A traditional church with a modern message. 5TH SUNDAY IN OUR HOMELESS JESUS 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 past 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 Oces 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 POPE 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.