Our Lady of Mount Carmel Building a Christian Community through Gospel Values

A Catholic parish community served by the Carmelite Order

Sixth Sunday of Easter May 21, 2017

MASS SCHEDULE

Daily Monday through Saturday 8:00 AM Saturday Vigil 4:30 PM Sunday 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM & 10:30 AM Holy Days 8:00 AM & 5:30 PM

CONFESSIONS Saturday 3:30 - 4:00 PM May-December

PARISH OFFICE HOURS: Monday thru Thursday: 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM Friday: 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM

PASTORAL MINISTRY TEAM Rev. Frederick J. Tillotson, O. Carm. Pastor [email protected] Rev. Richard Supple, O.Carm. Assoc. Pastor [email protected] Rev. Niles Gillen, O. Carm. Assisting Rev. Roger Bonneau, O. Carm. Assisting Priest Deacon Thomas Grant Pastoral Assoc.

Margaret McHugh Director of R E & Youth [email protected] Doris R. Brodeur Adult Faith Development [email protected] Darwin Reeck Pastoral Minister to the Sick [email protected] Kathleen Lyda Music Director [email protected] Linda Whiteley Business Manager [email protected] Donna Pierson Pastoral Assistant [email protected] Freedom, Tim Steward

Box 1097, 425 S. Tamiami Trail, Osprey, Florida 34229 Phone: 941-966-0807 Fax: 941-966-3909 Website: www.olmc-osprey.org EASTER TIME

the opponent, whomever he or she may be. Yet Philip’s victory reminds us how important it is to God’s rescue plan that we don’t prematurely cut anyone out of the hope delivered to all of us.

Q. Are there groups of people from whom you’re tempted to withhold the hope of salvation?

Q. Are there individuals who don't seem to deserve your loving concern?

Gospel: John 14:15-21 Artist Unknown Jesus does not abandon his Church. There is “no child left behind” in his politics. Yet Christian This Church Has No Orphans representatives – parents, teachers, preachers, Alice Camille, Exploring the Sunday Readings, v 27 even – may choose to speak as if some n 8, May 2017 children of God are more beloved than others, or that some children might even be shunned by their First Reading: Acts of the Apostles 8:5-8,14-17 Father. It’s vital to remember that Jesus leaves no It’s easy to ignore this tiny side-story about orphans. There can be no lonely or distant corners Samaria in the first generation of the Church. In the of our community where “undesirable” members eternal contest between Us and Them, Samaritans must sit or remain less fully Catholic than the rest were definitely Them. Jesus may have been the of us. The tragically unjust era of racial segregation first Jew in history to tell a story about a “good” in our assembly is over, thanks be to God. We Samaritan. Philip was actually the second must not replace that sad legacy with a new kind of to view himself as an apostle to the Samaritans – segregation based on language, politics, the first being the woman at the well in John’s economics, sexuality, theological purity, or any gospel who ran into town to tell her community other chosen and divisive factor.

about “the man who told me everything I’d ever Jesus says, “Whoever loves me will be loved by my done.” Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to Philip goes to the Samaritans with an astonishing him.” It’s a wonderfully simple statement. Love of confidence, as if it were the most natural thing in God, and no other criteria, makes us eligible to the world to bring good news to your enemy. Even stand in the assembly of God’s own.

more astonishing is the response: rapt attention, Q. How does OLMC provide an atmosphere of fleeing unclean spirits, restored limbs. No wonder welcome? the joy was great. Q. What signals do we send that “all are welcome It’s easy for us to ignore a sense of responsibility to in this place”?

FATIMA, Portugal (Reuters) - Francis will make two Portuguese shepherd children this week, crowning a belief that started with reported visions of the Madonna 100 years ago that have turned the Shrine of Fatima into one of the most famous in Christianity.

Up to a million people are expected to attend the mass on Saturday at the shrine for the children, who the Vatican believes received messages from the Madonna that have become known as the three secrets of

Fatima.

A crowd watches the ‘Miracle of the Sun’ during the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima on October "For this blessed moment that culminates a century of blessed moments, I 13, 1917. (Foto from the magazine “Illustração rejoice in your preparations of intense prayer," the pope said in a message to Portuguesa”) the Portuguese people ahead of his two-day visit. LOOKING AHEAD WITH FAITH AND PRAYER

MASS INTENTIONS PARISH CALENDAR

05-22 8:00 AM †Kathy Majerchin 05-22 Mon 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Richard Jennifer Larson 05-23 Tues 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Fred 05-23 8:00 AM † Moran 10:30 AM The Bible with a New †Robert Weaver, Jr. Lens (3)

05-24 8:00 AM †Doris Godsey 05-24 Wed 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Richard †Edward Foster 9:00 AM Praise and Prayer

05-25 8:00 AM †Remo Colazzi 05-25 Thurs 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Fred

†Antoinette Colazzi 05-26 Fri 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Richard

05-26 8:00 AM †John Schafer 05-27 Sat 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Fred † Perry 3:30 PM Confessions † 05-27 8:00 AM †Gregorio Cruz 4:30 PM Mass-Fr. Fr. Fred

Special Intention 05-28 Sun 7:30 AM Mass-Fr. Richard 4:30 PM †John Hetlinger 9:00 AM Mass-Fr. Richard

†Louise Epting 10:30 AM Mass-Fr. Roger 05-28 7:30 AM The People of the Parish 9:00 AM †Robert Cook †Thelma C. Jenkins Into your hands O Lord, we commend 10:30 AM Patrick Heenan the souls of our recently departed. May their souls and the souls of all the

STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE faithful departed, through the mercy of

May 13th & 14th, 2017 God, rest in peace. CFA Goal 2017: $200,000.00 CFA Pledge: $195,251.74 REGIONAL SAFE CFA Payments: $162,717.74 ENVIRONMENT TRAINING

Offertory: $9,030.75 As Christian adults, we have a moral Parish Pay is available at our website: www.olmc- and legal responsibility and are osprey.org or call the office at 941-966-0807. entrusted by God with the spiritual, emotional and physical well-being  of minors and vulnerable adults. As Readings for the Week of May 21, 2017 they participate in activities within

Sunday: Acts 8:5-8, 14-17/Ps 66:1-7, 16, 20/1 Pt or sponsored by our Diocese, it is our commitment to provide an environment which is safe and nurturing. 3:15-18/Jn 14:15-21 or Acts 8:5-8, 14-17/Ps 66/1 Pt 4:13 All Diocesan employees...clergy, religious, laity, and -16/Jn 17:1-11a those volunteers who have routine contact with Monday: Acts 16:11-15/Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b/Jn 15:26-- children or vulnerable adults, MUST BE TRAINED 16:4a in Safe Environment Awareness issues. No one Tuesday: Acts 16:22-34/Ps 138:1-3, 7c-8/Jn 16:5-11 should attend Safe Environment Training until they have been fingerprinted and their fingerprints have Wednesday: Acts 17:15, 22--18:1/Ps 148:1-2, 11-14/Jn cleared. Please call Linda or Donna at the OLMC 16:12-15 parish office to make an appointment to be Thursday: Acts 18:1-8/Ps 98:1-4/Jn 16:16-20 fingerprinted. The schedule for the Safe Friday: Acts 18:9-18/Ps 47:2-7/Jn 16:20-23 Environment training sessions, may be found at: http://www.dioceseofvenice.org. Saturday: Acts 18:23-28/Ps 47:2-3, 8-10/Jn 16:23b-28 ADULT FAITH FORMATION

Books of Interest

Feminist Intercultural Theology: Latina Explorations for a Just World

Maria Pilar Aquino and Maria Jose Rosado- Nunes, Editors (Orbis, 2007)

Feminist theologians from READING THE BIBLE WITH 13 countries in North, Central, and South A NEW LENS America analyze the

Presenter: Doris R. Brodeur, Ph.D. relationships of religion, culture, feminism, and Based on a video lecture series of Barbara E. Reid, O.P., power, and explore how they can work together to Ph.D. develop a critical feminist theology that will encompass their different cultures and further their collaborative work. Tuesday, May 23 Contributors include the editors and Virginia Vargas 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Valente, Maricel Mena López, Geraldina Céspedes, O.P., Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, Jeanette Rodríguez, Daisy L. In this last session of the series, we will focus on Deacon Machado, Clara Luz Ajo Lázaro, Michelle A. González, Phoebe and other women ministers named in the New Silvia Regina de Lima Silva, María Cristina Ventura Testament. Please bring a Bible. Campusano, Christa P. Godínez Munguía, Yury Puello Orozco, Violeta Rocha Areas, María del Carmen Servitje Witnesses for Our Time Montull, and Olga Consuelo Vélez Caro

ambush, his life was saved when a friend, a devout Muslim, shielded him with his own body. This man’s sacrifice prompted his own conversion -- a process that led him to the priesthood and ultimately to the . He asked to be assigned to Our Lady of Atlas monastery in Tibhirine.

The monks lived a Christian de Chergé and Companions traditional Trappist Trappist Martyrs of (d. 1996) life of prayer and They are remembered on May 21. work. But they made a point of “If it were ever to happen . . .that I should be the victim of offering a place the terrorism that seems to be engulfing all the foreigners where Christians now living in Algeria, I would like my community, my and Muslins could church, my family to remember that my life was given to pray and talk God and to this country.” together. To many of their neighbors, Father Christian de Chergé, prior of a Trappist monastery the monks were in Tibhirine, Algeria and six of his Trappist companions trusted men of God, were martyred in 1996 during the . Unlike but to others, the French Trappists were foreign infidels. In many Christian martyrs of the past, these Trappists did not 1993, when the rebels warned all foreigners to leave the offer their lives for the conversion of their Muslim country, the monks decided to stay. “For us it is a journey neighbors, but as a witness to the One God of all, and for of faith into the future and of sharing the present with our the cause of friendship among all God’s people. As a neighbors, who have always been very closely bound to young man, Christian served as a French soldier, fighting us.” Algerian rebels in the war of independence. During an LIVING OUR FAITH

Roc O’Connor, SJ has set Psalm 66 to music in his Today’s Responsorial Psalm composition called Lift Up Your Hearts (1981). This hymn is #529 in Breaking Bread 2017. The responsorial psalm for this Lift up your hearts to the Lord, weekend is praise God's gracious mercy! Psalm 66, a Sing out your joy to the Lord, hymn in which whose love is enduring. the community praises God for powerful acts for Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth! Israel, both in the Praise the name above all names! past and in the Say to God, "How wondrous your works, present calamity. how glorious your name!" In the second part of Psalm 66, Let the earth worship, singing your praise. an individual from Praise the glory of your name! the rescued Come and see what God has revealed; Women Singing Earth by Mary community fulfills bless God's holy name! Southard, CSJ a vow to offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving. As often in thanksgivings, the rescued God's right hand made a path through the night, person steps forward to teach the community what God split the waters of the sea. has done. Our response today is Let all the earth cry out All creation, lift up your voice: with joy to God. "Our God set us free!"

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Hi! This is Margaret with some news about the First Communion and May Crowning held on May 14th.

As you know, Mother's Day is traditionally the day we have First Communion here at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Logan and Dylan Korn, Brianna and Peyton Gomez and Andrew Janis received Jesus for the first time as their friends and family celebrated with them. It was truly a wonderful day for everyone involved, including their parish family!

Special thanks to Lorraine DelVecchio, my chief catechist, who has worked with me in teaching this class for two years.

The Knights of Columbus had a part in the celebration too, as each communicant was personally presented with a gift from the KC's by Bruce Crisman.

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The Knights of Columbus handed out lovely flowers after all of the Sunday Masses in honor of Mothers Day.