Parish Clergy & Staff

Fr. Richard J. Vigoa Parish Administrator

Fr. Phillip Tran Chaplain for the University of Miami

Deacon Jose S. Chirinos

Maria Isabel Garcia Parish Office Manager

Sofia Acosta Director of Religious Education

Jorge Pis-Rodriguez Director of Music

Mercedes Salgado Director of Finances

Brahem Patricia Morales Office Assistant

Ray Morales Yera Plant Manager

Roberto Alvarez Vela Sacristan

Mass Schedule (Non-Holidays): Vigil Masses - Saturdays 5:30 pm 7:00 pm (Spanish) Sundays 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 Noon 5:00 pm, 6:30 pm 8:00 pm (During School Session) Monday - Friday 8:00 am & 12:05 pm Saturday 8:00 a.m.

Confessions: 11:30 a.m. Saturdays and by appointment

Baptisms: Please call the Parish Office at least one month in advance.

Weddings: Please call the Parish Office at least six months in advance.

Office Hours: 9:00 am—12:00 pm 12:35 pm to 6:00 pm Monday - Friday

28th, 2019

2 1400 Miller Road, Coral Gables, FL 33146 305-661-1648

Saturday, April 27th, 2019 5:30 p.m. + Jorge Theye + Dora Cuevas de Venegas + Emma & Luis Vazquez Bello - Health of Max Lopez–San Ford & His Parents - Health of Irma Vizcarrondo - In Thanksgiving for the Lopez Barro Family 7:00 p.m. + Ofelia Boza + Ricardo Hermida Sr. + James Christopher O’Neill - Elvira & Ofelia Sotolongo - Catalina & Alejandro Garcia - Health of Eddy Muñiz & his family Sunday, April 28th, 2019 8:00 a.m. + Msgr. Tomás M. Marín + Carmelina Barros + Marisa Suarez + Ana Gan Nguyen + Maria & J.P Besancon - Laura Clark 10:00 a.m. + Laura Engelhardt + Mike Nator + Loreto Lumacad + Cielo Lumacad + Frank Campanile III + Remegio & Lita Acenas 12:00 p.m. - St. Augustine Parish Family - For all the children of the parish who received First Communion yesterday. 5:00 p.m. + Lucia Possenti + Doris Ines Castiello + Adolfo Miñoso + Miguel & Maria Teresa Andux + Marlene & Jeanette Lee Garcia + Deceased Members of the Galan & Foote Family + Sixto L. Ferro

6:30 p.m. + Ricardo Hermida + Anthony E. Kruszewski + Ibrahim Buigas + Raul Salas + Florentina Alvarez Puig & Jaime Puig - 25th Wedding Anniversary of Alicia & Robert Senior

8:00 p.m. + Amanda Moranski

Monday, April 29th, 2019 8:00 a.m. + Andrea Orange + Hortensia Perez + Hilda Bacardi + Luis J. Bacardi + Luis F. Bacardi + Roberto Morales + Celso Gonzalez

12:00 p.m. + Annie Peña + Maria Teresa Alonso + Michael Nagy + Al Shaheen - Katherine Livingstone - Health of Paige Lillard

Tuesday, April 30th, 2019 8:00 a.m. + Ali Landa + Dirce Martinelli + Carmen Colominas + Jorge Esfakis + Alberto & Carmelina Barros - Alex Diaz 12:05 p.m. + Guillermo Salcedo + Michael Nagy + Mirle Viehweg “Mumita” + Mary Taylor + Carlos Vanegas - David Belsito & Family Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 8:00 a.m. + Mary Chakwana + Albert Shaheen + Silvia Escala - Raul Echarte - Gaby Echarte - Birthday of Jordi Quirch - Jose Nino-Martha Pozo Diaz

12:05 p.m. + Aida Fernandez + Jose Saud + Esperanza Prats + Florentina Avarez Puig & Jaime Puig - Ollie & Juno Angones - In Thanksgiving for Francisco & Isabel Baquedano

Thursday, May 2nd, 2019 8:00 a.m. + Jose Mestre Jr. + Dr. Juan Enrique Rodriguez + Dwayne McKenzie - Birthday of Nixon Delva - Intercession of Our Lady of Fatima 12:05 p.m. + Dr. Juan Enrique Rodriguez + Zaida McLaughlin + Gaspar Nagymihaly + Michael Nagy + Lourdes Noguera + Nestor Alvarez - In Praise & Thanksgiving

Friday, May 3rd, 2019 8:00 a.m. + Maria Luisa Trujillo + Consuelo Mestre + Concepción (Conchita) Gonzalez + Roberto Mercade + E. Joseph Porfiri - Living & Deceased Members of St. Augustine Council of Catholic Women

12:05 p.m. - Ortelio Baez - Rosa Velazquez - Cristobal Cervantes - Juliana Meneses - Paula Colmenares - Maggie Alemany - Federico L. Mejer

Saturday, May 4th, 2019 8:00 a.m. + Jorge Garcia + Michael Nagy + Silvia Dominguez Puig - Carmen R. Dominguez - Claudia Maria Sterling & Jennifer Alarcon

Sunday, April 28th, 2019 Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, His love is everlasting. ACTS 5:12-16 PS 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 RV 1: 9-11A, 12-13, 17-19 JN 20:19-31 Monday, April 29th, 2019 Memorial of Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church Blessed are all who take refuge in the Lord. ACTS 4:23-31 PS 2:1-3, 4-7A, 7B-9 JN 3:1-8 Tuesday, April 30th, 2019 Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter The Lord is king, he is robed in majesty. Acts 4:32-37 PS 93:1AB, 1CD-2,5 JN 3:7B-15 Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter The Lord hears the cry of the poor. ACTS 5:17-26 PS 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 JN 3:16-21 Thursday, May 2nd, 2019 Memorial of Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church The Lord hears the cry of the poor. ACTS 5:27-33 PS 34:2 AND 9, 17-18, 19-20 JN 3:31-36 Friday, May 3rd, 2019 Feast of Saints Philip and James, Apostles Their message goes out through all the earth. 1 COR 15:1-8 PS 19:2-3, 4-5 JN 14:6-14 Saturday, May 4th, 2019 Saturday of the Second Week of Easter Lord, let your mercy be on us, \as we place our trust in you. ACTS 6:1-7 PS 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19 JN 6:16-21

Mass Intentions

Scripture Readings & Responsorial Psalms

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The Resurrection is for Sinners

The Incarnation of Our Blessed Lord was announced to a Virgin – Mary Immacu-late. But His Resurrection was announced to a converted sinner – Mary Magda-lene. And both were fitting. Only purity and sinlessness could welcome the all holy Son of God into the world, and hence Mary Immaculate welcomed Him in the city of Bethlehem. But only a repentant sinner who had herself risen from the grave of sin to the newness of life in God could fittingly understand the triumph over sin. Hence not to the Virgin Mary, but to Mary Magdalene, are the glad tidings of the Resurrection first an-nounced. In this contrast is hidden the great truth of Easter Day: the Resurrection is for sinners. It is the final and absolute proof that Our Lord has come not “to call the just, but sinners.”

From that Easter Day on let no one believe he is beyond Redemption. There is nothing too far gone for salvation; there are no hopeless cases; there are no lost sheep that cannot be found; no lost coins that cannot be recovered to rejoice the finder and her neighbors; no prodigals beyond the hope of the embrace of the Father and the banquet of the fatted calf. If ever a cause in the world seemed lost, it was Good Friday night when the Redeemer was sealed in a rock with hideous wounds on hands and feet and side – and yet within three days, defeat became triumph.

If you could have seen Him standing before the Judgment seat of Pilate, forsaken, betrayed, beaten and alone; if you could have heard the mob scream “Crucify”, and watched Pilate hold up his hands in the morning sun, with water dripping from them like glittering jewels; if you could have seen that strong, powerful young man of thirty-three years suffer crucifixion – never for a moment would you have supposed that Pilate was the one who was really judged, that the victorious mob was the one which really lost the day, and that the hands which were nailed would one day bless the world. And yet such is the lesson of Easter Day – the Resurrection of the Dead, the Triumph of the Defeated, the Finding of the Lost; the springtime of the dead earth, the waking of life, the Trumpet of Resurrection blowing over the land of the living. Now, why cannot Easter happen again since Christ is risen? Cannot the hopeless once more have hope? Cannot Magdalenes once more be forgiv-en? Cannot the prospect of Death be converted into Life? Apply this lesson of hope firstly to the modern world and secondly to your own personal lives.

What is true of a despairing world is true of the individual souls in it. This earth of ours today is filled with men who have lost their way; with souls whose sins have been psychoanalyzed a thousand times, but never forgiven once; with bodies that have been embittered by pain and never sweetened by a vision of the cross; with hearts that have pursued a thousand fancies, only to be utterly disillu-sioned in the end; with the poor who thought riches would give them peace of mind; with the des-pairing who thought drink could make them forget.

But to all these souls, the Easter message rings out: there is no reason for despair. The Resurrec-tion was announced to Mary Magdalene – a soul once like our own. Peace awaits you in the service of the God who made you; certitude awaits you in infallibility; redemption awaits you in the Mass; pardon beckons you in the confessional; Love desires you in the Eucharist.

And so in conclusion, the thought I would give to you is that no matter how hopeless things seem to be, there is still hope, for Christ is the Resurrection and the Life. He that can make snowflakes out of dirty drops of water, diamonds out of charcoal, and saints out of Magdalenes, can also make you victorious if you but confess Him as Christ the Son of the Living God.

-Venerable Fulton Sheen

Monday, April 29th, 2019 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass @ Church 7:30pm: Misa Conmemorativa de Cienfuegos @ Church Tuesday, April 30th, 2019 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass @ Church 6:30pm: Rosary Making Group @ Parish Lounge 7:00pm: College Mass @ Church 8:00pm: Young Adult Group @ Parish Hall Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass @ Church 6:30pm: Sandwich Making for the Homeless @ Parish Hall 8:00pm: Matrimonios en Victoria @ Parish Hall Thursday, May 2nd, 2019 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass 8:30am: Soup making for the Homeless 7:00pm: College Mass @ Church 8:00pm: Growing In The Spirit Group, Bible Study (Adult Group Ages 35+) @ Parish Library Friday, May 3rd, 2019 8:00am & 12:05pm: Daily Mass

Saturday, May 4th, 2019 8:00am: Daily Mass and Rosary after Mass 11:30am: Confessions @ Church 12:00pm: Latin Mass on the traditional Feast of St. Monica) @ Church

Collection Report for the Weekend of 4/13/19—4/14/19 Thank you for your generosity!

Friday, April 12(Homeless Ministry) 12:05 p.m. : $ 524.00 Saturday, April 13, 2019 5:30 p.m. : $ 3,385.00 7:00 p.m. : $ 1,013.00 Palm Sunday, April 14, 2019 8:00 a.m. : $ 3,554.00 10:00 a.m. : $ 3,096.00 12:00 p.m. : $ 3,119.00 5:00 p.m. : $ 5,160.00 6:30 p.m. : $ 1,771.00 8:00 p.m. : $ 1,407.00 Mail $ 5,275.01 Easter Flowers $ 1,550.00 Total $ 29,854.01 __________________________________________________

Collection Report for the Weekend of 4/20/19—4/21/19 Thank you for your generosity!

Holy Thursday, April 18, 2019 8:00 p.m. : $ 2,940.00 Good Friday, April 19, 2019 3:00pm -7:00pm : $ 6,984.00 Holy Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:00pm: $ 2,180.00 Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019 6:30 a.m. : $ 1,758.00 8:00 a.m. : $ 5,259.00 10:00 a.m. : $ 7,549.00 12:00 p.m. : $ 6,433.00 1:30 p.m. : $ 698.00 5:00 p.m. : $ 5,724.00 8:00 p.m. : $ 173.00 Easter Flowers $ 590.00 Total $ 40,288.00

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Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday - April 28, 2018 http://saltandlighttv.org/blogfeed/getpost.php?id=80679

*Join us this Sunday, April 28th at 3:00pm in an Extraordinary Celebration of Thanksgiving! Holy Hour, Recitation of the chaplet of Mercy & veneration of the image.* Since the Jubilee Year 2000, the Second Sunday of Easter is now also known as Divine Mercy Sunday. Pope John Paul II made the surprise announcement of this change in his homily at the canonization of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska on April 30, 2000. On that day he declared: "It is important then that we accept the whole message that comes to us from the Word of God on this Second Sunday of Easter, which from now on throughout the Church, will be called 'Divine Mercy Sunday.'" Pope John Paul II’s interest in Divine Mercy goes back to the days of his youth in Krakow when Karol Wojtyla was an eyewitness to so much evil and suffering during World War II in occupied Poland. He witnessed the round ups of many people who were sent to concentration camps and slave labor. In his hometown of Wadowice, he had many Jewish friends who would later die in the Holocaust. During that time of terror and fear, Karol Wojtyla decided to enter Cardinal Sapieha’s clandestine seminary in Krakow. He experienced the need for God’s mercy and humanity’s need to be merci-ful to one another. While in the seminary, he met another seminarian, Andrew Deskur (who would later become Cardi-nal), who introduced Karol to the message of the Divine Mercy, as revealed to the Polish mystic nun, St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, who died at the age of 33 in 1938. The celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday does not compete with, nor endanger the integrity of the Easter Season, nor does it take away from Thomas the Apostle’s awesome encounter with the Risen Lord recounted in the Gospel for the Second Sunday of Easter each year. Divine Mercy Sunday is the Octave Day of Easter, celebrating the merciful love of God shining through the whole Easter Triduum and the whole Easter mystery. The connection is more than evident from the scripture readings for this first Sunday after Easter. At St. Faustina's canonization, Pope John Paul II said in his moving homily: "Jesus shows his hands and his side [to the Apostles]. He points, that is, to the wounds of the Passion, especially the wound in his heart, the source from which flows the great wave of mercy poured out on humanity." The Meaning of the Day Divine Mercy Sunday is not a new feast established to celebrate St. Faustina's revelations. In fact, it is not about St. Faustina at all! Rather it recovers an ancient liturgical tradition, reflected in a teaching attributed to St. Augustine about the Easter Octave, which he called "the days of mercy and pardon," and the Octave Day itself "the compendium of the days of mercy." The Vatican did not give the title of "Divine Mercy Sunday" to the Second Sunday of Easter merely as an "option," for those dioceses who happen to like that sort of thing! This means that preaching on God's mercy is not just an option for this Sunday. To fail to preach on God's mercy this day would mean largely to ignore the prayers, readings and psalms appointed for that day, as well as the title "Divine Mercy Sunday" now given to that day in the Roman Missal. The Pope of Divine Mercy At the beginning of his pontificate in 1981, Pope John Paul II wrote an entire encyclical dedicated to Divine Mercy – “Dives in Misericordia” (Rich in Mercy) illustrating that the heart of the mission of Jesus Christ was to reveal the merciful love of the Father. In 1993 when Pope John Paul II beatified Sr. Faustina Kowalska, he stated in the homily for her beat-ification mass: “Her mission continues and is yielding astonishing fruit. It is truly marvelous how her devotion to the mer-ciful Jesus is spreading in our contemporary world, and gaining so many human hearts!” Four years later in 1997, the Holy Father visited Blessed Faustina’s tomb in Lagiewniki, Poland, and preached powerful words: “There is nothing that man needs more than Divine Mercy…. From here went out the message of Mercy that Christ Himself chose to pass on to our generation through Blessed Faustina.” In the Jubilee year 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized Sr. Faustina – making her the first canonized saint of the new millennium – and established “Divine Mercy Sunday” as a special title for the Second Sunday of Easter for the universal Church. Pope John Paul II spoke these words in the homily: “Jesus shows His hands and His side [to the Apostles]. He points, that is, to the wounds of the Passion, especially the wound in His Heart, the source from which flows the great wave of mercy poured out on humanity.”

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One year later, in his homily for Divine Mercy Sunday in 2001, the Pope called the message of mercy entrusted to St. Faustina: “The appropriate and incisive answer that God wanted to offer to the questions and expectations of human beings in our time, marked by terrible tragedies…. Divine Mercy! This is the Easter gift that the Church receives from the risen Christ and offers to humanity at the dawn of the third millennium.” Again in Lagiewniki, Poland in 2002, at the dedication of the new Shrine of Divine Mercy, the Holy Father consecrated the whole world to Divine Mercy, saying: “I do so with the burning desire that the message of God’s merciful love, pro-claimed here through St. Faustina, may be made known to all the peoples of the earth, and fill their hearts with hope.” In his Regina Caeli address of April 23, 2006, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said: “The mystery of God’s merciful love was at the centre of the pontificate of my venerated predecessor.” Now that same Providence has desired that this year, on Divine Mercy Sunday, three years after he was beatified on this same feast, Pope John Paul II, the great apostle and ambassador of Divine Mercy, will be proclaimed a saint. Mercy is our hallmark We must ask ourselves: what is new about this message of Divine Mercy? Why did Pope John Paul II insist so much on this aspect of God’s love in our time? Is this not the same devotion as that of the Sacred Heart of Jesus? Mercy is an important Christian virtue, much different from justice and retribution. While recognizing the real pain of injury and the rationale for the justification of punishment, mercy takes a different approach in redressing the injury. Mercy strives to radically change the condition and the soul of the perpetrator to resist doing evil, often by revealing love and one’s true beauty. If any punishment is enforced, it must be for salvation, not for vengeance or retribution. This is very messy busi-ness in our day and a very complex message… but it is the only way if we wish to go forward and be leaven for the world today; if we truly wish to be salt and light in a culture that has lost the flavor of the Gospel and the light of Christ.

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This Monday!

You are Invited to the: St. Augustine Women’s Emmaus 37th Retreat

May 17 – 19, 2019 St. Ignatian Spirituality Center (Casa Manresa)

Set aside time for God – to reflect on your life and to establish or renew a loving relationship with Our Lord

Jesus Christ.

For more information contact: Lili Chisholm Olga Fernandez (305) 542-9234 (305) 205-7359 lilichisholm101@gmail.com olgamfernandez24@gmail.com

WERE NOT OUR HEARTS GRADUALLY CATCHING FIRE WITHIN US AS HE SPOKE TO US ON THE ROAD ?

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St. Augustine Church & Catholic Student Center Young Adult Group

10 1400 Miller Road, Coral Gables, FL 33146 305-661-1648 www.saintaugustinechurch.org

Schedules are subject to change during Summer! MONDAYS

Fr. Phillip's Office hours on Campus (Newman Center, address below) 1-4 pm 8:00 pm Men's and Women's Nights

TUESDAYS

The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available on campus, 4:00 pm –6pm, Stop by our table in front of Starbucks for more info 4:00pm-6pm Confessions @ UM 5:30pm-6:30pm Holy Hour for the University of Miami (St. A chapel) WEDNESDAY 8:00 pm Graduate Students Bible Study @ the Newman Center THURSDAY

Fr. Phillip's Office hours on the Rock (for con-fession, discussion, etc., in front of UM bookstore) 1-4 pm 8:00 pm Thrive Nights at St. Augustine! Come out for a night of Fellowship & be empowered To live out your faith on campus SUNDAY

College mass and Social - 8 pm There is ministry also offered for UM Alumni, Faculty and Staff, Graduate Students, Law students, etc.! Please contact Fr. Phillip Tran at ptran@theadom.org for more information.

Location of the Newman Center (NC) on campus is 1238 Dickinson Dr. #110, Coral Gables, FL 33146 (next to Office of Academic Enhancement)

ATTENTION ALL COLLEGE-AGED! JOIN US FOR THRIVE NIGHTS

THURSDAYS @8PM @ ST. AUGUSTINE PARISH HALL!