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CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY 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] epiphanycatholicchurch.com 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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.”