St. Frances Cabrini 12001 69th Street East, Parrish, FL 34219 EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN TIME WWW.sfxcparrish.com [email protected] 941.776.9097

OFFICE HOURS M,T, Th, F 7:00am-3:00pm Closed Wednesday

SCHEDULE OF MASSES PARISH STAFF Daily : T, W, TH, F - 8:30 AM Pastor: Fr. Joseph Gates Operations Manager: Richard Lind Saturday Vigil: 4:00 PM Sacramental Coordinator: Chris Malone Sunday: 9:30 AM & 11:00 AM Liturgy Coordinator: Lydia Herrera Maintenance & IT: Ernie Nolder Music Director and Rel. Ed. Coordinator: Maintenance: Roger Rodriguez David Collins Data Entry: Tom Moline AUGUST 1, 2021

Mass Intentions Tuesday AUGUST 3 8:30am POOR SOULS Req. By: Kay Wednesday AUGUST 4 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READINGS 8:30am +KIMBERLY GATES First Reading:113: Ex 16:2-4,12-15 Req. By: Lorrie & Steve Park Thursday AUGUST 5 78:3-4,23-25,54 8:30am THE PRIESTHOOD Second Reading Eph 4:17,20-24 Req. By: Secular carmelites Jn 6:24-35 Friday AUGUST 6 8:30am +ALBERT F.LIKER Req. By: Jody & Sheila pugh Saturday AUGUST 7 Catholic 4:00 PM +NATALIE WELDON Req. By: Husband, John Sunday AUGUST 8 Faith Appeal 930am +MARY MINNICI Req. By: Greg & Mary Barker 11:00am PARISHIONERS

RECEPTION OF THE SACRAMENTS

Baptism: For registered and active $164,000.00 parishioners: Please contact the Church Office. Baptism instruction is required for Parents. Next Class Aug.3rd @ 6:30pm

Reconciliation (Confessions) Saturdays 2:00-3:00 PM in Adoration Chapel Or by Appointment

Weddings: For registered and active

parishioners: be arranged with the pastor at least 6 months before the date desired. Please contact the Church Office for more Raised so far: details. 941-776-9097 $58,630.45

EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN

READINGS FOR THE WEEK MONDAY STS.EUSEBIUS & PETER JULIAN EYMARD 407: Nm 11:4b-15 Ps 81:12-17 Mt 14:13-21 TUESDAY 408: Nm 12:1-13 Ps 51:1,3-7,12-13 MT 14:22-36 WEDNESDAY ST. JOHN VIANNEY 409: Nm13:1-2,25-14:1,26-29a,34-35 Ps 106:6-7b,13-14,21-23 Mt15:21-28 THURSDAY DEDICATION of the BASILICA of ST. MARY MAJOR 410: Nm 20:1-13 Ps 95:1-2,6-9 Mt16:13-23 FRIDAY THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD 614:Dn 7:9-10,13-14 Ps 97:1-2,5-6,9 2Pt 1:16-19 Mk 9:2-10 ; :

Sunday August 8th From 9:30—Noon In the Mother Cabrini Center EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Our Supersubstantial Bread: Brian Kranick

“Grant us this day our daily manna.” - Dante, Purgatorio, Canto XI .The Lord has left us a mystery to contemplate. It is right there in the middle of the “Our Father” when Jesus teaches us to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread.” (Mt. 6:11) This is generally recognized to mean pray for our basic daily necessities. (CCC 2837) This is true. Yet, hidden in the mundane and seemingly redundant word “daily” is the veiled, mysterious Greek word epiousios (επιούσιος). Epiousios is a unique word, sacramental-like in nature, a visible sign of a hidden reality. Epiousios occurs nowhere else in the Greek Bible except in the same Our Father passage in :3 and the Apostle’s . In fact, epiousios is not found anywhere else at all in Greek literature. The only recorded reference to epiousios, ever, is Jesus’ prayer. As the early Church Father and master of the Greek language (d. 254 AD) concludes, epiousios was “invented by the Evangelists.” The millennia have bore out his assertion that epiousios was a new word, a neologism of uncertain . The usual Greek word for “daily,” hemera, is, after all, used elsewhere in the , but not in this instance. Why did St. Matthew and St. Luke feel compelled to create a new Greek word to accurately reflect the words of Jesus? They most likely had to use a new word to faithfully translate a novel idea or a unique word that Jesus used in His prayer. What was Jesus’ new idea? Athough there are multiple levels of meanings to epiousios, Jesus is making a clear allusion to the . “Our daily bread” is one transla- tion of a word that goes far above our basic needs for sustenance, and invokes our supernatural needs. St. translated the Bible in the 4th century from the original , Hebrew and Greek texts to form the Latin Bible. When it came to the mysterious word epiousios, St. Jerome hedged his bets. In Luke 11:3, St. Jerome translated epiousios as “daily.” Yet, in :11, he translated epiousios as “supersubstantial.” The root words are: epi, meaning “above” or “super;” and , meaning “being,” “essence,” or “substance.” When they are read together, we come to the possible translations of “super- substantial,” “above-essence,” or, in effect, “supernatural” bread. This translation as supersubstantial is still found today in the Douay- Rheims Bible. Taken literally, our supersubstantial bread is the Eucharist. (CCC 2837) In his commentary on St. Matthew’s gospel, St. Jerome states this directly: “We can also understand supersubstantial bread in another sense as bread that is above all substanc- es and surpasses all creatures.” St. Jerome also suggests that the Hebrew word for epiousios was the word maar meaning “for tomorrow,” invoking an eschatological interpretation of epiousios. In this sense, we are praying “this day” for our bread “for tomorrow,” or our future bread. We are petition- ing God for tomorrow’s future bread today. Pope Benedict reflects on this “petition for an anticipation for the world to come, asking the Lord to give already ‘today’ the future bread, the bread of the new world – Himself.” This again has Eucharistic overtones, as the Cat- echism states, “the Eucharist that is already the foretaste of the kingdom to come.” (CCC 2837) This eschatological interpretation is also borne out in the parable for the “coming day’s bread,” that Jesus teaches immediately following the Our Father. In Luke 11:5-8, Jesus tells the story of a man, who at “midnight” asks a friend to lend him three loaves of bread, as another friend of his has arrived from a journey and he has nothing to give him. As scholars have noted, there is the crucial matter of timing in this parable. In the morning the man can provide an abundance of food and bread for his guest, but at midnight he has nothing. This is an allusion to the fact that in the coming day of the Lord in heaven we will have a superabundance to meet our every need, both material and spiritual. But, as of yet, in this temporal life, a constant need remains. Ours, like the man in the parable, is a matter of timing. We desire to have a measure of that superabundance now, and not just to meet our needs, but also to share with others. Thus, in praying today for to- morrow’s bread, we are praying to realize now, in time, a bit of the fulfillment of eternity. This is in line with the theme of “realized eschatology” that runs through the Our Father, in which we pray for “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Even now on earth, we share daily in the realized eschatology of the heavenly Mass. In asking God for our daily, supernatural bread, we are also reminded of the manna from heaven that the Israel- ites supernaturally survived on in the desert for forty years. In the exodus, where there was no food or water in the desert, God miraculously rained down bread from heaven each day, both a supernatural and daily occurrence. In the morning dew, they gathered manna for their daily sustenance, and in the evening they ate the flesh of quail. As the psalmist says, “Man ate of the bread of the angels,” and “He rained flesh upon them like dust.” (Ps. 78:25; 27) The Israelites ate of the heavenly bread and flesh from the time they crossed the waters of the Red Sea (a foreshadowing of Baptism) until they reached the Promised Land (a foreshadowing of heav- en). Then, as soon as they completed their journey, the heavenly manna ceased. (Joshua 5:12) Our daily manna is with us too from the time we enter into the Church until the time we cross over into eternity. AUGUST 1, 2021

Jesus makes a direct connection of Himself to the manna from heaven, calling Himself the “Bread of Life.” The Jews, citing Moses and the manna from heaven, demanded a similar sign from Jesus. In response, Jesus tells them, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever.” (Jn. 6:51) Jesus is the new Moses, leading a new exodus, with a new heavenly manna. Like the Israelites’ manna, Jesus offers His bread and flesh for us to survive on for our journey. He tells them “he who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life.” (Jn. 6:54) Evidently Jesus wanted to make sure His scandalous words were not glossed over, because He repeated six times that those who eat His flesh and drink His blood have eternal life. This theme of “eating and living forever” is mentioned in only one other place in the Bible – in the Garden of Eden with the Tree of Life. After the fall of man, God sent Adam and Eve out of paradise, lest he “take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.” (Gen. 3:22) However, now with the Incarnation of the God-man, Jesus, paradise is, at last, opened fully to humanity to “eat and live forever.” The Tree of Life, cut off to us by our sins, is now open to us through the tree of the Cross, and resurrection of Christ. The fruit of this tree is given to us sacramentally in His supernatural manna, the Holy Eucharist. It is our spiritual bread without which we cannot live. Thus, Jesus is making a direct reference in the Our Father for our daily supernatural bread of the Eucharist. As Jesus instructs us in the beginning of the to not work for “food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life.” (Jn. 6:27) The theme of bread runs through the life of Christ, as visible signs pointing to a hidden reality. He is a priest-king, the order of Melchizadek, who offered bread and wine. He was born in Bethlehem, Hebrew for “the house of bread.” He performed the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves to feed 5,000. He refers to Himself as the “Bread of Life,” the true manna from heaven. In the culmina- tion of the , the Passover feast and the feast of Unleavened Bread, He offered bread and wine as His Body and His Blood of the New Covenant. After His Resurrection, He revealed Himself to His disciples in the “breaking of the bread.” Jesus lives on with us sacramentally in the Holy Eucharist, under the guise of bread. In the final revelation He promises to give us “some of the hidden manna.” (Rev. 2:17) This is our food of salvation, our medicine of immortality, which gives eternal life. It is not surprising then that the disciples beseeched Jesus saying, “Lord, give us this bread always.” (Jn. 6:34) And, so it remains with us. (Catholicexchange.com)

Homebound Liturgical Ministers Needed

If you feel God calling you to serve our Brothers and Sisters who are Homebound, please contact the Office for more information.

941-776-9097

The tradition of visiting the sick and the homebound has always been recognized as one of the most important ministries in the Church. Scripture reminds us of this in Matthew 25:36, "I was sick and you visited me".

At St. Frances Cabrini we have Extraordinary Ministers of Holy who bring Communion on a weekly basis to Parishioner who lets us know they are sick, whether they are in their own homes, in a nursing home, or in a rehabilitation center. They also bring the Eucharist to those who may be in the Hospital.

To be come a Eucharistic Minister for this ministry, you must be fingerprinted and attend a safe environment class. Training is provided on the prayers for Communion as well as how to obtain and handle the .

AUGUST 1, 2021

All for One, One for All - Our Collective Efforts Help Council 12155 Knight and Family of the Month Our Community Each month we celebrate a knight and a Knight’s family for If you are like me, every once in a while you have asked their service to our programs and to our community. This yourself, what do the Knights of Columbus do with the month we want to highlight the following brothers: funds they raise? In today’s society, this is an extremely valid question. Through these short lines, I would like to Knight of the Month: John T. Kreger IV—Brother John is a provide you with some assurance that we are a service constant presence in our Parish and provides leadership in our organization. That your generous donations and event council as well as other areas of the Knights’ efforts. participation are all put into good causes as a great collective effort. Our volunteer brothers are proud of the Family of the Month: Januszka Family - Brother Tommy and impact that they have made through their efforts because his family just completed a two year tour of service in our we get the privilege to serve you, the members of our Council and supported multiple events and activities. parish. In addition, we take what you contribute and imp rove the lives of others. Being a knight in our council is a win-win situation. Come and join us as a member or as a AUG KoC Calendar Highlights participant in our many events and we will impact our community together. AUG 8: Pancake Breakfast

Many blessings this month, AUG 13: Father McGivney's Memorial

Dr. Hector R. Morales-Negron, Grand Knight, Mother AUG 14: District Officers’ Meeting Cabrini KoC Council #12155 AUG 16: Council Officers’ Meeting

AUG 17: 4th Degree Meeting Council Donations and Contributions during the 20-21 Fraternal Year AUG 20: and Breakfast

(After Morning Mass)

AUG 24: Council Business Meeting  $949.72 to Help Maintain and Beautify the Memorial Garden and Church’s AUG 27: FISH FRY (Drive Thru) grounds. AUG 28: Installation of Officers after the  $2,179.95 for Seminarian Support 4pm Mass

 $2,500 to Local Catholic Food Pantries Want to Join the Knights? Learn more about what we do and our mission by scanning below with your $7,500 to St. Frances X. Cabrini Church phone’s camera. You can join online for FREE until December 31st, 2021 In addition, during the 20-21 Fraternal Year we completed a church fall clean up, For more information contact: bi-weekly leaf blowing and yard up keeping, supported the Parish’s Trunk or Treat, fried GK Hector Morales-Negron at and served a lot of fish, and organized “Las Posadas”. Thank you for your participation! 412-478-1264 or

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