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May
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It always makes a deep impression on me that the next to the last petition of the Our Father - “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us” -is the only one that the Lord has provided with a commentary that is also a demand: “as we forgive…” If you do not forgive one another- that thought is implicit there - how is the Father to forgive you? But in the text we are considering it is primarily the other side -the genuinely human aspect- that is addressed. The original cell of all human society is the family. That is where we learn the fundamental relationships of human society and, consequently, also the ability to relate to God. Only in the family can the togetherness of love overcome the opposition of otherness to true community. It is there that the generations learn to understand one another. On the preservation of the family depends a nation’s capacity for peace. When the family no longer brings together male and female, old and young, the basic human relationships are changed into a battle of all against all. That is why the transmission from fathers to children is the prerequisite for the beginning of the Messianic peace. And the destruction of the family is therefore the most certain sign of the Antichrist, the disturber of the peace, disguised as one who brings freedom and peace. Among experts the question is raised: “Yes, but who actually needs to be converted? Must the fathers yield to the young? Or the young to the fathers?”…It is not a case of one group’s yielding to the other, but of both groups’ yielding to the other by renewing their courage to believe in God. It is only thus that they will learn to accept and understand one another. It is only when hearts have been turned to God that there can arise the courage of togetherness, the confidence in other persons, and so the ability to love them and to endure their otherness.
From: Diener eurer Freude, pp.47-48
May
23
Mark 10: 1 - 12
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1 And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again; and again, as his custom was, he taught them.
2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away.”
5 But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
6 But from the beginning of creation, `God made them male and female.’
7 `For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”
10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.
11 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her;
12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
May
23
St Thomas More
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Good virtuous folks feel more pleasure in the sorrow over their sins and the affliction of their penance than wretches feel in the fulfilling of their obsessed pleasure.
– St Thomas More
May
22
St. Paul the Apostle | Theology on Tap
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| June 1, 2008 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
| June 15, 2008 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 4:30 pm |
| June 22, 2008 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Theology on Tap - Saints and Sinners
WhenSun, Jun 1, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
WhereSt. Paul the Apostle Parish Center, Room 101,
405 W. 59th St., New York, NY 10019 (60th and Columbus Avenue)
Description Saints and Sinners: How some ordinary people become saints in spite of themselves With Dr. Maureen Tilly, Professor of Theology, Fordham University
Theology on Tap - Saved By Hope
WhenSun, Jun 15, 2:00pm - 4:30pm
WhereEtcetera Etcetera (352 W. 44th Street between 8th and 9th Aves).
Description: Saved By Hope - A look at Pope Benedict’s latest encyclical With Most Reverend Gerald Kicanas, VP of the US
Conference of Catholic Bishops and Bishop of Tucson
Theology on Tap - Question Box
WhenSun, Jun 22, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
WhereSt. Paul the Apostle Parish Center, 405 W. 59th
St., New York, NY 10019 (60th and Columbus Avenue)
DescriptionQuestion Box - Everything you always wanted to ask someone with a Theology degree but were afraid
to ask. With Father Gilbert Martinez, CSP, Pastor of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle
May
22
YCNY Study Meeting, Saturday
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| May 24, 2008 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Meeting Details:
What:YCNY Study Meeting, Saturday 5/24.
Where: Basement of St Patrick’s Parish House, 14 East 51st Street, between Fifth and Madison Aves. Meet at the basement door of the House at the end of the 5:30 Mass, roughly 6:30.
How: 6 Train to 51st Street station, or B/D/F trains to 47-50 Rockefeller Center stop.
Before: 5:30 Mass in Cathedral.
After: Inexpensive group dinner for those who are interested.
What to Read: Genesis Chapter 3, CCC 385-421
What to Bring: any translation of the Bible, Catechism of the Catholic Church or printout of sections assigned, friends!
Who: Henry Artis is leading.
Questions: Call Craig at 917-655-0834.
May
22
Co-Workers of The Truth 5/22
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Faith makes demands on our comfort, on what we plan, what we propose for ourselves. The sickness of our time is a false idea of freedom that confuses freedom with preference and thinks that life is rich, familiar, and beautiful only when we act and live in a way that gives pleasure to ourselves and conforms to our desires. Psychologists tell us that it is the absence of demands, of challenge, of opposition that runs counter to human nature, that makes us sick, and causes us to confront one another with hostility. Freedom does not consist in preference. It is foolish of us to regard the demands of faith - which makes unwanted demands on us and contradicts our own will - as “legalistic” and “institutional” and whatever similar terms may suggest themselves in order to shake ourselves free of it and so to sink into the leaden emptiness of a lusterless and selfish existence that receives nothing because it gives nothing. This thought should strike us anew: admittedly faith is uncomfortable, but only because it challenges us, compels us, to let ourselves be led where we do not wish to go. In this way it enriches us and opens for us the door of true life.
From: Christlicher Glaube und Europa, pp. 120-21
May
22
Mark 9: 41 - 50
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41 For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ, will by no means lose his reward.
42 “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
43 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.
47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,
48 where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.
49 For every one will be salted with fire.
50 Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its saltness, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
May
22
St Vincent de Paul
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The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time.
– St Vincent de Paul
May
21
Q&A With The Archbishop of Davao
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| May 31, 2008 | ||
| 6:30 pm |
May
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| June 18, 2008 | ||
| 7:30 pm |
Dear Friends:
The monthly Young Adult Mass will be June 18th at 7:30pm in the Lady Chapel at the Cathedral.
We are honored to have the newly ordained Fr. Agustino Torres, CFR, as your celebrant. Fr. Agustino is the MC at Catholic Underground and is a Friar of the Renewal. After the Mass: Connolly’s
Peace - Daniel Schreck
Please note: There will be no Young Adult Mass in July or August. It will recommence on September 3rd.
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