St. Teresa of Avila
Catholic Church and School
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
PASTOR:
Fr. Chris Bugno, SDS
ASSOCIATE PASTORS:
Fr. Mark Sarniewicz , SDS
DEACON: Donald Boland
PASTORAL ASSOCIATES:
Sr. Yvonne, Roscoe, SND
CELEBRATION OF THE
EUCHARIST:
Saturday Vigil:……5:00 p.m.
Sunday:……………7:30 a.m., 9:30AM
& 11:30 am
Weekdays (Monday through
Friday): 7:00 am. & 8:30 a.m.
Saturday:……….....8:30 am
Spanish Mass (last Sunday of
the month at 6pm)
RECONCILIATION:
Daily (Mon.-Fri.):…… 7:45-8:15 a.m.
Saturdays:…… 3:45-4:45 p.m.
First Friday:….. 3:30-4:30 p.m.
And by Appointment
Administrative Assistant &
Liturgy
Sr. Yvonne Roscoe, SND, 268-3441
Faith Formation
(Religious Education, Adults, RCIA,
Sacramental Preparation)
Ms. Vicki Shoemaker 268-0440
School Principal
Mrs. Jacqueline Zackel, 267-1643
Director Of Music
Barbara Bradley, 267-9256
Youth Ministry 268-3441
Receptionist, Anna Mae Smoller
Bookkeeper, Marge Wolf
Bulletin Editor, Kathleen Weldon
Director Facilities/
Maintenance Matt Horner
PARISH ADDRESS:
203 Ojibway Street
Titusville, FL 32780
PARISH OFFICE: 321-268-3441
PARISH FAX: 321-268-3270
Visit our Website at —
http://www.saintteresatitusville.org
October 12, 2014
St. Teresa of Avila
Catholic Church and School
October 12, 2014
Mass Intentions for the week of October 12th to October 19th
Sunday
Monday
7:30 AM For the People of the
Parish
7:00 AM Anna Myer † by Short
9:30 AM Beatrice Scalesse † by
8:30 AM Ray Maher † by Helen
Peter & Dot Scalesse
11:30 AM Angelina Abbatemarco †
by Peggy Ricardo
Family
Tuesday
7:00 AM Fran Graham† by
Family
& Thomas
Wednesday
7:00 AM Manuel Aldana † by
Yara Aldana
8:30 AM Kevin Broad † by
DeLeo Family
8:30 AM Deceased members of
Hannigan Family by
Mary Kenney
The invitation is issued; everything is prepared, come to the feast!
LITURGY OF THE WORD
DEVOTIONS
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Thinking about the Readings
Liturgy of the Hours (Morning Prayer) at 8:10am
(before the 8:30 mass), Mon.-Thu. (unless no school on Fri.)
Recitation of the Rosary: Mon. – Sat., 9am in the Chapel.
Novena – Our Lady of Perpetual Help Tuesday, after the
8:30am Mass.
Spanish Adoration & Prayer Group, Thursdays 6:00pm
Holy Hour 9-10 – Thurs. (except holidays) after the 8:30
Mass, Divine Mercy, Rosary, Silent Prayer, Benediction.
Holy Days — Same as Sundays (7:30am, 9:30am &
11:30am)
Holy Day Vigil — 7:00pm
Fatima Sundays—Every 3rd Sunday of the Month from May
through October, 3-4:30pm.
Litany of Loreto in honor of Mary: Mon.—Sat. during May
Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Mon.—Sat. during June
Litanies—After the 8:30am Mass
1. What priorities do I put before God? How does my
life reflect my priorities?
2. Do I really believe God is all-powerful? More powerful than any of my fears?
3. Do I give God glory? Why and when?
Readings for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 19, 2014
First Reading: Isaiah 45:1, 4-6
We are to worship God alone, the God who calls us
by name.
Second Reading: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5b
We have received the gospel not only in word, but
in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Gospel: Matthew 22:15-21
“Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to
God what belongs to God”.
For Reflection:
What is my image of the Day of the Lord? Why is
caring for each
other such an
important part of
our vocation?
Today’s good news
In these days of the liturgical year, our readings focus on things associated with the end of the world. Isaiah anticipates a day when
God will defeat the enemy and host a great feast. He envisions the feast to be held on Mount Zion, the mountain Jerusalem, when the
Day of the Lord comes. “Rich food and choice wines” will be provided “for all peoples”. A note of hope is sounded when prophets tell
us that God “will destroy death forever”, wiping away “the tears from every face”. For God’s people, it will be a time of great joy.
In a personal note Paul speaks of his experience of living both “in humble circumstances” and “with abundance”. Because of “him
who strengthens me”, Paul can face any trial that comes his way. He goes on to thank the Philippians for their support while he is in
prison: “ it was kind of you to share in my distress”. Their generosity reflects a close relationship, witnessed in his opening words, “I
hold you in my heart, … partners with me in grace”.
The imagery of a wedding feast in today’s Gospel anticipates the Day of the Lord. For the church this banquet represents the
messianic banquet at the end of time. The parable teaches us that it is not enough to accept the invitation; we must act on it as well.
Those who originally invited to the feast “refused to come” when the time of the feast was announced to them. As a result the
invitation is extended to others, reminiscent of the church’s outreach to those outside Israel.
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass Intentions for the week of October 12th to October 19th
Friday
Saturday
7:00 AM Special Intention for Dr.
Anita Spitz by Bob &
Bonnie Truett
Thursday
7:00 AM Robert Healy † by Bob
8:30 AM Joseph Bodnar † by
Linda & Sam Rodriquez
8:30 AM Deceased members of
Bohlke Family by Family
8:30 AM John Kassak † by wife
& Bonnie Truett
& Family
STEWARDSHIP
Stewardship Thought: In today’s second reading, St.
Paul thanks the Philippians for being willing to share in his
hardships and promises that God, in turn, will fully supply
all their needs. Our God truly cannot be outdone in
generosity!
Parish Sacrificial Giving (Regular Sunday Offering) In
gratitude for the gifts we have received from God, the
parishioners and visitors gave $15,477.00 for the ministries
of St. Teresa. Thank you for your continued support and
generosity. God bless.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK?
Who in the parish needs to be reminded of where
their allegiance belongs?
Who will remind them? Who will support them?
Sunday
7:30 AM
For the People of the
Parish
5:00 PM Deyanira McLaughlin † 9:30 AM
Howard Biegler, Sr. †
by Dan & Therese
Miller
by Olivellas Family
11:30 AM
Katie Prachel † by
Ruth Elder
SCHOOL NEWS
Please visit our website at
www.stteresa-titusville.org for information regarding St. Teresa Catholic
School.
Second Collection
Thank you for your continued generosity. Our students and parents appreciate all that you do for us!
Liturgy and Lunch
Liturgy and Lunch takes place on Monday, October
13, 2014 starting with Mass at 10:30 a.m. (Grs. K-8)
followed with lunch in the Parish Center.
Fair Information
Please go the school website under Parents, click on Fair, to sign
up for Fair shifts. The Fair will
take place October 16th – 19th,
2014.
Fair patron letters have been
mailed. The drawing will take
place on Sunday, October 19,
2014. Thank you for your support.
St. Teresa of Avila
Catholic Church and School
FAITH FORMATION
October 12, 2014
Flea Market at Parish Center
CCD
Nov. 7 – 8 will be our Flea Market from 9 AM – 2 PM
in the Parish Center. Tables to rent are $10.
Reminder, there will be no CCD classes on October 15, 2014. This is St.
Teresa School Fair.
Forms are on the tables in the back of the Church.
FIRST RECONCILIATION SESSION I PREP
First Reconciliation Session I Prep (Parents and
Children) will be on Monday, October 27, 2014, at
6:00 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. in the church. Please place
this date on your calendars.
RCIA
RCIA meets every Thursday in the Faith Formation
Room in Avila Hall class begins at 6:30pm.
Vicki Shoemaker has accepted responsibility for
the Faith Formation Office. We thank her and
welcome her to this challenging ministry.
God Bless!
Cor Jesu Food Pantry
Our Food Pantry, Cor Jesu, can always use monetary donations
to help provide milk, eggs and meat to our needy families. The
summer months are particularly difficult with the students who
receive meal benefits during school hours who are now out of
school.
There is a list on the doors of their needs. They are preparing
for Thanksgiving and grocery store Gift Cards are most welcome.
Thank you for the non-perishable food items that you continue
to bring in.
Fatima Sunday October 12th
12th,
at 3 PM. Plan to
Fatima Sunday is Oct.
come to be anointed, sing the Divine Mercy
Chaplet, pray the rosary together, and be
blessed individually by the Blessed Sacrament in the Monstrance.
We now have images of St. Faustina
and St. Pope John Paul II, along with
a special relic of St. Faustina as you
saw last weekend displayed in a beautiful reliquary. We are working on
obtaining a first class relic of St. Pope
John Paul II. We are asking for donations for this project. We would need
to raise $2,000. If anyone would like
to donate towards this, please give
checks or money to Sister Yvonne or
drop them off in the Church Office.
Columbus Day Holiday
October 13th
Columbus Day first became
an official state holiday in
Colorado in 1906, and became a federal holiday in the
United States in 1937, though
people have celebrated Columbus's voyage since the colonial period. In 1792, New York City and other U.S. cities
celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New
World. President Benjamin Harrison called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus Day on the
400th anniversary of the event. During the four hundredth
anniversary in 1892, teachers, preachers, poets and politicians used Columbus Day rituals to teach ideals of patriotism. These patriotic rituals were framed around themes
such as support for war, citizenship boundaries, the importance of loyalty to the nation, and celebrating social
progress.
The traditional date of the
holiday also adjoins the anniversary of the United States
Nav (founded October 13,
Navy
1775), and thus both occasions
are customarily observed by
the Navy and usually
the Marine Corps as well.
All Saints and All Soul’s Day
Nov. 1st, All Saints Day is not a holy day of obligation
this year because it is on a Saturday. We will have our normal Saturday Masses at 8:30 AM and 5 PM.
All Souls Day is Nov. 2. There are envelopes on the tables in the back of the Church for you to write names of
deceased on and your monetary donation.
Our Mass of All Souls Day in which we remember all of
the deceased for this past year by praying Mass and having
families come up and light a candle in their honor will be
on Monday, November 3rd at PM. At the end everyone
is invited to come up and light a candle for anyone they
would like to remember in this way.
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Oct. 26th there will be Reconciliation Prep meeting at
6:15 for all parents and those students preparing for this
Sacrament. First Reconciliation will take place on
Saturday, Dec. 6th.
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saint Teresa of Avila also known as St.
Teresa of Jesus
Feast Day October 15th
Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus,
baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada
(28 March 1515 – 4 October 1582), was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, an author of the Counter Reformation and theologian of
contemplative life through mental prayer. She was a reformer of the
Carmelite Order and is considered to be a founder of the Discalced Carmelites along with John of the Cross.
In 1622, forty years after her death, she was canonized by Pope Gregory
XV and on 27 September 1970, was named a Doctor of the Church by
Pope Paul VI. Her books, which include her autobiography (The Life of
Teresa of Jesus) and her seminal work El Castillo Interior (trans.: The
Interior Castle) are an integral part of Spanish Renaissance literature as
well as Christian mysticism and Christian meditation practices as she
entails in her other important work, Camino de Perfección (trans.: The
Way of Perfection).
When Teresa was 14 her mother died, causing the girl a profound grief
that prompted her to embrace a deeper devotion to the Virgin Mary as
her spiritual mother. Along with this good resolution, however, she also
developed immoderate interests in reading popular fiction and caring
for her own appearance. Teresa was sent for her education to the Augustinian nuns at Ávila.
In the cloister, she suffered greatly from illness. Early in her sickness,
she experienced periods of religious ecstasy through the use of the devotional book Tercer abecedario espiritual, translated as the Third Spiritual Alphabet. She claimed that during her illness she rose from the lowest
stage, "recollection", to the "devotions of silence" or even to the
"devotions of ecstasy", which was one of perfect union with God . On St.
Peter's Day in 1559, Teresa became firmly convinced that Jesus Christ
presented himself to her in bodily form, though invisible. These visions
lasted almost uninterrupted for more than two years. In another vision,
a seraph drove the fiery point of a golden lance repeatedly through her
heart, causing an ineffable spiritual-bodily pain.
“I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the point there seemed
to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my
heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed
to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of
God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to
be rid of it..."
The memory of this episode served as an inspiration throughout the rest
of her life, and motivated her lifelong imitation of the life and suffering
of Jesus, epitomized in the motto usually associated with her:
“Lord, either let me suffer or let me die”.
Patron of Headache sufferers and Spanish Catholic Writers .
Eucharistic Adoration October 16th
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
We will have an all day Eucharistic Adoration each Thursday in
the Chapel. Please come next week and not leave our Lord in the
Eucharist unattended during this time. There is a sign-up sheet
on the table in the main church entrance.
Spanish Holy Hour and Exposition from 6 – 7:15 PM .
All are invited.
Saint Luke The Evangelist
Feast Day October 18th
Luke, the writer of the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles,
has been identified with St. Paul's "Luke, the beloved physician" (Colossians 4:14). We know few other facts about
Luke's life from Scripture and from early Church historians.
It is believed that Luke was born a Greek and a Gentile. In
Colossians 10-14 speaks of those friends who are with him.
He first mentions all those "of the circumcision" -- in other
words, Jews -- and he does not include Luke in this group.
Luke's gospel shows special sensitivity to evangelizing Gentiles. It is only in his gospel that we hear the parable of the
Good Samaritan, that we hear Jesus praising the faith of
Gentiles such as the widow of Zarephath and Naaman the
Syrian (and that we hear the story of the one grateful leper
who is a Samaritan . According to the early Church historian
Eusebius Luke was born at Antioch in Syria.
Luke's unique perspective on Jesus can be seen in the six
miracles and eighteen parables not found in the other gospels. Luke's is the gospel of the poor and of social justice. He
is the one who tells the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man
who ignored him. Luke is the one who uses "Blessed are the
poor" instead of "Blessed are the poor in spirit" in the beatitudes. Only in Luke's gospel do we hear Mary 's Magnificat
where she proclaims that God "has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the
lowly; he has filled the hungry with good
things, and sent the rich away empty".
He is often shown with an ox or a calf
because these are the symbols
of sacrifice -- the sacrifice Jesus made
for all the world. The reports of
Luke's life
lif after Paul's death are conflicting. Some early writers claim he was
martyred, others say he lived a long life.
Some say he preached in Greece, others
in Gaul. The earliest tradition we have
says that he died at 84 Boeotia after settling in Greece to write his Gospel.
Luke is the patron of physicians and surgeons
World Mission Sunday Collection
to be Held October 18-19
October 19 is World Mission Sunday. Catholics
are invited to reach out and help build the
Church in Mongolia, the world’s youngest Catholic Church, as well as local churches throughout the Missions, in the most remote areas
across our world.
Your prayers and generous gift to the Society
for the Propagation of the Faith help the work of
priests, religious and lay leaders in Mongolia
and throughout the Missions who offer the poor
practical help and the experience of God’s love
and mercy, His hope and peace. Please keep
the Missions in your daily prayers. Please be as
generous as you can
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah 25:6-10a
The Banquet of Life
Death creeps into our lives almost secretly. We lose members of our families and close
friends. We buckle up in the car as an unreflective admission that each trip poses mortal
danger. We age and experience the gradual loss of our abilities.
For those who believe in Christ, death is but a passageway to eternity. The funeral rites of
the church help us ritualize our belief even as we mourn our loss.
Isaiah offers images of God’s providence that fit the hope of Christians. He imagines a new
Jerusalem, settled on God’s holy mountain. In his vision, God provides a rich banquet—not
just minimal food for the hungry, not just basic sustenance, but a banquet in which God’s
people taste delight. Isaiah imagines death as a veil that covers everyone, a web woven
over all the nations. But in this vision, that veil is fragile, subject to destruction by God’s
deliberate might.
For Christians, the contrast between death and life is the contrast between hunger and
banquet. Whenever the sadness of death threatens to overpower the people we love or our
very lives, our belief in Christ brings all the comfort of rich food and drink.
Written by Paul Turner. Copyright © 2010, Resource Publications, Inc., 888-273-7782,
www.rpinet.com. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission from Lectionary Bulletin
Inserts, Year A: First and Second Readings.
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