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Founded in 1770 present Church dedicated in 1834 Twelfth Sunday in ordinary time June 20, 2021

Archbishop of St. Louis Sunday Masses Confessions 5:30 PM (Sunday Vigil) Daily, 11:30 AM—12:00 PM The Most Reverend 8:00 AM, 10:30 AM, 12:00 PM, Saturdays, 4:30 PM—5:15 PM Mitchell T. Rozanski and 5:00 PM Marriage Rector Daily Masses Please arrange at least six months in Father Nicholas Smith Monday through Friday advance of the desired date. Director, Office of Sacred Worship 7:00 AM and 12:10 PM To reserve a date, or for more Faculty, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary SATURDAY– 7:00 AM information, please contact Tracy Marklein at 314.231.3250. Live Stream Mass

In Residence 7:00 AM Weekdays Father Charles Samson Devotions Assistant Professor, Kenrick-Glennon 10:30 AM Sunday Perpetual Help Devotions: Seminary Access the live streams at: Tuesdays, 12:00 PM oldcathedralstl.org Readings for the week of June 20, 2021 MASS INTENTIONS Sunday: Jb 38:1, 8-11/ Ps 107:23-24, 25-26, 28-29, 30-31 [1b]/2 Cor 5:14- Sunday, June 20 17/Mk 4:35-41 8:00 AM Louis Bonacorsi Monday: Gn 12:1-9/Ps 33:12-13, 18-19, 20 and 22 [12]/Mt 7:1-5 10:30 AM Jean Rozanski Tuesday: Gn 13:2, 5-18/Ps 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5 [1b]/Mt 7:6, 12-14 (Live Streamed) Wednesday: Gn 15:1-12, 17-18/Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9 [8a]/Mt 7:15-20 12:00 PM Parish Family Thursday: Vigil: Jer 1:4-10/Ps 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15, 17 [6b]/1 Pt 1:8-12/Lk 1:5- 5:00 PM Celebrant’s Intentions 17 Day: Is 49:1-6/Ps 139:1-3, 13-14, 14-15 [14a]/Acts 13:22-26/Lk Monday, June 21 1:57-66, 80 7:00 AM Maria Detrick Friday: Gn 17:1, 9-10, 15-22/Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 [4]/Mt 8:1-4 12:10 PM Celebrant’s Intentions Saturday: Gn 18:1-15/Lk 1:46-47, 48-49, 50 and 53, 54-55 [cf. 54b]/Mt 8:5- 17 Tuesday, June 22 Next Sunday: Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24/Ps 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11, 12, 13 [2a]/2 Cor 8:7, 9, 7:00 AM Emilie Duker 13-15/Mk 5:21-43 or 5:21-24, 35b-43 12:10 PM Celebrant’s Intentions Observances for the week of June 20, 2021

Wednesday, June 23 Sunday: 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time; Father’s Day 7:00 AM Celebrant’s Intentions Monday: St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious 12:10 PM Robert Geisz Tuesday: St. Paulinus of , Bishop; Sts. John Fisher, Bishop, and Thomas More, Martyrs Thursday, June 24 Wednesday: Weekday in Ordinary Time 7:00 AM Peter DaPrato Thursday: The Nativity of St. John the Baptist 12:10 PM Mr. & Mrs. Grey Bautista Friday: Weekday in Ordinary Time Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary Friday, June 25 Next Sunday: 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:00 AM Celebrant’s Intentions 12:10 PM Jorge Lamuedra

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From Our Rector

Dear Old Cathedral Parishioners and Visitors:

Quiet! Be still! With these words, Jesus calmed the storm that was threatening the Apostles as their boats were being tossed about and filled with water. It must have been a fierce storm since it frightened these men, many of whom made their living on the sea. They were afraid enough to wake Jesus, who was asleep in the boat. They needed him to be present to them in their panic and fear.

Certainly, Jesus can calm the worst storms in our lives as well. What are those storms? Do we struggle in our relationships? Perhaps our storms are connected to physical or financial difficulties. Maybe we wrestle with our faith, or are challenged by anxiety or depression. How wonderful that Jesus can calm all those storms. He is there for us with his peace if we just turn our fears over to him. Just as he quieted the winds and silenced the waves, he can bring comfort to us.

As the disciples witnessed this miracle on the sea, they were struck with awe and wonder. Who then is this, they ask, whom even wind and sea obey? They were still learning who Jesus was, and the might of his power. Even though they followed him daily, listening to his words and witnessing his miracles, they were still uncertain. Jesus rebukes them a little when he asks them, Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?

The truth is that in our journey to the Father, we are still learning who Jesus is as well. It is often a big leap to go from the Jesus we read about or hear in the Gospels, to the Jesus who lives fully in our hearts. There is a difference between knowing Jesus intellectually and fully becoming one with him. As in any relationship that we want to nurture and deepen, our love and closeness will grow as we get to know each other better. This requires spending time together – listening and watching and learning.

In order to grow our faith, we need to deepen our relationship with Jesus – to spend time with him daily, and include him in our thoughts and decisions, through prayer. We can read the Gospels and spend time with others who also believe in him so we can learn from their experience. This is a lived faith. For Jesus to be in our hearts, we must invite him in and then nourish that relationship daily. We can survive the storms in our life with his help. In loving Jesus, the storms with which we live will be calmed, and our faith will grow stronger.

Blessings on your week. Stay safe!

-Father Smith

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY ... to all fathers and those men who serve as fathers, leading through love, compassion and example. Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, religious (June 21): Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, SJ, was born on March 9, 1568, and died on June 21, 1591. He was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College, he died as a result of caring for the victims of an epidemic. Saint Robert Bellarmine, SJ, was his spiritual director. Aloysius was strongly devoted to the Eucharist, interior prayer, and charitable service. He is the patron saint of youth and of students in Jesuit colleges and universities. He was beatified in 1605, and canonized in 1726. Saint Aloysius is an object of religion for William James in The Virtues of Religious Experience. James refers, in a chapter on “The Value of Saintliness,” to the saint’s extreme circumspection regarding the virtue of purity. In our day we might question how healthy this circumspection was. There can, however, be no doubt of the charitable virtue which moved Saint Aloysius to give himself to the care of the sick.

Saint Paulinus of Nola, bishop (June 22): Saint Paulinus of Nola (Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus, was born in about 354, in , France, and died on June 22, 431, in Nola, Italy. He was a poet and letter-writer, and a convert to the Christian faith. His renunciation of wealth and a senatorial career in favor of a Christian ascetic and philanthropic life was held up as an example by many of his contemporaries, including Augustine, , , and . After his conversion he wrote to his friend and teacher, the poet , affirming his friendship but insisting on the priorities of his new life. Paulinus and his wife settled at Nola near Naples, where he wrote poems in honor of Saint Felix and corresponded with Christian leaders throughout the . After his wife’s death he became Bishop of Nola, and was invited to help resolve the disputed election of Pope Boniface I. It is noted by some historians that “Paulinus may have been indirectly responsible for Augustine’s Confessions. Paulinus wrote to Alypius, Bishop of Thagaste and a close friend of Saint Augustine, asking about his conversion and taking up the ascetic life. Alypius’ autobiographical response does not survive; Saint Augustine’s ostensible answer to that query is the Confessions.

Saint John Fisher, bishop and martyr, and Saint Thomas More, married man and martyr (June 22): Grim were the times in England when these men lived and suffered. King Henry VIII, the recipient from the Pope of the title Defensor Fidei for his treatise on the seven sacraments, got a notion that he, not the Pope in Rome, ought to be head of the Church in England. Fisher and More got in Henry’s way, and Henry saw fit to dispatch them. Saint John Fisher was born on October 9, 1469, and died on June 22, 1535. He was a deeply learned man, described by Erasmus as “the one man at this time who is incomparable for uprightness of life, for learning and for greatness of soul.” He was chancellor of Cambridge University, Bishop of Rochester from 1504 to his death, dedicated pastor of souls, and renowned for his preaching and educational reforms. Fisher was consistent in denying that Henry was head of the Church in England. For this he was convicted of treason and executed. Saint Thomas More was born on February 7, 1478, and died on July 6, 1535. More was honored by Erasmus in his dedication of his book The Praise of Folly (1511). More was the King’s chancellor, yet More held the same convictions as Fisher regarding the King’s presumption, and met a similar fate. The play and film A Man for All Seasons dramatized More’s life and death. He is the patron saint of lawyers, politicians, and statespersons.

The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (June 24): This feast, dating from the 4th century in both the East and West, came to be celebrated, in accord with Luke 1:36, six months before the Lord’s birth. Quoting John 3:30, Saint Augustine found this date (near the summer solstice) appropriate for, after the birth of John, daylight begins to grow shorter, whereas after Jesus’ birth, it begins to increase.

All you holy men and women, of God, pray for us.

ARCHBISHOP’S COLUMN Archbishop Your gifts are given to you for service to the world Mitchell T. Rozanski

John the Baptist used his rare gift to bring people to the Lord

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

We celebrate a remarkable feast this week: the nativity of St. John the Baptist.

The Church only celebrates three births in her liturgical calendar: the birth of Jesus (Dec. 25), the birth of Mary (Sept. 8), and the birth of John the Baptist (June 24). Why?

We celebrate the birth of Jesus because He was God incarnate. We celebrate the birth of Mary because she was conceived without sin. We celebrate the birth of John because he was sanctified in the womb by the Holy Spirit. (See Luke 1:15: “He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.”) We celebrate them because all three were born without sin, and that is a rare grace.

We can see that natural talents are distributed unevenly in the world. God’s graces are distributed unevenly as well.

John the Baptist received a special grace. So did Abraham, David, Jeremiah and many others throughout salvation history. The election of Israel as God’s chosen people is a case in point. God gives gifts to some people that He does not give to others. That raises a natural question: “How is that fair?”

On one level the answer is: it isn’t, if by “fair” you mean “everyone gets the same thing.”

But if you think about salvation history, there’s a deeper and better answer: those gifts are not given for the individual, but for service to the world.

All through salvation history God gives gifts to the world through individuals — not to the individual for the individual, but to the world through the individual. God didn’t just give a rare gift to John the Baptist for John’s glorification. In giving him a gift, He also asked him to perform a service. John was to “turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord” and to “prepare a people fit for the Lord” (Luke 1:16-17). What really would have been unfair was for John to hide his gift, fail to develop it or fail to use it in service to the world.

If we ponder some of the approaches people take to the unequal distribution of gifts — both natural talents and supernatural graces — we can see that it’s easy to get the issue wrong and hard to get it right.

One approach is to fail to develop the gifts because that would highlight their inequality. But that approach — highlighted in C.S. Lewis’ essay “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” — also deprives the world of the service that’s meant to come from the gifts.

Another approach is to put the gifts to use but for our own glorification. We see this in some athletes and actors whose attitude can be described as: “look at me!” It was a temptation for Israel in the Old Testament to see their election this way.

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