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1 The Parish of and Church of : 869 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY Church of : 411 East 68 th Street, New York, NY (212) parish@svsc.info November 4, st Sunday in Ordinary Time Parish Coffee Join us for coffee (tea), cake, and conversation today, Sunday, November 4 after the 12 noon Mass in the Priory Parlors. Parish Study: Making a Concerted Effort Performance or Worship On, the eigthth session of Parish Study examines the difference between sacred and religious music and the experience of hearing such music in a service or in a concert. The Parish Study course, Music in Parish Life, meets on Tuesday evenings through November 20 from 6:45-7:45 pm in the Parish Hall at St. Vincent Ferrer. James Wetzel presents an overview of all major aspects of music offered in the Parish with each session focusing on a different topic. Newcomers are always welcome! Almsgiving Sunday Next Sunday, November 11, there will be a second collection to help the Parish's Deficit Reduction. Members of the Social Concerns Committee will collect donations for Food Sunday. Thank you for your generosity and support. Thanksgiving Drive The Annual Thanksgiving Drive of Food and Money for the NY Common Pantry begins now through November 12. Items needed for a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner include: Stuffing Mix, Gravy (turkey please), Canned Cranberry Sauce, Cornbread mix, Dry Beans, Canned Beans, Rice, Pasta, Juice (48 oz size,)shelf-stable milk (1 Qt. size). We will have bins at and to deposit your food items. Please no glass bottles. Checks made payable to the NY Common Pantry and cash of any amount can be left at the Priory, with the guard or put in the collection marked Thanksgiving Drive. Your gift will help feed the 1800 plus families that depend on the NY Common Pantry. Shelter Christmas Party On December 8 we are hosting a Christmas Party for the residents of the Park Avenue Women s Shelter. Each year, through your generosity, we are able to provide our guests with a wrapped gift package of one large item and two or three smaller coordinated items. This is in addition to a hot delicious meal, a dessert table, a pianist, lots of singing, and a Santa with a helper to distribute the gifts. We are looking for donations of new jackets, sweaters, sweat suits, pajamas, handbags, hats and gloves. We ask that the clothing be in sizes large or extra large (L or XL). Please bring the gifts to the priory of either of our churches by Thursday, November 29. If you prefer, we gladly accept monetary donations to put toward gifts. Thank you thank you This Christmas Party is only possible because of you, our fellow parishioners. Mass and Confessions Saturday Vigil: 6:00 pm Sunday: 8:00 am, 9:30 am, 12:00 noon, 6:00 pm Weekdays: 8:00 am, 12:10 pm, 6:00 pm Saturday: 8:00 am Confessions Saturday: 5:00 5:50 pm Weekdays: 5:20 5:50 pm Parish Vespers Sunday: 5:30 pm Saturday Vigil: 4:00 pm Sunday: 10:00 am, 5:00 pm Weekdays: 7:00 am, 5:15 pm Saturday: 9:00 am Confessions Saturday: 3:00 3:50 pm Weekdays: 4:40 5:05 pm Liturgy of the Hours and Other Prayer Monday Friday: 7:20 am (Morning Prayer) 5:30 pm (Office of Readings and Evening Prayer) Wednesday: 6:30 pm (Rosary) 7:30 pm (Holy Hour) Sunday: 3:00 pm (Eucharistic Adoration) Monday Friday: 5:00 pm (Rosary) Our Lady of Perpetual Help Prayer Group Wednesday: 6:30 pm Queen of Peace Prayer Group Saturday: 9:30 am

2 Parish Office 869 Lexington Ave, NY, NY (212) Office Hours: Monday Friday: 9 am 1 pm, 2 5 pm 411 East 68 th Street, NY, NY Office Hours: Monday Friday: 10 am 3 pm Parish Staff Very Rev. Walter Wagner, o.p. Pastor Rev. Joseph Allen, o.p. Vicar Rev. Luke Hoyt, o.p. Vicar for Formation Bro. Damian McCarthy, o.p. Sacristan Deacon John M. Powers Lee Ann Rubino Business Manager James D. Wetzel Director of Music and Organist Monica Czausz Assistant Organist Lisa Harrelson Coordinator of Catechesis and Youth Ministry Rachel Miller Administrative Assistant Tony Hicks Church Custodian Tracey Hicks Church Custodian High School (212) Sr. Gail Morgan, o.p. Principal Dominican Shrine of St. Jude (212) Parish Information Welcome to the Parish of and in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, served by the Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph. For general information about the parish, its many organizations, an overview of the current year s schedule of events, and how to become more involved in our common life, please take a blue Parish Handbook. A Music List, Music as Holy Preaching, contains a list of this season s concerts and repertoire for all choral services as well as information about the St. Cecilia Guild. Both of these booklets are available in the narthex of both churches and online. To register as a parishioner, please use the form found at the back of the Handbook or online. Follow us on and sign-up for alerts by notifying parish@svsc.info. Parish Calendar November Thursday, November 1 Solemnity of All Saints Regular Mass & Confession Schedule with: 12:10 pm Sung Mass at 1 pm Low Mass at 6 pm Solemn Mass with Procession at Friday, November 2 Commemoration of All Faithful Departed: all Souls Regular Mass & Confession Schedule with: 12:10 pm Sung Mass at 1 pm Low Mass at 5:15 pm Solemn Mass with Procession at Saturday, November 3 St. Martin de Porres 12 noon Visitation Circle at Sunday, November 4 31 st Sunday in Ordinary Time 6:45 pm Parish Study at Sunday, November nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 pm Parish Coffee at Monday, November 12 Veterans Day (Observed) Parish Offices Closed Regular Mass & Confession Schedule Tuesday, November 13 7 pm New York Purgatorial Society Requiem Mass at Sunday, November rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 11 am Parish Coffee at 12 noon Solemn Mass with Rite of Acceptance at Tuesday, November 20 6:45 pm Parish Study at Thursday, November 22 Thanksgiving 9 am Low Mass at 10 am Sung Mass at Friday, November 23 Parish Offices Closed Regular Mass & Confession Schedule Sunday, November 25 Solemnity of Christ the King December Saturday, December 1 10 am Parish Advent Retreat at 12 noon Visitation Circle at

3 Staying the Course You read these lines somewhere in the course of the metropolitan ritual of the New York Marathon. In all its phases it claims the whole weekend. The race compels. It marshals thousands to do something extremely difficult and it summons tens of thousands to watch them. The city devotes the utmost care to pulling off this massive event, and I do not hear people complain overly of the street closures. Why? The race recurs because people need it to, and not just those who run. Habitually we salute any number of qualities in athletes and in athletics, but a marathon calls us to ponder perseverance as a marvel in the runners and as a message for ourselves. Our great race asks us to admire staying the course and to receive it as a valuable image for living well. I suppose we could tease out elements of marathoning to admire. We could see the runners as those who endure to the end of a difficult task. We could admire the way they face down temptations to quit, breaking through the wall each time they hit it. In itself the act of the will necessary to this enterprise justly commands praise, but the will alone does not seem to accomplish this task. We could also fasten upon the mystery of competition. It s not just that the runner finished, but that the runner came in ahead of the other runners. Seeing a winner emerge thrills sportsmen, sportswomen, and sports-fans. But while the winner of the marathon garners lavish praise, the real triumph of it belongs to the whole throng who cross that finish line of finish lines. At that moment of completion each runner amazes us. Everyone shines and then no one does. The runner brings a determination to this race beyond the will to get through and the will to win. Consider that the runner also needs the self-knowledge for proper pacing, and the discernment to judge the shifting terrain. The one sprinting over a straightaway must remember that the hill is coming. When it does, the challenge of topography demands a creative greeting and embrace. No room for sullen resentment here. All of this the marathoners integrate, not just because they want the race to be over, but because they want to cross the finish line in a way that satisfies. Life taken as a whole can offer a similar palette of potential meaning. It easily appears as an endurance, as a series of practical and emotional challenges to be gotten through. This wisdom teaches the discipline of keeping on keeping on, and invites us to admire the determination of those who do not quit. Here the goal motivates as the end of the race, when rest will come at last. Any way of life offers such goals, but I can be most specific about the power of finish lines in priestly and religious life. My endurance will be over and my ease will begin when I, am accepted to the order, make first vows, make final vows, am ordained to the priesthood... Naturally the moment of well-being never comes because it turns out there is always a new lap to run. Sometimes too, gaining the prize offers a plan for living. The prospect of victory can pull us through life s ordeals with its own promise of rest. If I can be the best, and garner proper acknowledgment for it, then I will be satisfied with my performance on life s run. Among priests that could mean gathering the biggest congregation, raising the most money, or completing the most building projects. Here too, there is no rest since the affirmations of victory leave us hungry for more. The need to be acknowledged, to be admired, to be taken seriously never lets up. The foregoing offer productive and admirable strategies for living, but the genuinely happy life requires something more. The deepest joy resides neither in completing the race nor in winning the race but in loving the race. When we love the race of our life, we do not run against the distance, or against the other runners, or even against ourselves. We run with ourselves and become more ourselves through every step in the craft of running. Naturally we run a race with a goal in mind, but that goal enhances, not erases, each stage in the course. Having a finish line to reach helps us take the full measure of each terrain we encounter and it tailors our application of skill in that topography. In each chapter of life I recognize terrain I must traverse with profound awareness. I may not dawdle, and I may not ignore. To run well is to run consciously in the hills of the Bronx and in the winds of the bridges, to share in the thrill of starting and in the gritty determination of the 25th mile. It demands embracing the terrain of middle age and old age, of falling in love and of getting sick, of abiding here and of moving on from here. I am no marathoner, but the marathoner shows me the race that I run and the happiness I find in loving it. In November we not only host the New York Marathon, but we ponder the Communion of Saints, souls who have run the race and loved the race in countless ways to cross the line where finish really means completion, rest, and fulfillment. To this happiness, called beatitude, we set out each morning, running together in our own way, headed home. Peace! Fr. Walter

4 Mass Intentions Sunday, November 4 6:00 pm (Vigil) Frank McGuinness (D) 9:30 am For the People of the Parish 12 noon Fr. Jonathan Morris 6:00 pm Cezar Miranda (D) Monday, November 5 12:10 pm For the Deceased Members of the Parish & the Order (D) 6:00 pm James Westbrock (D) 12:10 pm Martha Rodriguez (D) 6:00 pm Jack & Ellen Moloney (D) Wednesday, November 7 12:10 pm Josephine Apuzzo (D) 6:00 pm Mary Soldato (D) 12:10 pm Anniversary of the Deceased Brothers & Sisters of the Order (D) 6:00 pm Natalie Papadam (D) Friday, November 9 12:10 pm Jack, Natalie, Marie, & Francis Egan O'Brien (D) 6:00 pm Catherine & Patrick McGlade (D) Saturday, November 10 Mass Intentions Sunday, November 4 4:00 pm (Vigil) Catherine & Patrick Gorman (D) 10:00 am Giuseppe Fiore (D) 5:00 pm Martin Joseph Foye (D) Monday, November 5 7:00 am For the Province of St. Joseph 5:15 pm Thomas & Helen Fahy (D) 7:00 am Marian Charlton & the Team at NewYork-Presbyterian 5:15 pm Hilda & Albert Erken (D) Wednesday, November 7 7:00 am For the Patrons of the Shrine of Saint Jude 5:15 pm Diane Tamir 7:00 am For the Nurses & Staff at NewYork-Presbyterian (D) 5:15 pm Eva Ferreri (D) Friday, November 9 7:00 am For the Purgatorial Society of (D) 5:15 pm Ana M. Rosero (D) Saturday, November 10 9:00 am Patrick Oettinger Parish Prayer Intentions Contact the Parish Office to add a name to this list. Ceci Boden, Albania Burgos, Joseph Robert Cusimano, Janie Dixon, Alan Djanogly, Chris Eddy, The Fisher Family, William Heath, David Henderson, Margaret King, Ivan Kronenfeld, Roberto Lovato, Vicki Lowrey, Calvin Neana, Brian Praetzel, Julie Praetzel, Sally Rauscher, Roseanne Reilly, Ramon E. Reyes, Isabell Rivera, Anchalee Sae-Lim, Bill Selby, & Jumlong Ullitavee. Please pray for the repose of the souls of Rosa Collela, David Gale, Carolyn Kelly, Bob Marcato, Ana Maria Murari, Baron Rothschild, & Dimitri Stylianou, and the souls of all our recently deceased. We continue to pray for the sick, the dying, and their families in Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the Hospital for Special Surgery, Rockefeller University Hospital, & the Intentions of the Dominican Friars Health Care Ministry. Candle Intentions St. Vincent Sanctuary Lamps Rene Concepcion (d); Donoghue Family; Ramon & Fernando Gonzalez (L); Living & Deceased Members of the McGovern Family; All Souls in Purgatory; For the People of the Parish; Intention of Donor St. Vincent Sanctuary Madonna Jack Ryan Keegan (L) St. Vincent Pieta Lamp Well-being of Christians in the Middle East St. Catherine Sanctuary Lamp Maria Marta Litrenta St. Catherine Purgatorial Candle Renato S. Ventigan (d); Rosa J. Silan(d) St. Catherine Rosary Altar Candle Maria Marta Litrenta; Intention of the donor St. Catherine Blessed Mother Candle Priscilla Ventigan Mass Intentions and Candles may be reserved in the Parish Office Monday Friday, 9:00 am 5:00 pm, and in the Church Office of Monday Friday, 10:00 am 3:00 pm.

5 Music Notes Next week, for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Schola offers music of the Italian Renaissance: Suscepimus Deus Andrea Rota ( ) In spiritu humilitatis á 8 Giovanni Croce (c ) A Music List containing a list of this season s concerts and repertoire for all choral services as well as information about the St. Cecilia Guild is available in the narthex and online. Parish Vespers continues this and every Sunday at 5:30 pm in the choir stalls at. Organ Recital On Sunday, November 11 at 3:15 pm, James Wetzel will offer a recital at St. Patrick's Cathedral (5th Avenue at 51st Street). César Franck's Pièce Héroïque; Marcel Dupré's Cortège et litanie, Op. 19, No. 2; Camille Saint- Saëns' Prelude and Fugue in E Flat Major, Op. 99, No. 3; and Jean Langlais' Fête, Op. 51. Frassati Dinner and Holy Hour - Sunday, November 11 Frassati Fellowship invites all young adults (20s and 30s) to a monthly Dinner and Holy Hour on Sunday, November 11. Come and join us for a home cooked meal. Our dinner starts at 7 pm followed by Holy Hour at 8pm. Our night will include praise and worship led by the Frassati Music Ministry, intercessory prayer and confessions. We will be accompanied by the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Renewal, Dominican Friars and the Sisters of Life. Location:, 869 Lexington Avenue. More info at or contact@frassati.nyc Ministry Appeal We are in great need of Ushers (Collection Offering) and Greeters at both and churches, especially at the weekend Masses. If you are interested, please contact us through the parish office at (212) and leave your name and contact number and we will get back to you. You can also leave your name and contact number with the guard in the vestibule at any time. Hospital Chaplaincy Apostolate Month October is Hospital Chaplaincy Apostolate month! The Archdiocese of New York supports 23 priests and religious chaplains including the four Dominican friars who minister in the hospitals in this parish. We invite you to support this important work by going to Collections October 28, 2018 Regular Offertory: $18,616 Attendance: 1241 Solemn Dominican Rite Requiem Mass On Tuesday, November 13 at 7 pm, a Solemn Requiem Mass in the Dominican Rite will be offered at the High Altar at the Church of. The Schola Cantorum of will sing Michael Haydn's Requiem in C, MH. 155, the setting Mozart used as a model for his famous setting. The Mass is co-sponsored by the Catholic Artists Society, the New York Purgatorial Society, and the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny. Thomistic Institute: Immortality: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on Life After Death On Saturday, November 10th, the Thomistic Institute will hold a conference entitled "Immortality: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on Life after Death." The conference will feature Carol Zaleski, Michael Root, Adrian Reimers and Mark Spencer. Register online at thomistisinstitute.org or kbrizek@dhs.edu. Dominican Friars Health Care Ministry Relfection Please find copies of Fr. Jonah's latest Reflection: "Looking to What Is Unseen: God's Glory in the Sick and Suffering" available in both of our churches and on the Parish website at Saturdays with the Saints: Dorothy Day Saturdays with the Saints is a lecture series held every home football Saturday at the University of Notre Dame. Join us for a a special lecture in New York City on Saturday, November 16 at 3 pm at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, in the New York West Room. John C. Cavadini, a Notre Dame professor of Theology will present the lecture on the Life of New York native, Dorothy Day. A Message From the Social Concerns Committee We are looking for more late Fall and Winter suitable things mainly in the Extra Large size (or a large size Large) and 1X. The women like and need tops, casual pants, pajamas, slippers, robes, sweaters, scarves, gloves, hats and perfume and large size toiletries. Please leave your donations at the office in either Church. Please mark it for the Social Concerns Committee. Many many thanks. Dominican Third Order Are you a layperson who believes that you are called to a more profound interior life through the charisms of the Dominican Order? You may want to visit the Dominican Third Order (Lay Fraternity) Chapter that meets in the Parish Center of on the third Thursday of each month from 6 8 pm. All are welcome. To learn more visit or visit our blog at St. Monica's Christmas Bazaar The Parish of St. Monica, St. Stephen of Hungary, and St. Elizabeth of Hungary will hold a Christmas Bazaar on Sunday, November 11 from 9 am 3 pm at the Church of St. Monica (413 E 79th Street).

6 THANKSGIVING FOOD DRIVE PLEASE DONATE: 2018 Stuffing Mix Gravy (Turkey preferred) Canned Cranberry Sauce Cornbread mix Canned Beans Dry Beans (1 lb) Rice (1 lb) Pasta (1 lb) Juice (46 oz cans/bottles) 1 qt. Shelf-stable Milk * Please, no glass jars. Pack food in sturdy boxes, if possible. OR $40 PROVIDES A FULL MEAL TO A FAMILY IN NEED! DONATE AT nycommonpantry.org Money may be delivered to the Priory, or given to the guard or put in an envelope marked Thanksgiving Drive in the collection.

7 Lutherans and Roman Catholics: Towards a Common Future The Archdiocese of New York Ecumenical Affairs Department and the Metropolitan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America invite you to a two-day Symposium, Lutherans and Roman Catholics: Towards a Common Future. The symposium, on November 7 8, will include presentations by Committee Chairs of the International Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity Bishop William Kenney, Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, England and Bishop Euro Huovinen, Former Bishop of Helsinki of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Findland. Please RSVP by November 2 to mmckenna@archny.org. Any questions, contact Rev. Brian E. McWeeney, at (646) or him at fr.brian.mcweeney@archny.org. Wednessday, November 7 St. Peter s Lutheran Church 619 Lexington Avenue (53rd Street) Presentation I: An Ecumenical Opportunity: Dialogue over Five Decades 5:00 pm 6:00 pm Reception: 6:00 pm Vespers: 7:00 pm Presentation II - A Look Ahead: The Future in Light of Recent Developments 7:30 9:00 pm Basilica of Old St. Patrick s Cathedral at Parish Building 32 Prince Street Presentation III Towards a Common Future: Your Role in God s Gift to the Church 9:00 am: Morning Prayer and Continental Breakfast 10:30 am Noon: Talks This Week of Grace The Holy Father s Prayer Intention for November 2018 That the language of love and dialogue may always prevail over the language of conflict Community Notes Please welcome Fr. Jerome Zeiler, o.p. to our midst. He will live at St. Catherine s Priory and assist with our ministries. Pray for all our beloved whose names have been written at the All Souls altars in our churches. Sunday, November 4 The 31st Sunday of the Year Please pray for the safety of all who run the New York Marathon today, and for all who support them, especially the police and the marathon organizers. Election Day Pray today for those running for office and those who vote, that together they may witness to the enduring strength and effectiveness of democracy. Wednesday, November 7 All Saints of the Order of Preachers (F) Pray that the way of life of the Order of Preachers will continue to be recognized by young women and men as an effective path to holiness. Pray that Friars, Nuns, Sisters, and Laity of the Order may this day renew their commitment to Dominican life as a sanctifying good for themselves and their neighbors. All Souls of the Order of Preachers Pray for all the deceased Friars and Sisters who have served St. Catherine s and St. Vincent s over these many decades. May they come to see Him in whom they have believed. Friday, November 9 The Dedication of the the Lateran Basilica (F) On this Feast of Dedication of the Roman Cathedral pray for the Holy Father s work as Bishop of Rome, and for the whole clergy and people of the Roman Church which presides, over the whole assembly of charity. This day also marks the dedication of the first Cathedral. Give thanks for the Church s freedom to worship publicly. Pray that all may be aware of the singular significance of the Cathedral and its ministry in each diocese. Saturday, November 10 St. Leo the Great, Pope (M) Pray for the Holy Father and his intentions.