SAINT MARY CATHEDRAL MASS SCHEDULE Monday-Friday………….6:30am, 12:05pm Saturday…………………………..12:05pm Sunday……………Vigil: Saturday 5:30pm; 8:00am, 9:30am, noon, 1:45pm Español, 3:30pm Extraordinary Form/ Traditional Latin, & 5:30pm
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Monday-Friday………….11:00am-11:50am Saturday………………...11:00am-11:50am & 4:30pm-5:20pm
CLERGY AND STAFF Most Rev. Joe S. Vásquez, STL, DD, Bishop of Austin
Very Rev. Daniel Liu, Rector Rev. Everardo Cazares, Parochial Vicar Rev. Adrian Chishimba, Parochial Vicar Rev. Antony Savarimuthu, Priest in Residence Deacon Héctor Ortiz and Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez
Louis Barron……………Director of Development/ Facility Operations Yvonne Bedell…….Director of Operations/Finance Jessica Burrola……..Receptionist (church calendar) Jaeson Drummond Director of Catholic Faith Formation Judy Henschen Administrative Assistant (church bulletin) Dr. Jeffrey Jones-Ragona…Director, Sacred Music Robert LeGros………...Cathedral School Principal Jeremiah Reyna………………….Facility Services Yvonne Saldaña…………Sacramental Coordinator CATHEDRAL SCHOOL OF Kathy Thomas SAINT MARY Liturgical Coordinator & EIM Administrator Dr. Brooks Whitmore………….Cathedral Organist 910 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin, Texas 78701 (512) 476-1480 ● www.smcschoolaustin.org Enrolling PreK3-Grade 8 OFFICE HOURS Monday-Friday 8:30 am-5:00 pm
(512) 476-6182 Fax (512) 476-8799 BAPTISMS: Parents should visit the Cathedral website: www.smcaustin.org, for Baptism guidelines; then submit completed application with required 203 E. 10th Street, Austin, TX 78701 documents to schedule Baptism. www.smcaustin.org BǂǖǕNJǛǐǔ: Si usted desea bautizar a su hijo, lea los requisitos detallados en nuestro sitio web: www.smcaustin.org. Luego, para fijar una fecha para el bau- AVE MARIA GIFT SHOP tizo, entregue el formulario de solicitud con los documentos necesarios. Hours of Operation Tuesday-Friday 12:30 pm-4:30 pm MARRIAGE: See Cathedral website: www.smcaustin.org, for detailed information. Saturday 9:00 am-5:30 pm Phone 512-617-5880 NEW PARISHIONERS: Registration forms are available on the table at the
entrance of the church; in the Cathedral office, or on our website. Saint Mary Cathedral volunteer ministry Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion Uncanny Homes WEEKLY CALENDAR Housebound, we are still wayfarers Terence Sweeney Holy Week and Easter liturgies: Please see the Lǂ ǔ Ǖ M ǐ Ǐ Dž ǂ ǚ , I ǘ ǂ Ǖ DŽ lj dž Dž Ǖ lj dž DŽ Ǔ ǐ ǔ ǔNJ Ǐ Lj Ljǖ ǂǓ Dž at the website for our live stream information: intersection of 47th and Springfield. As with every school day, she stood by the crosswalk ready to keep children safe from speeding cars. There she Due to the shelter-in-place order decreed by was with her bright vest, whistle, and stop sign. And there were no the City of Austin on March 24, the children. No one to guard as she kept her lonely vigil. Later in the day, a bus normally filled with employees of the University of Pennsylvania went Cathedral will be closed until further notice. by that same intersection. The bus was empty, transporting workers who The parish office is open for phone calls had not left their homes. The bustling bars and cafes on Baltimore Avenue only during office hours. are shuttered just when they should be putting out their sidewalk seating. Rush hour now consists of empty trolley cars; I find myself missing the angry honking of Philadelphians. My parish, St. Francis de Sales, is empty. On Sunday the twenty-five-person choir is at home, the French organ is silent, the ushers have no one to usher, and the pews are bereft. On the sidewalks, people warily pass each other; friends greet each other from a six-foot distance with an awkward wave. And we are all haunted by the knowledge that in hospitals and homes, people are suffering and dying.
Living during a pestilence is living through the experience of the uncanny. The word for uncanny in German is unheimlichkeit. It means not-being-at- home. It doesn’t refer to the experience of being away from home, though. What makes this emotion so disorienting, though, is that one feels not-at- home precisely when one is at home. The ordinary is still there but is just a little off. One feels alienated by the regular. Watching a crossing guard with no one to guard is an experience of the uncanny, of suddenly being estranged by the place that used to make you familiar.
The uncanniness creeps into your house. My home feels less homey; it is the same place but somehow not. In the daytime, it has become an office building: a program coordinator plans programs that won’t happen, an attorney meets with clients on a screen, a housing advocate campaigns for access to homes he cannot visit. I remain at my desk writing or, more often, failing to write. Later I teach a class via video; an experience of an ersatz version of education and connection. My building is an office space, my apartment a classroom. I am homebound in two senses: bound to my home but also not at home and so constantly homeward bound. We are stuck in houses feeling not-at-home.
PdžǓljǂǑǔ NJǏ ǕljNJǔ LdžǏǕ – which not only features no alleluias but also no Stations of the Cross at my parish – will be a lesson in being not-at- home. This beautiful world is our pilgrimage because we live here as homo Watching the YouTube clips of Italians singing out viator, man on the way. We don’t neglect the world; rather, we are to tend of their windows, I think again of Augustine, who to it as our shared path. In the wilderness, people speak of being “keepers tells us to sing “in the way wayfarers are in the habit of the trail.” We tend to the trail not because it is our home but because we of singing, sing but keep walking.” Hard labor is all travel that path. This is wisdom for our whole life. We need to tend to lightened by singing, even if that hard labor is being our paths through this world. As Walker Percy puts it, our vocation is to under lockdown. For Augustine, we sing for our true hand each other along. home when we “progress in goodness, in the right faith, in good habits.” We sing when we travel down We sing despite this anxious feeling of not being at home, because for now this weary way towards goodness and when we help our home is the road, until someday our home will be in God’s home. each along this way. Perhaps the coronavirus is a reminder that we are on our way together, that undergoing the uncanny speaks to a truth about our life. We are both at We may be trapped in our homes this Lent and home in this world and not at home. Augustine preached often about being Easter and beyond – during this beautiful and on pilgrimage. In a homily for Easter, he told his congregants that when we haunting springtide. We have to live through the sing our alleluias here, we sing as wayfarers while our brothers and sisters uncanniness of this season of pestilence. We sing in heaven sing as those at home. “God praised there; and God praised here. despite this anxious feeling of not being at home, Here by the anxious, there by the carefree . . . here on the way, there at because for now our home is the road, until someday home.” During this Lent and Easter, our sense of not-being-at-home will our home will be in God’s home. Our task is to keep deepen. It will deepen precisely because we are affixed to our houses that on the path and to help others on the path. Our task have become our offices. What we are learning is that we must keep travel- during the uncanny is to sing and to keep walking ing in this life to our true home. The psalmist proclaims: “I was glad when homeward. they said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord!’” It is his house that is (https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/uncanny- our true home. (continued) homes-housebound) 2 Saint Mary Cathedral, Austin, Texas April 5, 2020
STEWARDSHIP & DEVELOPMENT MASS INTENTIONS
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion Private Masses were offered as follows:
Offertory Collection (week of 3-29-20)
Sunday Coll. Last Month Year to Date Monday, March 23 Chester Claire † 3/29/20 Feb. 2020 7/1-3/30/2020 Shauna McBrearty
Income $ 9,767 $ 97,158 $ 1,162,475 Tuesday, March 24 Matt Expenses $ 24,775 $ 87,582 $ 966,212 Wednesday, March 25 Budget Excess/(Deficit) ($ 15,008) $ 9,576 $ 196,263 Michael Forsley No Second Collection Ann Fayad † St. Killian’s Candles (a/o 3/29/2020) $ 706 Joshua Escalona Fr. Tim Nolt
Attendance...... 0 Thursday, March 26 Saint Mary Cathedral Catholic Endowment (as of 2/29/2020) $ 50,334 Madere family For questions, concerns, or comments, contact the Director of Advancement, Louis Kuhn family Barron, 512-476-6182 ext. 172; email [email protected]. Andrea Billingsley
Friday, March 27 We have a new giving platform called Pushpay, which is currently active. It is a Connie Harris simple to use, and we ask that you begin to use this new platform in making your dona- Saturday, March 28 tions. You can get access to the new system by going to https://pushpay.com/pay/ Michael Forsley smcaustin which will take you directly to the portal, or text smcaustin to 77977. You will then receive a link to access the portal. You can also access Pushpay by going to the Sunday, March 29 James Billingsley www.smcaustin.org website, click on Donation, next click on Giving (new). The current Ryan Frazier platform we are using, Vanco, is still active and can receive your donations but we are Faithful Departed encouraging everyone to begin to use Pushpay. If you have any questions, please Cathedral Parishioners contact Louis Barron or Yvonne Bedell in the parish office, 512-476-6182. Monday, March 30 Tom Kouri † The St. Vincent de Paul Society thanks you for your continued support and generosity! The annual “Fight Hunger Challenge” will be put on hold until further notice. You are welcome to send your Should I fast and donations to the parish office by mail or abstain on Good through e-giving now or wait until the Friday?
campaign resumes later this year. The short answer is yes. Good Friday is LEASE PRAY FOR an obligatory day of P ... fasting and those who have died: abstinence for LaNoe Gibson Catholics. Despite
those in need of healing: * Masses being Paul Ancira, Gisela Bernal, Steve Boney, Jim Boyles, Juan Burrola, Sr. & Yolanda Burrola, cancelled due to Catarino Castillo, Judith Constantine, Kenneth Craig, Sr., Carmel DiCarlo, John Donatucci, Abel COVID-19, the call Duarte, Bill & Mary Durfor, Ronald Erickson, J. C. Ernst, Joshua Escalona, Pedro Flores, Jr., to fast for Catholics Deyanira Garcia, Margaret Harrison, Claire Hernandez, Jesse Hutton, Sonia Irizarry, Chuck Jehlen, ages 18-59, and to Hee-Jung Kim, Maria Guadalupe Ledesma & family, Jesús Amaro Lopez, Anyssa M., Clarisa abstain from meat for Marcée, Alicia Martinez, Vanessa Matocha, Lauren & Graham Miller, Matthew Mwenya and Astridah Chishimba, Marjorie King Parker, Gary Porfirio, Marrlene Sato, Bill Scott, Sharon family, those 14 years and older, still remains. Marlene Siering, Tim Sullivan, Bernard Vasek, Vicente Zavala Fasting allows one full meal and two and those serving in the military: small meals with no eating in between. HR Shelby D. Aparicio HN5 Jinuel Jehlen LCPL Eric E. Muñoz 1LT Kyra Barone 1 LT Patrick Kuiper Capt. Nicholas Naquin Capt. Mary E. Boyle Major David McGuire 1SG Kenneth A. Saffell A1C Paige Derry Capt. Lawrence McNamara Capt. Sean Snook PFC Andrew DiCarlo Christopher Mercado, USAF Sgt. William Speer SANCTUARY CANDLE PFC Rick German Capt. Chris Morrow Spec 4 Chris Trevino In Thanksgiving 1LT Cory Houck Ensign Evan Moses Christopher Ty Trevino Madere family Lt. Sigifredo Homero Huerta, Jr. LT Shane Moses March 29—April 11, 2020 *Unless requested otherwise, names will appear for three weeks.
3 Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion FAITH FORMATION humility through both the triumphs of life (by learning to be humble) and the tragedies and injustices (by learning how to be CATHEDRAL SCHOOL OF SAINT MARY obedient). To secular ears, this may be perceived as nonsense. will be closed March 16 through April 3, 2020. But to those with the eyes of faith, they are pearls of great price. The school is on the scheduled Spring Break March 16-20, and will begin distance learning True humility tempers the temptation we have to become the week of March 23-April 3. Please visit our complacent and prevents an excessive relishing of life’s page for updates as well as resources. If you successes and affirmations. Learning obedience keeps us would like information about enrolling for the faithful to our relationship with God so that we can find the 2020-2021 school year, visit our website at courage to endure any depth of hardship, disappointment, www.smcschool.org for information . betrayal, or agony. While we may want our cup of suffering to be taken away, it simply cannot be. Somehow and somewhere FAMILIES in the seemingly opposing experiences life can deal us, God is present with His reassuring, compassionate, empowering, and Religious Education programs should follow the local school persevering love. To be true to who we are and who God is, we (AISD) district closures. Updates will be sent via the must take up the cross of suffering, even when it’s the hardest “Remind.com” messaging service. and most apparently senseless thing to do.
Los programas de educación religiosa deben seguir los Only our soul can understand these things, but our minds cierres de los distritos escolares (AISD) locales. Las cannot, so they continue to run to secular ideas and solutions to actualizaciones se enviaran a través del servicio de pain and hardship. It goes without saying that we need to do all mensajería “Remind.com”. we can to eliminate as much senseless, unjust suffering as possible. Hunger, violence, abuse, exploitation, rejection, YOUNG ADULTS prejudice, homelessness, disrespect for life, and a whole host of
For updates and questions, contact smcya.org. other sins all result in suffering that is within our control. Then, when we face the uncontrollable kind of suffering or find ourselves the victim of injustice, what do we do? ©LPi ADULTS
Would you like to know more about the Catholic Faith? Although RCIA is designed to teach the Catholic faith to those wishing to enter the Church, it is also one of the best ways for Catholics to learn the faith more deeply. Therefore, all those seeking to know Jesus and His Church are invited to attend Meditación del Evangelio RCIA. Email [email protected] or call the parish office at 512-476-6182 for more information. Domingo de Ramos de la Pasión Mt 26, 14-27, 66 Estamos ya en el Domingo de Ramos, empezamos la Catholic Scripture Study: Cancelled until further notice. Semana Mayor o Semana Santa donde se celebra el núcleo For questions email [email protected] de nuestra fe, “La resurrección de Jesucristo” pasando por la pasión y la muerte. El jueves y el viernes deben ser Book Study: An Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis tomados en cuenta dando especial cuidado a las de Sales is cancelled until further notice. For questions email celebraciones litúrgicas que enseñan una catequesis [email protected] centrada en lo que se vive durante el Año Litúrgico en la Iglesia. “Bendito el que viene en nombre del Señor”; El pueblo le daba la bienvenida al Señor, tal como lo hacemos Gospel Meditation ahora nosotros en este Domingo de Ramos o de palmas como se dice. Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion Mt 26:14—27:66 Human beings are united in their suffering. When we find our- El Papa Francisco, nos invita a reflexionar sobre este día selves in a painful moment, our first reaction is “why me?” as if con las siguientes palabras: “La Liturgia de hoy nos enseña we are the only person on earth who ever encountered this que el Señor no nos ha salvado con una entrada triunfal o challenge. Going through life with a “why me” attitude only mediante milagros poderosos. Pero si queremos seguir al finds us wallowing in the mire of self-pity and never seizing Maestro, más que alegrarnos porque el viene a salvarnos, opportunities or graces. We walk in solidarity with every estamos llamados a elegir su camino: el camino del servicio, human being in the experience of suffering. Believing that the de la donación, del olvido de uno mismo…Jesús se despojó goal of life is the elimination or avoidance of suffering is de sí mismo: renunció a la gloria de Hijo de Dios y se simply an illusion that keeps us entrenched in a collective myth. convirtió en Hijo del hombre, para ser en todo solidario con This myth distorts us and limits us. nosotros pecadores, él que no conoce el pecado. Pero no solamente esto: ha vivido entre nosotros en una «condición There are living witnesses among us showing how courage and de esclavo» (Filipenses 2:7): no de rey, ni de príncipe, sino determination can overcome any degree of hardship, pain, loss, de esclavo…con su humillación, Jesús nos invita a purificar or tragedy. Folks finding the normalcy of their lives suddenly nuestra vida. Volvamos a él la mirada, pidamos la gracia de torn asunder are faced with options: opportunity or despair, stay entender algo de su anonadación por nosotros; reconozcá- or leave. Jesus stands before us as the prime example of moslo Señor de nuestra vida y respondamos a su amor endurance and perseverance. He is the One who showed infinito con un poco de amor concreto.” ¡Viva Cristo, nuestro (continued at top right) Rey! ©LPi 4 Saint Mary Cathedral, Austin, Texas April 5, 2020 EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP Reinado inmortal Pensamientos para cuaresma y semana santa Six Characteristics of an Everyday Stewardship for Lent – por Carlos Gonzalez Accountable Easter is only a week away, and churches everywhere in the La pasión, la muerte y la resurrección de Cristo, West are beginning the holiest of weeks. For a moment, even marcaron el inicio de un nuevo orden social: inició una era the secular world will bow to religious observances: closings de trascendencia espiritual y moral para la vida humana. on Good Friday, Easter baskets filled with treats, and televi- Oración y penitencia son importantes para recordar y sion specials featuring Biblical figures. You and I will be conmemorar cada año estos sucesos; sin embargo, más reflecting on the meaning of Lent and how we have died and importante es creer que el Resucitado sigue vivo hoy. Cada risen with Our Lord, Jesus Christ. Either we have prepared niño, cada joven, cada adulto que sufre y que muere por well for this Holy Week observance, or we are left lamenting hambre, enfermedad, violencia o injusticia, es el Crucificado clamando por un mundo nuevo; por un Reinado opuesto a la that maybe next year will be when we get back on track. perversión y miseria en un mundo que va a la total deriva. The question before us is: “To whom are we accountable?” En general los cristianos por herencia Paulina, relacionamos Did our Lenten observance only have to do with us? Does it el sufrimiento y muerte de Jesús como consecuencia de matter to anyone if we really took this time seriously or not? nuestros pecados. Así mismo, hay quienes lo ven como la Both faith and community are gifts from God to us. The expiación de sus faltas y debilidades, y hay quienes hasta se Church exists so we may live out that faith and respond to atribuyen salvación personal e inclusive la entrada al cielo. God’s call, being strengthened by the grace imparted through Aspectos todos de gran relevancia, pero ¿Dónde hemos the sacraments and the community in which we find ourselves. dejado la buena notica del Reino de Dios? y ¿Cuántos de If we are accountable to no one, then the community is simply nosotros cristianos comprometidos estamos listos para sufrir an option on a Sunday morning, much like golf or household persecución y muerte por amor a Cristo y su Reino?
chores. If we are not accountable to God, then our faith is Jesús nos dice con exactitud: les aseguro que el que no simply something we look to periodically when we are sad or acepta el Reino de Dios como un niño, no entrará en él frightened. (Mc 10:15; Mt 18:3; Lc 18:17). La exquisitez divina de la re- However, if we are accountable to each other and to Jesus surrección de Cristo es algo que un niño puede ver y Christ, then we must answer for our stewardship gifts of faith entender. Para que un adulto vea esto, implica sacrificio, and community. The Body of Christ is counting on us. conlleva renuncia, disciplina y plegaria, y sin embargo, se Without a strong sense of accountability, we think our actions puede lograr aún hoy en un mundo lleno de perversión donde millones sufren, incluyendo niños. only affect us. In the end, we are connected to each other through Christ in such a manner that no one ever stands alone. Jesús también nos dice: Te aseguro que el que no nace de ©LPi nuevo, no puede ver el Reino de Dios (Jn 3:3-5). Con la resurrección de Jesús, comenzó el peregrinar histórico que lleva más de veinte siglos esparciendo la buena notica del Reino de Dios; que ha sido, es y será: luz de resurrección a quienes se arrepienten y dejan todo para seguirlo.
Sólo hasta entonces podemos ver y entender, que el READINGS FOR HOLY WEEK OF APRIL 5: misterio de la muerte y la resurrección de Jesús es Sun ...... Mt 21:1-11/Is 50:4-7/Ps 22:8-9,17-18,19-20,23-24/Phil 2:6-11/ Redención, fuente de amor, fuente de perdón y fuente de ...... Mt 26:14—27:66 gracia para la creación; es el Espíritu de Dios abriendo las Mon ...... Is 42:1-7/Ps 27:1-3,13-14/Jn 12:1-11 puertas de su Reino. Un Reino que busca transformar y dar Tues ...... Is 61:1-3a,6a,8b-9/Ps 89:21-22,25,27/Rv 1:5-8/ vida eterna al humano (Mt 6:33, Mc 10:17-27). Un Reino de ...... Lk 4:16-21 amor, paz y justica que, como el milagro de la multiplicación Wed ...... Is 50:4-9a/Ps 69:8-10,21-22,31,33-34/Mt 26:14-25 de los panes y los peces, nos invita a congregarse y Thurs ..... Ex 12:1-8,11-14/Ps 116:12-13,15-16bc,17-18/ participar en lo común. Porque vivir juntos para compartir y ...... 1 Cor 11:23-26/Jn 13:1-15 servir con amor unos a otros en unidad con Cristo, es el Fri ...... Is 52:13—53:12/Ps 31:2,6,12-13,15-16,17,25/ camino que acerca el Reino de Dios al mundo...... Heb 4:14-16;5:7-9/Jn 18:1—19:42 Sat ...... Gn 1:1—2:2/Ps 104:1-2,5-6,10,12-14,24,35/ https://www.plough.com/es/temas/cultura/dias-feriados/ ...... Gn 22:1-18/Ps 16:5,8-11/Ex 14:15—15:1/ meditaciones-para-la-cuaresma/everlasting-kingdom ...... (Ps) Ex 15:1-6,17-18/Rom 6:3-11/Ps 118:1-2, ...... 16ab-17,22-23/Mt 28:1-10 Sun ...... Acts 10:34a,37-43/Ps 118:1-2,16-17,22-23/Col 3:1-4/ ...... Jn 20:1-9
OBSERVANCES FOR HOLY WEEK OF APRIL 5: Sun ...... Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord Thurs ..... Holy Thursday Fri ...... Good Friday Sat ...... Holy Saturday Next Sun ..Easter Sunday ©LPi 5 Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion MEET THE MUSICIANS TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS
Mauricio Ramos, Director Latin phrase of the week: Hæc dies quam fecit Dominus: of the Spanish choir at the exsultemus, et lætemur in eo. Confitemini Domino, quoniam Cathedral for over 15 years, bonus: quoniam in sæculum misericordia ejus. This is the started playing the guitar at the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice age of 8, playing in school therein. Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his choirs where he learned mercy endureth for ever. Psalm 117:24, 1 popular hymns by ear in his hometown Cojutepeque in El To receive news and updates about the TLM, visit our Salvador. Later he moved to website: AustinLatinMass.org. Be social, “Like” us on the capital city where he Facebook: St. Joseph Latin Mass Society. studied classical guitar and ______singing. In 1996, he became the choir director at the Ricaldone FORMED is a website featuring Catholic content Institute parish in San Salvador. He is a multi-instrumentalist, such as eBooks, Bible studies, children’s content, movies, singer-songwriter and recording artist. MP3s, Spanish content and more. All of this material is produced by the Augustine Institute and offers some of the Mauricio moved to Austin with his wife Teresa in 2002, and best Catholic digital content available, and the best part—it’s soon they found a home in Saint Mary Cathedral’s choir. They FREE for Saint Mary Cathedral parishioners. Use your smart- both come from Salesian schools in El Salvador, and that has phone to sign up to Formed.org Questions or difficulties? influenced the spirit and style of their music. They have two Contact Jaeson Drummond, Director of Catholic Faith children that have been literally part of the choir all their life, Formation, at [email protected] now they sing and play instruments with the rest of the group.
LA CORRESPONSABILIDAD DIARIA Mauricio Ramos, director del coro en español de la catedral por más de 15 años, comenzó a tocar la guitarra a Las 6 Características de una Corresponsabilidad las 8 años, acompañando las misas de su escuela en donde Diaria para la Cuaresma – Responsabilidad aprendió de oído canciones tradicionales en su pueblo natal La Pascua está a solo a una semana de distancia, y las Cojutepeque en El Salvador. Más tarde se mudó a la capital iglesias de todo el occidente están comenzando la semana y allí estudió guitarra clásica y canto. A partir de 1996 más sagrada. Por un momento, incluso el mundo secular trabajó como director del coro de la parroquia del Instituto se inclinará ante las celebraciones religiosas: cierres del Ricaldone de San Salvador. Es también multi-instrumentista, Viernes Santo, canastas de Pascua llenas de golosinas y cantautor y artista de la grabación. especiales de televisión con figuras bíblicas. Tú y yo estaremos reflexionando sobre el significado de la Mauricio se mudó a Austin con su esposa Teresa en 2002 y Cuaresma y cómo hemos muerto y resucitado con Nuestro pronto encontraron un lugar en el coro de la catedral de Señor Jesucristo. O nos hemos preparado bien para esta Santa Maria. Ambos estudiaron en colegios salesianos en El celebración de la Semana Santa, o nos lamentaremos de Salvador y esto ha influenciado el espíritu y estilo de la que tal vez el próximo año sea cuando volvamos al camino. música que interpretan. Tienen dos hijos que han pertenecido al coro toda sus vidas, ahora ellos cantan y La pregunta que tenemos ante nosotros es: “¿Ante quién tocan instrumentos con el resto del grupo. somos responsables?” ¿Nuestra observancia cuaresmal solo tiene que ver con nosotros? ¿Le importa a alguien si Prayer During a Pandemic realmente nos tomamos este tiempo en serio o no?
May we who are merely inconvenienced remember those Tanto la fe como la comunidad son dones de Dios para whose lives are at stake. nosotros. La Iglesia existe para que podamos vivir esa fe y May we who have no risk factors remember those most respondamos al llamado de Dios, fortaleciéndonos por la vulnerable. gracia impartida a través de los sacramentos y la May we who have the luxury of working from home remember comunidad en la que nos encontramos. Si no somos those who must choose between preserving their health and responsables ante nadie, entonces la comunidad es making their rent. simplemente una opción un domingo por la mañana, al May we who have the flexibility to care for our children when igual que el golf o las tareas domésticas. Si no somos their schools close remember those who have no options. responsables ante Dios, entonces nuestra fe es simple- May we who have had to cancel our trips remember those that mente algo que observamos periódicamente cuando estamos tristes o asustados. have no safe place to go. May we who are losing our margin money in the tumult of the Sin embargo, si somos responsables el uno con el otro y economic market remember those who have no margin at all. con Jesucristo, debemos responder por nuestros dones de May we who settle in for a quarantine at home remember those corresponsabilidad de fe y comunidad. El cuerpo de Cristo who have no home. cuenta con nosotros. Sin un fuerte sentido de responsabili- During this time of social distancing, let us yet find ways to be dad, pensamos que nuestras acciones solo nos afectan a the loving embrace of God to our neighbors. nosotros. Al final, estamos conectados el uno al otro a Amen. través de Cristo de tal manera que nunca nadie está solo.- (www.usccb.org) Tracy Earl Welliver ©LPi 6 Saint Mary Cathedral, Austin, Texas April 5,. 2020 RESPECT LIFE HAVE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW EXPERIENCED ABUSE? Bishop Joe S. “Like us, Christ entered the world through the womb of a woman. He Vásquez and the Diocese of Austin are committed willingly experienced the fullness of human suffering. He breathed his last to providing compassionate care to persons who on the Cross at Calvary in order that He might save us. Therefore, ‘God is have experienced abuse, particularly if committed the foundation of hope: not any god, but the God who has a human face by clergy or a church representative. If you or and who has loved us to the end’ (Spe salvi 31).” someone you know have experienced such abuse, USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities contact the diocesan Coordinator of Victim 2019-2020 Respect Life Reflection (Citing Pope Benedict XVI, Spe salvi Assistance and Pastoral Support at © 2007, Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission. All rights [email protected] or 512-949-2400. reserved.) ¿HA USTED, O ALGUIEN QUE USTED CONOCE, EXPERIMENTADO ABUSO? El Obispo José Vásquez y la Diócesis de Austin están “Tal como nosotros, Cristo entró en el mundo por mediación del vientre comprometidos a proveer de cuidado compasivo a de una mujer. Él voluntariamente asumió la plenitud del sufrimiento hu- personas que hayan experimentado abuso, mano. Exhaló su último suspiro en la cruz del Calvario para poder salvar- particularmente si éste fue cometido por clero o un nos. Por lo tanto, "Dios es el fundamento de la esperanza; pero no cual- representante de la iglesia. Si usted, o alguien que quier dios, sino el Dios que tiene un rostro humano y que nos ha amado usted conocer ha experimentado dicho abuso, hasta el extremo" (Spe salvi 31)”. contacte a la Coordinadora diocesana de
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