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 Baptisms: 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 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, + Millan Escagedo + Roberto Rodriguez 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 + Juan Diaz & Villy Forns Torres Covella + Isabel Vicaria 7:00 p.m. + Thomas Benki Monday, April 9th, 2018 + Alicia Stuart Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord + Carlos Manosalva + Lucia Smith Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will. - Alejandro & Catalina Garcia Isaiah: 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 Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 + Jose Alvarez Thursday, April 12th, 2018 Memorial of Saint Stanislaus, Bishop and - Special Intention 8:00 a.m. + Carlos Costales Martyr - For All Persons afflicted with + Conchita Cañeros + Julia Fernandez & Eloy del Rio The Lord hears the cry of the poor. Parkinson Disease, their Acts 5: 17 - 26 - Special Intention 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 5:00 p.m. + Rosa & Rosendo Platas Thursday, April 12th, 2018 + Cary & Raul Roig + Jimmy Fenton Santeiro Thursday of the Second Week of Easter + Rene Rodriguez + Jorge L. Powell The Lord hears the cry of the poor. - 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 Monday, April 9th, 2018 Psalms 27: 1, 4, 13 - 14 + Andres Angulo John 6: 1 - 15 8:00 a.m. + Johnny Machado + Alma Trujillo + Margarita Andino - Health of Otón Porres Jr. Saturday, April 14th, 2018 + Susana Argamasilla - 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 John 6: 16 - 21 + Chichi Garcia - Lomas - Special Intention + 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. Pope John Paul II made the surprise announcement of this change in his homily at the canonization of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska 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 nun, 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 Thomas the Apostle’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.” A University Parish: School of Prayer and Center for the New Evangelization 3 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.