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1 Parish Clergy & Staff Msgr. Tomás M. Marín Pastor Fr. Robert Ayala Parochial Vicar Deacon Jose S. Chirinos Deacon Mark Westman Sofia Acosta Director of Religious Education Jorge Pis-Rodriguez Director of Music Myriam Cahen Director of Finances Michelle Ducker Director of Campus Ministry & Young Adults Toni Jane Palla o Director of Development and Student Center Iancarlo Arispe Development Coordinator Mercy Quintana Sacristan Mass Schedule: Vigil Masses - Saturdays 5:30 pm 7:00 pm (Spanish) Sundays 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 Noon 5:00 pm, 6:30 pm, and 8:00 pm during school year Monday - Friday 8:00 am & 12:05 pm Saturday 8:00 a.m. Confessions: 11:30 a.m. Saturdays and by appointment Baptisms: Please call the Parish Office at least one month in advance. Weddings: Please call the Parish Office at least six months in advance. Office Hours: 10:00 am 6:00 pm Monday - Friday

Saturday, July 30th, 2016 5:30 p.m. + Edmundo Perez - Health of Irma Menendez - Health of Irma Moreno 7:00 p.m. + Rosa Morla Sunday, July 31st, 2016 8:00 a.m. + Al Rivera Sr.

2 Saturday, July 30th, :30 p.m. + Edmundo Perez - Health of Irma Menendez - Health of Irma Moreno 7:00 p.m. + Rosa Morla Sunday, July 31st, :00 a.m. + Al Rivera Sr. + Roberto Hartmann + Florentina Alvarez Puig & Jaime Puig - Ignacio García-Chacón 10:00 a.m. + Jay Clarke + Gustavo Ferrer 12:00 p.m. - For the Parish Family 5:00 p.m. + Kevin Llorente + Mercedes Egusquiza de Guardiola 6:30 p.m. + Mercy Cuervo - Health of Raquel Latour Monday, August 1st, :00 a.m. + Francisco J. Sanchez - Aaron & Carolina Patzwahl - Intentions of Juan M. Salvador 12:05 p.m. + Luis Jose Montilva Angulo - Elena & Teresa Arispe - Birthday of Greg McGann Tuesday, August 2nd, :00 a.m. + Dr. Juan Enrique Rodriguez + Frank Mackle + Jesus Suarez - Intentions of the Castro-Fernandez Family Thursday, August 4th, :00 a.m. + Hilda Bacardi + Luis J. Bacardi + Luis F. Bacardi + Roberto Morales - In Thanksgiving 12:05 p.m. + Deceased Members of the Peñate-Muñero Family + Eugenio del Busto + Mercedes Egues Friday, August 5th, :00 a.m. + Dr. & Mrs. Francis V. Ciochon + Francisco J. Sanchez - Patrice & Jonathan Fernandez - All those in need who come or call St. Augustine Church and Catholic Student Center 12:05 p.m. + Ramona L. Martinez + Gerardo Santeiro + Eugenio del Busto - Jose Luis Acosta - Living & Deceased Members of The Raboin Family Saturday, August 6th, :00 a.m. + Zaida Fernandez + Zenaida Rojo + Ralph Marra Sunday, July 31st, 2016 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Ecclesiastes 1: 2; 2: Psalm 90: 3-6, 12-14, 17 Colossians 3: 1-5, 9-11 Luke 12: Monday, August 1st, 2016 Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Lord, teach me your statutes. Jeremiah 28: 1-17 Psalm 119: 29, 43, 79-80, 95, 102 Matthew 14: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016 Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory. Jeremiah 30: 1-2, 12-15, Psalm 102: 16-23, 29 Matthew 14: or 15: 1-2, Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016 Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time The Lord will guard us as a shepherd guards his flock. Jeremiah 31: 1-7 (Psalm) Jeremiah 31: 10-12b, 13 Matthew 15: Thursday, August 4th, 2016 Memorial of Saint John Vianney, Priest Create a clean heart in me, O God. Jeremiah 31: Psalm 51: 12-15, Matthew 16: :05 p.m. + Ramona L. Martinez + Jesus Suarez + Shirley McKenna - Living & Deceased Members of The Alvarez Rollan Family Wednesday, August 3rd, :00 a.m. - Wedding Anniversary of Raul & Carolina Echarte 12:05 p.m. + Robert Hoffman + Chantal Cohen + Cathy Mehalik Friday, August 5th, 2016 Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time It is I who deal death and give life. Nahum 2:1, 3, 3: 1-3, 6-7 (Psalm) Deuteronomy 32: 35c - 36b 39abcd, 41 Matthew 16: Saturday, August 6th, 2016 Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord The Lord is king, the Most High over all the earth. Deuteronomy 7: 9-10, Psalm 97: 1-2, 5-6, 9 2 Peter 1: Luke 9: 28b Miller Road, Coral Gables, FL

3 The Word on Fire by Bishop Robert Barron, from December 15, 2015 Article The Spiritual Master Pope Francis Wants You to Read This year marks the 750 th anniversary of the birth of the great Catholic poet Dante Alighieri. Michelangelo reverenced Dante, as did Longfellow, Dorothy Sayers, and T.S. Eliot. In fact, it was Eliot who commented, Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third. One of Bob Dylan s finest songs, Tangled Up in Blue, contains a reference to Dante: She opened up a book of poems, handed it to me/ It was written by an Italian poet from the 13 th century/ And every one of those words rang true and glowed like burning coal/ Pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul. I first read Dante s masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, in the summer of 1990, when I was studying German in Freiburg in Breisgau. The experience changed my life. Almost every book I ve written contains some reference to the poet, and I ve used him extensively in my preaching for twenty-five years. Just this past summer, while filming with my Word on Fire team in Ravenna, I had the opportunity to visit Dante s tomb, which I found incomparably moving. There is so much to admire in The Divine Comedy: its architectonic structure, its lyrical language, its unforgettable metaphors, its cadences and rhythms (impossible to convey in translations), its psychological perceptiveness, its deep humanity, etc. But I would like to focus on its extraordinary spiritual power. How wonderful that arguably the most significant poem in the Western tradition is all about sin and redemption and is suffused through and through with a distinctively Catholic sensibility. The epic poem opens in the year 1300, when its protagonist was thirty-five, mid-life by a Biblical reckoning: The measure of our life is seventy years (Ps. 90:10). As psychologists and spiritual teachers over the centuries have testified, mid-life is often a time of crisis and breakthrough. The justly celebrated opening lines of the Comedy signal this truth: Midway on the journey of our life, I woke to find myself alone in a dark wood, having wandered from the straight path. Though he was a massively accomplished man, renowned in both the artistic and political arenas, Dante was, by his mid-thirties, spiritually lost. That he realized this that he woke up to it, to use his metaphor was a signal virtue and the impetus for his journey, much as hitting bottom and turning one s life over to a higher power are essential for those undertake a Twelve-Step process. He meets the ghost of the Roman poet Virgil, who functions as his psychopomp, mystagogue, and spiritual director. One of the most important truths in the spiritual order is that one should never commence the journey alone: things get complicated fairly quickly, and a skilled guide is essential. Virgil tells the troubled Dante that there is a way forward but that it involves a journey through Hell. In our I m okay and you re okay culture, this is a very difficult message to take in, but every authentic spiritual master acknowledges its indispensability. We have to confront our sin and dysfunction with complete honesty; otherwise we will get stuck. The Twelve-Step program speaks of doing a searching moral inventory as a non-negotiable prerequisite to dealing with an addiction. So Virgil leads Dante on a thorough-going tour of the underworld. As the pilgrim takes in the sufferings of the damned, he is sometimes so overwhelmed that he faints dead away, but Virgil brings him back around, for the point is to see what sin does to the soul. In watching the pains endured by the denizens of Hell, Dante is seeing his own sin and appreciating, perhaps for the first time, precisely what it has done to him. At the very bottom of Hell, Virgil and Dante confront Satan. Unlike any other depiction of the devil in the great tradition, Dante presents Satan, not as ensconced in flames, but as buried in ice. The more one muses on it, the more this seems an apt image of the coldness, immobility, and isolation that follow from rejecting God s love. Moreover, Dante imagines the devil as possessing three faces a twisted imitation of the Trinity. Deep down, every sinner, in making himself the center of the universe, is aping God. From all six eyes, Satan weeps, signaling that, in the final analysis, sin is sad. Unlike Milton s Satan or even Al Pacino s version of the prince of darkness in the film The Devil s Advocate, Dante s devil has nothing glamorous or romantic about him. He is just stuck, pathetic, and sad. Having gone all the way down, Dante is now ready to rise. Moving through the center of the earth, he comes out the other side (interestingly, the 13 th century poet somehow intuited the roundness of the earth) and commences a journey up Mt. Purgatory. On each level of that seven-storey mountain (the title, by the way, of Thomas Merton s autobiography), one of the deadly sins pride, envy, anger, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust is punished, usually through some version of enantiodromia, or moving in the direction opposite of one s sin. So the prideful, who elevated themselves in A University Parish: School of Prayer and Center for the New Evangelization 3

their earthly lives, are forced to carry huge boulders that press them to the ground; and the envious, who spent their lives looking resentfully at others, have their eyelids sown shut; and the

Having then been purified, Dante is ready to fly. At the top of Mt. Purgatory, now accompanied by the blissful Beatrice, he commences a flight through the various levels of heaven.

4 their earthly lives, are forced to carry huge boulders that press them to the ground; and the envious, who spent their lives looking resentfully at others, have their eyelids sown shut; and the slothful, who could muster no spiritual energy in this world, are made to run, etc. Dante thereby takes in the two essential steps in the process of conversion: seeing and acting. Having then been purified, Dante is ready to fly. At the top of Mt. Purgatory, now accompanied by the blissful Beatrice, he commences a flight through the various levels of heaven. What he sees are, in essence, different modalities and dimensions of love, for heaven is nothing but love. One of the most memorable examples of this is that the Franciscan St. Bonaventure introduces St. Dominic, the founder of the Dominican Order, and the Dominican St. Thomas Aquinas introduces St. Francis, the founder of the Franciscans. Rivalries and jealousies are absent in heaven; all that remains is courtesy. Finally, at the very end of his pilgrimage, the poet is permitted to look into the face of God, which he appreciates as the love that moves the Sun and the other stars. The itinerary through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven is not a bit of medieval fantasy; instead, it is a vivid description of the process by which we find salvation. Hence, it is as relevant now (probably more so) than it was in the thirteenth century. Pope Francis has said that, especially in this Year of Mercy, we should read and reread this magnificent spiritual teacher. I think he's right. Monday, August 1st, 2016 Check out our new bulle n features! Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Schedule of Masses: (may be subject to change) Tuesday, July 26th, :00 p.m. : Young Hall Wednesday, July 27th, :30 p.m. : Sandwich Making (Homeless Thursday, July 28th, :30 a.m. : Homeless Soup Kitchen 12:30 p.m. : Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Adoration until 8:00 Friday, July 28th, 2016 Saturday, July 29th, :30 a.m. : Pray the Rosary after the 8:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. : Saturday August 6th, :30 p.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala 7:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín Sunday August 7th, :00 a.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala 10:00 a.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín 12:00 p.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala 5:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín 6:30 p.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala Last Week s Collection Thank you for your generosity! Friday July 22nd, 2016 (Homeless Ministry Collection) 12:00 p.m. : $ 345 Saturday July 23rd, :30 p.m. : $ 2,353 7:00 p.m. : $ 465 Sunday July 24th, :00 a.m. : $ 1,855 10:00 a.m. : $ 1,493 12:00 p.m. : $ 1,688 5:00 p.m. : $ 2,695 6:30 p.m. : $ 1,872 Other: $ Mail: $ 2,990 Total: $16, Miller Road, Coral Gables, FL

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8 Together, We Change Lives A heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who made a commitment to the 2016 Archbishop s Charities and Development Drive (ABCD). To date, 285 families and individuals have responded generously, contributing $379,680. That is 80% percent to the goal. However, we need the support of all members of St. Augustine Church and Catholic Student Center if we are to be successful in reaching our parish combined goal of $476,456. If you have not yet responded to the 2016 ABCD, please make a gift by using the pledge envelopes available in the pews or by making a gift online at Thank you for all that you do and the spirit in which you do it! A special thank you to our donors, thus far; Colleen Abernathy Armando Acevedo Magali Acosta Jose Acosta Israel Aguilar Enrique Albeirus Sebastian Almazan Fernando Alonso Hector Alvarez Guillermo Anido Penelope Arango Antonio Argiz Carlos Armengol Alicia Arner Ippolita Avellaneda Ruby Bacardi Thomas Baker Fernando Barquero Kathleen Basañez Ricardo Bascuas Rogelio Basnuevo Ralph Bekkevold Jose Benki Amelie Bethart-Tejera Cristina Blanco Salvador Bonilla-Mathe Roberto Borbolla Pedro Bosch Lourdes Bosch James Bowling Mary Brady Virginia Bru Janet Brustares Roberto Bustillo Joseph Cabrera Robert Cambo Joseph Campa Marilynn Campanile Josefa Capellades Meliano Carmona German Carrero Viriato Carrillo Carmen Carter German Casal Ramon Castella German Castro Luisa Cervantes Miguel Cervoni Jose Chirinos Martha Chisholm Frank Chmielewski Marie Chong Jose Collazo Mildred Copeland Jose Cos Aran De Amezola Francisco de la Fuente Jose De La Torriente Jorge de la Torriente Nick De Martino Carlos De Mendia Olga De Sosa Robert Dean Carlos DeBayle Jose DeHombre Gloria Diamond Celinda DiBernardo Manuel Dominguez Gerard Doyle Raul Echarte Bruce Ehrenhaft George Elgart Harold Elosegui Lucia Escagedo Dulce Escarra Michael Eskra Joseph Esposito Joan Evans Rafael Fernandez Teresa Fernandez Jose Ferrer Arlene Ferris Tito Figueroa Daniel Finora Richard Forero Gustavo Forero Enrique Forte Natalia Francisco June Frost Evangelina Fuentes Juan A Galan Jr Higinio Garcia Franklin Garcia Jose Garcia Santos Garcia Josefina Garcia Maria Garcia Melquiades Garcia Mariano Garcia Jose Garrido Jose Garrido Adela Gaston Olga Golik Jesus Gomez Jorge Gonzalez Luis Gonzalez Ana Gonzalez Eduardo Gonzalez Gordon Gregory Eduardo Guernica Alfonso Guerra Miguel Guerrero Rolando Guilarte Carlos Halley John Harriman Timothy Hartling Diosdado Hassan Mark Heilman Victoria Hernandez Mauro Hernandez Luis Herrnsdorf Carlos Hondal Cristina Hussain Juan Pablo Ibarra Marie Jacobs Valarie James Sallye Jude Richard Jung Jerome Kavulich Grace Kelleher David Kuhn Susan Joy Lacey Quang Lam Rosemary Landrian Beatriz Larin Rene Larrieu Raquel Latour Marta Latour Carlos Lavernia Alicia Layne Bobbie Lesman Todd Levine Elena Llano Maria Llano Thomas Logan Joseph Lomako Alberto Lopez Eddy Lopez Ramon Lorente Jorge Luzarraga Luis Maderal Edward Malcer Juan Manzueta Carlos Marin Dominic Marra Humberto Martinez Filadelfia Martinez Maria Martinez Michael Martino Lourdes Mata James McClellan Robert McGee James McLaughlin Samuel McMillian Noel Medina Jose Mendiola Silvia Mestre Caridad Miranda Judith Mitchell Natalia Mora Rafael Morales Manuel Morales Irma Moreno Ambler Moss Maria Ochoa Leo Ochoa Seong Oh Ana Olavarria Vidal Elizabeth Olazabal Richard O'Rourke Victor Padilla Valois Pagan Gloria Palomino Fred Panzer Rube Pardo Georgina Pardo Francisco Paredes Luis Pavon Georgina Pelto Amado Pena George Peon Luis Perez Janet Perez William Perez Ramon Perez-Alonso Daniele Perez-Venero Victor Pimentel Martin Pinilla Avelino Pinon George Pita David Plummer Estella Poo Maurice Prendiville Theresa Puma Felipe Rabre Pedro Raimundez Jacqueline Rasco David Raskosky Gustavo Ravelo Joseph Realini Marissa Rios Antonio Rios Humberto Rivero Juan Rodriguez Alex Rodriguez Carlos Rodriguez Jose Romero Bertha Rosales Rodolfo Ruiz Theresa Rust Frank Salas Terrence Salt Jose Sanchez Ines Sanchez Robert Schneckenberg Roy Schoen John Sennetti Frank Shepherd Rafael Sixto Evelyn Sklar Gracia Smalley Joann Smith Miguel Sosa Jose Sotolongo Sylvia Spader Brian Stack Thomas Stawarski Frederick Stebbins Richard Stuart Luis Suao Antonio Suarez Jaime Suarez Carlos Suastegui Hugo Sueiro Frances Susi James Sutton John Swain John Tambini Amaro Taquechel Brian Tart Lucas Theophilus Joyce Thompson Fernando Tinoco Michal Toborek David Torkington Joaquin Trias Mario Trueba Maria Tyler Ernesto Valdes Isabel Valdivia Juan Vasquez Jorge Vasseur Manuel Vazquez Rosa Vazquez Robert Venditti Joaquin Viadero Mario Vicente Ady Viera Javier Vijil Patricia Villacorta Alexandra Villoch Anna Walsh Maria Wasserman Matt Weaver Donald Wiesner Elena Willliams Millar Wilson Luisa Wirshing Kau-Fui Wong Kent Wreder Julian Yong Gloria York James Zavertnik Andrew Zohn Luis Zuniga Miller Road, Coral Gables, FL

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Parish Clergy & Staff Msgr. Michael Carruthers. Fr. Cesar Peña. Deacon Jose S. Chirinos Deacon Eddy Smith Deacon Mark Westman Sofia Acosta

Parish Clergy & Staff Msgr. Michael Carruthers Pastor Fr. Cesar Peña Parochial Vicar Deacon Jose S. Chirinos Deacon Eddy Smith Deacon Mark Westman Sofia Acosta Director of Religious Education Jorge Pis-Rodriguez