My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,
To announce Catechetical Sunday, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops states, “This year, the Church will celebrate Catechetical Sunday on Sept. 17, 2017. This year’s theme will be ‘Living as Missionary Disciples.’ Those whom the community has designated to serve as catechists will be called forth to be commissioned for their ministry.
The Msgr. McClancy H.S., East Elmhurst, girls’ varsity basketball team took part in the “Walk a Mile in Their Shoes” campaign in McCarren Park, Greenpoint, on Sept. 10 – World Suicide Prevention Day.
As the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus gather in Chicago this week to mark the centennial of the death of their founder Mother Cabrini, Pope Francis sent them hailing Cabrini as a model for our times. “The great migrations underway today need guidance filled with love and intelligence similar to what characterizes the Cabrinian charism,” he wrote.
The local attempt of the “Tread-A-Thon” takes place Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 5 p.m. at the St. Sebastian Parish Center in Woodside. Attendees are asked to arrive by 4:30 p.m.
Following the publication of his book on outreach to LGBT Catholics, Jesuit priest Father James Martin has been disinvited from various speaking engagements. Most recently, an invitation to speak at Theological College at the Catholic University of America has been rescinded.
New York’s newly opened Sheen Center for Thought and Culture is Cardinal Dolan’s attempt to reach people of no faith through the arts. In its opening act of its second season, Broadway star Vanessa Williams spoke about her Catholic faith in between musical performances.
The Good Shepherd Prayer Group is celebrating its 45th anniversary with a Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros.
This week’s Tablet TALK highlights the “Bridges to Peace” initiative in South East Queens, a Rockaway school helping peers in Texas, an upcoming jazz event in Bed-Stuy and much more.
In the opening lecture for Georgetown University’s Sacred Lecture Series, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington defended Pope Francis’s efforts to decentralize Church governance, his approach to synodality, and ‘Amoris Laetitia.’
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster described the attempted bombing of a rush hour Tube train in London Sept. 15 as “yet another cowardly attack.” He is praying for the 22 people being treated for injuries.
