Parish Clergy & Staff Msgr. Tomás M. Marín, V.F. Fr. Robert Ayala. Deacon Jose S. Chirinos Deacon Mark P. Westman. Cris na Freyre.

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1 Parish Clergy & Staff Msgr. Tomás M. Marín, V.F. Pastor Fr. Robert Ayala Parochial Vicar Deacon Jose S. Chirinos Deacon Mark P. Westman Cris na Freyre Parish Office Manager 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 Maria Cris na Suarez Sacristan Iancarlo Arispe Development Coordinator Mass Schedule (Non-Holidays): 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 8:00 pm (During School Session) 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: 9:00 am 12:00 pm 12:35 pm to 6:00 pm Monday - Friday

2 Saturday, April 8th, :30 p.m. + Jorge L. Powell + George F. Kimball + Rosa & Rosendo Platas + Jimmy Fenton Santeiro + Chichi Garcia-Lomas + Alfredo Portales 7:00 p.m. + Daniela Maria Albir + Fernando Quinonez Meza + Gerardo Padilla + Jorge I. Mata Sunday, April 9th, :00 a.m. + Alexander Puma + Margarita G. Andino + Eni Papadam 10:00 a.m. + Hilda Bacardi + Luis J. Bacardi + Luis F. Bacardi + Roberto Morales + George A. Ibarra 12:00 p.m. - For the Parish Family 5:00 p.m. + Melissa Christina Rodriguez + Suzanne Guanci + Winefred Spintig + Sylvia Murai + Georgina Pelegrin - In Thanksgiving for God s Abundance & Family 6:30 p.m. + Vicenta & Estela Carvajal + Ondina Rey - Living & Deceased Members of the Murciano Families - Living & Deceased Members of the Vecino & Fullerton Families 8:00 p.m. - University of Miami Students & Their Families Monday, April 10th, :00 a.m. + Roberto Giro 12:05 p.m. + Cesareo Llano + Felipe Solarana + Gloria Pascual - Raul Salas Tuesday, April 11th, :00 a.m. - Special Intention for Mia Lozano 12:05 p.m. + Antonio G. Mora + Jose Felipe Cos + Maria Isabel May + Leopoldo Soberanes + Mary Ellen Starkey Wednesday, April 12th, :00 a.m. + Carlos Costales - Special Intentions of Juan M. Salvador 12:05 p.m. + Alberto Mestre + Nancy Cornett + Adriana Castello - Jennifer M. Dorta-Duque Thursday, April 13th, :00 p.m. + Manuela Franco + Robert B. Hoffman + Jose Alvarez & Rodrigo Campbell + Ana Gan Nguyen + Minerva Sanz Sunday, April 8th, 2017 Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? MT 21:1-11 PS 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, PHIL 2:6-11 MT 26:14 27:66 Monday, April 10th, 2017 Monday of Holy Week The Lord is my light and my salvation. IS 42:1-7 PS 27:1, 2, 3, JN 12:1-11 Tuesday, April 11th, 2017 Tuesday of Holy Week I will sing of your salvation. IS 49:1-6 PS 71:1-2, 3-4A, 5AB-6AB, 15 AND 17 JN 13:21-33, Wednesday, April 12th, 2017 Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent Lord, in your great love, answer me. IS 50:4-9A PS 69:8-10, 21-22, 31 AND MT 26:14-25 Thursday, April 13th, 2017 Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ. EX 12:1-8, PS 116:12-13, 15-16BC, HEB 4:14-16; 5:7-9 JN 18:1 19:42 Friday, April 14th, 2017 Good Friday of the Lord's Passion Father, into your hands I commend my spirit. IS 52:13 53:12 PS 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-14, 24, 35 GN 22:1-18 Saturday, April 15th, 2017 Holy Saturday At the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. GN 1:1 2:2 ROM 6:3-11 PS 118:1-2, 16-17, MT 28: Miller Road, Coral Gables, FL

3 THE REVOLUTIONARY MESSAGE OF PALM SUNDAY By Bishop Robert Barron, USCCB chair of evangelization and catechesis The texts that Christians typically read on Palm Sunday have become so familiar to them that they probably don't sense their properly revolutionary power. But no first-century Jew would have missed the excitement and danger implicit in the coded language of the accounts describing Jesus entry into Jerusalem just a few days before his death. In Mark s Gospel we hear that Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives. A bit of trivial geographical detail, we might be tempted to conclude. But we have to remember that pious Jews of Jesus time were immersed in the infinitely complex world of the Hebrew Scriptures and stubbornly read everything through the lens provided by those writings. About five hundred years before Jesus time, the prophet Ezekiel had relayed a vision of the Shekinah (the glory) of Yahweh leaving the temple, due to its corruption: The glory of the Lord went out from the threshold of the house (the temple) and stopped above the cherubim. The cherubim rose from the earth in my sight as they went out They stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the Lord; and the glory of the God of Israel was above them (Ez. 10: 18-19). This was one of the most devastating texts in the Old Testament. The temple of the Lord was seen as, in almost a literal sense, the dwelling place of God, the meeting-place of heaven and earth. Thus even to imagine that the glory of the Lord had quit his temple was shocking in the extreme. However, Ezekiel also prophesied that one day the glory of God would return to the temple, and precisely from the same direction in which it had left: Then he brought me to the gate, the gate facing east. And there, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east; the sound was like the sound of mighty waters; and the earth shone with his glory (Ez. 43: 1-2). Furthermore, upon the return of the Lord s glory, Ezekiel predicted, the corrupt temple would be cleansed, restored, re-built. Now let s return to Jesus, who, during his public ministry, consistently spoke and acted in the very person of God and who said, in reference to himself, you have a greater than the temple here. As they saw him approaching Jerusalem from the east, they would have remembered Ezekiel s vision and would have begun to entertain the wild but thrilling idea that perhaps this Jesus was, in person, the glory of Yahweh returning to his dwelling place on earth. And in light of this, they would have understood the bewildering acts that Jesus performed in the temple. He was, in fact, another Ezekiel, pronouncing judgment on the old temple and then announcing a magnificent re-building campaign: I will tear down this place and in three days rebuild it. Jesus, they came to understand, was the new and definitive temple, the meetingplace of heaven and earth. A University Parish: School of Prayer and Center for the New Evangelization 3

4 And there is even more to see in the drama of Jesus arrival in the Holy City. As the rabbi from Nazareth entered Jerusalem on a donkey, no one could have missed the reference to a passage in the book of the prophet Zechariah: Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey (Zech. 9:9). A thousand years before the time of Jesus, David had taken possession of Jerusalem, dancing before the Ark of the Covenant. David s son Solomon built the great temple in David s city in order to house the Ark, and therefore, for that brief, shining moment, Israel was ruled by righteous kings. But then Solomon himself and a whole slew of his descendants fell into corruption, and the prophets felt obligated to criticize the kings as thoroughly as they criticized the temple. The people began to long for the return of the king, for the appearance of the true David, the one who would deal with the enemies of the nation and rule as king of the world. They expected this new David to be, of course, a human figure, but something else rather surprising colored their expectation, namely, that through this human being, God would actually come to rule the nation. Here are just two passages, chosen from dozens, that express this hope: For I am a great king says Yahweh of hosts, and my name is reverenced among the nations (Malachi 1:14); and I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations (Psalm 145). So to draw these various strands together, we might say that the Biblical authors expected Yahweh to become king, precisely through a son of David, who would enter the holy city, not as a conquering hero, riding a stately Arabian charger, but as a humble figure, riding a young donkey. Could anyone have missed that this was exactly what they were seeing on Palm Sunday? Jesus was not only the glory of Yahweh returning to his temple; he was also the new David, indeed Yahweh himself, reclaiming his city and preparing to deal with the enemies of Israel. He fought, of course, not in the conventional manner. Instead, he took all of the dysfunction of the world upon himself and swallowed it up in the ocean of the divine mercy and forgiveness. He thereby dealt with the enemies of the nation and emerged as the properly constituted king of the world. And this is why Pontius Pilate, placing over the cross a sign in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew announcing that this crucified Jesus is King of the Jews, became, despite himself, the first great evangelist! And so the message, delivered in the wonderfully coded and ironic language of the Gospel writers, still resonates today: heaven and earth have come together; God is victorious; Jesus is Lord Miller Road, Coral Gables, FL

5 Monday, April 10th, :00am & 12:05pm: Daily Church 7:00pm: Library Tuesday, April 11th, :00am & 12:05pm: Daily Church 11:30am: Tabling on UM Breezeway 1:00pm: Confessions on UM Breezeway 6:30pm: Church (Open to all) 7:00pm: Meal for Parish Library 8:00pm: Young Adult Parish Hall Wednesday, April 12th, :00am: & 12:05pm: Daily Church 6:00pm: (Instead of the usual 6:30pm): Sandwich Making for the Parish Lounge 6:30pm: Soup & Bread: Bring your favorite soup to Parish Hall 8:00pm: Tenebrae Church Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday Schedule of Masses (names may be subject to change) Saturday, April 15th, :00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomas M. Marin Sunday, April 16th, :30 a.m. : Msgr. Tomas M. Marin 8:00 a.m. : Msgr. Tomas M. Marin 10:00 a.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala 12:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomas M. Marin 1:30 p.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala (in Spanish) 5:00 p.m. : Fr. Mark Reeves 6:30 p.m. : Fr. Elvis Gonzalez Last Week s Collection will appear in next week s bulletin Thank you for your generosity! Thursday, April 13th, :00pm: Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord s Supper and Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament until Midnight Friday, April 14th, :00pm: Stations of the Cross 1:00pm: Via Crucis (Spanish) 3:00pm: Celebration of the Passion 6:15pm: Living Stations of the Cross 7:00pm: Celebration of the Passion Saturday, April 15th, :30am: Church A University Parish: School of Prayer and Center for the New Evangelization 5

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