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JULY 19 2020 16TH SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME a Tbp.Pub Page 1 S ERVED BY : SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME A July 19, 2020 ASCENSION CATHOLIC COMMUNITY Rev. Eamon Tobin .......................Ext. 3070 Pastor, email: [email protected] 2950 N. Harbor City Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32935 Rev. Martin Fitzgerald ....... 321-254-1595 Tel. 321-254-1595 -Fax 321-255-3490 Assistant Priest www.ascensioncatholic.net [email protected] Deacon Sergio A. Colon ..............Ext. 3082 Bereavement Ministry, Hispanic Community [email protected] Deacon Tom Stauffacher [email protected]—321-242-4504 Deacon Bill Terneus [email protected]—254-1595 Deacon Chris Meehan [email protected] —242-8003 Anita Brady ...................................Ext. 3001 School Principal [email protected] Donna Violi ...................................Ext. 3001 Assistant Principal [email protected] John Baillie ....................................Ext. 3044 Technology Administrator [email protected] Betsy Glasenapp ...........................Ext. 3080 Faith Formation Director [email protected] Shelly Wackley .............................Ext. 3080 Faith Formation Assistant [email protected] Cara Giuliano ................................Ext. 3501 Director of Youth Ministry [email protected] Anna Nagy .....................................Ext. 3501 Associate Youth Minister Katie Gander .................................Ext. 3068 Music/Liturgy Director [email protected] Laura Dodson ...............................Ext. 3067 Pastoral Associate/RCIA [email protected] Ashley Breaux ...............................Ext. 3077 ASCENSION CATHOLIC SCHOOL SCHEDULE OF MASSES Contemporary Music www.ascensioncatholicsch.org [email protected] U.S. Department of Education Saturday Vigil Mass Monica Sutton ..............................Ext. 3076 School of Excellence 4:30 pm Pre-Kindergarten through Eighth Grade Volunteer Coordinator Sunday Masses [email protected] FAITH FORMATION 7:30 am PARISH OFFICE HOURS Religious Education 9:30 a.m. Monday-Friday - 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pre-K3– Gr. 3 Tuesdays, 2:00-3:30pm PARISH OFFICE STAFF 11:30 am Pre-K3– Gr. 6 Tuesdays, 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. Teresa Romano ............................Ext. 3050 5:30 pm Pre-K3– Gr. 6 Wednesdays, 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. Front Office Manager (Contemporary Music) [email protected] Gr. 1-6 Wednesdays, 6:15 - 7:30 p.m. Mary Russo....................................Ext. 3078 YOUTH MINISTRY Weekday Masses Business Manager/Bookkeeper Ascension Catholic Life Teen Monday-Friday: 7:30 am [email protected] Sundays 6:45-8:30pm Sat. 9:00 am Anne Whelan ................................Ext. 3074 Edge (Grades 7&8) Wednesdays 6-7:30pm Assistant Bookkeeper Sacrament of Reconciliation [email protected] Ascension Social Concerns: 259-5685 Saturday: 3:15-4:25 Maria Sittig ...................................Ext. 3072 Religious Articles Gift Shop Wednesday: 5:00 pm Secretary/Bulletin Open after all weekend Masses (or by appointment) [email protected] Brian Carley Special Projects Manager As a good steward of the Lord’s blessings, please remember to consider [email protected] your Parish Family or School Endowment in your Last Will and Testament. Page 2 SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME A July 19, 2020 ways before the day of judgment or else we will find ourselves severely judged by God; (2) We should all refrain from judging who is weed and who is wheat. As the saying goes: “There is so much bad in the best of us, and so much good in the worst of us, that it ill behooves any of us to judge the rest of us.” In other words, patches of weeds can be found in the best of gardens. Each of us should occupy ourselves by plucking the weeds out of our own garden that we would have no time to be Parable of the wheat and weeds: concerned with the weeds in our neighbor’s garden. Such message should be received as a “restraining Leaving it to God to judge who is order” on any of us who tend to be busy judging others. good and who isn’t An example of flawed goodness In the world of American politics, Republicans tend to Three witnesses to goodness look upon Democrats as weeds—and vice versa. The truth, of course, is that in the context of Jesus’ Gospel, A prayer for a granddaughter the policies promoted by these political parties are either In today’s Gospel, we hear the story of another farmer in harmony with or in conflict with Gospel values. who goes to sow good seed in his field. But at nighttime In other words, both parties have their wheat and weeds. an enemy comes and sows bad seeds. The farmer orders We can apply today’s parable to our own spiritual lives. his servants to pluck up the bad seeds or weeds, saying: All of us wish we only had flowers (virtues) growing in “Don’t let us wait until harvest time to do the sorting our garden. But the reality is that, we, like the world of out.” politics and the Church, have weeds (i.e., sin, weakness Commentators tell us that this parable was directed and darkness) in our soul. The Lord exercises great at the Pharisees and all those (perhaps early Church patience with us hoping that we will get rid of our weeds leaders) who needed to separate the law abiders from before he comes to take us. In the meantime, we must the law breakers. learn to live with both wheat and weeds. Jesus tells his audience that they are not to There is so much Fr. Tom Green, S.J., in his book Wheat get into the business of judging who is bad in the best of Among the Weeds, says that sometimes, God, good and who is bad. God, and God alone, in his mysterious ways, can use our weeds can see into the hearts of people and judge us, and so much (vices) just as much, if not more, as our who is and isn’t good. Ironically enough, good in the worst wheat (virtues) to draw us closer to him. I’m Jesus is considered a “weed” by many of of us, that it ill sure that many an alcoholic would testify to the religious leaders of his day and, in behooves any of the truth of this statement. Recall St. Paul’s time, they do, in fact, pluck him out famous “thorn in the flesh.” Three times he because they judge him to be a bad weed us to judge the asks the Lord to remove his “weed,” but three in their midst. rest of us. times the Lord refuses. It must have been frustrating for the perfectionist Paul to learn In 1Cor 4:5, Paul says that there must be no passing of to live with his particular weed. But along the way, he premature judgment. Leave that until the Lord comes. obviously sees the wisdom of God’s way. In actual fact, Paul knows quite well that we can get it terribly wrong he comes to a point where he rejoices in his weaknesses about people. After all, he himself gets it terribly wrong because it is the place where he, most of all, experiences about Jesus and his followers for many years. He is God’s grace and touch (2Cor 12). Amazing! very convinced that they are weeds that need to be plucked up. During those years, we can say that Paul God in his amazing way uses our sin and weaknesses (then Saul) is a weed in God’s eyes. But when God to draw us to himself. What a consoling thought. Never- touches his life, he repents and becomes wheat. After theless, in no way is this meant to justify an attitude of Paul’s conversion, his enemies regard him as weed. softness toward patterns of sin in our lives. It is comforting to know that God, in his infinite and A parable with a stern warning mysterious way, can use our sins to draw us to himself and can use us to touch others despite our sins and The parable of the wheat and weeds has two warnings: weaknesses. (1) Those of us who are weeds had better change our Page 3 SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME A July 19, 2020 Two other parables But Schindler was no angel. He was a mere human being, an essentially good human being, even though his The other two parables in today’s Gospel form a couplet goodness was seriously flawed. We wonder what he in that both parables carry the same message. The might have achieved had he not been so divided. And the contrast is between the small and promising beginnings Nazis, for all the horrific things they did, weren’t totally of the Kingdom and its full, triumphant expansion. The evil either. They were not devils incarnate. They too tiny mustard seed gradually sprouts into a tree. The small were human beings, though bad human beings. amount of yeast makes the entire loaf rise. Jesus is an itinerant preacher and many scoffed at his efforts. In Some people don’t seem to have any understanding response, Jesus says: “Look at the mustard seed and the of the divided nature of each human being—of the coex- leaven. Just wait and be patient and you’ll notice the istence in every person of good and evil, strength and growth of the Kingdom.” Growth in ourselves and in our weakness, loyalty and betrayal…. As soon as they children is often like the mustard seed. It is slow and discover a weakness in someone, they write the person hardly noticeable, but it is happening. Small beginnings off. Their hero must be perfect. As soon as a flaw or a can produce results far beyond what is apparent. God is crack appears, they lose faith in him. the yeast making growth happen slowly, gently and But things are not that simple. Human beings are sometimes imperceptibly. complex—and that includes each of us. We are an extraordinary mixture of good and bad.
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