Sat, 07/11/20 05:30 pm Stacia Borowicz

Sun, 07/12/20 09:00 am Fr. Gregorio Reynes

07/12/20 11:00 am Epifania de Vera

Mon, 07/13/20 07:00 am Carmen Landires Vera

Tue, 07/14/20 07:00 am Joey Julien

Wed, 07/15/20 07:00 am Jovito & Julieta Cebedo

Thu, 07/16/20 07:00 am Luis Cultura

Fri, 07/17/20 07:00 am Wedding Anniversary of Victor & Aida Rabago

Sat, 07/18/20 08:30 am Luke & Christiana Ngobili and Deceased relatives

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AVAILABLE DAYS FOR MASS INTENTIONS

AUGUST 2020 07:00am Thu 6, Wed 12, Fri 14, Tue 18, Wed 19, Thu 20, Fri 21, Tue 25, Wed 26

SEPTEMBER 2020 07:00am Fri 4, Tue 8, Thu 10, Wed 16, Thu 17, Fri 18, Wed 23, Thu 24, Tue 29, Wed 30

Fifteenth Sunday

In Ordinary Time

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On Sunday July 16th, 1251, as Simon Stock knelt in prayer, Our Lady appeared to him, holding the Child Jesus in one arm and the Brown Scapular in the other. She uttered the following words: “Hoc erit tibi et cunctis Carmelitis privilegium, in hoc habitu moriens salvabitur” (This shall be the privi-lege for you and for all the Carmelites, that anyone dying in this habit shall be saved). On January 13, 1252, the order re-ceived a letter of protection from Pope Innocent IV, defending them from harass-ment.

St. Simon Stock lived a holy life for 100 years and died in the Car-melite monastery at Bordeaux, France on May 16, 1265.

To be continued...

OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL First Part

Mount Carmel is a b i b l i c a l place where the prophet E l i j a h dwelt. It rises 1,742 feet above sea level and towers above Is-rael’s Medi-

terranean coastline. It was here where Elijah prayed to God for the salvation of Israel, which was suffering a terrible drought at the time. He continued to pray and sent his servant up the moun-tain several times to look for rain. On the seventh try, Elijah’s servant returned with good news. “Behold a little cloud arose out of the sea like a man’s foot” (1 Kings 1:44). Soon thereafter, torrential rains fell upon the parched land and the people of Israel were saved.

Elijah saw the cloud as a symbol of the Virgin mentioned in the prophecies of Isaiah (Isaiah 7:14). The hermits who lived on Mount Carmel followed Elijah’s exam-ple and prayed for the advent of the much-awaited Virgin, who would become the mother of the Messiah. The origins of the Carmelite Order can be traced back to Elijah and his hermited disciples.

In the 13th century, during the Crusades, St. Simon Stock joined a group of hermits on Mount Carmel during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In 1247, he was elected the 6th superior-general of the Carmelites at the first chapter held in Aylesford, Eng-land. However, the order had difficulty gaining general acceptance and suffered much persecution and oppression from secular clergy and other orders which prompted the monks to have recourse to the Blessed Virgin in the year 1251.

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SPEAKING IN PARABLES

In the Gospel Reading, Christ ex-plains why he speaks to the crowds in par-ables. The knowledge of these things has been granted to you, Christ tells his disci-ples, but it hasn’t been granted to the peo-ple in the crowds.

But if God can give the gift of knowledge, why wouldn’t he give it to everyone? Why would a loving God hide knowledge from some people?

To see the answer, think about gifts. If you give a gift to someone you love, then what you give is intended to do that per-son good. It isn’t a gift if what you are giving will harm him or hurt him, and you know that it will.

But knowledge can hurt rather than help if the recipient isn’t ready to receive it.

READINGS

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading I: Isaiah 55:10-11 Psalm: 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14 Reading II: Romans 8:18-23 Gospel: Matthew 13:1-23

Good counselors are skilled in knowing the times when their clients are able to bear some knowledge, some insight into their situation and themselves. Till their clients are ready, good counselors hesitate to im-part such insight for fear of making their clients more stressed or more troubled, rather than more healed and grounded. To force knowledge on a person not ready for it is stupid or cruel or both. It isn’t loving.

And that is why Christ speaks in parables. Among those who come to him, there are some people who want to hear him but are not willing to be counted among his disci-ples, at least not yet. Christ’s parables of-fers those people what they can receive, given that they are not yet ready to receive him. They can learn something from the parables even so.

But to those who come to Christ ready to receive him and willing to be counted as his disciples, he can give the gift of knowl-edge straightforwardly. In receiving him, those people are also ready to receive the knowledge Christ can give.

And here it is worth noticing that Christ speaks in parables to everybody who comes to him. But some people care enough about him and his words to want more than they can get from those par-ables alone. They take him as their teacher and want to learn from him. That is why they come to him to ask him to explain the parables he was telling them as well as all the others. The people who want more un-derstanding are the people who count as his disciples.

As Christ says, to them who have more, more will be given because they want more.

Eleonore Stump

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The Sanctuary Lamp, Altar Bread and Sacrificial Wine are nice ways to remember someone in need

of healing, those who are celebrating births, anniversaries, etc. or a deceased loved one.

It reminds us the ever presence of Christ. We bring our intentions into HIS PRESENCE with our offering.

If you wish to remember someone in this special way, the Sanctuary Lamp will burn for a week, and the Altar Bread OR the Sacrificial Wine of everyday

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