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🗓️ Upcoming Events
Friday, September 5, following 8:00am Mass, Assumption Summer Chapel
❤️🔥 First Friday Sacred Heart Novena
Saturday, September 6, 9:00am, Assumption Summer Chapel
⛪ First Saturday Mass
Monday, September 8, 6:15pm, Assumption Summer Chapel
🙏 Oratory Evening Prayer
Join the priests and brothers for a service of readings, song, and shared reflection. Please enter using the elevator or side garden glass doors as we have been doing for Mass this summer.
Thursday, September 11, 11:00am, Assumption
⛪ 9/11 Memorial Mass
A memorial mass to pray for and honor those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. Please join us.
Thursday, September 11, 7:15pm, Brooklyn Promenade
🕯️ 9/11 Prayer Service
The Oratory Parishes of Assumption and St. Boniface will join with the Brooklyn Heights Interfaith Clergy Association as they host their annual 9/11 Observance on Wednesday, September 11 at 7:15pm. Gathering on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade near the Montague Street entrance, the service includes readings, prayers, music, remarks and candle lighting. The rain location is Grace Church Courtyard, 254 Hicks Street, Brooklyn Heights.
Saturday–Sunday, September 13–14, Assumption
⛪ Assumption Masses Return to the Church
Beginning Saturday, September 13, all Masses at Assumption will move from the summer chapel back to the church.
Saturday–Sunday, September 13–14, both parishes
🎉 Homecoming Weekend – Save the Date
As is our tradition, on the weekend of September 13–14, both parishes will celebrate the start of the fall season with light receptions/coffee hour highlighting all the activities in which parishioners can participate.
Tuesdays, October 7, 21, and November 11, 7:30–9:00pm, Zoom
✍️ Writing Spirituality: Finding God in the Stories of our Lives
Are you a writer looking to make better sense of the Spirit at work in your daily life? Are you someone who finds God through journaling? Maybe you’re a person who simply wants to adopt a new prayer practice. In this three-part online series offered by the Jesuit Media Lab, Eric Clayton will lead participants through exercises and discussions to help discover and articulate the working of God’s Spirit in our lives. You’ll walk away better equipped to share your story with others—and in so doing, share God at work in your life. Themes include: embracing our belovedness, finding God in the details, writing our vocation.
Fr Anthony and Virginia Navarro will be coordinating this activity. Cost is $50 per participant and the group is limited to 15 people. To register, email vnavarro@oratorychurch.org
Eric A. Clayton is an award-winning author of three books on Ignatian spirituality and everyday life, including his most recent Finding Peace Here and Now: How Ignatian Spirituality Leads Us to Healing and Wholeness (Brazos Press). He is the deputy director for communications at the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. Learn more at ericclaytonwrites.com
Thursday, October 9, 7:00pm, Assumption Hall
✝️ Annual Baronius Lecture
"John Henry Newman: Why a Doctor of the Church?"
by Sr. Kathleen Dietz, FSO
Sr. Kathleen will explore what she sees as Newman’s specific contributions to theology and the life of faith which prompt the Church to declare him a Doctor of the Church. Sr. Kathleen has been a member of the Spiritual Family "The Work" since 1993. Her interest in John Henry Newman stems from her student days at Cardinal Newman College in St. Louis, Missouri. After joining The Work, she obtained her doctorate in theology with the dissertation John Henry Newman and the Fathers of the Church: The Birth of an Ecclesiology. She has given numerous talks, published several articles and co-edited a book on Cardinal Newman entitled Blessed John Henry Newman: A Richly Illustrated Portrait. She currently resides with her community in Erie, Pennsylvania and serves as Adult Faith Formation Coordinator at Our Lady of Peace Parish.
Saturday, October 25
⛪ Pilgrimage to the National Basilica Pilgrimage with Father Mark Paul and Jim Connell
In this Jubilee Year of Hope, Fr. Mark Paul and Jim Connell will join the Brooklyn Diocesan Pilgrims in leading a group of Oratory Parishioners on a day trip to the National Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC on Saturday, October 25th. The day will include opportunities for sacraments, prayer and fellowship. There will be a $50 per-person cost for the bus transportation, and meals are on our own. The group will depart at 6:00am from St. James Cathedral (250 Cathedral Place), and will return at approximately 9:00pm. If you are interested in joining us, please complete this form or call the Parish Office.
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