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

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 02, 2017 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 Kids’ Place (Pre-School): (650) 366-6587 Parish Staff Pastor: Rev. Ulysses D’Aquila Deacon: Rev. Mr. Thomas J. Boyle Principal: Teresa Anthony Administrative Assistant: Ivette Meléndez Director of Religious Ed.: Magdalena Hernández Youth Confirmation: Judy Draper Director of Music: Bianca Remlinger Spanish Music Ministry: Andrés García Pre-School Director: Maureen Arnott Development Director: Nori Jabba

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

Think of yourselves as dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus. — Romans 6:11

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

Weddings / Bodas 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 the Pastor

Notas del Párroco

On Thursday of this week, we will celebrate the memorial of the youngest person ever to have been canonized a saint, Maria Goretti. Maria was born into a family of peasant farmers in Italy in October of 1890. Eventually, her father lost his own farm and was forced to become a tenant farmer, sharing a residence with a widower and his son, Alessandro Serenelli, who also worked the land. The conditions were very poor and the farm unfavorable and marshy. When Maria was only nine years old, her father was bitten by a mosquito and died soon after of malaria. As a consequence, the Goretti family fell into into even deeper poverty. Maria’s mother went out to replace her husband on the land while Maria was obliged to tend the house, cook and watch the other children. One day Maria, who was only eleven years old at the time, was mending clothes in the kitchen. Alessandro Serenelli, then 20, returned to the house and began to make sexual advances toward Maria. He became more and more aggressive as she fought him off. Angry at being rebuffed, he repeated stabbed Maria repeatedly with a knife. Maria died of her wounds the next day, July 6, 1902, but not before forgiving her attacker, as she said, “For the love of Jesus.” The conclusion to the story of Maria Goretti is extraordinary. The young man who, of course, was known to everyone in the area was arrested and sent to prison for many years. Unrepentant, he one day had a dream in which Maria gave him some lilies which burnt in his hands. He called for a priest, confessed and took up a life of prayers. Once he was released from prison, he sought out Maria’s mother. He begged her forgiveness and he emotionally expressed to her his great sorrow for the terrible sin he had committed in his youth. Maria’s mother, knowing that her daughter had forgiven him, felt she could do nothing less. Amazingly, the man lived to see Maria Goretti beatified in 1947, and he was invited to be present at her canonization to sainthood in June of 1950. The Mass celebrated by Pope Pius XII attracted over 500,000 people, mostly youth. So vast were the crowds that Maria’s canonization became to the first to be celebrated outdoors in St. Peter’s Square. Maria Goretti, truly exemplifies the fortitude and the blessedness that comes to those who hold fast to virtue, to chastity, and to principles of right-living, and most especially forgiveness. Like Jesus himself, Maria remained loving and charitable, even to the one who had harmed her. Such saints show us that our real strength is in faithfulness to God, and that the reward of goodness, though not always visible here on earth, is an assured place among the blessed in God’s heavenly kingdom. Fr. Ulysses

El jueves de esta semana, celebraremos el memorial de la persona más joven que haya sido canonizada en la Iglesia Católica, María Goretti. María nació en una familia de campesinos en Italia en octubre de 1890. Eventualmente, su padre perdió su propia granja y se vio obligado a convertirse en arrendatario, compartiendo una residencia con un viudo y su hijo, Alessandro Serenelli, quien también trabajó el terreno. Las condiciones eran muy pobres y la granja desfavorable y pantanosa. Cuando María tenía sólo nueve años, su padre fue mordido por un mosquito y murió poco después de la malaria. Como consecuencia, la familia Goretti cayó en una pobreza aún más profunda. La madre de María salió a sustituir a su marido en la tierra, mientras que María fue obligada a cuidar la casa, cocinar y hacer otras tareas. Un día María, que sólo tenía once años, estaba arreglando ropa en las escalones de la casa. Alessandro Serenelli, de 20 años, regresó a la casa y comenzó a hacer avances sexuales hacia María. Se volvió cada vez más agresivo mientras que ella luchaba contra él. Enojado por ser rechazado, violentamente acuchilló a María muchas veces. María murió de sus heridas el día siguiente, 6 de julio de 1902, pero no antes de perdonar a su agresor, al decir: "Por amor de Jesús". La conclusión de la historia de María Goretti es extraordinaria. El joven que, por supuesto, era conocido por todos en el área fue arrestado y enviado a prisión por muchos años. Un día tuvo un sueño en el cual María le dio algunos lirios que se quemaron en sus manos. Llamó a un sacerdote, confesó y empezó una vida de oración y arrepentimiento. Cuando salió de la cárcel 27 años después, buscó a la madre de María. Le rogó perdón y le expresó emocionalmente su gran pesar por el terrible pecado que había cometido en su juventud. La madre de María, sabiendo que su hija le había perdonado, sintió que no podía hacer nada menos. Sorprendentemente, el hombre vivió para ver a María Goretti beatificada en 1947, y fue invitado a estar presente con la madre de ella en su canonización a la santidad en junio de 1950. La Misa celebrada por el Papa Pío XII atrajo a más de 500.000 personas, en su mayoría jóvenes. Tan vastas fueron las multitudes que la canonización de María se convirtió en la primera que se celebró al aire libre en la Plaza de San Pedro. María Goretti, ejemplifica verdaderamente la fortaleza y la bienaventuranza que llega a aquellos que se aferran a la virtud, a la castidad y a los principios de la vida justa, y sobre todo el perdón. Como el mismo Jesús, María permaneció cariñosa y caritativa, incluso a quien le había hecho daño. Tales santos nos muestran que nuestra verdadera fuerza está en la fidelidad a Dios, y que la recompensa de la bondad, aunque no siempre visible aquí en la tierra, es un lugar seguro entre los benditos en el reino celestial de Dios. P. Ulises

TODAY’S SECOND COLLECTION

Parish Facilities This collection helps us to maintain our church and other parish facilities in good condition, to do the repairs and upgrades that are needed, and to cover the gardening needs of the Parish.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the Doctrine of Purgatory The Patroness of this parish, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, while more commonly associated with the sacramental called the Brown Scapular, also has a traditional association with the doctrine of Purgatory. Purgatory was often, in Medieval Church iconography, depicted as a place of flames and torment where souls, denied the bliss of heaven, suffered for the sins of their earthly lives. Indeed, it was not uncommon to find statues of Our Lady of Mount Carmel hovering above these flames as the poor souls in Purgatory appealed to her mercy. This image and this idea has more recently been rejected by the Church. More correctly, the Church holds that Purgatory is a sort of intermediate state in which souls, encumbered by the less than mortal sins of their lives, undergo a sort of purification and period of repentance before being admitted to the heavenly kingdom. Rather than a place of torment, Purgatory is a generally necessary stage since most of us die not entirely unstained by venial sin. So we will no longer find images of Our Lady of Mount Carmel pulling souls from the flames, but we should still consider her, and the wearing of her Scapular, as helps along our road to salvation.

Archdiocesan Annual Appeal 2017 Thank all of you who have contributed to the Archbishop Annual Appeal. Our parish assessment this year is $77,050. To date we have received $18,500. Our new balance $58,550. Please consider how you can help us meet our goal. For those who have not, would you take one of the brochures and consider what you might do to help us make our goal?

ANNOUNCEMENTS ANUNCIOS: ♦ The Church Office will be

closed on Tuesday, July 04. La Oficina de la Iglesia estará cerrada el Martes 4 de Julio. ♦ Repaving of Parking lot. Fr om 7/10 to 7/21 we will be redoing our parking lot/school yard. Hopefully only the weekend of July 15/16 will be affected. We will have use of the Sequoia High School lot those days – entrance on Elwood St.

ELECTRONIC DONATIONS VANCOPAYMENTS.COM is 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 press Donate and follow the easy instructions.

Thank You, God reward your generosity.

HOMEBOUND MINISTRY Next Week Second Collection The second collection next week, will be for Religious Education. La segunda colecta de la próxima semana, será para Educación Religiosa.

Thanks for your generosity

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.

Saturday, July 01, 2017 05:00 PM Richard Ferrando † Sunday, July 02, 2017 08:00 AM Charles and Theresa Elacqua † 10:00 AM Eileen Giannini † 12:00 PM Maria Rubio † 05:00 PM Santina Ferraris † Monday, July 03, 2017 8:15 AM Alba Rosa Rigali † Tuesday, July 04, 2017 8:15 AM For our Country Wednesday, July 05, 2017 8:15 AM Sandra Bourdet † Thursday, July 06, 2017 8:15 AM Mary Ann Appleby (Int.) Friday, July 07, 2017 8:15 AM Pro-Populo Saturday, July 08, 2017 8:15 AM Alba Rosa Rigali †

THIS WEEK AT MT. CARMEL

Sunday, July 02, 2017 Convivio 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, July 03, 2017 Grupo Carismático (Mesa Directiva) 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 04, 2017 Men’s Basketball 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 05, 2017 Grupo Carismatico 7:00 p.m. Thursday, July 06, 2017 Good Grief 6:00 p.m. Friday, July 07, 2017 Coro Hispano

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Large Hall Parish Center

Large Hall Large Hall Old Chapel Parish Center

Sunday:

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Decimotercer Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario

Monday: St. Thomas/ Santo Tomás Tuesday: Independence Day/Día de la Independencia Wednesday: St. Anthony Zaccaria; St. Elizabeth of Portugal / San Antonio María Zacaría; Santa Isabel de Portugal; Thursday: St. Maria Goretti / Santa María Goretti Friday: First Friday / Primer viernes Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary/ Santa María Virgen

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 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. We care. We share. Do come.

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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 July 02, 2017 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 6 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS