32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

Please pray 

• For Veterans, especially those in our own parish family
• For those listed in the bulletin, who need our prayers.
• For parishioners who are discerning their voctation.
• For benefactors who are ‘Friends of the Basilica’
• For our Capital Campaign: Bold Faith. Bold City

 
Do you need the parish community to pray for your intentions?  
                  Email office@icjax.org and let us know.
 
Readings for this weekend are here
 
Bulletin for this week is attached or viewable online here
 
Worship Aids / Homilies are posted online:
 
Veterans Day this week
Veterans Day recognizes U.S. veterans for their service and sacrifice on behalf of their country. It began in the aftermath of World War I. Although "The Great War" technically ended with the Treaty of Versailles, the fighting stopped seven months earlier when the Allied nations and Germany agreed to a truce that took effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Thus, Nov. 11, 1918, became known as "Armistice Day." A year later, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed 1919 would be the first annual commemoration of the armistice, saying it should be a day of reflections filled with "solemn pride" in the heroism of the country's service members. In 1954, Congress changed the name to Veterans Day, making sure it honored all American veterans -- not just those who served in WWI.
 
Renovation & Repair – Updates:
Adoration Chapel – A Contractor has been chosen. The contract is being drafted and submitted to the Bishop to sign.
 
Organ – New Console arrives in November, and Pipes will be removed and cleaned offsite. 
Although you might not be interested in the Fundraising Concert, e sure to tell your friends and family about our special Fundraising Concert!  Digital copies of the advert is available. Click Here!
 
Rectory / Office – Fundraising continues.
 
Thank you to parishioners and ‘Friends of the Basilica’ for your continued material and prayerful support.  We benefit from the sacrifices, prayers, and material support of past generations.  Future generations of Catholics will benefit from yours!
 
Please remember, we still need parishioners & ‘Friends of the Basilica’ to give during the Sunday Collection in person or online. Special projects are important, but so are lights, AC, staff, etc. 

And in this corner...

From the over 50 crowd!

When I was a kid, adults used always say how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning....Uphill... Barefoot...BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda.  And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to criticize young people like that!

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of fifty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. They have it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, usuing a card catalog!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way to the nearest mailbox, and it would take like a week or even longer to get there!

There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to get out your tape recorder and transistor radio, get a blank tape and sit there recording every song you wanted… turning the recorder on, then off, to make sure you only got what you wanted!

We didn't have voice mail or call waiting or a sneak preview of who was calling! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, no one home – too bad… and you never knew who was calling… except sometimes when Mom or Dad would yell ‘Don’t answer that’! 

Texting? What’s that. We actually had talk, in person with our "friends". And, no one was ever available 24 / 7 … if you called too late, too early, at dinner, during Happy Days…. No one was allowed on the phone! TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! 

We didn't have any fancy PlayStation, Xbox or computer video games with high-resolution realistic 3-D graphics! We had the great outdoors or your bedroom. You actually had to use your imagination!!! 

We had to watch TV according to the schedule and with all the commercials (unless you could do your chores or run to the bathroom during commercials! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! Channel surfing, ha… You had to get off your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! NO STREAMING! NO BINGING! NO ALL NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT!

And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that! 

And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores! 

And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place! 

You kids today have got it too easy. LOL