Our Lady of Building a Christian Community through Gospel Values

A Catholic parish community served by the Carmelite Order

Most Holy Trinity June 11, 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 Priest 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] Symbol of the Trinity, Photographic rendering by Todd Treat Linda Whiteley Business Manager [email protected] Donna Pierson Pastoral Assistant

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kyrios as well, seeing in him the “one like a son of man” who shared the Father’s attributes.

The Spirit was the Father’s essence, literally, his “life-breath.” It was this “life-breath” that spoke to Moses, raised from the dead and was now available to anyone who received baptism. This “life-breath” is the “eternal life” of today’s Gospel: “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” To be baptized into the Spirit was to be plunged into the fire of Sinai and the passion of Christ.

That humanity had encountered God in these three ways was obvious to early Christians. The question that took centuries to sort out was, “Is God really like this, or is it the weakness of the human mind Q%` V7 Q` V7V` %R1Q that makes God seem this way?” Over time, Christians came to recognize that God really was a trinity. To paraphrase Athanasius of Alexandria, the Formed in Their Likeness Father is a spring, the Son is the water and the

Michael R. Simone, S.J., America, June 2017 Spirit is the drink we take. Each plays a role in every divine action.

The New Testament calls God a trinity. In today’s second reading, for example, Paul bids the What might get lost in this elegant theology is that Corinthians farewell with the blessing of God, the Trinity does not act merely for God’s own Jesus and the Spirit. Matthew’s Gospel is even glory but to form a people. The cosmic creator more explicit. Jesus sends the disciples out to finished work with the first man and woman. The baptize “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, Almighty called Moses in order to establish Israel. and of the Holy Spirit.” This line appears in every The Father rescued his Son from death and gave ancient version of the text and in early texts like the birth to a church through the gift of the Spirit. Didache. Another example appears in 1 Peter 1:1- All creation extends from a Trinitarian community. 2, which contains an explicitly Trinitarian theology For Christians, this is the true nature of reality. of salvation. Although the specifics took centuries, There is no solitary god and no friendless human. the Trinitarian nature of God was clear to many The love that the Trinity shares within itself is the early Christians. rightful inheritance of every person. If today’s feast teaches any lesson, it is that estrangement is a The Father was the transcendent creator, the awe- sacrilege and alienation a blasphemy. Christ draws inspiring being, so great that even the hem of his his disciples into the Father’s love only to send garment filled the Temple in Isaiah's vision (6:1). It them forth in the Spirit to seek out the lost and call was he who led Israel from slavery to freedom and them home. he who restored Israel repeatedly when they rebelled. The Father was the “Almighty,” ruler of Q. How have you encountered God as Trinity? heaven and earth, Adonai in the Hebrew Scriptures and kyrios among Jews who spoke Greek. Q. How have you invited others to share in God’s community? The Son was Jesus Christ, the obedient servant, glorified and seated at the Father’s right hand. He Michael R. Simone, S.J., is an assistant professor would return at some future time to judge the living of Scripture at College School of Theology and dead. Within a generation of Jesus’ death and and Ministry. resurrection, the first Christians called the Son LOOKING AHEAD WITH FAITH AND

MASS INTENTIONS PARISH CALENDAR

06-12 8:00 AM †Kathy Majerchin 06-12 Mon 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Richard Jennifer Larson 06-13 Tues 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Fred 06-13 8:00 AM All of the Souls in 06-14 Wed 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Richard †Bob DeLeon 06-15 Thurs 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Fred 06-14 8:00 AM †Catherine Swatz 06-16 Fri 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Richard †Daniel Dudek

06-15 8:00 AM †Patricia 06-17 Sat 8:00 AM Mass-Fr. Fred Howard Dobbins 3:30 PM Confessions 4:30 PM Mass-Fr. Fr. Richard

06-16 8:00 AM Charles J. David 06-18 Sun 7:30 AM Mass-Fr. Richard Jimmy Della Fera † 9:00 AM Mass-Fr. Fred 06-17 8:00 AM †Robert Murphy 10:30 AM Mass-Fr. Roger Maxine Medlar Knights of Columbus Coffee and Donuts after all

4:30 PM The People of the Parish Masses this Sunday

06-18 7:30 AM For All Fathers 9:00 AM For All Fathers 10:30 AM For All Fathers

STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE

 June 3rd & 4th, 2017 Readings for the Week of CFA Goal 2017: $200,000.00 June 11th, 2017 CFA Pledge: $201,999.75 Sunday: Ex 34:4b-6, 8-9/Dn 3:52-56/2 CFA Payments: $176,090.75 Cor 13:11-13/Jn 3:16-18 Offertory: $10,106.00 Monday: 2 Cor 1:1-7/Ps 34:2-9/Mt 5:1-12 Parish Pay is available at our website: www.olmc-osprey.org Tuesday: 2 Cor 1:18-22/Ps 119:129-133, 135/ or call the office at 941-966-0807. Mt 5:13-16 Into your hands O Lord, we commend Wednesday: 2 Cor 3:4-11/Ps 99:5-9/Mt 5:17- the souls of our recently departed. 19 May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy Thursday: 2 Cor 3:15--4:1, 3-6/Ps 85:9ab, 10- of God, rest in peace. 14/Mt 5:20-26 Friday: 2 Cor 4:7-15/Ps 116:10-11, 15-18/Mt Donate at OLMC 5:27-32 Sunday, June 18th Saturday: 2 Cor 5:14-21/Ps 103:1-4, 9-12/Mt 9:00-1:00 We need your blood 5:33-37

ADULT FAITH FORMATION

brothers at Monte Paolo. But soon his star would shine. St. Anthony of Padua When asked to preach at an important occasion, he astonished Doctor of the Church (1195-1231) his audience with the unexpected elegance, conviction, and His feast day is June 13. profound learning of his sermon. Word quickly spread, and The life of the body is the soul; the life Anthony received a letter from Francis himself authorizing him of the soul is God. to preach and to teach theology to the friars. Eventually he was  St. Anthony, who was born in Lisbon, sent on a preaching mission that covered all of Italy. Thousands first entered religious life as an flocked to hear his open-air sermons, and his visits had the Augustinian canon in Coimbra. There impact of a spiritual revival. He attacked the tyranny of the one day he met a group of visiting powerful, exhorting his listeners to compassion and charity toward the poor. Franciscans on their way to Morocco. He was greatly impressed by these courageous missionaries, the more so when news came Anthony died on June 13, 1231, at the age of thirty-six. He was of their subsequent martyrdom. At once, he was inspired to join buried in Padua, where he had spent his last years, and his the Franciscans. In 1221 he attended a great Franciscan canonization followed only a year later. In 1946 Pope Pius XII gathering, the last held in the lifetime of St. Francis, after which declared him a Doctor of the Church. (Popularly, he is often he received a modest assignment to a small hospice for lay invoked for his help in locating lost objects.)

New: Summer Series at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church 6 Tuesdays from June 20 – August 1, 2017

Catholicism Series, Rev. Robert Barron, Word on Fire, 2012

All sessions are on Tuesdays, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm June 20 A Vast Company of Witnesses – The Communion of Saints St. Katherine Drexel, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, St. Edith Stein, St. Teresa of Calcutta June 27 Happy Are We – The Teachings of Jesus The Beatitudes, The Parable of the Prodigal Son, Matthew 25

July 11 Our Tainted Nature’s Solitary Boast – Mary, the Mother of God The Annunciation, Mary and Zion, The Mother of God, The Immaculate Conception, The Assumption, The Mother of the Church, Mother of the New Covenant

July 18 A Body Both Suffering and Glorious – The Mystical Union of Christ and the Church The Mystery of the Church, Four Marks of the Church

July 25 Word Made Flesh, True Bread of Heaven – The Mystery of the Liturgy and the Eucharist Communion of the Lord, The Gathering, The Telling of Stories, The Offering, The Real Presence, Transubstantiation, The Our Father, Communion and Sending

August 1 The Fire of His Love – Prayer and the Life of the Spirit Thomas Merton, St , St. Teresa of Avila, Prayer of Petition

Please register in advance at the front desk. LIVING OUR FAITH

Books of Interest

The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation Richard Rohr with Mike Morrell, Whitaker House, 2016, 217 pp., $17 hardcover

What if changing our perception of God has the potential to change everything? God is not what you think. Visions of an angry, distant, moral scorekeeper or a supernatural Santa Claus handing out cosmic lottery tickets to those who attend the right church or say the right prayer dominate our culture. For many others, God has become irrelevant or simply unbelievable.

In The Divine Dance, Fr. Richard Rohr (with Mike Morrell) points readers to an unlikely opening beyond this divinity impasse: the at–times forgotten, ancient mystery of the Trinity―God as utterly one, yet three. Drawing from Scripture, theology, and the deepest insights of mystics, philosophers, and sages throughout history, Fr. Rohr presents a compelling alternative to aloof and fairytale versions of God: One God, belovedly in communion, as All–Vulnerable, All– Embracing, and All–Given to you and me.

The Divine Dance makes accessible and practicable the Christian tradition’s most surprising gift...God as Community...as Friendship...as Dance. Are you ready to join in?

Richard Rohr, O.F.M. is a globally recognized Catholic and Christian teacher focusing on mystical and transformational traditions. He is a Franciscan friar and founder and director of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New .

Mike Morrell is the Communications Director for the Integral Theology think tank Presence International, cofounder of The Buzz Seminar, and a founding organizer of the justice, arts, and spirituality Wild Goose Festival.

By popular request, our International Dining Good Grief returns this summer.

Introducing a new grief support group for those who have Our first international experienced the death of a loved evening will be Italian -,#T cuisine, catered by  Angelo’s restaurant in Participants will explore, within a trusting and Venice on Friday June 23rd, 2017 in Mt. Carmel Hall. nurturing environment, their reactions to loss, learn about the grieving process, develop strategies for Decorate your table and bring your own dinnerware, coping and begin to integrate this change into their flatware, glasses, napkins and beverages. BYOB. lives in order to move forward with hope.  Seating is limited so purchase your table now to guarantee Thursday mornings a special evening. Doors open Friday morning from 8AM- 10-11:30 AM Noon for decorating your table. Doors open @ 5:30 PM

6 Sessions Commencing Friday evening and dinner is served at June 22nd 6:00 PM. In the OLMC Library Reserve your table for 6 - $75.00 Please Contact: Darwin Reeck or your table for 8 - $100.00. at the parish office to register. Sign up at the front desk. Deadline is Monday, 966-0807  Space is limited. June19th. Reserve your table at the front desk. YOUTH CORNER

Hi! This is Margaret with an idea about blessing children at bedtime. I don't know about you, but I assumed only a priest could give a blessing. However, after a little bit of research, I discovered a long Biblical tradition of parents blessing their children. If you recall Jacob and Esau in the Old Testament both wanted their father's blessing, but one "stole" the father's blessing intended for the other brother. All trickery aside, the parental custom of blessing children is something I introduce to every couple preparing to baptize their baby.

Blessing is an ancient practice and common element in almost all religions. Why not start a lovely new tradition in your family with a simple Trinitarian blessing for your children? It is a great way to settle restless children to sleep and a comforting ritual for kids who experience nightmares or have trouble sleeping.

It is also a perfect ritual to do with your grandchildren.

A blessing is simply a special form of prayer, where one person prays "over" another, asking God to enrich them with his grace. Blessings may be prayed silently, although they are usually prayed aloud allowing the child to hear the words of encouragement and longing for his prosperity. Often a blessing is accompanied by a physical gesture such as laying one or both hands on the head or shoulders of the child. Christian blessings conclude with a Sign of the Cross marked with the thumb on the child's forehead (Catholic Family eMagazine, "Grandparents" July 2013).

Perhaps this tradition is still a novel idea for you or maybe you're just not sure what to pray "over" your child? Francine Pirola, editor of Catholic Family eMagazine, offers the following Trinitarian prayer:

BEDTIME BLESSING As your child settles for sleep, pray this bedtime blessing. Place your hand on your child's head. "Father God, how you delight in this child of yours! May ______(child's name) know deeply and truly how much you love him/her. Jesus, you are our brother and saviour. Teach ______(child's name) to love you and your father better every day. Holy Spirit, protect ______(child's name) as he/ she sleeps. Help him/her to rest deeply and to awake fresh in the morning. Amen."

CathFamily.org is one of my favorite go-to websites for contemporary and refreshing ideas about sharing faith with children. Francine and Byron Pirola, the authoring and editing couple, live in Australia and are part of a Marriage and Family initiative. They are dedicated to assisting families in making the home the heart of the church. Their website offers traditional and contemporary resources that Catholic families can adapt for use into their own family rituals.