~ The Corner of Mott & Prince Streets, New York City ~ Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ August 30, 2015

The Most Rev. John McCloskey receives the red hat, symbol of his being made the first Cardinal in the Western hemisphere in a ceremony in the cathedral on Mott Street on August 27, 1864

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-August 29, The Passion of Saint John the Baptist 8:00AM (Spa) For: Marcario Buenabad Arias By: Peter Kye 5:30PM (Eng) For: Daniel Ryan By: Patrick O’Brien Sunday/Domingo-August 30, Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:15AM (Eng) For: Helen & Louis Bonica By: Bonica Family 10:15AM (Chi) In Thanksgiving to the Blessed Virgin Mary By: Lin Hu Yan 11:30AM (Spa) Por el eterno descanso de Edna de Martinez y Ione Sarah Mascol Beach invita Hilma Martinez 12:45PM (Eng) For: John L. Picariello By: Anthony Ciffo 7:00PM (Eng) For: Peter C. DeLutro By: Eileen Avezzano Monday/Lunes-August 31, Weekday 8:00AM (Spa) Por el eterno descanso de Olinda Palacios Invita Familia Ugarte 12:10PM (Eng) For: Trudy Bachli By: Flatz Family Tuesday/Martes-September 1, Weekday 8:00AM (Spa) Por todos los miembros de nuestra parroquia 12:10PM (Eng) For: Lucy Albanese By: Family Wednesday/Miercoles–September 2, Weekday 8:00AM (Spa) Por todos los miembros de nuestra parroquia 12:10PM (Eng) For: Barbara Bray Tejada By: Mom, Dad and Family Thursday/Jueves–September 3, Weekday 8:00AM (Spa) Por todos los miembros de nuestra parroquia 12:10PM (Eng) For: Dora Monastero By: Mary Musella & Nata Cuomo Friday/Viernes–September 4, First Friday 8:00AM (Spa) En acción de gracias por el Sagrado Corazon De Jesus y por la salud de Rosa Reyes 12:10PM (Eng) For: Savior Camilleri By: Peter Kye Saturday/Sabado-September 5, Weekday 8:00AM (Spa) Por todos los miembros de nuestra parroquia 5:30PM (Eng) In Thanksgiving for the Ordination of Deacon Angelo Michael Salvatorelli By: Patrick O’Neill & Beth Tondreau

Last Sunday’s Collection $2,425.00

Bulletin Board

Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral and Basilica Voices Family Religious Education Program are now register ing 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 chil-dren’s choir and develop their musical skills in addition to preparing them for the sacraments of Holy Communion and Confirma-tion. Classes meet on Mondays from 3:40-6:50. Children may be registered at any time by contacting tony@oldcathedral.org. 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 Rectory (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. 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 23, 2015. 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. Renovation of the Basilica and Catacombs - The re-construction work is on schedule so that we will have the church 90% com-pleted by SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 when we celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the arrival of The Most Reverend John Con-nolly, OP, the first residing bishop of the newly established Diocese of New York. Last week the old glass partition was removed to unable work to be done to strengthen the floor below. A new glass partition will be erected allowing for a slightly larger “Gathering Space” in the back of the church.

NEW HAPPENINGS

By the looks of the interior of the church and the courtyard, we will never be ready for our Anniversary celebration on Sunday, November 22. “O, ye of little faith”! Our contractor and our construction 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.

Helping You Access Social, Health, and Community Services

• Need help caring for yourself or someone else, but not sure where to turn with questions about:

• Housing for seniors and disabled persons

• Health-related legal and financial issues

• Access to healthcare

• Transportation options

• Caregiver support groups

• Dementia care

• Food and nutrition

• Volunteer Opportunities

• Wish you could stop talking to recordings and speak with a caring person who understands your needs and wants to help?

Call ArchCare. We’ll answer. ArchCare Care Navigation Center (855) 951-CARE (TTY/TDD: 711)

Our Care Navigators are here to help you from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., seven days a week. ArchCare is the healthcare

system of the Archdiocese of New York. Our Care Navigation Center is staffed by health and social service profes-

sionals dedicated to helping people better understand and ac-cess the social, community, and other services they are

eligible for.

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.

A special kickoff event will be held here Saturday, September 19th at 7pm at the

Aula (Youth Center) led by Mr. David Bereit, National Director of 40 Days for Life A special Mass will be held inside the Basilica by Bishop Peter J. Byrne before the kickoff event.

We also invite you to stand with us and peacefully pray during a 40-day vigil in the public right-of-way outside Planned Parenthood,

26 Bleecker Street New York, NY 10012

If you’d like more information – and especially if you’d like to volunteer to help, please con-tact: 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-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

The hymn Draw Us in the Spirit's Tether, was written in 1945 by one of America's more influential church musicians of the 20th century, Harold Friedell (1905-1958). The beloved hymn, with text by English theologian and author Percy Deamer (1867-1936), is often sung as a choral anthem in Roman Catholic churches as well as churches of other Christian denominations; it is also an opportunity for a little bit of New York sacred music history.

Born in Queens, New York on May 11, 1905, the young Harold began his church music career as the organist at the Methodist Church of Jamaica, Long Island before eventually serving on the faculties at the Julliard School of Music, the Guilmant Organ School (at First Presbyterian on Fifth Ave.), and later teaching composition and improvisation at the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York (which later became the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, headed up by Dr. Robert Baker from First Presbyterian). Friedell served as organist-choirmaster at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Jer-sey City Heights, New Jersey and later at New York’s Calvary Episcopal Church, where the dynamic The Rev. Samuel Moor Shoemaker served as rector. During his tenure at Calvary, Friedell founded a series of oratorio concerts and recitals that firmly established Calvary’s name in Church music history. It was also during this time that his famous anthem Draw Us in the Spirit's Tether was written as a com-munion hymn for Pentecost Sunday 1945. By 1946, his work at Calvary had drawn critical acclaim and he was asked to succeed his mentor and teacher, David McK. Williams, as organist-choirmaster at Park Avenue’s St. Bartholomew’s Church. From 1946 until his death in 1958, throngs of people flocked to St. Bart’s to hear the superb profession-al choir of 70 voices (!!) sing weekly Sunday afternoon services (Evensong) where the great choral rep-ertoire of oratorios, passions, requiems, and recently composed works were performed in their entirety following the sung propers of the daily office. ____________________________________________________________________________________________

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 7PM 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 trav-eling 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. Held every three years, this international event emphasizes the im-portance of family in Catholic life.

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 see the Pope? Tickets for the Mass at Madison Square Garden will not be sold and they will be extremely limited. Pope Francis will only be in the Archdiocese of New York for a very brief time, and tickets will be limited for any events. We do expect to distribute tickets to parishes and other Catholic organizations and institutions throughout the archdiocese, who will then extend invitations to their members. As soon as we know how many tickets are being allocated to St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral , we will hold a equitable “drawing “ from all

the names of people who have submitted a request for a ticket. No tickets will be publicly available through any other means so, if interested, keep watching for further a announcement here or on our website - www.oldcathedral.org