16th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 21, 2019 Parish Office (863) 453-4757 Fax (863) 453-2620 Parish Office Hours Monday through Friday 9 AM to 2:30 PM Pastor Assisting Clergy Fr. Leo Frechette Fr. Gerald Grogan Retired Deacon Dan Hoppe Schedule of Masses Saturday Confession 3:30 PM English 6:30 PM Spanish Vigil Mass 4 PM English 7 PM Spanish Sunday 8 AM and 10:30 AM Holy Days Vigil Mass 5:30 PM 8 & 10:30 AM Daily Mass Monday-Friday 8 AM First Friday Mass and Holy Hour 8 AM Visit us on the web! www.ologap.org “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part” (Gospel).
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16th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 21, 2019
Parish Office (863) 453-4757 Fax (863) 453-2620
Parish Office Hours Monday through Friday
9 AM to 2:30 PM
Pastor
Assisting Clergy Fr. Leo Frechette
Fr. Gerald Grogan Retired
Deacon Dan Hoppe
Schedule of Masses
Saturday Confession
3:30 PM English 6:30 PM Spanish
Vigil Mass 4 PM English 7 PM Spanish
Sunday 8 AM and 10:30 AM
Holy Days
Vigil Mass 5:30 PM 8 & 10:30 AM Daily Mass
Monday-Friday 8 AM First Friday
Mass and Holy Hour 8 AM
Visit us on the web! www.ologap.org
“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part” (Gospel).
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The Holy Trinity
Many scholars consider Rublev's Trinity (14th Century) the most perfect of all Russian icons and perhaps the most perfect of all the icons ever painted.
Trying to portray the Trinity, but always aware of the Biblical prohibition against depicting God, icon painters turned to the story of the hospitality of Abraham who was visited by three wanderers – today’s 1st reading from Genesis 18: 1-10 - “The Lord appeared to Abraham by the terebinth of Mamre, as he sat in the entrance of his tent, while the day was growing hot. Looking up, he saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them; and bowing to the ground, he said: "Sir, if I may ask you this favor, please do not go on past your servant. Let some water be brought, that you may bathe your feet, and then rest yourselves under the tree.
Now that you have come this close to your servant, let me bring you a little food that you may refresh yourselves; and afterward you may go on your way." "Very well," they replied, "do as you have said." Abraham hastened into the tent and told Sarah, "Quick, three seahs of fine flour! Knead it and make rolls." He ran to the herd, picked out a tender, choice steer, and gave it to a servant, who quickly prepared it. Then he got some curds and milk, as well as the steer that had been prepared, and set these before them; and he waited on them under the tree while they ate.”
Rublev was the first to make a conscious decision not to include in his composition the figures of Abraham and Sarah because he did not set out to illustrate the story of the hospitality of Abraham, as did many painters before him, but to convey through his image the idea of the unity and indivisibility of the three persons of the Trinity.
Here is how the great contemporary Spiritual writer, Henri Nouwen, describes the icon:
"Andrew Rublev painted this icon not only to share the fruits of his own meditation on the mystery of the Holy Trinity but also to offer his fellow monks a way to keep their hearts centered in God while living in the midst of political unrest. The more we look at this holy image with the eyes of faith, the more we come to realize that it is painted not as a lovely decoration for a convent church, nor as a helpful explanation of a difficult doctrine, but as a holy place to enter and stay within. As we place ourselves in front of the icon in prayer, we come to experience a gentle invitation to participate in the intimate conversation that is taking place among the three divine angels and to join them around the table. The movement from the Father toward the Son and the movement of both Son and Spirit toward the Father become a movement in which the one who prays is lifted up and held secure. . . . Through the contemplation of this icon we come to see with our inner eyes that all engagements in this world can bear fruit only when they take place within this divine circle. The words of the psalm, "The sparrow has found its home at last. . .. Happy are those who live in your house" (Ps 84: 3, 4) are given new depth and new breadth; they become words revealing the possibility of being in the world without being of it. We can be involved in struggles for justice and in actions for peace. We can be part of the ambiguities of family and community life. We can study, teach, write and hold a regular job. We can do all of this without ever having to leave the house of love. . .. Rublev's icon gives us a glimpse of the house of perfect love."
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Let Nothing Disturb You Here is a wonderful prayer by St. Teresa of Avila. This prayer is so simple yet
meaningful. It strengthens the weak, removes all fears and calms our inner most torments. This prayer might well have been Mary’s prayer as she sat at the feet of
Jesus in today’s Gospel. It is a simple, contemplative prayer. Let nothing disturb you; Let nothing frighten you,
All things pass away. God never changes.
Patience obtains all things. He who has God,
finds he lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Mary alone with Jesus
On entering loneliness [or any pain]
By spiritual author Henri Nouwen
"I decided to make a life in the U.S., and I experienced pain and felt a deep absence of friendship, but then I started to slowly realize that maybe the experience of loneliness and the experience of separation might not be a negative thing. It might, I thought, bring me more in touch with other people's experience of loneliness. If I would not run away from it, but feel it through all the way, it might become fruitful.
Then suddenly I had this idea that loneliness, which is pain, when you do not run away from it but feel it through and stand up in it and look it right in the face, that there is something there that can be a source of hope, in the middle
middle of the pain there is some hidden gif t . I , more and more in my l i fe , have discovered that the gif ts of l i fe are of ten hidden in the places that hurt the most . I am saying that you can s tand the pain . I th ink one of the great chal lenges of l i fe is to dare to s tand in your pain, and to t rust that there is something beyond that which is safe . What begins to happen is something l ike the experience that there is safety beyond the pain, that i f you enter into i t , i t 's not so fr ightening as you thought i t was, and that underneath your lonel iness, there is an experience of being held safe…I know i t for myself so much that i f I experience lonel iness or anguish, I dis t ract myself . I go do something so that I don ' t feel i t . But i t i s a lways a disappointment , and I am lonel ier ; I am more anguished. Then I discovered that i f I jus t s tay with i t , and l ive with i t to the ful lest . Not just accept i t , but tas te i t , chew on i t . I would nearly say to myself “I am lonely , yes , and le t me feel i t .”
I 've discovered that there 's much more s trength in me than I real ized and, in a way, the s t rength is not coming from me, but i t i s coming indeed from someone who holds me, who loved me long before I came into l i fe , f rom someone who wil l love me long af ter I have died. I t is not an intel lectual thing. Jesus for me is the center of i t . Jesus for me is the one who helps me discover that God had loved me before I even was born, and wil l s t i l l love me af ter I die . The love of God is a love that is there before and af ter any other human being has touched me. The mystery of knowing Jesus i s the mystery of knowing God who embraces me much in a wider and deeper way, more than any human being can do. I t sounds qui te theoret ical , but I have only discovered this gradual ly in l i fe through much of my own pain, and through much of my own disappointment , and through much of my own running away to other places ."
Henri Nouwen quoted in Nouwen Then by Christopher de Vinck
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Are You a Young Person with Tattoos? Pope Francis Has a
Question for You
During a recent meeting Pope Francis had with a group of young people at the Vatican, the pontiff was asked a question about tattoos.
A young seminarian asked him how the pastors of the Church should respond to the fact that tattoos are so widespread and “that for some it is beautiful,” while others think it is something “difficult to understand.”
This was the response of the Pope “Do not be scared of tattoos. The Eritreans for years made the cross here (on the forehead). Also, today we see them. The cross was tattooed. Yes, they are exaggerations, but today I see some.
“I think those who have a strong measure of tattoos cannot donate blood, things like that… because there is danger of poisoning. There can be a problem of exaggeration, but not of the tattoos themselves.”
Then the successor of St. Peter was encouraged to ask a question to young people who use tattoos:
“Tattoos often signify membership in a community. You, young man, that you’re tattooed like that, what are you looking for? In this tattoo, which community membership are you expressing?”
Finally, the Pope encouraged the priests to dialogue in this way with young people and connect with them in their culture.
“It’s important not to be scared. With young people one should never be scared! Never! Because always, even behind the things that are not so good, there is something that will bring us to some truth,” including his sanctity.
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MASS INTENTIONS SATURDAY JULY 20 4:00 pm Fred Meyers And Marie Carlson by
Joseph & Beverly Borowski 7:00 pm Herlinda Mata for her health by Adela Rodriguez SUNDAY JULY 21 8:00 am + John Kinn by M/M Nelson
Tederous. + Mary Lukose by Lukose Family. 10:30 am + Pierre Seguin by His sister
Margot Burt. MONDAY JULY 22 8:00 am + J Dale Pounds by Judy Pounds. TUESDAY JULY 23 8:00 For Parish Family. WED JULY 24 8:00 am + Betty Minielli by Linda Beman THURSDAY JULY 25 8:00 am + Joan Roche by Neal Roche. FRIDAY JULY 26 8:00 am + Anthony & Betty Minielli by Linda
Beman. SATURDAY JULY 27 4:00 pm + John Arata by wife Donna. 7:00 pm Spanish Mass SUNDAY JULY 28 8:00 am + Marie Carlson by Alan & Ann
Latz. 10:30 am + Stanley Sr. & Mary Repa by
Scott & Cindy Maxon.
FOR THE SICK OF THE PARISH Claudette Laverriere John Minadeo Jade Jackson Rosa Arosemena Gregory Syfert J.R. Lejeune Zulmira DaSilva Bruno Litwinski Gary Ingalls Debra Kemmett Julie Johnston Andres Clavijo Liliana Morales Gerald Martin Lillian Mellske Beatrice Yolman And for those who care for the sick, for the deceased member’s and benefactors of the parish, and for our loved ones.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS There will not be an assembly meeting in July or August. The council will have meetings thru the summer on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. BIBLE STUDY Bible study facilitated by Dale O’Leary will continue Tuesday, morning at 10:00 am in the
MONTH 5 Developing Baby Your spiritually adopted baby weighs over one pound now, and his mother can feel his movement. Before this time he was too small for her to feel. Although he swam with ease in his watery world, he needed to be big and strong enough to kick hard against the outside wall and dent it - - the inside wall of the uterus has little feeling. We are midway through the pregnancy now. Your prayers have helped tour baby's mother continue with her pregnancy and seek the help she needs. Isaiah 44: 24 - Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord who made all things.
Darlyne Devany Jim McGann Karen Hecker Tina Starling
Teresa Torres
‘Monsignor Quixote’ – Graham Greene “I suppose Descartes brought me to the point where he brought himself--to faith. Fact or fiction--in the end you can't distinguish between them--you have just to choose."
"But to become a Trappist?"
"I think, you know, professor, that when one has to jump, it's so much safer to jump into deep water."
"And you don't regret...?"
"Professor, there are always plenty of things to regret. Regrets are part of life. One can't escape regrets even in a twelfth-century monastery. Can you escape from them in the University of Notre Dame?"
"No, but I decided long ago that I was not a jumper."
Saying “yes” to God like Mary did is taking a risk and saying “yes” to mystery – the mystery of God’s plan for my life. It is like diving in at the deep end of the pool. The man who became a “Trappist” was willing to take that risk and to “dive into deep
water.” Which raises the question: Is there any ‘risk’ in your life decisions, or, do you just ‘play it safe?’
