NEWS

Read this Weekly Column of Fr. George Rutler, the Pastor of Our Saviour on 38th and Park Avenue.

Here’s a link to some amazing photos of our Cardinal-designate, our Auxiliary Bishops, the archbishop's priest-secretary (Fr. Jim Cruz), and our three seminarians studying in Rome all greeting the Holy Father during the November 2011 Ad Limina visit!
Click here.

NEW SINGLE PROGRAM OF PRIESTLY FORMATION ANNOUNCED BY ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK, DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN AND DIOCESE OF ROCKVILLE CENTRE
November 10, 2011, Huntington, New York – The Archdiocese of New York, the Diocese of Brooklyn and the Diocese of Rockville Centre today announced the formalization of a joint operating agreement to create a single program for priestly formation for their three dioceses and beyond, a new program for the ongoing theological and spiritual enrichment of priests and permanent deacons, and a centralization of lay ministry programs to support the New Evangelization.
Click here for the entire press release.

Our next Cathedral Prep Weekend will begin on Friday, December 9, 2011 at 5:15 PM and run until Sunday afternoon, December 11, 2011. Friday evening we will join the Yonkers Youth Rally to be held at St. Joseph's Seminary. Saturday, we welcome 7th and 8th grade boys for the day. We will be visiting our fellow Cathedral Prep Seminary students in Elmhurst, Queens for a tour, Mass and sports. Sunday, our high school students will join Archbishop Timothy Dolan for 10:15 am Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral.(Families are welcome to attend the Mass.) After Mass we will tour the holiday sites around Rockefeller Center.
Our Prep gathers young men in high school to draw closer to the Lord Jesus and to experience good fraternity with others while considering the call to be a parish priest. There will be conferences, Confession, Holy Mass, Eucharistic Adoration, sports and opportunities to meet seminarians. All high school age young men interested in a vocation to the priesthood are encouraged to attend the weekends at St. Joseph's Seminary (201 Seminary Ave. Yonkers, NY 10704). Please register by calling (914) 968-1340 or by contacting vocations@archny.org.

Upcoming weekends:
December 9, 10 & 11, 2011
January 13, 14 & 15, 2012
February 10, 11 & 12, 2012
March 2, 3 & 4, 2012
April 20, 21 & 22, 2012
May 18 & 19, 2012 - Priesthood Ordination overnight.
June 28 until July3, 2012 Extended Weekend.

A priest from northern Westchester is walking all the way from Peekskill to New York City.
Father John Higgins, 43, of the Assumption parish, will walk the 58 miles to St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan today and tomorrow. Higgins says he trying to raise $105,000 to help the Assumption School, which has been hit hard by the economic downturn of the past several years.
The plan is for Father Higgins to walk the roads of some of the river towns along the Hudson on his way down to Yonkers. He plans to stay overnight at St. Joseph's Seminary, where he studied for the priesthood.
Higgins says he hopes to make it to St. Patrick's Cathedral to offer Mass at 6:30pm on Friday.
Click here for the News12 Story and Video.
Click here for the WCBS 880 AM Radio Story and Audio.

Archbishop Dolan prays during Mass at St. Peter’s Church on Sept. 11. Before him is the chalice of Father Francis Grogan, C.S.C., who was killed aboard Flight 175 on 9/11.
Click here to read the full Catholic New York editorial.

Three young men discuss their decision to join the seminary and their experience discerning whether they should become a priest. One seminarian talks about unexpectedly falling in love, another opens up about being a former police officer, and a third, describes how his uncommon choice was received by family and friends.
Click here to see CBS' online video.

This was my 4th year participating in Camp Veritas and seeing the grace of God encounter the 7th-12th graders through a great week of prayer and play! A wonderful preparation to hear the Voice of the Lord calling some to a sacred vocation in the Church.
Click here for the full Catholic New York article.

St. Patrick's Cathedral has a new website.

Young men tell their stories of leaving behind promising sports careers to become priests.
Click here to read this article from the Knights of Columbus.

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From the good vocation director Down Under, Fr. Michael de Stoop - The parish priesthood in 10 minutes!

Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital July 27. He was 73.
Read the statement released by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops here
http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2011/11-150.shtml

Mr. John Chervokas is credited with the creation of one of the most popular Charmin television commercials starring Mr. Wipple. In addition, Mr. Chervokas was the man behind the 1970's "New York Priest: God Knows What He Does for a Living" Campaign for the Archdiocese of New York.
Read more at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43915438/ns/business-us_business/

Read their blog:
http://www.footstepsofourlord.blogspot.com

Almost two weeks ago — hauntingly, on the Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist, whom King Herod would behead because the saint dared to defend the God-given truth about marriage — our state sadly attempted a re-definition of marriage. Is there anything left to say? Click here for the rest of the blog entry.

JUBILATION—Father Ransford Clarke celebrates along with congregation in cathedral following Mass of ordination at which he became a priest. Behind him is Auxiliary Bishop Gerald T. Walsh, rector of St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie.
Click here for the full story from Catholic New York.

Mystery bug nearly killed him, now he's giving back.
Click here for full article.

Click here to see the slideshow put together by one of our Cathedral Prep students, Caleb Lococo!

WASHINGTON—The average age of men ordained to the priesthood in 2011 is trending younger with the average age for the 2011 class at 34, with more than half between the ages of 25 and 34. This is slightly younger than in 2010, and follows the trend over the past five years of ordinands becoming younger.
Read the Full Article.

Friday, May 13, 2011-Saturday, May 14, 2011

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Archbishop Timothy Dolan Comments.

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As part of the ongoing process to combine their seminary systems begun three years ago, the Archdiocese of New York has decided to merge its program of priestly formation for college men—the Saint John Neumann House currently located at Saint Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers—with the one now in place at the Cathedral Seminary Residence in Douglaston, Queens. To read more

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The seminarians at Neumann now have open group on Facebook (St. John Neumann Seminary College, Archdiocese of New York ) and a YouTube channel!

For all of our Archdiocese of New York Discerners ages 18 years and up, there will be an overnight at St. Joseph's Seminary from Tuesday, December 21st (arrival not before 4:00 PM) until Wednesday, December 22nd (1:00 PM). There will be Mass, Holy Hour, Confession, meals and some recreation in our gym.
Please RSVP by Friday, December 17th if you would like to come (nypriest@archny.org or 914.968.1340).