Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
300 Fulton Street ▪ Redwood City, CA 94062
Tel. (650) 366-3802 ▪ Fax: (650) 366-1421
[email protected] [email protected] ▪ www.mountcarmel.org
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
March 27, 2016
Parish Center Hours
Monday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Parish Staff
Pastor:
Rev. Ulysses D’Aquila - 306-9583
Deacon: Rev. Mr. Thomas J. Boyle - 366-3802
Principal: Teresa Anthony - 366-6127
Development: Nori Jabba - 366-8817
Kid’s Place: Maureen Arnott – 366-6587
CCD: Magdalena Hernández - 368-8237
Youth Ministry: Kendra & Jason Rickwald - 918-0815
Youth Confirmation: Paula Martinez – 366-6194
Director of Music: Bianca Remlinger - 366-3802
Spanish Music Ministry: Andres Garcia -366 -3802
Administrative Assistant: Alba Canelo – 366 -3802
Mass Schedule
Sunday:
8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm (español),
and 5pm
Saturday: 8: 15 am and 5:00 pm Vigil Mass
Monday to Friday 8:15 am
Reconciliation/Confession
Saturday 3:30 –4:30 p.m.
Baptisms / Bautismos
Call parish at least two months in advance. Llame a la
parroquia a lo menos dos meses antes.
Weddings / Bodas
To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone who
believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins
through his name. — Acts 10:43
Call parish at least six months in advance
Llame a la parroquia a lo menos seis meses antes.
Mission Statement
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish is a Christ-centered community in the Roman Catholic tradition. We
try to share the Good News of salvation with others. As a diverse community, we value and respect
individual differences. As God’s people, we gather in the Spirit to pray, to celebrate the sacraments, to
teach, to learn, to console, to rejoice, to minister and to renew our faith with one another.
Notes from Our Pastor
Notas de Nuestro Párroco
This Sunday with great joy we’ll be celebrating Easter, the feast
of our Lord’s Resurrection from the dead. After that, we enter
into the Fifty Days of our Risen Lord
when Jesus on numerous occasions
appeared to his disciples to assure
them that, as he had promised, he
would come back from the tomb and
continue to guide them. During this
time, we adorn our churches in white
and gold and fill them with flowers.
We celebrate baptisms and weddings;
we ring bells during Mass and sing alleluias at the Gospel.
There’s a tendency to forget the grim realities of Holy Week:
the bloody scourging, the agonizing climb up Mt. Calvary, the
hideous crunch of nails into flesh. But should we forget? Did
the apostles not remain traumatized long after the event of the
Passion? Did they ever forget, most of all, that one of Jesus’
closest associates had betrayed him? Actually, this has always
posed a great problem for scholars and for ordinary Christians
who ask, “Was Jesus such a poor judge of character that he
would include among his trusted followers a man like Judas
Iscariot?” We know from the Scripture that Judas was the
treasurer of the group, responsible for keeping the money and
buying what they needed. He was, after all, one of the specially chosen twelve apostles. Jesus and the others must have
known him very well indeed. But the answer has to be that,
yes, Jesus did trust sinners. From the beginning, he had called
common men and women to follow him. He had called them
from their regular lives and occupations, and sometimes he
even called them out of a life of sin. And that’s why we can call
ourselves disciples, because we know that even though we so
often betray Jesus through our behavior and our thoughts and
our words, Jesus nonetheless loves us and wants us to be
saved. Judas Iscariot was probably not more inherently bad
than many other people. Maybe for a time he was a good
steward of the money and a faithful follower of Jesus. But
greed and jealousy and envy and hatred – those very ordinary
sins – finally got the best of him, and Satan took over. Yet
even in his terrible act of betrayal, Judas without knowing it
helps to fulfill God’s plan of salvation. Furthermore, even the
great Apostle Peter, the Rock upon whom Jesus builds his
Church, falls victim to human weakness. At the last minute,
losing his nerve, he actually denies that he knows Jesus! But
the difference between Judas and Peter is this: Peter repents
and in his repentance, he is forgiven. He goes on for the rest
of his life to spread the Lord’s message, building up Christ’s
Church, a Church which has now survived for two millennia
and will last until Christ comes again in glory at the end of the
ages. What this means for us is that Christ’s Passion, Death
and Resurrection was not an event of the past, over and done
with. Christ’s Paschal Mystery will be prolonged to the end of
time, until there is no more sin to suffer for, and no one left to
redeem.
Este domingo celebramos la Pascua, es decir la resurrección
de nuestro Señor de entre los muertos. Después de eso, entramos en los cincuenta días de
gozo cuando Jesús en numerosas ocasiones se presentó a sus
discípulos para asegurarles que,
como había prometido, volvería
de la muerte. Durante este tiempo, adornamos nuestras iglesias
de blanco y dorado y la llenamos
de flores. Celebramos bautismos
y bodas; cantamos aleluyas antes del Evangelio. Hay una tendencia de olvidar la dura realidad
de Semana Santa: la flagelación de Jesús, su camino al Calvario, su horrible crucifixión. Pero ¿hay que olvidar? ¿No fueron los apóstoles traumatizados después del evento de la
pasión? ¿Olvidaron, sobre todo, que uno de los apóstoles
más cercanos de Jesús lo había traicionado? Esto siempre
ha preocupado a los estudiosos de la Biblia. Se preguntan,
"¿Era Jesús tan pobre de carácter que escogería un hombre
como Judas Iscariote para seguirlo?" Sabemos por la Escritura que Judas era el tesorero del grupo, responsable de mantener el dinero y comprar lo que necesitaban, una persona
bien conocida por Jesús y los demás apóstoles. Sin embargo,
la respuesta tiene que ser sí, Jesús puso su confianza en
pecadores. Desde el principio, había llamado a hombres y
mujeres comunes a seguirlo. Los había llamado desde sus
vidas y ocupaciones cotidianas, y a veces incluso los llamó
de una vida pecaminosa. Es por eso que podemos decir que
somos discípulos, porque sabemos que a pesar de nuestros
pecados, Jesús nos ama y solo quiere que seamos salvados.
Judas Iscariote probablemente no era peor que muchas otras
personas. Tal vez era, por un tiempo, un buen administrador
del dinero y un fiel seguidor de Jesús. Pero la codicia, y los
celos, y la envidia, y el odio - esos pecados muy ordinarios finalmente consiguieron lo mejor de él, y Satanás tomo control. Sin embargo, Judas, sin saberlo, ayudó a cumplir el plan
de salvación de Dios. Así es que también el gran apóstol Pedro, la roca sobre la que Jesús edifico su Iglesia, cayó víctima
de la debilidad humana. En el último momento, temeroso a lo
que iba a pasar, negó que era discípulo de Jesús. Pero la
diferencia entre Judas y Pedro es esto: Pedro se arrepiento y
en su arrepentimiento, fue perdonado. Por el resto de su vida
trabajó para difundir el evangelio de Jesucristo, edificando la
Iglesia, una Iglesia que ahora ha sobrevivido durante dos
milenios y que durará hasta que Cristo venga de nuevo en
gloria al final de los tiempos. Lo que esto significa para nosotros es que de la Pasión, Muerte y Resurrección no fue un
hecho del pasado, ya terminado. El Misterio Pascual de Cristo nunca termina hasta el fin de los tiempos, hasta que no
haya más pecado para sufrir, y nadie más para redimir.
Happy Easter to you all! Fr. Ulysses
¡Felices Pascuas a todos! P. Ulises
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Confirmation Rehearsal
Wednesday, April 6 at 7:00 p.m. in the
Church.
First Communion Rehearsal
Thursday, April 7 at 6:00 p.m. and at
7:00 p.m. beginning in the Large Hall
Confirmation Mass with Bishop Justice
Friday, April 8 at 5:00 p.m. in the Church.
First Communion Masses, April 9:
10:00 a.m. and at 1:00 p.m.
YOUTH MINISTRY APRIL 2016
SCHEDULE
Sunday, April 10—YM meeting in OLMC Gym/
Small Hall followed by Mass, 3pm– 6pm.
Sunday, April 24 YM meeting in OLMC Small Hall
only, followed by Mass from 3pm-6pm. (Last official
meeting of the school year).
HOMEBOUND MINISTRY
If someone in your family is homebound, lives nearby and is unable to attend Mass, but would like to
received the Eucharist, please contact Julie O’Leary at
(650) 361-8681. Communion ministers are needed to
bring the Eucharist to homebound parishioners.
Please call Julie O’Leary if you would like to participate in this worthy ministry.
Holy Hour / Happy Hour
Young adults in their 20s and 30s are encouraged to
join us for a Holy Hour at Nativity parish (210 Oak
Grove, Menlo Park) on Tuesdays from 8pm-9pm,
followed by drinks at a local pub.
If you have any questions, please e-mail [email protected]
Jubilee Year of Mercy
March 27, 2016
Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of the Lord
This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and
be glad. Alleluia! Easter is always, but especially in this
Jubilee Year of Mercy, the
victory of God’s gentle but
invincible mercy raising up
Jesus, “faithful witness, the
first-born
of
the
dead” (Revelation 1:5),
“first-born among many
brothers
[and
sisters]” (Romans 8:29), conquering death in all its forms, in
all of us in the human family. In Luke’s Vigil Gospel,
heavenly messengers send the women forth: “Remember
what [Jesus] said to you” (Luke 24:6). In John’s Gospel,
the empty tomb likewise “sends forth” Mary Magdalene,
Peter, and the Beloved Disciple, who believe though they
do not fully understand. Finally, Luke’s evening
“Emmaus” Gospel sends us forth, as “missionaries of
mercy,” assuring us that we will encounter the Risen
Lord, today and every day, in “the stranger” we meet
along life’s journey, in “the Word that makes our hearts
burn within us,” and “in the breaking of bread” (see Luke
24:32, 35).
—Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.
ARCHDIOCESAN ANNUAL
APPEAL 2016
A very grateful thanks to all our parishioners who
contributed to the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal in
2015. Because of your generosity, we were able to
reach our assessed amount last year. We have now
begun to collect for 2016. There are brochures in the
back of the church. Please take one and consider what
you can contribute to help us cover the Annual Appeal for this year.
THE O.L.M.C WOMEN’S CLUB
The OLMC Women's Club will gather in the Small
Hall at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, April 6, for a dinner
and fellowship. All women over 21 are invited . Proceeds are used to help with the liturgy of our
church. Hope to see you there!
GOOD GRIEF MINISTRY
The loss of every loved one creates many changes,
challenges and pain. “Good Grief”, an ongoing support group, meets every Thursday at the Parish Center, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. We care. We share. Do come.
Saturday, March 26, 2016 Easter Vigil
8:00 PM Pro-populo
Sunday, March 27, 2016
8:00 AM Pro-populo
10:00 AM Benjamin Navarro & Martha Arias †
12:00 PM (Español) Jose Nuñez & Arnulfo Chacon †
5:00 PM No Mass
Monday, March 28, 2016 8:15 AM
Pro-populo
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 8:15 AM
Paul Isaacs † (1st Anniversary)
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 8:15 AM
Pro-populo
Thursday, March 31, 2016 8:15 AM
Pro-populo
Friday, April 1, 2016 8:15 AM
Olivia Dei Rossi †
Saturday, April 2, 2016 8:15 AM
Ledesma Family (intentions)
THIS WEEK AT MT. CARMEL
Sunday, March 27:
Children’s Liturgy
Monday, March 28:
Charismatic Committee
Tuesday, March 29:
Men’s Basketball
Wednesday, March 30:
Charismatic Prayer
Thursday, March 31:
Good Grief
Friday, April 1:
Spanish Choir Rehearsal
10:00 a.m.
Chapel
7:00 p.m.
Parish Center
8:30 p.m.
Large Hall
7:00 p.m.
Small Hall
7:00 p.m.
P. Center
7:00 p.m.
Parish Center
WE REMEMBER YOU, O RISEN LORD
We remember you, O risen Lord,
New Covenant at the feast of the cross.
Your resurrecƟon dresses the table
for the bread of heaven and the cup of salvaƟon.
Blessed are you!
—From Come, Lord Jesus by Lucien Deiss, CSS , copyright © 1976, 1981, Lucien Deiss. Published by
World Library Publications. p.163
SAINTS AN SPECIAL OBSERVANCE
Monday:
Monday within the Octave of Easter
Tuesday:
Tuesday within the Octave of Easter
Wednesday: Wednesday within the Octave of Easter
Thursday:
Thursday within the Octave of Easter
Friday:
Friday within the Octave of Easter;
First Friday
Saturday:
Saturday within the Octave of Easter;
First Saturday
Welcome Our Lady of Mount
Carmel Parish
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OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL
#919128
300 Fulton St.
Redwood City, CA 94062
CONTACT PERSON
Alba L. Canelo, Bulletin Editor:
650-366-3802
Fr. Ulysses D’Aquila, Pastor: 650-36-9583
EMAIL ADDRESS
[email protected]
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