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Register at parisho"[email protected] St. Anthony’s Facebook page www.FORMED.org (352) 796-2096 Access Code: 4KR96N (352) 796 -7144 fax SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY MAY 30, 2021 Mass Intentions and Weekly Readings Mass Intentions Saturday, May 29 4:00 p.m. Phillip & Stephen Strmensky † THE SOLEMNITY OF Sunday, May 30 8:00 a.m. Living and Deceased Members of THE MOST HOLY TRINITY St. Anthony the Abbot Parish MAY 30, 2021 10:00 a.m. Ellsworth W. & Bruce Thomas † 11:30 a.m. Hubert McLaughin † Monday, May 31 8:00 a.m. Debra Grier Heiutz † Tuesday, June 1 The Mystery of the Holy Trinity 8:00 a.m. Brandon & Stephon Ronning Wednesday, June 2 8:00 a.m. Nancy Paisson † “The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity leads us to contemplate the mystery of God who unceasingly creates, redeems and sanctifies, always with love and through love.”– Thursday, June 3 Pope Francis, May 27, 2018 8:00 a.m. Ansley Williams The mystery of the Holy Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith and life. Friday, June 4 8:00 a.m. Michael Joseph Hourican † God reveals himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The doctrine of the Trinity in- cludes three truths of faith. Saturday, June 5 8:00 a.m. Nolan Mosakowski First, the Trinity is One. We do not speak of three gods but of one God. Each of the 4:00 p.m. Francis Parker † Persons is fully God. They are a unity of Persons in one divine nature. Sunday, June 6 Second, the Divine Persons are distinct from each other. Father, Son, and Spirit are 8:00 a.m. Living and Deceased Members of not three appearances or modes of God, but three identifiable persons, each fully St. Anthony the Abbot Parish God in a way distinct from the others. 10:00 a.m. Larry May † Third, the Divine Persons are in relation to each other. The distinction of each is un- 11:30 a.m. For All Priests derstood only in reference to the others. The Father cannot be the Father without the Son, nor can the Son be the Son without the Father. The Holy Spirit is related to the Readings for the week of Father and the Son who both send him forth. May 30, 2021 All Christians are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Sunday, May 30, Spirit. The Trinity illumines all the other mysteries of faith. Solemnity of The Most Holy Trinity Dt 4:32-34, 39-40; Ps 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22; Rom 8:14-17; Mt 28:16-20 The Feast of the Visitation of Mary Monday, May 31, Feast of The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Monday May 31, 2021 Zep 3:14-18a or Rom 12:9-16; Ps Isaiah 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6; Lk 1:39-56 This feast commemorates the three- Tuesday, June 1, month visit of Mary with her elderly Memorial of Saint Justin, Martyr cousin Elizabeth during Mary’s preg- Tb 2:9-14; Ps 112:1-2, 7-8, 9; Mk 12:13-17 nancy with Jesus and Elizabeth’s with Wednesday, June 2, Weekday John the Baptist. The story appears in Tb 3:1-11a, 16-17a; Ps 25:2-3, 4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, the first chapter of Luke’s Gospel. It 8-9; Mk 12:18-27 recounts Elizabeth’s Spirit-filled Thursday, June 3, Memorial of Saint Charles greeting, acknowledging Mary as “the Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs mother of my Lord,” and Mary’s beau- Tb 6:10-11; 7:1bcde, 9-17; 8:4-9a; Ps 128:1-2, 3, tiful response, the Magnificat, which 4-5; Mk 12:28-34 begins, “My soul proclaims the great- Friday, June 4, Weekday ness of the Lord.” Introduced by the Tb 11:5-17; Ps 146:1b-2, 6c-7, 8-9a, 9bc-10; Franciscans in 1263, the feast became Mk 12:35-37 universal in the 16th century. Saturday, June 5, Memorial Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr Tb 12:1, 5-15, 20; Ps Tobit 13:2, 6efgh, 7, 8; Mk 12:38-44 Sunday, June 6, Solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) Copyright © 2021, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC. All rights Ex 24:3-8/Heb 9:11-15; Ps 116:12-13, 15-16, reserved. Quote from Pope Francis, copyright © 2018, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City State. All rights reserved. Used with permission. This article is an excerpt from the United States 17-18; Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 Catholic Catechism for Adults. ST. ANTHONY THE ABBOT CATHOLIC CHURCH BROOKSVILLE, FL Weekly Message from Fr. Pecchie My Dear Friends in Christ, The Solemnity of the Holy Human sexuality, as God designed Trinity is a hard one to get ex- it, is one of the most beautiful ways that we cited about. It's easy to get as human beings can mirror the Trinity. excited about Christmas. It's When a husband and wife commit them- easy to get excited about East- selves to each other for life, mind, body, and soul, they are er. Somehow, we feel that we fulfilling their vocation to mirror that kind of total self- can relate to those wonderful giving love that is the essence of the Trinity. And when mysteries of our faith. But the they express this commitment through sexual intimacy, doctrine of the Trinity is not so the mirror becomes even brighter and clearer through the easy to relate to. With this new life that, if God wills, can be conceived through it. The doctrine, God has revealed to husband, the wife, the child; the commitment, the love, us that he is not infinite loneli- the new life - this is meant to be a privileged mirror of the ness, but infinite love, infinite Trinity! That is the true meaning of human sexuality. relationship of self-giving. Original sin and human selfishness have ob- The one divine nature exists fully and simultane- scured that meaning. This is why it is so easy to misinter- ously in three divine Persons, the Father, the Son, and the pret or abuse it, whether through sex outside marriage, Holy Spirit. Sometimes we catch a glimpse of how won- infidelity, contraception, abortion, pornography, or homo- derful this doctrine really is, but even so, it still seems kind sexual activity. These are sins not because the Church has of abstract, something for theologians to ponder, some- a negative view of human sexuality, but because the thing impractical for everyday Christians. But that is a Church has such a noble view of its real meaning, and false impression. wants to protect us from the unhappiness that comes The Trinity is actually the most practical of all from going against that meaning. Only when we under- Christian doctrines, because it reveals the meaning of our stand that we were created to mirror the Trinity can we life. We are created in God's image. And God, in the very begin to grasp the true meaning not only of sexuality, but also of every other aspect of human life. essence of his being, is self-forgetful love, a harmonious relationship in which the three divine Persons are knowing This task of mirroring the Trinity isn't something each other and giving to each other. God's eternal, dynam- we can simply finish and check o our to-do list. Rather, ic happiness flows from that communion of love. And so, it's an ongoing thing; it's the adventure of a lifetime; it is our happiness, since we are created in his image, will flow meant to be our life's work. It unifies all the other parts of from the same thing, from our freely choosing to use our our lives, because it gives them purpose. A Catholic nurse God-given gi"s - life, talents, resources - to build up those is mirroring the Trinity when they strive day a"er day for around us. excellence in nursing; likewise for the Catholic teacher, This is what we are created to be and to do, and athlete, politician, plumber, and business leader. But only in this will we find the happiness we long for. The most of all, each one of us is called to show and grow this self-forgetful love in our family. meaning of life is for us to choose every day, in the little things and the big things, to be better and better mirrors Pope Benedict actually called the family an of the Trinity.