Mass Schedule 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 Báez 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 21st, 2017 5:30 p.m. + Teresa Solis Godoy + Antonio Vidal + Jorge Salazar - Birthday of Adriana Estrella - Frank Rainieri 7:00 p.m. + Jose & Odille Guerrero + Agustin Alles Soberon + Ofelia Boza + Jorge Peña Sunday, October 22nd 2017 8:00 a.m. + Florentina Alvarez Puig & Jaime Puig + Jorge Arango + James & Francis Villacorta + Elinore Hughes + Kathleen & Joseph Walsh - Elaine Lynch 10:00 a.m. + Nancy Verónica De La Cruz + Suzanne Guanci + Sheila Sawyer + Remegio Acenas + Oliva Rodriguez 12:00 p.m. - Saint Augustine Parish Family 5:00 p.m. + Alejandro Suero + Sixto Ferro + Jorge Salazar + Marlene & Jeanette Lee García 6:30 p.m. - Health of Mauricio Letona Monday, October 23rd, 2017 8:00 a.m. + Heriberto Iglesias - Birthday of Lianne Shaheen - Health of José Alvarez 12:05 p.m. + Kyra Trinchet + Alicia Rodriguez - Rossie Chaves Lamazares Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 8:00 a.m. + Gregory Datino + Anthony R. Vidal + Florentina Alvarez Puig & Jaime Puig - Ralph Lamazares - Birthday of Deacon Mark Westman

12:05 p.m. + Dirce Martinelli + Maria May + Francisco Basterrechea - Villa-Urrutia-Borbolla family - For the health of Victoria Drozco Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 8:00 a.m. + Hilda Bacardi + Luis J. Bacardi + Luis F. Bacardi + Roberto Morales + Dr. Alfredo Lopez Gomez 12:05 a.m. + Dr. Alfredo Lopez Gomez + Maria P. Valdes + Jose Luis Perez Alonsu - All souls in the Purgartory - God’s abundant Blessings on the people of Puerto Rico Thursday, October 26th, 2017 8:00 a.m. + Enrique Heitzer + Manuel Mato - For all priests 12:05 p.m. + Jose Luis Vega + Clara Maria Taboada + Hugo Diaz + Angel Garganta Friday, October 27th, 2017 8:00 a.m. + Carlos V. Rangel + Ana Gan Nguyen + Tommy Lynn Scrivner - Alejandro García Chacón - Birthday of Martha Pearson 12:05 p.m. + Antonio Perla + Paolo Barbosa + Carmen Laura Mendoza + Tommy Lynn Scrivner - Ivonne Soberanes Saturday, October 28th, 2017 8:00 a.m. + Mary Bell + Frances Mclaney - Birthday of Deacon Jose “Pepe” Chirinos - St. Jude - Amy Jo Hernandez & Christopher McCarthy

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Sunday, October 22nd, 2017 Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Give the Lord glory and honor. IS 45:1, 4-6 PS 96L1, 3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10 1 THES 1:1-5B MT 22:15-21 Monday, October 23rd, 2017 Monday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people. ROM 4:20-25 LUKE 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75 LK 12:13-21 Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 Tuesday of the twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will. ROM 5:12, 15B, 17-19, 20B-21 PS 40:7-8A, 8B-9, 10, 17 LK 12:35-38 Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordi-nary Time Our help is in the name of the Lord. ROM 6:12-18 PS 124:1B-3, 4-6, 7-8 LK 12:39-48 Thursday, October 26th, 2017 Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. ROM 6:19-23 PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 AND 6 LK 12:49-53 Friday, October 27th, 2017 Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Lord, teach me your statutes. ROM 7:18-25A PS 119:66, 68, 76, 77, 93, 94 LK 12:54-59 Saturday, October 28th, 2017 Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles Their message goes out through all the earth. EPH 2: 19-22 PS 19:2-3, 4-5 LK 6:12-16

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THE MYSTERIOUS CHURCH ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

by Bishop Robert Barron

Even though I lived in France for three years while doing my doctoral studies, I never managed a visit to Mont Saint-Michel, the mysterious, mystical, and hauntingly photogenic abbey situated on a promontory just off the Normandy coast between Caen and St. Malo. But last week, in connection with the filming for my Pivotal Players series, my team and I made the pilgrimage. I first spied the mount from the backseat of the van, when we were still many miles away. It looked like a great ship, moored on the line of the horizon. As we got closer, the place became increasingly impressive, sometimes looming like a fortress, other times seeming to float on the sea. When we entered the gates this morning to commence our work, we stepped out of our world and into the Middle Ages. Our climb to the top—arduous and steep—mimicked that of thousands of pilgrims and monks and spiritual seekers over the centuries.

To grasp the religious significance of the Mount, we have to remember that it was built on the edge.

Like the Irish monks who constructed their simple dwellings off the harsh western coast of their

homeland, the religious who gave rise to Mont Saint-Michel felt that they were doing their work,

quite literally, at the ends of the earth. Jesus told his disciples to proclaim the Gospel everywhere

and not to stop until they had gone all the way. Cardinal Francis George loved to relate the story of

his brothers in the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, who, taking Jesus at his word, declared the

resurrection to every village and hamlet in the Yukon, until they came finally to the people who said,

“There’s no one beyond us.” Mont Saint-Michel was intended to be a monument to the

thoroughness of the Christian missionary effort. Hence it was, to me, a vivid reminder that we need

to pick up our game today and to go to what Pope Francis has famously termed the periferia, a

border country more existential than geographical.

I have discovered now through direct experience, though I had certainly sensed it through

photographs, that it is practically impossible to gaze at Mont Saint-Michel without falling into

mystical reverie. I would challenge anyone to come here and walk the causeway leading up to the

mount and not find himself beguiled into thinking of things higher and more eternal. The mountain

itself, and then the architecture piled so exquisitely on top of it, draw the viewer’s eyes up and up,

beyond this world. And when you climb to the top, you look out on the trackless and seemingly

endless sea.

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From Plato, through Dante, to James Joyce, the trope of the open sea has been used to evoke the

transcendent goal of the searching heart. The art, the sacraments, the doctrine, and the saints of the

church are meant to lure us to the edge of the ordinary and to allow us at least a glimpse of that open

sea of God’s eternity.

They are, accordingly, the enemies of Charles Taylor’s “buffered self,” the modern person so

thoroughly shaped by secularist ideology that she no longer hears the rumors of angels. It has always

struck me as curious that a religious person is seen as somehow conventional and non-threatening, a

little fussy Ned Flanders. Authentic Christians are in fact edgy folks, more than a bit dangerous.

Mont Saint-Michel, standing on the border between heaven and earth, is just the kind of place those

dangerous types like to go.

Finally, to understand this sacred place, we should remember its name and the figure who stands on

the pinnacle of the spire, namely, Michael the Archangel. Michael is invariably depicted in the armor

of a warrior, for he is the general of the angelic army that stood athwart the legions of Lucifer, who

had dared to arrogate to himself the prerogatives of God. He fought, not with sword and spear, but

with the unanswerable challenge of his own name: Micha-el (Who is like God?). Now we should

recall that the Mount is situated precisely on the western border of Europe, looking out toward the

setting sun. In the medieval imagination, the land of the setting sun was associated with the powers

of darkness, which helps to explain why the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages were, almost

without exception, oriented, situated toward the east. They symbolized the Church turned toward

the light of the risen Christ and away from sin and death. So the stronghold, named for and topped

by the fighter angel, and erected on the western edge of the world, represents the power of Christ’s

Church turned against the forces of darkness, both visible and invisible.

As we were filming at Mont Saint-Michel, armies of tourists were making their way through the

myriad nooks and crannies of the place. As they passed by altars, sanctuaries, and monastic cells

used by monks long ago, many of them, I would venture to say, probably saw the ensemble as

redolent more of Harry Potter than of St. Anselm. Come here if you can, or at least find a good

photo of the Mount on the Internet, but don’t look at it in the manner of a tourist. Rather, see it as

its builders would have seen it: as a beautiful and holy monument on the edge of the world.

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Monday, October 23rd, 2017 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass @ Church Tuesday, October 24th, 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 25th, 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 26th, 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 27th, 2017 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass Saturday, October 28th, 2017 8:00am: Daily Mass and Rosary after Mass @ Church 11:30am: Confessions @ Church

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (names may be subject to change)

Saturday, October 28th, 2017 5:30 p.m. : Fr. Tomasz Seweryn 7:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás Marín Sunday, October 29th, 2017 8:00 a.m. : Fr. Tomasz Seweryn 10:00 a.m. : Fr. Tomasz Seweryn 12:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás Marín 5:00 p.m. : Fr. Robert Vallee 6:30 p.m. : Fr. Mark Reeves 8:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás Marín

Collection Report for the Weekend of 10/13/17—10/1517

Thank you for your generosity!

Friday, October 13th, 2017 (Homeless Ministry) 12:05pm $ 553.00 Saturday, October 14th, 2017 5:30 p.m. : $ 1,607.00 7:00 p.m. : $ 863.00 Sunday, October 15th, 2017 8:00 a.m. : $ 1,638.00 10:00 a.m. : $ 2,907.00 12:00 p.m. : $ 1,942.00 5:00 p.m. : $ 3,853.00 6:30 p.m. : $ 1,700.00 8:00 p.m. : $ 743.00 Other: $ 25.29 Mail: $ 4,207.00 Total: $ 20,038.29

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