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Sunday, February 4, 2018| Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

PARISH STAFF

Pastor Rev. Fr. Jonathan Morris

Parochial Vicar

Rev. Fr. Israel K. Boadi

Coordinator of Religious Education Sister Edna Loquias, S.M.C.

Business Manager Esteban Perez

Parish Secretary Elizabeth Mannini

Music Director & Organist Dr. Stephen Rapp

Cantor Bilen Eminov

Youth Minister School Principal Jesus Vargas Ms. Valerie Savino

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

Saturday: 8:30am | 12:00pm (Both English)

Saturday Evening: 5:00pm (Vigil Mass - English)

Sunday: 8:30am (English) | 9:30am (Spanish)

11:00am (Italian) | 12:15pm (English)

1:30pm (Spanish)

Weekday: 8:30am / 12:00pm / 6:30pm (All English)

RITE OF RECONCILIATION

Saturdays 4:00pm to 5:00pm or any time by calling the Parish Office.

RITE OF BAPTISM

2nd Sunday of every month in Spanish at 2:30pm 3rd Sunday every other month in English at 2:30pm Attendance at Pre - Baptism Class is required. Please stop by the Parish Center to register or call for more information.

RITE OF MATRIMONY

Wedding dates may be scheduled after initial meeting with a priest.

PASTORAL VISITS TO THE SICK

If you or someone you know is in the hospital or homebound and would be served by a pastoral visit by a Priest, Religious Sister or a lay Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, please contact the Parish Center.

NEW PARISHIONERS

We invite new parishioners to register at the Parish Center.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM

For information please call Sr. Edna at the Parish Office at (718) 295-3770.

MOUNT CARMEL SCHOOL 2465 Bathgate Avenue

Please contact the School Office at (718) 295-6080.

PARISH CENTER

2380 Belmont Avenue Bronx, NY 10458

Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

February 4, 2018 CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL 2

ANNOUNCED MASSES

Sunday, February 4th| Fifth Sunday in O. T. 8:30am John Joseph Ambrose 9:30am Pro Populo 11:00am Carmen Alice Barrett 12:15pm Carole Di Salvo 1:30pm Guadalupe Lopez

Monday, February 5th | St. Agatha 8:30am Salvatore De Stefano 12:00pm John Sgroi 6:30pm Deceased of the Borgatti Family

Tuesday, February 6th | St. Paul Miki & Comp. 8:30am Angie Palermo & Vincent Viola 12:00pm Pacifica Cisti & Luigi Cardillo 6:30pm For All Souls

Wednesday, February 7th | Weekday 8:30am Deceased of the Puglisi Family 12:00pm Felicetta Moschetta 6:30pm Genova Morales

Thursday, February 8th | Weekday; St. Jerome Emiliani; St. Josephine Bakhita

8:30am Salvatore & Sarah Contento

12:00pm Paul, Rose & Rocco Neglio

6:30pm Pietro Merolla

Friday, February 9th | Weekday

8:30am Rocco Neglio

12:00pm Emiliano Rodriguez

6:30pm Isabella Spadaccini Bagnaturo

Saturday, February 10th | St. Scholastica 8:30am In Honor of Our Lady of Lourdes 12:00pm Pasqua & Giovanni Del Vecchio/Nino Jesus Viajero

5:00pm Arcangelo Cardillo

Sunday, February 11th| Sixth Sunday in O. T. 8:30am Most Rev. Joseph Maria Pernicone 9:30am Pro Populo 11:00am Rosina Reda

12:15pm Hermy John Ortiz 1:30pm Salvatore Marano

From the Desk of Father Jonathan

The Godliest people I know are humble people. By humble I don't mean quiet, shy, or afraid to speak their mind. The Godly, humble man lives simply, joyfully, and without complication because he lives first for God and for others. He is willing and even eager to take correction or advice as he knows that it might help him love God and others better. He listens more than he speaks. He talks more with God than about God. He takes advantage of every chance that comes his way to show God's love to others, especially those most in need, even if it makes him feel uncomfortable or inconvenienced. He is always ready to forgive and to ask for forgiveness. He doesn't always feel spiritual, but he never gives up on his faith in God. He laughs readily because he doesn't take himself too seriously. He cares deeply about people but isn't overly worried about what they think of him. Nor is he overly worried about what God thinks of Him, because he already knows and has experienced God's unconditional love for him. He avoids sin in his life not first out of fear of punishment, but rather because he cares deeply about his friendship with God. This is the type of man and woman our world, church, and parish needs. I, for one, am a long way from this goal, but let's keep trying!! God's grace for conversion is powerful!!

God bless, Father Jonathan

+ REST IN PEACE + Please pray for Michael Chianese,

and all the faithful departed

WEEKEND MASSES - 1/28/18

Collection …………............................................$3,689.53 Last year’s collection..............................................$3,772.18

WEEKEND ATTENDANCE - 1/28/18

Adults: ……. 743 Children: …… 305 Total: …… 1,048

WEDDING BANNS

II. Christopher Fazio & Josephine Graci

February 4, 2018 CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL 3

TIRELESS DISCIPLESHIP

The stories we’ve been hearing these weeks come from the very first chapter of Mark, and they show us the public ministry of Jesus in its infancy. Today’s account shows some of the strain or adjustment of his new life of preaching the reign of God, healing the sick, and casting out demons. Notice that after sunset, when darkness ended the workday, people brought the sick and possessed to Jesus. The following day he rose before dawn to get away by himself to pray, but to no avail. Simon Peter and the others don’t just look for him, they pursue him, filled with the fervor that his ministry has incited. With the self-sacrificing example he gave until the end of his earthly life, he tells his followers that this is his whole purpose. Through Mark, he is also telling the early church, and he is telling us, that this is our purpose, our vocation: to be tireless in our pursuit of proclaiming the Good News, and in bringing the healing, reconciling touch of Christ to the world.

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DISCEPOLI INSTANCABILI

Gesù passa tra noi e ci guarisce. Ci ha rigenerati e guariti con la grazia del battesimo e ci rinnova ogni giorno con la sua misericordia. Siamo dei salvati, ma lo siamo per essere segno del Cristo presso i nostri fratelli e le nostre sorelle. La suocera di Pietro dà ad ognuno di noi l’esempio di chi, guarito dal Cristo, sceglie di servire. Le folle cercano Gesù attirate da ciò che egli dice e dai segni che opera. È la carità che le richiama e la carità è certamente il segno più luminoso e distintivo di ogni comunità cristiana. Ma per essere davvero testimoni e annunciatori del Cristo occorre ancorare la propria vita nella preghiera e nella contemplazione: Gesù si ritira a pregare solo in un luogo deserto e indica la strada maestra che dobbiamo seguire se vogliamo essere suoi veri discepoli. © lachiesa.it

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

We’re reading St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians these days. What was Corinth like? It had a beautiful set-ting on an isthmus, about fifty miles from Athens. The location makes for very easy exchange by sea routes be-tween Greece and Italy, a factor in its economic success even today. In Paul’s day it was a cosmopolitan and wealthy city with inhabitants drawn from all over the world, including a sizeable Jewish community. When Paul arrived about the year 50, the city was only about a century old, but already five times the size of Athens. Paul lived in Corinth for a year and a half, and a few years later came back for three months. The community of Christians there struggled against the influence of a very secular and self-indulgent society that was blind to the plight of the poor. Pagan attitudes afflicted the com-munity, which had a way of breaking Paul’s heart; he wrote to them sometimes “with many tears” (2 Corinthi-ans 2:4). Today, Corinth is a small industrial city. Its historic core has been destroyed by a series of earthquakes over the centuries, and what little remained was totally obliterated in a war with Turkey in the 1820s. There’s a core city with glamorous shops to catch the tourists, but it is mainly a cargo port, with piles of marble, tiles, and minerals every-where, a huge oil refinery nearby, a busy canal, a modern fast rail line to Athens, and a meeting point of major high-ways. Today, the remains of the Temple of Apollo and the marketplace are more ruined than most such sites. The glory of the city Paul knew well has faded, but the rele-vance of his words shines through the centuries.

—Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

MEMORIALS

Sanctuary Lamp

In Loving Memory of Rose, Paul & Rocco Neglio

by Jean Neglio

HINDSIGHT God’s presence is not discerned at the time when it is upon us, but afterwards, when we look back.

—John Henry Newman

DISCÍPULOS INCANSABLES Los relatos que hemos oído estas semanas provienen del primer capítulo de san Marcos y nos muestran el ministerio público de Jesús en sus comienzos. El relato de hoy muestra parte de la tensión y los cambios de su nueva vida que consistía en predicar el Reino de Dios, curar a los enfermos y expulsar a los demonios. Observa que después del atardecer, cuando caía el sol y terminaba la jornada laboral, las personas llevaban a los enfermos y poseídos a Jesús. Al día siguiente se levantó antes del amanecer para retirarse sólo a rezar, pero no tuvo suerte. Simón Pedro y los demás no solo lo buscan, sino que lo persiguen con el fervor que su ministerio ha incitado. Con la misma entrega ejemplar que demostró hasta el final de su vida en la tierra, les dice a sus seguidores que éste es su propósito. Por medio de Marcos, también le dice a la nueva iglesia y nos dice a nosotros que éste es nuestro propósito, nuestra vocación: ser incansables en nuestra lucha por proclamar la Buena Nueva y llevar el toque curador y reconciliador de Cristo al mundo.

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MISA EN HONOR DEL NIÑO JESUS VIAJERO

Este Sabado, 10 de febrero

12:00 p.m. - Misa y Procesión

¡Vengan todos!

TRADICIONES DE NUESTRA FE El 11 de febrero de 1858 la Virgen María se apare-ció a tres niños franceses del pueblito de Lourdes. Allí brotaron aguas milagrosas con el poder de sanar enfer-mos. Eventualmente se construyó en Lourdes un san-tuario en honor de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes y millo-nes de enfermos han recurrido a las aguas curativas. Muchos de los que visitan el santuario son latinos, por-que a los latinos nos encantan los milagros y lo mila-groso. Pero ¿cuál es el afán de ver milagros? ¿Es que no podemos creer sin ellos? ¿Es que necesitamos demos-traciones del poder divino antes de entregarnos a Dios? La Iglesia siempre ha canonizado santos y santas por cuya intercesión se han manifestado milagros, y ha buscado su poder de intercesión. Sin embargo, también ha insistido que es más importante una vida ejemplar, una vida dedicada al bien del prójimo que una vida prodigiosa. Hay que tener mucho cuidado, porque fre-cuentemente en nuestro afán por ver milagros estrepi-tosos en lugares lejanos, cerramos los ojos a ver los milagros de las personas que nos rodean, y que silen-ciosamente ayudan al necesitado.

—Fray Gilberto Cavazos-Glz, OFM, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

Lectors for February 10th & 11th

5:00pm V. Vera & C. Diaz

8:30am M. Mongiovi & C. Marino, Jr. 9:30am TBA 11:00am F. Matera & M. Gerbasi 12:15pm S. Hernandez & B. Kajtazi 1:30pm TBA

VALENTINE’S DAY DANCE

Saturday, February 17th

8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Fatima Hall

Tickets $20 (Dinner included) -Available at the office-

Sponsored by: Las Parejas (Couples’ Group)

HOLY NAME SOCIETY All men of the parish are invited to join the members of the Holy Name Society at their monthly Corporate Communion Mass in the church next Sunday, March 11, 2018, at 8:30 a.m., and the meeting after Mass, in the Monsignor Ruvo Meeting Room, 2410 Hughes Avenue. There will be a review of two lessons from My Catholic Faith on The Hierarchy and Bishops and Priests followed by a brief meeting. Coffee and buns will be served.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: 1 Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13; Ps 132:6-7, 8-10; Mk 6:53-56 Tuesday: 1 Kgs 8:22-23, 27-30; Ps 84:3-5, 10-11; Mk 7:1-13 Wednesday: 1 Kgs 10:1-10; Ps 37:5-6, 30-31, 39-40; Mk 7:14-23 Thursday: 1 Kgs 11:4-13; Ps 106:3-4, 35-37, 40; Mk 7:24-30 Friday: 1 Kgs 11:29-32; 12:19; Ps 81:10-11ab, 12-15; Mk 7:31-37 Saturday: 1 Kgs 12:26-32; 13:33-34; Ps 106:6-7ab, 19-22; Mk 8:1-10 Sunday: Lv 13:1-2, 44-46; Ps 32:1-2, 5, 11; 1 Cor 10:31 — 11:1; Mk 1:40-45

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