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September 22, 2019 Administrator Fr. Jose We would like to extend a warm welcome Panthaplamthottiyil, CMI. to all of our new parishioners! Parochial Vicars Fr. Arul Yagappan, MSFS Fr. Bartlomiej Lukasz Gadaj Website: http://seaspcfl.org/ Mission Chapel Church, Rectory Office, St. Stephen’s Chapel Retired Associates School & Ministry Center 2400 E. Highway 100, Bunnell, FL 32110 Fr. John McElroy 4600 Belle Terre Pkwy. Palm Coast, FL 32164 Church Hours Fr. Mel Hemann Phone: (386) 445-2246 • Fax: (386) 445-7808 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Monday – Friday Fr. George Sankoorikal School: (386) 445-2411 Rectory Office & Ministry Center Emergency Phone: (386) 283-3420 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday – Friday Closed Good Friday and National Holidays Pastoral Ministry (after hours ONLY) Rev. Deacon Perlito (Tom) Alayu Rev. Deacon Bob Devereux Masses Rev. Deacon Jose Homem Rev. Deacon Ed Wolff Saturday Vigil Mass 4:00 pm Business Manager Sun -8:00am, Elizabeth Foran 10:00 am (Interpreted for the deaf) & 12 pm Office Assistant Mrs. Elaine Leonard Spanish Mass (la misa en Español) Bookkeeper 5:00 pm Leanne Rossi Portuguese Mass 1st/3rd Receptionist Saturdays 6:00pm Carmen Cruz-Pritchard Daily Mass Monday - Friday Custodian “Your Gift Today is Our Treasure 7:00 am & 8:30 am Mr. Juan Quintero Saturday 8:30 am for Tomorrow” Maintenance St. Stephen’s Jose Valverde Saturday Vigil Mass 6:00 pm School Principal September 15 Sunday-5:00pm Brian Wheeler Offertory…….…$22,001.53 Sacrament of Online Giving……..$2,332.00 Reconciliation Director of Saturday 3:00-3:45 pm, Christian Formation Total……..…….$24,333.53 30 minutes before all Katie Allio Sunday Masses or by appointment Director of Hurricane Collection…..$13,001.47 Youth Ministry Office Hours Donna Roane Monday - Friday Jeremy Vest Thank you & God bless! 9:00- 4:00 pm Music Director Don Roy GIVE, SERVE AND PRAY WHILE YOU’RE AWAY Bulletin Editor Phyllis Jenkins Go to the App Store and search for myParish/ Online Giving. [email protected] And it is so easy! Going on vacation? Please use Online Giving to catch up on offertory! Go to Cover Picture: www.seaspcfl.org and click on Online Giving link. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina It is quick and easy and helps sustain our parish during the summer months. www.vatican.va Thank you and God Bless. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, Palm Coast, Florida 32164, page 2 View this bulletin online at www.DiscoverMass.com From the Desk of Fr. Jose A Welcoming and Inviting Parish-10 He Who Gives to the Poor Lends to the Lord, He Will Repay You As we saw last week, the New Testament urges us to ‘refuge of the poor’ (Psalm 14:6) in the Book of Psalms. serve the poor and the needy in our midst as it is a Since God’s heart is with the poor he also asks us to fundamental requirement for us to receive the gift of stand with the poor: “Speak out for those who cannot eternal life. The Old Testament also reminds us of the speak, for the rights of all the destitute. Speak out, need to do justice to the poor and help them in their judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needs. “Since there will always be some in need, I needy” (Proverbs 31:8-9). He speaks through the therefore command you, open your hand to the poor prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah: “Defend the orphan, and the neighbor in your land” (Deuteronomy 15:11). plead for the widow” (Isaiah 1:17); “Act with justice Just as we see Jesus taking sides with the poor, we also and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the see God doing the same in the Old Testament. “Woe to oppressor anyone who has been robbed, and do no those who make unjust laws, to those who issue wrong to the alien and the widow” (Jeremiah 22:3). oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, When We Show Mercy like God making widows their prey and robbing the When we show mercy to the poor and the orphaned, he fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, “…the Lord your God will bless you in all your work when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run and in all that you undertake” (Deuteronomy 15:10). for help? Where will you leave your The Bible teaches us, “…happy are riches?” (Isaiah 10:1-3). those who are kind to the poor” (Proverbs 14:10). It tells us When the Israelites complained that how we become blessed, “Happy God was not paying attention to are those who consider the poor; the their fasting in sack clothes, God Lord delivers them in the day of said, “Is such a fast that I choose, a trouble. The Lord protects them and day to humble oneself? … Is not this keeps them alive; they are called the fast I choose: to loose the chains happy in the land” (Psalm 41:1-3). of injustice, to undo the thongs of the We are also told that “alms deliver yoke, to let the oppressed go free, from all sin, and from death, and and to break every yoke? Is it not to will not suffer the soul to go into share your bread with the hungry darkness” (Tobit 4:11). and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, According to the Book of Proverbs, to cover them and not to hide yourself from your own “Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and will kin?” (Isaiah 58:5-7). Again God spoke through Prophet be repaid in full” (Proverbs 19:17). Though we can Isaiah, “… If you offer your food to the hungry and never see God as a borrower, isn’t it a blessing that he satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall considers himself so? We shall be blessed according to rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the what he has promised through Isaiah, “Then your light noonday” (Isaiah 58:9-10). shall break forth like the dawn and your health shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you, God’s Heart with the Poor the glory of the Lord shall be your rearguard. Then you If we see God always on the side of the poor, it is shall call and the Lord will answer; you shall cry for because his heart is with them. In fact, He identifies help and the Lord will say, Here I am” (Isaiah 58:8-9). himself with them. “Those who oppress the poor insult the Maker but those who are kind to the needy honor Though it should make us happy to know that we shall Him” (Proverbs 14:31). The Book of Proverbs also says, be blessed for being kind to the poor, God has made it “Those who mock the poor insult the Maker” (17:5). As clear that we shall be punished if we neglect them. “If God is always on the side of the poor and the you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry orphaned, He is called ‘the deliverer of the poor’ (Psalm out and not be heard” (Proverbs 21:13). The warning 10:16-18), ‘Father of the orphaned’ (Psalm 68:5) and words in Proverbs (28:27), “…but one who turns a St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, Palm Coast, Florida 32164, page 3 View this bulletin online at www.DiscoverMass.com blind eye (to the poor) will get many a curse” is anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your frightening. The Bible also tells us, “Cursed be anyone cloak as well; and if anyone forces you to go one mile, who deprives the alien, the orphan, and the widow of go also the second mile… and do not refuse anyone justice” (Deuteronomy 27:19). In the Book of Wisdom who wants to borrow from you” (Mathew 5:40-41). “If we read, “Do not avoid those who weep, but mourn you wish to be perfect, go sell your possessions and with those who mourn, Do not hesitate to visit the sick, give the money to the poor and you will have treasure because for such deeds you will be loved” (7:34-35). in heaven; then come, follow me” (Mathew 19:21). This According to Prophet Ezekiel, the reason for the is to say that those of us who follow Jesus, will not be destruction of Sodom was not just the wickedness of giving too much however much we give to the poor. the people there. God says, “This was the guilt of your sister, Sodom. She and her daughters had pride, excess View of the Church Fathers of food, prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and the needy” (Ezekiel 16:49). In Ezekiel we read how in The Church Fathers also had the same attitude of Jesus his fury God massacred those who crushed the poor. for the poor. St. Basil says: “The food which you have He asks: “...they do not judge with justice the cause of kept apart is the right of the poor and the clothes you the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend have kept in reserve belong to the naked. Don’t we call the rights of the needy. Shall I not punish them for him a thief who steals the clothes of another man? In these things?” (Jeremiah 5:28-29).