STAFF Sergio Rodicio …….……..……….….. x121 Sr. Carmen M. Ors, SCTJM ……… x105 Marie Marino …….……..……….…..… x122 Gustavo Zayas …………………..……… x111 Stephen Kolarac ………………….…… x111 Ofelia Vazquez ………………………… x101 Tamara Genna ………………………… x101 vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL SCHOOL Sister Michelle Fernandez sctjm School Principal Office: 305-795-2000 Fax: 305-795-2013 vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Sister Guadalupe Hermosillo, sctjm Religious Education Director Office: 305-795-2016 [email protected]DAILY MASS Monday through Saturday in the Chapel 8:15am English 5:30 pm English Thursday 7.00pm Creole - First Thursday of the month - NO MASS EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv SUNDAY MASS 5:30 pm Saturday, English 8:00 am Sunday, Creole 10:00 am Sunday, English 12:00 noon Sunday, Spanish vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv CONFESSIONS Saturday Sunday 5.00pm 7:30am 9:30am 11:30am The Cathedral of Saint Mary Catholic Church & School 7525 NW 2 Avenue Miami, Fl 33150 305 759-4531 ** Fax 305 757-7456 www.thecathedralofstmary.org [email protected]The Most Reverend Thomas G. Wenski, D.D. Archbishop of Miami Very Reverend Christopher B. Marino, Rector Reverend Lesly Jean, Parochial Vicar Reverend Elvis Gonzalez, Director of Vocations, in Residence Reverend Luis Garcia, in Residence Deacon Raul Flores DECEMBER 25, 2016 ** THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD (CHRISTMAS) ** https://www.facebook.com/stmarymiami/ https://www.instagram.com/stmaryscathedral/ https://twitter.com/MarysCathedral
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STAFF
Sergio Rodicio …….……..……….….. x121 Sr. Carmen M. Ors, SCTJM ……… x105 Marie Marino …….……..……….…..… x122 Gustavo Zayas …………………..……… x111 Stephen Kolarac ………………….…… x111 Ofelia Vazquez ………………………… x101 Tamara Genna ………………………… x101
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ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL SCHOOL
Sister Michelle Fernandez sctjm School Principal
Office: 305-795-2000 Fax: 305-795-2013
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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Sister Guadalupe Hermosillo, sctjm Religious Education Director
1 John 1:1-4; Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12; John 20:1a, 2-8
Wednesday, December 28 Holy Innocents, Martyrs (Feast)
1 John 1:5—2:2; Psalm 124:2-5, 7b-8; Matthew 2:13-18 Thursday, December 29 THE FIFTH DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS // St. Thomas Becket, Bishop & Martyr
(optional memorial)
1 John 2:3-11; Psalm 96:1-3, 5-6; Luke 2:22-35 Friday, December 30 THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH (Year B) Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14; or Colossians 3:12-21 or 3:12-17; Psalm 128:1-5; Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 Saturday, December 31 THE SEVENTH DAY IN THE OC-
TAVE OF CHRISTMAS / St. Sylvester I, Popeartyr (memorial)
1 John 2:18-21; Psalm 96:1-2, 11-13; John 1:1-18
GIFT SHOP
WE HAVE A LOT OF ITEMS AND CHRISTMAS
GIFTS IN OUR GIFT SHOP.
ADVENT WREATHS, BABY JESUS,
NATIVITY SETS, CANDLES, ETC.
Please visit us after each Mass.
God bless you!
CHAPEL OF OUR LADY OF THE CLERGY
ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
First Friday. From 10am-12pm
The Chapel is located inside the
parish office building.
Jesus is home, come and visit Him!
Welcome!
Archbishop Wenski
THE ANNUAL MIGRATION MASS
Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 10:00am
LET’S CREATE ‘A CULTURE OF ENCOUNTER’ Archbishop Thomas Wenski - The Archdiocese of Miami
Monday, December 19, 2016 Coinciding with the feast of the Epiphany (January 8), the Church in the United States celebrates National Migration Week. Remembering, as we do in the Christmas season, that the Son of God “migrated” from heaven to live among us and that Jesus, Mary and Joseph were themselves refugees in the land of Egypt, leads us to reflect on the circumstances confronting migrants, including immigrants, refugees, children, and victims and survivors of human trafficking. The theme for National Migration Week 2017 draws attention to Pope Francis' call to create a culture of encounter, and in doing so to look beyond our own needs and wants to those of others around us. In the homily given at his first Pentecost as pope, he emphasized the importance of encounter in the Christian faith: "For me this word is very important. Encounter with others. Why? Because faith is an encounter with Jesus, and we must do what Jesus does: encounter others." With respect to migrants, too often in our contemporary culture we fail to encounter them as persons, and instead look at them as “other.” If we are self-absorbed it becomes easy for us to remain aloof to their presence and suspicious of their intentions. National Migration Week reminds us that the migrant is a child of God — whatever his or her status or country of origin may be. The United States has been and continues to be a country of immigrants — and the Catholic Church in the United States continues to be defined by the immigrant experience. Illegal migration should not to be tolerated for it also victimizes the “undocumented” migrant: lack of legal status renders him or her vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. Yet, at the same time, in fixing illegal immigration we must be careful not to demonize those who were drawn to this country in the hope of better life for themselves and their children. It was heartening to read in Timemagazine President-elect Donald Trump’s apparent opening to the “dreamers,” undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as minors. They were beneficiaries of President Obama’s 2012 executive order, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DACA was a holding pattern, an executive order given by President Obama when the Senate failed to pass the “Dream Act.” It allowed certain undocumented immigrants to the United States who entered the country as minors to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for employment. Many of these children and their families are, understandably, distraught at the prospect of DACA being rescinded in a new administration. However, President-elect Trump has promised a solution that will make people “happy and proud.” Let’s hope that he does so, for the “Dreamers” are American in their tastes, their language, and in their aspirations but they just do not have permanent legal status in U.S. Granting legal status to “dreamers” is the right thing to do — it would certainly allow these young people to dream like Americans. Revitalizing America’s inner cities and rebooting the nation’s industrial capacity are bold promises made by the incoming Trump administration. Tax reform, cutting down on the maze of business-killing regulation, fixing the spiraling costs of health care perhaps can help President-elect Trump make good on these promises. But right now, the only countries that are growing economically are countries that also have strong growth in immigration. Therefore, any “wall” built to keep out “illegals” must have sufficient doors to allow in a legal work force if future economic growth is to be sustainable. In a world which faces the globalization of indifference, a world in which the poor, the weak, the refugee is considered “disposable,” the Church, “in welcoming the stranger among us,” seeks to create a culture of encounter. As Pope Francis says, “Because faith is an encounter with Jesus, and we must do what Jesus does: encounter others.
2017 Archbishop’s Charity and Development Drive Begins
In the coming days, many of you will receive a letter from Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski regarding the 2017 Archbishop’s Charity and Development Drive (ABCD). Please read it carefully and prayerfully consider your support of this important appeal that funds many of our Archdiocesan programs and ministries.
"PREPARATION" Christmas is a privileged opportunity to meditate on the mean-ing and value of our existence. The approach of this Solemnity helps us on the one hand to reflect on the drama of history in which people, injured by sin, are perennially in search of happi-ness and of a fulfilling sense of life and death; and on the other, it urges us to meditate on the merciful kindness of God who came to man to communicate to him directly the Truth that saves, and to enable him to partake in his friendship and his life. Therefore let us prepare ourselves for Christmas with humility and simplici-ty, making ourselves ready to receive as a gift the light, joy and p e a c e t h a t s h i n e f r o m t h i s m y s t e r y . ---General Audience, December 17, 2008 "SIGN" God’s sign is his humility. God’s sign is that he makes himself small; he becomes a child; he lets us touch him and he asks for our love. How we would prefer a different sign, an imposing, irre-sistible sign of God’s power and greatness! But his sign summons us to faith and love, and thus it gives us hope: this is what God is like. He has power, he is Goodness itself. He invites us to become like him. Yes indeed, we become like God if we allow ourselves to be shaped by this sign; if we ourselves learn humility and hence true greatness; if we renounce violence and use only the weapons of truth and love. ---Homily at Mass for the Solemnity of the Nativity of the
Lord, December 24, 2009 "CHANGING" Only if people change will the world change; and in order to change, people need the light that comes from God, the light which so unexpectedly [on the night of Christmas] entered into our night. ---Homily at Mass for the Solemnity,of the Nativity of the Lord,
December 25, 2008 These quotes and reflections from the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI,
are excerpted from "Christmas: Pope Benedict XVI Spiritual Thoughts
