Fr. Luis R. Largaespada
MASS SCHEDULE
Daily Mass
Monday-Friday 8 am (Live stream)
Saturday 8 am, 5:30 pm (Vigil Mass)
Sunday
English: 9 am, 10:30 am (Live stream), 5:30 pm
Spanish: 12:30 pm (Live stream), 7 pm
Registration for CCD and RCIA is ongoing. You may download an application here and bring it to the office with the necessary documentation.
The Archdiocese of Miami’s policy for gathering in liturgical or other spaces within the parishes continues to require the use of masks and social distancing. Groups or in person ministry meetings may take place with proper social distancing and use of masks.
In order to comply with Archdiocesan standards for the COVID-19 pandemic, occupancy of the church is limited to 30% of capacity. This means we can only accommodate a maximum of between 70-100 persons (allowing for families comprised of several members). Please make sure you sign up and arrive early so you don’t forfeit your seat.
On this year dedicated to St. Joseph, we invite you to reflect on Pope Francis’s Apostolic Letter Patris Corde and learn more about the Patron of the Universal Church. You can find it here.
A Sunday Reflection
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle B)
“THEY HAD BEEN DISCUSSING…WHO WAS THE GREATEST” (MK 9:34).
The disciples, and we, suffer from selective hearing. Just last week, the Lord has talked to them about the Passion and rebuked Peter for trying to turn Him away from God’s plan. This week He repeats Himself; and the evangelist tells us that they did not understand and were afraid to ask (cf Mk 9:32). So, instead, they turn their attention to something more “practical”: who is the greatest (9:34).
We are masters at avoidance. If there is something we don’t want to hear, we concentrate on something else. And being “number one” is most important for our pride and our self-esteem. We rather not hear about being servants or about the cross.
But our ways are not the Lord’s ways. We are called to serve Jesus, who comes to us under so many disguises. So He places the child in their midst—the child who was of little consequence in that time and place—and calls us to recognize Him, for “whoever receives one child such as this…receives me…and receives the One who sent me” (9:37).
This week let us look at our children, at every child, as a precious gift from God, and let us open our arms to receive Him in them. God bless you!
News
Observing the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
School News
Our school gathered to honor our grandparents in a special virtual Mass. We thank to Fr. Paul for his inspiring words and our videographer, Ernie Gonzalez, for organizing such a lovely video for our grandparents.
We also commemorated the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with prayers for the victims and their families during Mass.
The 4th graders are learning how to get all the colors in the color wheel by starting only with the primary colors. Thanks to our new Art teacher Ms. Jiménez for sharing her talents with us!
FEAST AND SACRIFICE
The Eucharist is both the fountain from which life in Christ flows and the goal toward which it tends; it is the alpha and the omega of Christian discipleship; it is the energy without which authentic Christianity runs down. Without the Eucharist, we could be a pious congregation of like-minded people dedicated to the memory and teaching of Jesus, but we couldn’t possibly be the Church. As St. John Paul II argued in his last encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (the Church comes from the Eucharist), the Body and Blood of Jesus are not simply the sacred objects at the center of the Church’s concern; they are the Church, its lifeblood.
The Eucharist is, first, the great meal of fellowship that God wants to establish with his people, the joyful bond in which the divine life is shared spiritually and physically with a hungry world…. However, communion in a fallen world is impossible without sacrifice. Hence, the Eucharist is also the embodiment of Jesus’ great act of sacrificial suffering on the cross at Calvary….Both of these themes are gathered up and given full expression the Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharistic elements.
The Eucharist is more than a symbol. In it, Jesus is present to us through his own power as both food and sacrificial offering. The Eucharist is not our product but our Lord, and as such, it calls us to conversion.
Robert Barron, Eucharist, (2021)
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