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AUGUST 29, 2021 TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Mass Intentions NextNext Sunday’sSunday’s LiturgyLiturgy --MaySept. 9 5 MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2021 Luke 4:16-30 Readings for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:30am Daniel & Florence O’Connor 1st Reading: Isaiah 35:4-7a God restores all that has 12:10pm Private Intention been lost and makes the barren situation fertile. Psalm 146:7, 8-9, 9-10 God is on the side of the hungry TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2021 Luke 4:31-37 and oppressed, and champions the just and the needy. 8:30am Elizabeth Vera 2nd Reading: James 2:1-5 Worldly folk favor the rich 12:10pm Elizabeth Paggioli & John P. Costello over the poor, but God gives the Kingdom to the lowly. Gospel: Mark 7:31-37 Jesus restores both hearing and WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2021 Luke 4:38-44 speech, which astonishes the crowds. 12:10pm Richard Gotthard FOCUS: God comes to heal His people. Dante Lazo Looking at the world, there is no doubt about the need for 7:30pm Claire Kernizan-Faroul healing. The people in the district of the Decapolis knew that the deaf man needed healing, and so they brought THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 Luke 5:1-11 him to Jesus. As those who also know the healer-who 8:30am Melissa Sipkin-Ortiz know our Lord-let us bring our needs to Him. Geoffrey O’Connell, Sr. 12:10pm Private Intention Music for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 Luke 5:33-39 Entrance Song: #26 Praise To the Lord St. Gregory the Great, Pope & Doctor of the Church Presentation of the Gifts: #587 Christ Be Our Light 8:30am George McDonald Communion Song: #437 On Eagle’s Wings 12:10pm Margaret & Bernard Duffy Concluding Song: #735 America the Beautiful Responsorial Psalm: Praise the Lord, my soul! SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2021 Luke 6:1-5 Gospel Acclamation: Jesus proclaimed the Gospel of the 8:30am Gaspar J. LaSala kingdom and cured every disease among the people. George J. Pastor Communion Antiphon: Like the deer that yearns for 5:00pm Parishioners of Holy Name of Mary running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my Dr. Conrado & Isabel Mata God; my soul is thirsting for God, the living God. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2021 Mark 7:31-37 7:15am Anna & Michael Apollo Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Rosalyn & Robert Crisafulli 9:00am For the Deceased Members of the Apollo, “Can you not spare one hour for me?” Giuffre, Oliva & Vinci Families You are invited to pray in front of the Kennedy Rae Blessed Sacrament every Thursday John Terzano (L-40th Birthday) following the 12:10pm Mass, until 2pm. 11:00am Rose Pranzo Jerry & Sadie Cantone Frank Incorvaia 1:00pm Santos Hernandez Presider Schedule for Masses Saturday, September 4 Why do Catholics cross their forehead, lips and heart at the 5:00 pm Fr. David Regan Sunday, September 5 Presider Gospel? We cross our forehead so that the Word of God may Subject 7:15 am Fr. Jose Tenas be in our thoughts & purify our minds. We cross our lips so To that our speech may be holy and incline us to share the Gospel 9:00 am Fr. Edmund Ai change with others. We cross our hearts to invite God to strengthen 11:00 am Fr. David Regan our love for Him and others. This is so we may know, 1:00 pm Fr. Jose Tenas proclaim and love Jesus more. 1 AUGUST 29, 2021 TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME AN AMERICAN HERO perfect spot for a new seminary and college and three years later, John Hughes was born on 24 June 1797 in Tyrone, Ireland, St. John’s College, the first Catholic institution of higher learning in to a poor family. As a Catholic in English-ruled Ireland, he couldn’t the northeast, was established. On 10 April 1846, the State of New even receive a Catholic education. At 15, his younger sister, Mary, York granted the College a university charter and in 1907, after died and British law barred a Catholic priest from presiding at her adding a law school and medical school, the name was changed to burial; the best he could do was to scoop up a handful of dirt, bless Fordham University. it, and hand it to John to sprinkle on her grave. Hughes never forgot In 1844, James Harper, was elected Mayor of New York that and dreamed of ‘a country in which no stigma of inferiority would supported by the anti-immigrant American Republican Party consist- be impressed on my brow, simply because I professed one creed or ing mainly of Nativists. A highly organized group of anti-Catholic another.’ Fleeing poverty and persecution, John’s father brought the Protestant fundamentalists, they saw the Catholic Church as incom- family to USA in 1817 and settled in Chambersburg, PA. John made patible with democracy and believed the United States should be a unsuccessful applications to study at Mount St. Mary’s College in land for Anglo-Saxon Protestants only. At the time, nativist riots in Emmitsburg, MD, but was hired by its rector as a gardener. Working Philadelphia claimed the lives of 30 Irishmen and burned Catholic there rekindled his childhood dream of becoming a priest; he asked churches and convents. Bishop Hughes defending the rights of Irish again if he could enroll as a student and was turned down because Catholics against such bigotry and bloodshed, sent a letter to Mayor of his lack of education. John befriended (Saint) Mother Elizabeth Harper warning that if any harm came to a single Catholic church, he Ann Seton who persuaded the college to reconsider and Hughes would turn New York into another Moscow, referring to the burning of was admitted in September 1820. Moscow during Napoleon’s invasion in 1812. He then called on the After graduation, he served the diocese of Philadelphia as immigrants to defend the Cathedral. As a massive Nativist torchlight a seminarian until 5 October 1826 when he was ordained a priest by parade gathered in City Hall Park, ready to march up the Bowery to Bishop Henry Conwell. During his early years as a priest, Hughes the Cathedral, he stationed the Hibernians on the protective walls founded St. John’s Orphan Asylum in 1829 and in 1832 was respon- around the Cathedral. The Nativists backed down and Hughes’ sible for building the new church of St. John the Evangelist – one of powerful message and forceful actions are credited with averting the the most impressive churches in the country at that time. His initia- same anti-Catholic violence in New York that had plagued Philadel- tive was recognized and on 7 August 1837, Pope Gregory XVI made phia. Hughes won the nickname of “Dagger John,” not only for the 40-year old Hughes coadjutor Bishop for the Diocese of New York, cross he penned beside his signature but also for being a man not to which then included all of New York State and northern New Jersey. be trifled with! He was consecrated in old St. Patrick’s Cathedral on 7 January 1838. In 1850, New York was elevated to the status of an Archdio- Between 1820 and 1830, immigration had swelled the U.S. Catholic cese by Pope Pius IX, so, too, was Hughes’ own status elevated to population to 600,000 with no end in sight. The new immigrants that of Archbishop. He continued a vigorous mission of building were mostly Irish: impoverished, uneducated and unskilled, with little churches, schools, and hospitals. Future American President James to prepare them for New York’s urban environs. Hughes believed that Buchanan called him, ‘one of the ablest and most accomplished and the barrage of Nativist anti-Catholic prejudice at the time was energetic men I had ever known. In a far-seeing move that many demoralizing the already disadvantaged immigrants and holding ridiculed at the time as Hughes’ Folly, the Archbishop proposed the back their progress. construction of a new Cathedral in an undeveloped area far uptown Recalling his own difficulties with a lack of education, he on Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st streets. The property was believed that the future of the Irish in America depended on secular purchased in 1810 for the sum of $11,000. Archbishop Hughes laid education. At the time, the city’s schools were run by the Public the cornerstone for the new Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on 15 August School Society which received state funding. However, that society 1858. was a private Protestant group that taught that ‘emigration from During the Civil War, Archbishop Hughes served as an envoy Ireland of annually increasing numbers, extremely needy, and in for President Lincoln on a successful overseas mission to dissuade many cases drunken and depraved, has become a subject for all European countries from supporting the Confederacy and in securing our grave and fearful reflection.’ To get his flock educated, Hughes several officers of former Papal Army for the Union Army. In gratitude, wanted an end to biased sectarian education. He contacted repre- Lincoln petitioned Pope Pius IX to name Archbishop Hughes as Amer- sentative of New York’s Jewish community and allied with them to ica’s first Cardinal. But the death took this indomitable leader in end all religious teaching in schools and through their efforts, the January 1864 before that honor could come to pass. His memory Maclay Bill of 1842 was enacted to bar all religious instruction from was honored by tributes from President Lincoln and other statesmen schools receiving state funds.