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. 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