Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel th 627 East 187 Street, Bronx, New York 10458 | T: (718) 295-3770/ 3771 | F: (718) 367-2240 www.ourladymtcarmelbx.org | Parish E-mail: [email protected] Sunday, July 30, 2017| Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) PARISH STAFF Pastor Rev. Fr. Jonathan Morris Parochial Vicar Rev. Fr. Urbano Rodrigues Coordinator of Religious Education Sister Edna Loquias, S.M.C. Parish Secretary Elizabeth Mannini Music Director & Organist Dr. Stephen Rapp PARISH CENTER Cantor 2380 Belmont Avenue Bronx, NY 10458 Bilen Eminov Monday through Thursday Youth Minister School Principal 9:00am to 5:00pm Jesus Vargas Ms. Valerie Savino Fridays through Labor Day—9am to Noon LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST RITE OF MATRIMONY Saturday: 8:30am (English) | 12:00pm ( English) Wedding dates may be scheduled after initial meeting with a priest. Saturday Evening: 5:00pm (English) PASTORAL VISITS TO THE SICK Sunday: 8:30am (English) | 9:30am (Spanish) If you or someone you know is in the hospital or 11:00am (Italian) | 12:15pm (English) homebound and would be served by a pastoral visit by a Priest, Religious Sister or a lay Extraordinary 1:30pm (Spanish) Minister of Holy Communion, please contact the Parish Center. Weekday: 8:30am / 12:00pm / 6:30pm (All English) NEW PARISHIONERS RITE OF RECONCILIATION Saturdays 4:00pm to 5:00pm or any time by calling We invite new parishioners to register at the Parish the Parish Office. Center. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM RITE OF BAPTISM 2nd Sunday of every month in Spanish at 2:30pm For information please call Sr. Edna at the Parish rd Office at (718) 295-3770. 3 Sunday every other month in English at 2:30pm Attendance at Pre - Baptism Class is required. MOUNT CARMEL SCHOOL 2465 Bathgate Avenue Please stop by the Parish Center to register or Please contact the School Office at (718) 295-6080. call for more information. July 30, 2017 CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL 2 ANNOUNCED MASSES From the Desk of Father Jonathan SUN. JULY 30th SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY ORD. TIME This week we received some very good and special news. 8:30am Salvatore & Giuseppina Florio 9:30 am Pro Populo On Sunday evening, August 6th, one of Pope Francis' 11:00 am Palmino Roscigno ambassadors ("nuncios"), Archbishop Charles Brown, will 12:15pm Alfredo Ferrante & Carolina Ferrante Skouras be visiting our parish. Archbishop Brown is a New York 1:30pm Ambrose Edward Magas priest whom I came to know during my studies and work in Rome. For the last five years he served as the st MON. JULY 31 ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA Holy Father's representative in Ireland. A few months 8:30am Raffaela Fusco ago, he was named as the new Papal Nuncio to 12:00pm Anna Marcin (living) Albania. I have invited Archbishop Brown to come bless the statue of Mother Teresa of Calcutta that we 6:30pm Gino Raguso commissioned to be sculpted for our renovated TUES. AUGUST 1st ST. ALPHONSUS LIGUORI church. 8:30am Marie De Dominicis & Deceased Family Members 12:00pm Dr. Salvatore Silvestri Mother Teresa was Albanian so it will be a special honor 6:30pm Mario & Erma Borgatti to have the Pope's ambassador to Albania bless our statue. As you know, the Albanian people have played a WED. AUGIST 2nd WEEKDAY; ST. EUSEBIUS OF vital role in our community. How wonderful will it be to VERCELLI; ST. PETER JULIAN EYMARD have an Albanian saint, loved by all of us, prominently 8:30am Giovanni Boiano displayed for devotion in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. I am inspired by the members of the Albanian community 12:00pm Vincenza Pompeo (both Catholics and Muslims) who have been very 6:30pm Michael & Jane Verini generous to our renovation projects and have THURS. AUGUST 3rd WEEKDAY sponsored the commissioning of this original piece of 8:30am Carmine Navarra devotional art. 12:00pm Violeta Dalman All are invited to meet outside the front doors of our 6:30pm Isaia Barone church at 6:45pm on Sunday evening, August 6th, to FRI. AUGUST 4th ST. JOHN VIANNEY welcome Archbishop Brown and be part of the rite of blessing of the statue. We will then process the statue 8:30am Antonietta & Bartolomeo Ruocco into the church (you will get a sneak peak of the 12:00pm In Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus renovation process). 6:30pm Julia & Frank Mongiovi SAT. AUGUST 5th WEEKDAY; DEDICATION OF THE God bless, BASILICA OF ST. MARY MAJOR Father Jonathan 8:30am Deceased Parents & Benefactors of the Missionary Sisters of the Catechism 12:00pm In Honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary 5:00pm Carmine Mastropolo + REST IN PEACE + th SUN. AUGUST 6 TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD Please pray for Mario Lamaruggine 8:30am Gennaro Scotti & all the faithful departed 9:30 am Ofelia Silva 11:00 am Giovanni e Salvatrice Di Prima 12:15pm Alfredo Ferrante & Carolina Ferrante Skouras 1:30pm Pro Populo * RETIRO PARA MUJERES * WEEKEND MASS COLLECTION - 7/23/2017 Grupo Juan XXII Collection ........................................................$3,276.11 Last year’s Collection …..................................$2,718.38 Agosto 18, 19, 20 Para mayor informacíon llaman al WEEKEND ATTENDANCE - 7/23/2017 646 275 6318 Adults: ……. 578 Children: ……. 151 / Total: ……729 July 30, 2017 CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL 3 LISTEN TO YOUR DREAMS PRESTA ATTENZIONE AI TUOI SOGNI God visits Solomon in a dream, and the scripture San Tommaso d’Aquino, il grande teologo del story nowhere tells us that Solomon awoke to have this Medioevo, utilizza un’immagine: noi uomini siamo conversation with God! So, still in his dream, Solomon come una freccia già in piena corsa. Un altro ha preso la answers God’s question about what he desires most, and mira e ha tirato. Non spetta più a noi cercare un God grants his request for wisdom in abundance. obiettivo: è già stabilito. E dove va questa freccia di cui In our waking hours, we are much distracted by il Creatore ha stabilito l’obiettivo? Ecco la risposta: la work, home, family, traffic, entertainment, and many freccia corre verso il bene, e dunque verso la felicità. worries. When we try to think about what we really want Dio, e la felicità di essere presso di lui, corrispondono out of life, we have trouble even imagining what that alla più profonda aspirazione dell’uomo. Qui non vi è might be. But deep inside, our real longings dwell, nulla di imposto, nessun compito da fare come penso, known to God and to the Holy Spirit. Our dreams, nessun passaggio a gincana, non dobbiamo stringere i unencumbered by defenses, may hold clues to what our denti. Come il ruscello scorre naturalmente verso il deepest needs are, or what bothers us most. They could mare, così l’uomo è in cammino verso Dio. Questo be God speaking. insegnamento sugli uomini si trova nella parabola di Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. Gesù che ci presenta il Vangelo. È riassunto in sette righe di una semplicità geniale. Il Regno dei cieli è proprio ciò che si cerca nel profondo del cuore. È come First Friday Eucharistic adoration un tesoro di cui si scopre l’esistenza. È come una perla, la perla delle perle che il mercante ha cercato per tutta la sua vita. Se il mercante raggiunge il suo obiettivo, non è grazie alla sua tenacia, ma perché ciò gli è concesso in dono. Tuttavia il regno dei cieli non ci è tirato in testa. Bisogna impegnarsi personalmente, essere pronti anche th a sacrificare tutto. Ma non per una cosa estranea. È ciò August 4 ~ 12:30pm to 6:15pm che abbiamo di più personale, e al tempo stesso un Spend one hour in intimate conversation dono. E bisogna saper cogliere questo dono; bisogna with our Eucharistic Lord – He will listen! essere pronti. Quando si raggiunge l’obiettivo, non bisogna crollare come dopo un eccesso di sforzo, ma esultare di indescrivibile gioia. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM Il segreto del cristianesimo può essere espresso in FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS un’immagine di sette righe. Ce ne vogliono un po’ di più ai predicatori! Quanto a ciascuno di noi, ci vuole Registration is now open! tutta una vita per capirlo. Please bring birth certificate © lachiesa.it (Baptism certificate if student is already baptized) Classes will begin in September *Please see Sr. Edna at the parish center* Career Opportunity The Knights of Columbus is seeking a candidate to rep- resent their insurance program. We offer a complete benefits package with this full-time position. In order to qualify, one must be eligible for membership in the Knights of Columbus. For more information, please contact Bill Schneider, General Agent, at 914-420-6836 or [email protected]. ESCUCHA TUS SUEÑOS Dios visita a Salomón en un sueño, ¡y el relato bíblico no dice en ninguna parte que Salomón se despertó para tener esta conversación con Dios! Así, todavía en su sueño, Salomón responde a la pregunta de Dios sobre lo que más desea, y Dios le concede en abundancia su pedido de tener sabiduría. En nuestras horas de vigilia, estamos muy distraídos con el trabajo, la casa, la familia, el tráfico, la diversión y muchas preocupaciones. Cuando tratamos de pensar en qué es lo que realmente queremos en la vida, nos cuesta un poco imaginar lo que pueda ser. Mas allá en el fondo, moran nuestros verdaderos anhelos, que Dios y el Espíritu Santo conocen. Nuestros sueños, libres de las trabas de las defensas, pueden guardar la clave de nuestras más hondas necesidades o lo que nos molesta más. Puede que sean el modo que Dios usa para hablarnos.