~ The Corner of Mott & Prince Streets, New York City ~ Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ September 6, 2015

The Feast of San Gennaro is celebrated with a festival

on Mulberry Street from

Thursday, September 10 to

Sunday, September 20

Mass Feast of San Gennaro

Saturday, September 19 2:00 PM

Church of the Most Precious Blood 109 Mulberry Street

For more information go to

Www.sangennaro.org

Held at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral Youth Center

Mulberry Street between Houston & Prince Streets Sunday, September 20 10 AM - 4 PM

Sign up early Call 1-800-Red Cross or visit Www.redcrossblood.org to schedule a donation

263 Mulberry Street New York, NY 10012 Phone: 212-226-8075

www.oldcathedral.org Msgr. Donald Sakano ~ Pastor

Rev. Andrew Thi Deacon Paul Vitale

WEEKDAY MASSES

Monday to Saturday ~ 8:00am (Spanish) and 12:10 pm (English)

SUNDAY MASSES Saturday Vigil ~ 5:30 PM (English)

9:15am ~ (English) 10:15am ~ (Chinese) 11:30am ~ (Spanish) 12:45pm ~ (English) 7:00pm ~ (English)

Evening Prayer (Vespers)

Gregorian chant led by the Basilica Schola on first Sundays at 7:00pm with Mass

Confessions

Saturday: 4:30 pm - 5:15pm Sunday: 6:00 pm - 6:45pm

Adoration of The Blessed Sacrament Every First Friday from 7:30 pm with Benediction

at 9:15pm in the Cathedral Spanish Prayer Group Fridays at 7:30pm

+ Cursillistas Meeting

Cursillistas meet every Sunday after the 11:30am Mass (Spanish)

For more information go to www.oldcathedral.org

EMAIL Msgr. Sakano pastor@oldcathedral.org

General Info info@oldcathedral.org

Saturday/Sabado-September 5, Weekday, Mass for the Unborn 8:00AM (Eng) For: The people of the parish 5:30PM (Eng) For: In Thanksgiving for the Ordination Of Deacon Angelo Michael Salvatorelli By: Patrick O’Neill and Beth Tondreau Sunday/Domingo-September 6, Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:15AM (Eng) For: Pastora Brewster & Calvert Brewster By: Family 10:15AM (Chi) In Thanksgiving to the Blessed Virgin Mary By: Lin Chang Sheng 11:30AM (Spa) Por el eterno descanso de Celestino Rivera y Alejandro Nuñez invita Ramona Nuñez 12:45PM (Eng) For: Charlie Fernandez By: his Family 7:00PM (Eng) For: Sandy Driscoll Deckett By: Donna Driscoll Bionda Monday/Lunes-September 7, Weekday 8:00AM (Spa) Por el alma de Luis Diaz y Natividad Jimenez invita Ramona Diaz 12:10PM (Eng) For: The people of the parish Tuesday/Martes-September 8, The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary 8:00AM (Spa) Por el eterno descanso de Jessie, Rosa y Toribio Liriano invita Angelina Nuñez 12:10PM (Eng) In Memory of Frances & Raffaelo Buonocore by Carolyn Agro-Buonocore Wednesday/Miercoles–September 9, Saint Peter Claver, Priest 8:00AM (Spa) Por todos los miembros de nuestra parroquia 12:10PM (Eng) For: Helen & Louis Bonica By: Bonica Family Thursday/Jueves–September 10, Weekday 8:00AM (Spa) Por el eterno descanso de Steven Diaz invita su madre 12:10PM (Eng) For: Ann Marie Trombatura By: Mom and Brother Friday/Viernes-September 11, Weekday 8:00AM (Spa) Por el eterno descanso de Maria Filomena Nuñez y Floiran Collado invita Agustina Rodriguez 10:30AM (Eng) Firefighters Mass 9/11 Mass 12:10PM (Eng) For: Louis & Joseph Cuomo By: daughter Nata Cuomo Saturday/Sabado-September 12, Weekday 8:00AM (Spa) For: En acción de gracias por Robert Diaz invita su madre 5:30PM (Eng) For: Louis Consalvo By: Family

Last Sunday’s Collection $1,902.00

Bulletin Board

Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral and Basilica Voices Family Religious Education Program are now regis-tering new students for the 2015-2016 school year. Now entering its fifth year, Basilica Voices offers children the chance to sing in a top-notch children’s choir and develop their musical skills in addition to preparing them for the sacraments of Holy Communion and Confirmation. Classes meet on Mondays from 3:40-6:50. Children may be reg-istered at any time by contacting tony@oldcathedral.org. Additional registration will take place outside in front of the church following all Masses on Sundays, September 13th and 20th. Additional registration will take place at the Parish House (263 Mulberry Street) at 3 PM on Monday, September 21st. For more information, please email: BasilicaVoices@gmail.com

Baptism Preparation - If you are expecting a new born baby or if she/he is already here, be sure to let us know. Then go to our website and acquaint yourself with what to do next to be prepared for the renewal of your own baptismal vows and the baptism of your child. Next Session for parents and godparents is Monday, Sept. 14th at 7:00pm.

The Jim Gaffigan Show - Spend an hilar ious half hour with J im, Jeannie, his wife, as well as their five wonderful children on Wednesday nights at 10:00 PM on the TV Land channel. It’s a ton of fun of home grown humor.

Getting Married? - What could be more important as you approach one of the most important moments in life to prepare yourselves with our home-grown “Three to Get Married” Week-End Sessions starting Friday, October 16, 2015. To register please visit: http://regnumchristinyctnj.org/3tgm.htm or call Rosa Jimenez at the Parish Office for more information. Raffle Tickets (50/50) are now available to suppor t our 200th Anniversary Celebration. Our goal is to reach $100,000 so that the winner of the draw receives $50,000. It could be you! Tickets available at the Rectory or soon outside the church in the courtyard. Daily Weekday Mass at 12:10 PM continues to be celebrated in the Russian Catholic Chapel of St. Michael located at 266 Mulberry Street. Daily Mass will resume in the Basilica in November, 2015.

Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, the newest Ar ts Center in New York, located at 18 Bleecker Street, (Elizabeth Street )will have its Grand Opening from September 14 to October 4 featuring a wide array of events, thought provoking theater, dance, music, art and discourse. The first 100 tickets for each event are $10, plus seven free events. Please consult their website at SheenCenter.org to learn more about this exciting addition to our neighborhood.

New Happenings By the looks of the interior of the church and the courtyard, some say that we will never be ready for our Anniversary celebration on Sunday, November 22. “O, ye of little faith”! Our contractor and our construc-tion managers are tirelessly working to pull all the many parts together. We are all proud of the work being done. Benefactors will be sought for many of the restored sacred objects in the church, including the Cross above the Altar, the Tabernacle, the Stations of the Cross and Resurrection painting by Frank Mason. Plaques - The existing plaques on pews and other places within the church will be respected and restored. The pews are due back into he church in September.

Prayer for Labor Day On this weekend, when we rest from our usual labors, loving Father, we pray for all who shoulder the tasks of human labor—in the marketplace, in factories and offices, in the professions, and in family living. We thank you, Lord, for

the gift and opportunity of work; may our efforts always be pure of heart, for the good of others and the glory of your name. We lift up to you all who long for just employment and those who work to defend the rights and needs of

workers everywhere. May those of us who are now retired always remember that we still make a valuable

Feast of San Gennaro

Red Cross Blood Drive

Sunday September 20th

11:30-6:30pm Aula (Youth Center)

268 Mulberry St.

To schedule your donation time go to www.redcrossblood.org

Basilica Publishing

Do you have a favorite recipe? Some-thing you and your mom made

together? Send it in for the:

Basilica Cookbook

submit a recipe and a story today!

If you would like to participate with a Recipe please email

Emily@oldcathedral.org

From September 23 through November 1, 2015, you’re invited to join other

Christians for 40 Days for Life – 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to

abortion.

If you’d like more information – and especially if you’d like to volunteer to help, please contact: Jill

Gadwood at Jill.Gadwood@gmail.com or (949) 280– 9494

Basilica Tastings:

NYC Beer Tasting

We will be serving a range of beers picked just for the Fall weather made right here in NYC alongside some of our early German ancestors favorite food. Come for sausages, pretzels, pick-

les and kraut.

For those with a sweet tooth try a root beer or ginger beer float or some mini-German cupcakes.

Wednesday September 23rd 7:00-10:00pm

$25/ person; buy tickets online Parish Rectory at 263 Mulberry St.

Walking with Purpose

Are you looking for a group to exercise with and share your faith?

We are looking to start a chapter here at

Old St. Pat’s if you are interested Email joannebarret1@aol.com

Www.walkingwithpurpose.com

RCIA is the name we give to the process that guides people in their decision to enjoy

full communion with the Catholic Church. It stands for RITE OF

CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS and is composed of a series of sessions bringing

people together to experience the prayer life of the Church as well as to learn about its doc-

trines and teachings. Using the Bible, the Sacred Liturgy as well as the Catechism of the

Catholic Church, participants prepare themselves to receive the sacraments of Baptism,

Confirmation and the Eucharist. The sessions begin on September 14 and conclude with the

celebration Christ’s death and resurrection at Easter. If you are interested in knowing more,

contact Mark Ciolli at mark@oldcathedral.org

Look us up at www.oldcathedral.org

MUSIC AT THE BASILICA

MUSIC FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

On 04 July 2015, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI received two Doctorates honoris causa from the John Paul II Pontifical University of Krakow and from the Academy of Music of Krakow, Poland. They were conferred by His Eminence, Stanislaw Cardinal Dziwisz, Archbishop of Krakow, at a ceremony at Cas-tel Gandolfo, where the pope emeritus was spending a few weeks at the traditional papal summer resi-dence. In his remarks, Benedict XVI presented some personal (and profound) thoughts on sacred music.

He commended his predecessor, Saint John Paul II, “because without him, my spiritual and theological journey would not have even been imaginable. With his brilliant example he also showed us how the joy of great sacred music and the task of common participation in the sacred liturgy, the solemn joy and the simplicity of the humble celebration of the faith can go hand in hand.” The pope emeritus mentioned three places from which music emanates:

1. One of the first sources is the experience of love. When men are seized by love, a new dimen-sion of being opens in them, a new grandeur and breadth of reality, and it also drives one to express oneself in a new way. Poetry, singing and music in general stem from this being struck, by this opening of oneself to a new dimension of life.

2. A second origin of music is the experience of sadness, being touched by death, by sorrow and by the abysses of existence. Opened also in this case, in an opposite direction, are new dimen-sions of reality that can no longer find answers in discourses alone.

3. Finally, the third place of origin of music is the encounter with the divine, which from the be-ginning is part of what defines the human. All the more so here in which the totally other and the totally great is present, which arouses in man new ways of expressing himself. Perhaps, it is possible to affirm that in reality also in the other two domains — love and death — the di-vine mystery touches us and, in this sense, it is the being touched by God that, overall, consti-tutes the origin of music. I find it moving to observe how, for instance, in the Psalms, singing is no longer enough for men — an appeal is made to all the instruments: reawakened is the hidden music of creation, its mysterious language. With the Psalter, in which the two motives of love and death also operate, we find directly the origin of sacred music of the Church of God. It can be said that the quality of the music depends on the purity and the grandeur of the encounter with the divine, with the experience of love and of pain. The more pure and true this experience is, the more pure and great also is the music that is born and develops from it.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

August 30 and September 6: Schola Recruitment If you are interested in joining the Schola for the Fall, please say hello to Joshua or Jared after the 12:45 PM or 7:00 PM Mass and we can answer any questions you have.

September 6: Vespers with the Basilica Schola

October 2: Solemn Pontifical Mass (9AM) and Vespers (6PM) in the Extraordinary Form for the Society for Sacred Liturgy Conference. _____________________________________________________________________________________________

BASILICA SCHOLA For the summer, our Schola is on break, singing only once a month at Vespers; they will return in September. Do consider contributing your talents to the Schola; contact Joshua South, our Cantor, at cantor@oldcathedral.org. Hear our latest recording, available on iTunes, and find out more about the music ministry at http://oldcathedral.org/music. It is a great way to enhance your spiritual life, meet fellow parishioners, and deepen your understanding of the tradition.

His Holiness, Pope Francis, will be traveling to the United States for the first time since becoming Pope to attend the World Meeting of Families, taking place on September 26th and 27th, in Philadelphia. The Archdiocese of New York is filled with joy that His Holiness has added our beloved city to his agenda and will be able to visit with us for a short time. The Pope's first stop will be our nation's capital, Washington, D.C., where he will be welcomed by the Archdiocese of Washington. Here is the Pope’s itinerary while in New York:

Thursday, September 24 5:00 pm Arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport 6:45 pm Evening Prayer (Vespers) at St. Patrick's Cathedral Friday, September 25 8:30 am Visit to the United Nations and Address to the United Nations General Assembly 11:30 am Multi-religious service at 9/11 Memorial and Museum, World Trade Center 4:00 pm Visit to Our Lady Queen of Angels School, East Harlem 6:00 pm Mass at Madison Square Garden

Saturday, September 26 8:40 am Departure John F. Kennedy International Airport

How to get tickets to attend the Papal Mass at Madison Square Garden Tickets for the Mass at Madison Square Garden will not be sold. St. Patrick Old Cathedral has been assigned 20 tickets which will be subject to a lottery on Thursday, September 10 at 9:00 AM.

Parishioners may request a ticket by submitting in written form the information found at the bottom of this page .

• You can tear off the bottom of this page or write your info on a piece of paper and get it to the Parish House at 263 Mulberry Street by Wednesday, September 9 at 5:00 PM.

• OR you may send the information below to papalmass@oldcathedral.org. Don’t forget to state that you are a parishioner.

• Do not submit a request by telephone. And do not include more information than requested below. • Please return the ticket to us if you can not go. Under no circumstances may the ticket be sold or given to

another person. Do not submit more than one request per person. If your request is drawn from the lottery, you will be contacted

by phone or email by the end of the day, Sept 10. Be aware that attendance at the Papal Mass will require you to be at Madison Square Garden by

2:00 PM on Friday, Sept. 25 and not to expect to leave the building before 8:30 PM. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ NAME Address Telephone: EMAIL:

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Tickets to the Mass with Pope Francis for parishioners of

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