAGNER ROOM, COWLEY CENTER -e Basilica is hosting the Downtown Discussion around plans this year to advocate for those with mental illness in Grief Coalition every Saturday jails or prisons. Lunch is served. RSVP to Janet at [email protected] or morning through the end of April. 612.317.3508. Come hear speakers on various topics of grief and loss, and break into small FINDING BALANCE IN OUR SERVICE: FAITH IN ACTION RETREAT discussion groups with others SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 8:30AM, BASILICA SCHOOL, LL-7 experiencing similar losses. No RSVP. St. Vincent de Paul has said, “Service without reHection is just work.” Our Basilica community serves and accompanies many sisters and brothers in IN EMPLOYMENT TRANSITION? need. Discipleship also calls for defending those we serve and accompany. Join -e Basilica’s Employment Ministry fellow Basilica community members to ground ourselves in Catholic Social can provide support and assistance. Teaching and the spirituality behind defending and advocating for others. A Contact Janet at [email protected] or workshop that describes how will follow at a later date. For more information, 612.317.3508 to get started 5nding that please contact Aara Johnson at [email protected]. To register online, go new job in the new year. to mary.org/service. CENTERING PRAYER MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID FRIDAYS, 10:00AM SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 9:00AM, BASILICA SCHOOL, LL-7 BASIL THE GREAT, GROUND FLOOR Mental Health First Aid is an 8-hour course that teaches how to help someone Centering Prayer is a prayer of who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health silence—beyond thoughts, words, and crisis. -e training helps you identify, understand, and respond to signs of emotions. -e Basilica Centering addictions and mental illnesses. Participants discuss signs and symptoms; Prayer group is currently reading and learn risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems; get discussing Open Mind Open Heart by information on depression, anxiety, trauma, psychosis, and addiction Fr. -omas Keating. New practitioners disorders; practice a 5ve-step action plan to help someone developing a mental are welcome to join us! For more health problem or in crisis; and learn of professional, peer, and self-help information, contact Kathy at resources. A certi5cate of completion is awarded at the end of the class to all [email protected] or participants. Program is free, but registration is required by March 23. A light 952.240.0653. breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be served. RSVP online at mary.org or contact Janet Grove at [email protected] or 612.317.3508. 4

BASILICA YOUNG LEARNING

ADULTS STUDY AND REFLECTION

BYA BIBLE STUDY IT'S COMPLICATED: THURSDAYS, 7:15-8:45PM PAPAL AUTHORITY AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION SAINT JOSEPH CHAPEL SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 11:00AM-12:30PM -is is the perfect Bible Study for a SAINTS AMBROSE/TERESA ROOM, GROUND LEVEL busy lifestyle—no preparation Lutherans have had a complicated understanding of and relationship with the needed and come when you can. Bishop of since Father Luther proposed an academic debate on the power and eTcacy of indulgences. As the Reformation proceeded, Luther was WEDDINGS AT THE BASILICA compelled to engage issues of papal authority in new and unanticipated ways. We congratulate the following Please join us. Please register at mary.org. couples married at -e Basilica: WHAT ROUGH BEAST? January 12 NEGATIVE PORTRAYALS OF GOD IN THE HEBREW BIBLE Sarah Torchia and Cody Lynch SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 11:00AM-12:30PM January 19 SAINTS AMBROSE/TERESA ROOM, GROUND LEVEL Elizabeth Considine and Brian -e Monotheistic traditions teach that God is good. -at is, favorably disposed Brustuen towards humanity and desiring to help them and rescue them from diTculty. January 26 Dr. David Penchansky will examine three passages that describe God as an Stacia Flicek and Michael enemy of humans. Why are these troubling passages in the bible, and what Conzemius might they mean for a contemporary reader? Please register at mary.org.

ROCK SOLID MARRIAGES SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 9:00-10:30AM Prepare your heart and your marriage for Lent. All married couples, whatever your age or number of years married, are welcome for this event. Please join us for an introduction to the Lenten Season. Leave with some weekly reHection/ application questions to grow your marriage relationship during the season of Lent. Please register at mary.org.

LENTEN RETREAT: THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF SUFFERING SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 8:30AM-12:00PM, TERESA OF CALCUTTA HALL Archbishop Hebda will join us for a morning of Lenten reHection. During this BASILICA READS retreat we will reHect on experiences of life’s su>ering, whether past or , ONE PARISH, ONE BOOK and delve into di>erent ways of approaching it within the context of our faith, MARCH 6 - APRIL 20 allowing it to have a transformative power within us. More information and Join Basilica Reads this Lent. As a registration are available at mary.org. parish we will read Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give REMARRIAGE SEMINAR Drink to the irsty, Visit the SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Imprisoned, and Keep Your Day 9:00AM-NOON Job by Kerry Weber. RECTORY Are you planning or hoping to marry again? Are you considering marrying -e book is available at local and someone who was married before or has children? Are you currently in a remarriage? -is important and helpful seminar deals with the most important, online book sellers. A limited unique issues faced by couples in a remarriage/blended family. Light breakfast number of scholarship books are and snacks will be served: $25/couple. For more information contact Nancy at available. Contact Janice at 612.317.3478. [email protected] for more information or a scholarship YOUTH CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES book. Watch for discussion group Please continue to hold our youth Con5rmation candidates in your prayer. details in Lent. 5

DEVELOPMENTJOIN US

THE BASILICA FUND For more than a century, -e Basilica has been a place to gather and grow in faith. We welcome you wherever you may be on your faith journey. As we look to our future, we SWEETEST BINGO & MEAT RAFFLE welcome you to support -e Basilica SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 6:00-9:00PM Fund. Your recurring gift empowers TERESA OF CALCUTTA HALL our work inside these doors—and It’s not too late to purchase your bingo and raVe tickets! We’re not playing throughout the city. Make your gift “Twix” when we say this is the sweetest bingo around. at mary.org/give. Purchase early and save: CATHOLIC SERVICES APPEAL Meat RaVe Tickets: $5 Catholics throughout the Twin (do not need to be present to win) Cities are invited to make a donation • Individual: $25 in advance or $30 at door to the Catholic Services Appeal • Two Tickets before February 4: $40 Foundation (CSA), an independent • Children 12 & under: $5 tax-exempt non-pro5t corporation • Purchase & decorate a table for 8: $75 receiving and distributing all CSA funds to vital ministries throughout Tickets on sale at mary.org/bingo. For meat raVe tickets or more information, our community. -e CSA supports contact Liz at 612.317.3428 or [email protected]. initiatives including: Catholic Charities, Catholic Education (elementary and secondary schools CITIES 97.1 BASILICA BLOCK PARTY and campus ministries), and our FRIDAY, JULY 12 & SATURDAY, JULY 13 sister parish, School in Announcing earlier than ever before! Tuesday, February 12 at 8:00am, North Minneapolis. check out our website at basilicablockparty.org and tune in to Cities 97.1 to be the 5rst to hear the 25th anniversary lineup. Ticket information will be THE BASILICA LANDMARK available online following the announce. ANNUAL FUND By supporting the Annual Fund, you ensure the longevity of our building. Continually maintaining and improving our campus is crucial to our mission. -roughout 2018 a number of campus improvements were completed: LANDMARK SPARK • Tuck-pointing of the dome SATURDAY, MAY 18 • Remodel of the lower level kitchen THE MACHINE SHOP • Installing energy-eTcient LED New name, same great event—with added festivities! Previously known as -e lighting in lower level Landmark Ball, Landmark Spark is the annual night to bene5t -e Basilica • Updating Church soundboard and Landmark. Spark will take place at -e Machine Shop in Minneapolis. -is equipment year’s Fund-A-Need project is a refurbishment of the Teresa of Calcutta Hall in

the lower level of the church, where our St. Vincent de Paul ministry takes Support our work by donating online place daily. Get your tickets online at thebasilicalandmark.org. at thebasilicalandmark.org/give.

For more information or to make a donation to the event, contact Holly Dockendorf at [email protected] or 612.317.3432.

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