Parish Clergy & Staff Msgr. Tomás Marín. Fr. Robert Ayala. Deacon Jose S. Chirinos Deacon Mark Westman Sofia Acosta. Jorge Pis-Rodriguez.

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1 Parish Clergy & Staff Msgr. Tomás 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

2 MASS INTENTIONS Scripture Readings & Responsorial Psalms Saturday, July 2nd, :30 p.m. + Miguel Guerrero - Cecilia Maria Lamezares Chaves - Wedding Anniversary of Jennifer Reichers & Joseph Brady - In Thanksgiving for Cristopher Julian Diaz - Kathy Sooner 7:00 p.m. + Dr. Santiago Echemendia + Consuelo Castro + Maria del Carmen Escoto + Pedro Rodriguez - Ketty Roche Sunday, July 3rd, :00 a.m. + Thomas S. Shileen Jr. + Florentina Alvarez Puig & Jaime Puig + Kathleen & Joseph Walsh + Renato & Santina Porfiri + Juan Arturo Gutierrez 10:00 a.m. + Hilda Bacardi + Luis J. Bacardi + Luis F. Bacardi + Roberto Morales + Joseph & Raquel Concepcion + Andrés R. Cancela 12:00 p.m. - For the Parish Family 5:00 p.m. + Francis Battaglia + Domenic Battaglia, Sr. + Mari Lupe Ortiz Travieso 6:30 p.m. + Gary & Rafael Orozco - Health of Raquel Latour Monday, July 4th, :00 a.m. - The United States of America - Cortez family and friend - Msgr. Marin - Fr. Ayala 12:05 p.m. + Eugenio del Busto + Maria Martin + Victoria Remon Gamboa Tuesday, July 5th, :00 a.m. + Francisco J. Sanchez - Health of Raquel Latour - Health of Carol Whitaker 12:05 p.m. + Ramona L. Martinez + Gerardo Santeiro - Our Country - Birthday of Theresa Rust Wednesday, July 6th, :00 a.m. + Ralph Marra - Healing of Giselle Hernandez - Intentions of the Castro-Fernandez Family 12:05 p.m. + Teresita Bared Fernandez + Beatrice & James Hughes - Special intention of Bernabe Peña - Special Intention Thursday, July 7th, :00 a.m. + Millan Escagedo - Healing of Giselle Hernandez - Intentions of Juan M. Salvador - All those in need who come or call St. Augustine Church and Catholic Student Center 12:05 p.m. + Deceased members of the Peñate Muñero Family + Jimmy Fenton + Irma & Sergio Gallo + Millan Escagedo Friday, July 8th, :00 a.m. + Mariana Delgado Pozzo + Teresita Jacomino + Fernando Quinonez + Manuel Mato - healing of Giselle Hernandez 12:05 p.m. + Daniela Maria Albir + Jorge Powell + Jimmy Fenton Santeiro + Jorge I. Mata + Julia Basterrechea + George F. Kimball Saturday, July 9th, :00 a.m. + Andrés García Chacón - Jorgey Pollo & Martha Castellanos - Healing of Giselle Hernandez Sunday, July 3rd, 2016 Fourteenth Sunday Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. Isaiah 66: 10-14c Psalm 66: 1-7, 16, 20 Galatians 6: Luke 10: 1-12 Monday, July 4th, 2016 Monday of the Fourteenth Week The Lord is gracious and merciful. Hosea 2: 16, 17b - 18, Psalm 145: 2-9 Matthew 9: Tuesday, July 5th, 2016 Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week The house of Israel trusts in the Lord. Hosea 8: 4-7, Psalm 115: 3-6, 7ab - 8, 9-10 Matthew 9: Wednesday, July 6th, 2016 Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week Seek always the face of the Lord. Hosea 10: 1-3, 7-8, 12 Psalm 105: 2-7 Matthew 10: 1-7 Thursday, June 7th, 2016 Thursday of the Fourteenth Week Let us see your face, Lord, and we shall be saved. Hosea 11: 1-4, 8c - 9 Psalm 80: 2ac, 3b, Matthew 10: 7-15 Friday, July 8th, 2016 Friday of the Fourteenth Week My mouth will declare your praise. Hosea 14: 2-10 Psalm 51: 3-4, 8-9, 12-14, 17 Matthew 10: Saturday, July 9th, 2016 Saturday of the Fourteenth Week The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty. Isaiah 6: 1-8 Psalm 93: 1-2, 5 Matthew 10: Miller Road, Coral Gables, FL

3 The Word on Fire by Bishop Robert Barron, from March 15, 2016 article One of the most impressive literary figures of the twentieth century was the Irish writer Iris Murdoch. You may have heard of her surprising and thoughtful novels such as A Severed Head and The Good Apprentice; or perhaps you are conversant with her more abstract philosophical texts such as The Sovereignty of Good and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. She reached her greatest notoriety, posthumously, in the work of her husband John Bayley, who penned a moving memoir of his wife s slow and emotionally wrenching descent into Alzheimer s disease. To hear the story of one of the brightest women of her time gradually losing her mind is, to say the least, unnerving. But due to Bayley s artful telling, the experience becomes, almost despite itself, uplifting as well. A careful examination of Murdoch s fiction and non-fiction reveals her consistently dark take on human nature. Left to our own devices, we are, she thinks, self-absorbed, violent, and all too willing to draw the whole world into the narrow confines of our egotism. In this conviction, of course, she is not far from the classical Christian doctrine of original sin. What we require, she concludes, are spiritual exercises that serve to break us out of the prison of our self-absorption; and since we are so ensconced in the pattern of self-reference, these must be rather shocking reversals of the status quo. We need the Good in one form or another to burst through the carapace of our fearful self-regard. A first such exercise, Murdoch suggests, is the learning of a foreign language. Playing at another language can be a mildly diverting experience and it can convince one that the language can be used after the manner of a game. But when one is really compelled to learn a language well, for the sake of survival or success, one quickly discovers just how unyeilding, how demanding, and how unforgiving that language can be. French doesn t care whether you learn its nuances, its vocabulary, or its sometimes irrational spellings; German could care less whether or not you appreciate its (to English-speakers) confounding word order; Greek is not the least bit put out if you cannot master its alphabet, and Latin is utterly indifferent to your struggles with its endings and cases. All of these linguistic systems are, in their objectivity, order, confusion, and beauty, massively there, and they compel the one who would dare to learn them to submit. The demanding there-ness of the French language was symbolized for me one day soon after I had arrived in Paris for my doctoral studies. I was with some friends in a crowded restaurant at the height of the dinner rush when a stereotypically haughty and impatient waiter came to take our order. When he turned his imperious gaze toward me and uttered a curt Oui? I promptly forgot all of my carefully memorized restaurant vocabulary and every one of my past participles and devolved before his eyes into a muttering, incoherent child. His reaction to my plight? He turned and walked away. A second spiritual exercise recommended by Iris Murdoch for the disciplining of the ego is a confrontation with a true work of art. Second rate art is designed primarily to please. Comfortable, familiar, likeable, it presents no particular challenge to the sensibilities of the one who takes it in. For example, the music heard in an elevator or a doctor s waiting room is meant simply to provide a mild distraction or a feeling of calm in the listener; and the paintings that hang in most hotel rooms or corporate lobbies are intended to provide low-level entertainment. These works fit predictably into universally recognized canons of appropriateness and, as such, are forgotten almost as soon as they are taken in. But a great and true work of art does not aim to please. Rather, it presents itself in its integrity on its own terms, remaining fundamentally indifferent to the reaction of the viewer or listener. In a scene from his autobiographical masterpiece, A Portrait of the Ar st as Young Man, James Joyce brilliantly displays the dynamics of confronting the truly beautiful. Stephen Daedalus (Joyce s fictional alter-ego) is pacing listlessly on the strand outside of Dublin when he spies, standing out in the surf, a woman of surpassing beauty. He is stopped in his tracks in the state of aesthetic arrest and takes the woman in. She turns to him at one point and quietly suffered his gaze, before turning back to look out at the open sea. Indifferent to his feelings or reactions, she allowed him to watch. Finally, changed utterly by this encounter, Stephen cried out, Oh, heavenly God and resolved from that moment on to become an artist, a reporter of such epiphanies of the beautiful. The lovely girl standing just off the strand did not so much please Stephen Daedalus as change him, drawing him effectively out of his morose self-regard and giving him his vocation. Hans Urs von Balthasar observes, in a very similar vein, that the beautiful elects the observer and then sends him on mission to announce what he has seen. Not many years ago, Rolling Stone magazine asked a number of prominent popular musicians to name the song that first rocked their world. Some of the responses were relatively banal, but the vast majority of them had a Joycean resonance: the respondants knew instinctively the difference between songs (however great) that had merely pleased them and songs that had shaken them out of their complacency and rearranged their vision things. This kind of aesthetic encounter is the spiritual exercise that Murdoch is speaking of. It is against this Murdochian background that I should like to consider the familiar Gospel story of the Pharisee and the publican (Lk 18:9-14). Jesus tells of a Pharisee who took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity greedy, dishonest, adulterous or even like this tax-collector. This is, Jesus suggests, a fraudulent, wholly inadequate prayer, precisely because it simply confirms the man in his self-regard. The words are, obviously enough, just elaborate self-congratulation, but even the Pharisee s body-language gives him away: he takes up his position, standing with a confidence bordering on arrogance in the presence of God. The prayer itself confirms the Pharisee s world. Like a second-rate work of art, or like the tourist s language spoken by the dilettante, it functions simply to please. And the god to which A University Parish: School of Prayer and Center for the New Evangelization 3

4 he prays is, necessarily, a false god, an idol, since it allows itself to be positioned by the ego-driven needs of the Pharisee. But then Jesus invites us to meditate upon the publican s prayer. First, his stance is telling: but the tax-collector stood off at a distance would not even raise his eyes to heaven This man realizes that he is in the presence of a power that he cannot even in principle manipulate or control; and he signals with his body, accordingly, that he is positioned by this higher authority. Then he speaks with a simple eloquence: he beat his breast and prayed, O God, be merciful to me, a sinner. Though it is articulate speech, proceeding from the mind and will of the publican, it is not language that confirms the independence and power of the speaker, just the contrary. It is more of a cry or a groan, an acknowledgement that he needs to receive something, this mysterious mercy for which he begs. In the first prayer, god is the principal member of the audience arrayed before the ego of the Pharisee. But in this second prayer, God is the principal actor, and the publican is the audience awaiting a performance the contours of which he cannot fully foresee. And therefore the publican s prayer is the kind of spiritual exercise of which Iris Murdoch speaks. It is akin to the experience of being mastered by the French language, or by Picasso s Guernica, or by Bernini s Ecstasy of St. Teresa. In the eastern Christian tradition, the Jesus prayer is all-important. Whether recited throughout the day by the contemplative monk or spoken occasionally by the business person immersed in the cares of the secular world, this prayer anchors the spiritual life of many Christians. It is a formula derived from the tax-collector s prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on me, a sinner. It is simple, unadorned, even blunt. But it has the essential virtue of knocking the ego off of its pedestal and rocking the world of the one who utters it. In this, it both opens the sinner to transformation and honors the true God. This Week at Monday, July 4th, 2016 Office Closed Tuesday, July 5th, :00 p.m. : Young Adults - Parish Hall Wednesday, July 6th, :30 p.m. : Sandwich Making (Homeless Ministry) - Lounge Thursday, July 7th, :30 a.m. : Homeless Soup Making - Kitchen 12:30 p.m. : Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Adoration until 8:00 p.m. - Church Friday, July 8th, 2016 Saturday, July 9th, :30 a.m. : Pray the Rosary after the 8:00 a.m. Mass Church 11:30 a.m. : Confessions - Church Offertory Collection Update: The collection for the Weekend of May 21st & May 22nd was: $13, Weekly Expenses are $22,696. (Based on average weekly expenses for 2014) 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, 220 families and individuals have responded generously, contributing $372,710. That is 78 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 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 German Castro Luisa Cervantes Jose Chirinos Martha Chisholm Frank Chmielewski Marie Chong Jose Collazo Mildred Copeland Jose Cos Aran De Amezola Francisco de la Fuente Jose De La Torreiente 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 Gustavo Forero Richard Forero Enrique Forte Natalia Francisco June Frost Evangelina Fuentes Juan A Galan Jr Jose Garcia Santos Garcia Josefina Garcia Maria Garcia Melquiades Garcia Mariano Garcia Higinio Garcia Franklin Garcia Jose Garrido Jose Garrido Adela Gaston Jesus Gomez Jorge Gonzalez Ana Gonzalez Eduardo Gonzalez Gordon Gregory Eduardo Guernica Alfonso Guerra Miguel Guerrero Rolando Guilarte Carlos Halley Timothy Hartling Diosdado Hassan Mark Heilman Victoria Hernandez mauro hernandez Luis Herrnsdorf Carlos Hondal Cristina Hussain 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 William Perez Joseph Lomako Ramon Perez-Alonso Alberto Lopez Daniele Perez-Venero Eddy Lopez Victor Pimentel Ramon Lorente Martin Pinilla Jorge Luzarraga Avelino Pinon Luis Maderal George Pita Edward Malcer David Plummer Juan Manzueta Estella Poo Carlos Marin Maurice Prendiville Dominic Marra Theresa Puma Filadelfia Martinez Felipe Rabre Maria Martinez Pedro Raimundez Humberto Martinez Jacqueline Rasco Michael Martino David Raskosky Lourdes Mata Gustavo Ravelo James McClellan Joseph Realini Robert McGee Marissa Rios James McLaughlin Antonio Rios Samuel McMillian Humberto Rivero Noel Medina Alex Rodriguez Jose Mendiola Carlos Rodriguez Silvia Mestre Juan Rodriguez Caridad Miranda Bertha Rosales Judith Mitchell Rodolfo Ruiz Manuel Morales Theresa Rust Rafael Morales Frank Salas Irma Moreno Terrence Salt Ambler Moss Ines Sanchez Maria Ochoa Jose Sanchez Leo Ochoa Robert Schneckenberg Ana Olavarria Vidal Roy Schoen Elizabeth Olazabal John Sennetti Richard O'Rourke Frank Shepherd Valois Pagan Rafael Sixto Gloria Palomino Evelyn Sklar Fred Panzer Gracia Smalley Rube Pardo Joann Smith Georgina Pardo Miguel Sosa Francisco Paredes Jose Sotolongo Luis Pavon Sylvia Spader Georgina Pelto Brian Stack Amado Pena Thomas Stawarski George Peon Richard Stuart Luis Perez Luis Suao Janet Perez 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 David Torkington Joaquin Trias Mario Trueba Maria Tyler Ernesto Valdes Isabel Valdivia Juan Vasquez Jorge Vasseur Rosa Vazquez Manuel 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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