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CARDINAL'S APPEAL AND BICENTENNIAL PLEDGES: Work on rectory plumbing is almost completed. Because of your contributions and pledges made to the Archdiocesan Bicentennial Campaign, this work can be accomplished. The cost of renewing the pipes of the rectory, an old building, is approximately $20,000, and this was met through your generosity. Please continue to fulfill your pledges so that this work and other needed repairs can be completed.
THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, hosts the exhibit "Catholics in New York 1808-1946" in honor of the Bicentennial of the Archdiocese. The exhibit will be on display from May 16 through December 31. For more information, call 212-534-1672 or go to www.mcny.org.
THREE CATECHUMENS were announced at the 11:15 Mass on February 10 as candidates for full initiation into the Church. At the Easter Vigil they will receive Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Eucharist. After Mass, the candidates and their sponsors went to St. Patrick's Cathedral to be welcomed by Cardinal Egan, along with other candidates from throughout the archdiocese. Keep them all in your prayers.
EIGHT PEOPLE FROM R.C.I.A. received the call to continuing conversion at the 11:15 Mass on February 17. They are preparing for Confirmation and/or Eucharist or Reception into Full Communion of the Church at the Easter Vigil. After Mass, they went to St. Patrick's Cathedral to be welcomed by Cardinal Egan. Keep them all in your prayers.
THERE ARE A FEW COPIES of the bicentennial history of the archdiocese remaining. Cost in $30. If you wish a copy, call the rectory.
ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, at the 11:15 a.m. Mass, the choir performed two new liturgical compositions especially commissioned for the centennial celebration of Corpus Christi Church: a Kyrie entitled "Ky-ri-[E:]" by the Austrian composer Gerhard Krammer (born 1965), and a motet setting of a poem by Thomas Merton, "I Have Called You" written by Jorge Muņiz (born 1974). Gerhard Krammer's music is a gift from Joseph Masheck and an anonymous donor. Professor Muņiz was a parishioner here when he was a graduate student at the Manhattan School of Music. He is now on the composition faculty of Indiana University at South Bend. He has written the Merton setting as a special gift to the parish and was present here for this first performance of his piece.
The Muņiz piece was repeated at Lenten Vespers on February 10; at that service was also sung a setting of Psalm 140/141 written especially for this Vespers by Gerre Hancock, former Director of Music at St. Thomas' Church Fifth Avenue.
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