August 2, 2020apóstolos e à vida comunitária, ao partir do pão e às orações" (Atos 2:42 )...

St. John the Baptist Parish 17 Chestnut St

Peabody, MA 01960 978-531-0002

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Two parishes with one mission: to bring Jesus Christ to all!

August 2, 2020

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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 2, 2020

Peace be with you! ¡la Paz esté con usted! Paz esteja con voce! Our parishes join me in welcoming you and offering to help you on your journey of faith. Below is a directory of our personnel. We are all here to serve you in any way we can. We want to know you and your family so please take a minute to register, using the cards in the pew, or after Mass, or online, or at the office. We can also provide faith formation and sacraments for your children at Saint John's School or in our religious education programs. Let us know how we can help you. God bless! FFr. John

We are here to serve you. Please call or contact us.

Our clergy serve both parishes, our school, and Brooksby Village. Call us at 978-531-0002 Rev. John E. MacInnis, Pastor

Rev. Kevin Leaver, Parochial Vicar Padre Paúl G.M. McManus, Parochial Vicar, Hispanic Ministry

Deacon Leo Martin + Deacon Dan Zinger + Deacon Denis Nakkeeran

Our lay staff are here to help in any way they can: St. John the Baptist

Karen Hinton Dir. of Religious Ed 1-5 Dawn Alves Dir. of Religious Ed 6-8 Tracy Palen Office Administrator Kathleen Wilkinson Parish Secretary Janet O’Connor Parish Secretary Dr. Holly Zagaria Director of Music Ministry Raisa Ferreras Music Ministry (Spanish) Aida Vargas Spanish Religious Ed Lucy Cortez Spanish Religious Ed

Linda McKenzie Brooksby Village Pastoral Assoc. Brooksby Catholic Ministry: 978-536-7947

Saint John School: 978-531-0444

Parish Office Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30am-3:30pm Email: [email protected]

St. Thomas the Apostle

Dawn Alves Pastoral Associate Dir. of Religious Ed 6-10 Dr. Holly Zagaria Director of Music Ministry Renildo Paiva Music Ministry (Brazilian) Lisa Ann Trainor Dir. of Religious Ed K-5 Tracy Palen Office Administrator Linda Cavallon Administrative Assistant Danise Mendonça Administrative Assistant Leila Andrade Brazilian Administrator Parish Office Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00am-12:00pm Email: [email protected]

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How Jesus Prayed The third in our series: Eucharist:

Holy Food for Holy People. To understand and appreciate the Eucharist we began with the elements and actions of this sacrament: bread that is broken and a cup of wine that is shared. These were the elements Jesus took and blessed at the first Eucharist, his last supper. This was his last Passover meal. But hardly his first. As a devout Jew Jesus would have faithfully observed from his childhood the pre-cept of Moses which prescribed in detail when, where and how this annual sacred meal was to be celebrated.

The Passover meal at home. This was one of the ritu-als in which Jesus offered praise and worship to his Fa-ther in strict continuity with the tradition of God's peo-ple, Israel. It took place in a room, often at home with family. In the upper room on Holy Thursday, that fami-ly was his disciples. When his family of disciples grew, they repeated this Passover of the new covenant at table in small and eventually larger homes. As the new Isra-el, they kept Jesus' mandate at this meal: "Do this in memory of me." Jesus often prayed spontaneously and gave instructions to his disciple about how to pray in personal ways and privately. He taught them words to use (e.g. . the Our Father), and attitudes to have when we pray (e.g. confi-dence, perseverance, humility.) He himself often went off to pray alone and reminded others of the importance of prayer in private and always from the heart. His prayers were often the psalms which he learned by heart. He criticized empty actions. And yet he prayed with rituals he learned and respected. From those came forms that shaped our Eucharist.

The first description we have of Christians worshipping together after Jesus ascended and sent his Spirit is this: "They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apos-tles and to the communal life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers"(Acts 2:42). Here in a nutshell we have a simple outline of what now happens at every liturgy. The community comes together. There are the gospels and epistles which contain the teaching of the apostles, often accompanied by readings from the scrip-tures that came from Israel, the Old Testament. And then there is the breaking of bread and prayers. The temple sacrifice. At the Passover meal, besides bread and wine there was a roasted lamb to be con-sumed. The lamb would have been offered by priests in sacrifice in the temple in Jerusalem. At Passover time hundreds of thousands of lambs were slaughtered there. This made the meal a memorial sacrifice, recalling the blood of the lamb that saved the Hebrews from the an-gel of death. Jesus connected his breaking bread and sharing of wine with the sacrifice he will undergo. Our Eucharist today is a Passover meal in which we recall and relive the moment when Jesus, the Lamb of God offered himself in sacrifice to the Father..

As an observant Jew Jesus went on pilgrimage to the temple for festivals. As an infant he was taken there by his parents for his circumcision. As a young boy, he found a home there with his Father (Luke 2:41ff). His ministry took him at times far from Jerusalem but the temple was a place to which he would return to teach and to heal. Our Eucharist brings together a Passover meal and a sacrifice. Our churches are both homes where we break bread with our family of faith, and tem-ples in which we celebrate the one, lasting sacrifice of Jesus. But there is another place and another way that Jesus worshipped every week. Next week we will look at the synagogue and sabbath. God bless. Fr. John

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Cómo Oraba Jesús El tercero de nuestra serie: Eucaristía:

comida sagrada para la gente santa. Para entender y apreciar la Eucaristía comenzamos con los elementos y acciones de este sacramento: pan que se parte y una copa de vino que se comparte. Estos fueron los elementos que Jesús tomó y bendijo en la primera Eu-caristía, su última cena. Esta fue su última comida de Pas-cua. Pero apenas la primera. Como judío devoto, Jesús habría observado fielmente desde su infancia el precepto de Moisés que prescribe en detalle cuándo, dónde y cómo se celebraría esta comida sagrada anual.

La comida de la Pascua en casa. Este fue uno de los rituales en los que Jesús ofreció alabanza y adoración a su Padre en estricta continuidad con la tradición del pueblo de Dios, Israel. Tuvo lugar en una habitación, a menudo en casa con la familia. En el aposento alto el Jueves San-to, esa familia eran sus discípulos. Cuando su familia de discípulos creció, repitieron esta Pascua del nuevo pacto a la mesa en casas pequeñas y eventualmente más grandes. Como el nuevo Israel, mantuvieron el mandato de Jesús en esta comida: "Hagan esto en memoria mía". Jesús a menudo oraba espontáneamente y le daba instruc-ciones a su discípulo sobre cómo orar de manera personal y privada. Les enseñó palabras para usar (por ejemplo, el Padre Nuestro) y actitudes para tener cuando oramos (por ejemplo, confianza, perseverancia, humildad). Él mismo a menudo se fue a rezar solo y recordó a los demás la im-portancia de la oración en privado y siempre desde el co-razón. Sus oraciones eran a menudo los salmos que aprendió de memoria. Criticó acciones vacías. Y, sin em-bargo, rezaba con rituales que aprendió y respetó. De esos surgieron formas que dieron forma a nuestra Eucaristía.

La primera descripción que tenemos de los cristianos que adoran juntos después de que Jesús ascendió y envió su Espíritu es esta: "Se dedicaron a la enseñanza de los apóstoles y a la vida comunitaria, al partimiento del pan ya las oraciones" (Hechos 2:42) Aquí, en pocas palabras, tenemos un resumen simple de lo que ahora sucede en cada liturgia. La comunidad se une. Existen los evangeli-os y las epístolas que contienen la enseñanza de los apóstoles, a menudo acompañados de lecturas de las es-crituras que vinieron de Israel, el Antiguo Testamento. Y luego está el partimiento del pan y las oraciones. El sacrificio del templo. En la comida de la Pascua, además del pan y el vino, había un cordero asado para ser consumido. El cordero habría sido ofrecido por sacerdotes en sacrificio en el templo de Jerusalén. En la Pascua se sacrificaron allí cientos de miles de corderos. Esto convir-tió la comida en un sacrificio conmemorativo, recordando la sangre del cordero que salvó a los hebreos del ángel de la muerte. Jesús conectó su pan partido y el compartir vino con el sacrificio que sufrirá. Nuestra Eucaristía de hoy es una comida de Pascua en la que recordamos y revivimos el momento en que Jesús, el Cordero de Dios, se ofreció en sacrificio al Padre.

Como judío observante, Jesús fue en peregrinación al templo para los festivales. Cuando era un bebé, sus padres lo llevaron allí para su circuncisión. Cuando era niño, en-contró un hogar allí con su padre (Lucas 2: 41ff). Su min-isterio lo llevó a veces lejos de Jerusalén, pero el templo era un lugar al que regresaría para enseñar y sanar. Nues-tra Eucaristía reúne una comida de Pascua y un sacrificio. Nuestras iglesias son hogares donde partimos el pan con nuestra familia de fe y templos en los que celebramos el sacrificio único y duradero de Jesús. Pero hay otro lugar y otra forma en que Jesús adoró cada semana. La próxima semana veremos la sinagoga y el sábado. Dios los bendiga. Padre Juan

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A primeira descrição que temos dos cristãos que adoram juntos depois que Jesus ascendeu e enviou seu Espírito é a seguinte: "Eles se dedicaram ao ensino dos apóstolos e à vida comunitária, ao partir do pão e às orações" (Atos 2:42 ) Aqui, em poucas palavras, temos um esboço simples do que agora acontece em todas as liturgias. A comunidade se reúne. Existem os evan-gelhos e epístolas que contêm o ensino dos apóstolos, frequentemente acompanhados de leituras das escritu-ras que vieram de Israel, o Antigo Testamento. E de-pois há a quebra de pão e orações.

O sacrifício do templo. Na refeição da Páscoa, além de pão e vinho, havia um cordeiro assado para ser con-sumido. O cordeiro teria sido oferecido por sacerdotes em sacrifício no templo em Jerusalém. Na época da Páscoa, centenas de milhares de cordeiros foram abati-dos lá. Isso fez da refeição um sacrifício memorial, lembrando o sangue do cordeiro que salvou os hebreus do anjo da morte. Jesus conectou seu pão partido e partilha de vinho com o sacrifício que ele sofrerá. Nos-sa Eucaristia hoje é uma refeição da Páscoa em que recordamos e revivemos o momento em que Jesus, o Cordeiro de Deus, se ofereceu em sacrifício ao Pai.

Como judeu observador, Jesus foi em peregrinação ao templo para festivais. Quando criança, ele foi levado pelos pais para a circuncisão. Quando garoto, ele encontrou um lar lá com seu Pai (Lucas 2: 41ss). Seu ministério o levou algumas vezes longe de Jerusalém, mas o templo era um lugar para o qual ele retornaria para ensinar e curar. Nossa Eucaristia reúne uma refeição de Páscoa e um sacrifício. Nossas igrejas são lares onde partimos o pão com nossa família de fé e templos nos quais celebramos o úni-co e duradouro sacrifício de Jesus. Mas há outro lugar e outra maneira que Jesus adorava toda semana. Na próxima semana, veremos a sinagoga e o sábado.

Deus Abençoe . Fr. John

Como Jesus Orou O terceiro de nossa série: Eucaristia: comida sagrada para pessoas santas.

Para entender e apreciar a Eucaristia, começamos com os elementos e ações deste sacramento: pão quebrado e um copo de vinho compartilhado. Esses foram os ele-mentos que Jesus tomou e abençoou na primeira eu-caristia, sua última ceia. Esta foi sua última refeição da Páscoa. Mas dificilmente o primeiro. Como judeu devoto, Jesus teria observado fielmente desde a infân-cia o preceito de Moisés que prescreveu em detalhes quando, onde e como essa refeição sagrada anual seria celebrada.

A refeição da Páscoa em casa. Esse foi um dos rituais nos quais Jesus ofereceu louvor e adoração ao Pai em estrita continuidade com a tradição do povo de Deus, Israel. Ocorreu em uma sala, geralmente em casa com a família. No cenáculo da quinta-feira santa, essa família era seus discípulos. Quando sua família de discípulos cresceu, eles repetiram a páscoa da nova aliança à mesa em lares pequenos e eventualmente maiores. Como o novo Israel, eles cumpriram o mandato de Jesus nesta refeição: "Faça isso em memória de mim". Jesus frequentemente orava espontaneamente e dava instruções ao discípulo sobre como orar de maneira pessoal e particular. Ele ensinou-lhes as palavras a serem usadas (por exemplo, o Pai-Nosso) e as atitudes a ter quando oramos (por exemplo, confiança, perse-verança, humildade). do coração. Suas orações eram frequentemente os salmos que ele aprendia de cor. Ele criticou ações vazias. E, no entanto, ele orou com ritu-ais que aprendeu e respeitou. Delas vieram formas que moldaram nossa Eucaristia.

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Check out Cardinal Seán O'Malley’s recent Blog post to read about our very own Deacon Dan!

An Ordinand Reflects: Deacon Daniel Zinger

http://cardinalseansblog.org/2020/07/24/an-

ordinand-reflects-deacon-daniel-zinger/

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PRIESTLY ORDINATION

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" What does Jesus Christ do in the Eucharist? It is God who, as our Savior, o ers himself each day

for us to his Father's jus ce. If you are in di cul es and sorrows, he will comfort and

relieve you. If you are sick, he will either cure you or give you strength to su er so as to merit

Heaven. If the devil, the world, and the esh are making war upon you, he will give you the

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The Gift of the Liturgical Reform MARY HEALY

“Now that a half-century has passed, the time is ripe for a calm, charitable, and theologically substantive discussion about the liturgical reforms."

A Rich Banquet of the Word

2nd Installment to be featured in

the Bulletin

Full Article can be found on the

St. Thomas webpage www.stthomaspeabody.org/

One of the most important changes mandated by Vatican II was the biblical enrichment of the Mass. Over the centuries the readings had become biblically impoverished. Prior to Vatican II, there were only two readings for each Sunday; most week-day Masses simply repeated the Sunday readings or used those of feasts, rituals, or votive Masses. On saints’ days, the same readings were used again and again, for instance, the parable of the ten virgins on feasts of virgins. There was no continuous reading of a biblical book from day to day or week to week. In all, only 16% of the New Testament appeared in the Mass, and a mere 1% of the Old Testament.5 The virtual absence of the Hebrew Scriptures easily lends itself to a view of Jesus and the Church detached from their Jewish roots. And the fact that all the readings are disconnected excerpts, jumping from passage to passage seemingly at random, makes it more difficult for people to grasp the overarching unity of God’s plan. The reformed liturgy, in contrast, provides the faithful with a rich banquet of the Word. The new three-year cycle for the Sunday lectionary and two-year cycle for the daily lectionary allow for a much broader selection of biblical passages. The faithful who attend daily Mass now hear 72% of the New Tes-tament and 14% of the Old Testament, and even Sunday Mass alone offers more than three times as much Scripture as in the older missal (41% of the New Testament, 4% of the Old). Each Sunday Gospel is paired with a related Old Testament passage, which helps instill in the hearers the ancient understanding of the spiritual sense — the magnificent way all God’s words and deeds in the old covenant prefigure, prophesy, and prepare for the fullness of his plan in Christ. Why is it crucial that the liturgy provide abundant fare from God’s word? As the Fathers of Vatican II recognized, God al-ways reveals himself by means of both deeds and words, which have an inner unity: “the deeds wrought by God in the history of salvation manifest and confirm the teaching and realities signified by the words, while the words proclaim the deeds and clarify the mystery contained in them.”6 So the celebration of a sacrament is always to be preceded by the proclamation of the word, precisely so that the people can fully appropriate all that is given in the sacrament. This is preeminently true of the Eu-charistic liturgy. “For this reason, the Church has always vener-ated the Scriptures as she venerates the Lord’s Body. She never

ceases to present to the faithful the bread of life, taken from the one table of God’s Word and Christ’s Body” (CCC 103). In the liturgy of the word Jesus is proclaimed; in the liturgy of the Eucharist we enter into intimate communion with the Jesus we have come to know through his word.7 This is why the liturgy is not just one place to hear Scripture, it is the native home of Scripture — the setting where God’s word is pro-claimed in its fullest power. The pattern of a liturgy of the word to which the people re-spond in faith, followed by a liturgy of sacrifice and banquet, goes back to the beginning of salvation history. It is the basic pattern of Israel’s covenant ritual at Mount Sinai (Ex 24) and of the great renewal of the covenant under King Josiah (2 Kgs 23). It appears most clearly after Jesus’s resurrection, in his encounter with the disciples on the road to Emmaus: he re-vealed himself to them first by breaking open the Scriptures, and then in the breaking of the bread (Lk 24:13–32). The pat-tern continued in the early life of the Church (see Acts 20:7–11). Another, closely related reform of Vatican II was the reinstate-ment of the homily as an integral part of the Mass — one so essential that on Sundays it “should not be omitted except for a serious reason.”8 The homily is indispensable for opening up the Word so that people receive it in all its power to convict, console, instruct, and counsel, as when Peter preached at Pen-tecost and “they were cut to the heart” (Acts 2:37). It is also essential for showing how all Scripture speaks of Christ, as Philip did for the Ethiopian eunuch who was reading from the prophet Isaiah (Acts 8:30–36). The Book of Nehemiah records that when the Jews returned from exile in Babylon, they were renewed in their identity as God’s people precisely by the li-turgical proclamation and explanation of God’s word: the Le-vites “read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading. . . . And all the people went their way . . . to make great rejoic-ing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them” (Neh 8:7–8, 12). We honor God’s word by believing it and obeying it, and in order to do that understanding is necessary. The seed sown on good soil, Jesus taught, is “he who hears the word and under-stands it; he indeed bears fruit” (Mt 13:23).

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The Gift of the Liturgical Reform by Mary Healy...continued

The Language of the People

For similar reasons, Vatican II called for greater use of the vernacular in the Mass.9 The fact that this practice was quickly adopted by bishops’ conferences around the world, with approval from Rome, is not a sign of infidelity to tradi-tion but rather of an instinct of faith. In Christ, God has be-come one of us and made himself utterly accessible. He speaks to us in human words that we can understand, and we can in turn worship and pray to him in our own language. “The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart” (Rom 10:8). Nothing can take the place of a person’s mother tongue in enabling him or her to pray to God intimately, from the heart. That is why in the earliest days of the Church the liturgy was translated from the Apostles’ native Aramaic into Greek, then later into Latin, Coptic, Gothic, Slavonic, and other languages that were in use at the time. A liturgy that is entirely in Latin inevitably distances all but a small percentage of congregants from the liturgical prayers and action. It is true that Latin has a uniquely venerable place in the Roman Rite; those who love the Latin Mass should have the opportunity to attend it, and all Catholics should be taught the common responses in Latin. But if the entire Mass were available solely in Latin, only a tiny per-centage of Catholics would ever have enough proficiency to understand the prayers and readings well. The problem is serious enough for speakers of European languages like English that have some Latin roots; it is vastly increased for those whose native languages have no relationship to Latin at all. It is not unintelligibility that enhances our sense of the divine mystery; rather, it is our understanding that reveals God’s gift as a mystery beyond understanding. To attend a joyful, reverent liturgy in Ibo, or Vietnamese, or Hungarian, or Arabic is to have a whole new appreciation for the Church universal — all those “ransomed for God from eve-ry tribe and tongue and people and nation” (Rev 5:9). Banquet and Sacrifice

One of the common complaints regarding the liturgical reform has been that it de-emphasized the notion of sacrifice. After Vatican II there were heated debates as to whether the liturgy is primarily a sacrifice or primarily a meal. But these debates re-volved around a false dichotomy. To the ancient Israelites (and every culture surrounding them), the very question would be absurd. A sacred banquet always entailed first sacrificing to God the animal to be eaten. Likewise, the culmination of a sac-rifice was often a sacred banquet in which the flesh of the sacri-ficed animal would be consumed. This was preeminently true of the high point of Israel’s sacrificial system, the Passover, in which an unblemished lamb was sacrificed and eaten — the very rite that Jesus transformed into the new covenant Passover (Mk 14:16–25).

Thus the Eucharistic liturgy is inseparably both the Lord’s Supper and the sacrifice of his body and blood (see CCC 1328–32). The revisions to the liturgy helped restore this twofold meaning. Some references to sacrifice were re-moved — especially during the Offertory, where they had led to some confusion and the erroneous view that the Mass is two consecutive sacrifices, one of the Church and one of Christ — but others remain or were added. For instance, the people’s response immediately before the Eucharistic Prayer is “May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands.” At the same time, there are clearer references to the Mass as a sacred banquet — indeed, the joyous messi-anic wedding banquet foretold in Scripture, where sinners are reconciled to God. “Blessed are those called to the sup-per of the Lamb,” the celebrant proclaims in the Commun-ion Rite. Of equal significance is the restored permission to distribute Communion under both kinds. Of course it is true that Christ is present in both forms: whether I eat the host or drink from the cup, I receive the whole Jesus — body, blood, soul, and divinity. Distributing Communion under the species of bread alone is sometimes necessary for unavoida-ble pastoral reasons. But as a general restriction it loses sight of the sign value of the sacraments. A sacrament is an efficacious sign that is perceptible to the senses. God has given us sacramental signs because we are bodily persons, for whom a full human experience involves the senses and emotions as well as the mind. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal notes this fact when it states that Communion under both kinds is a “clearer form of the sacramental sign,” in which “the sign of the Eucharistic banquet is more clearly evident and clear expression is given to the divine will by which the new and eternal Covenant is ratified in the Blood of the Lord, as also the relationship between the Eucharistic banquet and the eschatological banquet in the Father’s King-dom."

The sign of bread, the most basic kind of sustenance, signi-fies that Jesus is our spiritual food, our “super-essential food” without which we have no life within us (CCC 2837). Wine, on the other hand, conveys abundance, joy, festivity, and celebration; no host at a wedding serves the guests with bread only. The sign of wine more clearly points to Jesus as the messianic Bridegroom who lavishes on us the wine of divine life, the “sober intoxication” of the Holy Spirit. Moreover, drinking from a shared cup is a vivid symbol of fellowship with one another (see Lk 22:17). We who share in the chalice of Christ’s blood become “blood relations,” so to speak: brothers and sisters in the new covenant family of God. We drink of that very blood that flowed from Christ’s side on the Cross as the all-sufficient atonement for sins and gift of divine life.

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Be an Adorer on the First Friday of each month. Adoration is an opportunity to retreat from the

world and just be one with the Lord. Join us August 7th following the morning Mass.

Contact: Dawn Alves [email protected]

"Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life, for you are safe with me." 1Samuel 22:23

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Thursday + Friday + Saturday 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

Our Thrift Shop is looking for volunteers! If you like working with people and are

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Thank you and God bless! Wayne Doane

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Saturday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm

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