ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH ESTABLISHED IN 1866 STAFFED BY THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR

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1 ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH ESTABLISHED IN 1866 STAFFED BY THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR PROVINCE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ST. ANTHONY S IS ACCESSIBLE TO THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED. Please use our elevator located on the corner of West Houston and Sullivan Streets. The Mission of St. Anthony of Padua Church is to minister spiritually, sacramentally and physically to all who enter our doors. PARISH OFFICE 154 SULLIVAN STREET, NEW YORK, NY PHONE: FAX: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: CALL MAIN NUMBER. CONVENT: OFFICE HOURS: Monday Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Closed for lunch: 12:00-1:00 p.m. Closed: Saturdays, Sundays & Holidays. PARISH WEBSITE PASTORAL STAFF Fr. Mario F. Julian, OFM Pastor mariofjulian@mac.com Br. Charles Trebino, OFM Pastoral Associate bcsjt@stanthonynyc.org Religious Education Information Please contact the Pastor. Ana Simoes Office Administrator ana.s@stanthonynyc.org Theresa Salfi-Bent Parish Business Manager theresa.salfi@stanthony.org Paul Alberts Music Minister Christine Sperry Leader of Song Hilario Santiago Facilities Manager PARISH REGISTRATION If you plan to join the parish, please call the office for a form. Return completed form to the office. PARISH PAY is an automated giving program which allows you to financially support your parish through monthly contributions from checking, savings or credit card accounts. Call the office for more information. LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST Saturday 5:00 p.m. Sunday 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. DAILY MASS Monday through Thursday: 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. Holy Days will be announced. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturdays from 4:00 4:45 p.m. or by appointment. Please call the office. PASTORAL CARE Please call to arrange for pastoral visitation including Anointing of the Sick and Communion calls to the hospitalized and homebound. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Please call to schedule Baptism. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance. Couples will need to meet all the requirements of the Archdiocese of New York for marriage preparation. Call the office. PERPETUAL NOVENAS AFTER DAILY MASSES ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA: Tuesday OUR LADY OF LOURDES: Wednesday ST. JUDE: Thursday RELIGIOUS EDUCATION GRADES: Pre-Kindergarten 8 th grade. Preparation for First Penance, First Eucharist and Confirmation.

2 SHRINE CHURCH OF OF ST. A. ANTHONY OF PADUA NEW YORK,, NY THE BREAD AND WINE USED FOR THE SUNDAY EUCHARIST HAS BEEN OFFERED FOR THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF ROSE & MARIO CILIOTTA VIGIL SATURDAY, MAY 19, :00 Gretchen Uhler Herrman SUNDAY, MAY 20 9:00 Pedreiro & Geraci families Fr. Gregory Fuller 11:00 Rose & Mario Ciliotta MONDAY, MAY 21 ST. CHRISTOPHER MAGALLANES AND COMPANIONS 8:00 Ermida, Eligio, & Rev. Edward A. Floretta 12:10 Irene C. Kenney & Marie Palombo TUESDAY, MAY 22 ST. RITA OF CASCIA 8:00 Rita Musto 12:10 Inez Berzolla & Agnese DiGiorgio WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 8:00 St. Anthony 12:10 Espinoza & De La Vega families THURSDAY, MAY 24 8:00 Deceased Members of the Julian & Mangini Families 12:10 Frank Antista FRIDAY, MAY 25 NO MASSES ON FRIDAYS ST. BEDE THE VENERABLE ST. GREGORY VII ST. MARY MAGDALENE DE PAZZI SATURDAY, MAY 26 ST. PHILIP NERI 5:00 Ned Mangini KEEP OUR TROOPS IN YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS. BY ELAINE & LINDA This weekend, we will take up a special Collection for the Church in Latin America. For many in Latin America and the Caribbean, rural terrain and a lack of ministers are obstacles to practicing their faith. Your support to the collection will help provide lay leadership training, catechesis, priestly and religious formation, as well as other programs to help share our faith with those who long to hear the Good News of Christ. Please prayerfully consider supporting this collection as a way to share your faith with our brothers and sisters in Latin America and the Caribbean. To learn more, please visit ST. ANTHONY S SENIOR S CLUB The Senior s meeting will be held Thursday, May 24 TH at 12:30 p.m. in the Pop Musante lower hall. PLEASE NOTE: This will be the last Senior s Club meeting till the Fall. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONES. Text messaging and phone calls interfere with our wireless sound system, EVEN WHEN MUTED. PLEASE RESPECT THE DIGNITY OF HOLY MASS BY TURNING OFF YOUR CELL PHONE.

3 PENTECOST SUNDAY YEAR B MAY 20, 2018 T he doors of the house were locked. The apostles had many reasons to fear. Their Lord and Master whom they had loved, followed and learned from, had been betrayed by one of them, handed over by the Chief Priests to be tortured and killed by the Romans. It was logical for them to think that the same wrath of their Master's enemies would now be directed towards His disciples. Jesus had said, if the world has hated me it will hate you also (cf. Jn. 15:20) so there was every reason to lock the doors and keep watch. However, He had also said not to fear those who can only harm the body, and this was the command of Jesus that they were not yet able to fulfill. They needed a new strength from on high to be able to face those who would do them bodily harm as they persecuted them. When we lock the doors to God s action in our lives, when we try to keep His voice from echoing in our conscience, when we prefer not to listen to Him, it is usually because of fear. There is another order of fear that the disciple of Christ has to face and that is the fear of his own weakness. We can fear physical persecution and death because of the objective pain and loss they entail, but when we love Christ and would dearly want to be faithful in the face of persecution but think we won t be up to it, we experience another type of fear. These apostles were acutely aware that in the Last Supper they had all promised along with Peter that they were ready to die for Christ, and they were now tormented by the grief of not having been capable of keeping that promise. ON THIS WEEK S GOSPEL JN 20: The fear they felt was also an expression of a love that wanted to be faithful but knew by experience its own weakness. This requires too, a new inner strength that had to come from God, a remaking of their spirit. The disciples rejoiced when Jesus made Himself present, but then comes a paradox. They are still paralyzed by fear, yet Jesus again wishes them peace while apparently placing an even greater burden on their shoulders by sending them as the Father had sent Him. So often in our lives God surprises us by not doing the obvious, calm, reasonable thing, but by upping the ante instead. He wishes His apostles peace, He effectively brings them peace with His own presence, and then He shows them that He wants this peace to be permanent, but not in a sheltered, protected life away from all danger, remaining in that room with Jesus present among them. His plan is quite the opposite, because He sends them directly into the fray, the way the Father had sent Him to do battle to establish His Kingdom. If they were being sent as He was sent, it was to work, preach and offer redemptive suffering for souls. It would mean doing battle like Him with the temptations of Satan in their own lives; it would mean preaching, teaching and bringing healing and hope, like Him; it would entail dying to themselves, like the grain of wheat that falls to the earth and dies in order to bear fruit, like Him. This did not seem to promise much peace. And their fear remained. Here is Jesus solution to their fears and the reality of their weakness. The Holy Spirit will change them. The Spirit gives life. They are going to have a new strength and a new understanding. The Cross and their reaction to the crosses they were to face from there on out would change radically. The Spirit they received would not allow them to remain in that room, they felt the urgency to go out and bring the Good News to every creature. They would now be uneasy in keeping their beliefs to themselves, a private matter to be discussed behind closed doors, out of fear. Those doors that were their security now became unbearable obstacles and they burst through them, breathless to tell the whole world what God has done for us in Jesus. St. Paul would later say: Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! (1 Cor. 9: 16). Woe to us today, if we fear the unchartered waters of being Christ s witnesses in society, in college, in work... PRAYER: Take away all fear of being Your disciple. Make me an instrument of the change You want to bring to those around me and may my actions be the first proclamation of Your message to those I meet. ACT OF CONTRITION PRAYER: MY GOD, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee and I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell; but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, Who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen.

4 T H E U N H A P P Y C O S T O F R E S E N T M E N T I t s not only love that makes the world go round. Resentment too is prominent in stirring the drink. In so many ways our world is drowning in resentment. Everywhere you look, it seems, someone is bitter about something and breathing out resentment. What is resentment? Why is this feeling so prevalent in our lives? How do we move beyond it? Soren Kierkegaard once defined resentment in this way. Resentment, he suggested, happens when we move from the happy feeling of admiration to the unhappy feeling of jealousy. And this, sadly, happens all too frequently in our lives and we are dangerously blind to its occurrence. Me resentful? How dare you make that accusation! At every level of life, from what we see playing out in the grievances and wars among nations to what we see playing out in the bickering in our board rooms, class rooms, living rooms, and bedrooms, there is evidence of resentment and bitterness. Our world is full of resentment. Everyone, it seems, is bitter about something, and, of course, not without cause. Few are the persons who do not secretly nurse the feeling that they have been ignored, wounded, cheated, treated unfairly, and have drawn too many short straws in life; and so many of us feel that we have every right to protest our right to be resentful and unhappy. We re not happy, but with good reason. Yes, there s always reason to be resentful; but, and this is the point of this column, according to a number of insightful analysts, both old and new, we are rarely in touch with the real reason why we are so spontaneously bitter. The deep root of our resentment and unhappiness lies in our inability to admire, our inability to praise others, and our inability to give others and the world a simple gaze of admiration. We re a society that, for the most part, can t admire. Admiration is, for us, a lost virtue. Indeed in the many circles today, both in the world and in the churches, admiration is seen as something juvenile and immature, the frenzied, mindless shrieking of teenage girls chasing a rock star. Maturity and sophistication are identified today with the kind of intelligence, wit, and reticence, which don t easily admire, which don t easily compliment. Learning and maturity, we believe, need to be picking things apart, suspicious of others virtues, distrustful of their motives, on hyper-alert for hypocrisy, and articulating every reason not to admire. Such is the view today. But what we don t admit in this view of maturity and learning is how we feel threatened by those whose graces or virtues exceed our own. What we don t admit is our own jealousy. C o n t i n u e d o n f l a p s i d e

5 c o n t i n u e d f r o m f l a p s i d e What we don t admit is our own resentment. What we don t admit, and never will admit, is how our need to cut down someone else is an infallible sign of our own jealousy and bad self-image. Cynicism and cold judgment make for a perfect camouflage; we don t need to admire because we re bright enough to see that there s nothing really to admire. That, too often, is our sophisticated, unhappy state: We can no longer truly admire anybody. We can no longer truly praise anybody. We can no longer look at the world with any praise or admiration. Rather our gaze is perennially soured by resentment, cynicism, judgment, and jealousy. We can test ourselves on this: When was the last time you told a person, especially a younger person, that you admire her, that you admire what he s doing, that her gifts enrich your life, and that you are happy that his path has crossed yours? When was the last time you gave someone a heartfelt compliment? Or, to reverse the question: When was the last time that someone, especially someone who is threatened by your talents, gave you a sincere compliment? We don t compliment each other easily, or often, and this betrays a secret jealousy. It also reveals a genuine moral flaw in our lives. St. Thomas Aquinas once submitted that to withhold a compliment from someone who deserves it is a sin because we are withholding from him or her some of the food that he or she needs to live. To not admire, to not praise, to not compliment, is not a sign of sophistication, but a sign of moral immaturity and personal insecurity. It is also one of the deeper reasons why we so often fill with bitter feelings of resentment and unhappiness. Why do we so often feel bitter and resentful? We fill with resentment for many reasons, though, not least, because we have lost the virtues of admiration and praise. Several years ago, Roger Rosenblatt, in an essay in Time magazine, offered this advice to his son who was graduating from high school and heading off to college: Whatever you do in life, be sure to admire others who do it as well as or better than you. When was the last time you told someone that he or she had done something really well? When is the last time you looked at anything or anyone with the gaze of admiration? When we admire we get to feel good because, when we act like God, we get to feel like God. God is never grey, depressed, and cynical and God s first gaze at us, as Scripture and the mystics assure us, is not one of critical disapproval but one of admiration. As Julian of Norwich puts it, God sits in heaven, completely relaxed, smiling, His face looking like a marvelous symphony. That s hardly the description of how we writers, academics, artists, theologians, ministers, priests, and ordinary folks normally look at the world.

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