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 Monday - Friday 8:00 am & 12:05 pm College Masses Tuesdays & Thursdays at 7:00pm 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

Parish Clergy & Staff Msgr. Tomás M. Marín, V.F. Pastor Fr. Tomasz Seweryn Parochial Vicar  

Deacon Jose S. Chirinos  Cris na Freyre Parish Office Manager  

Sofia Acosta Director of Religious Education  

Jorge Pis‐Rodriguez Director of Music  

Myriam Cahen Director of Finances  

Mónica Rodríguez Office Assistant  

Saturday, October 14th, 2017 5:30 p.m. + Guilermo Arruza + William K. King + Ed Gonzalez + Edward A. & Mirta M. Latour + Sergio Pereira + Elena Perkins de Perez 7:00 p.m. + José Alvarez + Fernandez Lopez Marin + Margarita Garcia Valls + Eulogio Reyes Sunday, October 15th 2017 8:00 a.m. + Maria Portuondo + Florentina Alvarez Puig & Jaimes Puig + Maria Julia Lago + Joe Porfiri - Alex & Katherin Shahin 10:00 a.m. + Hilda Bacardi + Luis J. Bacardi + Luis F. Bacardi + Roberto Morales + Sheila Sawyer + Remegio Acenas 12:00 p.m. - Saint Augustine Parish Family 5:00 p.m. + Amadeo Lopez Castro + Dirce Martinelli + Suzanne Guanci + Julia Basterrechea + Sergio Pereira 6:30 p.m. + Margarita Rohaidy + Michael Marino + Margarita Garcia Valls - Health of Stephen Hare & family + Living & Deceased members of the Rohaidy & Figueroa families Monday, October 16th, 2017 8:00 a.m. + William Cauley + Cristy Carriazo Pedroso + Margarita Garcia Valls - Birthday of Lourdes Manrique 12:05 p.m. + Victor & Marcia Lopez de Mendoza + Lula Santos + Maria Lopo + Alejandro Sosa - Wedding Anniversary of Carlos & Victoria DeBayle

Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 8:00 a.m. + Thomas Benki 12:05 p.m. + Millan Escagedo + Antonio Latour + Vincent Villiski + Margarita Garcia Valls - Marie Jacobs Wednesday, October 18th, 2017 8:00 a.m. + Himilce Méndez + Margarita Garcia Valls - Birthday of Michelle Ducker - Lucas Freyre - God’s abundant Blessings on the people of Puerto Rico 12:05 a.m. + Beatriz & Gregorio Escagedo + Jorge Busto + Gregory F. McGann + Benito Larin - Savannah Mendive - 36th Wedding Anniversary of Jorge & Betty Gonzalez Thursday, October 19th, 2017 8:00 a.m. + Luis & Gisela Diaz de Villegas + Miguel Angel & Dolores Pozo + Enrique Heitzer 12:05 p.m. + Clelia S. Quiñonez + Michael D. Wilson + Margarita Garcia Valls - Members of the Cuenca-Barret family Friday, October 20th, 2017 8:00 a.m. + Rita & Alberto Garate + Jeannine Summerly Balog + E. Joseph Porfiri 12:05 p.m. + Alberto J. Lopez Saturday, October 21th, 2017 8:00 a.m. + Dr. Humberto & Ivette Caldera - Members of the Leiter-Pontigo famlies

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Sunday, October 15th, 2017 Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. IS 25:6-10A PS 23:1-3A, 3B-4, 5, 6 PHIL 4:12-14, 19-20 MT 22:1-14 Monday, October 16th, 2017 Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time The Lord has made known his salvation. ROM 1:1-7 PS 98:1BCDE, 2-3AB, 3CD-4 LK 11:29-32 Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr The heavens proclaim the glory of God. ROM 1:16-25 PS 19:2-3, 4-5 LK 11:37-41 Wednesday, October 18th, 2017 Feast of Saint Luke, evangelist Your friends make known, O Lord, the glorious splendor of your Kingdom. 2 TM 4:10-17B PS 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18 LK 10:1-9 Thursday, October 19th, 2017 Memorial of Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs. With the Lord there is Mercy, and fullness of re-demption. ROM 3:21-30 PS 130:1B-2, 3-4, 5-6AB LK 11:47-54 Friday, October 20th, 2017 Friday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation. ROM 4:1-8 PS 32:1B-2, 5, 11 LK 12:1-7 Saturday, October 21th, 2017 Saturday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordi-nary Time The Lord remembers his covenant for ever. ROM 4:13, 16-18 PS 105: 6-7, 8-9, 42-43 LK 12:8-12

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What is Happening at Mass? by Bishop Robert Barron

As many Catholics know, the Second Va can Council famously referred to the liturgy as the “source and

summit of the Chris an life.” And following the prompts of the great figures of the liturgical movement in

the first half of the twen eth century, the Council Fathers called for a fuller, more conscious, and more

ac ve par cipa on in the liturgy on the part of Catholics.

That the Va can II dream of a revived liturgical awareness and prac ce has, at least in the West, largely

remained unrealized goes without saying. In the years following the Council, Mass a endance in Europe,

North America, and Australia has plummeted. The numbers of Catholics who regularly a end Mass in

those parts of the world hover between 10% and 25%. Therefore, it is not surprising that an extraordinary

number of those who self‐iden fy as Catholics in the West have very li le idea what the Mass actually is.

My thirty‐one years of priestly ministry convince me that, even for a great number of those who a end

Mass, the liturgy is a kind of religiously‐themed jamboree.

So what is the Mass? What happens during this paradigma c prayer? Why is it the beginning and culmi‐

na on of what it means to be a Chris an? In the course of this brief ar cle, I will share just a couple of 

basic insights. 

First, the Mass is a privileged encounter with the living Christ. Chris anity is not a philosophy, ideology, or

religious program; it is a friendship with the Son of God, risen from the dead. There is simply no more in‐

tense union with Jesus than the Mass. Consider for a moment the two major divisions of the Mass: the lit‐

urgy of the Word and the liturgy of the Eucharist. When we meet with another person in a formal se ng,

we typically do two things. We get together and talk, and then we eat. Think of the first part of Mass as an

exchange, a conversa on, between the Son of God and members of his mys cal body. In the prayers and

interven ons of the priest, and especially in the words of the Scriptures, Jesus speaks to his people, and in

the songs, responses, and psalms, the people talk back. There is, if you will, a lovely call and response be‐

tween the Lord and those who have been gra ed onto him through bap sm. In the course of this spirited

conversa on, the union between head and members is intensified, strengthened, confirmed. Having

talked, we then sit down to eat, not an ordinary meal, but the banquet of the Lord’s body and blood, host‐

ed by Jesus himself. The communion that commenced with the call and response during the first part of

Mass is now brought to a point of unsurpassed intensity (at least this side of heaven), as the faithful come

to eat the body and drink the lifeblood of Jesus.

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A second rubric under which to consider the Mass is that of play. We tend quite naturally to think of

play as something less than serious, something frivolous and far less important than work. But nothing

could be further from the truth. Work is always subordinated to an end beyond itself; it is for the sake

of a higher good. So I work on my car that I might drive it; I work at my place of employment that I

might make money; I work around the house so that it might be a more pleasant place to live, etc. But

play has no ulterior mo ve, no end to which it is subordinated. Hence, I play baseball or watch golf or

a end a symphony or engage in philosophical specula on or get lost in a sprawling novel simply

because it is good so to do. These ac vi es are referred to in the classical tradi on as “liberal,” precisely

because they are free (liber) from u lity. When I was teaching philosophy years ago in the seminary, I

would gleefully tell my students that they were engaging in the most useless study of all. Invariably they

laughed—revealing the u litarian prejudice of our culture—but I always reminded them that this meant

the highest and most noble kind of study.

The Mass, as an act of union with the highest good, is therefore the supreme instance of play. It is the

most useless and hence sublimest ac vity in which one could possibly engage. Recently, I had the

privilege of a ending the Mass for the installa on of new members of the Knights and Ladies of the

Holy Sepulcher. For the solemn liturgy, the Knights wore dashing capes emblazoned with the Jerusalem

cross and jaunty black berets, while the ladies donned elegant black gowns, gloves, and lace man llas.

Two bishops, in full Mass vestments and tall mitres, welcomed the new members into the order by

dubbing them on both shoulders with impressively large swords. As I watched the proceedings, I

couldn’t help but think of G.K. Chesterton’s remark that children o en dress up when they engage in

their “serious play.” Capes, hats, ceremonial gloves, vestments, and swords for dubbing are all perfectly

useless, which is precisely their point. So all of the colorful accouterments and stately ac ons of the

Mass are part of the sublime play.

Why is the Mass so important? Why is it the “source and summit” of the Chris an life? I could say many

more things in answer to these ques ons, but suffice it to say for the moment that it is the most

beau ful encounter between friends and that it is an an cipa on of the play that will be our permanent

preoccupa on in heaven.

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Monday, October 16th, 2017 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass @ Church Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass @ Church 7:00pm: College Mass and Meal @ St. Augustine 8:0pm: Young Adult Group @ Parish Hall Wednesday, October 18th, 2017 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass @ Church 6:30pm: Sandwich Making for the Homeless @ Parish Lounge 7:00pm-9:30pm: Prayer & Life Workshop @ Library 8:00pm-9:00pm: Matrimonios en Victoria @ Parish Hall Thursday, October 19th, 2017 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass 8:30am: Soup Making for the Homeless 12:35pm: Exposition and Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament until 6:30pm (Open to all) @ Church 6:30-7:00pm: Benediction & Reposition @ Church 7:00: College Mass @ Church 8:00pm: Catholic Campus Ministry Thrive Nights for Students! @ Parish Hall Friday, October 20th, 2017 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass Saturday, October 21th, 2017 8:00am: Daily Mass and Rosary after Mass @ Church 11:30am: Confessions @ Church

Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (names may be subject to change)

Saturday, October 21th, 2017 5:30 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás Marín 7:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás Marín Sunday, October 22nd, 2017 8:00 a.m. : Msgr. Tomás Marín 10:00 a.m. : Fr. Mark Reeves 12:00 p.m. : Fr. Tomasz Seweryn 5:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás Marín 6:30 p.m. : Fr. Robert Vallee 8:00 p.m. : Archbishop Thomas Wenski / Fr. Phillip Tran

Collection Report for the Weekend of 10/6/17—10/8/17

Thank you for your generosity!

Friday, October 6th, 2017 (Homeless Ministry) 12:05pm $ 336.00 Saturday, October 7th, 2017 5:30 p.m. : $ 1,384.00 7:00 p.m. : $ 546.00 Sunday, October 8th, 2017 8:00 a.m. : $ 2,124.00 10:00 a.m. : $ 1,808.00 12:00 p.m. : $ 2,586.00 5:00 p.m. : $ 3,186.00 6:30 p.m. : $ 1,899.00 8:00 p.m. : $ 1,784.00 Other: $ 21.67 Mail: $ 2,935.00 Total: $ 18,609.67

Collection Report for the Weekend of 9/29/17—10/01/17 Thank you for your generosity!

Friday, September 29th, 2017 (Homeless Ministry) 12:05p.m $ 363.00

Saturday, September 30th 2017 5:30 p.m.: $ 2,450.00 7:00 p.m.: $ 807.00

Sunday, October 1st, 2017 8:00 a.m.: $ 2,592.00

10:00 a.m.: $ 3,478.00 12:00 p.m.: $ 2,620.00

5:00 p.m.: $ 5,018.00 6:30 p.m.: $ 1,665.00

Other: $ 49.62 Mail: $ 16,389.80 Total: $ 36,447.42

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