WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/HOLYNAMECHICAGO WWW.TWITTER.COM/HOLYNAMECHICAGO August 3, 2014 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time I am the way the Truth and the Life At the name of Jesus, every knee should bend of those in Heaven and on earth and under the earth. Philippians 2:10 NORMALLY Quigley (Rush & Pearson) has attracted more and more weddings since that possibility opened 5 years ago. The facility is beautiful with room for 300 Mayall calls a time-out. I will be away from the Cathedral guests, ideal for a wedding. Couples seeking a wedding there must secure starting this coming Wednesday, August 6, through their own priest/deacon to handle the marriage and ceremony preparation; the Wednesday, August 20. If you have something urgent to weddings, however, get recorded at the Cathedral. From the beginning, the bring to my attention, tackle me before Wednesday. Vicar General and I agreed that Cathedral parishioners should get married at Otherwise, I will be available again on Thursday, August the Cathedral, not the Quigley Chapel. The money charged for a Quigley 21; better yet, I will be in front of the Cathedral after the wedding – more than at Holy Name – goes to the Archdiocese; none of it goes Masses on the weekend of August 23-24. Until that time, to Holy Name. To enforce that message we agreed that Quigley weddings hold on to personal business. If you have a Cathedral would have no parking privileges at the Cathedral lot; Cathedral marriages do. concern, Father John Boivin and Father Brad Zamora I am not sure that that deterrent solved the dilemma. Music is the same. Our have their hands on the steering wheel for now. Security, facilities, music department handles the Quigley weddings at an equal cost avoiding maintenance, and courtyard construction concerns can be addressed to competition between the Cathedral and Quigley over music. Cathedral priests Deacon Stan Strom. I will look forward to seeing you later in the month if the agree that we do not do weddings at the Quigley chapel. Our parishioners Good Lord’s willin’ and the creeks don’t rise. belong at our home, the Cathedral. (2) There seem to be fewer Catholic ___________________________________________ couples in downtown looking to be married in Church. The trend is not dramatic or catastrophic. Still, I hope those attached to Holy Name Cathedral How is the courtyard construction going? In mid-June, we began a project 12 realize that the solemnity of marriage is a Sacrament. Jesus called both of you years in the oven – the renovation of the Cathedral courtyard. A capital to approach Him together for eternity as husband and wife. In conversation campaign entitled Restore & Renew raised the necessary funds. Our Chief with Steve Noon, one of our excellent cantors and the singer at many of our Development Officer Morgan Henington opened the door for additional weddings, he noted the truth that we have in the last couple of years opportunities to dedicate paver-bricks to deceased loved ones, to congratulate scheduled fewer Friday weddings, fewer 11:00 Saturday weddings, and fewer those newly-married, to honor those baptized at the Cathedral. General 6:30 Saturday wedding ceremonies than in the past. I love officiating at Contractor Brian Ward tells me the project is on schedule. All below-ground weddings. It is one of the jewels of working at Holy Name Cathedral, the work is completed. Now the installation of the bricks and the Marian shrine prettiest Church in Chicago. Are you planning to get married in the Catholic plus the landscaping of the greenery and the prayer garden between the Church? Go on line and fill out the information. The other full-time Cathedral Catholic Charities building and the FXW School is underway. An exact priests and I look forward to walking you up to the marriage altar. dedication date is yet to be determined. Thanks to all those northeast of Holy Name who have had to re-route to get to Mass over the past couple of months. “Can we have our wedding in Millennium Park, at Buckingham Fountain, at the The end is in sight. Planetarium, the Michael Jordan Statue, on the Odyssey Cruise Ship, in front _____________________________________________ of Wrigley Field, on the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel?” Catholic weddings in the Archdiocese of Chicago normally are celebrated in a Church. That makes Recently two Popes were canonized saints, St. John XXIII and St. John Paul sense. A Sacrament should have sacramental surroundings. II. Let’s not forget another Pope who stood as one of two between them in time, the man who will be beatified (the step before canonization) in October, At the last parish at which I was pastor, a fellow and his fiancée booked their Pope Paul VI. Giovani Montini was born in Italy in 1897. Much of his Church wedding a year in advance. Just one week later, the future groom phoned me career was spent as a Papal diplomat in the service of the Pope throughout and asked. “Father, did you hear that I work for the Chicago Park District? I the world. He was a trusted advisor of both Pope Pius XII and Pope John often get assigned as a boxing referee. You have a gym at the parish. How XXIII, his immediate predecessors on the throne of Peter. At the time of his about we set up a ring in the gym and stage the wedding there?” I paused election to the Papacy, Paul was Cardinal-Archbishop of Italy’s largest and, with pastoral wisdom, asked before giving my answer, “Did you run this diocese, Milan. Upon being elected, he chose the name Paul, the saint who by your fiancée?” He admitted he had not. “Ask her first.” A year later, we did th was the Church’s greatest missionary and evangelist. The Second Vatican the wedding in Church. I hope they still are together. If so, it’s in the 16 Council, convened by St. John XXIII, was automatically suspended upon round. John’s death in 1963. Paul VI almost immediately declared the reconvening of the Council to complete its work with four goals in focus - (1) a better Are there exceptions to the rules? Rarely. My rookie year as a priest, I got a understanding of the Catholic Church; (2) Church reforms; (3) the call on Monday of Holy Week asking me if I would marry the caller’s brother on advancement of Christian unity; and (4) dialogue with the secular world. Pope the following Saturday, Holy Saturday. I patiently explained that no weddings Paul VI lived in challenging times for the Church – the sexual revolution; birth are celebrated on Holy Saturday when the while.” The young Father Mayall control advances; the liberation of Africa; the Cold War; the space race and the replied that such an arrangement was not possible and that no Catholic first landings on the moon; the Vietnam War; liberation theology. His goal was Church would perform a wedding on Holy Saturday. That was the correct to keep God’s children One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. My great aunt answer. I suspect the brother/groom at the same moment was on another visited Rome in the 1960s and brought me a small bust of the Holy Father; I phone looking for another open Catholic Church. I never talked to him. To this still have it and have had it on display in every rectory in which I ever lived. day, I wonder what my while was worth. The first time I said Mass by myself and prayed for the Pope, it was Paul VI whom I named. He died on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, I once did do a wedding between a Jewish girl and a Catholic guy in the August 6, 1978 – 36 years ago this coming Wednesday. Through the reception restaurant with permission. Actually, the rabbi did the marriage; I intercession of soon-to-be Blessed Pope Paul VI, let’s pray for the Church in gave a blessing. Jewish marriage laws are sometimes stricter than ours. the modern world. According to the Church, with all proper paper work covered, that marriage _____________________________________________ was kosher. Consider another issue involving parish life at Holy Name Cathedral about Normally, a baptized Catholic validly gets married in a Catholic Church. which we always must remain conscious. WEDDINGS – We do a lot of weddings every year at the Cathedral. On average, we perform 130-150 such ceremonies. To be honest, we have been numerically down lately. Two trends seem to have caused the number to sag. (1) St. James Chapel at the Quigley Pastoral Center. The beautiful chapel at - Msgr. Dan Mayall August 3, 2014: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time page 3 th 7 Annual School Supply Drive – Next Weekend Registraon is currently being accepted for the Holy Name Cathedral Religious Educaon Program. Children in grades Pre-K through 8th who aend public schools or who are otherwise educaon outside the Catholic School system begin classes on Sunday, September 7, 2014. Religious Educaon classes are scheduled to meet from 9:15 to 10:45 Look for sales and stock up on school supplies to help us a.m. in Francis Xavier Ward School, located just north support three underprivileged schools in the Archdiocese of the Cathedral’s main entrance on State Street. of Chicago. Next weekend, volunteers will be at the Cathedral doors collecting new supplies and cash You may enroll your child/children in any of three donations for: ways: Academy of St. Benedict the African – Laflin (6020 S. 1. You may call the Religious Educaon Office at Laflin St.) – a safe haven serving the African 312-573-4478 and leave complete mailing American community on Chicago’s south side.