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The 7:30 pm Wednesday evening Holy Hour is canceled for May 22. We will resume next week on May 29.

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In honor of Our Lord’s Ascension, consider joining fellow parishioners at our parish party. A flyer for the event can be found here.

When:  Thursday, May 9, 2013 following the 6:30 pm Mass

Where:  Church Hall

We only ask two things:  (1)  that you call the church office and let us know you are coming (212) 744-2080, and (2) that you consider making a free will offering to defray expenses.

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Thursday, May 9 is Ascension Thursday, a Holy Day of Obligation

Masses will be offered at the following times:

Wednesday, May 8
5:30 pm – Sung Vigil Mass of the Ascension

Thursday, May 9
8 am (no music)
12:10 pm (no music)
6:30 pm – Solemn Mass of the Ascension

Note:  There will be NO 5:30 pm Mass on Thursday, May 9.

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On Sunday, April 28 at 3:00 pm, in the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, Fr. Robert Koopmann, OSB will offer a piano recital, with commentary, entitled Music, A Pathway to God. Fr. Koopmann is a Benedictine monk of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN, where is a professor of music and the president-emeritus of St. John’s University. Presently, he is on sabbatical at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer. The recital will feature pieces by Rachmaninoff, Brahms, and Franck, as well as Father Koopmann’s own improvisations. Admission is free.

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During Holy Week, there will be a number of additional opportunities to approach the Sacrament of Reconciliation as well as a special schedule of liturgies. The confession times are listed first, followed by the liturgical schedule.

Confession

Saturday, March 23: 4:30 pm-5:30 pm
Monday, March 25: 3 pm-9 pm
Tuesday, March 26: 11:30 am-12 noon & 4:30 pm-5:30 pm
Spy Wednesday, March 27: 11:30 am-12 noon, 4:30 pm-5:30 pm & 7 pm-9 pm
Holy Thursday, March 28: 8:30 pm-10:30 pm
Good Friday, March 29: 8 pm-10 pm
Holy Saturday, March 30: 10 am-12 noon

Palm Sunday, March 24
Sung Vigil Mass (Saturday, March 23): 5:30 pm
Mass: 8 am
Sung Mass: 10 am
Solemn Mass with Procession: 12 noon
Mass: 5:30 pm

Holy Thursday, March 28
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer: 9 am
Mass of the Lord’s Supper: 6:30 pm
followed by adoration until 11 pm
Compline: 11 pm

Good Friday, March 29
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer: 9 am
Seven Last Words of Christ: 12 noon
Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion: 3 pm
Watch at the Sepulcher: 7 pm (singing of the Lamentations followed by Compline)

Holy Saturday, March 30
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer: 9 am
*The church will close from 12:30 pm until 7 pm*
8 pm: Solemn Vigil of Easter

Easter Sunday, March 31
8 am: Mass
9 am: Morning Prayer
10 am: Sung Mass
12 noon: Solemn Mass (prelude music begins at 11:30 am)
*There is NO 5:30 pm Mass on Easter Sunday*

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Our parish Mardi Gras party was cancelled because of inclement weather.  As a way of making up for that lost social event, and to give us an opportunity to come together and celebrate as a parish community, you are invited to join us for a party in honor of St. Joseph, the patron of the universal Church.  A flyer for the event can be found here.

When:  Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 6:30 pm

Where:  Church Hall

We only ask two things:  (1)  that you call the church office and let us know you are coming (212) 744-2080, and (2) that you consider making a free will offering to defray expenses.

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Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 13.

On Ash Wednesday, Masses will be offered here at St. Vincent Ferrer according to the usual schedule:  8 am, 12:10 pm (sung), and 5:30 pm (sung). Ashes will be distributed at all the Masses.

Also, every Friday of Lent, beginning February 15, we will pray the Stations of the Cross immediately following the 5:30 pm Mass. Please join us as we follow the way of the cross through our beautiful gothic church.

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The Parish Mardi Gras Party, originally scheduled for 6:30 pm on Saturday, February 9, has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience, but with the recent bout of winter weather we thought this was in the best interest of all.

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In honor of the Year of Faith, the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer announces its winter Adult Faith Formation Series:  ”Conviction about Things Unseen.” On seven consecutive Tuesday evenings from February 5 – March 19, Fr. Walter Wagner will offer a series of reflections on the meaning and nature of faith. The sessions will begin at 6:30 pm and end at roughly 8 pm. To register, please call the parish office at (212) 744-2080. All of the presentations will be held at St. Vincent Ferrer High School (entrance on 65th Street). The flyer can be found here.

After Father Walter’s series concludes, the spring Adult Faith Formation Series will take up the topic of living out our faith through the sacramental life of the Church.

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Beginning in February, the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer will dedicate our Tuesday evenings to celebrating the Year of Faith. A schedule of topics will be posted soon. Pope Benedict XVI announced this Year of Faith in October 2012 as a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the most recent ecumenical council, Vatican II.

Here at St. Vincent Ferrer, we will offer a two part program. First, Fr. Walter Wagner will offer a number of reflections centered around the question “What is Faith?” Second, Fr. John Chrysostom Kozlowski will build on Fr. Walter’s insights and discuss how we live our faith through the sacramental life of the Church. This program will afford us the opportunity to reflect on and discuss the great gift of faith and how that gift is expressed through the seven sacraments.

Speaking of the sacraments, the Catholic News Service has a great little article entitled:  ”When the pope administers the sacraments.”  So, in case you were wondering when the pope celebrates the seven sacraments, follow this link.

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December 24
•6 am – Misa del Gallo
•9 am – Mass (the 8 am and 12:10 pm Masses are canceled on December 24)
•10 am-12 noon – Sacrament of Reconciliation

Celebrating the Nativity of the Lord
•December 24
5:30 pm – Sung Vigil Mass
9:30 pm – Prelude music begins
10:30 pm – Solemn Mass during the Night (“midnight Mass”)

•December 25
8:00 am – Mass at Dawn
10:00 am – Sung Mass during the Day
12:00 noon – Solemn Mass during the Day

Celebrating the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (Holy Day of Obligation)
•December 31
5:30 pm – Sung Vigil Mass

•January 1
8:00 am – Mass
12:10 pm – Sung Mass
5:30 pm – Mass

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Please be advised:

The Holy Hour regularly scheduled for Thursdays at 11 am will be canceled until further notice.  The beginning of the East Window Renovation Project necessitates this schedule change.  Thank you for understanding.

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As we continue our journey through Advent, won’t you consider joining us?

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(Holy Day of Obligation)
Friday, December 7:  5:30 pm (sung vigil Mass)
Saturday, December 8:  8:00 am (no music) & 12:10 pm (sung Mass)

Advent Lessons & Carols
Sunday, December 16 at 3:00 pm

Reconciliation Monday
Confessions heard from 3:00 pm-9:00 pm

Misa del Gallo
Monday, December 17 – Monday, December 24 at 6:00 am
Literally, the “Rooster’s Mass,” is celebrated in the early hours of the morning on the final days of Advent.  Join us at 6:00 am at the Holy Name Altar.

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Advent is the hope-filled season of expectation as we await two comings:  the second coming of our Divine Messiah and the celebration of His first coming at Christmas.  In order to prepare our hearts and souls to welcome our God-with-us, the Emmanuel, the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer will offer additional opportunities for prayer.  Please check back here for additional information.

For now, we would like to invite you to participate in our parish festival of prayer to mark the First Sunday of Advent, the beginning of the Church’s liturgical year.

First Sunday of Advent – Parish Festival of Prayer

Saturday, December 1

5:30 pm – Solemn Mass followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament through the night
8:00 pm – First Vespers
9:45 pm – Rosary & Compline (Night Prayer)

Sunday, December 2

3:00 am – Advent Conference with Fr. Walter, OP
5:00 am – Matins (Office of Readings)

7:00 am – Morning Prayer & Benediction

8:00 am – Mass (no music)
10:00 am – Mass (sung)
12:00 pm – Mass (sung)
5:30 pm – Mass (no music)

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Think about watching the first of these two great films with us tonight, 6:30 pm!

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Tonight, we’ll be discussing elements of a biblical poetics, i.e., central ways the Bible presents language (rather speech!) as intentionally made and making, as intentionally crafted and creative, as something that is performed and something that is performing. Of course, we’ll make sure to show the way in which these elements lay groundwork for apocalyptic beauty!

As always, this conference is at 7 PM in the Church Hall and is open and free to everyone.

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Two great programs begin this week:

Theology in the City: The Beauty of Apocalypse
First Mondays, 7 pm – St. Vincent Ferrer Church Hall
3 October – Conference One: THE NATURE OF BEAUTY

Bible Study: The Gospel of St. Matthew
Tuesdays, 7 pm – St. Vincent Ferrer High School
Register through the parish office and buy the commentary $8: 212.744.2080

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This Sunday at 3 pm, Dr. Leo Nestor of the Catholic University of America will direct the school’s Chamber Choir for a free concert featuring the work of Byrd, Tallis, Handel, Elgar, and Vaughn Williams.

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As many of you know, our parish experienced a wonderfully beautiful and encouraging evening this past Wednesday. With singers from the Richard Tucker Foundation, and featuring international star Bryn Terfel and our own St. Vincent Ferrer Chorale, led by Dr. Mark Bani, the opera gala packed the church.

We hope to continue to raise funds toward restoring our windows, beginning with the Great East Window above the glorious reredos, which will cost us close to five hundred thousand dollars.

In the meanwhile, our church continues its tradition of hosting great musical events at no charge — New York City culture without the New York City price.

This Sunday, 10 October at 3 pm, we welcome Lawrence Molinaro to sound the magnificent theological tones of Bach’s genius in our Church of St. Vincent Ferrer. Please come and bring your friends.

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As previously announced, we are hosting
Metropolitan Opera star Bryn Terfel
and other operatic talents
in concert with our own St. Vincent Ferrer Chorale, directed by Dr. Mark Bani.
This free concert
not only promises to be a beautiful evening,
proceeds garnered from donations will help toward
the restoration of the church’s great east window.
Doors open at 6 pm.

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For those of you who could not make the lecture last Thursday night, “Faith and Reason: Friends or Foes?” we have posted this video of the talk for you. (The video was produced by Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P., who came up from our Dominican Parish in the West Village, St. Joseph.)

Fr. Brent took his main theme and image from Pope John Paul II’s already classic encyclical, Fides et ratio, that “faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises  to the contemplation of truth.”

Reason does not contradict faith; reason actually helps to bolster faith; and faith itself protects and guides reason.

Unfortunately, our society still suffers from a view that “reason” is fungible with (a popular conception) of “science.” Fr. Brent shows how this reducibility is self-contradictory and plainly unsatisfying to the human enterprise. Instead, he presents a view of reason that is in terms of the intellect’s openness to reality… all of it. Thus, even though reason alone cannot convince one that the supernatural mysteries of the Catholic faith are to be believed, reason can certainly show that they are at least believable.

It’s safe to say that everyone at the talk now looks forward to hearing Fr. Brent in the future.

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In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; Eucharistic adoration is simply the natural consequence of the Eucharistic celebration, which is itself the Church’s supreme act of adoration. Receiving the Eucharist means adoring him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with him, and are given, as it were, a foretaste of the beauty of the heavenly liturgy. The act of adoration outside Mass prolongs and intensifies all that takes place during the liturgical celebration itself. (Pope Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis no. 66)

7:30 PM     Exposition

8:30 PM     Compline (Night Prayer)

8:50 PM     Benediction

There will be Preaching and Confessions as well.

Bring someone to meet the Lord!

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Fr. Carleton P. Jones, O.P.,
Pastor of the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer
invites you to a

SPRING BRUNCH

on Sunday, April 25
at 1:00 PM
in the Parish Hall.

With the price of a ticket comes a full buffet, Mimosas and Champagne, music by David Belt, and a chance at door prizes.

Advanced tickets are $25 per person. Tickets will be $30 at the door. Children under 12 are free.

Tickets are on sale now in the Parish Office. You can also purchase them after all Sunday Masses leading up to the brunch.

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CONFESSIONS

Saturday, March 27: 4:30-5:30 PM
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, March 29-31: 11:30-12:00 Noon, 4:30-5:30 PM
Saturday, April 2: 4:00-6:00 PM

PALM SUNDAY, March 28

5:30 PM Saturday Vigil Mass, with music
8:00 AM Mass
10:00 AM Mass, with music
12:00 PM Solemn Mass, with choir
5:30 PM Mass

HOLY THURSDAY, April 1

The church will open at 7:30 AM.
8:00 AM Mass for those who cannot attend the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
7:30 PM Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 11:00 PM

GOOD FRIDAY, April 2

The church will open at 7:30 AM.
9:00 AM Office of Readings and Morning Prayer
1:00 PM Music and Reflections on the Lord’s Passion
3:00 PM Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion
5:00 PM Stations of the Cross

HOLY SATURDAY, April 3

The church will open at 7:30 AM.
9:00 AM Office of Readings and Morning Prayer
4:00-6:00 PM Confessions
8:00 PM Solemn Vigil of Easter

EASTER SUNDAY, April 4

8:00 AM Mass
10:00 AM Mass, with music
12:00 Noon Solemn Mass, with choir
There will be no 5:30 PM Mass on Easter Sunday afternoon.

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The Church of St. Vincent Ferrer
cordially invites you to a

THREE-DAY MINI-RETREAT

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
March 29, 30, and 31
after the 5:30 PM Mass

On each day, the Mass will be followed by a short reflection and a time for prayer.

On Wednesday, the last day of the retreat, a Lenten Soup Supper will be held in the Church Hall immediately following the Mass.

All are invited!

A free will offering will be taken.

(Catering provided by Hale and Hearty Soups, Lexington Avenue)

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