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Father Robert Lauder’s 48th Friday Film Festival
Father Robert Lauder, a regular on the NET TV’s Reel Faith with his “Movie with a Message” segment and his weekly column in The Tablet newspaper, along with the Office of Faith Formation and the School of Evangelization, will put on a movie for everyone to enjoy on six Friday nights this fall. The films begin at 8 pm at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston. There is a suggested donation of $25 for the entire series or $6 for a single film. All tickets may be obtained at the door or by mailing a check payable to RC Diocese of Brooklyn, Attention School of Evangelization, 310 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215 together with a stamped self-address envelope to the Friday Film Festival. Don’t miss a single moment of these amazing pieces of cinema.
Below is a list of films and the dates of the showing:
September 5: The Green Years (1946)
– Directed by Victor Saville and starring Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, and Charles Coburn
September 12: Tomorrow is Forever (1946)
– Directed by Irving Pichel and starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, and George Brent
September 19: Strange Cargo (1940)
– Directed by Frank Borzage and starring Paul Lukas, Joan Crawford, and Clark Gable
September 26: The Lives of Others (2006) (with subtitles)
– Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and starring Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, and Sebastian Koch
October 3: White Elephant (2012)
– Directed by Pablo Trapero and starring Ricardo Darín, Jérémie Renier, and Martina Guzman
October 17: Rudy (1993)
– Directed by David Anspaugh and starring Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, and Ned Beatty
Brooklyn Parish Holds Interfaith Service for Peace and Reconciliation
On Saturday, September 6th, the parish of St. Martin de Porres will hold an Interfaith Service for Peace and Reconciliation following the tragic events of the last several weeks in Staten Island and Missouri. The initiative, lead by Monsignor Paul Jervis, aims to bring the Holy Father’s message for Peace and Reconciliation to our local communities. It will take place at 3 p.m. at St. Peter Claver Church, 29 Claver Place, in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The service comes during the Feast of Saint Peter Claver, who dedicated his life to work in defending the rights of the African people and sought for the abolition of the slave trade.
“We have to stand up against violence and yet at the same time be for the brotherhood and the solidarity of all people. We have to be proactive for interracial love and understanding. That was what Saint Peter Claver was all about,” said Father Jervis, pastor of St. Martin de Porres.
The Interfaith Service is an open invitation for people of all religions and races to denounce violence. “It is a call for peace and brotherhood,” he said.
Founded in 1922, St. Peter Claver Church was the first African American Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Brooklyn. It was established by Monsignor Bernard Quinn, a champion of racial equality, at a time when discrimination against Africans was ubiquitous in America.
“Healing for the Human Race” by Bishop DiMarzio
August 27, 2014 – Excerpted from “Put Out Into the Deep,” Bishop DiMarzio’s column in The Tablet:
The events of the last several weeks in Staten Island and Missouri give evidence to the deep racial divide that still exists in our country. In too many circumstances, it is the police, who are on the front lines of our society, who encounter difficulties and become surrogates for our own unrequited racism.
I, myself, cannot help but remember the days of the race riots in my native city of Newark, N.J., during the 1960s. The explosion of violence following the death of Martin Luther King Jr., who was the greatest proponent of nonviolent revolution, remains deep in my memory. As we look back to the 1960s, have we learned any lessons from that time when the racial divide seemed to be so great?
Like you, I had hoped our Nation had moved beyond race. Clearly, our Nation has matured. In many areas, race seems to have ceased being a deterrent to advancement. We have elected our first African-American President. Also, here in our own city, we have elected a mayor who has a biracial family. We have eliminated much of the discrimination based on race that still plagues our society. More opportunities have been given to racial minorities to achieve scholastically and economically. Most would agree, however, that our society is not yet color-blind. What is the path that will allow us to recognize all people as God’s children and treat each with equality?
Read the full text of the Bishop’s column on The Tablet website.
Announcing the Fall Semester School of Evangelization Courses
Registration for the Fall Semester School of Evangelization courses is now available at www.bqonlineformation.org. All registration and payment is now done online. A certificate will also be provided online, once you successfully complete the course.
A schedule of classes can be found here.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Christine Georgi, Registrar, at cgeorgi@diobrook.org or 718.281.9544.
The Daily News honored youths who excel in their classrooms and communities at the New York-Penn League All Star Game in Coney Island
Among those honored were:
- Matthew Kulaka, St. Patrick Catholic Academy
- Paolo Merisier, St. Athanasius School
- Nicholas Vargas, Our Lady of Trust Catholic Academy
Read the full story from the New York Daily News here!
“Openness to Life and Responsibility” by Bishop DiMarzio
August 20, 2014 – Excerpted from “Put Out Into the Deep,” Bishop DiMarzio’s column in The Tablet:
In the final article of my three-part series on the preparatory document on the Synod of the Family, Part III is entitled: “An Openness to Life and Parental Responsibility in Upbringing.” It can be seen that the difficulty and thorny issues facing the family, and in fact individuals today, for the Synod are directly brought into the process of evaluation and consideration.
The pastoral challenges concerning the openness to life are truly at the heart of the issues for families today. The publication of Pope Paul VI’s Encyclical “Humanae Vitae” in many ways was prophetic. Even in its promulgation, the Holy Father knew that it would cause intense negative outcry because, as he said, “But it comes as no surprise to the Church that she, no less than her divine Founder, is destined to be a sign of contradiction.” The difficulties in the document “Humanae Vitae” reveals “the agonizing situations of people today when faced with the subjects of love, the generation of life, the reciprocity between man and woman, and fatherhood and motherhood.”
One of the questions asked in the initial interrogatory was, “Do couples know and accept the Magisterium of the Church regarding the openness of life?” In two senses, the positive aspects are unknown, while the negative aspects seem to be known and characterized as an “intrusion in the intimate life of the couple and an encroachment on the autonomy of conscience.”
Read the full text of the Bishop’s column on The Tablet website.
DeSales Media’s Annual Golf Outing Raises $100K for Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School
On August 14th, DeSales Media Group, the communications arm of the Diocese of Brooklyn, held the 19th Annual Bishop DiMarzio Golf Classic at North Hills Country Club in Manhasset.
All proceeds from this year’s event benefited Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School. For over six years, the Brooklyn school has been educating young people of limited economic means to become men and women of faith, purpose and service. The school is part of the Cristo Rey National Network, which utilizes the innovative Corporate Work Study Program to help finance their education and make it affordable to students who might not otherwise have access to a quality education.
The event, which raised $100,000 for Cristo Rey Brooklyn, also honored Reverend Monsignor Peter Kain of St. Ephrem as Pastor of the Year, and Robert Catell, board member for Cristo Rey.
“The Challenges to Marriage” by Bishop DiMarzio
August 13, 2014 – Excerpted from “Put Out Into the Deep,” Bishop DiMarzio’s column in The Tablet:
As I begin the second of my three-part series of articles on the upcoming Synod on of the Family, we move to the issues for consideration in Part II of the document entitled: “The Pastoral Program for the Family in Light of New Challenges.”
Truly, much is happening in the Church around the world to assist families. All of this will be considered by the Synod attendees, allowing them to understand the current situation and make suggestions for the future. There are various pastoral programs already underway – namely marriage preparation, which has a long history in our own country.
Unfortunately, there are fewer people coming today to sacramentalize their marriages. For those who do come, however, they express satisfaction with the Pre-Cana programs run by the Diocese, given evidence in the evaluations which they make following their participation.
Read the full text of the Bishop’s column on The Tablet website.
NET TV to Provide Live Coverage of Pope Francis’ Visit to South Korea
On Thursday August 14th, New Evangelization Television (NET) will provide live coverage of the apostolic journey of the Holy Father to South Korea, where he will celebrate the Sixth Asian Youth Day, beatify 124 Korean martyrs, and deliver a message of peace and reconciliation in the war-divided peninsula.
The live coverage begins with a special pre-event presentation at 8:30 p.m, hosted by the editor of The Tablet, Ed Wilkinson. This will be followed by a Papal Mass to celebrate the Solemnity of the Feast of the Assumption at 9:00 p.m. from the World Cup Stadium in Daejeon.
On Friday August 15th, the encounter with the Asian Youth will air live at 4:15 a.m from the Solmoe Shrine. That evening, at 8:30 p.m., tune in for the Mass and Beatification of Paul Yun Ji-chung and his 123 martyr companions, who were killed for their faith in the 19th Century. The Papal Mass and Beatification will air live from the Gwanghwamun Gate in Seoul.
On Sunday August 17th, Pope Francis will commemorate the Sixth Asian Youth Day starting with a Mass at 3:15 a.m. A celebration of Holy Mass for Peace and Reconciliation will take place at the Cathedral Church of the Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception, also known as the Myeong-Dong Cathedral, in Seoul. The Mass will air live at 8:15 p.m.
All the events are listed in Eastern Standard Time; early morning live events will re-air later that day.
Pope Francis’ visit is the first pontifical trip to East Asia in nearly two decades. He will meet with one of the fastest-growing Churches in the world: the number of Catholics in South Korea has doubled since 1990 to 5.4 million, just over 10% of the total population, with about 100,000 baptisms this year.
NET TV is a cable network featuring news and information with a Catholic point of view, and is available in the New York area on Cablevision, channel 30, and on Time Warner Cable, channel 97, and nationally on Verizon Fios on Demand. Viewers can also tune in to watch the papal trip live on NET TV’s website www.netny.tv. For complete programming, including dates and times, please visit www.netny.tv.