August 28, 2011
22nd Sunday in ordinary time
Jer 20:7-9/Rom 12:1-2/Mt 16:21-27
“Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.’… ‘Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern the will of God, what is good, pleasing and perfect.’”
We are constantly reminded of the requirements of being a disciple of the Lord. The threefold task of saying ‘yes’ to the Lord, or denying self, embracing the cross, rather than taking the easy way out, and consciously walking in company of the Lord, represent the ‘game plan’ of Jesus for us all.
The society in which we live, the culture which surrounds us, does not lend itself to what we find in His word today. Paul calls us to be transformed, not to conform to the ways which surround us. He challenges us to be renewed to be changed. To assist us in this lofty task he asks us to do three things. Answer these questions. 1. What is God’s will for me today, in this circumstance? 2. How can I choose the good? 3. What is pleasing and perfect in the eyes of God and for me?
As we walk, may we remember the beautiful song of years ago ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ as a theme for the scripture teaching today.
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HIS WORD TODAY by Rev. William J. Reilly
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September 11th Memorial Concert
St. Patrick’s Cathedral-14 East 51st Street
9-11-11 at 7pm
Join your fellow New Yorkers in a moment of remebrence and hope through music.
Hear the Choir of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York Choral Society & the Young People’s Chorus of New York.
The concert is free and open to the public
Faithful Citizenship I: Voters, Bishops and
Presidential Election
Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 6-8 PM
Sponsored by the Fordham Center on Religion & Culture
Pope Auditorium, 113 West 60th Street
Free and Open to the Public
Since 1976, the American Catholic bishops’ conference has issued statements before each presidential election to help Catholics apply their faith to their political choices. This forum will look at “Voters, Bishops and Presidential Elections” from the perspective of recent Catholic history, the bishops’ conference, and conservative and liberal Catholics. With John Carr (USCCB), Robert George (Princeton), Stephen Schneck (Catholic University); moderated by Peter Steinfels. More at: www.Fordham.edu/religculture
RSVP: 212.636.7347,
Sunday School
It is not too early to consider introducing your child to God by enrolling in our Sunday School Program. Our children meet for their age appropriate treatment of the Sunday Scriptures and after Mass, continue to learn more of the Catholic Faith.
Anyone interested in participating in the program should contact Thom Sabatelli for more detailed information and/or registration forms. They can either email him at
Or call 1-917-602-1224. This will help us get an early start on estimating registers for each age group. Sunday School will resume in late September
St. Padre Pio Mass at the Cathedral of St. Patrick:
On Saturday September 17, 2011, there will be a Mass in honor of St. Padre Pio at the Cathedral of St Patrick, 5th Avenue and 51st Street. The Mass is at 10:30am and will be celebrated by His Excellency, Bishop Gerald T. Walsh, Rector of St. Joseph’s Seminary. All are welcome to attend. For more information, please email or call 917-597-3453.
We welcome to our worship community the class of 2015 and all returning students to NYU, Cooper Union, New School and Fashion Institute of Technology. Our neighborhood will be transformed this weekend by the many thousands of young people who come to Greenwich Village for their education.THE NEW ROMAN MISSAL
On the Art of Translation--Professor Anthony Esolen
Continued from Last Week….
Keeping Close to the Literal:Reason One
And yet-granting all that-it is better to err on the side of the literal, There are, as I see them, three reasons for this.The first is that the task of the translator demands humility. If I am translating the poet Dante, I must assume that Dante knew what he was doing, and that I am not supposed to intrude my personal poetic sensbility or my philiosophy or my theology into the work. Indeed, the reverse is true. It is Dante’s poetic sensibility and philosophy and theology that I must struggle to reveal. I must take as my own the frank confession of St. John the Baptist: “He must increase, and I must deacrease.”
If the Order of the Mass has the people responding to the priest, “Et cum spiritu tuo.” I cannot say I wish to ensure that there is no felt distinction between the people and the priest.” I am not dired to quarrel with the original. I am hired to submit to it. So now the people must respond, “And with your spirit.”, and the pyseter of the response, the prayer that God might animate the spirit of the man who leads us in prayer, justly remains.
Reason Two- The second reason for keeping close to the literal might seem, to the casual observer, to contradict what I have said above, and that is that a peculiar usage in one language might not have a true counterpart in another, and that it therefore might reveal something in reality that is obscured in the other. In other words, we might want a literal translation precisely because we do not say things that way in our language, but rather because the original helps us to see what we might otherwise miss. Take for example Mary’s reply to Gabriel, when the angel tells her that she will bear a son. “How can this be.” she aks,”since I have had no relations with a man?” Now that is how we currenctly hear it translated in our lectionary, and if the purpose is simply to stress that Mary is a virgin, that is well enough. But the Greek in Luke’s gospel uses the verb “know”- “I know not man”-and not because the Greeks used it that way, but because the Hebrews did. That verb is far richer that the rather technical phrase “to have relations with.” We are, in an instant, brought back to the first man and woman, when Adam “knew” his wife, and she bore him a son. And we are reminded, in a gentle way, that the union of man and woman was never meant to be merely the union of flesh, or the establishment of some “relation” or other, but the union of whole beings,a union of intimate knowledge.
Reason Three-The third reason is a corollary of the two above. If my task is to submit to the original, and if the original often shows me what my own language sometimes obscures, that a close examination of the literal words may unlock the figurative meaning beaneath. That is, I am not prefering the figurative to the literal, but am revealing figurative through the literal. Take for example our response to the priest’s call, “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.” It is the most literal rendering, and not the more distant rendering we have grown accustomed to, that opens out to us the profound analogy between ourselves and the centurion in the Gospel, who begged Jesus to heal his sevant. “Lord” we say, repeating the centurion’s words, “I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof.
TO BE CONTINUED….
FEAST DAYS, SCRIPTURE CITATIONS
AND SPECIAL INTENTIONS FOR THIS WEEK
SATURDAY, August 27 St. Monica
1 Thes 4:9-11/Mt 25:14-30
12:10PM Rose Arias
5:30PM Clare Sabatino
SUNDAY, August 28 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jer 20:7-9/Rom 12:1-2/Mt 16:21-27
9:00 AM Charles Fitzpatrick
11:30 AM Sr. Anne-Marie Kirmse, OP (living)
6:00 PM
MONDAY, August 29 Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist
1 Thes 4:13-18/Mk 6:17-29
12:10 PM Michael Thompson
5:30 PM Michael Thompson
TUESDAY August 30 St. Margaret Ward
1 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11/Lk 4:31-37
12:10 PM
5:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, August 31
Col 1:1-8/Lk 4:38-44
12:10 PM Patrick McGeady (living)
5:30 PM
THURSDAY, September 1
Col 1:9-14/Lk 5:1-11
12:10PM Stephen Tolnay
5:30PM Gail Magaldi
FRIDAY, September 2
Col 1:15-20/Lk 5:33-39
12:10PM Luigi Milanese
5:30PM
SATURDAY, September 3 St. Gregory the Great
Col 1:21-23/Lk 6:1-5
12:10PM Carl & Angelo Conetta
5:30PM Oliver Forano
MONTHLY PARISH ACTIVITIES
Sunday10:00 AM / Children’s Religious Studies / Casserly
10:00 AM / Scripture Discussion / Library
2:30 PM / Roman Forum Lectures / Casserly
7:00 PM / Grad Law / Casserly/Rectory
Monday
6:30 PM / Centering Prayer / Church
7:00 PM / YACHT Club for Young Adults / Casserly/Library
Tuesday
7:00 PM / Aquinas Circle of Undergraduates / Casserly/Library
Wednesday
6:30 PM / Korean Catholic Students / Casserly/Library
7:30 PM / Lenten Confirmation Class / 1st Floor Back Parlor
Thursday
6:30 PM 1st /mo / Pax Christi Bd Mtg / PCMNY
7:00 PM / Newman Club / Casserly/Library
7:00PM / Scripture Study / 1st Floor-Back Parlor
Friday
6:00 PM 1st/mo / Novena/ Sacred Heart / Church
6:15 PM / St. Egidio Prayer / Church
Saturday
10:00-3:00 PM / Soup Kitchen / Casserly
12:30 PM 1st/mo / Blessing of the Sick / Church
6:00 PM / Alcoholics Anonymous / Caserly