Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel 627 East 187th Street, Bronx, New York 10458 | T: (718) 295-3770/ 3771 | F: (718) 367-2240

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Sunday, March 26, 2017| Fourth Sunday of Lent - Year A

PARISH STAFF

Pastor Rev. Fr. Jonathan Morris

Parochial Vicar

Rev. Fr. Urbano Rodrigues

Coordinator of Religious Education Sister Edna Loquias, S.M.C.

Parish Secretary

Elizabeth Mannini

Music Director & Organist Dr. Stephen Rapp

Cantor

Bilen Eminov

Youth Minister School Principal Jesus Vargas Ms. Valerie Savino

PARISH CENTER

2380 Belmont Avenue Bronx, NY 10458

Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 9:00am to 8:00pm

Thursday & Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

Saturday: 8:30am (English) | 12:00pm ( English)

Saturday Evening: 5:00pm (English)

Sunday: 8:30am (English) | 9:30am (Spanish)

11:00am (Italian) | 12:15pm (English)

1:30pm (Spanish)

Weekday: 8:30am / 12:00pm / 6:30pm (All English)

RITE OF RECONCILIATION

Saturdays 4:00pm to 5:00pm or any time by calling the Parish Office.

RITE OF BAPTISM

2nd Sunday of every month in Spanish at 2:30pm 3rd Sunday every other month in English at 2:30pm Attendance at Pre - Baptism Class is required. Please stop by the Parish Center to register or call for more information.

RITE OF MATRIMONY

Wedding dates may be scheduled after initial meeting with a priest.

PASTORAL VISITS TO THE SICK

If you or someone you know is in the hospital or homebound and would be served by a pastoral visit by a Priest, Religious Sister or a lay Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, please contact the Parish Center.

NEW PARISHIONERS

We invite new parishioners to register at the Parish Center.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM

For information please call Sr. Edna at the Parish Office at (718) 295-3770.

MOUNT CARMEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Please contact the School Office at (718) 295-6080.

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ANNOUNCED MASSES

SUN. MARCH 26th FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT

8:30am Rita & Victoria Ippolito 9:30 am Pro Populo 11:00 am Matteo e Maria Cuomo 12:15pm Tina Messina Johnson 1:30pm Hilda Gomez

MON. MARCH 27th LENTEN WEEKDAY 8:30am Raymond Lyman 12:00pm Stephen Di Salvo 6:30pm Raffaele Merolla

TUES. MARCH 28th LENTEN WEEKDAY 8:30am Michele & Carmela Navarra & Family 12:00pm Michael Raguso 6:30pm Lena & Alphonse Manna

WED. MARCH 29th LENTEN WEEKDAY 8:30am Salvatore & Giuseppina Florio 12:00pm Philip Capano 6:30pm Mildred & Felix Bolnese

THURS. MARCH 30th LENTEN WEEKDAY 8:30am For a special intention 12:00pm Lucy & Pasquale Fina 6:30pm Giuseppe Salomone & Assunta Manella

FRI. MARCH 31st LENTEN WEEKDAY 8:30am Mario Rapaglia 12:00pm Joseph Ferrari 6:30pm Giuseppe Ruscigno

SAT. APRIL 1st LENTEN WEEKDAY 8:30am Deceased of the San Pedro Family 12:00pm In Honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary 5:00pm Pasquale Badia

SUN. APRIL 2nd FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT

8:30am Alfonso Ruiz 9:30 am Pro Populo 11:00 am Giovanni Santaniello e Famiglia 12:15pm Billy Mercaldi 1:30pm Juan Caraballo

WEEKEND MASS COLLECTION - 3/19/2017

Collection ........................................................$4,203.59 Last year’s Collection …..................................$4,357.72

WEEKEND ATTENDANCE - 3/19/2017

Adults: …….724 Children: …….276 / Total: ……1,000

From the Desk of Father Jonathan

Recently, one of you told me that you don't know how to pray. This was a sincere expression of concern from a man who spends at least a few minutes every day in our church. "What do you mean", I told him. "I see you praying here every day". "Yes, I come here every day, and I try to pray, but I don't think I know how to do it", he replied. After a few minutes of back and forth about what he actually does during his quiet moments in the church, I understood his dilemma. He was talking to God but he didn't feel like he was getting any re-sponse. "You once told us, Fr. Jonathan, that prayer is conversation with God, but in real conversations, it's not just one person doing the talking. I don't hear God say anything back to me".

This gentleman made a very good point. God is not loud. In fact, he is often much too quiet for our liking. We talk to him but we don't always hear a response.

The quiet of prayer does not mean we don't know how to pray. God's response to us almost always comes in the silence....and over time. When you pray, talk to God....then enjoy the silence through which he draws us closer to Himself. We don't need to hear some-thing. Our conversation with God involves our expression of praise, gratitude, repentance, joy, petition.....and it involves his response of grace, which comes in many forms. His grace sometimes comes in the form of wisdom to know what is the right choice before us. Sometimes it comes in the form of serenity or peace. Other times it comes in little miracles throughout the day, or even in ways we cannot perceive.

When you pray.... tell God everything....and then enjoy the silence. He speaks, but he whispers.

God bless! Father Jonathan

WEDDING BANNS

III. Carmine Gialanella & Alexis Natole Angelo Diaz & Anna Baggio Salvatore LaLumia & Karen DelCasale

St. Anthony’s Bread - March 28th

- In Loving Memory of Bartolomeo & Antonietta Ruocco

by daughter, Anna

- For the intentions of C. E. R. F.

from a devotee

+ REST IN PEACE + Please pray for Maria Lucia Alvarado

and all the faithful departed

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REFLECTING ON GOD’S WORD

CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT Gospel: (John 9:1-41 [1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38]) The future king, David, in today’s first reading, is an example of a type of character present throughout the Hebrew scriptures. He is the child born out of place (not the eldest or most favored) who ends up receiving the promise of the covenant. The spirit of God’s anointing rushes upon him. In this way, he is similar to the man born blind from today’s Gospel. David’s family and the blind man’s community did not expect the miraculous grace of God’s love to work through them. Perhaps they, too, were “blinded” by the expectations and assumptions of those around them. Yet, after being touched by God, they both came to “see” the presence of God’s will for them. Both became messengers of God’s will. That same Spirit of God’s anointing rushed upon us at our baptism; we were given a candle as a sign of our membership in the Body of Christ, the Light from Light. Our vocation, then, is to fulfill that enlightenment, that anointing, as Ephesians tells us, by living as “children of the light.”

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RIFLETTIAMO SULLA PAROLA DI DIO Vangelo: (Gv 9:1-41 [1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38]) La “luce” è uno dei simboli originali delle Sacre Scritture. Essa annuncia la salvezza di Dio. Non è senza motivo che la luce è stata la prima ad essere creata per mettere un termine alle tenebre del caos (Gen 1,3-5). Ecco la professione di fede dell’autore dei Salmi: “Il Signore è mia luce e mia salvezza, di chi avrò paura?” (Sal 28,1). E il profeta dice: “Alzati, Gerusalemme, rivestiti di luce, perché viene la tua luce, la gloria del Signore brilla sopra di te” (Is 60,1). Non bisogna quindi stupirsi se il Vangelo di san Giovanni riferisce a Gesù il simbolo della luce. Già il suo prologo dice della Parola divina, del Logos: “In lui era la vita, e la vita era la luce degli uomini; la luce splende nelle tenebre, ma le tenebre non l’hanno accolta” (Gv 1,4-5). La luce è ciò che rischiara l’oscurità, ciò che libera dalla paura che ispirano le tenebre, ciò che dà un orientamento e permette di riconoscere la meta e la via. Senza luce, non c’è vita. Il racconto della guarigione del cieco è una “storia di segni” caratteristica di san Giovanni. Essa mette in evidenza che Gesù è “la luce del mondo” (v. 5, cf. 8, 12), che egli è la rivelazione in persona e la salvezza di

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Today is Laetare Sunday

This Sunday is a Sunday of joy. Lent is half over, and Easter is enticingly near. The Church’s liturgy, on this the fourth Sunday of Lent, invites us to retrace one of the fundamental dynamics of our baptismal re-birth through the Gospel account of the healing of the ‘man born blind’. It is the passage from the darkness of sin and error to the Light of God, who is the Risen Christ. Laetare Sunday has as its mood and theme hope and rejoicing that Easter is near. The entrance antiphon for the day still begins with the word "rejoice" and the vestments worn by the celebrant are rose-colored, not violet.

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+ VIA CRUCIS +

FRIDAYS + VENERDÌ + VIERNES 11:15am - Italiano

5:45pm - English

7:00pm - Español

+ Come walk with Jesus +

Rallegriamoci!

-Rallegrati, Gerusalemme, e voi tutti che l’amate, riunitevi. Esultate e gioite, voi che eravate nella tristezza: saziatevi dell’abbondanza della vostra consolazione. (cf. Is 66,10-11)

REFLEXIONEMOS LA PALABRA DE DIOS Evangelio: (Jn 9:1-41 [1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38])

HIJOS DE LA LUZ El futuro rey, David, en la primera lectura de hoy, es un ejemplo de un tipo de personaje presente a lo largo de las escrituras hebreas. Es el hijo que nace fuera de lugar (no es ni el mayor ni el preferido) pero a fin de cuentas recibe la promesa de la alianza. El espíritu de Dios lo llena con su unción. En esto, se parece al hombre que nació ciego del Evangelio de hoy. La familia de David y la comunidad del ciego no esperaban que la gracia milagrosa del amor de Dios obrara por medio de ellos. Quizás ellos, también, estaban “ciegos” por las expectativas y suposiciones de los que los rodeaban. Sin embargo, luego de ser tocados por Dios, ambos “vieron” la presencia de la voluntad de Dios para ellos. Ambos se convirtieron en mensajeros de la voluntad de Dios. Ese mismo Espíritu de unción de Dios nos llenó en nuestro bautismo; se nos dio un cirio como símbolo de que somos miembros del Cuerpo de Cristo, la Luz de la Luz. Nuestra vocación, entonces, es cumplir esa iluminación, esa unción, como se nos dice en Efesios, viviendo como “hijos de la luz”.

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GRUPO JUVENIL “ROOTED”

Invitamos a todos los Jóvenes de 9 a 12 grado a participar del todos los Sábado de 2pm a 4pm . ¡Te esperamos!

LUZ Y SOMBRA

En la fe hay suficiente luz para los que quieren creer y suficiente sombra para enceguecer a los que no.

—Blas Pascal

Lectors for April 1st & 2nd

5:00pm M. Gerbasi & A. Zervos

8:30am N. Watson 9:30am I. Ramirez & J. Mejia 11:00am N. Trombetta & P. D’Orsogna 12:15pm D. Miantsoko & S. Hernandez 1:30pm G. Pimentel & C. Vera

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READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Is 65:17-21; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13b; Jn 4:43-54 Tuesday: Ez 47:1-9, 12; Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9; Jn 5:1-16 Wednesday: Is 49:8-15; Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18; Jn 5:17-30 Thursday: Ex 32:7-14; Ps 106:19-23; Jn 5:31-47 Friday: Wis 2:1a, 12-22; Ps 34:17-21, 23; Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 Saturday: Jer 11:18-20; Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-12; Jn 7:40-53

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