September 2, 2018 (View this bulletin on-line at www.stjoanofarcfl.com) Page 1 ST. JOAN OF ARC CATHOLIC CHURCH 13485 Spring Hill Drive Spring Hill Florida 34609 ~ Telephone: (352) 688-0663 Fax: (352) 686-7937 Eucharistic Liturgies Saturday Vigil: 4:00 p.m. Sunday: 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. (Spanish) Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. & by appointment Baptism for Children: Parent preparation. Matrimony: If you are contemplating marriage at St. Joan of Arc Church, please be mindful that there is a six month prior notice request required. RCIA/RCIC: Rite of Initiation into the Catholic faith. In His Footsteps Soup & Sandwich Lunch Served on the second Thursday of each month from Noon - 2:00 p.m. in our Parish Hall and on the fourth Thursday of each month for the homebound only. Mary & Martha s Gift Shop: Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Saturday: 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Sunday: 7:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Closed during all Masses Ministers of the Eucharist: Please notify the Parish Office if you, or someone you know is sick, in the hospital, homebound or shut-in. Notre Dame Catholic School Phone: 352-683-0755 Website: www.ndcsfl.org Pastoral Team Rev. Patrick Rebel, Pastor Assisting: Rev. Jerry Murphy, Rev. Edward Reiter, Rev. Michael Kouts, Rev. Paul Coughlin, Rev. Dennis Kaelin Deacons: Deacon Fred LaPiana and Deacon José Cruz Business Manager/Secretary Anne Cofone Faith Formation and Youth Ministry (352) 686-7864 Faith Formation Director:Mary Jo Waggoner StJoanRelEd@gmail.com Youth Ministry: Nancy Lovelock, Youth Minister SJOA-Youth@Tampabay.rr.com Director of Music: Joyce Thorpe sjoaorganist@gmail.com OFFICE E-mail: jchrchca@tampabay.rr.com Website: www.stjoanofarcfl.com Emergencies Only: (352) 666-3156 or (352) 683-0755 Website: www.ndcsfl.org St. Vincent de Paul Society (352) 556-3670 Parish Office Hours Monday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Friday: 9:00 a.m. - Noon Closed daily 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Phone: (352) 688-0663
Page 2 (View this bulletin on-line at www.stjoanofarcfl.com) September 2, 2018 Notes from the Pastor What The Church Teaches about: PORNOGRAPHY What s the Big Deal? Some people think that pornography is a harmless visual stimuli. They think as long as it is in the privacy of someone s home that there is not harm in watching such videos. In reality, pornography is harmful to both the viewer and to society. A new meta-analysis (a statistical integration of all existing scientific data) from Canada has shown that involvement with pornography leads to social, behavioral and psychological problems. Some of these problems includes sexual domination, disturbed views of intimacy, treating people as sexual objects, aggressions and even violence. Some people can be so addicted to Internet porn that they can no longer be around computers. This includes the work place. Just Because You Can Doesn t Mean You Should. The Internet and satellite television have made receiving pornography extremely easy. One problem to this is that it can be very expensive. With all the many choices given to us, there can be consequences. In the case of pornography we can rationalize that we are not hurting anyone. We can also think that this is just entertainment. These rationalities are nothing but lies. Adapted by Our Sunday Visitor by Woodeene Koenig-Bricker The Ethnic Festival needs 5 additional adult volunteers to complete the 2 hour Crowd Manager online training course. The cost $19.95 will reimbursed. Contact the Parish Office for additional information. HELP!!!! HELP!!!! HELP!!!! Our Grounds Crew need help on either Wednesday and/or Friday mornings at 6:30 AM. We need someone who can fix lawn mowers, people to pull weeds, to trim around our trees, and there s a lot of them!!! We volunteer to keep our church beautiful, we volunteer for the camaraderie, we volunteer because we are proud of St. Joan s and want to take care of our grounds. Please call the Parish Office if you can HELP!!!!! Notes from Deacon Fred In His Garden In His brokenness, the Lord led a man to meet His Father and the Holy Spirit. The man suffered a terrible tragedy with the brutal loss of his daughter. After being introduced and fed, the Spirit led him to a garden. The plants and flowers were beautiful, but overgrown and in its center, a plant overgrown with weeds and being choked off with poisonous roots. The Spirit and the man cleared that plant and prepared the soil. They left the garden and the Father, Son and Spirit walked with the man and taught him about trust, about Them, about wisdom, about heaven. The most difficult lessons of love and sacrifice they taught him. They led him through the most difficult lesson of forgiveness which challenged him to the core. The journey required leaps of faith, an understanding of how limited he was in comprehending the divine and the courage to confront the circumstances and the people involved with the loss of his daughter. He was asked to sacrifice his hatred, his guilt and his blame of others; to forgive those who hurt him and his family and ask forgiveness from those he blamed, including himself. At the end of his journey he returned to the garden and with the Father, Son and Spirit by his side. He buried the painful experience in his garden, and with his tears shared by the Son and the healing power of the Spirit, a wonderful tree grew in the soil that was prepared earlier and the garden was whole again, teaming with life and the Father rejoiced. If you haven t seen the movie The Shack you should it s food for the soul. Our hearts are the garden which the Father created and we the stewards. Through the love of the Father, Jesus and the Spirit love us and tend our garden when we invite them. clearing the weeds, watering the garden with our tears of sorrow or joy and planting those special flowers of relationship with others. Perhaps the gates of heaven open to many gardens such as these Benediction and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is always First Thursday of the month from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Please join us on September 6th.
September 2, 2018 T M, S.J (View this bulletin on-line at www.stjoanofarcfl.com) A P, Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time September 2, 2018 Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls. James 1:21b THE HIGHEST LAW From time to time, newspapers and magazines will offer, as an item of filler, various laws that are still on the books but seem silly to us in our day and age. In one California city, it is illegal to have two indoor bathtubs in one house. Clean water, a precious commodity when the law was written, is now readily available, so the law seems silly. But the human value of protecting and preserving precious resources is still around, evident in many conservation laws that seem sensible to us. So it is with the laws of religious tradition. What Jesus scorns today is others attitude toward ritual laws, an attitude that becomes nearly idolatrous when laws are observed for their own sake. Jesus teaches that observation of external ritual laws is of value only when they are emblems of our internal disposition toward the will of God. Our whole lives must follow the one ultimate law of God: to love God completely and to love neighbor entirely. Roman Catholicism is a tradition rich with customs, traditions, and even laws. As we continue to listen to the voice of Christ, we must always look into our own hearts and underneath our ritual practices to make sure that love of God and love of neighbor are what we prize above all. TODAY S READINGS First Reading For what great nation is there that has gods so close to it as the L, our God, is to us? (Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8). Psalm The one who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord (Psalm 15). Second Reading Religion that is pure is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction (James 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27). Gospel This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me (Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23). READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Cor 2:1-5; Ps 119:97-102; Lk 4:16-30, or, for Labor Day, any readings from the Mass For the Blessings of Human Labor, nos. 907-911 Tuesday: 1 Cor 2:10b-16; Ps 145:8-14; Lk 4:31-37 Wednesday: 1 Cor 3:1-9; Ps 33:12-15, 20-21; Lk 4:38-44 Thursday: 1 Cor 3:18-23; Ps 24:1bc-4ab, 5-6; Lk 5:1-11 Friday: 1 Cor 4:1-5; Ps 37:3-6, 27-28, 39-40; Lk 5:33-39 Saturday: Mi 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28-30; Ps 13:6; Mt 1:1-16, 18-23 [18-23] Sunday: Is 35:4-7a; Ps 146:7-10; Jas 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37 Page 3 J,. SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Monday: St. Gregory the Great; Labor Day Friday: First Friday Saturday: The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION When an altar is dedicated, the Rite of Dedication directs that, if possible, the relics of a martyr be mortared into the church floor under the mensa, or altar table. Up until this revised rite, the general practice was to include small relics of saints in an altar stone, a slab of marble that was normally set in the altar itself. Today s rite states a clear preference for martyr, and for a substantial part of the body, in accord with our tradition s desire for substantial symbols. Martyr, of course, means witness in Greek, and was the title given early on to the people who by their death imaged the death of Christ. From the beginning, there has never been a shortage of such people, although it took a while for the Church to develop a process to declare someone a martyr. Saint Augustine tells how it was done in the fifth century. By then, popular opinion didn t count as much as an official tribunal set up by the bishop of the place where the martyr suffered. After the inquiry established that the person did indeed die for the faith, a metropolitan bishop had to ratify the decision before a shrine could be built or an altar set up over the martyr s tomb. For the most part, the honor paid to a martyr (called a cult ) was restricted to that diocese, although the fame of some heroes spread so much that they were celebrated elsewhere. The age of the martyrs is now, and more people died for the faith in the twentieth century than ever before, witnessing to Christ to the end. Their sacrifice remains the seed of the Church. Rev. James Field THE ORIGINAL CURRENCY Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. Adam Smith FORGIVERS A happy marriage is a union of two good forgivers. Anonymous
Page 4 (View this bulletin on-line at www.stjoanofarcfl.com) September 2, 2018 Notitas del Diácono José SATURDAY September 1 9:00 a.m. Fr. Raymond O Neill (D) 4:00 p.m. Betty Luccisano (D) req by Caroline Trauerts ---- SUNDAY September 2 7:30 a.m. Parish Community 9:00 a.m. Micheal Schmidt (D) req by Bozena Baltaci 11:00 a.m. Mary Trojanowski (D) req by Family 1:00 p.m. Petra Gomez (D) req by Carmen Taylor and Family - - MONDAY September 3 9:00 a.m. John Rosati (D) req by His Loving wife, Amelia - - TUESDAY September 4 9:00 a.m. Fr. Capodanno (D) req by Alan Howes - - WEDNESDAY September 5 9:00 a.m. Arcangelo Galella (D) req by Lucia and Angela - - THURSDAY September 6 9:00 a.m. Sharon Dondero (D) req by Loving Husband -- FRIDAY September 7 9:00 a.m. Joseph Page (D) req by Loving Wife Sue -- SATURDAY September 8 9:00 a.m. Steve Lacey (D) req by Edgar and Laila Jovellanos 4:00 p.m. Irene Perosino (D) req by Her Husband ---- SUNDAY September 9 7:30 a.m. For the Souls in Purgatory req by Barbara Brush 9:00 a.m. For our Parish Community 11:00 a.m. Leo LeBlanc (D) req by Wife Rachel 1:00 p.m. Fernando Rojas (D) req by Anthony and Marilyn Frontiero Tithing is the responsibility of every Catholic. Stewardship Report for August 5, 2018 Attendance: 764 Envelopes Used: 280 Envelopes : $5572.00 Offertory Cash $1308.75 2nd Collection $ 527.25 Total: $7408.00 Llegamos a conocer más a otra persona observando lo que hace que escuchando lo que dice. Así es que Santiago está claro al decir que no es suficiente escuchar la palabra de Dios, sino que hay que ponerla en práctica. Nos dice enfáticamente: Pongan en práctica esa palabra y no se limiten a escucharla (Santiago 1, 22). Específicamente anima a los primeros cristianos a cuidar de los más vulnerables entre ellos. A eso se refiere cuando dice que su fe debe ser pura e intachable (Santiago 1, 27). Poner la fe en práctica es algo esencial. Jesús cala a los fariseos y escribas inmediatamente y los llama hipócritas porque cumplen la ley al pie de la letra, pero no prestan atención al espíritu de la ley. En el capítulo anterior del Evangelio de Marcos, Jesús ha enviado a sus discípulos de dos en dos y ellos predican la palabra de Dios, expulsan espíritus inmundos y curan a los enfermos. Pero comen sin haberse lavado las manos y eso es todo lo que los fariseos quieren ver. Es fácil juzgar basándonos en la ley al pie de la letra; pero juzgar según el espíritu de la ley toma tiempo y necesita sabiduría. Cuando juzgamos a la ligera puede que estemos cometiendo el mismo error que los fariseos. Moisés le dice al pueblo que otras naciones los envidiarán por cumplir los mandamientos, pues se darán cuenta que no otra nación es tan grande que tenga dioses tan cercanos como lo está nuestro Dios, siempre que lo invocamos (Deuteronomio 4, 7). Qué afortunados somos, pues, por tener un Dios que se encarna en el mundo. Qué afortunados por tener un Dios que recibimos en la Eucaristía. Qué afortunados por tener un Dios que habita entre nosotros, que vive en nosotros y que se revela a los demás cuando nosotros realizamos su obra en el mundo. Pregunta de la Semana Cómo puedo evitar la hipocresía e interiorizar el espíritu de los mandamientos de Dios? Soy meramente alguien que cumple su obligación del domingo o pongo en práctica la palabra de Dios que escucho? KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 11317 The St. Joan of Arc Knights of Columbus Council #11317 is looking for Good Practicing Catholic Men to join our Council. For information please call the parish office at: 352-688-0663 or email: StJoanKC11317@gmail.com.
September 2, 2018 (View this bulletin on-line at www.stjoanofarcfl.com) Page 5 Faith Formation costs money to purchase books and supplies that our catechists need for the year. There are many families who cannot afford to pay for their children in Faith Formation. Please do not allow lack of funds to stand in the way of your children and grandchildren from coming to Faith Formation, EDGE or Confirmation. If you, as a parishioner, would like to donate money to help pay for families who cannot pay, please write your check to St. Joan of Arc and write on the envelope that it is to be used to pay fees for families bringing their children to Faith Formation. Thank you for your generosity. Altar flowers.. are given in memory of a loved one or in honor of a special day. Each week the Altar Flower Memorial is announced in our Parish Bulletin. To request your flowers, please come to the Parish Office during the week. Donation is $30. ETHNIC FESTIVAL October 18th through the 21st The 27th Annual Ethnic Festival is fast approaching and is in need of volunteers to help in various areas of the set-up and on the days of the Festival. You are invited to attend a meeting on Tuesday, September 11th at 7 p.m. in the hall. If you have any questions, please call Paul D'Aquisto at 688-1685 or Frank Mezzacapo at 345-4316. All parishioners are encouraged to attend the Festival planning meetings and help during the Ethnic Festival. Would you like to sing for the Lord! We always have room for more singers! Mass Choir rehearsals will begin for this season on Wednesday, September 19th at 6:30 pm in the Church. If you would like to join us please plan to come sing with us! For more information contact Joyce Thorpe at the parish office. Knights of Columbus The first Thursday of the month is our business meeting at 7:00 pm. The third Thursday of the month is our Officers meeting @ 7:00 pm. The Rosary is prayed in the sanctuary every First Saturday of the month immediately after the 9AM Mass. Please join us on September 8th. 27 th ANNUAL ETHNIC FESTIVAL OCTOBER 18 th 21 st JEWELRY WANTED Second Hand Rose is a fabulous collection of items in good usable condition that are donated by parishioners and friends and then sold during the Ethnic Festival. AT THIS TIME, WE ARE ONLY ACCEPTING JEWELRY. You can drop off jewelry at the Welcome Desk or Parish Office anytime during regular business hours. PLEASE, ONLY JEWELRY AT THIS TIME. Miscellaneous items will be collected later. Please do not bring other items to the church or parish hall before Thursday, October 11 th. Now is the time to rummage through items in your home and garage that you may no longer need, but are items that someone else can use. All donated items should be clean, in good working condition and, something that someone would want to purchase and use. Bible Study -Revelation: The Kingdom Yet to Come Come and join our bible study class on the Book of Revelations. Class will begin on September 11, 2018 at 7:00 pm in the Deacon Lee Library. We will use the study from Ascension Press by Jeff Cavins and Thomas Smith. For more information or to sign up contact the Parish Office or Jim Humphrey at: jimhumphrey@earthlink.net. Revelation: The Kingdom Yet to Come is an intriguing study that shows how the kingdom established by Christ in his Church is intimately connected with the kingdom of heaven. Here you will discover what the mysterious figures and images of Revelation mean. You will see how Revelation is more than an apocalyptic vision of the "end times." It is a revelation of God as our Divine Bridegroom and the Church as his spotless Bride, forever united in a heavenly, holy and mystical marriage that we enter into every time we celebrate the Mass. Your Group Will: Learn the meaning of the mysterious figures and events in the book of Revelation. Discover how the Mass is really heaven on earth. Learn about the Antichrist and his destruction. See the Second Coming of Christ and the Final Judgment in the context of history. Learn what will happen at the end of time and the establishment of a new heaven and a new earth.
Page 6 (View this bulletin on-line at www.stjoanofarcfl.com) September 2, 2018 Faith Formation began on Wednesday, August 15th. It is not too late to register all children from 4 yrs old through high school! Register also for EDGE and Confirmation. Call the Office for more details. CHILDREN WHO NEED SACRAMENTS We offer several programs to meet all the needs of your children. If you have a child who has reached 7 years old and still does not have their Sacrament of Baptism, First Eucharist or Reconciliation, register your children as soon as possible. Classes for these children began Tuesday evening, August 21st at 5:45 pm. The St. Joan of Arc Knights of Columbus Council #11317 are awesome. Thanks to their generosity, our youth group got to experience a wonderful faith filled weekend attending Steubenville Orlando. We would also like to thank Fr. Pat for his support as well as the numerous donations from other parishioners. We couldn t have made the trip without your support and prayers. Thank you all from all of us!