Our Lady of Mount Carmel Building a Christian Community through Gospel Values

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1 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Building a Christian Community through Gospel Values A Catholic parish community served by the Carmelite Order Most Holy Trinity June 11, 2017 Daily Monday through Saturday Saturday Vigil Sunday Holy Days MASS SCHEDULE 8:00 AM 4:30 PM 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM & 10:30 AM 8:00 AM & 5:30 PM CONFESSIONS Saturday 3:30-4:00 PM May-December PARISH OFFICE HOURS: Monday thru Thursday: 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM Friday: 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM PASTORAL MINISTRY TEAM Rev. Frederick J. Tillotson, O. Carm. Pastor ftillotson@olmc-osprey.org Rev. Richard Supple, O.Carm. Assoc. Pastor rsupple@olmc-osprey.org Rev. Niles Gillen, O. Carm. Assisting Priest Rev. Roger Bonneau, O. Carm. Assisting Priest Deacon Thomas Grant Pastoral Assoc. Margaret McHugh Director of R E & Youth mmchugh@olmc-osprey.org Doris R. Brodeur Adult Faith Development dbrodeur@olmc-osprey.org Darwin Reeck Pastoral Minister to the Sick dreeck@olmc-osprey.org Kathleen Lyda Music Director klyda@olmc-osprey.org Linda Whiteley Business Manager lwhiteley@olmc-osprey.org Donna Pierson Pastoral Assistant dpierson@olmc-osprey.org Symbol of the Trinity, Photographic rendering by Todd Treat Box 1097, 425 S. Tamiami Trail, Osprey, Florida Phone: Fax: Website:

2 O R D I N A R Y T I M E kyrios as well, seeing in him the one like a son of man who shared the Father s attributes. The Spirit was the Father s essence, literally, his life-breath. It was this life-breath that spoke to Moses, raised Jesus from the dead and was now available to anyone who received baptism. This life-breath is the eternal life of today s Gospel: God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. To be baptized into the Spirit was to be plunged into the fire of Sinai and the passion of Christ. Formed in Their Likeness Michael R. Simone, S.J., America, June 2017 The New Testament calls God a trinity. In today s second reading, for example, Paul bids the Corinthians farewell with the blessing of God, Jesus and the Spirit. Matthew s Gospel is even more explicit. Jesus sends the disciples out to baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. This line appears in every ancient version of the text and in early texts like the Didache. Another example appears in 1 Peter 1:1-2, which contains an explicitly Trinitarian theology of salvation. Although the specifics took centuries, the Trinitarian nature of God was clear to many early Christians. The Father was the transcendent creator, the aweinspiring being, so great that even the hem of his garment filled the Temple in Isaiah's vision (6:1). It was he who led Israel from slavery to freedom and he who restored Israel repeatedly when they rebelled. The Father was the Almighty, ruler of heaven and earth, Adonai in the Hebrew Scriptures and kyrios among Jews who spoke Greek. The Son was Jesus Christ, the obedient servant, glorified and seated at the Father s right hand. He would return at some future time to judge the living and dead. Within a generation of Jesus death and resurrection, the first Christians called the Son That humanity had encountered God in these three ways was obvious to early Christians. The question that took centuries to sort out was, Is God really like this, or is it the weakness of the human mind that makes God seem this way? Over time, Christians came to recognize that God really was a trinity. To paraphrase Athanasius of Alexandria, the Father is a spring, the Son is the water and the Spirit is the drink we take. Each plays a role in every divine action. What might get lost in this elegant theology is that the Trinity does not act merely for God s own glory but to form a people. The cosmic creator finished work with the first man and woman. The Almighty called Moses in order to establish Israel. The Father rescued his Son from death and gave birth to a church through the gift of the Spirit. All creation extends from a Trinitarian community. For Christians, this is the true nature of reality. There is no solitary god and no friendless human. The love that the Trinity shares within itself is the rightful inheritance of every person. If today s feast teaches any lesson, it is that estrangement is a sacrilege and alienation a blasphemy. Christ draws his disciples into the Father s love only to send them forth in the Spirit to seek out the lost and call them home. Q. How have you encountered God as Trinity? Q. How have you invited others to share in God s community? Michael R. Simone, S.J., is an assistant professor of Scripture at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.

3 L O O K I N G A H E A D W I T H F A I T H A N D P R A Y E R MASS INTENTIONS :00 AM Kathy Majerchin Jennifer Larson :00 AM All of the Souls in Purgatory Bob DeLeon :00 AM Catherine Swatz Daniel Dudek :00 AM Patricia Howard Dobbins :00 AM Charles J. David Jimmy Della Fera :00 AM Robert Murphy Maxine Medlar 4:30 PM The People of the Parish :30 AM For All Fathers 9:00 AM For All Fathers 10:30 AM For All Fathers Readings for the Week of June 11th, 2017 Sunday: Ex 34:4b-6, 8-9/Dn 3:52-56/2 Cor 13:11-13/Jn 3:16-18 Monday: 2 Cor 1:1-7/Ps 34:2-9/Mt 5:1-12 Tuesday: 2 Cor 1:18-22/Ps 119: , 135/ Mt 5:13-16 Wednesday: 2 Cor 3:4-11/Ps 99:5-9/Mt 5:17-19 Thursday: 2 Cor 3:15--4:1, 3-6/Ps 85:9ab, 10-14/Mt 5:20-26 Friday: 2 Cor 4:7-15/Ps 116:10-11, 15-18/Mt 5:27-32 Saturday: 2 Cor 5:14-21/Ps 103:1-4, 9-12/Mt 5:33-37 PARISH CALENDAR Mon 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Richard Tues 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Fred Wed 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Richard Thurs 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Fred Fri 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Richard Sat 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Fred 3:30 PM Confessions 4:30 PM Mass-Fr. Fr. Richard Sun 7:30 AM Mass-Fr. Richard 9:00 AM Mass-Fr. Fred 10:30 AM Mass-Fr. Roger Knights of Columbus Coffee and Donuts after all Masses this Sunday STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE June 3rd & 4th, 2017 CFA Goal 2017: $200, CFA Pledge: $201, CFA Payments: $176, Offertory: $10, Parish Pay is available at our website: or call the office at Into your hands O Lord, we commend the souls of our recently departed. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Donate at OLMC Sunday, June 18th 9:00-1:00 We need your blood

4 ADULT FAITH FORMATION St. Anthony of Padua Doctor of the Church ( ) His feast day is June 13. The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God. St. Anthony, who was born in Lisbon, first entered religious life as an Augustinian canon in Coimbra. There one day he met a group of visiting Franciscans on their way to Morocco. He was greatly impressed by these courageous missionaries, the more so when news came of their subsequent martyrdom. At once, he was inspired to join the Franciscans. In 1221 he attended a great Franciscan gathering, the last held in the lifetime of St. Francis, after which he received a modest assignment to a small hospice for lay brothers at Monte Paolo. But soon his star would shine. When asked to preach at an important occasion, he astonished his audience with the unexpected elegance, conviction, and profound learning of his sermon. Word quickly spread, and Anthony received a letter from Francis himself authorizing him to preach and to teach theology to the friars. Eventually he was sent on a preaching mission that covered all of Italy. Thousands flocked to hear his open-air sermons, and his visits had the impact of a spiritual revival. He attacked the tyranny of the powerful, exhorting his listeners to compassion and charity toward the poor. Anthony died on June 13, 1231, at the age of thirty-six. He was buried in Padua, where he had spent his last years, and his canonization followed only a year later. In 1946 Pope Pius XII declared him a Doctor of the Church. (Popularly, he is often invoked for his help in locating lost objects.) New: Summer Series at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church 6 Tuesdays from June 20 August 1, 2017 June 20 June 27 July 11 July 18 July 25 August 1 Catholicism Series, Rev. Robert Barron, Word on Fire, 2012 All sessions are on Tuesdays, 1:00 pm 2:30 pm A Vast Company of Witnesses The Communion of Saints St. Katherine Drexel, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, St. Edith Stein, St. Teresa of Calcutta Happy Are We The Teachings of Jesus The Beatitudes, The Parable of the Prodigal Son, Matthew 25 Our Tainted Nature s Solitary Boast Mary, the Mother of God The Annunciation, Mary and Zion, The Mother of God, The Immaculate Conception, The Assumption, The Mother of the Church, Mother of the New Covenant A Body Both Suffering and Glorious The Mystical Union of Christ and the Church The Mystery of the Church, Four Marks of the Church Word Made Flesh, True Bread of Heaven The Mystery of the Liturgy and the Eucharist Communion of the Lord, The Gathering, The Telling of Stories, The Offering, The Real Presence, Transubstantiation, The Our Father, Communion and Sending The Fire of His Love Prayer and the Life of the Spirit Thomas Merton, St John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, Prayer of Petition Please register in advance at the front desk.

5 LIVING OUR FAITH Books of Interest The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation Richard Rohr with Mike Morrell, Whitaker House, 2016, 217 pp., $17 hardcover What if changing our perception of God has the potential to change everything? God is not what you think. Visions of an angry, distant, moral scorekeeper or a supernatural Santa Claus handing out cosmic lottery tickets to those who attend the right church or say the right prayer dominate our culture. For many others, God has become irrelevant or simply unbelievable. In The Divine Dance, Fr. Richard Rohr (with Mike Morrell) points readers to an unlikely opening beyond this divinity impasse: the at times forgotten, ancient mystery of the Trinity God as utterly one, yet three. Drawing from Scripture, theology, and the deepest insights of mystics, philosophers, and sages throughout history, Fr. Rohr presents a compelling alternative to aloof and fairytale versions of God: One God, belovedly in communion, as All Vulnerable, All Embracing, and All Given to you and me. The Divine Dance makes accessible and practicable the Christian tradition s most surprising gift...god as Community...as Friendship...as Dance. Are you ready to join in? Richard Rohr, O.F.M. is a globally recognized Catholic and Christian teacher focusing on mystical and transformational traditions. He is a Franciscan friar and founder and director of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mike Morrell is the Communications Director for the Integral Theology think tank Presence International, cofounder of The Buzz Seminar, and a founding organizer of the justice, arts, and spirituality Wild Goose Festival. Good Grief Introducing a new grief support group for those who have experienced the death of a loved Participants will explore, within a trusting and nurturing environment, their reactions to loss, learn about the grieving process, develop strategies for coping and begin to integrate this change into their lives in order to move forward with hope. Thursday mornings 10-11:30 AM 6 Sessions Commencing June 22nd In the OLMC Library Please Contact: Darwin Reeck at the parish office to register Space is limited. By popular request, our International Dining returns this summer. Our first international evening will be Italian cuisine, catered by Angelo s restaurant in Venice on Friday June 23rd, 2017 in Mt. Carmel Hall. Decorate your table and bring your own dinnerware, flatware, glasses, napkins and beverages. BYOB. Seating is limited so purchase your table now to guarantee a special evening. Doors open Friday morning from 8AM- Noon for decorating your table. Doors 5:30 PM Friday evening and dinner is served at 6:00 PM. Reserve your table for 6 - $75.00 or your table for 8 - $ Sign up at the front desk. Deadline is Monday, June19th. Reserve your table at the front desk.

6 YOUTH CORNER Hi! This is Margaret with an idea about blessing children at bedtime. I don't know about you, but I assumed only a priest could give a blessing. However, after a little bit of research, I discovered a long Biblical tradition of parents blessing their children. If you recall Jacob and Esau in the Old Testament both wanted their father's blessing, but one "stole" the father's blessing intended for the other brother. All trickery aside, the parental custom of blessing children is something I introduce to every couple preparing to baptize their baby. Blessing is an ancient practice and common element in almost all religions. Why not start a lovely new tradition in your family with a simple Trinitarian blessing for your children? It is a great way to settle restless children to sleep and a comforting ritual for kids who experience nightmares or have trouble sleeping. It is also a perfect ritual to do with your grandchildren. A blessing is simply a special form of prayer, where one person prays "over" another, asking God to enrich them with his grace. Blessings may be prayed silently, although they are usually prayed aloud allowing the child to hear the words of encouragement and longing for his prosperity. Often a blessing is accompanied by a physical gesture such as laying one or both hands on the head or shoulders of the child. Christian blessings conclude with a Sign of the Cross marked with the thumb on the child's forehead (Catholic Family emagazine, "Grandparents" July 2013). Perhaps this tradition is still a novel idea for you or maybe you're just not sure what to pray "over" your child? Francine Pirola, editor of Catholic Family emagazine, offers the following Trinitarian prayer: BEDTIME BLESSING As your child settles for sleep, pray this bedtime blessing. Place your hand on your child's head. "Father God, how you delight in this child of yours! May (child's name) know deeply and truly how much you love him/her. Jesus, you are our brother and saviour. Teach (child's name) to love you and your father better every day. Holy Spirit, protect (child's name) as he/ she sleeps. Help him/her to rest deeply and to awake fresh in the morning. Amen." CathFamily.org is one of my favorite go-to websites for contemporary and refreshing ideas about sharing faith with children. Francine and Byron Pirola, the authoring and editing couple, live in Australia and are part of a Marriage and Family initiative. They are dedicated to assisting families in making the home the heart of the church. Their website offers traditional and contemporary resources that Catholic families can adapt for use into their own family rituals.

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