CHRIST IN THE CITY:

Fr. George Rutler talks about the possibilities of genuinely encountering the living Christ today as a still-point or anchor planted right in the midst of a very fast-paced city life. Fr Rutler's reflections direct viewers' heavenward, so that they discover that the spiritual realm is vast, immense, and far more real than anything the secular City can offer. The practical relevance of contemplating the things of God is the development of heroic virtue. Lives of personal holiness, such as that of Christ and his saints, among them St. Thomas More and St. Pio of Pietrelcina, reflect the beauty of the Christian life, the joys of living according to conscience and conviction, resulting in a legacy of glorious culture.

Christ in the City was filmed at Fr. Rutler's parish, The Church of Our Saviour in New York City.

FR. RUTLER:

Fr. Rutler was ordained to the deaconate in Rome by His Eminence William Cardinal Baum in 1980 and received priestly ordination in St. Patrick's Cathedral at the hands of His Eminence Terence Cardinal Cooke in 1981. He served as Associate Pastor of St. Joseph's Bronxville; Our Lady of Victory in the Wall Street area; and St. Agnes, Manhattan. He was a university chaplain for the Archdiocese, and also chaplain to a general hospital and a psychiatric hospital. For ten years he was National Chaplain of Legatus, the organization of Catholic business leaders and their families engaged in spiritual formation and evangelization. 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 and has long been associated with Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity, and other religious orders, as a retreat master.  Cardinal Egan appointed Fr. Rutler as pastor of The Church of Our Saviour, NY, in September of  2001.

Church of Our Saviour
59 Park Avenue
New York, New York  10016

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