Thomas More's Trial: A Reading
Extra!!! Extra!!!
The Chancellor of England Loses His Head.
The number two man in the kingdom pays the ultimate price for daring to undermine the authority of King Henry VIII.
Come hear the Trial of Sir Thomas More!
Find out what motivates a man to take on the law, to risk position, family, riches, the accolades of a loyal following and his very life.
Hear the charges.
Hear the witnesses.
Hear his defense.
Does he plead for mercy?
Does he escape the executioner's blade?
MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2010
at 7:00 p.m.
THE CHURCH
Church of St. Thomas More
65 East 89th Street - (Between Park & Madison Avenues)
Tel: (212) 876-7719
Visit with the Cast and Share Light Refreshments Following the Reading
Free Will Offering Accepted
Sponsored by: The Education Committee of the Parish Council
REV. GEORGE W. RUTLER, S.T.D.
CLOUD OF WITNESSES:
Dead People I Knew When They Were Alive
Father George Rutler in his latest book, Cloud of Witnesses (2010), presents a collection of portraits of characters and personalities he has encountered as a priest. His works usually show Catholics - now part of the North American mainstream - as often being pulled in different directions by the culture wars, with large segments seriously tempted towards liberal Protestantism and with just as many liberal Protestants lapsing into agnosticism or morphing into Evangelicals. In his new book, his range of characters stretches from Mother Teresa to Queen Elizabeth, from Barbara Cartland to Robert Frost, from the parish secretary to Cardinal Lustiger - a Jewish archbishop of Paris, and from a university chaplain to Billy of Engine Company 21. He will discuss these and other interesting characters as part of the MORE Hot Topics series on May 10, at the Church of St. Thomas More.
Father Rutler has authored many books, including, A Crisis of Saints: The Call to Heroic Faith in an Unheroic World (Crossroad 2009); Coincidentally: Unserious Reflection on Trivial Connections (2007); Brightest and Best (Ignatius 1998); The Seven Wonders of the World (Ignatius 1993); The Curé d' Ars Today: St. John Vianney (Ignatius 1988) and Beyond Modernity (1987). He also hosts a program on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) entitled "Christ in the City" which is filmed at the parish where he is pastor, the Church of Our Saviour located on Park Avenue in New York City. In this program, through a series of reflections, he directs his viewers to discover and encounter Christ as the only anchor in our very fast-paced city by examining lives of personal holiness, such as those of Christ and his saints, which reflect the beauty of Christian life and the joys of living according to conscience and conviction.
"To be Catholic is to be counter-cultural" says Father Rutler, a convert to Catholicism, who was ordained to the deaconate in Rome by His Eminence William Cardinal Baum in 1980 and to the priesthood by His Eminence Terence Cardinal Cooke at St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1981. He has served as Associate Pastor of St. Joseph's in Bronxville; Our Lady of Victory in the Wall Street area; and St. Agnes in mid-town Manhattan. A board member of several schools and colleges, as well as an advisor to the Board of Christendom College, he is also Chaplain of the New York Guild of Catholic Lawyers. According to George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, Father Rutler is a conservative Catholic from the radical center and "an avowed follower and admirer of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict... [who] belongs to that small, influential, and growing up group of convert intellectuals which has enriched the Catholic community and contributed... to scholarship and public discourse... [and who] deserves to rank with Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J., Father Richard Neuhaus, and Scott Hahn."
MONDAY, MAY 10, 2010
at 7:00 p.m.
THE ROCHESTER ROOM
Church of St. Thomas More
65 East 89th Street - (Between Park & Madison Avenues)
Tel: (212) 876-7719
Visit with the Speaker and Share Light Refreshments Following the Discussion
Free Will Offering Accepted
Sponsored by: The Education Committee of the Parish Council
A Priest Forever According to the Order of Melchizedek:
What Does This Mean – For the Priest and For the Laity?
A Panel Discussion with
Father Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., Father Gerald E. Murray, J.C.D. and Reverend Luke M. Sweeney, S.T.L.
June 2010 concludes the year dedicated to the priesthood by the Holy Father. St. John Vianney, the Curé d' Ars, is the role model and patron of all priests and this year has provided both priests and laity an opportunity to better understand and reassess the priesthood's role in strengthening the universal Church. Has the role or function of the priest changed in recent decades? What is the future of the priesthood?
Father Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. – hosts the weekly program "Word to Life" on Sirins XM Radio, The Catholic Channel, and is currently assigned to the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in Manhattan, New York City. In 2002, he was ordained in the Diocese of Lafayette (Louisiana). Father Guilbeau entered the Dominican novitiate in 2005, professed his simple vows in 2006 and his final vows in 2009. Before joining the Order of Preachers, Father Guilbeau obtained a Master of Divinity degree and a Master of Arts degree from St. John's Seminary in Boston. He also has a Licentiate in Sacred (Patristic) Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
Father Gerald E. Murray, J.C.D. – has been pastor of St. Vincent de Paul parish in Manhattan since 1998. After receiving a doctorate in Canon Law from the Gregorian University in Rome (1997), he served as a judge on the Metropolitan Tribunal. Father Murray was a Parochial Vicar at St. Patrick's Cathedral (1993); temporary administrator of Nativity of Our Blessed Lady parish in the Bronx (1991), and also served at St. Elizabeth’s, in Manhattan, and St. Athanasius, in the Bronx, New York. Father Murray was ordained in 1984 in New York City.
Father Luke M. Sweeney, S.T.L. – has been Vocations Director for the Archdiocese of New York since 2006. Since his ordination in 2001, Father Sweeney has served at St. Theresa of the Infant Jesus Church in the Bronx, and as parochial vicar at Sacred Heart Church in Newburg, New York, in addition to his role as formation advisor at the St. John Neumann Residence, where he is a resident. Father Sweeney studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the John Paul II Institute in Rome.
MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010
at 7:00 p.m.
THE ROCHESTER ROOM
of
Church of St. Thomas More
65 East 89th Street - (Between Park & Madison Avenues)
Tel: (212) 876-7719
Visit with the Speaker and Share Light Refreshments Following the Discussion
Free Will Offering Accepted
Sponsored by: The Education Committee of the Parish Council
Truths About Death, Judgment, Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven
Father Benedict J. Groeschel, CFR
"After This Life" (2009)
Father Benedict Groeschel, CFR – best-selling author, psychology professor and internationally renowned retreat director – has recognized in the course of nearly forty years' experience providing psychological counseling that the most common personal problems brought to him revolve around anxiety and fear. The topic of death arouses these emotions and he knows that most people prefer to avoid it altogether. Farther Groeschel, however, has first-hand knowledge of this topic and engages in it. He has "...looked death in the eye more than once and [had] for all intents and purposes been dead..." having himself been the victim of a hit and run accident in 2004, after which he had no vital signs for thirty minutes. In his latest book After This Life (2009), Father Groeschel masterfully explains how consoling and uplifting the truths surrounding death, judgment, hell, purgatory, and heaven really are in grappling with our mortality.
Father Groeschel, co-founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, has authored many other books, including The Tears of God (2008), Questions and Answers About Your Journey to God (2007), The Virtue Driven Life (2006), and Why Do We Believe (2005). He is also host of Sunday Night Live with Father Benedict Groeschel, a program broadcasted on Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). Its format consists of a lively combination of interviews, viewer questions and discussions of spiritual and social matters relating to the Church.
Father Groeschel, who was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, was ordained a Capuchin priest in 1959. He has a Doctorate in Psychology from Columbia University (1971) and a Masters degree in Counseling from Iona College (1964).
MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2010
at 7:00 p.m.
THE ROCHESTER ROOM
of
Church of St. Thomas More
65 East 89th Street - (Between Park & Madison Avenues)
Tel: (212) 876-7719
Visit with the Speaker and Share Light Refreshments Following the Discussion
Free Will Offering Accepted
Sponsored by: The Education Committee of the Parish Council
