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

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time June 12, 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 Confirmation: M. Hernandez 368-8237 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 I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me.

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

— Galatians 2:20

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

In this Sunday’s Gospel, a woman who is publicly known as a sinner – probably a ‘kept’ woman -- crashes a dinner party where Jesus is a guest. Even today, if a person with a very scandalous reputation arrived uninvited at a private party, it would create a lot of comment, but in the time of Jesus, it would have been almost unthinkable. The host of the dinner party, a Pharisee named Simon, is angry and upset that this immoral woman has had the effrontery not only to be present but to touch Jesus, a holy rabbi who is no doubt the honored guest. But rather than rejecting the woman’s attentions, Jesus allows her to anoint him with oil and to dry his feet with her hair. The woman’s profuse tears are proof enough of her repentance – she feels profoundly sorry for whatever wrong she has done – and more than that, the woman believes absolutely that Jesus can forgive her sins and that he can help her to change her life. The host of the party uncharitably criticizes Jesus to the other guests saying that if Jesus were really a prophet, he would know what a bad person this woman is. Jesus then responds that the woman has actually demonstrated far more faith, more love and greater hospitality than the host himself. The truth is that God wishes every person to be saved. God wants no one left outside of the eternal banquet that he has prepared for us. There is no sin so grave that our Lord God cannot forgive it, but the more we sin, the further we remove ourselves from God’s loving embrace, and the more we alienate ourselves from the very source of our being, which is God. The problem with so many of us today is that we are too much like the Pharisee, too arrogant and self-assured to acknowledge our faults, and too proud to express contrition or sorrow for what we have done wrong. How much better if we could be like the woman in the Gospel whose sorrow and remorse have brought her to Jesus’ feet! As Jesus remarks to the Pharisee, “Her many sins have been forgiven because she has shown great love,” and then to the woman herself Jesus says, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.” There is almost no one who does not need the grace and peace that come from sincere repentance, and from a strong desire to become a morally better person. And the blessing that comes to us when we seek forgiveness is that when we are reconciled to God, we are freed to live more generously, and we are liberated from the prison house of our own self-centeredness. Purified of our sins, we can join the company of the saints, of all those who feast at the table of God’s abundant and overflowing love for us. Fr. Uysses

En el Evangelio de este domingo, una mujer que se conoce públicamente como una pecadora - probablemente una prostituta – viene sin invitación a una cena donde Jesús es el invitado especial. Incluso hoy en día, si una persona con una reputación muy escandalosa llega sin invitación a una fiesta privada, crearía muchos comentarios, pero en el tiempo de Jesús, habría sido casi inconcebible. El anfitrión de la cena, un fariseo llamado Simón, está enojado y molesto que esta mujer inmoral ha tenido el descaro no sólo estar presente, pero también tocar a Jesús, un rabino santo que es, sin duda, el invitado de honor. Pero en lugar de rechazar las atenciones de la mujer, Jesús permite que ella lo unja con aceite y que seque sus pies con sus cabellos. Las lágrimas de la mujer deben ser suficiente prueba de su arrepentimiento – que ella siente profundamente lo mal que ha hecho - y más que eso, la mujer cree absolutamente que Jesús puede perdonar sus pecados y que él puede ayudarla a cambiar su vida. El anfitrión de la fiesta critica a Jesús diciendo a los otros invitados que si Jesús fuera realmente un profeta, sabría que mala persona es esta mujer. Jesús responde que la mujer ha demostrado más fe, más amor y hospitalidad que el propio anfitrión. La verdad es que Dios quiere que toda persona sea salvada. Dios no quiere dejar nadie fuera del banquete eterno que él ha preparado para nosotros. No hay pecado tan grave que nuestro Señor Dios no puede perdonarlo, pero cuanto más pequemos, cuanto más nos alejemos del abrazo amoroso de Dios, y cuanto más nos alejarnos de la fuente misma de nuestro ser, que es Dios. El problema con muchos de nosotros hoy en día es que somos como el fariseo, demasiado arrogantes y seguros de nosotros mismo para reconocer nuestras faltas, y demasiado orgullosos para expresar contrición o dolor por lo malo que hemos hecho. ¡Cuánto mejor sería si pudiéramos actuar como la mujer en el Evangelio, cuya tristeza y remordimiento le ha traído a los pies de Jesús! Como dice Jesús los fariseos, "Sus muchos pecados le son perdonados, porque ella ha mostrado mucho amor", y luego a la mujer misma Jesús dice: "Tu fe te ha salvado; vete en paz." No hay casi nadie que no necesita la gracia y la paz que viene de un sincero arrepentimiento, y de un fuerte deseo de convertirse en una persona moralmente mejor. La bendición que viene a nosotros cuando buscamos el perdón es que recibimos la reconciliación con Dios, y somos entonces libres para vivir una vida más generosa, una vida liberada. Purificados de nuestros pecados, podemos ser parte de la compañía de los santos, de todos aquellos que son invitados a la fiesta del amor abundante y desbordante que Dios tiene por nosotros. Padre Ulises

Calling all Parish Photographers! Get out your iPhones and cameras! We’re looking for some fresh new photographs to use for our bulletin. If you enjoy taking pictures, we invite you to submit to us any good photographs you might take of the church. We will use this archive of pictures too regularly change the color picture on the cover of our bulletin. Suggested shots would be of the Altar (Sanctuary) area, both close up and from afar, the shrines of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Joseph, the many stained glass windows, the organ pipes, and exterior of the church, especially the front (Fulton Street) façade, and the side (James Street) façade. Be creative! We will give credit in the bulletin for all photographs used. Please email your pictures to the bulletin editor, Alba Canelo, at acanelo @mountcarmel.org or to Fr. Ulysses at [email protected].

Jubilee Year of Mercy June 12, 2016 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time On today’s Jubilee for Those Sick and Suffering Disabilities, Jesus encounters a woman who is “spiritually ill.” She is thus “disabled” from participating in Israel’s worshiping community or polite society. Bathing Jesus’ feet with tears, drying them with unveiled hair, anointing them (Luke 7:38) risk Jesus’ becoming “unclean.” Yet his mercy welcomes even such inappropriate behavior as her sincere manifestation of love: “Your sins are forgiven. Go in peace” (7:48, 50). Go not just in “peace,” but in shalom, the all-enveloping, life-changing assurance of God’s mercy. She is anonymous, “known in the city” only as “a sinful woman” (7:37). The character with name and religious title, “Simon the Pharisee” (7:36, 40), judges her harshly, but himself not at all, and thus forfeits God’s mercy. This Jubilee Year of Mercy challenges us to self-examination. In which role do we most often cast ourselves, humble sinner or judgmental Pharisee? Jesus declares that only by an unfailing willingness to show mercy to fellow sinners can we hope to obtain mercy ourselves (see Misericordiae Vultus, 9). —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

Forgiveness To forgive is to set a prisoner free and to discover that the prisoner is me. —Anonymous

Children’s Liturgy For the months of July and August we will be suspending Children’s Liturgy at the 10am Mass. We will resume in September and invite you to join us as part of the team as a teacher or assistant. Volunteers can choose their own schedule and are not responsible to teach a lesson each week. You are qualified if you have a willing spirit and enjoy children. High school students are welcome to join the team. Questions? Contact Robert Dei Rossi at 650-921-8341.

Registrations for the coming year of Religious Education Program will begin in August, 2016. For more Information please call Magdalena Hernandez, 650-368-8237. INSCRIPCIONES PARA CATECISMO Inscripciones para el siguiente año de Catecismo comenzaran primero Dios el primer domingo de agosto. Para mas información por favor llamar a Magdalena Hernández, 650-368-8237.

Archdiocesan Annual Appeal 2016 Thank all of you who have contributed to the Archbishop Annual Appeal. Our parish assessment this year is $74,614. To date we have received $17,332. Our new balance $57,282. 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?

Hope and Forgiveness There were some interesting conceptions of sin prevalent in the time of the Hebrew scriptures. There was the belief that God punished sin immediately. Those who suffered disease or misfortune were, therefore, sinners getting their due from the Almighty. Today’s first reading hints at another kind of God. When David admits his sin, Nathan declares, “The LORD on his part has forgiven your sin” (2 Samuel 12:13b). Here was not a vengeful God but a merciful God. What good news that must have been to David and those who, like him, could be honest enough to admit their sinfulness! Jesus is the good news of God’s mercy and forgiveness incarnate. Without Jesus, perhaps the good news would have been too good to believe, too difficult to imagine. But there he is in today’s Gospel, the God-man, forgiving a sinner and declaring that she is forgiven because of her great love. There is hope, then, for the rest of us sinners, if only we love enough! Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Saturday, June 11, 2016 5:00 PM Denis F. O’Leary † Sunday, June 12, 2016 8:00 AM Pro-populo 10:00 AM Corinne Centeno † 12:00 PM (Español) Andres & Laura Huerta (Anniversary) 5:00 PM Pro-populo Monday, June 13, 2016 Denis F. O’Leary † Tuesday, June 14, 2016 Tony Tanti † Wed., June 15, 2016 Huan Phan † Thursday, June 16, 2016 Angela Territo † Friday, June 17, 2016 June Cronin † Saturday, June 18, 2016 Evelyn Dotothy Hass †

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THIS WEEK AT MT. CARMEL Sunday, June 12: Children’s Liturgy Monday, June 13: Charismatic Committee Tuesday, June 14: Men’s Basketball Wednesday, June 15: Charismatic Group Thursday, June 16: Good Grief SVDP Soc. Friday, June 17: Ensayo Coro Hispano

10:00 am.

Chapel

7 pm

O. Chapel

8:30 pm

L/H

7 pm

L/H

6 pm 7 pm

O. Chapel P. Center

7:00 p.m.

P. Center

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Monday: Tuesday: Saturday:

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Anthony of Padua Flag Day Blessed Virgin Mary

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.

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.

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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: 650-306-9583 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 Jun 12, 2016 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 6 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS From May 31 to June 10, 2016 I will be on vacation. Questions, please call Fr. Ulysses, pastor. I’m sending the bulletin of June 5 and June 12, 2016. Thank you, Alba Canelo.