Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel 627 East 187th Street, Bronx, New York 10458 | T: (718) 295-3770 | F: (718) 367-2240

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Sunday, August 25, 2019| Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

PARISH STAFF

Administrator Rev. Fr. José Félix Ortega

Parochial Vicar

Rev. Fr. Israel K. Boadi

Religious Education Coordinator Sr. Edna Loquias, SMC

Parish Secretary Miss Elizabeth Mannini

Music Director & Organist Dr. Stephen Rapp

Cantor Mr. Bilen Eminov

Youth Minister Principal Mr. Jesus Vargas Mr. John Musto

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 Center.

OLMC SCHOOL: 2465 BATHGATE AVENUE

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

PARISH CENTER 2380 Belmont Avenue

Bronx, NY 10458

+ Open Monday through Thursday + 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

+ Fridays through August 30th + 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

August 25, 2019 CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL 2

ANNOUNCED MASSES

Sunday, August 25th | Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:30am Philip Cammarano, Sr. 9:30am Para la Comunidad de Monte Carmelo 11:00am Marie De Dominicis

12:15pm Vincent McDonnell (living) 1:30pm Luis Aldama

Monday, August 26th | Weekday

8:30am Deceased of the Abbruzzese Family 12:00pm In Honor of St. Anthony 6:30pm Olga Villacis

Tuesday, August 27th | St. Monica

8:30am Antonietta & Bartolomeo Ruocco 12:00pm Rose Lupo - 20th Anniversary 6:30pm Rita V. Calabro

Wednesday, August 28th | St. Augustine

8:30am Jennie Bosco 12:00pm Agostino Corvino 6:30pm Juan Rivera

Thursday, August 29th | Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist 8:30am Salvatore & Giuseppina Florio 12:00pm Vincenzo Mannini 6:30pm Vincent McDonnell (living)

Friday, August 30th | Weekday

8:30am Rosa Leone 12:00pm Isaia Barone 6:30pm Josephine Hosette (living)

Saturday, August 31st | BVM

8:30am Ramona Garcia 12:00pm Caryl Borgatti 5:00pm Pietro Persichetti

Sunday, September 1st | Twenty-second Sunday in Ord. Time 8:30am Maria Angela Merolla 9:30am Beatriz Zalazar, R & F Garcia, Magdalena Vargas 11:00am Giuseppe, Gennaro e Gerardo Vedovino

12:15pm Stephen Di Salvo 1:30pm Para la Comunidad de Monte Carmelo

From the Desk of Father José Félix

Holy Water

Recently a visitor from Italy told me at the end of Mass that he was amazed that we still have a place for Holy water at the entrance of our Church. Supposedly in his Church they were banned for health reasons.

As you know, we have the four beautiful marble angels at the entrance of the Church. I don’t know if they are here from the beginning of the Church in 1917 or if they were brought later. I wish they could talk. For more than a hundred years they have been there, faithfully at the entrance of our Church, welcoming people and offering comfort. They have seen hundreds of thousands of people coming through the doors, some happy, others sad; some worried, others may be distracted; some are parishioners, other just tourists or visitors.

The angels, in their hands, have the Holy Water that reminds us of our Baptism, the day we were made clean of our sins and adopted by Our Heavenly Father. The Holy Water also symbolizes the purification, as a requirement to be in the presence of the Lord. The Holy Water is also used in our houses, as a reminder of the presence of God and against any attack of evil.

Let’s renew that simple tradition of using Holy Water when we go into the Church and make the Sign of the Cross. By the way… we change the water often and sanitize the place where the water is.

God bless, Father José Félix

+ REST IN PEACE + Please pray for Margaret Marcone, Teresa Galluzzo,

Christopher Edwards and all the faithful departed

COLLECTION - 8/18/19

This year …………................................................$3,266.00

Last year ………................................................$3,212.24

WEEKEND ATTENDANCE - 8/18/19

Adults: ……. 643 Children: …… 129 Total: …… 772

MEMORIALS THIS WEEK

Mass Wine In Loving Memory of Rose Lupo 20th Anniversary By Son Joseph

Altar Bread In Loving Memory of Rose Lupo 20th Anniversary By Son Joseph

Sanctuary Lamp

In Loving Memory of Rose Lupo 20th Anniversary By Son Joseph

Mass Candles

In Loving Memory of Rose Lupo 20th Anniversary By Son Joseph

August 25, 2019 CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL 3

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — Brothers and sisters of every race and language will be brought to Jerusalem (Isaiah 66:18-21). Psalm — Go out to all the world and tell the Good News (Psalm 117). Second Reading — Strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees (Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13). Gospel — People from east and west, north and south recline at table in the kingdom of God (Luke 13:22-30).

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION The wonderful diversity of life and worship among Roman Catholics of East and West is an example of God writing straight with crooked lines. The steady hand of the villainous Emperor Diocletian drew a line across Eu-rope and Africa that split the empire in two, and for the most part determined how Christians would worship two thousand years later. Italy’s heel and the far northern city of Trieste fell on the Eastern side, and have had a form of Eastern liturgy ever since. Constantinople, which soon became the seat of the Roman Empire, became a base for Christianizing the East up to Russia and Poland. Poland was on the East-ern side, but a series of wars and medieval mayhem pushed the religious boundary back to the Ukraine, and Poland remains an outpost of the Latin Church to this day. An old rule of thumb declared that whatever religion was observed by the local prince, the people had to fol-low. This gave rise to persecution and migration as peo-ple sought toleration for their expressions of faith. In the United States, we are accustomed to peaceful collabora-tion among Christians of East and West, a situation that challenges churches that still feel the pinch of age-old division.

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LE LETTURE OGGI Prima Lettura — Fratelli e sorelle di ogni razza e lingua verranno portati a Gerusalemme (Is 66: 18-21). Salmo — Andate e proclamate la buona novella a tutto il mondo (Salmo 117). Seconda Lettura — Rafforzate le mani abbattute e le vostre ginocchia deboli (Eb 12, 5-7, 11-13). Vangelo — Gente dall’oriente all’occidente…stanno a tavola nel regno di Dio (Luc 13, 22-30).

WEDDING BANNS

III. Anthony Lo Grippo & Marie Layugan II. Giovanni Salamone & Paige Paparone I. Joseph Andrew Jacques & Mariaelena Izzo

MARIA SS. DI MONTEVERGINE

Santa Messa Domenica, 8 settembre 11:00 a.m.

Invitati i vostri parenti ed amici ad onorare la Vergine Maria

GRACE AND STRUGGLE

The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase.

—St. Rose of Lima

LECTURAS DE HOY Primera lectura — Hermanos y hermanas de todas las razas e idiomas acudirán a Jerusalén (Isaías 66:18-21). Salmo — Vayan por todo el mundo y prediquen el Evan-gelio (Salmo 117 [116]). Segunda lectura — Sé fuerte y soporta las pruebas como la “disciplina” de un Dios amoroso (Hebreos 12:5-7, 11-13). Evangelio — Gente del este y el oeste, del norte y del sur se sentarán a la mesa del Reino de Dios (Lucas 13:22-30).

TRADICIONES DE NUESTRA FE Hay quienes quieren negar los derechos de los inmi-grantes latinos que llegan a los Estados Unidos en busca de una vida mejor. Esta injusticia es extraña ya que los hispanos llegamos al territorio estadounidense en 1513, 73 años antes de la llegada de los primeros anglosajones. Estos fueron Ponce de León y compañeros quienes busca-ban una mejor vida en la famosa fuente de la juventud. Eventualmente los hispanos dejaron de buscar la ilusoria fuente y en 1565 en la fiesta de san Agustín (28 de Agos-to), Pedro Menéndez de Avilés fundó la primera ciudad en Florida. Gracias a su santo patrón esta ciudad ha podido so-brevivir ataques de invasores británicos y piratas, amena-zas de huracanes y tempestades para convertirse en la ciudad más vieja de la Unión Americana. ¿Pero quien fue este santo? Agustín, fue un obispo africano, quien des-pués de una vida desordenada se convirtió en uno de los santos mas importantes de la Iglesia, gracias a las oracio-nes continuas de su madre santa Mónica. Nunca debemos menospreciar el poder de las oraciones de una madre por sus hijos.

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