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Basilica of Louis of France The Old Cathedral

209 Walnut Street Saint Louis, Missouri 63102 FIRST CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 13, 2020

PARISH FOUNDED IN 1770 PRESENT CHURCH DEDICATED IN 1834 Sunday September 13 Thursday 8:00 AM Norma Schumer 7:00 AM Luis Actis, Jr. (popularly known as the Old Cathedral) 10:30 AM Parish Family 12:10 PM Celebrant’s Intentions (Live Streamed) 209 Walnut Street 12:00 PM Francisco & Herminia Actis Friday September 18 5:00 PM Celebrant’s Intentions 7:00 AM Luis & Luisa Cei St. Louis, Missouri 63102 12:10 PM Celebrant’s Intentions Phone: 314.231.3250 Monday September 14 Email: [email protected] 7:00 AM Charles R. Chernick, Sr. Saturday September19 12:10 PM Sandy Fourney 7:00 AM Fortunato & Catalina Ventura Website: www.oldcathedralstl.org 5:30 PM Celebrant’s Intentions Tuesday September15 7:00 AM Fortunato & Catalina Ventura Sunday September 20 12:10 PM Louis Fagas 8:00 AM Parish Family 10:30 AM George M. Dankocsik Wednesday (Live Streamed) 7:00 AM Louis Meziere 12:00 PM Celebrant’s Intentions 12:10 PM Eduardo & Isabel Martegani 5:00 PM Celebrant’s Intentions Sunday Masses 5:30 PM (Saturday Evening) Live Stream 8:00 AM, 10:30 AM, 12 NOON, 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, for this purpose, the opportunity to attend a live stream Mass. Daily Masses Monday through Friday Live Stream Mass Sundays - 10:30 AM 7:00 AM and 12:10 PM 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 September 13, 2020

Sunday: Sir 27:30—28:7/Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12 [8]/Rom 14:7-9/Mt 18:21-35 Monday: Nm 21:4b-9/Ps 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38 [cf. 7b]/Phil 2:6-11/Jn 3:13-17 Confessions Tuesday: 1 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31a/Ps 31:2 and 3b, 3cd-4, 5-6, 15-16, 20 [17]/Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33- Daily, 11:30 AM—12:00 PM 35 Saturdays, 4:30 PM—5:15 PM Wednesday: 1 Cor 12:31—13:13/Ps 33:2-3, 4-5, 12 and 22 [12]/Lk 7:31-35 Thursday: 1 Cor 15:1-11/Ps 118:1b-2, 16ab-17, 28 [1]/Lk 7:36-50 Marriage Friday: 1 Cor 15:12-20/Ps 17:1bcd, 6-7, 8b and 15 [15b]/Lk 8:1-3 Please arrange at least six months in Saturday: 1 Cor 15:35-37, 42-49/Ps 56:10c-12, 13-14 [14]/Lk 8:4-15 advance of the desired date. Next Sunday: Is 55:6-9/Ps 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18 [18a]/Phil 1:20c-24, 27a/Mt 20:1-16a To reserve a date or for more information, please contact Observances for the week of September 13, 2020 Tracy Marklein at 314.231.3250. Sunday: 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross Devotions Tuesday: Our Lady of Sorrows Perpetual Help Devotions: Wednesday: Sts. Cornelius, , and , , Tuesdays, 12:00 PM Thursday: St. Bellarmine, Bishop and Friday: Weekday in Ordinary Time Saturday: St. Januarius, Bishop and Next Sunday: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time; Catechetical Sunday

We welcome our devoted parishioners, neighbors who come so Sunday, 09/06/20 Weekly Giving regularly, our downtown working people, Saint Louisans of all faiths and our many visitors from all over Online Donations $1415.00 The Old Cathedral has long been recog- the world. Sunday Collection $4335.00 nized as one of the most historic and Serving you in this beautiful beautiful churches of its time. Old Cathedral is a privilege. Catholic University $133.00 Our parish is proud of its more than 240 Father Nicholas Smith Total $5883.00 year history as a self-supporting Roman Catholic Parish. Your presence, prayer and Director, Office of Sacred Worship generous kindness continue to make it so. Instructor, Kenrick -Glennon Seminary

Father Charles Samson Your weekly envelope donations can still be made by mail or in person by check at the In Residence Old Cathedral rectory or you can set up online donations at oldcathedralstl.org. Faculty, Kenrick -Glennon Seminary By uniting as a parish community and with continued prayer, we will face these

challenging times with faith together.

Basilica of Saint Louis, King Dear Old Cathedral Parishioners and Visitors:

The Christian life is a communal life, not a solitary one. Thus, it entails times of being reconciled to God and with one another.

Saint Paul explains why it is necessary for us to be reconciled with each other if we ever have hope of being reconciled with God. We are the Lord’s, we belong to Christ, and we are to conform ourselves to him: None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. We are a community of believers. We are all sinners, and need to give and receive from each other what we need from the Lord – mercy. We are meant to treat others the way God has treated us in Christ, sharing with them the life-giving and forgiving love of Jesus.

“What does that look like, exactly?” we might ask. This is at the heart of Peter’s question in today’s . “What does forgiveness look like, Lord, forgiving my brother seven times?” That seems like a reasonable number, does it not? Especially if it is for the same thing? Except Jesus said seventy-seven times was the answer. And lest we get stuck on the exact numbers rather than the larger point, Jesus tells the parable of the unforgiving servant. Completely upside down in his debt, with no hope to repay it, and he must throw himself completely on his master’s mercy.

His debt is miraculously forgiven! Yet, rather than reforming his life, changing his heart, and sharing with others the mercy just shown him, the servant imprisons someone who owes him a much smaller amount. In response, the master hands him over to the torturers until he should pay back the whole debt.

Jesus suggests that he owes us nothing, but he has given us everything. He has forgiven the worst things we have ever done. He would forgive the worst things we could ever imagine. And yet, with all that mercy to draw from, free for the taking, he still finds us holding grudges over much smaller wrongs done to us by the hands of another.

All of us belong in Jesus’ “debtors’ prison,” but he came to set the captives free. It is true that we don’t deserve the mercy God has shown us in Christ. We can’t earn it and we can’t repay it. But we can live it. We can forgive, and we can seek forgiveness. And as “seventy-seven” represents the limitless nature of God’s mercy toward us – so we can make it represent ours to one another.

Blessings upon your week. Stay safe!

-Father Smith

The St. Vincent De Paul Society

Since 1833, the St. Vincent de Paul Society has been the largest organization when it comes to helping the poor in communities. The society was founded in Paris by Blessed Fredrick Ozanam with the goal to help the poor people living in the slums of Paris. This organization would flourish into a world-wide institution that today serves 153 countries.

Bryan Mullanphy brought back the concept of the St. Vincent de Paul Society with him to the United States, after he had studied in Paris. He witnessed the success the organization had in helping the poor within the community, so he organized a meeting to start-up the society in St. Louis. The first meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul Society was held in the United States at the Old

Cathedral in 1945.

In memory of this sacred society, the Old Cathedral has a tablet hanging on the exterior of the church. This tablet is from 1945, the one-hundred year anniversary of the founding of the society of St. Vincent de Paul in the United States. Today the Society of St. Vincent de Paul continues their gracious work around the world. In the United States, their work began at the Old Cathedral.

Bryan Buer—Old Cathedral Historian

Take inspiration from the Mary, who endured unfathomable sorrows with grace.

September is the month dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows. This September is an especially fitting time for us to find strength in this devotion, as we adjust to challenges with work and school, societal upheaval, and an unusually tempestuous weather cycle. Our masked world can feel surreal, as we stay at least six feet apart from our neighbor. Our Lady offers us the best possible consolation.

Immediately following August’s devotion to the Immaculate Heart, and preceding October’s devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary, September is an ideal time to strengthen our connection to Mary. So what better moment is there to immerse ourselves in her sorrows? The love and compassion we feel as we meditate upon her sorrows allows us to forget or transcend our own for a time. Further, we are reminded that our Mother truly understands us.

n the words of Pope St. John Paul II, “Turn your eyes incessantly to the Blessed Virgin; she, who is the Mother of Sorrows and also the Mother of Consolation, can understand you completely and help you. Looking to her, praying to her, you will obtain that your tedium will become serenity, your anguish change into hope, and your grief into love.” This month, let’s unite our sorrows to Mary’s. Before we know it, we’ll actually be more joyful! Here are 10 ways to do just that:

TRANSFORM PAIN INTO PURPOSE PRAY THE ROSARY, ESPECIALLY THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES Take the sufferings you endure and offer them up for the reparation of As you contemplate Gethsemane, the Scourging, the Crowning with Mary’s Immaculate Heart. Thorns, Carrying of the Cross and the Crucifixion, imagine walking with Mary and offering her your loving presence and support, your Drawing upon your own sorrows will prevent a lukewarm heart, and let you willingness to stay with her as she watches her beloved son’s suffering. instead be on fire with devotion and love as you contemplate the sorrows of Here’s a moving prayer companion for the Sorrowful Mysteries of the our Mother and offer up sacrifices and acts of reparation, such as the First Rosary, complete with meditations, art and music, on YouTube. Saturday Devotion.

Taking pain and transforming it into purpose through these acts is healing DONATE SOMETHING, EVEN IF IT IS A WIDOW'S MITE for the mind and heart. Give the money you can manage, to a charity for those suffering.

The Catholic Near East Welfare Association, which assists those in need CULTIVATE JOY in the lands associated with the Bible, has been designated as one of In this month of Mary’s Sorrows, dwell less on your own sorrows, and culti- ’s special charities during this time of the coronavirus vate joy just by thinking of the wonderful Blessed Mother we have! Feeling pandemic. low? Say a Hail Mary on the spot. Another idea is to journal your sorrows and then write a prayer asking Mary to help you to heal them. PARTNER WITH SOMEONE IN PRAYER

Pray daily for someone you know who is suffering, and let them know EASE SOMEONE'S SUFFERING you’ll partner with them in prayer so that the person feels less alone. Offer to carry someone’s cross for a bit, like Simon of Cyrene. You can do this This is a great month to pray this Prayer for the Feast of Our Lady of by sending a card, closely listening when someone wants to talk about a Sorrows, September 15: “O God, in Whose Passion a sword of sorrow worry; a grief; a pain; or a loneliness and offering time and empathy instead pierced the most-dear soul of the glorious Virgin-Mother, Mary, as of being “too busy” to be there for them. You could send a bouquet to foretold by , mercifully grant that we who reverently someone who is having a hard time: maybe roses or lilies in honor of Our commemorate Her sorrows, may obtain the blessed effect of Thy Lady! Cook someone a meal that tastes so good they forget their troubles! Try Passion. Who livest and reignest, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, “comfort food” like pasta, chicken soup with biscuits, or a brunch of world without end. Amen.” pancakes and eggs. MAKE AN TO OUR LADY OF SORROWS IN YOUR HOME PRAY THE SEVEN SORROWS ROSARY OR SEVEN SORROWS Choose a prayer card, statue or work of art featuring an image of the DEVOTION Virgin and adorn it with flowers you’ll keep refreshing all month as a The Seven Sorrows devotion involves praying seven Hail Marys a day, each little act of tenderness and candles (battery-operated are safest) that you one while meditating on one of Our Lady’s seven sorrows, which are: light during prayer. Place a small box near the image and ask each The prophecy of Simeon. member of the family to write one act of love or mercy they promise to do to console Our Sorrowful Lady this month, or an intention they wish The flight into Egypt. to pray for. Place that resolution in the box as a gift of love. Pray for The loss of the Child Jesus in the temple. Our Lady to grace you with some of her faith and courage! This prayer The meeting of Jesus and Mary on the Way of the Cross. box is a great project for children to help design.

The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus. Contemplate its searing beauty as it inspires you in prayer. Pay special The taking down of the Body of Jesus from the Cross and preparation for attention to the tears that you can see have formed upon her cheek. burial. They resemble pearls and remind us how, just as oysters turn grit into The burial of Jesus. pearl, our sorrows can be transformed through Jesus and Mary into greater purpose. And the Seven Sorrows Rosary involves dwelling upon each of the seven sorrows as you would one of the mysteries of the Rosary, with seven Hail LISTEN TO A MARIAN HYMN Marys instead of a decade. Begin each sorrow with an Our Father. Try the traditional “At the Cross Her Station Keeping” by the Cathedral Check out this book for more specific ways to contemplate, pray and dwell Singers or a setting of the Ave Maria. The incomparable beauty of the more deeply with the sorrows of Mary. music is perfect to accompany or inspire prayer to Our Lady.

Aleteia, Annabelle Moseley | Sep 01, 2020

Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14): The Cross is, of course, the “logo” of our faith. It is an easily reproduced symbol which proclaims that our glory is in our union with the Lord who submitted to a most cruel execution. According to legend, the True Cross was discovered in 326 by Saint Helena, the mother of the Roman Emperor , during a pilgrimage she made to Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was then built at the site of the discovery, by order of Helena and Constantine. The church was dedicated nine years later, with a portion of the cross placed inside it. The date of the feast marks the dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 335.

Our Lady of Sorrows (September 15): This feast immediately follows the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. In Luke’s narrative of the Presentation in the Temple, he speaks of Jesus’ future and the fact that Mary herself will be pierced by a sword “so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” A traditional list of the “Seven Sorrows”: the Prophecy of Simeon (Lk 2:34-35) or the Circumcision of Christ; the Flight into Egypt (Mt 2:13); the Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple (Lk 2:43-45); Mary meets Jesus on the Way to Calvary; Jesus Dies on the Cross (Jn 19:25); the Piercing of the Side of Jesus, and Mary’s Receiving the Body of Jesus in Her Arms (Mt 27:57-59); the Body of Jesus is Placed in the Tomb (Jn 19:40-42).

Pope Saint Cornelius, pope and martyr (September 16): Saint Cornelius (died June 253) was the Bishop of from March 251 to his martyrdom. Emperor , who ruled from 249 to 251, persecuted Christians in the rather sporadically and locally, but starting January in the year 250, he ordered all citizens to perform a religious sacrifice in the presence of commissioners, or else face death. Many Christians refused and were martyred (possibly including ), while others partook in the sacrifices in order to save their own lives. In hopes that Christianity would fade away, Decius prevented the election of a new pope. However, soon afterwards Decius was forced to leave the area to fight the invading and while he was away the elections for pope were held. In the 14 months without a pope, the leading candidate, , had died under the persecution. believed that he would be elected; Cornelius, however, was unwillingly elected pope. Novatian had himself proclaimed pope; he was thus the second in the history of the Church. Cornelius had the support of Saint Cyprian, Saint Dionysius, and most African and Eastern , while Novatian had the support of a minority of and laymen in Rome who did not acknowledge Cornelius as pope. Cornelius called a of 60 bishops to confirm himself as pope, excommunicating Novatian and all Novatianists. From the writings of Cornelius, it has been estimated that there were at least 50,000 Christians in Rome during his papacy. In June 251, Decius was killed in battle with the Goths; immediately following this become Emperor. Persecution began again in June 252, and was exiled to Centumcellae, , where he died in 253.

Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr (September 16): Saint Cyprian (c. 200 – September 14, 258) was bishop of Carthage. After converting to Christianity, he became a bishop soon after in 249. A controversial figure during his lifetime, his strong pastoral skills, firm conduct during the Novatianist and outbreak of the plague, and eventual martyrdom at Carthage vindicated his reputation and proved his sanctity in the eyes of the Church. He rose still higher in the favor of the people when they witnessed his self-denying devotion during the time of a great plague and famine. At the end of 256 a new persecution of the Christians under Emperor I broke out, and both Pope Stephen I and his successor, Pope Sixtus II, suffered martyrdom in Rome. In Africa, Cyprian courageously prepared his people for the expected edict of persecution, and set an example himself when he was brought before the Roman proconsul Aspasius Paternius on August 30, 257. He refused to sacrifice to the pagan deities and firmly professed Christ. The proconsul banished him to Curubis, modern Korba, where he comforted to the best of his ability his flock and his banished clergy. On September 13, 258, he was imprisoned at the behest of the new proconsul, Galerius Maximus. The day following he was sentenced to die by the sword. His only answer was “Thanks be to God!” The execution was carried out at once.

Saint , bishop, religious, Doctor of the Church (September 17): Saint Robert Bellarmine (4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621) was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-. Bellarmine is also widely remembered for his role in the . He entered the Roman novitiate in 1560, remaining in Rome three years. He then went to a Jesuit house at Mondovi, in , where he learned Greek. While at Mondovi, he came to the attention of Francesco Adorno, the local Jesuit Provincial Superior, who sent him to the for . Bellarmine completed his theological studies at Leuven. Ordained at Leuven, he was a professor as well as a preacher. In poor health, in 1576 he made a journey to Italy, where he remained, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII to lecture on polemical theology in the new , now known as the Pontifical Gregorian University. By 1589, he began to be involved in diplomatic matters. Immediately after his appointment as cardinal in 1599, Pope Clement VIII made him a Cardinal Inquisitor. In 1602, he was made archbishop of Capua. As bishop he put into effect the reforming of the . In 1616, on the orders of , Bellarmine summoned Galileo, notified him of a forthcoming of the Congregation of the Index condemning the Copernican doctrine of the mobility of the Earth and immobility of the Sun, and ordered him to abandon it. In his old age, Bellarmine was bishop of for four years, after which he retired to the Jesuit college of Saint Andrew in Rome, where he died.

Saint Januarius, bishop, martyr (September 19): Saint Januarius, a Bishop of Naples, is said to have died a martyr under Diocletian (emperor 284-305). Januarius is the of Naples, where the faithful gather three times a year in Naples Cathedral to witness the liquefaction of a sample of his blood kept in a sealed glass ampoule. Christian legend has it that at age 15 he was the priest of the parish of Benevento, and became Bishop of Naples at age 20. During the persecution of Diocletian, he and his colleagues were condemned to be thrown to wild bears in the Flavian Amphitheater at Pozzuoli, but the sentence was changed due to fear of public disturbances, and they were instead beheaded at the Solfatara crater near Pozzuoli. Other accounts state either that wild beasts refused to eat them, or that he was thrown into a furnace and came out unscathed. Either way, he gave his life to Christ.

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