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

Parish Clergy & Staff Msgr. Tomás M. Marín, V.F. Pastor

Fr. Robert Ayala Parochial Vicar

Deacon Jose S. Chirinos

Deacon Mark P. Westman

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

Sunday, January 22nd, 2017 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time The Lord is my light and my salvation. IS 8:23—9:3 PS 27:1, 4, 13-14 1 COR 1:10-13, 17 MT 4:12-23 Monday, January 23rd, 2017 Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds. HEB 9:15, 24-28 PS 98:1, 2-3AB, 3CD-4, 5-6 MK 3:22-30 Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Here am I Lord; I come to do your will. 2 TM 1:1-8 PS 96:1-2A, 2B-3, 7-8A, 10 MK 3:31-35 Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle Go out to all the world and tell the Good News. ACTS 22:3-16 PS 117:1BC, 2 MK 4:21-25 Thursday, January 26th, 2017 Memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, bishops Proclaim God's marvelous deeds to all the nations. 2 TM 1:1-8 PS 96:1-2A, 2B-3, 7-8A, 10 MK 16:15-18 Friday, January 27th, 2017 Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time The salvation of the just comes from the Lord. HEB 10:32-39 PS 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40 MK 4:26-34 Saturday, January 28th, 2017 Memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel; he has come to his people. HEB 11:1-2, 8-19 LUKE 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75 MK 4:35-41

Saturday, January 21st, 2017

5:30 p.m. + Gloria Innis

7:00 p.m. + Fernando Quinonez Meza + Maria Ines Eguia Sunday, January 22nd, 2017

8:00 a.m. + Elinore Hughes + Florentina Alvarez Puig & Jaime Puig - In Thanksgiving for Max Sanchez

10:00 a.m. + Hilda Bacardi + Luis J. Bacardi + Luis F. Bacardi + Roberto Morales + Lucy Mc Andrew + Fernando Quinonez Meza

12:00 p.m. - For the Parish Family

6:30 p.m. + Juan Tomas Marin

8:00 p.m. - University of Miami Students & Their Families Monday, January 23rd, 2017

8:00 a.m. + Lya Lascola + Alicia Rodriguez - Intentions of Juan M. Salvador - Health of Margarita Rodriguez

12:05 p.m. + Myriam Perez + Dr. Cristobal E. Viera + Fernando Quinonez Meza + Mary Pat Thornton + Jorge Prendes Tuesday, January 24th, 2017

8:00 a.m. + Jose Calzon + Hilda Machado + Florentina Alvarez Puig & Jaime Puig + Bernardo Wolf - Health of Josefa Calzon - Health of Margarita Rodriguez

12:05 p.m. + Jose Calzon + Fernando Quinonez Meza + Lucy Rodriguez + Valois Miguel Angel Medina + Victor Beunza - Aaron Cuenca-Barrett Wednesday, January 25th, 2017

8:00 a.m. - Margarita Garcia-Chacon - Intentions of the Castro-Fernandez Family - Health of Josefa Calzon - Health of Margarita Rodriguez

12:05 p.m. + Fernando Quinonez Meza + Asis Lopez + Alberto Penarredonda + Valois Miguel Angel Medina + Victor Beunza - Special Intentions Thursday, January 26th, 2017

8:00 a.m. + Hilda Machado - Health of Josefa Calzon - Health of Margarita Rodriguez

12:05 p.m. + Casey Catterton + Fernando Quinonez Meza + Valois Miguel Angel Medina + Victor Beunza

Friday, January 27th, 2017

8:00 a.m. + Rita & Alberto Garate + Coco Martinez-Lufriu & Pepin Zubizzarreta + Carlos V. Rangel - Birthday of Victor Quintana - Health of Josefa Calzon - Health of Margarita Rodriguez

12:05 p.m. + Margarita Solis Arruza + Daniela Maria Albir + Gloria Verjano + Fernando Quinonez Meza + Valois Miguel Angel Medina - Special Intentions of the Fernandez Family

Saturday, January 28th, 2017

8:00 a.m. + Mary Bell - Health of Josefa Calzon - Health of Margarita Rodriguez

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THOMAS AQUINAS (Feast day: January 28th) AND THE ART OF MAKING A PUBLIC ARGUMENT By Bishop Robert Barron, USCCB chair of evangelization and catechesis

There is, in many quarters, increasing concern about the hyper-charged poli cal correctness that has gripped our campuses and other forums of public conversa on. Even great works of literature and philosophy—from Huckleberry Finn and Heart of Darkness to, believe it or not, Kant’s Cri que of Pure Reason—are now regularly accompanied by “trigger warnings” that alert prospec ve readers to the racism, sexism, homopho-bia, or classism contained therein. And popping up more and more at our colleges and universi es are “safe spaces” where exquisitely sensi ve stu-dents can retreat in the wake of jarring confronta ons with points of view with which they don’t sympathize. My favorite example of this was at Brown University where school administrators provided retreat centers with play-doh, crayons, and videos of frolicking puppies to calm the nerves of their students even before a controversial debate commenced! Appar-ently even the prospect of public argument sent these students to an up-dated version of daycare. Of course a paradoxical concomitant of this exaggerated sensi vity to giving offense is a proclivity to aggressiveness and verbal violence; for once authen c debate has been ruled out of court, the only recourse contes ng par es have is to some form of censorship or bullying.

There is obviously much that can and should be mocked in all of this, but I won’t go down that road. Instead, I would like to revisit a me when people knew how to have a public argument about the most hotly-contested ma ers. Though it might come as a surprise to many, I’m talking about the High Middle Ages, when the universi-ty system was born. And to illustrate the medieval method of disciplined conversa on there is no be er candi-date than St. Thomas Aquinas. The principal means of teaching in the medieval university was not the classroom lecture, which became prominent only in the 19th century German system of educa on; rather, it was the quaes o disputata (disputed ques on), which was a lively, some mes raucous, and very public intellectual exchange. Though the wri en texts of Aquinas can strike us today as a tad turgid, we have to recall that they are grounded in these disciplined but decidedly energe c conversa ons.

If we consult Aquinas’s masterpiece, the Summa theologiae, we find that he poses literally thousands of ques-ons and that not even the most sacred issues are off the table, the best evidence of which is ar cle three of

ques on two of the first part of the Summa: “utrum Deus sit?” (whether there is a God). If a Dominican priest is permi ed to ask even that ques on, everything is fair game; nothing is too dangerous to talk about. A er sta ng the issue, Thomas then entertains a series of objec ons to the posi on that he will eventually take. In many cas-es, these represent a dis lla on of real counter-claims and queries that Aquinas would have heard dur-ing quaes ones disputatae. But for our purposes, the point to emphasize is that Thomas presents these objec-

ons in their most convincing form, o en sta ng them be er and more pithily than their advocates could. In proof of this, we note that during the Enlightenment, ra onalist philosophes would some mes take Thomis c objec ons and use them to bolster their own an -religious posi ons. To give just one example, consider Aqui-nas’s devasta ngly convincing formula on of the argument from evil against the existence of God: “if one of two contraries were infinite, the other would be destroyed…but God is called the infinite good. Therefore, if God ex-ists, there would be no evil.” Thomas indeed provides a telling response, but, as stated, that is a darn good argu-ment. Might I suggest that it would help our public discourse immensely if all par es would be willing to formu-late their opponents’ posi ons as respec ully and convincingly as possible?

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Monday, January 23rd, 2017 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass 8:00pm: RCIA @ Parish Hall Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass 11:30am: Tabling on Campus @ UM Breezeway 1:00pm: Confessions on Campus @ UM Breezeway 6:30pm: Mass @ Church 7:00pm: Meal for Students @ Parish Library 8:00pm: Divine Mercy Apostotale @ Parish Lounge 8:00pm: Young Adult Group @ Parish Hall Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass 6:30pm: Sandwich Making for the Homeless @ Lounge Thursday, January 26th, 2017 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass 8:30am: Soup Making for the Homeless @ kitchen 12:35pm: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 8 @ Church 7:00-8:00pm: Young Adult Group Holy Hour @ Church 8:00pm: Matrimonios En Victoria @ Lounge 8:00pm: Catholic Campus Ministry’s “Thrive” College Nights @ Parish Hall Friday, January 27th, 2017 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass Saturday, January 28th, 2017 8:00am: Daily Mass and Rosary after Mass @ Church 11:30am: Confessions @ Church

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Having ar culated the objec ons, Thomas then offers his own magisterial resolu on of the ma er: “Respondeo dicendum quod… (I respond that it must be said…). One of the more regre able marks of the postmodern mind is a tendency to endlessly postpone the answer to a ques on. Take a look at Jacques Derrida’s work for a master class in this technique. And sadly, many today, who want so desperately to avoid offending anyone, find refuge in just this sort of permanent irresolu on. But Thomas knew what Chesterton knew, namely that an open mind is like an open mouth, that is, designed to close finally on something solid and nourishing. Finally, having offered his Respondeo, Aquinas returns to the objec ons and, in light of his resolu on, answers them. It is notable that a typical Thomas technique is to find something right in the objector’s posi on and to use that to correct what he deems to be errant in it.

Throughout this process, in the objec ons, Respondeos, and answers to objec ons, Thomas draws on a wide range of sources: the Bible and the Church Fathers of course, but also the classical philosophers Aristotle, Plato, and Cicero, the Jewish scholar Moses Maimonides, and the Islamic masters Averroes, Avicenna, and Aviceberon. And he consistently invokes these figures with supreme respect, characterizing Aristotle, for example, as simply “the Philosopher” and referring to Maimonides as “Rabbi Moyses.” It is fair to say that, in substan al ways, Thom-as Aquinas disagrees with all of these figures, and yet he is more than willing to listen to them, to engage them, to take their arguments seriously.

What this Thomis c method produces is, in its own way, a “safe space” for conversa on, but it is a safe space for adults and not morous children. It wouldn’t be a bad model for our present discussion of serious things.

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Schedule of Masses (may be subject to change)

Saturday, January 28th, 2017 5:30 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín 7:00 p.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala Sunday, January 29th, 2017 8:00 a.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala 10:00 a.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín 12:00 p.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala 5:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín 6:30 p.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala 8:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín

Last Week’s Collection Thank you for your generosity!

Friday, January 13th, 2017 (Homeless Ministry Collection) 12:05 p.m. : $ 321.00 Saturday, January 14th, 2017 5:30 p.m. : $ 1,873.00 7:00 p.m. : $ 790.00 Sunday, January 15th, 2017 8:00 a.m. : $ 1,980.00 10:00 a.m. : $ 3,585.00 12:00 p.m. : $ 2,654.00 5:00 p.m. : $ 2,862.00 6:30 p.m. : $ 1,761.00 Other: $ 105.89 Mail $ 9,979.94 Total: $ 25,911.83

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Jesus Keeps Knocking on Our Doors… The Archdiocese of Miami, through the Archbishop’s Charities and Develop-ment Drive (ABCD), opens the door for us all to unite as one community of believers to evangelize and spread the Good News of Jesus Christ bringing hope to those in need. We ask you to love your neighbors, selflessly and sacrificially, by making a gift to the ABCD so that we can unite to feed the hungry, cloth the poor, care for the sick and dying, and touch the hearts of those in despair. Your gener-osity will also help us educate our children, assist the poorest of our parishes and schools, and provide shelter for the homeless. Together, we will contin-ue to defend the dignity of all human life, eliminate prejudice, and promote social justice.

Jesus is knocking on your door and inviting you to love and serve those in need through the ABCD. Please make a gift- a gift blessed with sacrifice-so that we can continue to love others as He has loved us.

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Together, We Change Lives

Thank you so much for your generosity for 2016 Archbishop's Charities and Development Drive. (ABCD). To date, 294 families and individuals have responded with open hearts, contributing $396,680. That is now 84% to the goal. Let's see if we can give this one final push and add $79,644 so that we can complete the drive. We know we can count on you to reach the combined goal of $476,456. If you have not yet responded to the 2016 ABCD, please make a gift by coming to the front office for a pledge envelope or by making a gift online at www.isupportabcd.org. Thank you for all that you do and for the spirit in which you do it. May God continue to bless you.

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