Parish Clergy & Staff

Mass Schedule (Non-Holidays): Msgr. Tomás M. Marín, V.F. Vigil Masses - Saturdays Pastor 5:30 pm Deacon Jose S. Chirinos 7:00 pm (Spanish) Sundays Cristina Báez Freyre 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 Noon Parish Office Manager 5:00 pm, 6:30 pm Sofia Acosta 8:00 pm (During School Session) Director of Religious Education Monday - Friday

Jorge Pis-Rodriguez 8:00 am & 12:05 pm Saturday Director of Music 8:00 a.m.

Myriam Cahen Confessions: Director of Finances 11:30 a.m. Saturdays and by appointment Brahem Patricia Morales Office Assistant : Please call the Parish Office at least one month in advance. Weddings: Please call the Parish Office at least six months in advance.

Office Hours: 9:00 am—12:00 pm 12:35 pm to 6:00 pm Monday - Friday Scripture Readings & Mass Intentions Responsorial Psalms

Saturday, April 7th, 2018 Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 Sunday, April 8th, 2018 5:30 p.m. + Lodovico Blanc 8:00 a.m. + Roberto Giro Sunday of Divine Mercy + Millan Escagedo + Roberto Rodriguez Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, his love is everlasting. + Esther George - Lauren Shahin Acts 4:32-35 + Barbara Lewis de la Fuente - Special Intention Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 + Celso Gonzalez 1 John 5:1-6 12:05 p.m. + Vicente & Estela Carvajal - Health of Baby Francesco John 20:19-31 Torres Covella + Juan Diaz & Villy Forns

+ Isabel Vicaria Monday, April 9th, 2018 7:00 p.m. + Thomas Benki + Alicia Stuart + Carlos Manosalva Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord + Lucia Smith Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will. - Alejandro & Catalina Garcia : 7: 10 - 14, 8: 10 - Ofelia Lara Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 Psalms 40: 7 - 8A, 8B - 9, 10, 11 - Special Intention 8:00 a.m. + Hilda Bacardi Hebrews 10: 4 - 10 + Luis J. Bacardi Sunday, April 8th, 2018 Luke 1: 26 - 38 + Luis J. Bacardi 8:00 a.m. + Jose & Josefa Calzon + Roberto Morales + Alexander Puma Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter + Charlene Puma Starr 12:05 p.m. + Antonio G. Mora The Lord is king, he is robed in majesty. or: + Janina Lipcius + Jose Felipe Cos R. Alleluia. + Florentina Alvarez Puig & Jaime + Aldo J Busot Acts 4: 32 - 37 Puig Psalms 93: 1AB, 1CD - 2, 5 + Leopoldo Soberanes 10:00 a.m. + George F. Kimbal - Health of Frankie Cadahia John 3: 7B - 15 + Aurora & Mario Riera + Jose Alvarez Thursday, April 12th, 2018 Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 Memorial of Stanislaus, Bishop and - Special Intention 8:00 a.m. + Carlos Costales Martyr - For All Persons afflicted with + Conchita Cañeros The Lord hears the cry of the poor. Parkinson Disease, their + Julia Fernandez & Eloy del Rio - Special Intention Acts 5: 17 - 26 Families & Caregivers Psalms 34: 2 - 3, 4 - 5, 6 - 7, 8 - 9

John 3: 16 - 21 12:00 p.m. - Saint Augustine Parish Family 12:05 p.m. + Alberto Mestre

+ Federico Garrido de Pol Thursday, April 12th, 2018 5:00 p.m. + Rosa & Rosendo Platas + Cary & Raul Roig + Jimmy Fenton Santeiro Thursday of the Second Week of Easter + Rene Rodriguez The Lord hears the cry of the poor. + Jorge L. Powell - Jennifer Dorta - Duque + Deceased members of the Acts 5: 27 - 33 Psalms 34: 2 AND 9, 17 - 18, 19 - 20 Galán & Foote families Friday, April 13th, 2018 + Staff Sargent Carl Enes John 3: 31 - 36 8:00 a.m. + Ana Gan Nguyen + Charlene Theresa Puma 6:30 p.m. + Daniela Maria Albir Friday, April 13th, 2018 + Manuela Franco Friday of the Second Week of Easter + Vicenta & Manuel Quintana - Masvidal One thing I seek: to dwell in the house of the + George & Dulce Kremer Lord. or: R. Alleluia. 12:05 p.m. + Ana Gan Nguyen + Santos Garcia Acts 5: 34 - 42 + Stan Ciereszko Psalms 27: 1, 4, 13 - 14 Monday, April 9th, 2018 + Andres Angulo 8:00 a.m. + Johnny Machado John 6: 1 - 15 + Alma Trujillo + Margarita Andino - Health of Otón Porres Jr. + Susana Argamasilla Saturday, April 14th, 2018 - John Rodgers Family Saturday of the Second Week of Easter + Eni & Natalie Papadam Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our - 30th Wedding Anniversary of Saturday, April 14th, 2018 8:00 a.m. + Herminio Garcia trust in you. or: R. Alleluia. Jeff & Nancy Zavac Acts 6: 1 - 7 - Victor & Chris Pons 12:05 p.m. + George A. Ibarra - Health of Jimmy Space Psalm 33: 1 - 2, 4 - 5, 18 - 19 + Chichi Garcia - Lomas - Special Intention John 6: 16 - 21

+ Alfredo Portales

+ Miriam Bueno Panceira

- Alexander Shaheen

- Adriana Estrella

2 1400 Miller Road, Coral Gables, FL 33146 305-661-1648 www.saintaugustinechurch.org Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday - April 8, 2018 http://saltandlighttv.org/blogfeed/getpost.php?id=80679

*Join us this Sunday, April 8th at 3:00pm in an Extraordinary Celebration of Thanksgiving! Holy Hour, Recitation of the chaplet of Mercy & veneration of the image.*

Since the Jubilee Year 2000, the Second Sunday of Easter is now also known as Divine Mercy Sunday. John Paul II made the surprise announcement of this change in his homily at the of St. Maria on April 30, 2000. On that day he declared: "It is important then that we accept the whole message that comes to us from the Word of God on this Second Sunday of Easter, which from now on throughout the Church, will be called 'Divine Mercy Sunday.'"

Pope John Paul II’s interest in Divine Mercy goes back to the days of his youth in Krakow when Karol Wojtyla was an eyewitness to so much evil and suffering during World War II in occupied Poland. He witnessed the round ups of many people who were sent to concentration camps and slave labor. In his hometown of Wadowice, he had many Jewish friends who would later die in the Holocaust. During that time of terror and fear, Karol Wojtyla decided to enter Cardinal Sapieha’s clandestine seminary in Krakow. He experienced the need for God’s mercy and humanity’s need to be merci- ful to one another. While in the seminary, he met another seminarian, Andrew Deskur (who would later become Cardi- nal), who introduced Karol to the message of the Divine Mercy, as revealed to the Polish mystic , St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, who died at the age of 33 in 1938.

The celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday does not compete with, nor endanger the integrity of the Easter Season, nor does it take away from ’s awesome encounter with the Risen Lord recounted in the Gospel for the Second Sunday of Easter each year. Divine Mercy Sunday is the Octave Day of Easter, celebrating the merciful love of God shining through the whole Easter Triduum and the whole Easter mystery. The connection is more than evident from the scripture readings for this first Sunday after Easter. At St. Faustina's canonization, Pope John Paul II said in his moving homily: "Jesus shows his hands and his side [to the Apostles]. He points, that is, to the wounds of the Passion, especially the wound in his heart, the source from which flows the great wave of mercy poured out on humanity."

The Meaning of the Day

Divine Mercy Sunday is not a new feast established to celebrate St. Faustina's revelations. In fact, it is not about St. Faustina at all! Rather it recovers an ancient liturgical tradition, reflected in a teaching attributed to St. Augustine about the Easter Octave, which he called "the days of mercy and pardon," and the Octave Day itself "the compendium of the days of mercy."

The Vatican did not give the title of "Divine Mercy Sunday" to the Second Sunday of Easter merely as an "option," for those dioceses who happen to like that sort of thing! This means that preaching on God's mercy is not just an option for this Sunday. To fail to preach on God's mercy this day would mean largely to ignore the prayers, readings and psalms appointed for that day, as well as the title "Divine Mercy Sunday" now given to that day in the Roman Missal.

The Pope of Divine Mercy

At the beginning of his pontificate in 1981, Pope John Paul II wrote an entire encyclical dedicated to Divine Mercy – “Dives in Misericordia” (Rich in Mercy) illustrating that the heart of the mission of Jesus Christ was to reveal the merciful love of the Father. In 1993 when Pope John Paul II beatified Sr. Faustina Kowalska, he stated in the homily for her beat- ification mass: “Her mission continues and is yielding astonishing fruit. It is truly marvelous how her devotion to the mer- ciful Jesus is spreading in our contemporary world, and gaining so many human hearts!”

Four years later in 1997, the Holy Father visited Blessed Faustina’s tomb in Lagiewniki, Poland, and preached powerful words: “There is nothing that man needs more than Divine Mercy…. From here went out the message of Mercy that Christ Himself chose to pass on to our generation through Blessed Faustina.” In the Jubilee year 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized Sr. Faustina – making her the first canonized saint of the new millennium – and established “Divine Mercy Sunday” as a special title for the Second Sunday of Easter for the universal Church. Pope John Paul II spoke these words in the homily: “Jesus shows His hands and His side [to the Apostles]. He points, that is, to the wounds of the Passion, especially the wound in His Heart, the source from which flows the great wave of mercy poured out on humanity.”

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Apostle of Divine Mercy

Throughout his priestly and Episcopal ministry, and especially during his entire Pontificate, Pope John Paul II preached God’s mercy, wrote about it, and most of all lived it. He offered forgiveness to the man who was destined to kill him in St. Peter’s Square. The Pope who witnessed the scandal of divisions among Christians and the atrocities against the Jew- ish people as he grew up did everything in his power to heal the wounds caused by the historic conflicts between Catho- lics and other Christian churches, and especially with the Jewish people.

I shall never forget the stirring words of St. John Paul II spoke at the concluding mass of World Youth Day at Downsview Park in Toronto on July 28, 2002. These words keep us focused on the importance and necessity of mercy in the Church today.

“At difficult moments in the Church's life, the pursuit of holiness becomes even more urgent. And holiness is not a ques- tion of age; it is a matter of living in the Holy Spirit, just as did here in America and so many other young people have done.

You are young, and the Pope is old, 82 or 83 years of life is not the same as 22 or 23. But the Pope still fully identifies with your hopes and aspirations. Although I have lived through much darkness, under harsh totalitarian regimes, I have seen enough evidence to be unshakably convinced that no difficulty, no fear is so great that it can completely suffo- cate the hope that springs eternal in the hearts of the young. You are our hope; the young are our hope.

Do not let that hope die! Stake your lives on it! We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son."

Pope Francis has taken up the moving theme of Pope John Paul II’s Pontificate, and the rich theological dimension pro- vided to mercy by Pope Benedict XVI, and shown us on a daily basis how to put that mercy into practice.

On the Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, we pray in gratitude:

O God, who are rich in mercy and who willed that Saint John Paul II should preside as Pope over your universal Church, grant, we pray, that instructed by his teaching, we may open our hearts to the saving grace of Christ, the sole Redeemer of mankind. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, One God forever and ever. Amen.

One year later, in his homily for Divine Mercy Sunday in 2001, the Pope called the message of mercy entrusted to St. Faustina: “The appropriate and incisive answer that God wanted to offer to the questions and expectations of human beings in our time, marked by terrible tragedies…. Divine Mercy! This is the Easter gift that the Church receives from the risen Christ and offers to humanity at the dawn of the third millennium.”

Again in Lagiewniki, Poland in 2002, at the dedication of the new Shrine of Divine Mercy, the Holy Father consecrated the whole world to Divine Mercy, saying: “I do so with the burning desire that the message of God’s merciful love, pro- claimed here through St. Faustina, may be made known to all the peoples of the earth, and fill their hearts with hope.”

In his Regina Caeli address of April 23, 2006, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said: “The mystery of God’s merciful love was at the centre of the pontificate of my venerated predecessor.” Now that same Providence has desired that this year, on Divine Mercy Sunday, three years after he was beatified on this same feast, Pope John Paul II, the great apostle and ambassador of Divine Mercy, will be proclaimed a saint.

Mercy is our hallmark

We must ask ourselves: what is new about this message of Divine Mercy? Why did Pope John Paul II insist so much on this aspect of God’s love in our time? Is this not the same devotion as that of the Sacred Heart of Jesus? Mercy is an important Christian virtue, much different from justice and retribution. While recognizing the real pain of injury and the rationale for the justification of punishment, mercy takes a different approach in redressing the injury. Mercy strives to radically change the condition and the soul of the perpetrator to resist doing evil, often by revealing love and one’s true beauty. If any punishment is enforced, it must be for salvation, not for vengeance or retribution. This is very messy busi- ness in our day and a very complex message… but it is the only way if we wish to go forward and be leaven for the world today; if we truly wish to be salt and light in a culture that has lost the flavor of the Gospel and the light of Christ.

Monday, April 9, 2018 Third Sunday of Easter (names may be subject to change) 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass @ Church

Saturday, April 14, 2018 Tuesday, April 10, 2018 5:30 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass @ Church 7:00 p.m. : Fr. Norberto Lopez 5:30pm-6:30pm: College Holy Hour Sunday, April 15, 2018 7:00pm: College Mass and Meal @ St. Augustine 8:00 a.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín 8:0pm: Young Adult Group @ Parish Hall 10:00 a.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín 12:00 p.m. : Bp. Luis del Castillo Wednesday, April 11, 2018 5:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass @ Church 6:30 p.m. : Fr. Phillip Tran 6:30pm: Sandwich Making for the Homeless @ Paris Lounge 8:00 p.m. : Fr. Phillip Tran 7:00pm-9:30pm: Prayer & Life Workshop @ Library 8:00pm-9:00pm: Matrimonios en Victoria @ Parish Hall Collection Report for the Weekend of 3/24/18 - 3/25/18 & 3/29/18 - 4/01/18. Thank you for your generosity! Thursday, April 12, 2018 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass Friday, March 23, 2018 Holy Thursday, March 29 8:30am: Soup Making for the Homeless (Homeless Ministry) $ 2,954.00 12:35pm: Exposition and Adoration of the Most Blessed 12:05 p.m. : $ 439.00 Good Friday, March 30 Saturday, March 24, 2018 $ 3,975.00 Sacrament until 6:30pm (Open to all) @ Church 5:30 p.m. : $ 2,318.00 Holy Saturday, March 31 6:30-7:00pm: Benediction & Reposition @ Church 7:00 p.m. : $ 712.00 $ 2,169.00 7:00: College Mass @ Church Sunday, March 25, 2018 Easter Sunday, April 1 8:00pm: Catholic Campus Ministry Thrive Nights for Students! 8:00 a.m. : $ 3,337.00 6:30 a.m. : $ 2,048.00 @ Parish Hall 10:00 a.m. : $ 2,825.00 8:00 a.m. : $ 2,882.00 8:00pm: Catholic Adult Group Ages 35+ @ Parish Lounge 12:00 p.m. : $ 3,406.00 10:00 a.m. : $ 7,846.00 5:00 p.m. : $ 4,510.00 12:00 p.m. : $ 8,281.00 Friday, April 13, 2018 6:30 p.m. : $ 1,834.00 1:30 p.m. : $ 598.00 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass 8:00 p.m. : $ 1,142.00 5:00 p.m. : $ 4,253.00 Other: $ 355.35 Other: $ 5,380.06 Saturday, April 14, 2018 Mail: $ 2,323.00 Mail: $ 3,029.87 8:00am: Daily Mass and Rosary after Mass @ Church Total: $ 23,201.35 Total: $ 43,415.93 11:30am: Confessions @ Church

4 1400 Miller Road, Coral Gables, FL 33146 305-661-1648 www.saintaugustinechurch.org The Gift of Stewardship

With your support, the Archbishop’s Charities and Development Drive opens the eyes of many to know God’s love and encounter Him by growing in faith, Please support the ABCD by making a gift today www.isupportabcd.org

An endowed gift can continue your support of our mission in perpetuity. Please remember St. Augustine Church and Catholic Student Center as you make your estate and financial plans. Contact the rectory or call the Office of Planned Giving at (305) 762-1110 for information.

Goal: $408,611 Pledge: $191,573

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We need your help with our Adopt-a- toddler clothing drive for children throughout the Diocese. Toddler sizes 2T-4T needed. Everything NEW can be used: Shoes, socks, underwear, etc. Please bring NEW clothing to the office or place in the collection box outside on the weekends no later than Friday, April 20th

Sponsored by St. Augustine's Council of Catholic Women

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You are Invited to the: CHECK ONLY!CASH th St. Augustine Women’s Emmaus 36 Retreat OR April 13 – 15, 2018

Set aside time for God – to reflect on your life and to establish or renew a loving relationship with Our Lord Jesus Christ.

WERE NOT OUR HEARTS GRADUALLY CATCHING FIRE WITHIN US AS HE SPOKE TO US ON THE ROAD ?

For more information contact: Olga Fernandez (305) 205-7359 [email protected]

CATHOLIC PRAYER BREAKFAST

The women and men who seek to bring Gospel values into the workplace will hold the next meeting of the CATHOLIC PRAYER BREAKFAST on Tuesday, April 10, for our Easter meeting to be held at MorningStar Renewal Center, 7275 SW 124 Street ( adjacent to St Louis Parish).

Guest Speaker: Pat Tierney, an involved member of St. John Neumann parish, Cursillista, and career flight attendant who has travelled the World. Come and join us to hear this remarkable witness to commitment in the Faith.

Full breakfast is served. We are in our 28th year! Business and professional networking beginning at 7:15 a.m. Bring your business associates and plenty of business cards! Breakfast at 7:30, with adjournment by 8:30 a.m. Donation is $7.00. Please call Voicemail at UM (24 hours) 305-284-3270 to reserve your space for the Breakfast.

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TUESDAYS The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available on campus, 12-1:30 pm, Stop by our table in the breezeway for more info 5:30pm-6:30pm Holy Hour 7:00pm Mass followed by free dinner for students at St. Augustine.

THURSDAYS Thrive Night at 8pm at St. Augustine! Come out for a night of Fellowship & be empowered To live out your faith on campus

SUNDAYS

College Mass & social at 8pm

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