Advent
A Season to Be Awake, Alert, Aware
by Msgr. Joseph Calise A FEW YEARS ago I was flying back from a funeral in Naples, Florida, to a funeral in New York. Actually, it would be better to say that I was trying to fly back. The airport that night was a series of problems which were compounded by the fact that I […]
Do You Need Grant From Bright Christmas
Every year, I write columns during Advent asking our readers to help us to help those in need at Christmas time. It’s our annual Bright Christmas Appeal that has been going on for more than 40 years. The program is a very simple one. I tell you about the needs of some parishioners in Brooklyn […]
Three Sees Agree to Seminary Realignment – Dioceses’ Major Seminarians Will Attend St. Joseph’s, Dunwoodie (with slide show)
by Ed Wilkinson Seminarians studying theology as they prepare for priesthood in the Diocese of Brooklyn will no longer attend classes at Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington, but instead will reside and study at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, currently the archdiocesan seminary. Seminarians from the Rockville Centre Diocese also will move from Huntington to Dunwoodie. […]
Understanding the Changes in the Mass
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, On the First Sunday of Advent, we will notice changes in the Mass text which come from the revision of the Roman Missal. The Roman Missal was first revised in 1970 which was the first English translation of the 1962 Latin Missal. Since that time, the 1985 […]
Karl Jenkins – A Maestro for the 21st Century
By Father Frank Mann A few months ago, while reading The Tablet in a rectory dining room, I heard some of the most soul-stirring music that I could ever recall. The immediate questions that ran though my mind were: “Where are these exhilarating and enthralling sounds coming from? Who composed such beautiful music? What were […]
Preparing for Life After This Life
by Msgr. Joseph Calise The long form of today’s second reading from Saint Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians ends with the words, “Console one another with this message.” Those words might seem standard enough until we put them into their context. In this section of the letter, Paul is talking about the final times and […]
Christ Jesus, Our Hope – Diocese Has a History of Adjusting to the Times
by Jay Akasie This is the third article in a special series on the reconfiguration process in the diocese. Suppose, just for a moment, that a Catholic living in the Diocese of Brooklyn during the mid-20th century could somehow be transported to the present day. He’d be mighty impressed by the current parish re-organization plan, […]
We Are Tied Together With God
by Father Robert Lauder Eighth in a Series THE MORE TIME I spend with Father Michael Paul Gallagher’s Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger (New York: Paulist Press, 2010, 158 pages, $16.95), the more I like the book. I find it not only interesting and informative but also spiritually challenging. I […]
Each of Us Lives in the Theatre of God’s Grace
by Father Lauder Seventh in a series In the chapter on theologian Karl Rahner in Father Michael Paul Gallagher’s excellent book, “Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger,” Father Gallagher makes clear that Rahner never watered down the faith so that it might appeal more to his 20th century contemporaries. Rather Rahner […]