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C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y
CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY
CHURCH ADDRESS 8235 S.W. 57 Avenue Miami, Florida 33143 RECTORY/MAILING ADDRESS 8081 S.W. 54 Court Miami, Florida 33143 Telephone: 305.667.4911 Fax: 305.667.8067 [email protected]
SCHOOL Sister Margaret Fagan, IHM, Principal Ms. Ana Oliva, Vice Principal 5557 S.W. 84 Street Miami, Florida 33143 Telephone: 305.667.5251 Fax: 305.667.6828 epiphanycatholicschool.com CONVENT Sister Carmen Teresa, IHM, Superior Telephone: 305.667.2144
MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION & PASTORAL SERVICES Mrs. Isabel Prellezo, Director Telephone: 305.665.0037 MINISTRY OF MUSIC Mr. Thomas Schuster, Organist Mr. Georgi Danchev, Choirmaster Mr. Eddie Valdéz, Cantor Telephone: 305.667.4911
Monsignor Jude O’Doherty, Pastor
Father Alex Rivera, Associate Pastor
Father Ireneusz Ekiert, in Residence
Deacon Don Livingstone
Deacon Norman Ruíz-Castañeda
Deacon Thomas V. Eagan
Deacon Marcos Pérez
Deacon Eduardo Smith
MASSES Monday-Friday 6:30 & 8:00 a.m.
Saturday 8:00 a.m.
Saturday Vigil 5:30 p.m.
Sunday 8:00, 9:30, & 11:00 a.m. 12:30* & 6:00 p.m. (*Spanish)
EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
Monday-Friday 7:00-8:00 a.m. & 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Thursdays 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
ROSARY Daily 7:40 a.m.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturdays at 4:30 p.m.
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Call the Parish Office two months in advance.
SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY Call the Parish Office one year in advance.
June 18, 2017 The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y
In our Gospel reading for today, Jesus reveals the
secret of living forever. This is something of which
people have always dreamed. When we are at
our best, when our minds are sharpest and our
hopes are highest, then, we long for immortality. In
those hours, there are certain qualities within our
lives that we would like to see last forever. This is
the aspiration to which Jesus addresses Himself
when He says, "I myself am the living bread come
down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread,
He shall live forever." There are two things we
need to understand. One is that when He spoke
of His body and blood, He was talking about His
total life, body, blood, soul and divinity, the way
that He lived and the way that He died. This is
what we celebrate when we partake of the
Eucharist. Secondly, when He spoke of living
forever, He did not mean that we could avert the
physical experience of dying. He Himself died; and
so will we.
"If anyone eats this bread, He shall live forever."
Quite obviously, He was talking about a quality of
life that is so eternally real and right that not even
death can destroy it. This was how He lived; this
was the meaning of His resurrection. Paul said, "It
was not possible that death should hold him."
There was a quality in His life that could outlast
anything, even death. But the beautiful thing is
that we can share that life. We can take His life
into our lives. We can learn from Him and borrow
from Him a quality of life that lasts.
What were those qualities in the life of Jesus that
transcended death and have now endured for two
thousand years? The first and most obvious is
love. We need to hear that; we need to remember
that; we need to remind ourselves of that. At times
it appears in our world that force and hatred
are the dominant and enduring themes. They
command the field; they control the destinies of
men. Love is pushed to the sidelines. It's a nice
thing to talk about and a good thing to feel; but in
the big events of life, it is really nothing more than
a lovely concept and a beautiful idea. That is the
way it sometimes seems.
PASTOR’S PEN
What chance has love in a world such as ours?
What chance has anything other than love? Much
more than a lovely ideal, love is our one and only
hope. We may contain violence and hatred with
guns for a time, but we can never wipe it out.
Bullets and bombs are powerless to destroy an
idea. The only answer to hatred is love. The surest
and best and most permanent way to conquer
your enemy is to make him your friend.
We can never conquer violence with violence. We
can never put enough people in prison to
guarantee our own freedom. There is one solution
to this world’s dilemma of lawlessness and war,
and that is for people to learn to live together as
neighbors and friends. In this world of ours, there
is nothing else that endures, nothing else that
really works.
Jesus said, "I am the true bread come down from
heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live
forever." His is the kind of life that death cannot
destroy, and if we will, we can claim those qualities
for our own.
C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y
According to the Scriptures, Jesus looked at the
crowds with compassion, and saw that they were
like sheep without a shepherd. So he gathered
them around him. Picture Jesus surrounded by
thousands of people. They were drawn by the
magnetism of his words and the warmth of his
personality. The first thing he did was to teach
them about the Kingdom of heaven. Then he
healed the sick.
By the time he had finished it was late afternoon
and everybody was hungry. The apostles urged
him to send the people away. But he would not
hear of sending them away. He worked a great
miracle to feed them instead. How happy they
must have been as they made their way back to
their homes. The miracle of the multiplication of
the loaves, when the Lord said the blessing, broke
and distributed the loaves through his disciples to
feed the multitude, prefigured that which he gives
us in the Eucharist. On the first day of week, the
day of Jesus' resurrection, the early Christians met
'to break bread.' From that time on down to our
own day, the celebration of the Eucharist has been
continued so that today we encounter it
everywhere in the Church with the same
fundamental structure. It remains the center of the
Church's life.
We are the new people of God. Jesus is in our
midst. Here, we hear his voice when the Scriptures
are read. His words are not dead words. They are
living words which console, inspire and challenge
us. Here Jesus heals the wounds of sin and
division. He forgives our sins and heals the wounds
they leave. We are all healed of our selfishness
and indifference to others. The Eucharist forms us
into a community of love. Here we are nourished
by the food of the Eucharist. "Unless you eat my
flesh and drink my blood you shall not have life in
you." At the end of Mass we are not simply
dismissed, but sent forth as bearers of life to
others. Thus from celebration to celebration, as
they proclaim the paschal mystery of Jesus "until
he comes," the pilgrim People of God advance
towards the heavenly banquet, when all the elect
will be seated at the table in the kingdom.
EUCHARIST
Regular reception of Christ's body is an assurance
of resurrection. "Anyone who eats my flesh and
drinks my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise
that person up on the last day." The resurrection
of all of us seems remote to us now, so remote
that the mind cannot focus on it. But, as remote as
it may seem now, the Resurrection is the one
event on which we base our hope. I cannot believe
that death is the supreme reality. I cannot believe
that we were born to wither like a sun-baked leaf
and to rot in the dampness of the earth. I cannot
believe that the good things of life are the false
faces of death! We were not born for death, we
were born for resurrection. And we have it on the
word of our Savior that, if we are faithful to the
Eucharist, we too will rise on resurrection day. It is
a mighty thought, a happy thought, a hopeful
thought. Take it away with you and may it bring
you closer in Holy Communion to Jesus, our Risen
Lord.
C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y
Date Time Mass Intentions Requested by
Saturday Jun. 17
5:30 PM + +
Ventura Julia Jose Gros
Family Beatriz Suero
Sunday Jun. 18
8:00 AM Fathers of the Parish, Living & Deceased
9:30 AM
Fathers of the Parish, Living & Deceased
11:00 AM PEOPLE OF EPIPHANY
12:30 PM Fathers of the Parish, Living & Deceased
6:00 PM Fathers of the Parish, Living & Deceased
Monday Jun. 19
6:30 AM + +
Rid & Charles Broyard Flora, Arthur Sr. & Arthur Jr. Mezzullo
Family Fredricka Mezzullo
8:00 AM Marina & Javier Ruiz Nicolas Becerra
Family Family
Tuesday Jun. 20
6:30 AM + +
Silvia de Sosa de Jorge Peggy Ybarmea
Family Family
8:00 AM + Alfredo Franco Elizabeth G. Diskin
Family Children
Wednesday Jun. 21
6:30 AM + +
Stanley & Florence Mott Joy K. Pistorino
Pistorino Family
8:00 AM +
Alina Suarez Skip Zugel
Margie Suarez Bunny Bastian
Thursday Jun. 22
6:30 AM + +
Hugo Rams Nicolas Gutierrez Belia Garcia
Rams Family Aleida Gutierrez Pistorino Family
8:00 AM Pablo Ruiz Amo Javier Benedetti
Family Yidi Family
Friday Jun. 23
6:30 AM + Holy Souls in Purgatory Anthony Raphael Fleites Marcus Lee Swire
Ely Fleites Ely Fleites Pistorino Family
8:00 AM + Guillermo R. Gonzalez Monsignor Jude O’Doherty
Myriam Grad Marianela Perez
Saturday Jun. 24
8:00 AM + +
Clifford & Ritta Hogan Pedro Ruiz Fernandez Carol Boussy Pistorino
Family Pistorino Family
Saturday Jun. 24 (Sunday Vigil)
5:30 PM + +
Estebona Arias Juana Ruiz
Sacher Family Maria Leonor Ruiz
Sunday Jun. 25
8:00 AM +
Dan & Denise Durrieu Wlodzimier Grocholski Maria Elizabette Pistorino-Swire
Family Family Pistorino Family
9:30 AM + +
Margarita F. Vazquez Raymond Domit
Lita V. Pino Coury & Bell Families
11:00 AM PEOPLE OF EPIPHANY 12:30 PM +
+ Raul Soto Carrero Sedonia Lopez Temperan
Family Mendez/Restani Family
6:00 PM + +
Sebastian Tamindzija Maria Julia Perez
Ana Maria & John Rowland Jose & Rita Basulto
MASS INTENTIONS
C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y
Extraordinary Ministers June 24/25 Lectors Altar Servers Of Holy Communion
J Alvarez C Luis Siman
Sat 5:30 PM Cristina Figueredo Zizold G Garcia 1 Vivian Delgado
Msgr. O'Doherty Carolina Tamayo-Ragolta C Hernandez 2 Luis Siman
H Kanold 3 Shari Ferrer
O McClintock 4 Isa Diaz
M Puente 5 Max Diaz
C Chuck Broyard
1 Mariana O’Naghten
Sun 8:00 AM John R. Steinbauer V Graves 2 Juan O’Naghten
Msgr. O'Doherty Lourdes Boue 3 Martha Osorio
4 Chuck Broyard
5 Manuel Paucar
C Barbara Henriques
V Wolff 1 Barbara Henriques
Sun 9:30 AM Mike Herold V Acosta 2 Charlie Henriques
Fr. Rivera Pat Parker M Alfano 3 Nydia Gonzalez
A Alfano 4 Grace Casamayor
5 Manny Casamayor
C Ben Villalba
T Valcarcel 1 Ben Villalba
Sun 11:00 AM Ramón A. García N Arroyo 2 Louise Villalba
Msgr. O'Doherty Gloria De La Osa D Baboum 3 Eileen Velikopoljski
A Bunge 4 John Porro
A Cooper 5 Tania Porro
F Friguls 6 Dolly Medina
7 Mark Medina
C Tere Molins
Sun 12:30 PM Gisela Cacciamani A Sanchez 1 Tere Molins
Fr. Rivera Adriana Giuffredi A Castillo 2 Marta Rosales
3 Adolfo Rosales
4 Pamela Ugarte
5 Enrique Ugarte
C Esther Maria Sousa
V Alonso 1 Esther Maria Sousa
Sun 6:00 PM John O’Sullivan A Baboun 2 Diana Yidi
Fr. Rivera Tamara Clavero P Blanco 3 William Yidi
J Diez 4 Mari Campo
A Fraga 5 Gladys Patiño
P Gonzalez-Brito 6 Mercedes Cardenal
7 Juan Cardenal
MASS SCHEDULES
C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y
A GOOD DAD IS SPECIAL A few years ago I attended the birthday party for a man celebrating his 85th birthday. It was a joyous occasion for Joe and his five children. His daughter Patti spoke lovingly of her father to a group of us… “Pop loved his home, but he had to work long hours to support us as he wanted all of us to have good educations and to make a difference in the world. As you all know, Pop loved his faith and made sure we all went to church and worshipped together. It was difficult for us watching Pop take care of Mom during her last years till her death. I think it was then that all us understood and appreciated his deep love for Mom, us and especially God.” Happy Father’s Day. After hearing about Joe, it is absolutely true to say that every good father that ever lived was faithful to God, his wife and his children. He set good example for his family to observe. He worked daily at his profession or occupation to support his family and did all in his power and means to raise his children always to feel safe, secure and loved. So, when your family is blessed with a good father, “Father’s Day” takes on a special meaning. It is a day to say “Thank You, Dad,” a day to make him feel appreciated and loved. But more importantly, it is a day to give thanks to God for a good father… you will never know how difficult and upsetting your life would have been without a good father. If your Dad is in Heaven, you can still speak to him in prayer… “Thanks Dad for all you did for me. You helped me to grow, you gave me every opportunity to succeed. You must know in Heaven how much you meant to me and how much I love you.” Happy Father’s Day, and hopefully, among the gifts you give him will be the gift of prayer and please remember above all… “A GOOD DAD IS SPECIAL.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
How Faith Comes
If you were to gather a group of people in a room and ask them how they came to Christian faith, you would undoubtedly get great many different answers. One would no doubt point to the influence of home and parents. Another would stress the fellowship of church. A third would point to the influence of priests, teachers, friends. And some would say that they came to faith by a direct encounter with the Spirit of God. In short, there are many ways. They are different but they have the same goal. This is surely a comforting reality for us. We do not have to come by a single path. God accepts us as we are, with all our differences and brings us by a path He knows to be right for us. We find unity in the fact of God’s presence and rejoice that we are not caught in a dull uniformity.
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
In the symbol of bread is Christ's Body and in the symbol of wine is His Blood. Do not think of them as mere bread and wine; as Our Lord said, they are Body and Blood. And if the senses suggest otherwise, let faith confirm you. Do not judge on the basis of taste, but on the basis of faith be assured beyond all doubts that you have been allowed to receive the Body and Blood of Christ.
WELCOME TO EPIPHANY CHURCH
Whether you are visiting or new in the area, we extend to you the hospitality of Christ.
If you would like more information about
our parish, or wish to join our Faith Community, please call 305.667.4911 or stop by the Rectory.
We also invite you to visit our website and become familiar with the many activities
of our parish community. www.epiphanycatholicchurch.com
C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y
SAVE THE DATE!
Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary
All Night Vigil Friday, June 23
In honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Begins with Mass at 8:00 p.m.
St. John Vianney Seminary 2900 S.W. 87 Ave., Miami, FL
corazones.org or piercedhearts.org
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE ILL:
Rosa Maria Alvarez; Corina Basulto; Peggy Brodeur; Pat Clarke;
Ana Alicia Fernandez; Stephen Hohauser; Fernando Hubert; Patsy Kamercia; Paige Klekner;
Daniel Manichello; Reinaldo Perez; Tom Rainey; Luli Rodriguez; Sandra Albornoz Scharzkopf; Esther Suarez; Paulina Tawil; Teodula Wong.
PRAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED:
George Abraham; Gromelia Amador; Gladys Oses; Robert Regan; Jose Rivera;
Janina Tyszka; Wanda Vargas; Dale Whiting.
Parish Pilgrim Virgin Ministry
A Father’s Prayer Our Father who art in heaven, I am a father on earth. You have given me this gift and responsibility, grant me the wisdom to carry it out. Let my fatherhood be one of encouragement and support, not of expectations and control. Let me protect my children, but not too much; advise them, but just a little. Let me respect them as individuals, not as extensions of myself. Let me be honest about my feelings toward them, including my anger, disappointment, hurt, excitement, joy and love. Let me be there for them when they need me and get out of their way when they don’t. Let me offer them the roots of belonging and the wings of freedom. Help me, Father in heaven, to be a father on earth.
NOTE: The names in Our Prayer List remain on the list for four consecutive weeks. If you need a name added or kept on the list, please call the Rectory at 305.667.4911 or leave a note for the Bulletin Staff.
Bible Study & Grupo de Biblia en Español
There will be no sessions during the summer.
No habrán reuniones durante el verano.
During the week of June 18 the Parish Pilgrim Virgin will be in the home of:
Aurelio & Marisa Salas 305.582.4403 Tere Molins 305.979.6548
To schedule your visit, please call Luis & Patricia Siman at 305.498.5936
DAILY MASS DURING THE SUMMER!
Monday – Friday 6:30 a.m. & 8:00 a.m.
Don’t forget! The Sunday Preschool and The Holy Family Center
Closed until August 27th.
C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y
Many parents dread the time when their children
will ask the question: “Do I have to go to Mass?”
What to say? What do you do? They have already
been through it when these same children said, “I
don’t want to eat my dinner; I don’t want to go to
school,” and so on. When it’s about going to Mass,
it seems different. And, yet, it is the same
phenomenon. We often don’t want to do the
very things that will be good for us, that will give
us life. Today’s special feast is a stark reminder of
all this.
The obligation of going to Mass every Sunday has
been a great support to many people in their
journey of faith, especially at times when they had
nothing else to hold on to. But that same obligation
is a barrier to recognizing the extraordinary gift
we have in the Body and Blood of Christ. Mass
becomes a duty, an imposition, a bore. It is painful
to hear people using phrases like that about the
wonderful love of God, but it is where many of us
are. How do we move beyond it?
“Take it,” Jesus said, “This is my body.” At the Last
Supper, these words are spoken to the first
disciples. For two thousand years, these same
words have been spoken to people every age and
in the four corners of the world. Today, they are
spoken to us. Our faith is that, through the power
of Christ among us, these words make real what
they state. In Holy Communion we receive the
Body of Christ, the living Presence of Christ. What
we forget is the price that was paid so that this
could happen to us today. On the cross, Christ
died so that we might have life. He shed the last
drop of His blood so that we could hear His word
of love: “Take this, this is my body.” Generations
of our people have put up with suffering and
hardship so that we today might hear these words
spoken to us. So many of our people chose death
rather than deny the truth which they loved. And
yet, we can hear these words today: “Take this,
this is my body” and maybe not be touched by
how awesome the whole thing is. This Feast is a
special opportunity to renew our own faith and to
encourage the faith of one another.
G O I N G T O M A S S
The most striking thing about every Catholic
Church is the place where the Blessed Sacrament
is reserved, the Tabernacle. In every community,
and in ours, we have the presence of Christ living
among us. He is present in each one of us through
our baptism. He is present and active in every
aspect of our lives, helping us to believe, to hope,
to love, to forgive, to make peace and be at
peace, to heal. But we believe that Jesus is
present in a very special way here in our Church, in
the Blessed Sacrament. He is here for us, for the
sick so that they may have communion; for the
broken, that they may have a place of comfort; for
the day to day living of our lives so that we may
have gratitude.
Jesus is here for us, interceding for us all the time,
offering us a focal point for our daily lives, giving
us a quiet haven where we can step aside from the
hassle of our world in order to live in that world
with confidence. And we pass by, forgetting what
is available to us right here. Today’s feast is a call
to become conscious of this again and do
something about it.
We all struggle with belief in God at times. We all
take the gifts of Christ for granted and hardly
notice what they are about. But the greatest
struggle of all is believing in ourselves, living our
own gifts to the full and being happy in who we
are. This feast is a statement of God’s belief in us.
We are given the Body and Blood of Christ to
state clearly how much God thinks of us. That is
the most difficult thing of all to believe in, and that
is why we need to hear these words, day after
day, week after week: “Take this, this is my body.”
It is so that we can believe in ourselves, have
confidence in our own goodness, be reminded
that we need to take time to come here frequently
and think about the Real Presence of Christ.
Almost everyday something or someone is going
to lessen that sense of worth in us. Christ is with us
to set us free from fear and self-doubt so that we
can grow into people who, like Mary can say, “My
soul glorifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my
Saviour. He that is mighty has done great things
for me. Holy is His Name.”
