Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 5, 2020
Worship Hours Monday‐Saturday 8:00am Mass Saturday 5:00pm Vigil Mass Sunday 8:00am, 10:00am & 6:30pm Mass Holy Days 8:00am and 7:00pm Reconcilia on Saturday 3:45‐4:30pm or by Appointment Bap sm & Marriages Please contact the Parish Office. For Marriages please call the parish office six months in advance.
Our Mission at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church Most Holy Redeemer Parish is a Roman Catholic Chris an Community. The parish draws people from isola on to community, from searching to awakening, from indifference to concern, from selfishness to meaningful service, from fear in the midst of adversity to faith and hope in God.
The community of Most Holy Redeemer shares God’s compassionate love with all people. The parish offers a spiritual home for senior ci zens and youth; single people and families; those who are straight, gay, lesbian, and transgender; the healthy and the sick, par cularly persons with HIV.
As a parish community, we celebrate God’s loving presence in our lives. In worship and sacrament, especially the Eucharist, we are nurtured and challenged to extend God’s kingdom of jus ce, truth, love and peace by growing in the spirit of Jesus, the Most Holy Redeemer. Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church Bread for Thought San Francisco, California July 5, 2020 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 5, 2020 Last week we marked summer sols ce, a day when the sunlight and day is at its longest of any point in the year. Worship Hours The word sols ce is derived from the La n sol ("sun") Monday ‐ Friday: Daily Mass 8:00AM Saturday: Vigil Mass 5:00PM and sistere ("to stand s ll"), because at both the summer Reconcilia on 3:45PM ‐ 4:30PM and winter sols ce, the Sun's declina on appears to Sunday: Mass 8:00AM, 10:00AM and 6:30PM "stand s ll" as the movement of the Sun's daily path (as Holy Days: 8:00AM and 7:00PM seen from Earth) pauses at a northern or southern limit, Thanksgiving & New Years Day: 10AM before reversing direc on.
In many cultures, the summer sols ce, even since prehis‐ Per direc ve from our Archbishop with the consulta on of torical mes, has been seen as a significant me of year. the San Francisco City Health Officer, It is o en marked by large fes vals and rituals. Also we will celebrate one weekend Mass via livestream only. known as "midsummer" in many places, it makes me Please join us at 10am for our Sunday Mass livestream wonder if Shakespeare’s deligh ul play hints at the seemingly hallucinatory nature of a day with so much on the Facebook page: light! And places like Stonehenge, the prehistoric stone www.facebook.com/mhrsf monument in England, were built mark the special occa‐ Please join us for daily Mass livestreams at sion. 8am Monday ‐ Friday.
We will update you as things change. So given all this a en on to the summer sols ce, it may Sunday, July 5 seem curious that, as a church, our Catholic calendar has Join us for virtual Coffee Hour a er the 10am no significant feast days or solemni es around summer Mass: visit www.mhr.org for details. sols ce. We sit in that long stretch of Ordinary me, be‐ Monday, July 6 tween the high days of Easter and Pentecost and the dis‐ Parish office closed tant days of Advent. Certainly there are theological rea‐ sons for this stretch of “Ordo” me, when we try to sync Friday, July 10 back into our liturgical and spiritual rhythm. But I think Noon ‐ 3pm: Church open for private prayer there is also a more simple, even “sensual” reason for Face coverings must be worn and Social Distancing this, in that the calendar caters to our human senses, our Guidelines must observed. physiological sensibili es.
Just as the summer sols ce is the longest and brightest Daily Readings: July 6 ‐ 12 day of the year, the winter sols ce is the shortest and darkest day of the year. And as a church, we focus more Monday: Hos. 2:16, 17c‐18, 21‐22, Mt. 9:18‐21 intently on the winter sols ce, on the darkest and long‐ Tuesday: Hos. 8:4‐7, 11‐13, Mt. 9:32‐38 est night of the year. It is no coincidence that the birth of Emmanuel, God with us, occurs at that me of the year. Wednesday: Hos. 10:1‐3, 7‐8, 12, Mt. 10:1‐7 In the depths of the darkness, in our longing for light, in Thursday: Hos. 11:1‐4, 8e‐9, Mt. 10:7‐15 the need for warmth and craving for comfort, we can Friday: Hos. 14:2‐10, Mt. 10:16‐23 more clearly see – with both our eyes and our hearts ‐ the gi of Jesus, our light, our warmth, God’s human Saturday: Is. 6:1‐8, Mt. 10:24‐33 embrace of all of us. Sunday: Is. 55:10‐11, Rom. 8:18‐23, Mt. 13:1‐23 or 13:1‐9 Eunice Park, MTS/MAMC Pastoral Associate MHR HIV/AIDS Support Group Please keep our clients in your prayers. Community Life The Community Thri store is open for Centering Prayer is mee ng via Zoom on Monday curbside pick up. Dona on drop‐offs are evenings @ 7:00pm.Email [email protected] for login accepted by appointment only. Call details. 415‐862‐4910 or visit them online at www.communitythri sf.org/drop‐off Per direc ve from our Archbishop with the consulta on of the San Francisco City Health Officer, we will celebrate one weekend Mass via livestream only. Please join us at 10am for the Sunday Mass livestream Benedic on on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/mhrsf Benedic on of the Blessed Sacrament is a service We will con nue to celebrate daily Mass of worship and blessing centered on the Catholic belief in in person M‐F at 8am the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. It began in the middle ages as a popular devo onal exercise. In recent Visit us: years the frequency of its celebra on has lessened, but it On the web: www.mhr.org remains in our liturgical books. Some older Catholics re‐ Facebook: facebook.com/mhrsf member it fondly; some younger Catholics have never Instagram: mhrcatholicsf heard of it. A er Va can Council II, the Catholic Church re‐ vised its order of service for benedic on along with all the other liturgical rites. The full tle, “Rite of Eucharis c Expo‐ si on and Benedic on,” helps explain its purpose. The Our Parish Community Birthdays faithful gaze at an unconsumed host from a previous Mass Ana Bi ner, Louie Tasista, Jeffrey Taylor, D.J. Fleury, and worship the presence of the risen Christ in that host. Darryl Lim, Tom Gra ot, Bob Barcewski, Brad Chavez, The ceremony has four parts: exposi on, adora‐ Ma Liang‐Chaboud, Paula Zimmerman and Jamie Reyes. on, benedic on, and reposi on. During exposi on, the minister goes to the tabernacle and removes a large host reserved there. Placing it in a monstrance (a windowed liturgical vessel that displays the host), the minister sets the object of our devo on on the altar. The period of adora on Mass Inten ons may be lengthy. Prayers, Scripture readings, songs, homily, Mass Inten ons are celebrated for those to remember a and silence may fill the me. At the close of this period, if loved one, honor someone on an important date or cele‐ the minister is a priest or a deacon, he blesses the assembly brate a special occasion. To schedule a Mass Inten on with the monstrance and says a concluding prayer. This please call the parish office or email [email protected]. blessing is the benedic on from which the service derives its name. If a communion minister is presiding, he or she does not give a blessing. Finally, the minister removes the Are you lonely? Blessed Sacrament from the monstrance and places it back You can call the Friendship Line @ 800‐971‐0016. It's the in the tabernacle, an ac on called “reposi on.” only 24/7 toll‐free warmline for older adults. Whether Tradi onally, Catholics have sung two popular eu‐ you're feeling alone or in crisis, you can count on the charis c hymns during the adora on, “O Salutaris Hos a” Friendship Line for a lifeline of hope and a compassionate and “Pange Lingua,” but any eucharis c hymn will serve. A voice. It's free to anyone in the U.S. or Canada. Volunteer: litany of acclama ons to God, “The Divine Praises,” usually you can also volunteer for the Friendship Line to talk to concluded benedic on, but the revised liturgy does not callers. Contact 415‐750‐4136 or fl[email protected]. specifically include them. Any acclama on or song of praise may close the service. Benedic on enhances our devo on to the Eucha‐ rist and whets our appe te for the Mass. The main reason “Whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we have eucharis c bread is to consume it with the cup in we come to realize that he is already there, communion with one another and with Christ. However, it may also serve as an object of praise, a vision of the great wai ng for us with open arms.” treasure we share at every Mass. —Paul Turner —Pope Francis, The Joy of the Gospel
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