Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time June 30, 2013 Holy Family Catholic Church
O God, bless our family, all its members and friends, with your many gi s of love. We need you every day to keep us safe from harm, to heal the hurts we cause, to begin together afresh. Help us to be kind and pa ent with each other’s burdens and cares and not to miss the wonderful gi s that together we share. Bless our family; gracious God, Bless us, every one. Amen
Mailing Address: P O Box 482 Clergy Mass Schedule Van Alstyne TX, 75495 Fr. Salvador Guzmán, Pastor Sunday: 9:00 am - English Mass Parish Office: 903-482-6322 Fr. Arthur Unachukwu, Parochial Vicar 12:00 pm - Spanish Mass For a Priest: 972-542-4667 Deacon Patrick A. Hayes Website: www.holyfamily-vanalstyne.org Thursday: 9:00 am - Daily Mass
ESTABLISHED IN 1980 ⦁ 919 SPENCE RD., VAN ALSTYNE, TX. 75495 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time June 30, 2013
Baptism SACRAMENTS Baptisms in English: Call for appointment Anointing of the Sick Baptisms in Spanish: 1st Sunday of each month Please call Parish office. Pre Baptismal Class Registration: Registration required by Reconciliation/Confession the Sunday before class begins. Classes are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Parents: Bring copy of child’s birth Immediately following the 1st Mass certificate. Both parents must attend class. Godparents: Marriage/Wedding Must be practicing Catholics. Copy of marriage certificate through the Catholic church. Both godparents must attend Both must be free to marry in the Catholic Church. class. As a courtesy, please do not bring children to class. Arrangements should be made at least 6 months prior to planned Wedding date. First Communion Holy Orders/Priesthood Please Call the Parish Office for 2014 Confirmation: Talk to your Parish priest or call Fr. John Szatkowski, Director of Vocations of the Diocese of Dallas March 1, 2014 at 214-379-2860.
Ivah Abraham Austin J. Smith Weekly Calendar Evelia Santibanez Antonio Fernandez Charlsye Estridge Lydia Ford Sunday, June 30 Debbie Hooper Larry May 8:30 am Rosary 9:00 am Mass 12:00 pm Spanish Mass Offering Monday, July 1 9:00 am Rosary Tuesday, July 2 A endance : June 23, 2013 425 Wednesday, July 3 Offerings: June 23, 2013 $ 1,700.00 Thursday, July 4 Building Fund: June 23, 2013 $ 1,068.06 9:00 am Mass 7-9:30 pm Spanish Youth Choir Friday, July 5 DONATIONS NEEDED: Refugee 7-9:30 pm Spanish Adult Choir Saturday, July 6 Resettlement Program In Need of Household Items and Furniture Donations! Grief Support Group Our resettlement program is in great need The Holy Family Grief Support Group meets of generous donations of household items the 2nd Tuesday of every month from to assist with apartment setups of refugees 10:00 am to 11:30 am. resettling in Dallas. Items needed include: ______Kitchen items (can openers, flatware, mixing bowls, pots and pans, dishes, Next Meeting: Tuesday, July 9th plates, or rice cookers) Room 1 Household items (blankets, pillows, bed Come and meet with two trained grief sheets, dressers, dining tables w/ chairs, facilitators who will listen, pray and support lamps, alarm clocks, trash cans) you during a difficult time in your life. Lost a Bathroom items (shampoo, conditioner, loved one? Lost a job? Lost a relationship? shaving cream, body wash, shower Stressed? Just need to talk? We are here to curtains, deodorant, baby diapers, listen. disposable razors) Adults only please. To view a full list of current donation
needs, please visit If you would like to attend, please contact: www.ccdallas.org/res-needs. Susanne at 214-636-1915 Contemplative Sound Bytes RON ROLHEISER, OMI Recently I a ended an Ins tute on contempla ve awareness at which James Finley was the keynote-speaker. He brings some pedigree to the task. He has nearly forty years of experience as a therapist, is a much sought-a er lecturer, has wri en extensively and deeply on the subject of contempla on, and, as a young man, for several years, had Thomas Merton as his spiritual director and mentor. He knows of what he speaks. I would like to share some of his insights with you by way of a collage of sound bytes, each of which has a certain "stand-alone" quality; but, when taken together, also shed some light on the nature of God, on the nature of contempla on, and on our struggles with both faith and contempla on. Here are some of Finley's perspec ves: The mys cs bear witness to the perfectly holy nature of human existence, to the fact that we are infinitely loved and held in existence by love, and that there are mes when we momentarily glimpse and taste that in our lives. A mys c is a person who has been transformed by such an experience. Anxiety comes from our estrangement from the consciousness of God's love inside us. Why do we spend so many hours trapped outside the richness of our own lives, living like persons standing outside our own houses looking in through the windows of our own homes? Or, worse s ll, why are we inside our own houses but in a mental condi on that has us believing we are living outside? What must we do to wake up before we die? Our lives are habitually pressured and so this is the perennial task: How do we, in the midst of our pressured lives, give ourselves over to the love that holds us? We cannot make a graced moment happen, but we can work at pu ng ourselves into a posi on where we offer the least resistance to be overtaken by a graced moment. Contempla ve awareness isn't hard to find - it's hard to not run away from. Contempla ve awareness is seeing things as they are. It's res ng in God. To be in contempla ve awareness is to sit like "an unlearned child", in a me of "non-thinking". By si ng s ll we can learn to be s ll. Contempla on depends upon fidelity: If you are faithful to your prac ce, your prac ce will be faithful to you. There are some simple rules for the prac ce of contempla on: Sit s ll. Sit straight. Have your eyes closed or lowered. Take slow deep natural breaths. Have your hands in a comfortable posi on. Then be present, open, and awake: Do not cling to nor reject anything that comes to you in thought. As a thought arises, let it arise, if it lingers, let it linger, if it passes away, let it pass away, but don't let the thought carry you away with it. Move gently and slowly in prayer - don't violate your body's s llness. A recommended exercise: Go to your room just before sunset some night for no other reason than to be there with God when the sun sets. Have absolutely no other agenda than to watch it grow dark. Sit for a full hour. Sit in the unrelen ng sovereignty of the day's end. Sit in radical obedience to the falling light. You'll know solitude. People who pray regularly generally do not pray well ... but they become persons who rely upon God to make their prayer well. And those who pray regularly will, like everyone else, s ll experience sadness and death, but sadness and death will no longer have a tyranny over them. There is a difference between spiritual "sweetness" and spiritual "consola on": "Sweetness" is feeling good while in prayer; "consola on" is the sense of having your heart enlarged (and that can be painful). Quo ng Gabriel Marcel: We know we love someone when we glimpse in that person something that is too beau ful to die. From Theresa of Avila: - When you reach the highest level of human maturity, you will have just one ques on: How can I be helpful - Love is two people si ng in a room, talking to each other. Neither knows what to say, but they recognize each other. Why do the Buddhists speak of "emp ness" in rela onship to the concept of God? They do so to refer to God's infinite simplicity, that is, God as God is before all the dis nc ons made about God. "Emp ness" is our standing before God's ineffability, u erly overwhelmed by an over-fullness. How can we be helpful in the face of others' suffering when we feel so helpless to do anything about it? When persons share their fragility and pain with someone who hears with a true listening, those others uncover inside themselves the 'pearl of great price'. And not least: The generosity of the Infinite is infinite. Among other things, this means that we must give ourselves over to a generous orthodoxy. To be unknown by God is altogether too much privacy! With God, a li le sincerity goes a long way! Miscellaneous/Faith Formation/High School Exchange Student CCC paragraph that relates to the gospel CIC Parráfos relacionados con el tema del theme: Evangelio 544 The kingdom belongs to the poor and lowly, which 544 El Reino pertenece a los pobres y a los pequeños, es means those who have accepted it with humble hearts. Jesus is sent to "preach good news to the poor"; he decir, a los que lo acogen con un corazón humilde. Jesús declares them blessed, for "theirs is the kingdom of fue enviado para "anunciar la Buena Nueva a los pobres." heaven." To them - the "li le ones" the Father is pleased Los declara bienaventurados porque de "ellos es el Reino to reveal what remains hidden from the wise and the de los cielos;" a los "pequeños" es a quienes el Padre se ha learned. Jesus shares the life of the poor, from the cradle dignado revelar las cosas que ha ocultado a los sabios y to the cross; he experiences hunger, thirst and priva on. prudentes. Jesús, desde el pesebre hasta la cruz comparte Jesus iden fies himself with the poor of every kind and makes ac ve love toward them the condi on for la vida de los pobres; conoce el hambre, la sed y la entering his kingdom. privación. Aún más: se iden fica con los pobres de todas clases y hace del amor ac vo hacia ellos la condición para 50th Anniversary Mass entrar en su Reino.
SAVE THE DATE: August 17, 1:00 p.m., 50th Wedding Anniversary Mass and High School Exchange Student Celebration being held at Christ the King Catholic volunteers, with or without Parish sponsored by the Diocesan Senior children at home, are needed to host Council. More details and contact Catholic international high school information will follow. students for the upcoming school year. GOD’S CAPACITY FOR FORGIVENESS The students speak English, are Where is the foolish person who would think it in covered by medical insurance, have his or her power to commit more than God could forgive? spending money for their personal —St. Francis de Sales expenses, and hope to arrive in LA CAPACIDAD DE DIOS PARA PERDONAR AUGUST for enrollment in their new ¿Dónde está la persona tan insensata que piense que ene high school. For more information, poder para cometer más pecados que lo que Dios puede please call Yvette at 800-941-3738 or perdonar? —San Francisco de Sales [email protected]. Bishop Farrell Invitational Social Host Needed Register now to be part of the 3rd Annual If you enjoy the Social on Sundays after Bishop Farrell Invitational on September 16, Mass, please consider signing up to be a 2013 at the beautiful TPC Four Seasons Host. Coffee, condiments, and paper Resort and Cottonwood Valley Golf Courses. goods are supplied. Need your cooking Come out for a great day of golf and help ability, and service with a smile. provide tuition assistance for students who Sign Up Today want a Catholic education but otherwise might not be able to afford it. The first golfers to sign GENERAL FUNDS/BUILDING PLEDGES up can choose their course. Golfers and non- Are you current? Can you give a liƩle more? We will be golfers alike can make an immediate, life-long posƟng the plans for the first expansion as soon as the impact in a child’s life by becoming a Sacred places at the Diocese approves the latest changes tournament Sponsor. For more information recommended by Building CommiƩee. Please help us visit www.bishopfarrellgolf.org or email Vicky maintain the income needed to sustain our current facility and prepare for the expansion. THANK YOU Andrew Greeley RON ROLHEISER, OMI
Cuando era un joven seminarista, a finales de 1960, estaba muy interesado en los escritos de Andrew Greeley, un sacerdote de Chicago, que escribía libros sobre espiritualidad popular. Encontraba su enfoque maravillosamente fresco ya que, al menos en mi opinión, abordaba nuestras permanentes luchas religiosas que era más realista y más llena de esperanza que la mayoría de la literatura religiosa a la que yo había estado expuesto hasta ese entonces. Era el pan espiritual que necesitaba, y cuando fui a un re ro para prepararme para los votos perpetuos, tenía un par de sus libros en la mano. Él me ayudó a tomar esa decisión.
Murió la semana pasada a la edad de 85 años, después de haber estado mal de salud a raíz de una caída en el año 2008. Tal vez la palabra “prodigioso” describe mejor su producción, tanto en términos de literartura como de predicación. Escribió más de 120 libros, muchos de carácter académico, y un sinnúmero de ar culos y columnas de opinión, tanto para publicaciones seculares como religiosas. Dentro de todo eso, era quizás más conocido por sus novelas, las cuales gozaron de una circulación que la mayoría de los escritores sólo pueden envidiar. Debido a esta prodigiosa producción y popularidad, con frecuencia se emi an algunos juicios llenos de cinismo sobre él tanto en los círculos académicos y religiosos que afirmaban cosas como: "Andrew Greeley nunca ha tenido un pensamiento que no haya sido publicado!" Me muevo en esos dos círculos y puedo asegurar a todo el mundo que la envidia no es ajena a cualquier círculo. Greeley disgustaba, tal vez más que por cualquier otra cosa, porque, a diferencia de muchos de nosotros que lo cri camos por su prodigiosa producción, él realmente hizo cosas.
Sin embargo también había otras razones por las cuales Greeley tuvo sus crí cos, algunas enen que ver con su carácter par cular y otras con su personalidad. A muchos conservadores les disgustaba porque lo consideraban irreverente y demasiado liberal. La ironía es que a muchos liberales les disgustaba porque lo consideraban demasiado piadoso y excesivamente conservador. Y, aparte, estaba su personalidad. No soporta a los imbéciles, o a los crí cos, con facilidad. Cri car a Greeley era buscar una pelea. Nadie podía dispararle desde la seguridad de un arbusto oculto. Él te sacaba y retaba a una lucha abierta. Esa no es el camino para llevarse bien con todo el mundo.
Debido a que yo era permanentemente uno de sus par darios, nunca fui some do a la espada. Cuando sus novelas fueron popularmente cri cadas por ser "ligeras y de mala calidad" y "perjudiciales para la fe de los católicos", yo me lancé en su defensa con estas palabras: "Nadie ha salido de la iglesia, por una novela de Andrew Greeley, sin embargo muchas personas se han quedado en la iglesia por las novelas de Andrew Greeley”. Greeley encontró esta frase en una de mis columnas, y me escribió pidiendo permiso para usarla en la cubierta de sus futuras novelas, las cuales él mismo hacía con cierta frecuencia.
En defensa de sus novelas: La queja más común fue que eran "basura y llenas de sexo". Lo contrario sería más fiel a la realidad. Como obra literaria, sus novelas sufrieron más porque eran demasiado piadosas y, a menudo, apenas disfrazaban la apología católica. Toda verdadera lectura de sus novelas revela a un hombre que era profundamente piadoso, enamorado de su iglesia, y no tan su lmente a la defensa de su iglesia. Además siempre trató al sexo como sacramento. No que sus crí cos admi rían esto, sin embargo su carácter dis n vo en la sexualidad era muy similar al de Juan Pablo II y la Teología del Cuerpo. Por otra parte, la fuerza de sus novelas se encontraba en la narración de historias. Nadie, incluyendo al propio Greeley, nunca confundió su prosa con la de Toni Morrison ó John Steinbeck, pero podía hilar un gran relato – y en la mayoría de sus novelas lo hicieron.
No puedo reclamarlo como un amigo, ya que, a pesar de que de vez en cuando intercambiábamos correspondencia, sólo nos vimos una vez. Alrededor de un año antes de su fa dico accidente, cuando él aún estaba enseñando durante los semestres de invierno en Arizona, yo estaba en Tucson dando algunas conferencias, y me llevó a cenar a su restaurante mexicano favorito. Hablamos de teología y literatura, sin embargo principalmente me compar ó su admiración por los Oblatos de María Inmaculada, la familia religiosa de la que soy miembro, y su admiración por el cardenal Francis George, su Ordinario en Chicago que pertenece a la misma familia. Habló también de su amor por los equipos de deportes de Chicago, en especial de su equipo de baloncesto, los Bulls de Chicago. Lo invité a visitar nuestro Colegio, sin embargo él se excusó, compar endo que a su edad quería evitar tanto como fuera posible los viajes aéreos. Dejé el restaurante agradecido de haber tenido la oportunidad de conocer a un hombre extraordinario, y uno a quien le debía una gran deuda de gra tud.
El antropólogo Mircea Eliade, una vez comentó que "ninguna comunidad debe fracasar en sus muertes". Una clara advertencia. Una figura importante del catolicismo ha muerto y nosotros, amigos y crí cos por igual, necesitamos reconocer lo que nos dejó. Al igual que otros apologistas cris anos antes que él, Tolkien, Lewis, y Chesterton , también trató de dar una razón de la esperanza que está en nuestro interior, y, en eso, tuvo un maravilloso éxito. Informa on Page
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