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

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time February 17, 2019 Parish Center Hours Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Parish Phones Parish Center Office: (650) 366-3802 Pastor’s Office: (650) 306-9583 Religious Education Office: (650) 368-8237 Mt. Carmel School Office: (650) 366-6127 Mt. Carmel Pre-School: (650) 366-6587 Parish Staff Pastor: Rev. Ulysses D’Aquila Deacon: Rev. Mr. Thomas J. Boyle Principal: Dr. Deborah Farrington Administrative Assistant: Ivette Meléndez Director of Religious Ed.: Magdalena Hernández Youth Confirmation: Judy Draper Director of Music: Bianca Remlinger Pre-School Director: Maureen Arnott

Mass Schedule Sunday: 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm (Español), and 5 pm Saturday: 8: 15 am and 5:00 pm Vigil Mass Monday to Friday 8:15 am Reconciliation/Confession Saturday 3:30 –4:30 pm

Baptisms / Bautismos “Blessed are you who are “Dichosos ustedes los poor, for the kingdom of pobres, porque de ustedes es God is yours. Blessed are el Reino de Dios. Dichosos you who are now hungry, ustedes los que ahora tienen hambre, porque serán for you will be satisfied.” saciados”. — Lucas 6:20‑21a — Luke 6:20‑21a

Call parish at least two months in advance. Llame a la parroquia a lo menos dos meses antes.

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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 the Pastor

Notas del Párroco

The Gospel this past Sunday recorded Jesus’ initial encounter with the fisherman, Simon Peter. On that occasion, after preaching to the people on the shore from Peter’s boat, Jesus then asks Peter to lower his fishing nets for a catch. When Peter does so, he is astonished that the nets immediately fill to breaking with a great quantity of fish. After that, Jesus asks Peter to follow him as a disciple, telling Peter that he will make him a “fisher of men.” On Friday of this week we’ll celebrate a special feast honoring St. Peter as first among the Apostles. It’s called the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter. In this feast we recall the spiritual power that our Lord Jesus invested in the Apostle Peter when he said to him, “You are Peter (the Rock), and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.” After that, Jesus tells Peter that he is giving him the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven and the power to forgive sins in Jesus’ name. It should be obvious to us that Jesus did not mean this investiture solely for Peter, a man who was destined to die a martyr a few years later. No, Jesus meant that Peter was to be the foundation stone, the beginning of this great institution of the Church. Our Lord Jesus intended for the precious Deposit of Faith he was leaving behind to be safeguarded by St. Peter and the other Apostles and to be faithfully passed on to successive generations of apostles, the shepherds of the Church. The “Chair” of St. Peter refers to the Greek word for chair, cathedra, from which we derive our word cathedral. The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption is the ‘seat’ of our Archbishop, just as every other cathedral in the world is the seat of a local bishop. These bishops are the successors of the original Apostles, with their same ministry of teaching, governing, and shepherding the Lord’s flock. Our Holy Father, Pope Francis I (who is also the Bishop of Rome) is the successor of St. Peter, the first Apostle. It is his express duty and ministry to preserve the unity of the Church and to insure that what Jesus taught is what the Church teaches. We know from the Gospels that Peter was the very first disciple whom Jesus called and the first one to whom the Risen Lord appeared after the Crucifixion. After Jesus’ death, St. Peter led the first group of Christians in Jerusalem, and it was he who originally opened the Church to non-Jews or Gentiles. Peter later traveled to the capitol city of the Empire, Rome, where he made many converts and where, together with St. Paul, he established that line of Apostolic Succession today centered in the Vatican. Both of these great missionary saints were martyred in Rome. After the Roman Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity, he built the first St. Peter’s Basilica over Peter’s grave. In the present St. Peter’s Basilica, constructed in the 1500’s, the spectacular high altar still covers the bones of that humble fisherman of Galilee who became, along with the other Apostles, Christ’s ‘fisher of men’. Father Ulysses.

El Evangelio del domingo pasado registró el encuentro inicial de Jesús con el pescador, Simón Pedro. En esa ocasión, después de predicar a la gente en la orilla desde la barca de Pedro, Jesús le pide a él que baje al lago sus redes de pesca. Cuando Pedro lo hace, se sorprende de que las redes se llenen inmediatamente con una gran cantidad de peces. Después de eso, Jesús le pide a Pedro que lo siga como discípulo, diciéndole a Pedro que lo hará un "pescador de hombres". El viernes de esta semana celebraremos una fiesta especial en honor a San Pedro. Se llama La Fiesta de la Cátedra (o Silla) de San Pedro. En esta fiesta recordamos el poder espiritual que nuestro Señor Jesús invirtió en el apóstol Pedro cuando le dijo: "Tú eres Pedro (la roca), y sobre esta roca edificaré mi Iglesia, y las puertas del infierno no prevalece contra él ”. Después de eso, Jesús le dice a Pedro que le está dando las llaves del Reino de los Cielos y el poder de perdonar los pecados en el nombre de Jesús. Debería ser obvio para nosotros que Jesús no se refería a esta investidura únicamente para Pedro, un hombre que estaba destinado a morir como mártir unos años más tarde. No, Jesús quiso decir que Pedro iba a ser la piedra fundamental, el comienzo de esta gran institución de la Iglesia. Nuestro Señor Jesús pretendía que el precioso Depósito de Fe que él dejaba a San Pedro y los otros Apóstoles sea transmitido a sucesivas generaciones de apóstoles, los pastores de la Iglesia. La "Silla" de San Pedro se refiere a la palabra griega para silla, cátedra, de la cual derivamos nuestra palabra catedral. Los obispos son los sucesores de los Apóstoles originales, con su mismo ministerio de enseñar, gobernar y pastorear el rebaño del Señor. Nuestro Santo Padre, el Papa Francisco (que también es el Obispo de Roma) es el sucesor de San Pedro, el primer apóstol. Es su deber y ministerio preservar la unidad de la Iglesia y asegurar que lo que Jesús enseñó es lo que la Iglesia enseña. Sabemos por los Evangelios que Pedro fue el primer discípulo a quien Jesús llamó y el primero a quien el Señor Resucitado se apareció después de la crucifixión. Después de la muerte de Jesús, San Pedro dirigió el primer grupo de cristianos en Jerusalén, y fue él quien originalmente abrió la Iglesia a los no judíos o gentiles. Más tarde, Pedro viajó a la ciudad capital del Imperio, Roma, donde hizo muchos conversos y donde, junto con San Pablo, estableció la línea de sucesión apostólica hoy centrada en el Vaticano. Los dos grandes santos misioneros fueron martirizados en Roma. Después de su conversión al cristianismo el emperador romano, Constantino, construyó la primera Basílica de San Pedro sobre la tumba de Pedro. En la actual Basílica de San Pedro, construida en los años 1500, el espectacular altar mayor todavía cubre los huesos de ese humilde pescador de Galilea que se convirtió, junto con los otros Apóstoles, en un "pescador de hombres Padre Ulysses.

Today’s Second Collection is for our Liturgy Fund. This collection cover the expenses of our Music Ministry, including salaries, microphones and other equipment and the music books. It also help us to pay for such liturgical needs as Altar Bread and Wine, altar server vestment, candles and Church decor.

Next Week’s Second Collection Our Second Collection will be for Archdiocesan Annual Appeal.

Women's Silent Retreat To be held March 8-10, 2019 at St. Clare's Retreat Center in the Santa Cruz mountains. For reservations and further information, please contact Sheila Cole @ (650) 366-8918 or email: [email protected] Private room: $210.00. Shared room: $165.00 per person. Reservations are required

A grateful thanks to all of our parishioners who helped us to achieve our goal for the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal of 2018. It is now time to begin collecting for this year’s Appeal. Our assessed Archdiocesan tax is $78,542.98 or 20% of last year’s income. This money is used by the Archdiocese to fund many ministries such as Restorative Justice (jail ministry), the Marriage Tribunal, legal help for immigrants, support for the needy and a good number of other vital services. We’ll begin our kick-off for this year’s Annual Appeal with a Second Collection on the weekend of February 23/24. Thank you for you generous support of our parish.

HOMEBOUND MINISTRY If someone in your family is homebound, lives nearby and is unable to attend Mass, but would like to receive 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 in this worthy ministry.

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an agency created to facilitate the process of donations, if you wish to make your donations to the Church electronically or by Credit Card, please see our website,

www.mountcarmel.org

GOOD GRIEF MINISTRY The loss of every loved one creates many changes, challenges and much 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,

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Saturday, February 16, 2019 05:00 PM Gilda Lina Sanchez † Sunday, February 17, 2019 08:00 AM Charles & Theresa Elacqua † 10:00 AM Susan Doherty † 12:00 PM Felicita Rivera † 05:00 PM Pro - Populo Monday, February 18, 2019 08:15 AM for the poor souls in Purgatory † Tuesday, February 19, 2019 08:15 AM Charles Anderson † Wednesday, February 20, 2019 08:15 AM Jerome O’Leary † Thursday, February 21, 2019 08:15 AM Rosemary & Frank Doonan † Friday, February 22, 2019 08:15 AM Angelo Matteucci † Saturday, February 23, 2019 08:15 AM Pro - Populo

THIS WEEK AT MT. CARMEL Sunday, February 17, 2019 Children’s Liturgy 10:00 AM Monday, February 18, 2019

Grupo Carismático (Mesa Directiva) 7:00 PM

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 Men’s Basketball 8:30 PM Wednesday, February 20, 2019 CCD Classes Grupo Carismático Bible Study

6:30 PM 7:00 PM 7:00 PM

Good Grief CCD Classes SVdP Meeting

6:00 PM 6:30 PM 7:00 PM

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Saturday, February 23, 2019 Cub Scouts Dinner 6:00 PM

Church Old Chapel

Large Hall School Large Hall Old Chapel Old Chapel School Parish Center

Large Hall

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: Presidents’ Day Tuesday: of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time Wednesday: of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time Thursday: St. Peter Damian Friday: Chair of St. Peter the Apostle; Washington’s Birthday Saturday: St. Polycarp

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OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL #919128 300 Fulton St. Redwood City, CA 94062 CONTACT PERSON Ivette Meléndez, Bulletin Editor: 650-366-3802 Fr. Ulysses D’Aquila, Pastor: 650-306-9583 EMAIL ADDRESS [email protected] SOFTWARE Microsoft ®Publisher 2007 Adobe®Acrobat®X Window7® PRINTER Toshiba e studio 3055c TRANSMISSION TIME By 11:00 a.m. On Wednesday SUNDAY OF PUBLICATION February 17, 2019 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 6 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS