AUGUST 16, 2020 | 20TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
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Where do you feel close to God? I have asked various people; and have gotten various responses. Some people have told me they felt God’s presence when they are in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Others have told me that they felt the presence of God during Mass, where two or more are gathered. Many have told me that they felt close to God reading the bible. Some have told me they feel close to God in a secluded place, like a beach or on top of a mountain. Some people felt close to God by listening to music. Some have felt the presence of the Lord when they are meditating or contemplating in a quite spot by themselves. God can reveal Himself in almost any place. In last week’s reading, we see how God revealed Himself to Elijah. If you recall, Elijah was fleeing from Queen Jezebel in 1 King 19:1 -11. She threatened to kill him because he had defeated and killed the false prophets of the false god Baal. Elijah was frightened. Elijah even wanted the Lord to take his life because he failed God as a prophet. However God had other plans for Elijah. The Lord gave Elijah instructions through an angel. God then informed Elijah that He would be present to him. In 1King 19:12-13 God was truly present. However, God was not present in the most obvious places. God was not in the heavy wind rendering the mountain and crushing the rocks. At the same time God was not present in the earthquake or fire. God revealed Himself in tiny sound. When Elijah felt the presence of the Lord, he naturally hid his face and stood at the entrance of Mt. Horeb. This is where God gave Elijah instructions to perform his prophetic ministry. For me, I truly feel God’s presence through other people. As God revealed Himself through the prophets like Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos and the Apostles with His Son Jesus Christ in others who are open to Him. When making decisions like entering the seminary, getting ordained, transferring to another parish, I have relied on people God sends my way to make the right decision. I seek the advice of holy men when I am at a cross road, and a proper decision has to be made. If I have a sense of peace in the decision I made, I know that God was present. What last week’s reflection reveals to us is that God can be present in almost any way. He can reveal Himself in great Theophany, like an earthquake or fire, but He can also be present in a soft wind. To feel his presence, we must have faith in God. We can take time out to seek the Lord, but we must be open to having a personal relation- ship with Him. Adapted by Workbook for Lectors, Gospel Readers, and Proclaimers of the Word by Elizabeth M. Nagel, SSL,SSD, Elaine Park, SSL,STD and Mary Pat Haley. Sunday Homily Helps 19 th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 9,2020 by Marge Fenelon
The Challenge of Stewardship
Every day we are called by Christ to respond in some way. The more practice we have at giving of ourselves freely and living in His presence, the easier it is to discern that call. Once we hear the call, the choice is ours: will we respond with yes or no? We could say that we are not required to say yes because God has given us free will. However, our response speaks much to where we are in our maturity of faith. When we were children, the word “no” used to be one of our favorites. If we continue to say that as we get older, well, that says something about where we are in our walk with the Lord. If we truly are disciples of Jesus Christ and are serious about growing in our faith, we will say “yes.” We are not required to say yes, but we say yes because that is who we have become.
This is the challenge of a stewardship way of life. Have we matured enough to say yes when God calls, regardless of how much our answer may cost us? What matters more to us: what it will cost us or our relationship with Jesus? Some days we will easily be able to say yes. The grace and love he gives us will be plenty to see us through whatever situation in which we find ourselves. However, we are imperfect beings and there will be days when we are more into ourselves than him. It is on those days that we find ourselves at a true crossroads of a challenge. The choice is always ours. Hopefully, our faith will be strong enough. His call is never for his own sake. He calls us because the world he created and the Church he instituted need us. They wait just as he does for our response. – Tracy Earl Welliver
2 20TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME NOTITAS DEL DIÁCONO NOTES FROM DEACON FRED JOSE CRUZ We see the Canaanite woman pleading Toda la relación entre Dios y el pueblo with Jesus to help her daughter… to heal her daughter. It is the plea of an outcast… Jesus escogido estaba fundamentada en la alianza. La heard that plea and listened to her heart. She was historia de los israelitas, desde Abraham hasta an outcast no longer. Moisés y David, tenía la alianza como ancla y Outcasts are invisible in our community encontró oposición de las naciones enemigas, and if they become visible they are usually seen as desde Egipto hasta Asiria y Babilonia. Pero en la inconvenient. Some might say, there but for the primera lectura de hoy escuchamos a Isaías decir a grace of God go I and walk on… But if we are su audiencia, que recién regresaba de su exilio, que truly seeking the grace of God we might find it in los extranjeros que se habían adherido a la alianza abundance among the invisible of our community. también serían conducidos al monte santo, en la Many are roaming our streets, sitting at casa de Dios. El acceso no está basado en bus stops and bus depots, subways and parks and even beaches. We might even find them in our antecedentes, cultura o historia, sino en la fidelidad family or in our schools. All we have to do is y el servicio de cada cual. Es en una relación look and pay attention and we will see those in directa con Isaías y con Jesucristo que Pablo puede need.. Perhaps at one time in our lives or perhaps decirles a los romanos: “Trato de desempeñar lo even now we are living as an outcast… trying to mejor posible mi ministerio entre los no survive the day. Where is God’s grace in their judíos” (cfr. romanos 11, 13). Pablo ha dedicado su struggle? ministerio a hacer discípulos de todas las naciones, Perhaps it is in the invitation to become conduciendo a los extranjeros hacia al Señor. part of their struggle even if it is for just a El Papa Francisco ha enfatizado moment. Perhaps it is in sharing a bit of our food, repetidamente que somos una Iglesia misionera, clothing, blankets or whatever is needed. Perhaps it is in sharing some of our time or a simple smile llamándonos incesantemente a ir a “las periferias” or greeting. God’s grace has a surprising way of a servir a los marginados de la sociedad. La mujer touching our hearts and healing that which is cananea del Evangelio de hoy rompió un buen wounded. Sometimes we just don’t know how… número de límites, pero fue Jesús quien rompió el and perhaps we don’t really need to know… just primero. Él fue a Tiro y Sidón, dos ciudades de do. A leap of faith is needed for the healing to Fenicia, en Siria, donde la gente adoraba a dioses take place.. paganos. Los judíos normalmente no se We all have had our ups and downs during aventuraban a ir allí. Le dijo a la mujer: “Yo no he our lives. In looking back we probably can sido enviado sino a las ovejas descarriadas de la remember when someone helped us who had no casa de Israel”, pero su presencia en el territorio de motivation but love itself. We probably remember that when we were down and out that ella contradecía sus palabras (Mateo 15, 24). Jesús we needed to be reminded that we are all children salió afuera de Israel y encontró a personas de una of God and someone extending an act of kindness gran fe fuera del pueblo escogido. También helps us to remember. We remember that our nosotros podríamos encontrar corazones abiertos y lives count… our prayers count… That our God almas dispuestas fuera de nuestras propias sees much more in us than our life as an outcast. fronteras. He sees in our suffering a familiar face …. It seems appropriate to share some of the Pregunta de la Semana lyrics of a song which might be a prayer written
¿A qué periferias puedo ir para servir a otras by Stephen Schwartz: personas? ¿Veo a cada persona con la posibilidad God help the outcast hungry from birth. Show them the mercy they don’t find on earth…. I de salvación? ask for nothing, I can get by. But, I know so many less lucky than I. Please help my people the poor and the downtrodden, I thought we all were the children of God. God help the outcasts, the Children of God…. 3 AUGUST 16, 2020 MASS INTENTIONS SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 9:00 am -That all Catholics may come to Love Mary, the Mother of God and honor her as Jesus’ mother. 4: 00 pm † Linda Peter McMahon
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 8:00 am For our Parish Community 11:00 am † Joseph Page 1:00 pm † José Antonio Rodrigues Viveiros
MONDAY, AUGUST 17 9:00 am † Mathilda Stone
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18 9:00 am † Albert Freeman
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 9:00 am † Gene and Diane Criscuolo
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 9:00 am † NO INTENTION
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 9:00 am † NO INTENTION
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 READINGS FOR THE WEEK REFLECTION ON 9:00 am NO INTENTION OF AUGUST 16, 2020 SUNDAY'S READINGS 4: 00 pm † For our Parish Community Sunday: Is 56:1, 6 -7/Ps 67:2 -3, 5, 6, 8 [4]/Rom 11:13 -15, 29 -32/Mt First Reading: Thus says the SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 15:21 -28 LORD: Observe what is right, 8:00 am Healing for Linda Joyce
- - do what is just; for my salvation 11:00 am † Maria Lucia Conte Monday: Ez 24:15 24/Dt 32:18 19, is about to come, my justice, 20, 21 [cf. 18a]/Mt 19:16 -22 1:00 pm † NO INTENTION about to be revealed. (Is 56:1) Tuesday: Ez 28:1 -10/Dt 32:26 - Psalm: O God, let all the Observances for the week of 27ab, 27cd -28, 30, 35cd -36ab [39c]/ nations praise you! (Ps 67) August 16, 2020, 20th Sunday in Mt 19:23 -30 Ordinary Time - - Second Reading: Wednesday: Ez 34:1 11/Ps 23:1 3a, 3b -4, 5, 6 [1]/Mt 20:1 -16 Just as you once disobeyed God Wednesday: St. John Eudes, Priest - - but have now received mercy Thursday: Ez 36:23 28/Ps 51:12 13, 14 -15, 18 -19 [Ez 36:25]/Mt 22:1 because of their disobedience, Thursday: St. Bernard, Abbot and -14 so they have now disobeyed in Doctor of the Church order that, by virtue of the mercy Friday: Ez 37:1 -14/Ps 107:2 -3, 4 - shown to you, they too may now Friday: St. Pius X, Pope 5, 6 -7, 8 -9 [1]/Mt 22:34 -40 receive mercy. (Rom 11:30 -31)
Saturday: Ez 43:1 -7ab/Ps 85:9ab Gospel: Jesus said to her in Saturday: The Queenship of the and 10, 11 -12, 13 -14 [cf. 10b]/Mt reply, “O woman, great is your Blessed Virgin Mary 23:1 -12 faith! Let it be done for you as Next Sunday: Is 22:19 -23/Ps 138:1 you wish.” And the woman’s Next Sunday: 21st Sunday in
-2, 2 -3, 6, 8 [8bc]/Rom 11:33 -36/Mt daughter was healed from that Ordinary Time 16:13 -20 hour. (Mt 15:28) 4 20TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME GOSPEL MEDITATION
We are hardwired for wholeness and crave it. When something is broken, we want it fixed. If a part of our body is not working properly, we want it healed. How often do we find ourselves saying, “I’m tired of struggling with this cold, I can’t wait for my surgery to heal, or I want my treatments to make me better.” Wholeness and healing restore our relationships and make us free to love as we desire. We know very well how our limitations, imperfections, and brokenness really limit us. They can easily prevent us from being and doing what we want to do.
Our physical and emotional wounds and maladies are easier to identify. If my back hurts, I feel it and know what part of my body needs attention. If I am feeling intense anger, I can identify the emotion and take necessary steps to uncover its cause. Being persistent often brings greater and quicker results. But will pursuing and even achieving our physical and emotional healings really be enough? We forget that there is a deeper healing that we seek and desperately need. As we look around at humanity, there are some physical and emotional wounds and scars that cannot be made whole. They are limitations that must remain and, for one reason or another, cannot be rectified. Does this mean that the wholeness and healing that my being longs for is not possible for me? Must I settle with less than what God promises?
The answer is no. Ultimately, there is a desire that goes deeper than the physical and emotional. It is a desire that resides in our soul. What we really seek and thirst for is healing and wholeness for our soul. Inner strength, conviction, focus, grounding, love, hope, faith, courage, determination, peace, and connectedness are all words that center us on eternity. They direct us to a presence we discover in our core, which is none other than the pres- ence of God. In God, we are healed. When we are persistent in reaching out to and establishing our relationship with God, real healing and wholeness begin to happen.
There are some limitations and some of our brokenness with which we may simply have to live. This does not mean that we have to abandon our journey to wholeness and healing. If we have done our inner soul work, we have worked toward and acquired what and who we ultimately need and desire.
5 AUGUST 16, 2020 HIGHLIGHTS
THE YOUTH MINISTRY OFFICE AND THE OFFICE FOR FAITH FORMATION ARE NOW TAKING REGISTRATIONS FOR CATECHESIS FOR THE COMING YEAR. WE WILL BE DOING ALL OF OUR CLASSES ONLINE BEGINNING THE WEEK OF AUGUST 10TH. PLEASE EMAIL THE OFFICE AT [email protected] AND WE PLEASE CONSIDER ONLINE GIVING WILL EMAIL YOU A REGISTRATION FORM. Our parish is grateful for your con nued support at this me. Please consider online giving. Go to our website: www.StJoanofarcfl.com and click on Online INTERCESSORY PRAYER
Giving. Thank you. PLEASE CONTINUE PRAYING FOR THE END OF COVID -19 AND THAT OUR CHILDREN REMAIN SAFE. STEWARDSHIP PRAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOST WEEKENDS OF JULY 5TH AND 26TH, 2020 LOVED ONES THROUGH THIS Attendance 266/309 PANDEMIC. Offertory: $5324.75/4449.00 PRAY ALSO FOR THE SOULS WHO HAVE DIED, MAY THEY REST IN VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY PEACE.
CATECHISTS ARE NEEDED FOR THE UPCOMING NEW YEAR. CLASSES WILL BE BY ZOOM. IF INTERESTED, PLEASE EMAIL MARY JO WAGGONER The parish has collected many things in our AT THE OFFICE: Lost and Found. Car keys (how did you get [email protected]. home?), Sunglasses, rosaries, eyeglasses (how
is your eyesight?). We have a great tablet holder (looks like it was woven in Guatemala), we have sunglasses, more than you could ever want!!! If you have lost something, we probably have it. We also found a ring with a blue stone, describe it and it’s yours!!! Please let us know if you’ve left something in the parish in the last couple of YEARS - we still have it! Come and ask, we might have your car keys, we have several sets! Also we have earrings and watches, yep. Please help us empty our Lost and Found. No joke! Come and get your stuff! 6 AUGUST 16, 2020 PARISH STAFF PARISH INFO Pastor Rev. Patrick Rebel OFFICE EMAIL Asst. Priests ...... Rev. Edward Reiter [email protected] Rev. Michael Kouts FAITH FORMATION & YOUTH MINISTRY Rev. Dennis Kaelin (352) 686-7864 Msgr. Joe Sobiesiak Deacons ...... Deacon Fred LaPiana RCIA/RCIC Deacon Jose Cruz Rite Ini a on into the Catholic Faith Deacon Mike Ruffner “IN HIS FOOTSTEPS” SOUP & SANDWICH LUNCH Parish Business Manager ...... Anne Cofone Served in our Parish Family Hall the 2nd Thursday of each Director of Faith Forma on ...... Mary Jo Waggoner month from Noon-2:00 pm & for our homebound, the 4th Director of Junior High and Youth Ministry ...... Nancy Lovelock Thursday of each month. Director of Music…………………………………………...…...Joyce Thorpe MARY & MARTHA’S GIFT SHOP (NOT OPEN AT THIS TIME) Wednesday ...... 9:30 am-10:30 am SACRAMENTS Saturday ...... 3:30 pm-5:30 pm Sunday...... 7:00 am-1:00 pm SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Closed during all Masses & the month of August. Saturday: 10:00 am-11:00 am & by appointment. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY BAPTISM FOR CHILDREN (352) 556-3670 Please call the Parish Office. NOTRE DAME CATHOLIC SCHOOL MATRIMONY (352) 683-0755 If you are contempla ng marriage at St. Joan of Arc Church, www.ndcsfl.org please be mindful that there is a six month prior no ce request
required.
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